skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They didn't say IoT is a hobbyist business. They said no serious company in their right mind would use a Google IoT product, so the only market they have is the hobbyists who aren't deterred by the fact that Google only keeps these services around for a couple of years before shutting down.
And because universal basic income is so nuanced and socially complex, I feel like this problem is here to stay until we reach post-scarcity, if we ever do.
From my point of view it's inevitable new content is made. If you make content, you just can't stay quiet: how that catches on is another matter. I agree that too much content is made: the reason is mostly money and lack of education.
I agree. A simple example might be nutrition science and the competing ideas there.

Rice is good for you! Rice is bad for you!

Coffee is good for you! Coffee is bad for you!

Wine. Acidic foods. Cooking temps. Sweets.

This is why I think the “everything in moderation” idea about food choices is an acceptable approach. There can be competing truths in my head about what is okay or bad, whether or not I should eat red meat.

Maybe I’ll eat it tonight, but I probably shouldn’t eat it every night.
Maybe take it up with those communities?
Labeled with "Twitter for iPhone", but unlikely iPhones are allowed.
Prison mail? (https://ru-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/%D0%A2%D1%8E%...) Again, unlikely - too frequent updates.

How?
> My boss is literally publishing a paper about how photons ontologically do not exist.

I would be interested in this paper. Lamb argued the same, with good intention, but not everybody was impressed.
Right, all we have to do to return to a post ww2 era of middle class success is destroy the rest of the worlds industry.
"Weird" ideas aren't weird if they work. They're only Chindōgu if they are impractical to use.
If it's a choice between wearing a mask at the grocery store and the idiot next door blowing up my house with their mail order rocket launcher, I'll take the mask. If that makes me a bootlicker so be it I suppose.
I could not agree more. I won't romanticize 1950s or 1970s cheap junk products compared to 1990s cheap junk products or 2020s cheap junk products, but something definitely has changed.

Here's how I like to argue it:

TVs might be cheaper "per unit of TV", but it's also difficult to just buy a basic TV. This is also offset intensely by "shrinkflation", which applies as much to durable goods (cheapening components) as it does to food. So you end up stuck with a bunch of "extra TV" that you don't need or want, effectively providing 0 utility, while the core product is lower-quality, even further lowering utility. And meanwhile economists deny that there is a problem because when you average it all out, you do technically pay less per abstracted unit of TV.

The reason this happens is because it ultimately leads to better profit margins for manufacturers. "We make 'em like they used to!" isn't enough of a differentiating factor for most consumers, who are deliberately kept under-educated and constantly bombarded with p̶r̶o̶p̶a̶g̶a̶n̶d̶a̶ advertising and marketing. If you can sell a TV for $100, do you want to spend $10 manufacturing the TV, or do you want to spend $5 manufacturing the TV and $0.25 adding some onboard computer and software to make it "smart" (marketing!) while skimming off a huge data/ad revenue stream as essentially free money on the side?

Moreover, luxury goods are somewhat irrelevant if your basic economic needs become less affordable. Maybe TVs are cheaper "per unit", but housing, healthcare, food, and energy are not. Those are literally all of the basic human needs except one (water), recognizable as such in even the most primitive of ancient societies. And water is problematic ("expensive" in terms of consumer welfare) in much of the USA for reasons other than pure financial cost.

Edit: None of the above should be construed as advocacy or apology for chart-crimes and misleading reports based thereupon.
> Guarantee you Linus wasn’t this bad in the 90s.

Guarantee you that Linux was not that big and influential in the industry in the 90s.
Windows has switched from app-redistributed MSVC runtimes to OS-distributed "universal CRT" since Windows 10 (2015). Unlike MSVCRT, uCRT is ABI-stable.
I have long advocated for Japanese-style federal zoning rules which would stop local municipalities from playing these games. I agree that housing is more expensive, but of course, housing is priced into inflation numbers - and wages have kept pace. Housing is a major driver of inflation.

Part of the discrepancy here - and housing needs its own entire article - is how low interest rates factor into affordability. In the 80's, a 30-year fixed cost 18%. Last year it was 2.5%.

