skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know a lot of Polish people who came to the US are now going back to Poland for a better life. No doubt many have amassed some wealth from blue collar work for one or two decades and now can afford to have a better life back home, mainly raising kids peacefully and so on. It's hard for newer immigrants to make that kind of bargain in the US nowadays though, many new immigrants struggle with high rents and not being able to same much to return to their homes. Some of them are lucky and make it better but a lot of them live in the paycheck to paycheck mode with the vulnerability that if something bad hits them like hospital visit they're as good as homeless.
I doubt it. Our socialist politicians and overzealous bureaucrats will make sure we never get to “Profit”, or rather that they profit on our expense.
Managing your medicaid "benefits" is a part time job
Cerebras' strategy is the winner then if hardware was all that mattered
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On top of that, when we immigrants also compare against other developed countries, we see how immigrant friendly the US is. The natural born citizens wouldn’t necessarily care about that
Cloud opex is high. And I don't mean the bill. Though the former does add to the latter.
HN is unprepared for this level of sarcasm.
> Widely regarded as the worst episode of the series
Stanford University has been installing roundabouts in recent years. But they put pedestrian cross walks across all the entrances and exits. So you find yourself driving around and come across a car fully stopped in the loop because some kid is crossing the exit on foot.
I had university courses on computer architecture and assembly, even before I took up Python as a hobby. I did have a little C experience before that. My entire perspective on Rust type system from day 1 (back in 2013, before Rust 1.0) was based on the hardware (primarily stack frames) and problems I had with assembly and C. There was never a point where the borrow checker didn't make sense. This is why I insist that Rust isn't hard to understand if you learn the hardware on which it runs.

Back then, people were debating the design decisions that led to the borrow checker, in public for everyone to see (on Reddit and IRC). They were trying to avoid memory safety issues in Firefox and Servo. They were even a bit surprised to discover that the borrow checker solved many concurrency bugs as well.
With no next gen propulsion system and no self-sustaining colony, humans on Mars are a resource sink with no added benefits.

Lest you forget it took 300 years for North America to generate self-sustaining colonies from the first Europeans. And those didn’t require life support for oxygen and water for every second of survival.
maybe its about allowing you to create your own cloud, not using a third party vendor's software?
its not a computer you hook up to a cloud, it is its own cloud?
i only know about aws outpost tho, so I might be wrong
I wanted to point out how this article chose to ignore that fact

But people have very small and selective memory it seems, war torn countries, bombing + destruction/looting by local terrorist groups

https://www.wmf.org/blog/impact-war-syrias-archaeological-si...

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/race-save-syrias-arch...

https://www.ucf.edu/news/war-rages-archaeologist-uses-satell...
Health spending is a larger percentage of GDP in the USA (16%) than in Spain (10%) by a good chunk (1.6 times more) [1]

My experience in being able to see q Europe seeing a GP is way better than in the USA but I know this varies by where you live (even inside the USA)

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/268826/health-expenditur...
Serialized components / hardware DRM exist to disincentivize the pickpocket-to-grey-market-refurbished pipeline. They’re the reason that Android devices get stolen in great numbers but iOS devices don’t — iOS devices in “lost mode” have no resale value, including scrap resale value. That’s the entire point of lost mode — and that disincentivization only works as long as the components from that lost-mode phone are considered “tainted” for use in repairing other phones. Which requires “serialized components and hardware DRM.”

If you can come up with a version of Right to Repair that eliminates this practice but which doesn’t give gangs of thieves a 10000% higher interest in stealing my phone at a concert to send it to Shenzhen, I’d be all for it. But I suspect you cannot.
Teacher's Pi cluster controls digital learning classroom
Most countries in Western Europe have the social net curse blogging them down. The high tax, high social care system only works if the country is on a good growth track. As more people turn old and retire, someone has to pay for those. With wage stagnation in most normal occupations and lack of growth, the way they have tried to tackle this is with increase in immigration, which in turn keeps wages low in low paying sectors. Also, unlike US which does integration really well, this is not true for Europe where high immigration is leading to even frictions because of lack of integration.

