skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Expecting a 12x of median industry rate via specialization is not realistic. I'm sure such outliers exist and you possibly know both of them but this is not an actionable advice.
What they say and how they behave.
I really don't believe there are a relevant number of people who can consistently say one thing and vote a completely different thing for years on end.

Maybe I'm naive, though. I really do think nearly everyone in congress does want to make the world a better place, they're just lost/confused about how to go about that, often getting caught up in the game of staying in congress rather than using their time there for good.
"Leopards would never eat MY face" ethics.
Social media companies are not beaming information into your brain.

They aren't forcing you to keep your eyes open and see the content on their sites

Your computer can open another web page. You can get off the seat.

Tired of seeing garbage clickbait articles? Block the sites which post that stuff.

Tired of conspiracy theories and gossipy articles? Block the sites and mute/unfollow those people.

Tired of experiencing the world in 140 character chunks? Get off Twitter.
Hi, congrats on the funding!

I've been really interested in trying retool since my head of ops pointed me to it a few months back. I think it should meet my use-case but I'm not entirely sure.

I run an experimentation program and I think retool might give me a way to build views on experiment performance for me and my stakeholders, but what I think it may be missing is some way of running statistics on the data, perhaps using python or R.

Data "about" my experiments (descriptions, tags, dates & times, stakeholder details etc) lives in airtable. I think I can get that into retool using sequin, right?

Performance data lives in bigquery. Sessions, clicks, conversions - all that stuff.

Right now I build ad-hoc reports in R/excel/data studio but as our velocity increases I need to streamline this.

I think what I'd like is for a stakeholder to be able to select the experiments and timeframes that they're interested in from a list, then behind the scenes the ID details to then be used to run a query in bigquery and that to pull back performance data. I'd like to show that in charts and tables on screen with how much impact the experiments have had (I think so far this should be reasonably straightforward with retool), but crucially I want to calculate confidence bounds for each metric.

Is there any way of bringing Python or R into the data flow somehow to do the heavy statistical lifting?

Am I looking at this the wrong way? Should I be trying to pre-calculate this nightly as some sort of scheduled job and just use retool as a presentation layer?
Not to mention AirPods and Apple Watch became mini cultural revolutions in their own right. How quickly people forget.
I suppose it would come down to if you think the Ring could influence the reader of the story, if it were possible for the reader to actually acquire the Ring. Tbh, it seems obvious to me that any ordinary human would probably fall to its pernicious influence. I certainly would, and its powers are such that I just can't imagine any human could resist its charms. Yet, Bombadil is completely untouched by it.

Tom Bombadil is like the Middle Earth equivalent of a Buddhist sage, just existing without wishing to be more or less than he already is.
Floods in Thailand. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Thailand_floods#Damages_t...
I’d like to see something validating the claim that parents influenced Linux GUI design.

The Fortune article printed by CNN only says that 65 patents apply to the Linux GUI. It’s so vague that I can’t see how it would be actionable information for FOSS developers.

The SJ Mercury article says the same thing, but cites the Fortune article for its claim; it’s not a separate source.

And the ComputerWorld article explicitly does not cover this claim, noting that they didn’t examine patent infringement risk for non-kernel components like KDE.
> Taking money from corporations and rich people creates a relationship where you have some loyalty to them or they can punish you if you don't act how they want.

This gets thrown around a lot, but how often does this actually happen? I feel like we all assume it's true, but I wouldn't be surprised if this specific form of corruption were a lot less common than we think.
But they cant use automated means. That’s what allows them to blast out texts and calls with a pre-recorded voice.

Generally, there are two subcategories of TCPA claims: DNC (227(c)) and ATDS/prerecorded voice (227(b)). The latter claims are still available against politicians, last I checked. The latter claims regulate the technology that allows blast calls and messaging with pre-recorded messages.

not legal advice
Sales of Apple Watches are down 35%: https://www.digitalinformationworld.com/2021/12/apple-watch-....

