skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yup. It might be painful for homeowners in the global West to realize, but for a healthy housing market, owning a house or renting a house needs to end up having the same amount of return on a 5-10-20-30-50 year timeline.

The benefit of owning a house should be that you get to customize it to your liking. The benefit of a rental should be that you can switch up relatively quickly.

Houses being an investment vehicle is slowly poisoning society. Having a decent roof of your head is a human right, just like access to clean water or healthy food is.
Thank you Austin! I think I’ll update that with something like mermaid or d2.
Not a boomer, but from long observation, boomers tend to carry a lot of debt in order to have a certain lifestyle. This includes borrowing money for depreciating assets, not paying off homes, buying too much house because financing was available, consolidating debt into a loan secured by your house, etc. The risk associated with this gets much higher as your earning potential gets shorter. Yet, a lifetime of borrowing habits are tough to kick.

Boomers also started out in an age when pensions were a thing. The problem is many of those pensions did not work out due to wall street raiders, bankruptcy, etc. For example, the unlawful restructuring of GM voided the retirements of thousands of engineers and other white collar employees. If you were expecting a nice pension to continue to finance your debt, you're going to be in a world of hurt.
We now have laser weed removal

https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnkoetsier/2021/11/02/self-dr...
It’s the richest country because it has tons of natural resources and wasn’t bombed to pieces in WW2
Unless the client is compromised. The question becomes: do you trust Bitwarden and KeePass equally, to deliver an uncompromised client?
The article massively overstates the impact of the 1998 Microsift trial. What Microsoft got was a slap on the wrist that they considered just a cost of doing business. Netscape died, and Microsoft's behavior remained the same.

Microsoft didn't blink until acround 2008 when the EU cases finally fined them enough that they blinked. See, for example, https://www.reuters.com/article/us-microsoft-eu/eu-fines-mic....
As a new dad, I really appreciate all the puns here. Making dad jokes in the future should be a breeze.
ar-right inclinations, ultra-nationalism is far more spreaded in US than just say Germany.
The second highest is 108k CHF annually so we're looking rather at something around 70k. In Zurich. As a new arrival one is always expected to "put their foot in the door" and once you walk in, you learn you don't belong.
I don't have any stats to back it up, but I've seen various threads and discussions on Reddit where people are flagging jobs adverts that exclude people from those state - for instance:

https://www.reddit.com/r/recruitinghell/comments/168ce1e/saw...
You're trying very hard to cling to your belief instead of just admitting, there's at least a chance, you're wrong.
What really get me is the FantilatorOS. They even open sourced it:
https://github.com/justinasr/FantilatorOS/tree/master/kernel
I feel like one of the problems with using Postgres as a queue is that it’s hard to get started. There’s a lot you need to know. Getting started with something like Pub/Sun on GCP is much easier for many developers.

I’ve experimented with making this easier via libraries that provide high-level APIs for using Postgres as a queue and manage the schemas, listen/notify, etc for you: https://github.com/adriangb/pgjobq
In a sane world, the lawyer would be censured for even suggesting that.
I imagine Netflix was less innocent than you might think.

As they could only send out DVDs they have in stock, they were more likely to recommend things that they had a surplus of.

While the list model did allow for even popular titles to be queued up, they wouldn't want a situation where a customer had nothing but new/popular titles on their list with a long wait time.
I can't find that in the article; where did you see this?
> I think we have a situation where part of the population is literally voting to appropriate wealth from another part of the population.

This happens all the time in government. Every politician who campaigns on “we’re going to raise taxes on these other peiple to do this thing” is campaigning on this effect. Sometimes it’s this direct; other times it has extra steps. Surely this can’t be the first time you’ve seen this happen.
> The issue is that a sizeable underclass is being created that have no wealth, not least because what wealth they did have has been funneled to the very wealthy.

This has happened in all of the industrialized world, and it's happening very quickly right now. The reasons you mention are very US-specific, but the funneling happens everywhere, usually by more traditional means such as rents and taxes.

Yes, taxes are greatly beneficial for the rich, just scrutinize any European government budget and you'll see it is in large part a scheme to pay out money to wealthy people that are in favour with the political class.

The reason for this massive wealth distribution is the inflationary monetary system, that's the common denominator in all countries experiencing it, and it's not hard to see how.

In the past, serfdom was at least more honest. You knew your tax payments went to the lord for his own benefit.
They are pretty to look at and help prevent soil erosion, so by all means, plant more trees, preferably native species, just don’t claim it will solve climate change.
I mean, I probably wouldn't particularly want a giant bug growing anywhere inside or inside-adjacent of me. Just saying.
> For example, this Hacker News comment stated that using Postgres this way is “hacky” and the commenter received no pushback. I found the comment to be load of BS and straw man arguments. This thinking seems to be “the prevailing wisdom” of the industry – if you want to talk about queue technology in public, it better not be a relational database.

