skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IMO, 1Password has much much better UX than Vaultwarden has. So you definitely get something for the money.
but what does the universe think of us?

--my friend on signal
The second my mom gets a dollar - she has the most insatiable desire in the world to spend ten.

There are spenders and savers.

No amount of money changes that.
> As an aside though, the gen-x erasure continues here, comparing only millennials with boomers.

Oh interesting. I hadn't picked up on that and I'll have to keep an eye out.

From the article (sort of related):

> Living paycheck-to-paycheck doesn’t necessarily mean hardship, and LendingClub makes the distinction between those can pay their bills easily and those who can’t. Only a fraction of high earners -- roughly one in ten -- reported issues covering all their household expenses in April, according to the survey.

I don't understand this/not enough information.

> To finance their lifestyles, higher-income households are more likely to put expenses on credit cards -- but also more likely to be able to pay off their balance in full.

If they're anything like me, they do this because not doing it is a 1% - 4% increase in cost. Apple Card, for example, offers 2% cash back if you use Apple Pay. I do this (among using other cards) and pay off my balance in full each month. We have a monthly budget spreadsheet where we log expenses so it doesn't matter what method we use for payment, except that we get 2% cash back (among other things like fraud protection - not my money) which we sort of "don't account for" so that we have some extra savings that doesn't feel like savings.

I feel like this article has a catchy headline, but ultimately they're trying to string together lots of pieces in some sort of frankenstein article.
I don’t think this is true in the slightest. At UC, research assistants typically make more than Grad Students or post-docs (of course the overhead and mentorship are also different and allegedly there is some possibility for greater career advancement). The snobbery is just plain snobbery. In industry there are plenty of people who make substantially more than me and I have never once felt the levels of condescension that I got from mediocre academics. There are maybe rationalizations related to scarcity and all that but jerk behavior is still jerk behavior.
I gotta think overspending.

While housing is absurdly expensive depending on where you live that doesn't mean that at 250k you can't live within your means / have to be living paycheck to paycheck. I suspect they don't want to make the compromises required (commuting and so on) to spend less.

It might not be easy to live cheaper in expensive areas, but at 250k it should be possible.

As the article notes the majority of these people are still paying their bills "easily".
If you want a 17 year-old lifeguard in San Francisco to be able to afford a mortgage San Francisco, you end up with no pools in San Francisco and unemployed teens.
The paper explains a little more the meaning of the 180km figure: "a single polyploid clone spanning more than 180 km in fragmented, near-shore meadows". So this seems to be the distance between the farthest two clone instances. It sounds like the clone instances were originally connected but became disconnected in time.

I think the Washington DC comparison comes from this line: "We used the total estimated area of P. australis meadows in Shark Bay (200 km2 pre 2010/11 heatwave [43])" compared to a DC area of 176km².
> e.g. Amazon ACS

It's "Amazon ECS", and it works pretty well for standard fare CRUD web services, but more complex use cases quickly end up pulling in more and more AWS services (for example, if you need to run a cron job, you can use EventBridge to trigger an ECS task or just do it all with Lambda). This isn't dramatically worse--it's mostly just different. Kubernetes APIs are more consistent than in AWS, and Kubernetes tends to be more flexible and less limited than AWS. It's also much easier to extend Kubernetes or find a pre-existing extension than in AWS. But mostly it's not going to make or break your project one way or the other.

If you're just running CRUD web services, this is fine, but if you need to spin up a background job or do more complex orchestration then it can quickly become advantageous to
It doesn't mean hardship, but it's an express train to hardship the minute something crashes down.
why should anyone pay when the government is keeping it all alive today?
There's no problem with running a java monolith in k8s.
Elasticity isn't the only benefit to using k8s.
And you should probably be running Jenkins and Prometheus even if your whole infra was launched with `docker run`.
I tried truffles in Amsterdam, I was told one reason they sell those is you need to take a lot more to get a bad trip, similar to why they only sold poundcakes as edibles.

