skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is the typical politically oriented piece form The Guardian and as such it is indeed 'liberal' with facts.

Apparently, "At the median, graduates with a bachelor’s degree earn $2.8 million over the course of their careers, according to the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce, compared to $1.6 million for high school graduates" [1]

So a student loan seems like a bargain if the median return over a career is $1.2 million or 75% more income.

[1] https://www.forbes.com/advisor/student-loans/average-salary-...
When do you do it? In between the constant firefighting or in between poorly planned “we need this yesterday” tickets?
I think the next generation of immutable distros is going to eventually make Debian effectively obsolete for many service workloads.
They wouldn't have had electroplating, but yeah you don't need that if you're okay with just spending a lot of time and care on it instead.
I would say I have a pretty good understanding of Ethernet, IP, TCP, and also HTTP, having written implementations of that full stack several times -- including pretty sophisticated ultra-low-latency tricks.

HTTP/2 implements multiplexing on top of TCP, which is just plain stupid. TCP is not meant to be used for this, and doing this is actively harmful; the correct thing to do is to establish multiple TCP connections. That sort of thing is not surprising since most of web and cloud tech is all about re-implementing low-level components on top of inadequate high-level abstractions.

The main reason to use HTTP/2 is simply that when a server provides both 1 and 2, the backend quality will typically be much better on 2.
AFAIK, there is only support for AV1 decoding in the latest Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 and Apple's A17 Pro. No mobile SoC supports AV1 encoding (so far).
Written online journalism has been on the decline for like a decade because of video, social media, the ad/spam arms race, SEO exploitation and such. They have to use Taboola to pay the bills, they have no other choice.
It's likely because I was in the exploration frontier of Alaska. This was late nineties, probably an operation run by people who worked in the city in the '80's and who could continue the old ways far away from the social glare of the head office. :D
maybe i just really enjoy winter sports
From the description, the Debian organization seems to be an anarchist one. A bunch of people, not coerced to be there, have created a diffuse rotating democracy for making decisions. Self-sufficiency is key to the organization, that emerges from thoughtful usage of resources.
Once in awhile I’ll try these new emulators but I keep going back to iTerm2. Maybe having a comparison of the two or similar would help convince me and others in the same boat.
you can mitigate this by keeping your cat inside
So it's your contention that Idra Group came up with the term / misnomer Giga Press and not Tesla / Musk?
Same here, switched to Debian for my servers as OS from Ubuntu. Main reason: uses (boring & old) working technology. No more netplan, snapd, systemd-resolver.
Anyone who mentions Ray Dalio in a positive way can be immediately disregarded. I read the whole thing and didn’t see anything insightful.
I’ve left it as long as I’m comfortable with.. about 12 hours in bad conditions. Not sure what else I can do
Is the erratic manufacturing referring to the lovemaking or to the gestation?
Ask HN: Amazon Becoming a Monopoly?
Hey folks,

I've seen that Amazo has implemented a while ago "international shipping" → basically if you're from EU(as example), you can order from amazon.de and get it in a country that doesn't have amazon(as example: Romania). I've ordered something and got my stuff in 1 week(Germany to Romania).

And I was thinking: Is it possible that Amazon could become a monopoly in the market? Since they have sellers from all around the world and looots of products: they basically inhibit the local marketplaces with products. And yeah: they are the biggest marketplace in the world.

How would local marketplaces react to that? Would Amazon be the main marketplace all around the world?

Cheers!
I agree but with a different frame of reference. How easy it is to start a startup is not dictated by how easy it is for your competitors to start one, but by how big of a moat the incumbents have. With all these tools available to me now, that moat is becoming smaller and smaller
Almost certainly both. The prevalence of prescription contraceptives would support your conjecture, while that of diabetes medications would support mine.

I do find the statistic intuitively astounding given what I know of friends and family. Unless elderly or on the pill, use of prescription medications seems low. I am not in the US though.
>It seems to me that there’s a class of programmer that will take an overpaid job at a terrible BigCo,

People are bad at understanding risk. When a company pays significantly more for the same job than another, there is always an economic reason:

* The job is undesirable because of how people are treated, and as a result the only way to attract and retain people is to overpay. The extra pay mitigates flight risk when the inevitable bad day or week happens for the hire.

* Management is likely to or has a history of sudden lay offs and firings often indiscriminately. The extra pay mitigates the risk of sudden loss of income to the employee.

* Poor reputation/employment brand requires paying more to get people to avoid the risk of associating with that bad employer brand.

The extra money is being paid not because the employer wants to. It is exactly because they have to in order to hire and retain people that can do the job. The whole "we're better and pay a premium because you are the best developers in the world" is really management self-justifying having to overpay due to risk.

