skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We experimented with this idea at Disney in 2012 with short form content. We learned a few things by building basically this exact experience.

First, it’s not really different from Netflix-style sliders, except it’s hiding more things behind clicks. Second, finding a good recommendation isn’t the hard problem…it’s getting people to hit play on what’s being recommended. I don’t know how many times I get recommended Vanilla Sky, I can’t seem to work up the fortitude of committing a couple hours to watching Tom Cruise.

This is why clips and auto-play experiences are so big these days. It takes away the need to hit play and the investment is low. It’s why Netflix is rolling out the Play Something experience.
It's definitely not feasible for most Software Engineers in Europe without extreme sacrifice, and fairly low expectations wrt to standard of living in retirement.

Retiring at 50 is extremely risky in terms of sequence risk[0], so you'd want a low withdrawal rate on your pot. You're also likely to want a higher income initially while you're still young enough to enjoy it.

So let's say your target is €2M for a €60K/yr income until you die, after a 25 year career. That gives you a couple years of fucking around after college / some bad years / gaps.

To achieve that over a 25 year, investing in to a smooth 7%/yr bull market, you're going to need to invest €2,500/mo. That's something along the lines of €50K/yr of gross income (assuming 40% tax).

Most software engineers in Europe probably don't even make €50K/yr... and we haven't even taken in to account taxes on gains, raising kids, buying property, or just enjoying life throughout your career!

[0] https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/sequence-risk.asp
I wondered the same thing and opened settings on my iPhone and up at the top was an “Apple Arcade Free for 3 Months” right underneath my name, which made me sad.
The Keymacs uses Alps-derivatives, while the original used Hall Effect switches: https://youtu.be/oDozftThFMw
Not OP, but salaries (esp post-tax) in Sweden are “low” compared to e.g the US.

If you make 1M SEK/year (~100k USD) you are in the very very very top of IC’s in Sweden, and your salary post-tax is roughly 68k USD.

Of course you can save a good chunk. Save roughly half, and still have the median post-tax salary.

(And you can save in a less taxed private retirement scheme which can be drawn from at age 55, but at the same time there are implications of not working at the end of your career for the government sponsored pension)
You're trying to get me to emulate life.

Have you considered playing with toy trains instead of being a train driver?

You know that you're playing silly buggers, let's get real here.
Still no unicode support? LOL! How about starting there and stop with trying to make PHP into some weird Java clone.
With what you have. Learn the one you want to program. ARM microcontrollers are available for $2 with a microUSB socket. You can look at compiler output (e g. On Godbolt) to see how things are done. There are lots of tutorials online for getting started programming microcontrollers to talk to LED strings and motion sensors.
The lack of replies is a feature, not a bug. Polis is about generating consensus from what I’m reading about it, not about maximizing engagement ala Twitter, FB, et al.

From the Polis FAQ: https://compdemocracy.org/faq/

“Structured replies also eliminate the possibility of trolling by replying directly (and thus provoking further response).”

This Wired article has more: https://www.wired.co.uk/article/taiwan-democracy-social-medi...

“Using the Internet to pull people together rather than split them apart requires designing an environment very different from the usual online forums for political debate, such as Twitter or Facebook.”

“Polis has reengineered many of the features we take for granted on social media. No reply button – hence no trolling. No echo-chambers, replaced by an attitudes map showing you where you are in relation to everyone else. The platform does not highlight the most divisive statements, but gives more visibility to the most consensual ones.”
Back in the 90's I worked as a field engineer and had a few of these on contract. They're really nice machines to work on and a common task was replacing these hard disks when they failed. The IBM field service manuals were pretty good and you could repair/replace pretty much anything on-site. They look like monsters but they're actually really friendly to field service techs.
This reminds me of a slide I saw at some talk. It was presented as a totem pole, and your goal is to move up on the pole. It was called the "TKVP Totem Pole", from bottom to top:

Vision

Product

Knowledge

Time

What do you get paid for on this stack? IF you are selling your time by the hour (and billing honestly) you are at the bottom of the pole -- T.