I don't think that there's anything wrong with using a database as a queue, however, I think that there probably could have been better ways to get across the idea, rather than just dismissing an honest opinion as BS. I don't necessarily agree with all of what was said there, but at the same time I can see why those arguments would be reasonable: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20022572

For example:

> Because it is hacky from the perspective of a distributed system architecture. It's coupling 2 components that probably ought not be coupled because it's perceived as "convenient" to do so. The idea that your system's control and data planes are tightly coupled is a dangerous one if your system grows quickly.

To me, this makes perfect sense, if you're using the same database instance for the typical RDBMS use case AND also for the queue. Then again, that could be avoided by having separate database instances/clusters and treating those as separate services: prod-app-database and prod-queue-database.

That said, using something like RabbitMQ or another specialized queue solution might also have the additional benefit of bunches of tutorials and libraries, as well as other resources available, which is pretty much the case whenever you have a well known and a more niche technology, even when the latter might be in some ways better! After all, there is a reason why many would use Sidekiq, resque, rq, Hangfire, asynq and other libraries that were mentioned and already have lots of content around them.

Though whether the inherent complexity of the system or the complexity of your code that's needed to integrate with it is more important, is probably highly situational.
How the fall of the 'King of Crypto' cost one British man millions
I created `prs` which solves a lot of painpoints I had with pass and other clients.

It is compatible with pass and uses the very same store.

https://github.com/timvisee/prs
Oh, yes! DF is an excellent example.

I don’t play it either, I tried it once or twice and it was just too much for me. I might try their new graphical steam version that they released last year sometime, it looks a little more accessible.
While every show may not need 20 writers on staff, it's not an unusual number: https://www.vulture.com/article/late-night-writers-guide.htm...

In practice they'll be breaking into smaller working groups to develop individual episodes or segments of a show, so it won't actually be 20 people sitting around a table constantly.
Someone is surprised.

Someone else berates them for wanting to enforce the thing they were surprised at, despite zero evidence.
The incentive against posting a huge range like $50-500k is that it anchors the range a candidate expects. If you post that range and then offer $100k to a qualified candidate, they will probably balk, so if that’s closer to the desired salary band you have an incentive just to say so.
In my city they tried a bus/taxi service where you could book a ride and the bus will adapt its route based on the demand. Well, it failed and they killed it without telling anybody.

One day I needed a ride and I couldn't find the app on my device. It was quite unsettling to observe that somebody could remove software from a device that I own.
No in EU, but the production of biofuel from corn creates more CO2 than just burning gasoline. Some Biofuels are nothing but a waste of food. Maybe its a deliberate diversion tactics by the oil industry, just like the Carbon footprint campaign by British Petroleum.

Or like carbon capture and storage, which just allows us to burn stuff for longer and provides no guarantees of long term containment.

https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/us-corn-based-e...
I think it looks fine? Kinda cute.
If you play music on a half decent car stereo, or home sound system, yes, you can 100% tell the difference. Spotify "high" sounds absolutely flat compared to a lossless rip of the same track. (and doesn't have anywhere near the bass)

On earbuds? No.
Ask HN: What are the biggest hurdles you face when onboarding new engineers?
> We're in this mess because of unregulated capitalism, but sure, removing even more regulations will definitely solve it!

I'm not arguing that removing regulations will solve it, but it is possible to have an island of misery in the middle of two more pleasant extremes. Meaning that both more and less regulation would make the problem better, just in different ways.

To your point, you can't simply ridicule the solution you don't like and call that an argument.
I wonder how many of the claims behind "recycled plastic" end up using more energy and pollute more than just using crude.
"What colour should we use for our website?"

"All of them"
The "new" CEO has been at the helm since 2019. Long before the mentioned funding in 2022.

We don't really have a HQ since we are a 100% remote company.

Source: I am the Bitwarden founder.
I don't really understand this either. As you say, it may work for very predictably-paid jobs.
There are not enough houses in the right place, which is all that matters.
My query with this sort of thing is always that will this do any more than remove the low and high end people for roles in companies, and maybe the people who want the highs will go to somewhere where they can be paid with more variability.
Is this some kind of wind-up?
Rook is about using CSI... it doesn't run Ceph on Kubernetes. That's impossible because Ceph relies on functionality that exists in drivers (kernel modules) to run. CSI is the component that communicates between eg. rbd driver and the user-space (eg. Kubernetes controllers), but it doesn't run Ceph.

