skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In NYC we have something of the opposite problem. California folks are always asking, why not upzone. Sometimes they say that in reference to the NYC much-publicized housing issues too.

The problem is that the infrastructure around it needs massive improvements to scale.

A suburban density increase is a good thing, because the denser housing leads to denser income flow to local governments, which go to things like water/sewer, road, and other improvements that need to be paid for. Economies of scale mean that suburbs are terribly inefficient.

An increase of density in NYC has had the opposite result. It's false to claim that there's no housing being built - there's plenty of it, and it's dense, and often times 20+% of it is legally affordable (rent stabilized due to developer tax breaks). Yet more people keep moving here. The issue is that one of the main infrastructure bottlenecks never kept up and it has become one of the topmost, if not the topmost quality of life issue in NYC: the public transport system.

It's all well and good to build density, but the municipalities need to move lockstep with housing increase. Unfortunately, I think that the decentralized nature of American political life makes this quite difficult. How can one of dozens or hundreds of city agencies keep tabs on one of dozens or hundreds of various other factors.
Maybe it's just another case of the new generation just isn't like the old generation. Jazz music, rock music, drugs, cars, fast women, violent video games, porn... You name it and every generation has something the previous generation thinks is destroying society.

Social media is the new rock n roll.
The analysis is not in any way serious, just some feelings the author has about certain things that may not even matter to anyone nor improve security in any meaningful way, if not worsen it by providing a false sense of security.
I've been considering this same move a lot recently. I know this is appealing to some people and seems completely insane to others. I believe that I understand my own psychology pretty well. The situation where every productive hour of my life can be devoted to creating my own product and my own business as well as every passing day being a step further towards zeros dollars in the bank is a way to push me into the mode of peak productivity and creativity. This is weighed against the large risk of not creating any positive revenue streams or cash injections from outside investors and spending all my money. :) I do not have a wife or children so the amount of risk is limited only to myself.
Seems like there would just be an exemption for them otherwise.
What is the consequence of assuming the opposite?

E.g. IQ has very little effect. You can use that assumption as cover for garbage social policy that doesn't recognize individual differences in intelligence and attempts to equalize outcomes when the distribution in ability is inherently unequal and leaves everyone less happy.

What I believe is that the interplay MAY be complex, but your argument that an unqualified assumption leads to bad outcomes works both ways.
>If you ate at a restaurant which had a 'no cash' policy, I'm not sure how you would resolve a situation with a client who was willing to pay in cash only. Would the restaurant be able to refuse your cash and say you ate without paying?

I doubt it would be too difficult to find another customer who would swipe their own card in exchange for cash from the cash paying customer... free reward points after all. (Infact many people do something similar in India, we receive a fixed allowance which is tax exempt but can only be spent on food, this is given via a special debit card or vouchers. You pay for someone else's food using the voucher and take cash from them)
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I didn't realize strings named 'passwords' had special properties, can you tell me more about how calling a string a password limits its properties on a technical level?
Negative power prices are not in and of themselves a good thing for consumers. Obviously, that power still costs money to generate.

But, if the means of production (e.g. wind) is overall still a win and power only goes negative for short periods, if consumers can respond and sink that power more cheaply than the producer can dial back & protect the grid in the process, it might be the best solution for everyone.
ee pay as you go offers 100mb for 30 days for £3.

Gonna be hard to beat that, cost-wise, with anything reliable and covering a large area.
> The problem is the paycheck. Do I want to risk it all, throw away my savings, all for a chance at success

Reading this, it feels better in India. Here I can work for 2 years in a good company, save enough to quit job and do something of my own for 3 years before needing money. (Lots of other stuffs are shitty in India, but this aspect is good)
But the opportunity cost is also $10 a month for however many months the plan runs. It would be appropriate to think of other monthly payments with the same opportunity cost (like a Netflix subscription), but it would be inappropriate to talk about things that cost $400 up front without also recognizing that you wouldn’t get those things until the end of the payment period.
Incentivize remote work?
Not sure why you are getting downvoted. It may be perceived as morally wrong, but this kind of stuff is very lucrative and a proven technique for generating passive income, and in many cases, a more-than-full-time income. So I would say this is on topic.

Guys who got filthy rich in the early 2000s when blogging was just taking off of were guys like ProBlogger.net, labnol.org and a few others. All got rich off ads on their blog, which was almost always about "How to get rich blogging". They'd even post Google Adsense checks bragging about their income.

Same thing is going on these days with Crypytocurrency on youtube. The guys will 1 M+ views on their channels (monetized with ads) are all peddling tips and tricks on how to get filthy rich trading cryptocurrency.