The next step up is to be paid more for your knowledge (wisdom, expertise) than for your time.

P is for product: at this point, we are talking about a startup, rather than a role at a company. At the base of things, most viable startups grow out of the experience of spending time and applying knowledge to customer's problems. When you find yourself (say as a consultant, or even job-hopping every 1.5 years) solving the same puzzles again and again, you might start to think about automating, consolidating, productizing these patterns and selling them to customers as a product or service. Even an IC at a FAANG can do this by, for example, convincing their manager to open-source useful utilities. Guess what -- now you can re-use that code at your next job!

At the top of the totem pole is Vision. That is where (as a startup founder) you sell the vision of what your product/service could become, if you had some rocket fuel in the form of capital and networking support.

Of course this climb is not for everyone to take solo. As a talented IC, you may decide that instead of the safety of a FAANG job, you might consider throwing your chips in with a startup that has ascended this ladder to somewhere between P and V. Just make sure you get an equity package that fairly compensates you for the career risk you are taking.
I wonder -- does it really matter if the previous homeowner is more informed than Zillow? For things like "annoying neighbor" or other hard to quantify/quickly detect annoyances, the buyer doesn't know about those things either, so I guess the information asymmetry is almost 100% in Zillow's favor, right?
There is a famous (among first year law students) case[1] that seems relevant given the nature of the issue is one a buyer would not reasonably be able to ascertain on their own. One possible point of differentiation: ghosts are a permanent defect on the value of the property while loud children living next door would probably only torment the homeowner for a decade or so at most.

The opinion is famous not just for its unusual fact pattern but also because the Judge clearly had quite a lot of fun working in other-worldly puns and references while writing it.

[1]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stambovsky_v._Ackley
Thanks for that! Definitely giving it a read as I want to make my writing quality more consistent.
Why is it so hard to find the code? Links to open source and the license.
Good stuff! Always good to see how the big players do it!
I make like $320k, my wife makes $70k. Our rent in the bay is $2800/mo and we spend about $4000/mo on other expenses.

I just moved to the bay from the enterprise world, so my net worth is 400k. At this rate, assuming very conservative raises and 6% on all investments -- including already reserved stock units -- I'll be worth $2.2m in five years (age 40). $7.5m by 50.

And that's just assuming I hit $400k-ish in the next few years and stay there for the rest of my life, and my wife gets no significant raises. If I get higher, which is entirely possible, I'll make even more. Or maybe at some point I'll try for a startup and go for the really big money. Maybe not.

Of course, many of those assumptions could not work out. But the kind of exponential advantage of saving a large fraction of your paycheck eventually overcomes any disadvantages. Worst case scenario is tech goes bust and US stock market turns into Japan's in the 80s, but in that case I'll still be better off than most because I have a lot of savings and I'm not addicted to the paycheck.

I think the plan will be to do this for a few more years and consult part time. Full retirement would be too boring.
That second job (£70K senior) isn't bad. It's remote, so you could easily live somewhere dirt cheap and be better off than someone in London on £100K+ (the difference in take home pay is only £1450/mo, which could easily be the difference between a 2 bed at £2K/mo in London vs £550/mo in, say, Durham... also buying property outside London would be way more doable)
>"The optical pickup unit (OPU) within a CD/DVD/Blu-ray drive integrates 780, 650, and 405 nm wavelength lasers, diffraction-limited optics, a high-bandwidth optoelectronic transducer up to 400 MHz, and a nanoresolution x-, z-axis, and tilt actuator in a compact size. In addition, the OPU is a remarkable piece of engineering and could enable different scientific applications such as sub-angstrom displacement sensing, micro- and nanoimaging, and nanolithography."

