skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The state of Hawaii also bans most ads and billboards (they are considered to take away from the natural beauty, which, of course, is a big tourism draw). I find it odd that there is even much debate about it and that most places do not have laws like this:

https://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/hrscurrent/vol10_ch0436-0474/...
Can you quantify OPs risk from omicron? Saying “it’s the best we have” is technically true but intellectually dishonest. Volcano insurance is also the “best we have” to protect vs volcanic activity and many people don’t have it.
Annoying consent flows aren't compliant, at least not with the GDPR. A compliant consent flow should make it as easy to accept as it is to decline, so pre-ticked checkboxes or hiding/burying the decline option doesn't comply.

Incompetent regulators that are asleep at the wheel and still haven't done anything to punish this (GDPR went into effect in 2018) are definitely a problem though.
..except it's quite different though?

Adding a hook for compilation in most decent editors is only a few lines of config, and many popular editors (GNU Emacs, vim, m$ vscode) nowadays have packages that have these hooks predefined, so it pretty much just comes down to installing a package, which I hope you don't think is beyond the capabilities of the average user. Alternatively there are editors like texworks which provide exactly this feature out of the box.
I think the main thing is that you have to actually talk to the people you want to sell to to find out what their problem is and why it's still a problem despite their next best alternative. Then you need to talk to them about the potential solution you have in mind to make sure you're not off the reservation entirely.

But the real moment is getting a specific person to actually give you money, hopefully before you put in too much work on the experiment. Promises or "that sounds cool" won't do it, you have to prove it to yourself by getting a person to give you real money for your thing, that's the only way to really know.
> We forget that cities are for people. We let cars dominate the majority of the available space.

In my city it's especially bad. Cars on the road, cars on the road side, cars on sidewalks, cars on pedestrian crossings, cars chasing you while crossing the road on the designated crossing. And as you say, if you object they become abusive. It's a large Eastern European city that is living the American dream of going everywhere in a car.
There's a certain irony that many people who celebrate the life of Desmond Tutu and his fight against apartheid continue to ignore that he said Israel does the same thing and should be subject to boycott.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2002/apr/29/comment
The makefile data pipeline is definitely an underrated technique a couple great HN comments on this technique:

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22283368

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18896204

I personally learned it from bioinformaticians theres great coverage of this and other command line data skills in this book: https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/bioinformatics-data-ski...

The SQLite, pandas, bash, make stack for quick data science projects is a great and maintainable one that doesn’t require too much specialized knowledge.
This. I've never worked anywhere that had dedicated ongoing effort to cost reduction in compute services. It's always a once every couple of years thing to look at the cloud spending and spend a little effort dealing with the low hanging fruit.
For anyone interested in this or being skeptical it's achievable on a non-US-FAANG salary, check out: Common Sense Investing (https://m.youtube.com/c/BenFelixCSI) and The Plain Bagel (https://m.youtube.com/c/ThePlainBagel).

Both channels are by Canadians so have a world focus (not just US), and talk about financial literacy in general.
If you classify yourself as mid career then by definition you need to have professional experience (and consulting, freelance development, volunteering etc. all count). Otherwise look for entry level roles.
I thought about doing that, but it felt like false advertising and I didn't want to (a) piss people off, (b) underwhelm them, or (c) commit to getting the project ready for use by any specific date. Am I overthinking it?
So you agree he shouldn’t feel guilty.
Yes, agreed. I was in almost the same boat, mostly building small websites as a freelancer and wanting to learn more and work on more interesting problems.

I went a 3-month programming bootcamp, got hired as a junior software engineer at a non-profit with a small engineering team (~10 people), and learned a _ton_ about the sorts of things you’re talking about (automated testing and deployment, container technology, JS pipelines, etc.). I also became a much better programmer through years of code reviews and pair programming. If you can find a place that’s big enough to have several people far more experienced than yourself and at least one of them is willing to help you out when you need it, you’ll probably get where you’re trying to go!
While London is a finance hot spot, jobs from Google, Facebook or similarly competing company will also be in that range.

And that's not even the top salaries, there are also jobs that pay in millions.

You'll also find similar salaries in Amsterdam, Paris, Zurich...

I'm just stating that jobs that pay the same as in the article do exist in Europe, and I don't believe they're as exceptional as you suggest.

There just is a large spectrum of salaries for software engineering, and as we all know, 90% of everything is crud, so of course the median will be much lower.
I have zero problems with ad-supported shit going out of business and making space for good, paid content. Imagine a world where content has to be so good as to convince people to take out their wallet. No more clickbait, "this video is sponsored by ShitVPN", chumboxes, etc.
I don't know if I would call it an accessibility problem for me personally, but yeah as someone who has trouble staying focused, a moving screen or flashy ad is almost impossible not to look at, and extremely intrusive. Using the web without an ad blocker is an absolute nightmare for me.
Well, i have the mobile app 0 times. I only use the quest through Steam and the Link cable.

