skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This checks out with me anecdotally, at least. I bought a new car just as the first COVID lockdown let up and right on the forecourt it was complaining about a low battery, apparently due to sitting around for a month or two. "It'll be fine by the time you get it home" they said. Wrong. Even a few hours on a charger and a 300 mile drive only bought me a few weeks of time. I ended up having to trickle charge it for 24 hours to permanently resolve the problem.
Why is Warren Buffett so bullish about Nubank?
Yeah and how effective was that ban? Not very, and if it were tried today it would be totally impotent.
to be fair, steam is not above wiping your disk in similar scenarios:
https://github.com/valvesoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/3671
> But it's only valid for US citizens.

The US Constitution is applicable to anyone within the jurisdiction of the US, regardless of citizenship or immigration status (including undocumented).
Epoch Times - https://www.theepochtimes.com

I aggregate various sources at https://datente.com
My dagger is multi threaded too.
Looks like a task for pine64.
> How is this any different from the normal state of affairs?

They explained that in their post. They aren't getting a raise because it would create a discrepancy with the pay bands. This is exactly the type of bureaucracy being enshrined in law here. It removes discretion and disincentivises those who are capable.

I believe their point is that it's thematically similar to the company policy they chafed under, and were reminded of communism by.
Ha, I actually have an Italian colleague who moved to Easter Europe(Slovakia) which I found surprising at first but then I discovered that Spain and Italy are comparable on salaries but have higher cost of living.
California - ground zero for "new wealth" .. no, people do not buy Lamborghini's here.. that is for Miami, Eastern Europeans in Moscow or London, Chinese at Yahoo years ago, or maybe teenage'like guys around New York or Chicago. Here, people like the readers on this site, amass seven figures, and cannot buy a decent house because it is not for sale, and it is too expensive for someone with seven figures of savings. Second, old wealth, zero people have butlers. It does not exist here. But they do have large houses, extensive financial investments including Warren Buffet's stock. A good percentage of wealthy people here do not have children, and therefore grand-children, and among those that do (Catholics etc) the wealthy older people talk non-stop about how to keep the grandchildren out of the money, away from the house, and constant concern for being in a law-suit against a close relative that wants to do any of that.

Unfortunately, reality is complicated and stereotypes die every day. In California I believe we are seeing in real time, a lock up of the system of value (money) where the assets are so large, and so immoveable, compared to what people "earn" by working in a job, that there are strange bucklings visible on the street. With Coinbase founders living within three miles of this place here, I agree, there is no stopping this in reality. Big thieves hate little thieves, and it is no secret that the Federal Reserve itself is making a cryptocurrency, with centralized transaction tracking - it was announced here!

sorry - I forgot, Lambos in Los Angeles, definitely. Angelinos have always been like that, it is part of the scene. So I am talking "not LA California" perhaps.. my bad!
"they just evaluate their level of trust with the source" — No. They evaluate it but how well it fits with their preconception and other ideas they already hold EVEN if it comes from a completely unknown source. Memes are usually part of a "memeplex" and reinforce one another. And the most powerful memes also undermine competing memes at the same time. (for example, the "don't trust the MSM" meme works well with "the election was rigged" meme.
This looks very nice actually! Great job. What kind of networking options/capabilities do you have to make stuff communicate over a private network (and then perhaps even connect from my machine over VPN or connect it to a site or something like that)
With Wordle, you only play against yourself, so cheating only cheats yourself. So no need for anti cheating.

Client side dictionary isn’t a cop out at all. It’s a terrific solution for a single player game that helps keep the code base elegant.
The URL has www. at the start by accident.
There are court decisions defining the scope of the 1st Amendment. There are no valid laws restricting it, since the 1st Amendment is in the Constitution and no law can supersede the constitution. Such laws that are written and passed are unconstitutional.

Edit: The above is mistaken. A law can restrict the 1st Amendment, or any other, if it survives "strict scrutiny":

Although "strict scrutiny leaves few survivors" and will usually strike down such laws when strict scrutiny is found to apply, "the government must show that there is a compelling, or very strong, interest in law, and that the law is either narrowly tailored or is the least restrictive means available to the government."

https://mtsu.edu/first-amendment/article/1966/strict-scrutin...
What are the best languages to deepen on programming apart from English?
Women are subservient to men in Christianity. This is very clear. Does this make it right?
Large employers already subscribe to services which tell them what you likely got paid at your last job by geo/title/seniority/tenure.
Not sure if it's unique, but this was really nicely done – https://portfolio.zxh.io/

HN discussion about the site: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27084995
>Maybe pay shouldn't be based on the personal ability to negotiate, which is not a core competency for most jobs

It is and always was, every day on the marked where you had to haggle for the price you think it's worth for you.
looks like a bad link, this works: https://shop.simulavr.com/
Doubtful, refold appears to just be articles on how to learn, not a learning platform itself.

