skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
yes, the allocation problem is thornier, and valuing science properly more so, but it's pretty obviously working badly in our current politicoeconomic system. we can't both hoard wealth and power and expect good allocation. concentrating societal decision-making into fewer and fewer hands inevitably leads to bad and self-serving decisions.

with that said, once $5T (or whatever) is allocated to science, it's a matter for the decision markets in and around science to sort out allocation within. that mechanism has the best chance of coming up with the best available (but unlikely perfect) answer.
my 2 cents: do this: "spend that extra time developing in the non-career areas I care about. I.E, getting more involved in my government and filmmaking stuff."
War and Peace and Crime and Punishment were also both originally as serials. It was pretty common back then. I don't think serialization instantly makes a book pulp fiction.
> The gEDA project has produced and continues working on a full GPL'd suite and toolkit of Electronic Design Automation tools. These tools are used for electrical circuit design, schematic capture, simulation, prototyping, and production. Currently, the gEDA project offers a mature suite of free software applications for electronics design, including schematic capture, attribute management, bill of materials (BOM) generation, netlisting into over 20 netlist formats, analog and digital simulation, and printed circuit board (PCB) layout.

Some of those keywords should have been included in the title, i.e. "gEDA project - toolkit of Electronic Design Automation tools". HN has a search function and the better the title the more likely it is to be useful to people that search for keywords like "toolkit", "electronic design", "design automation", etc.

I added this comment so that it will show up in search for those keywords so that people can find the link. People worry about tagging systems but sentences and words already are a form of tagging.
I’m not sure why the GDP is a concern, frankly. How does this affect citizens in a material way? That is why I keep bringing up the 401k—to illustrate the absurdity of using an abstract measurement (GDP) to justify material loss of life.
So Bing results plus Bing ads. Why does no one use Bing then?
Just the branding? Microsoft uncool?
Last night, while I watched my city's police force (backed by nat'l guard) launch a militarized assault on a crowd that was unequivocally 99.99?% physically nonviolent, my partner was putting her life on the line (with inadequate PPE) in a COVID-19 ward just down the street from the clouds of tear gas. So I hope you'll understand that I see our current situation as complex and nuanced, with very real lives hanging in the balance, and that as a result I have no tolerance for masturbatory, misrepresentative debate club bullshit I've seen a thousand times before.

But I'm sorry if my incivility offended you.
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Another good open source cms is Directus - https://directus.io/
Wonder if that is related at all in timing with their pet insurance offering coming out soon!
I appreciate your comment. You have described Rust and Go, it never fails to amaze me how languages differ in their power as Paul Graham would have put it.

As a sidenote, I wanted to use Python/Electron.js for it but my client wouldn't allow it. I had to convince him to use Media Foundation, else he would have asked me to write an H264 encoder from scratch!

>In terms of how to help you move forward, that's quite hard in this format. Sorry.

Didn't get it, do you mean the way I formatted my question? I'm sorry but I'm not a native English speaker.
Fwiw, I saw this post on the front page, with no comments and you don't particularly have THAT much karma. Whatever that means.
You can configure a new Dell XPS or Dell Mobile Precision laptop with Ubuntu for a no-hassle solution.

If you want CentOS or Red Hat, I've had good luck picking any Ubuntu Dell that is also listed as being tested and certified for Red Hat at https://access.redhat.com/ecosystem/search/#/ecosystem/Red%2.... The only real hassle has been when I wanted to use an Nvidia driver, which requires a driver reinstall after kernel updates, although I believe you can now avoid this with DKMS. I expect that Fedora would also work without issue on any of these.
Failover Replication Slots for PostgreSQL
No I don’t mean that. Git and Markdown are the de facto standard for general purpose content and content creation workflows. These tools are as future proof as anything in existence; the acid free paper of the digital age.
The big draw for me is to be able to actually invent and innovate and not just implement old ideas over and over in a boring corporate space. All the exciting research jobs I see in my field (NLP) require a PhD, so I feel like I'll hit a career ceiling at some point and be implementing boring corporate solutions for the rest of my life and never really innovating.

But as you say, appearances can be deceptive and it's like the grass is always greener, so maybe I need to broaden my horizons somehow. It's definitely hard to find that path at the moment though.

Edit: Oh and I do have to admit the fancy title that lets me feel like I'm truly educated and learned, and satisfies credentialism in the world is a draw too... Peer pressure is a hell of a drug
You only make insurance cheaper by charging risky people more.

Right now it is mostly laws that protect categories of people that keep insurance companies from charging people more.

