skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This also evidences a fundamental misunderstanding of what it means to be a full-time low-wage employee.

> If they own a home

What home? We're talking about a cohort of people who work full-time jobs and still qualify for food stamps. Unless they inherited, they do not as a rule own homes.

> They drive a less reliable car.

Or cars.

But yes, they skimp on everything, and then the taxpayer kicks in for their food, (frequently) shelter, healthcare, etc.

I highly recommend Hand to Mouth by Linda Tirado for a first-hand look into being working poor in America.
Also particular note from the linked general release notes:

> Go 1.20 is the last release that will run on any release of Windows 7, 8, Server 2008 and Server 2012. Go 1.21 will require at least Windows 10 or Server 2016.

Windows 7 Extended Security Updates ending today expect to see that across a lot of software.
> The world is boring enough as is. Let's add more whimsy and cuteness through our service and project names.

This is a recipe for creating a wholly impenetrable language about your services. Which is easier for an outsider to understand:

"I updated the code for how Batman writes to Goliath in Cair Paravel"

"I updated the code for how the backend services write to the customer database in the billing application."

> I don't want to be the one to advocate for delaying features so we can rename broadcast-service to broadcast-and-new-responsibility-service. That's going to be an unpleasant conversation with your product manager, for good reason: Because this never should have happened, and it's a waste of time to change the name.

What seems to happen more often at the particular Large Company I work for is that not just responsibilities change, but fundamental assumptions underlying the architecture of a system change every few years. So rather than renaming a service, often a new system is put in place that reflects these new assumptions, and this new system will have a new name. The migration then isn't about the new name, it's about the new system, along with the new APIs and model of operation that comes with it. Yes, there are lots of examples of billing systems written 40 years ago in COBOL, but most software systems have a lifecycle on the order of 3-5 years.
Your point is still valid. They have all this technology "sitting around" and they seem to be avoiding focus on the obvious growth areas in favor of trading. See below yao420's point.
As a result of the huge lotto draws in recent weeks, the 24Lottos site has been used by 500,000 people worldwide for the first time ever!
I don't think my choices were particularly interesting, I'm was just loosely aware of their backgrounds and confirmed them as MBA graduates with a few searches.

The parent comment (and a common HN trope) was about how awful MBAs are at running companies. Those are 3 counterexamples to that trope. All three are highly successful in their CEO roles.

Given that Engineer -> MBA is a pretty common path, maybe we should just stop with the broad strokes?
I'd no longer say 'massively' in front.

I have a Renault Zoe - 2020, 50kWh battery, gets 200 miles in the summer, and was down to about 120 miles when it was sub-zero here.

On the current 34p/kWh home charging, that works out to 8.5p per mile on the high range, and 14p / mile when it's cold.

I also have a Renault Trafic that I get 39mpg on similar driving routes. That's about 19.5p/mile.

However, we sold a Citroen DS3 1.6HDi to get the zoe. That gave about 60mpg, and that works out to around 13p/mile...

I know I'm doing the right thing having the EV (and I love it), but it was a bloody expensive purchase for us, and is currently not going to get anywhere near making up the £15k or so extra that we had to put in to change from the DS to the Zoe.

Had we not had the home charger put in (which cost £1100!), then we'd be way down, as the nearest fast charger is now 50p/kWh, which would have taken the costs to 12.5p/mile and 20.8p/mile respectively - more expensive than my 240,000 mile 2.5 DCI van!
Google can buy companies, but when is the last time they acquired one which excelled after acquisition -- or even just didn't fail after acquisition?
"I can't seem to hold more than about 2 levels of call stack in my head"

you should try writing things down! Like, keep a notepad around. I have trouble with this sometimes and writing it down reduces the number of things I have to keep in my head.
It's defined in the New York City Administrative Code: it's linked annually to the Consumer Price Index from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

MIT have published a breakdown of it here that isn't written in the legalese of the Admin Code: https://livingwage.mit.edu/states/36
I'm 43 and feel the complete opposite. I am less coordinated and heavier than I used to be. I am learning advanced SQL for the first time and it feels like I am picking it up at a good speed, but still a bit slower than maybe if I were younger. I suspect this is more bias than mental degradation because I look at SQL and wonder why people would put such advanced logic into stored procedures which are limited by archaic conventions.

On the converse my primary programming skills have never been sharper. There is a caveat to this. I feel like I am an expert in what I do, which means I am confident in what I know and what I don't know. It also means there is a lot I have unlearned or intentionally avoided because such practices are anti-patterns or decrease productivity. Some of these things I deem "poor choices" are extremely common conventions which may indicate I am only a beginner from the perspective of a less practiced person who cannot live without such "poor choices".

