skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's getting increasingly easier to buy assets like real estate with stablecoins.

Barring further regulations I think the peak financial repression era has already passed. The worst time was probably 2018 - local peak in crypto interest bringing in heat, but no dexes with any liquidity. Since then it's only getting better - now anyone can hold millions of dollars anonymously and transfer them to anyone in the world, dexes are so liquid there are no reasons to use spot cexes except to cash out, several debit card solutions that can be loaded with crypto and stablecoins. Laundering money from crypto is the easiest it was since probably 2013 when no one cared at all - manufacture fake profits on tokens/nft held in clean wallets.

Without new laws, the situation is only getting better. Exchanges already demand very heavy kyc/aml, so the only thing that would reverse the trend would be making anonymous defi a crime for the users. I think it's unlikely at this point.
OT but still tangentially relevant - In the cold wave a couple of weeks ago in Texas, our pipes froze and the tap on the outside of the house burst. We were not sure about the extent of the damage so we called a plumber. He charged a cool $350 to simply replace the tap. Took all of 15 minutes.
In contrast with everyone in this thread, I absolutely love being up to date with the current and the bleeding edge techstack, because I love programming.

I chose to be a SE because I knew I'd have fun doing so, and I advise the younger generations to have a similar approach.
I appreciate your comment. This is a B2B product and I feel comfortable the ROI is there for the right customer. Keep in mind 50% of the price pays for premium digital indicators from Mitutoyo. On the Islandix blog I explain how to source cheaper Chinese indicators for customers wanting in at a lower pricepoint.

To answer your question in the last paragraph, Wheel Analytics does not require an Internet connection. There is no phone home, no telemetry, no checking for software updates, etc. There are no cloud components that can fail or be withdrawn/changed.
If you do, can you come and fix my boiler please?
Thankfully the vast majority of the public are crypto security experts and would have no problem applying these best practices to protect themselves when crypto becomes an everyday medium of financial exchange. /s
The levels of stress aren't that much different, but there's something more practical about the stresses of labor jobs that make them a bit more manageable in my experience. Only in software jobs have I had persistent, constant stress that never seems to let up and consumes my weekends. It's a skill to manage it, but it's definitely part of the job.
I don’t agree at all, and it’s not even experimental.

And I think that is not a very nice thing to say about other people’s work.
Sure, you hate your boring, safe, lucrative job in software development until you become a plumber and find yourself on your hands and knees beside a disassembled toilet for the 87th time. Splattered in fetid wastewater, pulling stuck condoms out of the floor while the idiot renter stands above you dragging on his Juul, and you realize, maybe I didn't have it so bad after all.

The "grass is always greener" is probably the most repeated aphorism for a reason.
It is a way to get them consistent very easily, but getting them to an optimum tension is hard to define.
Really appreciate your response - how are you finding it now?

Enough to change over from MD?
I don't understand. There are numbers on those digital indicators, why do I need black box, LCD and $100 computer?
I disagree. Just read the article „cors protects us“ - things like these come from misunderstandings like this one.
It really depends on where you are coming from. For an US software engineer with a salary of 300k$ it might not be a lot and a reasonable goal. For lots of others it might mean doubling their salary, which sounds a lot like "getting rich".
There are only really two drivers for RISC-V at this point - license fees and Arm's insistence that unless you are Apple, you have to comply with the ISA exactly.

Both are something Arm can adjust at any point and is in the process of adjusting post-Nvidia-collapse. All it is going to take is for Arm to stand up a review process to deal with the problem gracefully.
As someone who had an air gap spewing all over their kitchen yesterday… no
there is a lot of mistrust regarding Tether. People kind of prefer to switch over to BUSD, USDC, GUSD which are backed 1:1 with real USD.

Tether is just a temp variable for trading.