What’s the plan here, use machine learning in a “hands off” way with a black box algorithm to apply pricing discrimination in a way that a human could not because of regulation?
Sure, but those that are willing to because they're sufficiently excited about the language means you can have a higher confidence in your hires, since they, A. Know what Haskell is, B. Want to learn it, C. Are willing to take a pay cut to be able to get paid to learn/use it. Very high signal to noise I'd wager.

If you're a Java shop, you better be paying higher than market rate if you want to be able to attract good talent, but then you still have to figure out who they are amidst all the mediocre/poor devs, who are interested because of the higher comp. Very low signal to noise.

It seems like a less popular language, that has real business value, helps achieve the thing every company that isn't "hire fast, fire fast" tries to do with their hiring policy. It does mean you can't easily hire people who already know the language, so you have to consider the ramp up time, but I don't think that's nearly as painful as many hiring managers seem to think it is.
How does sleep/suspend work? That was always the biggest hangup for me. Although, it's been almost a decade since I last tried. However, a colleague's Dell running Ubuntu was a nightmare. Not sure if it was the model or how he had it set up though.
Acquiring (and optimizing) a $3M AWS bill
It just eliminates the multiples of 2 and 3

6x ± 0: divisible by 2,3

6x ± 1: not divisible by 2,3

6x ± 2: divisible by 2

6x ± 3: divisible by 3

6x ± 4: divisible by 2

6x ± 5: modulus equivalent to 6x ± 1
Show HN: Track your Startup Metrics to uncover GAPS in your Business
I'm an example of your #2. I have a pretty easy and cushy 40-hour software development job, in a fairly quiet company and industry. I could be making more or doing splashier work at a FAANG, but I'm happy to compartmentalize software into that box, and spend the rest of my time on non-technical hobbies and interests.

Not everyone has to be a world-smashing rock star startup. Hacker News certainly has an exposure bias towards that, but there's absolutely nothing wrong with doing a mundane software job to easily pay the bills, while channeling your passionate focus elsewhere.

It's perfectly fine to have a wall between work and other interests. I rarely get interested in software for its own sake outside of getting paid for it (maybe a small personal project once every couple years), and conversely my other interests need to stay passions rather than trying to be leveraged into monetizing.
Not all 15 can do support. But yea, I hear you. We are already distributed to an extent as well.
what do you want to do?
Haha good point
>I live in the UK, DDG's results are very US-centric even when local results are turned on

Are the local results even supposed to do anything? I tried finding a store carrying a certain video game. I turned on the local filter from under the search bar and nothing. All of the results are the exact same as without. I could not find a single result that was actually local to my country even after going through the pages.

Advanced search on Google definitely brings up local results for me with the same term, so it's not that there are zero results.
It is a bit more complex than this.

The salaries aren't definitely not great compared with London...but they aren't terrible outside. I think the issue is that being a "dev" in the NHS is nothing like being an actual dev anywhere else. It is mostly about learning proprietary software, not development. So there are no real transferable skills (and ofc, NHS Trusts is always do "internal hires").

I have seen this in other businesses. They have huge IT departments but it is mostly about maintaining proprietary software (like SharePoint or whatever). The business then changed to a tech business and they have hundreds of IT people who have no useful skills (and the issue is management, in the NHS you have managers who are from the last century...no wonder Palantir rolled them).

(Somewhat ironically, one of these businesses actually employs a few top CS grads but they all work in the non-IT side of business...the issue is management in the UK not understanding what IT is for at a fundamental level).
Not 100% sure, but:
- Karma is indeed a good indicator.
- Having a 'non'-anonymous HN profile also seems to make your posts more credible.

Otherwise, good luck!
In my case Lemonade was by far the cheapest option for renters insurance - even cheaper than bundeling with my auto insurance. Glad to see the company is doing well. I suppose it's greatest risk is incumbents offering more aggressive bundle pricing. So It'd be interesting to see if Lemonade could expand into the auto insurance sphere.

Actually from the S1:

> in February 2020, we announced our intention to launch pet insurance, and we may in the future choose to enter, as underwriter or as agent, into additional vertical markets, such as auto and life insurance, in order to achieve our long-term growth goals.

It sounds like they will enter other insurance markets provided the regulations aren't too costly.
Data about me is not the same thing as my data.
Thought I would pipe in about one thing mentioned. "social media is great for promoting blogs" this was a throwaway comment and not the main point of the article but just thought peeps might be curious.

Cause twitter/social is NOT a great place for promoting a blog.

Each social network has their own algorithm for what they show people. At this point, none of them show you 100% of what is posted by the people you follow. This isn't the worst things, but its annoying.

the question becomes, what DO they show you?

For the most part it's things written IN THE PLATFORM.

These social networks want to keep you within the network, not have you end up on some other site.

The issue being, because of that incentive to keep you on their site, and a preference for on platform content, your blog post that you share generally wont be shown to very many people.

