skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
German here living in CA.

My take is as follows (YMMV):

- We'll live and work in CA until scrappy financial independence is possible in Germany (ballpark ~3-3.5M net worth).

- Once we could comfortably retire in Germany, we'll decide whether to move back there or keep working just to stay in CA (due to cost of living FIRE in CA seems out of reach)

- In some sense starting out in CA maintains more optionality (it'll be easier to move from CA to Germany than vice versa)

Advantages of CA:

- The weather

- Monthly savings (pay - expenses; much higher than Germany if you avoid lifestyle creep)

- Career opportunities (lots of interesting work)

- Outdoors (subjective)

- Food

- If your kids grow up in LA or SF, I'd say there's a pretty good chance they'll stick around close by when they grow up

- Vibe ~ more optimism about the future and the role technology can play

- The earlier you move and buy a house, the earlier you can lock in your real estate taxes (Proposition 14 [2] renders CA hostile to those that 'come later'). Admittedly, it's already pretty late in the game.

Disadvantages of CA:

- Housing prices are 1M+ (although the market seems to be changing now that interest rates are going up [1])

- Homelessness

- Getting into good public schools needs a lot of planning (including buying in pricey neighborhoods)

- Related: kids in elite schools / social circles seem to be under a lot of pressure to perform from day 1 (IMHO a consequence of the winner takes all economy)

- Life is work centric

- Earthquakes

- Air quality (traffic and wildfires)

Advantages of Germany:

- Great public schools & ~free childcare

- Pretty safe environment (although debatable in some cities like Berlin)

- Generally stable, good job security etc

- Once you build real relationships with people, you may find friends for life

- Clean air and water in most places

Disadvantages of Germany:

- House prices per median income are pretty high. It's particularly crazy expensive in cities if you want a single family home due to super low interest rates (SFH can cost 1M+ despite median salaries being much lower than CA)

- Might be less "accepting" of foreigners (I live in CA and never feel bad about speaking with an accent as most people I work with do as well)

- Germans start work and school at ridiculously early hours (I still recall walking to school in the dark every day in winter)

- Rapidly aging population (although some is offset by immigration)

[1] https://www.calculatedriskblog.com/2022/06/1st-look-at-local...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1978_California_Proposition_13
Bird is laying off 23% of staff
Some "free to pay" games are actually quite fun if you force yourself to not pay (or severely limit paying) - Hearthstone is a good one - I've hundreds of wins across the various game modes and only made one purchase to get the beta gold legendary something or other.
https://drannex42.com

my home away from home, needs to be updated more.
Feel free to not hire someone because they say that they're going to use obsolete methods, or because they say they're going to take leave in excess of what's offered, or because they say they're going to resign in short order. Just don't use old age -- instead of statements like these -- to make assumptions!

When someone is too young, however, there can be some guaranteed deficiencies that don't require any assumptions in order to know the requirements can't be met; for example, if you are looking to hire someone to create and execute a 10-year plan with prior experience doing so, it's impossible for a very young person to be qualified.
It's significant, especially if you live near an airport. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3230438/
I would hope so. The problem is numbers don't much at this point and there are strong incentives if you have to pick between economic growth or being green. And the fear (irrational or not; your pick) to nuclear doesn't leave a lot of options.

But that is a step that might, and I say might, with a lot of salt help. The problem is we don't see this happening. Germany, for instance, was increasing their coal mining volume prior to the Russia Ukraine war and were not going to make the independence goal.

P.S. I was going to edit my comment to add the efficacy of sanctions and other similar measures, but yours covers it. Thank you for your comment.
it's predatory behavior aimed at addicts and children.

Have you played the game? I saw the OG YT video on this, and I was expecting to see lots of in-your-face tactics, but wanted to be fair before passing judgement. I really don't think it's predatory. At least, not yet. Maybe things change at higher levels - they sometimes do. (I'm looking for points where you can't progress in the mainline quest without spending money or ridiculous time. Haven't seen that yet but it may be there.)
A substantial portion of that audience probably wishes they could get away with not having phones.
Well, MAGMA (Microsoft, Apple, Google, Meta, Amazon) is unaffected and will continue to survive this decade. All those unprofitable startups that were racing to the IPO finish line in 2019 are now in trouble and need to make money and show that they are turning a profit rather than running themselves into the ground.

Looking back at this wild prediction [0] it seems like I'm ticking most of the boxes in the 2020s. Let's see if these recently IPO'd companies of 2019 and 2022 will survive from now to actually make money.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21627809
It's indeed a tricky problem --

> If the issuer can always sign unilaterally

Based on the construction of the multisig we never have custody over the Bitcion, even if we store the encrypted key (we don't).

