skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Having watched a close friend of my dad's sell at the bottom in 2007-2008 after he had retired, I understand your sentiment.

However, before the advent of discount brokerages and widespread 401(k) plans investing really was only for the extremely wealthy and inept fund management - resulting in extremely high expense ratios - was rampant. Now investment is more accessible and ETFs are offering near-zero (or actually zero (!) - see FNILX) expense ratios on the strength of the economy, which has been a net win for a larger segment of the population than the 0.1%. We're up to 20% now!

I would like to see a much larger percentage of the population to be able to get in on this opportunity. Doing away with wealth and income inequality will get us halfway there. Trust-managed investing addresses what you're asking for, where a company manages your investments and retirements for you at some level of expense ratio. (These companies exist today for retirees.)
If it's just puberty blockers, as I claim in the previous comment, correct. Which is to say, up to the age of 15, there are no permanent changes. From 15 - the point where they start hormone therapy, that's anywhere between 5-10 years into the overall treatment - there are more permanent changes. The two are distinct phases in their transition.

But nothing really life altering. Will the child end up looking different if they de-transition after taking hormones, yes. More breast tissue if they took E, and more muscle definition if they took T. However, these are also body developments that can also happen without human intervention.
It really depends on your priorities and operating environment, but there are many people who would be leaving anyways if they save the company that much money and were given exactly zero reward, and at that point plenty of people would be happy to burn bridges on the way out. Like I said, it really depends on the environment and your priories.
The Canoo looks pretty awesome. If ends up being good, it will be a decent competitor to the Ford Maverick. I will say though that they did the same trick as the VW Buzz. They extended the windshield down to the very front of the vehicle, but the driver is still sitting behind the front wheels.
All joking aside I firmly believe that this “crisis” is manufactured or at least heavily influenced by those that want to shut down the internet and free communications. Up until now they have been unsuccessful. Copyright infringement, hate speech, misinformation, disinformation, child exploitation, deep fakes, none have worked to garner support. Now we have an existential threat. Video, audio, text, nothin is off limits and soon it will be in real time (note: the GOV tries to stay 25 years ahead of the private sector).

This meme video incapsulates this perfectly.

https://youtu.be/-gGLvg0n-uY?si=B719mdQFtgpnfWvH

Mark my words, in five years or less we will be begging the governments of earth to implement permanent global real time tracking for every man woman and child on earth.

Privacy is dead. And WE killed it.
For simple thermionic electricity generation, sure; this is the effect in play when the first grid gains charge with no bias applied (and a near infinite load resistance). When a positive charge is applied to the anode, the electrons do accelerate although the effect isn't comparable to a magnetron, cyclotron or linac.
So steel in every smelter on earth can become so contaminated solely via the atmosphere from explosions decades ago it is measurably radioactive, but labs can't be contaminated via the atmosphere with tiny crystals that change nucleation? Walk me through your thought process here.
I don't see why it should. Every game torrent I've ever uh, "evaluated", has had a never ending stream of comments of "it doesn't work" from people who don't read the instructions. I never the uploader get involved in the comments. We used to call them noobs and tell them to re-read the instructions, that would be that.
It already exists, although it's kinda hidden.
> I am not sure how you can generate distributed traces based on metrics

Every log line gets an x-request-id field, and then when you combine the logs from the various components, you can see the propagation throughout our system. The request ID is a UUIDv4 but the mandatory 4 nibble in the UUIDv4 gets replaced with a digit that represents where the request came from; background task, web UI, CLI, etc. I didn't take the approach of creating a separate span ID to show sub-requests. Since you have all the logs, this extra piece of information isn't super necessary though my coworkers have asked for it a few times because every other system has it.

Since metrics are also log lines, they get the request-id, so you can do really neat things like "show me when this particular download stalled" or "show me how much bandwidth we're using from the upstream S3 server". The aggregations can take place after the fact, since you have all the raw data in the logs.

If we were running this such that we tailed the logs and sent things to Jaeger/Prometheus, a lot of this data would have to go away for cardinality reasons. But squirreling the logs away safely, and then doing analysis after the fact when a problem is suspected ends up being pretty workable. (We still do have a Prometheus exporter not based on the logs, for customers that do want alerts. For log storage, we bundle Loki.)
Corporations are not allergic to competence; they're allergic to bomb-throwing. Except in times of tremendous strife or revolution, incremental change is the best that can reasonably achieved in large organizations. The definition of competence in a large organization includes understanding the concept of Chesterton's Fence, and knowing what the Overton window is.
I do agree with that. Microservices are not a good idea whatsoever for organizations with weak senior technical people. Which is probably 90%+ of businesses.
So is it true that the website/server can "dictate" which password-client/vendor users are allowed to use and which not ? (don't see this addressed in the article.)

