skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks, but these are not technically non-profit:

"Ecosia is a search engine based in Berlin, Germany. It donates 80% of its profits to nonprofit organizations that focus on reforestation" [1]

"80% of profits will be distributed among charities and non-profit organizations. The remaining 20% will be put aside for a rainy day." [2]

"Ekoru.org is a search engine dedicated to saving the planet. The company donates 60% of revenue generated from clicks on sponsored search results to partner organizations who work on climate change issues" [3]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecosia
[2] https://ask.moe/
[3] https://www.forbes.com/sites/meimeifox/2020/01/19/how-the-se...
I don't believe it's true, it certainly isn't something London could bring in on its own. However, gas appliances over here for apartments do need to have flame sensors (so the gas gets cut off), and if you're a landlord, you're going to need to do annual safety checks on gas equipment (apartment or not).

So the equipment itself is slightly more costly for an apartment, and a landlord specifically has a strong incentive to have little/no gas, to save on the annual checks.
I work in the back office of law firms and tomcam has made a good suggestion, to look t software for law firms, because I can tell you the “digital transformation” all other industries have been going through for quite a few years has only just begun in law firms.. they are risk averse and therefore move slow.

Lots of technology innovation going on in this space
Renting below 'fair market price' would be one way?

In the UK we have a lot of private landlords - some have borrowed heavilly and are merely expoloiting their ability to obtain a mortgage where their tenants can not and are making marginal amounts of money in the process (often much less than if they simply invested what cash they have in a tracker fund). Some have inherited a property or are renting out buildings they bought twenty years ago where the amount of rent they charge is multiple times out of sync with their actual costs.

So long as all of these people can say they are only charging 'fair market' prices then the problem persists.
How does Internet Archive verify dumps submitted by Archive Team and other groups? This may already be a solved problem.

Not knowing their implementation details, I’m guessing it could be doable without reinventing much. An oracle could dispatch a P2P archive job to a pool of clients randomly assigned tasks, with both the first to archive and the first to validate being recognized by the swarm somehow, with periodic re-archiving and re-verification, rate adjusted by popularity of site and of search keywords.
Here’s a great book that has lots of valuable insights: https://leanpub.com/freelancedeveloperbook

It’s geared to freelancers but honestly it talks about a lot of soft skills that are probably equally as important as technical skills when it comes to self employment or when talking with clients.
Good question. We have never eradicated a coronavirus in man nor beast. Prior experiments in beasts were overwhelming failures. It is in deer and cats, and transmits between species, so it will be around for approximately forever. I'm not taking new-tech medical treatments for something I already lived through at home without intervention.

While OSHA mandates are all the rage, MSHA actually does safety and did not mandate. Wearing a bacteria-breeding mask becomes unhealthy and is dangerous to wear because it blocks vision down. In general, people would learn a lot about safety and prevention by working under MSHA rules for awhile. I did.
I live in SF. The resources you mention are not currently a limiting factor.

Medical: is provided by private companies like Kaiser, who have proven their ability to grow as their customer base grows.

Kindergarten: the school district has excess capacity, as # students has shrunk from 70k+ to fewer than 50k. They will probably need to close some schools to increase utilization.

Streets: the streets in San Francisco are way less crowded than anywhere else I've lived.

Public transport: the last few times I've taken the bus, it's been easy to find a seat. The last time I took the BART it was nearly empty.

Schools: see comment above.
Too bad I couldn't find the HEV suit voice from Half-Life. At least it has GLaDOS though.
The bittorrent protocol uses a very simple binary data representation system: bencoding.

It can be described in a single paragraph: https://www.bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0003.html#bencoding

Although it supports only dictionaries, lists, ints and strings, it may be enough for your use case and is easily extendable.

