skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If your net worth includes your primary residence, and you can't live off the equity, it is not retirement savings. It is dead capital, as you must live somewhere. Certainly, we can include it in your estate and net worth, but that's more pertinent to whomever is next of kin, not the person who needs cashflow for groceries, fuel, utilities, healthcare expenses, and so on. What the metrics represent is important, otherwise we are blinded to ground truth.

I must strongly emphasize that vehicle equity is not retirement savings if you must keep the car for mobility. Home equity is not retirement savings if you must have a place to live and there is nowhere to downsize to, unless we are expecting 55+ to sell their homes and live in a van down by the river, burning through their housing proceeds and hopefully dying before it is exhausted.
It doesn't lack a definition, there's lots of people talking about this. In general you'll find something like "a small service that solves one problem within a single bounded context".

> It's definitely preferable to have a poorly-built monolith than poorly-built microservice architectures.

I don't know about "definitely" at all. Having worked with some horrible monoliths, I really don't think I agree. Microservices can be done poorly but at minimum there's a fundamental isolation of components. If you don't have any isolation of components it was never even close to microservices/SoA, at which point, is it really a fair criticism?
>But I personally don't care about support, the enclosure can be 3d printed or some cheap plastic box, if sold as DIY kit it would save assembly costs and avoid need for certification and so on. I think there is a small market for homelabers like myself who would pay maybe $100-150 for a simpler product.

We used to sell both the pre-made units and a $190 DIY kit. Surprisingly, when I tried removing the DIY kits, sales jumped by 50%. And it wasn't just higher revenue because people were buying the more expensive product - order volume increased too.[0]

My theory is that when we asked customers if they wanted to pay more for a pre-made version, some of them stopped to think about which version they wanted and then just never returned. So, when we simplified to just one product, it eliminated friction in the buying process.

With the Pi 4 shortage the past few years, using our limited Pi 4 supply for DIY kits instead of our pre-made product would be a terrible move. We're expecting the shortage to be over in the next few months, but even if there was a way for me to sell an extra 50 units per month at a $50 profit, selling a second product line and managing it end-to-end is so complicated that it wouldn't be worth the extra $2.5k/month. And that $2.5k/month is before chargebacks, hiring people to assemble and fulfill the kits, etc.

We do still work to serve DIY customers and make sure our software stays compatible with users who just use off-the-shelf parts. And we still sell a power splitter,[1] as it's the one thing you can't really buy off the shelf from other vendors. We're able to do that because they cost about $10/unit to make, so we can make a year's worth in a week and just ship them to our warehouse. But doing that with a whole kit would be way more costly.

[0] https://mtlynch.io/retrospectives/2021/12/#reducing-to-a-sin...

[1] https://tinypilotkvm.com/product/tinypilot-power-connector
Inclined to agree. Clearly Biden doesn't know the first thing about it (I would say the same about any president BTW). So who really wrote the regulations he is announcing, and who are they listening to?
> How will that happen when there has been so much growth in the S&P?

Almost no one gave the obvious answer: Most 401 K plans are not investing in the S&P. Many give you the option to, but it's not the default, and probably over 90% of workers are unaware of the fund.

And quite a few do not even give you the option to invest in it.
Was expecting something about vector spaces and multiplication operations or the lack of them.

Watched a quick ride towards quaternions. Also nice.
Some truth to what you are saying.

AWS is amazing at operations, it came from the top down and was a marvel to observe. It could be company culture based, as Amazon retail is simply an operations company (and perhaps the best one in the world), or it could be personality based and will fade in time due to Charlie and Andy taking new roles.

However, from what little I could see of CloudFront it was a cluster **. I didn't see how they could justify that amount of operational load without investing in addressing the root causes. VGery strange.
h264 is the most available but probably not the most used. Every streaming service today either seeds AV1, VP9, or HEVC content first since it saves bandwidth[0] and every client from the past 5 years supports one of these newer formats (phones, GPUs, smart TVs, streaming boxes, etc).