The only real solution to that is federation - reposting the content of the blog on each network. That's what gets you the views.

That brings up a whole host of issues.

Not disagreeing with the main overall point, I have a personal blog for many of the reasons posted, but I don't want people to think that posting a link to their personal site will get much traction on social media unless they already have an absolutely massive following.
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But surely Monty Python was named after the snake species?
More relevant version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILYwXmUpuWE&t=0m7s
Can you tell me more about how more whitespace makes design easier?
Maybe you are just not the target audience, or you're in a geographic location that is flagged, or you're browsing in incognito mode?

For the target audience, it happens: Dropbox became useless to me when the client stopped syncing because they dropped support for encrypted Linux filesystems.

Box doesn't have a Linux client.

This makes them exactly the same as the storage services they set to replace fifteen years ago from my perspective.
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This is honestly the first I'd ever heard of their company; interesting!

Only thing that would keep me from jumping is lack of auto insurance as well, but I understand NOT being in to that business.

I hope they do well.
Can you suggest another job where you look through other people's emails? To paraphrase a great man, you underestimate how voyeuristic other people are.
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Nextdoor’s ‘Karen Problem’
Competing with Google is hard and DDG serves very specific niche trying to do it. With this niche growing big enough both Bing and Yandex share it, in a way. Imagine a successful business which is built solely on your API.
I think the real problem DDG solves is the need of independent brand for Bing and Yandex, fitting this niche.
You can't have all of both worlds. You can find a somewhat-close-to-optimal-for-you balance. It won't be everything you want, but it hopefully will be good enough.
http://archive.is/voHST
Surprised at all the negative comments here. Did no one else grow up with TechTV? The sheer mention of TechTV in the article got me really excited. I, for one, watch technical videos all the time but not for the purpose of explicitly learning something (as a lot of people here say the medium is an inefficient way to do so), but instead for entertainment. Certainly beats watching reality TV or whatever the hottest Netflix show is.
I really appreciate your detail comment, it helps.

>working memory sizes, buffering of input and output data, etc.

A confusion I have had regarding buffering is, I don't buffer video/audio frames at all before sending them to encoder (I mean, I just grab a frame and send it to the encoder and hope it is buffering them), maybe I should implement a buffer of 10 frames or so, what would you suggest?
I still keep a server running in my basement doing WireGuard since Netflix et al. all block cloud IPs/ASNs
MIT: Carbon nanotube transistors make the leap from lab to factory floor
DDG doesn't collect personal info, and the ads aren't based on your ad profile, they're based on just the search terms. This is DDG's differentiator.
Blogging is more than just text (whichever markup is used) or links to youtube etc.

How does "someone wanting to blog" add a picture of their cat to their post?

I'm aware that Grav has tackled this but not others.

Comments can be a swamp but with WordPress there is Akismet. Which SSG's provide that?

I suppose it comes down to what you mean by 'blogging'?
It's interesting seeing DDG trying to break into a larger space. In my experience, the only people I know that know DDG are also people in tech.

I live in NYC and I'm seeing lots of billboards in the city and on highways in NJ surrounding the city as I have family that regularly travels in/out. I've seen a lot of whack billboards in my day but it really caught me by surprise seeing them try and make this push. It's exciting, and hope it'll gain some traction. However, I think the vast majority of people will still just use whatever browser and whatever search comes bundled with their machine.
What I particularly like about IDEO is that they hire non designers. It's very possible to have a biologist, historian,and and a designer sitting at one table trying to come up with new concepts.
It's difficult to see why this is a good investment.

They've made a net loss for every year in operation - although granted that loss is shrinking.

This isn't a tech business - it's an insurance business that uses some tech.

There's no network effect, and they are operating in a price sensitive market.
The reason the blame is taken as a team is so that methods are put in place to prevent those problems in the future. If it were simply a blame game those issues would not be resolved. Humans do not operate on pure reason, and if you decide to do the blame game they will rarely resolve the underlying issue that caused the problem in the first place. The blame game is a stupid game, and as we know playing stupid games wins stupid prizes.

It isn't about eliminating recurring problems, it's having the highest chance of reduction. If someone continually performs poorly then thats management's responsibility to replace them.
If you want to use salary-as-a-metric-of-success, your location is going to help put your situation in context. FWIW I've had super well paying jobs that had awesome work-life balance, and very bad paying jobs that had awful work-life balance. I think it's a false dichotomy, you can have both good pay and good life balance.

With that out of the way, "How" to achieve "more" depends a lot on your interests and life goals.

edit: I see that 7 and 10 months ago, you basically posted the same "Ask HN". I think you should change job, there's no reason to keep a job that bores you to death. There's no point in trying to learn to love your job, if you don't enjoy it, you don't enjoy it. Luckily as a software engineer, you're not stuck in there.

