skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The 1:1 analogy is to investment capital: let's say someone started a successful company that got purchased and has now invested the $5mil USD they got paid (the capital) with an annual rate of return of 5% giving them $250k/year.

They could reasonably retire off just the return on investments.

However, if they start using the $5mil to buy houses and cars and whatnot, they are "cashing out the capital". As they spend more and more, the return on investment drops but everything looks great from the outside: they have lots of cash, a lot of "things", and so-on. However, look ahead a few years and they might be left with $500k invested giving them a return of $25,000/year and it's possible that they would no longer be able to retire off that putting them in to a possible tail spin of needing to spend the remaining capital just to pay the monthly bills.

I propose that this is what companies are doing with their "social capital" (which includes the public's impression of the brand and that brand's work on building up their customers). Creating a brand with integrity and values while working to solve a problem well builds social capital. All they have to do is "maintain the balance" (stay true to the values and mission that got them there) in order to keep getting the "return on investment" (continual influx of new paying customers). However, if they choose to start sacrificing values and quality for the short-term gains they can definitely do that. On a quarterly balance sheet it even looks like they are "rich": "We're spending less on dev time by ignoring bug reports and less on servicing free customers while also converting 10% of those old free customers to paying customers. The bottom line is way up!". But because they've sacrificed the values that attracted those customers in the first place new potential customers will start looking more critically, or will choose a competitor, or will even start their own competing service. It's only a matter of time before the company looks at the balance sheet and wonders why income is down. If they are really looking to ruin the company they might even point fingers like "we used to get $250k/yr, but now we're getting $25k and our competitor is getting $225. we must conclude that the market is saturated and we have to go on the offensive against that competitor.", when what they could do is simply accept that they have to start over to rebuild the social capital so they can have the same level of return again (or maybe even take the lesson and work harder to build more capital and have a bigger return in the future).
> Few people can afford the space for a well-designed, well-specified home office. Many are reduced to perching on a bed or coffee table.

For what it's worth I actually prefer a bed or sofa. Way more flexible and less painful if your back is shot.
Forget the past:

Does no one actually care about the words of the Uyghur people suffering or Han Chinese who have spoken out?

- https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/1/23/uighurs-in-turkey-c...

- https://youtu.be/RH0F75tpD_A

- https://youtu.be/2Shla50pRxA

- https://youtu.be/3VF-yC6JEA0

- https://youtu.be/e6bPGl10Cts
> it's as much a crisis as it ever was, we're just finding a way to live with it

I think you're right. The phrase new normal has been batted around a lot since the pandemic began. Often it was used by people thinking masking and social distancing were going to be the new standard for being in public but now it's about living with the disease and accepting that hundreds of deaths every day is now normal.
Are we pretending that Windows users don't use cut, copy, and paste instead of drag and drop for file management?

File management in the classic Mac UI was always to open a window for the source directory and another window for the destination directory and use drag and drop to move or copy the files.

File management in Windows was to navigate to the source directory, cut or copy the files, navigate to the destination directory and paste.

Just as the classic Mac OS only maximizes a window enough to show all the contents of the window, but no larger than that to facilitate interacting between multiple windows instead of having every window take up the whole screen.
> Gasoline, unleaded regular - +48.8% (+20.1% over last month)

i called the bottom on oil during the worst of the pandemic but did nothing about it :(

EDIT: i also sold apple at $10/share, i am not good at trading hah
Yeah but that headline doesn't generate as many clicks! War increases inflation! News at 11:00!
As a person who has distaste for 'Mandates', a successful Pandemic reaction will always look like an 'Overreaction'. If Federal government has any role in the creation or distribution of effective Vaccines, I would consider it a success. It is still far from perfect but it was a success.

I am not trying to change anyones view on this -- just expressing my point of view.
The market is “up” mostly because the USD is down, not because real values are rising.

USD value is going to be hit extremely hard as it loses reserve currency status. The days of the petrodollar have come to an end. It will be a typical “closing the barn doors after the horses have bolted” response which will only make things worse.

This is actively happening now, the big holders are just trying to do it quietly to get out as much as possible before the US tries to shut it down and USD fully tanks.

As this happens the market valuations will appear to rise in nominal values. If you value the market in gallons of unleaded or dozens of eggs however you will see a different story. There’s only so many years the politicians can claim it’s a “supply shock”.
Godzilla is a masterpiece

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBpBEjMQ24k
If you define collectivism is group activity enforced by violence vs voluntarism being group activity not enforced by violence then this entire discussion is a word game and a waste of time.
No, on mobile it was an absolute disaster, our entire mobile team quit rather than deal with it, it's hard to recruit new developers, it's a pain to maintain, it didn't deliver cross platform, it doesn't even deliver across one platform (Just make the customers buy iPads), it has a huge deliverable.
The only people who like it have not developed mobile and are just used to dealing with dependency hell and everything that goes with it and seem to think it's normal.
My first "hacking" success was with an ad-supported ISP called NetZero. The app logged you on to the web and had a persistent ad-banner on the screen. If you opened a full-screen app - in my case Starcraft - it would kick you off the internet.

