skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Neither measure what you can buy.

GDP isn't distributed evenly. PPP doesn't effect the distribution. It's just an adjustment.

An oil state like Russia has a decent GDP, but the distribution is horrendous. It doesn't matter if you look at GDP or GDP PPP. Neither gives you a great picture "what you can buy" unless you're in the top 1%.
Interestingly enough, your reasoning is why we share accounts. I'm the sole income earner, so it would seem controlling to me if my wife had an "allowance". I'd presumably still feel that way if she worked outside the home but we had an income (or spending) disparity; it's all our money (both in how we treat it and, if it came down to it, how the law sees it) and we can both use our judgement on whether to buy something. We both have access to everything because we trust each other to be financially responsible.

We still generally talk to each other about anything over a few hundred dollars, but it's more like asking your friend to reassure you because you're not sure if it's worth it. You just want someone to say "dude you've been asking if you should buy X for months just buy it".

It does help that she hates clutter and I think everything is a ripoff so neither of us does much frivolous spending. Also I bring in far more than we need and it almost all goes to savings anyway.
Am I? I think not.

You are saying that you would rather live a shorter time in good health than a longer time being unhealthy at the end.

I am saying that the day will come when you start to deteriorate, get aches, getting slower, maybe even critically ill. During all that you will most likely still not want to die.

People suffer in every age group most of them don't want to die. Why do you think you would?
Inspection != overhaul.
Didn't you know? That's what courts are for.

Same way growing extra grain, that you don't intend to sell anyone is still regulable by the Federal government as interstate commerce.

See Wickett v. Filburn
A promise from Microsoft? That's like a promise from the homeless guy twerking and foaming at the mouth on the street corner.
Nu just isn’t as exciting imo. You lose the C# standard library and all of the amazing tooling that Microsoft has built for it.
watching the video...

"let me turn of symmetry to show you the tools...blah blah blah"

<looks for the 2x to get past boring boring boring>

"let me turn back on symmetry which is the point of the program..."

holy crap that's cool. just at the point i was ready to bail on the video.
Skill generating ideas is over rated.

Implementation is when skill matters.

I can imagine post scarcity Star Trek like ideas but not implement them. My skills at CE and SWE allow me to implement reasonable solutions there.

Chasing ideas for the sake of chasing ideas is a form of bike shedding and premature optimization.
What a rude statement.
Obesity has also increased in the EU.
Same. My wife doesn't work but often sells goods or something and gets money via paypal. She likes one bank app, I like another, for starters.

We put all actual spending on credit cards, that I pay off each month from mine. So this isn't like an allowance based thing.

Sometimes she needs cash or to write a check, instant transfer. We don't go snooping through each others records, surprises are nice sometimes :).

I don't see at all what joint could add here. I'm very particular about checking accounts after getting overdraft scarred as a teen like most people my age. I also invest rather aggressively so don't want too much money sitting idle. It becomes much harder to do if we joined accounts, one surprise forgotten about check or draft could cause the house payment to fail, for example.
Fair enough - my comment complaining about the quality of content on Twitter was admittedly pretty low quality.

When I said "Twitter is terrible when it comes to cherry picking stats out of context", I was referring to the fact that the Tweet doesn't link to its source, and that it only shows 2 years (instead of a line chart which would show all the years in between). It also doesn't make any attempt to interpret the data (e.g. why or what it means).

I view the parent comment as adding context. They linked to the source of their data and also included their interpretation - which other people can then agree or disagree with instead of having to guess what they meant. So yes I think this is a much more constructive post than the original tweet.

