skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It does seem that US COLA-wages are growing more slowly than Europe (though better than Canada), while our stock market outperforms. So one could make a claim that more profits should go to labor, rather than capital.

Some numbers (all the usual "mean-vs-median" caveats apply, though IME it rarely changes much):

France mean wages (2001-2022): 41706/26275 = 1.59 (2.2%/yr)

France CPI (2001-2022): 108.74/80.39 = 1.35 (1.4%/yr)

GB mean weekly wages (2001-2022): 599/321 = 1.87 (3.0%/yr!)

GB CPI: 114.6/73.5 (2001-2022): = 1.56 (2.14%/yr)

Canada mean wages (2001-2022): 14,176.4/10,405.1 = 1.36 (1.5%/yr)

Canada CPI (2001-2022): 146.3/96.8 = 1.51 (2.0%/yr)

https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/

https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/inflationandpriceindices/time...

https://www.statista.com/statistics/416204/average-annual-wa...
And yet, worth $3.5B.

Crazy.
Given the incident dates far back this seems like a political piece as the EU and Germany currently push for restricting Chinese EV sales in Europe, so I guess they need to create some outrage. Personally I still believe the European car industry mostly missed the boat on the EV mass market transition (mind you there are electric cars but mostly for top earners) so now they need to push for politics to protect their domestic markets because China seems to be quite ahead in terms of mass market production.
I guess it would incentivize local governments to decrease housing costs build more housing by removing their ability to sweep the problem under the rug.
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I'm not referring to policy as much as actual economic activity and firm behavior, including pricing.

It's true that prices and wages increased through COVID, but I don't believe the full explanation is quite so neat. For instance, this article lays out some additional details.[0]

Essentially, commodity pricing and other production inputs have stabilized, however, companies are charging their customers higher prices and enhancing their margins.

This is yielding record corporate profits and helping to fuel the bull market while consumers end up eating the resulting inflation. Yet, there's relatively little discussion about it when the issue of inflation is raised.

[0] https://archive.is/ZTkw3
Thank you!—that fills out the story very nicely.
Yea, that's what I love about the web. Though I do consider myself to be pretty experienced on the JS side as I've worked with it for a while. I think the main reason I ran into these issues is because I've been trying to use the Web for something that it's not fully built for (graphics programming). And also, it's been a while since I started setting up a new project.

Here are some questions that came up:

- Do I use Next.js or Vite.js or CRA (is that still used these days)

- With Vite.js do I pick React or go with TypeScript template?

- Okay now I need Tailwind (because quite honestly, I'm terrible at CSS which I admit is my own doing)

- But what if I don't want to write GLSL files in raw text, and use GLSL file extension?

- Oh now you want to import GLSL files directly, well you can't do that

- Oh, I needed to install a Vite plugin but then TS throws errors saying it can't read files that end with .glsl

- Wait is my TS server running? No, I thought this always starts up in VS Code

- Okay so I can't even find the button to restart TS server, so now I need to... okay figured that out

- That still didn't fix it the TS errors

- After some more research, ah so you can import text files like this a.glsl?raw extension
>But there's a gigantic gap between "wrote it in a paper" and "actually got it working".

The modern patent system in a nutshell. It's now suits registering patents rather than inventors in their workshops.
And when a big contractor has an 8+ figure write-off, they have a PR team working to prevent accountability and none of the people who were talking about private-sector innovation and efficiency will be asked whether they had a more realistic position now.
There is an excellent old book on the subject, How to Win Friends and Influence People. I was lacking in this area and my career improved greatly after reading it.

In general, people are cautious when giving criticism because it carries implications.

Say a manager gives negative feedback to a subordinate. The subordinate now believes the manager doesn't like them. The subordinate follows the standard advice: start looking for another job. Manager now has the larger problem of hiring a replacement.

