skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’ve been searching for a book that helps me identify some goals for myself for yearsss. Once i get some I’ll have read enough books to know what to do with them but nothing so far has helped me become inspired.

Closest I’ve come so far is to read books that make me cry with laughter! I feel at my best after reading these kinds of books and more inspired than any self help book has ever made me feel.

My no 1 recommendation is “let’s pretend this never happened” by Jenny Lawson (aka the bloggess) of all her books it’s hands down the best and the funniest and i reread it regularly because it’s so unpredictable and unlikely! (Though the randomness does feel forced at times)

The only other book that springs to mind is getting things done by David Allen it helped me sort things out of my head to make room to be inspired.
> I suspect it's because much of the field is actually quite junior

Most of the people I know in embedded development are greybeards. There aren't a lot of younger people going into the field. The schools don't seem to be prepping a lot of people for these kinds of jobs. (not sure what we're going to do because a lot of these guys are in their 60s and about ready to retire)

> These skills take years to accumulate.

Indeed. Which is why the low pay is all the more puzzling, but I have theories:
As mentioned above, most embedded devs are greybeards. They don't move around much. They probably aren't as familiar with the much higher pay people are getting at the FAANGs, etc. They aren't as likely to have a LinkedIn profile or if they do they don't spend much time there. As an older dev myself, it's not like I'm clamoring for higher pay: my mortgage payment is quite low compared to rent (and will be paid off completely next year), my cars are old but paid off, don't have any debt other than the soon-to-be-paid off mortgage. All this to say that older devs maybe don't make as much money because they're not as aware of market rates and they don't really feel like they need a lot more money if they're happy where they're at.
This is one of the most seminal papers in Economics and the only to win a Nobel that does not have a single equation in it :)

In general, Coase's transaction cost framework is very useful in the Internet era - Amazon EC2 can be viewed as a way for firms to lower transaction costs of scaling up and down to zero, something that not even large firms could manage, some time ago.

Shopify is a way for small merchants to access costs per transaction that were only available to large ecommerce giants and so on and so forth.

Transaction costs are just a model, and just like all models, the transaction cost model is imperfect and not always right, but often useful.

What transaction costs in the modern economy are ripe to be pared down?
Yes, automakers can push the "more car per car" thing. Luxury cars don't really cost that much more to make than low-end cars, and the profit margins are much better. But the market for high-price cars is limited, and there are too many companies in it already. The volume is in the low-priced cars.
It is the opposite. If you have a high income or are otherwise wealthy, why would you pay cash for a car? Borrow the money for the car since it’s usually at or near 0% interest, and invest the cash you would have needed to pay for the car in an index fund. I cannot think of a time in the last 20 years where you would have not come out far ahead by investing the money for the car.
That's just an extremely simplistic analysis, as if there is absolutely no change in the future. Tesla's forward P/E is currently 51. In a years time it might be 30-35. A year after that, well you can see where this is going. There are definitely a few years worth of growth baked in. But when you compare the valuation to the likes of GM, also consider the possibility that they will simply not survive the transition to EVs. They already went bankrupt once, and sales have declined every year since 2016, please have a look at this graph: https://www.statista.com/statistics/225326/amount-of-cars-so... For a great number of reasons, many traditional OEMs will find the next decade very difficult, and that's reflected in their current P/E.
If price were elastic, the demand would change as prices increased.

Demand largely does not. Instead, as supply is constrained, the price increases because demand remains constant.

https://budgeting.thenest.com/price-elasticity-affect-housin...

This is the whole idea behind a land value tax. Where a tax is made on the unimproved value of land, surplus value is taken by the taxing authority (and presumably returned as public expenditures). The landlord cannot increase rent to compensate (supply hasn't changed, price has), and the result, if other conditions permit, should be increased supply in the sense that idle property is now rented, and low-density / low-value uses are replaced by higher-density / higher-value uses.

The tax applies to the unimproved value so that property investments which increase utility and utilisation are not discouraged. Idle land is penalised.