Authors bio links to https://emurse.io/
> I’m blown away by how anti-crypto this discussion is. I hadn’t realized how negative the prevailing sentiment is on Hacker News.

The more I learn about crypto (which isn't a lot), the more I agree that digital currency is the way ahead.

I'm not convinced that decentralized ledger-based crypto is going to win out in the long term. Let's be honest, is there any coin at the moment that you would trust as a stable store of value and not a speculative investment? Fiat currency goes down in value over time, but most central banks are good enough at keeping the rate of loss relatively constant. Most, although not all, coins are also less than ideal for conducting transactions. There's also a regulatory aspect that, for some reason, is generally discounted by advocates.

However, I could definitely see something like GNU Taler gaining widespread adoption, especially if central banks make good on releasing digital currency. There's no reason for consumers or merchants to pay anything more than absolutely minimal transaction fees on purchases. There's also no reason that electronic payments or transfers can't post in near real time.
Yes we do.

You can paste any plaintext in our editor and it will be split into tweets. Just put 4 newlines between one tweet and the next.
That cant be right. I thought you were suppose to bring your whole self to work. And work equals you? Especially in Tech and Silicon Valley.

Unless you are suggesting to me they are wrong? Or they have been wrong for 10 years and counting?
Because they make a profit margin that you'd prefer was smaller? That’s just commerce, and we'd always prefer people charged smaller profit margins.

Are you 'gouging' your employer by asking for the highest salary you can get away with? Of course not. It's a market price.
"At the perturbative level it manifests as a tachyonic instability around spacetimes that solve Einstein’s equations."

At that early point, I realised that the article was either going to be bafflegab, or it was way over my head. Can anyone explain what a "tachyonic instability" is?
>He claimed (though I'm certainly no expert) that you have to do your own taxes and set aside money for that;

Unless you're a contractor, small-business owner, or some other sort of self-employed, no. Taxes are deducted automatically from your paycheck by your employer from every paycheck. At the end of the year you need to file a tax return, and you can do this yourself for free. But even most paid tax return services usually only cost ~$50-$150 for the average worker.

>he also claimed that "sales tax" had local, state and federal taxes applied, so while it varies from state to state and city to city; it generally ends up being about 18-20%, which is in-line with VAT in most Euro countries. And, as a general rule, a state with higher sales tax will usually have lower (or no) state income tax, and vice versa.

There is no federal sales tax in the US. It does vary from state to state, but it ranges from 0% to ~10%, nowhere near 20%.

>He made a lot of comments about certain mandatory insurances

The only mandatory insurances are car insurance (and even then it's only mandatory if you want to drive a car) and health insurance (and even that has only been mandatory since the ACA passed, and all the enforcement provisions of that have been gutted). The cost to an employee for decent health insurance is usually going to range from $0 a month to a several thousand a month, but the average is something like ~$700 a month for an individual to get coverage and ~$1,400 for family coverage.

Public transport outside of major cities does suck, but I don't think that's easily fixable. Something a lot of Europeans don't realize is that the US is way, way, way, way less dense than Europe. The US has 33.7 people per square km, the entire EU is 116.2 people per square km. public transit isn't really feasible because the costs to provide it go up almost exponentially with lower population density.

>I'm not sure, I don't know everything, but after talking with him I didn't feel bad for being a "poor euro" anymore, because while the absolute "amount" of money he earned was much greater, the amount that he could actually use was lower.

Even after accounting for things in Europe like free healthcare, the actual amount of spending power the typical American has is actually still far, far greater than that enjoyed by the typical European. The metric you can look at to see this is consumption: ~$38,000 per capita for the US in 2017, vs $28,000 for Switzerland, $23,000 for the UK, etc.: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_household...

PPP and other factors make a one-to-one comparison difficult, but Americans have far more spending money left after taxes, and that combined with them making more money in general makes Americans far more wealthy. Especially in the software dev industry.
This is a terribly disconnected pitch… At least for me. I instantly clicked because I’m literally building a replacement to do exactly this for my personal website. So far so good, love the concept, page looks good, can’t tell if I can use my own domain, surely there’s some info, hunt around tor several minutes bouncing between a modal blocked write your tweets here demo page and the threads as blog demo page, no “more info”, no FAQ, no answer to my question, so I’ve bounced in frustration. I’m not putting your domain as my website and I’m sick of using CloudFlare trick redirects to point people to Twitter directly as well, so it’s a “looks nice, but sorry, no sale, you clearly don’t fit my needs” from me.

