skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One thing that might make a difference here is how subjective "the boss is acting like a huge turd" can be.

If almost everyone would agree on the turdishness given a couple of facts on the case (none of this "heard from a friend of a friend" bullshit) then discussing and raising might be possible (though I'd probably still just leave).

But if people's assessment of the truth of that statement will depend hugely on that network of beliefs and values called "worldview" as well as exposure to different facts on the subject... then it's going to be hard.
Suppose you're trying to distribute a piece of binary software that comes with different features, such as a build that includes only client applications, while another one also includes both client and server applications. If they both depend on the same shared library that needs to be included with the distribution, and come with the same python API, making it so you can't separate features into isolated packages, what's the best practice for packaging each bundle as wheels?

Would you name one package `software_server`, another `software_client`, but call the shared python component `software` in both of them?

Also, how do you manage versioning when the version of the binary software is independent from the version of the python wrapper around it?
They did:

> An iterator could query a database, for example—including the unfortunate possibility that it might alter data, or that iterating through it twice might yield completely different results! Some tools (like ReSharper) will warn you against multiple enumeration for this reason.
> So, within 4 years we went from the "Personal Computer" becoming a real actual thing with the PC, to having basically the same desktop metaphor we still use today, with the Amiga. That's incredible development speed.

Except in 1984 we had the Macintosh, and a year before that we had the Apple Lisa. So only 2 years. Even faster.
Perhaps inevitably:

https://www.icarusinvestmentgroup.com/
I think Toronto has a huge problem with foreign investors driving up housing prices, so probably more of that
Ask any financial professional and they'll tell you if you're trying to buy a house you really want, they'd say not to wait. It's hard enough to find a home you really want and you can't predict future conditions. You might not "get a good deal" but you'll have your dream home. If you were just flipping houses then waiting is the right move.
The internet had obvious and wide ranging use cases that were immediately apparent to everyone. Blockchain tech has at best a series of edge case applications for record keeping. I don't think they are comparable at all.
There's a popular English stereotype that everything requires a permit or a license. I'm glad they continue to live up to that.
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Yes. Or at least they're exploiting the situation.
First, what the article describes is awful. It's a full onslaught on privacy, once more under the "won't anyone think of the children" banner. Of course, they don't care about the children, it's just an appeal to the purity of their blessed, little souls, as if encountering an inappropriate website will immediately condemn them to hell.

Anyway, measuring age with e.g. just a webcam is quite feasible. It's not perfect. I mean: I was well in my 30s when people were still asking for my student id, so there's an error margin. I do suppose these methods cannot circumvented by holding a picture in front of the camera or judicious application of some make-up. Adolescent boys looking for porn are not going to give up just because an age filter declines them access.

It's not phrenology, not in a technical sense, nor in the sense which the article appeals to. And that appeal is a bit pathetic, indeed, but more born from despair than the will to kill of a few million people.
(2019)

IMO it's also debatable whether or not it should be really called RISC-V, because RISC-V doesn't have a 16-bit ISA. Instead this seems to use the same ISA, but it limits both data and addresses to 16-bits (while keeping 32-bit instructions).
<<Preamble: you’ll be aware that the UK’s Online Safety Bill has been promoted as a piece of big tech/social media legislation, but it is not. It will impact any company or project of any size, nature, location, or business model which has user-generated content on it or allows humans to interact with other humans. So if your site, service or app is anything other than a promotional portfolio web 1.0 site, or a blog like this here blog that only allows comments, you’re in scope. If you weren’t aware of that, you are now. Enough of the preamble, let’s amble.

Sold. I am all for returning to standard boring web 1.0. Lets do this thing!
This doesn't read like a neutral analysis to me. On the other hand the UK will mostly continue to support GDPR, in the same way all our phones will be USB-C, EU legislation leaks across borders to every country on the planet.

The UK government have been hopelessly out of their depth legislating the internet, since, forever.

The site is called "webdevlaw.uk" and the article footer "This is my personal site, and the opinions on it do not reflect the views of any current or previous employer." seems a bit dishonest, but everywhere does it these days (putting "news" at the end of your twitter handle somehow makes you a journalist apparently).
They claimed it's a horrible precedent, except it isn't a precedent.

They then went full slippery slope fallacy jumping from Assange to a mythical future (appealing to emotion) Watergate journalist.

Watergate type journalists were and are explicitly protected in the US. So the US trying to extradite a journalist for something akin to Watergate is purely nonsense.

"And after that, anyone who dissents" - that is full on FUD. Assange is not some gatekeeper between current judicial systems and fantasy dystopian extremes. So this as an endpoint for a slippery slope fallacy is a perfect example.

