skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Minimum wage is ~$15k nationally. Also - IIUC - West Hollywood, CA voted for the highest minimum wage in the country, and it's lower than $40k. Where is minimum wage $40k??

Anyway - there's a lot of minimum wage workers who make below $40k - probably the majority make less than half that - many minimum wage workers do not work full-time.

And, yes, considering how many single-parent HHs there are, and how many HHs with only 1 person on a small SS check - two working adults making minimum wage would be considered close to low end for middle class.

Median HH income is $67k - meaning only 50% of HH make more than that. So the bar for middle class is obviously going to be lower than that. It's subjective - maybe your bar is at $50k? The tax rate is still quite low at that point (~14% with ~7% of that being your pension - SS & Medicare - even lower if this is a family instead of a single person - which, statistically, is likely).

If this is considered hammered - I don't know how low people expect taxes should be, yet we still have a functioning society.

And, regardless, you're getting significantly more hammered the more income you make until you're deep into the 1% and can afford to avoid taxes. The top 10% are not skimping out on taxes. People making >$5M are.
The capital for Mittelstands is in mid market PE funds.

Making it "cool" means getting founders who'd otherwise take VC to target PE.

It also means convincing these PEs to invest earlier.

Thanks for the feedback. I'll try to center this more in my post.
> I think I actually learned this lesson from my failure to build a billion dollar startup with Labdoor

Failing to build a billion dollar startup does not exactly disprove the “massively succesful” point that GP made. Unless your criteria for “failure” is completely ridiculous.
> I don't fully understand why packages like this are so popular.

It actually works like this: Author X develops `iseven`, `isodd`, etc. No one really downloads such packages. Author X then develops `importantPackage` which does do something useful developers out here download. The thing is `importantPackage` relies on `iseven` and `isodd`. Now `iseven`, `isodd` are downloaded alongside `importantPackage`. Profit.

My point is, we should recognize certain NPM authors as toxic, but I guess "freedom of speech/code" stops us from doing so. Example of such an author: https://github.com/jonschlinkert/
I didn't know what it was either. I googled it. It's NFT stuff.
Seems more like a lucrative "job" than a "business"
> Should we go back to Waterfall?

In many areas we are already doing waterfall, except it is a sin to call it that way and we must pretend we are doing agile.

Let me give you two examples:
- Contractual requirements. If you have a contract with a customer to build X, no matter how much agile lingo you use, you are basically doing a waterfall.
- Legal requirements. Same as above. For instance, there is very little flexibility in being GDPR compliant.
As if the gains in the last two years were anything but artificial…
I did not realize left handed people were often excluded from trials
As someone that has been working hard in this domain, there is one major problem to this in software.

Initial funding. There is a lot of growth non dilutive capital available but the first 500k are near impossible to get without a network in old money.

You used to raise that money through other local mittrlelstands. At the Masons lodge. At the local kiwanis or Rotary. But these have closed to young member decades ago when said younguns moved to uni degrees as a path in.

There is a lot of money idling out there to do that, but as Indie.vc showed, the usual LP are super frigid to it.

I do not have a good answer to this. The current young people simply are too unstable and too close to poverty to take the risks. And there is noone taking a risk on them either.

There is a looooot of value to make though. These markets are ripe for productivity enhancement through good software by small teams.

But the people that have the domain knowledge and the tech skills do not have the risk taking capability to execute.

Whoever find out how to provide them this will unleash massive growth on the world.

I advice to look at what calm fund is doing. https://calmfund.com/

The solution may end up being some kind of crowdfunding from other tech specialists with high income. Like FAANG devs.
And, as we all just read, the definite lack of collapse :)
Situations where there is a total ban on abortion will result in situations where women will slowly, painfully bleed to death, surrounded by doctors who will not save them on fear of prosecution.

It was one such case that got the constitutional ban on abortion in Ireland repealed.
Don't bother. EVE used to be absolutely great (community-wise, gameplay-wise the game always was more "lipstick on a pig"-like), but these days it's just a shadow of what it once was.

