skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems that you're largely restating what the comment you replied to was saying. If not, please correct me because I may be missing some nuance that I shouldn't have. In that line of thought though, cutting taxes without cutting spending increases inflation. Because the borrowing of newly printed money doesn't stop. Without 1:1 cuts in spending it's problematic. That's what happened in 2017[0], a ~2.3 trillion dollar "charge" without increasing wages or jobs. As we see today. We were already at historically low tax rates while deficit spending, and then taxes were cut. I'm not a "supply side" guy so I'm not surprised that things didn't work out. Maybe someone will try to link growth in 10 years back to it. :)

I'm for low taxes of course. I don't know too many that aren't. But they have to make sense as well.

[0]https://www.thebalance.com/cost-of-trump-tax-cuts-4586645
If there's something you want, it might work better to just straight up ask them for it.
I agree. "Crisis PR" is a different animal from normal PR.
> I think you need to be a better programmer to use lua effectively ... with lua, you have to know how to use these things on your own, because you can pretty much do anything and that can be reeeeally bad :)

I find this sentiment interesting. Perhaps somewhat akin to Linus Torvalds famously preferring C to weed out bad programmers.

I think many people would say that a language which makes it easier to do things poorly is objectively worse than the alternative. But the way a language "selects" the sort of programmers that use it is an important second-order effect (maybe even more important than the initial one?).
> ... for every project I have to decide to either cope with PHP's butt-ugly namespace system or with Python's masochistic slowness.

Good news: there are more than two programming languages!

But seriously, what situation are you in where your only choices are Python and PHP?
Will the software be open-source?
When I look at 10x engineers who look like 10x engineers what I typically find instead is a 3x engineer leaving a path of destruction behind them. If you give everyone else impostor syndrome and difficult processes they slow down, and you look better than you are. Than you deserve.

The real heroes are the ones who make everyone else look better. But some managers only figure out who that is when they quit or when the business lays off the wrong guy because Steve produces less than Sarah, but that’s because Steve is helping people all the time, including Sarah.
They’re taking your money via taxes to fund the irs.

That said, it’s a drop in the bucket. This system is unhinged
How well do large power bricks (like for the largest Macbook Pros) fit in the power compartment? Do the USB-C ports support fast charging? (if not, I'm the kind of user that would still use a power brick to get that feature)
Yep, love Time Team! The original series is what I use to go to sleep every night.

Also a drinking game - drink every time Phil says "flint, evidence of burning, postholes, or 'stone the crows'". Or yells at Tony for getting in a trench without permission.
Ok, banks are not very good (emphasis on the word "very"). So then why does tokenbros want to replace them with a worse system?
What kind of improvements to my health and fitness can I expect from moving my computer and devices over to this desk?
https://archive.ph/XosoH
It is common and reasonable to exclude unlikely if conditions from statements.

They are just claiming that Russian concession is much less likely than a Ukrainian one, which I think many would agree with.
I think implementing shapes is very likely to significantly improve the raw compute speed of Ruby applications.

That said, if you're implementing an application in Rails, there are a number of low-hanging fruit that will significantly improve performance. In most cases they'd apply in any language, but since it's trivial to get "something running" in Rails, it's easy to forget the basics for performance. E.g.:

* Index your database for all queries that matter.

* Use caches. In the case of Rails, use partials; they are amazingly effective at improving performance.

* Use a tool to detect N+1 queries, and fix them.

* When querying with an ORM (ActiveRecord in Rails), request just the specific fields you need instead of "downloading everything" into the object. Getting unnecessary fields increases the database response, the memory use, and the garbage collection effort, and all of that unnecessary work eventually adds up.

In general, you can get a lot of performance improvements by doing only what needs to be done and nothing else. Caching to avoid repeated work, requesting only the data you need, etc., can provide a lot of performance improvement and often require relatively little effort.
I can see the appeal of the screen, but would want it pretty strictly limited to the time, calendar events, and maybe something like what Spotify song I'm playing at the moment. Products like Tidbyt (https://tidbyt.com/) do a cool job at this sort of thing as well.

That said, my big concern when seeing products like this is what happens if the company making it goes out of business and shuts off their servers. Presumably the screen in my desk would become useless as I'm nearly certain there must be some kind of underlying cloud-based API for it to interface with to get data.

Definitely a cool idea, especially in terms of smarter management of standing schedules and built-in power management, but the screen seems like a big potential failure point, and it would really suck to buy a beautiful desk like this and not be able to get super long-term (10-15+ years) use of it
Ironically, they were smart to acquihire you.

It seems like management was aware their employees were bums, and needed your companies energy to infuse some productivity into their lifestyle.

