skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
8% is extremely optimistic. 4% is more like it, maybe even 3.5%. I'll use 4% for what follows. That's $200k. Take out 20% LTCG, now you're at $160k.

Rent is like $3k/mo, so $36k/yr. Say you have modest living expenses of another $34k/yr. Now you're at $70k/yr to break even. That leaves you with $90k to save/compound.

So, ok, you're doing very well as a renter with $5M invested, even in the Bay Area. And, given that you have more than twice the income you need, you'd probably be ok with only $2-2.5M. As in, breaking even with passive income.

Which would work so long as you don't want to own a house, and so long as markets don't melt down. That extra security seems to cost extra.
I meant w/r/t pure Python code, which the comment I replied to seemed to be implying.

Yes, C extensions that count on the GIL for handling their own internal locking will obviously need updates.
New Zealand is great too.
That's obviously racist, even if you aren't.
Imo, in a small 1-2br apartment it's easy enough to run ethernet and hide it along the walls, either by tucking it under the moulding if you have carpet, or using cable hiders.

I'm also just laser focused on good consistent latency though after years of suffering awful cable internet and trying to minimize all latency that I could control (https://i.imgur.com/i84mIsD.png was what it was like during the day in 2020 in the first wfh period. Luckily I've only been getting consistent spikes up to ~200ms throughout 2021 /s).

edit: That ping was on hardwired ethernet with no load as well, and Rogers (realistically the only ISP where I live in Canada because my available Bell DSL connection is too slow) was throttling uploads to 4mbps.
Improving distributed caching performance and efficiency at Pinterest
Where on earth did you get liar? You just have a very different context from many of us. I worked three jobs for 30 years so my kids could live a sheltered life.

Here’s an example of me not being oblique. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31363040
Cities with Nice Weather
Maybe the current generation. I recall the original Leaf looking very clown-car-ish but I guess that's subjective.
Found this sketch looking service from some comments on a Blu-Ray forum. Apparently $9/mo for two rentals per month.

https://www.store-3d-blurayrental.com/category-s/1822.htm

https://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread.php?t=285125&page=2
What do you think Russia did during that period? Did they stand still and let Ukraine alone? No, they bullied, harassed, raised the rhetoric against Ukraine. Putin questioned the validity of Ukraine. They fought the proxy war in Donbas. Is that your idea of being provoked?
Honestly I've not heard anyone say that Twitter's current state is good. Yo're literally taling about a company that has somehow managed to stay flat whlist all their competitors are up multiples. Sure, people think Musk won't make it better, but no one thinks twitter is doing well.
Historically, Apple tends to only work with other Apple products well. The only product that I'm aware of that breaks this rule are the new air pod pros.
AI algorithms used by recruiters are responsible for the automatic rejection of many qualified candidates.
Another one: When I open a new window of some application, it decides which monitor to appear on seemingly at random
(Comparatively) Rich people unaffected by a country's local social and economic woes want to live there because it's cheap and they can live like kings. Locals want to get out because costs are rising and they're used like slaves.

You'll find similar problems in SE Asian countries. People want to escape their oppressive governments and lift their family out of crushing poverty and unaffordable living. People from North America and Europe see those countries as basically Disney World--just a world of beaches, forests, $1 meals and $100/month apartments, and they're more than happy to move in. Admittedly, I'm a person who also absolutely loved Vietnam (as a middle class white dude who has zero risk of ever running into political or social issues there and could afford anything I want easily), but I know countless Vietnamese people who have recently emigrated from there and hope they'll never have to return.
As I read the above example, it leaves it undefined which proportional system is in place. As such, the statement is strictly incorrect, because it makes a general statement which isn't true of proportional systems generally.
The bulk of the groups are labeled, but the sections of "NSFW Island", I'll call it, aren't. Is there an explanation of the grouping? Some of the groups make sense (celebs, indian-themed) but I can't make heads or tails of the others.
> It's not a particularly searing or piecing observation on my part.