Note: I now see that they linked to the source WSJ article beneath the original tweet, but that was not clear to me when I made my earlier comment (and I see other people on Twitter asking about the source so it's not just me who missed it). I still think that twitter in an inferior platform for discussing nuanced topics like economics than, say, HN.
If you book far enough in advance, or don’t mind a “red eye,” you can get really good deals on the Amtrak NE Regional.
Don't you dare besmirch the name of Doctor Sausage!

https://tasteofartisan.com/doctors-sausage/
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I can't explain the downvotes other than that in OO method chaining does not bind you to a specific type. I don't really know Python but in Ruby, for example, you can do `"string".split.map { |s| s.upcase }`. IE, a method doesn't have to return a reference to `self`, so I'm not really seeing your argument other than choosing to use the style of only chaining when the object types match, which you can still do with pipes if you want.

The only ML language I have any experience with is OCaml which is statically typed and has pipes.

EDIT: re-reading your last comment it looks like I totally ignored the first part of what you said, but I guess I'm confused. This thread is also probably nested enough, lol.
IMO the term is so diluted as to be meaningless.

Burnout isn't a mid-life crisis.

Changing your career doesn't necessarily mean you're having a mid-life crisis.

Changing your personal circumstances doesn't necessarily imply a midlife crisis.

Every definition I know of includes a sense of existential angst, a feeling of regret, of lost potential, of questioning identity, of a fear of mortality.

But simply realizing you're unhappy in your life or circumstances and want to change them isn't itself indicative of a mid-life crisis by any meaningful definition I'm aware of.
> I put money into “her” account every pay period based on what we agreed on

She can continue to spend the amount you guys have agreed on from a joint account.
Goedel, Russell, and Frege proved from first principals that our understanding of basic arithmetic cannot be both complete and consistent. One or the other, but not both.

If children's arithmetic cannot be proven complete and consistent, what does that say about the sort of math used to define the universe?

Building upon a broken structure is how you get broken results.
Booking.com doesn't do opaque rates but agoda and Priceline are different.

I'm very hands on at my hotel. Sometimes guest shows us how much they have paid. There were times when someone handed the guest receipt showing how much we got paid and they come back saying why they were charged more than the receipt. Older guest brings the printout of their booking.

Booking even had a unique website for my hotel. We had to involve the franchise to get it shut down.
True, but then they also added mandatory key escrow using server-side HSMs with no way to opt out – and these are by their nature much harder to audit than local secure enclaves.

In other words, with Firefox you trust the security of your device, whereas with Apple you trust the security of their entire ecosystem. In most cases, that's probably even a good thing, but I wouldn't exactly label one as strictly better than the other in all scenarios.
Seems like at this point it would be easier to have a list of things unknown to the state of california. it feels like it would be smaller.
As a Java developer I'm quite pleased, happy with Oracle's stewardship. Tired of the articles and commenters on articles that use FUD to smear Oracle. Guess Microsoft and Amazon are really worried about Oracle Cloud's rise, Java gets stronger and .net still sucks.
On a similar note, I find the "don't waste it on a car, use your imagination" dichotomy quite shallow. Do whatever that makes you happy. You can buy that car if you want, and do great things at the same time too if that's your thing. Or, maybe you're happy with your car, and your work too. You don't owe anyone to be that designated person. You may need to own that car in order to truly process whether you need it in your life or not, or to feel having control over one part of your life, and transfer that perspective to the other parts. Human psychology is quite complicated, and usually you're the most informed person about yourself.
To expound on NoMoreNicksLeft: "Rapid Covid tests miss 90% of asymptomatic cases" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36708301
What makes you think there are tweaks that would improve "this"? You might be startled to learn "this" (the scientific method) is the best possible way of discovery that humans know of.
Well my experience is that I have had colds and flus all my life and they never affected my smell or taste at all.

I got Covid once and lost 100% of my smell and taste for about 2 weeks.

I’m sure lots of other people must have shared this same experience.
There was a second implementation from Harlequin as well as those from Apple, but sadly neither were successful. CMU also released Gwydion, which was a FOSS implementation.