On a monthly basis (which is how many calculate affordability) a $166K loan at 18% APR is $2500/mth. A $635K loan at 2.5% APR is $2500/mth. These houses are equally affordable on a monthly basis. Even though one home is $200K and the other is $800K. The only delta is the down payment.
Had I started an IoT company, I would not have depended on any cloud IoT product. VMs, blob storage, containers, load balancers, hosted databases. But not anything labelled "IoT".
I don't work in IT, but in the medical field. We have the advantage/disadvantage of working in many teams during our training (around 20-30). There are varying cultures in teams, and what I found was that teams with high levels of criticism / conflict generally functioned the poorest. Patient care was delivered despite the dysfunction and toxic culture, but it also created an environment where staff were unhappy, fearful of mistakes, and avoidant. The best and most effective teams I worked in had a less hierarchical structure, but were led strongly, with good team working and communication.

That's anecdote, but there's evidence that certain team styles lead to more effective work [1], and suggestion that serious failures of organisations relate to cultural workplace toxicity and leadership [2].

I've seen in the thread a slight strawman argument that 'people too timid to say what they think about something leads to poorer working' or similar. I totally agree with that, but good communication is not what we're talking about here, and people can be clear, confident and respectful.

[1] https://www.civilitysaveslives.com/theevidence
[2] https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandpolicy/30566/
> Privacy, telemetry, and Linux don't matter, sorry folks, if they did people wouldn't use Chrome or Edge.

The people who wouldn't use the aforementioned browsers are Firefox's only hope - otherwise, why not just use Chrome or Edge? Firefox isn't going to win by being a more faithful Chrome copy (this current strategy has failed them for years).
Not all speech is code
and the fact that US is the only major economy isn't in ruins from ww2
Ask HN: What are some unpopular opinions here that should not be?
i'm pretty sure "their" removed gives a true statement also.
You might find this video interesting from a UK perspective, I suspect with a mix of overlap and difference to the USA:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZuXzvjBYW8A

David Willets draws comparison of "boomers" to other generations, and includes what is paid into healthcare vs. what is consumed in a lifetime.
My company has been fully back in-office since the vaccines came out. The descriptions of WFH I've heard online have sounded like dispatches from a parallel universe. I haven't been on a Zoom call since 2020.
Yeah I know where the hospitals are in San Francisco because I lived there. Centrally located isn't as great as it may seem. For the others I just plugged "emergency room" into Apple maps and picked some points that seemed close enough together.
As an aside, you might enjoy reading about Japan's 5th Generation project if you find the iapx432 or itanium stories interesting.
You still don’t see it?! Stop with the defensive attitude and just listen. There is value in listening to what is going on around you. Put your ego aside and realize that at least some of what is occurring is not just someone else’s fault.
Ask HN: A good course for spatial Machine Learning
There are some excellent primer and hands on courses for machine learning from the likes of deeplearning.ai and fast.ai. Neither of these courses, however, offer anything with regards to deep learning for spatial data.

Whilst there are some basic overviews from industry heavyweight ESRI, the ESRI tools rely on high cost paid licensing to operate, meaning high cost of learning.

So, HN bretheren, have you found any good resources for learning and understanding ML as applied to spatial data, preferably with the sort of interactive student delivery and course quality of the above? Could be desktop GIS based, Python, Jupyter Notebooks with Pytorch, TensorFlow, etc. Options are good.
MIL-SPEC just means it conforms to a spec. Whether that means "rugged" or just "standardized" really depends on why and when the spec was written.

I've managed production of a number of "MIL-SPEC" parts over the years. Usually it just meant documentation and traceability.
Yeah, I misread that. Thanks.
I use BT every single day. for 99% of my use cases it works just fine 99% of the time.

I'd like more features but really on a pure consumer elevel. it works out of the box and does what i want fairly reliably.
Ah not to be a spoilsport but I don’t the title is accurate.

Actual quote is: “Gen Z dollars today have 86% less purchasing power than those from when baby boomers were in their twenties.”