Real-world validation of the theory ... varies, though seems generally to bear it out. A considerable problem is in getting the LVT in place to begin with, and in dealing with other barriers to enhancement, including zoning and building codes.

In the alternative, increasing asset valuation allows property owners to benefit from constrained supply. Part of their gains come through rent, but a large share is simply in the asset inflation of their property. This can be exercised as collateral on loans for other spending or investment.
Bolt from the Blue (Web Serial)
Bolt from the Blue is speculative fiction Web serial set in the very near future, when climate and demographic changes are wreaking havoc across the globe. When Acacia Fone, a disabled veteran turned private investigator, is hired to uncover the causes behind the death of an environmentalist, she finds herself embroiled in a mystery promising global political consequences.
Wow, it looks really nice, I never heard about these people. I don't really see the point in modelling them after humans, but yeah, impressive.

It's interesting how software has yet to match to the hardware. We could have had Johnny 5 like robots helping around a long time ago.
I picked one up to tide me over until I can get the Mac Studio, and it has been amazing. I have to be somewhat disciplined about resource use – closing tabs, unused apps, etc. But it's an excellent machine by every measure at this price point.

Most shocking is the battery life:performance ratio coming from a maxed out 2017 MacBook Air. I really liked (and still like) that computer, but there's no comparison in terms of performance. If I run the 2017 machine pretty hard, it'll die after 3.5 hours or so. The new model lasts about twice as long, but out-performs the old one by a wide margin.

The only downside with the M1 I got is the lack of RAM. Even so, 8GB has been surprisingly sufficient for a lot of tasks. Most people would be just fine with this machine.
Reminds me of the "myth" of putting a Radeon GPU into the oven on low heat for a while if it was broken. I tried it when mine stopped working and indeed it fixed it.

Also another Radeon card was identical as a more powerful one, except that two pins (maybe wrong word) were not connected. I drew the connection using a pencil directly on the board and it worked as well, saving around 100 Euros.

It's over a decade ago, so details may be slightly wrong. But still interesting how low tech solutions worked on such complicated machinery.
What percentage spam accounts would qualify as untrue statement of material fact?
It's a signal of a) market situation b) faith in musk c) valuation of the deal d) other terms.

It's completely nuts for 'one guy' to spend $40B on something, too much possibility for self delusion.

Musk should have had Private Equity lined up before the offer as part of a consortium. They would have called out his bullshit.

It's really, really telling that he did not.

Imagine Musk having to sit a table with 'mere bankers' telling him he doesn't know what he is talking about.

It's easy to be full of bluster when you're sitting on top of zillions in inflated valuation.
Doesn't matter what terms you slam on it, in the end very few coins enter your pocket / stay there (I'm looking at you, vat) in Germany even if you just have a mediocre income.
I'm a regular Economist reader and I really don't recall them cheerleading any tech bubbles. Got some examples?
Seems fair to me. Paying customers determine what they want to watch, employees choose where they work based on their own values
I sure do! I have hundreds of saved pocket articles that I'm too impatient to devote 20 minutes to reading. It's far more immediately gratifying to skim something for a minute and move on to the next factlet.
When would you have sold? When the market was at its "peak" in 2011? Or 2014? Or 2015? Or 2018? Or 2020?
We all look up super simple stuff we learned in year one of engineering school. I'm not sure I would call reading a little "training". I just think interviewing should be a little more forgiving. Interviewers like to gate keep a little with little gotchas in an environment that is completely different than day to day work.
The idea that you should treat VC money with the same level of
frugality as as your own personal savings is preposterous. Sounds like a petty, inexperienced VC.
Oh neat, somewhat related, I wanted to use ANY but realized that recently per RFC 8482, most DNS servers will not respond to it meaningfully anymore, so you have to query each query type.