No, just racist.
Great name! Love hearing these guys when you get away from the cities.
More places are really bad now, not only downtown. Chinatown is really bad now, Ballard is bad (the walkable part of it, that is), South Seattle is bad.
7 razones por las cuales un banco puede rechazarme una solicitud de tarjeta de credito
I have a top of the line M1 Max MacBook Pro, and in theory, I should be able to use my also-top-of-the-line iPad Pro as a second monitor, wirelessly. I’d say it works flawlessly about 1 out of 5 days. Which is a shame because I love the setup, but man it’s frustrating on those other 4 days.
Google also had around 14 holidays so no it far exceeds uk min requirement. Most us companies dont count holidays in their pto numbers and most have around 10 holidays
Just out of curiosity, what bluetooth do you use? There is no bluetooth options on the market that don't actively physically hurt my ears in a way that wired headphones never ever have.
Well yeah, but if complex self-replicating organisms aren't also very good at self-repairing, they don't self-replicate very long.

Individuals do get less good at it over time, though. The structures described earlier as "shortening" are called telomeres [1], and they do actually do that, as a result of DNA copying being a physically somewhat destructive process. They're purely structural rather than informatic, though, and everyone starts out with a fresh set.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telomere
At the risk of being conspiratorial, does this latency exist for Apple bluetooth devices?
Please correct me, but I thought Singapore was already relatively expensive compared to the rest of Asia given its tax haven status.
Nice non-sequitor you got there
There comes a point where people start buying things like Twitter.
Depends on where you are. San Francisco absolutely has a real, extremely-visible problem in a number of places. In a "walk from transit to work, you'll see it quite literally every day for years on end" kind of way.

When it rains, a significant amount of the Market Street area (and surrounding blocks) smells like pee for a day.

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Part of the issue with the "perception vs reality" claim in big cities is that people who live near-ish to places with issues like this avoid those places, either consciously (x area is dangerous so don't park there) or subconsciously (none of your friends go there, so you don't know anything there, and have no reason to go randomly). Visitors and new arrivals are pretty often more likely to encounter it at a more accurate rate.
>In my mind, it happens when autonomous systems optimizing reward functions to "stay alive" (by ordering fuel, making payments, investments etc) fail because of problems described above in (a) -- the inability to have deterministic rules baked into them to avoid global fail states in order to achieve local success states. (Eg, autonomous power plant increases output to solve for energy needs -> autonomous dam messes up something structural -> cascade effect into large swathes of arable land and homes destroyed).

And for this to develop in machines, machines would have to be subject to many mistakes along the way leading to all kinds of outcomes that we hold humans accountable for by fining them, sending them to jail, some of them dying etc. I think that would be so wholly unpalatable to man kind they'd cut that experiment short before it ever reached any sort of scale.

I agree with your conclusion that enough of the rules can't be encoded by us as we don't even know them and for machines to acquire them the traditional way is, I believe, fundamentally disagreeable to humans.
The machines will be the Greek chorus singing us to our doom.
After a few months of triple screening on Mac I gave up and went super ultra wide. It's too much for my old standing desk adapter but totally worth it otherwise.

Now I can see every lane on the sprint board at once ;)
See here: https://www.schengenvisainfo.com/eu-golden-visas/greece-gold...

It’s effectively a 250k investment requirement (property purchase of similar). So it’s not a net worth thing.
Breaking or losing a dongle is nearly infinitely easier and more likely than breaking or losing the in-phone 3.5mm jack.
Fair. Anybody with $42M has it made, anywhere.
150km of range is wet shit
Yeah, is totally absurd that given the health care and social cost of of Alzheimer's we're not taking Broad shotgun approach to investigating potential remedies.

There are a lot of treatments that's worth dumping several million dollars in even if they are low probability of having durable effects.
Ah yes. Racism really is the cause of all the world's problems, isn't it?
I'm sorry that happened to you, as just a kid. As the saying goes, "it's not your fault." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQht2yOX9Js&t=111s
It depends on what you’re selling, but roughly $500 per month is seen as solid on the r/PPC forum (that is, no major objections when brought up), with $100 a month as not outrageous (especially as a starting point). My assumption is that the forum is credible and not astroturfed (which seems fairly reasonable from intuition).

