skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They shared an update on the Europe situation via newsletter:

> "With our supply improving, you may be wondering when you can order a laptop if you're outside of the U.S and Canada. We selected and are bringing up our worldwide warehousing and fulfillment partner, which is one very key part of the equation, but it takes quite a lot more than that to enable a complete experience in each country. Picking Germany as one example, we need German language keyboards, a Type F power cable, in-box paperwork and labeling in German, localization for the Framework website, support documentation, and checkout flow, support for local payment methods, calculation of Euro prices and taxes, accounting support for German income, creation of legally sound Terms of Sale, Privacy, and Warranty policies for Germany, CE certifications, a local Authorized Representative to back up the certifications, determination of HS codes and tariffs, an Importer of Record to be able to deliver duty paid, German-language in-time-zone customer support, reverse logistics and RMA support for returns and repairs, region-specific sourcing of off the shelf memory and storage, trial builds of German laptops prior to production, and back-end ERP infrastructure to tie all of this together. That sounds like a lot, but it's actually a drastically simplified summary. Supply and logistics crunches slowed down parts of it, but we are moving forward on all fronts. We'll open pre-ordering in the next few countries before the end of the year for shipment in early 2022. We'll share the exact month of shipment at the time we open pre-orders."
No more filling repetitive forms on the Nyxt browser
StackOverflow et al.? I enjoy helping people in fields where I have relevant experience (it think I do!), eg with computer issues, and SOs gamification of that (and other community knowledge) makes it into something of a leisure time activity for me on occasions.

I take part in some FB groups (pottery related) in a similar way.
"sir you've been in a coma" meme, the Ask HN
My project used RoR 4, React 1.5, PostgreSQL 9.6 and Solr since 2012 and still running stably in production.

Such a beautiful tech stack and it's still my recommendation for any junior programmers to learn on how to do the fullstack development the right way (before jumping on more bleeding edge stuffs).
€0.40/TB/month or €120 per 5 years for 5TB: Old phone or a raspberry pi with a hard drive attached located at a friend's or family member's house.

Any cloud service is going to be 5-10 times more at least, last I checked (2019), and that's already a lot better than five years before that (as a ratio of self-hosted to a managed service, so independent of raw storage prices).

B2 and Glacier seem to be some of the cheaper options these days. Backblaze (the backup software) doesn't run on Linux and is closed source but they pinky promise to support "unlimited" backups for $5/month which is a really good deal if you both trust them and run Windows. Tarsnap is S3 pricing plus markup, but what you get is linux support, open source clients from a person the community trusts, write-only keys, and the hosting part is off your hands, and pay-as-you-go, which is quite a unique combination.

Edit: B2 is $5.7/TB/month according to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29209665 (`0.4/70*1000`)
That's not an analogue device though, so it's not a like comparison. Anyone can build a digital Model D these days, but mass-producing a piece of discontinued hardware at less than a tenth of the price is a different ball game altogether.
Tesla didn’t need a trillion dollar valuation to have an impact on the car market. When Apple, Google or Microsoft made their biggest contributions to innovation they also were much smaller. Now they are just milking their market position for profit without generating much innovation.
If the best they can supply is an online exam document that literally contains answers in the html document, then maybe paper exams should come back while they think about what they’ve done and try again later
I think the problem is that making things look to the user as an integrated, polished experience is exceptionally hard when you have the loosest of loose coupling all over the place, and differing views as to how to get things done. Sure, you can put APIs and documented IPC interfaces between things, but that doesn't mean everything will match up in a usable way. So, eventually, you just decide: screw it, we'll own the entire stack, or at least gain enough influence over the people who make parts we don't control, such that everything works seamlessly for us.

In part, this is why Apple can give their customers such a polished, "just works" experience. Buy all-Apple gear, and stay in their software ecosystem, and (modulo bugs) everything will work together seamlessly.

I don't like this outcome by any means. And I still think that some desktop components certainly benefit from loose coupling and well-defined interfaces, and it's possible to avoid the "polish" downsides in some cases. But doing everything that way, while still being able to put everything together in a polished way, might actually be impossible.
> The U.S. installed 5.7 gigawatts of solar PV capacity in Q2 2021 to reach 108.7 gigawatts of total installed capacity, enough to power 18.9 million American homes.[1]

> EIA expects that most large-scale battery energy storage systems to come online over the next three years will be built at power plants that also produce electricity from solar photovoltaics, a change in trend from recent years.[2]

1. https://www.seia.org/us-solar-market-insight
2. https://www.publicpower.org/periodical/article/us-large-scal...
Funnily enough, the article doesn't seem to cite any numbers at all for the richest, it just goes over how the poorest have gotten better off.

For example:

> Since its economic liberalization reforms in 1991, India’s average income has increased by 7.5 percent per year.

