skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It really depends on what you are looking for. If you are searching on a term that is used by business you will get mostly shitty content. But if you search for things that make no money, for example. "diff with prosemirror" or "travelling with monitors" you will get very relevant results.

I don't think it has a lot of to do with new search algo. I think it is the opposite, the algo is mostly the same as a decade a ago, but now it is abused by SEO expert. And Google doesn't seem to care yet
That would be an interesting problem, how do you algorithmically filter out SEO and focus on useful information? A signal vs. noise problem, but on human text, with the added challenge that the noise is trying to outsmart you. Maybe an adversarial ML network with an SEO-generating bot working against you?
> especially when you consider the large efficiency and emissions benefits of computer controlled engines.

Is that enough to offset the entire environmental cost of the cars short life span from manufacturing to the scrap heap? Today it feels as if cars are not meant to last much past 5-10 years.

Just think of that Tesla tablet screen who's flash memory failed after a bug in their software wore it out. Will you still own that Tesla in 10-15-20 years? Of course not. It will be impossible to service by then. The same will apply to VW, GM, Toyota, Nissan, BMW, MB, etc. They're as disposable as smart phones because they are smart phones.

We can still have that old school stupidity if we:
A. Start buying practical cars with as little gadgets as possible (e.g. the base model). Luxury and convenience is how they lure you into walled gardens. Those extra tidbits increase the likelihood of electronic failure decreasing the longevity of the vehicle and increase operating cost. They fully know humans are lazy and exploit that trait. Don't fall for it.

B. Force manufactures to implement 100% open protocols at all level of interconnect. e.g. I should be able to hook into and diagnose the the CAN/LIN/etc network between my cars switch module and the heated/illuminated/dimming/motorized side view mirrors or tail light module. I should also be able to fabricate or buy a 3rd party device that can replace the functionality should the OEM gadget fail (e.g. tail lamp module).

C. decouple car function from ancillary function, e.g. removing or replacing the infotainment/navigation/radio from the vehicle should not interfere with the cars ability to function. Likewise the HVAC has no business displaying its status on the radio. These should all be discreet systems with the option to interconnect via above mentioned protocols.
OTM options is one of those things where it works great until it doesn't and then when it doesn't it REALLY doesn't. This is almost literally how we ended up with the inverse volatility trade collapse in 2018. Look up "XIV blow up".

Betting against volatility will *never* not be "picking up pennies in front of a steamroller".

Retail investors should not touch options under any circumstances, anyway. They're hedging tools for institutions and cannon fodder for day traders.

EDIT: I missed that the OP was saying to sell options for stocks already in your portfolio. I'll address that now:

I feel like this makes it even less worthwhile? Remember, black swan events happen once a month in trading. I think people would be really surprised at how far OTM they need to go to truly get to a "minimal" risk of their options being assigned. At which point the premiums are going to truly be pennies. If you're making any interesting amount of money off of a covered trade like this, it's because you're taking on an interesting amount of risk.
I really struggled with the author's tone. It dripped of condescension towards those who live a "normal" lifestyle.

I enjoy working. I find purpose and meaning it. I do not let it dominate my life, but without it I would feel incomplete. I run my own business now, and that is very satisfying - but even when I was a corporate consultant I found a lot of enjoyment from spending time with my coworkers, solving problems, and having something to do every day.

For me anyways, a nice salary is also a form of validation and affirmation. That the effort you're expending is valued - at least by someone.
I think this is mostly due to the immediate messaging they give on the topic that is sufficient and no further click is needed. Meaning the little drop down suggestions more often than not for me has the full content I want. For example, "What is the meaning of temporal?" or 'Who wrote "Wild Thing?"'. Google has inline calculators and an amazing array of usefulness without needing a website to go to in so many cases growing more and more. What is kind of sad/funny about this is its making the search results themselves less useful in which it was built on, giving less incentive to give this AI food.
Looking at technology, yes. They sort of gave up competing with US and China, and focus on regulation (eg, GDPR)

But then “9 of the top 10 happiest nations are in Europe” [1]. That’s good news right?

The question is how will this dynamic play out over next few decades. Is it necessary to lead in technology to remain peaceful and happy?

[1] https://qz.com/1986996/europe-is-home-to-9-of-the-10-happies...
Oh no, this means we're in for another Electron app. I don't have anything against Electron, but... Man does it get tedious.
the simple answer is that not everyone loves to work. personally I hate doing anything (including stuff I would otherwise enjoy) that has to be completed according to a schedule and evaluated by other people.

but even if you do enjoy working, it's still great to be FI. you can choose the most interesting job and ignore the salary.
But the healthcare is freeeee!
In that case you mist be reading primarily US news outlets.
Have you never been in projects where a hard requirement was "save files must be editable with notepad.exe" ? If so, lucky you
If #2 is "cancel culture", then we can officially retire that meaningless phrase. Everyone who I'd ever want to spend in-person time with has someone they wouldn't do business with.
Use unsigned integers, which have well-defined overflow behavior.