Looks like it failed though.
The full word is perquisite. Perk is slang.
Are you saying if there’s five boxes of food and ten people supply and demand don’t matter under some political regime?
How much do you think roads, defense, health care, education really cost?

We've given Ukraine 55 billion dollars. We clearly have cash to spare. Why do we need to raise more?
%age of interview convos mentioning macroeconomic climate up 2x in the last year
The percentage of interviews with mention of keywords related to the macroeconomic climate (e.g, recession, economy, downturn, uncertainty, inflation) have increased 2x, going from 7% at the start of 2021 to 14% in July 2022.

Here's a shallow but interesting look into this.
There's already a multi-state compact that will switch to this method if enough states endorse it. So you don't actually need a party with this as a policy, to be elected via the old system.

Still somewhat similar issues to getting enough states on board, but not quite the same.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Popular_Vote_Intersta...
Asking clarifying questions is engaging with them as best as I know. To me, it's the gracious, honest, polite, and professional thing to do. I can't just make up an answer (say, that performance is what they are thinking about) and then riff on that.

I know this sounds blind, but it literally goes against my values. To say something I just made up without clarifying is not honest: it is playing a game. Because if I decide to play a game, where do I stop? What are the rules? I can't rely on my intuition and gut feeling, as we already established.

I thought writing things would be a better avenue, and in many ways, it is. But a document that shows "I engaged with your question for hours, for days, and these are my conclusions, along with backing-up research" is often perceived as even more dismissive or passive-aggressive, while it is literally the opposite.
But it does almost everything! And it's especially painless if you're not building for scale, and just hobby projects.

But yeah, stuff like concurrency and type annotations seem to go against some of Python's fundamental designs (GIL and syntax) so are kinda painful at times.
I'm not defending anything. Expecting perfection from another person is the problem here. Elon is a person with his own defects. Most people seem to think that someone in the spotlights should be free from flaws and humanity. And if they aren't they should be hated.
Just checked it, it’s very fast. Will the speed still the same if the network bigger?
Wait. The poster above said in point 1 to buy a line,1G, 10g depending on your upstream seller. Why do you need peering then?

If I have 1Gbps line for example and 10 users each are using equal amount 100% of time, it shouldn't matter they send the data to Alaska or Russia or Australia ? Or does it?

Do you buy the pipe and the data itself also?
Correct. This is why like 99% of all known archeological sites is still unexcavated in parts of the world.
I'm not dismissing anyone's anything. I believe autism exists.

> one person you knew?

I've only known one person who was diagnosed autistic. It's a rare condition; I've known a dozen people with bipolar, and half-a-dozen diagnosed schizophrenics (either I'm attracted to psychotics, or they're attracted to me!)

My point was simply that author's account could be anyone's account, apart from the author's self-identification as autistic. Without that, this entire thread would just be about how to deal with a crap boss.
> would be the end of Russia

It's not such a far-fetched idea. Russia (the empire) has been falling apart since 1991 (possibly even 1917, but that's a scale that doesn't matter much for the outcome of this war).
Is stackless still an alternative? (It used to be quite hot 1.5 decade ago)

https://github.com/stackless-dev/stackless/wiki/
They didn't so much stop as they got stopped - incumbents fought hard to keep Google Fiber out and they won.
OTOH, almost all commercial loans including real estate is adjustable in the US.
Wow, that's news to me. Impressive. They're still technically in beta.

I guess there's a huge demand for Firebase on a relational db.
They are not necessarily lying, but they are clearly an outlier. My spending is maybe a few percent higher and prices for some of the things I buy are even down recently. Everyone has a different experience, which is why we have aggregate statistics to quantify what the overall effect is.
Live Linux ISO with various update (linuxium)
Why:

https://www.theregister.com/2022/04/05/beijing_bails_out_tsi...

https://www.chinatalk.media/p/billion-dollar-heist-how-scamm...

https://interconnected.blog/chinas-semiconductor-theranos-hs...

at least the last one, while full on scam, scored China some forbidden ASML gear.

>Chiang also used his industry reputation to convince ASML, the Dutch company and world’s leading manufacturer of lithography equipment, to sell one DUV equipment to HSMC. (DUV is not the most advanced equipment, but this is still a huge coup given heavy US pressure at the time on the Dutch government to not sell to China.)

>By December 2019, the ASML equipment was delivered to HSMC amidst huge fanfare. The company also secured more investment due to this accomplishment from the district government, totaling 15.3 billion RMB (~$2.4 billion USD).

>One month later, the same equipment was offered as collateral to a local Wuhan commercial bank for a 580 million RMB loan (~$90 million USD) -- another new source of “income” for the heist.

