skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These companies are all terrible. Unless you're buying a car or a house which often (but not always) require financing, if you don't have the cash in your account today to buy a product in full, you can't afford it.

There are other concerns on what "afford" means (ie do I have the budget for this or is my cash for something else), but if the answer to the question is no, you can't buy that item yet.
No, it doesn't. This has been done many times in randomized experiments and it doesn't.

And it's easy to see what the authors did wrong: they are using a confounded-to-hell sample

> They found that the children who spent an above-average time playing video games increased their intelligence more than the average, while TV watching or social media had neither a positive nor a negative effect.

And the reason they have convinced themselves that their effect is not the massive levels of confounding is that, among other things, they used a weak polygenic score to measure a tiny fraction of genetic contribution to intelligence, and then declared they "controlled for genetics".

Heritability of intelligence is >50%. Using a PGS predicting 7% does not justify claims like "while controlling for the confounding effects of genetic differences in cognition and socioeconomic status", because you have still not accounted for >43% of variance from genes. And then there's all the rest of intelligence variance...

Yet another study dead on arrival and in need of no more rebuttal than a link to https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...
Central bank intervention herded all investors into equities which obviously contributed to the post-2008 bull market, but also distorts price discovery.

But hey, at least the Fed hasn't started buying equities too, like the BOJ.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-12-06/boj-becom...
"Price to Entice" is a very real thing where I live. It's basically a way of getting your listing seen by more people, and increasing the chances of a bidding war pushing up the final sales price.
MacBook Air m1 by far
Docker Inc is Dead (2017)
They collect fees from merchants.
You can clone most RFID keys at the key-copying kiosks inside supermarkets. I turned my most-used key into a sticker that I put inside my phone case for $10.

It's pretty nice: one less thing to carry around.
It certainly does act as a filter. My point was more, this was much less of a thing when ranges weren't published. Many applicants had firm requirements across all the way across the spectrum. Published rates end up grouping towards top of published ranges for each role. Could be caused by something else of course, this isn't necessarily commentary on cause/effect, but it's my observation.
or winforms and C#!

tbf, building a ui with an absolutely-positioned, pixel-bound presentation engine was AWFUL without a designer. anyone work with Win32 APIs back in the day? 60 lines of code just to open a window without even drawing anything on it!

building a ui in code is a lot easier with flow layout and a good component library
Counterpoint: as home prices keep climbing, many of the kind of things that would be caught by a home inspection become less and less financially relevant. When you're buying a million dollar house, 20K for a new roof is in the noise
What's even more remarkable is that there's basically no tradition of rich and powerful people in business slapping each other on the back and praising each other in public, giving each other awards, going to the same parties, and doing favors for each other. Which makes these notable people praising the richest man in the world really stand out as obviously authentic.
Would this make learning React easier?
Average Jane doesn't have $140k to spend on a vehicle
1. Check your limit screws. Park Tool has nice Youtube videos for adjusting these.

2. If it's the rear derailleur, it may be bent (especially if your limit screws from step 1 are maxed out). You need a derailleur alignment gauge (or just take it to a shop) to verify.
> If Elon Musk had easy access to Tesla-as-collateral, he would have put more of it up as collateral

Just because he doesn't put up more, doesn't mean he doesn't have access to more. You shouldn't use more collateral than necessary.
> I'm not sure I would put that into the employee guidelines, if I were running a company. It does seem a bit... I don't know, dismissive or maybe just unnecessary.

It would be very necessary if one were running a library. Netflix's role is somewhat similar.
> Or am I benefiting from others bad spending habits?

Exactly this. I'm getting 3-5% cash back because some folks don't pay off their card every month. The rich get richer.
Intel Launches Alder Lake-HX Series Core Processors: 55W and PCIe 5.0
Increasing prices will increase equity. By charging rich people more, you can afford to give greater subsidies for marginalized groups and poor people, and lower the price from whatever it is currently for them. You can even use that revenue to pay them to go camping, if you really want to!
Credit card companies make money from merchants who pay them a fee and from interest on credit card debt. There are likely additional revenue streams but those are 2 prominent one.
> How do credit card companies stay in business?

Your purchase data is worth more than gold. Merchants also pay a fee on every credit card purchase.
Tuck a pair of nitrile gloves under the saddle or into your toolkit. No greasy fingers.
I’ve been struggling to teach some engineers how to peer review thoroughly.