Edit: also ASN.1 does not solve futute-extending out-of-the-box. In JSON/bencoding/XML, it's trivial to add another key/element to a dictionary/array/element and allow applications to use it if they can and ignore it otherwise. Okay, TLV looks like it could handle that, but there's nothing about it in the description language itself.
> I don't mean just practically, I mean legally, at least under Australian law. If things are significantly different in the UK or NL, I'd be very surprised!

glad to see aussies here! however do know that the bureocracy in europe (EU and friends) and rules for small business operations are indeed significantly different (many more compliance requirements) than in australia. one thing that aussies will often find surprising are the compulsory monthly costs for running you own business (let alone a company)
Yes AI can do this. It‘s called Audio Style Transfer.
"The fact is the sweetest dream that labor knows."

Long, continually surprising, and ultimately satisfying. Read.
625k a year? Doing what exactly? Good for you, but I have never seen a spec with even a third of that salary. Or is it that it's only FAANG who's paying that big?
Engineering salaries in the US are so high I think these “retire by 35” posts should be put into perspective. Saving 250k USD in a lifetime would set me up for life where I’m from. Never mind over 500k in a single year.
It wasn’t good enough. Even today people mistakenly refer to Daydream when they have a poor opinion of VR.
I've never met a professional frontend developer who does that.

CSS Zen Gardens is from around 2006.
Actually I was thinking of something vaguely along those lines!
Yep. I think a big chunk of people decided to retire early. This isn’t predominantly young people leaving the labor force. It’s older people looking around and realizing life is short.
Where I live (New Zealand) $US 100k/year is a top salary.
Am I reading the paper definition correctly? If yes, why does the vertical line and horizontal line in 2D have so different correlations?

def corr(x,y):
n = len(x)
an_array = np.stack((x, y), axis=-1)
sorted_array = an_array[np.argsort(an_array[:, 0])]
r = rankdata(sorted_array[:,1])
s = sum(np.abs(np.diff(r)))
return 1.0 - (3.0 \* s/(n\*n -1.0))
Not exceptional in Switzerland, Norway and UK
ASN.1 was great. Another old specification language still in use today is EXPRESS, one of the foundations of the huge ISO 10303 (STEP) standard series, as defined in ISO 10303-11. It even has algebraic data types. The development of STEP started in 1984 and has been one of the largest efforts ever undertaken by ISO.
Rent colo space, rent transit, rent equipment (which you should absolutely do below gigantic footprint). Boom - your physical dc is now an opex. Still cheaper than public cloud by an order of magnitude on certain workloads (egress heavy, gpus, etc)
Oculus Quest 1 and 2 are standalone VR headsets, which means that the single device is everything you need to play games. You don't need PC, but if you have it you can also use headset to play PCVR games through Steam – with wire or wireless if you have capable wifi.

Even though XR2 chipset in Quest 2 is weak in comparison to beefy PC with NVIDIA RTX 3090, the games are optimized for it and runs smoothly at 90/120Hz. A lot of games are made in low-poly style exactly because of poor hardware, but some games can pull off some pretty decent looking graphics (Eleven, Climb 2, Robo Recall, etc.). I expect that graphics will get much better (HL Alyx better) on standalone VR headsets with Apple's take on this segment.
I cook on cast-iron twice a day, just about anything. Once you actually learn how to cook on it, there are zero problems with sticking or anything else. Tends to be healthier than cooking on a nonstick surface as well.

And yes we make quite a lot of eggs, scrambled and fried, works just perfectly without a mess.
Tbh it's a pipe dream for essentially everyone else as well, even 95-99% of Americans. For instance the American President makes 400k/year. That's a wild annual salary and only possible for an exceedingly small smidge of the population. And this guy is earning more.
I remain perpetually bemused at how the same people who wax lyrical about the efficiency of the free market in determining prices of goods and commercial services via supply and demand will then turn around and bemoan the lack of willing workers at their autocratically decreed pay scales.