By continually dumbing the game down to "make it more accessible", the constant lying by the devs and them going back on their words and it more and more becoming a microtransaction hellhole, CCP managed to destroy the one single thing that made EVE successful: The community.

I greatly enjoyed the decade and a half I played it (beta until 2018'ish), but truth be told, it's only ever been going downhill pretty much since the Incarna expansion with 60$ monocles (2011).

CCP fucked their loyal player base over and over and over again until most of us simply didn't want to take it anymore. The playerbase these days mostly consists of bots and instant gratification people expecting everything on a silver platter, constantly whining if they don't get what they want, only to inevitably leave again after 3-6 months even if they do get what they want.

I remember my first decade in EVE with great fondness and made some terrific friends there. Regarding the 5 years that followed, I seriously regret not quitting sooner. I'm still somewhat active in the EVE forums, though. After all, that's where the real PvP happens. ;)

- A very bitter vet
Businesses that are shooting for the "middle class" (say, less than $50M in earnings at their peak) are of course possible and healthy and good for the economy. What's missing in this analysis is that those businesses are not going to be "founder-friendly" the way that the prototypical YC-seed-stage startup is. To use the article's definitions:

* "Bootstrapped from zero" is, of course, founder-friendly - no investors and no board means you get to do what you want!

* "Raised $100M+ from VCs" is also pretty founder-friendly, at least in the early days, because you're selling those VCs on the lottery-ticket dream that they could earn 3-5 orders of magnitude ROI. With such an incredibly high upside, VCs and angels are willing to take risks with zero due diligence on unproven founders and small dilution.

If you remove the long tail of upside from the possible outcomes and tell your early investors "the best case for you is 100x return, but zero is still just as possible" then the market will compensate in these ways:

* Less availability of capital

* More dilution

* Less faith in "visionary founder" CEOs and more desire by investors to bring in professional management

* Long and protracted due diligence processes before the check even lands

All of that is fine! There's nothing wrong with building a business this way. But there's no free lunch here - companies that don't chase astronomical outcomes will have a harder path to getting those first few dollars in funding.
Myles has a good point about public email to account emails being different sometimes (https://twitter.com/MylesBorins/status/1523811989797093376). There was a way to resolve account usernames to email addresses through a quirk of the user interface up until last year. Fortunately, they're really good with dealing with bug bounties and had it fixed less than week after I reported it. That said, domain based accounts for something like this is still a big vulnerability.

Perhaps something akin to the UK OFCOM amateur radio license requirement would work, requiring people to update/confirm their details at least once every five years, or in this case, yearly?
Sorry! I meant "spacial interface" referring to how panes are laid out on a 2D canvas.
monodraw - https://monodraw.helftone.com/ like paint but for ascii art

I used it to come up with the new gitleaks logo: https://github.com/zricethezav/gitleaks
That's the UK Royal Navy. According to Wikipedia[0] (which cites a broken link unfortunately) the first female ship captain in the US Navy was LT CDR Darlene Iskra in 1990 commanding the USS _Oppertune_, and CDR Maureen A. Farren was the first to command a combatant ship, the USS _Mount Vernon_ in 1998.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_in_the_United_States_Nav...
I use my own "outline" style to make my posts easier to read fast.

The brighter highlights are intended to be the most important points.

Is that confusing? I can change the shade of the lighter highlights.
Microsoft should be the example to follow for any new business.

They never raised money, never talked to VCs or consultants.

They just went in the market and poached other companies to become stronger until they had to face the ultimate boss of the corporate world : IBM.

They beat that and only had to surrender to the really last boss which nobody ever beats: The U.S. Federal Government.

