skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In other words “reverse psychology works”. I don’t think very many people are actually trying to harm others by exaggerating about covid issues, but the results are the same.

If you find yourself in the position of stubbornly refusing to do what people insist you do, the good thought process is realizing they aren’t the boss of you whether you’re making your choices to go along or against what they want.

If you do exactly the opposite of everything someone wants you to do, they’re still controlling you.
> The most important thing you will experience is the last 10% of the project taking up 90% of the time.

This.

Ever notice when there’s a new building going up, and the building looks complete, after just a few months, but it doesn’t open its doors for another year?

That’s because all the “finish work,” like carpeting, drywall, painting/wallpaper, doors, etc., takes forever.

It also generally requires the most expensive employees.

That’s one reason a Mercedes costs three times as much as a Toyota. They seem to be fairly equivalent, but the Merc has a whole lot more “finish,” and that costs a lot.

Most folks find they can live without that extra polish, when they learn the cost. Toyotas are excellent vehicles, and have a reasonable cost.

So, a big part of commercial feasibility, is learning where the “sweet spot” lies, so the last 10% takes only 40% of the time, and the customer is happy.

For myself, I like to do “the full Monty,” and go for 90%, but it has been my experience that no one wants to pay for it.

So I do it for free.
https://fast.ai is a good place to start with ML if you're new.
European countries usually don't pay 100k for 15 year olds, also after tax it is (well depending on country) 4.5k in Germany. If you live frugally you can save 3k.
In Europe, there is more electric than gas cooking. However, the voltage is higher - 230 nominal, with three phase being very standard as well (400v phase to phase).

The issue is that the lower voltage ~115 requires higher currents (over twice) which translates to more copper everywhere, beefer silicon for SMPS converters that are even used for induction tops.
Really, I don't care if it is for-profit or not. Just a search engine with transparent ranking would be great.

Ideally with explainable AI (XAI) that can tell me WHY is result A ranked higher than result B. I would even pay a monthly subscription to use it.
Yes, that is a good idea. Get a separate charger and always run the house from the isolated side. This will be more expensive as a good inverter/charger runs in the 1k-2k Euros area and you would need two (unless you find a suitable battery charger which is not very easy). I lived offgrid for nearly a decade and built myself three different solar systems. I started with a small all in one and found out that they are limiting when you want to expand since you usually cannot add more charge controllers and/or panels (which are the easiest way to expand a system). I ended up giving it away and building the others from separate systems. My biggest mistake was starting with 24 volts instead of 48 volts. It is cheaper but it gets a bit dangerous as you step up the power usage and there aren't many options for breakers and such.
> the Homebrew package registry is bigger and fresher than MacPorts

The Homebrew package registry is fresher but not bigger than MacPorts. 5901 packages in homebrew-core versus about 11000 ports in MacPorts (not counting subports).

Package freshness depends on contributions. A bigger collection is inherently harder to maintain, yet MacPorts has fewer active contributors than Homebrew.

> It also supports GUI apps

MacPorts doesn't have a separate cask-like feature, but there are some GUI apps in the aqua category, most of which are built from source with binary cache.

If you need to manage proprietary and/or binary GUI apps with a package manager, you could still use Homebrew casks for that and MacPorts for everything else.
Any tips on running a marathon? Did 25% yesterday for the first time and it felt really good
The cost of three person months for a reasonably competent devops person is probably close to 50000$. Maybe a bit less for a cocky junior one that will make a mess and a bit more if you pay premium freelance rates for somebody less likely to botch the job. That pays for a lot of infrastructure. Not counting your own cost is a rookie mistake. And not realizing you really need 4-6 of these people to be able to get to your five nines is the second mistake (you need people on call 24x7 and when they are sick, over Christmas, etc). So, the real cost would be closer to 1M/year. Just staffing to babysit stuff you build manually ... or you pay Amazon, Google, etc. and you just worry about your own application not crashing. That's why this is so popular.

Few companies actually need that many instances. The math for the less than 10-20 instances the vast majority of companies actually need is quite brutal. A day of your time basically pays for months/years of hosting. The thing to optimize is devops time. Not hosting cost. It's by far the most expensive thing and also the most likely thing to fail on you (by leaving, by being incompetent, negligent, lazy, sick, etc.) and also the hardest thing to source when you need more of it. Good devops people are scarce.

I've dealt with plenty of companies that had no more than two or three idling t2 instances paying for multiple devops people to babysit that "infrastructure". It's stupid and wasteful. A decent devops person costs about 0.5-1 instance year (i.e. a full year of hosting 24x7) per hour for such small instances. And scaling an instance group from 2 to 500 instances is a 1 minute job if you ever need to. Unless the savings are enormous, the time they spend on minimizing the number of instances or automating their deployment will never be worth the money. It's money down the drain. You need to think in terms of a few hours for getting stuff done to make it worth the cost. Anything more is probably too expensive.
They’ve already announced that Facebook forced logins were being phased out weeks ago. This is old news. Soon the only thing you’ll need is an Oculus/Meta account.
You are not alone at all, some of us just accept that shooting people is illegal, even if they deserve to be shot, and just continue to suffer in silence.
A laudable effort. Two questions:

1. What is the rationale behind choosing Python as a implementation language? Performance and efficiency are paramount in keeping operational costs low and ensuring a good user experience even if the search engine will be used by many users. I guess Python is not the best choice for this, compared to C, Rust or Java.

