skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Seems I didn't make myself clear the point is that looking at the median income tells you nothing about the actual distribution of disposable income because someone barely making it in a high income zone could trivially have what seems like a high income and have little disposable income. This is especially true with rent and cost of living both rising faster than most people's incomes. The bottom half has little disposable income everywhere except for your projections.

Before I get to some numbers nobody will read the fact is I doubt very much that most readers here have anything but a passing understanding of what its like to actually be at the bottom.

Lets zoom on down to irving and imagine we are dealing with a parent or 2 and 1 kid and need a 2 bedroom apartment. Going on a brief peruse of apartments.com I'm seeing a 2 br apartment starts at about 2600 USDA thrifty food plan would suggest about 780 per month for 3 people depending on age and sex.

If we can't actually deal with both people working while using just public transit we will have to probably burn 800 a month for car payment, insurance, upkeep and gas.

Electricity/water another 300-350

Phones another 60 minimum, internet 80

Now lets talk about health insurance we are probably going to pay about $500 and easily more like 750 for something that isn't a complete joke.

Now lets talk about savings because if we don't have any the first time the car needs to be repaired we're all going to lose our jobs and end up homeless plus at some point we will have to retire so allocate $500 for that.

We are at about 6000 a month while still only sketching out the outline of a life. I'm assuming our fictional family would also like to wear cloths, by toilet paper, wash their clothes, have some form of entertainment and enlightenment, maybe even engage in the normal family activity of having a pet animal of some sort bigger than a hamster.

We would probably be able to live a reasonable life for more like 7000 a month or 84,000. This means Joe median+ is probably OK but again ONE HALF OF PEOPLE ARE BELOW THE MEDIAN BY DEFINITION AND THEY ARE NOT EVENLY DISTRIBUTED IN TOTAL OR DISPOSABLE INCOME. Most of the poor folks are seeing their already insufficient wages and the cost of health insurance and rent going up and wondering if they can afford to pay rent and health care in 5 years while you insist they have plenty of money to spare. You don't live in the same universe. Going to move.org gives you an incredibly shitty approximation of what it actually costs to live your life. You know less by far than you think you do.
I was mostly intetested in the kinds of oral traditions, and maybe other traditions to catch knowledge without writing, say, using sculpted / cut figures, etc.
Hardware Manufacturer Policies for Compatibility
Hello Everyone!

I was wonder about the EU - USB-C policies and thinking about where could people submit or suggest ideas regarding this kind of policies. It may would consider in the US in the Right to Repair movement or in the EU (I am not sure exactly yet). In case you know, please share.
I know, it's not a big deal to google it, but I would be happy to hear your ideas and opinion as well, here is mine.

My idea is to don't let HW manufacturers to give a limit of unsing PCIe devices. I seriously believe it creates a huge amount of e-waste. Laptop manufacturers limit wifi modules to be able to use only the ones sold with the product, workstation manufacturers limit video cards etc. It is a poisonous practice and if USB-C can be forced on a phone.... It should be an easy move to don't let manufacturers to take effort to keep their products NOT being upgradable.

I am not sure if any policy is already on the way. I think it would deserve to take effort for, and would make a change for sustainability. Other way HW manufacturers will keep producing waste and limit their product's usability for the continuous success of their future products.
As I understand it, it's a constant battle between "stop making me enter stuff", and bots or compromised systems.

That's how we have arrived at "please re-enter your 30-character credentials, and no, you can't copy-paste them"

there is one sorta-kinda workaround to autocomplete with the "new-password" attribute value, but that seems a bit hack-y, even if it works. For now.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Security/Securi...
Would take many many years to rack up property taxes that would equal the upfront cost of an electrician alone (due to the low value of the house/land, at least in non-urban areas).

