skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the article brings up too many separate concepts without sufficiently tying them together.

One of the most basic concepts you have to accept to agree with the premise of the article is that the Fed kept interest rates low to transfer wealth to the wealthy.

> After the Great Recession, the Federal Reserve instituted a zero or near-zero interest rate regime. The philosophy behind it was simple:

> > The Fed’s “strong and creative measures” would inflate stock prices, which would lead those holding stocks to feel wealthier and more confident, and then they’d spend a little more, and some droplets of this might trickle down to the people that are working in the real economy.5

Of note is the fact that the citation for this quote is some random dude Wolf Richter's website. The guy's a former car dealership manager, and that's the extent of his financial background.

A much less sinister and simpler explanation exists: high inflation rates are bad for pretty much the entire economy regardless of level of wealth. We already saw this in action in the 1970s.

I also take issue with a lot of the numbered points in the article. These points seem to avoid the more nuanced multiple factors behind those specific developments:

1. Tech companies are flushed with cash because it's the highest margin business out there. There was no such thing as software company profit margins in the olden days of corporate behavior.

3. The buyback graph didn't show R&D spending decreasing at all or otherwise being impacted by stock buybacks. The cited HBR article doesn't directly link the lack of R&D expenditures to stock buybacks. Aren't there companies out there that have minimal R&D expenses? S&P 500 companies like Dollar General, Costco, Robert Half, and CBRE Group?

4. Isn't the biggest reason to link CEO pay to stocks to avoid personal income tax? That's just a tax efficiency issue.

5. Aren't there other reasons why Vanguard is popular besides the popularity of stocks in general? I always thought it was because the Boglehead ideology spread and Vanguard's low expense ratios proved to be attractive. I see this as "passive versus active investing" not "investing in stocks versus investing in something else."

7. Who says FIRE isn't productive? Where do you think those "tech companies flush with cash" got the cash from?
There is ambiguity in vertical / horizontal split. Does it refer to the "cut" or the result?

In Sway and i3 if I make a vertical split and open a new window, it appears below (thus vertical), but the split was like a cut horizontally across. I've seen some people use the - and | keys for tmux splits which kind of avoids the language issues and turns it into which way the new line is drawn.
How is it wrong? Everything I've ever read about the subject says that because of the rocket equation you need massive amounts of fuel to lift up the fuel itself and the payload to get off the ground and into orbit. In order to burn that fuel, you need complex multistage rockets which require expensive materials and precision manufacturing.

Of course it's expensive. Surely if these things were built in space instead engineers would be able to build simpler, cheaper spacecrafts.
The solution should be fairly straight forward: batteries.

If you think about it .. petrol is not pumped in your car straight from the refinery, right? It's brought in from time to time and stored in underground tanks.

Energy can be sipped non-stop into large capacity batteries (stored underground?) . Said batteries will have very high-discharge capabilities. When you come in to charge your car it's just a matter of grabbing a "pump" connected to the "underground tanks".

No stress on the network.
We went from computers being very rare (early on I remember maybe two families out of the whole class had one at home) to heading to above one per person (everyone had a laptop and there would be a desktop, too, or more) during college and now we're headed back towards "about one desktop/laptop per house or a bit more" as most people have phones.
Thank You. I sometimes do mistakes under pressure.
The other advantage of fixed size buffers is if you want to write the records to disk you can just write it directly. You don't need to serialize or instantiate the strings when reading, you can just copy the bytes straight to or from the file.

Looking at things like man utmp.5 should reveal what their thinking was.
I'll disagree that the compiler is great. Is it fast? Sure, but it produces suboptimal code.

I personally believe that the biggest factor that it became popular was marketing, having well known names behind it both as a corporation, and individuals who had some contributions in Unix land
Thanks, I might need to try that, does Proton require SteamOS or I could use any linux flavor I like?
It blew my mind to find out the first crewed mission to launch on the Saturn V (Apollo 8) flew all the way out and around the moon. No low earth orbit shakedown or anything, just straight to the moon (without landing). A few more launches tested they could dock with the LM and then Apollo 11 just went for it back to the moon and landing. The pace they went at is pretty unbelievable today.
This is an enlightening answer. Part of my issue with “lightweight” is that is is vague. I see it used all the time. In this case, if people mean “way less configuration than Postgres,” and “does not need its own service and process(es) to manage,” that makes total sense. And it also gives a hint as to the tradeoffs.
The replication crisis can not be overstated though because "science" that can not be replicated isn't science at all. The very base definition of science is that it's a method that produces testable and predictable propositions about our world. If a theory or paper does not deliver that it's guesswork, a superstition or religious belief in extreme cases. But certainly not science, no matter how many people or institutions refer to it as such. Just as the Democratic People's Republic of Korea isn't actually democratic.

Do not trust the science. Verify the science.
If something you are following gives you anxiety, stop following it.