However, I discovered that if you killed the NetZero application at just the right time (after connecting to the network but before the ad banner was initialized), you could stay online with no ad-banner and pwn some Zerg.
TBH I think this is a more universal problem. I work in a University and students with either Macs or Windows laptops all seem to lack the basic ability to get around their OS. They'll entirely mouse orientated ignorant of many time saving affordances.

On the other hand you have people who read HN who know their system intimately and don't like when another system is different. I could rant all day about Windows too!
You cannot propose that freedom of speech has to solve these problems and if the issues remain deduce that restricting speech is the solution. That would be false reasoning.

You could say the same about ice cream, yet banning it would not solve anything as well.

I sympathise with the notion that free exchange of ideas should perhaps have netted more enlightenment. But my expectations of free speech isn't that is solves everything. It is something I see as a human right and essential for any intellectual discourse.

Information about the Iraq war was suppressed and whistleblowers responsible are still imprisoned. With the Google and press of today I can assure you that you might have never known anything about that. It would be classified as conspiracy theory or something along that lines.

> Hard problems don't get solved through pandering.

See, this is where that line of thinking is very much along the lines of your popular dictator. I don't know Elon Musk personally, perhaps he is horrible. But I would take my chances if the alternative is a "heavy handed approach of censorship". It was an easy decision.
Are you crazy? I'm from '79, so probably a bit younger than you.

We can now buy an Arduino board for the price of a computer game, and make a flying drone. Even with a small camera or some sensors if you want. Or create some small robots with all the motors and sensors that you want, custom 3d printed.

My son is now 13 and doing STEM. I only wish I had access to all the things that they can now do for cheap, especially all the robotics and drone stuff. Plus, the amount of info on the internet is amazing and quickly accessible anywhere.

I agree that the old days were a lot of fun, but if I had to choose, I would want to be 13 nowadays instead of the 80s or 90s.
Each insurance company offers a myriad of different policies, and they change a little bit every year.

Brokers will educate you on specific plan mechanics but will avoid explicit recommendations because they don’t want to take blame for choosing the “wrong plans” for a company.

Each plan is optimized for specific scenarios, e.g. young person with no medical risks or chronic conditions, middle aged person with chronic conditions and established doctor affiliations, so on and so forth. But they aren’t explicitly labeled that way, so people have to figure out what makes sense for them.

If you’re an employer who cares a lot about this process, you basically need to mind read the healthcare needs of each of your employees and offer a menu of options that satisfies their needs, while trying to avoid offering options that nobody should rationally choose.

If you know nothing about health insurance it makes the whole process much harder.

Source: worked in American health insurance for years.
> But there's rarely a 'wow' factor to new tech any more.

John Deere started commercially selling a self-driving tractor this year. That's a pretty big wow. Something straight out of the sci-fi books.

I think it doesn't pop because the internet has been streaming the development of such tech for the last decade or more. It seems incremental because we have had insights into the development process, which is something the masses didn't have access to when Windows 3.1 or the C64 landed.

Gone are the days of decades of behind the scenes R&D suddenly landing in our laps to amaze us. We now watch the R&D unfold in realtime.
I was just thinking about these the other day, incredibly timely HN post. The look of all these progs was always so cool to me as a kid. Would love to see some old screenshots!
Yes...but that has a flipside: "Credit card number must be less than 9999999999999999" is completely useless, and you can't customize that.
I haven't and, unfortunately, I live in a country (HK) where the legal risk would be too high to try it.
Due to Covid many of us probably drive a lot less (working from home) so gasoline prices are not a big deal. However people in service sector jobs are likely affected by fuel costs.
I think the article's own title is incorrect?

> Headline CPI in March rose by 8.5% *from a year ago*

Another notable piece:

> core inflation appeared to be ebbing, rising 0.3% for the month, less than the 0.5% estimate

which matches the other commenter mentioning that the gas prices were a massive contributor to this.
Most companies (and employees) consider this part of the compensation package.

In most cases there is not an avenue to recover any lost compensation if you opt out of health insurance. If an employer offered a higher base pay for those not on their insurance plan, you probably WOULD see a much higher rate of those securing their own plans in the open market.
There is a "subdivision" type development project near me, had their signs up for a decade now, built two houses at the beginning and nothing since. They just changed management and goals and the signs now speak of rents rather than sale prices, "move in dates starting July '22," and they've begun construction of a half dozen more houses.

