skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I do web/mobile development for marketing agencies who don't have the budget/workload for a full-time developer. I'm typically handed a set of Adobe Illustrator files and it's my job to use those to build working websites/apps.

My first project was for $800 in early 2013. The last three years have brought in an average of ~$55K per year. I have several subcontractors who can help out when the workload gets too much, but 80%+ of the work is done by one person (me).

A few years back I started offering "maintenance plans" on the websites (which basically entails updating the WordPress core/plugins and giving them a few hours per month for enhancement requests). These are remarkably "sticky" and most clients have continued maintenance for 3+ years.

The self-employment taxes are brutal, but it's still worth it.
How do you expect to rise a family of four on less than $600 a week with no time for healthy shopping, cooking, or taking care of problems?

I am pretty sure plenty of women do rise their children alone on $300 a week because they are working a full-time minimum wage job and rise their children. As a couple, doing it together, why should the same not be possible? Why is it preferable for both parents to work full time instead of actually having time to rise their children?
Why would you exclude things necessary for the household? As a random datapoint, my most recent Amazon orders include cutting board oil, new bedsheets, winter tires, a couple of long sleeved shirts, a new cookbook, an ice scraper, a sewing machine and an air filter for my truck. That's all in the last month and all of those things are pretty basic things in my mind.
>I'm not getting a knock off.

That is what has done it for me. Amazon has zero control over their inventory. I've gotten burned too many times at this point. Amazon is now a last resort or obscure items only retailer for me. That or I use it to find an item then buy it from the manufacture direct, funny how that has reversed from the old days.

I've even gotten unrequested refunds from amazon with a note about how the product I got was counterfeit. That's great and all but I needed the actual product not a refund and waste of time. Once you reach a livable income your time is worth much,more than saving a couple of dollars.
I can imagine a project that successfully replicates the entire google developer environment (distributed build system w/ caching, monorepo with presubmit checks, code review, testing, etc) would be successful since ex-googlers would be likely to advocate for it inside their own organizations and most orgs don't have the engineering time to build all this themselves.

Without this tooling large organizations tend to silo which creates high engineering costs (every project starts from scratch, no shared frameworks/libraries, no standardizing around best practices, etc).
Maybe, but I think there is more to that.

As a personal example, I have immigrated into US from the country with almost no black population, so I'd say that "several centuries of deeply ingrained racism" do not apply to me.

Within the first year of arriving into US, I've had been verbally attacked while I was riding the bus and reading the book. A bunch of teenagers started to say things like "he looks too smart" and "let's take his book away". For a high-schooler who had no exposure to violence before this was pretty scary. Since then, I tried hard to avoid riding the busses through that area. Can you guess which race were those teenagers?

(Note that I have arrived with some pretty weird believes, like the one that everyone with shaved head is a gang member and had to be avoided. That one did not last very long, because there was one person with shaved head in my math class and he was pretty great. Unfortunately, there were no similar experience to persuade me that I should not avoid groups of black people.)
RE: single crank

Monocranks are a new trend with the 11 speed cogs, and electric assist will effectively flatten things so you don't need as many lower gears.
Have you tried it? We have some we’ve been reusing for years for jam and chutney making and they always reseal.
> As I mentioned in a sibling comment, BBR has high uptake among Google properties, but not necessarily much outside

As you said, it's available in linux behind a simple sysctl and here's a cloudflare blog post describing just that[0]. And netflix contributed the equivalent to freebsd[1].
And here's a blog post about AWS cloudfront seeing improvements from it[2]. TFA also mentions Steam.

So it's more than just google.

[0] https://blog.cloudflare.com/http-2-prioritization-with-nginx...
[1] https://reviews.freebsd.org/D21582
[2] https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/networking-and-content-delivery...
> satisfactory

No just satisfactory, but retail stores also need to learn that if they want my business they need to have interesting, quality products.

