skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In my opinion, part-time work is much more common in the EU.

Also, there is a cultural difference. If I can earn what I need to finance my lifestyle with 15 hours per week, why work more? The drive to become rich is a lot less strong in the EU because you can have health insurance and retirement money even when you're not extraordinarily wealthy.

Also, living costs are quite low. 2000€ net per month is enough to feed a family and live within waking distance of supermarkets, schools, doctors. You don't need a pricey car.

And lastly, most young people in the US have student loans to pay off. My university was free, so I started working with 0 debt.
Agree. A few weeks is fine. As you say it causes to you to access more carefully if you need a thing.

Also, encourages planning (maybe the opposite of impulse).
It's more difficult in Europe to fire people with a permanent contract. That can make companies more reluctant to hire. As the say of another profession, "I don't pay them to come over, I pey them to go away afterwards".
Point taken but somewhat dubious top 10 IMO. Looks more like a popularity contest result.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/100_Greatest_Britons#Top_10
Ask HN: Ever lost your love for coding? How did you get it back?
Have you ever lost the love for coding? I sure did after a grind as CTO of a startup and then director at a financial services company. Needing everything yesterday and dealing with the corporate politics - I found my work was no longer any fun. I took a sabbatical and leveled up on Python/Django and started having fun again. I even made and sold a micro-startup that was Django based. What I loved was it allowed me to be productive as an individual - I didn't need a team of 10 to produce something. Have you ever lost your love for coding and then gotten it back? If so how?
Canada has highest mobile data prices in the world [pdf]
Shoulder Advisors 101
>Also, the Canadian healthcare is not exactly stellar. For some reason, dental care in Canada is "only cosmetic" and not covered by insurance.

This is the case in at least some western european countries as well - for example, dental is not included in Sweden (except for children, which get this coverage for free).
8% vacation money = 13th month. 57k in NL is low medior salary, with 80-95k being the average non-FAANG senior range, wih the exception of possibly Booking.
I wish there were simple Docker deployment instructions so I could self-host an instance.
Pieter Levels (the guy who made Nomad List) reached $1 000 000 ARR with a single VPS, all his code in an index.php file and using FTP to transfer the latest code to his server...

I think if you’re a solo founder you have to accept on day one you’re at a time disadvantage when it comes to the actual hours you’ll spend on moving the business forward vs admin, ops, legal stuff etc etc and so you have to really fight smart!

I.e K8S? Definitely don’t need it. Complex CI/Deployment workflow? Nope, just the minimal shell scripts to do clean deploys and rollbacks. Pay for a HA RDS so you never need to worry about DB replication etc.

If you just work with the minimal set of tools you’re comfortable with and relentlessly keep things simple it’s possible. I’ve built high availability stuff as a solo founder and still found (at least some...) time to work on sales and the business.
Labour compensation per hour worked was roughly the same for US, UK, DE, NL for 2019:

* https://data.oecd.org/lprdty/labour-compensation-per-hour-wo...

The US jumped much higher in 2020, but they've been historically very close.
Paul Graham's Essays in E-book Formats
You know how we established radio-comms in the military? By debugging over cell phone links obviously :-)
I didn't know Magic Leap was still a thing, I'm somewhat impressed. I definitely understand the negativity in the comments but at the same time with their experience with the v1 maybe they'll manage to deliver something useful this time?

Some skepticism is definitely warranted, but I'm looking forward to actual demonstrations of this hardware. Assuming of course that this time they'll actually share proper demo footage instead of obviously bullshit marketing videos.
I appreciate your cynicism/realism, and I don't think you should be voted-down for telling it like it is.

I don't like the idea of taking credit for the work of your staff; but if your team (run by you) gets credit for a job of work, some of that should absolutely be rubbing off on you.