The Newton project's choice to use NewtonScript, rather than Dylan, was perhaps a loss for Dylan, although NewtonScript was an interesting language (and runtime) in its own right.
No, didn't try it after that, have you?
I am going to use this on the next scammer.
It’s an unusable app. I’ve followed about 5 people. On the app there is no way for me to see a list of the people I’ve followed. There’s no way to get a list that contains only the threads started by people I follow. Threads is a terrible implementation. It’s embarrassingly bad.
UNET takes about a 1:10 on WebGPU and around a minute on CPU in one thread. VAE is 2 minutes on CPU and about 10 seconds on GPU. It should be because most GPU ops for VAE are already implemented but for UNET are not. So in the latter case browser is just tossing data from GPU to CPU and back on each step
These stats drive me up the wall because the US is more diverse than every single European country. The life expectancy in California is 81 and in Alabama it’s 74. That’s the difference between the UK and like, Latvia.

This matters because when you look at these crude aggregate stats, people naively assume that it means that everything is a bit worse but the actual American story is usually more like broad prosperity with some truly awful outcomes for anyone who falls through the (very wide) cracks.
Don't. People and peers on the internet are selling the bullshit idea that they're doing a lot and you're just lazying around. It's fake news. They're selling you a mirage, not by malice, but because everyone else is doing it. You keep hearing of the Ken Thompsons and Oppenheimers and you barely have the mental fortitude to plumb 2 JS libraries in a work day.

Stop pursuing the things you should do. Do less. Slave away on someone else's dream the last amount of hours possible to maintain a decent lifestyle. Until you reach a point where you find your innate creativity you thought you had lost in your teenage years shining in, driving you. That might require a massive lifestyle change.

But for the love of God stop listening and comparing to anyone. Working on your dream 1 hour a month is more than the vast majority of people do, and at the end of the day, you'll turn to dust like Albert Einstein did, whether you accomplished something or just played videogames all day.
I won't upload any of my writing to the web anymore until this is all sorted out.

You can make fun of me all you like, but it's taken me decades to get good at this, and I'll be damned if some soft-skinned SV kid with a MacBook uses my work to power his mill.
pretty much, yes, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36766676
Clarence Thomas is a good legal thinker and is worth having on the court. He has a very specific world view that I don't think he would be likely to defect against. The only real argument that might work is deterrence, but that's probably not worth it.
It's not true. Officially, 500mA is the maximum you should allow for in your design. You will only see close to that during RF calibration for a moment so brief that you'll need a logging ammeter to see it.
It seems like you know me better than i do!
Oh, you mean the system that defines pi to be infinity minus infinity?

That's the one that's correct?

Okay, good luck with that.
> improved propagation of ideas has led to improved dissemination of ideas

Prove this.
Wait until an awful rainy night, then rock through window changes! Dog hears it and begins to bark per usual practice.

Dog owner gets up, yells at dog to shut up... because rain!
Quality of life varies significantly based on where you are in the US. There are definitely smaller cities that offer high standards of living–if that's your speed.
Water gives me headaches...
I have the opposite problem: I recognize regular soda by its terrible aftertaste. Drinks sweetened with aspartame don’t leave an aftertaste in my mouth.
Why do you think you need permission to learn? Try learning. If it sucks, hit the bricks. In school, that’s not allowed, but it’s how everything works outside of school.
A market edge in legal issues perhaps?
For "absolute" anything, try religion. For everything else, there's science.
Huh, interesting, so this only works on Chrome on Windows and macOS?

I wonder if that's due to a technical limitation (maybe it uses an OS-native hardware secret storage mechanism that Linux does not offer), or just because Apple refuses to acknowledge the existence of Linux on the desktop.
...No.

That's the best option when all you have are shitty short-range Soviet-era missiles and unguided rockets / bombs from the 1980s and radars that can't see anything past 35km.

If you have low-observability or stealth aircraft, with powerful radars, and weapons with 80km+ range, you would absolutely rather use anything else.

