skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> well, one very important piece of the puzzle is that the US is very rich, but very unevenly (income and wealth inequality), and the US spending on services compared to disposable income is not that high.

Comments like these usually don't take federalism into account, or they just assume that because we have lower levels of benefits that we must be spending less. But let's look at the data:

US Federal + State and local spending, as a percent of GDP[1]:

* Pensions (Social Security + Other govt pensions) 9%

* Healthcare 9%

* Education 6%

* Welfare 2%

* Defense 5%

* All other 2%

Let's compare this to the OECD average:

* pensions[3] 8%

* healthcare[2] 9.5%

* education[4] 6%

* welfare[5] 2%

Or we can go to a completely different source, which compares social spending as a share of GDP[3], showing the OECD average is 20%, and the US is right in the middle at 19%, spending more than Canada, Australia, Netherlands, Switzerland, but less than Germany, France, UK.

What people don't want to admit to, as it is a painful realization, is that while the US spends as much as other countries, it delivers so little for that spending, because our delivery of healthcare and education is extremely inefficient.

This creates a type of loop, where people compare the lack of comprehensive benefits we receive in the US, and decide we must increase subsidies further, which results in even more inefficient delivery, and then we go back to square 1, leaving people convinced that the US spends so much less on these things than other countries.

Our problems lie not in too little social spending, but in obtaining too little social value from the amounts that we do spend.

[1] https://www.usgovernmentspending.com/year_spending_2023USrn_...

[2] https://www.oecd.org/els/health-systems/health-expenditure.h...

[3] https://www.oecd.org/els/soc/OECD2020-Social-Expenditure-SOC...

[4] https://www.oecd.org/els/soc/PF1_2_Public_expenditure_educat...

[5] https://data.oecd.org/socialexp/family-benefits-public-spend...
I’d love to move (back to) Europe, and on the flip side there isn’t a salary big enough to make me want to relocate to the US
I have a Quest 2 and it fits pretty good. You can adjust the width of the lenses to match your eyes. The Quest 2 also comes with a spacer specifically for people with glasses which spaces the headset away from your face. If you were using someone else's VR who doesn't wear glasses this spacer is almost certainly tucked in a drawer or was thrown away with the box. These factors are easily overlooked and possibly a contributing factor to your poor experience. Also, if you're going to buy a VR headset in general; consider the cable, head straps, and face pads to be consumable. They break all the time and there's no good way to clean the face pads.
Rough prototype: https://self-deleting-production.self-deletion.workers.dev/

All it has is some stupid placeholder text right now. It uses cloudlfare workers and kv storage to keep the current text, so there are lots of concurrency/latency issues. Once the entire page is deleted it will start again.

Code here: https://github.com/ch33zer/self-deleting
Lots of on-site work, companies like Accenture or Deloitte will have jobs like this, but my impression is they don't treat developers very well (ie see them as very junior to the businessy folk). The shots are always called by someone who doesn't understand the technology side of the work.

You could also try e.g. BCG or McKinsey (quantum black) but the same will apply. The challenge is, it may be hard to turn it off and on, like you'll get assigned to fly to Minneapolis every week for 6 months, not just the occasional client visit. With the fancier (McKinsey) type firms you're more likely to get variety, but you'll travel every week

You could also consider looking at solutions architect type jobs. Especially at startups there may be some that let you go to client sites and do software work, but it will focus more on configuring for the client (at a startup that may still mean fresh coding). Some may be closer to just pre-sales, you'll have to ask a lot of questions in the interview
I really don't like the way the narrative is presented.

First of all, the radiation is thermal radiation. Air with CO2 at close temperature to the surface emitting thermal radiation has no bad effect whatsoever on how fast the energy radiates out.

Two things at the same temperature will always be at equilibrium, and the least thermal radiation you can emit is black body radiation like the surface. So the narrative of looking at it like it's radiation scattering might be true for high up in the atmosphere where the temperature difference from the surface is high - but very misleading and leads to bad intuition in low attitudes. CO2 also tends to stay in lower attitudes.