2. What is the rationale behind implementing a search engine from scratch versus using existing Open Source search engine libraries like Apache Lucene, Apache Solr and Apache Nutch (crawler)?
Glad you like Papers with Code. Please check [1] for the list of scientific domains we currently support and [2] for CS in particular.

[1]: https://portal.paperswithcode.com/

[2]: https://cs.paperswithcode.com/
Not sure where you get “vast majority” from, but as an anecdote I worked for two companies that operated the platform teams at 10%-15% the cost before cloud (including headcount).

However, as I’ve eluded to in other threads of this kind; people don’t like to invest in their own tech, an ideal budget would have been around 15%-20% or cloud spend, we could have solved nearly everyone’s pain with that amount of money.

DR does mean paying more, but just so we’re clear: you have to do DR in cloud too, meaning read replicas of database instances and off-cloud backups which auto restore. If your platform costs more money then this is not a good thing and isn’t just baked into the normal cost.
What proportion that must have been compared to the base! Even if it was 60% the base is still mind blowing.
I'm not sure how true that is.

Poor people tend to hide or downplay their poverty online in an environment like this one.
Agreed completely. I meant in the sense of having this 100k once you retire and to continue to work on this high paying job for a few more years assuming you do a proper asset allocation.
> yeah, I'm a huge PC Master Race type

oof

Maybe you should consider whether or not it’s a good idea to publicly identify as such?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_race

It would not be unreasonable to e.g. fire someone for making these sorts of statements. Most people exist outside of your 4chan-adjacent subculture and probably wouldn’t be very understanding of someone identifying themselves as a member of the master race.
The UK has low software developer salaries. Especially when you take into consideration that it is a highly developed English-speaking country.
Amazing website. As some noted in comments, widely used in AI research community, but I expect this website will be useful to the broader developer community as well!
Ouch, yes, this really hasn't aged well.
A damn shame. RIP.
(this is kind of pedantic)

Maybe HN is more likely to be in that quantile than the general population of developers; “more likely than not” implies that most people on HN are in that quantile which I kind of doubt but I don’t have data to support either way.
Good for you :) Last couple of jobs had particularly good salary. You also made the right investments.

I'm living without a car in a shitty apartment, no family, I even rarely vacation, but I didn't save half as much as you did.
how do you sample from an arbitrary probability distribution? it is not a trivial problem at all
New UK law means online racist abusers could face 10-year bans from football
Tech is not a bubble, software is transforming everything (/eating the world).
Democratic process isn’t coming to conclusions I agree with -> democracy is a scam -> an authoritarian solution is required because I’m more correct than everyone else

It seems like too many people only have ideals about politics when those ideals result in everyone agreeing with them. Otherwise the whole thing is a rigged scam and not worth the time.
The fresh graduate salary for 100k is higher than the majority of US workers will peak during their entire career of 50 years (adjusted for inflation).

Think about that for a second.
> Peter never trespassed into involving himself into the world of social justice. He couldn't be an authority in there

You're casually giving these self-proclaimed "authorities" ownership and a exclusive patent on discussion of our shared society.
Positronium, la particule qui casse tout?
That's a big if, at least in Germany the pay seems to be capped below 100k for software engineers at least.
Not to mention some places (Ireland) kneecap your gains by taxing even unrealized gains via a rule called deemed disposal. Nevermind 52% income tax that kicks in extremely low.
Kinect technology is still here. Alexa, Google home, and Siri have been relatively successful. Also I believe Apple AR uses something similar to Kinect’s scanning tech.

3D movies actually look great in VR. That might be a way for it to be popularized again.

I would wait to make a final judgement on VR until Apple ships.
Every single heap pump that I have heard of - has a slow start (triac based usually) module. Also the breakers should be type C (not B).

I wonder if having higher voltages in the US might be adopted for higher power devices. 110-120V is just too low, including for car charging.
I'm in the US. I went and checked the pots and pans in my kitchen. Out of five pots four are magnetic. And we have a cast iron pan. I assume that means they'd work on an induction stove.
You build a system based on trust but verify.
If the output is the result of a known deterministic program on a known input, anyone can verify it.
So they just have to sign their work. If later someone find that they have lied and provided a false result, they lose reputation/stacked coins.

The second associated problem is how would one prevent them from appropriating the work of others that would just re-sign it.

One way would be to allow the worker to introduce a few voluntary errors but have a secret joker that allow him to pass the challenge of a failed verification.