It's best to reinforce positive behavior. Little trick I learned: compliment people. Find an reason to say "nice work" on every code review. DM people and say "nice presentation", "great design". It works.
Planet Money - FTX and the Serengeti of Bankruptcy
oh man, didnt know they completely pivoted. RIP
Explaining to who?

The other person matters more than the person explaining. If they don't want an explanation, then you can't explain. If they don't want much detail, then an explanation with lots of details is a bad explanation. If they want a lot of detail, then that same explanation becomes good.

Why are you explaining?

Sometimes an explanation is a bullshit excuse with a fake mustache...If you are explaining yourself, that's often the case. Some explanations are the explainer geeking out over their interest. Few explanations are because someone asked.

How are you explaining?

Spoken explanations in a business context are different from explanations among spouses are different from written technical documents. The best technical explanations require practice. After twenty years, people know something. After five years we are but one-eyed kings (if you are young, you probably won't believe me).

But writing is a form of practice. Take the idea of explaining X seriously enough to practice your explanations of X in writing. And rewriting. Then you will know what you know better and probably more than you would otherwise. And maybe writing is all you need. Good luck.
> Naturally government pay would lag behind even the more mediocre H1Bs.

Those "mediocre H1Bs" work their ass off compared to non-H1Bs because they get laid off/fired and deported on short notice with barely enough or sometimes no time to sell their belongings if they don't perform [1]. Meanwhile it's next to impossible to fire a govt employee for bad performance.

Maybe the solution is to fill the govt with mediocre H1B employees, not pay govt employees even more without accountability if they don't perform.

[1] https://www.timesnownews.com/technology-science/techie-on-h1...
The government relying on private contractors is a threat to national security

Proprietary software is a threat to national security

"Switching vendors" does nothing to solve the core problems here
Here Come the Fast-Food Robots
"The Simple Macroeconomics of AI"
Every successful company has had unsuccessful products and of course people born into money are more likely to be successful themselves.

You’re also focusing too much on IBM specifically. I didn’t say IBM made Microsoft successful, I said it was an example of a deal Gates successfully negotiated.
Restaurant Review: The Return, Again, of the Power Lunch
Is this the world you wish to live in?

https://archive.is/H6GVE
Respectfully speaking, that sounds an awful lot like someone's last words in the accident investigation, right before "always" suddenly isn't.

The truth is, in a lot of ways, those bombs are Pakistan's bombs, but they're also China's bombs, balancing out the Israel-India axis.
If you mean the one linked below, it seems very much on the iOS App Store (US).

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/exit-strategy-nyc-subway-map/i...
The social media I use today is primarily content oriented (reddit for entertainment, HN for eng news, occasional tiktok for funny videos with my wife). I left Facebook behind about 10 years ago, and left Twitter when it was morphed into whatever it is now.

As a parent of two children, we will hold off on social networking media for a long time most likely. Content can be valuable, and our children largely use their devices for content interests (YouTube) and creation (various apps and games like Minecraft).

I would love to see studies that better explain the effects of these habits as they relate to the "networking" part of social networks and media. I'd argue right now that my LinkedIn consumption is probably more harmful than my TikTok consumption, in terms of depression.
If one company sued another the defendant would countersue and attempt to drown the plaintiffs in cost. But when a homeowner sues a city, a city can’t easily countersue to bury plaintiffs in legal costs.

That said I feel like making NIMBY plaintiffs really deal financial pain of frivolous lawsuits is part of it. Maybe by tax payers demanding NIMBY plaintiffs pay the city and developer legal costs?
Unironically yes. Auditable software is inherently more secure, especially over the kind of timescale relevant to governments
How much do you expect to trickle down? Everyone with a retirement account benefits. How is that nonsense?
It had the appetite but not the pretext under the foolish warmongers GWB and Cheney. The US was rehearsing for exactly this with a high tempo of operations including naval air sorties in the area during their administration. Unfortunately, their other "mission accomplished" wars didn't go so well.

