skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On the opposite end of the spectrum here.

Make $30k a year living in NYC teaching software engineering and data science (mostly python) for a non profit.

It's less than minimum wage if hours are counted, lot of stress dealing with students and their issues (especially during a pandemic) and I'm also on the hook for the curriculum which means my weekends are filled trying to figure out how to write lessons about math that people with no educational background can understand.

I barely sleep and after bills I have zero money. But it beats being unemployed during a pandemic especially since I work remotely. Before this, I spent months sending resumes and got zero interviews.
Give examples, please.
And most salaries have not kept up with inflation, especially inflation in scarce desirable assets. Most people are worse off.

Edit: Lol, parent is < 0 at the moment. Downvotes sound fine in theory, but are usually low-effort, passive aggressive enforcements of bias in practice. If you have real counter arguments to make, please make them.
It's not just preventing behavior -- there's a ton of places where there are still variously unconstitutional/illegal policies and laws. Unless schools, local lawmakers, etc. are proactive in bringing this up to date (like my high school) then the legal system demands its pound of flesh to show that harm was done to force a change to happen.
Download the app and sign up and verify your phone number. People that know you will be given a notification, and someone can expend an invite to activate your account.
You can’t compare price and co2 and skip nuclear waste. Add in tons of nuclear waste generated to the above stats and it is maybe more fair.

(For the record I am very pro-nuclear, but it feels disingenuous to mention solar requires storage but totally ignore nuclear disposal)
Works simultaneously here, Intel and most phones support multi-role.
I watched your video and he didn't factor waste at all?
I would argue that what is described in this post is inherent in all social networks.

The wonderful thing about the Fediverse is that depending on the node you connect to, or the people you choose to federate with (in the event that you have your own instance) that your experience will be vastly different.

It’s given me some of the most enjoyable interactions I’ve ever had online in the last ten years.

You need to have a thick skin, take the time to use filters, block certain keywords.

And use Pleroma, Mastadon is crap, Pleroma let’s you type for DAYS, “limited character cap” is really only a mastadon thing and it’s crap.
Lol your grid tie systwm comes to 4.8kw if your (15*.375) is correct. We rip around 20kw a day on a AVG house in Aust. My folks shred through 30kw an that's just 2 people.

Given power used to be about $3k a quarter or $12k a year for them...it's only 3 years of bills to cover a 15yr battery. They already got 8kw of solar for 13k too. Not bad at all really, $45k for battery an solar, pays for itself in 4 years if your use is high enough. 11 years of savings before you replace the system.(aus dollars)
This paper seems to mask just how much of an effect there is. For the people who aren't deep into stats and reading statistical scientific papers, can someone help translate what the z-scores here mean practically? Is this a log scale or just raw? What's setting 0.0? Is +/- 0.1 a notable range?
Wait, how are these numbers for Germany and France relevant? Germany's renewable energy was built in recent years, much of it during a time when it was significantly more expensive than now. Frances price is from mostly very old nuclear reactors, many of which are close to end-of-life.

And you seem to be attributing the CO2 emissions to the renewables, but that's in no way fair. Even if we had the solution to energy storage, you'd expect a country switching from coal to renewables to have high emissions even at the half-way point.

> So, no, large scale solar power is neither cheap nor clean.

It's more complex than headlines would lead you to believe. But that's ALWAYS the case. This conclusion is just as dumb as the headlines, if not even dumber.

You're right that storage and backup is a big factor, but it's a problem that's rapidly being solved.
I understand the desire to do things cheaply and without mass political upheaval, but I don't see how the suburbs, and American's ideas about them can be reformed.

BTW, you can well partition American ideology as:

- let's go back to post war golden age, fuck disadvantaged people

- let's go back to revised post war golden age, but made good for disadvantaged people

- the post war boom was only possible because WWII destroyed so much of the rest of world and cars were becoming popular for the first time. We cannot go back.