In my experience with C (which is biased towards some specific use cases), most numbers that are likely to overflow are things like sizes and counts, which cannot meaningfully be negative anyway, so you may as well use unsigned integers for them. Other cases really do require signed integers, but for most arithmetic operations you can 'just' convert to unsigned before doing the arithmetic and then convert the result back to signed.

(Some may disagree. For instance, the Google C++ style guide [1] specifically says not to "use unsigned types to say a number will never be negative", because they want the undefined overflow behavior of signed types, in order to allow the compiler to diagnose bugs and to avoid "imped[ing] optimization". I think this is mostly nonsense; the drawbacks far outweigh the benefits, and tools for detecting overflow like UBSan can be told to check unsigned overflow as well.)

That said, even if you avoid the UB cases, checking for overflow correctly is hard; I've found many security vulnerabilities caused by missing or incorrect overflow checks. __builtin_add_overflow and friends are very nice if you have them, though unergonomic. I wish a more ergonomic version were standardized as part of the language.

[1] https://google.github.io/styleguide/cppguide.html
I built a new desktop recently, and the case has a USB-C port on its top panel. I had to buy a $20 PCI-E card to have somewhere legit to plug the port into because my motherboard didn't support it. I had the option of trying to make it USB 3.1 or whatever, thunderbolt, or USB 3.0 or even 2.0 via a series of adapters that probably shouldn't exist but do on ali express.

I doubt I'll ever plug anything but a smart phone into it, but it seemed worth it for the feng shui.
Funny and sad at the same time. Germany, at one time, was so far ahead in rocket science it's arguable if anyone else was even doing serious work in comparison. When that sector experienced near-total brain drain after WW2 that intellectual diaspora launched the space programs in the United States, Russia, France (and possibly Israel and Japan though the history there isn't as clear). It's interesting to think that the origin location for this brain trust still hasn't recovered or rebuilt this knowledge base.
About a decade ago or so, I remember complaining about Google's search result quality having already declined then. Specifically, I think my complaint was that the search results were a lot higher quality in the mid-2000s, and then from then on, the search results ended up becoming progressively more sanitized and crafted.

So, I mean, we're way, way past Google's heyday. It's not even close. But it's interesting to me that I can recall having those discussions that many years ago, and that people still complain about the same issue today.

In fact, just about every other search engine is better in my opinion.
> What if the owner has a different opinion than you of what is offending and what is not? They get to remove sites you think are good and keep sites you think are bad.

Yup.

> In the end, the only fair and objective way to filter content is the rule of law, as it applies to everyone equally

While it is ideal for the rule of law to be fair and apply to everyone equally, it never actually achieves that idea. The only fair way to govern what content people are compelled to relay is to let people choose what content to relay.

> Every subjective decision will always offend some people.

All decisions, including the decisions to incorporate particular standards are subjective.
Could have been a VOIP number
On the contrary, a business needs to turn a profit in order to survive, and this largely limits the activities it can do to those that are economically profitable.
We have automation to turn off all lights in the apartment when nobody's home, which saves a lot of energy due to us forgetting to turn of lights quite often otherwise. Also adds nice things like turning on lights on movement in the bathroom and kitchen, where you don't need to have lights on all the time, turning on lights 45 minutes before sunset if somebody's home and turning on lights in the hallway when coming home if it's dark already.

I find all of this extremely convenient and ZigBee is a great platform to do things like this.
Tools like cFireSim get this much more correct than what you describe above and takes literally just a few minutes to do basic modeling. They're still limited by historical returns, which is both good and bad, but certainly model very prominently the risk-of-ruin.

https://www.cfiresim.com/ (no connection, other than very occasional user)
> The space shuttle was reusable and yet, it is generally seen as a disappointment

We're well past the point where we risk discovering that SpaceX Falcon rockets are a "disappointment." Just so you know.

> (and I don't believe for a second SpaceX engineers are better than NASA engineers)

And ESA/Arianespace engineers are on par as well. Yet here we are. Has it occurred to you that this isn't really about the quality of engineers? Would you like to know what it is actually about?
It is. Apart from ++index, this is literally the same as:

let ch = if index < strlen then str.charAt(index) else 0

Eminently readable and less boring than long if/else chains in Python.
I add “wiki” too, but I made it a keyword search command to use Wikipedia’s search and cut out the middleman altogether.
In any case, people should have the freedom to choose.
Read a paper: A modern compiler for the French tax code
Thank you! I really appreciated the honesty in this piece.
You can search Reddit from DuckDuckGo by adding '!r' to your search terms. This is how I search most of the time these days for the exact reasons you mention above. DuckDuckGo has many other bang shortcuts like that too, like '!w' for Wikipedia. Actual search engine results are too manipulated, but they make great link aggregators.
What surprises me is the lack of creativity that comes from people planning to work into their 60s. To be sure, in this year of a pandemic, not working but also having a lot of other options outlawed or discouraged made for a less than ideal lifestyle. (Source: I was unemployed for six months.)