But, if Tether goes down it will be bad news but not enough to destroy the whole market. USDC is gaining ground pretty rapidly.
It needs to go if the vehicle becomes a combatant vehicle. The crew using personal weapons in self defence doesn't count, but medevac helicopter equipped with weapons to lay down support in hot landing zone is no longer a vehicle that can claim protection of red cross/red crescent, but a valid target for fire.
This last summer/fall really put things in perspective for me. We did a major outdoor renovation at our house, which involved landscapers, plumbers, electricians, and carpenters.

Every day these guys would show up at 8am and long sleeves and jeans and hard hats, work super hard, pee in a port-a-potty, and be exhausted by the end of the day. They worked out in the 100 degree heat as well as the rain as the job got near the end. Luckily the bosses were pretty cool and provided them with decent food for lunch and plenty of drinks (but I still offered them food and drinks too).

I on the other hand was working at my desk in my air conditioned house in comfortable clothes. A few times a day I'd put on my flip-flops and wander around outside to check on their work, ask a few questions, and then head back in when it got too hot.

And a couple of times the plumbing sprung a leak just as they were getting ready to leave, despite their best efforts to get all the risky work done early, and they they had to stay super late. Once the plumber was here till midnight after arriving at 8am.

I used to have thoughts about how it would be nice to have a job with totally spelled out requirements that end at 5pm and then you have the rest of the day off. But no more. I'd much rather work at my comfy desk inside and deal with the occasional call at 9pm on a Saturday than deal with what they all went through.
Being an electrician sounds great until it's the middle of summer and you have to go in an attic or under a trailer.
The result of putting rationality on a pedestal at the expense of reasonableness.
Not going to lie, I thought that this was a Library (the public facility) sending/receiving books via infrared.

I guess "Phrasing" is relevant here?
There's a study for that : https://www.scrapcarcomparison.co.uk/blog/which-drivers-are-...
Three different people have now made the same point in three different ways and you simply ignore it, consider the possibility that you are simply wrong about something.

Ethics problems typically do not lend themselves to be translated into a caricature of the market economy. The habit of assigning price tags to stuff can help if the original problem is cost related, but it tends to be a crutch when things of a more principal nature are discussed, which would have a valid meaning absent such things as money or physical rewards. As long as you keep framing it like that you won't get further.
Carpentry is brutal and pays badly... but I agree, poop is gross.
Electrician, on the other hand?
its true. i live in a medium-size american city and you can find a corner in a warehouse if you look hard enough.

i started out trying to build a little mini-shop. that turned out poorly. working with the small tools seems to require alot more expertise and patience than working with the normal-sized toolroom machines.

space aside its pretty much free. old machine tools are great learners and can be had for not much more than scrap price. steel is dirt cheap.
I agree. I work in tech and, outside of work, I'm refurbishing my house. I'm enjoying the refurbishment but would I do a trade as a full time job? Hell no.

Crawling around in my loft sistering joists is satisfying work but also, if it were to become the kind of thing I did over a long period of time, would 100% wreck my knees.

And that's just one downside. There are plenty more: e.g., all the ancillary guff you have to do (same as you have with contracting really), and then dealing with the general public and having people phone you at all hours of the day and night looking for estimates and quotes. No thanks.
Energy Efficiency across Programming Languages [pdf] (2017)
Keeping your money on chain but not subject to price fluctuations.

There’s also pro and anti arguments for being in control of your assets.
It was written in assembly code: https://github.com/microsoft/MS-DOS/tree/master/v2.0/source

This is a very old version, but I've seen bits and pieces of the last one they shipped and things like command.com and the "kernel" were nearly the same as this, except for maybe some memory management changes. What part did you want to reimplement?
Sitting in a seat day after day is sacrificing your body and health for work. You may not notice this now but you will in 10 years time.

https://www.cancer.org/latest-news/sitting-time-linked-to-hi...
I like how in our progressive society it is absolutely frowned upon to invoke any association between observable societal statistics and, say, race/gender, but its okay to bash BMW/audi drivers.
So, user civilized, why is it okay for you to generalize? And why exactly you were sorry?
(I am aware that this is a tangent discussion to the original post, but it may be an interesting one)
What about 3d printing?
One of the best jobs I've had was working part time at a pizza place in my early 20's.

