skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People always underestimate how hard indoor air quality is.

Vast majority only concern themselves with the temperature, whereas you want to at least consider CO2 levels, humidity and particle quantity (dustiness).

You also want to consider the direction in which the air moves when it gets returned to the HVAC unit, and where it comes back in later, and the level of filtration vs air flow.

And you might have to retrofit all of that into an old shoddy building.
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Ah, so those who responded to you were correct in their assessment?

Be honest about it before you start asking questions to trap the person you're asking.

It goes a long way.
I do not think the intentions here are to be opportunistic and predatory but inability to empathize with small developers. A large customer will very likely just pay off few hundred thousand dollars extra expenses. It is only individual developers who are at risk here and cloud operators do not have much interest in them.
For myself, I automated creation of language flashcards.

So I can just type a word/phrase in English, and then it will automatically fill in the target language translation, pronunciation, audio recording, and word-by-word breakdown to show what every word in a phrase means.

Before I would have to use Anki, and switch back and forth between Anki and various dictionaries, and have to create my own audio recording. Just removes a bit of friction myself learning (Chinese).
I think this is even pushed by the idea like 4 Hour Workweek and some other self-help books.
Well said. Reminds me of Joel Spolsky's Big Mac vs The Naked Chef article.
Just to confirm how "fully autonomous" this is, quoting from a recent Forbes article[0]:

"This means that similar to the way you use Uber, anybody can download the app and summon a ride, which will today be done with nobody else in the vehicle. ... they will use use safety drivers for many rides, while also having some that are all robot."

The other potential catch could have been the price, but:

"Presently, Waymo has been charging a price that’s only modestly less than the price charged by Uber."

https://www.forbes.com/sites/bradtempleton/2020/12/09/withou...
Look up why cities are limiting Airbnb or banning it outright.
https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js/blob/master/user.js and search for [HIDDEN PREF]
I think the better question is what the hell is your problem with prostitutes
There are already such features but a lot of indie developers are lazy to configure their infra properly. Now, default low limit does not make sense as it will piss off large customers.

I run so many websites on Google Cloud Run that sometimes I feel I might be abusing them, but I have ensured each of my site has max limit of 2 hosts.
I think one of the reasons for this is that people think YC has always expressed this be a "force for good ideal." You know, do the hard things etc... Maybe that was my misunderstanding but I think that this is a key misunderstanding. In fact, that they are expressly a force for good for the entrepreneur and startups and I guess ideally, a net good for society otherwise it wouldn't work. But it is pretty clear that billions of dollars and centralization (platforms) really do shape markets. So we have AirBnB, DoorDash etc... are they net good? Are they a massive long term grift on society? I don't think the answer is clear. Is the resultant destruction creative? Do we need new regulations? Probably. I am not saying YC invested in something like JUUL and Altria but take those as the most extreme... and even they are debate-able... are they a smoking cessation device? or addiction 2.0? I mean I would say net bad because they clearly do not market or offer themselves as a smoking cessation device, but rather as an alternative that's just as addictive and as it appears quite harmful bad. That they market to teens in my opinion makes them net bad even though they cut down on smoking. Breathing in super heated water is apparently just as bad as smoking and maybe worse.. Anyway, back to the entrepreneur, the model was in contrast to the search to find random Angels, and then the traditional VC model which would be to take the money and kick out the founders.

Being first in the funnel gives you vertical integration and it helps if you are pro-entrepreneur to get your customers. The rest as they say is history.
I see no reason why such an arrangement couldn't be optional. Different projects, teams and people have different needs, cloud computing services are marketed specifically on this point. It makes no sense that there isn't even an option in Firebase or AWS to immediately stop services over a certain amount. The current a situation is ripe for lawsuits IMO.
You need a paper trail of invoices, both of you buying sufficient supplies and having sufficient sales to customers to warrant those supplies.

The amount of money you can launder in a given period of time is ultimately limited by how much real business you have. So if you need to launder an excessive amount of money eventually you’ll have to start metaphorically or literally pouring alcohol down the drain.
While I doubt they can do anything in an antitrust case, they are also dragging their feet on implementing web standards (that have existed in Android for years) so that developers have no alternative but to develop native apps for things that can just as easily be web apps and pay Apple their 30% in the app store.
It works for me on Safari/iPhone perhaps it’s to do with the size of the window
Can we also talk about all the not-Airbnbs that PG silently nodded and winked with his teammates about? The ones that he's not as self-congratulatory about his innate sense of who are "winners."

Here's the sad truth: for every one hard-working, hard-cranking, in the right-place-at-the-right-time, never giving up "cockroach" companies like AirBnB that happen to make it, there are a hundred also hard-working, never-giving-up, never at the right-place-at-the-right time people with charisma who people look at and just say "why won't they just give up??"

