skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a beautiful area with lots of nature-based activities nearby, and the prices are/were low enough that people moving away from California could buy a house here and in Arizona.
Looks like a great student project. Those ESP modules are great for these types of applications. I'm thinking about adding a camera setup for mine.
Supply and demand until it comes to the labor market.

Then, it's we're entitled to all the cheap labor we require.
Philosophy of Science: the Central Issues (Curd, Cover, & Pincock) is a decent although limited aggregation
There is nothing else that gets close to the world promised to us by Xerox PARC.

Don't blame Java for the issues that are Clojure's fault.

The only Lisps that can match such tooling are Allegro and LispWorks.
> The legacy of Napoleon is much more complex than that. Want it or not, he's both a terrible conqueror animated by a thirst for power at all cost and also a builder of modern institutions still in use today.

No, it's Sarkozy all over again "virtue-signaling" to his electorate, who asked teachers to "souligner l'aspect positif de la colonisation".
You're right - but I find that strange. Most of us are not angry about the pay model for groceries or haircuts. A smaller - but still large - fraction of us are okay paying for other zero-marginal-cost goods like software as well. I wonder why we are so attached to free content online. Maybe because of the historical television model that's been mentally transferred to the internet?
Bikes are the most interesting. 120% deductable where I live. Notebooks, phones, various hardware. I have half a dozen Mikrotik routers, for example. Some serve their purpose at home, others are for playing.
Is it possible to add a HN filter (hide) all paulgraham.com posts? I'm not interested in his posts and they pop up very often on HN.
>It is a tight competitive labor market

So raise wages enough to convince people to move to Montana.
Paying enough unemployment for people to survive damages the reserve army of the unemployed. It's important to remember that capitalists and communists basically agree on most economic points, they just disagree on the most ethical distribution of resources.
As I mentioned the further back you go the harder it is to say anything definitive. But I do think it's telling that depression rates keep rising, and this isn't even just a 21st century phenomenon. There are epidemiological studies from the late 80s that read very similarly to the alarm raised now: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/37702...

Going further back, discussion of a link between modernity/depression is largely speculation, but it is a popular hypothesis and there are some studies that focus on suicide rates for a more data-driven approach. It is harder to find information on US numbers but Scandinavian countries are notorious for access to thorough epidemiological data: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.2307/1389426
This doesn't look like an end-user product, so it's mostly can you trust/audit the company? Most of them are already using aws to host their data.
Right, I see. I wasn't aware of Alpaca, that's quite cool. I've read a little bit about Elixir and about how it's basically a big box of macros and magic dust that goes down to simple, straight erlang in the end, if I had more time I'd love to dig into their compiler.

Alpaca looks very neat, and ML is right up my alley. thanks again for showing this!

I can admit I am no BEAM expert and it seems my thought offended the experts, but I just like the aesthetic of modularity played out to the logical conclusion of syntactic extensions unto intermediate forms.
I personally know an unusual number of historians of science for a software engineer. If PG approached them with an open mind, I'm very confident that they'd love to talk to him. Historians do history because they love their topic so much that they are willing to suffer an abusive career and low pay. They want nothing more than to talk about the things they study.
EventBridge Atlas – open-source tool to help Event Discovery and Documentation
I couldn't find any more information about the person mentioned in the article, but I did find more information about "stalkers": https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2014/09/the-stalkers-ins...
As I said elsewhere in this thread, Haskell has a good REPL dev experience. Personally, I am a much better Lisp programmer (used Lisp languages since around 1978) than Haskell. My journey learning Haskell is almost a decade long, and still I am no where near as productive as using Common Lisp. I find that Clojure is usually a high productivity language, but I get stuck sometimes on platform details and that gets me out of a flow programming experience.

If you want to try Haskell, work though a few tutorials and if it looks good, you can grab a free copy of my Haskell book https://markwatson.com/opencontent/haskell-cookbook.pdf There are much better Haskell books than mine though, my book just reflects my own learning process.
>With those 1 or 2 percent raises being a norm almost everywhere, it's hardly a reason to actually leave the company.

But it is a reason to leave the company because you can easily get 10% or more switching jobs.

>occasional hiring and training costs.

Hiring and training costs are enormous, and they aren't occasional when you're talking about software companies with very high turnover. If you're incentivizing job hopping every few years, the average programmer at your company could be spending 25% or more of their tenure ramping up to full capacity.
Maybe the heavy atoms would sink into the mantle.
> developers will always push things to the limit

Agree, it's an arms race at this point between end consumers and app developers. However, it also means once Mighty becomes popular they have to contend with developers overwhelming their computing resources as well.
Sand is usually at the bottom of these containment vessels right? I wonder if that has something to do with it.
> 9. The LAW. SO MUCH LAW. SO. MUCH. LAW.