For example: Apple native (not) allowed, 1Password (not) allowed, Bitwarden (not) allowed, KeePassXC (not) allowed, etc.
even one drone, idk what kind of net would stop a 155mm mortar round coming down from 200+ meters.

At best you give them a free airburst, at worst the net does nothing.
Of course there is some truth in here. But the sheer majority is missing the forest for the trees.

Luxury beliefs are certainly products of wealth - it requires a level of wealth to declare something is wrong rather than pragmatically keeping your head down and going with the flow. As our society becomes more wealthy, these beliefs gain mindshare and become widely accepted - democracy, natural rights, freedom from religion, worker protections, etc.

These things are products of wealth, a type of wealth in their own right, and we should be greatful that our society has become wealthy enough to declare that they should be universal. The author kind of references this at the very end, but then steers right back into the regressive fundamentalism as his closing conclusion.

Looking forward, many visions of progress are somewhat wrong, misguided, or at the very least overstated. Remember when we were all going to be living in Buckyballs? Which is why you have to kind of hold your nose to wade through much of the blue tribe groupthink. But the answer isn't to conclude the entire idea of progress is fallacious and dopamine-pine for the glory days of hard work that are comfortably in the past. Rather, it's to discuss and critique the forward-looking ideas on their own merits, despite the neo-clergy and other politickers that will attack you for it.
Yes, true it probably got a lot worse since than, thanks for pointing that out.
Cement is so c02 intensive largely because the chemical reaction which occurs release a large amount of c02. From what I remember the energy use for the furnace is 10% compared to 90% from the fundamental chemistry.

This is what I remember from working for a start up that was helping make low carbon cement, the numbers could be wrong, but it's more complicated than just the energy to reach the high temps.
They are blameworthy for not getting public and sharing profits with regular people, rigging regular people by inflation
> discourages entrepreneurship and gig work (which can be lucrative)

Self-employed folks can make both employee and employer contributions to tax-advantaged retirement accounts, and the aggregate yearly amount far exceeds what a W-2 employee can contribute on their own.
>He just seemed to say sort of "be a decent person and work hard".

We live in a world where even that statement is controversial.

There is a zeitgeist of re-engineering society. Peterson and his tired schtick of "just keep doing the things that were successful for previous generations" interferes. It is unwanted.
Nailed it. They’ve been spending goodwill like crazy with debacles like pushing out SMR junk under the Red name.

In my experience, their overall quality control has plummeted over the last few years. I’ve bought 3 Red drives for my home Synology. After about a year with each, the drive utilization graph will start creeping up toward a steady 100% while the other drives in the RAID are mostly idle. All drives have the same throughput. All drives have the same IOPS. And yet, the Red starts taking longer and longer to complete its requests. There aren’t any SMART errors or warnings. If I pull the drive and run WD’s diagnostics, it’s fine. It shows every sign of being perfectly healthy, other than being dog slow up until the day I replace it. I’m 3-for-3 with this happening. Maybe I’m the only person and they work great for everyone else. I won’t buy another, though.

I think we’re seeing WD turn into HP. People will still buy it for the name on the label, but those in the know will steer their friends to calmer waters.
The architecture of today's LLM applications
if that was the case, wish.com would be displacing Walmart.
I like to think I'm pretty good at this game, swung two promotions and raises by working every request from outside the team out of band to the detriment of my main flow of work -- "everyone loves you and your work is constantly noticed by $upper_management." Wow that's crazy, it's just nice to be appreciated I guess wink wink.
> it's very rare that things are black or white, I can see it being all very grey

When I was a teen I saw the world as black and white.

When I got in college I knew they are all grey.

And now I understand there are different shades of grey. Most of time we have no enough information to tell, but sometimes it's worth to look closely to distinguish them.
Yeah there are various ways to sneak advertising into content, but that why this is so insidious. Is product placement an “ad”? Is a quick mention of a sponsor an “ad”? Is a “passive” ad such as background graphic or wearing a sponsor’s t-shirt an “ad?”. Where do we draw that line? I think we’ve simply been conditioned to accept that ads are a normal and acceptable part of life, even if you pay not to have them. Remember when cable TV first became available to the public? It was supposed to be, and was at first, ad-free because you paid for it unlike broadcast TV. Now, cable TV is more ads than content in many cases, and those who have it pay dearly because in most markets, the cable companies have an effective monopoly. We have become the dystopian future we predicted and abhorred, but don’t even know it.
I just wanted to note that static typing isn't required for autocomplete. JetBrains has IDEs for languages like Ruby and Python that can do it. If you open the REPL in a recent version of Ruby you get much of what you expect from an IDE with a statically typed language (with regards to autocomplete and syntax checking).
Being nit-picky, but France and French Guiana in South America should have the same color.
To discourage the hoarding that happened (although less-so with the Zero) in the last two years.