Because you can't spot an AirBnb out of a crowd of look-alike startups or pick the winner just by sensing the energy of the founder. Good products, great tech, great founders only get you so far on the crazy path of entrepreneurship. There's a million variables and factors that prevent you from successfully completing that path. There are the spectacular flameouts. The great founders with great tech who can't find market/fit. The iterators who can't make spaghetti stick to the wall.

And no, not even a PG can spot that one survivor out of the batch of many, despite how much self-congratulatory survivor bias would say otherwise, even if he did indeed spot the winner from the get-go as he claims in this essay.
A lot of it was simple cost-of-living arbitrage. A worker sending money home to a family in Poland or especially Bulgaria/Romania can undercut someone who's trying to support the same family at UK prices. On a global scale that may be "fairer", but you can understand why the UK populace would be against it.
Perhaps bottle deposits need to increase enough to make them care, for starters. It needs to be cheaper for them to do the "right thing", whatever way that takes.
One of my favorites:

If an ideal observer looks at the end of an ideal infinite cylinder, which is not deformed by perspective, when the cylinder is pointing directly in his line of sight he will see just a circle, but if the cylinder deviates slightly what will he see? A cylinder with finite length in his field of view? Or a cylinder that goes infinitely out of his field of view?
When I wrote that, I was thinking of a dns-over-https like system and browsers being the client. You're right. A company could pipe the data back to their servers even if it was only decrypted on the user's device and it was illegal.
What about the option of just writing a regular, one-off program in a regular programming language, the output of which is your baked YAML config; and then having a pipeline that involves running that config-generator program, piping its output to your orchestrator of choice?

Nearly every programming language has a YAML serialization library†. And before that serialization happens, your config can be expressed using the regular-ass coding features of your program, however you like. (For optimal clarity, I personally would suggest creating a builder DSL and using it.)

† Technically a language doesn't even need a YAML serialization library to emit valid YAML; because valid JSON is also valid YAML. You can just serialize to JSON on your end, and feed the result into anything that's expecting YAML.
Then they can pay rent
Ptable.com provides most of my earned income. Spent quarantine doing a major redesign. No frameworks or libraries and the full payload, WebGL, property data and all in under 64K.
0.5% of $5B is $25M. Add that to your existing IT budget and make a start of it. It's do or die.

For somebody like Walmart, 0.5% of $500B is $2.5B. That's more than a little outside of SF.
On a more productive note

Stigler diet

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16524061

Subreddit on eating healthy on a cheap budget

https://old.reddit.com/r/EatCheapAndHealthy/

For anyone who put themselves through college, this is much more a shrug than a clarion call for revolution. You can eat cheaply and well with a little effort and creativity. Good training for starting out with a young family, if any of you ever get to that point.

If you haven’t learned to cook, now is a good time. Electric pressure cooker, slow cooker, etc.. Learn to manage your time to make time for meal prep and cooking. Lots of folks take it as a challenge and love to share tips. Shop carefully, share car trips to the cheaper stores, share a Costco membership. The sharing economy isn’t just about obscene IPOs.

As an extreme anchor point for calibration,

.5 kg/day of dried corn to meet RDA calories for adult

http://www.dietandfitnesstoday.com/calories-in-corn.php

->

200 kg/yr to meet RDA calories for year

Corn is 4.30/bu spot price US

A bushel of corn is 25 kg.

So $40/yr to meet caloric requirements for an adult for a year with a car trunk full of dried corn. Some of us have heritages that basically did that.

[Not recommended as a strict diet unless you are a fan of diarrhea, dermatitis, dementia and death. Limewater is your friend. Webpage not for the squeamish...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pellagra]

Now add/substitute soybeans, cabbage, carrots, bulk spices, vitamins. Beans 27 kg for 11.50 nowadays. You are in the

$100-200/yr

range without adverse health effects...maybe healthier than what you are eating now. There were times your ancestors would, and did, kill for the chance at such a diet.