Now, the US doesn't have them anymore and so this is extremely unlikely because Biden has zero interest in military adventurism.
It was a tragically accurate description then. Also worth noting it is one of the cheapest places in zone 2, and only has trains or overground. It does feel (and is) genuinely unsafe, particularly if you don't get home from work until it's started getting dark. It may be slightly cheaper to buy in zone 4,5 or 6 but most of the saving in house prices is going to go straight out the door on more expensive travel cards.

The poster above mentioned 500k in Orpington, well that's zone 6 so a travel card is an extra 140 per month per person so if there is two of you you're spending alot of what you've saved in the house price on that and you also both have to spend a extra 30mins in travel time each way, so an hour of extra lost time a day. Is it worth all of that to save 100K on the purchase price?
Not just on base. I had a conversation with a three star general. He remarked that while our warships had separate software and hardware for systems and fire control, the rest of of the ship’s IT ran on Windows. Supposedly, there was no connection between the two, but LOL.
Yeah, similarly I use Adguard Home and have this in my upstream config, so I'm hoping I'm safe from this: [/fritz.box/]192.168.178.1
> I'll suggest it to my youtuber friends.

Ah, now I see the problem. You get your information from clickbait YouTube videos instead of actually trying to learn things.

I'd point out more ways you're wrong, but you don't listen to what everybody else has already said so it's pointless.
I wish they had a more declarative way for provisioning (and de provisioning) users and databases. I'd like to define these at startup and have them reconciled automatically without having to do a deployment+psql dance to manage them.
Stevenage Challenge (2020)
There appears to be hippocampal neurogeneration even in old age.

From "Multiple GWAS finds 187 intelligence genes and role for neurogenesis/myelination" (2018) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16337941 :

> re: nurture, hippocampal plasticity and hippocampal neurogenesis also appear to be affected by dancing and omega-3,6 (which are transformed into endocannabinoids by the body): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15109698

Neuroplasticity: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroplasticity

Adult neurogenesis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adult_neurogenesis

When we forget, we must re-learn. By studying forgetting, we learn about learning and creativity.

Forgetting curve: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forgetting_curve
Stuart Parkin Revolutionized Disk Drive Storage The director of the Max Planck Institute developed spintronic technologies

This is the full title.
I have lots of thoughts written in draft notes, hopefully someday in the next few years it'll be worthwhile to compile it all and polish into a blog post; part of it has been studying behaviour associated with how various platforms similar mechanisms vary - HN vs. Reddit vs. Facebook vs. etc.
How many middle class workers were robbed through income tax to pay for the $524million dollars lost on solindra? Government money totally ruins any private business, to the tune of a huge party where everyone takes as much as possible with no accountability
Musk has done well with Tesla historically. But by dropping the plans for the low cost Tesla and pushing the Cybertruck, and focusing most of his time on Twitter, it doesn’t seem wrong that people are suggesting Tesla would be better without him. The stock is below its 1 Year low and if the losses keep up at the same rate they have for the next 2-3 weeks, and it seems like they will given the dismal earnings call and consistent bad news coming out, such as the physical recall of all Cybertrucks, the stock is likely to trend down to at least its three year low.

If you’re comparing Jobs in 2005 to Musk now, you’re saying the Cybertruck is Musk’s iPhone. The thing looks cool (I think, very subjectively), but has been a pretty big failure.
It's not your age that's slowing your metabolism, new research says (2021)
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As long as the chaos of anarchy is instrumental in culling unfit individuals, ideas, and regimes, a man can reasonably sponsor the logical conclusion of free market capitalism. Maximum efficiency is the goal. Test-driven development is a better evaluator for what values a high time preference society should have. Economics proxies is the future of warfare and violence, as America loses its neo-colonial foothold in the Middle East named Israel and admirably demonstrates how not to dominate the world. Playing a form of high level chess requires patience and a divergence from mainstream education.
I would suggest approaching the impulsive kid as a trainer might approach a dog. Determine what the motivation is, and then use that as leverage to get the behavior that you want (and which is better for the child). So, if you want them to practice reading, offer the tablet or candy as a reward for a certain amount of time or, perhaps better, a certain realistic goal. You haven't mentioned anything about ages or other personality characteristics, which has a big influence on this sort of approach, so take with a big grain of salt.