This is a very rural area, tho; and there's plenty of better built houses (with insulation and such) already available to rent at less than the price these places are going to be asking. The construction of the ancillary stuff, "HOA responsibilities", looks to be as short term as possible. The roads are asphalt laid on undisturbed earth, no foundations, grading, gravel or even ditches.

This project looks like an investor fleecing scam to me; it looks like the whole development is going to be less homely, less enduring, and less appealing than
another trailer park.
Indeed. I also rarely "call out" someone when they engage in what's clearly a fallacious argument. Instead, I will engage by saying "I don't think that is an accurate portrayal of the position, because [..]" (strawman), "because [other thing] is bad doesn't say much about [this-thing]; if you want to talk about [other-thing] we can do that another time" (whataboutism), "Just because [organisation/person/group] says X doesn't mean X is true, I think it's more important to look at the arguments they're making" (argument from authority), etc.

This way it doesn't come off an an accusation, it keeps the conversation going, and is generally much more constructive. I found that people who "call out" logical fallacies and the like are generally looking to "win the argument" rather than actually have a conversation.

Calling people out on "bad faith" is common; there's an entire string of terms for this ("gaslighting", "sealioning", "concern trolling", what-have-you). I've never seen it end well. If someone is actually engaging in bad faith then it's better to disengage and call it a day, and if someone is engaging in good faith then all you've did is insult them without actually contributing all that much.
Why would I pay for a reading schedule like this, when there are perfect free alternatives?

* https://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/202022094

* or this: https://www.jw.org/en/library/series/more-topics/bible-readi...
The Soviet kiss gone but not missed
There are at least some car manufacturers paying for Qt that do not care at all about this issue.

On the other hand, I really doubt the open source community is responsible for a large chunk of the Qt company's income.

Sure, breaking the agreement would further hurt their image in the open source community, but I doubt it would have a large impact on the company's future.
https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?getopt_long(3)

> HISTORY

> The getopt_long() and getopt_long_only() functions first appeared in the GNU libiberty library. The first BSD implementation of getopt_long() appeared in NetBSD 1.5, the first BSD implementation of getopt_long_only() in OpenBSD 3.3. FreeBSD first included getopt_long() in FreeBSD 5.0, getopt_long_only() in FreeBSD 5.2.

So the parsing support is there. And it is used, e.g. tar aka bsdtar:

https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?tar(1)

So long options were popularized by GNU but have since become common across different POSIX operating systems.
What percent of people in the US do you think have Covid right now?

I ask because 7452 people die per day in the US on average, meaning 6.7% of the people who die now have Covid (using your 500/day figure).

Clearly some die from and some happen to die with Covid. The difference could be estimated simplistically based on the percent of the population that currently has Covid. If 0.5% have Covid and 6.7% of the people who die have it, there is a correlation. If 5% have Covid and 6.7% of the people who die have it, there's not much correlation. (Of course, in the correlation case, it still doesn't prove causation, as the weakened immune systems of those who are dying may be unable to fight off Covid at the end.)

I think the best way to evaluate is to look at excess deaths. But even there you've got data contamination from the measures that were taken (drinking deaths, suicides up, flu down, etc.) and no way to figure out exactly how many of the various increases and decreases are directly attributable to the Covid measures.
Hmm, CPI rose to 8.5% instead of the 8.4% estimate. Not sure where you are getting "under expected" from. Also, inflation isn't necessarily bad for markets. What markets don't like is if the fed has to respond.
Seems like a case of "what the market will bear" along the lines of higher travel prices being shown for Safari/Mac users.
Yes! Also a legend. Saw him live and it was, of course, amazing
This is a great answer. At a small studio you'll absolutely see some LAMP servers being run in a corner of the office and some deploy pipelines that boil down to "FTP into the server and then copy and paste the files into the www directory."
There is a factor that has changed, though - the majority of people have now been vaccinated, and medical professionals have 2 years of experience in treating severe cases. So it's possible that policies such as lockdown prevented a much higher death count 2 years ago, but now that much higher death count is prevented by medical treatments we have since developed.
Not sure what EARN IT has to do with this.
Inflation was steadily rising before Russia invaded Ukraine.

Also a US President who is antithetical to the oil/lng industry will drive up the price of oil through the futures market. Demand is still high, Biden has constrained supply, forcing futures prices to go up. Trump was bullish on oil/lng, with the same demand and increased supply, prices went down.
The both must resign or the Conservatives will be routed at the next election.
I disagree that coolness of tech has any relation at all to job security. You're implying pure tech companies will always use cool tech. But there are plenty of pure tech companies outside of major cities that primarily use PHP and Rails and Django and ASP.NET and Perl and JQuery and maybe colo servers and haven't seriously changed their stack in 5-10 years if not longer.
I never found domain driven design to be an extension of object oriented design or microservices. Its mainly a way of organizing your code so it doesn't turn into a big ball of mud at some point.
Don't confuse Docker with K8s. Docker is more for solving dependency management problems than scaling and redundancy which are the problems k8s solves. I highly recommend some sort dependency management solution like Docker or Nix - it makes changing hardware or OSes down the road much easier.
Yes, parameters are usually stored as float32, activations as bfloat16 or float16.
'Vision Zero' at a Crossroads as U.S. Traffic Death Rise
This is a serious issue mostly fueled by rising energy prices. I wish our politicians could think of better solutions than what's going to be proposed like expanding ethanol use in gasoline, when it will actually make matters worse. See tweet https://mobile.twitter.com/SarahTaber_bww/status/15113297700...