What I realized recently is that it’s really an attitude issue: Do you give a shit, or not?

Too much time is spent vetting the unnecessary technical.
Nice demo, but it pushes CPU usage from 1% to 17-20%, and could encourage the use of the wrong control for a given task. As an example, I've often seen on web pages check boxes (an input widget) used to represent read only boolean values where check marks would have been the correct choice.
I interpreted this comment as not saying a $1 billion penalty is necessarily inappropriate for this particular deal, but it’s a waste of money in general to pay $1B to achieve nothing when that money could have been put to better use or donated to charity.
I used to feel this way, too. However, every single one of us has their own unique circumstances.

I can't give too many details unfortunately. But, there's a specific step I took in my career, which was completely random at the time. I was still a student, and I decided not to work somewhere. I resigned two weeks in. Had I not done that, I wouldn't be where I am today. My situation would be totally different.

Yes, some people are very talented. But it does take quite a lot of work and dedication. And yes, sometimes you cannot afford to dedicate your time to learning something because life happens.
You're getting 3-5% cash back because they charge the merchants 3-5% extra on your purchases. That's it.

EDIT: point was, it's really nothing to do with whether other people are carrying balances or not.
An Interview with James Ramey, President of CodeWeavers
Yeah it’s really hard. I tend to want developers to be product engineers and really care about not just coding but solving problems for end users.

Reality gives us a bunch of people with different goals and different ways to make them happy, as you say. A lot of developers just want to get on and code without looking at the wider picture too hard - as long as they know their work is valued.

“Being involved earlier in the process” has tended to mean “knowing what kind of feature you might be working on and how sets of tickets are related” for a lot of engineers in my experience.
Since nobody else brought it up: One big item is non-blocking I/O. The idea of non-blocking is that you can manage thousands of network connections with only a handful of threads, because when you do thread-per-connection, you'll notice that your threads are mostly asleep in typical I/O heavy networked systems (like web-server/database stuff that most of us work on). You can do non-blocking in java now, but only with nasty callbacks and Futures and thread pools and such.

In Go you get non-blocking "for free" so that it looks like blocking I/O but the runtime automatically suspends & resumes virtual threads as I/O buffers fill & drain. One of the big inspirations for Loom was Go jealousy. For all Go's faults, this is a really nice thing to have.
The model is clearly simplistic, but if you made me write out my ideal range of temperatures through the year, Reykjavik is perhaps a few degrees too cold month by month. Centering on freezing for the winter, just warm enough for a jacket during the summer, it's just about ideal. Wind isn't great though, I'll give you that.
Something seems a bit off, then, because if the market is appreciating, then the appraisers should be taking that into account. As another commenter said, they were certainly doing that in hot West Coast markets like SF and Seattle. Both houses I purchased (each in those locations) appraised at the contract price, and I bought them both within the last 7 years.
People merrily put up with inefficient bikes for all sorts of reasons. If the only objective was to get between two points with minimal energy expenditure, everyone would be riding road bikes. Clearly other factors come into play.
So 10% is middle class? Shouldn’t it be 35+?
Hi, I remember that an app similar to what you are talking about were developed for the specialized evo ebikes. You could set a fixed power output and if you went higher the motor would come in to help you stay in the power You choose. Pretty cool.
At a bare minimum your code might have different behavior. Your `run! deref` will wait for each future one by one. What if the last one threw an exception while the others are running? You'd probably want the other tasks to get canceled immediately. I'm not sure what Executor.close() does exactly, but in theory it could do this for you automatically. Not something I want to write by hand for sure[1].

> In Go for example, I don't remember having to clean up fibers manually.

And that is awful if you think about it a bit. There's no composition happening, your go block just goes off somewhere without you having any control of it. It's like goto, only it forks first and never gives back the process handle[2].

[1] https://clojureverse.org/t/missionary-new-release-with-strea...
[2] https://vorpus.org/blog/notes-on-structured-concurrency-or-g...
Layaway is a different scheme: you pay down the price of a purchase in installments, and receive the item after the last payment. The layaway agreements that I'm aware of don't charge interest.

These schemes are VC-ified installment loans, which operate on the opposite model: you receive the purchase up front, and pay it down over time including interest payments.

They're arguably better on a strictly economic scale, since they give consumers the liquidity to make purchases that they'd like to make (and can actually afford, just not all at once.) They're arguably worse on a social scale, since installment loans are a form of cheap credit that people get addicted to, and are comparatively unregulated.
What about thinking about this in terms of phase transition and emergence?