When you look at compensation, ask yourself and the interviewer why is the company over-paying? You'll often save yourself years of misery.
I was responding to the specific claim that woodstoves cause measurable problems with indoor air quality in the houses where they are used. I'm willing to believe they can, but in my direct experience, mine didn't. I live in a rural enough area (less than 1 house per sq km) that my neighbors are unlikely to be affected by my woodburning, and I am not likely to be affected by theirs.

The question (and I agree it's open) is what effect dispersed burning has on the larger scale environment. My current belief is that local wood harvesting and burning in a modern efficient stove is better than the alternatives currently available to me. If you have evidence to the contrary, please provide it rather than just making blanket statements.
New rule of thumb: if some article's background is #000000 (absolute black), expect the content to be similarly lacking in subtlety and accuracy.
Financial success --> morally superior. Reminds me calvinism.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protestant_work_ethic
both of these people are making non-exclusionary public goods, so yeah, the parallel is valid. Lots of non-physical goods fit in the same category (when we haven't hamfistedly tried to make them exclusionary), our mechanisms for getting creators rewarded for their efforts suck.
If Peter Attia says it, it must be true.
Please; write 'Lucia de Berk', not 'Lucia de B'. She was exonerated in full, and has since indicated quite clearly that she wishes to be known under her full name, not the initialized suspect name.
I live in germany, they really want (EUR) 92.99 for one? That's ridiculous.
Yeah, but my Stihl MS880 is still legal here in California… and likely will be for some time. Good luck getting a usable, heavy-duty chainsaw to work on any tech besides a two-stroke motor of some kind.
I feel like they probably should diversify their offer and make both cheaper and more expensive models. Many people here including myself probably would love to have an even more powerful and less cheap model (e.g. I consider Raspberry Pi being a common standard extensible compact computer it's key selling point, don't care much about the price but often find myself handicapped by its CPU and IO performance while we all know similar type SoCs can do much do much better as many smartphones do), at the same time for many users and use cases it indeed probably should stay cheaper than it is becoming. Perhaps selling premium beefy models could have helped sponsoring cheaper ones.
purfect?
> in 90s it was worse, then it got better, then current dems consistently making it worse again.

Call me when the murder rate reaches the 1990s peak. They haven't. I'll say again, American cities are much safer than they've been in my living memory.

> dems made small value crimes not felony,

This is a horse shit explanation. Firstly, that was a ballot initiative passed by will of the voters, probably because California prisons, like most US prisons, have been overcrowded and we have insanely high incarceration rates exceeding pretty much every other nation, which is not appropriate. Secondly, I think people who have looked at this will tell you it had no impact on crime rates. Unless they work for Fox news etc.
Correct. Dont use them on anything but flat water.

Check out the Foiling IMOCA 60s. They regularly top 30 knots in the middle of the ocean. Highly maneuverable.

The 100 foot foiling ocean Trimarans are a bit faster with top speeds over 40 and 24 hour averages in the high 30s with a crew of 5 or 6, often sailed Solo.
Indeed, parts of East Side Access cost $1 million per foot.

https://www.ocregister.com/2015/11/04/tunnel-to-grand-centra...
I believe as you get older and value your own sanity more (maybe because you have less energy to expand overall?) that’s exactly what you do: nothing.

I hate what Reddit has become. The day they killed third party apps etc, I just deleted my account with “hi spez“ as the reason. Reddit is still running to it’s ruin and I’ve achieved nothing on that front but my sanity is preserved and I got 30–60 minutes a day of my life back.
I’m pretty convinced it was net positive in the long term. If Debian hadn’t gone with systemd, then where would it be today? Stuck in shell script hell?
I think an AI could model and figure out #2 and #3. Since they’re just problems of physics. So it should be just rule #1 that needs to be embedded.
I think the main issue this person is having is with their own expectations.

Things do get better, but it doesn’t always take just one generation.
> I agree with this, but the problem is that there is no guarantee of work being available to everyone. With the rise of AI and hyper-specialization of work, that problem is only going to get worse.

The key here is to make sure that automation and cost efficiencies make it through to the production of necessities, and we don't prop up artificial scarcity.

There are an effectively unlimited number of jobs that employers would pay someone $0.01/hour to do. Not as many that employers would pay $100/hour to do. So if you need to make $100/hour to afford housing and medicine, that's a problem. But if we reduce the artificial scarcity and regulatory overhead in these industries, so you only have to make $5/hour to afford them, we're in a much better place. And all the better if lower costs allow someone to make a living at $2/hour.

