skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Typically one can take a look at HOOD 13F, institutionals are enjoying free meals while retails are bleeding money by getting out.
In california export figures are different. Among water intensive crops something like 70% of almonds are exported to other countries. Most rice grown is also exported as well.

https://www.npr.org/2021/08/17/1028452988/climate-change-cal...

https://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/California-rice...
Hah, nice! Can I get an option to upgrade my joggers to more formal pants?
Labor Force participation is also low. Job openings are around an all time high.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CIVPART
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/JTSJOL

As these two converge, wages are probably going to go down while inflation may still be high.
Avoid exception throwing in performance-sensitive code
Indeed, which also begs the question; How much of that growth is driven by the over-valuation?

Particularly as Musk is no stranger to using creative accounting techniques, and sheer speculation, to make his companies suddenly look more profitable [0]

There's also him leveraging his other companies to create growth among each other. Like Starlink being a major customer for SpaceX.

Which could either be really smart, or the making of a really impressive house of cards.

[0] https://www.cnbc.com/2021/04/26/teslas-bitcoin-speculation-h...
Agree.

That is why I read multiple sources.

While I consider the Indian sources to be slightly Russian-biased, because apparently they are allies, I have found them to have a good independent view of the situation.

However, they appear much more reliable than the US Ministry of External State Progaganda in CNN, ABC, NBC, Fox, Wapo and NYT in their relentless drive for war with Russia.
I was in the same boat as you. I was about to accept an offer, then I had a chat with their CTO and I asked some hard questions about their strategy (compelling product - but their vision was becoming a "platform" as a lot of startups do). Think I threw them for a loop and didn't get a great answer. Ultimately changed my mind on joining.
For what it's worth, layaway isn't common in the US anymore. It's entirely possible they didn't know about it, or don't consider it worth mentioning because the couldn't find an example of a company actually offering it anymore.

The article was written in 2017, and mentions an APR of 19% for a $200 purchase via Affirm. Looking online it looks like their current rates are around 10-13% unless you pick the shortest term loan[1].

[1]: https://www.affirm.com/how-it-works
I bought something off Amazon with Affirm, wasn't charged interest. I think they make money by partnering with companies like Amazon to promote more buyers and get a cut of sales from them instead of the consumer.
I miss layaway, and TBH I wish we had layaway for big-ticket items like houses, cars, and POWER9 workstations.
Is there something like this for bootstrap?
There are companies that are arguably what I’d consider recession proof, offering 400-600k for fully remote senior / staff roles with very reasonable WLB. Including GOOG / MSFT / AMZN. They’re not laying people off / nor are they going anywhere for the foreseeable future.
accurate that they are graduated and that it approaches the top tax rates.

you can have many dollars at the top tax rate. wouldn’t recommend.
But you also get all the air pollution from the port of LA/LB, so thats why prices don't necessarily reflect the access like they do over in redondo beach or down in OC. Can't do anything about much of it either. When the city wanted to remove that breakwater recently that pins water pollution to the beach and killed the surf scene when they erected it decades ago, the navy said no, should they ever need to load explosives into battleships near downtown long beach.
Presumably this could be mitigated by the DNS request needing padding?
How about the obvious fact that Twitter is not currently worth $54.20/share? It's probably worth half of that if it weren't for the offer, given this week's climate. Surely it's at least partly their responsibility to negotiate the best financial outcome for the shareholders.
I would say AI right now (specifically machine learning) is very biased.

Not opinionated. ML isn’t a raging bigot who hates women or black people for no reason.

But ML really likes to generalize. Because ML itself is basically generalization, it literally works by recognizing patterns. If something looks like a duck and quacks like a duck, the AI will classify it as a duck. For most use cases this is good enough.

Except this leads to over-generalization and stereotypes. For example, black people have statistically higher rates of certain negative qualities such as crime. Thus, an AI trained just on raw data is biased to predict that a black person is more likely to be a criminal than a white person with equal stats. People act like this is a big surprise but it shouldn’t be, it’s really just how ML works, and statistically the AI is right. But it’s still biased.