The third camp is right, but very small and very different.
Sometimes common sense lets us take shortcuts without having to wait for or spend on the science.
Don't forget the costs for the waste which generations will have to take upon them.
Speculative opinion - lack of regulations are increasingly appealing in an ever frothier market.
Animals interrupting wildlife photographers. A thread
"The number beats the previous record of 104 satellites carried aloft by an Indian vehicle in 2017"

Does this vehicle not have a name? Or is the reporter too lazy to look it up? BBC never fails when it comes to its Anti-India stance.
Isn't heat pollution a lost energy opportunity, where the heat could be reclaimed to generate electricity as well?
Any more details? Black people have been in the military for a very long time now. And I see a lot with short hair.
I thought Mastodon was closer to Twitter than it is to the classic BBS.

How is your instance going - did you build a community around it?
>Why does this non-sense get constantly rehashed all the time?

Because journalists are not engineers: https://www.epsilontheory.com/gell-mann-amnesia/
I was talking with specific regards to couples living together -- not about single/divorced/widowed folks.

And yes, I was referring to nuclear families being the norm in wealthy countries as opposed to multi-generational housing arrangements found typically in less developed countries.
Why do we price a barrel of oil without the military costs to protect the shipping channels. Or the short term and long term storage. While you have a point. It’s hard to deny the extreme drop in cost of solar over time. And that drop runs counter to a lot of predictions from people that said moving away from fossil fuel is impossible.
"The Russian government interfered in the 2016 U.S. presidential election with the goals of harming the campaign of Hillary Clinton, boosting the candidacy of Donald Trump, and increasing political and social discord in the United States. According to U.S. intelligence agencies, the operation — code named Project Lakhta[1] — was ordered directly by Russian President Vladimir Putin.[2]"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_interference_in_the_20...

577 references. Enjoy.
It agree that we should have shut down coal power instead of nuclear power but fact is that this never happened. Deal with it.

Edit: „Deal with it“ might have been a snarky way to say it but on a serious note - nothing good comes from regretting missed opportunities forever. Get over them and make the best of the situation.
Have a dev site, which is easy with modern tools.

Even can do a CI/CD system.
This seems a list of things that are wrong with people, not with the fediverse.
3. The Rape of Nanking 4. Pearl Harbor
"The way you word this it sounds like renewables == bad"

The point is that unfortunately renewables == good is not often true either despite the common perception. It all depends on how they integrate with the rest of the grid which is something rarely considered when I hear speeches about having more and more renewables in the future

Once you decided to stop nuclear and go wind/solar, what do you do when it's 8pm in winter and there is no wind? => You fire up your coal/gas plants

The answer could be "storage" but right now, as you can see from the stats, this option is not favored and I believe there are good reasons. As you can imagine, if storage was an easy solution today, Germany's emissions would be much smaller.

Hopefully it becomes a more viable solution in the near future but at the moment we're still far from it
>The People the Suburbs Were Built for Are Gone

And after the people who built the buildings have taken whatever money they did make and "left the building" too, then rezoning and repurposing can change the range of available lifestyles in unplanned ways.

>Overall there is no reason for them to exist unless people pay a massive premium.

One of the primary reasons for exclusive neighborhoods to exist is so they can exclude those who have average or lower ability to pay a premium.

Including the necessary car(s) as originally intended which are still insanely expensive & time consuming to operate even after they have long been paid for.

But after that sometimes no longer allowed to be parked in some neighborhoods depending on the ugliness consensus of the rulemaking body at the time.