The slippery slope fallacy, to not be a fallacy, needs not only the ends of the slope (which this poster failed at both ends), but an explained or obvious causal mechanism to move from one to the other (also not present - despite going from today to a fantastical extreme).

So I don't think I ignored any valid points.

Now I'm sure if someone used the above arguments with a "think of the children" to move from one claim to another, you'd rightfully call the argument crap. That Assange's case likely is important to you does not make the above argument any more correct.

Feel free to tell me which points were valid.
Thank you for saying this. My anxiety ( when it manifests ) usually is a good indicator I am moving in the wrong direction and need to correct my course. I wonder if anyone did any studies on its evolutionary basis.
Housing valuation over the last decade is not entirely dissimilar from crypto valuation over the same period.

But while they are both irrationally overvalued, you can’t mine for new housing stock.
That seems pretty clever, I think there's actually quite a few applications that work like that. And with binary servers, startup is pretty fast too.
I probably don't know enough about the topic, but am curious: isn't serializable an alias for 'strictly sequential execution'? If so, given your constraints, shouldn't it always print 1? I.e., the effect of setting a to 1 is visible to all subsequent statements, as if there were a barrier after every statement?

Regardless, could you comment on if and how different linerizable interpretation would be?
You can use "-i" for in-place password generation, which will just replace the first line.
Only a tiny minority of new houses are self-builds - most are built by developers and sold as normal with mortgages.
You have to think in bars not seconds.I believe you hear your own playing in near real time and is overlayed on the bars coming from others.

It works pretty well with well structured music like the blues. You probably couldn't play well if the piece was changing tempo or key all the time.
Long term, inflation tends to reduce income inequality (up to a point, I've generally seen 10-15% quoted as the sweet spot).

The problem with inflation and poor people is more short term: wages are one of the last things to inflate, so there is still a short term drop in buying power. This applies to everyone relying on wage income, but the poor have the least slack to manage it.
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Because once you subtract everything that crypto is *not*, what you have left is a novel but highly inefficient accounting system.

This accounting system may be "trustless" but the surrounding infrastructure and implementation known as the crypto "marketplace" is still highly based on trust and more often than not this trust has proven to be misplaced.
Yes, well unfortunately 2FA and banking and investing doesn't seem to go well together in the US. These companies move at a glacial place.

Examples with huge market cap and no TOTP support (afaik): Vanguard ($6T+ managed), Chase Bank ($3T), and every botique investment firm I have dealt with.

I personally don't count "we email you a secret code" as 2FA. Do other people?? I mean, sure my email might be secured with real 2FA, but it's just my gut reaction that this isn't nearly as good.
Just want to drop a quick thank you and share my appreciation.

It’s easy for super paid engineers to figure out retirement because it will likely just automatically happen for them between high salaries / aggressively competitive benefits or stock windfalls if they can curb lifestyle spending habits and just work moderately hard.

For the rest of us… different story and life long commitment to reaching financial independence “the hard way”.

Some feedback:

- The end screen I wish was configurable or easier to see is this inflation adjusted or assume x% growth rate. This widget is the best I’ve used check it out: https://www.bankrate.com/banking/savings/save-million-calcul...

- I never know — and struggle - do these assume wage growth or not with inflation? I find this always the worst at trying to figure out savings and confusing. Maybe help digest that.

- “FIRE life hacks” or some fun name could also be useful. For example, paying down mortgage with extra payments, sell your car and get one 30% cheaper, killing expenses by x%, move that cash to index fund for 22 years left until retirement, side gig that produced $500 a month, or paying student loan debt or not faster. Would be cool to automate this with reasonable default recommendations. So less, hey your set or not make a plan, and more here’s your situation but here’s the best possible thing you could be doing. I think it could driver greater impact and people more likely to be motivated.

Either way, will definitely share this with friends, love what you all are doing, and wishing you good luck!
It's very hard to time any market, and particularly with a primary residence, most folks plan to stay in them for at least 3 years. It's entirely possible that you overpay today but if you make a smart purchase that you like, there's a pretty good chance your home value recovers in the long run.

I think the bubble talk is slightly overstated due to the increase in remote workers. That demand isn't going anywhere soon, which means prices aren't likely to come down much. The Fed is really trying to price out AirBnb and institutional investors, which only account for a small percentage of the market anyway.
>I mean in the US IMEI aren’t linked to a person, at least not required. Neither are SIMs.