I wish there were a scientific study to lean on as a more credible source. I personally don’t have direct experience for budgets smaller than $1,000 a month, back when I did work with some non-profits.

Roughly $100 a month sounds plausibly viable at the lowest uncomfortable end with skill, but you also need that skill in graphic design to make an effective ad, persuasive writing, and a good idea of how to target the right audience. That perspective also costs time to learn from books and/or money if outsourced.
I agree that talking to people who don’t give a shit at all aren’t fun talking to.

I wanted to say I don’t like discussing spicy topics with people who give too much shit and are inflexible because at that point discussion can turn personal or can feel like them venting.
I'll take the lack of space from 3.5mm jack inside the phone over the headaches and awkwardness of an external device (which now I also have to pay for)!
Interesting that the human-drawn lab bears are nearly all clearly mad scientists out to conquer the world, while the AI bears are merely earnest… clowns I think?
It's crazy to me that the modern headphone jack has in some form been in use since the 1800s. And now the lack of competition is causing this incredible invention to disappear, in favor of shitty bluetooth buds (with the exception of AirPod Pros which are great).
Subjectively I find the human versions are almost always better even the poorly drawn ones, which isnt surprising, but even though DALLE is able to emulate elements of style it still seems to be lacking some gestalt or ability to connect on an emotional level. There's no accounting for taste it seems.
I have a strange problem where my Mac Pro forgets the arrangement of my monitors. I have to drag them over in “Display” but only sometimes.
Hi, author here -- kind of weird to see my post on hn. Yea, a good meeting can absolutely be worth all the developer time it costs!

I tried to carefully qualify all my calculations in terms of 'opportunity cost' and 'pointless meetings', but clearly it didn't work :).

The main idea behind the post is that the expected utility of a meeting with n developer, E[u(x_n)], should be greater than or equal to the opportunity cost of having that many developers in the meeting. Furthermore, through batching and async context transfer we can reduce the opportunity cost of having those developers in that meeting, which is pure upside for the business.

In a previous job I frequently got invited to meetings that were planned because the expected utility is > 0, which is imo really bad business.
Maybe it's trying to rule out "gaining" a child through marriage (i.e. a step child)?
Usually you need to invest it, but not sure about this specific program. Rental property is a good investment if you want a relatively safe, easy and stable option.
It's almost like features like card slots in smartphones are not particularly important to the mass market!

The discussion on HN when headphone jacks come up is always quite amusing. The market has demonstrated now for years that removing headphone jacks from phones is a perfectly reasonable decision for a manufacturer to make. I wonder how much longer HN commenters will keep insisting that it's a terrible mistake.
> maximize paperclips per human

Kill all humans, make one paperclip, declare victory.
Certain events can be thought of as inflection points and peaks. Possibly elections and policies taking hold.

The bigger problems require all the more calm and collective action.
On the flip side, my late 2018 mac mini won't display at boot on my dual thunderbolt displays. I have to plug one into HDMI to get it to work. Works fine after boot.
You are right, it's not quite as simple as proportionality solving everything.
I can only guess that no one at Google ever tried to use bluetooth headphones for anything serious. Or they would know that thanks to the gigantic latency, particularly on Android, with anything more demanding than videos those headphones are absolute trash, total garbage, useless junk and utter shit. But of course, Google never gave a flying fuck about audio on Android, so they didn't bother to check if it works reasonably. Bluetooth headphones make some noises when connected, so it must be fine.
I feel like I'm somehow an anomaly with all of this. For years I've used two screens, either with a MacBook of some sort or with an iMac, and it's almost always worked fine regardless of if the second monitor is an old Thunderbolt Display running through a TB2 → TB3 adapter or a third party 1440p monitor (have tried a couple different ASUS models as well as an Alienware model). Maybe once a month I'll see the two screens scrambled when waking up (which is promptly fixed with a replug) but that's the worst of it.