Without VCs you can stop at any point of the climb and rest, then you can decide to initiate descent or pass the baton or even camp there indefinitely
You'll probably enjoy his writeup (and a video) on his process: http://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2020/04/05/crafting-crafti...
Similar story but newer hardware. I was given a machine built with left over parts from the IT company my did did sales for. Booted right to the CLI. I was given a giant red hat manual and told to have fun. It was awesome.
Like the thinkmods adapter? https://thinkmods.store/products/expresscard-to-nvme-adapter
Pandemic darling Peloton's cash-crunch warning pounds shares
Is the stock market “cheap enough” yet?
I always used Helmod (a Factorio mod) to plan my factory. I though using a spreadsheet would be too hard. But by the time I figured out Helmod I probably could have just used a spreadsheet.

But at least with Helmod it’s still in the game UI. Using a spreadsheet seems too much like work.
I'm not sure about your categorization. To some people I might be an A but to other people I might be a B or C and I frequently try to do things that are in your Partner category where it's something I'm interested in.
Please yes. As a founder aiming for the kind of outcome described above, finding the original 500k of funding is the hardest part right now. No idea who to ask or what they expect.
I imagine so. Hopefully here over western europe, things are not that bad yet (although, they are getting similar)
No.

If the goal of isEven is to handle user input, it is woefully misnamed.
What are some ways alluded to in number 2?
> Yes. I think we are actually agreeing?

Yeah. It wasn't my intent to disagree with you. Just chiming in with my own $0.02.

> they can continue raining semi-accurate shells on their enemies, inaccurate intel be damned. Eventually they'll hit something.

I dunno. Every "bang" can be triangulated using microphones and a bit of math, especially because artillery is just so loud when it goes off. I'm sure the Russians are doing shoot-and-scoot when possible, but its not like you can rain down artillery for more than 1 or 2 minutes at a time on the modern battlefield.

As soon as your shell hits, you have a limited window before the enemy returns fire. You want to be running away from your location at that point.

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USA's "counter-artillery radar", which can detect 1500mph shells flying through the air, can triangulate where shells came from before they even strike the ground. So the "timer" may start even before the enemy gets hit by your first shell.
In my case, it clearly developed after going out too much. I remember the night where it developed, which was right after a night out.
>Positional syntaxes are extensible: you can add new optional arguments at the tail end, such that when those are missing, the old behavior is provided.

That's just one direction of "extensible". You can't remove existing arguments, which you can with named fields.
/r/IdiotsInCars made me a better driver. There is still some new failure mode I haven't seen that I don't know how to prepare for. That's the kind of thing studying the mistakes of others can't prepare you for. Not recognizing that can lead people to discover those new failure modes.

Example: Russia expected a quick victory because it did well the last few times it tried to run over a smaller country. They didn't anticipate Ukraine taking those years Russia waited after the last one to prepare while training people up in the ongoing fights in the east.
>> Initial funding. There is a lot of growth non dilutive capital available but the first 500k are near impossible to get without a network in old money.

For two tech founders, the first 500k is literally a year of salary for the two founders. One option here is to bootstrap without outside capital, de-risk, and raise a better round once you've de-risked. For tech founders, the best form of capital can be their own minds and time. (Doesnt work as well if you have a family and if you're a single earner with dependents of course!)
Why is there a need for a third party at all?
Thanks! I'm curious why you want to install it. All the Python runs in your browser and never leaves it. Do you want to use it offline? Or is it a matter of trust? (I understand!)
US podcast ad revenue to reach $2B in 2022
As a founder aiming at these, finding them and convincing them is a pita
Lately youtube seems to think I want to watch a video uploaded 12 years ago on image processing based on non-negative matrix factorization. Probably the first video I ever watched on youtube.

... plus an endless sea of garbage videos with an annoying robot voice reading barely coherent text.

At least they got rid of the conspiracy attractor behavior where if you left it playing it would eventually fall into whacked conspiracy theories and never escape.

Though I did notice recently that it seems to have a meatloaf attractor behavior: if you leave it playing music videos it eventually lands on a meatloaf video and never escapes, sending me like a bat out of hell to trigger it to go to something else.

Don't get me started on all the thumbnails with the weird faces that would leave someone wondering whats really going on under the presenters table.
As an aside, I think I finally understand why Mark is so bent out of shape for the metaverse: His security detail.