It doesn't matter if your plane is "highly survivable to MANPADS" when A) the enemy has a lot of MANPADS and larger AA weapons, and B) you run out of functional planes because they all got shot up. Not getting hit is strictly better than getting hit, regardless of how "survivable" the plane is.
> Then, how do you avoid the strife over "personal" spending when one spouse makes much more than the other?

When I married my wife she was making $35K and I was making $90K in 2012. By 2020, at 46 and 44, I “retired her”. She was making $25K and I was making $200K+.

The entire time, it’s always been the same, we have separate joint accounts and her money goes into “her” account and “my” money goes into my account. They are all both joint accounts and I made sure she had enough to cover her expenses and spending money. Off and on throughout the years, she carried health insurance for the family that took a big chunk of her check and her car note came out of her check.

I only spend out of my account and the same for hers.

> Then, how do you avoid the strife over "personal" spending when one spouse makes much more than the other.

This is both of our second marriages. Neither one of us are extravagant spenders and we talk about all major decisions.

While we were 35 and 37 when we got married, we were both basically starting over. Her from a previous divorce and me from a previous divorce and being over leveraged with real estate post 2008.

> How do vacations and other shared things get paid for? Equally? proportionally? I could see a fight happening in each of those systems.

While we had separate accounts, everything went into one virtual “pot” on a spreadsheet and I made sure she had her agreed upon amount of spending money every pay period after “her” bills came out of her check. Vacations were subtracted from the pot.

> What if one spouse decides to stop working? You pretty much have to switch to a single, joint account at that point, right?

Nope see above
> most people go through several crises in their adult life. As a rule of thumb you have one every seven years or so.

That's terrifying. I haven't recovered from the crisis 5 years ago. Not ready for another.

> In particular divorce might work out well for somebody like Bill Gates or Elon Musk who can trade in their tired old nag for a hot young thing

That just sounds sad. How lonely do you have to be before it makes sense to trade in your closest companion for eye candy?
Its typically a one man project I build in my spare time for free… there is no team
Isn't that just how MLC NAND works though?

Also the article is just describing memristor memory isn't it? Intel's been shipping Optane memristor based memory (which they deny, but others are skeptical of the denial) for years, so clearly I'm missing something.
In other news: living things are necessarily organized. Without organization, you would have no life. Life presupposes organs and parts acting on each other, i.e., heterogeneity of composition, which is, by definition organization. As soon as you have that, you have function and structure, and function and structure define species, allowing us to organize and classify species. (We can organize according to different measures, of course. Phylogenetic, ontological, etc.)
Squeeze a lemon or muddle some strawberries into it and you’re golden. Tea is nice too.
Attack ideas, not people. I don't care who invented GDP or PPP, only if they are adequate proxies for economic strength and quality of life.
> So can GDP.

No, not really as exchange rate fluctuations are avoided using constant international dollar benchmarks.

> Why isn't it a good measure? Why is it worse than pure GDP?

This been explained multiple times in this thread already including a link to the OECD FAQ on GDP PPP.

Nominal GDP isn’t a measure of individual wealth either, it is however a very good indicator of national economic growth.

>The GDP of the US is twice of that of the EU. How does paying $2000 for a 50 sq. feet box makes your economy bigger?

GDP PPP doesn’t include housing costs, at least not directly it includes a component which is called imbued rent which tends to grossly underestimate the actual cost of housing in a given country.

Housing in the EU is generally more expensive than in the US both to rent and to buy nearly every country has a massive housing shortage and inflated prices.

My partner bought a flat in Poland as an investment in March this year for the equivalent sum of ~£160,000, it’s a 48 sq/m 2 bed flat.

The 2nd stage of the development on an adjacent plot is starting now with the prices around £180-190K for an equivalent property.