> If the funds can be lost through loss of user keys, then this offers little practical advantage over bill-less bitcoin

There are several; easy key diversification across multiple wallets. Easy offline storage away from connected devices. Easy onboarding.

It would be possible to backup the user keys on the notes independent of the note, we just believe that having them function more like cash guides the user to make choices where they are far less likely to lose them -- e.g. storing in a fireproof safe, safety deposit box, etc.
Giving third party developers push notifications would be a win because at least we could start building open chat applications again. Apple is pretty much single-handedly responsible for destroying internet chat apps.
I'll add to the chorus saying lightning is terrible. I have a mix of devices using lightning and USB-C. I have had zero issues with USB-C, in fact I still charge my phone every night with the USB-C cable that came with my Pixel 1. I've never had to replace a single one, so much so that I have a nest of spare, unused, USB-C cables in a drawer. Meanwhile, lightning cables are a continuous roulette of failure - I would guess I've purchased at least a dozen replacement lightning cables over that same time period.
If you need a HR chaperone to every meeting, isn't the company complicit in the behavior?
On a historical valuation basis, the S&P is not cheap at all.

Of course, it depends on the course of earnings, where current estimates seem quite optimistic
I agree. But we are betting on the game changing -- by addition of a new technology or by nuclear becoming accepted as a basis power production or being able to construct high capacity batteries out of non toxic/abundant elements.
This reading of their study is well known to be false; what actually happens is that most of the population agrees on almost all policies, more often than they should, and that's the reason why they're in winning coalitions.

https://www.vox.com/2016/5/9/11502464/gilens-page-oligarchy-...

Since the US is education-polarized, rich people are also more left wing than average, as are people who donate to political campaigns, and the more they donate the more left wing they are. (This is called "being Shor pilled".)
how about sites that refuse to give you access if you're not using chrome?

i use firefox as my main browser and ive found that a few sites which claim to not be compatible with ff work perfectly fine if i change my useragent to appear as chrome. it's really annoying and lazy to see how many people they're shutting out when they do this, vs just giving a warning that some features haven't been tested on browser x.
What did people do before dictionaries, maps, etc?
> I think it's also absurd that we accept such primitive rankings in the first place, although I myself have shared some of these reductionist claims. Fast at what? There's so many different conditions, so many things we could measure.

On macOS there is only one benchmark used by all sides to determine the 'fastest browser' title - Speedometer 2.0 benchmark.

It is used in Apple's marketing [1] and in Google marketing [2]

Blink had a brief lead in March when it reached 300, WebKit overtook, the just a few days ago (and a day before WWDC) Google claimed new best score (360 - I was not able to confirm [3]).

[1] https://www.apple.com/safari/#footnote-1

[2] https://twitter.com/googlechrome/status/1533524079717892098

[3] https://twitter.com/vladquant/status/1534301507566202880
Just remember folks: According to ABK this game took as many resources as a mainline PC game. So, instead of having a D4 release, with a D5 release on the horizon, we got Diablo Immoral.
This does not appear to be true[1][2].

[1] https://github.com/golang/go/issues/24415

[2] https://go.dev/play/p/nXLs0hd8Uj3
>I personally would be completely unsurprised if should they manage to take away the guns, the “school shooting by someone attending that school” simply transformed into a smaller number of axe/machete/knife attacks.

That would still be a vast improvement over the status quo. Knives and other such weapons (unless you're stupid enough to throw them) limit the ability of an attacker to commit harm to arm's length and running speed. You can't snipe a crowd with knives from a hotel window, for example. Actually, I suppose you could, but the area of effect would still be smaller than with a gun. Running from someone with a knife is more effective than running from someone with a gun.

It's also easier to subdue someone with a knife than it is with a gun, and it doesn't require police armed to the teeth shooting to kill on a moment's notice. Even if they just decide to act like chickenshits like the Uvalde police, there would probably be more survivors.
Path of the Exile is not a far comparison. The most you can enhance is extra sorted inventory space.

In Immortal Cosmetics are locked to one character. PoE cross character, remind able, and serve as trophies between leagues.

That's not to mention the breaking of the mold to a near open world versus instanced. Which drives FOMO. As well how the transactions are gamified.

Why people dislike p2w games is that it directly effects gameplay via inflation of grind.

It is nit good game design. Good profit making sure, but at some point you have to admit that these studios pull talent from Vegas.

Be fair. This is an obligation of major studios to make as much profit as possible. However is this short term versus long term? Will the make the needed profit to make up for the lack of trust in the long run?
Same thing with zoom rooms - https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/214629303-Direct-s...
You might want to check your privilege.

While your point about "Brain drain" is true I am not going to tell anyone that they need to toil their life away in a third world country to improve it. Choosing whether to do that or use their skills to escape to a better place is a very personal decision.
Depends on the business. Bespoke logic maybe, but rules based logic such as tax considerations can be abstracted away by APIs etc. Look at the difference in LOE of starting an ecommerce business in 1999 vs 2022 for example.

