skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thousands of workers jobs cut as former boss walks away with $62M
"blaming those already struggling"

Those struggling need to take some of the blame or the situation will never change. I know many people that if you gave them a million dollars today, they would spend a million and one.
The plan is to automate from server provisioning to deployment but of course I cannot build integrations with all the cloud providers out there. In that case, you could buy the server, provide the IP address and credentials to log in and then the service does everything.
Once the server is provisioned or added, you create an application from the dashboard and then git push to it.
Will come with monitoring tools and alerts if you choose to set any.
For those who can work Dokku and Flynn by themselves perhaps, it could be enough. But as compared to Heroku, you could save lots of money when you not paying for each app.
Of course I need to mention the service itself could even be free and find other ways to make money.
Would you cosign your AI chess partner?
As someone put it: manufacturing is a ladder.

They also said the same of South Korea (LG, Samsung) and before that, Japan (Sharp, Sony) and Taiwan.
It's the most viable at the lowest price point I believe. Other companies like Ericsson can also provide 5G but I think Huawei is furthest ahead yes. This has really been poor planning on the part of the UK government going back a few years - this decision has been coming for a long time but not enough effort seems to have gone into creating a better set of choices. Instead we are accepting Huawei despite believing they are a bad actor and only now starting to seriously plan for reducing our dependence on them.
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Yet the median balance that fiftysomethings carry in their 401(k) is 60 kUSD: https://www.investopedia.com/articles/personal-finance/01061...

That tells you that it isn't easy to save an adequate balance for retirement, despite what Suze Orman and all the other avocado toast shunners tell you.
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In Silicon Valley, the down payment on a house could buy you a mansion pretty much anywhere else in the US. In Florida, you could get a waterfront mansion in many places.
Can you elaborate? You mean the fact all are synthethic (for hewlery purpose) or something else?
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The "don't buy a house" crowd really cracks me up. I bought my first house in 1991 for $100k outside of San Fran. I'm on my fourth house, having lived >5 years in each one. Subtracting MINOR remodeling, maintenance, and interest (excluding mortgage interest ded.) I've cleared about $500k of tax free profit.

Now could I start this today? It would be way harder for me to start this today. The housing markets where the good jobs are have gone bonkers. But pretty much everyone I know who's bought modest houses since the early 90's as grown significant equity.

I'm excluding people that bought mcmansions or non 30-year fixed mortgages for houses they couldn't afford. Most of them got cornholed in 2001 and 2009. I think if you can do it, you should do it. The instances that led to fucking were rare and predictable.
This is my basic setup:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20835428

I'll possibly put a post together if anyone is interested.
The staff are actively employed by Huawei, but all undergo UK security clearance to DV standard.
I would have shut down my Netflix subscription two months ago, but since I'm sharing it with my 70+ mom who's still enjoying it for some reason, I'm keeping it going for now.

Otherwise, for me (~40 yo male in Sweden), Netflix isn't very interesting at all. I think its data-driven culture is awesome at creating shows that are fascinating to its California-based execs.

Also: I wish they'd tone down the politics. I'm with Bill Burr on this: Not every single fxxing thing has to be about politics. We get it. We're onboard. We don't need to be preached at in every singly fxxking show though. Remember, we're paying for a service here. We expect being entertained. Not getting preached at.
It's pretty blatant at outlet stores when everything is available for the correct season and in a wide variety of sizes and colors.
Creator of Moonscript and Lapis [0] Leafo [ https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=leafo ] hangs out here from time to time

[0] https://leafo.net/lapis/
Or it’s GPG for modern use cases.
Or investing. Tesla stock is at 650 and had you invested just 10 years ago after it went public you would have made 31x your money. Such stories are rare but is one way of getting rich. Same for investing in Amazon, Facebook, Netflix, etc. It is hard to generalize this to a rule that can be applied, but investing in software or social networks, which have market dominance and scale well, is a good strategy. large tech companies that have network effects, wide moats, and market dominance.
When I was a student, buying lattes would have significantly hurt my freedom. My stress level would be higher and I may have struggled to graduate before running out of money.

After building a career, worrying about lattes was a waste of effort. But buying a nice car would have limited my freedom. For example, I would not have bought as much investment real estate and I would probably be >$500K poorer.

But worrying about buying new cars probably won't make sense for me soon.

Avoiding lattes and new cars was, in fact, very important for my finances (in the past, but not now). The article acknowledges the importance of individual circumstances:

> What should determine personal spending is the totality of the buyer’s financial circumstances.

But the headline risks misleading people.
A "good private school" isn't cheap, about $20k/year on average [1]. If you have 2 children, then spending an extra $3k/yr to get a good school district is a cheaper option than private school.

