skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is hilariously bad analysis. She doesn’t even get the names right, let alone anything else of substance.

This is perfectly emblematic of our national decline: a person with little interest in doing the work to understand things, spoon feeding their mistakes over social media to an audience with little interest in doing the work to know whether the things they read are real.
>Spending is flat, revenue goes down, deficit goes up. It's pretty simple math.

Revenue did indeed decline from 2000 to 2010, but the trend begins to reverse quite immediately after 2010. On page 15 of the 2023 IRS Data Book [0], total reported revenues were:

1980: 519,375,273,000 (in 1980 dollars)

1990: 1,056,365,652,000 (in 1990 dollars)

2000: 2,096,916,925,000 (in 2000 dollars)

2010: 2,345,055,978,000 (in 2010 dollars)

2020: 3,493,067,956,000 (in 2020 dollars)

Adjusted to 2010 dollars using a calculator from the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis [1] for sake of comparison:

1980: 1,374,294,904,976 (in 2010 dollars)

1990: 1,762,975,620,417 (in 2010 dollars)

2000: 2,655,315,429,720 (in 2010 dollars)

2010: 2,345,055,978,000 (in 2010 dollars)

2020: 4,145,927,700,959 (in 2010 dollars)

Using the population figures from the census data you provided, this works out to a per capita revenue of:

1980: $6,066.30 (in 2010 dollars)

1990: $7,088.48 (in 2010 dollars)

2000: $9,435.35 (in 2010 dollars)

2010: $7,595.43 (in 2010 dollars)

2020: $12,508.48 (in 2010 dollars)

Note that this trend continues through 2021, 2022, and 2023.

I notice that some of the decreases and increases in revenue seem to correlate with periods of relative economic prosperity (e.g. the height of the dotcom boom around the year 2000) and periods of relative privation (e.g. the economy was still recovering from the Great Recession in 2010). I don't have any insight into whether these macro events have a more substantial impact on revenue collection in comparison to any changes in tax policy that might have occurred during these periods, but it doesn't seem like a coincidence.

[0] - https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/p55b.pdf

[1] - https://www.minneapolisfed.org/about-us/monetary-policy/infl...
There are some cases where that is true, there are some cases where Ukraine got the same stuff that is current with the US, and there are cases where Ukraine was literally the first user of new tech (the GLSDB, for instance.)

One reason for this mix is that the Russo-Ukrainian war has defied some US expectations of what future wars it might need to deal with might look like, making previously-retired equipment relevant again (the drone war has made a lot of retired anti-aircraft tech more relevant, because relative cheap short-range missiles and short range anti-aircraft guns are a lot more useful against drones than they are against modern fighters, for instance) and, in other cases driving new weapons development.
The Effects of Intermittent Fasting on Brain and Cognitive Function
How does this compare to other developed nations currently? Or developing nations on the cusp of modernization? Is this a contemporary trend or an outlier?
Wow! I think he got different in his English diction much later in his life?
Thanks for the explanation, crucial to explain why.
I remember as a young kid browsing the aisles of the Microcenter close to our house on the weekends like a kid in a candy shop - 500 games on a single disc for 15 dollars, what sorcery was this? One particular pack was specifically for Windows 3x and all the game concepts were... shall we say liberally borrowed from classics - WinTrek, Wintris, Winroids, you get the idea.

You can actually still find a few of these old mega shareware CDs on Archive.org under the Shareware CD section.