AI and automation can help to reduce those costs. As long as they're in the right places (i.e. production of necessities) and we don't have regulatory capture preventing it from happening there.
It’s internet points. Is it truly worth moderating the entire thread?
Intel is doing this today in the Xeon MAX line, up to 64gb of hbm ram, you don't even necessarily need ddr5 on them. serve the home has a good article about them but it's all very new so it's hard to say how it'll shake out.
Sure. My point was that it's a release where everything looks exactly like it did before, and there were no noteworthy new features AFAICT.
> Including YIMBY

that's has to be verified, if any affordable housing was approved in reasonable distance from his current house.
Approving affordable housing in other's backyard is obviously not YIMBY.
It's just one person's story, and it's sort of the curse of a person who writes a memoir in their early 30s to lack perspective. This story isn't super dissimilar from mine. I was the first person in my family to ever go to college, on either side. My parents were stable at least, poor when I was a small child, but at least middle class by the time I was an adult, just still not enough to provide any meaningful level of support. Further generations back were doing almost exclusively low paid domestic labor or farm work.

I was an exceptional smart kid who stood out from my family. I spent most of my free time in the library, got a perfect SAT score in 6th grade, won a television quiz show when I was still a kid. No idea where it came from. My dad is street smart but failed out of every level of school. My mom is the kind of person who thinks flouride is bad for you and believes in crystal healing. But I had a serious break down my first year of college (going to which was also my first time ever on a plane), so Ivy League was out of the question. Nobody was going to take me after what happened, no matter how smart I was. I spent a few years at LA City College before going to a Cal state, but was so directionless, I went to grad school just because I didn't know what else to do. At one point, I'm sure I had 120k in student debt.

And it didn't quickly get a ton better in my 30s, even though career started to go reasonably well and I was no longer poor. I had serious spine problems and could only inconsistently work for a few years. I couldn't even dress myself for a few years.

But where you stand at 32 is not the story of your entire life. I am no longer in any debt and am by far the most prosperous person in my family. Maybe somewhat ironically, I also wanted to be a writer for most of my 20s, but I not only never achieved any level of success, I never even really tried. I finished one novel, but didn't believe in it enough to even try sending it to a publisher. But I guess maybe that was a blessing in disguise if this is the life of a best-selling author. My best friend from college ended up winning an Emmy at one point, but is still poor, has never married, struggles with continuing mental illness. If there is a lesson here, I'm not sure it's don't go to college or don't go into debt or the poor always stay poor. It's that creative careers are a fool's bet almost no one wins even when they win.
File Sharing Directly from CLI
This seems like a possible beacon of safety critical rust, especially given that it's SIL 4 and ASIL D (impressive!), the price structure is very reasonable, and its open source!

It's really quite amazing what the team there has done and I'm looking forward to this perhaps bringing some new eyes to where and how Rust might be used.
Galois Theory of Algorithms (2018) [pdf]
While this is super cool, it's not Universal. It requires usage of containers based upon LinuxServer.io containers.
CLRS or some Algorithm Design Book, but you could easily be talking about TAOCP or SICP or Clean Code or any of 1000 other books.
It is not the End of Startups. It is the end of "free Money" from boomers savings, that now are retiring and need the money.

Startups will have to be profitable and auto finance themselves, like it has been normal for companies in the past.

They will need to find a way to create value and survive sooner. It will make for smaller and slower growth companies but also more stable.
Also note if you exceed the yearly gift tax limit you just file 709 and apply the excess to your lifetime estate limit, currently $12,000,000-ish.

(Federal) gift tax isn't really a thing except for the exceedingly wealthy. Idk about all states
Applying patches increases the cost of making changes.
If I am understanding your experience correctly the colloquial wisdom here is to use GIN on static data and GIST on dynamic data.

> In choosing which index type to use, GiST or GIN, consider these performance differences:

> GIN index lookups are about three times faster than GiST

> GIN indexes take about three times longer to build than GiST

> GIN indexes are moderately slower to update than GiST indexes, but about 10 times slower if fast-update support was disabled (see Section 54.3.1 for details)

> GIN indexes are two-to-three times larger than GiST indexes

> As a rule of thumb, GIN indexes are best for static data because lookups are faster. For dynamic data, GiST indexes are faster to update. Specifically, GiST indexes are very good for dynamic data and fast if the number of unique words (lexemes) is under 100,000, while GIN indexes will handle 100,000+ lexemes better but are slower to update.

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/textsearch-indexes.html
Cheap money is over.

If you don't need money, like a bootstrap, the odds are in your favor.

If you are a startup that hasn't quite made a name for itself yet and the coffers are getting low and it's time for another round of funding, you're going to have a rough time.
Snoop Dogg Joins AI Arms Race, Invests in AI Language Startup Thinkin
> There are lots of things that have tried to be cats—other groups of mammals that have evolutionarily converged on cats. Marsupials have tried to be cats. An extinct group of carnivorans called creodonts have tried to be cats. Weasels have tried to be cats. There’s all kinds of stuff that has tried to be a bit catlike in different ways—mongooses, things like that. But they kind of dip in and dip out of being cats, and they can’t really outcompete cats in their space. They haven’t lasted. All of those things that have tried to be cats, they do other things, too, and those things are fine. But there aren’t a lot of things that are around today that do a very good job of being a cat.