0: https://www.etcentric.org/netflix-switching-from-vp9-codec-t...
The cost of real goods, energy, medical care etc will inflate to account for this, plus extracting the gains will involve selling..to whom? At what price?
It's funny because the term "microservices" picked up in popularity because previously, most "service-oriented architecture" (the old term) implementations in large companies had services that were worked on by dozens or hundreds of developers, at least in my experience. So going from that to services that were worked on by a single development team of ~10 people was indeed a "microservice" relatively speaking.

Now, thanks to massive changes in how software is built (cloud, containers et al) it's a lot more standard for a normal "service" with no prefix to be built by a small team of developers, no micro- prefix needed.
Again why do you care as a consumer? If they aren’t getting money from the public market and no taxpayer money, how does that affect you?

Whether the company is public or private they still have to follow the relevant laws for their industry.
Don’t forget about inflation when comparing these numbers. 300M in 1984 is 0.85 Billion today. Some companies IPO at huge valuations, but ShockWave Medical, Inc., had a 2019 IPO at roughly the same valuation as Microsoft and has seen 11x returns since then.

Looking at the other 2019 IPO’s you see a lot of volatility but many home runs. https://stockanalysis.com/ipos/2019/
HP15C is amazing but so is the HP42S[1] and HP35S, with the 42S in particular considered by some people to be the best scientific calculator ever made. I have an HP35S which is great. I also have a swiss micros DM42[2] which is an absolutely fantastic calculator based on the Free42[3] opensource emulator. It's much more powerful than the HP42S while remaining 100% compatible[4]. The only downside is the keys are quite a lot stiffer than the HP42S.

For finance specifically the HP12C is the mac daddy. I have two of them and they're completely fantastic. They took me through an 8 year finance career and even though they are 20 years old now they are both still on their original battery.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP-42S

[2] https://www.swissmicros.com/product/dm42

[3] https://thomasokken.com/free42/

[4] The processor is much much more powerful and it has 1000s of times the memory and essentially unlimited stack space. The instructionset is slightly expanded in a few useful and thoughtful ways. And it has a USB connection so you can upload and download. But original HP42 programs run on it unaltered.
Everyone knows there's no way to encrypt with one key and decrypt with another.
You're certainly misunderstanding me. Microservices are definitely justifiable in plenty of cases, and _services_ even more often. But they _need to be technically justified_ - that's the point I'm making.

The majority of SOA adoption in small-to-medium tech companies is driven by the wrong type of pain, by technical leaders that can see that if they had their domains already split out into services, their problems would not exist, but don't understand that reaching that point involves _solving their problems first_.
Because software is protected under the First Amendment: https://www.eff.org/cases/bernstein-v-us-dept-justice

Government cannot regulate it.
> leadership saying to prioritize quality

Well, that's different.

My experience is that "leadership" often finds quality to be expensive and unnecessary overhead.

That's one reason that I stayed at a company that took Quality seriously. It introduced many issues that folks, hereabouts would find unbearable, but they consistently shipped some of the highest-Quality (and expensive) kit in the world.

Quality is not cheap, and it is not easy. It is also not really the path to riches, so it is often actively discouraged by managers.
It's stashed in their depreciating vehicles and equity in their houses.
While the semiconductor industry does deal in the use of some specialised materials, and do require ultra clean room conditions, I believe their structure is an order of magnitude simpler than those used in the pharmaceutical. It’s the process that is difficult.

I’m just an armchair observer though, and I’m sure something like this has cropped up in some unpublished paper.
> The entire thing is stitched together by spreadsheets that are parsed by Python, dropped into S3, parsed by Lambdas into more S3, the S3 files are picked up by MongoDB, then MongoDB records are passed by another Lambda into S3, the S3 files are pulled into Snowflake via Snowpipe, the new Snowflake data is pivoted by a Javascript stored procedure into a relational format... and that's how you edit someone's database access. That whole process is to upload like a 2KB CSV to a database that has people's database roles in it.

