skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem is that the ad-free experience often costs orders of magnitude above what the ad view would earn them. Let's take newspapers for example, ad view on a single page load would maybe earn them 10c, but if I wanted to pay I'd need to subscribe to a monthly commitment of ~15£/month (for the WSJ) and still have no guarantee my data won't be used maliciously (there is no way to pay anonymously) nor whether cancelling the subscription will be easy (no idea for the WSJ but the New York Times is infamous for this).
That was fixed years ago.
You can do exactly that on YouTube (with Premium). It is one of the highest value memberships I can think of, considering how much time I (and the rest of the world) spend on YouTube every day.

Ultimately though, all such solutions turn into yet another money grab. Cable TV was supposed to be this premium ad-free experience, but media conglomerates realized hey, why not get money out of both subscriptions and ads?
LiFePO4 batteries can be stored and used below freezing, they just shouldn't be charged. All you have to do is turn the system off when you're not there.
Businesses especially the large one get free guarantees, bailouts, low interest rates, preferential treatments, etc. It isn't free for many decades.
"running a bus during peak hours at twice your current rate (unless the rate is completely ridicilous) does not sound easy"

The 14R (the fastest bus from my home to downtown SF) is scheduled to run every 10 mins (on average) during the morning peak.

Running that bus every 5 mins (which presents no special difficulty) would double the capacity, and reduce average wait time by 5 mins.
Too many white collar graduates, too few carpenters.
If your resentment is towards programmers, it's misplaced; though they might not think it, even a programmer making half a million a year is much closer to working class than the C levels.
Don’t forget the loud advertisements at the petrol pump!
Force Chrome major version to 100 in the User-Agent string
I strongly disagree, his comment is not an ad, it is content. We all came to this page looking for comments like that. Every single experience in life changes the way I think and feel, that doesn't mean everything is an ad, the defining characteristic of an ad is the fact that it is unwanted, that it is imposed on people as an attention tax imposed on some other experience we actually want.
Because how else would google maps break ties between equally long paths when giving directions, if not by which ads you see along the way? ;)
The DSM is ... well, it's a many-purpose compendium, but one of them is diagnosing people to get them a starting point. For insurance claims, for looking for specialists, etc. But it's certainly not in itself an expert manual. (While yes it is, but it's really not. Because it necessarily has to exclude the outlier cases, so it intentionally limits its own scope, focusing on the most common symptoms, and general descriptions of them. Which is very hard for psychological phenomena.)

And it was because it seems those are all caused by the same underlying biology, so they are the same disorder with differing levels of severity in their symptom categories. (Social/language and restricted repetitive behaviors.)
I just wish there was a one-size-fits-all approach.
Well, a bunch of cities in Brazil where I live, banned ads too! São Paulo is a very notorious one.
“How I bought a house: first I cut out my $5 Starbucks habit. That gave me the money, and more importantly the courage I needed to ask my parents to pay for my house. Which they did. Never underestimate what you can achieve!”
Removing and applying an incorrect license to open source software by a multi-national software giant is a "nonsense issue"?

Hardly "weasel words" when you look at the action that took place. It wouldn't be OK for you to do it and it isn't OK for a bot that Microsoft deployed incorrectly to do either.
I’d also recommend putting a Kickstarter together for your idea even if it’s unrealistic to launch one.
This person was able to buy cheap in 2008 because they had cash instead of debt. Imagine if they had all their cash in stocks in 2008...
They somewhat address this:

>In a similar vein as above, I hear that it is almost impossible for talented software developers to earn similar amounts in any country besides USA. If early financial independence is a priority for you, strongly consider moving here. The easiest way to do this is probably to take a 1-year hiatus from work, and enroll in a Master’s degree in USA. Though I have also met others who moved here on a work-visa
Well obviously it’s time for a 5th booster. That should do it!
Interesting: https://www.mobile-solarpower.com/all-in-one-122448v-package... programs are selectable by numbers. Reminds me of the Apollo DSKY computer.
Obama saying "Don't have a cow man" sounds like an Australian who's lived in South Africa for many years.
Is this how people really think?
> Blocking ads may work online, but unless you spend your life in VR goggles, one cannot apply technical solutions alone.