Surely the market shall provide, and if it doesn't provide at your offered price, the answer is wonderfully clear? Pay. More.
I'm not sure you understood my comment. What I mean is that traditional denominations like left-right are completely inadequate. It's like arguing that the NSDAP was a leftist party since they had "sozialistische" in the name - trying to cast multi-dminensional phenomena onto one dimension results not just in inadequacy but completely obscures the actual situation.

In the case of the current ruling party, they certainly brand themselves as right-wing and they want to occupy the whole spectrum from the center to the right. However, their way of thinking in economic terms, their dislike of private business, their understanding of the function of the government and local government, of centralization, public vs private property etc. - all this is very much related to their experience of the past socialist regime. The reforms they are doing right now basically mean taking money from individual people running their own businesses and transferring them to the rest, creating one of the most weird taxation schemes Poland saw so far.
Is there a test suite of expected search results that could be used with these sort of projects?
Sorry, for the "average non-tech-savvy user in an English-speaking country" is more or less what I meant. Although this would have been true for Google also in the early days.
Not sure why you’re feeling the need to be sarcastic?

It’s fine to use generic words in trademarks, but generally not generic words from the domain the trademark is being registered in. So you can trademark ‘apple’ in the domain of computers, but not in the domain of fruit. And you can register ‘windows’ in the domain of operating systems but not in the domain of construction.

‘Bake-off’ is a generic baking term registered in the domain of baking, which is odd.

(Lots of operating system desktop environments have ‘windows’ as a concept but it wasn’t as commonly known at the time.)
I’d rather we all ceased the collective regressive delusion that is copyright.

There are other ways to make sure artists and inventors can eat than by using the threat of violence to make the unscarce scarce.
Not everyone works in machine learning which seems to be the only subject the site handles, and those that do not work in it may still be interested in hearing about the existence of such a website.
I take your point that it's not that simple, please excuse my not-entirely sober summary.

It is true that "Scottish Nationalism" via means such as a referendum, is the primary policy of the SNP - the "Scottish National party"; it's in the name. They are always in favour of it, it's just the tactics and timing that changes.

it's true that the SNP is the most popular party in Scotland, holds the most seats and has the most influence. But does not have a free hand to call and win a referendum in Scotland at will. If that was true, it would have happened already.

It's true that the 2014 Scotland independence referendum was billed as "once in a generation" event.

And yet, 2014 looks increasingly like a time from a different generation: before Brexit, when the campaign to keep Scotland in the Union was also pitched as the way to keep Scotland in the EU. The irony is palpable.

The SNP say that "Scots are being dragged out of the EU against their will". And this is somewhat true.

I do not think that it will be easy to avoid another Scottish independence referendum indefinitely. The SNP will wait until the time is right for them, and then press the point.
Norway is almost entirely hydroelectric, which is pretty close to ideal in terms of providing reliable non-fossil-fuel power - and unfortunately something most countries don't have the geography to pull off, which is why Norway ended up so much more electricity-centric. I think they also accept the odd multi-day outage affecting small numbers of customers like everywhere else, especially in urban areas, just because weather gets in the way of providing 100% reliable power. Also, remember larger-scale outages are long-tail events which means it's not really possible to measure exactly how likely they are especially with a small country like Norway.
I also sweat a lot. To wear an Oculus headset and most VR headsets comfortably, it’s enough to just have a silicon cover. There are also plenty of accessories and mods to counter sweat.
Stock options - it's mentioned in the article.
No, if 10 items are to be kept - that would be a select sort, heap one was invented in the same decade but later. With the amount of items to be printed kept in memory - just read the tape and grade the items vs. the current selection.
It seems like you're creating a scale of things you believe everyone ought to have and calling it "needs". If you're defining need in such a subjective way, then telling someone else to divide their life up by what they need vs what they want is telling them to live their life with only the luxuries they're unwilling to compromise on.

That's a great way to live and I approve of it, but I remain steadfastly convinced that it's good for humans to have some unnecessary luxuries.
>even a year ago.