(I was trying to stick to flower so I didn't look hard for magic brownies, but honestly I think poundcake tastes better -- now that I don't drink I often want to grab something like a poundcake or pocky that has calories and carbs but not as much as a Hershey bar, when I literally just want something small to settle my stomach and have zero desire for psychoactivity)

Doing psilocybint was a lifechanging experience, in a positive way -- it cured me of a huge chunk of my depression, at the expense I saw every interaction that followed, including two coworkers collaborating to try to get me to step in front of a train.

One stood, and told me it was safe to cross, as the other looked around the corner to make sure a tram was coming. I she reads these: I gave you my salary information and I told you this isn't high school, and then you tried to fake an accidental death.

In parallel with that, a different woman, from a different country, also attending the conferene, told me that some people made it through the fall of the GDR and the Nazis unpunished.

I deeply appreciate interactions like the second, but I will never forgive or forget that when I tried to do what people told me to since childhood, someone tried to kill me, a pattern that needs to end.

(I've only been to Vancouver once, it was a really nice city when I visited but like any similar sized one in the states, you gotta be careful -- it's not Ottawa!!)
> IIRC GitHub, (BitBucket), and GitLab existed before this new (license-addendum?) Trademark policy

Trademarks are like copyright licenses where if you haven't been given explicit permission, then you don't have any. (The difference is that you can lose your trademark if you don't actively police misuse, but that's beside the point.)
My 2c is that these transitions aren't about giving up culture, they're about changing to a different culture.

There are companies that make a lot of money and grow both organically and via acquisitions where people have a well-defined culture that attracts top talent... But it's a different kind of talent, it's the talent that enjoys building a lean, mean, money-making machine.

Historically, ITT was one of those companies during the Age of Conglomerates. Later on, IBM and Xerox come to mind. I recall that during the 80s and 90s having worked in management or sales for Xerox was a golden ticket to almost any job you wanted. Same with working in finance for GE.

What about working in management at Disney today? What about working in leadership with Apple or Amazon today? These are very well run companies with a strong management culture, growth, and profits. And investors love them.
I'd hate to be the one left holding that bag.

https://companiesmarketcap.com/tomtom/marketcap/
I'm not sure exactly what you're talking about, but certain behaviors towards money are discouraged, and in many places... outright banned. For example, the vast majority of states ban gambling outright, except in small sanctioned activities. Nevertheless, gambling takes place anyways, yet you rarely see any push to decriminalize commercial gambling
Honda is not the only game in town. I've been happy with my Champion. I have a non-inverter model because it was the only thing I could find days before a hurricane, which I then converted to natural gas. Champion has a few dual-fuel inverter models:

https://www.championpowerequipment.com/product/200994-4650-w...

I did the inlet and cutover switch install myself as well. I've got dual sub-panels but the circuits I wanted to power were all in my basement, so I've got it wired up for my kitchen fridge, a basement chest freezer, basement sump pump, and a few light and electrical outlet circuits. I can't run my normal HVAC, but I can run a portable HVAC I purchased that's sufficient for my basement in a pinch.

I was in Miami for Hurricane Andrew and have some fun stories about generators, extension cords, and siphoning gasoline out of our cars.

Meanwhile my uncle on Long Island is having a whole-house generator installed this summer, including burying a propane tank. I think he's spending something like $15K on that.
The early mechanical switches used by the telephone networks just couldn’t do that.
Overspending causes inflation, so...
Anti-abortion activists collecting data they’ll need for prosecutions post-Roe
A different, more profitable kind of spam dominates now.
Decriminalisation alone won't improve what you're talking about. But the idea usually is decriminalisation plus redirecting those freed up funds into policies for harm reduction, addiction treatment, injection rooms etc. Reframing it as a public health issue not a criminal issue. The only example I know of is Portugal.
Ah yes the hardship of fine dining, luxury vehicles, and McMansion mortgages.