Sometimes it's hard to distinguish resume-driven development from iterative-StackOverflow-driven development.
Unfortunately, concrete production is a pollution problem.

Cement industry accounts for about 8% of CO2 emissions

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/cement-industry-co2-emissions-c...
Yes, it's easy to understand. Congress (our legislative branch) grants authority to the departments (our executive branch) to implement various passed laws. In this case, it looks like the Biden administration is instructing HHS and other agencies to study, better understand, and provide guidance on how AI impacts existing laws and policies.

If Congress were responsible for exactly how every law was implemented, which inevitably runs headlong into very tactical and operational details, the Congress would effectively become the Executive.

Of course, if a department in the executive branch oversteps the powers granted to it by the legislative, affected parties have recourse via the judicial branch. It's imperfect but not a bad system overall.
Are you going to tell these mom and pop shops they can’t sell?
Are clawbacks common at trading companies?
> First it was Jordan Peterson, then it i was Eric Weinstein, then Chamath, the list goes on. Most recently, it’s been Peter Zeihan.

Man repeatedly falls for the worst "public intellectuals" (really, pretentious charlatans), discovers that they're not trustworthy, and runs to the internet screaming "THE PUBLIC INTELLECTUAL IS DEAD." nah brah, you just have bad tase.

Jordan Peterson -> an incoherent rambler. He's incapable of putting together straightforward premise1-premise2-premise3-->conclusion arguments. If you ask him "how's the weather?", you'll get an hour long brain spew about Ancient Rome, Napoleon, woke feminism, and the worst Holocaust takes you can imagine.

Eric Weinstein -> a narcissist mathematician who came up with a theory of everything, but refused to publish it because real physicists might criticize it and hurt his feelings. He wanted to be recognized as the new Einstein based solely on a video of a talk to a non-physicist audience. His podcasts are mostly rants against the Physics Deep State and Big Science, which he calls the "Distributed Idea Suppression Complex", because they're all in a big conspiracy to suppress his genius ideas.

Chamath -> don't know him.

Peter Zeihan -> just another hyper-caffeinated prognosticator who claims to know the future.
> I find it odd that there is this widespread meme—on HN, not in the industry—that microservices are never justified.

Many HN patrons are actually working where the rubber meets the road.

DNS is a poor comparison. Pretty much everything, related to your application or not, needs DNS. On the other hand, the only thing WNGMAN[0]may or may not do, is help with finding the user’s DOB.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=y8OnoxKotPQ
>no guilt. No reparations.

Have you ever wondered why the European North American settlers didn’t have a unified indigenous empire to contend with, such as could be found in Central and South America? (Ie Incan or Aztec).

I would posit that it was because the Hunter/raider/gatherer societies could not sustain growth beyond a certain point. For whatever reason, the North American indigenous tribes would not cross a threshold of government and infrastructure that is required to eliminate their reliance on raiding (the perpetual changing hands of limited refined resources), and game hunting (ie lack of livestock domestication and food storage that allow for permanent settlements, growth).

What the Europeans did to the Indians was as horrendous in execution as it was consequential to the decisions those tribes made during the hundreds of years leading up to the arrival of the Europeans.

Who knows what may had been if Columbus had been confronted with a unified indigenous empire with permanent settlements and defensive emplacements? Instead he found desperate tribes of marauding Indians, reliant on a singular food source and very willing to accept short term alliances for short term infighting advantages.

Its hardly a thing, IMO, for a descendant many generations removed to feel guilty over…let alone pay penance for.
It might stop players like FB from releasing their new models open source...
update: I moved to Podman (Docker convinced IT apparently that there is no free Docker for Mac anymore....)