Also, almost everyone we’ve spoken with about tiny houses actually wants their city/county/state to recognize tiny houses as legitimate, including the taxes, because then they could legally live in the house full time. The problem is only a tiny fraction of locations in the US allow people to live in them full time.
ebooks allow one to invert the review comments.
I think I had basically an identical journey to you, through the same ZFS versions. Zevo was really exciting at the time to have a professional looking org behind it, and they came out with a real Sys Prefs plug-in and everything. They'd hired one of the Apple file system devs too.

I even wrote my own menu-bar tool way back when - https://github.com/alexwasserman/ZFSStatusScript

Was 8 years ago - no idea if it still works. A while back I moved to just running ZFS on my home lab machines and then exporting over the network to use as necessary.
A product manager's promotion.
> Forget about new products, forget about improvements to existing products, forget infrastructure work/cost optimization, forget not having major data breaches regularly, forget mitigating large-scale security vulnerabilities(i.e. log4j), forget being able to capitalize on market trends on a useful timescale, and forget about the ability to deal with situations that require more engineering capacity that your company uses on an average day.

And say hello to being increasingly surrounded by Chesterton's fences[0] at every turn.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Chesterton's_fence
In this context, it depends on what one considers "a normal user," but I have found that this, OpenZFS on Linux, and OpenZFS on Windows makes ZFS a better cross-platform FS for my needs. I didn't enjoy the exFAT experience, and despite their portability claims, I never got UDF to work at all on any OS (I don't run FreeBSD, so maybe that explains my lack of success)

I have read the warnings about not using ZFS on USB disks, but thus far either I've been very lucky or my "USB threat model" is not the same as the people offering those warnings
I have to disagree. I pay for tools if they're good and they're saving me

- time
- headache
- improve my quality or quantitive results

I very often do not want to pay if the product isn't as good as it claims or simply not good enough.

Software developers very simply would rather build their own half assed solution to a problem rather than pay for a half assed solution.

Offer quality, we'll pay.
I agree, but ADHD has a purported biological mechanism that justifies its treatment. And ADHD meds aren't without effects
Human geography changes over time. People move for economics, relationships, preferences, etc. There are shortages in the destinations and vacant properties in the origins. (Destination populations don’t necessarily change much either, but that’s because population is bounded above by housing capacity… question is what would population be if they made room, how competitive it is to get or keep a slot).

Household size also changes. People are forming families later or not at all, so spending more time living alone. Empty nesters are staying in the houses they raised children in instead of downsizing, for various reasons, but especially a lack of smaller places to downsize to. The mix of apartments, houses, townhouses, and bedroom counts needs to be flexible and respond to population over time.

It’s simply not the case that the living arrangements that were in place when we froze everything in amber just keep working for us indefinitely into the future. Needs change!
You usually "pump yourself full of amphetamines" to be able to sleep, calm down and focus, not the other way around.
> if you like them.

Important caveat here. My only exposure to JetBrains had been through Intellij which was thoroughly unpleasant around 2012-2013. That impression has left me forever sour towards them. Surprised to hear people say that it could be a step up from VSCode.

It looks like "Fleet" is their VSCode competitor? I'm not sure if the homepage does a good job at communicating how this improves over of VSCode. First of all VSCode has an enormous ecosystem of tools which seems hard to replicate. In terms of advertised features for Fleet, it seems like the one most highlighted on the page is multiplayer, which would possibly enable others watching me code live? Sounds nerve-wracking. Although I could imagine some helpful scenarios when pair-programming or something.

Other items that are advertised don't really encourage me to want to make the leap, especially as something I have to pay for. It sounds like they could host your code, or something like that, which could be nice. An annoying part of my workflow is that I work on the same codebase between multiple machines and every time I hop between machines I have to commit the changes to a private repository that is separate from my team's repository. It seems like it would be somewhat straight-foward to have the same code shared between all machines.