> 10. There's actually a good chance that there's not a single person in your entire state or country that knows how to do your taxes.

And this is because your entire business model is to get around laws that were put in place ON PURPOSE.
Clubhouse was lightning in a bottle. It also proves that some things just can't scale, no matter how much money and star-power you can throw at it.
As much as I hate to defend adtech, I think it's unfair to generalize a whole industry.

A company I worked for was more in the business of improving targeting. Of course people will argue if targeting demographics is bad per se, or better or worse than other parts, but I personally don't care if I get generic ads or ones tailored to me. So for one of our main product, we were reselling and integrating some data for a bigger player, as in, we were 1 of many data points determining if the ad would be interesting for the person who would see the ad or if they'd give them another one.

Yes, it kind of gets into this angle of privacy and user tracking... but I'm ok with the scope we did it in and I thought hard about if I can accept this without a guilty conscience - but for example I'd never knowingly work on trying to bombard the user with even more ads, or popups, or whatever - but just saying "ads shouldn't exist" is maybe aspirational but sadly I don't see it as a valid version of reality in the foreseeable future.
This. I was going to write out my own list, but you covered everything I wanted to say.

I would counter that most companies can't attract or retain talent because they don't really want it. Most of the work that needs to be done in the world doesn't require the top 5 percent of the pool.
>> And when I use it, I doubt average load is over 25%.

So the idea is you can get your laptop utilization down to 1% by pushing your load to their cloud? Fascinating.
Yes, we should know better, we've seen this story being played out a few times.

Delegating power/freedom is always dangerous, especially if you're doing it for free.
I would have thought that the extremely high cost of insurance premiums for wood shingles had pretty much eliminated them from use, especially for new consttruction or roof replacements.
People selling their $1.5M home in California and buying one home here and one in Arizona/Florida.
I am actually in Mighty's market if it cost ~$10usd per month, not $50.

At our startup we have a small org of customer service reps. They basically live in four tools: Notion, Slack, Chrome, and Front.

These four tools have one thing in common: they are all Electron apps. They SUCK. On any windows computer slower than a $1.5K lenovo, our reps can't have more than ~10 tabs open before their computer starts to stutter.

One answer would be to buy everyone an M1 mac. However, most of these reps are not familiar with apple (they use PCs at home) + they are still a bit too expensive (we're in Mexico where they cost 1.5 - 2x).

I would love to be able to buy our customer service reps a setup (monitor + mouse + computer) for ~$500 USD and have them use Mighty to run our customer service suite for $10-$15 bucks a month. That would scale to a customer service org of hundreds.

At $50 bucks a month I should just buy them a mac.

IMHO Suhail's pitch about "running figma" is wrong. I'm happy to buy a designer any computer they want. But outfitting a CSR team of 50+ people? Mighty + a thin client would be amazing.
What else would buying the land mean? Why do I get to use this laptop, eat this food, wear this shirt, or live in this [owner-occupied] house just because I bought it first?

Housing could absolutely be provided by companies or governments. In the US, government has an absolutely horrible track record of providing desirable housing (except perhaps military base officer housing).
Don't forget about the film:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stalker_(1979_film)
Why do I 'defend' agile?

I guess... for one thing, I have, multiple times in my career, been part of technology organizations that have positively transformed their relationship with business stakeholders by getting the business to buy the underlying truth: building software is a learning exercise; the requirements can and will change.

And the frameworks you have to put in place to make that kind of relationship work, to replace the arbitrary deadlines and deathmarches? Turns out 'agile practice' has a bunch of useful ideas for those.

Teams have limited capacity for 'work in progress'. The upcoming work can be prioritized on a backlog. Loose sizing estimates can help us make decisions about trading off time and features. You can only have one top priority at a time. It helps to let teams understand what problem they are trying to solve, not just tell them to implement a piece of a solution.

That's what I value when I talk about 'agile'. A bunch of useful ideas stolen from scrum and kanban and lean and so on that actually help put developers in a position to solve the right problems in the right way, and get 'management' off their back.

I'm also a fan of daily planning meetings to facilitate collaboration inside teams. I like retrospectives as a way to identify ways for teams to improve how they work. I like short fixed-duration iterations which deliver working code. I like pairing on problems. I like continuous integration and deployment and automated tests written alongside the code. Those are good practices that we, as a small team of developers, can use to help one another do good work, and ship working software.

And those ideas are all also stolen from things like scrum and XP and TDD and devops, which are also all 'agile' practices.

If someone tells me they don't like agile I am confused because... I don't know why you wouldn't want to work on teams that follow those kinds of practices.

I do get that plenty of people have been subjected to environments that use things with the same names as these things in ways that aren't remotely agile. But throwing out the idea that daily standups are a good idea because you've been subjected to a bad implementation of them is like saying you never want to use a programming language that has strings because PHP's string coercion sucks.

