skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Try saving for retirement. At 2% inflation (the target rate), after 20 years you'd lose 1 - (.98 ^ 20) = 33.2% of the purchasing power of your savings.

But right now, inflation is 7.5% year-over-year. And that's the official measure, which uses "owners' equivalent rent" based on a survey, instead of actual rent prices.

In the past 20 years (Jan 2002 - Jan 2022), the CPI went from 177.7 to 281.933, or a 58.6% increase. This means a 2.3% average inflation rate.

https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/inflation-cpi

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/o/owners-equivalent-rent....
There's nothing wrong with that. You might be interested in this blog post from someone who's gone back and forth from IC => manager a couple times.

https://charity.wtf/2017/05/11/the-engineer-manager-pendulum...

Disclaimer: I did not write the blog post but am a fan :)
Grindr Unwrapped: A Snapshot of Sex and Dating on Grindr in 2020
Flutter has become big in places where there are limited resources, financial and human, and getting as much value out of each becomes more important.

In the limited mobile ecosystem of Iceland for instance, there are no positions advertised for native mobile development, only Flutter/ReactN.
Duckduckgo is better than CNN. This article is more like an indictment of DuckDuckGo than it is of misinformation. One must wonder if there’s a larger agenda or paylord behind this against DuckduckGo.
I think you mean: "permissionless" and "self-custodial". Yes, a GovCoin would be antithetical to the current crop of crypto. That doesn't preclude a GovCoin from being wildly popular and useful though!
So add doesn't (always) add, and instead you have to repeat yourself all over the place? That's just stupid.
Well, I understand the principle to be that you use one ring oscillator to sample the state of the other; then you sample the output of the first oscillator on a clock. Phase noise just makes both oscillators more-or-less chaotic. How are you supposed to measure the phase noise?

Yes, you could use a serial-USB chip, and collect one bit at a time. So you're right, there's no need for a shift register.

Mutually prime: isn't it desirable that the sampling oscillator runs substantially slower than the sampled oscillator? You don't want successive samples to be from the same cycle of the sampled oscillator. I'm handwaving about mutual primality; but I'm thinking that you want to maximise the length of cycle over which the two oscillators would be expected to coincide, absent phase noise. I suppose having more inverters in each ring would increase the influence of phase noise, and increase the combined cycle length.

And I still don't know how you avoid the two oscillators becoming entrained - they can influence one-another through the supply line.
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There's something I've learned about the HN crowd through this, that's for sure. Many here were supportive of the attempt at a christo-fascist uprising in Canada. Very thiely of y'all.

In Canada, popular support for the convoy was around 30%, but it's a little more nuanced than that. Most are sick and tired of the health measures (duh) but very few actually approve of the way in which the protesting was carried out.

EDIT: The downvotes kind of drive my point home. Thanks!
Good luck finding another job. This is a problem of shitty management, not transparency, right?
In a digital world, the Eye of Sauron is multi-threaded.

(your statement isn't true when it comes to virtual + automated surveillance)
Absolute freedom... what does this even mean to you?
As it is right now, developer experience, developer advocacy, etc, all are marketing terms.
It's more likely to be a reference to Goodnight Moon. The book has cats at the end saying 'Goodnight, Moon!'

Also there is no point in the series where Luna and Artemis actually stare at the moon together in this fashion, and the cat on the left is wearing a collar. Neither Luna nor Artemis is collared.

...

I was a six year old girl when Sailor Moon premiered in America. I know WAY too much about that show.
Linux already overcommits memory so much you can imaging it's infinite, the big show-stopper is the 64 bit integers used to track it. We'd need infinite pointer sizes before we could meaningfully use infinite tape.
Which is exactly why Ukraine and other nations would want to join NATO. So this exact situation doesn't happen.
> 1. You can't downloaded patches of game updates (with good ux). You would need to downloaded the entire game for every update which is bad.

Lol no patch installers were a thing before Steam. And usually more efficient - for the longest time Steam would re-download any changed files.
The Chinese government wants it to happen and probably can make it happen, but it will not be easy. China would have to take the island by force and an amphibious invasion is logistically difficult and almost certain to face heavy casualties on both sides.

US and the west place a lot of strategic importance in Taiwan so they may come to the defense, but it is unlikely to be defendable for long.

We are seemingly moving towards another Cold War: China and Russia vs US and NATO.
That's true. The core difference here is that Typefully will unroll your threads and you can set a title, so in RSS readers they will show as proper blog posts.
Could the United States government easily turn off the Internet for US citizens?
I don't find it sad at all. I find it fun and enjoyable that people have seen the power of a good simple fun game and that it wasn't hard to make something good and even better it still required more thinking about the gameplay than the implementation.

Many lessons to be learned here for any hacker, imo.
Isn't Eastern Europe more progressive when it comes to female participation in the workforce?