Other than that I would be interested to hear on how any Jetbrains products would improve productivity.
I love Django. I was inspired this summer to start an open source project for gaps in their docs like setting up a local development environment, using React for the frontend, deploying to Heroku/AWS, adding Google Analytics, etc.

https://learndjangoreact.com/tutorial

https://learndjangoreact.com/docs/add-google-analytics
Some do. Probably over-represented on HN. Others want to work their hours and spend the rest of their time with non-technical hobbies, or with family, or literally anything else. If that isn’t you, no big deal. But we should not paint all developers with the same brush.
household is defined as 4 people so divide by the number of adults and you get the same data
By the late 1970s researchers at LLNL probably also had access to interactive terminals and didn't need to rely on batch job printouts as heavily.
Perhaps PG’s buddy is concerned what will step in to stop a run on crypto? There are no state actors that I’m aware of like central banks for currency.
people who share intense experiences and endure hardship together will tend to be very open to communicating again in the future. This is based on my past experience, not fantasy.
The age doesn't matter, more "disposable" income will drive up prices. A home here, a home there, comps. Poof! Prices nudge up.

And you don't see the younger ones because, yes they still have economic headroom to travel.
How do you figure? Every day they make the choice to live like they do, just like you make the choice to live in your town doing whatever it is you do. If you wanted to live a different lifestyle, you could pick a direction, go there, and live like the people there. They choose not to. That sounds like liberty to me.
R49081 is the natural number consisting of 49081 “1” digits in decimal base, or (10^49081 - 1)/9. This number has now been proven to be a prime number, using some number-crunching algorithm. Somebody else will have to ELI5 that algorithm.
It's also amazing for people with trouble sleeping. It masks all the noises that pull you out of deep sleep. I've been using white noise for sleep now every night for years. You can get machines that play many different tones to help with that. There's even a machine that uses a physical process to generate white noise that's much more organic than playing a looped file. It's cool, would recommend / 10. Now I have to try coding with some brown noise. If this really is the same tone as a plane I get why so many people love working on planes now.
Check out mynoise.net (or the mynoise app- "White Noise and Co" generator on the brown noise preset)
I responded to the other commenter about that. But I wouldn't be surprised if he did eventually, possibly while keeping control of supervoting stock like Zuck.
We’re not talking about airlines. We’re talking about a place you go to see the Iron Sheik f-bomb someone.
Apparently it's just that number of 1s followed by each other as a number.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Repunit

It's part of "recreational mathematics" which solves a longstanding question I've had after finding out about a "special" set of numbers that make me think "What the hell was that?"

Basically the question was "Why can't I just come up with any dumb rule I want? Like the number of letters in the number being equal to the number of digits in the base ten representation or some other noise like the number of toothpicks required to represent it in decimal and then do some wacky proofs regarding "toothpick count"?" Apparently the answer is "well you can!"

Alright then. There exists a non-serious branch of math.
Edit: the OP is correct, I was confused by the forum name, as I thought it was about Mersenne primes, but this is about Repunit primes.

Original response:

Almost correct, but it's 2^49081-1, not (10^49081-1)/9. And there's no division by 9 at all.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mersenne_prime
One thing that doesn't help is that Fortnite is 'juiced' beyond almost anything ever before it. So if you try to pitch your kids trying a different game (say, with a clever mechanic or thought-provoking story), it is harder for that game to compete.
Reminds me of the EWI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EWI_(musical_instrument). Which several people in my high school band would play in the locker rooms.
I don't know if you were being dramatic, but Maven builds kotlin just fine and my experience is that it is a ton more stable over time than "./gradlew ohGawdWhatGradleInternalsAreGoingToDieNow"
So Microsoft should provide blanket protections to the developers that use it?
It’s a little trickier than that: their income has been growing substantially for years.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/274566/twitters-annual-r...

2021 would have been a profit of $300M had they not included a one-time lawsuit settlement.