Last I heard, Mark spends ~$24M/yr. on his security detail. He's got very thick glass installed in his house. 2 foot thick, but I can't confirm that. It's not just bullet proof, it's RPG proof, or something. The optical distortions are quite real through that much silicon and plastic.

I'm not privy to the details on FB internally, but I imagine that the guys you're paying ~$67,000/day will keep you pretty cloistered from threats, either real or potential. Now, combine that with issues like the Dictator's Information Problem.

As such, I'd speculate that Mark doesn't really get to talk with honest people all that much. Mark ain't dumb, he knows it, but he also thinks all the stuff his security team is telling him is real too. A team that doesn't stay employed if the threats disappear.

So, in Mark's mind one solution is to 'air gap' the people from him via the metaverse. He's 'with them' in the same visual spaces, but his security won't be compromised.
> These sorts of situations are not the subject of the abortion debate

They are unavoidably entangled with the abortion debate, because so many of the legislators and public are ignorant of such fine distinctions, and allowing a total abortion ban in the US _will_ result in maternal fatalities in these situations.
Thank you for gifting me a new word today!
Goldman Sachs shrinking its SPAC business amid regulatory crackdown
Laptops:

LG Gram 17" 16GB RAM and dual NVMe disks - Fedora, main machine for work
Dell XPS 13 - Fedora, wife's laptop
Mac Book Pro 16" 2019 - Official work laptop, used as a paperweight
Toshiba Tecra 740CDT - Recently revived, Knoppix (kind of retro playground)

Desktops:

Ryzen 2700X w 64GB RAM 6-disk ZFS - Fedora, backup storage, video transcoding, photo editing
Xeon E3-1230 w 16GB RAM - OPNsense, house firewall

NAS:

9x Raspberry Pi 4s, (mix of 8 and 4 GB RAM) - Ubuntu 20.04 with Ceph Pacific used as main network storage with CephFS
Is anyone working on a FOSS software solution for a FIDO2 authenticator? I know of Authy (which isn’t FIDO2, iirc) and some other projects, but none implement the passwordless login.

I have some time and the interest. I know attestation is an (optional?) part of FIDO2, and an OSS app will probably never be “verified”. Still, having a pure-software option/reference would be a boon.

Since this is extremely important for the future of the free web, I’m absolutely willing to help any project with these goals.
I'm not sure if the positive contribution by US exceeds its negative contribution, such as destruction of Middle East and large parts of South America.
The open office is the bane of my existence. I have helping disorder (made up) and it makes me 100% interruptible. Meaning I do 5x as much deep work in the office after hours or on a holiday. Imagine the productivity I could gain if I could simply close my office door.
Very much agreed. I briefly tried to use poetry, tox, and pytest, and even using the support packages that are supposed to make poetry and tox play nicely together, it was a massive failure. tox would claim to be running tests with python3.8, say, but actually it was still using the default system python3.10, etc.

I now refuse to use any packaging tools for anything other than generating a requirements.txt, and refuse to use any version matrix tools like tox. I don't have a preference for/against pyenv for sourcing python interpreters (I'll use an AUR or scoop sometimes), or poetry or pipenv or anything else for specifying dependencies, but whatever method is used, I will always only use them to export a requirements.txt, and I will manually create my own venv for each interpreter, and run anything I want inside each venv via oneliners like:

bash -c '. "$0/bin/activate" && exec "$@"' venv38 pip install --upgrade pip setuptools wheel
bash -c '. "$0/bin/activate" && exec "$@"' venv38 pip install -r requirements.txt
bash -c '. "$0/bin/activate" && exec "$@"' venv38 pytest --doctest-modules -v

Usually I'll wrap that `bash -c` preamble into a simple with_venv.sh script, and make a similar with_venv.ps1 for Windows. Create a Makefile with targets for those commands for each interpreter you want to test, and you can run everything in knowledge that you'll always know what's happening, instead of relying on stacked magic.
> Do you ever feel like an article can be written for its intentional
expected negative backlash? What better way to do that then honestly
present the frothy maw right up front for all to be disgusted?