I've always had better things to do than scheming and game-playing. "Life" is about playing games for one's own benefit; I managed fine, without knocking too many other people down. But some people treat Life as zero-sum. That's fine too - but watch as other people steer clear of you.
Yeah, typically you want a record type for something like a mapping over potentially arbitrary keys (via an index type) to values of known type, and an object type (which can have optional keys) when you do know exactly what shape you expect and want to enforce it.
If you have not experienced the magic leap videos do not do it justice.

Heres my video flying inside my house:

https://youtu.be/Grlk03MdScQ

The jaw dropping aspects:

- it correctly knows when to mask for the column

- it does lighting effects from the planes headlights

- it does particle collisions with my furniture when it crashes

- it crashes by detecting i hit the wall

It really is amazing tech but it is very unpolished. But I am very hopeful they keep pushing and it gets cheaper and more people can experience it and develop for it.

This is like the amiga. We are at the infancy of AR.
L3AF-Walmart’s Production-Grade Project to Support eBPF
Nice! Thank you for the info! I’m sure I’ll be referring back to this comment at some point haha
This is a funny question. And it's telling that European vs American is clearly unfair while Indian salaries, got example, aren't considered.

Economies are faith-based.
Even better footgun story: Had a domain name we registered as a favor for someone else, since we had DNS servers and all and they didn't. After several years our company is shutting down, and we're trying to help the other party transfer their domain and assume control of it etc. After 6 months of trying to get someone there on the phone or via email to respond sensibly we finally get a "do not contact us on this matter" letter from their lawyer.

OK, fine then. Domain name goes up for auction as part of the final business liquidation, finds a new owner and everyone is happy.

Except the original owners, who now find their web site isn't theirs anymore, and they dunno why. So I start getting calls from their owner threatening to put the original business out of business (too late), ruin my career, etc, etc. They send letters around to uninvolved others with phrases like "savage attack" and "premeditated sabotage" in them.

I published some of the "please come pick up your shit" emails we sent them and their responses (and their lawyer's response). I'm told the owner went to his grave telling others about how I destroyed his business from personal malice.

There are people one just cannot do a favor.
The myths and realities of using brand purpose in marketing
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=software+developer+shortage&t=fpas...
I'm still surprised when people are still surprised that this exists.
I prefer to use undefined over null since it just fits more naturally with other TS features like optional fields. But I agree with using tsc’s no implicit returns check.
CureVac stops development of COVID19 shot, focusses on new vaccine set for 2022
An alternative for all text-heavy websites: https://archive.is/ debloats, that is archives a markup-only webpage free of javascript, dealing admirably well even with SPAs.
Full title : CureVac stops development of its COVID-19 shot, will focus on new COVID-19 vaccine set for 2022
Agreed. -> I use the ui.vision extension to simulate native mouse movements.
Kompasu Typhoon Warning Closes China's Shenzhen Port, Hitting Supply Chains
Is there ever a reason to use interface over type? From what I’ve seen it looks like they can both do the same thing but with slight differences in syntax
Not really, the same person is worth more for the same work if they're doing it in SF versus London.
Yes, Theranos. Companies with weird, catchy names should probably be red flagged by default.
"do you still think that optimizing for the foreseeable future – as opposed to hundreds/thousands of years into the future – is a modern phenomenon?"

We literally he have proof written in stone. The wealthy men of olde were generational land-owners. They had dynasties and build generational assets. Their manshions and castles are still standing today unless they were destroyed by war. That was their wealth.

I have a friend who offers climate change risk assesments on infrastructure and industry. Once he told the investor his asset will be gone in 15 years, you know what he replied?

"Why do I care, i will sell it in 3 "

You couldn't do that kind of shit before. Today's wealth is held in invisible, imaginary assets, that you can flip and swap at the click of a button. This short-termism will be our undoing
There's probably some spillover / upwards pressure from the successful US companies. But I think the main driver is that in Europe, software is mostly considered a cost centre instead of a revenue centre. In Europe there are not that many successful tech giants, where programmers are seen as essential for bringing in the money. Rather, most programmers work in other industries supporting the main business.
After digging a bit in Azure for the purpose of checking it out I left in despair and utterly confused how identity, policy and permission intertwine. Bonus points for enabling Azure DevOps on a Github account and finding out how that ties into your Azure account's identity management system.