So I wrote digany(1) for the primary use case of backing up DNS records.[1]

[1]: https://github.com/andrewmcwattersandco/digany
I don’t know where they are going but they were trading around ten times earnings less than one decade ago. A PE ratio below 15 may look at some point even more reasonable than the current PE ratio over 25.
> I just think it's an even bigger pain in the ass than dating.

It’s even worse compared with modern dating apps. Like dating apps, I can’t even trust that job applications are real and actually interested in finding someone.

And just as with dating no one I seem to like likes me and vice versa.
The latter half of a charming video by Kurzgesagt[0] talks about the tension between anti-bacterial resistance and bacteriophage defenses - we might be able to see-saw treatments based on what local microbes have adapted to. I only mention it as a tangent, and because your comment makes me think you'd be interested.

[0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YI3tsmFsrOg
As Matt Levine points out in today's Money Stuff: no, it's not. There's no such thing as "temporarily on hold". Musk is obligated to buy Twitter. He can't just pay a break-up fee; Twitter can compel him to complete the deal. Musk's only "out" is that a Delaware court finds a "Material Adverse Effect" occurrence. They (1) never do, (2) there's a rule of thumb for the magnitude of an effect to qualify as "Material" (something like 40% off revenue), and (3) the bot-user thing he's talking about was specifically disclaimed by Twitter in their filings, and likely can't be the basis of an MAE claim.

None of this is to say the deal will go through; Musk can just ignore the law, as is his wont.
Not a normal thing. My chain never goes out. Only on janky beater bikes it did. To the bike shop you go.
You pay for cars in cash? Why?

My car loan is 2.5%..inflation is currently 8.x% (averaged 2-3% over the previous decade) and a typical annualized market return is 7-10%.

Dropping $30,000 of cash on a car is silly, don’t sell assets that generate a return to buy a car, which is a depreciating asset…

I understand not borrowing at 18-25% for consumer garbage, but financing at a low rate for a car is definitely a good idea.
I like anime but dear God those are nightmare fuel. Direct 2D to 3D "translation" never seems to work right, and the glowing eyes are just demonic O_O. It is possible to make them look much better in the real world.
There are, of course, a range of other possibilities, such as sending an email when the last reference to a database is removed so that a human can intervene appropriately or having a web app that provides access to the current list of unreferenced databases.
That's pretty atypical, is it not? The vast majority of software engineers are not paid even close to that, and software engineers almost always get paid more than EEs, computer engineers, control engineers, embedded developers, etc.
In the summers of my childhood I would leave the house around 10am with a packed lunch and walk alone everywhere until 8pm or so (before cell phone era). As an adult I’ve driven on some of the sidewalkless rural roads I used to walk and thought “it’s an absolute miracle that I didn’t get hit by a car.” I was a dumb kid with no sense of risk, and it’s sheer luck that I got through it unscathed, tbh.
> We regularly lose people to FAANG because we just can't comp the same,

This would seem to support the GP's point - it sounds like you do have an inflexible top dollar range, meaning listing it up front would help to avoid wasting the time of you and candidates who are expecting more.
Is it recommended to get two different pairs of glasses for both near sightedness and far sightedness? I have a -3.5D with astigmatism as well. I get the feeling I'd require only less powered glasses for screen time as opposed to using my regular glasses for it. What is your professional opinion about this?
> a) the mission of various government agencies

Yes, they can typically be found on the website.

> b) the desirability of the mission or even the agency

Elect legislatures to remove undesired agencies. Simply starving them from legislated mandates is passive aggressive.
The problem with using electrolytic hydrogen from clean energy to make ammonia is that fossil fuels are cheaper, at least when they don't have to pay for CO2 emissions. But the technology is well proven at industrial scale. In the 20th century some remote hydroelectric dams used electricity to make ammonia for fertilizer before the grid was fully built out and servicing other demands became more profitable.

China operates methanol-to-olefins (plastic building block molecules) plants on a large scale, albeit using fossil-derived methanol:

https://www.honeywell.com/us/en/press/2018/03/jiangsu-sailbo...