I made just enough for rent, food, and fun. The job was easy to be good at, but rewarding because I was helping actual people. Most of the time it was slow so you got to joke around with the other employees.

But sometimes you'd get slammed and have to organize your crew to work efficiently for a few hours, which was stressful, but very fun to figure out and do well at.

I think about that a lot when my current software job becomes really boring or difficult.

EDIT: Oh, and I was certainly less sedentary being on my feet all day. I slept really really well after a long shift.
> I recognize that I have the privilege of not sacrificing my body and health for my income

Oh, sitting in a chair in front a screen for hours on end does wonders for the body. It's still early, you'll appreciate it in ~10 years.
The response to Covid-19 isn't a big deal for most of the upper middle class in the US, especially those in the tech industry. (Google shutting the cafeterias....)

However, the lockdown had a huge effect on everyone lower on the food chain.
If you do decide to become a plumber, be sure to remember the two golden rules of plumbing:

1. $#!7 flows downhill.

2. Don't bite your fingernails.
Hey! What's wrong with BMWs? We have two of them. Both diesels. The gas mileage is slightly below amazing. (Though my lawyer says you should always buy them used, never new. He's very good on life advice in general.)
I worked in a daycare for a while when I was young; I really liked being a scout leader and figured I might want to do something like this for a living. I didn't like it very much: turns out that a few hours on saturday is not quite the same thing as 8 hours every day.

I think in general "doing this for a hobby and fun" and "doing this for a living" are two entirely different things. Many people love to cook as a hobby, but being a chef in a restaurant is a completely different thing. Years ago I had a friend who loved to drive trucks as a hobby; I never understood the appeal myself, but he just loved the feeling of driving a truck. He left his teaching career to become a truck driver and in a matter of months ended up hating it (and he ended up going back to being a teacher).
I think what this comment hints at is the tight coupling of money and working in tech. I think for most of us it all started as fun and curiosity. We were gravitated to computers not because of money, but because of passion. Then suddenly we realized there is immense amount of money to be made with our skills. Naturally we started benefiting from that by getting a job in tech. Then we became addicted to the money and since now we didn't learn any other skill than programming we didn't have a choice but to continue working in tech. What was once a passion now turned into shackles that we can't wait to get rid of. It's sad, ironic and extremely frustrating.
Welcome to the post-truth world, where even posting a simple true statement “he is a male”, “she is a female”, is enough to warrant a ban.
For real. That platform has so much potential but it never built it. Absolutely nothing about it seems to have changed since when they bought it.
There's an urban legend that the baseband processor is an all governing, closed source backdoored bad actor in your phone. This may have been true for 2005 era dumbphones, but in reality your smartphone's radio is attached like a USB device is. In phones made in at least the last 10 years, it doesn't have a privileged position at all. I don't know why that legend keeps on being perpetuated.

There's a lot wrong with hardware openness on mobile devices, but closed bootloaders and radio firmwares are also true on most Linux laptops that can thrive nonetheless.
I was a teacher at a local tech institute for mechanical engineering. The social contact with the students and the variety of things I got to teach was really fun and rewarding. Unfortunately, the pay was bad and I couldn't see myself staying there for long and in such a high cost of living area.
IBM was selling computers 4 decades before they were used to break the German codes.
Fair. I just define Persona as "a specific way/why the consumer wants to use the Product"

So that strongly aligns with your Consumer->Job->Product

Here, you mention: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30319105

> "The Lean Startup" book by Eric Ries is already 10-11 y/o, so it's not up-to-date and with lots of gaps.

Can you mention just a few of the gaps?