The only way this investigation will have any effect in China is if at the end a couple of high ranking executives are executed (pardon the pun).
So wait, in your last venture you learned that you should do customer development on people who pay for products, not end users. And now you're deciding to make open source tooling?

Who is going to pay for this?

I was in your shoes, building products and tools and not going anywhere for months. I am also an engineer by trade. But building a business is not about engineering, it's about customers. You should have customers giving you real money or letters of intents before writing a single line of code.

Otherwise you have a side project, not a business.
I disagree personally but voted up because this is a valid opinion and I suspect this is the reason why it feels like we get less done. Personally I feel like I thrive remotely, probably work too much but I like it so there's that.

It comes down to some people thrive working remotely and some don't. At any level higher in mgmt than a single team there isn't really any way to determine who can thrive and who can't. Pretend its a 50/50 split across 100 people, the only way upper mgmt can see to get pre-covid productivity is to go back to the office.

I will say another unpopular related point on this: people with young children are more than likely to not thrive working remotely. Or at least they've probably never had the chance to see if working remotely is good for them because they may have had their kids home with them these past couple years. You know how we don't like distractions when trying to do focus work? I can't imagine trying to do focus work with a child or two under the age of 5 there with you all day.
How did you measure the bottleneck?
There is no point arguing in circles.

I disagree with your premise that the millions of people living in expensive cities live there because they are too stupid to make smarter decisions unlike you.
You think you have inflation stress?
check out Argentina you may learn a few life-hacks from them: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/06/business/inflation-argent...
> I was more interested in the impact on the subtopic specific results because of what we discussed.

I think they're both interesting. Broad overconfidence in performance in basic science combined with low performance is an interesting characteristic of a population. The fact that this is represented in those with contrarian views is interesting.

> So that translates to a fraction of a question difference in results.

The subscale finding, just shows that this same phenomenon appears to also extend to the subjects they are contrarian about. And it's about the same magnitude of effect, because there's very few questions on the subscale.

On the big test, a participant does about 2% worse per unit of disagreement. On the subscale, they do about 1.8% worse per unit of disagreement. The effect appears to have the same magnitude and is statistically significant in both cases.

This is an invitation to do studies on specific fields of disagreement with better samples and more questions on the subscale. But this early research casts a wide net across many types of anti-consensus view. Study 5 is a small, possibly flawed step in this direction.

I'd be particularly interested in a 2 variable analysis that attempts to model how one's overall objective performance and level of disagreement models objective performance in the specific field where they disagreed.

> outliers, ...

This is all moving goalposts when we were originally discussing the question set. I've already agreed that sociology and psychology research via Turk is problematic and faces many confounds and selection problems.
I'm more after the middle ground, and that is pretty broken (twitter's fault)

The problem is that accounts post a mix of content and I only want a subset. Mostly it's about what I don't want, food pics, family & vacation photos, memes... that's not why I'm on twitter. Unfortunately, their feedback mechanisms are woefully awful and cannot seem to grasp this concept, or basic user preference.
It's frustrating that this thread seems to be focused so heavily on people sitting around resting and vesting.

Having been inside Google (and multiple other FAANGs) this is generally untrue, and focusing on this element of the problem misses a much larger productivity problem:

Most engineers at Google aren't "sitting around doing nothing", they are very busy shipping projects that do not matter. Their days are filled with doing work that will not move the needle on any metric that matters to the company, but they are far from idle.

The misallocation of labor is a far bigger problem than said labor slacking off, and management must own it.

Google doesn't need their engineers to fly into startup mode, work 12 hour days, or never surf Reddit on company time. Their labor is severely under-utilized because they are assigned to zero/negative-impact projects or duplicative projects (hey, somehow you gotta ship 5 chat apps at the same time, right?)

Part of the problem is that Google's upper management refuses to engage with the product at all. Entire orgs are given very broad OKRs like "increase DAUs by 10%" without virtually no guidance as to what features management is interested in. Authority to ship features also rests close to the leaf nodes of direct line-managed teams. The expectation is that teams are entrepreneurial and invent features, implement them, and ship them all without direct upper management involvement.

The result is a bunch of bad product that doesn't do anything positive for the company, were never soberly evaluated by upper management prior to building, and would never have passed the smell test if it did. This, above all other factors, is why Google produces so much product that it then has to scrap. This is the main cause of Google's low labor productivity - not because people are sitting around drinking coffee and eating free food - but because they are assigned to projects that do not pass muster, and there is an almost-comical aversion to validating product ideas before they are implemented.

