skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think there's pushback because it's kind of a "just buy more money" solution.

On the whole, the problem isn't that people are buying $70k trucks and escalades that's keeping them poor. It's not having enough income.

The difference personally between $70k and $90k is massive and the difference between $90k and $120k is massive. That's the difference between underfunding my retirement and no savings and still being fairly tight on fun money, and having all of those things and still being able to pay that surprise $2k vet bill and just not save as much that month.

And I pay less to own than I did to rent, in a nicer house, and I'm building equity when I do it.

Was there an attitude change towards savings/etc there too? Sure. But like, the biggest difference was just having more money. You can't save when you don't have money coming in.

And at $70k I was making more than the median family with kids. People have to make do with a lot less than that. And that becomes "can't fix the car" or "can't afford to go to the hospital" or "kids don't eat breakfast" at the bottom end. $40k with kids is poverty, and that's an awful lot of people. When your shitty insurance drops you a $40k bill for a weekend in the hospital you're not paying that and it will take the rest of your finances with it.

At an individual level yes, acting wisely with money is all any one person can do. But it comes off as entitled when you tell people that they personally are doing it wrong, when the overwhelming majority of people in the economy are losing. The middle-class lifestyle as we have come to know it basically requires you be in the top 10% of income earners in your local economy. At some point it's a society-wide problem, people respond to the incentives you give them as best they can with the resources they have. But a talk-show host saying "just buy more money" isn't going to fix those social-level problems. The problem isn't people, and if your system requires magical rational-actors who will wageslave for 50 years without the occasional vacation or other nicety and die penniless in retirement after cutting social security, then your system is going to fail.

At a societal level, there is no "one weird trick from a talk-show host" to bypass the incentives we've set up or vastly increase the amount of resources any one person is allocated. Well, crime I guess.
Are youtube downloader extensions next?
Go look at Pfizer revenue from US vs Europe. Europe has more people, but less than half the revenue in a typical year.

Americans are indeed subsidizing new drugs for the entire world.

Presenting Pfizer as if it's primarily serving the German market is silly. Pfizer by revenue is primarily in the US market.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/267877/revenues-of-pfize...
It's more about that there's a cascading effect going on right now where your customers are scaling back because their customers are scaling back because their customers are scaling back, etc. So because of that, everyone is expecting a decline in growth that was planned for and hired for.

Companies still do have lots of cash but they need to manage that cash with the expectation that they won't be able to raise cash as easily in the near/mid future. Valuations are cut because there's better places to put money now to get yield so when you do raise, you'll need to sell an even bigger piece of the company to get the funds you need.
To be fair to Turkey's builders - 800 year old castles in the quake zone were completely destroyed. So this was a once in a thousand years event basically, otherwise the castles would have been destroyed long ago. Very very hard to plan for this kind of thing.
here an idea. invent some low-UI personal project, e.g. with Command Line interface. Sorting mp3s, whatever. Think well what u might need as functionality, say 10-15 items, not more, put them as options of the CLI. Code it fast - don't overthink it. Leave it as such and use it for a while, like it's somebody else's closed-code. Everytime u find out some extra need or non-fatal-mistake, fight the urge to fix it, note these down. When collected enough of those (how much is enough? 10? 5? 2? maybe when it gets to your nerves), refactor it, with further/modified vision of what u need. (and now, how u need it coded).

Repeat few times. on 10th-time it might be much easier to change - and less error-prone - that on 1st.

Even easier done if the user is somebody else.

( if i tell u beforehand , that this, this and that should not be the way they are, or should be in some specific way, u may not believe me. "Who in hir right mind will ever use it like that?" ...well... maybe noone. Only when/if u hit/sit the nail on the sharp side, u find out which is what, for yourself )

have fun
Is Teams such a poor product? I used it routinely at Intel (using the Linux client, even) and now only occasionally, but... it's just fine. Text and video chat is a pretty solved problem, and it seems like all the major players here are really very tolerable. Surely SeriousUsers with existing workflows are going to be disrupted by any switch, but there are no major holes in Teams.
> Beijing maintains that the balloon's entry into US airspace was unintentional and due to "force majeure”

Four times now in the span of a week? Give us a break.
How often has the solution to a business problem you faced been "write a simple DNS server"? Or are you claiming that it produced a fully featured and world-scale fast DNS server?
I wonder how useful gpt could be to research brain injuries where the logic or language centers are damaged individually . . .
Yep