On top of that, tech emerging as a big industry which forms a big part of the whole economic output of a country, has led to Europe losing out to US. Although only China through thier protectionism has been safe from that.

You can see this in the commentary about UK politics, where they don't have money to fund NHS and NHS wages haven't grown which has bogged down their healthcare system. Most of the manufacturing ecosystem is completely degraded. Productivity is at a complete toss as well, as they are not even able to build high speed rail well now, which for a social net country like UK should be of paramount importance.

To combat this, they have increased taxation, either through freezing slabs or moving down tax slabs. This penalises people in high wage professions and it leads to loss of competitiveness.
It's a real issue in space:

> Because space travel makes astronauts prone to kidney stones due, in part to bone demineralization from weightlessness, they are at increased risk. The NASA evidence base and publications note that astronauts have had more than 30 instances of kidney stones within two years of space travel. Medical assistance is a formidable challenge for those orbiting this planet or heading to other solar system destinations.

https://newsroom.uw.edu/news/keeping-kidney-stones-bay-durin...
TIL! Still tho, cannot abide by this. It would make a units-filled sentence irritating to parse.
> Only drawback seems to be it's gonna be difficult to get performance real-time enough to use as an actual musical instrument.

Is there something specific about the MAME codebase that makes this an issue? There are quite a few software emulations of classic synths, for example Arturia's V Collection or the Plogue's Chipsounds - and those work perfectly well in real time even on lower end machines. Roland's Virtual Analog (I hate that term) and Plug-Out also exists, though I really don't want their cloud subscription just so I can download an instrument into a physical synth. But I'm not familiar enough with the MAME codebase to know if there's something in there that could cause issues.
Socialism is worker-controlled means of production. State-controlled means of production is socialism if the workers control the state (which is generally not the case for states that call themselves "socialist").
What is old is new again. The Chicago Tribune writing in 1992 about restaurants naming themselves to get a better listing in the phonebook:

"`A ALPHABETICAL ADVANTAGE` HELPS BUSINESSES"
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1992-11-08-920411...
Is this conclusion purely theoretical, or based on any experience at all?

Because anecdotally, the cops that interacted with me and people around me where completely uninterested in doing any kind of work, no matter how easy it was.
What this guy said: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38024122

If you have a rack like that you'd probably want it to run a real database or server backend.
If you (like me) wondered why go back decades to what is pressumably lower quality imagery than what is available today, here is the spoiler:

> They (cold war era) “preserve a high-resolution, stereo perspective on a landscape that has been severely impacted by modern-day land-use change”
> Apple is a first party supermarket that lets sellers self-promote

Apple works hard to change that though. Apple made 26% of their revenue from services last quarter, it was less than 10% 8 years ago, that is where most of their growth is coming from.

They did use to make most of their money selling products, but now they started to exploit their platform dominance to make money from all other areas of it as well. Apple today isn't the Apple you bought into 10 years ago.

Source of services being $21.21b / $81.8bn = 26%:

https://musically.com/2023/08/04/apples-services-revenue-gro...

> TL;DR: I don't understand why Apple doesn't acquire Kagi, put Kagi basic in iCloud and Kagi Ultimate into Apple One, and go from there.

Because they make more by taking money from Google. Why is that hard to understand? Apples goal is to make money.
Bootstrapping scientific facilities in a planet with an unbreathable atmosphere which can only be effectively transversed to and from every 18 months is not an easy thing.