If you don’t, you have nobody to blame except yourself.
Huh? The move from x86 is hampered by making binaries compiled for x86 work on ARM, it has nothing to do with performance.
How do you go from "control" (used several times) to "privacy"?

Hipp not only wrote SQLite, which uses his own parser generator (Lemon) but he also wrote his own version control system (Fossil), and his own editor.

Perhaps it's more likely that he wants to be in control of the things which most closely affect him, rather than this being a privacy issue?
Linux would be best for the unsophisticated users that just want a browser and maybe OpenOffice, but those are the users least likely to try it.
I use Linux (Ubuntu Mate) at home and Windows 11 at work (care giving at someone's home, helping him do minimal things).

Linux is like a friend, not even awkward at this point.

Windows is like a drunk at a bar, who, half an hour ago, was just talking too loudly but now has started groping you.

In ten years, I can imagine Windows trying to override literally anything someone does on their machine, including the text they type, if MS can imagine profits. Nothing is off the table, why should it be. Nothing stops this.
The lesson here is never ignore your own "Huh, that's weird." experience when using software. :-)
KYC doesn't say you can't walk around with $10K in your pocket paying cash everywhere. It says the $10K should come from an understood source when you take it in or out of the bank.

I don't understand the illegal immigrant comment. Please do explain that if you like.
Heat pumps have efficiency above 100%, by exchanging and transporting heat, instead of generating it. 2-4x for air pumps and close to 5x for geo.
Take a look at Espressif ESP32 family of devices, could be sufficient for what you want to do.
It seems they improved #2 in 22H2, but at the same time removed the registry option for the classic Alt+Tab dialog.
It fits in a standard envelope, but you can use a sack if you want.
> Perhaps Google have some lightweight countermeasures against these types of attack (even a random some-milliseconds timing at the client side between receiving a signed blind token and using it to establish the VPN connection would help a tiny bit), but if they do, they weren't outlined in the report.

The client could pre-generate session tokens days or months in advance. Then, leave their house, head to public wifi, (to avoid traffic correlation on their home network) and even after unblinding the session token, it would not be feasible to determine who paid for VPN.
What is the cost of a comprehensive audit?
It never was a toy, so that's good.
SLS was also even further behind in development that Starship is... it was supposed to fly before Falcon Heavy. Also the next SLS flight isn't now, but more like 2 years from now... Starship might very well by flying by then(it better be given that NASA plans to use it as the lander).

Not sure where you got the idea F-35/B-21 are questionable benefit over existing systems from(we don't know enough about B-21 to say this, and F-35 seems to have proven itself by now).
This is quite expensive especially when you can get e-ink phones for half the price of that on the same website.

I just hope that there'll be enough early adopters so that the product will keep on being developed and thus the price would drop in the future.
Windows is adware. A couple weeks ago I recently wrote a rant about the reasons I no longer use Windows on any of my machines [1], but I recently installed Windows 10 on bare metal because I have a work project coming up that likely requires me to use Windows. One of the first new obnoxious things I noticed was that search box in the taskbar had a bright and colorful gift icon inside it. Clicking on that icon brings up links to holiday-themed advertisements like "Top 10 Tech Gifts This Holiday Season". Mind you, I provided zero information to Microsoft and had yet to even open a web browser. I also made certain my internet was disconnected prior to the installation setup to avoid being strong armed into creating a Microsoft account, and disabled as much telemetry as they allow beforehand. This was not a dev or beta release, this was the latest version of the Windows 10 ISO from Microsoft's website. It's not just sad, but it gives me a gross feeling.

[1] https://chuck.is/windows
"Recovery was fine. Wife up and walking at the end of the first day."

So, exactly like a vaginal birth (speaking from my own experience) ;-)
I don't understand the big fuss - sure it hurts, but it's endurable. And for the child there are benefits to being born vaginally.

Of course, everyone is free to do as they see fit, but I am very happy and proud of my Klingon birth experience :D
In some communities, notably AI, there are attempts to fight this which are quite successful:

e.g. https://paperswithcode.com/ and the recent phenomenon of people hosting their system demonstrations on huggingface.
Not worried at all, EDGAR my main man will drop a train on 'em.
Yeah, but for some reason, maybe just "luck" (in the sense of "fortune"), I was always surrounded by people who google your idea and say "look at this, xyz is also doing it" which can be extremely demotivating.
Just curious - what's wrong with backup codes?
I assume this is the project you mean? - https://ofersp.github.io/digital_needle/ it's a shame there doesn't seem to be sourcecode. Very cool though.