Interested to hear your thoughts.
Ads. It's short for advertisement, not addition.
What proof is there exactly that USDC is different?
"RISC-V competitor"

At this moment, the relevant information about Arm is that it competes with x86. RISC-V is no more relevant than Elbrus, though obviously that's going to change.
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If you have no kids, it is actually quite doable.
It's a real shame the number of privilege levels is fixed. This seems anti-turing-completeness. Instead, any VM or hypervisor should be able to emulate an environment that is indistinguishable from the environment it itself is running in. That in turn means that hypervisors must be infinitely nestable, and there must be no way for software to know that is running in an emulated environment (unless the hypervisor above wants to reveal this info).

I get that 'infinitely nestable' is hard to implement in hardware, and it's much easier to design things with a fixed nesting depth/number of privilege levels, but I really don't think it would have been much of a stretch to design the instruction set with traps in the right place to allow software to implement infinite nestability without too much of a performance hit.
I think the sentiment behind the OP and agreeing comments are twofold:

1. The desire to create tangible, physical products and improvements rather than abstract ones- some of which never see the light of day outside of the sprint.

2. The desire to expend physical labor and use one’s body rather than only one’s mind.

I think the trades would fulfill that but maybe more software engineers who experience this anxiety would be happier if they pursued some sort of skilled craftsman hobby, or even career. Being a construction carpenter is one thing, becoming an artisan who makes bespoke wooden products is probably closer to the lifestyle (and compensation) that’s being idealized here.
Scammers ripping each other offer on discord. Today it’s apes, next week it will be houses. I can’t believe they can convince people to lend liquidity to bridges, myself.
Spokes coming loose over time can be caused by lack of stress relieving. This is where there is some twist in the spoke due to friction between the nipple and rim. This is where handbuilt wheels have an advantage
I'd take an opposite view that as humans, we don't know what we don't know, and the scope of our unknowing is much greater than we lend ourselves to believe.

Another great example studies of mycelium networks exchanging nutrients with forest tree root networks. The exchange of nutrients has much in common with the firing of neutrons in the animal brain. This was discovered by "feeding" trees radioactive CO2 gas and observing how it moves to other trees. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/mec.15520
The optimum is very much dependent on the materials used (steel wheel, aluminum wheel, single or multiple layers, the kind of spoke nipple used, the spoke thickness, the number of spokes, the shape of the spokes, the length of the spoke and so on). If you don't know exactly what you are doing I would stay away from the optimum and simply play it safe, it doesn't really pay to find that you over estimated one or more of the parts. Overtensioning is much more dangerous than undertensioning, what is far more important is that you tension the spokes evenly, and if you have asymmetric spokes (for instance: most rear wheels) that you tighten the shorter side a little bit more. Consistency is key.
You could just not take jobs like that. It sounds like a semi-retirement job means you'd be financial stable enough to not need to take every request you get.
I have signed quite a few of those copyright transfer forms, and there are always a clause that would allow sharing on a personal basis.
I’ve found it to be the opposite. Almost all of my friends in my 30s I made in my 20s. Being married is a huge boon to socialization and that happened due to socialization in my 20s.
More then half of all crypto trades involve Tether --- it pervades the entire crypto market.

Anything that is not truthfully fully backed by assets outside of crypto land will almost certainly be affected.
> SW running against a strong memory model is actually simpler and less buggy than SW written against a weak memory model

This is exactly what my comment is implying. On x86 you have a very strong memory ordering consistency in the form of TSO. This not only helps implementing synchronisation primitives but also in practice enables techniques such as synchronisation piggybacking which isnt safe on weaker models such as ARM's.