( and considering the eco-system arround discounted games and the prices i'm seeing in the Oculus store. I don't expect it to change anytime soon.

Also, i'm not going to help their VR monopoly ( much) on games - since they are buying a lot of VR game creators)

But yeah, i bought the device before I saw they are trying to corner the market.
Yeah cockney rhyming slang (UK), if you get a 2:2 degree you’ve got a “Desmond”. I’m not surprised people don’t know why, when I first heard it I had to look it up. I don’t think kids grow up learning about Desmond Tutu.
The Man Behind the Curtain a Documentary about Chris McKinstry a.k.a. Mindpixel
Playing devil's advocate given my beliefs on ads, but value does not imply property rights.
That's really good comp for the UK. Well done!

Do you mind me asking what industry you're in?
Not using hand-written shitty parsers, having a spec and validating it too.

Or day drinking and quitting your job, depending on the mood.

ASN.1 done right is pretty easy to secure, and much less error prone than pretty much any text format
Common Sense Investing
Vanilla JavaScript UX micro-library – Popups that Pop
"5kW of panels don't produce 5kW in winter" -> there is no 'time' factor in there.

What you could say is that solar panels in the winter do not produce the same amount of power in an average day as they do in the summer due to the shorter day and the bigger chance of occlusion as well as the longer path the suns rays have to travel through the atmosphere.
Look for a company where software is not their main focus. Get hired there by showing them some projects on GitHub. Don't have projects on GitHub? You can make those be there right now for free.

You will also need to interview there. Your username indicates that you suck at interviewing.
I hate to break it to you, but interviewing is a skill that can be learned. With. Practice.
You can either interview at places or try a site like interviewing.io
You can get better at interviewing, trust me.

Once you get hired to the not-so-software company, use that experience as a stepping stone to get hired somewhere better. Repeat until you find a place you like
I think they are not using Mesos now.

https://dzone.com/articles/what-can-we-learn-from-twitters-m...
Elbrus-8S CPU
> There are no stories like this one where I live (in Sweden). Absolutely none.

Swedish tax rates on income makes this two to three times as difficult (approaches 60% plus 30% social paid by the employer this includes RSUs as well, plus 25% VAT) but it’s nonsense to claim this doesn’t happen. I am Swedish and have made significantly more in tech than the author. So has many of my friends.

With that said, the only reason I’m still in Sweden is family. The public sentiment about the future is uncomfortably racist and increasingly hostile about fortune making. If you have the mobility my advice is to move. Good luck.
Show HN: I made “Wind of change”, a social note-taking app with threads
I have a noob question:

If everyone thought and lived like this. Save everything, don't spend too much, don't have kids etc. Would it not lead us into a world where there is not enough economic activity and growth.

And the money that you do have in that case would not be worth much anyway..
I've said way too much PII already, but it's on HMRC/Land Registry if you want to look it up. Bought in 2019. Non-council.
> Unless it killed laborers disproportionately, and spared non-laborers

This is actually highly likely, given the facts we know.

1) It is highly transmissible when people are in close quarters for longer than a few minutes

2) Many businesses forced their employees to continue working with no PPE, no adequate ventilation, and no paid sick time

Combine these things, and you get a very high likelihood of increased transmission among the most vulnerable of laborers—which thus increases their likelihood of death in proportion.
So there are a few obvious issues - people don't want to work for low wages with no other benefit to their lives, so if they don't have to, they won't. But the blame is on companies here: if you raise wages high enough and treat your employees well, someone will do the job. In order to suppress wages, we've generally kept immigration high and kept social services low. As immigration has declined and we've recently injected cash directly into the hands of the people, wages have climbed.

But I think there's another elephant in the room that nobody has mentioned: the accumulation of wealth and its staying power over generations has created a large class of people that don't have to work (and have never had to). You don't have to be a billionaire to be in that class. If you inherit (or are gifted) a home, the amount of income you require to live is very low, certainly less than full time wages. If you additionally inherit money and have it modestly invested, you could easily live off that money and never work. Some of these people work, but not all, and they are quite able to take long breaks in employment during a pandemic if they choose. This class of people continues to grow every year as our methods for taxing wealth are ineffective. Frankly, assuming most of us are software devs or work for vcs - our children will probably be a part of this class of people. Some of you reading this already are. But I don't know how an economy continues with this class growing the way it has (ok, the answer is the wealth will eventually get inflated away but that will be a big problem for all of us).