[1] Actually, I'm pulling this number from average private school prices. And the average private school is probably only as good quality as "nice public schools [that] aren't great." But I don't have a good comparison since the public school district I grew up in contained several schools in the top 100 in the nation.
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It really depends on how you define rich. I think the traditional concept of “having enough assets work for you that you do not have to” (i.e. the idle rich) is the correct bar, but we often mean mega-rich now (centimillionaires+) when we say rich.

I ran a small business you’ve never heard of, and left it four years ago with a not huge (<£1M) amount of money - but it was enough for me to acquire enough working assets that I have been able to retire from having to work in my early 30’s. I spend less than the assets earn, and because I’m free from having to work, I’m able to live in an inexpensive country, where my purchasing power is huge - freeing yourself from direct labour is the dividing line in my view - and you can get there by eschewing depreciating assets and instead acquiring earning assets. I don’t own a helicopter, I don’t have a yacht, my car is a beat up 1988 hilux - I could have those things, but then I would be poor again.

I did spend a lot on coffee, while running the business, admittedly.
Sometimes I do have internal monologue (although I cannot actually hear it) and sometimes it isn't. And sometimes I don't know the words for what I think of. When reading English writing it is a kind of pronouncing, but if it is Chinese (or other ideographic kind of language) then it isn't. When thinking of my own stuff is again different from this. (English is the only language I can write/speak well; the others I am not so good at.)
It's the official state religion and is represented in the house of lords. That's real actual power, albeit moderated by the rest of the HoL. And, while they apologised, they stuck by that announcement.

We also have Catholic churches here, who've made similar pronouncements about relationships of gay people.

We've had a long running demonstration outside primary schools by Muslim people complaining about age appropriate lessons about relationships.

A transwoman was ostracized by her orthodox Jewish community to the point where she was unable to see her children. Despite winning the various court cases she's now given up trying to have contact with her children.

Religious intolerance of LGBTQ relationships is widespread in the UK across most religions.
Having just bought a tank of Petrol in Scotland, I kind of feel the gasoline cost as much as a house.
Deployment of USB was happening anyway. I don't understand this belief that the Commission has anything to do with USB adoption. It predates the Commissions's involvement by a long way, USB was developed completely independently and the vast majority of consumer electronics firms see no competitive advantage in making their own chargers/cables so standardisation was the direction of travel anyway. Only Apple bother developing their own proprietary charging and cable standards, and as they proved, the regulation is toothless: they simply shipped a cheap adapter nobody cared about or used and that was the regulation solved.

I think there's a lot of backwards reasoning here. Lots of people want to believe the EU is good, therefore, if it does something, it must be good. This kind of nitpicky regulation is worthless: if there had been genuine, fierce competition over cable systems the EU would never have dared to regulate in the first place. It was only because the industry was standardising anyway that they were able to pass such a rule, and take credit for other people's engineering work.

As for open vs closed communication standards, that's a red herring. Lots of firms have had unusual ideas about how to advance consumer communications, which is why we mostly use their products (with the obvious and major exceptions of the web and email). But in charging standards and many other areas people realised their efforts were best pooled. Government had no impact on these decisions but can certainly now impede innovations if someone does come up with some revolutionary new cable idea.

Look at it this way. If this regulation had applied to computers pre-Steve Jobs we might never have seen MagSafe cables. They'd have been literally illegal which is insane. The EU is way out of bounds here. It's the sort of thing that supported the case of Brexit - celebrated last night.
> absolute top echelon of your field assuming also that you are in a lucrative field

Congratulations! You’re in the top echelon of your field, and it’s a lucrative field. Of all the engineering gigs in the world, you’re at one of the top companies making a top salary.

I know it feels weird because from the inside there are so many FAANG employees. You don’t feel special. But you are! This is a special position you’re in, and it’s great that you’re taking advantage of it.
Not really. For instance, there’s a lot of stuff you can’t do as root on a Mac because of SIP. If you’re in the kernel, all bets are off.
I remember when reddit was the cesspool that trolls banned from digg and slashdot went to. Careful with that line of reasoning, because the social platforms rise and fall all the time. And the ones that tend to free speech, engagement and controversy tend to become popular quickly.
We can argue about how many pins are on the head of a needle or we can be more practical and admit that anyone can get a cheap lightning cable from anywhere and that you don’t need the government to insinuate itself in every area of our life unnecessarily.
Again, ignoring the substance of my message in order to continue your attack.

>I'm not at all upset about your viewpoint, I'm happy to debate it on any level you'd like.

I told you exactly how I see something, you've yet to acknowledge it, and have twice doubled down and claimed I think the opposite. This is the problem. You aren't interested in listening, you're more interested in being "right".

I'm done here.

