skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was referring to your recommendation that people, especially the 95% of them who don't live in the US and aren't US citizens, "invest in ammo and MREs" as a way to prepare for the possibility that the US government might devalue the dollar and revise the BLS CPI computation in an unfavorable way.

It's hard to imagine a more unrealistic approach to financial planning than yours. It's up there with Charlie Manson's plan to hide in a hole in the desert until all the other white people were killed in a race war prophesied through Beatles songs.
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It would be better to articulate the gist of an on-topic thought in the confines of a HN post, rather than sending people off to go read something. If something in the article is wrong, let's address that exact thing in the comment. If you have understood your own beliefs well and can articulate them, then you can make great impact on a thread that way.

"Just read this link" on a complex and controversial topic may be comparable to "Just read this religious tract".
recent real estate chaos and vast increases in cost of living makes me wonder how many people in the tech industry might right now be literally living in storage units as described by Hiro Protagonist.
Thanks, no need to be polite, I agree the initial experience sucks, it's kind of required by this particular project. Here is my last weekend project, as you can see it totally is in line with your UI advice: ezbitmap.com
Have you created a profitable SaaS, or are you are responding hypothetically on how to do it based on what you have learned from others?
Reading this thread, the delusional thinking is thick!

I’m hearing that we need to wait until Intel moves to 5nm to really compare. When that means that the whole PC market cedes the crown to Apple, who is not slowing down. Apple is on its second generation on 5nm and the x86 crowd as yet to show any response!

That it’s only because Apple is on 5nm that they’re competitive. Which is crazy, since we can directly compare slightly older chips made on a 7nm process and Apple comes out way ahead.

That the competitors like Qualcomm are not optimizing for performance. When the reality is much simpler. The benchmarks are this bad from Qualcomm because they’re optimizing for their wallets.

The reality is simple: for a decade, Apple has had the fastest phones, and the fastest tablets. Are you PC guys ready to admit Apple has the fastest computers?
> When you are recieving the pointy end of the stick, it doesn't matter to you whether the person on the other end believes in what they are doing or not.

Correct, but who is holding the pointy stick? Hint: it's not rural folks in Georgia. It's the folks that have Wall Street and Silicon Valley behind them.
Yes, but don't underestimate the exports that Germany is generating, between all of the high tech there and the car companies you are looking at a substantial exporter.

China is #1, the USA (all of it) is #2 and Germany (just Germany, not the EU) is #3. Have a look at their relative populations and appreciate that fully.
I was under the impression that margins on alcohol were huge. At least where I am, proprietors trip over themselves to get alcohol licenses, and those licenses go for hefty premiums.
This feels like saying Haskell doesn't have pure functions because they don't account for cosmic ray bit flips.
I appreciate the sentiment. Truth is my ideas stopped getting me going in the morning because the dayjob feels like such a bigger better more interesting opportunity.

I’m sure exciting ideas will come again. Until then “Enjoying my dayjob too much” isn’t a bad place to be :)
Limit message retention.
I find it interesting how brain works when we try to solve a problem. It is like we have to tell the brain "Here is the problem ... now come up with a solution". And then it does somehow come up with proposed solutions. But we are unaware of how it does that. It is the sub-conscious.

How do we come up with thoughts? They just seem to appear out of nowhere. We don't decide what we will think next. Something guides what thoughts come to mind next, but we have no idea of the internal reasoning that must be going on under the surface.
I meant something like a script, where the toy or game tells you what you're supposed to do with it (because e.g. the blocks only make sense as parts of an X-Wing Fighter). Anyway, it's my term; I don't know if anyone else uses it. I thought it was clear; sorry.
Having invested in this business before, the margin is entirely in alcohol. Typical drink costs <50p and sold for >20x. Food has nowhere near those margins given the labor and materials required.
The food in many of these pubs is of very low quality and is designed to be quickly prepared (reheated) at scale with no complex steps involved. After a short time in the UK you can quickly tell what sort of food you can expect in a given pub, so I think most Brits know what they're getting. Personally, I think this (plus the fact that a large amount of the population take pride in enjoying shit food) give the UK a bad reputation re food.