I doubt that's a $10B company with that type of negative growth.
Around here in London they always say "it's an independent film" when actually it is Mission Impossible or After Life or Downton etc.
let me put it plainly then: you're being evasive because you don't want to be vulnerable. the nihilism you've thrown up is a shield you wield to avoid taking a stance on anything, lest you be attacked for it.

but it doesn't work, see? so might as well stand for something, rather than nothing, if that strategy doesn't make you invulnerable anyway.
Is it possible they just can't make enough? I know I work for a big company that would have purchased a metric ton of these but they simply couldn't get them.
Just because its legal doesn't mean it's not a fraud --- crypto and CDOs included.

As you point out, CDOs were actually based on real assets with way more plausibility than crypto which is based on --- electrons.
I feel like 50 years (since end of Bretton woods) really is not that long, plus we do still rely on petrodollar demand vibes to provide some sort of link to a commodity. We have yet to see the dollar truly unlinked from anything physical.
I'm still surprised thag large companies use AWS. I'd imagine if you're anywhere between medium/small/tiny, the tradeoffs are well worth it.

But AWS is not exactly cheap. Whenever I look at renting time on a meaty machine, it never compares favourably to buying one outright. And it can't really, Amazon is passing on the entire cost of ownership onto the clients, plus their mark up, and maybe even a little extra to cover for idle time (if that's a thing).

Wouldn't Zoom be better off with their own data centers and their own servers?
This brings up an interesting point about the TCPA. Individual employees and owners can be personally liable, not just their companies. It’s a vicious angle to TCPA litigation.
They are core essentials for the Western cooking tradition codified by Escoffier. The Indic tradition is different (and North India is quite different from South). There are at least four major groups of African traditions. I am being profoundly ignorant by referring to the Asian tradition - Northern Chinese is wheat-centered and Southern is rice-centered, and Thai flavors are quire different from Viet not to mention Malay...z

And none of them use the mother sauces except the Western tradition.

Humans have great diversity in food, and that is wonderful.
At least in San Francisco, I took my phone number and email off my voter registration years ago and now almost never get any political texts, calls, or email, despite being quite politically active.
Slack’s bold bet training formerly incarcerated people to be tech workers
They just need delivery bots. Soon.
You're right about the amount of M1; it's US$20T in the US. Thank you.

In fractional reserve banking demand deposits are lent out. So if you print $1000 cash (whether fiat or commodity-backed), you deposit it in a bank, the bank lends out $800, someone deposits that in their bank, that bank lends out $640, and someone else deposits that in their bank, then M1 is not $1000 but $2440. If that last person withdraws the $640 from their bank and repays the loan then M1 contracts to $1800. (And that's still true if they held the $640 as currency in their mattress rather than putting it in a bank.)

So, paying down a loan does not leave M1 unchanged. You're thinking of MB or maybe M0.

Gold mining is, due to its scale, not especially destructive; the amount of gold in circulation is about 60–100 years' worth of mining at current rates. There are many environmental and human-rights problems associated with gold mines, but their total magnitude is small just because there's not that much gold out there to mine.

The physical volume of gold has a great deal to do with how expensive it is to keep safe. So does its mass. In your earlier comment, you were talking about the effort required to dig vaults, for example; this effort scales directly with the volume of the gold.
The only thing I can think of is these things are lasting longer and the cheaper machines meet many peoples needs. I can hang on to my 2015 mbp another year or two for personal use anyway. And I won't be replacing it with a $3k MBP, I'll probably be going with an m2 or m3 MBA which will be under $2k.
I'm confused by why the people you're talking about cannot afford food? They're gainfully employed, even if at a low wage.