My local hardware store only has Philips drywall screws. Guess what, Philips heads are shit, that's why I'll even wait 2 days to get Torx head screws from Amazon. Hardware store wants my business? Learn that Philips head is shit and get with the beat.

My local Asian grocery store has the shittiest brand of Thai tea leaves. I get good ones from Amazon. Local store wants my business? Taste the tea you sell, learn that it is shit, and have better tea on your shelves.
Same. A github link kinda assumes a repo of code to poke at.
The system is swapping a lot but the SSD is giving you the impression that 8GB are enough
Pandemic-style living with wife & 2 adult, self-sufficient daughters. All 3 of them working from home and shopping for entertainment & to battle boredom. Those items above are examples of what actually shows up at the front door. Groceries as well, either from Costco (usually a large order) or Whole Foods (for stuff they can't get at Costco). Sometimes baking HW (a new hobby for one of them). Sometimes, it's boyfriends that drop off Trader Joe's or In-n-Out...

None of us have set foot in a store since March.
You can also buy a license for their surveillance station if you need more than a few cameras, or their mail service. I'm sure there are a few others.
A True Google Mess
This has been covered here from time to time, hoping that somehow we eventually reach someone "on the inside who could help.

For 12 years I've had a Google Apps for Whatever It's Called Now account for me and the wife. We are DEEPLY entrenched in the Google ecosystem, but none of the "cool stuff" works with GSuite accounts. We want out. But it's near impossible. All I want is to turn my account into a "normal" google account. Or have some level of GSuite subscription that allowed us to use things like Nest or Family Library.

"Just start over" they say. But seems easier said than done. Any tips/ideas on making this suck less?
So what language do you build with it? And why was it better than the traditional build system of that language?
Having the actual explanation of why floats work the way they do, by explaining how the various kinds of numbers map to the various IEEE defined bit patterns, is crucial in understanding, rather than just having read some text. This python article skips over that entirely, making it yet another tutorial about the fact "that" floats are approximations instead of "why" floats are approximations.

Spend the time up from to understand the why, especially if you're the simple masses. If you're programming, it pays to properly learn how something that is integral to programming works and what you can therefore expect when you use it. Which will be all the time.
I mean, it depends what you do. I have 16GB on my personal laptop, and essentially never swap, but the 16GB on my work machine is painful for large Scala projects.

As always, for some people 16 GB will be fine, for some it won’t.
I had the same impression. I had a peek at some of the papers and did a quick search on the topic, but everything is so covered in hype it's difficult to get a grasp what's actually going on.

My quick impression is that it's something similar to "embeddings", where some features (e.g. words) are mapped to some high-dimensional vector space and computations are done in that space. What those computations are seem to vary quite a bit from paper to paper.
that was the same with catalina when it first came out, same warning so I don't think this will be an issue indeed, also in catalina it worked fine regardless of the warning
Ahead of time translation is merely an optimisation trick. It still is an emulator.
So, a zip file?
The topic is about the US, and GP referenced the "PATRIOT" act. It was reasonable to assume we were still talking about the US. And there are plenty of Americans complaining about "lockdowns" even though there isn't one.
TLDR: McGyver your own N95-like masks from disposed plastic containers and beer cans!

As a volunteer firefighter I'm fortunate to have access to N95 masks. As an engineer, I'm frustrated the world hasn't managed to scale production enough for everyone to get them. As a hacker I want to do something about that, and love how creative inspiration like this might provide something better than the same cloth coverings used since the early 1900's.

The paper (https://sci-hub.se/10.1098/rspa.2020.0469) is refreshingly approachable. It explains the basic engineering theory and tests a range of fabrication methods using readily available parts. My favorite example sprayed heated plastic out of a soda can perforated with small holes mounted on the end of a drill.

Feedstock was commercial polypropylene (PP) and polystyrene (PS) pellets, but the author suggests raw material could alternatively be sourced from discarded plastic containers sanitized in a domestic pressure cooker then pulverized with a blender. Spun media was pressed between electrodes of a home ionizer to impart an improved electrostatic charge.