Anyway, the change is not completely trivial. You can create an alias for docker, but some shell scripts refer to docker and an alias doesn't solve that problem
Isn't that good though? Unblock them when they fix their host.
I agree in general. However much like how the rise of 'script kiddies' meant that inexperienced, sometimes underage kids get involved with hacking, one can worry the same can happen with AI-enabled activities.

I've spent enough time in the shady parts of the internet to realize that people that spend significant time learning about niche/dangerous hobbies _tend_ to realize the seriousness of it.

My fear with bio-weapons would be some 13-year-old being given step-by-step instructions with almost 0 effort to create something truly dangerous. It lowers the bar quite a bit for things that tended to be pretty niche and extreme.
https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/UBER says opened at $41.91 in May 2019 and is now $42.42

Had it kept track with inflation it would be about $50 - up 15%

Had it kept track with S&P it would be about $63 - up 50%
For the things he says. I'd encourage you to look for criticism of him online. He his the obligatory subject of plenty of video essayist on Youtube, it's kind of a meme at this point.
Network calls are a powerful thing to introduce. It means that you have an impassable boundary, one that is actually physically enforced - your two services have to treat each other as if they are isolated.

Isolation is not anything to scoff at, it's one of the most powerful features you can encode into your software. Isolation can improve performance, it can create fault boundaries, it can provide security boundaries, etc.

This is the same foundational concept behind the actor model - instead of two components being able to share and mutate one another's memory, you have two isolated systems (actors, microservices) that can only communicate over a defined protocol.
The ones who do need decent range hauling things.

My wife runs a riding academy, we might have the only one that doesn't own a big ass truck, but we might be the only one that was cashflow profitable (though not to the IRS) in the first year and every year thereafter.

A lot of people trailer horses 10-30 miles to state forests go trail riding, often to places where there is not only no electric service but no power line. (We have some really nice trails on our farm, and roads and trails to ride on right out our driveway)

Other people drive 50-100 to go to a horse show on many weekends. You might be able to find an electric outlet but not a fast charger.

The high end of horse trailering is that many people make a pilgrimage to Ocala, FL every winter which might be driving 1000 miles with animals that don't appreciate the stress.

For this application you really want the biggest vehicle you can get, the GMC Suburban has been a top choice for years. You need better range than this:

https://www.motortrend.com/reviews/ford-f150-lightning-elect...
One of the things I've noticed with a number of recent strikes (not all, but a bunch) is how many are not over pay but primarily over working conditions. E.g. there was a big strike by nurses in Austin whose primary concern was woefully short staffing that was leaving nurses burnt out and making it difficult to provide adequate care.

It feels to me like the pandemic fundamentally changed many people's mindsets with their relationship to work: while I think some people went off the deep end with the r/antiwork crowd, others just reconsidered the amount of time and effort they wanted to put towards work so it wasn't detrimental to other aspects of their lives. They still wanted to do good work and have pride in their work, it was just no longer their primary focus.

So I feel a lot of these union battles are primarily about control. Many employees basically did get a bit "woke" (not in the woke-liberal sense, but in the "my eyes are opened to why am I killing myself at a job" sense), and employers are trying to put the genie back in the bottle.
Jordan Peterson is - according to his own admission - what a dumb person thinks an intellectual sounds like.
(I am not a lawyer) I don't know how legal it actually is, how enforceable it is, and if the whole marker applies those, but my ISP contract has provisions that says I'm not authorized to invade or damage third parties using their internet service.
It's a concept, but ... the question is a) whether it'll just end up being a luxury lifestyle vehicle, or something that people like myself -- who could use a little truck for my farm that I can toss plywood and manure and woodchips and dump-garbage in etc -- can actually afford and use and b) whether it would even make it to the North American market.

I'm personally tired of the EV revolution being delayed by manufacturers insisting on tying it to high end or luxury-status cars. Until this trend stops, I'll stick to my beaten up Chevy Volt.
I never did quite 'get' geometric algebra. I mean the exterior algebra gives a couple of clear generalisations, and for the ones that require a metric you can typically use the Hodge star to find a generalisation.

