skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
180 degrees from what culture? I’ve been to Belgrade a few times for work and worked with lots of Serbians for a number of years. They are more like the conservatives in the US.

People move to Belgrade because it’s cheap and the food is awesome. I’ve partied at the Splavs and had a great time. Random people were much more friendlier than Germans (the Serbs told me they were robots). There are some resentments by the Serbs against Americans and NATO bombings. It did come up while I was there.
I think on a personal basis all of them are better than nothing. It's like advice about taking the first bus out of town.
Clearly there is potential on both ends for abuse. To me this story highlights that there are a surprising number of unoccupied/rarely occupied apartments and homes. To me it's surprising that it wouldn't be in the interests of the owners to be renting them instead of leaving them empty (obviously that's a bit different when we're talking about a cottage on the beach or in the mountains, but why leave a flat in town empty?) My instinct is there must be a combination of perverse incentives that makes having paying tenants actually less appealing than letting dust gather. In a better world the flats wouldn't be empty to be squatted in by crooks or desperate people?
This is one of those moments I feel so out of touch with the community here. Is this even real life?
The cube thwarted your attempts at frugality, so that it could spend time with you alone.
My grandmother had very serious dementia. I remember a year or so before we were aware of it that she almost ran a cyclist off the road which was very uncharacteristic.
No, it's showing that we maintain the extra artery. There is no reason to believe this is an evolutionary change - there are plenty of hormonal and other environmental factors that could be contributing as well.
Please don't take HN threads into flamewar hell.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28317106.
Nothing, it’s just somewhat roundabout and not really tailored for that scenario. For 1) the pricing model for that doesn't make sense for small teams (which IMO are most likely to adopt, for big teams it’s a deal). You need 30 server boosts to get 100mb upload limit which is $150/mo. And them that doesnt apply to DMs. And 2) the logistics don’t really work out. You need separate accounts to buy the boost. If you buy nitro for the deal it’s account bound which doesn't make tons of sense since nitro only applies to that one account. I’m not saying you cant make it work, more that it’s overly roundabout at the moment. Would just be nice to allow some org to have an account and to gift boosts to users or something to bridge the gap for small teams.
The problem is that the people who like rent control also dislike land value taxes. Land value taxes mean that if your neighborhood gets a successful shopping mall then the land value goes up and some people are priced out of the area.

The reason people support things like rent control is "I've lived here my whole life but I can't afford rent anymore because it keeps going up."
Note that "these delays" is referring to the time taken to develop the software for their choice of components, not sourcing the hardware of those components. The PinePhone doesn't have this problem not because of its choice of older components, but because Pine64 doesn't do any software and lets the community work it out, which it has.

That said, the problem of components shortage is real, which is why the PP's Beta Edition ships with identical hardware to the previous Community Edition but for needing to use a different, worse, magnetometer. ("Worse" because it has no driver in the mainline kernel yet so it can't be used.)
Aha, yes. I wanted one for a mini periodic table.
As a new System76 customer, I like their stepwise approach. It tells me they're thinking long term and not rushing. That's what I want to support is a longterm open hardware+software industry.

My understanding is they've started selling their own desktop models after selling white-labeled machines in the past. And that with laptops they are quite involved in the design process and are inching towards selling their own custom laptops.

If Purism fails it will likely be because they did too much from scratch. Taking on hardware and software all at once is a recipe for disaster. It's super expensive.
I'm glad you posted this as it goes against the "hard work cult" that seems to have gripped popular imagination. Hard work isn't just time spent on completing a task; this interpretation is maybe the easiest to understand and benefits employers the most.
William Osman had a video where he "experimented" with a huge tungsten cube. It's quite entertaining.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9O551__3ppM

Another interesting fact about tungsten is that its density is 99.75% of that of gold. So essentially you can model how heavy something is if it was made out of pure gold with tungsten.
Additionally, apparently gold counterfeiters sometimes put tungsten inside of gold bars to fake gold
No we don’t. Oh, and I need money for AC/heating, water, power and internet.
In Latin America you can try Chile, we are doing OK with the pandemic compared to other countries, we are in opening phase now, housing can be not that cheap but you may try sharing an apartment/room/house.

The south can be pretty nice and chill compared to the capital (see Canada vs US), but you have less services the more you are in rural areas. Dunno how the prices are there, though. Capital's downtown can be very calm compared to the hell of Santiago's (too much peasants on the road!), but in Santiago you have museums and All-the-nice-stuff(tm) like architecture and European-like roads, metro to everywhere,etc. It can feel like living in another country sometimes, but some things costs more.

Same with Valparaíso or Viña, doesnt look that good but at least you have beaches and a lot of services.

Beware our spanish dialect, we use lots of loanwords and nonstandard stuff sometimes...
I know they have the capability, I'm just skeptical use it on HN.