What AI can’t do so far (and humans can do) is use reason. AI can only determine correlation, a human can recognize that some factors have more influence than others. Black people are more likely to commit crimes, but that doesn’t mean any one black person with equal stats as a white person is more likely to be a criminal. The data is skewed because a lot of black people also grow up in poverty and dangerous communities, with parents and friends who encourage bad behavior. AI can’t understand that an input parameter which correlates with the output doesn’t actually affect it and should be ignored. And this happens even if you remove the input, because the AI can re-discover it through other correlating inputs (e.g. the AI may implicitly determine someone is black by their location, income, job, hobbies). Hence why the judge AI may still predict black people are more likely to be criminals even if you don’t feed it skin color.

Humans use their logical reasoning to “un-bias” themselves to an extent, AI can’t. I personally really support AI but I still think it shouldn’t yet determine things like sentencing and employment. It’s not just an issue with “politically correct” biases, every single “bias” (factor which correlates with the output but doesn’t actually influence it) will probably get picked up by the AI. You may get rejected from your job just because you tapped on the desk too much or looked off into space too much or any other seemingly random factor. AI is still really dumb: it’s good at tasks like image generation, and it’s also good at tasks when it can be helped with traditional algorithms and human supervision (like driving a car). But with interviewing, I just don’t see how AI can actually be useful and not just a buzzword / extra feature.
> They do, but the biggest way this happens is investors shifting their asset allocations into bonds.

The opposite is true actually, when rates go up there is a sell-off in bonds which is exactly what is happening right now where bond prices are down 10%-20%
I have a track bike that's light as a feather, a cyclocross bike rigged with single rear derailed that's barely heavier, and a dutch style city bike that weighs like 4x the track bike. Guess which one gets ridden the most?
Isn’t that just sexual harassment towards men?

We don’t rob people then give them back their things to raise awareness about robbery.
Supply and demand, of course.
I was about to tack that on. Not only the badly worded job descriptions, but zero trust that you actually worked at $COMPANY and did some $JOB.

You can verify that pretty anonymously/easily (with the interviewees permission, of course) by acting like a landlord or something, calling the previous employer and asking if $PERSON works/worked for your company and had $TITLE and did they work there $YEARS.

That should almost be the first step imo after the quick "are you a person / do you have these skills" interview which is normally reserved for an HR person who doesn't know a bit from a byte. If they picked up the phone, claimed to have some skills, a company they work/worked for genuinely seems to exist and employed them, heck hire them - I bet 9/10 it would work out just fine.
tesla is dead
> Delaware courts have almost never found an MAE

Not a lawyer, but I'd make the argument that social media is a relatively new industry that hasn't had the opportunity to make as many notable legal challenges. This is important because the nature of centralized "digital assets" like user accounts that a social media firm possesses makes it far easier for businesses to misrepresent their possible value. There's a big difference here. Their accounts are just entries in a database: their stated user accounts could just as easily come from real users as they could from some automated program churning out fake accounts, to sweat shops that use manual labor to promote businesses, to even artificially generated accounts that social media firms generate themselves to pump up their numbers and have a better chance at tens of billions in ad revenue. Without access to Twitter's database, you can't really begin to tell their actual story. And even with access to Twitter's database, it's kind of tough to "prove" that a user account is a real person or not.

In contrast, older types of businesses generally possess physical or at least some tangible assets. These are much harder to fake. A logging company might have to actually buy acres and acres of valuable forest land in order to have that asset on the books. A mining company actually owns mineral rights in some area and performs assays and things. There's a real record of these things and it physically exists. It's hard to fudge these numbers too much. A manufacturer would have to own land and trucks and machines and other assets. There's a physical, verifiable record of it. It's hard to fudge the numbers of many traditional businesses too badly and these things can be audited in some way.