Not even to be economically productive, rather to subtract from productivity during otherwise more fruitful survival efforts.
for anyone that's interested in this general concept, also take a look at 'barrier', which is the continuation and fork of synergy. use one keyboard and mouse to drive multiple independent PCs at one desk, roll the mouse/keyboard off the edge of one screen and onto the other.

sort of an inverse KVM. and without the ridiculous cost/licensing issues of the official synergy.

https://github.com/debauchee/barrier
I stopped reading at “miracle berry”. Everytime you see junk marketing with the miracle buzzword, 99.9% is a scam or overselling, etc. I feel fine missing on the potential 0.1% too ;)
basically they became much more accessible to regular people, and thus much more exposed to the pump+dump cycle and hucksters. I'm not saying SPACs are bad, but I think that is what is driving the recent craze. The number of wildly speculative and clear astroturf threads on reddit about PSTH or CCIV and others is crazy.
"People want space, and they also want to be able to visit areas of density, and walk around."

From the cell wall to the terminals of a battery to the crossing of the bridge from cow hollow to the Marin Headlands ... energy and potential are found in distinct things that are held apart from one another.
There’s a growing misconception that sites like Twitter are a good representation of unfiltered, unmoderated content, or that the only moderation actions from these sites is against famous figures like Trump.

In reality, sites like Twitter and Facebook remove a lot of terrible content posted by people who deliberately enjoy terrorizing shared spaces with abhorrent images.

Anyone who has been involved with the moderation of a moderately popular site or platform with image-upload features will understand: There are a lot of people on the internet with infinite free time and motivation to troll public spaces with shock images and similar content. Any unmoderated space will eventually attract these people.

Worse yet, if this behavior goes unchecked it tends to drive the good users away. Decentralized and/or unmoderated platforms seem to have a small following of ideologists who will look past the bad content and focus on the good, but the general public isn’t terribly interested in wading through random pornography or worse content just for the sake of being on a decentralized platform.
As opposed to shadow pollution, and air obstruction.

A lake somewhere being unswimmable is a small price to pay for a livable world.
I did not realise it until you pointed it out

I'm using openboard on my mobile and it is probably mapping the wrong UTF-8 character for that symbol.
Can someone contextualize this post somewhat, for readers who have been living under a rock and don't know about the Fediverse nor who is "we" at "infosec-handbook"?
There are plenty of ways of doing it without NFS.
Sort of like... Burning Man with all the good parts left out
Why are you treating 10 years as if it's infinity? Lots of houses last longer than 10 years.
It does not say anything about IMAP there. It just says that it is in fact end to end encrypted.
Your cost is due to how the policies are set up, not because the tech is not up to par. Countries that invested in solar early on have a similar problem, where they funded the progress but their own solar installations are now outdated. To get out of solar now would be a mistake since you'd not even reap the benefits of that early investment.
I highly suggest taking a vacation in Austin, Texas :)
>>A life "unmolested by laws and regulations" is the most naive kind of fantasy imaginable.

Not really, the fundemntal foundation of a libertarian law would be best highlighted from Frederic Bastiat's The Law

"The law is the organization of the natural right of lawful defense. It is the substitution of a common force for individual forces. And this common force is to do only what the individual forces have a natural and lawful right to do: to protect persons, liberties, and properties; to maintain the right of each, and to cause justice to reign over us all. "

The problem with modern society today is the law goes far far far beyond what individuals have the ethical right to do, namely self defense. Today the law has been perverted by the influence of two entirely different causes: stupid greed and false philanthropy.

The law has placed the collective force at the disposal of the unscrupulous who wish, without risk, to exploit the person, liberty, and property of others. It has converted plunder into a right, in order to protect plunder. And it has converted lawful defense into a crime, in order to punish lawful defense.
Hello from another ADHD sufferer. Interestingly though I fall on the other side of the remote work issue - I cannot wait to return to the office. My brain is quite stubborn about categorizing spaces; my computer room at home is where I do some side project programming and a fair amount of gaming. Having to try to recategorize it as a working space has proven impossible, and I don't really have any other space in this house, with my wife also working remotely.

Besides, more generally the drive to the office helps put me in work mode. The whole office building is a place where work happens. Then the drive home helps put me in leisure mode. Without those neatly coded space/time contexts I have been seriously struggling.