(And the CCP couldn’t even manage that...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Chinese_Famine )

Unsheltered? The problem is shelter...basic food for a year is less than three months of utilities, much less rent.
Yes, for example the Firebase Tools CLI is open source (MIT), but it does not include the waiver, because it is an official Google product: https://github.com/firebase/firebase-tools
End of next week Lol
Older population, no? Study this week showed 90% of the difference among country-level outcomes can be explained by population age distribution.
I know what I want and avoid Amazon like the plague for important electronics - Best Buy is where I head as I trust em
Hacker News, March 2023:
Google Shutters Google Stories, encourages users to migrate to Google News
Interestingly. There's bound to be more people using Bing in the Silicon Valley bubble than outside it. This is because duckduckgo, the famed privacy focused search engine uses Bing as the back end.
F-Droid is not allowed to compete on feature parity with the Play Store. You can't install apps in the background, do batch installations, or automatically update apps.
They're very useful if you're testing a concept, need agile scaling of computational power, or are just starting a service and don't want to / can't invest the capital in dedicated hardware. I agree with you on your last point though, making your service entirely dependent on these services makes you little more than a franchise and is a potential vulnerability if you ever compete with any important existing service. It probably isn't a good idea for a mature or rapidly maturing business to rely heavily on these services.
Any statically typed language allows for a compiler to detect breaking changes like you describe. That’s the point!
Which assumption? Can you quote it?

From my reading, you're the one assuming that white protestants are going to do better in these tests and that is racist etc.

Also, like most people, I differentiate between immigration and asylum. Asylum is like taking your neighbor in after their house burns down. Immigration is like inviting them to stay as a roommate. There are very few people I wouldn't extend a helping hand to, but not a lot who I'd want to live with.
Ridley Scott inspires Network Rail’s cave-exploring drone
A quick note about this project:

There are 240K+ CS papers on arXiv and ～150 papers are being added every day. I started Crossminds.ai at the beginning of the pandemic to help CS researchers and engineers better navigate the complex research landscape and learn the most relevant work efficiently in a distanced world.

Crossminds has hosted 5000+ videos of top AI conference talks (CVPR, ECCV, ICML, NeurIPS, ECCV, etc.) and other tech research updates. Our team has developed a comprehensive knowledge graph to index the videos and provide personalized recommendations. We’ve also created a time-stamped reaction feature that allows peer discussion about specific parts of the videos.

I would really appreciate if you can give it try and share your feedback!
MBA graduates are fine for simpler industries which typically hire high school grads or similar. You really don't want to be them in charge of a highly educated workforce of say engineering, medical or scientific post grads. That's a recipe for disaster almost every time.
The LTS team mostly consists of developers paid by Freexian, who are funded by various large and small companies.

https://wiki.debian.org/LTS/Team
https://wiki.debian.org/LTS/Funding
https://www.freexian.com/services/debian-lts.html

The LTS project supports most packages and the unsupported subset is specified, with the debian-security-support tool able to report unsupported packages that are installed:

https://salsa.debian.org/debian/debian-security-support/-/bl...
https://packages.debian.org/stable/debian-security-support
This bartender analogy is terrible...

But in this case, the drunk in question just crashed his car on the street corner just outside the bar and is stumbling up to the bar to get a drink.

Given recent news, it's pretty clear that PornHub's controls on content were terrible. There is little evidence the measures they put in place are sufficient or even that they've effectively purged all media that features underaged or non-consenting participants.

PornHub needs to show they have implemented effective controls over content. Google did it with YouTube. Facebook deals with it. Even this forum has a mechanism for preventing illegal activity.

MasterCard doesn't need domain expertise when there is a smoking gun in public. It's up to PornHub at this point to prove they have effective controls.
Toys "R" Us also made the mistake of crawling into bed with Amazon rather than build out their own website for a couple years and let Amazon harvest all the toy sales data and then decided not to renew the contract between the two.
I'd feel about the same as I would if anyone copied my apps and took away business from me - not happy.

But if you're trying to point out that it is somehow unfair that Apple has a special position that they can do this and not pay 30% to anyone, well what makes you think that I can move to another iOS app store and compete with their version in their app store by going somewhere else? I certainly don't think I would fair very well. Another AppStore doesn't change that reality.

So are you suggesting that Apple should not be allow to develop and sell apps they make (even if they are doing what my apps do)?

Anyone can always come along and build a better/cheaper mousetrap than I have, that's just reality.
Well, they did come up with that "innovation", didnt they?
In my town the news of the day (Dec 10, 2020) is Short Term Rental (STR aka Airbnb) operators gave $2,500 to a local food bank. People were incensed at this mainly because of Airbnb operators taking over so many buildings.

The local food bank has seen a jump in people homeless or paying more to rent farther from the urban center or suburbs. It's almost entirely due to Airbnb operators "renovicting" people. So a protest donation of anti-STR people gave to the same food bank in the amount of nearly $13,000 at last count.

Many people in my small town hate Airbnb due to the sudden, massive, and negative change it's caused in local housing.

https://www.journalpioneer.com/news/provincial/short-term-re...
I don't know what to tell you. I am just going by the average production and price for california bearing acreage in California from the USDA and CA department of food and agriculture link I posted. This is an average, so it makes sense that there would be a spread.