The Sailboat facility in Lianyungang City in Jiangsu Province manufactures propylene to make acrylonitrile for clothing and fabrics, and high-performance polymers used in automotive parts, hard hats and other hard plastic products. The plant also produces ethylene for ethylene vinyl acetate copolymers that are used to make adhesives, foams, medical devices, photovoltaic cells, and other products, and C4 olefins for butadiene, an ingredient in synthetic rubber.

Methanol can be produced by hydrogenating carbon dioxide with renewable hydrogen. Carbon Recycling International has commercially produced methanol that way since 2012:

https://www.carbonrecycling.is/

Carbon Recycling International is the globally-recognised leader in CO2 to methanol technology, operating at industrial scale since 2012. We enable our partners to produce renewable methanol from carbon dioxide and hydrogen, for more sustainable fuels, chemicals and products.

It's similar to producing ammonia with clean hydrogen. It combines carbon dioxide with hydrogen instead of nitrogen with hydrogen.
Lets move away from the ordering experience. My experience with Tesla service is that I notice an issue, then with my phone, I put in a service request. They come to my house while I'm sleeping and fix the issue. Super easy. Painless. By contrast car dealership salesmen and auto mechanics have an infamous reputation.

I find Tesla to be superior. Maybe others won't, but personally - I find them extremely superior. Driving to a dealership sounds pretty lame to me. Especially if I'm having car trouble. Tends to be the kind of thing that makes driving to the dealership a bit annoying, you know?
But 54.20 ends in 420, which means weed. Musk loves to memelord.

I think offering a direct swap for his TSLA shares at 20:1 would have been a smart move. It would have cost him like 5% of TSLA, which is a lot but still would have left him with the same % that Bezos has of AMZN
I am sure it (the construction) was extensively tested.
Should parental leave affect rewards?
Ok. So. You are expected to bill 8 hours, and not lunch, so you are tacitly required to work more than 8 hours per day.

What company is this? Are you in the US?
I Can Die Now. Intel Fab Tour [video]
Going gentle on mechanical quantum systems
of course

there are bizarre incantations of everything throughout history

Almuradi clock is still a *solar* clock hence it only works when the light rays hit it, so like a meridian, it can't show the full 24 hours rotation. in fact it's an half circle, because the earth rotates around the sun, the only approximation you can get is circular, of course there are meridians that do not display hours on an arc of circumference, but that's simply a design choice.

But at that time the fact that a day was of 24 hours was a long well known fact.

the point is that if your planet rotates around a star, the first thing beings living there would notice are the repeating patterns generated by light rays. Which are most probably shadows creating something like a circle (or an oval)
Ty! Open source is a very important part of our philosophy.

1. We track which GitHub usernames and repos that use Watermelon, it's the only thing we track. This allows us to go to people and ask them for more detailed feedback. We also get feedback from stargazers and forkers. Because we're open source, people also leave GH issues.

2. The incentive is something very basic: They wanna see a better version of this out there in the world.
I think there's little risk of someone thinking this is a recommendation for a proper animation engine.
There is no scientific literature which confirms that any specific demographic quality determine's an individuals capability at any job or task.

What does exist is, at best, shows mild correlation over large populations, but nothing binary or deterministic at an individual level.

To whit, even if your demographic group, on average, is slightly more or less successful in a specific metric, there is no scientific basis for individualized discrimination.

It's "not socially unacceptable to acknowledge this truth", it's socially unacceptable to pretend discrimination is justified.
Beyond running Adguard, I use OpenDNS (208.67.220.220/208.67.222.222) as I can setup some block categories like phishing/malware as a layer of last resort.

I could probably switch, but I've been using them since ~2010 (back before these other ones were available) with no issues.
> For me, the point of layaway is that I want something enough to commit to paying for it in advance a little at a time. A savings accounts is fungible; it isn't necessarily dedicated to anything and subject to me raiding it if I need to cover an unexpected expense.

