skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Aren’t they comparing medians, so it accounts for the tiny percentage do tech/finance that do well?

I mean there were junk bonds and corporate raiders in the 80s, as well as the 90s stock bonanza and 2000s real estate. Even a state employee could afford a decent house and saw their net worth explode as housing exploded. That isn’t happening for GenX and Millennials…
A medieval castle could be defended by surprisingly few people, but not by zero people. And a castle full of people who don't know how to fortify and maintain its defenses eventually becomes someone else's castle.

Aiming for zero required sysadmins in the short term after your own passing, I think the computers you leave behind will run into a similar case of the same general problem in the long term: there's no such thing as an entropy proof system. Castle walls erode and weapons rust if there are no skilled people to maintain them. Computer components slowly break down due to ordinary wear and tear. Software configurations become obsolete and unable to talk with other software, and become less secure as vulnerabilities are discovered over time. If there are no skilled people at all to maintain a familial network-citadel, it will eventually break down and fall into disuse.
Why must the makers of this platform for keeping software up-to-date be so obsessed with people running up-to-date software?
Autechre never really used PD so it’s unlikely to be them.
Go late summer/autumn, and just drive around the countryside. You can pickup all kinds fresh on the roadside.
I live in a town where cycling is fairly popular, and where the local governments have made an effort to provide bike-friendly infrastructure when roads get rebuilt.

Naturally, e-bikes are going viral here. I see a lot of e-bikes in town, including along my daily commute to work on a popular bike path. Many of my work colleagues have gotten e-bikes. Ironically the most frequent question I get when people find out that I'm a cyclist is: "When are you going to get an e-bike?"

My reaction to the article is that I'd like to see how things pan out in the next few years. This is because a lot of the e-cyclists I'm seeing show signs of being effectively beginners. For instance, awkward when maintaining steerage at low speeds or being "afraid of the brakes." I've also noticed what I think is a car driving habit, which is to "accelerate out of trouble."

I've developed the habit of giving e-bikes a lot of clearance, especially when they are in groups, and around intersections.

But even within the past year or so, I'm seeing a lot of improvement. For one thing, most e-cyclists have slowed down to roughly the same speed as prevailing bike traffic, and elderly riders even slower. There may be a realization that your top speed is not just limited by your motor, but also your reflexes and bike handling skill.

To anybody who has gotten an e-bike, I offer some advice. First, motorcycle safety videos are surprisingly useful at pointing out common hazards when riding in car traffic. Those riders know that they're invisible, and they're more visible than you are. Second, practice using your brakes. Take the bike to an empty parking lot and practice your panic stops, going straight and around curves.
There’s forward and backward propagation. Backward propagation is generally less about the type of a variable, but it’s still a form of abstract interpretation. For example, is-live (or dead) or used analysis, or reachable analyses are not really type information, as they tend to depend on the control flow after a point.

There’s some other analysis that’s not type-like as such, for example available expressions.
Right? I work with multiple organizations and they tend to use Salesforce or Mail Chimp. Why? Like you say, it depends on so many things.
That's a pretty recent innovation. Hurricane Katrina was something of a wake up call in terms of claim severity. P&C reinsurers afterward really had to challenge the standards under which they developed their models.
Something most people don't seem to understand... to retire comfortably (in the US at least) you need to consistently save some percentage of your income all of your life, or a significant portion of your income most of your life. I don't know if their parents or education system is failing these people, but something needs to change.
imagine thinking will has anything to do with it, go get addicted to fentanyl and then stop cold turkey for us to demonstrate your incredible willpower
Passive speakers can often be repaired anyway. My oldest pair is from 1972. It's had new tweeters and I've refoamed the woofers.
That isn’t happening for GenX and Millennials…

there are entire subs on reddit communities full of young people with sizable incomes/wealth. FIRE subs, tech subs, investing, and so on. The FANG job is today's '80s Wall Street job. Biased sample, sure, but it's still a lot of people. State employees still make good income. I think the only sector that has done the worst is retail.
It's obviously some bullshit as 1 month doesn't give enough time to change anything meaningful
https://web.archive.org/web/20240727170644/https://www.aland...

https://archive.ph/h0zD8
https://archive.ph/6DXno
FWIW that thread looks to be a casino being black listed after trying to negotiate down cloud flares enterprise plan.
Nobody is suggesting you “schit [your] pants.” The point of this isn’t to scare you, but to share information about a new model that predicts new effects. Nobody ever said it was “the most accurate model that exists.”

But without even looking at or understanding the model (did you?), you’ve already written it off as “tarot reading.”

Certainly not the way I’d approach it, especially as the facts of the last decade or so (not models, but actual recorded data) indicate that the globe is definitely warming and sea levels are definitely rising and glaciers are definitely melting.