Not to mention the phenomenal effort required to grow food there or transport who knows how much food per person to provide the kinds of safety margins you would want to avoid your first Mars astronauts starving.
This article is kind of obnoxious in how it assumes reader knowledge about this term and that the term is well known.
The dynamics are similar in many ways, but not the same. Scale and occupying a significant part of a market create their own qualities. Government bonds are closer to shares in a company than personal debt, or even corporate debt for that matter. Many people want to own government debt as a stable store of value. Even moreso as the global military hegemon, where other countries want to own the government's debt as a stable store of value.

Conversely, the US government has also spent the last 40+ years abusing the fallacy that loaning money is completely different than spending, which has grotesquely distorted the financial industry and the housing market. So the sooner we shove off these misguided notions, like that the government's balance sheet is anything like a private balance sheet (and even worse, that the Federal Reserve's balance sheet is somehow distinct from the government's!), the better. Modern Monetary Theory is more in line with the actually-conservative Austrian School than the hybrid catastrophe of the past four decades.
>it would be spent in other ways

Or it would've been placed in the reverse REPO facility at delicious interest rates paid straight from the printing press. A lot of COVID spending was sanitized this way, without it inflation would've been much higher. And this money has started to get back into the economy.
Put yourself in the umwelt of the tree. There are feedback cycles for growth, sunlight, water presence, chemical signaling for injury, fungal communication techniques, and more. There are some good books out there, I can't be bothered to search right now but one I think is called Understory, very popular.
The article has a bit in it "This technology is also making it possible for astronauts to travel to Mars, since astronauts are at a greater risk for developing kidney stones during space travel." And then a hyperlink to more information.
We should map the ocean and available resources on earth along with future-proofing our atmosphere as a priority over colonizing Mars.

Unless the cataclysmic pole shift hypothesis is true, in which the solution is to get as many of us off this ticking time bomb before it happens next.
Where do you hear that "common wisdom" from, though? Probably the same people that tout and follow the "12 startups in 12 months" mantra. I'd be wary of calling that common wisdom. If you think your idea is a good idea, and you think your business plan is solid, why would you think you're investing too much time in getting traction? All I'm saying is don't expect traction in 1 month. Instead, go in expecting that it'll take 12 months. If you don't have traction by then, or at least a solid direction from user feedback, then you should reevaluate. Ideally, you should be getting user feedback from day 1. And if you aren't, your idea or business plan sucks. (Or you need to grow as a marketer.)

Of course, this isn't a hard and fast rule. Sometimes an idea sucks, and you'll know that just by the fact that you can't get anybody interested in trying your product, even before asking to pay for it. That's where validation and testing come in, so I'm not saying to not validate and test. That's always step 1. All I'm saying is that new founders give up on good ideas way too early. Their expectations of overnight success do not match reality. Validate and test and iterate can take a long time.

And it's worth noting: sometimes iterate is not iterating on your product, but iterating on yourself as a founder. I stood in my own way a lot as a new founder, focusing on the wrong things. It took awhile to get past that. After I did, growth was much easier. But if I gave up early, assuming my product sucked, I would have never gotten to that point.
How did they become rich then?
Our UX's are turning into the Hospital Computer scene from Idiocracy[1].

1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXzJR7K0wK0
> We have had the capability to develop ourselves to send a colony to mars in 10 years if we really wanted to, for 50 years

Like I said, pure delusion. We can still barely manage to launch rockets into space, and it still costs thousands of dollars per kg of cargo just to get to LEO. No human has lived in space for an extended period of time at a range beyond the ISS (400 km, while Mars is 400 million km).
Is there any difference at the end of the day? Profit is sought so that one has control over their self-interest.

In the example, someone wanted to see a business tradition carry on even after they were no longer involved in the business. To achieve that, they accepted a lower offer for the business to sell it to someone who also wants to carry on the tradition. But that is exactly the same, as far as the money goes, as selling the business to the highest bidder and then spending those proceeds in some way to see the tradition carry on. The net profitability is the same in both cases.
AWS rents you time on their servers. We sell you servers.