In contrast, social media numbers could be grossly inflated very easily, and there's no way for Joe Citizen to be sure.
Well, I don't have a marketing site. I get fine with plain text files and a RSS feed, the sort of thing Bradley Taunt[0] calls a "shinobi site"[1]. It's also why I don't bother with Medium.

[0]: https://tdarb.org/

[1]: https://shinobi.website/
>The interpretation that it's specifically about "woke" workers is of course purely from the Post

Yeah, that culture page applies just as much to Conservative employees offended by the presence of pro LGBT themes, criticism of religion or minority casting.

This isn't the anti-woke own the Post or HN commenters who never read past the title want it to be.
> All-cash is basically the new norm.

It’s paradoxical that all-cash became the norm in a period where mortgage rates were at all time lows…
Me too, especially given that the M1 Air is (i) fanless and (ii) relatively friendly to Linux.

In the US you might also want to consider ThinkPad X13. With some discounts, it can be a good alternative if you prefer a standard architecture. In the EU sadly ThinkPad is sold via a third party reseller which has an atrocious customer service.

For around $600, depending on current deals, you can get a Surface Laptop Go which has a nice screen and just works on Linux. Avoid the baseline model if you can as it has an eMMC HD which is quite slow.
Depends on what "credit card company" you are talking about.

Visa/Mastercard/AmEx and others don't care whether you are paying off your bill or not. The take a cut of every transaction done on their networks.

Banks that issue the cards do profit from interest, but that is somewhat balanced by some people just never paying. They also collect various kinds of fees, whether directly for the card or other parts of their business (e.g. they attract customers with good cash back cards then sell them on mortgages or auto loans).

Ultimately everyone is paying for credit cards simply from the price of goods they buy going up to account for the costs.
Incoming has been taxed for a long time. If new ways of obtaining such incoming arrise (crypto), wouldn't it be unfair not to tax them? That has little to do with greedy governments.
Ask HN: Why don't engineers building data warehouses use a DB migration tool?
I recently learned how useful a db migration tool, AKA schema change management, can be. Most modern ORMs have this functionality.
- https://sqlalchemy-migrate.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
- https://orkhan.gitbook.io/typeorm/docs/migrations
- https://www.prisma.io/migrate

I've never seen data teams (building data warehouses or machine learning infra) use something similar. I was wondering if anyone had some theories as to why?
Considering how many candidates are out there who have B.S., M.S., or even Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science, but can't even manage to write FizzBuzz, I think your fears are a bit overstated IF you are actually reasonably competent and are capable of showing it.

Anyway, in my experience degrees are more about simply getting past the first-level HR filter than anything, and don't get you hire per-se. And with 10+ years of experience, you'll get past the first-level HR filter just as easily, so really it comes down to demonstrated competence. Can you show/convince (an) interviewer(s) that you are competent? If you can, you'll be fine.
It's company policy because it lets them take advantage of candidates.
find some projects that could use sponsorship via github sponsors or patreon or something else -- that's a far more useful way to give back
This concept has been reincarnated as By Now Pay Later (BNPL) financing

https://www.nerdwallet.com/article/loans/personal-loans/buy-...

BNPL is the new darling of the finance world...at least 3 fintech are hard at work on this business model :-)
> I can also just draw my own conclusions from the interaction I am having with you right now.

It does explain your first emotion of being offended, you seem very easily offended.

> Butter Chicken was actually invented in Delhi in a restaurant called Moti Mahal in the early 1950s by Punjabi migrants. CTM is too similar a dish to Butter Chicken to be called a new dish, let alone an "invention".

Now Chicken Tikka Masala is the same dish as Butter Chicken. Alright then.
This seems questionable. The author suggests 'faulting in' header files to trace dependencies, in pursuit of the iffy goal of including exactly what your compilation unit needs and no more.