Obligatory meme: https://i.imgflip.com/1pv4ev.jpg
The goal isn't to have a 100% success rate, it's to work most of the time in order to speed up processing.
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The math on this makes no sense at all.

>

- Live off of $15k a year. Don't buy a house. Don't buy a fancy car. Just save.

- Do this for a year.

- Land a job that makes you $100k a year. Save the rest. Max out your 401k contribution.

- Celebrate by living off of $30k a year.

- Do this for three years.

- Land a job that makes you $140k a year. Save the rest. Max out your 401k contribution. Get a Roth, put $5k a year into that.

- Celebrate by living off of $60k a year.

- Do this for three years.
>

He is talking about SAVING, $500,000. Then needing to liquidate your 401k, just to take off a year?

If he is capable of living on 60k before this, he should be able to live almost 10 years just on his savings without liquidating the 401k.
Thanks for the catch!! Fixed it.

I had to explicitly set "left: 0"
They are 5V tolerent on the logic pins, just not on the power. LiFePO4 batteries work great for powering them as their voltage curve matches perfectly without regulation.
if Gold can be irrational for 2k years, I don't see why not bitcoin can't, the only think gold has going for "longer history", yet HN folk love to say "past performance are not an...bla bla", yes it also has the 5% - 10% industrial use, but bitcoin has that too by being able to transfer it without third party, so will also not go to zero because will be useful as transfer of value.
Twitter shows me every tweet from everyone I follow. Yet it is "social media".

Facebook is a tire fire, sure, but there are distinctions worth making.
Silicon Valley is a whole lot more than Facebook, Twitter, and Reddit.
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speed of light / 5 GHz / 4 ~= 1.5 cm.

If you can keep the size of the largest crease/feature/defect in your foil smaller than this, you should be okay.
I think you already know the answer.
I'm shocked that older generations are complaining about younger generations! Shocked!
My employer offers a discount on health insurance if I attend a health screening. This is relatively common.
>The vast majority of use cases are simple enough that the UI doesn't get in the way.

I disagree. VLC gets on the way all the time. It is irritating to use. Even the most basic controls do not make sense.
They're also not independent trials. If you just failed 9 times in a row, you're probably not the best at startups.
He did apparently have a girlfriend during his sabbatical, whom he supported.

I suspect most of those budgets were aspirational as well, and he ended up spending 10k more for each of them.
High IQ is the inherited privilege.
Even if a modern CPU can to do, the question is whether on a stock distro kernel they will do that. I could see the default kernels not being compiled with the extensions that may allow that speed for compatibility purposes. Then again, I remember when distros often shipped different i386, i586 and i686 kernels, and when Red Hat switched away from i386 as the default kernel (which might be a lot more recent than you think, if you weren't thinking of all the cheap i386 devices it was still working on in the early 2000's). Then, even if the stock kernel does support it through a kernel module, the question is whether that module was loaded. Finally, from looking at an Intel/AMD AES intructions compatibility list[1], not all processors as of even a couple years ago supported AES instructions (notably, it appears Intel used it to differentiate the i3 line from the more powerful ones)..

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AES_instruction_set#Intel_and_...
> the fumes are more poisonous than leaded solder

What do you mean?

> the amount of lead is harmless for DIY solderers.

To date, the FDA, CDC, and the WHO state that "no amount of lead is harmless". It's just that we can't get a sensitive enough handle on the neurological effects to determine a good metric for it.

On another note, does anyone know if the Respro masks are suitable for protection against lead (+ the stuff with lead) inhalation while soldering? The "techno" mask has a HEP-A filter and a charcoal mesh, which I would have thought would be enough for most of the lead particulate?
They have the dollar as a unit, just y-axis scale is different. For BTC is from $4000 to $20000 and for LTC is from $50 to $350. This is a useful technique to check if curves move together or not.
If you only care about the raw IQ score, then time will eventually take care of this. IQ points have risen by about 3 points per decade[1], but the scores keep being readjusted downward so what used to be a high score is now a medium score.

[1] http://theweek.com/articles/481988/are-americans-smarter-tha...
But if you really want numbers, here are some of the numeric
sacrifices I made to role the dice _once_
( ... big list of qualifications ... )
Now you can take a year and a half off and roll the dice
_once_

The author did great and should be proud, but I wholeheartedly disagree with this part.

You don't have to have these ridiculous qualifications to take a risk (let alone "roll the dice once") and be successful. Choose not to live a lavish lifestyle and you can "roll the dice" many times.
lol what?

This is totally false. You will not see "many", let alone "one" dead body near any sort of "busy" area in Shanghai "for days".

Troll account.
Not being a power engineer, I'm still wondering if/when somebody is going to try to build a grid capacitor bank. Traditional advantages: long lifespan, high charge/discharge rate, low complexity. Traditional disadvantages: large, heavy.