It's in principle impossible to do anything about block devices in containers like those used by Kubernetes because those rely on Linux processes and associated namespaces. There isn't a Linux namespace for block devices, the closest you can get is the filesystem namespace. In other words, you cannot manage block devices purely in containers, you need some help from the host operating system. And this is why I mentioned CSIs in my previous post.
That seems unlikely, since they do not have legal jurisdiction over say a company in Belgium who is advertising worldwide for employees.
It's addressed to "fellow Citizens of the Senate and of the House of Representatives".
In the meanwhile, in Spain you ought to change your internet provider to watch LaLiga and pay for other football competitions you might not be interested in. As a result, many people prefer to watch LaLiga illegally.
For Gmail's recovery mail I use an address on my own domain, but for the domain's registrar I use an email at Yahoo! (mail.yahoo.com).

Yahoo! hasn't been without problems. I was annoyed when they deleted the inbox of users who hadn't logged in for a long time, with no way to recover the messages. That's quite bad if you're using it as your regular mail or as a long term archive. But as a rarely used location to get transient mails, the mail interface is ok and my account is still there after more than 20 years. Like Gmail, it's possible to fetch the contents over POP3/IMAP.
Remember that the overwhelming majority of these cameras in London are privately owned and operated by shopkeepers and homeowners, it's not a massive state-operated surveillance network. They usually have extremely poor image quality and are hooked up to fixed local tape/hard drive recording rather than networked.

With that said, there are still a lot of state-operated cameras. Mostly to make money from traffic infraction fines, curiously that's one area where governments don't ever seem to cut police funding :-)
this is the generation that had it best: jobs for life, good benefits, cheap houses, etc. they also destroyed the planet with their "American dream" style consumption.
what's coming for the new generations if these are suffering ?
Insufficiently regulated, then.

The parent comment looks at regulations on home building (zoning, etc) that are harmful, and extrapolates from that that all regulations are harmful and that the root cause of inequality is regulation preventing poor people from starting venture businesses. Because everyone knows that the startup world is definitely not inequitable at all, where some people walk away with hundreds of millions and others lose everything.
Football became popular because anybody with a TV set could watch the millionaires struggling in stadia funded with public taxes in a streaming funded with public taxes

Now that they have a market of addicted followers, they’ve moved to a closed streaming system and they’re fighting against their former customers
No, but they are often venue owners, as I mentioned. That’s why TM pays them.
The HN crowd, thanks to the ubiquitous and indiscriminating nature of the internet access and ability to self-select, comprises of academics and engineers but also of artists, philosophers, enthusiasts and people still finding their way in the world. That includes production and retail workers.
I started with keepass, and switched to Bitwarden for personal use, and LastPass for work (before LastPass imploded). I now use 1password everywhere. I've got complaints, sure, but Bitwarden regularly fails at input field detection on mobile and web, regularly fails at login (particularly with biometric). If a tool can't reliably do it's core functionality, it's not fit for purpose.
Scientists and engineers that have a sense of humor - those are the folks that I like to hire.
> where everyone has to justify their claim

but why shouldn't that be the case? There's no natural rights to anything, and it's the law of the jungle.

There's a veneer of civility so as not to cause anarchy with people killing each other for some food.

But just because someone exists, doesn't give them any privileges to own anything, except for what they worked for (or get given from parents).
Housing is unaffordable for labourers everywhere.

The main reason people move into the expensive cities chasing the high paying jobs is because they cannot afford to live in the rural communities or small town they grew up in, since wages there have stayed low while cost of real estate has exploded.
> The same box of cereal increased from ~$3.75 to ~$6.59 and gone from 19oz to 17oz.

Your claim is that cereal has experienced 96% inflation? Over what time frame?
>Most Metro areas do not have enough affordable housing.

Not only that, the definition of "affordable housing" is skewed. In the big metro area near me, "affordable housing" means 1500 to 2000 USD per month. That is not affordable to any normal person. To me, affordable rent should be below 1000 USD.

You think this homeless crises is bad, wait 30 years and then you will see Cities with large slums like many "third" world countries have.

And yes, it is the Gov. job to fix this, but the politicians wants to continue receiving their "bribes" from companies, some of which are buying up rental properties as fast as they become available. Ever see "cash for your house" ? Those properties are probably being bought up for use with AirBNB or being turned into rentals for around 3000 USD.
async isn't typically 'faster' at all. It just lets do do more with fewer threads, and that has its own benefits.

async can actually _increase_ the number of syscalls your application performs.
One problem I see is that if compensation for the product depends on the level of AI users, then there will be an incentive to lie, making the self-rating pointless.