Any reason Biden can't use the war time production act to force American oil producers to up production (which is still short sighted) instead of making matters worse?
I did mine because I thought some people might write it:

(a, b) = (b, a)

so the grouping stands out better. Turns out I didn't find any examples of that.
They’re outside of the “tech” industry. Look at companies 200-300 on the Fortune 500; their IT group uses boring tech.

Just fair warning: you seem to be under the assumption that “boring” means “straightforward and just makes sense.” It does not. If you’re looking for that… good luck! Update if you find somewhere and I’ll join you.
I wonder if Putin misses everything about "the good old days" of the USSR(?)
Everything you consume is delivered by an 18-wheeler that requires heaps of fuel.
Veeam backup chains are backwards compatible with older version of veeam so I am not sure where you get that.

As far as running veeam on esxi, you would need to elaborate more on that
My bad, Pre-Coffee brain had Ben stuck in it for some reason.
Non-boring tech within reason is fine with me.

What is off putting is all this hyper growth series F funding impending exit nonsense.

An independent and profitable company that wants to sray below 50 or so people sounds like a dream to me.
Medical hardware is great. Boring time tested technology and good profits.
Overdoses kill young and middle aged people.

Covid skewed old.

No amount of screeching will change the fact that people are far more mentally prepared for grandma to keel over with little warning than they are to lose a random uncle or coworker.
At last, Atlassian sees an end to its outage... in two weeks
They just wanted a cheap computer for kids to learn on that wouldn’t be the end of the world if they broke it.

I've always said that an old PC (but not too old, because retrocomputing has driven up prices then) is probably the best for that. Can be bought for next to nothing or even free, has extensive compatibility with lots of software, and also decades of detailed documentation.
Completely agree withe window management part. I find it easy to work on Win/Ubuntu with multiple desktops and Alt+Tab, but the overly complicated flow of Command+Tab makes this impossible on Mac.

So I just end up with most of the stuff on one desktop and using spotlight with the trackpad to switch. But props to Apple for having the smoothest spotlight implementation of the three.
What is "content marketing"?

Is it creating content about products as a form of marketing them? So, it is a form of advertising through content?
> https://checkboxolympics.com/
Netflix tests Netflix: The story behind their new two-thumbs-up feature
Autonomous cars, AI/ML, and fusion are three things that will significantly change our world in the next decade or so. There will absolutely be downsides, but that's how tech works! And this doesn't even get into biological spheres of tech!

Also, remember, people in 2005 had same thoughts as you're having right now! Throughout my entire life, people have been saying that tech and science is basically done. They've always been wrong, and I don't see an end in sight.

It's the nature of exponentials. They seem slow and then suddenly the world changes. Only a handful of people actually can see that it is going to happen. We're just linear creatures with no intuition for exponential growth.

Imagine sitting in a dark room and someone about to turn on a switch - up until the switch is flicked, it doesn't seem like anything is going to happen, and then suddenly you are reeling at the brightness. That's how tech innovation happens now. I bet in a decade you'll be looking back saying, holy shit, I did not see that coming about something! "Remember when we used to drive gas vehicles?" or "Remember when we thought fusion was impossible?" or "Remember when nobody owned a robot?" Who knows what it is, but there will be something!

In 2014, almost nobody thought about having an app on their phone to summon a car to take them somewhere. Now it is everywhere (and struggling!). In 2014, speech recognition was awful. Now we have an automated robot lady that will answer spam calls for you!
OP probably referring to all the YAML files that deploy services. Many projects share something like "just kubectl apply -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/...".
Meta will let Horizon creators sell virtual items
Remember, that's Videocore IV they released, not VI. I'm still in the reacquaintance phase of getting familiar with HW again, and the devil always seems to be in the details.

Unless you meant to make your PDA out of a <4 RPi.
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Keep in mind that organizations like you've described may treat IT and other such investments as necessary evils.
The current administration does not want to relieve the pressure. They are against oil/lng. They openly oppose the industry and want everyone to be driving electric cars and have windmills powering everything.
Easy fix: let a neutral country like Switzerland do the investigation. The US has way too much blood on their hands.