"...refusing to engage in any dialogue is exactly how polarisation begins"

-missosoup (while un-ironically refusing to engage in dialogue)
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This is the FIRST sign that the Chinese government is authoritarian??
It's actually a smart card with a chip in it. It also has a magnetic stripe, I guess for legacy purposes. Here is a sample: https://www.sanita.puglia.it/documents/20182/134679/TSCNS+fr...
What were the critical, actionable metrics?
I was about to close my account and realized there was a lower tier, $8/mon.
IQ matters a lot too. People who make a lot of money tend to be smarter than the general population, such as doctors or software developers. A car salesman may make $200k but these tend to be huge outliers. The median tech workers does better than the median car salesman. Commission work is a bitch.
> now they're adding another file serving option

Note that keybase.pub was part of the Keybase filesystem since almost the very beginning. I'm not sure why OP posted it now.
Eh, that's a bit defeatist.

Really, it's easier than ever to start your own business (own your production). Most people reading this could begin today.

It's even possible to retire in your 30s via an average salary. Look into Financial Independence, Retire Early (FIRE).

Is not having to work anymore not a sufficient definition of rich? Though IMO having control over your schedule and not having to work for someone else is pretty close too.
I'm currently going back to school and I'm noticing it a lot on my campus. Lots of people travel or own mustangs or newer cars. I believe most of them are just using a parents car or something however it boggles my mind nobody considers the long term effects of that. Although I currently drive a real shoddy beater of a truck, I'd like something better simply because for dates and stuff, I'd come across as someone who isn't a total cheapass you know? However I can't justify doing it because I know buying used vehicles in my price range can be a total crapshoot.
I believe the centre cannot satisfy itself that the code they inspect is the code that is built into the hardware.
"Capturing a small part of a market" is literally the definition of "ownership of means of production"!

I get that political history makes discussion of Marx's ideas a ridiculous hot potato. But the actual economics behind it is pretty banal and uncontroversial. If you own a business you can get rich without bound (or bounded only by the size of the relevant market), and if you don't you're trapped at whatever the market has set for wages in your profession.

That's, really, just sort of a "duh" point. This very website is effectively dedicated to that exact pursuit! "Make things people want so you can hack the system, find an exit and get rich" is just a restatement of "the bourgeoisie can lift themselves above the proletariat by ownership of the means of production" from the bourgeois perspective.

Whether that is good or bad, or deserves a revolution to adjust, is sort of a different issue. But no one seriously argues with the facts here.
They are not. From the article:

>Yet Europe is home to two of the world’s leading vendors, Ericsson and Nokia; Samsung offers yet another alternative from a trustworthy democracy.
Because a government full of people who know nothing about technology must be the right answer. What other areas of the iPhone should the government force Apple to standardize? FaceTime? AirDrop? iOS itself?
> It’s one of the basics to running a successful business: don’t be distracted.

What does that mean in the context of a huge corporation? From my perspective, $1K in profit is still $1K, even if you're making $100K elsewhere.

Tim Cook certainly has limited time and needs to prioritize, but he also doesn’t need to touch every part of the company. Independently-profitable projects can be spun out into their own teams as needed.
Glad you're finding my list useful. There are very few downloads in Little Snitch format per day (419 today so far out of 2.7m accesses).
Algo Deck: an open-source collection of 200 cards on algorithms
The article's subject is a comparison between "bad drivers" and "disagreeable men."

Don't be disingenuous.
There needs to be a culture shift away from excessive consumerism. You need pretty much 100% of the female population to get on board with that though in order for men to follow suit too.
Preprints can fill a void in times of rapidly changing science
Create Your Own Expression Parser
How does this work for services in other countries? Do they also have to get liscenced in the US for handling user generated content? If so that’s pretty crappy, I’m reasonably sure a worldwide legal monoculture will hurt the poorest people of the world including children.
Its threat model isn’t to protect you from anything a state-level actor might try to do, but to give you insight into changed app behaviors. Why is my weather app now talking to Bolivia? Why is a shell script trying to connect to an Active Directory server? I don’t think that’s so much a hole as something that’s just out of scope for Little Snitch.
A new bill could punish web platforms for using end-to-end encryption
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You're not wrong, but in standard def for one device, it doesn't work with my use case (laptop/tablet).

Works on phones/smaller screens for sure.
It's an app that makes it easy for people to communicate and collaborate securely.
You forgot luck, like the person who mined some bitcoin in 2010 and sold it in 2017.
> telecom equipment should be free as in freedom

The author agrees with you:

“The U.K., for example, could force providers to work with open coding standards (“OpenRAN”) that would ensure interoperability between providers, thus lowering market entry barriers to future market entrants and disadvantaging Huawei, which has heavily bet on closed proprietary solutions.”
Background check for job uses sentiment analysis of liked tweets
FDA approves first drug for treatment of peanut allergy for children
CPR, by Default
Just ask Apple why they tell people their phone is "not repairable" and then they confiscate the phone from the customer to sell them a "factory refurbished" phone at a discount. Where does the confiscated phone go? It gets repaired and sold as a "factory refurbished" phone. This would be fine except that any data that you had on your phone that was not backed up YOU LOSE. So Apple will repair YOUR phone for SOMEONE ELSE, just not for YOU.
I don’t think it is easy at all. At least in America, all the forces are working get you to spend all your current and future money.