https://archive.org/details/cdbbsarchive
Searxng with engine all of search engine providers.
And two Star Wars movies.
The laymen's definition for AGI is utterly irrelevant to investors. If training needs to happen for an AI employee so there's an employee that can be copy/pasted and scaled up/down without overhead, so then put in the work to train it. You have to train a human employee as well anyway.
Great public transit. Affordable housing. Huge variety of delicious food. Low crime. People who care enough about the social good to wear masks in crowded places during a pandemic.
name some nations that maintain healthy weight without drugs? your dogma isn't supported by the data. obesity is a public health problem and it's not caused simply by junk food
VLC even lets you save a full-res snapshot of whatever you're seeing, regardless of the window size!
Preventing screenshots takes resources. You need engineering,l time, the solution itself consumes system memory, needs additional code at run time and ultimately consumes more power on the devices. All of these apple doesn’t want to spend; so I would guess may be there were attempts to reconstruct movies using screenshots or may be it was asked of them?
> Hack has this bug where it doesn't let me a share comment if I wrote the comment in reply to another comment I wrote

Let me have a look and fix it.

> I get a notification if I reply to my own comment.

Hmmm, I feel like this should be the intended behaviour. But maybe I can add a setting to disable this behaviour.

> can I get notifications for replies to replies to comments I've made?

Unfortunately, I don't think this would be possible due to the limitations of the HN website itself. Remember that HN's api is very rudimentary. So the whole notification system in my app works using scraping of the newest comments. This would require me to keep track of every single comment and its parents and that's just not feasible.
See here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43227146
Ranked choice was the error. You want one of the cardinal voting systems like STAR.
It means that "reasoning" isn't.
because there is something called AI - you put your crap into it and ask the AI to do all corrections and improvements for you.

it is also free.
That's actually rude to say and I think my deck was ok and tapes were ok. My deck was a single well Sansui and my tapes were new Maxell tapes. Sure I might eek out some more performance with a Nakamichi deck and chrome tapes that cost $14 a blank or something but it's still going to sound like a cassette deck.

https://audiochrome.blogspot.com/2020/12/cassette-tape-measu...

I find some charm in the lo-fi sound, if I wanted hi-fi sound I would just record something digitally for basically free, so I don't see the point of chasing the dragon of ultimate cassette sound quality.
You know, everyone’s obsessed with training and knowledge and practice, but it’s so much more satisfying to do something amazing by just flipping switches and pushing buttons at random.
I find this a good thing as the end consumer. Not sure why I get a negative vibe from your comment but maybe I have misread?
early 90s, i286 story reminded me purchasing my i386 SX (4 MBs RAM, perhaps 20 MB HD), running DOS 5, then DOS 6 could not afford the DX edition for some reason. i286s were just phasing out then.
amazing how linux started. thanks for sharing!
I’m not sure how they can both be ineffectual but also systemically decimating democracy at the same time. Are the ineffective and harmless or effective and damaging?
I feel like a sales tax coupled with a 0% rate on the first X$ of spending would be a sweet spot. Could use a card or something to track taxes per person spending at the register.

No tax filing, still lower rates for poor people. That'd be nice.
> acceptable practice outside of Java.

What is the acceptable practice outside of Java?

Do you prefer to check for errors after every function call? That's what you had in C language, and the problem is that the logic gets buried inside all the error checking, and that makes code hard to read (and write).
If you have kids the math works out in favour for many European countries.
Did you make this same post before? I swear I've already read this a couple months ago.

Edit : putting this into Google does indeed show the same post from before this thread was created. Weird
After figuring out how to do most things successfully in Kerbal space program, a fun challenge is to install the "real solar system" mod which scales the delta v require for low orbit, and size of the solar system , up to approximately the same as reality. Delta v to orbit in stock KSP is like 2300-2500 if I remember right, in RSS it's 7800-8200. Everything else is also correspondingly more difficult like delta v require to get from a 35 degree inclined low earth orbit into a mars transfer orbit (even assuming 100% aero braking at mars and little or no fuel used at arrival)
asm? Why would anyone use that useless abstraction over byte code?
Presumably, the energy output from a fusion plant (if we ever get there) should be self-sustaining. For starting up, I’m guessing the plant can draw power from the grid itself, no?
The NIH is being slashed and burned, not "reformed"
> A big part of the reason I use Apple products is that they protect not only me, but my family who don't know what the implications of sideloading are. I know that the apps my phone runs have been given the green light by Apple.