I would even add a further layer for public companies (vs large private companies): we might think of "those in charge" as management, and large companies certainly put more distance between them and folks on the ground, but public companies also have a big distance between investors and management. Most investors on the open market won't even be involved with the company directly - it'll just be a line in a portfolio, their only signal being buy/sell - and yet ultimately they are the ones "in charge"

Which is why we often get behavior that's not just disloyal or callous, but wildly irrational too
It goes through all that just to set up its ultimate agenda at the end, blame the right:

> people on the political right often criticize public investment as wasteful and corrupt, but the reality is that the retreat of the state hasn’t resulted in some idyllic “free” market — it has just left wealthy, powerful, and ultimately unaccountable people in charge of shaping the economy.

which is hilarious, given that these companies exist in the most left geographies, owned and run by the most left oligarchs, owned by the left politicians, and it was the left policies forcing people to use these companies that entrenched them to begin with.
You're trying really hard to create a path to Armageddon, but your item #1 is extremely weak. Just to confirm - you're saying that bridges are hard to destroy with anything but nuclear weapons?
Some blame our divorce from sound money as the cause. This website is very insightful:
https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/
Well you are... But Mozilla is allowed to do whatever they want with their computer (server) too...
Google temps woke up and the previous comment is being down voted :-))
This seems to really be where we're at now. Not a/better AI but a better search.
my suggestion is that productivity growth is in the hands of the people who must be productive. As they lost incentives they became less productive, but because the companies provided productivity boosters they were able to stay at the same level of productivity. In order for capital to increase productivity if this were correct they would have to give the shares of the rewards to the labor.

on edit: it seems weird to say we gave them all these tools to increase productivity, and they didn't increase productivity, but not note at the same time we removed rewards for increased productivity.
Why is the level for senior and non senior the same?

The company is not tech enough to know the difference?
That's what patience is, though. It's the willingness to wait. "It's just 20 minutes a day so it's not so bad" is a thought that comforts the busy person, not the impatient person. The impatient person hears that and thinks "so I have to do this every day for 7 years to see results? Can't I get it down to 1 year somehow?"
See here's the problem and the reason I have noted the problem with the term.

Metro profits are up ~12% but so is food. If the profit margins don't change, those numbers indicate the exact opposite of what you are claiming.

Loblaws profits are not up 100% either. The gross profit of Loblaws in 2021 is at ~4.86b where 2022 is at 5.27b. Is that not 8.4%?

Where do you get 2x factor?
The model can be trained to output tokens that can intercepted by the backend before returning to the user. Also, the model can take metadata inputs that the user never sees.
unlike Linux and other hopelessly non-deterministic unorthogonal toy OSs

You should team up with the Hurd folks. They have, what, 30 years of the same impotently shaking their fists at the rest of the world touting how their perfect little academic exercise and its tens of users is the future of computing if everyone else on the planet wasn't so st00pid. Really. Any day now.

They really have the angry old CS professor schtick down. You could learn a lot.
Data centers don't have to be exceptionally noisy. There's at least ~5~ 9 data centers within 5 miles of my house. One is across the street from my kid's daycare, another is along a bike trail nearby, and both are practically silent compared to just the road noise. Looking on Google Maps a bit closer, there's some along some streets I used to walk my dog, and I didn't even fully realize they were a data center but judging by cooling capacity and power from satellite its pretty obvious.

I don't know if its just the operator's decisions in design or zoning requirements that makes that reality for me, but almost all the data centers aren't exceptionally loud from outside the facility grounds.
The Emergency was 50 years ago. Things change over time.
I just got inspired to look up the relation instead, which was also interesting:

https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=TWLO+profit+divided+by+...
I understood it as a reference to those claiming autism spectrum.
Travelling with a cello as cabin baggage on Air Canada: a guide
Fair enough. I would say that looking around in general, the "new normal" looks a lot more like the "old normal" than a lot of people expected in 2020 or 2021. Business travel is essentially back to pre-pandemic levels. There's more workplace flexibility but--especially outside tech--there's relatively little full remote. A lot of food and meal delivery seems to have really tapered off.

And arguably it didn't cost companies that much to hedge for an upside. It's not even clear if employees now being laid off were in general worse off for having a job. (Modulo some things like being in the US on a visa.)
I have seen it multiple times answering correctly at first, then adding something which has nothing to do with the original question.

That's almost always sourced from a website that didn't actually answer the question I had, so maybe its more of a query optimization issue.
Tteir laptops are great and i own one.
Fellow European here. I'm currently transitioning my accounting from Ledger (used it for 5+ years) to PTA, a tiny Perl program by OpenBSD dev Ingo Schwarze:
https://mandoc.bsd.lv/pta/

As compared to Ledger, the journal entries are much less verbose, mostly fitting on a single line:
https://cvsweb.bsd.lv/~checkout~/pta/journal.example.en?rev=...