I've always wondered if CD/DVD/Blu-ray drives -- could one day (with a special-made disc, made with the right materials) be used to create Transistors, IC's and Chips...
How beautiful, loved it! Kudos to the creator for the patience to do the adaptation. I wish we could build and use such a thing legally in the EU, but we have much smaller roads which would be easily clogged by a monster like that.
If I may raise some criticism, the rear abrupt cut off looks odd. I would add a few Space Shuttle styled rocket nozzles over there, then hide the air conditioner exhaust in one of them.
This is fascinating stuff and seems like a leverage point to apply technology to actually solve some of the big problems facing humanity, which at their core are political problems, not necessarily technological ones.

Where do you need help the most with this project?

Where do you see it going from here?

Any interesting big trials or deployments in the works?
> It's just more dialectic materialism, where to even start a conversation with someone using it, you have to accept ontological premises that are necessarily absurd.

Imagine, if you will, two legislators arguing some bill in some parliament. The first is proposing some amendment to the bill which hinges on the existence of God. The second argues against it believing there is no God.

The question is, can this be resolved? Let us assume they are both perfectly rational and exhibit impeccable integrity. Could they forward arguments to settle their dispute? Let's assume they are both scientific materialists. Can they investigate the material world to find evidence to support their positions and resolve their dispute?

I don't know. If given infinite time, maybe? I honestly don't know. But as of now, it would seem that even given a complete willingness from either party to change their mind based on either argument or evidence we would still find ourselves at an impasse.

So a third person shows up and says: It would seem that we are at an impasse, stuck in a kind of infinite loop. The cause of that infinite loop seems to be our inability to determine whether or not God exists. I suggest we set aside the question of whether or not God exists since what we really want to do here is pass legislation that makes every life better. After we finish up doing what we need to do, we can go down to the pub and have a really good discussion on the topic of the existence of God. But for now, in the interest of making progress on practical matters, I suggest we put the question aside and find other points to discuss.

Miraculously the legislators agree. The first then puts forward the argument that the bill should pass if knowledge is primarily based in the material world. The other legislator scoffs and insists the bill should not pass because knowledge is primarily based within the conscious mind.

So the third person says, we're at an impasse again. Somehow you have alighted on another premise that does not seem solvable through rational or empirical investigation. Our discussion will remain stuck until we disallow any premise that can't be either rationally or empirically determined. Both men lament: "this man is forcing us to accept an ontological premise that is absurd".

I'm sorry that my attempt to explain pragmatism with a tortuous analogy is basically fodder for /r/badphilosophy
Since you're talking about a "satellite train", so as to speak, I'm not sure you need to "speed up to intercept". If for example the orbital period is 90 minutes and the time between two consecutive satellites passing through the same point is 5 minutes, just make sure that your orbital period at the time of intercept is 95 minutes and then you can shoot down one satellite per orbital period. There's not a lot of maneuvering that the electrically propelled satellites could do on quick notice.
That distribution is still a point estimate for a multinomial, not truly the distribution of your certainty in that estimate itself. This is essentially a generalization of logistic regression, which will of course give the probability of a binary outcome, but in order to understand the variance of your prediction itself you need to take into account the uncertainty around your parameters themselves.

This can be done for neural networks, through either bootsrap resampling of the training data or more formal bayesian neural networks, both of these are fairly computationally intensive and not typically done in practice.
I’m not sure if you’re agreeing with me or not?

I’ll double down on my original point. If, in 2021, you’re 100% sure you absolutely positively need to be using a semicolon in your writing, you need to reevaluate your position.
It’s straight from the Welcome page under “community”: https://compdemocracy.org/Welcome

https://github.com/compdemocracy/polis

GNU AGPL 3: https://github.com/compdemocracy/polis/blob/dev/LICENSE

There’s a doc on embedding it on a site, too, if that’s the end you’re interested in: https://compdemocracy.org/embedding-polis-on-your-web-proper...
> That’s where some decisions should be made.