There are other effects from CO2 that also go the other way. CO2 has increased heat capacity, it's heavier than air, and it might have a cooling effect because it increases the effectiveness of convection.

What's the leading cause? By how much? I don't know. You need to do the calculation properly and find out. This is physics not humanistic subject. You don't judge with narratives. Narratives are misleading, calculations are what matters. If you bring your narrative to the calculation and the only effect of CO2 in your calculation is the radiation, that's even worse.

Thermodynamic systems also tend to reach equilibrium, so if you have errors in any parameters in the description of the system, your errornous system with the current state of the real system will be out of equilibrium in the errornous simulation. You should always expect simulations with imprecise data to be less stable than the real system itself.
Not trying to defend SBF or FTX but honestly wasn't that impressed with this critic either.

His criticism seems to break down to:

1) Look at him, he's ugly

2) He doesn't have the proper lineage of insider mentors to be allowed to be a billionaire

3) We don't have the full story on the original arbitrage mixed in with some political pandering

4) The compliance officer was sketchy

4 seems to be the only valid point. 3 is worth further research but not really anything in itself. The other 2 reflect more poorly on this guy than SBF. Overall, I don't think this guy really had anything, I think he just didn't like the smell and ended up getting lucky on the timing.

But he 100% did not call out any meaningful elements of what ended up happening in any detail.
AWS multi region VPC peering setup with Terraform
VPC peering multi-region/ multi-account VPC peering overview, requirements, and setup using Terraform.
https://github.com/spandanb/ipos

I mean if this doesn't charge you up the yahoo per message, might be viable in a very limited circumstance?
> I seriously thought we'd have great VR in 20 years.

I wonder if there is an episode about self-driving cars
Jacques Rossi – Siberian Survivor (2000)
I don’t think it’s parody. I’ve never heard of vercel. If I wanted to build this, I’d:

(1) turn on an ec2 host

(2) write a Python script to serve the image (degrading it on every call)

(3) configure nginx to ffi to the script.
Interestingly, I discovered a few years ago that my first name is a TLD.
The major difference is that banks can be highly leveraged (and cross-leveraged) under capital requirements only. I think this has to be the case or there wouldn't have been a need or reason to reduce fractional reserve requirements; if banks had been holding their capital as currency or deposits in other institutions then the fractional reserve requirements would have been trivially met since the percentages were lower.

As FTX showed, if most of your capital loses its value then you are insolvent. The banking system is just a little more insecure than it was with fractional reserves.

I'm happy to be shown that I'm wrong, since I am not an expert.
Yeah, it's insanely campy, but other than that, I think it's really timeless.
WET has negative connotations people have used AHA instead for avoid hasty abstractions.
A minor nitpick: the crucial element here is that Haskell is statically typed. "Strong" typing is not well-defined, and even in contexts where that word is appropriate, it only exists as a relative descriptor (not in a vacuum).

But I agree with your takeaway. Hoogle is one of the coolest development tools I've ever used, and I desperately wish every other statically typed language had their own Hoogle.
I got dedicated lenses for my Quest 2 so I don’t need to use the spacer. Much more comfortable than wearing glasses also, and only like 60 bucks to buy online.
https://com.com
I remember hearing somebody suggest bouncing things to audio (and other destructive operations, presumably) as a way of avoiding the analysis-paralysis that more flexible formats like MIDI can induce.
For anyone who is interested, there's a youtube channel ("Ask A mortician") which did an excellent video on the Fitzgerald: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0Lg9HygEJc
Why wouldn’t one send an animal to space before sending a person for the first time? What does politics have to do with this?
This is a very interesting point. Traditional banking would certainly be able to come together (and often do) to serve their own interests by restricting entrants.