The exception was with a 2016 15" MBP. That thing is flaky to say the least. But a 2014 MacBook Air, 2015 (pre-touchbar) 15" MBP, iMac Pro, and 16" M1 MBP have all been solid. Heck even the Haswell hackintosh tower I was using for a while handled multiple monitors well, and it was even running with two separate discrete GPUs.

I've had much worse luck with monitors with Windows and especially Linux, the first of which is rocky at best if Thunderbolt is involved and the latter of which is fragile with anything but a super simple FOSS supported setup (e.g. Intel iGPU or a single recent AMD GPU). Linux fractional DPI scaling is still a mess even on near-cutting-edge distros like Fedora under both Xorg and Wayland, which is super disappointing for me because I have a ThinkPad that would love to be running Linux instead of Windows but is unusable with integer scaling.
If the universe is "logically meaningless", is your comment (which happily lives inside the universe) true or false?
You can’t easily survive the winter out east on the street, you sure can in the west, so the west gets all the permanent homeless.
Startups.
IMO, readability is simply a misnomer for familiarity, and - for example - a pythoner feels more comfortable reading java than APL purely because it's more regular.

In fact, APL/J/K are simpler to read than most languages![1] Programs consist of functions and higher-order functions that are applied to array(s) in an infix or prefix style. These are evaluated Right-To-Left with minimal precedence rules.

Given a few days, the core language(s) can be easily memorized[2][3][4].

The issue, at it's roots is mostly confidence. And that's a cultural issue APLers are constantly alleviating. A part of that is countering the spread of dishonest framing and narratives.

[1]: https://xpqz.github.io/learnapl/intro.html#but-it-s-unreadab...

[2]: https://awagga.github.io/dyalog/voc/

[3]: https://mlochbaum.github.io/BQN/doc/index.html

[4]: https://kparc.com/k.txt
I'm not entirely sure why you hate people different from yourself, but I do hope you are able to get past it at some point. I've been there myself.
I’m a “Software Engineer” in Boston at a large company. Base time off is 24 days flexible time off (sick and personal) plus 8 fixed holidays.

Lots of jobs are just shitty.
That is wrong. Netflix actually does produce some of its originals. They a massive amount of studio space rented in Hollywood.
One major benefit to HN is that it is text only. There's a lot of 'legal, but horrific to look at' imagery which gets moderated out on other platforms but here is not possible in the first place (excepting external links).
I don't know why but my brain interpreted this as "Map of GitHub" and I was rather surprised that there was a GitHub repository for just GIFs and I hadn't known about it.
I see system_profiler doing a scan when I gather the logs. Is that just the logger itself doing something, and if not is there a way to find what it invoking system_profiler?
It's not taboo, it's just not very interesting, or rather it's a load of rubbish, which the article touches on.

Russia has imposed capital controls, which essentially means it's easy to buy roubles but next to impossible to sell them though official channels without permission. It's not a free market.

The price on the black market, which is mostly free, is much lower.

So more or less the government has set the price of the rouble and made it artificially high. So what?
Wat

I don't think you actually understand what's going on here.

The untrusted programs in this case would be javascript and other exploitable things that firefox interprets every time you visit a webpage. Unless you run firefox itself under a different UID or inside of a VM you are effected by this, regardless of whether you are running other "untrusted" software or not.

Maybe you are thinking that using X11 as an attack vector requires a "bad" program running in addition to firefox? If so, that is not the case, any program that is running on X11 that can execute commands or read and write files could be used for this purpose. A terminal emulator is a pretty good example of such a program.
I believe they did release that product. I interacted with it somewhat recently
MoCA and cable internet use different frequencies so you can still use them. I'm currently using those adapters with comcast.
> I assume this is a reference to being able to use a usbc-to-aux dongle? The aux port is literally removed from the 6a...

No, other way around. 3.5mm female to USB-C male, not 3.5mm male to USB-C female.
> It really is hard for me to understand.