Er... okay? And what exactly does this mean?

I wish they defined "catness," in this sense, so we knew what it meant for a species to approach it. As it is, the above paragraph essentially tells us nothing.
I'm not sure the IRS cares about your intent. I feel like the structure is important.
Legally, I'm guessing this is the same defence as "I just threw darts on the board and got lucky."

You still decided to trade an instrument you had insider knowledge about. You'd better have a paper trail to show that the dart wasn't biased.
> I can obviously ensure that any branches on the origin are never rewritten

That is all I meant. As you say, people can still rewrite their own history on their own computer before submitting it.

We could get philosophical about what "history" is. If I press backspace am I rewriting history? What granularity are we talking here? If I make change X by frequently committing and then squash, have I rewritten history? If I make the exact same change X with one big commit at the end (no squashing), have I not rewritten history? Whether or not I rewrote history the pull request at the end is the same. Or what if I'm using jj which amends a "working commit" hundreds of times, have I rewritten history?

Ultimately the division of changes into commits is a matter of authorship, a creative endeavor. I'd prefer to do this creative work with whatever tools I choose, but if you force me to never squash, I can still achieve the same creative output using other tools or by altering how I work. At no point were commits ever an actual history, they were always a presentation of the history the author chose to present.

(I've rambled on here, most of this isn't meant as a direct reply to you.)
A lot of people suffer a lot of anxiety around writing, and it seems like trying to lower the stakes helps: https://bessstillman.substack.com/p/on-writing-or-not
rule 0: don't give it a reason to pull the trigger
General thesis is cream always rises to the top even in high interest rate environments.
Crappy, pointless startups will struggle and wither without the easy credit spigot.

So yeah, it's legit and always has been.
Yep, yet I constantly have to be told by others that despite my deciding against more expensive schools and deciding to study computer science in lieu of a pet passion in art knowing full well that my immigrant parents wouldn’t support me, my outcome is due largely more to luck rather than to hard work and risk aversion.
Not really, competitors can be antiquated. A ten year old tech stack can be very hard to pivot away from, and easy to catch up to with modern programming
Not just the toolchain, I want to see a vetted library collection. Make it annual releases, "Rusty MetaLib 2023" which packages a majority of the standard players (regex, clap, num_cpus, SQLite, serde, time, etc).

I have minimal Rust experience, but I really enjoy nearly everything about it. Except for the large dependency trees I am likely to pull in when building something more complicated than Hello World. Impossible to feel safe that all of that code has not been compromised.
> Debugging complex code is hard, first simplify, then debug

I've always made it a point to do a first pass just reading code and forming a hypothesis about the problem (which is often wildly wrong) before making any changes or even running it in a debugger.

If nothing else you usually find other oddities, and get more familiar with the code as written. It isn't fast but it tends towards being beneficial for more than just solving the specific bug at hand.
Finally, a way to decide which IP camera to buy.
Yes but those rewards are rarely fungible. As I understand it's more about recognizing the patron (e.g. your name in the credits) and giving them special status in the community (e.g. early access) rather than getting something of real monetary value.
Good sir, I've met some fucking dumb lawyers in my day, so I'm not sure why you are holding them up as a pillar of intelligence. Nobody said anything about intelligence here anyway - what I said was, real estate agents, like lawyers, financial planners, librarians, and pretty much every career on the planet exist because they have specialized knowledge and skills. You think you can replace what I do with AI? Why don't you come on over and do a ride along with me on a typical day - I bet you'll change your mind. Zillow, Redfin, and plenty of others have been trying for more than a decade to replace us and they aren't making much progress.

The MLSs? Do you have any idea what it was like prior to their existence and how much the public has benefited from the improvement in information asychronicity? Zillow et al stand on their shoulders. You don't like it, you try replicating what the MLSs do.
Firefox Android on a Samsung S7. Varying loading times is obviously completely normal. I was just hoping to see an optimization deep dive based on the title here.
Indeed. But so many people just don't know what the problem is.
I think certification is essentially the same thing as having someone else interview the candidate, so it won't be better and is easier to game than interviews. Working together with someone on the kinds of problems you actually face is the most realistic way to assess a person's abilities on the work to be done because it's less of a proxy than anything else.
Tangential question — what's a good spot in the US to observe the stars with the naked eye? There are many such lists on the web, but I tend no to trust them.

Has anyone experienced a dark sky lately in the US?
Voters don't seem to vote in ways that are consistent with improving subway building functionality.
Hackers are selling the data of millions lifted from 23andMe's genetic database
Debian is very much one ad hoc fix after another, to an incredible degree really. Go dive into the source and patches and you’ll see how much duct tape there really is holding things together. What’s so great about Debian though is it effectively hides all that pain from you (most of the time).