More seriously, I take issue with the definition of “paycheck-to-paycheck”, they at least thankfully split the groups into those who struggle to pay their bills (a small minority) and those that don’t. I don’t know how you can claim to live check to check (“on the knife’s edge”) while also claiming to easily pay your bills every month. Just because you’re able to allocate all of your money doesn’t mean you’re living check to check.
Yes but it's still the king of the jungle and all the alternates are mostly shit (ddg, bing are far worse).

I did learn recently about Kagi on HN and that is marginally better than bing but still doesn't beat Google imo.

I just hope there is more and better competition like this for Google soon. That's the only thing that can put google back in its place and put an end to their evil things.
Yup. I was going to write the same comment.
To be fair, I was told this back in the early 90s. It is the kind of policy that could easily come and go, maybe a couple times, in 10 years.
Or on housing.
1/3 of Americans in a small demographic is not “Americans”.
I have often remarked that it is common for Americans to live beyond their means at all SES levels. Years ago, an acquaintance of mine got a promotion that brought his annual salary from $22k to $35k. I remember those numbers like it was yesterday. He celebrated by buying a mustang.

Years later, a collegue's wife got a huge promotion, such that their household income was in the neighborhood of $500k per year. They celebrated by buying a new house in a swanky neighborhood, and a boat. When I asked him about this, he replied that the house was (unsurprisingly) mortgaged and the boat was financed over a number of years. A couple of years later, he confessed that he was up to his ears in debt and that his home life was a disaster as a result.

It was then and there that I decided that being rich wasn't so much about having a lot of money as not having to worry about money.
In my mind, mathematics assumes that things do not change by saying that anything stays static for long enough to be called a "one thing".

The philosophical basis of the concept of "one" is flawed, in my mind. As such, the rest of it is a self-referential invention, much like logic. While the universe seems very much like it is written in the language of mathematics, it is not.

On the same note, the metaphysical idea of 'being' makes the same mistake, which explains why two thousand+ years of metaphysics has been mostly spinning tires.

I think the research in this story is on to something.
Yeah, exactly. When I worked in a factory, the execs "working with us" were just in the way to get their monthly photo ops.
That's my point. Comparing the safety record to other commercial planes is kinda pointless, since so few were built and they were used so little (and even then, one managed to crash and burn). If the 737-MAX had seen the same use, I'm sure we'd never had uncovered the design issue that caused the crashes either.

And "any other commercial airliner" includes planes like the 787 and the A380, which have literally never had an incident with fatalities.
Small Nit - Netscape was broken up into pieces and sold to Sun Microsystems and AOL in 1999 for $10B. Thank Mike Homer for the great timing and resolve to get out while the getting was still good.
After my first proper full-time job, every single position I've taken was based on being interested in working on the product. I've taken pay cuts, changed roles from engineering to product management, and in the future may change back to engineering (I keep my chops up). At no point have I ever taken a job because of the pay, and I don't see that ever changing. I think many people are like this.

So, my advice is that you should focus on having a compelling and interesting product. If you have this, you can hire high-quality people for a reasonable rate of pay. I'm still invested in my current role, but now I often get reached out to by recruiters looking for early hires for new startups where I know I'd mostly be taking equity not pay, and I'm in a position where I can afford to do that. That's likely what I'll end up doing in my next role.

Nobody wants to work on boring stuff. Boring stuff is just a fact of life that we all have to do some of the time. But the main thing is, to make sure that the product is compelling and interesting enough to make the boring stuff worthwhile when it happens in between the bouts of interesting stuff. If a job is just non-stop boring stuff and bureaucracy at a high rate of pay, people who are longer in tooth are going to leave and you're going to have brain drain.
I see a button for a waiting list, but not price or a list of supported clouds. Have you launched?
Noted! I'll see if this feature can be added.
Right. Most companies aren't content to settle for doing the same thing they were doing but with fewer engineers when they realize they could be using those other engineers to automate even more things (via Kubernetes operators).
This new version has a Convert Number Format command that can be used to convert between the two formats. It just occurred to me I didn't take that into account for the new statistics operations. I'll be sure to fix it.
> Well, you actually did. You claimed, and I quote, "being right isn’t an excuse to forgo social expectations"

That is a very different claim than “trying to pass off technically wrong claims in a technical forum should be immune to any informative comment clarifying or clearing up misconceptions”.