Quite a different claim.
I've been offered over 2x as much as her to drive a browser into the ground, but I rejected the offer because my family wouldn't accept the shame of accepting such a meagre offer. /s
Financial responsibility, it would appear: https://www.businessinsider.com/credit-card-debt-record-2017...
You're probably an early cohort of Gen X. Late Xers, that started their professional lives in the late 90s or early 2000s already got a bad deal.
an industrial economy without too much competition there’s plenty of cheap labor to be had in the world. The us was prosperous because there was the right combination of labor and capital.
I think I remember reading somewhere that the US government hired firms during the Cold War - maybe RAND - to do game theoretic analyses of strategic nuclear defense. I'd be curious if there are any summaries of this historical research or new game theoretic analyses happening with today's events and the advent of hypersonic capabilities.

Terrifying stuff.
But aren't the computers that broke in this story less than 12 months old?
> If you really slice it quintile, the bottom quintile of millenials is much worse off - that's what it looks like when you massacre the social safety net. But millenials as a whole are just as well off as previous generations.

This I think warrants more than a footnote. A return to extreme class stratification is really quite bad, not just for those individuals affected but for society overall.
That's exactly my point, that is _yet another_ service you need to go through to get a clear picture of what is going on.

These products have their place, but they don't make sense until you reach a certain size.
Microsoft Teams in my opinion is the worst.
Another data point - I do the same thing. Out of the 100's I've done it for, about maybe 3 seem to have been compromised.
It’s not supposed to be user replaceable, but there are plenty of kits and YouTube videos available on how to do it.
In other words, OP was just Using It Wrong.
In fact internally it's still packaged as an add-on that is installed on first run. Unbundling it would be super easy.
Some of these charts are atrocious chart crimes.

This one is particularly bad: https://i.imgur.com/hfHmvhP.png
What's really needed is an open state-ful GUI markup standard so we don't have to reinvent GUI OS's using JavaScript + DOM. It's bad industry-wide tool factoring. Focus on making the GUI browser (pluggin?) do just ONE thing and do it well: GUI's. Don't try to be a full virtual OS like Java applets and Flash tried; they bit off more than they could chew.
I am not an effective altruist
Is your incident script available anywhere? Sounds invaluable for postmortems.
I do think they should set up donations directly to Firefox development and support, but I disagree on the telemetry and Pocket. Telemetry is useful for improving the product and people like pocket.
> If I was in Mozilla's shoes I would 100% want to know how many users I have.

Which they can trivially extract from the number of hits to the auto-update version checker endpoint.

That's enough. You don't need to track every single mouse-click, visited site, or anything else.
It can become an add-on which is what it is internally anyway (the browser downloads it upon first run, it's not even included in the browser build itself).
My apologies. I appreciate the effort that goes into moderating this place and making it such a pleasant community, and I'm sorry to have caused you extra work.
I agree that I like to for what it is - something more along the lines of Popular Science or Wired than Scientific American if you want to compare to magazines. However, the content, while surface level, is always accurate - something that can’t be said for other content creators in the field.
> One side believes equity should be distributed equally regardless of achievement

I'm not sure this is true. I think a lot of people including economics professors like to consider themselves fairly humanistic. And I think the idea of a mass of people permanently living near or below poverty bothers them.

And I think they take it somewhat for granted that their favorite economic theory has in our recent past effectively provided a middle class standard of living for many people. But when we start talking about dismantling the mechanisms which have created the large middle class and how it could decrease quality of life and increase poverty, they don't offer an honest assessment based on the fundamentals of their theory. That would be to say, "well yes such changes may induce pverty here."

Instead there is kind of a shrug. We'll become a service economy, nevermind making a comparison of the quality of the new service jobs against those being transplanted.

Or we'll become a knowledge economy, the great brain of global capital. Again never really contending with the question of whether that is even possible.

This allows them in my opinion to advocate politicies which harm people whilst shrugging off any guilt because instinctively they know to willfully empoverish people is wrong. It is this dishonesty that bothers me.