Good luck though. Seemed like a polished flow that pushed your thread writing tool well, I just have zero need for that, at all, ever, cause I could just automate that with one of the many CLI Twitter tools and a few lines of bash script or Python if I wanted to put some extra polish on it.
People being critical of what you say is not discrimination.
He is not a Google shill as far as I can tell.

He is a journalism professor at CUNY:

https://www.journalism.cuny.edu/faculty/jeff-jarvis/
last time I checked countries like Romania (E Europe) had the smallest pay gap in Europe. the issue is usually in countries like Germany, Switzerland or Netherlands.
Sex with Neanderthals protected some from HIV made others vulnerable to Covid
"A genomic region associated with protection against severe COVID-19 is inherited from Neandertals"

https://www.pnas.org/content/118/9/e2026309118

https://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/118/9/e2026309118.full.pdf

"Neanderthals were very successful at what they did, they were not failures’"

https://english.elpais.com/usa/2021-09-01/rebecca-wragg-syke...
Like others in the thread, I'm entranced by the idea. However, the lack of github links for the "open source" of this ASIC have put me right off of becoming a backer. It's a dang shame that we have to spend time & effort in this thread saying 'maybe _this_ is the source -- no, I think it's _that_'.

In my view, actually showing your source (with all its warts and TODOs) is something you need to do from the moment you're out in public talking about how your product is Open Source, not hopefully sometime later. Basically, we've arrived at the moment where either your open source is on github, or it needs to be treated as not open source. Otherwise, especially if the fulfillment end goes pear shaped, it's way too easy to fall into a trap where the source simply never gets released despite all your initial intentions.
You think that, until one day you wake up to the pounding of the FBI (or CSIS...) on your door at 6am. I thought I was a no one, I literally used the same Lotr metaphor as you, but in 2009/2010 during the occupy and wikileaks protests the US government must have decided I was enough (despite never going to a protest and commiting no crimes) and they raided me and ruined my life. I was never charged with a crime. Never even indicted. Their action was simply to ruin my life and scare me.

It can happen to you too. Even if you think you're a no one.
> That's not even entering into the issues with ministries which are (illegally) keeping certain software closed source, or have signed recent contracts which make open sourcing impossible.

That part infuriates me.

They have built a huge skill pool over the last few years, with teams that have proved they were capable of handling major nation-scale projects with state-of-the-art development practices, and they're still handing entire projects to private contractors with lousy reputations who produce proprietary code.

If there's one thing the administration sucks at, it's using the assets it already has.
> “Human dignity is inviolable” is a platitude. What can be done with it?

This is the first sentence of the "Grundgesetz für die Bundesrepublik Deutschland" (Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany):

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_Law_for_the_Federal_Repu...

Absatz 1 (paragraph 1) (see https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/gg/BJNR000010949.html):

> (1) Die Würde des Menschen ist unantastbar. Sie zu achten und zu schützen ist Verpflichtung aller staatlichen Gewalt.

> (1) Human dignity is inviolable. It is the duty of all state authorities [remark: "Gewalt" literally means "violence" in English] to respect and protect it.
Bit of a non sequitur but my first job was at an industrial embroidery company (did T-Shirts, hats, etc for big companies... sewed logos on thousands of shirts a day).

I was kind of hoping based on the name it would be for that. That industry is woefully lacking good open source and DIY tools for telling the machines what to sew.

But back on topic: I'm not sure what in this language would encourage me to move off of markdown at this point. It seems nice but the friction to use yet another markdown language (even if this one is older by 2 years it seems) is high.
Ditto. I used Postman pre-rework and then came back and had to spend 10 minutes trying to find the page to make an actual callout. And I still can’t find it on the first try whenever I re-use the service.
> But when multiple "crowds" try to sway more people to join them, what determines which groups ultimately succeed? The quality of their memes.

Seems to be the premise of this argument, and this seems to be deeply flawed to me. Wishful thinking at best, and liked a confusion of correlation and causation. But I also have no data to prove this claim.
You do understand that there is more to the workforce than engineers at SV startups and big tech, right?
This seems to the world view of the Democratic Party as described by the Democratic Party.
"The sovereign is he who decides on the exception" -Carl Schmitt

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_of_exception
He should have gone with the Prime Directive instead. William Shatner is bound by it, after all, and he is Canadian.
The question isn't whether to give people "exemptions" to a law. The question is whether that law infringes on US citizens' constitutional right to free speech.
The closest thing I get to Easter eggs in professional work is leaving references to people or things I like in testing data. Not anything worthy for a spot on The Easter Egg Archive [1], but more plentiful and certainly better than nothing.