How do I know? Well, data, but also talking to experts in Iceland (as an example). All of them, every single one, without exception, agreed global warming was happening. Not all of them agreed as to why it was happening, but that it was is no longer a question at all. They are out on these glaciers all the time. They have data going back many decades. Time lapses of the changes in the glaciers over the last 50-100 years. There isn’t really a question, anymore, as to whether the globe is warming; it is.

What we do about that is entirely a different discussion, as is why it’s happening.

But, you know, facts suck in the face of conspiracy theories and “doubt at all costs,” I guess.

That’s my main issue with folks who show up and start yelling that we don’t know anything. We do. We know the globe is warming, significantly. Denying that solves nothing.
Eh, one alternative as in my shithole in Eastern Europe is that they take 25% out of every pay you get throughout your life and when you do retire, you get some shit money for the 5 years of life expectancy you have left.
Tactical Kevlar Koozie
I think a lot of these people get caught in the loop of renting and bad luck and healthcare spending and never have much left over. plus, kids. They just never seem to get it together. Half the population has an IQ below 100. I imagine these people will naturally struggle at saving compared to the other half.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37672354

The entitlement of users calling open source maintainers that try to limit the surface area of support tickets to the systems that provably 95% of users are on “user hostile” is always sad to see.
Psa: https://freedns.afraid.org/ still works and it’s free.
I kind of think we have proven that most people are not, and cannot be, capably responsible for their own retirement. The 401k was an experiment, and that experiment has largely failed.

The answer is probably a more generous and better funded Social Security, except that fund keeps getting raided for other purposes.
Nitpick, but it was ultimately Xerox's ideas that defined the personal computer, with Apple just being the earliest to have massive success at bringing those ideas to market.

The figure in computing history I'd analogize Levitt to here would be Gary Kildall.
Kildall pioneered the concept of an open architecture with products from many competing vendors all implementing compatible standards and running the same OS. Ultimately, Microsoft stole his thunder, his company failed, and he died in relative obscurity, without the recognition he deserves for pioneering the modern industry.
My understanding is mortality rates are higher starting with Gen X, so fewer of them will have to deal with it.
Maybe smaller events can be tracked with an incident ID and analysis to forestall bigger events.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41018029
I does not make sense to rely on an employer to guarantee your retirement income. Ideally you want it to be managed by an organization that is heavily regulated and specializes in this activity, instead of being a cost center (and a financial temptation) for a generic company.
I'm a fan of both Caro and Vonnegut, prefer some of his novels over others. Cat's Cradle is my favorite.
IMO, it has the best ergonomics among scripting languages for embedding into native applications. I'm using it as a serialization format for a game, with the JimTcl interpreter. It's easy to create fluent hierarchical structures that straddle the line between code and data:

object "player" {
health 100
ammo 10
}

https://github.com/msteveb/jimtcl
And when they do support multiple versions, like MySQL, have fun with your data. All versions hardcode the same path in the service file. Your data is now accidentally upgraded and/or corrupted.
Or suffixed with "in Rust"
Discussed at the time:

How Clang Compiles a Function - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17405594 - June 2018 (16 comments)
It’s hard for me to feel sympathy for a generation that saw the largest expansion of wealth and failed to put $1000 a year away in an index. Over 40 years that’s just over $200k in current dollars at 7% inflation adjusted return.
Yup, all of what you said is correct.
Where does GP say they use a Segway at the drive thru? That’s admittedly hilarious, but I don’t see it in the comment.
Ok, we'll put the game in the title above.
Just a nit, but power users are end users.
As a first-time founder, I'm preparing to launch ProspectEdge.co.

My company aims to assist founders, sales teams, and marketing teams in finding, engaging, and winning top prospects using AI-powered market insights. We transform various data sources into tailored B2B sales opportunities and marketing strategies.

Two questions I'm considering:

1. Which sales approach should I use?
- Top-down: Targeting company executives directly
- Bottom-up: Broad marketing with low-touch sales
2. What are the most effective sales and marketing strategies for my new venture?

I'd appreciate insights on these questions and advice for first-time founders in the B2B AI space.
Another commenter noted also that this shouldn't be a bluff. Here's an example of the kind of thing that could be helpful: "I love working here and I can really see continuing my career here for a long time. So I'm really hoping we can come to an agreement so that this makes sense."

This gets them thinking about you as a market participant and not about how small a raise they can give you. Even if you don't have active offers, understanding your value in the market is really important.
The heat dissipated on traces is significant, but not that significant.
Yep. 20% is about right for a 35-40 year career.