My gripe is not with those advocating against redistribution. Though my personal politics are for a mass ownership of property in some regard. My gripe is with people who have setup what might be a fiction (maybe it could be real too) as the answer to making choices which create suffering. And then for that image to have become a dogma we all expected to accept without questioning its basis in reality.

I'm willing to accept that I could be wrong. But I come from a working class background. I've known a lot of working class people over the years and the idea that most or even many of them are going to pivot into IT or what have you is just nonsense. The vast majority have pivoted into low paid service work without much social insurance of any kind.
Neither OT/CRDT nor Paxos/Raft are meant to resist rogue actors. They are not Byzantine fault tolerant.
It is pretty appalling. Much better to go through the hassle to bring my portable, solar rechargeable 1200 watt power generator onto the plane than it is to fork over the extra cash for those silly little lap warmers.
May I direct your attention to the second sentence of my post?

It fixes an issue in the Python built-in HTTP server that causes it to hang under concurrent connections.

First, run the built-in Python web server:

[term1]$ python -m SimpleHTTPServer 8080

Then connect to it with a client that doesn't immediately send a request, such as `netcat`. This simulates the behavior of modern browsers, which seem to set up a pool of pre-established connections.

[term2]$ nc localhost 8080

Now try to get a page from the server via Curl (or wget, etc). It will hang after sending the request, because the server's single thread is trying to serve the idle connection.

[term3]$ curl -v http://127.0.0.1:8080
* Trying 127.0.0.1:8080...
* TCP_NODELAY set
* Connected to 127.0.0.1 (127.0.0.1) port 8080 (#0)
> GET / HTTP/1.1
> Host: 127.0.0.1:8080
> User-Agent: curl/7.68.0
> Accept: */*
>

In real life, the behavior I saw was that I'd try to connect to the server with Chrome and it would hang after the pages had partially loaded.
Commerce Implements Controls on Advanced Semiconductor and Gas Turbine Engine
If anyone is looking for something with a bit more freedom to choose your own mnemonics and path. kanji.koohii.com is very good. It has maintained by one patreon backed developer for the last 10+ years high. It has accumulated many many people's shared kanji mnemonic stories that you can browse also to use or for guidance when thinking of your own.
> In the US, healthcare is effectively a collection of cartels

Not just in the US. For example there's a huge glasses cartel in France with specialists that are protected by the government and make pairs of glasses cost 500~1000 USD with very little reimbursement, while in Japan private companies (that actually compete against each other's) let you have glasses for 60~70 USD all included. You are literally better off flying to Japan from France to shop for eyewear.
Are people leaving FF or are people not switching to FF? Which is more important?
What's with all the comments on that Apple thread where people are saying "I didn't have a grain of cereal, rice, etc between the screen"? Are Macbook screens that fragile now?
Older cars require more ongoing maintenance and repairs.

What I want is a car with '90s features that rolled off the factory yesterday so I don't have to worry about it dying in the middle of a road trip next week.
Curious what the perf tradeoffs are of multiple EBSes vs. a single large EBS? I know of their fixed IOPs-per-100Gb ratio or whatnot, maybe there is some benefit to splitting that up across devices.

Is it about the ability to dynamically add extra capacity over time or something?
That still mixes a lot of factors in, including how often people need care and what kind of care is provided. Better to compare the same procedure/drug/etc in the US vs elsewhere. I think in the US it's usually more costly that way, especially when it comes to drugs.
Huh, what are the odds that the same mathematical concept will come up in conversation twice on one day? We have invented the Synchronicity paradox, er, problem.
Aaah, so THAT's why their email verification was not working for several hours [1] [2]!

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32398773

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32392935
Pointing out the hypocrisy is a useful tool -- it helps demonstrate that the balance of power is so unequal.

One of the primary reasons that the power balance is as uneven as it is is because Class B members are mostly unaware that they are in a war that they are losing through lack of notice.