The malware my family is most exposed to nowadays have names: Onedrive, iCloud, Google Drive. They are all designed to collect all the user's data, are all opt-out, opting out is filled with dark patterns. And regarding dark patterns, having recently gone through the motions of downloading all my data and then deleting my X, Facebook, Instagram, Microsoft, Google and Apple accounts, I can confidently say that Apple is by far the _worst_.
Yes, when it comes to exercising one's rights, Apple is worst than even _Facebook_.

Users are much less exposed to non-branded malware nowadays, as the incentives to torrent random crap have mostly disappeared, and protection against spam/fishing has improved.
Sibling comments did a better job than I could've done at explaining why the checked exceptions and business logic exceptions are bad.
I feel like this deserves a deep dive of its own. Were the clocks drifting substantially over a reasonable time period between syncs (e.g. 24 hours)? Was SNTP not acting reliably? Did they try hosting a local time server?
Yes we could.
Wealthy people eat more expensive food.
Sometimes insanely more expensive.
While the majority of Americans are debating whether or not to buy a dozen eggs this week,
a wealthy man is spending a million dollars a year to feed themselves. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyABU75DKjA
> The intent of the original "boast" is to somehow claim the know-how comes solely out of China.

No, it isn’t. It’s likely they mean they haven’t studied aboard or have worked in the U.S., which has been long seen as a prerequisite to innovate in the tech industry there.

My original comment was merely citing what they think. It’s unfortunate that you cannot tell the difference between describing and endorsing.
The approximately 1600MHz signals emitted from a gps satellite are generally aimed directly down at the earth at any given time, but with a good enough receiver and directional gain antenna on the moon you certainly could pick them up.

I also have a theory this might work because at any given point in time, some of the gps satellites while moving at their orbital altitudes might be emitting signals aimed somewhat more directly towards the moon, at least for short periods of time.
It has been threatened recently by a few nations. It almost got set off by mistake.

Increasing the odds by introducing hundreds of players some willing to gas their own people is rolling the dice. The few countries that have the ability has been responsible but that does not mean that will always be the case or new players will be as responsible.
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I have to agree that sometimes I do like how tape sounds. A Hearts of Space recording playing in the car with Stephen Hill's mellow voice going as I drive sounds so right. Something about the low fidelity of tape and how everything is kind of smashed together is quite soothing.
> Even if the conduct of the US authorities here is/was suspect the retaliatory arrests is how the Mafia operates

when i said "Many Americans are complicit through their silence, denials, and defense."

i didn't expect such a combo...
You can’t have free speech without being able to offend. And you can’t have democracy without free speech.
Feature request: Overlapping time periods. I was a high school student from 1993-1998, but I was a university student from 1994-2000. (And then a student at a different university from 2001-2005.) Many people won't have high school and university overlapping, but overlapping education and career often do.

Maybe interesting to add relationships (at very least marriage?) as visible time periods too.
Either you want me to make conclusions based on data or you don't. If you want me to make conclusions based on any of the data you provide, then you must provide all the data necessary to make an end-to-end connection to your claim. You can't use a patchwork of studies and say things like "it's a very safe bet" and "we can have a very good idea" to "put together multiple data sources". That's not science, that's "trust me bro".

Show the actual hard data that correlates board certification exam results and race for this study. As it stands now, we can at best associate this with physician sex.

If I'm using your logic, then, without any evidence whatsoever, I can say that obviously because the correlation between MCAT scores and Step 2 scores is weakened compared to Step 1, then it's a "very safe bet" that there will be little to no correlation for Step 3 and almost entirely eliminated by the time they take the BCE.

Or I can be rigorous and not make data points up in my head to fit some worldview.

> Which is a thing the article immediately, obviously, and loudly implies but of course couldn't say for fear of censorship, losing jobs, etc.