I must be getting old.
I totally agree with this. I feel the more bullshit that gets piled on top the more I naturally just want to stubbornly resist. Even if it’s against my best interests.

Sometimes I wonder if a certain subset of the population is just naturally like this. The more authority applied the more people resist, even if they intended to do the action they authoritarian insists they do to begin with.

If you tell me to do something my automatic reaction is to say no. Childish I guess and find myself having to evaluate why I have this impulse from time to time.

One has to wonder if the media/social media shut the fuck up about the vaccines/mask arguments compliance rates would be actually higher…
I think people who are graduating now will have a hard time replicating this. My cohort (now in our early 30s, cs majors from a top school) were incredibly lucky because we were in a permanent bull run so as long as we were invested in almost any tech stock, we did well. Almost all of us hit one million mark before early 2020 and that became 2 million at the end of 2021.

I would love for this to continue forever but can it really? For example the author (and my friends) are in similar situation where their compensation are now in the ~500k range but that number is based on the stock value at the time of offer. It is now essentially double that. So we're in a situation where your everyday senior FAANG engineers are locked in a golden handcuff unless they are offered million dollar packages to jump ship.

We're in weird times.
It doesn't get cold in SF.
Yes, I'm planning to do something like this.
TLDR he rode the tech bubble, lived frugally and poured his savings into what happened to be a very favorable stock decade, which together with his tech stock options from employers made him a multimillionaire.

Not to disrespect the effort that went into this, but let's make this very clear: this type of trajectory is only possible for a very limited few, in a particular moment in history.

Everything seems to indicate that, save for a few samurai, the tech overlords are a powerful force driving inequality today.
Energy prices are not plummeting globally, the drop that did happen can primarily be put squarely on america developing enormous new oil resources which broke the opec cartel which couldn’t get its act together in the new environment (and was trying to bankrupt the more expensive NA oil by dumping below production cost for tar sands). Geopolitics and world events have ended this period of cheap oil which is still fluctuating but the contribution of wind and solar is just not big enough yet to dominate the energy market.
I haven’t used OS X in ages, but wouldn’t Nix be a great option?
Personally I think run on-prem till you outgrow a server in the office closet, Digital Ocean/Linode till you run out of features, then AWS/GCP when you start needing to scale to handle hockey-stick user growth. Then again, you'll need an expensive devops engineer to manage those redeployments seamlessly, so have you really gained anything there?

How much funding do you have? A couple hundred thousand is different from a couple million.
Fair argument although wasn't this the idea behind the .org/.com which was a kind of a best of both worlds solution that seemed to work OK up until now?
To have 1 MM USD/EUR at the end of your thirties given an average 4 % yearly return on investment, you need to save around 4.000 USD/EUR per month starting at age 25. In Europe, if you earn around 100k EUR per year your free income will be around 5.000-6.000 EUR per month. Saving 4.000 EUR / month is doable with that but you'll have to live very frugally, not traveling much and you better not start a family unless you have a partner who will supplement your income.

And regarding the authors' experience: Yeah, if you happen to be employed in the area that ranks in the top 0.05 % quantile for engineering salaries worldwide you will easily become wealthy, especially if you're lucky enough to be paid in company stock during a stock market bubble.
120Hz is already on many mid range phone brands such as Realme. Won't be long before thats common. What is the cost of the Oculus headset? If phones will be capable within 2 years and you don't need another device do you think Oculus will ever be more than a temporary solution? I suspect phones will crush that market as they did compact cameras.
I dont think many are actually against "Cloud" per se. But Specifically AWS, Azure and GCP. Especially when you are only looking at like EC2 and wondering why they are 3x more expensive to other managed server / cloud vendor even on Reserve instances with zero bandwidth bundled.

If you look at prices from Oracle Cloud ( ignoring whatever feeling you have against it ) than all of a sudden it is extremely attractive.
> At least if you are in Germany you need to have a business incorporated when you want to sell to customers or businesses.