What really stands out is how much they spend on stock-based compensation – it seems like that would have been a key area to save money but that was also less than a third of the $1.2B in new annual debt which Musk just added so I have no idea how they could make the numbers work anymore.

https://s22.q4cdn.com/826641620/files/doc_financials/2021/ar...
this is basically the idea behind vaping. partially replicating the ritual makes it much easier than switching to a pure nicotine maintenance vehicle (ie, patches).

it doesn't replicate the social ritual of a "smoke break" though. a single cigarette burns for about as long as you'd usually want to have a light conversation with a stranger. a vape "lasts" indefinitely long, and you never need to ask someone for a light. you can also probably get away with just doing it inside if you're discreet.
Yeah, sure. The very first comment in the Reddit thread says "I use Clydē and it works," and the third one is "CIyde. Use capital i instead of L," so nice try, but no.
He really is the world's best door-to-door vacuum cleaner salesman.

His advice on how to make money is basically that you should give some to him. Sometimes you just have to stand back and clap.
“Who is hiring?” job postings continue to lag
Play money (but fiercely taken seriously so seemingly “accurate”) is https://manifold.markets
US increasing pace of hypersonic weapons development to chase China and Russia
given the strength of the network effects a subscription model is worth exploring, which seems to be what he is pursuing.
They would make money by colluding with one of the players and taking a cut of their winnings. Or sometimes they just get hacked.

It does make sense that in a lot of player-versus-player games, online makes it more risky.
> Even with marriage equality and other progress, I do not think the modern transgender rights movement would have been at all possible without the internet.

This is what kills me, because it's absolutely right. I'm trans and my people are all I have. I would love to have just a dumbphone, but being alone again, searching desperately for anyone who gets it, whom I can see and know knows me --- that is soul-rendingly painful. We are a diaspora connected by wires and lights on a screen. The knowledge that I'm not alone, I'm not crazy, I'm not broken saved my life. I can't go back now.
Why would someone volunteer to destroy corporate documents for free?
November follow-up to October's discussion[0]

October ended with 491

November has 555

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33083279
I'm equally dumbfounded that with all this computing power no one has written an AI that can identify primes 99.999% of the time for quicker testing. Train that thing and reverse its logic. I'm not one of those people who think primes are the keys to the universe. I'm not sure how one day people realized there's no pattern, just a form of embedded randomness,
behind any irrational number like Pi... yet still think the prime sequence is more important than that.

[edit] it's as if we're so desperate for order to arise out of chaos that we'll bend reality to find the order in any sequence. Seems like our own problem, not God's.

[edit2] I am eagerly awaiting any response to know why this is such an unpopular comment! I'm excited to have my mind changed. Tell me.
> an object is a struct with associated functions

And inheritance and polymorphism, which I don’t think you can reproduce with closures.
This is veering into White Man's Burden territory.
I think it's fraudulent to "sell" a phone, but then limit it's use to only functions that the manufacturer can monetize.

That grocery store analogy isn't remotely similar to hardware that is being arbitrarily crippled to suit the manufacturer.

I would think it was a scam if the grocery store could somehow stop me from shopping elsewhere.
https://primes.utm.edu/top20/page.php?id=57, linked in the article, begs to differ.
It's interesting to read how much research tbray did on crypto back then. Definitely doesn't seem like new entrants today were doing the same level of diligence, on average.
Implementing State Machines
The FED concluded their digital currency experiment with bitcoin and ETH, they are ready to dispose them, and are ready to push for the digital EURODOLLAR

"systemic" and crypto is not something one mix together, another evidence of it being a FED project

That's my theory

Oh and i'm pretty sure he meant YC is done with crypto projects, they were crypto advocators, recently made a statement that they wanted to keep push for crypto projects, but with the current events that might have altered their plan
No, this is just on the mersenne prime forum. If you read [1] from the link it tells you OP is right.
The point is that it's bunk reasoning, the same kind that results in managers proudly proclaiming to have used two women to make a baby in only 4.5 months.