The VR goggle / IRL ad blocking is an interesting idea. I immediately jump to fear that something politically sensitive could be censored. However, I suppose we still have that issue in online ad blocking.

Are there any known examples of censorship of content critical of $GOV being applied to an ad-blocker? Any crowd sourced list could in theory be vulnerable to censorship.
I have never given correct information for those. I always sign up with the name of a president and the address of the White House. I’ve been using a phone number from 15 years ago for those.
Fair enough. I had you pegged as another one of those nutters but seems I was unfair in that analysis.
It's also much easier to construct a safe parser if you can use metaprogramming and effectively build a parser from generic blocks.

Consider also how ASN.1 heavily uses specifications that are supposed to be read by compiler generators, something that also is replicated in Protobuf, but with less expressive power.
You're not wrong that they did it during a better time. But the move to get a bunch of friends to essentially move in and take over an apartment building and then buy it (in a non-forced manner) was pretty clever.
The difference is that his "ad" is relevant; you are on a comment thread about ads reading his (relevant) reply, similar to seeing an ad about a phone in a phone store.

In contrast, ads in most public places are completely irrelevant and unwelcome.
Also https://searchmysite.net/ for personal and independent websites (essentially a loss-leader for its open source self-hostable search as a service).
Paid online services have been a thing long before internet advertising took over. People used to have search, email, GPS navigation, business directories, news, weather and lots more before Google was even an idea. Why do people suddenly think giving up your privacy to look at obnoxious ads all day is the only way technology will progress further?
how does one simply “get hired” while being mid career with no professional sw experience? asking for a friend.
The same who pays for other subscription based software, music, and groceries.
I can't speak to all equipment but Victron inverters can handle this situation. If the voltage is outside the desired range it will augment with batteries or switch over to batteries entirely.
Just move to the US
Bass can wiggle through walls in ways that surprise even the person generating it. Worse, the wall filters out much of the other frequencies that might make it bearable. I think most people with their music rattling through their car doors don't even realize it. Think about it: the only way they would know is if they left the music on, got out, and shut the door. Not a common occurrence.

Plenty of music people think to treat their rooms with the usual foam on the walls, but not everyone thinks (or cares) to treat it with bass traps.
The Morbid War over Online Obituaries
I create a few more and list them on opensea for sale :)

https://opensea.io/collection/sillycon-valley
And in airplanes. Airlines like to use those screens in front of each seat as billboards. They're on by default and don't time out, so they keep cycling bright ads while you're trying to sleep. Sure, you can turn yours off, but most of your neighbors won't bother changing the default on state.
Do you have any resources you can share? My understanding is it’s pretty difficult to lower your taxes meaningfully if all of it comes from wages.
RetroShare is pretty cool. Initial release was in 2006.

> Retroshare is a free and open-source peer-to-peer communication and file sharing app based on a friend-to-friend network built on GNU Privacy Guard. Optionally, peers may communicate certificates and IP addresses to and from their friends.

> RetroShare is a decentralized, private, secure, cross-platform, communication toolkit. RetroShare provides file sharing, chat, messages, forums, channels and more.
Peak viral load is a red herring. That dogwhistle predicates that viral load is proportional to severity of illness. It doesn't work like that.
The British Developed a Chicken Heated Nuclear Bomb
I’m not annoyed. Just confused by the fact that you seem unable to grasp how to use a threaded forum.
I second that. The editor (and translators, if your book is translated later) are the first - and sometimes the only - people who will read your book carefully from the beginning until the end trying to understand each sentence precisely. A reader may be forgiving, thinking that maybe it's their fault they don't understand; the editor will not. I can't imagine publishing a book without an editor - and having it thoroughly reviewed by at least two specialist in the field, even if you self-publish. But since it's expensive, I believe many people dispense with that.
> The blog article is the setup to make Docker Mailserver act like a Gmail server.