I would think they'd focus on places with more reach (e.g. Twitter, Facebook, maybe Reddit) and places were they could have more control (e.g. fake blogs, fake think tanks, websites that peddle conspiracy theories).
Well, you'll be able to hear the shrieking from here if Britain is ruled not to have an adequate data protection regime.

The EU basically doesn't enforce the regulation against the US because we're too big a software partner for the rules to apply. I wouldn't bet the UK is going to get the same realpolitik exception.
I have a collection of thin tungsten cylinders if anyone is in the market!

Glassblowers use tungsten rods to pierce borosilicate glass. When you get tungsten and a piece of glass hot, you can push the tungsten through the glass fairly easily. Tungsten doesn’t get “wet” and stick to glass at these temperatures (~2000F), unlike other metals we use such as steel or brass. We tend to buy these at the welding store (arc welders use them as electrodes or something).
If you are a developer, you can move to Bangalore. You can get a new job in a heartbeat. Salaries here for a senior dev can range between $60K to $120K. Living expenses depends on where you live and what you do. You can easily live here in $1K. A decent 2/3bhk (2/3 bedrooms, hall and kitchen) with all furnishing in a nice area would cost $400-500 along with maintenance.

Rest is super cheap. $20 for really fast internet. $5 for all you eat 4g phone connection. Netflix here is also very cheap at $10. $200 for groceries would fetch all kinds of good fresh veggies. $150 for a maid to clean, wash and cook etc. Rest you can use up on ordering food (roughly $5-10 per meal)...huge number of eating out and ordering in options. Delivery apps are everywhere so no need to go out. Uber is there for going around. Medical is really cheap compared to USA. You can get really good insurance policy for say $300 per annum which will cover everything and then some. Weather of Bangalore is really nice. Never too hot
This reminded me of a funny (in a sense) video that got viral a while ago here in Spain, where someone had squatted on the apartment of some romanian dude. He was talking to the camera with a hammer on his hand: "spanish law says this or that, well we are going to solve this with romanian law, which says that you do not screw with me"...

Blows the door lock away with the hammer and proceeds into the premise. I would love to know what happened afterwards, but I can imagine.
I think there's an important point here too that cuts against a lot of memes: it's important to keep working hard right up until this point. A lot of people presume that if they put in a solid day's work they're going to do just as well as someone who is a "work-a-holic." That's not a great mental model, if the work-a-holic is working more but not so much they are hitting these problems mentioned. There's a fairly wide margin between underwork and overwork.

edit: Lo and behold my sibling is taking on one of the memes I mentioned. :) If you're working less because you feel it's doing too much in the favor of your employer, and not because you're otherwise going to start becoming less productive because of it, you're probably underworking in the sense outlined here.
Apply anyway. Most companies are scratching the bottom of the barrel right now for people. Those ads are always 'nice to haves'.
The lowest median rent in the US is $725 a month in West Virginia and the internet access is not great.
Direct Manipulation and Other Lessons [pdf]
>Regarding the credit scores study, this may not have to do with forgetting payments as a precursor to dementia,

or my ADHD regularly costing me late fees. I'm ok with it until some company turns out to be just as disorganized as me, because they never have to pay for their foibles.
I've held for a long time that you must know the rules quite well before you're "allowed" to break them, and I think this reinforces my opinion on that.

Additionally, I think the obsession over "intelligence" and "natural ability" is vastly overstated, in general. It absolutely helps, and it compounds, to be smart, but a person who "works hard" is infinitely more valuable to their colleagues than a smart person who doesn't, and tries to rely on raw intellect.

My problem, and I wonder if others have this issue as well, is how hard it is to know these things intellectually, and also apply them to my life. I just cannot, for the life of me, maintain a "work hard" mindset. I'm still trying, but I very often fail at this, and its frustrating because I know how valuable it is to being good at what I do.
Previous discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28307224
Evolution is constant since environment we live in is always changing and we need to adapt to it. Extra artery is an anatomical variation[1] because in order to evolve random mutations are happening and whatever works is passed to offspring.

For example this article[2] explains Alan Turing 's Turing pattern[3] and pattern variation of denticles, the toothlike protrusions that cover the skin of sharks.

The article says "Nature tends to invent something once, and then plays variations on that theme." That's true because variation is a way for nature to trial and error certain solutions until good enough solution is found.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatomical_variation

[2] https://nautil.us/issue/68/context/how-alan-turing-deciphere...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_pattern
Thank you. Reading it right now.
>Less than 0.1%

There were a lot more than 1,000 people involved in creating that new business.
You could live in rural Finland on $1k USD, although frugally.

The upsides: lots of peace and quiet, excellent infrastructure, almost no crime, progressive Scandinavian values, almost everybody speaks English.

The downsides: long dark winter, sparsely populated, quiet people don't actively seek interaction with newcomers.