The auto enrollment private pension minimum contribution in the UK is 8% (3% from the employer and 5% from the employee)...and its widely known that this is pathetically inadequate. It needs to be doubled.

Nobody is taught about this stuff in British schools either. Most people don't start worrying about funding retirement until they hit 50
I found a 55 year old bug in the first Lunar Lander game - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40680218 - June 2024 (114 comments)
That's what's so evil about these categories like "White Male", "Boomer" and others and blaming societal trends on them. Within these groups it's usually only a subsection that received the benefits they are being blamed for. For example, poor white cis males get no sympathies from anywhere. All of this painting of groups with such a broad stroke only distracts from the real problem with is income inequality and the erosion of social safety nets. It keeps the little guys fighting each other while the big guys keep moving ahead.
Car break down? Roof leak? Furnace go out? Crown fall out of your tooth? All in one year? Congrats, you are now like $30k in the hole. It is easy for budgets to blow up especially if they were lean to begin with.
Example recipe to do it for you:

https://gchq.github.io/CyberChef/#recipe=To_Upper_case('All')To_Base32('A-Z2-7%3D')

It looks like 'cryptii' also appears to do all processing client-side.
Not a football surgeon myself, but with 6 point deduction they are toast anyway aren't they?
Code signing certs must have the key HSM’d these days. It’s a big hurdle.
As someone not in the field, do you believe there is a true, objective, statistically valid way to tell which manufacturers (or which specific models) are more durable than others? All I see are consumer surveys, JD Power (more surveys), etc which, like most surveys, have wide error margins, and overall seem rather anecdote-based, and don't necessarily account for different stresses placed on the car based on driving style, diligence of maintenance, climate, etc.
I offered this at some point and they don’t want the code due to IP issues or don’t believe you wrote it.
s/as possible/as practical/
Pizza Hut opened in the Soviet Union in 1990 prior to collapse the following year.

Although many might contest Pizza Hut qualifying as real pizza. :)

It’s a shame authentic pizza didn’t grab hold earlier, especially with the origins of pizza being egalitarian peasant food.

Two early post-Soviet pizza events, both involving Pizza Hut, are somewhat relevant here.

Not so much about the introduction of Pizza, but the Pizza Hut proxy introduction of capitalism(western success) and dissolution of communism(Soviet failure).

Gorbachev Pizza Hut commercial(post Soviet collapse and during Russian Financial Crisis):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUTIc-f1h3E

Pizza Hut also paid the Russian space program(in deep financial distress at the time) a considerable sum to have cosmonauts eat Pizza Hut in space, delivered on a Soviet-era Proton rocket carrying a 50ft Pizza Hut logo.

So pizza certainly existed in the waning days of the Soviet Union, but a deeper question might be what role did pizza(Pizza Hut specifically) play in influencing, exemplifying, or merely footnoting the troubled geopolitics between Russia and the pizza eating west?
You have that backwards.

Open seating (the way WN does it) involves boarding families with children between the A and B groups. They're not getting front row, but they mathematically can sit together no matter how many of them there are. That is, unless the family only has C boarding passes and waits for their C rows to be called.

On a different airline, I've witnessed, firsthand, families all booked on noncontiguous middle seats in the back of the plane. Once one of them tried to sit in my aisle seat, and I got to choose between an uncompensated downgrade to their middle seat, or narc'ing them out to the flight attendant, for whom I have zero trust that they'll not make things worse for everybody.

Having met multiple prison corrections officers and flight attendants in my lifetime, my order of trust to help me with my interpersonal issues goes Southwest, CO, non-Southwest.
> Isn't RUMINT on the Intel problem that, even though it's nominally a chip problem, it may occur primarily due to motherboards not following guidance?

That was merely Intel's first attempt at deflection / damage control. Kernel of truth to it, of course.
It sounds like a lack of coherent design strategy. That is the sacrifice feature driven projects face. A problem which usually wears in after about three years. After market entry yet right when regular additions pile up and begin to cross paths.

The solution is a maverick mind who can drive coherent code strategy.

Business logic isn't your problem, an unfaithfulness to the idea that the application is first a business logic machine may be. User interface should be a layer, instantiating and manipulating a logic API.

Configuration over code is one ideal philosophy. Design such that configuration may established what types of things, or where they might route.

This would only work if all parts of the application agree on a configuration convention.
If people acknowledge climate change (all but first example) how can you label them a denier (from your link)? They agree change is happening.. what are they denying? Your solutions or your panic? Why should someone who answered like above answer the way you want. Prove your case.
What defines them as "leeches" or not is if they keep adding value to their work.

