skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's super annoying and you will eventually use Gmail.

The problem isn't tech savvy companies but the rest of them. I can't use my preferred email with my insurers. I actually had a kafkaesque situation with my health insurer (Kaiser) a few years ago where I was able to use the weird TLD initially and then they changed their front end email parser to reject it so I couldn't log in. Which sucked in the early covid days when I needed telemedicine for everything.
I read it. My point is that offshoring is going to happen no matter how many letters the CEO gets begging to go back to the office. Offshoring is happening because there are talented engineers for 1/5 the price of a US engineer and remote work is easier than ever.
Elsewhere in this thread, people celebrate AI for some reasons. I'm not so impressed by the tech when the goal is just profit without some sort of ethical upside.
irrelevant.
I'm still not sure why I'm standing up for Rush, I don't even like the band, but I took action. Immediately!
Whoa, this is awesome! Looks like the author posted a full writeup (with videos) on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/wnuh3u/introd...
Show HN: Xklb – organize your media when it is too big to think about
So have Inflation, Shrinkflation, and now Qualiflation?
Sounds similar to a solid number of software engineering departments too.
This is the exact method by which many classic Tiki cocktails were kept secret and therefore nearly lost to time. For example the original recipe for the Zombie is disguised twice. It uses “Don’s Mix”, which is made with grapefruit juice and “Spices #4”. It took a very dedicated historian, Beachbum Berry, to track down the real recipe: https://beachbumberry.com/recipe-zombie.html
Should be very easy for you to rattle off a list of countries doing better then. You may find the below link helpful in your quest.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programme_for_International_...
> The house I bought in 2020 is worth $120k more today than what I paid for it.

You bought at just the right time. Would buying the same property at 95% LTV be a great decision today?

With potential for a major loss, where’s the asymmetric upside the OP asked about?

I bought 6 years ago and prices remained flat for the first 4 years. It wasn’t until the pandemic fuelled boom that I saw any meaningful growth.

Had I chosen to sell before 2020 it would have been a negative “investment” once costs had been factored in.
Ken White used to be very, very free speech. Unfortunately, “free speech” has taken on a partisan flavor, and he seems not to like its new taste.

I was hoping he would do an analysis of 1/6. At what point did Trumps speech violate the law?

Sadly it does seem he’s become a Vox/Salon writer.
> A real American manufacturing renaissance would be German, with high skilled trained professionals designing, building, and operating advanced machines to create complex products.

You mean like how Standard's US factories makes automotive parts? https://youtu.be/JhqaaYNgCO4
What argument are you talking about? You were claiming that the problem is that the only houses being built are "expensive SFHs" and that needs to stop.

I gave you the numbers that (1) multi-family (condo is the closest I could find) is not much cheaper the houses, do you disagree? Construction costs for apartments I could find are all over the place and hard to compare (they are often wide ranges with wide ranges of units) but they don't appear to be much lower too. Fundamentally, multi-family gets built because you can squeeze more housing in the same piece of land, land is the limiting factor, and land regulation makes both SFH and multi-family expensive. The type of housing has very little to do with it.

(2) Price to income ratios are mostly flat /until the COVID spike/. P/I is the ~same between 1957 and 2017, what do you call that? Housing bubble was just that, a bubble, and it unwound all the way to 1980 levels. So, what remains is COVID spike. Can you point at the change in housing patterns that you argue about, that happened in 2020? Literally nothing related to housing, probably, caused the COVID spike (otherwise why didn't the price go up before?) - just money printing and inflation.
The problem is that the confident is just a confident by brand B, and possibly the warranty term is not decided from confident but from competitor's warranty term. Personally I don't want very long warranty term for some products (I came up with PC PSU 12yr warranty). Warranty increases product cost that I should pay finally, but some products never be used so long by me.
Which is kind of the point. Everyone involved in the process from the leader at the top making the call, to the individuals manning the silos, has to make a conscious decision to end the world.
I found it almost a self-parody, probably the best joke Ben Stiller has ever told — a show mocking Apple that runs on an Apple service.