I'm not sure what a Gmail server is. I was expecting this to include a web ui, admin ui, and the things that actually make Gmail hard to move away from. The docker-mailserver container doesn't seem to include something like that or am I just not seeing it?

The killer feature for Gmail has always been the spam protection and the fact that the emails I sent actually get delivered.
One common thread these kinds of stories seem to always share: a single, childless person earned an extremely high (and rare) level of income, hoarded it for several years, then ‘retired’.

The author earned the majority of their net worth in only a few years (five or six) via a high salary and stock options. There’s nothing wrong with that, but for most anyone—American or not—it’s an unrealistic, semi-mythical story that says more about a lopsided economic system than life.

And so, the main lesson of such stories (for me) is always “extraordinarily high incomes without significant life encumbrances make it easy to quickly hoard money and compound it”.
https://matrix.org/docs/guides/free-small-matrix-server
Protobuf has known issues with backward/forward compatibility that require special attention, ASN.1 makes it IMHO remarkably easier (also consider kerberos which uses ASN.1, defining each extensible piece of data with extra tag declaring whether it must be parsed or can be ignored and passed on)
Show HN: A Microkernel OS for Armv8
One risk might be some kind of legal dispute with the other partners, if they don't get along as expected? Or maybe some devastating expense.
Pearson still has a lot of advantages on modern hardware and in practice should be a ton faster, but:

(1) Rank coefficients can absolutely be updated online.

(2) There aren't many applications where an extra polylogarithmic factor is the difference between a good-enough algorithm and something too slow.

(3) The RNG is an implementation detail I'd probably omit. It's asymptotically equivalent to the deterministic operation of rescaling the sum of all pairwise absolute differences of Y values for each run of identical X values. If in your initial sort of the X values you instead lexicographically sort by X then Y then you can get away with a linear algorithm for computing those pairwise absolute differences.
There could be legal issues if the crawler starts to crawl into regions which should be left alone. I don't mean things like the dark web, but for example if someone is a subscriber to an online magazine it could start crawling paywalled content if 3rd party cookies enable this.
Hi - author here. I retired the book during the pandemic but am planning to update and unretire it soon. I can't do that now because I'm away with my kids.

If you want me to ping you when it's back, drop me a line using 8qwt95ckm@mozmail.com

(That's an aliased address using relay.firefox.com BTW)
An effective way of revenge could be to pretend (actually, if they're a cable company pretending may not be necessary) to have a bad experience with them and ask about your money back or why you've been overcharged/etc, especially if their colleagues are pitching to another mark within earshot.
Yes, but, as an owner of a VR headset I have to say it still isn't "there" yet in my opinion. I have exactly one game that I keep it for (Beat Saber), and have only ever played one other game that I think actually made VR feel like a good idea (SUPERHOT VR). The hardware (a Rift in my case) is a constant pain to deal with. Have to avoid tripping on the cord, have to keep the sensors happy so everything doesn't freak out, had to buy special prescription inserts because these things are just not designed for people with glasses, my office is apparently not quite big enough for a lot of room scale stuff, etc. Oh, and you need a pretty darned good video card to drive this thing, which is getting ridiculously expensive thanks to the cryptomining fuckheads.

My sister has a Quest 2, which at least seems to eliminate some of the setup headache and the need for an expensive PC and all the cables, albeit at the cost of some visual fidelity, but she still doesn't use it very much. And personally I will never buy another VR system from Facebook.
> That said, I know self employed developers making 150-200k (EUR) gross per year as contractors.

There’s nothing unusual about that. I was making that kind of money 15 years ago.

But one problem is, that’s about what I can make today as well. There is no upward mobility in pay. And it has nothing to do with ability. It’s a cultural thing.