This is great, but it doesn't speak to the article's claim. Who want's to bet that the richest 1% or 0.1% made a whole lot more than that?
Is that a bad thing? Ignoring for the moment the idea of cheating on tests is a problem with the student or the test.

Are paper tests a bad thing? Why do intelligent state voting systems depend on paper, or backups? Why do ultra high security computer systems still log to paper?
>13.11.2021

This is not only the German but most European way of writing date.
Hard drives I guess (happy if someone can correct me on that)
With both HSBC and RBS if I didn't have an overdraft in advance they just hit me with an even larger "unapproved overdraft fee" — both refused to disable overdrafts & just bounce the payment instead
This is not really a competitor to the behringer semi modular analog synths that upset some people, but an inexpensive synth I'd highly recommend is the Arturia Microfreak.
Y’all need to chill out with the hyperbole. Eric Lawrence, who I’ve worked with and wrote FIDDLER btw, which does the opposite of what anyone down here is proportions he’s intending, specifically noted that he was fixing a bug in the Blocklist policy. Basically the policy works for all schemes except view-source. He fixed the policy so that it does what it should do, which is work for all schemes. There are uncountable other ways to look at the source of webpages, many of which can also be blocked by enterprises, but it’s completely silly to imply that this change is causing a closed or evil ecosystem. Jeeeesus people need to think critically.
I always find these statements interesting. Do you think many people 200 years ago based their actions on what effect they would have on those people 200 years hence?
But the seed has been planted, and the computers will be used for other things - which means other chances at inspiration.

And besides, if everyone knew for that second test then that's a lot of seeds right there alone.
Python, Django, etc is similarly good. Elastic search or Solr. I don’t even use React… just Bootstrap and plain HTML+CSS where I can. Front end work makes me sad inside. Celery for distributed work. Redis for this and that cause it’s so stupid reliable and easy to use and manage. Ansible to configure and deploy stuff. One repo. There was a great post on here about boring tech stacks, and their stack was our stack almost exactly. It’s stuff one human can wrap their arms around me build meaningful software with.
Why asynchronous Rust doesn't work - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26406989 - March 2021 (482 comments)
When I graduated in 2005, I was so happy to be moving somewhere (Seattle) with essentially my entire graduating class. That social network was comforting and fun, and it was great knowing people working at Amazon, at Microsoft, and other firms to compare and contrast experiences.

In hindsight... only a few ever moved back to Michigan, and wow, yeah, what a recruiting pipeline, and what brain drain.

I imagine that only accelerated the last decade as midwest total compensation likely trailed significantly.

For a while, it felt like the tech firms were strip-mining all the talented midwest engineers who were willing to relocate. I hope the more remote-friendly future helps people keep their local roots.
> J.S. Bach also had less influence on popular music than the Beatles did,

I love the Beatles, but I'd _strongly_ disagree that Bach (and later Mozart or Beethoven) had less influence on popular music.
It's been a long time since I've worked with this stuff in any depth, but I wonder if there's the concept of "handoff". While a VT is front-and-center, logind should be in control. While GDM is in the foreground, GDM should be in control. While the desktop environment... etc.

But it seems to me that each of these things aren't entirely aware of the other, and constantly fight for control. I know logind has an "inhibit" API that lets another program take over some functions, but who knows if everyone uses it properly. And does GDM have the same thing? Or is it expected to just know when it should step aside?
Your answer is the equivalent of whining about a stain on your shoes while the world is on fire. Hint: Your real problem is not of technical nature.
1917 (2019) for a look into world war I, Colossus the Forbin Project (1970) for a look at a machine intelligence take over, Koyaanisqatsi (1983) for feature length motion essay on our lives.
Every one of your examples conveys a right to 100% of people who are biologically capable of having that right.

That makes sense, women can have rights that don't make sense for men.

The right to WFH is a right that only applies to a socially defined group, specifically the group that have the best jobs. Not at all in the same category IMO.
The Galileo Project for the Search for Extraterrestrial Technological Artifacts
Most PE problems are more math than data-structure based. There are plenty of number theory problems, but lots of other areas as well, especially combinatorics and probability. I’ve learned about many more niche areas, like impartial games and chromatic polynomials, via PE.

But there are definitely more CS-oriented problems. I can recall problems solved by using segment trees, Aho-Corasick, simple parsing, etc. And lots and lots of dynamic programming.

Also, working your way through the first 100 problems will require writing code to evaluate poker hands and solve Sudoku boards.
It is indeed quite funny, in a depressing sort of way :P .
> And how many people do you think have done that, instead of uploading the keys of the servers/laptops/etc. they use?

Equally they might use the same user name as on other services, thus making them traceable.

Ultimately if you care about privacy then it’s up to you, the individual, not to share that information or to provide anonymous information yourself.