Probably not ideal unless you're serious about just huddling down to work.
I'm an Australian in Krakow & I'd recommend it. Plenty of people understand English, and it's a small enough city that the vibe is fairly relaxed.

Places like this will help with a visa for a more extended stay so you can run your "startup":

https://twojstartup.pl/
Made me chuckle because the rant on management is real.

I have root caused it. The problem with management in any org is accountability without control of output.

Management is really a vague job in tech. The org hierarchy should be more like Junior engineers reporting to senior engineers reporting to staff engineers. Each chain only works on one project at a time.

Yes, we need some managers but only a few. Mostly for promotions and for cross-team horn fights.

I'd be curious to know if there are companies with fewer managers and how they rate on employee happiness.
aargh, the confusion presented by this headline is infuriating and is a continues problem in how we present science to the general populace.

"just a theory" is imply meaningless in the scientific method. What is the theory of gravitation just a theory?
non pole here, knew a guy who wasn't white or European, not living in biggest cities, loved it there. sure its safer than many places.
I agree with the logic, but I'd argue that the macro trend and market/brand position vs Tim cook has more to do with that 10x return. That is attributable to Jobs over Cook.
Not sure your exact use-case but if you are frequency-limited by the RTL and you feel like soldering, you can mod a SUP-2400[0] to be a 4.5GHz downconverter for the RTL[1].

[0]: https://www.solidsignal.com/zinwell-directv-b-band-converter...

[1]: https://www.kd0cq.com/2016/04/part-ii-the-mod-receive-up-to-...
This is one of the reasons why I've been building Cosmopolitan Libc. https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan Alpine and Musl aren't radical enough on the bloat-free angle (since they don't fix root problem which is dynamic shared objects) and their definition of portability is supporting architectures like sega saturn but do nothing to support intel/amd microarchitectural dispatching, which is likely why you encountered performance issues. It's like, I love Musl so much, but I just didn't see the value in being able to port my apps to Sega Saturn if my C Library only runs on Linux and has suboptimal performance on x86.

[side note] I seem to recall there being something about the the way the musl header files are written that basically throws a wrench into any scientific computing code that's compiled with it. Might have something to do with security like those checks intended to prevent people from overlapping memcpy so someone should totally fix that.
Curious as to how many days of data you have in your cluster. It seems like it could be ~1/2 billion records per day, 125 billion per year-ish. In a few years your 3 node Mongo cluster would be getting towards volumes I associate with a 'big data' kind of solution like BigTable.
yah, that's exactly the bias talking. 2016 isn't special. the rhetorical heat has been rising for decades because more and more people are realizing that moneyed interests are corrupting our shared prosperity, and getting a fair shake is becoming less and less realizable for more and more people. heated rhetoric ("censorship") in turn tries to squash, or at least shout down, dissent, but that's mostly misdirected at each other rather than toward the moneyed and powerful, who have distracted us and subverted our common rules and norms over the last 70 years. it's not special to the times or a particular ideology (and especially not a particular ex-president and his fans).
That place looks like you're meant to shop in bulk. Having one cube would be cool, but I probably don't need a thousand of them.
They don't want you to use other platforms at the same time. Because if you spend too much time outside and start liking them, you will be at risk of unsubscribing. Heaven forbid they need to compete on content quality to retain you. This will be much easier and cheaper.
While the pendulum goes back and forth on this issue, and in past decades, it did lean towards profits, I'm not aware of any regulatory enforcement of business decisions to maximize profits. Quite the contrary, almost all large businesses make charitable donations, which is the legal basis dating back to a 1956 NJ Supreme Court decision to support the legal rights to put social good above corporate profits.

Even if that were not the case, we have recently swung to the other end of the pendulum, with corporate governance groups making an explicit change to work towards more than just profits a couple years ago -- https://fortune.com/longform/business-roundtable-ceos-corpor...
If you want to have a great experience, I would suggest South of Brazil (something like country from Rio Grande do Sul or Santa Catarina), Buenos Aires in Argentina, or my favorite spot Montevideo, Uruguay. In the 3 options, you can live well with 1k USD and have one of the best times of your life, without a super huge cultural shock. Have fun!
Once it gets large enough, it will end up at MOMA.
Yeah. The quality of life available in many of these major Balkan cities is on-par with anywhere else in Europe for a tiny fraction of the price. You can find lovely flats in the urban center Sofia, Bulgaria for less than $500 pcm, pay basically no local taxes, access the quality of music/museums/restaurants you'd expect in any other capital city, use a solid public transport system, and get healthcare that beats the USA in both quality and cost. Add in a gorgeous countryside, safety orders of magnitude better than major US cities, and decent English skills among the younger generations and it's a very easy place to pass a year or two. Something to consider for retirement too. Trying to convince my parents to give that a go, since they'd be able to live like kings on their modest savings rather than developing ulcers from constant fear of retirement ending healthcare mishaps.
> open source phone like this that supports WiFi calling

Even on Android, WiFi Calling is done via a proprietary library, AOSP doesn't support it. As of now, no one has attempted to RE the protocol, so no open source solution exists.
Regarding supply behaviour, you're confusing deflationary with disinflationary (yearly inflation rate going down toward 0).
I don't even see that XPS available on dell.com anymore.
Something similar happened with terrorism when the US started bombing. People joined because they were losing friends and seeked both revenge and solidarity.