You are making dhosek’s argument for them.
TerraUSD founder Do Kwon mocked an economist for being 'poor'
What does disgusting mean in this context?
Why not? Do you think the society will soon stop inventing new things? They are clear indicators that evolved societies are disconnecting their growth from the energy usage, and especially carbon emissions. With that new heights are possible.

But besides this, yes, slow growth back like for most of humanity is also an option and probably not a bad one in the longer term. It’s a very bad option until we are depending on fossil fuels, because we need the money for the transition.
I've had my bike 10 years. How can the hardware fail on a bike? Throwing it off a cliff? Meanwhile, the laundry list of hardware issues I could list on my phone probably affects every component in the stack over my decade of owning various smartphones. Each dying due to some faulty hardware issue, such as the radio giving out and dropping calls or the jacks getting loose or various other issues.
> I wish a company would run an experiment where they just higher at random from a stack of team vetted resumes. I think the results would almost be the same as being super picky.

Have you ever interviewed someone whose resume looked good but who couldn't code basic things? The kind of candidate FizzBuzz was invented for?

I interview at a FAANG and encounter these candidates all the time. I feel the approach of "if their resume looks good they must be fine technically" makes sense until precisely the point when you interview one of these candidates.
The stock firmware has region-locked frequencies, so you can't transmit on frequencies illegal for your region. There is custom firmware that removes that limitation however.
Your problem is product / market fit. Software tools for software folk and software tools for tech-enabled business are an entirely different ball game.

Developing for developers means focusing on the extreme end of things where you do 99% of your things right and 1% better than whomever.

Developing for business means helping them do 99% of what theyre currently doing with mixed results easier while making them dependent on your platform with that 1% piece you do to excellence.

You are advertising and developing for the wrong folks imo. How would a administrative assistant type at a nonprofit, edu center, or healthcare system look at what you have? A c-level executive w a c.s. degree but no practiced experience in actual development?

Normies want their tools to do more for them than they should because they dont know better.

Look at something like tallify and imagine where you could fit in providing executive (industry specific) solutions. Helping teams on the IT compliance/regulation side of things is just 1/2 of the picture for people already paying out the ass for stuff like saleforce they dont understand.
Indeed, the pay for embedded development is curiously low especially given the wide range of skills you need - both software and hardware knowledge as well as debugging skills that take years to develop.

I think there's been a lot of market distortion over the last 15 years or so due to the way money has flowed. VCs haven't been very interested in funding startups making hardware so they tend to be self-funded as in funded on a shoestring. There's not the money sloshing around for these companies.
Great time to build a startup then, as by the time you have product market fit you'll either be living in a bunker eating canned food or things will have come around.

http://www.paulgraham.com/badeconomy.html

I'm actually moving to Mallorca to bootstrap a startup for two months and quitting my job, only time will tell if I'm right!
As with all languages, the compiled/interpreted distinction is a thing of convention/existing tools. Interpreted Forth is small, and tolerable speed-wise for tiny systems. But Forth can also be compiled directly to native machine code.

Relatively easily, you can get rid of the interpreter overhead by writing blocks of machine code that do each Forth word's action, instead of bytecode to dispatch the interpreter to each of those routines. Forth can be adapted for that easily enough, and some Forths do support this on a per-word basis, allowing you to pick how you want your words compiled.

Forth can also get the whole optimizing compiler treatment. Some optimizing Forth compilers have been released, but I don't know how good they were/are. Certainly never needed that kind of speed myself. I don't know if any Forth yet benefited from it, but a lot of work was put into Java, on approaches for optimizing stack machine-style code to reasonably fast native code for register machines.
That's not "working around" the 5th Amendment, it's ignoring it.

And if you're going to ignore the Constitution, you don't need Eminent Domain or anything else. You just ignore it.

What are you referring to in Louisiana and Texas?
Isn’t that a feature of the british legal system?
Can you please share the code? Or show the results for other continents.
True, but if you really never had it, that's money, not jail time.