Geometric algebra then blends all of this together, and I'm still not entirely convinced that this improves things. Is it actually ever handy to have to deal with mixed degree multivectors?
> The best selling car in America is the F-150

To be fair, F-150 and other pickup truck sales figures are buoyed by fleet purchases. The better figure to cite may be that the average new car transaction is now north of $48k; ten years ago, it was around $30k, and this rise has beaten general inflation.
For some reason I don't understand, the debt ends up on the balance sheet of the purchased company, not the buyer. That's why the debt repayments can be used as a sort of tax-free dividend.
DPRK will make this their law ASAP
> file a patent and risk that China will just outright steal your invention

As in they notice that the patent was filed and copy it before you launch? Isn’t the system noisy enough that this would be really hard for them to do well?
Show HN: I automated replies to Reddit and Twitter using AI
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But this took me 1-2 hours every day (that’s more than 30 hours a month). And I decided to try to automate this using AI. And I succeeded. This is how Replyze.com appeared, with the help of which you can turn mentions into leads using auto replies.
> It’s not over-hyped. If you play around with the numbers, the ~$22k per year (increases a little each year usually) you can put in a 401k is insufficient to retire on, even if you start at age 20 and max it each year till 55

Over the last 35 years, that would have netted you about $3M in today's dollars. You could argue that's not enough to retire on at 55 (although I'm sure many can), but if you keep it up to 65 that's $6M. Easily enough to retire on.
I got excited for a second that a new something will replace webrtc for media/videos.. it is not. Around 2 years ago in a project I wanted to transfer a raw 4K stream with low latency (sub 50ms) over cellular network, WebRTC performed poorly it was a no go, I ended up making my own algorithm that enables FEC (Forward Error Correction) based on IETF payload scheme 20, and piped it through UDP with Gstreamer and managed to make it work, but obviously wasn’t in the browser.
Something doesn't have to be mine in order for me to identify that it's in my best interest to prevent someone else from having it and then doing so.
95% of times when i hear about Peterson, its someone trying to discredit him. Then i go to Youtube, search for what Peterson said about $topic, and can't find shit that i would even bother about. This stuff is getting creepy. Where is all the dislike coming from?
It really depends on the buyer, I think. I see a lot of pickup trucks in actual real use. But they seem to have become the minority.
Most restrictions probably aren't enforceable.

> After four years and one regulatory change, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that software source code was speech protected by the First Amendment and that the government's regulations preventing its publication were unconstitutional.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernstein_v._United_States
> NYT would prefer closed door meetings because it gives them opportunities them to drive a wedge between the workers who do the bargaining and their peers

To be fair, it also deters posturing and promotes compromise. Open bargaining means not only every employee is involved, but inevitably, the broader public, too.
I wonder if you could also detect it using some other harmless but otherwise volatile material?
How much do they cost? That first one starts at $100/month
> "our legs, they would be much more efficient if the knees pointed backwards. They are not the most efficient design, but simply good enough."

I don't think you can say one leg type is better than another without reference to the intended use of the leg - plantigrade legs have better "stability and weight-bearing ability"[0], whereas digitigrade legs (like those of cats and most birds, which BTW appear to have a reverse knee but don't because it is the ankle working like a second backwards knee) "move more quickly and quietly"[1].

Tying this back to the original point, the same is true for brains and computers - they are each better in very specialist cases within specific constraints.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plantigrade

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digitigrade
Sorry I take all these SiFive claims with a huge pinch of salt since they did this, comparing 7nm vs 10nm:

https://twitter.com/dylan522p/status/1415395415000817664

Great way to undermine your credibility.
This seems like Toyota spent some time with a cgi artist just to release some pics so they can say "see we are doing cool stuff" and nothing else. No specs, no price, no timing / dates, basically this is just a bunch of nothing with some images.