skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is significant income mobility in the US, which is why "the one-percent" discourse consistently fails to resonate with Americans. When 73% of Americans have spent at least a year earning a top 20% income [0], focusing on the inherited wealth of others comes off as whining. As long people feel that the pie grows, and that they can move themselves forward, these observations are at best statistical curiosities. They feel very much of a piece with the deboonkers on Twitter who tell the truck owner/operator facing 50% higher gas prices that technically there's no recession.

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/20/opinion/sunday/from-rags-...
> highest paid software positions in Germany are non-union jobs

How does one identify a well paying non-union employer? Noname companies in almost all cases pay much less than union employers.
The government could, for example, issue loans at minimal interest rates to smaller businesses.
I don't understand why Coinbase is feeling such a crunch. They are just middleman in buying and selling. Their advantage is supposed to be that they make money whether crypto goes up or down. How can they screw this up?
What's the difference between a pivot and founding a new company?

Sometimes your company has some baggage (messy cap table, bad hires, a down round, etc), and pivoting brings that baggage along. On the other hand, forming an entirely new company takes time and effort that may not be necessary.

What do fundraising entities think when they see a company fold/exit somehow in a way that keeps the founder free, and the founder immediately found a "similar" company solving an "only" marginally different problem?
Exact timing? No. General direction? There are people who made that call in November, plenty more joined January-February. Note the question is where does this end and those same people are the first to admit nobody knows, because the fed doesn’t know - and the answer is, when the fed pivots.
I go on https://lobste.rs pretty frequently in addition to reddit and twitter. Also do discord groups count as forums?
>Yes, I believe that such moralistic emphasis is detrimental. I believe that emphasizing personal responsibility while deemphasizing structural factors is hypocritical and morally bankrupt.

It seems like you are interjecting morality again into our discussion where none was included. A deficit of personal empowerment IS a structural and environmental factor. Not the only one, but it is one of the most important if not the most important in determining outcomes.

If you take a poor, abused, and neglected child and teach them they can not and will not amount to anything because of the material conditions of their birth, you are actively damaging their outcomes.

If you take the same poor, abused, and neglected child and teach them that that there is hope and clear goals which will get them out of poverty the vast majority of the time, you are actively improving their outcomes.

This doesn't require judging anyone. This is actively improving environmental factors which lead to success. The impacts are statistically robust and well understood.

Luck and environment played a huge role in my success. A huge environmental factor was parenting and education which made me understand how those 5 factors impact success, and instilling a belief that it was within my reach if I stuck to them.
what the heck did all those people do!?
I'm not sure what point this is trying to make. None of these countries want to be part of the old Soviet Union.
hmm. looks like the total mentality of an entrepreneur changes when the company becomes public. with VC funds, the entrepreneur focuses on execution and builds and with IPO, its ok for entrepreneurs to lose vigor and can buy millions worth property and also lay off employees.

In the end, it has nothing to do with open society or for the people. its all about money and its just greed.
Thanks for the suggestion. I've ordered the Barry book for a friend who suffers greatly from anxiety.
Land is finite but the desirability of the land can change. Detroit used to be a tier 1 American city.
I feel the same. With forums, I feel it’s easier to get familiarized with other users. Not sure why, but it definitely feels more communal than Reddit
There is literally nothing that could done in high moon orbit that would not be overwhelmingly better done in low earth orbit.

The only reason to even consider using the high moon orbit is to have something, anything for SLS to do. Every conceivable mission scenario is better staged from low earth orbit, but they wouldn't need SLS for that.

And the whole point of SLS is so they can hand out $2B in plums to mil contractors for every mission, that they couldn't for a measly LEO launch.
That's a funny joke. It does make me think about concepts and organizations and how they can drift. I don't think the Ship of Theseus has drifted much, but I think it totally applies to organizations and who is a member, e.g. people who supported the French Revolution / a school board / people who identify as liberal or conservative, etc.
Nobody should be homeless, period. I know that homelessness is unavoidable, so I'll settle for nobody should be homeless with a job. And if unemplyed a social security net in a developed nation has to be strong enough to avoid tgat.