Even so, the freedom to... saw/split/stack firewood when the weather was perfect, build a movie nook for my wife, go on bike rides on a Tuesday afternoon in a warm breeze, take our dog on a long, leisurely walk at a local park, read a book in the shade out on the deck...

...or pre/post-pandemic visit a brewery or winery on a slow Thursday (and all other forms of travel that are less ideal right now.)

But also FIRE doesn't demand that you "work extra hard" during the accumulation phase. At least, I have been fortunate enough to avoid that fate. I've rarely worked overtime in my entire life as a software developer. And of course, given this career and income, living within my means (actually well below them) doesn't mean horrible deprivation, either. Sure, I can't go on a $20k weekend trip on a whim (at least not regularly!), and we have to research our options for vacation so we don't blow a lot of money, but again - it doesn't take much creativity to have a really rewarding life that doesn't necessitate spending at or above your means. (Again some of this assumes you have a "good" income. There are stories of those with lower income making it work, but the challenges change!)
Guess other countries need to embolden their entrepreneurs and risk takers to compete or something.
> Personally, I do occasionally buy lottery tickets. I don't ever expect to win, but it provides a few minutes of escapism here and there during the week, and I consider that a form of entertainment. A pretty good value for a $1 investment

I've often heard this as a defence from people who otherwise claim to accept the statistical likelihood of winning the lottery.

And to me, it seems like a variation of infinite regress applies here. Sure, if you can buy a ticket, you can imagine what you'd do if you win. But couldn't you just instead imagine if you had bought a ticket and that ticket won? It's cheaper and provides all the same escapism as playing the lottery.

I mean, if you truly accept that you are unlikely to win the lottery. That the odds are too small to entertain it as a serious thought, I don't see how buying a ticket unlocks a special realm of imagination people who didn't buy a ticket can't access. People who don't buy a ticket are only marginally less likely to win than someone who bought a ticket.
"Everybody hates Jira" - that's not fair.. there's a lot of people that haven't used it yet.
Again, I think any sex with a minor is unethical, regardless of law. But in this particulars of Minsky’s situation he didn’t cross state lines for purposes of sex, he crossed for other purposes. IANAL, but I think this would be important for determining if age of consent was violated. If there was some sign of intent that Minsky planned on traveling just to sex this person then I think the reference you provided applies. But if he went for genuine other purposes then it would not.

Arguing for purposes of nerd accuracy (or whatever you call it) not based on any endorsement of circumventing age of consent laws or abusing individuals.
Which is more exploitative, working for $5/hour in agriculture in a wealthy country, 50¢/hour in an urban factory in a poor country, or $1/day in a rural peasant village somewhere or having no work at all?

It’s all relative.
Selling OTM covered calls is not a trade that's going to blow up your account. The worst case is that you suffer a drawdown in your account (which is a risk of all investing). The second worst case is that you miss a massive, short-term rally.
Funny as from Europe it looks like that in the US from what we hear and read. It's like the US is falling apart.

Maybe generally most places are having a bad time with the pandemic and recession that is coming.
It's nice to see someone's honest thoughts. Though I can't help but find the person a little judgemental of their prior partner, or people who don't mind working. I also feel like they must have had a strange group of friends, 30k is the US median income, but it seems they only had friends making way more and also somehow being money obsessed.

I do like the conclusion though, we're social animals, and the issue with early retirement is that you're the only one with free time during work hours. They were lucky to have a partner to share their time with, but in my humble opinion, it isn't healthy for a relationship to depend on a single person that heavily. The lack of time spent with others means this one person is all you have to distract yourself, and I think that puts stress on a relationship.

I've never tried FI and early retirement, it's never really been something I've found appealing. That said, I've heard some takes on FI where they say it isn't so much that you'd stop working, but that you no longer depend on work. That means once you have financial freedom from work, you're free to see work as a hobby, and be much pickier about what work you do, where you work, how you allow yourself to be treated at work, etc. Since you know you can walk out at any time, since work isn't something you depend on. It gives you the big end of the stick in negotiating with employers, and that in itself is freeing. I think if I were to do FI, that's the type of FI I'd be interested in personally.
Will content creators stop, or will a new payment model that isn't "pay for eyeballs" arise?