I wish we would talk more about how it’s possible than how hard it is.
I’m just glad there are diesel mechanics contributing on HN.
Wow. this changes everything. you are very bright. thanks for helping society.
nice job.
Meanwhile, the truly wealthy pass down fortunes to their children who show no outward signs of exceptional intelligence or skill.

I’d also imagine those with the highest IQs in American society are academics in STEM fields, who are hardly rich by the measure of our current inequality.
I personally will forget it. There really isn't a market out there. Most developers do not have any Apps or if they do are just simple static websites for which they can easily host in so many places at no cost. Maybe 6 years ago this would have been a good idea.
What a tone-deaf and bizarre article.

It begins with a straw-man: "as I financier I often encounter people who equate buying lattes and new cars with financial suicide"

It then boldly introduces a distinction: there's a difference between spending and spending beyond one's means... literally, and I quote:

> Simply saying no to consumption is lazy and thoughtless. What should determine personal spending is the totality of the buyer’s financial circumstances.

I don't think anyone lives in this simple-minded universe, torn between the deadly sin of exuberant spending (on things!) and the austere life of impoverished simplicity.

Money is a means. It has no intrinsic worth. We all understand this, keenly.
> There is magical thinking involved if someone thinks that base stations alone completely break national security.

One thing that base stations need, by their nature, is total surveillance of location and unique identification of devices. It seems to me that these together are a major threat to national security, ignoring all the other things base stations have access to.
Can't we just buy Chinese stuff... and copy it?

I'm only half joking. History teaches us that any technological shortfall can be remedied fairly quickly if you have a clear priority and the audacity to steal.

5G doesn't require imploding plutonium.
> In most cases a lawsuit isn't needed. If you receive a false complaint and file a counternotice, the content gets restored 10-14 days later if there's no lawsuit filed.

Yes indeed, this is exactly what is happening: they get off the hook, and they can keep filing false claims as much as they want because taking action against them is too hard. Hence, toothless. No consequence for sending false claims, the only people who suffer are those who get their stuff unjustly taken down for two weeks.

It'd be a little more equal if, upon receiving a counternotice, all the original claimant's claims would be instantly put on hold for 10-14 days (and then dropped) unless they file a suit.
Engineering Global Consent (2019) [pdf]
The reason why stories of librarians and janitors leaving huge fortunes when they die makes news, is because it is so rare, not because these people are secretly hording tons of money or have found the secrets of wealth. Many low income ppl live paycheck to paycheck and or have little to save. Stories of rich and successful people blowing away their money are popular, but the media ignores all the stories of people who make a lot of money and invest and save diligently and and retire with a lot of money and do not go broke.
The article says: "Creole is a long-embattled term, perhaps best defined now as a person whose background and identity is traceable to colonial French Louisiana and/or its Franco-African culture."

I have a simpler definition. If your family has a secret gumbo recipe, you're either cajun or creole. If the recipe has tomatoes, you're creole. If not, you're cajun.
That’s why included the homeschool co-ops, they tend to be a lot cheaper although they usually expect parents to do a lot of volunteer work.

There’s not just a monetary cost to moving to a nicer school district, often that can mean a lot more driving which means absorbing a lot of risk (accidents, maintenance) and burning more fuel and time.
Building this with Valyrio [1]

[1] https://valyr.io
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Why are there no US vendors?

It is rare to see a cutting-edge sector without the US.
How to do the best job you can during the last days at work
I'm transferring to another team internally and my replacement who is brand new to the company is starting in two weeks. What can I do now to best prepare for the transfer of knowledge and responsibility for when she starts? What have you done in the past that has worked? This is a role that manages a small team but the replacement will oversee the current team plus another team. How do I best pass on historical info on personnel without giving her biased opinions?
I created a site to test it out, it seems the site is immediately updated after a file change: https://songz.keybase.pub/

Cool!

Accessing the folder, creating a file, and even simple unix commands like `ls` feels significantly slower than other folders.

The default instructions did not work for me, my file path is actually:

/Volumes/Keybase/public/username

It is different from the one provided in the blog:

/keybase/public/your_username/

When reading the blog, it wasn't obvious how I can find the path to the correct folder. I had to open the Keybase app and find a notification.