Relying on friends and family is poor societies safety net, a rich coubtry counting on that took capitalism one step too far.
You can certainly leverage yourself, but not anywhere close to infinity. How much sETH trades to ETH depends on the supply and demand on each side. The more sETH tokens you bring to trade, the higher the price of ETH will be.
Respectfully, this point is not clear on your website -- I thought the reference to Twilio was that you are using them for getting a number. I'm more interested now.
I'm not disagreeing with you. I only added that, from a tax collector perspective, tax deference and tax avoidance are on the same spectrum, and they will seek out mechanisms to make deference impossible. I gave an example of one of these mechanisms at the federal level (AMT) and one at the municipal level (property tax). But yes, doesn't mean there are other strategies to defer ("avoid") taxes still left.
The notion that employers are unfairly collecting economic rent from their employees doesn't require it to be a zero-sum game.
There's some truth there, but I think it is actually flipped.

Scientific computing codes generally stick around a while (or at least they might, or at least we hope they will), they are run on complicated platforms by motivated people. There's incentive to do run-time tuning, and there's value to making them general.

On the other hand, you might have things like a videogame console, where the program is tuned for a particular platform. There's plenty of room there for programmer control I think (not sure though, that isn't my field -- in the Unity/Unreal era maybe they try and make things general? But I bet the programmer can exert great control if they want).
Ask HN: Any idea if jupyter lite is a contender for sharing notebooks?
ADHD (and associated things like autism) is not just a problem for children in school, but also for adults at work and in their personal lives. I would argue that society should be changed to better accommodate neurodivergent people, but until then medication is really helpful for most people.
Amazon always had ambitions to go beyond books, that's not a pivot.
The hunt for a cluster-killer Erlang bug (2021)
Code I like (I): Domain-driven boldness
Do it! I was a self-taught developer for about 8 years before I finally decided to go back to school. I talked myself out of it many, many times. Then right before covid, I decided I wasn't getting any younger. So I literally sat down with an intro to algebra book and took it from there. I'm 42 now and just graduated with my BSCS degree. My only regret is not doing it sooner. Did it do anything for my career? I don't know yet, but what it did do is show me that I can accomplish my goals when I focus. I learned a lot about a subject I love and am an all around happier person for it. Now I'm not waiting anymore and will be moving onto my MS immediately.

Don't think let yourself talk you out of something you want.
Good for you not needing meds...
I think for some engineers (me) there's not much you can offer. I don't just want any new random tech challenge. It's unlikely your company or most companies have something I could truly be passionate about solving.
I think it's the opposite.

I'm not talking about "Let's start a social media app for Aardvarks!" kind of ideas, but actual scientific research. We used to have pure research orgs like Bell Labs, but companies aren't funding pure research any more, so we need more investment from government. Not every idea should have a path to monetization before it's funded.
An open source reimplementation of Cryo's DUNE game
"whatever that means"
Indeed.
Same, except OpenSUSE Tumbleweed. First time using any SUSE distro for over 15 years, and it's really nice. I don't really want to tweak everything, and Tumbleweed has a nice UI to quickly switch between DE lookalikes (like, click this one too get top menu, bottom dock)
They called it RISC iX because it was RISC.

They called it Minix because it was mini.

And they called it POSIX because...
Programmers wages in America are for the vast majority of the world obscene as well.
It depends where do you draw the line, American programmer is most likely the 1% for the world.
You've missed his point. He isn't misunderstanding the term "debt", he's just saying there should be a different word for "good debt" that doesn't have the negative connotations that it does with personal debt.

I guess kind of like how mortgages aren't seen as bad even though they're debt. Fairly safe debt, sure. But still debt.