And you'd actually be surprised how much soft drinks are served in pubs. They're very low wastage - so if your company budgets that X% will be lost for some reason, you'll very likely undershoot that and have only X/2% wasted. Additionally you can adjust the syrup/carbonated water mix so that your margins for each serving are higher. The dodgy pub I worked at as a student frequently used soft drinks as a way to balance stock in case of wastage (or in the case of a corrupt assistant manager, theft). Towards the end of a given stock-keeping period (monthly?) we'd often be told something like "Tennent's is down, ring it up in the tills as 3 small diet cokes" - meaning that there is less of a given beer in the stock room than expected when accounting for how much we ordered and how much we sold, and to correct for this we'd use take advantage of the surplus of coke stock (after a price adjustment) to try to counteract this. God help you if anyone asked for a receipt and accused you of swindling them ...
Make sure you read it ;-) I tried to finish reading it in 5 mins but fell asleep on bed, didn’t finish until now, will do that after getting up.
The website is operated by a private person. The law however is pretty clear that a company needs to accept a signed notice of termination in any form and a court ruled that accepting that email works and nobody actually needs to read that email, the SMTP receipt works.

So what that website does is it collects email addresses for companies and support systems, provides a template and lets you sign with the Austrian digital signature (or just a scribble on the screen). Then it sends it for you. If they don't respond they follow up automatically and tell you how to automatically file a complaint with the regulator.

I have been cancelling a lot of services this way and never had an issue.
it depends on how hot it gets in each sequence, but it seems to me the m2 laptops get hotter than the m1 laptops, and if this OP is to be believed, reach a higher peak temperature that's over 100 degrees c.
I'm one of the 6.8%. Very low LDL. Taking questions.

Bet let's get this out of the way first: I eat a lot of carbohydrates.
Being willing to be part of a DEI office is politics, just like choosing to be a commissar rather than an artillery officer is politics. It’s deeply unfortunate that Ms Lewis was unaware of that but it’s going to become clear over the next decade or two of backlash that DEI is a loser, politically. People are going to either attack it or dissociate from it.
Ooops, off by one error in my code, sorry :)
That's the same thing I said
I have been where you are. It's terrible and the United States is a terrible place to have these kinds of problems.

I have a few thoughts.

1. Focus on finances. You say you're behind on your car payments. With the upside-down state of the current car market, there's an outside chance you could sell it at a profit, maybe clear 10k. (I have no idea what kind of car you have, but 10k > sales price is not unusual right now.) Maybe you could sell it, pay off the note, and have enough left to buy a very basic used car?

2. SSDI. A disability law firm can be helpful. I used them for LTD but they exist for SSDI as well. For LTD they work on a commission of your back pay once you are approved. YMMV.

3. Part-time work - at this point your focus needs to be on survival. What can you do, that's relatively in demand? Start there, worry about perfection in your career path another time. P/T flexible jobs for disabled people -- that's a need that's been unmet for years, but there are some developments in it. Try https://www.wearecapable.org// .

4. Keep up with the therapy. Also investigate nutritional deficiencies, thyroid imbalances, etc. Fixing them won't "fix" your problems, but it'll give you more physical and mental strength to deal with them. For more info see my short essay: https://radiosof.com/2019/09/22/some-interesting-tools-for-d.... The embedded links also link to some other essays on genetic and nutritional components to depression. Some of these can also affect inflammatory response as well. So finding out if you're bad at methylation and supplementing with B-12 shots and methylfolate (for example) could also potentially reduce some pain levels somewhat. Which would then allow you to think and strategize more clearly.

5. Depending on your issues, it's great to have really smart, genius-level doctors on your side. The Center for Complex Diseases in Mountain View is one such a place. I'm not sure chronic pain is their specialty, but perhaps you can call them and ask. I think Stanford has a pain clinic as well?

You're used to the YC world, where they talk about "10x" coders. Well, there are "10x" doctors. Once you get into the world of invisible hard-to-treat illnesses and you're trying to qualify for disability, you NEED a 10x doctor. First, b/c they might help you improve. And second, because they see people like you all day and they are going to be better at helping you qualify for disability than a regular primary care doctor.

I would recommend calling the Center for Complex Diseases, and asking if they cover patients like you, and if not, who they recommend. Then put the very expensive appointments on your credit card or borrow money, do what you have to. They are an investment in your ability to qualify for SSDI. A few thousands now may guarantee $18k/ year for the foreseeable future.

6. This website is the Bible for people navigating disability applications: https://howtogeton.wordpress.com/

Good Luck!
I'm sure all the engineers who worked on the Eiffel Tower in the last 100 years nobody has thought of that. You should call them up.
That used to be true, but ARM has been standardizing these aspects now for a long time. Modern ARM systems can use ACPI for example.