The study conducts detailed characterization of the self-manufactured masks, compared to baselines obtained from N95 and surgical masks. Scanning electron microscopy imaging of the resultant fiber mesh bore close resemblance to conventional N95 fabric.

Some of the filtration tests were improvised - one involved a piezoelectric atomizer, modified mannequin and commodity PM2.5 detectors. Another aerosolized fluorescent-tagged nanoparticles to simulate SARS-Cov-2 virions.

Within the given constraints, their results indicated the homespun PP fabric achieved effectiveness bordering on N95 thresholds, and suggested the PP+PS blend might easily meet N95 criteria for up to 17 hours of use.

One interesting, ancillary finding reinforced how the effectiveness of surgical masks is highly dependent on fit - particle penetration dropped from 50% to 12% after establishing a taped seal.

I'd be really interested to see the results of more rigorous, independent testing conducted using the same equipment as NIOSH certification facilities, including oscillatory respiratory air flow (to simulate the dynamics of inhalation and exhalation).

Some alternate links to the paper in case the one above becomes unavailable:

https://web.archive.org/web/20201128172100/https://sci-hub.s...

https://www.docdroid.net/nggudWv/bandi2020-pdf

https://archive.is/buctS
Assumes that diversity in the ranks of tech journalism is an inherent good. By this logic, members of "underrepresented" groups should be conscripted into tech journalism (unfair) or that inducements and/or lowered barriers to entry should be granted to such persons (also unfair).

The way to stop discriminating on the basis of X is to stop discriminating on the basis of X. Let's treat everyone fairly; let's treat everyone as an individual.
I think the value of app stores is going to continue to diminish as web apps gains traction. Look at webapps like Figma; it's quite powerful.
Yes, very true! Additionally, I’d like to query my friend’s libraries of things they are aware exist, and research experts’ libraries as well.
Nothing.

Most of the toolchains are OSS
Though I no longer work for Amazon, I'm reasonably certain they use it from the description. Especially given I know for a fact that other more foundational services use it.

Why is it a "relic of years gone by"? Consul uses a similar, though more advanced technique[0]. Consul may not be as widely used as etcd, but I don't think most would consider it a relic.

[0] https://www.consul.io/docs/architecture/gossip
The explanation is here: "if we negate the negative emotions in our lives, it takes us away from happiness and brings around shame. The whole idea of Downtown is grand and wonderful and purposeful, but sometimes the way we’re going about it isn’t psychologically healthy."

This is a big weakness of the "feel good" culture, people don't know how to handle unavoidable negative emotions.
For this article to be "useful" it should be treated like some kind of scripture in 420AD.

What's great about this article is not its content but that it exists and is written by someone with a considerable amount of influences in this world. I would argue that if you have been so-called independent minded for long enough most PG's articles would feel cliché.

Nonetheless, if you deeply values independent mindfulness and happen to enjoy PG's writings, you will find the article to be extremely powerful because these words can computationally touch something deep inside you. And that is nice.

This is pratically a piece you can meditate with.
Microsoft Power Shell reintroduced records (in pipelines, not files), for what it’s worth.

I think the big problem with records is that it opens a huge can of worms.

How should we represent dates? Binary data? The type of a binary file? Mime types?

All the answers to these questions should be designed to age gracefully over the next half century or so.
In addition, it creates chokeholds in our internet traffic patterns. Should Google or cloudflare decide a site isn’t worthy, they can just remove it from DNS. Google has already done this on numerous occasions.
In Nature's Casino
I end up ordering from Amazon the things that Whole Foods, OfficeMax and BestBuy won't keep in stock. I moved recently, so we've been ordering 2-4x /week while getting the new place in order.

I buy locally what I can, but retail offerings are so anemic (even for, say, granola bars) that online options massively eclipse what stores carry.

I don't want to order from Amazon, but I don't want to get by with the meager brick-and-mortar offerings.