At least they're willing to take your money, a lot of shops had hard caps.
That's the point. If developing high-performance ARM cores are considered risky, maybe the vendors could switch to an ISA without these risks.
It's still going. Some of the real cast have actually said some inappropriate things.
> On April 22, 2011, Razor 1911's demo division won the public choice award[7] during the Scene.org Awards ceremony at The Gathering for their 64k intro "Insert No Coins" coded by Rez with music from Dubmood.[8]

Insert No Coins: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5CNlMGcARA
Do you not believe that 5-8 years is enough time for a child to think about whether they want their bodies to look like how their minds already feel?
Do you see any problem in using the term you are trying to define in your definition of that term?
What you are experiencing is called "the controversy bait-and-switch". Peterson is a master of it.

What he does is say something designed to look like a dog whistle to get people upset. Then when challenged on it, he say something reasonable to pull in fans. Then he says something else which is designed to be misunderstood, and repeats.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKwSDqJAum8&t=244s explains it, and shows an actual example of how Peterson does it. This example had Peterson using the phrase "enforced monogamy" without context, causing people to assume that he wanted laws to enforce monogamy. Then, when challenged, he said, "Oh, no, what I meant was SOCIALLY enforced monogamy. All that I'm saying is that monogamy is a good thing!" Score 1 for Peterson. And people left sore about it are now primed to react doubly at whatever piece of bait he presents next.
There is no brand that never produced a SSD with a fault. I had tried all major HDD/SSD brands, and I think every single of them failed at some point.

What is important is how they handle that. I had a faulty Sandisk and it was replaced with a working one without any problem or unnecessary question. Some other brands annoy you with stupid questions, puzzles and other tricks trying to avoid doing a replacement. And some just ignore any requests (ex. Samsung, from my experience) to replace a faulty SSD.
never heard of such fee, 40% sounds crazy, like impossible. from what I know living in Poland for my whole life, the fees aren't pushed by ATMs, but banks itself, so you should check fees in your bank, which sounds like foreign bank, so it might be that the exchange was that high or something.
Spinning rust side is only living because of price collusion by the flash vendors. Price for 8TB of TLC generic is currently 170 USD. QLC is cheaper than that.
I predict that AI is going to increase demand for workers in knowledge work, though it will also change the nature of some of that work.

When an efficiency increasing technology comes along, things tend to grow and not shrink. Cars massively increased the number of people employed in transportation related and adjacent fields, to give just one example.

Social is another beast entirely. There's already a huge backlash there, and justifiably so.
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-many-homeowners-hav...

Most Americans over 65 own their homes outright without mortgages.
I'll believe it when it happens. Banks/creditors don't want to operate these assets (no expertise there) and since the businesses are fundamentally sound for the most part there is no reason to force them into bankruptcy. "Extend and amend" (sometimes "extend and pretend") is what they called it after 2008.

If they had unlevered yields below the corporate debt yield they would have negative leverage and debt would reduce returns.
Qualcomm is the single worst company to work with. They try to negotiate % of revenue deals instead of cost-per-unit deals and they make Broadcom look like Stallman-level open source fanatics.
good point on nice diffs. collaborative work (using git or other source control) is really why text is king.

there's no good way to collaborate, compare, etc with a low-code format.
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I decided to write some thoughts down after seeing another thread about front-end complexity recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38055086
Unions are definitely needed, currently rightwing parties in Finland are planning to limit length of strikes while imposing fines to striking workers and unions.

They are also lowering unemployment benefits and giving rich people tax cuts.
It’s already begun…

https://youtube.com/shorts/Q_FUrVqvlfM?si=0EFPy02k4Xs60SPC
Thanks, confirmed, and updated on https://status.gitlab.com/ to include API and Git Operations.

(GitLab team member here)
In Huxley's day, that was more true[1] than it is today. Look at someone like Lord Kelvin, for instance. State-sponsored science wasn't really a thing yet; most of it was done by people who had the time and money to pursue it.

[1] That is, it was true of scientific progress. As you say, social progress often involved finding a way to destroy the aristocracy's stranglehold on money and power.
> It's still how many new businesses raise capital.

Should it be? Theranos stained biotech badly.
You can actually make a very comfortable career of Senior and Staff by learning to identify this kind of work/system and proposing ways to simplify it. These kinds of systems, as the author pointed out, are incredibly expensive and inefficient, but look readable on an architecture diagram.
I have to play devils advocate here because for every one of these cases, there is probably a dozen of similar stories where the ambitious new guy actually did nuke the system with a risky friday release and then logged off for the weekend xD
Story of LocalSend, a cross-platform alternative to AirDrop
I suppose if I equate “retributive genocide” and “just consequences” then I can see where you’re coming from. The US made similar statements as they poured white phosphorus on Afghani children after 9/11 and I thought it was a thin argument then. I don’t find it much more convincing now.