The single biggest thing Google can do to improve its labor productivity isn't cracking down on slackers, it's forcing its management to actually engage with product definition so entire orgs don't burn years on things that don't matter.
And if you have been renting and saving money to buy a house, your purchasing power is exponentially lower when both factoring both home prices and interest rates all while your rent is increasing.
of course from time to time some ads may cover all your desk too. but just configure a short session with this picture https://www.istockphoto.com/fr/vectoriel/vintage-big-brother... and your productivity is recovered, even exceeded.. ;-)
INA219 Current Sensor and MicroPython
I think this particular story (not post) needs to be weighed against what meta said - it is entirely possible they didn't know that's what law enforcement were trying to obtain and their claim that it was about disposal of an infant (which probably is an actual federal crime as it is most places) is true, it would absolutely be unheard of for law enforcement to lie about access reasons :)

Not that I believe either party in general but it's very plausible.
Great product.
If something is violence, it's violence. You could say violence towards homophobes is ok because they aren't a protected class. But if you make the case that hate speech is violence, then it's violence regardless of who it's directed at.
From the guide:

> The original, and most iconic manufacturer of wet-dry vacuums, the privately held Shop-Vac Company, imploded and went out of business.

A disappointing sign of the times, but luckily (so far) I've been able to find 3rd party replacement bags and supplies for my 3 Shop-Vacs online.
Small semantic issue, but “make peace with Russia” implies they’re not the aggressors.

Russia can end this tomorrow, by withdrawing from Ukraine.

You probably didn’t mean to imply anything, but it’s a sensitive topic, semantics matter.
What you think about Scala? How you tried it?
Very sleek looking product.

I see the display has oleophobic coating. Is the entire desk surface safe if I accidentally spill my coffee?

If yes, that is a killer feature you may want to mention upfront. Most users would have that question.
Tools get another dimension of that too which can be very frustrating.

I live in the USA and I generally consider Makita (which also doesn't have any other brands or lines, it's just Makita) to be a high-quality tool brand that I'm happy to use and happy to own in the garage. I think most people would agree with that assessment as well. But the Makita tools we get here have nothing on the Makita tools that are actually available in Japan. It's like another tier entirely. I sure wish we could get all that good stuff here.
If all your neighbors get on 5G with you, you are no longer going to get anywhere near the speeds you currently have. The real benefit of 5G for the phone networks is the higher frequencies means the signals don't penetrate as well, cover a lot smaller of an area which means they can have more radios - to provide more capacity without overlapping.

It also means 5G only makes economical sense in the densest of areas. 5G isn't coming to the 'burbs any time soon. When you get into the one radio per couple of houses you might as well just run fiber.

Universal wireless internet is a fantasy - there simply isn't enough capacity over the air - just look at the growing pains starlink is already experiencing in areas of just moderate density. Wireless has it's place, but it will never be sufficient for base load.

The laws of physics are a harsh mistress.
I like the aesthetics but I personally think its just not practical or useful.

If someone really wanted to fix my workspace, give me a way to hide my keyboard/mouse cable without going wireless. The last time I had my own desk in Australia I drilled a hole to shove the cables through.

A tray to prop my phone up in while its plugged in without needing some third party device.
The Dunbar number [1] originally said that the maximum size for a stable social network was ~150; he recently coauthored a paper which brings that down to around 5. WorldCafe always used 5.
But, Congress is already split between the political parties, so 435 isn't the number.
What they do, however, is break things up into committees - much smaller, with a few members from each party (in theory).

Massive guilds in WoW are broken up by roles to play.
So, indeed, the sub-committees are where the action occurs.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunbar%27s_number
My wife did this, about 6 months of digging up roads in central London. Would recommend. AMA.
I am sympathetic towards OP's situation and made similar mistakes when I was younger, but telling people what they want to hear is not helping them and isn't actually empathetic. I've spent most of my life around non-neurotypical people, and this does seem pretty self-inflicted. People like this don't need to read any more technical books or learn any more about software engineering.

They would be more effective in every facet of their life if they spent some time reading history, philosophy, and psychology... or just talking to people. No one exists on an island, and the issue is almost always that they don't find things external to the self "interesting" because they are self-centered. Notice that all three subjects I mentioned above are about other people.
I suspect that this flaw has been exploited for a long time, and I also would assert that brands have been "a thing" for a long time. A brand is just a systematic attempt by a business to develop name recognition among customers and potential customers.
Which is what Tauri uses.
Your display should provide (fast) charging to your laptop.
This is my first time hearing about Swan Bitcoin, really cool idea.

Are there other services just like this that will auto send to a cold wallet address but also let you buy more than BTC? (like ETH for example)