Android phones have different builds because the hardware varies a lot, and because the OS is an integrated part of the product offering. It's not like the PC space where the hardware makers can't compete by better integrating the OS.
The first million transistor chip was such a big thing, but the first trillion transistor one didn't even get a press release.
I'm not claiming that I think the parent's claim is true, but Intel really fucked up 10nm, and I mean worse than they fucked up the shrink to 14nm which fundamentally changed their unit economics.

So let's be clear, it's not like the good old days where Intel might get ahead by moving to 65nm earlier. TSMC 5nm is competing against Intel 10nm at a point where Intel 10nm can't really beat Intel 14nm. I know the actual measurements are bullshit (I've got flak for complaining about angstroms before) but TSMC 5nm is a long way ahead.
Ha ha, correct, tool names as PII.
Beautiful! I'll have to bring this up with my team. We just had a management expansion and I'm part of the process for changing the way we operate.
I wonder if the fact that the local population has a murkier view of local events also has its beneficiaries.

I remember stories about local corrupt politicians trying to silence local outlets of uncomfortable news. Now they likely don't even have to.
I distinctly remember checking the size of the C:\Windows folder on Windows 95 and it being around 50mb.
Indeed. A number of other places in Europe looked at the economics of landfills and went "yeah: no. Even with the cost of gas filters, literally burning garbage for energy is cheaper and more environmentally friendly than making a time bomb by burying it".
Manually check if an email is valid (no regexp) Golang
How about seed oils?
Same.
Went to some fast food, tried to order with a crappy machine and left for something else.

I like the idea of using a machine over talking with someone and my ideal experience would be a restaurant full of robots; but the machine should be well designed
Yea, and that emulation is fast as all hell !
I've had more of an urge to do some research on CS topics lately (beyond the usual you can find in textbooks), but as someone who was never in academia, and only got an undergraduate degree, I don't really know how to approach it as an outsider, like what sources I should use, how to find something to focus on, etc.

Does anyone else have any experience with this and have any recommendations for how to approach it? I imagine I'll probably have more success in areas that are game or recreational mathematics related (like Martin Gardner), at least to get started.
One of my professors (a Distinguished University Professor and fellow of the American Physical Society) selects for "ability to think with your hands". Successful experimentalists know that building things that work is hard, and having experience with plumbing, soldering, etc. really helps.
I agree and I am happy for you that you have that going for you. Personally for 20.5 years of career I have only had 2-3 short-term contracts that truly interested me.
At Beam[0] we are building a web browser that uses SwiftUI almost everywhere except for the text editor.

So far its been great to build UI and animations with. Each release gives SwiftUI more apis and features, so there are less and less older style apis to wrap in SwiftUI ourselves.

[0] https://hellobeam.com
I tried that one time. I didn't get the job. Or rather... I got a job at the same company with a different group. The group I thought I wanted to work for turns out was pretty rigid and I probably would not have worked out there, so it turns out it was a decent thing to do.
I found the sigrok website hard to navigate, and never found these examples. I'd love to learn more, as I just threw a decent fast ADC together for fun.
Tether is not regulated or licensed by any body AFAIK so they aren’t required to process payment requests with any sort or timeliness. lul

Same with the unlicensed and unregulated exchanges that they do business with. You want out? Take a number and get in line.
There's Shenzhen.
(Ex-Intel, agree)

What do you think of the new management? Too difficult to turn the tanker?
Likewise! I'll try to be gentler next time we interact.
I get telling people that you are comfortable being contacted whenever. That's your choice/life.

But if I was working for you I would not like this part:

> unless the message is directly talking about a production outage in which case i'll be explicit about that

because that means I have to keep notifications on and triage them even though the whole point is "I'm not going to respond outside work hours when my notifications are off / dnd is on."
Even the most capable developer that learns a new language in a few weeks will not be an expert in it. The difference in productivity and quality of the code will be huge. This is because in different languages things can be done very differently, it is not about the syntax as much as the best ways to do things.
Good point. But that's a technical implementation optimization, which the programmer does not need to be aware of.

It's like saying that functional languages implement tail-recursion as iteration in order to "get rid of" recursion.

But the programmer can still think in terms of recursive calls in their program, and can reason about the correctness of the program by assuming it works by recursion.
Probably should have (1989) in the title; virtually all of the text was printed then.
Thoughts on Swift and Objective-C
> I can easily find a long list of active co-ops just in the Bay Area alone

A long list? A handful out of the zillions of companies in the bay area. It's statistical significance is zero. Some are charities, which are obviously not self-sustaining. I wouldn't be surprised if others were sustained by government checks. People start collectives in the US all the time, but the test is if they last. A typical collective seems to last about 2 years before imploding.