They are in most of Europe though. Since the terrorist attacks a few years ago, it became mandatory to link an ID to any new and existing SIM cards.
The tool is called Compiler Explorer; I think Matt just hosted it in his own otherwise unused existing personal domain, but the name famously stuck as it is short and memorable (at $WORK, our private compiler explorer installation is under go/godbolt!).
I exaggerate, but in the run up neighbours were telling everyone to just buy Microsoft, and everyone tech adjacent I knew was trying to make an e-commerce website. I was just graduating out of university and web dev jobs evaporated. Many e-commerce companies went bust, or were acquired (my gf at the time experienced layoff after layoff until she went). At that time everyone I knew was not thinking about doing anything web related.

Probably the smart money knew that the builders who kept going had a chance to run up when the market came back on the excitement of what they built, but my social circle were not privy to those conversations.
It's a bit of a shame that self-labelling by web sites never seemed to really take off:

* https://www.w3.org/TR/powder-use-cases/#cpA

* https://www.w3.org/2007/powder/

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protocol_for_Web_Description_R...

It could be much easier if the major web browsers (at this point Chrome, Safari (mobile), Firefox) were able to read the metadata and if parents (or corporate IT departments) wanted to filter content they could using 'built-in' technology rather every web site having to potentially re-invent the wheel.
The question is answered in specific, not in general. Is the rate you are offered good enough to offset the potential decline in equity? Remember that if the house loses 10% of its value, your downpayment does not somehow appreciate - essentially every month you pay some portion of each payment for equity that only the bank has / you cannot recover.

That said, if the rate is attractive and you have a long time horizon which you can predict reliably, then you might still find the rate attractive. if you plan to sell over the next 5 years though, it may be better to rent and negotiate lower rents if housing prices fall.

Alternatively, if you have a specific use for a house that requires you to own, consider whether that use is worth a premium of homeownership. (e.g. you have a woodworking business and need space that is hard to rent, or you have kids that need to go to a specific school district)

Timing the market is a bad idea, having contingencies for the eventuality that your timing was wrong is a good idea. so, build the cost of the contingencies into your model.

Finally, don't get into a false dichotomy of rent vs buy. it is better to think about the total sum on the table for either option and how you'd like to allocate it. e.g. you could just buy a smaller house, or rent a bigger one. Or, rent as cheaply as possible and buy gold, or bootstrap a small business. remember to enumerate all possible capital allocations before getting trapped in the choice between just rent vs buy.
Fucking bastards. Home prices aren’t going to fall because there simply isn’t enough housing for everyone. There’s a housing shortage, we need to build more houses, that’s how you make prices fall.

Meanwhile, since home prices aren’t going to fall, mortgage rates are going up, so now it becomes prohibitively expensive to even get a mortgage.
I thought it was a very well written and engaging piece.

Given that this ludicrous legislation was, undoubtedly, pushed for by the Home Office and shadowy security apparatus, it seems plain to me that those same groups will have access to all the data the age verification companies hold - they will know the identity of every user accessing these websites, and there is absolutely zero chance it won't be abused. There is also zero chance it won't be used as a springboard to escalate the scope.

This is yet more mass-surveillance via the handy back door of "think of the children". One of the main reasons I voted against Brexit was exactly because of shit like this - put simply, I trust the EU more than my own government. Honestly, I found the phrenology comparisons rather apt.
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> this takes the cake for the worst one yet, or certainly up there.

my number one is the Australian AABill mandating any Australian citizen working for a tech company can be forced to create backdoors in code and altering their employer about it is illegal. This one is so bad, that if it were China, we'd no longer hire any Chinese nationals anywhere in the world.
With a decreasing birth rate and labor participation rate, is it not reasonable to predict competition for labor to be higher in future years? And competition for resources in general, such as fuel, water, food, and desirable land to be higher in future years?
There is a relationship, yes, but it’s fairly indirect. More important is simply that the ailments of the US are suffered by the west in general. The UK raised its interest rate this week, by less than the US, but with a feeling that a much larger rise will come in August.
This is an excellent overview of the narrow waist concept which is a highly zoomed out. I think it's hard to see sometimes because when you are working within a narrow waist you are typically working on something that looks more like a series of filters in one or both ends of the hour glass. The fundamental compromise that the narrow waist is much more general than the specific domain you are working in means it fades to the background and instead you are working to handle all the ways that too general a space needs to be specialized.
Seems peoples perspectives are different, who would have thought?

Personally, I was working with computers back then too, and most people who also didn't work with computers at that point always asked me "When are you gonna get a real job?" and told me "the Internet is just a fad".

But again, your experience could very well have been different.
> Are you advocating for change in your workplace that isn't strongly linked to workplace peformance?

Who is doing that? Please cite something.

> And wasn't even on the public radar 20 years ago?