Also when you consider something like Docusign, you can have a pretty much feature complete product that requires little labor to maintain. You can always expand the scope of any product, but we started from 0 with web based/app software just a decade or two ago. Much of the common and widely useful programs will be largely perfected and require less active development as the years go by.

Same thing with github. You can continue to add features, but the core value of the product is already written and in a serverless world, with appropriate automation, can be maintained by a small team.

I really don't understand how somebody can think labor needs in software will never contract... the main point of debate should be on what a realistic timeline is.
This is my primary concern with fusion. I have a gut feeling that fusion existing could actually accelerate consumption and thus climate and environmental change. I have been trying to find research about this. I recently found the book Green Illusions: The Dirty Secrets of Clean Energy and the Future of Environmentalism by Ozzie Zehner, which I think may be interesting.

I should note that I am not against fusion and absolutely think we should be doing it. However, it's my feeling and something that I'm trying to learn about that we should also be doing many other things. For example, conservation of land and habitats is no longer viable. We have got to be restoring these things as best we can if we have a chance against climate change. I think it should be renamed environmental change, because that's more accurate and paints the more serious picture. Climate change seems to phrase it in very human-centric terms. We also need another economic system whose end goal isn't corporate world domination. We need an economic model that drives innovation but also redistributes and is sustainable. What's interesting is that this is exactly what nature accomplishes. But humans have gone off the rails in terms of consumption. However, with our adaptability and technology, we have been able to continually consume more and more, whereas other animals (e.g., rabbit populations) cannot continually exist outside of some bounds and are checked. What's interesting is trying to understand where our bound or what our check is going to be. I have a feeling that our destruction will eclipse our adaptability and technology at some point. It will not be pretty when that happens.
Let’s start at the insanity that is crypto that has little value.
They already flip-flopped once on this. How can anyone believe anything the CDC has to say?
That's not going to work very well, you'll get a mixed cohort of people reporting actual fraud and deceptive practices (the desired group) and people who were just pissed off because they didn't get the support they needed (a legitimate complaint, but not as relevant to the issue of fraud) or had negative personal interactions (not such a legitimate complaint, as they might have been the problematic person).
> This sort of misrepresentation is unfortunately common practice in mainstream western media.

Unlike mainstream Chinese media, which always represents facts objectively and doesn't use a headline generator to deflect attention whenever there's some trouble in the country.

I always see this amusing sentiment of "evil Western xyz doing things and stuff", meanwhile it's just something that happens all around the world, and usually even more so in other, less developed places. Maybe the main difference is that I don't get much media from, say, Zimbabwe, but I sure do from the US and even Canada, even if I don't particularly care about the happenings in either place.
The amount for a non-modular (i.e. the default, you don't have to have a super detailed budget) NIH R01, which is the basic unit of biomedical science funding, has been stagnant since 1999.

Budgeting for a separate person to do this would eat up a tremendous amount of said budget.

Which is fine, except if we think about this from a productivity standpoint, the person who budgeted for that person is probably short a graduate student compared to the person who didn't, on the outside chance that someone cares about their stuff. For example, I looked at my lab's publicly available repositories linked to papers on Github.

Watches: 15 (probably half of these are people involved in the project)
Forks: 3
Stars: 4
Visitors in the Past Month: 4

That's it. For all of them. While I keep doing it based on principle, if I stopped tomorrow, it would impact me not at all.

And undergraduates, candidly, are not usually time savers.
I flew across the Darien gap twice in the last week and the area has always interested me for the very subject of why don’t they join south and north. Simply, there’s no cost effective way.

The landscape is wet. You would effectively be building a bridge the whole way. Whilst fighting a guerrilla war, disease and ruining an ecological system in the process.
Very little like Path Of Exile. That game can be played to its full extent without ever spending. If you feel like spending 5-10 dollars you can get a premium tab so your item gets easily listed on trade -- but that's a single purchase and then you are done with spending. This makes it easier to trade your gear for in game currency with others -- but it's possible if clunky without and also there's a solo self found mode where you can't trade anyways so why bother. I can't emphasize enough: there's nothing in Path Of Exile where real world money affects the gameplay. You can't get better gear, skill points or whatever by paying real world money for it.
As I see it, you have two choices.

You can dial it back and your readers may take you seriously.

Or you can continue to hyperbolically rant and rave, and continue to be dismissed.

To be perfectly frank, I’m quite amused by your unhinged ranting, so if anything, I think you should continue to perform the clown act.

But in the end, it’s no skin off my back either way.

It’s up to you to decide whether you want to be effective.
Maybe someone should look them up in popular search engines using simple OSINT techniques and see that else they were reckless about.