A platform that's impossible to use with confidence. Like the US code allows for finding something you're doing wrong with every step you take, the Microsoft platform creates the opportunity more making serious mistakes.
What proportion of people can name any 10 'streamers'?
Sorting String in Alphabetical Order
Lambeq: An Efficient High-Level Python Library for Quantum NLP [pdf]
Over 40% of Indian unicorns have been created in 2021
Computer Space launched the video game industry 50 years ago
>I did a quick check, and it looks like rebar concrete has a lifespan of about 50 years,

The variability based on type of rebar and the environment it is installed in is too high to make statements like that.

Galvanized rebar in concrete in non-marine environment will last hundreds of years. The concrete will probably crumble around it before the rebar corrodes if there's any appreciable moisture and freezing temps. Epoxied rebar will last less, bare rebar less still and improperly installed epoxy rebar will last less than that.

There are tons of 100yo buildings in fairly moist temperate climates with (poorly, by modern standards) reinforced concrete foundation that used bare rebar and are doing just fine.
It seems to be no problem if you automate a real browser as opposed to a headless browser. I think they test for that.
To imply that in some parts of the world (desert climate, reliable public transit service), the disruption is infrequent and manageable, and in others (wet and cold climates, unreliable public transit service) the disruption is significant enough to render the bicycle or the public transit economically non-viable for some users.
Magpie Driven Development (MDD)
Its very important in FOSS imo.

There is FOSS called ungoogled chromium. And building chromium takes a lot of times (in my case 8 hours). The problem here is chromium build is not reproducible and repo author can't build chromium for every platform and every versions as its very expensive from him. So what he currently do now is accepts the binaries from others.

But as a user how can I trust the user who build the binaries? He might have tempered with binaries? He might have inserted back doors secretly? Just because he published binaries lets say for 10 years doesn't grants 100% trustworthy right? He might be hacked etc too?

I think reproducible builds fixes such problems. Other than trust factor I really don't think there is significant advantage.
Advanced Scraper API
And some understate just how fragile the “well taken care of” employee’s circumstances are in the US. All those great perks (and they quite often are) tied to your employment, which can be easily and readily lost in America.

I’m glad that these sort of protections apply to more people in Europe, too, rather than just some small privileged set of highly-paid employees.
Looks slick! How does this compare to Roam Research or the 1000 other note-taking tools?
I have been working on https://quantale.io since a year and half. It's a web based alternative to Bloomberg Terminal.

I personally manage the CI/CD infra as well as the data infrastructure for my startup.

Here is my setup:

1. Self-hosted Drone.io instance connected to github(the instance is behind a firewall and can only be accessed via a self-hosted VPN. Github IPs are whitelisted so that auto build/deployment can be initiated via github hooks)

I have drone.io config that helps me manange the versioning, deployment to stage/production, run tests, do rollbacks etc.

for eg: merging to master on github auto builds the master branch on drone and deploys to staging along with pulling the latest db backup from S3 and adding to stage for testing

2. Self-hosted production and staging server that hosts my web/django app. It has a local postgres db and is encrypted and backed up on S3 every hour.

3. Self-hosted Elasticsearch cluster using Ansible playbooks with daily snapshot backups to S3.

beyond this, I self-host 3 VPNs to protect my entire infrastructure. read my old HN comment about it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28671753

All this is one time infrastructure setup and it all has been running smoothly for more than a year without any hiccups.

I would be happy to help you setup a similar setup if you want. hit me up at vikash@quantale.io
> Yeah, but I have seen MapBox in action in a number of apps, and have yet to see one native app, delivered with here.com.