Overall I try not to lie, but given how different our experiences seem to be I’m not sure if there’s much I can say on the internet to convince you of that. Have a good one!
Thanks for your feedback. Updated in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38071672
This doesn’t work in practice since your costs scale with vendor count and theirs don’t.

In reality being a single big customer for one vendor is far more influential than being a small one with other options.
People want certainty, and many are willing to let go of independence of thought to try to get it.
Not to mention Social Security kicks in once you hit your 60s.
My company paid a consultant £25K to increase efficiency. He recovered about 5 minutes a job.

I wrote a tool that saved about two hours a case, in total this saved about £500k. I got a free case off beer.
Here, there are other sources, but from the horses mouth https://m.facebook.com/help/152637448140583.

And that was revenue not profit. FB makes roughly 30% profits so maybe 15 dollars a year for the US?
I understand your skepticism, but I was intending to use the term descriptively, not pejorative. Apologies if any offence was taken.
That's a good argument. Mine is a bit different:

* Who paid for the computer displaying the content?

* Who paid for the electricity powering that computer?

* Who paid for the internet service the computer is connected to?

* Who paid for the housing the computer is in?

The answer to all of those is ME. That seals it personally, I am not seeing ads in my own home when I'm paying for all that.

I'm not denying Google has costs to keep YT running. I'm just stating that from my perspective, I've already paid plenty - both upfront and monthly.

It would be different if it was a computer in a public library where I paid for nothing, and the ad revenue went to support that library. But that isn't the situation.
The expensive part is usually the engineering itself. Once the chip has been designed, manufacturing is relatively cheap. You can even get reasonably-capable MCUs for as little as $0.10!
I started AW1 the other day because it had been on my list after playing through Control. There's definitely a lot of walking around and cut scenes but I wouldn't say you do nothing. You do have to fight people, collect items and do some very simple puzzles.
Sure, that was the same excuse used for the flip-flopping on the meaning of "DVD."

"ThunderBolt" is an invalid comparison because it's not a rip-off of a known earlier and widely-used term, the way "Wi-Fi" is.
People who do not accept this will be perpetually unhappy

or they go start their own business to get away from this nonsense.

when i deal with clients i actually have to deliver something because i am not getting any promotions.
Can't we just isolate these two services in containers, using different library versions?

They don't need to be microservices in order to isolate dependencies, do they?

In Python, for instance, you don't even need containers. Just different virtual environments running on separate processes.
If a monolith is well-factored, what is the difference between it and co-located microservices?

Probably just the interface - function calls become RPC. You accept some overhead for some benefits of treating components individually (patching!)

What is the difference between distributed microservices v.s. co-located microservices?

Deployment is more complex, but you get to intelligently assign processes to more optimal hardware. Number of failure modes increases, but you get to be more fault tolerant.

There's no blanket answer here. If you need the benefits, you pay the costs. I think a lot of these microservice v.s. monolith arguments come from poor application of one pattern or the other, or using inadequate tooling to make your life easier, or mostly - if your software system is 10 years old and you haven't been refactoring and re-architecting as you go, it sucks to work on no matter the initial architecture.
This seems like a valid exception from this rule. The interesting tidbit here is what the title suggests, even though it is not the title of the paper. It should be possible to point out to facts like these hidden in papers, reports, etc without having to create a separate article about it. You can of course add a comment as you suggested, but that does not reflect how people use HN.
How is that any different? You’re still trying to stop mom and pop shops from selling out to PE’s.

Are you also going to stop startups from getting acquired to? Seeing that only 6 of the hundreds of companies that YC has invested in have ever gone public, acquisitions is the most likely exit
A little off topic but there are even more sinister patterns than the shared database which some architects are actively advocating for, like

1. The "data service" layer, which (if done improperly) is basically just a worse SQL implemented on top of HTTP but still centralised. Though now you can claim it's a shared service instead of a DB.

2. The "fat cache" database - especially common in strongly event-based systems. Basically every service decides to store whatever it needs from events to have lower latency access for common data. Sounds great but in practice leads to (undocumented) duplicate data, which theoretically should be synchronised but since those service-local mirror DBs are usually introduced without central coordination it's bound to desync at some point.
I don't use Facebook or Instagram but this seems expensive. Do people extract so much value from these apps?

I pay for Youtube premium which has a similar cost but it's for the whole family and the video ads are significantly more annoying. Maybe Meta is planning on making ads more intrusive?
> Unions force companies to only hire union members, and freeze out everyone else.

This is due to American laws not protecting workers from unions. This isn't the case in for example EU.

> Quite simply unions could not exist without government backing.

They can and they did exist without government backing. Union laws in most countries are to weaken unions since they are too strong otherwise, not to give them more power. For example unions forcing exclusivity is due to lack of laws protecting workers from unions.