Now your problem seems to be that you don't know what to do with your life, and you feel that somehow you need to accept the routine of daily life to find happiness. You mentioned wishing you could be satisfied with the routine like others are. There's no point trying to fit someone else's enjoyment of life, you're not the same person. It's not true that this is the only way to enjoy life.

Again, I don't know your situation/location, so it's hard to put your situation into perspective. I'd just say, on the "how to live a happy life" side of things, that you need to figure out first why you're alive, what makes you wake up in the morning and decide that your life worthy of living. Somehow, by continuing to breathe everyday, you're making the active decision of being alive. Figure out what motivates this decision, and then optimize for it.

Personally, I've always thought that life is pointless, has no intrinsic meaning. It's like a video game, you can play it or not, and it won't change anything whether you do or not. However, there's reasons we play video games: they're enjoyable, something in them makes us feel satisfaction. In my personal life, I enjoy the idea of exploring and furthering humanity in the technological space, and that motivates how I govern my life, or at least which goals I pick for myself. It made me pick hobbies, such as sailing and fabrication/manufacturing, that help me live my goals. I've oriented my career choices in a similar manner too: in particular only working for remote companies. I've not always been happy, in the moment, with the job I was making, but it was usually the right tradeoff overall toward my longer term goals.
If you're happy with Bing's direct results, you can !b instead of !g also.
Not all of them have the same product sense of a good product manager[1]. However, as far as I can tell, the lines do get pretty blurry the more senior you become as a designer. You shift from tactical work to strategic work which can have a huge influence on the product.

[1] Conversely, a lot of product managers do not have the same UX sense of a good designer. My favorite PMs are ones that have a solid UX background.
Yeah this is my experience too - My carbon steel pan is fine for cooking eggs if I put a dollop of butter in there - my nonstick pan is fine even without the butter. I love the carbon steel for like 90% of my cooking, but if I'm just making an egg or two the teflon is unbeatable.
Factory farms tend to monitor and cull livestock as needed to try to prevent this.

Meat markets like the one where this pandemic is believed to have started? Not so much.

When we're through this thing, there darn well better be treaties on the table that require the reduction and elimination of trade in untested disease-carrying animals.
I really can't wait for Silicon Valley Squares. https://cloudflare.tv/schedule/5OGa585usFPJqixCNnazhC
There’s medication that will reliably prevent you from getting infected by HIV which is almost functionally identical to a vaccine.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pre-exposure_prophylaxis
Consultant here! Design is taught as a holistic process. I have not seen "largely linear" in a decade. It is complex, iterative and grounded in research. At least that is my experience and how I have seen it taught. YMMV.
One interesting approach would be to actually charge less risky people less, and "safe" people more, as a way to equalize various groups in the society. Once this has enough traction, doing it the other way round could be even stigmatized.
Not disagreeing that is part of the strategy, but also it is worth thinking how much overhead there is in the insurance industry. How many offices are there nationwide? How many of the jobs are essentially basic data ingestion? Approving of claims? How much is spent on advertising?

Probably a fair amount of fat to trim.
looking forward to hearing what Scott Galloway has to say about this
Someone I respect once told me that Ghost is written for its developer’s needs and to promote the hosted platform, and not intended to be an easy to manage self hosted solution. I don’t know how far that’s true, but WordPress seems to be ahead on mindshare (and likely features and plugins too). For better or worse, PHP/LAMP hosts with control panels are aplenty.

Writing on any platform regularly is not easy for everyone. So it’s less of a platform issue than some people perceive it to be. For most people, a “free” wordpress.com or blogger.com (or gasp, medium.com if you really hate your readers) is good enough to start.
Real action? What specific climate fixing action would you recommend people take? I suspect eliminating electricity and transportation would have the greatest impact, although that is not realistic.
A Day as a Covid Testing Volunteer
Forbes probably withdrawn it because the paper is withdrawn and soon (<1week) to published again as two papers.

https://www.ibtimes.sg/british-norwegian-study-claims-corona...
You can definitely have the best of both worlds. People will tell you (or me here) that it's rare, etc, and maybe it is, but all you need is one.
Keeping balance is not something you do once and then you are done, it is similar to, you are not a recovered alcoholic, you are a recovering alcoholic, because any day you can fall back.
You don't have to say, I can either have a happy personal life or make money, you can do both.
Your life will be judged by what you have done for others.
Of course they'll _say_ they "don't believe" it works. Yet they ceased operations in the region for a few days when Russia turned this gear on. It's propaganda, of course it works. Not as good as the other side claims (that too is propaganda), but well enough to fuck shit up.