As you can see, it also utilizes traditional account numbers (listed in a separate Chart of Accounts file) instead of Ledger's Account:Subaccount form. PTA also has Debit and Credit, so all amounts are positive, whereas Ledger uses "+" and "-".

For me, the PTA approach feels much safer, since basically everybody (including the auditors) in my country are probably used to this kind of system and a numbered Chart of Accounts. Less confusion.

Interestingly, while converting my .ledger file to .pta, I discovered a lot of mistakes that seem to be linked to either the system Ledger uses -- or, rather, me not understanding it. I was also fairly inexperienced with double entry accounting when I started with Ledger. But replacing +/- with Debit/Credit accounts pointed those errors out, somehow.

Here's the author discussing PTA and comparing it to Ledger&friends. Also a great discussion on plain text accounting in general: http://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=2020092812343...
Which implies they were using some third tool, Zoom say, right? (I mean, assuming the cost-saving isn't switching to free-tier Slack!) Seems weird to me to introduce Teams as the mandatory change rather than switch it to be done in Slack, which they already have.
https://youtu.be/_kQBVneC30o
I've been working with Clojure for the past decade, and it's still the most enjoyable development experience I've had. Once you experience using an interactive workflow where you can see the results from the code you're writing live, it's really hard to go back.
Says who?

And what even is objective journalism?

This is peak HN, desiring that every aspect of life must be able to be objective. It hardly is. Apart from (barely, not really) local weather, pretty much every piece of journalism can -- and is -- nuanced by the perspective of the newscaster.
I am running Linux on my Lenovo gaming laptop with 4k display and RTX 3070. I have no issues.
Self driving cars, or at least semi automatic cars will be very big.
If the car can truly self drive, it can be rebuild to be a kind of a "hotel" car - with much more space.

So you can do makeup en route to work. Or you can rest en route to work.
The car self drive at night so you sleep inside (like in those sleeper trains) - you might not need a hotel.

The car can also take a grandparent to take care of grandchildren, so useful for old people.

In theory traffic could be optimized too; taking a random car - instead of your own, or commutting in a group, but I doubt it will happen. People prefer to ride in their own car.

Not having to steer the car can free like 1-2 hours per day (depending on commute time), what is big.

Also work-from-home is quite inspiring future vision. People were talking about it for years and it finally happens, at least a bit. WFH sighnificantly improves quality if life.

Also what happened to drones that can bring parcels to people? When will this happen? On a side note, people from USA seem to dislike / not know "parcel lockers" ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parcel_locker ) which are very convenient. I think Poland has 20 000 of them already. I dont understand the idea that the courier drops a parcel on your pouch that someone can steal.
If you worked from home and a drone brought it (and notified you) then sure. But why no parcel lockers now?
Congrats! We built a usage-based telephony (voice & sms) billing system for our customers and appreciate the pain. Not to take anything away from your launch, but founders / product managers should carefully consider if usage-billing (even with a tool like Lago) is best for your business and customers.

We started as usage-based then learned a few years in (once we understood customer usage trends - key) that customers would gladly pay ~20% MORE per year for unlimited access because the customer wanted a predictable bill. We essentially rode the same trend of pay-as-you-go mobile to unlimited plans.

Later in our history we found investors (and our accountants) liked the predictability as well. It's easier to show "up and to the right" when not dealing with a few large customers varying down in usage in one quarter (even if the business was on the upswing).

One-size doesn't fit all -- usage billing has its place for sure -- just carefully weigh your model as it's a huge lift to flip it midstream.
Quite cool! and creative use of AI. Do you consider the project is all fleshed out or are there improvements that could be done?
So maybe the title should be Pepper Spray Your Officers and Make Them to Consider the Suffering of Others. Empathy is the real key here, and valuing it.
Congrats on the launch, as a growing and open-source startup ourselves, we are eager to switch to Lago as soon as our stripe fees are gonna become a PITA which I expect to be in the near-future. The product looks amazing and the API seems super well-designed!
This is off-topic for HN and not the kind of content I want to read on here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

>> Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.

There's a time and a place. I'm downvoting.
This is on my radar to keep an eye on at least.