Some, yes. Look at those goalposts go! Staff engineers are hired to bring skills and knowledge and perspective not already present. All I'm saying is that they should be able to exercise those assets, and all too often that is discouraged. I'm beginning to wonder if your accusation about disrespecting EMs is just projection of your own disrespect for higher-level ICs.
I tried replacement 'feet'. They fell off as well. ;o)
It’s just a misunderstanding on competition. Many Reddit forums show Americans looking for Starlink to compete with their fixed bandwidth provider like Comcast. American cable providers have very bad support reputations but generally provide about 300mbps for about $70 a month these days. Starlink is not real competition for the cable providers. Starlink will be a massive upgrade for users in remote locations that currently have the choice between DSL and slow satellite services. Starlink is giant competition for HughesNet and ViaSat.
Early Arctic sea freeze traps 18 ships in ice near Russia
> Honestly you are comparing a firecracker to a nuclear weapon, and if you want to do that, then you have to produce the proofs.

Only if you've already decided COVID is a firecracker. Most people, especially early on, had no pandemic in their memories that occurred at the scale of COVID and were stuck figuring out exactly what their attitude should be towards it and how to interpret the government health interventions. The Spanish flu was a crucial referent for what might be in store.

Even then, look at it from a the perspective of someone in the US:

The estimated percentage of the US population that died to the 1918 flu is 0.64% (using the estimate of 675k from the 1918 flu) vs 0.23% for COVID so far (eg 770k US deaths). By those numbers the Spanish flu may have been worse, but for someone in the US it is natural to look at them and compare them. Medicine has improved considerably since 1918 and much of the anxiety around COVID revolves around health care collapsing and people no longer being able to receive care in which case the death rate would increase.

We definitely noticed the Spanish flu and COVID is occurring on a similar scale, it isn't just anxiety.
I believe you. If you could just do the three things I listed, that would go a long way to solving the problem.
twm was also usable, depending on the point of view.

And being usable by whoever didn't want to put the money into real UNIXes, didn't mean that Xlib + Athena Widgets were something that one wishes to code for.

I surely didn't, and yes I used plenty of Linux systems, starting with Slackware 2.0.
What is "they"?

What we've seen so far for measures have been completely inline with what the scientists recommend, and you can't argue the severity of virus that caused 5.2M deaths globally.

This comment just feels like FUD itself.
BitTorrent itself doesn't provide any privacy, which is critical for something like a web browser. If anyone in the world can query what you've downloaded, it can escalate into real issues.
LG DLE7300WE.

The rest of the features of the dryer are fine - it has wifi that I don't use, but it dries the clothes the way it's supposed to. But it was totally worth it for this door...
Running Fedora Linux at Work
It’s a double whammy: lower salaries and higher taxes.

The whole society is really structured for people to keep working until 65 or so. E.g. taxes are really progressive, so saving in a high income year and living off that money in another year (with no taxable income) is super expensive. There are tax exceptions for retirement savings but you can’t access that money until 60 or so. Also, the state pays your base pension, but you can’t access that money until 63 or something.
Hitting it with anything at those speeds causes and explosion. At low earth orbit (LEO) most vectors cause the debris to rapidly deorbit, but a few can cause a slightly raised orbit that could hit things behind it. The problem is, if such a chain reaction does start, it's not likely limited to a single orbital plane like starling, but to destroy every single LEO satellite and make LEO unusable for tens of not hundreds of years.
Fixed now. Thanks!

Submitted title was "Typora 1.0 needs a license code to use" - which was definitely editorialized. From https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html: "Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize."
A 14 day quarantine isn't a lockdown, even NZ is getting sloppy with virus measures. If the people there get tired of it there is nothing the government can do to stop them. In China you will get quarantined forcefully by the police state, and if you don't like it you can go to prison or get disappeared if you raise to big of a commotion.
>I think people underestimate social awareness

Not that I disagree with you, but I'd guess that social awareness is a product of having a trustful sources of information coming from trustworthy and capable leaders/government. It seems to me that handling of covid crisis is clearly correlated with how well people of a certain country do trust and respect their elected leaders.