I don't know if a new word would help but you've misunderstood anyway.
And they still didn't have ability to provide statements!
> the barrel prices are not exactly high

$120/barrel is pretty high. Not the highest it's ever been, but close, and about twice as expensive as crude was from 2015 to early 2021.

https://markets.businessinsider.com/commodities/oil-price?op...
It actually came about due to labor shortages during WWII. So many people were drafted into the military or voluntarily joining that employers were having trouble finding enough workers.

To prevent this from leading to rampant inflation the US passed laws that regulated wages and prices, such as the Emergency Price Control Act of 1942 and the Stabilization Act of 1942.

Insurance and pension benefits were not counted as wages, and so employers that could no longer legally raise wages to get people people to come work for them instead started offering health coverage.

Americans, who before this had largely been on their own when it came to healthcare, liked this, and so even after the wage controls ended unions bargained to keep those benefits and over the next decade or two expand them to include vision and dental benefits.

By the early '60s it was clear that there was a serious problem inherent in this. Employer sponsored health insurance had become that basis for nearly the entire American healthcare system. People who then left that system such as when they retired often found they could not afford to buy their own insurance. And so Medicare and Medicaid were created to try to handle people who could not get employer provided health insurance.

We almost got major healthcare reform in the early '70s. Senator Kennedy proposed a single-payer system that would be available to every American. President Nixon proposed a system that pretty close to the ACA (aka Obamacare). Then Watergate happened and pushed healthcare reform to the back burner were it sat for around 40 years.
Very literally, yes.

https://www.kiro7.com/news/local/is-chop-shop-operating-plai...
>believe people who will still tweet "HODL" the day of the big crash where they'll try to sell everything they have, hoping someone will buy the final dip.

Those people buying the final dip are shorts closing a part of their position ;)
It doesn't even make sense. What would it mean to anthropomorphize a human? It is a given and can't be fairly characterized like that. The only way to characterize it otherwise is to dehumanize.
I don't know, I think that people with red cars and people with white cars might have different loan repayment behaviors and I think the model should be allowed to try to figure out.
Since this is Coinbase we're talking about, I assume the last $3M went to fees.
Nobody that is complaining supports the bill anyway. This is exactly what a tyranny of the majority looks like. I've seen all kinds of (very legitimate) complaining about this, but it's by "minorities" that the majority don't care about. Listing more reasons why the bill is bad may feel satisfying, but it's irrelevant. The problem is section 33 of the charter that nullifies it, and I believe has been exclusively used by quebec to trample on minority rights. Canada needs (amongst other things) a proper constitution that doesn't have loopholes

See https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/05/28/quebec-ca... for more context
I heard from a barber, that despite claims hairs from the back of the head are different follicles, and won't die off, this is all lies and marketing bs.

So you need endless treatments, or else take testosterone blockers.
Xerox soon replaced that keyboard due to European ergonomic standards; the newer low-profile was actually one of the first products to use Cherry MX switches. https://deskthority.net/wiki/Xerox_Star_low-profile_keyboard
> 1. I don’t use a lot of apps. I prefer web for most things. It turns out the apps I do download are from bigger companies (YouTube, Netflix).

I think you're just lucky. Or maybe my friends and I are just cursed. I get asked to rate everything. My doctor's office sends me an email to rate them on the web after every single visit. If I go in for a follow-up a week later, I get 2 emails asking for ratings - one for the initial visit and one for the follow-up. My dog's vet asks for a rating. I get a pizza delivered, they want a rating. It's too much. I definitely never rate an app that asks me to for the reasons you've said. It's all very scammy and I'm conditioned now. Sucks for the honest guys, but c'est la vie.
Woman accused of killing boyfriend after tracking him down with Apple AirTag
I think not. More like Shodan for data. HaveIBeenPwned ostensibly
helps victims. This show is just upping the ante and moving to open
web visibility. What use is blackmailing anyone if you haven't got an
entertainments platform to deliver on? They must be extraordinarily
confident they are untouchable. If it helps anyone it's as an ironic
side effect. Think of this as the NSA but with doors wide open and
everything for sale for the lols.
FWIW, that's from pernosco, not rr.
Ok now how really it did look in history:

Landlord was lending land to peasents - rich peasents, because bottom cast did not even have a chance to talk to landlord.