I love my kids more than life, but I find a lot of dog training stuff crosses over very well. I taught them "come" command from an early age - and they know to come immediately, without question. The idea being if they are in a dangerous situation, like in the middle of a street or about to be hit by a bike or something, that this is how I will get them out of it. I don't use the command very often, but damn if those kids don't come running! It makes me feel so much safer.
I don’t understand how local governments lack the authority to provide affordable housing, or housing for the homeless. Some citizens are land owners, but all citizens are stakeholders.

(TLDR non market housing)
Is there a print copy of this available?
It's because str implements AsRef<OsStr> [0]. The function signature promises that whenever you have a borrowed &'a str, the standard library can give you a borrowed &'a OsStr with the same data.

Since references can't have destructors (they don't own the data like an OsString does), it means that the standard library can't give you a newly-allocated string without leaking it. Since obviously it isn't going to do that, the &OsStr must instead just act as a view into the underlying &str. And the conversion can't enforce any extra restrictions on the input string without breaking backward compatibility.

The overall effect is that whatever format OsStr uses, it has to be a superset of UTF-8.

[0] https://doc.rust-lang.org/1.77.2/std/ffi/struct.OsStr.html#i...
Considerations for AI Opt-Out
No, Active Directory, Exchange, Word, and probably half a dozen other products also play an important role, and the integrations between them.
Adversaries willing to sacrifice their own people are absolutely a problem for societies that care about their own people.
Do you invest your life’s savings every time you believe a certain security will increase in value?
The US government isn't in need of a thousand high-skilled hackers. They are in need of a million normal employees with some basic security awareness. Anyone with a modicum of skill can find thousands of areas to improve. The issue is that almost nobody is in a position to get anything changed. Even basic software choices are a multi-year epic.
Do you consider pseudo-anonymously, online, to be risking your safety?

Recent things I've discovered in the slush pile of humanity (and am now sharing):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40085516

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39658391

Things I've recently learned on HN: Spinoza's modal logic axiomatic basis of theology, caucasian violence during the collapse of the soviet union, how to ask "are you sure?" in 4 chinese characters, and that (Dante's) hell really is other people.
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It's a torturous chaos until it isn't
Could have just used Visual Studio if you/re deep in C# lol
Ironically, in an industry that highly regulates working times...
Yes! I need to test it on some devices first, then re-register as a play store dev.
The board prepared the package and shareholders voted on it. Most of the targets were hit. Then an activist investor sued claiming that the board is beholden to musk and did not disclose that. The court agreed. Before a plan to vote on moving to Texas, the deal is now up for vote again with the court ruling attached.The stock price is also now below some of the targets previously achieved.

If you are a shrewd investor, you have to balance the impact of the options on your assets vs the signal you send to not just musk but any future CEO. But realistically, shareholders probably don't believe news that Tesla is going under, know that he rarely hits his goals for getting to market, and probably liked musk's leadership when the stock price rose.
Nobody wants to live in that world, including the homeless people in that picture.

But the homeless populations are symptoms of larger problem in the society. Simply making homelessness illegal is a far worse world. Those people in the picture will still exist, they'll just be contained in a prison. If, through some unexpected hardship, you found yourself without a home would you consider yourself a criminal worthy of punishment? Or do you consider the fact that you have housing some moral choice you are making in the same way you choose not to steal?

The fundamental argument being debated is: if you don't want homeless people in your public space, you need to give them some other option if you are going to force them out of those spaces.
In your view does Dickens satisfy both? That is if you removed or changed a single word in that lovely description would it change its meaning? Is there a case where a sentence is of a minimum length out of necessity (to achieve a certain flow, level of description, etc.?)