Makes sense. I encountered here.com once in a corporate setting, and was surprised that it was actually decent (at the time), but no further experience with it either. It doesn't seem to have a strong brand outside big corp.
Citing Las Casas as if it were a historically valid source is a great way of loking like a fool.
Yes interfaces can be merged: https://www.typescriptlang.org/docs/handbook/declaration-mer..., which can be useful when working with external libraries.
Scaling Indexing and Search – Algolia New Search Architecture
Feast: A feature store practitioner's perspective
Yeah. This is at least a plausible explanation for the bimodal distribution.
Can't you find anything better?

I wouldn't employ or recommend folks who worked there by choice (I have the same opinion about Twitter, FB and Google).
Recently been playing with this. Using FFMpeg to generate videos from a series of stills, I assumed a frame rate of 1 and a fixed video length would be suitable... Turns out a lot of players are very particular about how they like their files to be set up. Windows couldn't open the file, VLC could, Google couldn't generate thumbnails, but could show the video. Playing them on a Pi lead to more fun and games.

In the end I just encoded them the 'correct' way, but it was eye opening to the wildness going on in video files. I just assumed I would be able to set a duration, a frame rate, and things would "work".
I actually just switched from k3d back to minikube the other day. Both are great, but have some little problems that block me for hours. They are both moving in the right direction though.

k3d/k3s starts up fast and feels minimal. I still have problems building docker images and pushing them into the cluster.

Minikube solves this well:
```
minikube image build . -t localhost:5000/myapp:latest
minikube image push localhost:5000/myapp:latest
```

I will be very happy when one of these runs locally without com.docker.hyperkit running 70% CPU even while idle.
Do you have citations for any of those sweeping claims?
Seen this not too long ago:

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28679985

[1] https://xlinks.co/morocco-uk-power-project/

[2] https://www.pv-magazine.com/2021/04/22/submarine-cable-to-co...

[3] https://electrek.co/2021/09/27/the-worlds-longest-subsea-cab...

Smells like Desertec, but what the heck?
Study reveals scale of data-sharing from Android mobile phones
I'm not shitting on it, I'm just asking what level of information we have about which data Discord is actually collecting/storing and what they're doing with it.
As somebody who works in London, you are right that infra is much better here than at least some places in the US (was shocked when I visited Austin) but the commute is brutal, overcrowded and often unreliable. For example the train line I used to rely on would fail 1-2 times a weeks such that I has to find another way into the office.

Unless you're rich you will be living 40 mins - 1hr out, I am more like 1hr20 so I can own a home that isn't tiny or in a high crime area.

The commute costs, if I pay a year in advance, ~£5k/yr, set to go up by 10-15% next yr.

Generally speaking, and especially taking into account the climate crisis, it really doesn't make much sense to do all this even when there is more infra.

It is time for more companies to accept that WFH is largely a win/win.
A best practice is often like a musician's rudiment.

It helps to build understanding.

Sometimes action precedes knowledge.
Sounds like your read is pretty dead-on. My comment was more of an “and” to your’s.
TAN: I fearst heard of "Stachanovism" over forty years ago, in my teens. Some time before that I had read an anthology of American folk tales, so to me Comrade Alexei Grigorijevitj was always kind of a Soviet version of John Henry. Made it easier, when I later found out, to accept that Stachanov was also at least in part a myth...
We all agree about how much important debian is for all tech community. Why is it so difficult to scale their snapshot service? Serving static files at scale is a solved problem. Am I missing something? Can't a cloud provider help them out?
> But the issue there is that keeping the plastics completely out of the environment is expensive.

I find it hard to believe that somehow we are able to manufacture plastic out of raw materials very cheaply, but converting it back to raw materials is so expensive. Maybe simply more research needs to be done in the area?
I don't want it, to the degree I carefully researched a car that will outlast this uncertain period of insecure, buggy, and down right stupid "app-ification of a car". And thanks to covid and working from home, I put less than 5K miles on my car last year.