Also I find it hard to believe there's a significant pay gap for the same position when the workers have the same experience and the same education. Or that that gap is gendered, meaning that weaker negotiatiors get lower salaries.
This is just one person's opinion, but even with PE ratios, profitability, or any financial statement you can read determining the value of a company's stock (not the same as the company itself) is almost as hard as bitcoin.

If you can reliably price a stock based on any measure of company value then you could be very rich very fast.

There is a reason they say don't stock pick just buy an index fund and hold.
Love this site. Does anyone know what typeface/font is used?

I'm referring to the typeface that is similar to Inter (but isn't).
Delivery orders are making restaurants mad. Now they're fighting back
Yeah, none of that is true. There is no federal sales tax, and sales tax in most places didn't ever come close to 10%, let alone 20%. In many states it's 0.

Filing your taxes is free. Maybe you can spend $30 if you want to use turbo tax to do it for you.

Any job with these salary differences provides great health care and benefits.

Cars exist in Europe, I know many software developers there that have them. Why people pretend nobody has them if beyond me. And just like in the US, the closer and more convenient to the city center you are the more expensive it is to live there. Cars are also not as costly of a burden as they are in Europe. Also, most European tech jobs are in cities (London, Amsterdam, Dublin) that have similar cost of living to US cities which you don't need a car in (SF, NYC, Seattle). So it's mostly a moot point anyway.

Finally, we get to a point where there is a REAL cost difference: taxes. The overall burden of taxes will be 10-20% lower in the US, which is a substantial difference as it's a percentage on gross, not an additional fixed fee like many of the above expenses.

If you want to pretend all of that justifies a 6 figure salary difference, more power to you. I've looked into making the move many many times with actual figures and it never even comes close to being close.
Thats why I said "about" 20%, so it differs based on project and situation.

Enough to get useful stuff done, small enough to keep most capacity for feature development.
Also depends on the amount of technical tickets deemed relevant by the team
I assume the range has to be based on actual salaries that are being paid in that company for similar positions.
I always let the recruiter make the first move on compensation. Then I give a give a number about 10% higher than my existing salary. When I turn the offer down the first time, they always come back 10% higher than before. The reason the recruiter should ask for compensation bounds early is to avoid spending time interviewing and considering a candidate who simply won't take your offer, because it's too small.
Shop server looks down.

The cost is too high for even high-paid engineers. Are these hand-built?
http://radio.garden/

Map-based internet radio tuner.
Microsoft lifts the lid on plans for 'planet-scale' AI infrastructure
I think it's a matter of culture. I learned since I was a kid that the work culture in the US was crazy competitive. In addition to that later I learned that the Silicon Valley work culture was very strong compared to the average US .

For someone from Mexico (parable of Mexican fisherman and investment banker) it all looked extremely stressing.

After working in Germany and France for a bit, I realized that there are other cultures that value personal well being and work life balance way more than money. In the eyes of ultra-competitive cultures they may look lazy. But it's just that they have different priorities.
The local newspaper I read as a kid used pictures of cats, presumably to fill empty space.
But there are laws restricting the 1st Amendment in the US.
Ah, the times when toxic masculinity was accepted in the workplace...
Leave It to Psmith
> I've changed my mind on deplatforming multiple times, but I think this is where I've settled as I've watched everything play out. Democracy, if we let it function, is antifragile.

The catch, I think, is that it has to be both broad and deep democracy. In electoral politics, this means things that narrow the franchise and reduce participation are the danger -- gerrymandering, deliberate stoking of cynicism and apathy, overly bureaucratized processes with too many veto points that break the connection between who wins elections and what effect that actually has on people's lives, etc. All of this means fewer people participating and government being less and less representative of the governed.

In tech, I think the biggest danger is platform concentration. Arguments over, say, kicking someone off of Facebook only really become free speech arguments because of FB's massive market share. To switch out the immunity metaphor for a different one, we've got a problem where the internet's become mainly a bunch of multi-lane freeways, and the solution isn't to try and build competing freeways, it's to rethink the economic models that have led us to decide everyone needs to go in the same direction with as much speed with the most volume as possible. I suppose the analog to my first paragraph on electoral politic is that, just as the nationalization of all politics has eroded deep democracy, the concentration of platform power has eroded some important and essential quality for healthy online community.
Which Babel tool are you referring to?
Hey Ushakov
We have published some parts of the platform in open-source here:
https://github.com/elestio

https://github.com/elestio/cloudgate
https://github.com/elestio/nginx-auto-ssl
https://github.com/elestio/ws-screenshot
https://github.com/elestio/nebula-rest-api

We are also going to publish our light live monitoring system (backend and agent) based on websockets

More to come :)
Ouch: "most unique".
Thanks! That is good info.
>One argument seems to be that cryptocurrency is purely speculative, which is apparently a dirty word. What about the stock market? What about any kind of investment? If you truly believe that cryptocurrency is the basis for a superior economic system, isn’t it rational and wise to put some of your savings there?