Interesting point Peter. Yes. Indeed, maybe I misjudge the author's
sophistication (or how The Economist is playing it). But that tactic
opens up great risk of being misinterpreted. At some point one needs
to state an intent/position quite clearly.

Someone in an earlier comment mentions sarcasm. I think to do what
you're suggesting, at least for an Anglophone reader, would require
that you coded your prose as sarcasm. I don't find that easy. While
slipping occasionally, I honestly try to refrain from it, not just
because it's "the lowest form of wit", or because it risks
misunderstanding, but because it carries a "defensive" tone, and I
very much prefer to go on the attack in my prose in accordance with
Nietzsche's "If it's shaky, push it." Dostoyevsky said it best, that
it's a "cry of pain". Sarcasm, he thought, is "usually the last refuge
of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is
coarsely and intrusively invaded."

First, how very apt in this context. Second, as with dealing with
all bullies, better to walk right up and punch them on the nose.
Lastly, despite my sometimes acrid tone, I'm really an optimist about
fellow humans. Best to give people the benefit of the doubt to see
things as they are.

Respects.
Yes absolutely. It would be a great experiment to see what any ultra-successful person would do with even that massive leg up - which puts you in the top 10% of the US, if not the top 5%. And no, they aren't allowed to use any of their connections ;)

The ultra-successful, in my experience, are there because yes, they do have some strong, quantifiable qualities, but they also have massive, massive advantages. Not just being born into a home that gave them quality food, the best education, and all of the other things needed to be healthy in their developing years - but also the experience of their successful parents, the connections their family has, and many other things that I probably do not even know exist.

Some of these families that I know personally have it ridiculously well. Not only were they born with amazing portfolios, but they have great family jobs where they make $8k+ (after tax) every 2 weeks. And they get as much time off as they want - and you better believe they generally use it :)

Of course, they still find things to complain about - as do I.

There are a lot of brilliant and driven poor people. If they are lucky, they will get into the 10% or the 5%. If they win the lottery they make it into the .1%.
> Just conventional wisdom that inflation is bad for votes.

This was my point in mentioning the prices of health care, education, and housing. You switched the argument from gas inflation to general inflation. High gas prices are annoying to anyone who buys gas, but there's no reason to think that gas prices in particular drive votes, or that voters would prioritize gas prices over global warming.

> what’s the evidence that they actually favour campaign finance reform? It’s one thing to say it. It’s another to act in a sense where it’s a priority.

If the only options are vanilla and sherbet, how do I express my preference for chocolate? Voters don't get to vote on policies, they only get to vote on individual politicians, on one day every 2 to 4 years. It's not much of choice, very hard to express your individual policy preferences that way. A politician is a collection of a number of different policy positions, although the connection between what the politician says and what the politician does is tenuous at best. In general, politicians of both parties are held in very low esteem by voters. Voters often plug their noses and reluctantly choose the lesser of evils, rarely getting exactly what they want.

I didn't say that campaign finance reform is a higher priority to voters than "bread and butter" issues. All I'm saying is that it's very widely favored among voters, and very widely disfavored among wealthy campaign donors, because of course the latter greatly benefit from the system of legalized bribery. The only reason not to pass campaign finance reform is if you benefit from this system of bribery.

What are the "revealed preferences" of people who don't vote? How can you tell whether (1) they don't care, (2) they feel powerless and disillusioned by politics, or (3) some other reason. That's actually not revealed in the mere (in)action.

> Now that I think about it, I can’t recall the evidence for climate change being bad.

Please don't pretend that consequences of climate change aren't a matter of great public controversy, with literally millions of people claiming it's not a problem or no big deal. Maybe you and I accept what most scientists say, but not everyone does. And it's taken decades of scientists trying to hammer their points home to have a significant effect on the non-scientific public. It's always difficult to try to peer into the future and evaluate possible consequences of current actions.
Am I the only one who thought of this video? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xubbVvKbUfY