Shameless plug: my take on “Severance”: https://notes.ghed.in/posts/severance-apple-marxist-show/
Somewhat related, I've started using osmand+ for offline maps and track recording and it is truly awesome. On fdroid too.

https://osmand.net/
We have to be careful to distinguish between capitalism as an ideal, and as a description of what happens in the real world. (The same applies to socialism or any other -ism.)

Otherwise we will just engage in 'No True Scotsman' fallacies.
I agree. Although I am a vaporwave first person. Nothing like music that feels nostalgic and meandering at the same time. I don't mind synthwave but it has gotten more sub bass and driving over time (less 80s nostalgic and more John Carpenter going dark vibes).

I never got into psychill but I love some old school jungle and ambient dnb. I can't say I am really into the newer jungle/ambient dnb these days.

I have listened to dark techno and I do find it ok to program to. Almost anything with lyrics, solos and the like just get me drawn away. I would recommend Tangerine Dream as one of my favorite old school synth / experimental music makers that I like to listen to while doing stuff (usually before clocking out).
Presumably, they mean that they want windows to reopen after a controlled shutdown (when they likely quit and clean up applications before doing so); while they don't want windows to reopen after an uncontrolled shutdown (when that results in dozens of windows reopening from 12 different apps, all at once, bringing the system to a crawl for 10+ minutes.)
Not sure I agree. Fusion solves non of the problem of fission actually has.

- Will Capx be lower compared to a advanced fission plant. Almost certainty not.

- Will Fusion plan be significantly cheaper to fuel. Almost certainty not, uranium and thorium are available in waste quantities.

- Will it solve proliferation concerns? No, if you have a control of a fission reactors you have the potential to do all sorts of things.

- Will it solve the nuclear waste issue. Maybe slightly but advanced fission can produce waste that need to be stored for around 300 years and that is not actually that difficult.

And that is of course if you assume that the 100s of billions in investment required will not have be be paid back in any way. That is partly fair because fission didn't have to do that either, but there the investment is shared with nuclear weapons (for better or worse).

So I would say its closer to the second suggestion. I don't see a theoretical path of how a fusion reactor can be built cheaper then a comparable fission reactor.

But I'm not a expert on fission, I have heard of some fission that could be built very small but all actual real designs for suggestion of commercial fission I have seen do not fall into that category.
I believe you are thinking of https://ollydbg.de/Paperbak/ which was referenced in the coding horror blog post linked in other comments.
One of the main issues is that recent gasoline prices are not following historic trends against crude oil prices. A barrel of oil right now is close to 2014 prices, but a gallon of gas is not. The difference is being seen as profiteering off of global fear and not due to natural market forces.

https://www.macrotrends.net/2501/crude-oil-vs-gasoline-price...
> It's about having public-private keys that you use to issue transactions on a decentralized, permissionless network.

PGP has been around for many decades. Not exactly lighting the world on fire.
Which, I mean, I think is fair tbqh.
Don't forget wage stagnation :)
But a few cars of batteries wouldn't? Feels like that's not that much either but I haven't run the numbers.
"It is a profoundly erroneous truism, repeated by all copy-books and by eminent people when they are making speeches, that we should cultivate the habit of thinking of what we are doing. The precise opposite is the case. Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them. Operations of thought are like cavalry charges in a battle — they are strictly limited in number, they require fresh horses, and must only be made at decisive moments." -- Alfred North Whitehead, An Introduction to Mathematics
Yes, that makes it harder.

You should probably run with multiple suppliers in the first place, so it's easier to switch between them? Of course, that extra overhead probably will eat into your cost savings.
DI FM and YouTube music with trance /DNB/ trap electro.
XL1 was limited production as there was only ever going to be 200 offered to the public. VW almost certainly lost money on every single one, and probably not a small amount. XL1 was part of the Ferdinand Piëch era of money-losing halo cars to demonstrate VW group's engineering excellence. Bugatti Veyron and VW Phaeton were other cars to come out of this obsession.