Passively profiting from some work done decades ago makes them something you want to destroy; increasingly improving their catalogue with valuable new tones and knowledge makes them something you want to protect.
Perhaps, but like I said, there are books and then there are good books. Besides, state of the art might change rapidly but the fundamentals rarely do.
=> 1M ARR from EU

if you make close to or more than this from EU countries you can afford to hire
Ekstase: Lumines X Tetris X Puyo Puyo
I guess I'm lucky in that I don't use social media and live in a pretty active, healthy community where there's not much obesity. People here look like Patagonia models, lol.

I've vaguely heard about the anti-fat-shaming movement but never quite understood it. Sure, you shouldn't insult someone for being overweight, but it's undeniably really terrible for their health and for society.

I mean, I get it, I'm overweight myself and know it's not easy to change, but I'm working on it. I don't want to just sit back and accept it, I want to change it. And if a doctor criticized my lifestyle, I'd try to listen and do what I can.

What's wrong with that? Shouldn't society generally encourage its citizens to be healthier...?
The sociopathy of people who pretend "it's user-hostile to be told you can never speak of running this on an OS version > 2 years old. Ever. All attempts will be deleted" is "expecting endless support for free products that I'm not paying for or contributing to."

I reject your name-calling via a strawman, though I support the message.
> If you are publicly traded there is little you can do to prevent people buying shares

Nobody can force you to sell your shares. Nobody can force you to make your company public. It's all voluntary. You can't have your cake and eat it. Want to get that juicy foreign investor money then cry that the foreigners are taking over?
No argument. I actually have a non-trivial pension coming from a long-ago decade+ employer which I probably didn't even think about at the time but it's hard for me to think that staying at an employer for a decade or two should be a cornerstone of a retirement strategy. (Even given some regulations today about excessive raiding of the fund.)
I think there are still "classic" adventure games around like Deponia, but they run into those problems.

I think the way around this is to make things less trickier, but at some point you get a story-based game/visual novel or maybe a "walking simulators" like firewatch.
Un-firewalled yes, but mostly behind NAT, so just everything from Internet to XP would not pass NAT.
DIY Radiative Sky Cooling Fibers Successfully Made [video]
Agreed. It's a short read that demonstrates his writing skill, his methods, and his goal of explaining how political power is acquired and used. It inspired me to start on the LBJ biography.
Yeah, this is basically my take too. I had a hardcopy of this sometime between 99 and 02, and read it several times

At the time I was an embedded developer at Microsoft and had been a Windows programmer in the mid 90s. It was pretty clear that there was some dunning Krueger going on here. Neal knew enough about tech to be dangerous, but not really enough to be talking with authority
> His name gave rise to the English terms algorism and algorithm
Elon Musk Is Not a Renegade Outsider – He's a Pentagon Contractor
That seems to be driven largely by fentanyl, which has quintupled the number of deaths from drug overdose since 2000 (the current tally is over 100k per year). Demographically, these people are unlikely to have much in the way of retirement savings.
I really, really like the way these articles flow, with just enough code to illustrate their point, and a gradual build. This is good stuff. I have never in my life wanted to make a new PCI device, but now I kind of do, which is like the acid test for good technical writing, right?
> I kind of think we have proven that most people are not, and cannot be, capably responsible for their own retirement.

This is one of the reasons I suggest people buy a house rather than renting. The financials may not always make sense, but it forces savings in a way that many people would not otherwise do.

How many people do you think would manually pay a large chunk of their paycheck into a savings account every months before deciding whether they can afford an extra order of curly fries?

Rent eats first and having a mortgage lets you actually save some of that (once you get past the substantial interest heavy starting year).

> The 401k was an experiment, and that experiment has largely failed.

Retirement accounts are not the problem. It’s a general lack of financial education. People can barely calculate simple interest. Compound interest is even less natural. Calculating the present value of a fixed payment annuity in 25 years? We’re a slim minority that can do that from scratch.

Some of the best savers are the ones that do not even understand the financial constructs, but take the savings rates and methods as gospel. Faithfully putting away percentages of their salaries that are orders of magnitude higher than the rest.

> The answer is probably a more generous and better funded Social Security, except that fund keeps getting raided for other purposes.

Social security is claimed to be “money you paid into”. But that cannot be true if the net amount grossly exceeds what you paid in. That system simply would not work without another revenue source.

People have to pay massively more into it over their entire working lives.

And if someone wants a pension the financial product exists. Except nobody wants to actually pay for it because an inflation adjusted guaranteed annuity for life is incredibly expensive! So the present value of it divided out would be more than people are willing to actually pay.
One hopes we can have nice things from the get-go next time around.

Various languages have deliberately shunned green threads, lambdas, generics, and/or compile-time type-checking, only to try to shoe-horn them in later.
“Python” isn’t very well-defined. Which version? Which (installed) dependencies?