Regarding the price, the ~$2.5 seems to match other sources I found [1]. That said, I understand any processor bonus's aren't included in this, so YMMV.

I have experience with other nuts, but not almonds, so I will have to take your word for it regarding the high end yields. That said, when talking about water policy and the impact on farmers, I think the mean is the most important number.

https://www.merlofarminggroup.com/almonds/California%20Inshe...
Housekeeping service, automatic workstation -> synology nas -> backblaze b2 backup system, shared instacart cart with my wife so that our groceries are tracked where we actually order them.

I've found that a lot of personal automation stuff on the computer just isn't worth it. I try to keep things simple and that reduces the need for automation altogether.
In memorium, I recommend playing "Badgers | 10 Hours":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGlyFc79BUE&list=FLqVd9KhDa2...
I'll give you a 10 year forecast!

Do you want it?
Tropical Storm Prediction Challenge
Engineering the World’s Fastest Solar Race Cars
The eLTS is done by paid developers, just like the LTS and you cannot use the eLTS without paying Freexian by sponsoring the both the eLTS and LTS efforts.

https://wiki.debian.org/LTS/Extended
https://deb.freexian.com/extended-lts/
Three of those are links I posted so maybe it is just my strange obsession!

Like many others have commented, I am baffled why this is not being reported broadly and pushed as part of a low-cost, apparently no downside public health agenda, particularly leading into the darker winter months.
One-line cron job using rclone to sync ~3 TB of photos with the other side of the world. Super simple and reliable.
But isn't that just the result of your moral judgment on his pastimes (as sinful I guess). For me, the idea behind lumping visiting prostitutes together with flying kites was about pointing out that, regardless of reputation, BF did some frivolous stuff (and then went on to write an essay about how important time was).
It is quite frustrating to realize that by the logic of "revealed preferences", my own behavior will be used as a data point that I prefer to work 40 hour weeks, when in fact I would very much prefer to work 15 hours. It's just, I don't actually get that option. Companies want to hire people with "passion" for "challenge". You are supposed to pretend that making your employer rich is the #1 desire in your life; and if you don't, you don't get the job; and if you ask for the possibility to work part-time, you make it quite obvious you are not that passionate. Even companies that advertise having part-time positions mean it as an option for women with small kids, who are expected to switch to full-time as soon as possible; so even if you apply for the supposedly part-time job positions, as a man you can't really get them. (I am not an American, so I can't try to sue them for discrimination.) And yes, I have a preference for working full-time over being unemployed, because I have bills to pay and children to feed, duh. But it drives me crazy to see that this is interpreted as me not really wanting to reduce my work to 15 hours a week. Give me that option (with the proportional, not insane, reduction in salary), and I will gladly take it!

(Imagine a parallel reality where working 9 or 10 hours a day is the norm in 2020. A person who strongly wants to work 8 hours a day, i.e. a perfectly normal person in our reality, would have a problem finding a job in that reality, because they would be perceived as a slacker. Even if the employer doesn't get significantly more output from 9 hours over 8 hours a day, this is a red flag, and why hire a weirdo if you have other options.)

I am not really convinced by the fact that super rich people work long hours voluntarily. If you own the company, so you are your own boss, your working conditions are not really comparable with the rest of the company. You decide what you do, you decide when you do it, you decide how you do it, you decide when you take a break. You go to a trip, maybe across the world, and you call it a business trip, just because you met some of your equals. It is more similar to average person's hobby that to average person's work. You probably have your office room, where you can close the door.

Of course vacations are stressful, because during vacations people do crazy things, trying to cram as much experience as they can into the few days of continuous free time. That doesn't mean that all free time is inherently more stressful than work. Are weekends more stressful? Are evenings and nights the most stressful parts of the day? I suppose not, otherwise that would likely be used in the lecture as a strong argument in favor of long work-weeks. Working shorter work-weeks would be more like having longer weekends than like being on a vacation.

By the way, if people love spending lots of time at work so much they do it voluntarily even if they are retired or super rich, then what's wrong with UBI? I mean, if the hypothesis that people genuinely prefer long work-weeks is true, then UBI presents zero risk for the economy, right?
You seem to know a lot about weather, so apologies if this comes off as a stupid question.

What value add do companies such as AccuWeather and others provide over simply going to weather.gov? Is their UI simply better, or do they run their own weather models? Thanks
> I wouldn't consider Georgetown (Penang, Malaysia) as a dense urban environment.

I can't say I'm familiar with Georgetown (unfortunately due to COVID, I haven't been able to travel through Malaysia just yet). Interesting that they also manage to work in the less-populated areas though. Look forward to seeing it first-hand (hopefully 2021).