Just like water remains liquid above 0 degrees and below 100, but turns into steam at 100 or above -- let's imagine there's some threshold of (say) community size where the old structure fails and a new structure emerges.

The only example I can think of right now is Reddit with the various subreddits. The ones that are more topic-focused, below a certain number of users -- these tend to be informative, interesting and civilized. The ones with millions of users, or ones that are quite generic -- they seem to be reliable cesspools of poor manners and mundane content.

So perhaps some properties of communities are emergent, and their manifestation depends on the scale of a community?
This is a really cute story. It might be really nice to fix it up and play it with your brother at Christmas (or other similar holiday) as a bonding fun time.
If you limit the set of "analog clocks" to 24-hour dials, then yes, you have proven a tautology. If you look at the overall history of time device user interfaces then circular displays don't seem like such a slam dunk. I'll point you to Al Muradi of 1200's Spain again who often uses little doors or other time indicators.

https://muslimheritage.com/the-clocks-of-al-muradi/
>The restriction of new housing increases rent on the remaining lots. NIMBYism, architectural codes, zoning, etc., serve to restrict what can be built, so that the rent on what can be built increases.

If reductions in supply raise the price, you are saying that it is elastic. I basically agree with you on this, it seems. Supply restrictions raise prices.
If you step back and look at a flowchart or thousands of flowcharts that represent parallel tasks, I think the object of the patent is to get those flowcharts to propagate (i.e. execute on their own) without a processor. The propagation flow is always forward (not requiring a handshake) until a loopback is reached on the flowchart. A new propagation begins at the loopback destination block. The new propagation flow may or may not follow the same flowchart past depending on decision events. Synchronization takes place at the flowchart level and not at the circuit level. To synchronize, one flowchart sets a variable and other flowcharts can test the variable and decide what to do. The flowcharts are the code which synthesize directly to action, test and task objects without Boolean or state machine structures. These structures (circuits) are synchronous when the flowcharts are implemented in a standard FPGA but the flowcharts themselves remain asynchronous. The patent mentions an FPFA (field programmable flowchart array) that would use clock less circuitry.
Indeed an improvement. At last women can start taking some initiative. This isn't "negative attention", it's meant to be flattering, and to take it the wrong way is to assume the worst in everyone else. It's also not uncommon in other cultures like in Latin America women do catcall men quite often.
Even with those limitations, doesn't metal programming optimization compound in later abstractions?

Seems worth the investment from a rational standpoint.
Poll: Pet owners of HN, which pet(s) do you own?
Birds and parrots
Rodents
Fish and turtles
More than one type
> The increased demand makes `walk-ups` a logistical headache for workers (volunteers) on the ground.

I don't remember this really being a problem, though. If a site is unoccupied and untagged, you know it's available. Otherwise, it's not.

But without reservations you can't reliably plan anything now, because of the high demand, so i understand it's not an easy problem.
Agreed, at-will means you can leave at any time, though perhaps at a cost to your career. I've just never seen a company explicitly say, effectively, "if you don't like it, you can leave" as part of their employee guidelines. Seems unnecessarily blunt.
And many merchants either have this priced into their product already, or charge a fee to process a card.
I like you, pay off mine at the end of the month... It seems the percentage of people who do that is around 40%... which seems maybe high...

ALso don't forget, credit card companies charge at least 1.5% of a fee to the retailer, this is why some places (usually gas stations) will have a cash price and a card price...

But yeah... lots of the perks are paid for by the rest of people who aren't paying off the balance...
You mean, "there's a chance".
No idea. I just searched for "average city temperature CSV" and ended up downloading some file from Kaggle.
Long term, poor allocation of resources into junk work and business that doesn’t make money leads to crashes and periods of high unemployment.

In other words you can’t keep the party going forever and how things are now isn’t an excuse for irresponsibility.
> nearly every company out there has no confidence in a college degree

Or in job experience, for that matter.

"You need to have 10 years experience in a technology that has only existed for 5 years, and also we assume you're a liar and discount all experience anyway."
> If you just use a credit card like a debit card

Not sure how legitimate my source is but it looks like they raked in ~$75bn in 2020 from interest income alone. That makes me wonder if those of us that do use a CC as a debit card are a minority.