Sharing identifiable information and then blaming the company you shared it with is like blaming the horse for bolting after you’ve intentionally left the barn door open. Sure it should be that way but ultimately it’s your own responsibility to keep your stuff safe.

I’d agree with your point more if you were advocating that documentation should be more explicit. Ie helping educate users into making smarter choices.
This narrative seems just as cherry-picked, but at least he is asking the right questions and making a valid point. I think it's always 'the whole truth' part that allows the media to skew one way or the other. We've weaponized television into pure propaganda at this point. There were good reasons why news used to be on at the same time every night, for 30 minutes, and covered by the fairness doctrine. We are now seeing those reasons play out, and the damage is terrible. Without a consistent understanding of the facts, we have a large portion of the USA (>30%) who believes the last election was rigged. We have a large portion of the USA who believe climate change is not real, and as a result, we are unable to organize a coherent response. If this had happened during the ozone layer crisis, we would no longer be able to spend any time outside without getting cancer. These information wars are preventing our civilization from responding to real threats.
It isn't just GNOME, almost all Linux distributions rely on tightly-coupling a set of libraries and binaries. That's why you can't take a binary from one distro and reasonably expect it to work on another and it's why there are dozens of repos and thousands of package maintainers and shipping on Linux is a pain in the ass.
If you pay for a static IP and tighten up your SPF records to just that IP rather than using Mailgun's include, you should be fine.

It's bad that their service allows this at all, but it isn't the end of the world for all of their customers.
Also, he doesn't even hint at dealing with Correlation != Causation. Looking at the problems altogether, I get the sense this article wasn't written in good-faith, to just share some interesting facts. In fact, if I were to scroll down the entire way I might expect to see this fella worked for the Cato institute or something like it.
You're likely to get stuck on https://projecteuler.net/problem=66 if you don't know about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pell%27s_equation.

As someone with a math background, that was the only problem in the first 100 that I didn't find pretty straightforward.
I grew up in Michigan and this makes sense to me. There's a long tradition of entrepreneurship to draw on. Grand Rapids was once known as "Furniture City" [1]; Steelcase and Herman Miller are still based in the area. Detroit's car companies produced a lot of small businesses across the state making auto parts; I spent a very sweaty summer running injection molding machines in a plant that made things like taillights and mirror rims.

For more tech-ish things, the University of Michigan has a number of solid programs, strong enough that half its students come from out of state. (Google's Larry Page did his undergrad there, for example, and he seems to have done ok.) I graduated before the Internet bubble, but even then there were a bunch of small tech companies in Ann Arbor staffed by people who liked the area enough to stay. And there's now a lot more explicit support for entrepreneurship, like Wayne State's TechTown: https://techtowndetroit.org/programs/

I'll be really interested to see how this goes now that the pandemic has broken a lot of traditional views about the need for tech companies to be within a stone's throw of Sand Hill Road money. I always suspected that was more about investors not wanting to travel than it was about practical necessity. If getting capital becomes easier, I expect to see a boom in the area.

[1] https://theculturetrip.com/north-america/usa/michigan/articl...
haha yeah that's nuts. It's funny because my kids don't watch tv or movies, and so they wouldn't know a single Hollywood celebrity, but thinking now, I guess their way of judging if someone is a YouTube "celebrity" is by subscribers alone.

... thinking now, why should Hollywood > YouTube given that the content they consume is more localised. Maybe it's me who's wrong!
Over 90% of bottles sold in Norway are returned to be recycled, and most of them probably go through automatic machines in the shops.

Norway and other countries have a deposit system where you pay extra per bottle, and then get the money back when you return them. Places that sell these products are required to accept any bottle that their customers bring them, so most of them want to use these automatic machines to avoid hiring extra staff.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZI7OldXuq7c

These machines have existed since the 70s, but the modern machines are of course much more intelligent than the early models. They used to accept glass bottles too, but they are not part of this system anymore. (glass is recycled separately)

Tomra is one of the larger manufacturers:

https://www.tomra.com/en/collection/reverse-vending
Could you say a bit about how the sync happens and how/where the data is stored?

Unrelated, you probably don't want to be selling 'lifetime premium' anything, even when it's not clear what that means at an early stage. It's a small and low-priced thing as it is, painting yourself into a 'lifetime' corner with potential customers is not worth the certain future hassle and misunderstandings.
Death by PowerPoint?
> Why is it assumed that this isn't a more attractive proposition compared the alternative. Certainly there would be many, if not most or all, that would be willing to make this choice.

I'm not sure why you're asking me this when your opening post in this exchange starts by noting low fertility amongst highly educated women. Smart women generally aren't short of offers from smart men to make babies with them (and the smart men are usually pretty wealthy). If "many, if not most or all" wanted to have lots and lots of kids instead of being academics or lawyers or rocket scientists, they'd already be doing it.