It's not clear to me how open source projects like a bitcoin might prevent scammers from cloning the source and opening a discord channel to people leading to an eventual rugpull. The success of bitcoin has led many to think that duplicating network effects is the path to easy riches. I guess they are not wrong.
This has nothing to do with cryptocurrency. It's just an exchange that gambled away customer deposits and then was liquidated. They're banks. We've reinvented banks with all of the drawbacks and none of the benefits.

This isn't the way cryptocurrency was meant to be used. We were meant to hold our money in our own wallets, not leave it in some centralized exchange so it can "efficiently" allocate the funds. People keep using exchanges as if they were banks and they keep getting burned in ways only banks are capable of.
There is significance. These are bootstrapped founders. Made it on their own without investments. So, more relatable specially when they tell you how any book helped them in making business strategies.
Silence, Solitude, and the Philosophy of Pipe Smoking [video]
If you had 100,000 shells and the shells are worth 0, you still have 100,000 shells.
Chrome is the new IE. No one tests on any other rendering engines these days (mostly slight hyperbole).
This was fun. I kept trying to "throw" the sand and use a forward momentum to the falling sand, but that doesn't work. No matter the speed of the mouse's movement, the falling particles always fall straight down. Otherwise I liked it enough that I am saving it for my next conference call as you've suggested
I once worked for a company that created a large AR installation for an event. People could see themselves up on a big screen, and were able to "collect" digital items by waving their hands as they floated by. The only thing is, the company wasn't able to get the hit detection to work reliably, so they instead opted for a guy sitting at a computer in a room off to the side, where he would click on a screen to mimic realtime interaction.
The tweet went out Thursday during trading hours and the stock went up. Then Friday the entire large cap healthcare sector got crushed. Here’s why…

https://archive.ph/JNWKu

Spoiler alert: it had absolutely nothing to do with a fake tweet
I think it’s always nice to learn about different paradigms of languages.

Since you know python, I’d recommend these two
1. Go (compiled, typed, simple, fast)
2. Elixir (functional, interpreted, distributed, elegant)
A brilliant explanation of my short comment. If I met you in real life I’d buy you a beer good sir.
Beyond sensational.

Claiming "this is the end!" because of a downward trend and a bunch of fraud? Why are these claims never backed by why cryptocurrency _itself as a whole_ is over? I'm very pro crypto and I could crank out a "Why Crypto's Honeymoon is Over" with plenty of citations as to how the pandemic artificially sored stonks and cryptos alike via printed moneys.

This sky is falling shit is getting old.
Bribe ICANN
It’s hard to understand why the existing employees would feel any loyalty now. Even if that don’t have any problem with Musk’s management style, they no longer have stock options, and any profit the company makes is going to pay back a loan that provided no resources to the company. How is that worth working on?
Ask HN: Tool to find identical file subtrees scattered over disks
Over the years I have made backups of backups, over multiple disks, moving to different computers, and the result is now that I have multiple identical subtrees of files in several places, without a good way to detect which trees are a subset of other trees. I have been searching for a long time for "really smart software" that can help organize archives of work files and detect identical subtrees and subtrees that are older versions of newer trees etc. Does anyone know of commercial/open source tools that help with this?
Reading a good book is just like having a mentor. And a mentor can help you only when you are doing something and not just dreaming! So, both are significant.
For me it makes no difference whether I consume animal products or not. I’ve consumed no animal products in about five months now, and aside from needing to spend a bit longer looking at labels when I first started, now I know what I’m doing I spend no more or less time on food.

I take a big multivitamin in the evening and that’s it.
So what does "nic" stand for? And why not www.* or about.*?

(Google search wasn't too helpful)
The carriers will oftentimes use the TTL to determine if you are tethering or not. So if you adjust the default TTL to 65 on your tethered device it may work.
It's built into iOS: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204023

A Personal Hotspot lets you share the cellular data connection of your iPhone or iPad (Wi-Fi + Cellular) when you don't have access to a Wi-Fi network.
Sorry, I don't quite understand what you're asking. Did you reply to the wrong person?
Billions of people have lived before us, long traditions predate us. The chances that you've had a single original thought in your life is virtually nil (philosophy is a great example where a failure to learn what's old usually results in repeating the same old mistakes). By learning what came before, you are much better prepared for discovery.
It always struck me as odd that this guy came out of nowhere to become one of the wealthiest people in crypto in a few years.