And it makes sense, because an iPhone is a fairly inexpensive luxury good. Certainly, it's cheaper than a comparably high end purse, car or house. And, in the US, it's heavily subsidized by carriers.
Definitely not unusual. I think it is pretty common for executive team in addition to founders. My feeling is that VCs and founders need to find a way to partially cash out rank and file employees along the way if they want start up model to succeed long term. Many senior engineers are reluctant to to join startups at this point as even if startup is successful it can be a long time before they have the money in their pocket. Employees at Reddit, Stripe, Instacart, Databricks, and many others have been waiting over a decade for company success to hit their wallet.

Sometimes the executive team gets stock options rather than RSUs so they own the stock and can sell to secondary parties. VCs and founders would like them to sell to known parties rather than sell on private market (Facebook crossing 500 investors threshold was one important reason for IPO timing [1]).

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20120517045249/http://blogs.reut...
The best is when you buy a new $1400 phone and it starts panhandling you for $4.99 to upgrade your iCloud Backup storage.
This is the plot of Ascension

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ascension_(miniseries)
Sorry for being ignorant, but I suck at reading numbers. Especially the comma confuses me as a European. Do I read correctly that Apple turned over more 40 billion USD on iPhone sales this quarter alone?
I feel weird about what's happening in the browser.

I can't put my finger on it, but something seems off...

We're moving towards an operating system on top of an operating system (browser)...

And now, node.js and other runtimes, in the browser, on top of that.

I'm hoping we can flatten this at some point...

It seems like the core problem is that:

1. Operating system vendors have failed to provide UI SDKs that beat HTML & CSS (plus browser APIs for modification of that HTML and CSS).

2. Operating system vendors have failed to have such a UI SDK work cross-platform across operating systems.

3. Operating system vendor UI SDKs do not allow UI to be bootstrapped dynamically (e.g. retrieved dynamically over the web) and built-up in code via APIs as simple as browser APIs.

4. A failure in open distribution and discovery of apps.

Am I wrong?

Is this direction in computing a failure of OS vendors to get together and solve this problem?

This seems like a source of sudden disruption some day...

I feel like one day Microsoft is going to wake up to find they're not needed anymore.
Logisim – A Graphical Tool for Designing and Simulating Digital Logic Circuits
Engineers Develop Wearable Microphone Based on New MEMS Technology
Isn't the 10K the reporting threshold for the bank?

(vs actually triggering any sort of law enforcement check on that particular transaction)
Why's NOT NULL a problem? ("required property" syntax is already in quickstart examples)
Swift on Linux / on the server exists, but it's far from a pleasant experience.

I admit that I last worked with it in early 2020, but at the time there were numerous annoying open bugs with the Swift compiler on Linux (such as the installer messing with the Python path), and then there was the issue of divergence between Foundation (which is closed-source) and its Linux replacement. Meanwhile, the stack size for secondary threads was ridiculously low and there was no good story for fault recovery (because you don't want to crash your server if you accidentally access an invalid array index).

Maybe things have improved, but I'm doubtful.
I'm not sure whether to apologise for this being off-topic/too tangential or not, but it seems too good an opportunity to pass up:

Yesterday I was on the verge of Ask-HN-ing if there was anything like Duolingo for mathematics?

I studied it as much as anyone (well..) in EE/CS, but don't use much professionally (less than many, I'm sure). I'm not necessarily looking to advance further than I've studied before (I'd like to, but for me Duolingo wouldn't be a good format for it) - but there's so much I've forgotten and wish I still had an intuition for or could draw on as the reason or an analogy for something.

Can anyone recommend a 'Duolingo for mathematics'?
While learning Logo in elementary school, the moment I understood what recursion is.

While I have never worked as a professional software developer, computers have been a hobby all my life. I don't think the fact that the language I have mostly written code in in recent years is Emacs Lisp is unrelated to the above moment.
I’m not sure about the command line not being a thing of the past, it’s not something I do on my current gen devices, game consoles/smart phones/watches/tablets.