XL1 is an interesting 'what-if' of cars. If VW doesn't get caught cheating on emissions we would likely have gotten some kind of successor to the XL1 that was actually truly a production car. Certainly VW would have at least tried a few production diesel hybrids. Instead they became the first large established automaker to fully commit to a battery-electric future.
Oh, I don't know where to START with this one.

I think people hear "private" and they think "better". Which in some cases, sure.
But when you hear "private" you should think "FOR PROFIT". And we all know the way to maximize profit is by maximizing spending and minimizing revenue, right?

I am blessed that public schools in my area are EXTREMELY good. To compete, private schools have to have smaller class sizes and charge a LOT more then a comparative public education costs.
If you drop all students in the public system into a private system, to have things COST the same to parents, you'd have to ramp up class sizes or cut what you are providing. Plus, you have to run a profit, so more incentives to skimp.

I think in a lot of areas, due to chronic underfunding, the public school system is bad. But the way to fix this is adequate funding, not the notion that private schools are magic and that the same funding level will lead to similar outcomes.
The proverb 'necessity is the mother of invention' made me build a solution for sharing a keyboard and mouse between multiple devices.

Synergy/Barrier is not horrible, but I find the latency a little painful.

Ended up getting an industrial HDMI switch, with a KVM. Built a server in Go that connects to the serial port of all the devices.

A companion client that runs on all the machines tells the server when the mouse moves to the edge of the screen, so the USB inputs can be switched to the correct computer. Basically, it allows you to have multiple computers connected, to multiple displays, sharing one keyboard and mouse. (You can define layouts on the server, so the displays can move around on the matrix HDMI switcher).

https://github.com/timgws/kvm-switch
We stopped trying to get more destructive a long time ago. Modern weapons are smaller than they were at their peak.

If anything I'd image modern research is more interested in things like precision, collateral damage reduction, etc.
I've seen some reviews for which I know a fair amount, and often the testing and rating rubric are ... Bewildering and unsophisticated. I love the idea of Consumer Reports a lot more than the actual thing itself.
warranty has been replaced with AAS.
Well, significantly before - if you were warrantying 50% of your stuff you wouldn't be making much money..
I have an old NAD integrated amp from the same era - it keeps trucking along as it ever has. It's been rather sad to see their reputation for reasonably-priced, reliable kit take a nosedive in the last decade or so.
I think the ~20% is how much it should take up if people are behaving rationally (and can also be an exaggeration, so it wasn’t intended to be something mathematically rigorous). The current regulatory environment and decades of divesting in fission construction coupled with continued investment in wind and solar makes those options look more attractive than they are economically and politically. Also important to note that there are regional differences that impact the cost benefit for a given type of tech and I don’t know if the UK has a particular geographic strength around wind like California does with solar.

There’s simply not enough battery capacity and physical land in the world for solar power plants and wind turbines to provide all the energy. Everyone always does the solar calculations ignoring the fact that energy has to be produced semi locally to where it’s used (long distance transmission is expensive and lossy). Additionally the calculations for energy capacity of renewables ignores the fact that energy that the capacity can’t be shifted to match load (without batteries).

Seriously. This is why the fossil fuel industry loves solar and wind. They’re not a serious enough threat to their business.
https://twitter.com/tallmike/status/1427280948400328704?t=i7...

> I’m in the relatively rare position of having worked on both Chrome and IE3. To add all the truth @aboodman wrote, both teams were amongst the best I’ve worked with, but Chrome was much healthier, happier and more supportive. Senior industry folks helped.
The question isn't "do we need makefiles". The question is, what is the problem you're trying to solve?

There are lots of cases where make and makefiles are a great solution.