Another example: Recently I went to Best Buy to grab an HDMI-DisplayPort cable. They had it priced at $38. Amazon had it for $12. I'd have paid up to $20 for the retail stock surcharge, but that overage was obscene.
Probably a lot of people here on HN too considering the tide of downvotes you will get if you say you don't approve of building new surveillance systems just because they are said to be for $disease_du_jour
The performance of these is very impressive - selfishly, I'm glad to read that the 16" is still faster for Xcode tasks (as I have the same spec as Pete and some of the commentary about the speed of the new models was making me a bit envious!), but I have no doubt the Pro models of these will be remarkably performant.

Personally I will try to wait it out until they release a new design... although may end up with a Mac Mini build machine
>> "God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, Courage to change the things I can, and Wisdom to know the difference."

Your post is wise (or at least, it resonates to my best thinking on it which boils down to the serenity prayer as well.)

But I disagree that the two things in your first paragraph are equally bad.

If you think nothing is in your control and just blame others all the time - then you pass up every opportunity to make your life better, and I agree this is extremely common.

If you are on the other extreme and think you can control everything - you do end up tilting at windmills and wasting a lot of time and energy, but you also end up doing things that make a real difference in your life. It's a strategy strictly dominant to passivity.

Thus blaming others is always worse and I agree with your paragraph #2 and #3.
There's a beautiful song by Owen Pallett (might be known for his string arrangements for Arcade Fire, or for writing the music for the movie Her) about Mishima:

https://youtu.be/ardBXDDfA1o
Isn't Chromium open source since [insert year here] and therefore free labor for the G?
> Largely, successful people have little idea what they did to succeed at something

Well said. However, most don't seem to realize. There are people who are perfectly willing to pontificate using literally any situation and relating it to their success. Not sure, if it is them or the rest of the plebs who seek their views and put them on a pedestal.
The same reasons that are always ignored or considered sinful by progressives. Some people are more interested than others, just the same way that nursing and numerous other non-diverse fields that you mysteriously aren't concerned about have people driven to them in numbers that don't match the population.
but why does a Kinesis outage due to a capacity increase affect multiple AZs, if one assumes the capacity increase (and the frontend servers impacted by it) are in a single zone?
I'd consider an extra £1 fairly cheap to get them immediately, be sure they're not counterfeit, and not have to deal with receiving a package.
Feedly has an API, I started writing a script a while ago to improve some RSS feeds, including HN (by making the number of comments and the URL appear in the body), but never finished it.

If someone had the same idea, please don’t hesitate sharing.
Until recently (in the ‘humans making jam’ scheme of things, at least) melted paraffin wax was commonly used for this. It’s now considered unsafe.
Apple runs the biggest gaming store (in terms of revenues)
The Persian Art of Etiquette (2016)
DNSCurve still lives in DNSCrypt, which works very well. There are quite a few public resolvers listed here: https://dnscrypt.info/public-servers.
There was a time when we all passed the hosts file around.

That became unworkable about three and a half decades or so ago, however, and the DNS was created to solve that problem.
I'm not convinced. 100 years ago, home preservation was a way to save money, so it made sense that people might shift toward it as a way to economize. Today, though, the food supply chain is such that it's both cheaper and less work to buy canned goods from the supermarket than it is to buy fresh food and preserve it yourself.

There's a much more parsimonious explanation: People are are bored at home and looking for new hobbies. I'm guessing the people who are buying up jars and rings and flats now are mostly the same folks who were buying up flour and yeast back in the spring. I wouldn't be at all surprised if yarn and knitting needles become a scarce commodity this February.
On the contrary, Amazon are the only ones that are completely unable to deliver to me if I'm not at home whenever they come.
Apple contradicts public statements from Apple pretty consistently, they have a habit of saying they won't ever do something right up until they do it. I don't think there's anything unreasonable about those types of concerns because when/if Apple does go back on their public statements you won't have much recourse.
There's a weird cargo culting of hours worked vs productivity. Reminds me of Asian business practices (especially in Japan). Yet that should be a warning, not a model to imitate (remember how Japanese tech took over American one? I don't either).