Maybe the cost doesn't work out or something, but seriously, a fixed land power station seems like the ideal use for caps.

They're fundamentally DC, but so are batteries. I wonder if you could make yourself a massive LC tank, and bypass conversion losses...?
Absolutely great point.
The article also fails to distinguish whether this was the day ahead market or real time market.

In various regions in the US prices go negative often. Nothin usual. Good time if you have storage.

But most of the generation, 89%, is in the day ahead market which rarely goes negative.

The article also doesn’t bother to mention that Germany burns more coal than the US as a percentage of fuel mix.

Lousy article misinforming it’s readers.
Also, it’s not a marketing trick. Time value of money isn’t just some silly irrational psychological problem that marketers exploit. It’s a perfectly rational and useful phenomenon. The entire cost of an iPhone right now “feels like” a lot more than the cost split up into small monthly payments, because it truly is a lot more, by any reasonable theory of value.
Brexit and Trump are two examples of a nation state actor using the... tool... for their purposes and succeeding. It's like vaccination: if you don't use it, you're still feeling the effects of others using it even if you're living far away and never knew them.
Tren Griffin is a big proponent of Charlie Munger’s use of mental modals.

This post has a good list of models:

https://25iq.com/2015/08/22/a-dozen-things-ive-learned-from-...

Tren’s weekly ‘dozen things I’ve learned from foo’ series is generally high quality.
In the aggregate, "the value perspective", is how many people value the product enough to pay Apple's asking price. If the value perspective isn't enough to sell the number of phones Apple can make, then Apple would lower the price.
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Opportunities are always there for those who keep an open mind and a growth mindset.
Good for them! They advance leg in leg with big cities. What those towns were?
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This story is a good example of how the tide of public opinion has turned against the tech industry. There’s no tech angle here - some percentage of people pay for sex, and some percentage of that group uses their work email to do so. Some of those work in tech.

These facts tell us precisely nothing about whether tech workers are more or less likely to pay for sex or engage in illegal behavior, or whether it’s a particularly bad problem at Microsoft or Amazon.
I would add a recommendation for Peter Hook's book, "How Not To Run A Club" as a cautionary tale. In it, he's talking about how to run a dance club, but the things he mentioned impacting his club were the same as those that I saw impacting my local hacker space. The biggest one is the cash-flow. People open a club because they want to be with their friends, and friends get friend-prices. Before you know it, everybody's your friend and nobody's paying for anything.

My club had fees for things like project storage and certain consumables, but they were terrible at collecting these fees. ja27's recommendation to outsource that billing to Paypal or Stripe is a very good idea, in my opinion. Certainly the "totalitarian treasurer" in the presentation seems like a hard requirement in my mind.

https://www.amazon.com/Hacienda-How-Not-Run-Club/dp/00623079...
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That's awesome. I love hearing about how this scenario is for people in other countries.

Here in California, I don't think that's possible. Cost of living is too high to live for 3 years off of 2 years of savings. Maybe if you were very careful with spending and had a good rent situation, you might be able to do it.
Moonlight unless your co owns your IP? Post traction go independent?
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Yes it is, it's still better to listen than not.
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It seems like a good first world problem to have, begging for engineers to come up with an elegant solution!

What can a country do with occasional excess power like this?

* Communal/City water pumps run only during periods of excess power in a week

* City managed parking buildings that charge electric vehicles for free during these periods

* Heck city/country runs a data center that would "turn ON" servers only during periods of excess power in grids - to be used for public purpose data munging!

* Run an internet archiver that spins up crawlers only during periods of excessive power..

* Use the excess power to run air purifiers or CO2 absorbers or something else cool for the environment that we would not run otherwise..

What would YOU do if you had free power?
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We do regulate many tools because not all members of society can be trusted to operate them properly (the young, elderly, those temporarily vulnerable due to mental issues, etc.).
I'm in the same boat as you when it comes to my psychology and ability to get motivated. I am fairly risk averse though, and find myself unwilling to risk my nest egg.
No one's mentioned it yet, so I guess I'll be the one.

I can't tolerate that many misspelt words and grammatical errors...
I dont like how he dodges the money question.

We have let financial concerns warp our utopian into a money driven ad dopamine hacking dystopia for a money.
Germany has

1) one of the highest prices per kWh for the normal consumer

2) prices are still increasing
http://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/service/strompreise-steigen...

3) produces more CO2 than France.

So what's the news?
Use the "__Host-" name prefix. [0]

This prevents cookies from being set at the root domain by a subdomain. Which in turn prevents non-TLS MITM cookie injection [1] as long as the application uses HSTS (even without includeSubdomains from the root).

[0] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Se...