[1] https://eeggs.com/items/47205.html
One of the big risks with China is that eventually some sort of bellicose xenophobic nationalist meme fever ends up being the thing that can't be contained or cleaned up and they force themselves into a WW3 death spiral.
That BMJ study seems a bit too much. As one of the footnotes says it:

> All authors suffered substantial abdominal discomfort from laughter.
I see people have issues with the price tag, and while it is by no mean cheap, since it's actually a full blown computer AND a VR headset all in one, it is somewhat justified. The computer specs match my Framework laptop and the headset is, on paper, on par or better than other high-end VR headsets (and a miles ahead of my Meta Quest 2 and other consumer-grade VR headsets).
What about the right to choose who you associate with? These people don't want the law to stop everyone else, just protect them.
Is the computer in the headset? Why? (!!!)

Looks like a great way to cause your neck muscles to spasm horribly painfully.

If I were designing these, they’d either be completely transparent so AR or the headset would be only the LCD and maybe sensors.
Thanks for offering contrasting experiences.
Can you be more specific on why doubling the salary would be life changing? I read this as you're prevented from doing things that you're life can not be plentiful otherwise.

A lot wished they did more traveling like you when you where younger, but they cannot go back. Is your case a need for doubling the salary now, or can it happen through time? Would you feel the same if you had the same salary, but none of your peers were making double that?
I don't think it's that simple. Yes, you are not 100% your career/job, but to what extent are you? For many of us, it's a really big part of who we are. I would also say, if your work forms a large part of who you are, then consider starting your own business. I'm working on a platform to help people to do just that: https://cxo.industries
It "needs justification" because I erred on the side of greater rather than lesser disclosure when I'm commenting about things I have holdings in, in which case there's always a danger that one will "talk their book" (promote the things that benefit them financially).

True, that dyanmic may not be happening here, but (see previous comment) it is also a courtesy to err on the side of over-disclosing rather than under-disclosing.

Your comments are a slightly-obfuscated version of "wh... why would you erase the chalkboard after your class is over? That spends time that doesn't personally benefit you. Since we have janitors for that, you don't really need to." My immediate reaction would be, "just accept the courtesy, dude".

And here -- just accept the transparency. Don't make me have to justify it.
> Another argument is that crypto enables ransomware attacks. This to me sounds akin to saying “encryption enables child exploitation”. I.e. it focuses on one abhorrent element of society that would take place no matter what and blames its existence on a system which has great potential for good, a kind of propagandist thinking.

You are biased too.
How about comparing "crypto enables ransomware" to "unregulated gun sales enable mass shootings" ?
Most western countries have regulated gun sales to avoid mass shootings, it works and the people sees this as a positive thing.

OK, it's controversial so replace "gun" with something else that is forbidden in the US for the greater good.

Compared to "guns for everyone", encryption has a lot of usages that are necessary (and beneficial). That's why banning encryption on the pretense of child exploitation is a mistake.

What does crypto bring to the table that is as necessary and beneficial as encryption ? Is it more like encryption or more like guns ?

On the other hand you also have to compare the bad side : is enabling ransomware as bad as enabling child exploitation or mass shootings ? (certainly not).
I hate forced portmanteaus. It reeks of "trying to make fetch happen."
Your site doesn't mention the weight or the battery life.

I guess the real answer is in the dog-food. Does your team use VCRs to develop it?
It has become more and more obvious that cryptocurrency, like the gold as sound money movement before it, has a strong political side and is deep in bed with the alternative right.

I think that explains part of the strong hn reaction to it.

The other side is software architecture of it, where crazy resources are spent making some parts decentralized, while other parts are centralized and ignore, creating a broken, overcomplex beast.
> so cheating only cheats yourself

Well, cheating is less important than in Counter Strike, but not entirely unimportant either. Playing Wordle has a social component.

I think this solution is neither elegant nor terrific. It's simply completely ignoring the problem and claiming that it doesn't matter anyway. I obviously disagree.

PS: when I was a kid, I learned programming on my C64 with BASIC. Like many kids, the first programs I wrote were "guess the thing" kind of games. Usually "guess the number", but occasionally "guess the word". Even back then I understood that hardcoding the word in the program listing was less than ideal, but I just didn't know how to do better. Let's say that 8-year old me would not have been positively impressed if told that Wordle had the "elegant" solution of storing the list of words in its source code.
Like what? I have a feeling there aren't as many as you think. Most of them are about ordering people to commit literal violence/crimes.
I kept reading the title as “The Memory Leak Theory.” Even after knowing it’s about meme. The down side of fast reading habits.