Many people stand up for their principles by putting their money where their mouth is.

I'm not as extremely opinionated, but I also continue to buy phones with aux ports to support the headphones I already have, and mostly to not worry about misplacing those dongles.
In biological history, system two was an afterthought at best. It likely didn't exist before spoken language, and possibly barely before written language. And to the extent that system two exists, it's running on hardware almost entirely optimized for system one thinking.
I was drawn to STV in the past because I liked the level of control it gave voters, having them expresses preferences over parties and candidates. But now I'm more inclined to agree that its too complicated.

I don't think that the approval voting scenario you suggest is good though. If I want to elect five candidates, I want 5 candidates that represent the diversity of the population. But it seems to me that your suggested method will elect 5 candidates of the largest voting bloc, not at all what we want.
Of all of the positive and negative things I've been called in my life, "not observant" has never been one of them!

We have crime here. But this isn't a superhero comic; it's just not an overriding feature of life. I'm sorry if that's difficult for you to believe.
For some reason, I find this ironic coming from "onionisafruit"
I can't tell who's worse in this story. Shame all around.

More on topic, you'd expect false reports of threats to children to be evenly distributed across the population. If so, that's a mass media issue. If the reports come repeatedly from just a few people, it's those people whose behavior needs correction.
that's some great mental gymnastics and goal post moving.
"original purpose", "irrefutable fact", "many years of existence", "author of Bitcoin", "supposed to be better"

yes, people use it for payments. yes, it is better than the "current system" as it literally cannot be censored (as shown by its banning - multiple times - in China).
I'm not so sure its impossible. the 40 year semantic map project Douglas Lenat: Cyc is truly astounding. I think in the next decade we will see really interesting integration of state of the art deep learning with something like Cyc
as a non twitter user, their biggest contribution to the humanity is actually Bootstrap, and I actually say that with all due respect.
> most people "around me" who are in "the tech world" are pretty much diametrically opposed to most portuguese customs and culture. They don't really identify with the country, the history, the religion, the folklore, the politics, the sports

If you don't identify as Portugese, then most likely all these things will register as pretty decorations for your otherwise cosmopolitan life. If you do identify as Portugese, these things can register as an anchor preventing you from developing and exploring the possibilities of life.

That was certainly how I felt about the UK when I left in (3 decades ago).
With OP being disabled, there might be an element that "movies say the ugly and disabled are the villain, and this guy looks like a movie villain". Gross and disgusting, but it is what it is.
Only cheap phones have those and large batteries, but you can forget NFC and wireless charging.
> that the world’s wealthiest 1% is not entirely made up of billionaires, but contains a significant number of people whose assets amount to $759,900 or over. Indeed, there are only 123,000 ultra high net worth individuals (defined as those whose assets exceed $50 million) worldwide. As a group, however, they lay claim to 45% of the world’s wealth. [1]

In this regard, although your estimate is wildly vastly over-optistic, I tend to agree with your premise. Yes, around 400k Californians probably do pose a vast & significant threat to global order & probably are one of the biggest most exploitative & dangerous forces on the planet.

This particular state is home to people vastly more compensated than anywhere else. And they will wreak havoc upon the lower priced markets they seek to exploit & live well amongst.

[1] https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2015/10/who-are-the-1-the-ans...
That was how I read "it's good to be you." I apologize for the misinterpretation.

I've said this in other threads: there is crime in NYC. It's a big city with a lot of people in it, and I am not pretending that it is a utopia. But it just isn't an overriding (or even pressing) feature of life here.
Just out of curiosity, when was this you say?
In Excel you can press F2 before pasting. That takes focus of the cell one level deeper to the input-box, where only plain text is allowed.
FWIW, I work around OS X's terrible inability to position windows correctly when adding / removing monitors with Hammerspoon, and have done for years:

https://github.com/NateEag/dotfiles/blob/ced1819f7f6ab8bd6f8...

I haven't really thought about it in years, and I'm so glad I took the time to write this logic up.