I feel like it is a black and white and naive view to categorize every financial instrument as purely speculative. They exist along a spectrum ranging from on one hand, sound investments (i.e. US treasuries), all the way to more speculative plays like sports betting. Where an asset sits on the spectrum is a subjective to the eye of the beholder but concensus among investors at this time would probably place US treasuries, blue chip corporate bonds, US stocks in the sound investment half and crypto in the more speculative half. In part because new technology which makes some wary and in part because crypto is a form of currency where most participants appear to be 'investing' on the basis they can sell it to someone else at a higher price. Which sounds fine but normally stocks or US treasuries are underpinned by interest payments, dividends or promise of future dividends through earnings growth whereas most crypto does not have an of these characteristics.

I am blown away by the number of people claiming to be knowledgeable crypto investors who are dismissive of other investment types as speculative when they themselves appears to have little to no knowledge of the history of investing and why things are the way they have been.
Alternators don't have permanent magnets, they need current for the excitation winding. This is probably why they won't recharge a dead battery.
Satoshi actually had a theory for Bitcoin pricing. He thought it would behave like gold, where over the long run the price converges to the cost of mining it. The cost to run the miners is a floor on the price, because if miners mine unprofitably eventually they go bankrupt.
It depends on your expectations - do you assume that the software will be maintained indefinitely with security fixes, bug fixes, features, etc?
That is something developers have to set up manually for every version which results in "not all" really meaning "almost none". And those that do only cover whatever versions the developer decided to have there - the UI cannot really accomodate every version that was released. The feature is primarily intended for the opposite - to allow people (either everyone or only those given a password) to test future versions.
The pricing is unclear.
If Leonardo were alive today would he write his notebook by hand? Or would he adopt a modern a technology that would let him put down his thoughts and diagrams more expressively and precisely, that would allow better revision and better retrieval at a later date? I suspect he would choose the latter.

I see no magic in putting pen to paper. Something like a python / jupyter notebook containing words and figures (and perhaps code) that could be indexed automatically and later searched naturally and intuitively seems far more powerful, reusable and extensible than paper.

Or maybe the note taking process could start with writing on paper, then digitize them into digital form. That way you could determine whether pen and ink were essential to the process or not.
I tried to visit an Apple store recently but just to enter the store you must have an appointment, and of course a mask, even though the rest of the mall had no such requirement. It was very strange.
I love this. Google says 110gr. In this thread, people say 227 or 113. And when you buy in Europe, you are almost always going to buy 125gr, 250gr or 500gr.
yes, and concerning this we should also add it's successor: https://astralcodexten.substack.com/
The emergency wasn't a bunch of churchy rednecks blocking roads, silly.

The emergency was Ottawa police doing nothing, Windsor police doing nothing, OPP doing nothing, RCMP doing nothing, Ontario provincial govt doing nothing, Alberta provincial govt doing nothing -- for almost a month. We came really close to a crisis of faith in our system of governance. The federal govt (in my opinion) didn't have much of a choice but to bring out the big guns.

It just demonstrates to me how broken politics are in this country, that individual politicians are so focused on their own advancement that they could not see they were endangering the very system they're parasites of.
> I am equally payed with equally titled but not equally working coworkers. The entire management chain has clearly different expectations from me: I get most if not all of the difficult tasks and my coworkers rely daily on my guidance.

Careful with this line of thinking. It is just going to lead to aggrandizing yourself while downplaying and belittling others work. Once you get to that point you become the problem not others.
nah, it will easily fit. not sure about routing ressources though.

=== CPU8BIT2 ===

Number of wires: 319
Number of wire bits: 3029
Number of public wires: 38
Number of public wire bits: 209
Number of memories: 0
Number of memory bits: 0
Number of processes: 0
Number of cells: 79
$_DFF_PP0_ 24
$lut 55
It may not feel like it now, but you did the right thing in your 20's. Those experiences you had and the memories that go with them will last you a lifetime, and you'll only appreciate them more, the older you get. You still have plenty of time to land that fat salary, even if it doesn't seem that way at the moment. Most people I know making large salaries didn't start doing so until they were older than you are now.

I ended up with the worst of both worlds, and am working my way out of the consequences now. I didn't travel at all in my twenties and worked my a* off in a low-paying field for too long before making a change in my 30's.
Well, then you'll be happy to learn about "state startups", ("startups d'État"), a government initiative dating from 2015, and managed by the DINUM (Direction Interministérielle du NUMérique), a cross-ministry state institution.

Administrative language aside, they're basically a public incubator, built from the ground up for starting software projects with a focus on user experience for individual citizens and civil servants. The projects have a very "tech startup" structure: agile development, lots of CI-CD, code is open-source and usually hosted on Github, etc.