The difference is you own the hardware.
Yes, in those cases the tradeoffs of lock-in are worth it. With that in mind though - F500 are the absolute peak of the economic market (since you know, that's how Fortune makes that list). They represent less than 1% of the total market in terms of actual needs.

In those cases, the vendor lock-in from using a bespoke AWS or Azure solution are absolutely worth it because if AWS or Azure are an active problem they also will have the manpower to migrate off of AWS/Azure. My suggestion/advice is for the other 99%. You still want AWS/Azure for CYA, the managed part (not having to deal with ops) and backups but you don't need all the extra solutions they offer.

It's why "you are not Google" is an advice that exists. Newbies often tend to assume that because [big company/VC startup] is willing to eat the potential risk of a lock-in gone awry that the [smaller company] they work for/founded is able to eat it as well. There's definitely a usecase for all the specific services that GCP/Azure/AWS offer. Chances are though that you're not working for a company where that's the case and the more conventional tools will do just fine.

(VC Startups tend to ignore that advice mostly because they have a lot of financial resources to spend upfront, so they think it's worthwhile/that they will hit that point where GCP/Azure/AWS services become a necessity compared to a traditional tech stack.)
Isn't "umwelt" German for "environment"?
Not an emulation, but a recreation: https://adamstrange.itch.io/qasarbeach
Well said, this is not a black and white issue. Also prop 13 was a proposition, which means it was the result of a popular vote put directly to the people.

The California proposition system is one of the most democratic institutions in the US, as it is basically a form of direct democracy. The people of California voted for prop 13 by a sizable majority. If you believe democracy is a good thing, it's hard to fault this, the people voting to limit their own taxation is basically one of the founding principles of the United States.
Everyone is miserable because of interest rates and inflation. It's hitting the consumer right now and those are really obvious indicators how things are going. McDonalds costs as much as a meal at a proper restaurant did before the pandemic. That's not good.
I don't agreee with the Android related tougths. Altrough they don't deprecate API's, permission related things are changed too often. If you have any non-trivial app, you have to make changes every year to remain in Google Play and the rules are awkard.
My latest pain: I have a voip phone app in the store and last time I had to add a big popup before touching the contact list, informing the users the purpose (which is obvious with a phone app). Also the app description now contains that "this app might upload your phone numbers", altrough it only list it for the user, so they can select a contact and call it.
There are many more idiot thing, but I stop here because I already start to become angry, thinkig about the many wasted hours at their stupidity.
We are nowhere near being able to support and propagate life unaided on Mars. Life on mars as a backup for life on earth is like keeping bitcoin in case of a technological collapse.
Didn’t stop the ethnic cleansing in Myanmar
Yes, but then you can push this logic to everything. Should firefighters intervene? This person dead is cheaper than alive.

Public services cannot think about making a profit, otherwise it gets dark pretty quickly.
As I understand it, it was not literally the last thing holding back. But NASA worries about everything and we have centuries of examples of remote missions failing because of medical problems that could not be solved in the field. Billions of dollars, tens of years, and a ship full of lives can't be risked on a 3mm pebble if it can possibly be prevented.
Dude…
I suspect it could effectively mean "newcomers". There are.l presumably existing neighbourhoods where there are old-time Danes living with high unemployment etc. and it might be unrealistic to apply this criterion to them.

Not that it makes it nicer or anything.
How can you be so sure? I'm sure GP did a ton of market research before making that comment. This company is probably doomed.
Humility is a debugger, not a code coverage tool.
Tax renevues were down 9% for the 2022 fiscal year which is part of why we saw a larger increase in the deficit. Part of that decrease is due to tax delays related to disaster relief and will come in during the 2023 year so the numbers are skewed.
POWER [setting on microwaves] -user, reporting:

I just purchased an air fryer [which has greatly reduced my microwave usage, generally]. I specifically purchased the unit because it had analogue controls, including dual twist-dials (one for time, one for temperature).