A few pointers though:

* In most cases, just use GNU make, don't try to stick to just POSIX make. POSIX make is too feature-poor for many situations.

* If you have more than a few files, automatically generate the dependencies (e.g., in deps/DIRS/FILE.d files). In practice that often means you need to use GNU make (or automake). Doing that by hand for a few files is fine, but if you try to scale that up, it will become a large always-wrong mess. It's pretty easy to do once you know how - it's just a few lines - but it will save endless headaches. Many compilers already have built-in support for make, so in many cases make is the easy path.

* Don't use recursive make (re-execute make in each subdirectory). Run "make" once, and give it all the correct info. It seems like this would be slow, but it's faster & easier to maintain. I routinely get executions of 0.07 seconds on 1000 files when there's no work to do (a really tiny overhead).

There are definitely alternatives. I routinely use rake, which calls ruby instead of shell as the command language. Rake can be quite useful, but I don't think it's an automatic win over make at all.
ok, but I can do work on the. us
I really detest this kind of peppy proselytizing lecture. It is about mainstream science, but the poor form and lack of respect for the listener is horrible.

He is wooing the public a lot with a priest-like confidence on what the world is made of, look how amazing our 12 digit results are, everything is fields, even particles are really fields, even your bodies are fields, we can't really calculate this, it's so hard, but trust us. Matter, universe, big-bang, black holes, Faraday, Maxwell, Einstein, big scary equation, the single greatest equation, bombard and overwhelm the listeners with lots of astonishing statements and make them believe that we are really smart.

No experimental rationale for the reality of quantum fields; no mention of the opposing viewpoints of experts such as Schwinger (his source theory), also of large part of particle physics experimenters who tend to think that particles like electrons are real and quantum fields are really just tools that exist in our brains and on paper to predict what happens to these particles.

I am afraid this is not teaching people anything of value about physics. It's more about what this group of physicists (high energy theorists) are occupying themselves with.
Though I wouldn't necessarily blame it directly on country. Rather on culture.

As an example, manufacturing in southern Italy vs norther Italy might be rather different, too.
"Circa Apollo 11 the average age of a NASA engineer was 28. In 2009 it was 47."

That data point is from a 2006/2008 report^1; that data refers not only to NASA "engineers" but to all NASA "civil servants". It probably does not include the JPL as that is a NASA contractor, managed by Caltech. JPL employees are not civil servants.

After reading the 2006 report, as updated in 2008, I am having difficulty understanding how this single data point from 2006 is evidence of the "constant infantilization of people". Some further "evidence" would be appreciated to help me understand.

Below is how the report explains the age distribution of civil servants at NASA in 2006/2008. (This does not tell us what is the age distribution at NASA today. To get an idea of just how dated is this report, check out the quote the author pulls from the Strauss and Howe (2000) book titled Millennials Rising.^2)

"Even today, NASA has an extremely low attrition rate. With an average rate of 4.6% per year, the NASA workforce does not turn over very quickly.11 This rate is below NASAs own historical rate, far below the private sector rates, and even below those rates of other Federal Agencies.12

Most attrition comes from retirement-eligible employees. The attrition rate among Boomers in their forties is extremely low, about 1% per year and members of Generation X have about a 4% attrition rate. The Generation X attrition rate at NASA is lower than the Generation X attrition rate at all other Federal Agencies.

To fill critical positions, there has been a low level of full-time, permanent hiring at all times.13

Importantly, the demographics of this hiring have changed over time. Priority was given to fill critical positions to minimize gaps in core competencies, so the trend in hiring has been to hire older, more experienced workers who could best fill those gaps. This has meant that in 1993, NASA was hiring primarily members of the Boomer generation and in 2005 is still primarily hiring members of the Boomer generation.

1. http://web.archive.org/web/20091211095752if_/http://www.open...

2. "In obvious contrast, members of the Millennial generation tend to have starkly different views of employment and government.