For many years, scientific computing facilities were "off limits" to honorable hackers, but I've noticed a persistent air of entitlement from the biological sciences, paired with a deep disrespect for the field of information science.

I have a bachelor's in information science with a concentrations in information security and related areas in psychology and English literature from one of the highest ranked schools of information science in the world[0], followed by a PhD I left "ABD" after numerous peer reviewed publications and scores of conference talks and other informal lectures and volunteer work.

I once saw an entire zoo aquarium's exhibits fog up in my hometown as it switched to brownouts, as a conference's attendees went on to obstruct policy initatives that would prevent the entire state they claim to want to be permanent residents from one day losing power in a similar manner to what happened in Texas.[1]

It's why I started one of my pet phrases when I'd do volunteer work:

Voting is a right, whereas electricity, like driving, is a privilege.

Anyways, sorry for the stern response, but I hate being the guy who just goes "Oh, those results are unsurprising", but some nights I feel like I really need to mansplain what can happen if folks ignore my "crazy" left-libertarian advice.

[1] After a decade of warnings, a weak mandate to "winterize" https://www.npr.org/2021/06/02/1002277720/texas-lawmakers-pa...
> But in instances where [the new pipeline's applicants are worse than those of the old], then isn't it the case that implementing this change is unfair to the best applicants?

So, to start with, I'm not sure that it would be necessarily unfair, even under the assumption that that would happen. If I were looking for the absolute "best" candidate, I would have to offer the absolute best pay, the absolute best working conditions, and so on. It would obviously narrow down the set to the extent that it could be really challenging to find anyone, let alone someone outside a majority or something like that.

Most of the time, you're not looking for that person. You're looking for someone who's qualified for the job. You can't really even sample the population widely enough to identify which candidates are "best". In that sense, there are no "best" candidates, just those who fit better than the other folks in the rest of the hiring pool.

Maybe put another way, one's sense of "best" might be worth reexamining. Maybe one particular candidate is really highly qualified in a general sense, but in specific comparison to the team they're being considered for, maybe there are enough of that kind of person already on that team. https://staffeng.com/guides/staff-archetypes comes to mind here; you can't have a team that is all Solvers or all Tech Leads or whatever. You can try to reevaluate your definition of "best" such that it enables a more diverse set of perspectives to take part in a team, where you're optimizing for the broadest possible set of e.g. synergistic psychological traits rather than just a specific performance against a specific test set.

But even assuming it were unfair to the teleologically/meritocratically "best" candidates, that that concept isn't flawed:

Don't hire bad candidates.

Keep your standards high enough that people aren't often getting fired. Ensure inflows to your pipeline don't have surprisingly bad success rates. Track down which parts of the pipeline are failing to keep bad candidates from getting to the interview phase or getting hired and be relentless in optimizing them.

That might not sound like novel or DEI-specific advice, and that's because it's not. You should continue to run your hiring pipeline in a way that produces good outcomes. The only difference here is that you have an advantage in finding lots of different kinds of people and that you're providing opportunities to people who often aren't getting them.
> searching encrypted data isn't that complicated if you are always dealing with the entire ciphertext, it's just another string in that use case.

This isn't really true because there are multiple ciphertexts that can decode to the same plaintext in any modern encryption algorithm. If you skip that property you weaken the encryption. (Chosen plaintext attacks)
>If you need a HR chaperone to every meeting, isn't the company complicit in the behavior?

>When Insider reached out at that time, Microsoft wouldn’t confirm or deny specific allegations of misconduct against women, but did deny that Kipman had started being chaperoned by human resources personnel in meetings.
That blows my mind as well. You'd think I'd be able to write some pretty cool games using just PowerShell on Windows calling out to native graphics functions.
No, they typically aren't really bullied.
Sounds like it's time to split the industry. One side collects the data and puts it into common repositories. Another group does research using the primary data.
Like an audio QR code, I guess.
The age rating creates no legal restrictions on purchasing a game. It’s “self regulation” with all the attendant chicanery.
You need to explicitly opt into location access. The site you use for tracking your run shouldn't stop working because your phone went to sleep.

Sites already do "wake lock" by playing videos they you can't see. How many times have you tried to read a recipe and your phone shuts off while your hands are covered in flour, or you need to keep tapping your iPad screen while watching sports scores or election results?

These are both incredibly useful APIs that you probably would enjoy if you didn't dismiss them outright.
They call that hubris
Volunteer that your games are not meant for children and permanently submit your cash cow games to legislative scruitany? It'll never happen. If legislated across the world, they still wouldn't admit that their products 'could cause harm's. Why open yourself to the liabilities? No, they'll just do everything they can to prolong the greed.
You absolutely can, except for a good chunk in the middle of the highway in the Darien gap.