No, it doesn't, because it can't, because they don't have any information about the races of the physicians in the study.
As a wealthy American with a massive spending problem, I’ll say there’s diminishing returns.
You can spend a huge sum on organic groceries, and ski lift tickets.
Is it 100x better than my former WoW subscription and $10 university food? Not really.
iOS dev here doing KMM. Android Studio (and IntelliJ) was a breath of fresh air after working so long with Xcode. I get anxiety when I have to go back to Xcode but that was partially because of the app I had to work with for a previous company.
Earlier this year I bought a bunch of moon-shaped LED lamps that are controlled with an IR remote, and made an ambilight app for my computer that constantly screenshots the screen, finds the predominant color and sends a signal to change the color in all of them. Only to find that watching a TV show would just leave all black...
There's even a whole ecosystem of paid pitches to people who curate large public Spotify playlists. And the people who listen to those playlists are the trendsetters that the algorithmic fluff picks up on later.
> I've worked at a foreign university where grad students on dual income could buy a starter home.

Where? And why didn't you stay?
I think my biggest ongoing frustration was how much time I was expected to read and reply to emails; on my first day one of the first things I was instructed to do was to use their internal email filtering system (the name of which I can't remember), because if you didn't you'd have literally thousands of emails going into your main inbox. Mostly alerts, lots of cross-team announcements that weren't relevant to me, some Radar updates on tickets that I wasn't assigned to IIRC.

Even when I got the filters more or less under control, I would still have to spend a lot of time replying to emails throughout the day, or risk getting in trouble for letting them pile up.

It was pretty depressing, and I remember the first time I pushed back I ended up kind of yelling at my boss's boss about it when I said something like "You know, during the interview you asked me a lot of really hard computer science questions, I thought that's why you hired me, but maybe we should revise the process to just be a fucking endurance test of replying to emails for two hours and see how they do." He didn't like this suggestion, for whatever reason.

So I don't completely blame them for saying I had a bad attitude, and frankly I don't think I was a good fit for the AMP team of Apple; I am far too unorganized.
It's my understanding that it's not possible to opt out of all VS Code telemetry. There are some kinds exposed in the settings page that can be disable.

> I doubt it slows down builds

But we don't really know, do we? Speculation isn't helpful.
Maybe it's not clear to you because you're one of the wealthy people?
This person isn't really quitting software... they're just putting time into their own startup instead.
Sequentially? Yes. Simultaneously? Rare. Doxorubicin and cisplatin, has been done, but keytruda was quite interesting when it started to do clinical trials in combination with various chemos so that the FDA would approve it. My late-wife's oncologist was hesitant on combining anything, but I kept pushing for pembro plus anything.

But this was also systemically applied, these new ADCs are targeted, much stronger with combination payloads. Sadly, not as effective for harsher cancers like triple-negative BC.
It’s probably due to some licensing verbiage because these DRM implementations do just about nothing good. Pirates still rip videos from these platforms somehow, but the usual customer can’t watch the 4K they paid for on most browsers. So, it must be an idiosyncrasy at some management/licensing level, not something that serves a functional purpose.

And frankly, the “buy 4K, but we will serve you 1080p in most cases” sounds like a class action lawsuit in the making anyway. So, if anything, this DRM scheme will cost them more than just wasted engineer time.
Being able to fly international in Business Class for annual vacations should you choose to is a choice many would consider 100x better than $10 University food.
> It's only "free" if you value your time at $0/hr.

Checking the OS version, browser version, HDMI cable reference and screen reference to pray that the DRM works isn't really easy nor instantaneous either.

I'd say it's even more annoying than torrenting
(author here) I agree, the `type` example could be done with regular expressions. In part 2 I'm planning to describe the real reason I was using tree-sitter here. I wanted to highlight certain combinations of operations based on the naming conventions I use in one of my projects. In particular, I want to catch a function call where a function named "x_to_y" has an argument with a name that does not appear to be an "x". However, while writing part 1 I realized that I could probably do that with a regular expression…
Given that most jobs in the US pay 10X or more what the same job pays in China, they are probably concerned that trips to the US will be one way.
I think it would be a lot more like the Troubles than the original American Civil War.
> You have no clue about the collapse of the USSR.