Edit: It all reminds me of an excercise from some teamwork and leadership class, where there was a given logical problem to be solved in 45 minutes between teammates. And no matter how smart, proactive, arrogant or quiet members they had, all the teams failed to solve a problem. The issue was everybody participating in solving a problem which turned into 45 hour debate, rather than having a leader coordinating the path to solution.

It may be an oversimplifaction, but when you have a crisis which you don't know how to solve, you can at least try to handle it the best you can. Without trust in leadership, it will be chaotic.
As TobTobXX said, one option is to post the link and then add a comment explaining what you think is interesting.

If you want to say what you think is important about an article, that's fine, but the place to do that is in a comment to the thread. Then your view will be on a level playing field with everyone else's: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...
Totally. There’s a surly creep who lives on our street and the houses next to his are worth less because of that. But Zillow would never know that.
On your first paragraph, I agree entirely. Regarding the second: with the vaccines only preventing or reducing severe symptoms without seeming to reduce viral load, they slow the progress of respiratory viruses toward low-impact variants. The mechanism of this is that sick people stay home and consequently, if you are a viral variant that makes people sick, you get outcompeted by variants that allow people to go about their days and keep spreading.

In this sense, low vaccination rates of Africa may be just what we needed.
I guess my answer depends on what kind of DB this really is.

If the app is running off a SQL Backend, you could probably do this with some well thought out queries, however whether doing so in an ORM/ActiveRecord Environment (which is what this looks like) will be beneficial might be another matter.

For instance, if this was SQL and a Micro-ORM was involved, I'd instead try to grab all the data in one pass (With the right ones that's fairly simple,) Calculate my Insert set from that, and write out the new records. In that case though, there'd probably still be some form of LINQ/Looping, both on the level of business code, as well as under the wire. It would be more performant for sure, but to your point, IDK whether it would be more understandable
>equating inclusivity and totalitarianism

Mmm so true. When authorities and regimes imprison their enemies or fire them from jobs over opinions or brainwash their children or put them under constant surveillance, they are simply totalitarians being totalitarian, but when authorities and regimes you like do it, they are the manifestation of inclusivity descending into the material world to defend itself against the nasty totalitarians who need to be put in their place. I'm 100% sure that the only difference between the two is not just you affiliating with the latter, that's a completely irrelevant detail. Just like everybody knows that my religion is right and that doesn't have anything to do with the fact that it's mine off course.

>downvoting me to -4

The Horror! what a massive injustice to good men and women everywhere that a database record somewhere contains your words next to a negative integer. Hacker news reader sure do have a lot of totalitarian tendencies for expressing contempt for your opinon in the savage and inhumane way that they did. It worries me a lot, keeps me up at night even.

Have you considered, though, the possibility that hacker news readers decided that you're a threat to tolerance and therefore shouldn't be tolerated ? Surely that's a thing you would support and admire ?
Yup, it helps with exports but it simply can't outweigh the losses from devaluation and foreign dependency.
This website randomly scrolls one line at some interval. It makes reading quite an unpleasant experience.
That's quite a common feature in Markdown editors: retext, apostrophe, ghostwriter, notable, etc all support latex for equations.
Arizona isn’t in the South
Fixed. Thanks!

The submitted URL was correct but, as detaro points out, the canonical URL wasn't, and our software now uses canonical URLs when it finds one.
Is there VIM conf?
Good point! I suggest the topic starter to apply at the companies that build products for us techies to use. I live in Germany and we have many more remote options nowadays - New Relic, Elastic, Snowflake, Aiven, etc. It will be fun and you can master some specialisation that can make you more valuable and be a meaningful progression.
Is this good news or bad news?
Only if the young manager is planning on resisting all the advice shared by the more experienced engineer.