It really boils down to public perception of "software" is not very resilient, it appears down right fragile and prone to hacking. Now, why on earth would one want such a "thing" to be in control of a vehicle carrying my family, my most precious assets? And on top of that, it will be marketing things I don't want and I don't want my family being continually barraged by marketing... all this "car software" appears to be is yet another vector for advertising, and the surveillance capitalism they rely upon.
>The question is really can PRC get powerful before it gets old, and all signs indicate to yes.

The question is whether the CCP can weather the political transformation when transitioning past the middle income stage. That's the real preoccupation with policy makers in China right now.
Dupe:

9 days ago,82 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28736441

(See: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html)
I’m 100% wfh in the US and it’s a double edged sword. I brought my daughter to the dentist yesterday at 2pm which would not have worked if I was at the office. But if I take a day and I have some calls I always get the “can you make those work on your day off?” guilt trips. I only get 15 days and probably 3-5 I get away with 0 work. Rest of them is 1-4 hours.
Again it’s not terrible but it just makes it impossible to unplug (I’m looking at your slack!)
The very name is an oxymoron. Magic Leap 2? Because the first leap wasn’t magical or a leap enough.
> The game they were playing (and still are) is called FRAUD.

I felt so from day one. People over invested into marketing usually don't have to show much for the product.
This seems to (strangely) be an unpopular answer here, but I've spent a weekend to terraform everything. I run a couple of different projects which are yet to pick-up traction, so prototyping quickly is essential.

What I have now is terraform on Github which handles Networking (VPC, subnets), ECS/ECR, ALB for my backend and S3/CloudFront for frontend.

Everything is on AWS because I'm familiar with it, so it's faster. And I compensate for costs with AWS Activate + Free Tier. This combination is usually enough to understand whether the project will get traction or not.

Actually spending little time on IaC was one of the best recent investments. But I guess it holds more value when you have a couple of projects, still exploring and these tasks get repetitive
Clubhouse is a classic case of how much venture capital has changed over the years and this case seems to be another.

There was always a sense of investing in a-yet-unproven business model or technology but what seems to have happened over the past few years is less of a focus on technological advantages and more on a "Set the valuation high since even a brick will float in this market" approach.

Lots of easy money. . .competition from alternative investment assets such as Crypto seem to be pushing traditional venture capital to desperate measures to justify their existence.
a simple solution would be

> if(entry && entry.constructor === Object){}
I suppose it depends on who's being catered for by the platform. In Poland, we have an interesting situation in which most brands that operate their own stores end up selling their products on Allegro (local Amazon/eBay equivalent) anyway. I usually defaulted to brand's own stores, but my wife turned me around - you get the same products, from the same vendors, for the same price, but in case of any problems, dispute process is streamlined and extremely favorable to buyers.
Raising more money are they?
Looks cool!
I like the elegance, i will definitely consider it.
So as usual the chain of failures is a lot longer and more complex than the "cheapskates ignoring maintenance to save a few pennies" narrative you get on the internet.
The vision already exists. Assets on ArtBlocks for example are hosted on the chain itself, and several sites exist to display, facilitate, organize, etc the tokens. Similar things are happening off-chain (see Hicetnunc) with ipfs.

Ownership in the context of NFT is not about ownership of the artistic intellectual property.

Further reading:

https://nathanielstern.com/text/2021/custodianship-copyright...
I'm sure living in Japan comes with its own set of problems, but whenever I learn about something like this it makes it sound like such a paradise. I can't imagine how great it would be to live in a small, affordable community where I walk my daughter to school every day and can take care of most errands without using my car.

It seems in America you can pick 2 from safe, affordable, and walkable.
ffs how hard is it to select "reproducible builds" and right click to search for that
You can declare Sometype|void return type. So the compiler will check that you either don't use the return type or treat it as Sometype. Of course this depends on the logic and for failed routes you should return appropriate results.