The financial sources for information-collection-and-creation undertakings throughout human history have been manifold (wealthy patron and collective financing, to name two). It is entirely possible, if Google finds its data sources drying up, that Google itself will pay for data collection (they already do this with several categories of data they host).
Google's search index of the web of 2021 sucks. Getting two search results which match the exact terms I got is no longer particularly strong evidence that those were the only pages with those terms, and quite a few times I've had it fail to find pages which do exist and should have matched the search I did.
I can't read the full article, but I did just buy a house in the greater boston area. The housing market is very tight now. Very small number of houses available relative to the historical seasonal norm. Part of that was driven by a very hot market in the previous months which are normally empty. The number of buyers is very very high. Most properties are going as soon as they hit the market, for a fair chunk over list.
No, Intel-based.
Ask HN: What small home office UPS do you use?
I'm a little paranoid, have some disposable income, and feel the need to have a more secure power pathway for my home office (running a single power hungry tower and 4K monitor).

I run some 280+ watts continuously. Fan noise would likely be an issue. I'd love if it could talk to my linux box and start a smooth-shutdown script. Rack mount is not an option, sadly.

From what I understand I'll need a line-interactive setup, I think.

Any advice, ideas, or recommendations?
Wiz: A tiny security startup bought by Microsoft is already worth $1.7 B
My wife's laptop has three USB-C ports and the laptop charges off all 3, but only one has the bolt. I strongly suspect it means Thunderbolt support, i.e. it's the only port that will work well with a dock.
That fertilizer accounts for about 2% of global carbon output, but it does seem on track to be replaced with ammonia made from green hydrogen rather than steam reformed from fossil gas.

Probably won't help with runoff issues though, as it'll be chemically identical, just with a lower carbon footprint.
Not for high speed data (USB3.1 ++). The electrical length of the unused pins causes reflections in the signal. It's a consequence of the finite speed of light.
It's also easy to forget that first-time buyers won't have any sense for what's normal, expected, or required during the process. Obviously, you can research this yourself, but 1) there's no substitute for experience; and 2) you're paying a professional because they already know this stuff and you presumably have other things to do.
I googled for 'soc 2 multitenancy requirements' this morning then gave up and went to bing....
You talk of health care, how is the pandemic going in Europe?
Monopolies are a barrier to entry. I don't think any of google's products prevent that. As we see in most technology over the last 20 years, the companies at the top can change fast.

A company that creates a better search engine, will easily take over search. Next gen of search will be better at providing more relevant / less spam

Youtube does have some network effect and high costs but not enough to stop anyone from competing and vc money evens out the costs. Next gen in video may offer more features, or for a completely different platform like VR

The only platform I do see them having a strong ability to block out potential competition would be mobile and Android.
I agree with your logic 100%... but are SpaceX's rockets ITAR? I legit dont know. If they were eventually going to hold a nuke on the tip or used as Space Force transpo, I wouldn't bother asking. I just haven't heard DoD interest yet, but I've also not paid too close of an eye on the matter... as I live in viewing distance of rocket launches... god damn they're annoying at this point. Then again, NASA usage... is that instant ITAR stamp too?

But some backdoor US influence to say,"Hey, that country? Yea, fuck those guys. They dont get to use shit." I see that as a possibility.
Too bad _most_ wealth isn't the fruit of labor but extracted rents and 'what they want' is to preserve those rents in inflated non-productive financial instruments.
Maybe, but maybe not. The only thing that has stopped us from having all our jobs replaced 50 years ago by some machine is that humans work for cheap, often cheaper than it would cost to service that would be burger flipping machine. It might still be cheaper in the future to hire an actor than to hire a technician who can produce an equivalent deep fake along with the costs of providing these hardware resources. It was one thing when we were crafting entire worlds out of practical effects vs CGI, but this is literally CGI on one individual. Even today, CGI isn't always cheaper than practical effects, and sometimes big shoots still use practical effects.
agurk found some nice charts: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26542283

I suppose some people may consider stable to be overstating this situation. Nevertheless, when put into context of natural wild herd sizes as done by krrrh https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26543346 , I believe my overall point stands.
The less said about 5 the better.
I don't think the latter part is correct. In fact, many European companies, especially from Germany, are quite agile market leaders. The fact that classical rocket companies are not that agile is probably caused by the comparatively small market.

Before Elon came up with StarLink, even the Falcon 9 was a relatively boring concept, from the economical perspective. Yes, you can save say $50M for your launch. But your satellite costs hundreds of millions and it has a very long lead time. SpaceX has slips and occasionally loses a bioster. So you might simply buy the Ariane offering because they will effectively purpose-built the rocket for you. Especially when there are political connections to be maintained.

But with a high-volume market things shift considerably. Now it looks freakishly expensive to launch even for $10M when your satellites roll out of the factory in the dozens. And the concept of building a rocket on demand when you might need to replace a few broken sats next quarter is just outlandish.

I think old rocket companies are basically just seeing the entire business model change from a ultra-specialist logistics company to something more akin to FedEx.