In fact for the general software user I think terminal commands are a thing of the past.
Stand by while I make the case that politicians filling my phone with texts and voice messages is a violation of the third amendment.
That's amazing. I had to double check that my playback speed was still set to 1x, and he's talking about rifts and privacy blur on pavement...wow, novelty overload for me. But very interesting.
You can run the server in foreground [1] with `env EDGEDB_DEBUG_EDGEQL_COMPILE_SQL_TEXT=1` and observe emitted SQL.

[1] edgedb instance start --auto-restart --foreground -I <your instance>
It's that easy for a lot of managed services.

Want GKE to run multi-zone, or Spanner to run multi-region, just check a box (and insert coin).
What I don't understand about this is what basis they could possibly have for making such a correction? The data is X, their algorithm says Y about it. Are they just claiming that "analysts" are better at triangulating than whatever their algorithm is? It's not like image classification, where it's at least plausible that a person can meaningfully "correct mistakes."
Show HN: Tiny utility app that allows you to run MQTT broker on Android phones
Made an open source MQTT Broker(Thin UI wrapper over Moquette which support MQTT 3.1)

Source can be found here, https://github.com/eswarm/narada

Play store link, https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=in.eswarm.nara...

This is meant for hobbyist purposes so that you do not have to depend any cloud hosted solution.
Chips Act Passes: House Approves $280B Bill to Boost Microchip Production
This is almost poetic, thank you. As someone who has a very weird and perhaps phobic relationship with cooking, you made it seem more approachable with a few words.
Money doesn't lie. If that $600k is what you want, then stop developing and start selling. The fact that you either can't or don't want to will answer the question.

I also lack both skills and desire to sell. The job sounds like a nightmare to me. So I don't begrudge those that are good at it and earn those commissions. I envy the comp, but it'd be silly to be jealous when I wouldn't actually switch places with them. $150k is great money in its own right.
Mac sales indicating extent of supply constraints. MacBook Pro lead times were multiple months back in April.
Not to delve into politics, but I defy to you explain what the Trump administration actually intended the output of the tariffs on China to be. Trump very consistently said the tariffs were retaliatory for China "taking our money" with the trade deficit being his evidence. He sent separate negotiating teams in the form of Steven Mnuchin and Peter Navarro who were pushing two separate agendas neither of which aligned with Trump's nonsensical reasoning. As far as I can tell, the tariffs were pure PR as Trump did not care about or even understand the intricacy of that or any other policies he advocated. And FOX, of course, isn't really conservative news, it's Republican news.

In reality, there is a case for tariffs on China that has nothing to do with trade deficits. Biden can't just end them because it will make him look soft and let them off the hook for IP theft and other abuses. Really the president should not have this authority at all, Congress should be doing it.
Each one of those cities is flooded with cars.
FOMO is often disastrous for personal strategies as well, career strategies or otherwise.
> There's a reason food service staff is trained to always wash your hands after handling money.

"... to always wash their hands ...", I presume?
We just need to tax CO2 (and perhaps methane).

Accounting for CO2 intensity is all squishy-squashy. But if we tax the actual emissions then the true energy impact will be reflected in prices and the market will adapt to whatever actually really is optimum--whatever lends the most utils of resource use.
> difficult to implement idea

A lot of carriers has been billing by minute since the dawn of mobile telecom. And it's still in place in many (most?) countries. Only US/Canada/Mexico are used to unlimited phone calls.
https://www.businessofapps.com/data/apple-statistics/

Long page, scroll down and you'll find stats for the past 13 years through last quarter showing the numbers for each product per quarter. Sales are, overall, up since M1/M2 were released. There have been other past quarters where there is a major drop in Mac revenue (and same with other products). The iPhone numbers show this with a much more pronounced effect, but that's essentially a single release date for all products whereas Mac products get released throughout the year so it's harder to observe without more breakdown (at least to laptop and desktop levels).
> "services" is where you still have growth. Cloud storage, music, video streaming

Too bad Apple is still so, so very bad at this. Their services are barely functioning, at best, with multiple WTFs daily.