No. You can act as a GbR. It’s a good idea to incorporate a limited liability company to shield your personal property from liability, but it’s not a requirement. If you do, a UG mbH will do just fine and is simple to set up, but requires proper bookkeeping.

You need to register for tax and at the Gewerbeamt likely (depends, ask a tax accountant about your specific case) but both are trivial. You do need to provide an invoice, but there are tons of options to make that simple - a word template may be sufficient.
We had a similar problem, but it exhibited differently

We had two lumps of compute:

1) huge render farm, at the time it was 36k CPU. The driving goal was 100% utilisation. it was a shared resource, and when someone wasn't using their share it was aggressively loaned out. (both CPU and licenses) Latency wasnt an issue

2) much smaller VM fleet. Latency was an issue. Even though the contention was much less, as was the number utilisation.

Number two was the biggest issue. We had a number of processes that needed 100% of one CPU all the time, and they were stuttering. Even though the VM thought they were getting 100% of a core, they were in practice getting ~50% according to the hyperviser. (this was a 24 core box, with only one CPU heavy process)

After much graphing, it turned out that it was because we had too many VMs on a machine defined with 4-8CPU. Because the hypervisor won't allocate only 2 CPUs to a 4 CPU VM, there was lots of spin locking waiting for space to schedule the VM. This meant that even though the VMs thought they were getting 100% cpu, the host was actually giving the VM 25%

The solution was to have more smaller machines. The more threads you ask for to be scheduled at the same time reduces the ability to share.

We didn't see this on the big farm, because the only thing we constrained was memory, The orchestrator would make sure that a thing configured for 4 threads was put in a 4 thread slot, but we would configure each machine to have 125% CPU allocated to it.
> They're still more expensive than a non-induction electric cooktop

I don't know where to buy cooktops in the US so I can't do a comparison, but on one of the biggest websites in the UK the cheapest induction hob is £105 right now, and the cheapest ceramic hob is £80.

> They depend on the type of cookware used.

You can buy a pad from amazon for less than $10 that will let you use any cookware on an induction hob. Most cookware _is_ suitable (I bought a new pan before the holidays and even the cheapest non stick pans had a stainless steel layer on the bottom)
Yeah the whole ritual with base stations and wire management gets tiring after a while.
You mean the government? Yeah, I’m pretty sure.

This was an entirely predictable consequence of banning recreational drugs.
Just because you don't find it useful, doesn't mean others won't either. I use Marktext on a daily basis and think its a great tool, after comparing it to what's available in OSS. I haven't had any Electron-related issues with it.
There comes a point where we need to stop just pulling people out of the river. We need to go upstream and find out why they're falling in.

― Desmond Tutu

May he rest in peace.
> I would love for this to continue forever but can it really?

well, we've pretty much got the world chained down it's essentially unlimited money for us forever

if things go downhill we will still be on top anyway so who cares
there's an option for that yes
Crikey - surprised by the downvotes. I mentioned “Dismiss” because I remembered it as being a significant part of the process - attempting to “Take the wind out of the sails” of something innovative, to slow market adoption and to buy time to plan the Embrace, and decide how to best Extend to eventually win the competition.
Golden handcuffs are a good thing. It's such a first world problem to complain about golden handcuffs. "Oh no, I'm making $300k/yr over my nominal market value!"
I'd rather use CBOR instead of JSON when doing anything outside the browser that doesn't need to be human editable
I can't play fast-paced FPS games either due to RSI, but luckily there are plenty of more casual games as well. I recently bought Demeo (table top game) to play with my brother, and it was pretty fun. :)
The article we are commenting on was specifically written around 2006 to discourage tables from being used for layout, which was a common approach at the time.

Some people can construct tables from P tags for all I care. It doesn't mean it's common amongst professional developers and it doesn't mean it's correct.
I'd say the HN crowd is more likely to be in that top quintile than not
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