I lived through it. We can talk a lot about, but the fact is equality doesn't work. Maximum it gets to is everyone equally poor. And as a result of it there are no startups. You need middle class for this and motivation. Government controlled and own monopolies is also the result of equality. Nobody else has the resources. So commies had to create the economy, few bigger things are easier to manage. Managers aren't interested in risk taking, it's not worth it. Finally everything stalled and fell far behind the rest of the world. There were bright spots, but that's it. Like North Korea today can build missiles and not much else.

Just look around. Probably only Cuba and North Korea are still in true socialism. In both there is a small super-rich class and the rest is, yes, equally poor. Super-rich are pretending to be poor too and invent theories to keep the rest under control. BTW, I'm not sure Cuba still has strong ideology today.
When my american kids are slagging my Belgian half brother he shuts them down by offering a visit to the school he went to, you know, through the unlocked non bulletproof front door. Their schools have vestibules with intercoms and such.
A bit of a tangent but .NET CLI is excellent and I find it more productive at project management/scaffolding/building/etc. It has quite a few useful templates for 'dotnet new' command. Though I found the Angular one a bit outdated back then, but perhaps this changed.
I mean, a post on Reddit had a fresh 21 year-old out of college making a TC of $120,000/year - 2x the median annual salary of ~$60,000/year. So, yes. You're lucky
Not sure why seeing a life like this makes me depressed
Maybe it would be good for language design, possibly even language design that would be good for an LLM to read, thus reducing hallucinations.
It's interesting to me that people worried about wealth inequality are normally also very supportive of free trade policies.

A lot of the concentration of wealth comes from the fact that economically there is capital, goods, and people. We made it super easy for capital to flow around the globe, moderately easy for goods to flow around the globe, and difficult for people to flow around the globe.

An Apple phone made in China, sold in South Africa, still sends money (capital) back to the US. This lets a few people gain extraordinary leverage at the expense of the lower ends of the curve in the United States who have seen their jobs shipped overseas.
F# and Haxe. Love both of those languages
Excellent medical and dental care for ridiculously cheap. On par with countries like Germany

If you work, you contribute to a fund that you have access to if you lose your job.
It is not a crime in China and morality is relative and no one has the moral high ground (unless god shows up). That being said, lots of IP was transferred to China willingly to access its market. It’s shortsightedness not theft that broke the empire.
Yeah, I remember sometimes they would be really cheap at TJ Maxx of all places, like $5-8. I hated clothe shopping as a kid so my mom would buy them for me occasionally to entice me to put up with trying on a bunch of clothes. I too remember thinking it was magic that they could squeeze so many games in a small space.

A lot of them were definitely ripoffs, but I was young enough to not know about most of the originals at the time, so to me they were all completely original games. It was awesome.
I said food consumption not amount spent on food. The two are different. The top 10% don’t consume 50% of the caloric intake of the nation.
The US Navy is so large that it's basically impossible to not defend half of Europe while they're deployed. Systems like Aegis provide de-facto area denial to ballistic weapons when they're put anywhere, since we have 11 carrier groups it's not infeasible to send them out on patrol with our (former) allies. It sure beats paying COs merchant marine wages to jerk off in littoral waters waiting to eat a DF-21, fighting to defend America's god-given right to an iPhone 17.

> This should be illegal

Sounds like the US messed up cutting ties with the International Criminal Court then. Maybe one day this heinous act will be brought to justice. Maybe.
Only people who have never read history sign up to be kingmakers. Just about every single time in history, the made king when he has consolidated enough power will turn against the “kingmakers”. It is inevitable
Examining the Economic Crisis in Farm Country
Here a video demo. seems like the rick roll verse will keep you hired lol.

https://x.com/alhwynn/status/1896009815538946391