He's right that a company should hire folks that care about their work and the company. The way to do that is with a stock comp. I still see tier 2 markets complaining they are getting tier 2 devs that don't care. But when I ask about stock comp they suddenly get defensive.

I wouldn't brag too much about "working harder than Google". Because that invites the comparison between the two companies at an equal stage in their respective growth (time, number of employee or funding rounds) and that doesn't really make Scale look good. He's really bragging that what Google can get out of an engineer in 5 hours, he has to do in 10+.
CRC RevEng: arbitrary-precision CRC calculator and algorithm finder
His problem is that he is so blinded by his ideology, nothing else matters. He is optimizing for this ideology (freedom of code) and not making it easier for new users or even the growth of the community.

I stopped using Emacs long ago for things that make my life much easier as a developer, like VSCode. Now, with the ability to remotely save code over SSH, I don't even need to edit anything directly on the server.
I do wonder if it’s taking advantage of the cheap CPU power and memory bandwidth to be much more aggressive about memory compression. That could reduce swapping for some workloads, though probably not a v8 build.
Something tells me your computer is plugged in ;)
Alright. How will there be no other options one day?
You cannot run any internet service without collecting personal information. IP addresses are personal data per GDPR, and by serving TCP connections you are collecting IP addresses of your clients. In the case of DNS, your DNS query is also likely personal data in some cases, and it definitely is personal data when linked to a timestamp and an IP address.

There is a huge distinction to be made in collecting vs. storing. The 8888 privacy policy also calls out that some personal information is stored, for how long, and for what purpose. But most people who claim that they're not collecting personal information are just not being accurate in their privacy statements.

Disclaimer: googler, opinion is my own and not my employer's.
Can food delivery services save UK restaurants?
Wow, HN is so much strict to Apple.
I'm already seeing 4 ~ 5 top level comments on how Apple "locks down" computers and they are "taking our freedom"...

Apple have stated multiple times that they don't have any intention to lock down macOS more or less - I can't really think why anyone would think Apple would lock down macOS. There's... really no reason right?

My gut feeling is that there are a lot of people that don't like Apple, mostly due to their proprietary nature, and they just... argue against Apple. Before the M1 appeared, the argument was that Apple's Macs are expensive for nothing, they have terrible hardware, Touch Bar is bad, software quality has declined, etc... and now it's all about the user's freedom.

Seriously people. This article is about using dev tools on the M1 Mac. Let's not start arguing about how Apple is bad for freedom, etc.
Studies show smart trackers might not help get fit faster
> The city of Zurich is the largest technology hub with an impressive number of 100,000 registered software developers

That would be impressive indeed, given that it only has a population of 430,000.

Given that the article also mentions a "city of Vaud", I have my doubts...

Having spent several years in Silicon Valley, and moved back to my native Zürich, I find much to like in either place, I have reasons to prefer the latter, but I would NOT recommend coming to Zürich if you're looking to replicate a Silicon Valley experience.
"This version of the sentiment which you did not express is totally reasonable, therefore it seems nuts to hate people for the sentiment that you DID express."
Problem is, there's no stop criterion, so more often than not there is no moderation.

To me this advice is a net negative. Of course you should believe in yourself, but that's just the baseline.
> Doesn’t mean you shouldn’t believe, but chances are you are wrong.

So dark and brilliant and illuminating at the same time.
That's really nice. How did you do that
The TdF pros disagree with you. Yes they can be traditionalist and have "pack mentality", but these people spend literally 6-10 hours on a bike straight.

In particular, when you are bonking and trying to keep up with a group or get up a mountain, you become PAINFULLY aware of the deficiencies in your equipment. An extra pound on your bike when trying to keep up with your group up a 8% grade will feel like you're carrying an anvil.