Everybody that keeps talking about how the world is going remote has been giving me a fair amount of anxiety. If I lose my office I'm not sure how I'm going to function. Besides, my coworkers and I miss seeing each other and being able to work together in person. We don't do much pair programming, but when we do, trying to do so over screen share has proven to be significantly less productive.

But then again, I am lucky to have an amazing team of people who I genuinely enjoy being around, and who are all very respectful of quiet time to work when needed. I'm also definitely an introvert but maybe less so than the average dev.. I miss social contact!
> Furthermore, my attitude has shifted from "get wealthy" (20s) to "optimize for time." (30s)

I always thought the reason for being wealthy was having free time.
> Not to mention the large amount of real-estate that a solar farm requires.

In a recent 400 MW solar farm installed in Texas, I looked at the cost of land in that area, vs. the cost of the solar field. Land was about 1% of the cost. Land is cheap. We have lots of land. We have so much land, we use it for low value things like farming. And land that isn't suitable for farming is even cheaper than that.
...or it could be that --as in my city in England where 100.000 students descended on us from all over the country and instantly went out partying and mixing in large numbers, ignoring all the lockdown advice and regulations, so that our R number went from 0,8 to 1,4 in the space of a few weeks-- that the massive increase in autumn was caused by similar migrations of large numbers of undisciplined people all over UK & Europe.

I'm not saying the Vitamin D theory isn't without any foundation but this seems like a poster child for the "correlation isn't causation" argument. And, as has been pointed out many times before; some of the worst hit countries [Italy & Spain] are on the sunny side of the European street.
You can get nice house for $300,000, just not in a major metro zone. It works if your "stop-the-rate-race" mentality includes moving to a rural area. Especially if you leave CA or NY.
That is my personal number. I’m not there yet, but after calculating when I want to buy a home in my area (at least three bedroom) and when I would have to pay for my future kids’ private undergrad /grad educations while maintaining a decent lifestyle in retirement... I think this number would just get me past the threshold for being able to do that without stressing on the daily.
AFAICS GA is a much smaller thing in Europe, and European regulators have largely taken a lets wait and see attitude, and will presumably follow whatever the US counterparts will end up doing.

100LL is very expensive in Europe, and thus there has been more interest in diesel piston engines.
>Caused by eating too much and probably minimal to no physical activity.

Eating too much is probably true. Healthy natural food though doesn't make you want to eat often or too much. People eat too much because they eat highly processed food with lots of sugar, salt, and artificial flavoring. Unfortunately, eating good food in North America is not possible without making a special effort. Learning how to cook is part of this effort.
Apparently you're not aware of a previous study that showed that income above $75k/yr did NOT increase well being.
I would not call Europe not wanting to be beholden to African countries the way they are beholden to Europe a problem with solar power, personally.
FWIW, I did spot this on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Akikun1124/status/1219144685299490816

>街で男女と1m以上離れる

>恋愛禁止のため

>（公立高校）

Basically (as far as my elementary Japanese understands it), a public school has ruled that boys and girls should keep a distance of at least a metre in town in order to forbid relationships.
Well at least according to the friends I have beer with over the weekends, real world is a subset of math we invented. It is a tool we invented to describe the universe, but I am not sure if everything we derive from the axioms is true. (eg. discontinuous functions make me a little uncomfortable)

Disclaimer: I am very poor at math but eager to learn :)
> You don't have to do this, you can set up sane permissions and use the wp cli[0] tool to install updates manually. I prefer to version sites with git and install updates locally, then git pull down on to the live server.

Yup this is exactly how I do that.

I also have a cron that checks "git status" and emails me if anything changes.
Pleroma-link for those too lazy to search:

https://pleroma.social/
12 people for a static site seems like a huge team to me.
Unfortunately, in the UK this is a deeply hateful term for disabled people. Actual hate speech if you couple it with violence etc.

What's the old saying? Two cultures divided by a common language..
Interest rates have crumbled since then and dramatically so.