I believe my programming skills are sharp because I am doing things outside of work that nobody else is doing. I have now reduced my OS GUI to a load time of around 165ms in Edge (130ms in Chrome). I saw a code package from Google on Github on the front page of HN either yesterday or the day before describing a means of file transfer cross-os. My personal JavaScript application has been doing that for years. Soon that personal JavaScript application will have a command terminal that executes in a web browser that works on both the local device and remote computers cross OS.

I once read about this in a book. I cannot remember if that was Blink, Outliers, or Good to Great. Performance follows practice, but the practice must be strenuous, such that you are continuously solving ever more challenging problems. Its the difference between a hobbyist whose skills will degrade over time, a professional whose skills are actively maintained but not advancing, and an expert whose skills continue to increase. As an example most senior developers I have met believe they are awesome because they are doing the same things they were doing 5 or more years ago, but now they are so much faster at it. That isn't awesome, its steady state.
If people want to argue that AI learns like a human, then creative rights should belong the AI model. If people want to argue that AI is a tool, then they should take those into consideration with their training data. You can't have your cake and eat it too.

That's completely orthogonal to copyright terms being way too long though.
Casio watches are not 'cool' because they are useful and cheap as they always were - they are fetishized as a 'fashion'.

If we were all just 'wearing them because they made sense' then yes, but they are specifically objectified as thing of adornment. It's mostly not about the past.

That guy who is still wearing the Casio because he always 'just did' - that's not pop culture.

There's nothing wrong with pop culture and it has many positive attributes, change is needed. It'd be boring without change. That said it can obviously be carried away.

Pruning is also healthy for the org in many ways, especially if it allows for adaptation and change. It obviously has some negative externalizations for individuals which is not nice.
But doesn't Google penalize you for user agent based cheating?
I think it's worth taking a step back here to say that IMHO regardless of whether the OP's previous comments justify his expulsion from the issue tracker, having the only other available "DDoS opt-out" mechanism be to email Russ Cox directly is _completely insane_ and unacceptable for an organization of Google's size and funding level. If they're going to ban members from the community (perhaps justifiably so), Google needs to either provide another public place to make one of these requests, or preferably make the DDoS feature opt-in rather than opt-out.
How did I get 50k users with no marketing? I was hoping that posting a Show HN saying I did would help get me there. /s
Right... basically Hawaii, California, and New England pay more than that - most of the rest of the country is at or under $0.10/kwh. I worked for a small business in Texas that used a fair amount of electricity and we were paying $0.04/kwh peak and $0.035/kwh overnight..
Yeah like anyone I've ever known in restaurant business under reports their cash tips, which can be a majority of income on good days.
Didn't Senna also have some religious thing that led home to believe he might die that day, but still chose to race? If it the safety upgrades were so easily identifiable, then why didn't people demand them sooner?

The solutions implemented where only discovered/developed because of the crash. We can go back in time and see how many people would have been saved by seatbelts and airbags. I would guess there are additional future safety stuff that future people could look back on us the same way. It's just reality and I don't feel bad about that.
Is it possible the teams you work with build unnecessarily complicated or abstracted stuff, because there are more choices of frameworks now? And perhaps the use of those frameworks is attractive for reasons like resume development?

I find in my 50's that my level of patience for gold plating is less than what it was, and I am less _willing_ to wade through layers of cruft when I know through experience there are simpler and more efficient ways to get things done - efficient in both developer and machine time.
It's probably a strategic investment to prevent competitors getting in there instead.
Well that chart is plainly wrong or outdated. This is a random coinbase transaction from 2021 and it pays out to all kinds of addresses including P2WPKH/P2WSH.

https://blockstream.info/tx/62c16aeb80944ed8e6d4c896dbd88661...
"Akshually, poor people are cheating on taxes and are way richer than you'd think".
Also mixing millennials and GenZ. Somebody born in 1982 is not a "young worker". They're 42.
> It's also normal to not pay sales tax in the city at smaller cafes and every bodega; this is normally passed off as a "cash discount," but it's conspicuously 8.875% rather than the normal credit processing fee.

For what it's worth, I live in NYC and have never experienced this. Lots of smaller places give cash discounts, but in my experience it's in the range of 3–4%, which sounds like a CC fee.
I wish people like you would quit apologizing for mismanaged governments that steal and waste so much money. There are clear examples of prosperous states where they don’t tax at all and they have thriving middle classes, good jobs for all that want them, and just as much infra as a high tax state.

It’s like denying “the science” when we have clear empirical evidence the people of a state can thrive without high taxes and that lots of people will not thrive in a high tax state. It’s clear, don’t you see it? Why do you deny what is in front of you and obvious?
The Fed doesn't create new base money, and they cannot really offer "stimulus" the way Congress can. They can just change the asset classes on their books. But because of their unique position, the choice of those asset classes affects how much money ends up back in their reserve accounts.