Where does 20 years ago time frame come from? That's pretty arbitrary and seems more to be based on your feelings than fact.
I'm not convinced that a solar array / electricity production would be the prioritised target if they were in range.
>Please explain to me the difference between a bank and a Ponzi Scheme.

Banks are forced to abide by regulations and laws dictating how fractional-reserve organizations are allowed to operate. In return, peoples' deposits are backed by the government up to $250k (in the US).

Ponzi schemes ignore regulations and laws, and their customers' deposits are not insured or backed by any organization.

The laws that banks are forced to follow may be woefully insufficient, but the government is incentivized to prevent serious collapses because they would be on the hook for a lot of money. Retail customers are also less likely to start a run if they trust that someone will be there ready to hand over their cash when the dust settles.
> Corporate executives frequently go in to politics, and when politicians retire they often get cushy, high paying jobs

This can explained by some benign reasons: both political and management jobs require similar skillsets, like leadership, charisma, speaking publicly and so on. So it makes sense that same people could do both. Furthermore, if a political position involves regulating a certain industry, a person taking it has to have expertise in that industry, which further makes it more approachable for people from the industry.
I think basically the whole space is a fad, but fads don't usually disappear entirely. Beanie babies were a fad; they are no longer a fad; this doesn't seem to affect my niece's enjoyment of the beanie baby we bought for her last year.

My approach is to stay away until the fad dies, and then look to see if any part of it is useful to me. The last time I made a serious evaluation of something in that space was Bitcoin; it didn't serve any use case I had; but maybe there's been some innovation in the space that is hard to find behind the fad hype.
I believe we're seeing the end of "retail crypto." Just like agricultural futures, crypto will continue to exist but will mostly be known outside of institutional trading as a good way to lose your shirt.

As far as underlying value goes: one thing we've learned from the constant scamming is that a protocol designed for trustless interactions will inevitably devolve into purely adversial interactions. Consider it a social application of Gresham's law. Central banks, multinational corporations, and others who can marshal the resources to perform extensive audits will probably use smart contracts on a proof-of-stake chain for large, adversarial transactions that occur outside of any one nation's jurisdiction. Everything else will continue to be based on trust, just like it always has been.
I don't like the cryptocurrency industry, it's a scam, just like Wall Street by the way, it's all an underregulated mess, but these articles about the imminent demise of Bitcoin are cheap shots.
> I wish I could go back in time and use tools like redbean and Cosmopolitan Libc to fix all the things with TensorFlow that I wish I could have done

... and then people want you to distribute a libtensorflow.so which they may link to or dlopen. :cry:

I had been in this "trying to distribute binaries working on every Linux distro since 2010" game too and I hate it.
I don't think CO2 emissions are much of a priority in warfare.
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Nobody knows. The future could bring anything. Maybe rates will go up for 10 years, maybe this is a blip and next year they will be down. Maybe housing prices will go up, maybe they will go down, maybe they will stay the same.

You asked about Chicago - the city as a whole doesn't have the outrageous prices of California, and so might do something different from the national average. Within the cities some areas have better prices than others. Different areas of the city will see different results. This applies in California as well - location matters.

You have to live someplace. What will rent cost if you don't buy now. I lost money on my first house (moved at the bottom of the 2008 downturn), but after accounting for all the rent I would have had to pay instead of the house I was still better off financially.

Make your best guess based on the above. You will be wrong in at least minor details, but hopefully close enough. In the worst case you just have to accept you made the best decision you could at the time, and there was no way to know it would turn out bad.
> Please explain to me the difference between a bank and a Ponzi Scheme.

The story of the 3 little pigs comes to mind. "The first pig made his house out of straw...".
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I think the author was not the one performing the reductio ad hitlerum, but was referencing a tweet[1] citing a doctoral thesis on AI ambiguity (which made the "fallacy") and (i'm guessing here as I haven't read it) concerns biases present in modern vision systems.

[1] - https://twitter.com/clancynewyork/status/1535686305438478339
Pfff, what a fraud. Sure, you can blow compression-artifact-ridden crap up to any resolution you want. Doesn't make it worthy of being called "4K."
> The internet had obvious and wide ranging use cases that were immediately apparent to everyone

In hindsight it might seem so, but it really wasn't. Most people who didn't already see these "wide ranging use cases" thought the internet was mostly about shady stuff.
Or use a credit union.
https://www.lmcu.org/

I've been using LMCU for a couple decades living away from any branches. I use the app for cashing checks and there are ATM's in their free network at all the Speedway gas stations and CVS's around me.
> that printed money has to go somewhere

Money isn’t conserved in our system. When the Fed sells a bond, and it’s presently selling tens of billions, scheduled to increase to hundreds of billions, it destroys that money.