When they work, they are not even magic. They are the bare minimum of what you expect them to do (like, for example, to quickly and correctly sync photos between me and my family).
Mother sauces are a French thing. They're béchamel, velouté, espagnole, tomate, and mayonnaise.

Some stuff can be made shorter by just saying things like "deglaze the pan" instead of "pour some flavorful liquid such as stock, broth, or wine in this hot pan that you think would compliment the taste of whatever you're cooking and make sure to scrape the brown bits while at it." It's the same thing as programming, one might say to a professional programmer to "sum these items" while a beginning programmer would get "write a for loop with an accumulator variable, and for each iteration of the loop add the item to your accumulator."

They're both the same thing, it's just that one is more succinct.
Related:

Logisim links:

http://www.cburch.com/logisim/links.html

7400 series Logisim library from Ben Oztalay (ZIP, uncompressed):

http://www.cburch.com/logisim/download/7400-lib.zip

7400 series Logisim library from Technological Services Company (ZIP, uncompressed):

http://www.cburch.com/logisim/download/7400-series-rev1.zip

I Designed My Own 16-bit CPU:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zt0JfmV7CyI
This great, but how would we handle dynamic calls to other servers that are part of my web-app? Maybe a NPM package that needs to downloaded from an external registry or an authentication service that needs to speak to Auth0?

Isn't this impossible with CORS disabled by default in browsers? How do we work around this
That's true of all or most Mesoamerican pyramids as far as I know, not just Aztec ones. (Mayan, Teotihuacano, etc.)

I suppose the Aztecs are the most famous Mesoamerican group in the popular imagination, though.
Is the $600k salesperson really as common as the $150k engineer?
> The "working group" is some people on Discord

Fair enough, we should correct our mention of WebDriver BiDi to "tentative standard". BTW, not sure if you hold some grudge against WebDriver BiDi in particular, we were merely saying "gee, I sure hope something better than WebDriver comes along, b/c E2E testing kinda sucks".

> Your blog post calls it "our in-browser operating system" which is a far cry from a standard. You "team up with browser vendors directly", yet not through web standards bodies, but through some "bytecode alliance" that aims to build outside the browser. Also, unsurpisingly, zero links anywhere to an actual standards text or even to a specification of these web containers.

I am not sure what your objection is. We have a product, we're describing our efforts to port it to a new browser engine.
>Now recessions are racists then?

Everything else is, so why not?

CNN in January 2020: "Coronavirus task force another example of Trump administration's lack of diversity" <https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/30/politics/donald-trump-coronav...>
> The effective companies are where they respect each other and realize that their cultures are different but that they need each other. I'm surprised how infrequently I see that.

Effective companies have compensation structures which incentivizes such respect.

Sales should make a tonne of money upfront, especially those hitting significantly higher than OTE. But a sales person's work is of very little use to the company after they leave the job. Engineers should be paid significantly more equity - their work has significant residual value to the company long after they leave the job.

When this dynamic is explained to both functions, they learn to respect the other:

* engineers are not rushing to implement whatever hack you are suggesting because they own significant equity in the company and want to see it grow in value; they are not getting a cut of your commission check.

* sales is being paid high because it takes a certain kind of person to close the deal, and us hitting those revenue goals is how your equity will grow in value.
> I once got a type inference timed out error..

I used to work on a large Swift program. "Type inference timed out" was an incredibly common error that we would encounter (we used a lot of operator overloading and generics and that had something to do with it). I have never encountered any other language where this was such a regular problem.
So just use a bank that won’t report it.
Interesting timing
You'd hope they batch a few orders up.
You might be interested in https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.10.04.463034v2
I'm sorry, what's the premise here? People don't run away from random gunfights that happen on the street? Honestly, I feel like it's more likely that a random person is not involved if they are running.