Only the Treasury can create new money. The proliferation of banknotes, which are considered legal tender, makes it a bit more complex and thus money in your checking account is money by some definition, but could not exist without base money. The Fed can change the incentives that drive the level of debt, and in that way manage the money supply.

It is for this reason that some call CBDC "digital base money." It is the money that is in reserves or cash, not merely an IOU... even if that IOU is federally insured.

But yea, monetary reserves held in Federal Reserve accounts is also digital already.
That’s quite a variety of locales to find yourself driving in. What took you to all those places?
Ok fine I didn't realise you were trying to lay a couple of little heffalump traps, so instead I just answered what I thought made sense. The given analogies are clumsy and don't really fit ("run farms" is silly - the NHS doesn't produce all of the things involved in the provision of healthcare - medicines and such) but I will humour you and answer in the context of the UK:

> Should Government run farms and give you food for free?

Probably not, the existing system works ok enough. They can maybe help the poor a bit more so they're not dependent on food banks (free school lunches was a recent controversy that shouldn't have been)

> Should government build homes and issue them to people?

I answered and you didn't like this but - yes and they should build more. I'll give you a little bonus and answer what you wanted to ask - "Should the government be the sole central authority providing housing?". Probably not, the housing market works ok enough in general. However they can maybe help the poor a bit more by building more council housing, not doing so is has directly contributed to making housing unaffordable for many.

And to bring us back to the original topic:

> Should the government have setup a national healthcare system back in 1948?

Yes - in the wake of WW2 there was no existing, competitive alternative that served the needs of providing quality, affordable healthcare to the populace. The NHS went on to deliver and then some. Plus with ~70 years of hindsight we see that in spite of a decade+ of brutal austerity, the NHS still costs less and delivers better outcomes than privatised systems like the USA has. It was the right thing to do, it is the right thing to do.

Also you seem to think they’ve shut out private providers altogether. This isn’t true, private healthcare exists if you want quicker access to some elective or non-urgent procedures or treatments.

Re your final point - this is very interesting. I'd like to know what countries you think I'm talking about, and if your libertarian (I think I'm right in saying this?), small government setup is anywhere close to implemented somewher right now or if it's purely theoretical/fantasy.
Yeah CM isn't quite there - surprsied nobody has made anything similar as to my knowledge it's pretty uncontested in its little niche.
I think dunking on the rpi is harsh - if it allows you to prototype and get your small-volume product out the door quickly, there's lots of other areas you could optimize the BOM first. Better to make a product with 75% gross margins as a single dev in 6 months than a product with 80% gross margins with a team of 6 in a year. Of course, they also overhired and wasted money on other BOM components
Superficial imitation is not the same thing as deep understanding. Nostalgia for the past isn't the same as respect for the lessons that it can teach us. A real understanding of history is one that can teach you something important about the present.
If their salaries went up 10% then they would save some of that money. Prices would rise 3%. And then when their salaries went up 3% the prices would go up 1%. And then their salaries would go up 1$ forcing the prices to go up 0.3% and then you'd reach a limit....

Well that's what I think. Do you have any proof backing up your statement that I'm wrong and "the cycle would repeat" or are you just repeating talking points from someone else?
I consider myself pretty cynical but you seem to be reaching a new level here.

What alternative term would you suggest?
I know and they support both for a while now. Why would they not support it if it saves fees?
Mmmm that's a reasonable point - I didn't mind paying fees for the coins, but I do think its a little iffy about fees to withdraw...

On another note, one thing about Coinbase that struck me, was that on the app/website it doesn't actually show you how much money you put in / what the return on your investment is (I used a spreadsheet to track my own investment "success").

I suspect Coinbase does not do this deliberately - as many, many people who invest in Crypto lose money and it doesn't want to highlight this point too much.
This is what's technically known as a "Ratner moment".
The article says that a "Living Wage" for Manhattan is $43.18 / hour, or around $86k base salary.

Maybe Manhattan COL is insane, but I have a hard time imagining that $86k is not enough to live on _anywhere_. Maybe you will have a room mate and cook for yourself every once in a while, but you will be able to support yourself just fine. This makes me seriously question the definition of "Living Wage".

Before we moved in together, my partner was living on just under $80k / year. She could afford a 2 year old car and a nice apartment with 1 roommate comfortably. She couldn't waste money mindlessly, but she did not need to pinch pennies at all.
yeah my BS detector is going off. this is a thinly vieled click bait marketing spam
YMMV. My dentist in India fucked up two of my teeth and my dentist in the US fixed them. Both do overtreatment but at least the latter is competent.
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Ah yes, one of those jack offs who disregard arguments because of a phone posting auto correct.