I don't think a creepy eugenics foundation that's obsessed with the IQ of their kids makes the proposition more attractive even if they're paying enough for a slightly bigger mansion and the husband to afford to retire too.
> a simple there-and-back-again journey those passes tend to be somewhat on the pricey side

A simple there-and-back-again journey should easily be able to be planed ahead, which usually gives the most affordable ticket choices. Many countries even offer weekend passes for those needs, tho they will not always cover all and everything, particularly not more exotic privatized public transport.

But on regular there and back again tickets, the pricing ranges there can be extreme; As long as you are willing to book some days in advance and stick to a specific connection and specific trains. Savings on that directly translate to international routes, and those savings are usually quite extreme.
Python is bad (mostly) as it taught python dev much hate on Javascript, which is a must for user experience.

Most of python programmers i've known and met hate frontend work, and that's why their products are not optimal for user experience, so bad software in general.

The point is, to become a senior programmer, one must learn to do fullstack work, from css to deployment.
Looks like a great NFT project that could take off. Join discord
That trend had been going on for quite a while now. When you consider the amount of time people are spending on TV, gaming, movies and social networks it’s pretty clear that people are already spending a lot of time in virtual reality and prefer it that way. And I see that trend continuing.

What’s scary is that if this reality is controlled by large companies with profit motives. They already manipulate us a lot all kinds of media.
That's why there are several reddit groups and at least one website composed of stupid things people say here -- there's a lot of content to pull from!
https://archive.md/53mxS
I had the Baltimore number of $20k cited above in mind, which would be $80k per year. Or a 5:1 ratio with $16k per year would also work out to $80k per year for the tutor. My point is that a pod-like structure would be financially viable with equivalent government funding. You can quibble over the "excellent" part I suppose, but that is on par or better than comparable teacher salaries in most of the country. Also I'd imagine it's a lot more pleasant to teach 4-5 students than 25-30.
I recently got back into the Euclidia geometric puzzle app [0]. You start with compass and straightedge tools and build up the techniques to exactly construct the solution to various challenges with the minimal set of operations.

[0] https://www.euclidea.xyz/
Paper tests every day, all day.
I find their definition of "trap house" to be entertaining.

>Once associated with inner city crack dens, "trap house" has also become generic slang for any place where young people can score beer.

Seems like they pulled that from urban dictionary [1] and changed a few words to make it more "professional".

> Originally used to describe a crack house in a shady neighborhood, the word has since been abused by high school students who like to pretend they're cool by drinking their mom's beer together and saying they're part of a "traphouse".

1. https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=traphouse
> A potential source of this money is a small group of people who financially benefit from the country's use of fossil fuels, and who are wealthy enough to never be affected by climate change.

They are not wealthy enough to never be affected by climate change, no one is.

What I believe is happening is that these people are high on power. They may realize that their course is self-destructive, but they don't know how to avert it, and asking them to abandon their power is antithetical to who they are.
I think I read about this for the first time on a dialup BBS in the 90s :)
Very interesting.

It was absolutely the same in Soviet Union.

I still remember formula from my childhood: 3 empty bottles (10 kopeks each) + 3 kopeks = 1 full bottle of lemonade (33 kopeks).

I think it was a good thing, less glass garbage at least.

> You usually return them at shops that sell them, even if you haven't bought them at this exact shop.

It seems that such things needs some central regulation, they did not survive in pure capitalism
Your “differing opinion” from the nuclear thread came across as “Fuck the residents of California.”

If that wasn’t your intent, maybe the issue at hand is that you’re childishly inflammatory and a bad writer to boot.

Maybe the problem is that you don’t speak in good faith and have a craving for approval from your fellow trolls?
Ask HN: How to maximize net income in EU?
Earning €80k/pa gets me just about 49k of net income per year under austrian taxes.

I cant imagine this is significantly different in other Western European countries. What is the optimal way to dramatically increase net income for a SWE in Europe?

I am not asking about tax avoidance but about optimal ways to significantly increase that number.
‘AR Is Where the Real Metaverse Is Going to Happen’
Is tarsnap too expensive now?

For years we had a running discussion here, where patio11 writes a nice article called something like:

fake patio11> "10 reasons why tarsnap must raise the price and stop using funny units"

And a week later cperciva writes another article called something like:

fake cperviva> "Nah. Amazon reduced the storage price 10%, so I'm reducing the price of tarsnap in 1 picodollar/byte"
I strongly disagree.

How much of the world do you own that you get to "make the rules" for?

If corporations are allowed to "make the rules" for property with impunity-- you will find yourself at their mercy for the vast majority of your life.
Electric cars have always been doable, they've just been more expensive than fossile fuel alternative which is ostensibly free energy. The situations are not at all comparable. Nuclear Fusion has still barely been demonstrated as a proof-of-concept.