As an added bonus, it has a single "DING" from an actual mechanically-struck bell... and it cost 1/3rd of the digital [controls] model I had initially considered purchasing.

To not leave anybody "hanging," the air fryer I purchased was the in-store Mainstays [WalMart] cheapo unit, which air-fries for one.5 PERFECTLY.
They are, but that's assuming that the GDP deflator is accurate. I for one don't agree with the CPI substitutions and gamesmanship and when CPI was suggesting 7-8% I calculated my personal basket had inflated ~15% YOY over the previous two years.

There are all kinds of reasons why this figure might be politically influenced. The reality on the ground is we've had to make significant cuts to our standard of living just to maintain spending flat even with wage increases. The wage increases have been on the order of 3% per year and not tracking with inflation for both my wife and I.
The US certainly is at this point.
I think it depends on where you're comparing it to, and what you mean by the "rest of the world". Most of the rest of the world, by area or population, is very poor. But the US is not so special compared to the developed parts of Europe or East Asia or Canada, offering many of the same quality-of-life benefits with inferior social services and less participatory democracy.
> If you can come up with a version of Right to Repair that eliminates this practice but which doesn’t give gangs of thieves a 10000% higher interest in stealing my phone at a concert to send it to Shenzhen, I’d be all for it.

Uh... you could just let the user authorize repairs. If your iPhone's root-of-trust is registered with your iCloud account, then users could authorize themselves to make repairs by just putting in the password. Entirely offline, retains Apple's DRM scheme, and even thwarts the Chinese boogeymen that you're so scared of. It just removes the part where Apple has absolute control over the feature instead of the hardware owner.
> This literally always happens during a Democrat presidency: the numbers are good but everyone goes “well it doesn’t FEEL that way so I’m gonna ignore it.”

A common and easily mocked media meme. On the New York Times Pitchbot humor account, an hour ago: "We're not in a recession. So why does it feel like we are?"
Great account name to go with this comment.
Ministry of truth trying to tell you your dollar isn’t evaporating on a daily basis.
Fortunately SEO on alphabetically sorted lists is a solved problem. That’s why in announcing my new service, Aardvark. Using its metaphorical tongue, it licks up any bugs in your code.
Reverse Engineering Proctorio [video]
I wouldn't be dismissive of people telling you that the product description can be improved. My opinion is that the description of the product in this thread will outperform your site 10 to 1.
I think the problem is that Google Search doesn't have to pay Android $18 billion/year to make it the default option there.
> Western employers don't deliberately reward people who job-hop

I don't know of any employers who would admit to deliberately rewarding job-hopping outside the company[1], but I suspect that's out of concern for potential negative consequences of admitting to the practice, not because they don't do it intentionally.

Hiring skilled job-hoppers often makes a lot of sense. They bring in knowledge and experience of things that worked (or didn't) in other organizations. It can be a great way to avoid getting stuck in local maximums, and avoid repeating mistakes others have already made.

[1] At least one previous employer deliberately rewarded job-hopping between roles internally, because it gave people a much wider base of knowledge and promoted empathy between people in different parts of the company.
Does anyone know if they plan to support bare metal machines in the future?
> Purchasing a ton of hardware from a startup seems extremely risky for a F100.

If you're working for a megacorp nothing tends to happen quickly, so there will be a slow roll-out over a multi-year period as old hardware gets phased out and new hardware is brought in for a refresh.

If there's a hiccup at any point they'll simply keep the previously purchased stuff running and start a new roll-out with another vendor next fiscal.

> I'd be curious to see what companies are interested, Oxide doesn't have any logos on their website which is a little odd given the space.

1. They're just starting out. 2. Some of their customers want to be (or start-out initially) discreet:

> Oxide customers include the Idaho National Laboratory as well as a global financial services organization. Additional installments at Fortune 1000 enterprises will be completed in the coming months.

* https://www.bloomberg.com/press-releases/2023-10-26/oxide-un...