(Also, the deal is typically that you sell your social career progression. So you’ll be doing the same kind of job endlessly.)

> You can't just work your way to wealth. You need to reinvest what you make into other assets and let them compound...

This however is where the real problem starts: there is no way to accumulate and reinvest capital (legally), without paying massive (70-80%) taxes.
I think those projects:

- https://mailinabox.email/

- https://github.com/modoboa/modoboa

are better replacement.
They are battery included with a webUI
'Don't Weigh Me' cards aim to reduce stress at the doctor's office
> Any advert in a public space that gives you no choice whether you see it or not is yours. It’s yours to take, re-arrange and re-use. You can do whatever you like with it. Asking for permission is like asking to keep a rock someone just threw at your head.

Funnily enough, you can say the same thing about Bansky's art:

> An artist who defaced several works of famed graffiti artist Banksy has been charged with the crime of vandalism -- which is pretty incredible since Banksy's collection is itself an act of vandalism

https://www.tmz.com/2014/04/02/banksy-david-william-noll-ric...

What a hypocrite:

> The E.U. Rules Against Banksy in His Trademark Fight With a Greeting Card Company, Citing His Own Statement That ‘Copyright Is For Losers’

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/banksy-trademark-full-colo...
You might be interested in how Kerberos uses ASN.1, with extension messages having a field that describes whether understanding the extension is required (this is important if extension covers information that might change the result of authorization operation, for example)
This. Have done this for my own and in some cases friends' potential startups: a fake door landing page and a couple hours of posting to discussion groups (don't spam, do it where communities allow) or a small Google ads advertising budget.

There's been a couple cases where that simple amount of initiative plus about a half day of work, the resulting feedback was enough of a push to overcome hesitations my friends' had in starting a company.
"I use AWS for a lot of things, but I strongly regard the cloud as just another tool, to be used as occasion demands, rather than because the high priests say you should."

He's right. Evaluate your needs and use it if it makes sense. Not a very controversial opinion, I think!

The problem is, how do you evaluate your needs if you aren't an expert in either self-hosting or using managed services (AWS)? I think you should treat it like going to a doctor: get two opinions from two different senior professionals in two different specializations. And definitely make an assessment based on real numbers. Try to get ballpark figures from similar-sized businesses about their costs (capex/opex, infrastructure, staff) and requirements (expertise, time-to-market, FRs/NFRs, regulations, etc). Building a business is a huge thing, and how you use technology can either be a hindrance or an accelerator, but it has to fit your use case.
How do you manufacture them?
It depends on how far they want to go.
If you want to become a world class expert you should learn C++.
Human expectations grow faster than hardware,
and C++ is often the only viable choice for bridging that gap.

However if your aims are more modest you may find another language that better matches your needs.
Lots of people. What's your point?
My point is that if you start your career owning nothing and work hard, you pay an insane amount of tax on it. Even if you make 100000£ per annum, it will take 20 years to accumulate as much wealth as a guy who inherited a 60 square meter flat. In the meanwhile this other guy hasn’t paid a pound of tax and is maybe receiving some benefit.

I should have specified that the problem is the taxation of work-related income (the main source of income of the poor) compared to the taxation of wealth. On this respect I find particularly egregious the NI hike (an increase of the income tax or the introduction of a property tax would have been more appropriate).
Physical ads do actually track you in a lot of cases. Street level ad screens with cameras are widely available, though the ad companies promise they they only use those to profile you, not to track you.

Traffic billboards have even begun reading license plates for personalised ads.

The days where a billboard was just a billboard are over, ended by the ever scummier advertising industry and their lust for data.
Analog ads have an installation & maintenance cost associated with them. Digital ads don't - if you have a screen anywhere, it can be turned into an ad with little effort and will require no ongoing maintenance.
> if there was an option to pay...