From what little I've seen, they seem to be pretty competent. I've opened a few minor issues on Github (about typos and stuff) and they replied quickly. I've used one of their projects (the one for validating documents when looking for an apartment) and it worked fine. Some of the projects they're listing seem pretty exciting too.

More info there: https://beta.gouv.fr/en

Seriously, the French government hasn't always been great with IT, but it's getting there fast.
It's the other way around. Does Steam or Bethesda launcher let me download and install manually?
Right. I won't make a Nazi website for anyone.

If I just make Nazi websites for black people, and refuse to make a Nazi website for some people, it isn't the Nazi website - it is the person that I disagree with.
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I get why employer's tendency is to withhold pay information. But ultimately, it's a waste of my time and their time if we're not close enough. So disclosure seems win/win.
> At its root, it's a hatred of the "get rich quick" aspects of crypto. It evokes the same contempt that old-wealth (people with butlers) have for new-wealth (people with Lamborghinis): that they're childish, didn't earn their privileges, and need to be reined in. It's class signalling.

My hatred of get-rich-quick schemes has nothing to do with class signaling. I hate such schemes because they're almost universally scams designed to siphon money from poor people to someone who already has money. I hate them because I see friends and family spending their entire lives throwing away everything chasing get-rich-quick.

So, yes, that crypto has become a focal point for get-rich-quick is a huge red flag to me, but it's unfair of you to summarily dismiss that concern as snobbish.
>Perplexed, the judge responded: "What do you mean, first amendment? What's that?," pointing out that the U.S. constitution does not apply to Canada.

I don't think the judge is saying "Freedom of Speech is un-Canadian", I think the judge is dunking on an unsympathetic defendant for getting their understanding of the law from Internet memes. While there are differences in how strictly American and Canadian law interpret the concept, it's not like one country has freedom of speech and the other one doesn't.
I LOVE this guy: https://www.dethpsun.com/

from his news section:

I should update this website more often, but no one visits art websites so much these days. I think in 2010 I'd average 200 visits a day, and I think it's about 30 these days. So if you're here, thanks visiting my website.

-- Not after HN meets you, mate.

Ahahaha :P ;) xx;p
My admittedly limited understanding of the gender pay gap is that it is based on gender differences in interests (eg. career-wise), differences in willingness to work long hours (especially with age), and differences in temperament, ie. women on the whole having lower assertiveness and thus being less likely to ask for higher salaries and raises.

The "equal work" part takes care of the first two points, ie. the type of work and the amount performed, but it leaves out the negotiation aspect. To emphasize the importance of negotiation: several friends of mine told me their bosses said they could have started with nearly double their starting salaries if they had negotiated better, so this aspect makes a huge difference, at least in engineering.

My understanding of the proposed legislation is that the higher (average) salaries, fought for and won by the men, will be given to the women for free (by companies who will be forced to make such information public and fear it will make them look bad). Not saying that's either good or bad, just interesting. Someone please correct me if I'm misunderstanding.
I'll lock myself out of your "society" thank you very much, BYE!!!
> Eve’s eyes opened wide.

> “Do you mean to say you gave me somebody else’s umbrella?”

> “I had unfortunately omitted to bring my own out with me this morning.”

> “I never heard of such a thing!”

> “Merely practical Socialism. Other people are content to talk about the Redistribution of Property. I go out and do it.”
Sure,

For example crypto.com offers 12% pa. on your USD account.

https://crypto.com/eea/earn

P/E just like normal company ...
Interesting question. Feels like they could maybe do this effectively for a significant portion of the population but that more savvy users would find ways around a blockade?
Does Typefully support drafting elsewhere and pasting into your editor? I'm working on a twitter fiction experiment that makes use of pretty long (100+ tweet) threads and I write my drafts in Scrivener. The ability to paste in a bunch of delimited text, and to delete entire previous threads would be amazing.

I realize it's probably not your typical use case
The Science of Color and Design
Exactly. This was not the first such trustworthiness problem I saw with Dell, only the culmination of many over the years. So there is no reason to believe that Dell has changed one iota in this regard, and they should still be regarded as untrustworthy.
If by “effectively outlawed” you mean “not effectively outlawed at all”, then yes, sure.

How many people can survive for 2 years on 50% lower salary? In addition, the biggest impediment of non-competes is actually the inflexibility (“your job offer sounds amazing, I’ll start working in 18-24 months!”).
Epic Game Store was the nail in their coffin. They all wanted to have their own Steam and rake in all the revenue directly but didn't want to invest the time and effort to build a platform like Steam. Valve virtually stopped making games to focus only on Steam. I feel like watching EGS hit the market, the difficult road it is to build a true Steam competitor for them, and how long before it will actually be profitable was a reality check for everyone else. Like using AWS over Bare Metal, somethings are worth paying someone else to do for you.