Entry-level youths will be attracted to solid companies with career ladders and standardized pay and benefits. They will be less attracted to consulting, contracting, temping, freelancing, or new business startups. Millennials will be less inclined than Xers were at like age to take big career risks or turn their personal lives inside out to make more money.5"
Because BMW and Mercedes are pushing the envelope in technology. Lexus and Toyota stick with old technology. It makes their cars less pleasant to use - older infotainment, worse performance - but they are more reliable. Different values.
This is more of an argument against investing at all than it is specifically about housing. Obviously, if you want upside, then you have to tolerate some level of risk. If the argument is just, "things could go badly in your life at exactly the time you're in the red," then that's true of anything.
It's not easy, but it can be done.

We found Miele for dishwashers. Zwilling for our toaster, JennAir for microwave...

We explicitly avoided "smart" anything. I shouldn't need to connect my refrigerator to wi-fi.

But we've watched the crap curve take hold on a bunch of product categories, especially U.S. brands. Hannah Anderson used to make good quality, reliable children's clothes that didn't wear out when you looked at them funny. Not any more. Other brands that used to make clothing that lasted 20+ years now makes thin garbage that might last a season. Many of these transitions were to "Made in China" manufacturing.

We went to replace a ten-year old electric coffee grinder and couldn't find one for less than $1700 that wasn't garbage. We switched to a hand grinder as the only reasonable alternative.

It is very frustrating to try to find things that will last. My parents bought one refrigerator, and it lasted for more than 30 years. Most of their stuff they were able to get once. Not every two or three years.
While I have no doubt a lot of HN'rs are handy... for those that don't know, Milwaukee is _the_ professional tool line. If you get your house framed, your driveway re-concreted, your roof redone, your toilet cleared... they contractor was probably using a Milwaukee tool. It's owned by TTI (Techtronic Tool Industry) and oddly enough is the same people that make Ryobi.
Thorium is something that is literally a waste product that falls out of refining of rare metals. And natural Uranium is also available in waste quantities. Without even trying we would have enough for the whole world.

And then compare to that the very complex and expensive process of process of breeding tritium.

How does that make any sense?

Sure, fusion is about 3 order of magnitude denser, but fission is already incredibly dense. The increase density doesn't really benefit you in any practical way unless maybe if you are trying to do interstellar flight or something.
Thank you. I think I figured out what was bugging me.

I see the relationship as rent-seeking[1]. I'm assuming the agency is going to take somewhere between 25 - 30% cut on all hours billed to the client.

Over the first year, that amounts to about $57K. I'd be OK with paying that tax for the first year.

Yet I can't just cut the agency out of the deal after the first year. Anytime I cut them out, I have to leave the client for a year.

I get this. I understand it's common practice, and designed to keep providers (like me) from ever cutting the staffing agency out of the deal.

I think what was / is bugging me hinges on whether I look at this from the perspective of "It's everyone for themselves" or "What's good for society also matters."

In rent-seeking, one party is extracting value on an ongoing basis without doing anything productive (also on an ongoing basis). While it may be good for me on a selfish basis to take this deal, I question whether it's good for our society at large for people to engage in rent-seeking transactions.

I think I have clarified this a bit for myself. If nothing else, I learned a bit about why people can be of different opinions about rent-seeking.

Again, thanks for your help.

[1]. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rent-seeking
yeah I know. that's not what my comment is about. my comment is about the ignorant wording of the linked tweet.
> I argue that decommoditized protocols are a very effective weapon against free software in the short term, but in the long term will help free software become more fulfilling to users.

It's not even about free software. Having proprietary standards just produces shit software. See: word, zoom. Proprietary formats are not even a thing (the idea of making some simple text documents that need a certain OS to read and write is absurd) but forced cancer that only exists because the company tries hard enough to maintain their crapware.
i agree: some type systems help is useful, but not a ton of type system wizardry.
It’s not a sincere viewpoint. The account asks questions like this every day.