> Lots of privately owned businesses fail too. Would you suggest then that privately owned business as a concept is not viable?

Compare your list of a few communes with what's in the Yellow Pages for the area for the answer.

> I am working on this, but it is a few years away

While I wish you success in your endeavor, it's not really a collective unless you have other collective members signed up and collaborating with you. From much personal experience, I can attest that announcing one is working on something doesn't mean anything to anybody. It only matters if you've got something to deliver. I know that sounds harsh, and it is, but that's how things work.

> what you are missing is that people in today's economy are suffering, and people are desperate for something to change

I understand very well that they are suffering. They are suffering as the result of leftist government policies, not capitalism.
Tesla sued by 15 Black employees alleging racial harassment
All these suggestions about removing account requirements prove that Hacker News is the perfect audience for this game.
It would be helpful if you had a comparison table that compares Dethrone to the competitors you mentioned. I like Slack and Discord, so I’m not sure why I should be seeking out an alternative. Most of the features highlighted fall under the category of “don’t worry, we have that feature too” instead of “here’s a feature that is unique to Dethrone”.
In 2022, it really isn't "you're stuck". Even if your org uses MS prodcucts, there are interoperable open source suites these days. The problem is that they're shit. Yes, they work for small documents, but star/sun/open/libre/EtcOffice all fall over when you do something as simple as trying to sort a 30,000 row spreadsheet on several column criteria.

(and yes, that is trivially simple. If your software can't do that in a performant way, you don't understand what product you're trying to out-compete)

It's not that there's no alternative, it's that the alternatives are just not good enough when it comes to "I need this stupidly complicated thing, thanks to 20 years of spreadsheet formula history at my organization that I have zero power to even remotely change, done in seconds. Not minutes".
You have two parties, and they are the same in each state.

Each country in Europe has three to five main parties plus a lot of minor parties. They are mostly independent and the ideological range is much wider.

When is their own lifestyle what is in risk, politicians do care.
I grew up only knowing adjustable wrenches/parallel jaw pliers. I didn't even know there was a another kind. I can't stand using ordinary pliers for exactly this reason, thanks for articulating it
Amazon patented the one-click purchase, but now the EU strikes back with the two-click unsubscribe.

They patented the wrong thing!
To catch a rare-book thief
Right now it is probably monero. It does one thing (anonymous transactions) and does it alright.

But I think we will see increased adoption of less decentralized and anonymous systems like GNU Taler or Nano for micropayments, which are generally lower-risk and hinge more on per-transaction fees. I think that is the "real" use-case of cryptocurrency besides buying drugs on the DN- to serve as an micropayment/spam-prevention system and an alternative to advertisement-based funding for websites.

Output obfuscation is a really useful feature, but it comes at a pretty great cost of bandwidth. I think this area will continue to improve in the future.
Are seed oils some new health trend? I keep seeing people mention them in health discussions.
That the de facto monopolies tend to collapse doesn't preclude the damage they incur on society/competitors whilst they're at their peak/stagnating.
Your story is very familiar to me....I worked for years in a failing body, trying to make enough money to survive.

It sounds like you've found treatments that help you, but if not the Center for Complex Diseases is great with both ME/CFS and hEDS. If you have spine issues due to hEDS there are some PT's in the Bay Area that specialize in craniocervical instability and related issues. Just FYI.
I'm still one of those people. Separation of concerns is a big concern for me.

In my experience with React, it's a lot harder to keep things separated, and developers who I've worked with who have more React experience aren't always up on the concept.
You have had the same fab processes for years on phone chips and Apple was winning every year. The fact the chip is in the chassis of a computer does not suddenly change the game in favour of AMD.
Daniel Dennett has an interesting theory. Consciousness is a “pandemonium architecture” where clusters of neural connections (daemons) “shout” when activated. The more activations, the louder it shouts, and the higher it climbs in the unconscious, until it gains enough energy to irrupt through the threshold of consciousness.
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Happy Independence Day!

Keep thinking independently, Americans.
https://sigrok.org/wiki/Developers#Development_guidelines

It's all there, and linked from the wiki's main page, it's just that there's so much of it.

Examples:
http://sigrok.org/gitweb/?p=libsigrok.git;a=tree;f=src/hardw...
Best adjustable pliers ever.
Well I’m disagreeing with that statement haha. So I think it’s only fair cuz it sounds fair and calm. But it’s said by people who want to preserve their own high status in society and don’t care about serious progress being made any more.

As if America doesn’t have so many people paycheck to paycheck, in poverty, etc. and that’s just America