That 30k is around 85k today. Interest rates then vs today would make for the same monthly payment in actual dollars of around $500/month. $500/month in 1981 is like $1400 today. This would mean the house should be worth around $300k today at today’s interest rates.

Of course the location may be more or less in demand which greatly influences price.

Where I grew up the houses are more expensive than in the 80’s but the location isn’t in demand so the inflation and interest adjusted cost is well below the cost back then.
Ask HN: What laptop should I buy in 2021?
I know this is a common question so I apologize beforehand. I’ve been a Mac user ever since I bought my Powerbook G4. I’ve owned pretty much every Mac model except for a MBP and a Mini and only had one lemon which was my Mac Pro trashcan. After that experience, where Apple refused to replace the model and denied the problems I was having, I’m somewhat embittered.

I’ve seen some inspiring stuff on r/unixporn but I feel if switch to linux I’ll miss all my favorite apps. But on the other hand I’ve heard some surprise stories with the M1 which may or may not be resolved, like Docker not working.

Overall, I’m ambivalent and ignorant about what to buy as a developer and could use some advice; my price range is around $1200. Feel free to recommend a laptop that exceeded your expectations or to just to offer some guidance. Thanks!
Uh, I don't think IMAP is generally blocked on iOS? Anyway, end-to-end encryption seems to depend on the email provider being able to support IMAP. So Hey.com is out but gmail can work if you enable IMAP support for example.

Here is a list of tested providers:

https://providers.delta.chat/
that's a great guess!
Mastodon and the Fediverse have often been advertised as "microblogging" tools, and the post length is mainly around the same as one would see on Twitter. That is a big difference from old-time message boards, where longform text was welcome and normal.

(Even if the Fediverse does support long post lengths, that matters little if the community has not embraced it.)
Excellent point. It also assumes that society will be sufficiently organized to provide the security and maintenance for the entire half life of the waste. That seems like a fairly unrealistic assumption. And so we are basically guaranteed to ruin the area where waste is stored at some point in the future and easily explains why congress has been unable to designate a permanent storage location.
Netlify Routing is Down Presently - Using their subdomain works.

(https://calliope-demo.netlify.app/)
DFW >>> Austin
t4g is pretty inexpensive.
From the company's side, there is a willingness to explore non-traditional methods of going public (see also: direct listings, or not going public at all). I would say this has been driven directly by a perception that companies leave money on the table in traditional IPOs, and indirectly by the rise of the "disruptor" mindset led by tech companies where CEOs are more willing to challenge the status quo.

From the investors' side, SPACs are popular because they've been really successful! I don't have stats on this but just buying SPACs surely outperformed any index in the last 5 years. You'd expect this effect to disappear as they get more popular, but it's worth noting that blindly buying IPOs has also been a really good investment strategy - enough first-day pops of 50% or 100% to outweigh the duds - though less accessible to small investors.
Barrels of oil are a very poor comparison, as the price is based on limited supply (which is even artificially controlled by the OPEC), where with solar and nuclear the price is much closer (and based) on manufacturing costs.
Renewables look at nuclear's inability to deal with the fluctuations and respond "That's a 'you' problem, not a 'me' problem."
Could someone ELI 15?
Senior Front End Engineer, Utrecht, Netherlands
It had this kind support in the Soviet Union, didn't it?
> Gates suggesting it gets taken seriously not because he has a lot of money, but because he's spent the last couple of decades heavily involved in global health

Which is only possible, because he has a lot of money. That's fallacious reasoning.

> “[Bill] Gates has staked out this outsized role in the vaccine world,” Love said. “He has an ideological belief that the intellectual property system is a wonderful mechanism that is necessary for innovation and prosperity.”

Ideological belief.

Many people have a different take on this, but they tend to not get the power in a capitalistic system, so you won't get the possible alternative story told. Gate's success is a self-fulfilling prophecy and hardly evidence to justify the means.

My point is he is shaping the world to his liking, his ideology. No single human should have that power.