I use a Quest 2 mainly for playing the modded PC version of Beat Saber, and it's decent but has some annoying drawbacks — mainly, it's front-heavy due to onboard compute and battery, which I've offset with a counterweight on the back of the strap, which in turn increases total unit weight. Also, while its inside-out tracking is convenient it's also very fussy about environment lighting, with it easily forgetting its guardian boundaries with minor lighting changes, and it occasionally loses tracking with sudden head or arm movements. It's also a Meta product and firmly locked into Windows (no hope of using it under Linux).

The Index is the next best thing but the current revision of that is getting a bit long on the tooth, so until Valve gives the Index a spec bump, things like this seem like the best bet for a headset upgrade.
For a long time, Debian/Ubuntu shipped unusable ruby packages due to the ruby/OpenSSL licenses being incompatible.
For leisure / keeping up with the world (you know, democracy and such), and wow are you judgmental.
Follow a revenue-based hiring model
Would you be satisfied if all of your teammates have their salaries decreased but your salary stays the same?
ML (via Caml Light), Lisp, Smalltalk and Prolog did it for me, each on its own way.

Nowadays I am happy to see a bit of them on the languages I actually get to use.
I use this, and it's amazing.

I like to collect things from places I've been. When I bought my motorcycle they gave my kids some poker chips with the dealership's name on them. I found out that it's very common for Harley dealers to have these poker chips with their name, maybe a logo, and maybe some contact info on them. They're typically sold at the merchandise / cosplay desk.

A couple months later I was in Sydney, had a bit of local currency to get rid of and happened across a dealership there and picked up a couple. It was on. It's been about 7 years and I've collected a little over 400 different dealers. There are about 1400 open dealerships in the world, with about half in America, about 400 have closed since I started tracking that. Obviously I needed a way to track what I had to ensure I didn't get duplicates and identify places I haven't been to.

I track all of it in a Google sheet. I scraped the info for all of the dealers off of the Harley website, which thankfully comes with latitude and longitude. Supplement that with information about what I've collected, and information from the last scrape for dealerships that have closed. From there it takes about a minute to import this into Google maps and use styling to make it pretty.

https://pasteboard.co/iMjSJRbmjOMs.png
The short answer is "no".
The high-level concept of AGPLv3 is to prevent someone who'd like to re-sell the OSS company's features (billing in our case).
For instance, let's say you're a vertical SaaS like Mindbody, selling software to yoga studio owners so that they manage their business: scheduling, payment, and billing.
If you use Lago to build your own billing feature (and sell it as part of your product), you'd need to either buy a commercial license (we call it "Lago Embedded") from us OR open source your code.
Let me know if you need more clarifications!
It's the opposite for me. If disconnecting and taking a break provides relief, the problem was overwork/exhaustion/fatigue and not "burnout". Burnout is something deeper that and more closely related to depression, and no amount of time off will fix it if you just end up coming back to the same environment.

Strangely enough, the fix to burnout can be finding different/more engaging work to help overcome the cynicism and sense of hopelessness.
> didn't understand the basics of professional trading

I don't know why you are so quick to assume that.. that guy did a year with some large firm before breaking out on his own.. a YEAR of full time I think

> it sounds like your colleague was just an idiot

oh I see, you want to call people that name.. got it
Sometimes, composing/playing music renovates and refreshes me after too much coding.

Sometimes, after a few consecutive days (or weeks) of hard work (like learning new frameworks while trying to deliver features at "normal" speed) I'm completely unable to play or compose music. My brain just won't work at all.

In these cases, sometimes I cannot even read light fantasy or cook basic meals.

One thing is to be bored of or frustrated with something (which is important too — we don't live to work —, but this is a separate topic), and another completely different thing is repeatedly going over what your bodily and/or mental health can take, for weeks or months on end.

I think rotating is good advice, but it works more on motivation than exhaustion.
Copyright is governed by individual countries' law.
Because it's a valid metaphor :-)

Computation started at the Jacquard loom, so engineers have a tradition of seeing it as a machine crunching patterns.

But computers science, just like math, is a language so its deeply grounded in semantics. And semantics grow and evolve from the actions of each individual speaker, without a central processing unit controlling the process, so "organic" is a good way to describe it.
My Teams works fine on my Mac without issues. Have been using it for over a year now.

Fwiw - I don’t understand why it’s hated. It’s a collaboration tool - mainly messaging and conferencing. It’s been decent at that for me.
If the government doesn't have problem with criticism, why do they censor people left and right and impose the draconian UAPA on any media which criticizes them?
Your linked videos are quite literally propaganda pieces by a well-known propaganda channel.
>Akash Banerjee is a leftist.
He isn't.
Oh so that's what was the UFO news about...