Also, it's doubtful the rating would carry through to the final product since it would be likely used for intermediate products used in the final movie/art creation, which is a different market than the end user viewer.
it’s not just the boomers (but mostly them) - look at our congresspeople, mostly boomers
If you like this kind of thing, also checkout the radio 1 live lounge stuff. Been going for a long time so I think there's playlists with a couple of hundred songs and they'll be a small amount of the full sets. Often tends towards more acoustic but you can find some great covers.
Oh no you made it worse XD
Not at all, there a jobs that are good for students and other low skill/low experience workers... you can walk in and generate value, the phrase real job as I've heard it means career where with experience the amount of value increases.
Can you please share some more details for Alexa announcement
Which is the article of the código penal which says something like “those who watch an internet streaming without paying money to somebody will be punished with fine or prison”?

If it’s not written down as illegal, it’s legal
Regardless of whether it would work or not it would disempower both halves - that alone makes it unlikely.

That is also why conflict is only going to increase over time until one side or the other is decisively defeated (and even then there will be clandestine groups).
I didn't think I had to be explicit - to look at some regulations with negative effects (zoning protectionism for nimby homeowners) and then extrapolate from that that all regulation is bad, is farcical.

There is a decent argument to be made that I would agree with that regulatory capture on home building is a serious problem. But that's not the argument that was made, instead the parent comment went on to claim that the actual problem is "freeloaders" and all that government regulation preventing the few worthy people from getting off the ground.
iCloud Keychain has csv export. There’s no more lockin than there is with other password managers.
Welll.. Crap. And I just moved off LastPass within the past year :|

I even pay for Bitwarden and it's been great with its back-to-basics UI that just works, and not crushing page load performance with the Chrome plugin.. But 100M is a huge sum and we saw how this turns out.
I prefer inequality when it comes to pay because I will work harder than the majority.
just fire him already. the code is useless anyways if they cant execute well on it.

lawyering up can help but it gets complicated and time consuming if you are in different places.
Then maybe I just don't understand your post. To me it sounds like you say "FAANG-technology" is chosen because of documentation. But I don't think that the documentation of e.g. SQS is better than the postgres (if you can even compare the too).

If someone says "I choose X over Y because I used X before (or because X is better documented" then fair enough - but I rarely hear that as an argument when choosing "FAANG-technology".
The Grand Rewrite of DataHub
A cautionary tale of starting a company based on an OSS project that you created.
Excess No More? Dwindling Pandemic Savings
you are reading something into my comment that is not there - I was saying immortal life would be a meaningless existence and no panacea to the human condition.
Trying to escape death is not only futile, it is a waste of life.
You are right of course, we should all touch grass more (I.e. really live) instead of trying to "solve" the human condition.
> It's nothing without the training data. And the training data is the output of people's jobs.

so do you not claim that a student learning off textbooks or teachers are also doing "distributed plagiarism"?

> but it might replace the need to _pay them_ for the contribution

assuming the training data is paid for via a one time fee, or was using material that was publicly available to be learnt off, the contribution is already paid for.

There's no possibility of a royalty payment with AI generated content.
There is a "live" flamegraph TUI that uses Austin for those interested in Python profiling https://github.com/P403n1x87/austin-tui. The data collected can be exported and then converted into pprof, and analysed further with flameshow etc...
Why are you so angry about clothes? You seem to have huge empathy troubles.
IMO a much better idea that circumvents all these problems is requiring companies to disclose how much they're already paying their employees, the Scandinavian way.

This wouldn't even necessarily need to be broken down by individual employees, per position would work too, with statistics like number of employees covered, min, max, average and median.
I can't watch DVDs in most of the places I want to consume media any more, and that's increasingly common. Other DVD suppliers are also seeing a big drop in revenue, not just Netflix.

Can you even get a 15" laptop with a dvd drive these days?
I moved to Portland a year ago. We certainly have a lot of homeless people, many of which are people caught up in the substance abuse cycle with particular drugs. However, one day I was driving back to East Portland, I drove under an underpass that's a particularly rough place. I saw a woman that looked to be my mom's age with what appeared to be a modern suit case, she was well dressed, and sober looking. The blood drained from me head to toe; as I said, I saw my mom in that person and I was instantly depressed. When I got home I decided I'd drive back to the underpass the next day. When I did she was gone. There are a lot of services here if you're sober so I suspect they swooped in and found her.

Portland's housing problem is multifold. There's not enough single unit housing, but even single family homes are affected by an overly burdensome and expensive permitting process. It adds thousands of dollars to construction and creates a lot of delays so when a house is torn down the lot sits empty. The city also allowed a number of lots to be classified as historical; one near my house is now just a vacant lot that a historical home used to sit on but burned down. You now can't build on that lot. We need to get rid of historical homes in Portland, we need to geographically diversify the housing density, and we need a full scale review of our permitting process.
No one in 2020: “I won’t apply to AWS because of the global salary cap of only $160K (or whatever the figure was back then).”

When (substantially) all of your comp is cash salary, posting cash salary ranges is illuminating. When a lot of it isn’t, posting a cash salary range just tells prospective applicants one tiny view into a cash flow aspect.