Think I share your opinion - succinct is great but so is flowery if it's utilized.
I have a coworker who was tracking Black Mirror premises that were being taken as inspiration by people on the internet. This may be one of those. A lot of SF authors have expressed this idea: "I meant it as a warning, not a road map". I think I read either Neal Stephenson or William Gibson expressing this about their respective dystopias and the Silicon Valley entrepreneurs who were trying to implement them.

Anyway, posting this comment so I remember to send it to her tomorrow.
> So you assume social media is required for a successful life?

No, nothing in my post assumed or even suggested that. Recall the discussion was whether smartphones and tablets have any more utility than nicotine. Let's forget social media for a moment, then, since it's a red herring here. I can, and do, capably use both devices without needing to use social media.

Yes, being able to use a smartphone or tablet is likely required for many successful careers, and likely more in the future. If someone looking for a job can only use a phone or tablet as well as my grandma can use a mouse, that unfortunately rules out some career options. The story is the same for me: Had I no access to computers or technology until I was an adult, I would have a totally different career path and life. Not sure I'd be as happy in that case as I am now.

I don't like how "devices" are replacing full-fledged computers (maybe it's the old man in me), but that only portends more hardship for people handicapped in "on-device computing".
The US is the largest military contributor https://app.23degrees.io/view/KJpesgWQv1CmxoMr-bar-stacked-h...
How about: if a shelter exists in the area, and it has free beds, you can't camp in a public park?

We have tons of beds here in Boulder shelters(except on the coldest nights when it fills up), but people choose to sleep in parks because you aren't allowed to smoke meth in the shelters.
In other words: the more useful Copilot is, the easier your job is.
>as the EU and Germany currently push for restricting Chinese EV sales in Europe

You are completely misinformed. VW, BMW and Mercedes all OPPOSE the restrictions the EU wants.

Trade restrictions with China would be far worse for the automakers than Chinese competition in the EU.
What is the difference between a recession and a depression?
Yes, although there is a Linux version underway. It seems to be about ~80% complete, maybe check it in a few months. No idea of a windows version is in progress or planned though.
There was a person who posted here who sued Tesla and won for not delivering full self driving. Tesla tried to make the person agree to not release anything but he said no and won interest on his payment for FSD. Good read, 6 months ago.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38146676
the most explored use case is for scripting networking, please see:

[1] https://legacy.netdevconf.info/0x14/session.html?talk-linux-...
[2] https://netdevconf.info/0x17/sessions/talk/scripting-the-lin...
[3] https://www.netbsd.org/~lneto/dls14.pdf
[4] https://www.slideshare.net/eurobsdcon/lneto-npf-scripting
[5] https://2018.eurobsdcon.org/static/slides/Fast,%20Flexible%2...

However, it was conceived for extensibility and flexibility in general, in the spirit of [6]. It has been used also for scripting CPU frequency scaling, debugging, application sandboxing among others [7,8].

[6] https://web.stanford.edu/~ouster/cgi-bin/papers/scripting.pd...
[7] https://drive.google.com/file/d/1TJ50IEbRXlBz-TxheGdkO-b4vLS...
[8] https://youtu.be/-ufBgy044HI?si=IT4FOqeldA-jsg2r (Portuguese only)

ZFS also has its own kernel Lua version (I'd love to unify them, BTW).

Moreover, we have some simplified examples on our repository [9].

[9] https://github.com/luainkernel/lunatik?tab=readme-ov-file#ex...
Um, NASA?

The government is able to employ tons of smart people that could be making way more money elsewhere.

They might not get the absolute best security people in the world, but they could get good enough - as good as they're getting from MS for a fraction of the price.

Additionally, government salaries aren't terrible when you factor in the pension. Most people want the money now. But if you want financial security in the future - that's a reason a lot of people chose to work for the Fed.