I don’t know if his adherence to effective altruism had anything to do with this outcome, but taken to an extreme I could see someone rationalizing fraud to redistribute wealth in a way that maximizes benefit to others. Basically Robin Hood.
SBF had the reputation of being the most honest person in crypto.
I feel like it changed noticeably around 2012-2014. Before then it was okay, and since then it's terribad. Basically, in lockstep with the skyrocketing cost-of-living in SF associated with the city's tech boom.
It feels like the discrepency is where the reference is of "one" - the type acts as the reference for one (and then arguably memory efficiency), vs the reference / pointer.

Said in another way... if it makes any sense (this is at the nexus of philosophy and arithmetic):

Since anything resembling emptiness or length of 0 requires a reference then 0 comes after the one (1, monad).

1 is primordial over 0.

Existence wraps emptiness.

For existence to wrap not emptiness nor 0 it must wrap nil. However no matter how you reference nil you must do so through at least one layer of indirection.
You started with $10 million. You took out an interest-free loan for another $100 million, so you have $110 million in assets (the money) and $100 million in liabilities (the debt).

You’re levered 10:1 because you have $100 in borrowed assets you have to pay back and only $10 million in assets you fully own.
Oh nice! I figured out the fan and spike, but for some reason I didn't think to try to wave the want around :)
Could you try encoding data as images for better bandwidth (and probably worse latency)?
If that horn met its advertised spec it could destroy the planet. I liked that part.
i use tags for annotations and actions: this email i need to reply to. that one links to a story i want to read later. etc. it's not possible to search for that without tags, because those states change and don't depend on the actual emails
The things described in the article aren't really vehicles. You have slow carts with a container compartment for delivery or a slow moving area scanning "security bot".

I've seen things like this moving on the UC Berkeley campus. "How do you safely maneuver a vehicle with a 50ms delay?" Very slowly and haphazardly. The whole scheme seems more about getting someone in third world country to work delivery in a first world country than efficiency of any sort.
This is fascinating analysis. Not just the specific details about SBF and FTX, but the insight into the short seller’s process of company analysis.

One thing became apparent to me. Our industry (tech) is rife with so many snake oil salesman. During the decade-long bull run, it was easy to look like a genius. But the water is going out and we’re going to see who is swimming naked.

It’s time for the tech business cycle to end. The waste needs to be purged. A Fed pivot is just a pipe dream.
It isn’t that they go, but the frothiness does. I built teams through the 2008+ downturn and plenty of teams froze hiring, but many were still hiring through it. What this poster doesn’t get at is the fact that it changes what types of opportunities rise to the top—you get more scratch and dent or problematic roles vs. straight up the middle quality roles.
I like https://kopia.io/
I doubt it's that easy to pull something like that off. And besides, people fall for phishing scams even when the domain name isn't even close to what they're trying to imitate.
Crypto is nothing special in this respect.. These red flags you speak are not an issue with crypto, they are an issue with people.

Humans have been looking for ways to screw each other over since the dawn of time. If you mint some brass coins and say they are gold, that just makes you a loar. It doesn't mean there's anything wrong with gold.
Lol this guy is trying to land on Mars AND understand how a subscription model works. I give Google $10/mo to stfu on youtube and to play all the music i want on my ok google. I give Tinder like $40/mo to prove I'm a fukkin loser. I'd happily pay twitter a couple bones if it wasn't such a pile, and if I wasn't banned.
You could do this with the free tier of cloudflare workers and cloudflare KV for state
I suspect (but cannot prove) that environment lookups are cached, so that when the new definition is loaded with the same name as the previous jump target, the compiled code is invalidated and switches back to interpreted mode. But now that I talk through it, that sounds pretty hard.