So you're manually doing what the compiler and code pattern used to do for you. And creating dependencies in your source code to files that may become obsolete (include bar.h because foo.h needs it; then foo.h changes and now bar.h is no longer needed yet you still include it)

I have a different code pattern: header files include everything they need and no more; I include just the API's I use in my source files. I prefer this pattern by leaps and bounds over the OP's recommended technique. Because the source and tools manage themselves.
Why do you think it’s hopeless? Having a CS degree is just one attribute a candidate brings. I’d personally value 10 years without that 5 with but there are so many other factors to consider in candidates.
Not always! I buy everything, including food shopping, on 0% credit cards and keep the money in savings accounts earning interest. I always have a matching amount in savings as the balance on credit.
If they go about it for batshit crazy reasons, they'll do it in batshit crazy ways, and almost certainly make it worse instead of better.
> How about the obvious fact that Twitter is not currently worth $54.20/share?

Shame on Musk for writing $54.20 into the contract then.

Just because the value of something changed after you wrote the contract doesn't mean that you can break the contract unilaterally. Musk could have gotten around this with an all-stock deal (ex: I'll give the Twitter board 100,000 shares of TSLA or whatever), or other ways to write the contract without setting a particular dollar amount.

But Musk wrote $54.20 and signed it.

And the contract even says the Twitter Board can force Elon Musk to buy Twitter and finish the deal at $54.20. So they made it crystal clear to Musk (and his lawyers) that the $54.20 price points stays, no matter how Twitter's price changes over the next weeks.
My (novice) highest-level summary of the argument in this paper: firms emerge as a result of transaction costs between people. By being in a firm together, people build shared structures, and as a result can reduce these transaction costs. A firm is like a ball of low transaction costs, pretty much.

This paper is the first economics paper I ever read (a long time ago, excuse my if my summary is awful lol), and still one of the most thought-provoking and interesting papers I've encountered.

The fun-to-think-about questions that it leads me to:

1. What sort of transaction costs between people today are _practically_ the most important to leading to a creation of a firm?

2. What if we built technology that reduced those transaction costs to near zero? E.g. what would it mean for there to be less incentives for a firm to form?

3. How does questions of transaction costs relate to market structure and monopoly?

I guess mostly this paper is amazing b/c it made me realize I never really thought to ask the question "why companies in the first place?"
I think there are a lot of reasons to dislike this kind of personal financing, but "owning nothing" isn't one of them. It isn't materially different from any other loan.
> So buy private security and know that they work for your interests specifically. The cleaned up street will attract more customers and the added security will pay for itself.

“Will” pay for itself? Spoken like someone who has never had to pay the bills to run a retail establishment.
Tesla's net income in 2021 was $5.5B, GM $8.8B, Ford $11.5B, Toyota $28B.

Tesla's PE ratio is 99.6, GM 5.6, Ford 10.4, Toyota 8.25.

Tesla's market cap is $1,061B, GM $85B, Ford's $83B, Toyota $254B.

The state of Tesla's stock is simply unreal, not based on fundamentals but on inertia and hype.
Maybe.

In any event, that unlikely to be helpful in this specific situation, as the majority of all revenues from rec.gov go directly to BAH[1], rather than to the public land management agencies responsible for stewarding the resources in the public interest.

BAH also has price setting authority, with a dearth of public oversight.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31369931
This is so dumb, and so brilliant! Every once in a while, a project like this pops up on HN in between the high-funda discussions on performance tuning, shiny new frameworks, and million dollar acquisitions, that reminds us all of the sheer silliness that computers are capable of doing (which funnily enough is a large part of why we started tinkering with computers in the first place) :-D
The dolphin reminds me of the one from that movie with Keanu where they are constantly doing a bunch of cheesy mind hacking!
When I graduated college, I furnished my apartment with furniture paid for with 0% financing on the Stør¹ credit card. Reading the fine print, if I didn't pay off the card in full by the end of six months, I would be charged some outrageous interest rate (over 20% IIRC—but this was 31 years ago so I could be wrong), backdated over the life of the loan. A lot of 0% financing works on similar bait-and-switch terms. If you look at the fine print on auto financing deals, it often requires a high down payment and short loan term and it's there more to get people into the dealership than anything else. Those few who are able to actually use it are considered an advertising cost.