Do us a favor and get the COVID vaccines. They're safe and effective!
Contrarian take:

If your code is unreadable with single letter variable names your comments aren't clear enough. Case in point: Mathematics.
I think this is an insightful take. My first tablet was 7”. Most phones are 6” now. The extra size of a 10” tablet does not buy much extra functionality and we all basically have “phablets” now. And in the end, these big smartphones did end up taking up 80% of the tasks I used to do on my laptop and I don’t hesitate to leave it at home for a trip unless I know I’ll need to do a heavy creative task.
I know right. Why would you want someone who's actually studied business to run one?
The Book of Bread (1903)
Here is a perfectly preserved sony walkman from 1987 - maximum effort and all.

https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O315300/walkman-personal-...
How about just build more housing? Might be an easier solution than upending property rights entirely.
It's in the app store(s) which is arguably a form of marketing.
Young people, the poor, many people in developing countries tend to all be mobile only.
I don't have hard figures but i would estimate the number of people who do all their "computing" on a phone or tablet numbers in the billions.
Don't compare web development with "normal" software development. Writing code for the web is 10,000 layers of added complexity far above and beyond literally any other kind of programming.

"Normal" programming involves writing code that will run on one specific thing with (usually) one specific use case using tools (and often whole languages) made for that purpose. Web programming involves writing code that will run on any number of servers/devices/containers in any number of locations/networks using any number of architectures with arbitrary resources of wildly varying quantities and qualities that serves other servers, desktops, mobile devices, embedded things, and who-knows-what else; also of wildly varying quality/resources and quantities with wildly varying and unpredictable workloads/traffic intensity.

In other words, web development is about 100 orders of magnitude greater complexity than "normal" software development. It has become so bad that "premature optimization" is the norm; because the cost of re-doing things later to support a new feature/device/endpoint or fix an issue (e.g. lacking screen reader support) can be so great that adding a dozen layers of complexity to writing and deploying your code at the start can feel like a bargain in comparison.
What are they supposed to do? Surveil the entire brazilian population for threats? I honestly wouldn't even be surprised if the tyranny gets to this point. The judge suspended an elected governor for "not doing enough" to protect Brasília from the protesters. Who's to say he won't go after Big Techs?

Blame the instability of the country on these "authorities" who politically ressurrected a condemned corrupt communist and not only allowed him to run for presidency but did everything in their power to get him elected, and who responded with censorship and oppression when questioned.
Have you made any progress here ?
The fun part of your example is that the top line numbers they talk about are for NYS, not for NYC.

In fact they call out NYC for having

Manhattan boasts the state’s highest percentage of residents – more than 80% – earning a living wage.

Which seems to not line up with your assessment
I recently drained my bank account so low I wouldn't be able to pay the rent.

I've been working 2 years on a solo startup in fits and starts. I've never in my life ever had to worry about missing rent. There was always a good savings safety net.

It was such an incredible experience. It was this distinct feeling of not being able to breathe - of a tightness in the chest. Really unique to me.

I listened to a Joe Rogan podcast recently and he talked about his experience of first making a decent paycheck after going for years being a comedian barely making rent each month. He also described the feeling of "not being able to breathe".

I've never understood this feeling until now.

You enter a kind of panic first. "Even if I do this, this and this perfectly over the next few days/weeks, I am still going to be in shit and its not enough." For knowledge work, I find I need to be relaxed to allow the mind to work creatively to find solutions. This felt heavily restrained. When I needed full mental capacity to pull myself out of this ditch, it felt that this was the worst possible environment for it.

However there are benefits. By being forced into a "survival mode", you develop intense focus, and you have full clarity on your critical path. But at the same time, I didn't feel like I was going to be most time-efficient doing those necessary tasks because of the pressure.

On personal reflection, I wasted a lot of time working on the wrong things, and not planning ahead, and a lot of procrastination - probably ADD related.

Applied to the economy as a whole, it does feel like living paycheck to paycheck is a forcing function that leads to efficiency. If you let people do whatever they want without pressure, they will get nothing done. It's why we have homework deadlines. And I think it really depends on personality types too. But it definitely does strangle creativity. Although I'm sure you can adjust to it.

The biggest realization though is that there are probably a lot of people feeling this physical feeling, which is not a nice feeling, and doesn't let them achieve their full potential. It also explains a lot of socialist political viewpoints. Some from a place of empathy, but also some of jealousy/unfairness when you see other people living in such excess.
Everything I would have said is already here in other comments, so I’ll just say +1. I’m 44 and had a period around 40 where I thought this was happening to me, too, and I’m quite convinced it was NOT mental decline. Im doing better than ever because of just exercise in my case, though I may still investigate ADHD.
I have a web app with 9231 users with ZERO marketing. Want to know the secret? The users are me and 9230 bots.
>Should we conclude that median households are falling behind?

I thought this was the structural change undergirding the changes in US society for many decades now.