Occasionally I dive into racket’s good old C code for masochistic pleasure (it’s good code, just … very C, and very old). I always come away with a feeling of “well, that’s an interesting puzzle… I wonder what will happen when X happens” for every X that catches my attention. (Yesterday X was “How do racket’s thread-local parameters propagate their current values to new threads spawned by a subthread?)

Still, I’m ~50% confident that my original explanation is right, even if the details are wrong. I would be shocked if a compiled tail-recursive function didn’t jump into its own new definition when a new definition is loaded for the previous jump target (the global function name). Test it out and check what happens empirically. :)

Who knows. I’ve switched to Python long ago for daily tasks, since occasionally I enjoy “actually getting things done quickly, rather than endlessly researching interesting theoretical programming questions,” and Python is 60x slower than JavaScript (which doesn’t have tail recursion either), so #shruggyface. The world has apparently decided that tail recursion was an idea best left to the 90’s.

EDIT: After thinking it over, I bet you’re right and my original point about tail recursion is mistaken. And indeed, I remember now that in Arc, all the threads tend to be while-loops that just call another global function to do its work. Probably for this exact reason.

Very impressive callout. And a nice reminder to limit myself to talking about the things I actually do, not what I might theoretically do. At least not without qualifications and disclaimers. Thanks!
Not necessarily. The energy generated may be used for purposes such as heating people’s homes, or industrial processes essential for creating medicine, operating schools and hospitals etc. Of course we need to move away from these energy sources, but there are reasons we don’t just ban them overnight.

You can see how this is very different from using the energy simply to operate an online gambling operation or to perpetrate large scale securities fraud.
Last time I checked I disliked the size of search index folders and files. So I am sticking to mairix, which integrates well with mutt and is small and fast.
Tens of millions of dollars to political campaigns?
Agreed that it's confusing, perhaps a better term may catch on?

Haha, I do the same. Joke I need a supervisor.
Ask HN: Better Alternative to YouTube App
Of late, I have been noticing that YouTube recommendations are terrible. But that's sort of ok, cause I have seen such fluctuations in the quality of recommendation before.

My biggest gripe is even subscriptions page in the YouTube app is messed up and videos by people who post less often do not appear. Ironically their videos are often less clickbaity and of greater quality and I actually look forward to them. I expected the subscriptions page to be more true to the real timelines and less algorithmic (for want of a better word).

I do like the option to download my videos though.

What is a better way to access YouTube on Android.
so you're saying that still might be true?
I preferred to use a web site. If you send data/analysis via email or documents then people lose them, can't find them, ask you to send them again. If it is on a web site they can always find it. If there is new data/analysis they can always find it in the same place. I used password protected pages if we didn't want the data to reach the public. A web site is also great when collaborating with another team or multiple teams across the world. I've used wiki pages also, which makes it somewhat easier to get the data into a presentable format, although not as useful for presentations as the types of formatting are limited. Using a content/version management system (cvs, git) is useful for archiving data and analysis and making sure it is timestamped and unaltered while still making it widely available, though only to people who are comfortable using such systems. Spreadsheets are my least favorite way of sharing data and analysis, they are so limited (try creating a billion row spreadsheet) but were sometimes necessary for generating graphics for papers. Really big datasets or very long time series graphs are a problem unto themselves, they typically can have only one primary residence (with backups) on a dedicated server and custom software to generate and view the analysis. Sending copies usually means sending hard drives. Raw data files are preferable to putting data into databases because you can write very fast code to do data processing. When you inevitably have to reprocess the data it goes quickly, which can be a lifesaver when faced with a deadline. Automatically regenerating the graphs, etc., is really useful also.
Real time, live analysis generated from continuously streaming data generally requires something custom and depends on who needs to see the data/graphs.
Dazzelega – DallE + Puzzle
Gitpod is in big trouble