The Pareto Principle in no way implies that you can just fire 80% of your employees and retain 80% of their "effect"; that's just not how tasking and scoping work.
Congrats on the launch! What is the reason behind choosing Perl?

PS: We are building https://github.com/ToolJet/ToolJet/ - built using JavaSript/TypeScript.
Coinbase was part of the YC Summer '12 batch. What are the odds he's referring to Brian Armstrong? It may be a long shot, but that would at least explain why the concern from his friend is noteworthy.
Lesics on YouTube is a not too dissimilar modern incarnation of this style.
I think the parent is right. This seems to be a decimal repunit, not binary. I can't find a positive reference, though.
I'm against the war on general purpose computing. I'll leave it at that.

everyone said it well here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33684776

Just build a product that is excellent, without fuckery and small print.
"how are you going to ramp them up when all of your engineering capacity is dedicated to keeping a small group of core services from falling over dead".
That's a tough problem, but one that's solved thousands of times a year by fast growing startups when they get a new round of funding.

"How quickly can you bring people on board when you're notorious for a culture of overwork and abuse?".
I agree that could be a challenge but then again, he's gotten people onboard at his other companies where I've heard the work/life balance is awful as well.

"who's going to lend to you when you're massively in debt from an LBO and you can't provide more than "long term" promises that in six months the company can actually function?".
Valid point in today's economic climate, but there have been countless examples of investors making risky bets repeatedly. Uber is a perfect example.
According to Peter Zeihan, France (along with Turkey & a few others) will be emergent empires of the post-globalist age. There is ample precedent for and, and for some countries, explicit codification of using commercial tech products for state ends, particularly espionage.

So a) this is not a surprising direction at all and b) this sets up a nice little pre-fertilized, fully-walled-off plot for a French omnibus tech company to explode into.
do we know who are the top creditors? FTX has declared bankruptcy and since it's crypto there is almost nothing of value that creditors can claw back.
Counterpoint: it may be a complete waste of time to "fix it right" and the business may be able to sail on for the next 10 years without ever fixing it, and that may be absolutely fine.

The perfect code will never ship.
Totally agree with this principle although that’s not what drives me to use my phone. I have a very generous amount of free time for my age, and I squander it for some reason.
Please remember that Guido van Rossum is now employed by Microsoft. Yes, I am a fan of Guido van Rossum and his work, but I am always suspicious when famous people recommend their own company's products. It feels like excellent marketing/PR that is hard to resist.
Tradition must be lived, those are just words now.
The Grisly, Diverse World of Meat-Eating Primates
Ongoing improvement in tools for dealing with abuse. This has three major components, none trivial: ensuring that users keep enjoying the service and aren’t turned off by spam or harassment, keeping things appealing to advertisers, and complying with government regulations. I describe this as ongoing because it has human adversaries and they’re often quite dedicated and/or paid to do things like spam or shape public option so the problem shifts but is never solved.
Thank you! You're right, this is not about a Mersenne prime, but about Repunit prime. Sorry about that!
To be fair, it would absolutely be possible to set up a hotspot where all the clients were jailed and invisible to each other, had IPs in different subnets, whatever.

Conventionally, I guess that sort of isolation doesn't typically happen as it's more work to set up and only really benefits users (privacy from each other), but maybe if more apps figure out how to take advantage of this things could change.
Haha, that sounds awful. I hope you’re somewhere peaceful now.

I do find those work (and I keep a pair in my toiletry bag which I take just about everywhere), but if I leave them in for prolonged periods I find my ears start to hurt. Almost like I could be developing some kind of inner ear skin irritation.
That's discussed in the post.
Enough developers want to hack on their own tools that the market is smaller than you would naively expect, counting the number of developers and how many tools they each use. It's a bit like asking "how come we're having so much trouble selling our extended warranty to professional mechanics, even though professional drivers buy extended warranties all the time?"
Strange. In my experience, IntelliJ from 2012 is a superior experience to VSCode today.