There's also another class of people that are perfectly happy working part time and just getting by - this group is happier working a bit but not full time, and certainly not multiple jobs. The lack of motivation is tied to the lack of advancement options for all but a few. If you didn't take one of the few high-income tracks in university, and you don't have the technical chops for software, or the physical durability for a trade, there aren't great options for you to make a lot of money.
Those questions reflect your life more than OP's. Is your life so meaningless and boring outside work that you'd have nothing to do when you retire? If the answer is yes you should seriously re-evaluate your approach to life. At least get some hobbies!
I've always loved using Twitter for threads and "thinking out loud". But Twitter is also a slightly depressing experience — e.g. when I get likes but no replies, or when I scroll through the feed for half an hour and don't see anything I can reply to.

So I built my own app with threads. I can create new threads there and slowly fill them with content, while anybody else can reply to those threads. I've been using it for two months already, mostly for personal notes and collecting examples and recording observations about my life. It's been pretty great.

One more cool feature about WOC is that it lets me mix private and public notes in the same thread.

I invite you all to check it out. It's free, has no ads, and currently built in Haskell. The source is here: <https://github.com/windorg/app>.

I find that it provides a lot of value for me and I don't know any other note-taking app like that. Would love to get any feedback, too.

(You can also see my own boards without having to sign up, here: <https://windofchange.me/Boards>)
Well, you can constrain what kind of string encodings are acceptable in your structs. The reason it has so many is because so many were actually in use, sometimes with important semantic differences that.

You can't just hope that stream of 8bit bytes will not have anything outside of accepted in target system string understanding.
It wasn’t enough for anyone to live on. At best, it helped a few of my relatives when they couldn’t work for one paycheck due to illness.

Supposedly it moved large swaths of kids out of poverty. If that’s the labor companies we’re counting on using…
I would invest in learning Rails 7 and Hotwire. Seems to have a great ROI for the effort put in. It can scale pretty far as well and you will be able to focus more time on delivering value.

The technical excellence road has a lot of dead ends and false prophets. Be aware!
Sounds like extensive research of your own filter bubble.
Consumption yes. But how do you get to 70-80% for reinvesting? Corporate taxes are 20%, dividend taxes 30% on remaining 80? That gets you to 44% net tax. From gross to net. Income taxes are higher but still not 70-80%?

I agree income taxes are high throughout most of Western Europe, but the way to grow wealth is by acquiring assets that can grow without having to sell them and pay taxes.

An investment fund (or a property) can often grow for a long time and throw off cashflows that are taxed more efficiently. So can a business where you build up value in the equity. Cashflow keeps the lights on, but equity (even in a small business) builds wealth.
As mentioned last week here in a previous “run your own email” story, your setup can also get rejected for not sending enough email, meaning your volume can’t establish good reputation.
Ah, I can completely see why you would find it frustrating—I enjoyed the anecdotes and it made for very light holiday reading, but then it was indeed light on detail.

If you go to the end of the book, just before the Notes section there is a short chapter which lays out the basics of most of the breathing techniques. I've found that to be enough to experiment a little and while brief it's enough as a starting point.

Sadly I don't have any recommendations for breathing techniques outside of those espoused by Wim Hof, which are based in part on Tummo.

Given that this book (Breath) has been published and the recent increase in popularity the topic is seeing I am hopeful that we will see some follow-on works (if they don't exist already) that will break these techniques down in more detail. As it stands it feels necessary to piece together elements from different books to get a more complete picture regarding how these techniques work and what is possible. I would certainly be interested to see a collation of results seen in athletes.
All freedoms are limited by the freedoms of others. You may speak what you wish, but when and how you speak it is limited.

You can not scream about it in the middle of the night, since doing so bothers your neighbors.

Letting anyone and everyone do what ever they want would lead to anarchy. So no society, USA included, does this.

But some actors in societies have convinced the western population, especially Americans, into the fantasy of "freedom without limitation", which, just so happens to only apply to the rich and powerful, while everyone else has to contend with limitations on their freedoms.
I want to add some panels at my home to lower the monthly power bill but as I understand I have to direct the energy to something, such as fridge or AC, and when there is not enought energy from the sun either automatically switch to grid or manually.

Where can I find such information to build a hybrid energy solution?
I don’t think we actually disagree, see my last paragraph.
I wrote that before but happy to repeat:

I do sometimes antiadvertisement. I see anoying ads? I will write those companies. Works best when cc as many mail addresses you can find from them.

I also don't think most advertising is fair anyway. Most companies can't afford it, you actually don't see a lot of different ads as well.

It's always magnum ice cream, cigarettes, some weird hipster new thing no one needs.
Exactly. Ads are basically pollution. Digital (and network-connected) ads drive the cost of polluting to near zero, so you see them everywhere: on transit, in gas stations, on your TV's UI, in your operating system, etc. Analog ads actually have a deployment cost, so they don't pollute the space as much.
How about:

Aside from salary or possibly social connection, there’s better places to work that the us.

If people are going to work for crap pay, there’s far less tiring roles than pickers or servers. These have been filled with domestic or imported underclass. See Brexit.