I find these practices helpful, and better than not following them. I've been lucky to get to enjoy working in environments that use them, rather than have them badly forced upon me.
Legally it makes a big difference whether a tool is designed with the specific purpose of being abused or whether it is incidental.

I think morally that's correct as well.

Cryptocurrency is a weird one you bring up coz I don't think anybody is proposing hunting down and jailing Satoshi even if they think Bitcoin ought to be banned.
this mini-rant you posted about Basecamp is not just a wild tangent completely unrelated to the topic of discussion, you're also making things up that have no correspondence to the reality of the situation.

to say "They cultivated a workforce that was more concerned with airing political grievances than they were with the success of the company" is just absurd.

they lost Sam Stephenson, who had been there 15 years and authored a sizeable amount of their open source. to shine as an open source contributor at a company with DHH, you've got to produce a lot of good work.

the guy who kicked off the firestorm was another long-term employee, Ryan Singer, and it's true that he did it by posting about politics. (specifically, praising Breitbart.) but he posted about politics after a decade or more of doing great work for the success of the company.

in each case, these people absolutely proved their commitment to the success of the company. and there is absolutely no evidence that the specifics of the political division even had anything to do with airing grievances per se.

if you're going to go off on a wild tangent, at least talk about things that actually happened in real life.
When I was a kid I thought that launching nuclear waste into the sun was a decent idea. Now, not so much!
> I have a hard time believing the author is unaware of this, so I'm left wondering: why? What was the point of this exercise?

I reckon it was mostly a brag about (1) how he earns over half a million dollars a year for inflicting this upon us all and (2) how much more charitable he is than most of the rest of us.
Why don't you be transparent and tell us the service?
... and the game combines Chernobyl and

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079944/

or

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

... or both, depending on how you look at it.
>Any phenomenon which decreases in rate proportional to our ability to measure it is very unlikely to exist.

Military UFO sightings have only increased as we have deployed more sophisticated RADAR/LIDAR/Thermal/EWAR systems. In the nimitz case they had just recently been upgraded.

AEGIS/SPY-1 detected objects entering theater at 80,000+ ft, that quickly dropped to sea level. The tracks then disappeared from radar and the carrier groups sub gets a sonar hit in the same location of something going 200MPH under water.

We have complex multi-spectrum/multi-system detection events of objects/crafts capable of trans-medium travel, a capability no known adversary has.
> Because it works?

Only if you have people who crave stability more than they need/want more compensation or who are invested in the work with you (i.e. they find it _really_ interesting). Otherwise it just creates churn, as people need to leave to get much of a bump up and leave the next place next time they want a bump up too.

So it only works overall if most people are in the "wanting stability" group.

This is probably part of the driver towards contract work rather than perm: if you need to switch jobs regularly to keep improving your conditions, then why not have the extra flexibility and/or extra compensation of working contract?
We had a dumbed down MBTI offspring. And a security training. And the bias/unconscious bias/unknown bias training. And a few more that I can not remember.
The Chernobyl disaster is simply unimaginably expensive. The total costs so far are estimated to be in the hundreds of billions of dollars. The new containment structure that was finished in 2019 was $2,000,000,000 alone, and dismantling the reactors and cleanup is scheduled to take another 45 years.
Ben Thompson has some intelligent comments on this, and what he got wrong, here:

https://stratechery.com/2021/market-making-and-time-horizons...
NFTs as Collectible Tickets to an Event
108 of these access tokens have one-to-one access. One-to-one access where VeeFriends token holders have the opportunity to redeem one on one time with Gary Vaynerchuk.
Still worth the attempt if youre going to be mooring anyway - just for fun.
It sounds like they are afraid of a criticality accident

https://www.nrc.gov/docs/ML1220/ML12205A469.pdf

For the most part a critical mass that produces enough heat to expand will have the reaction stop because the expansion causes the surface area per reactive nucleus to increase and the neutrons leak out.

It's unlikely that a situation like that will produce enough energy to be dangerous far from the reactor (an explosion or "meltdown") but it sure is dangerous for workers in the vicinity.
The choice is of course up to you.

I haven't read "Art of not..." because it came off as one of those books cashing in on "stoicism for bros". As I understand it, that's the book that made him truly famous.

My original comment refers only to what he wrote in "Models", which was written several years earlier. I would much sooner read a book about dating from a relatively average looking, average seeming guy than somebody who never had problems dating to begin with.
Activision Blizzard merged in 2008 while Overwatch was 2016. They were supposedly working on that game for a long time I would say with 8 years it has to count.
Related: "Why Don't We Throw Trash in Volcanoes?
" => https://youtu.be/Q1blQRrM4TA
Working in adtech and trying to convince yourself (and others) you are doing the world a favor is a real equilibrium exercise.