> what you provided was more of an opinion than fact

Don't really know how to respond to that beyond if the differences between memory models are a matter of opinion rather than facts than the following wiki page shouldn't even exist

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_ordering
On the contrary. I did gain an understanding. Correct me if I'm wrong, but your position is to maintain the status quo w.r.t workplace decision making, correct?
I take care not to violate society's statistical taboos.
Deep learning needs a lot if training data. There’s not enough MIDI encoded music to train something like a GPT-3 model to generate MIDI sequences. A better way is to train on and generate raw audio, see OpenAI JukeBox. Unfortunately it’s extremely compute intensive (even compared to GPT-3), so it will probably be a few more years until they (or some other big player) releases JukeBox-2.
Off topic, but I wish that I had all my time back that was spent on my personal knowledge bases. The worse was spend 3 months of free time writing a little Evernote clone in Clojure, ClojureScrips, and a Firefox plugin. When it was done, I used it for a few months and then shelved it.

For one job, where I managed a few deep learning engineers, I had my work life, including evaluations and promotion materials in EMacs and orgmode. When I left, no one wanted those files because, I think, no one wanted to learn orgmode.

If you like Google, then their Keep notes are pretty good. I am mostly on Apple so I bought an app to export Apple Notes to pdf files automatically for backups, and just use notes. On Linux, I keep a tab open to iCloud.com
Solitons can be used to model physical systems in which the interactions between the points are important. NGC 1300 is a good example of this. The galaxy is composed of billions of stars, each of which interacts with the others. The interactions between the stars are what give the galaxy its shape and structure. The Graviton model is a good way to model the physical system of NGC 1300. If we find the conformal subgroup of the finite causal symmetric group of the NGC 1300, it will show us the symmetries of the galaxy. In Planck Per Light Second, this is the maximal symmetry, and is the maximal subgroup of the conformal group
Censorship and consumer protections go together since they're both roles regulators play.
There are misunderstandings arising - reading this thread or the articles makes it clear for me…
Leaving aside problems with heat, it really helps to be small. One of our electricians was about 5' 2" and previously served on submarines in the US Navy. Another job where being of small stature is a benefit.
How is a right to property related to a right to privacy? "Private property" is not using the same kind of "private" as "private communication".
"also be paid eye-watering amounts of money."

Thats not really true outside US
I shifted away from EE toward programming stuff because physical objects are kind of a pain in the butt. You plug in the wrong wire and the magic smoke permanently escapes. No way to put it back in. I'm sure plumbers have a similar problem, except it involves poop water everywhere. No thanks.
Yes, as well as the spoke end becoming embedded, stretch and the spoke nipple becoming embedded (typically: harder spoke nipples vs aluminum wheels). So make sure when you get a new bike to check this after your first couple of rides and then again after 6 weeks or so when more subtle effects start to kick in.
If they're lucky, they'll press Q. Otherwise, ^Z will work :)
I know this is not the recommended way of doing things, but I was never able to work with the philosophy “design small unit tested components first, then integrate them into your final macro component”, I was never that smart to guess the right interfaces upfront. I know people who do that, and truly write code bottom up from the start.

I typically start writing extremely messy code which I strictly manually test until what I need to do is functionally 90% achieved. Think a single 2000+ LOC commit with tons of log statements and no tests whatsoever. Then if it’s for a personal project it stays like that, if it’s for a company I’m working for I’ll start splitting it up in smaller components (average under 500 LOC per commit) defining reasonable interfaces that are obvious in hindsight, add unit tests to each component, and submit for review. By the time I submit the review I typically have 5-20 chained commits that can be independently reasoned about. Strictly top down approach. I basically end up writing pretty much anything substantial twice, but it works for me.
On some blockchains. Monero hides sender, receiver and amount by default.
I do occasional plumbing repairs like replacing faucets and toilet fixtures at my home using YouTube video. I hate the experience. The water is cold. My knees hurt when squatting and crouching for long stretches of time. I do end up using plumbers putty and plumbers tape and I am terrified at the thought of accidentally flooding my home.

I have a lot of urges but becoming a plumber is not one of them.
Are you serious? You’ve left behind petty stereotyping and are boldly venturing into bigotry here.
If opportunity cost means anything at all, “not extending one’s life” must have a truly dizzying opportunity cost.
How am I assuming that? How exactly does CORS add security?