I still don't think it's a great idea to find too much solidarity within the two party system, no matter how sweet the revenge could be. That's why I don't consider myself a modern liberal.
> why induced demand does not similarly apply to/or is not a concern for welfare programs

It does in certain circumstances, like when you'd get 90% of your paycheck if you quit your job, and so people quit. Which is why smart welfare programs provide benefits in a gradual way rather than at a single cutoff -- e.g. how the Affordable Care Act subsidies were designed.

> homeless shelters

Again, it does. Cities with excellent homeless shelters and care literally attract homeless people from parts of the country without. Remember the scandal about cities literally buying homeless people bus tickets to send them somewhere else, to try to address the problem? This is a known issue, and a good justification for why social services funding ought to be provided at the national level rather than at the city level.

> or public transportation

It does absolutely. Entire cities spring up after a rail line is built.

I guess my question to you is -- what are you trying to argue? Induced demand isn't just a property of roads, and I don't know any author who says it's exclusive to roads. It seems like a straw-man you've constructed.

But the concept is often raised in conversations about roads, because many people naively believe that widening a road will solve congestion.
I love my tungsten cube <3
It's probably good advice, and maybe my dissent is just due to my burn out, but...

I'm tired of hearing "work hard". Very often, working hard does not lead to success. It sure as shit didn't work out that way for me. There are many people who do not work hard and make tons of money in things like NFT, crypto, securities, office politics, scams, etc. It seems like luck is the shared variable... of which I have none.
Yes: https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented#shadow...
This is the perennial problem with pricing. You should pay for the value you get out of the software. At a fixed price, there’s a lot less flexibility. In this case that same software might decide to charge for 3y or 5y of value. Would you balk at paying $500-$700 for perpetual use?

The subscription is more efficient in the sense that the folks getting more value pay more.
Mad-libs substitution responses are annoying wastes of everyone's time. They are also highly likely to venture into false equivalency territory.
I highly recommend you adjust your perspective. Look for the positives not the negatives.

Isn't as easy to use as your Mac for some things, sure, but to start out thinking it isn't as good means you'll look for the things that are flawed instead of noticing the things that are amazing.

I've used Linux as a daily driver since 2016, yes there are things that would be easier if I just owned a Mac - somewhat ironically that includes Microsoft Office - but there are many things that are just amazing on Linux.

The ability to pipe audio from one program into another, or quickly create a virtual audio device that combines two get a lot of use from me on the unending stream of video calls.

The fact my home directory contains all my configs in plain test making it easy for me to have the same custom setup across 3 different computers (and all nicely versioned in git).

How about the fact that while I love a keyboard centric tiling window manager (i3wm) when my wife or son log in they get a KDE or Gnome desktop that is as familiar to them as their existing Window's computers.
Scale matters. The early Internet was elitist and small. It had a fairly strong influence on those it reached but that was a small group. Influential, to a degree.

And even in the very earliest days there was both resistance and propaganda online. One of the earliest books I have addressing this is John S. Waterman's The Matrix, published in 1990, about the then-extant "conferencing systems" worldwide. Its forward mentions what was a then-breaking develoopment: the 4 June 1989 Tienanmen Square protests and massacre, and the consequent flood of messages via fax and telephone by the student protesters.

What happened over the course of the aughts and teens is that the Internet achieved mass global reach. The Facebook, YouTube, and Whatsap logos are probably the most-widely reproduced symbols on the planet, each having 2 billion or more active users. Mobile internet means that this contact is continuous throughout the day and limited to highly-emotive content.

And now the misinformation and disinformation is mainstream. State-level actors --- Russia and China, yes, but also India, Israel, the US, and others --- are engaged in propaganda of various forms. Commercial interests do so through advertising and influencers. Politics are now online not merely in California and the US, but globally. The bottleneck isn't the network, it's the public's ability to perceive and sort through the bullshit and manipulation, much of which is exceedingly adept.

Media changes societies. It always has, going back to speech. And the changes we're living through now will have profound and long-lived consequences.
"this has led to the rise of private eviction companies, some of which use threats to achieve their goal."

Some times landlords rent without contracts, to not pay taxes, and claim that the renters are squatting to evict them. A lot of shadow business going there.