It doesn't work very well, unfortunately. Those willing to pay usually are the most interesting part of the audience for ad providers, so it's difficult to compensate that loss by a reasonably priced 'ad-free' option. You probably would be surprised if you knew how much your attention may cost. Targeted ads created a market where everyone pays proportionally to their spendings. I'm not saying it's a good situation, but it looks like that's a local optimum rather hard to leave.

What bothers me is that huge companies are more resilient to tracking and ads restrictions, so that fight may further speed up centralisation of the internet. I would personally prefer the chaotic old-school world wide web with ugly flashing banners instead.
Absolutely. What's incredibly frustrating is that as I've moved up the employer prestige ladder, the level of talent definitely goes up, but so much of it is just a rise in credentials (e.g., better schools, better past jobs). Levels of motivation/effort don't seem too different: there are still the same groups of lazy people that put in the bare minimum and others that do a great job.

Each hop up takes a good mix of hard work and luck but it always results in a massive jump in pay
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ergo_decedo
"Entropy-Learned Hashing:
10x Faster Hashing with Controllable Uniformity" by
Brian Hentschel, Utku Sirin, Stratos Idreos
Mid sized cloud companies like OVH, Scaleway, Hetzner or Infomaniak are the way to go for me.

But here's is the point that's completely missing from the article. Many choices in organisations are leaded by two wrong drivers :

- Career risk awareness : like we said in the good old days, nobody was fired for buying Sun Microsystems. Same thing applies for Azure and AWS. You're not paying the bill so why looking for a cheaper alternative that might cost you personally a lot.
- CV driven decision : on your CV it's better and more valuable to have 3 years of Azure/AWS than having 3 years on OVH/Hetzner/etc.

Finally, as a leader in an organisation, it's always easier to follow the trend rather than trying to convince your coworkers to follow you to a more "exotic" solution.
Yes doclist compression is a must. Higher intersection throughput and less bandwidth stress. Are you loading your doclists from persistent storage? What is your current max rps?
All of OSI stack used ASN.1 extensively, something that would have made building protocol implementations much easier than text-based IETF style.

SNMP is, IIRC, inspired by much more capable CMI which was part of OSI stack of protocols and is still used in some high end WAN network gear for monitoring and control (whereas "write" aspects of SNMP have mostly disappeared)
It's not the initial setup. It's the maintenance over the years that really makes you question the universe, life and the decision to host your own mail. When you can't send that important mail because $big_provider is blocking you. When someone decides to run a persistent brute force attack from a botnet, eating up 100% of your CPU and you have no meaningful ways to block it. When you need to explain to people why they can't send you that 100 MB video attachment which they sent to other people just fine but only your address is bouncing and why don't you fix your email already. When you need to research, understand and implement standard X pushed by $big_provider because otherwise things will stop working and you have a ton of better things to do. When you get a random alert that email volume is too large and you panic because someone hacked your server and is probably sending spam but realize it was just triggered by a huge kernel patch series sent by someone on a mailing list. When a zero-day CVE for your mail software just hit the top of the HN and the fix is not in your distro yet and you scramble to find a workaround. When a bunch of weird log lines appear in your mail logs and you don't understand where they are coming from and they seem benign but can't lose the feeling that someone is trying something malicious. When you constantly fear that you'll lose that good IP and domain reputation and one day wake up with half of the internet blocking you.
The obesity crisis is a global problem, someday we are going to round up the ‘fat acceptance’ people and hold them responsible like the other war criminals.
Can someone recommend common places to list new side projects?

In my case small SAAS app for business folk.

Surely there’s spots on the web for this?
They could hire contractors or consultants to do the job, no? That class of worker would not be concerned about promotion opportunities. For some reason they haven’t done that either.
Please check out Matrix.

You will get what you described without even needing a phone number and WITH E2EE
Maybe tangent to this but I am really enjoying Cloudflare Workers w/KV and Durable Objects. Currently running over 80% of my company’s infra on it and it’s a monthly cost under $50.