You can also get laser turntables - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser_turntable which look intriguing

I'm rather curious about these microscopes - https://matesy.de/en/products/magnetic-field-visualization/m... which can visualise magnetic fields, they're very expensive though.
Speaking of all this, on my windows 11 machine I get McAfee popups, and for the life of me, I can't track down where they come from or how to turn them off. My son has a windows 10 machine and has the same problem. Why does Microsoft put up with this? I only use windows when I have to because of crap like this.
I've used Linux and Windows for more than a decade each. I know about desktop Linux' shortcomings and I was using Windows 10 in the last few years because it worked better than Linux for me. There is just too much stuff going on and performance suffers (especially when dealing with Docker for Windows). It also feels that I'm a guinea pig for PMs at Microsoft to experiment on new revenue generating features, but my operating system is not a place where I would want them. It hurts my focus.

Windows 11 finally sent me back to Linux. Despite a few bugs and annoyances here and there, I'm doing my work on Linux more productively than I was on Windows 11. Time to move on for me.

In the end, it feels like I'm not an important customer to Microsoft anymore (as a "power user"). It feels that their target audience are clueless grandmas that can be easily scammed into their products. I don't want this to sound aggressive. It really does feel that way.
Didn’t Elastic change licenses for all it’s products and libraries such that they are not really useable for commercial SaaS products?
This is just about the best ui library I've seen. Are there ones that are in the same league? blueprintjs is a great one too.
What you ask for is now possible using Next.js and the new React Server Side components. Check the link in the sibling comment tree.
Sure did: https://github.com/elastic/eui/blob/main/licenses/ELASTIC-LI...
Apple’s Plans for Car and AR Headset Reflect More Pragmatic Era
Wow - lots of opinions on front-end dev. Not much of a surprise. It is a bloated mess. But "breaking up with JavaScript"? There's no way to build anything useful without JavaScript.

Build it without frameworks? Absolutely! Build with HTMX? Makes sense to me. It's a light-weight and isolated extension. It would be great if such partial load semantics was added to the web standard.

Isn't the core question whether the web client is stateless or not?

My front ends have been very stateful for long time. But I build desktop equivalent web apps. I jumped on the AJAX track in 2000 and never looked back. My state has been represented in XML ever since. I sync with server via "updategram" semantics (borrowed from SQLXML), and transform state into HTML with XSLT in the browser. I use no frameworks or libraries/ Has served me very well for 20 years and likely will until retirement.
their tagline seems to indicate so "The Elastic UI framework (EUI) is a design library in use at Elastic to build internal products that need to share our aesthetics."
Blood vessels expand when you exercise. So my naive thought is that if blood vessels expand when you use darkmode then that is evidence that you are straining your eyes by looking at darkmode.
Thanks. There are dates at the bottom of each episode btw. The last episode was from about a year ago.

Promotion wise I tried to organically promote it. Basically if I read a comment on HN or a few sub-reddits I'd leave a non-spammy reply and often end the comment with something that links back to an episode with a timestamped link to the information related to the comment. I also suggested guests share the episode when it goes live. I tweeted out new episodes but I don't have a huge following.

Some of those posts on Reddit did pretty well. For example this single post in /r/django fueled almost a year's worth of guests https://www.reddit.com/r/django/comments/gddnh0/are_you_runn..., and the follow up post https://www.reddit.com/r/django/comments/ifrcd6/a_few_months....

> You suck at audio engineering. The audio from several samples I listened to ranging from mid-run to the most recent episode were a plosive and fricative nightmare.

Is this feedback mostly on the guest's audio or my set up?

It's not my full time job but remember each guest is a different person recording their side of the track in their house or office. They're using whatever bare bones mic set up they have. I pre-assembled a list of recording suggestions before the show to avoid common issues. If money were no object I'd send every guest $150-200 worth of equipment or pay to have studio time in their local area so they can record their side but that's not realistic for a podcast this size.

The most recent episode has plosives but if something clips there's not much I can do since the source audio is messed up. Everyone was recording locally, usually with Audacity to eliminate any network artifacts. Audio editing wise on my side, I usually just run their track through a noise gate while trying not to kill the natural sound of their voice. Sometimes I play a little with an EQ when it's super clear they have a very trebly voice. Often times I can't use a compressor to make their volume more consistent because they have a huge amount of room noise that can't be filtered out without making them sound non-human.

I'm curious what you think about this episode's quality https://runninginproduction.com/podcast/31-mux-is-an-api-bas.... This was one where the guest ended up buying a new mic before the podcast (I suggested they pick up an AT-2005 which is a pretty low cost dynamic USB mic, it's what I use as well). They wanted a better set up for future videos on their own (not just for my show). What you hear there is mostly straight from the source.
I've started doing this with a few programs using sleep 1 and a while loop. First was ncmpcpp as it would declare itself too small and quit sometimes when my terminal with tmux resized, this way it'd either reopen when I adjusted pane sizes to fix it or when I restored the whole window to the other size. Next I did it for stig because I'd often press q to quit by accident or because it occasionally hits an issue where you can't view a torrent's detailed info anymore, fixed by a restart. Lastly for the aerc mail client which will frequently stop being able to reach mail servers and tell me I can't archive mail or something, so I just quit it and now it restarts (not sure if there's another way to make it reconnect).
Finding JIT Optimizer Bugs Using SMT Solvers and Fuzzing
If you have the RAM to load up a toy dataset, what happens if you utilize a :memory: database instead of disk? If the performance is the same, you know the problem exists outside of the storage.
Precisely. The working conditions for the infeed are terrible for pilots as well as flight attendants.