If you don’t have to work to do what you like, why would you?

Schooling looks pretty good right now.

Why work just to pay child care?

I could go on, but as many have written covid has given everybody time to think rather than just go along day to day. Thinking is dangerous to the status quo.
Totally agree. Especially in READMEs
HN guidelines:

> Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—things like article or website formats, name collisions, or back-button breakage. They're too common to be interesting.
I was responding to this

>What Web3 is pitched to be is completely antithetical to what most people want in the sense that by it's nature, Web3 basically makes AML and other financial controls pretty much impossible

So you've pretty much made my point with your reply. People don't want KYC, authoritarian governments do. People decide what they are okay with and not governments and as the failed war on drugs has shown governments don't really get what they want long term.

People want private cash and an open financial system and then will have it regardless of what government thinks.
Income tax in CA at that level is 33% per year approximately. Even at $150k. So knock 1/3 off earnings and subtract expenses, what do you get?
The nicest email stack is: postfix, dovecot, rspamd and rainloop.

EDIT: go check it out :-) https://www.rainloop.net/

EDIT 2: I don't understand why other comments are so agressive against the author for sharing how he runs his own mail server, I'm not sure if it comes from one's frustration, failures, unreasonable expectations about email, but I noticed that everything related to servers or email receives this hate (here on HN, eh?). Come on, let's start a new year where we appreciate someone sharing their experience in running a mail server :-)

Happy Holidays!
Sell one unit to someone. In fact, do it before you start coding. Coworkers, business contacts. "If I built X would you pay for it? Yes? Cool, what's a fair price?"

Get one of those first, then open your terminal. Aside from showing there is a non-zero market for your wares, it also proves that you are willing to do the hard part which is the selling, not the building.

If you won't do the hard part then you are wasting your time. So do the hard part once first.
LAeq is an “energy” average, it’s all of the sound energy from the sources that’s averaged over 24 hours. It reflects human response to noise since.
Why Chinese students studying in the West do not have freedom of expression
I'm loading the data off a memory mapped SSD, trivial questions will probably be answered entirely from memory, although the disk-read performance doesn't seem terrible either.

> What is your current max rps?

It depends on the complexity of the request, and repeated retrievals are cached, so I'm not even sure there is a good answer to this.
When travelling to Thailand and using the metro in Bangkok, you might notice some Thai people tend to move away from certain foreigners. Perhaps moving away from their seat shortly after a foreigner sits right next to them. I believe this is often caused by the sweat smell of foreigners. As the article states:

> Technically osmidrosis is the production of objectionably aromatic sweat, but many Asians think they’ve got a problem if they produce any odor when sweating — even an amount that would be considered normal in other races.

So if you don't want to offend people when travelling in Thailand (and I imagine other South-East Asian countries), I suggest keeping some deodorant at hand when moving around and in hot countries shower 2 times a day if possible.

I'd also like to note that Western woman seem to enjoy smelling a little bit of sweat from their boyfriends / husbands. At least based on my experience with my Thai girlfriend: doesn't seem to be the same around here.

By the way, apparently there's also some kind of stone deodorant (alum [0]) that can be bought here and is apparently effective in fighting sweat or its smell. I still have to try this style of deodorant some time, but as of yet haven't seen it in any shop ...

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[0]: https://www.bangkokpost.com/life/arts-and-entertainment/3881...
Huh? My partner was not an expense at all.
If you just want your own address, iCloud+ now supports custom domains. You might already be subscribed to it and not know it. This also includes private relay and email hiding. It might be the easiest way to move your email out of gmail.

https://support.apple.com/guide/icloud/add-a-custom-domain-m...
In Africa, rescuing the languages that Western tech ignores
If I could give my younger self some advice it would probably be: slack off, or leave.

If you are talented and enjoy slacking off then you can have a pretty nice lifestyle in Sweden. Most of the exceptionally talented engineers I know work part time as consultants.
Again no disrespect meant at all, only a desire to understand - but what do you do for income? How are you paying rent and such? Are you living off of savings/investments/BTC/401k?
Who owns our bodies? If it's us, the individual operating the body, then telling your doctor to provide advice based on "im not eating less, I'm not gonna quit smoking / snorting 3g of coke a day / whatever" isn't unreasonable.

If "Society, "God" or "Government" own the body, someone other than the person in it; then we've got a massively silly situation.

Lots and lots of noise has been made over the past 100 years avoiding that central question. Doctors and Governments want to own our bodies, but don't want to say so outright, because they fear many people will object to the notion.
So it should be illegal for me to wear a t-shirt with Adidas written on it? Or shoes with the Nike swoosh on it?
USA salaries are really unbelievable. That £74,000 which seems to be a poor salary in the USA judging the the OP would be a really very good salary in the UK