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1. Stør was similar to IKEA but Danish and a bit more downmarkt
Is there a crypto business that is actually making a profit?

Besides Matt Damon I suppose.
Don't most production NN or DLN optimize to a maximum?

Seems like the behavior becomes predictable and then you have to retrain if you see unoptimal results.
Cats contains the plant related reddits, and is tied to them via r/CatsAndPlants
(fair enough). It visibly looks like plants are also connected via r/michaelbaygifs, but that is only because of really odd placement for r/UnexpectedThugLife.

It would be nice if the shown links were not restricted to a single "country", as I bet r/dogsandplants (which is part of Cats) is tied to a bunch of dog reddits, but those are not shown.
Since Lisp is often compiled to machine language, C/C++ is often only glue to the OS and large parts of the software is actually written in Lisp. GNU Emacs now has a variant with native compilation, so it there would possible to get rid with much of the C code without much loss of performance. Thus in a large CAD system, compiled Lisp is not just the scripting language, but can be much of the implementation.
> maybe you shouldnt be interviewing people for specific terminology. People can learn. Experienced competent people can definitely learn.

I generally agree, but "cache line" is a pretty low bar though, no? I'm a web developer with no formal CS background and I've known what a cache-line is since the first year I started to learn to code. Every textbook on my shelf that even tangentially relates to the kind of work embedded devs do makes reference to cache-lines, and god knows how many articles I've read over the years.

Training people from what is probably nothing is a pretty big bet on the part of a team and employer...
Makes sense, San Diego and anything on Hawaii is hard to beat for 'comfort'. If you account for outdoor diversity then moving bit north to Silicon Valley makes sense. Warmer than San Francisco, with great skiing 4 hours away.
They still need to 10x their profit to make their current PE of 130 to make sense.
I disagree, I find chain and derailleurs to be annoying and unreliable in the worst way. I'll grant them their crown of efficiency, but I hope to see more refined CVTs. I currently have a bike with a NuVinci and I strongly prefer the way it functions over the clunky must-be-pedalling shifts of a derailleur. As an added benefit the system is contained, presumably hardening it against damage and reducing maintenance.
The article does also go on to say however that Musk will probably do whatever he wants without concern for the law, and without substantive repercussions. He can walk away from the deal just because he wants to, because he will be more aggressive in court than Twitter, and it wouldn't be advantageous of Twitter to go after him.
People will definitely be buying assets within a decade of a recession. They will begin the buying the very day of a market crash they had any sense.
author here! I built it selfishly because each time someone comes to my house to do work (cut grass, clean, barber, handy man, etc..) I am always asking the question - "what payment app can I pay you with?" If they have a paylinkz URL I can simply just pick whatever is convenient for me and pay them via it.

I'd also mention that since launching the app, I have see the users span from basketball coaches, non-profits to side hustlers.

You might want to read my full reasoning here https://paylinkz.app/about
I was also dying to know so I went digging. It's Google Tasks.

https://twitter.com/thekitze/status/1524809601538990083
There is no danger of C++20 modules failing to "gain traction". They are already in the Standard. All that is left is to define Standard module names for the Standard library components.

Most likely that will be, simply, "import std" in almost all cases, with no reason for finer granularity.

Of course we will need to update our non-Standard libraries to get the benefits there. That will happen fast once more compilers finish implementing C++20 features.
Out of curiosity, what were the repayment terms? I see on their website that they offer 0% APR on some of their shortest financings, so I wonder if you were bucketed into one of those.

(I would personally consider doing installments at 0%, so I'm curious as to whether you were given an advantageous plan based on a credit check or whether it was the timescale.)