A friend went through flight attendent training recently. She did very well but eventually dropped out when the total compensation was small and didn't include things like the rent you pay to "hot bunk" at wherever you wind up stationed. Compensation also didn't include things like paying for your attorney if you are sued while working for the airline.

So many "shortages" are like the "shortage" of engineers. No, there are plenty of engineers--just none willing to put up with your bullshit at that price.
Will be quite an interesting turn of events if a video game engine can be a driver in promoting functional language adoption.
This was great! It prompted me to check what the story is for Android/Google. I hadn't realised there's https://www.google.com/android/find which lets me find/lock/wipe it.

Also extra handy: I can make it ring _even if silent with my one-plus physical silent switch on_. I'd not actually worked out how to do that before, and it has been very annoying the odd time I lose it and it's silent.

Very good.
True YOLO moment.

It's a miracle that everyone that went to the Moon returned unscathed.
I listened to quite a few of your episodes.

One piece of feedback though, I always felt the episode titles could have been better.

More like https://www.indiehackers.com/

Where the title was some like “X person company generates Y revenue with Z tech”.

The main difference being, it gave me a reason to listen (sparked my interests because 1-person is generating $100,000s with a simple PHP form app”. As opposed to “Meteor Cloud Is a Full Service Hosting Solution for Meteor Apps” which just sounds like an ad for their app.

Another subtle suggestion, the date of the episode wasn’t visible from the main feed - making it difficult to see if any new episodes have dropped.

Sorry to hear you considered it a failure. I really enjoyed it.
How many of those files need to be in the root, vs put there out of laziness? The authors of the repo have chosen to use a lot of different python ecosystem tools to automate various steps, but how many of those tools could simply be set to look in a different place for the files? The Makefile references tox for testing, both black and flake8 to enforce style (why two?), and of course the docker stuff. I bet most of those tools can be given a parameter for the location of the file, and they could all be moved into some subdir.
i dunno my parents fit in that category and told me they will not consider a Tesla as long as it’s associated with Musk. EVs of other companies are really quite nice these days so i don’t think they are losing anything. Right now that have a new plugin hybrid RAV4.
Because mullvad exit IP's may be more suspicious than other vpn providers IP addresses.
Be even more wary of high-status people who cannot afford to countersignal ;)
It is not wrong, you can reduce the cost but it will never be economical simply due to the gravity well.

> the minimum cost imposed by gravity (the energy needed to get into space) is incredibly low.

This is straight up false.
> it's a huge value to future code readers if my new structure only accepts an interface with List and Get, or List and Delete.

But that's not specific to golang. You can use the same approach in Java, Kotlin, C#, etc
"kind of shit" - in what way? I'm dying to hear an intelligent complaint come from somebody because so far everything I'm reading (for Windows 10 at least) are mob mentality pitch-forky type of comments. You can read my comment on it to another post here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33946821
rqlite[1] author here. To be clear rqlite is using SQLite in a completely conventional manner. Nothing about the distributed nature of rqlite impacts on SQLite, since each rqlite node runs its own complete copy of SQLite.

This bug can affect anybody using an in-memory version of a SQLite database. That was the point of writing the C unit test.

[1] https://github.com/rqlite/rqlite
> What I find incredible is that despite having precise location coordinates the police did not recover it.

I'm not sure how precise they really are, for the purpose of recovery anyway.

One day, the police knocked on my door while I was staying at a hotel. They were looking for a just-lost iPad, and the "Find-My" feature put it right by my room.

Problem is, the room was in a multi-story structure, and the pin, when I looked at it, was in the middle of the hotel (any so was my room).
That was never an official MS statement: https://www.pcworld.com/article/394724/why-is-there-a-window...
Compared to the 3(?) year engineering feat Germany didn't pull off in less than 12 years (BER airport)...
And he'll be testifying again on Tuesday.
Why would you pay for this? Why would you even associate with a company who will not even sell you, a private individual, an option that does not include this?

What about using Linux on the desktop is "difficult" enough to justify paying money to Microsoft for voluntary software servitude?

* They will not tell you what data they collect about you

* They will not allow you to disable data collection

* They will not permit you to define the default browser you use

* They will not permit you to avoid advertisements disguised as valid system alerts

* They will delete your privacy settings without notification

* They will lock down your hardware so you physically can't install or modify the software