It is possible to be right without posting an “informative content clarifying of clearing up” a “technically wrong claim” and it is possible to “informative content clarifying of clearing up” a “technically wrong claim” in a manner which does not disregard social expectations.

Being right neither requires nor excuses being a jerk.
Last year "DOJ Classifying Cyberattacks as Terrorism" [1] was the story. There's been some words said by US Authorities about how military cyberattacks could be responded to with conventional or nuclear arms, even. [2]

[1] https://www.ajc.com/news/nation-world/cyberattacks-now-prior...

[2] https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2021/07/09/cyberattac...
Beatings will continue until morale improves!
Ask HN: Where do you go for discourse?
Obviously HackerNews has rigid requirements around what kind of information can be posted and what gets popular - but the type of people who visit here are unique, typically sophisticated tech savvy folks who have many interests. I was wondering where else in the internet you frequent? Are there any subreddits you'd recommend?
A kind of spam from which Google profits because it often embeds its ads and/or analytics.
>> This is why the CPI is a really stupid way to measure inflation.
>> ...
>> If you have a counter argument then post it, don't just downvote.

Counter - CPI is evil genius. It allows those in the ruling class to print money, inflate assets for the plutocracy and their actual constituents, and all at the same time, pretend nothing is wrong by showing highly selective numbers. Meanwhile, the masses suffer and think it is their own fault -- except it isnt, they have been sold out.

There is nothing "stupid" about CPI -- it is a strategic decision by people who arent acting in the interests of the whole citizenry.
throwaway787544 deleted their reply to this post. My response was as follows:

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> So you're familiar with Six Sigma then? Value stream mapping? TPS?
> W.E. Deming? Martin Fowler? There's more to DevOps than deployments
> and CI/CD.

None of those have any relationship to DevOps.

> I haven't worked at Google, but I expect somebody gave you some tools
> and some access to cloud infra and said "good luck".

I was on Borg-SRE. My job was to build the tools and maintain the cloud infra.

> If you're lucky there was a small army of ops people behind the
> scenes keeping things running for you

The point of having an SRE team is to avoid having a "small army" of ops people. Manual operation of compute infrastructure is uneconomical at scale.

> if you weren't lucky you were expected to know how to correctly build
> and run complex systems at scale by yourself

Google does expect its developers to understand basic principles of distributed systems, yes.

> > every distributed system is self-driving
>
> I didn't know Google was in the bridge selling business.

What I mean is that when your service runs 24/7 and downtime is reported in the New York Times, there is no room for manual action during normal operation. The system must have the capacity to maintain itself and self-recover.
we have a corporate 1pass account and I have a personal lastpass account. we use okta for SSO but 1pass is still absolutely essential IMO. I need to keep track of lots of secrets that aren't in okta (eg gitlab tokens and stuff like that).
Is there supposed to be a "/s" here?

Whether or not those cities are "better with a car" doesn't really matter here. OP was asking what "cities you can live in without a car", and you can do that in all four of those (I've done so in Seattle and San Francisco). Whether or not you love to do it doesn't change the fact that it's perfectly possible.

And Mt. Rainier? Really? Again - the question was whether or not you can live in a city without a car. Rainier is two hours outside of the city, so it's not even a part of the question.
"if your outgoing exceeds your income then your upkeep will be your downfall"
Sure. I'll implement this feature
Show HN: Slashy – Custom /commands for Notion to draw, record, and more
good engineering... sure.

But I'm not sure there are any other disciplines where a single person does it regularly.