Source: https://www.fool.com/the-ascent/research/credit-card-company...
That sounds like a moonshot rather than a $100k, unless you already have a working prototype that simply needs to be refined for commercialization. (Meaning: an actual working prototype, not a demo created solely to show off the concept.) What you've suggested is a job that would take a team of developers a few months. I'm not surprised the investor was skeptical that a 1-man team could do it in 6.

And what are your plans for revenue? How do you plan to make money? You'll be dealing with a lot of legal questions related to IP licensing, and the legal fees alone would eat your $100k in a month or two, even before the licensing costs for the videos.

All-in-all, I can't fault the investor for turning you down. You haven't put enough thought into the business aspects of your idea for him to entrust his money to you.

And don't bring up this crypto bullshit. It's irrelevant that he's investing in crypto companies; he already knows he's gambling with those and he's not treating those like real investments. Given crypto's history, he just needs to bail at the right time to come out ahead.
That's a very low bar, I wouldn't even check because it's to be expected. Are there any form frameworks getting traction that are so broken?
*software systems, not suffocate systems
It's crossed my mind in the past that there are companies where often devs run things and companies where devs are just support for the real business. I don't think I ever want to work at a company where devs do not run things only because my spoiled experience has entirely been at companies where they do and I selfishly don't want to just be support staff for the real business.

You might disagree with these examples but:

A stock trading company, IT stuff are support for the real employees, the traders. You have a trader, you have a trading company. The programmers are just support for them.

Animated Movies (even pixar). Sure, there are important software devs but the real staff at pixar are animators. They can ship animations with off the shelf software or paper and pencil. In house software devs are super important but at the end of the day if all they had was animators they could still ship animation.

Lawyer firms, Medical Facilities: Yea, they need IT staff to help run things but they can function with just lawyers or just doctors.

VS say Apple, Google, Facebook, Microsoft. No devs, no company.

Video Game companies used to be and probably mostly still are this way. No software devs no product ships. That might be fraying as tools get better.
> How do credit card companies stay in business?

https://bam.kalzumeus.com/archive/how-credit-cards-make-mone... is worth a read.
This has been well answered by others: Embedded Software is adjacent to engineering and are seen as engineers like any other (usually the pay scale is higher since software is in demand).

Additionally, I'd add that many embedded developers work for hardware companies that don't understand or care about software; why pay so much more, and they already think they're paying "way more" (it's more than we pay EEs!), for something you don't get.

Finally, Embedded Software Engineers do quite well often. We don't pay people based on how challenging their jobs are.
The part missing from this concern: taking out 0% financing is often a prudent move. This pushes out your cost structure and allows you to keep more of your money to make use (investments, etc) where you can theoretically earn interest.

It also allows people to build their credit without a credit card.

But yes: people shouldn't be using it to buy things they can't afford.
Russian Annexation of Occupied Ukraine Is Putin’s Unacceptable “Off-Ramp”
> Who buys a house in cash? You mean literal suitcases of dollar bills?

Not literal suitcases of dollar bills, no. Buying with cash here means without taking out a mortgage.

To answer the first question about who buys a house in cash, 28% of buyers do so[1]:

> All-cash sales accounted for 28% of transactions in March, up from both the 25% recorded in February [2022] and from 23% in March 2021.

[1]: https://www.nar.realtor/newsroom/existing-home-sales-slip-2-...
> Watching the market cool down leads me to believe we're going into another downturn, and I'm becoming more confident I made a good bet by not jumping ship in the last year or two.

It just seems like you're afraid of making a change, and now you've found a new justification to keep avoiding discomfort.

The reality is, there are tons of good companies out there and they will pay $350-400k for senior engineers even in this current market. But go ahead and tell yourself that you made the right decision to do nothing.
Eh, the slow riders are jerks too :). At a red light, they'll cut the line and blow through the intersection. Then the light turns green and you overtake them until the next red light. Rinse and repeat until you get to work/home.
Elon Musk buying Twitter is the perfect storm of triggers for HN. Elon Musk, first of all, who HN loves and loves to hate. Twitter, which HN loves to hate. Startups and hypercapitalism. Cancel culture, conspiracy theory, identity politics and anti-leftism. F/OSS and algorithms, although - also somewhat on brand for HN - there's been depressingly discussion with real technical depth and insight around any of this. Free speech versus censorship. Trump.

I mean, the only way this could become even more HN catnip than it is would be if RMS or crypto were involved.