[1] https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity15/technical...
If you've ever traveled to both India and China in the past ~10 years, you know how ridiculous the comparison the OP is trying to make.

Just use the bathroom rubric when comparing slums...
Let’s not derail the thread, but there are lots of people with college educations who can still only get a minimum wage job. Opportunities are not endless, nor always there.

It’s entire possible you jump off the corporate ladder and never make it back on, your wages permanently stunted and your career prospects dimmed.
The intuition behind it still stands - if you're going to not fail 65% of the time when you try 10 times, that's pretty decent.
If you are living in a high COL area like Seattle or Bay area consider moving to a low tax state with low COL.

Kansas, Montana, Arizona, not places you want to stay forever but you can get a studio apt for $600-$700/mo.

Can probably cut your expenses from LA in 1/3 if you are frugal and push your runway out several years until you start making profits.
> The problem is the paycheck. Do I want to risk it all, throw away my savings, all for a chance at success?

here's something nobody seems to mention.

most people don't risk everything once, then exit with a set-for-life payday a few short years later. that's the rare minority of entrepreneurs. most are moderately successful for many years on end, and may finally do a $multi-million exit after a decade or more of hard work and risk.

after that initial success, you have to risk it all, multiple times, to either keep succeeding, or reach the next level of success. at any point, if you stop risking the status quo you are likely to fail.

in other words it's a self-selecting process. if you are having doubts about risking your meager savings which you can likely earn back within a few years of frugal living while working a high paying programming job, there's your answer.
Can you elaborate on how you felt after you took your week off? In particular I'm interested in differences in sleep requirements & quality, difficulty handling eye contact (the 'slightly aspie' stuff), and general cognition. "In tatters": can I get a description of that also?

Only reason I ask is because I've had a similar experience...twice. Once when moving into an apartment (no power, close proximity to roommates) and again when on a trip (golfing all day, close proximity again). My "symptoms" include pretty serious social anxiety and an inability to think during conversations, inability to focus on non-interesting work, and just a general feeling of being dumber.
He mentions in the course of the article putting a big down payment on a house after his big hit because his girlfriend/wife got tired of living in a small apartment, so he still has mortgage payments to make, plus his family didn't want to live frugally forever.
OK, but isn't CalChris's point still valid? Something other than CAR/CDR would have been a better choice for working with CONS cells, even back in 1959.

Do I think it's a big problem? Not really. Are the names less than optimal? Yes.
Thanks! Will peruse over coffee
This guy made a lot of really questionable decisions. Put his future and family at risk. His only hit was porting someone else's hit game to iOS. He himself admits he is working again now only so he can build a stash and gamble it all again.

I hope he finds success some day, but given his track record, I'm very skeptical of his conclusions.
Came here to say this.

Remember the Ron Paul newsletters? You can draw a continuous line from the old communication network to our current one.
Then according to stats it would take infinite attempts to succeed. That's not how life works ;)

edit: a clarification, that's not how a single human's life works. It will work if you take all humans together into account. If you apply that logic to individuals individually then nobody succeeds ever.

edit2: a single human life individually doesn't get enough attempts to be statistically significant enough.
Similar recent interview with him on indie hackers : https://www.indiehackers.com/businesses/a-dark-room
It's easy to tell when the music has stopped. The hard part is anticipating the stopping.
> Granted it might be because I taught them to make pull requests, but still...

You can make these sorts of trivial changes just by clicking around the GitHub web UI, I could probably tell a 12 year old how to make a trivial change like this, regardless of their coding expertise https://help.github.com/articles/editing-files-in-your-repos...
That was actually a joke since I've never done any Jenkins consulting but Jenkins, including the setup cost is waaaay cheaper than other solutions I've seen for what I used it for: distributed cron, queuing system for tasks, higher level dashboard for managers, CI server, etc.
For some of the same reasons you might want to write your back-end in JS, but going the other direction. You could share code between front-end and back-end, but have a very strongly typed, secure, fast, and less prone to bugs language to do it in. Not everyone's cup of tea, but if you're already got a lot of code written on the back-end, this might make a lot of sense.
The title is pretty ridiculous. There are legitimate reasons why people use frameworks like React and Angular. Things like Zam and jQuery could be fine for small projects, but there's no way this is a replacement for frameworks that have build systems, virtual DOMs, etc. Maybe I'm taking the cheeky headline too seriously?
It's good to have a system where negative prices exist, so that demand can attempt to sink excess supply. But that doesn't mean that it's actually a good thing when prices go negative, as the article implies. That means that demand isn't adequately sinking the excess supply, and the grid is asking for a correction. Aside from the potential for grid stability, if it happens often, that means that you've wasted resources building too much generation capacity.
When you’re broke.