For the land peasents got, they had to work for the landlord specific number of days in a week. For some time it was 1-2-3-4-5 days per week. Most common was 3 days.

Thing is - the peasent was not obligated to do that work himself. He could have sent a son, family member or even hire someone.

That way it was super easy to keep his agreement with the landlord while mostly focus on his own farm.

Who had it terrible were bottom, poor peasents that worked for other peasents.

They did not have their own land and were at mercy of their “master peasents”.

They most likely had to work whole week or 5-6 days.

They were more of a slave than a peasent tbh, but its a hard disregarded truth.

Current middle class in our times could be translated to “master peasents” back in time. Slave peasents would be the slave-wage ppl.

When I discuss or compare medival peasents to current corporation workers I always compare master peasents to corposlaves.

And master peasents had it super better than corposlaves do now.
Yes, anecdotally, no recent evidence, though expect to gather some in the next year or two.

The last time my company laid people off it have very generous severance packages, way above the legally required 1/3 months depending on duration of employment.
> In the idealized straight-forward elaboration, then, all docs would live in the repo, but I haven't worked with a team that was on board with that

In case you're thinking about productizing your work I just want to give you a little encouragement that there are a lot of companies OK with having docs live alongside code. See Google's g3doc [1] for example. See also the docs as code movement.

[1] https://www.usenix.org/conference/srecon16europe/program/pre...
It's not. You can buy (and deduct) it on healthcare.gov. Ask any self employed person.

You're also paying it out of your salary with employer. There's no such thing as "employer match."
Fair enough. But MLS viewership has risen since the last deal. Before this announcement, it was speculated MLS was looking for a $300M/year deal. So it doesn't seem so insane to me.
Apple and Microsoft? 3M too. Nokia used to invent itself multiple times too, but I guess not any more.
No, speaking personally I don't consciously notice the effects of Concerta. Far from being a high that I crave, I actually have to set myself reminders in the morning and make a ritual/checklist, and I set my medication out on a visible shelf in the bathroom, otherwise I'll forget to take it.

I'm not sure how many people with addictions are regularly forgetting to take their drugs without a phone reminder.

The point of the delay release is that you don't have the same kind of ramp up to extreme effects and then come-down. Instead the goal is to get a (roughly) consistent dose that helps with executive dysfunction, and doesn't do much else. As always, that's something you work out with the help of a psychiatrist, not everyone reacts to methylphenidate the same way.
This port of Tomb Raider also comes to mind: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_GVSLcqGP7g
check out pushover, I use it for this exact case

https://pushover.net/
You still have your career and can get another job somewhere else. If your whole industry has collapsed so you have no alternatives, then that's a risk to prepare for in your general life plans. The world doesn't owe you comfort and security but you can easily create it for yourself if that's what you want. Also, obviously don't work at a crypto startup if you want that either!

I've done this for myself. I can't be fired, and I have 3 different "career" directions I'm going in at the same time. I'm not a high flier in any of them, but at least one is bound to always be available. That's comfort and security.
This maybe a bit redundant -- but IMO it's always worth a quick stop at `https://alternativeto.net/` since you can specify OS & License types, etc and read a few reviews.

I've also started to find some neat stuff with `https://github.com/trending` - has been good for finding some good jumping-off points for subjects where I don't always have my finger on the pulse.

It's nice to get out of the echo-chamber and see what the other side of the shop is innovating. It helps me solve problems in ways I might not have come up with - and I've thankfully made lots of friends in Art, Design, UI/UX, and FrontEnd now because of it...so it's easier to keep up with for me now.