I think the difference is we're not dealing with anything physical. A structural engineer never has the leeway to invent new ways to build bridges while under deadline. Maybe some ingenuity and process improvement along the way, but nothing like 10x on any single project.
It probably would be relatively inspiring to have your CEO in the factory and not in his top floor c suite in a fancy suit using the only clean toilets that the whole building has to offer.
Still beyond what readily available tech can do. PageCrank, on the other hand...
This article is pure flamebait.

They're not lifeguards, they're management and roles like "Ocean Lifeguard Specialist."

What is "other pay"?

Nobody includes benefits when talking about people's wages - that's disingenuous and only intended to rile up the crowd. I, for one, don’t begrudge anyone having access to medical care.
That’s a good question, and I’m not entirely sure. I have ideas why, but I don’t think it’s helpful to speculate. It’s not like anyone is actually willing to change things.

In my experience, “classic” companies (which now include former “rebels,” like Meta, Google, and Apple) are more likely to be professional and courteous (we won’t talk about IBM, though), when it comes to dealing with older folks.

I’ll bet that my experience as a manager also spikes my chances. I have no interest, whatsoever in being a manager again, but it gave me some great viewpoints and experience with things like strategy and pitching.
> They had 18 therapists (pt, ot, and st). 6 decided to stand up to management and demand a lighter case load, a 3% raise (hilariously low I know), and increased transparency from management. They all got put in pips for various “other issues” and eventually all of them were fired.

The way to handle this without backfiring would have been to contact a union about organizing, and let them help with the organizing process. You'd need to get more than 6 people on board, and the employer would fight it, but the organizing employees would have had legal protections against retaliation during and after the process.
Specialized Reddits usually.
Remember the NYAG wording is going to biased in their favor.

Reading between the lines - there was a period in the past where Tether was not fully backed. If Tether was still, as of today, not fully backed, would NYAG conclude this case?

I suspect the AG thought it had a bigger case involving ongoing fraud but settled as it could not find evidence of any ongoing false claims.

While biased in Tether's favor, worth a read:
https://tether.to/en/stress-tests-resiliency-and-bank-runs/
Even with bulk pricing, the current enterprise providers are quite expensive. I'm a YC founder working with some others on a solution to this that brings the cost way down. If you're interested, send me a quick email and I'm happy to share what we've learned.
TFA explicitly mentions this is about companies that do not have an interesting product.
As a marathon runner, I know TomTom mainly for its sports watches. But I feel they've been fading away slowly. Garmin is still the champion in that area, but both must be taking a hit with all the cheap chinese knock offs. At the end of the day, you don't even need a high end sports watch unless you're a high end athlete. Reliable location tracking and good battery life is all you need, every other information can be derived thereof (avg speed, pace and distance). Only if you're into extreme activities you'll need something like a high end TomTom or Garmin (like 35+ km run in a hot day, or an Iron Man).
I would guess some sort of onomatopoeia, but I couldn't guess what its trying to imitate. Maybe an uncommon spelling of "pfft?"
From what I have heard from friends at Tesla, 40 hours is literally the minimum. A particular friend told me that they put 60-70 hours easily every week and so do their teammates.
Agreed. Also, even if we assume that the groups idea (which I don't think is very well defined) would solve everything, how would you get all social media platforms to follow that template? I can't see any legislation requiring such an approach surviving legal challenges, or being implemented globally.
Fascinating, since that's several times what I make and I have so much money that I never worry about it. I have difficulty conceiving of an emergency expense large enough to drain my bank account, let alone other places I keep my money. The only reason I'd ever want more is if it were enough that I could stop working.

As much as I think it is obvious that rent and housing costs are completely insane right now, I'm not sure that (and inflation as the article suggests) is sufficient to explain why so many (apparently millennial) people making nearly four times the national median income are in this situation.

In some ways maybe I'm lucky I grew up in a barely-lower-middle-class family as it kept my lifestyle expectations low.