Class B is sufficiently populous and sufficiently capable that it could fight back the overreach of Class A to reclaim some access to the levers of power were it willing to do so. But so long as most members of Class B don't see that they are Class B, they will not unify sufficiently to win.
The product belongs to Mozilla, so I don't see why they shouldn't integrate it.
My partner used to work as an apple support person. People break their shit all the time and try to pretend it wasn’t their fault because they don’t want to pay for a repair. How you ask and call has a huge impact on your success.

Another big impact: your purchase history. If you’ve owned every iPhone for the last decade and purchase it as soon as it comes out they will be much more lenient when you tell them it was cracked in box than if you have a single second hand iPhone SE that is cracked and the crack “totally happened on its own”. They want to protect their valuable customers.

But also as other commenters have said, it’s possible that apple knows this is a real issue and is addressing it differently now.
The author apparently has no idea how to do CPI calculations.

She somehow seems to be calculating inflation adjusted wage increases to CPI changes. Rather--

Median Family income in 1970 was $9,870 [0]

Median Family income in 2021 was $79,900 [1]

CPI in 1970 was 38.8 [2]

CPI in 2021 was 271.0

Ratio of incomes = 8.1

Ratio of CPI = 6.98

So household income has increased more than inflation.

Median household income might not be the best comparison--family sizes have changed, there are more women in the workforce, etc. But "86% less purchasing power" makes no sense.

[0] https://www.census.gov/library/publications/1971/demo/p60-80...
[1] https://www.huduser.gov/portal/datasets/il/il21/Medians2021....
[2] https://www.minneapolisfed.org/about-us/monetary-policy/infl...
My daily Linux driver is a ThinkPad X220. $75 on eBay + another $120 for IPS LCD screen and an SSD. I use it when it really need Linux or when I’m on the go and don’t want to carry a 15” laptop. I wish they still had 1080p conversion kits for that one…

But my current Dell Precision from work is a spectacular nightmare POS.
The lack of adoption of IPv6 over so many years, it makes me think that they should just have slapped a couple extra address bytes on IPv4 and call it a day.
This isn't true in any part of the country that has a winter.
> healthcare per capita than any other OECD nation.

You also need to mention that the US is not like any other OECD nation. It also happens to he the nation with the largest innovation in Healthcare, and not just by a little. By Far.
I think lkml.org has issues with lots of traffic: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CA+55aFy98A+LJK4+GWMcbzaa1zsPBR...
> We haven't even figured out how to be good to each other

Having explored this question for a long time, I think we have figured it out, quite a long time ago, actually. But the answer is very difficult to accept. Huxley recognized this, and used the answer to show how it could be used to both create a dystopia ("Brave New World") and a utopia ("Island").
This article is complete bullshit because it effectively corrects for inflation twice. The CPI is a measure of the nominal change in cost of a basket of goods. This should be compared, like for like, to nominal income, not inflation-adjusted income. The CPI was already used to adjust the income to which it's compared in this article!
It’s not a timeshare. You can keep renting as long as the property owner allows it. When your life changes (flow) you can move to another property and keep the credits you accumulated.

As with most Adam Neumann stuff it laces messianic ideas with Ponzi economics.
> Twitter-scale ML

That one made me laugh. Their "ML" can't even detect crypto scammers impersonating Elon Musk despite them using exactly the same name, profile picture and replying using very predictable texts that a basic regular expression can pick up.
Yeah but the gas mileage on that was only 16 city/24 highway (mpg)...
But since they're not being made in 2022, getting parts for them in 2040 will be fraught.
Perhaps in a similar sense to sophistry, "the use of fallacious arguments, especially with the intention of deceiving."
Crypto Geniuses Who Vaporized a Trillion Dollars
Depends on the Chromebook. I've got a $99 one and it's surprisingly decent: https://www.bestbuy.com/site/lenovo-chromebook-3-11-6-hd-lap...

The trackpad works better than any windows laptop I've used.
I doubt it. Kids leave elementary school today knowing more programming languages than college graduates did in 2010.

If you want actual data, compare SAT scores or something. I'm willing to bet that by any metric, school was lax back then.
It exists now, but it will be left to rot once (probably in another 15 to 20 years) wayland is finally ready and most software is migrated to it.