And this is in a village 50km from Krakow… (Bochnia).
Lots of things about human emotion are dumb but understandable, especially re: money.
I’m looking, but I must be missing the part where you provided details to justify your own assertion of it being obviously true.
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because of point 3. for example my wife didn't like me doing detailed accounting of all of our expenses do i had to stop that. she hasn't spent to much money so that issue didn't come up but i can imagine it being a problem to tell your partner they spend to much if the partner is sensitive about that.
Look, Bill Gates was in such bad shape he asked Jeffery Epstein for marriage advice and that was after Epstein had gotten busted the first time.
> the experience of most people is "dark matter"

Love this, maps really well onto my experience. I see (and feel) a sharp deliniation between do-ers and be-ers, with the be-ers wishing they could do, and the do-ers not having time to process what they're doing.

> for ordinary people and their families it's profoundly harmful

People want (and believe they deserve) what they used to have, or what they see someone else has. I think the crux of the midlife crisis is coming to terms with tradeoffs. Everyone has spent potential to get where they are, and there aren't do-overs.
It’s much easier just to open your bank app and know whatever is left in there you can spend until the next pay period.
You can opt out.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT212520

Although, I don't think that was accurate for iCloud Keychain anyway.
What’s POD? I’m having trouble searching the term.
You, by definition, cannot. Our best science suggests that `t` ceases to be a linear value at t=0. It's why we define t=0 to be there.

The problem is the absurdity of the idea that `t` could ever cease to be a linear value. Causality is a fundamental truth. To lose the idea of "before" and "after" is to lose causality.

If your fundamental theorem of the universe requires you to forego causality, you should consider looking elsewhere.
As someone who has had the ability to smell go away and come back, I can confirm that smell is important for taste, but not the way it is often described.

For me, I can taste the “basic components” of flavor, but smell is necessary to add nuance/complexity.
That turns out not to matter, because the noise is always at least several quanta at whatever frequency you’re using so you can’t get close to the quantization limit anyway.
I think sometimes people need a show of things to feel secure, even if there’s no functional benefit.
I agree that existing copyright years is too long, but it's not a good argument for don't pay for new releases.
> For example in some parts of Spain the wealth tax is high enough that it would be impossible to live off investments as the safe withdrawal rate is so low that you would need millions to fund a modest income.

What are the numbers there? I heard of the wealth tax above €3 million, but is there more?
This approach seems wise, and to an extent I've tried to follow it as well. "Learn from other people's mistakes" - for me this has always seemed natural, and in a sense I've been fortunate to have some good learning opportunities.

One complication is that we all follow different paths through life; those older people didn't get to where they are by going further down the same path you're on.
They are not temporary.
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The CPI only includes OER (owner equivalent rent), not housing prices. OER is also a lagging indicator due to it being calculated on current rental expenses, not market rate rents (eg. when people move and their rental expenses get adjusted for the market).

A study by the San Francisco fed in 2022 [0] calculated that based on Zillow market data, the rent component of the CPI is to increase by about seven percent each year in 2022 and 2023:

> Our model confirms that an increase in current asking rents or current house prices can push up the CPI rent index for a typical MSA for as long as 24 months into the future. Given the currently elevated levels of Zillow asking rent inflation and Zillow house price inflation averaged across all MSAs, the model predicts that CPI rent inflation will increase by about 3.4pp for both 2022 and 2023, relative to its historical average rate of 3.7%.

[0] https://www.frbsf.org/economic-research/publications/economi...
I quit sugar sweetened drinks in my early 20s. All sweet drinks in my late 20s.

In my 30s I have cut my alcohol consumption down hugely but for my little rat brain the risk reward vs sweetness is a different balance.

I think one of the most valuable things through my quest to eat right was people challenging my behaviour vs my knowledge. I made a lot about the fact I quit sugary drinks after writing a lit review on their health effects. My friends pointed out that I had deliberately excluded artificial sweeteners from my lit review and my knowledge.

Then I was challenged about my love of dessert.

I think being called a hypocrite and told I was stupid and coming to agree with the underlying criticism has been a big part of my growth as a person.

But if drinking drinks sweetened with aspartame is your only vice then you're doing pretty well.