The false dichotomy between ads/paywall is not really useful, when the reality is that you often get a paywall and ads after you agree to pay. The advertisement industry is a cancerous blight of our societies, its sole purpose is to sell us stuff we do not need to increase a company’s profit. The fact that this is done on the web by plundering our personal data with no regard for our privacy is just the cherry on top. Ads business is unhinged capitalism and a social and ecological disaster, and advocating in its favor today is short-sighted at best.

It’s fine to work a job you like in an unethical industry, but it is not necessary to try to sell it to other people.
That's a really nice succinct way of putting it. Will steal.
If the suggestion were in fact to double "all federal income taxes", what do you think tax rates would end up looking like? Right now the top "all taxes" federal marginal rate is 39.35%. (2.35% Medicare, and 37% individual income tax). Doubling that gets you to 78.7%. And state taxes also exist; in California the top rate would be > 90% overall.

And of course doubling rates will not double revenue, because incentives really are a thing and a change this large would have large incentive-mediated effects, including people ending up with more compensation in non-taxable form (leisure, respect, non-taxable perqs, etc). The only way to double _revenue_ is for rates to rise even more, or more likely to start affecting more people (i.e. the top rate starting to apply at lower income levels).

Now those are marginal, not average, rates. But just to be clear, right now US government (federal, state, local) spending is ~46% of GDP. Federal spending on its own is ~30% of GDP. If we are talking about doubling that second number, overall government spending would be 76% of GDP. Which generally means the _average_ tax burden across all people would be 76% of income (though some of that can get hidden via corporate income taxes and whatnot). There will absolutely have to be people with average tax burdens > 80% to suport that. That's assuming that we don't finance things by borrowing, of course; 1/3 of US government spending right now is not even coming from tax revenue.

It might also be instructive to compare 76% government spending to the table at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_governmen... to see how that measures up against other countries.
We don't know any non-nuclear process that can accelerate the decay of nuclei, so that should not be possible to change anything about that!
> Reminder that "bourgeoisie" means "the middle class"

No, "bourgeoisie" doesn't mean "middle class". I'm using the Marxist definition of the word, I'm not including a household on teacher's salary who own a home. That's what the actual middle-class is in France.
I would prefer the payment model if it means I get the things I expect from other premium models: hand-on user support that is motivated to keep me paying, features that actually enrich me instead of sap me further, and an internal culture of working for the customers instead of working for the shareholders.
So these are all people who make less than $2000 a month. That's $12 an hour.
In the early 2000s, digital cameras were a wonder for me, and given the cost, it wasn't hard to look upmarket just a bit and get a DSLR and go down the rabbit hole looking for lenses. But I think DSLR manufacturers were buoyed by consumer digital camera sales, which evaporated once smartphone cameras got good enough. Now DSLR usage is either professional or niche (more so).

I know I only reach for my Pentax K3-II for special occasions or special uses, like trying to capture wildlife (which is too far away and too fast for most smartphone captures.) But Pentax seems to be a (nearly) dead brand in this space. If I wanted to keep doodling in the hobby, I'd probably eventually have to switch to mirrorless or switch to the Canon/Nikon duopoly. I would greatly miss the rugged feel, durability and weather resistance in my Pentax body and lenses.
> 5. Raises that matter. Not some 1 or 2 pct insult. There's no excuse for that. None.

This x100.

I don't understand why companies see this as acceptable, especially when market rates might be so much higher.
This could be the same as "Why I work on Healthcare".

There's a wide range from honest honorable work to complete scumbag devil.
That makes sense, we're seeing a "covid bubble" from people from areas like CA into rural places - combined with the labor shortage and lumber prices this will cause some disruption for awhile, but then I expect we see a price crash there eventually, brought on by over-building.
> but what about all those sites that don't have a strong commercial tie-in?

Surely it's okay for sites that "don't have a commercial tie-in" to stick with untargeted ads? I just think that building a giant stalking network is an extreme (and ideally illegal) solution to the "problem" that a couple of sites won't make as much money off their popularity as they'd like.

And is it that uncharitable to characterize what Facebook and Google are building as a giant stalking network?
I'm not sure if the price speculation actually undermines the underlying businesses. For example, I participate in a blockchain wiki project. On the telegram there is a lot of people talking about the price but I don't feel like it diminishes the usefulness of the project. I asked questions about editing, the admins helped me out and I was able to use the platform.
Analysis: Facebook confronts human rights dilemma on political speech
It would be really cool if you could do this with structural colors instead. (e.g. not face the limitations of cyan, magenta, yellow dyes and color spaces.)
Evidence for Correlation of Nuclear Decay Rates and Earth-Sun Distance (2008)