I don't think that's an especially hot take on HN though, but just putting it out there in case someone needed to hear it.
The new settings forget that desktop OSes are desktop OSes and have a rich library of controls that have interaction modes distinct from touch.

See this: https://twitter.com/siracusa/status/1534261202167152649

Instead of distinct readable controls with clear interactions it's a sea of gray upon gray upon gray.

It breaks Apple's own HIGs which says not to (over)use switches, and use checkboxes instead. The drop downs no longer look like they can be interacted with.

Where you'd have settings that can easily fit on a single pane in multicolumn view, you now have lists upon lists upon lists that are entirely alien to the Mac OS https://twitter.com/oskargroth/status/1534133558817742848

Interface consistency is a bullshit goal: https://twitter.com/MarioGuzman/status/1534585939971801088
Those semis are going to be a lot quieter in coming decades when they go electric.
This seems like a better problem to have. Over time you'll do a lot of cool stuff and have interesting things to talk about.

I have stuff I would like to want to do. I've had stuff on my to do list of cool projects for years, but I rarely translate that into action to actually do them. The result of that is boredom or just killing time. I think part if it is that I don't think I'll have enough time, so I don't start. If I have a couple weeks off work, after 4-6 days of decompressing and accept that I have time, I'll usually start in on some kind of project. But with work I'm mostly just plugging in my battery to charge so I can do it again the next day.
Mixed use is a winner in urban environments. London has a lot of it, and it makes for good, local living.
I think it's the same people?
It is Gnome Power setting dialog changes the governor. The above command just disables Turbo boost while allowing CPU to spend 100% of its time at the base frequency.
> Also do discord groups count as forums?

For myself, I wouldn’t count it. I have a hard time searching for past information on discord. In my experience, forum posts do a good job of keeping the conversation at-hand focused.
Because it doesn't seem like Crypto is a good inflation hedge. If you're worried about inflation from unwise increases in the fiat money supply, then it seems like you want something with intrinsic value (real estate, other tangible assets, inflation protected bonds, etc), but crypto is the opposite of that. It's too volatile to be an actual currency so what is it exactly other than a purely speculative asset?
i hope it's not surprising to you that some homeowners do pay to upgrade their place so it's actually maintained over time. if you don't do that obviously things will get worse, not better in 60+ years! I'm not sure why you think this is a SF phenomenon.

so no, not all SFH in SF are shit.
I like how a whole world of scammers make up an entire language to justify their "rational" choices
Arch or Gentoo
apologies, missed the italics :P

still think the comment adds context for how Houston zoning works, so I'm going to let it stand.
ADHD is caused by a mix off environment and genetics. That environment could include several inputs, like diet, air pollution, etc.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31810593/

And ADHD is not a disease, it is a disorder. There is no biological markers yet for a diagnosis either.
> After Dark!

I would pay a frankly distressing amount of money for reproductions of After Dark screensavers, even if it was just videos I can set my TV to play when it gets tired.
The Soviets launched quite a few fission reactors into space to power a variety of satellites, to include their RORSAT active radar naval reconnaissance birds, ending around 1987.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nuclear_power_systems_...
As a counter argument McDonald's does the same thing and is quite successful at it. When you open a franchise you have to build on the main corp land and pay for rent on it in perpetuity, on top of franchise fees .
That's a fair question. And I'm not saying it is wrong, only that it might be. Let me give a slightly less fraught example: we have an instinct to "honor our dead" and not to "desecrate their bodies." Does that make sense? The dead person doesn't care. Does it even make sense to talk about a dead "person"? One might argue that no dead thing can be a person, it's just a (dead) thing that was once a person and still happens to look like a person but isn't actually a person any more.

Likewise, a baby may look like a person, may even behave in some ways like a person, but not yet actually be one.

Again I have to emphasize: I am not saying this is the case, only that it is a possibility that needs to be taken into account when doing the moral calculus.