One alternative way is based on data malleability. The worker pick a secret one way function and compute is F( data + secretFunction(data,epsilon) ) ~ F(data) and publish the values of the secretFunction(data,epsilon) but not the secretFunction. Only someone with knowledge of the secretFunction can make a claim on the work done. If there is a challenge only the real worker will be able to publish the secret of the secretFunction (Or use some zero knowledge proof to convince you they know it).
I believe this was a commercial engine from Acapela.
Some maybe but definitely not the majority
I don't know if the potential benefit to me and others like me, having already recovered, somehow offsets the known risks of taking the medical treatment plus some number of booster treatments.

There is a disconnect between the thinking of those who make policy, seemingly many of the work-from-home formerly worked at office workers, and people who regularly toil in the field and have dirty fingernails.
https://www.levels.fyi/company/Amazon/salaries/Software-Engi...
I don't know what Apple One is but the New York Times, Washington Post, and Wall Street Journal are all good newspapers.
I can recommend the book 'how to win friends and influence people' generally. For my current consulting job I am also trying to up my game. Looking into getting ireb certification, which focusses around efficiently getting/building requirements.
Next.js, Nuxt.js, SvelteKit, etc.
NotJustBikes does a great video on this
https://youtu.be/CTV-wwszGw8

Cities aren't Loud, Cars are Loud.

Most "cities" in North America, to use the term generously, are miserable car sewers where you need to shout to have a conversation outside.
I don't understand how he's spending so little.

I spend 40k per year on housing alone, and my apartment isn't particularly luxurious.
I think some people find it frustrating to see that the system does in fact work; that the narrative they’ve chosen to believe is just cynical and wrong. That a person on a house cleaners income can find a way to own property in SF as well as around the country. And be good about it by finding properties that need some love and investing in them.

I thought it was a great story about a person that saw the vast opportunities in front of them and used a bit of grit and smarts to make happen the future they wanted.
we're pretty much entirely on hydro here, so you're correct. our house uses mostly electric everything. my comment was more that solar panels don't magically let everyone live off-grid
Not bad, but it seems to ignore newlines in the input.
I pasted in newlines in the famous Pulp Fiction quote: https://fakeyou.com/tts/result/TR:d1yw37dftm42ayt34h17scy1n8...
Most cars are parked by the roadside most of the time (constricting the cariageway).

If most people who needed a car could just pick one up at their chosen departure point and abandon it at their destination, and if that were massively cheaper than private ownership (which it should be, because shared cars would see much greater utilization), that would slash the number of cars on the road.

If these were self-driving, then presumably if the model you want doesn't happen to be at your departure point, you could just ask it to come to you.
Obviously the same argument could NOT be made for any decision.

Only for those decisions that have the qualities I mentioned on my argument (which are hardly all): "as good as any other" and "stops the bikeshedding".

So, it should be decisions on things which don't affect much (the code-name of the release doesn't change anything, especially since people refer to it by version number, e.g. 5.8), and also trivial things prone to bikeshedding (similarly - nothing productive could ever come from a discussion about the naming scheme for releases).
The sin isn't heritable but land, like artifacts in the British Museum, doesn't stop being stolen because we've had it a long time or traded it amongst ourselves. I'm not advocating anything radical; I'm just saying it's reasonable to be a little uncomfortable about it sometimes.
I met him as a schoolboy when he came to give a talk at our school. This would've been late 80s. He told the story of the "Blaloon" seller and that the red, yellow, blue, "blaloons" all had the same stuff inside.

His mispronunciation of "balloons" was endearing and stayed with me ever since. Our family would often remark on it with affection.

At the demise of apartheid he led the Truth and Reconciliation Commission which was such a critical instrument in the peaceful dismantling of apartheid.

It's a shame that we don't see more of this approach around the world.

RIP.
On a side note, this is a fantastic website. I'm surprised I never heard of it. Thanks for the link.
Never set foot in SV nor in the States, but from half a world away it does seem that that figure (i.e. ~600k) for total yearly comp at a FAANG company, given OP's experience, is in the general ballpark, so to speak.
>setting up ffmpeg to work with buffers instead of files

I'd take a look at https://github.com/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/blob/master/tools/target_de...

In io_seek I'd also clamp pos at the end to be between 0 and the filesize. That might be needed for some files. It doesn't hurt though.

>I'm thinking that for long-term maintainability it might be better to use the CLI anyways

It's definitely easier that way. You don't have to deal with gotchas like having to set some random flags or needing to specify a filename. It's just so easy to write code that fails on 1% of files which ffmpeg can actually decode.
I lived in Yugoslavia also. And no, what he described was common, at least how I remember. YU did have secret police, but it wasn't as bad as in countries under Soviets.

Generally life in ex YU from in 70s and on was pretty decent. We have better standards now (Slovenia), but some parts have worse living conditions than when they were in YU. And the gap between haves and have not is ever increasing. So author is not alone in what he is thinking.
And you’ll still lose nearly half your income to taxes and other deductions.

Basically road to financial independence seems to be get paid half a million a year and live in a country with relatively low tax rate…
In case the future internet cares I tried this in my 2010 BMW and with the transmission in neutral and the clutch out the car will turn on but not start until the clutch is depressed.
> is the size of the common Web already way too large to play catch up against google/bing at this point?

Probably. But I would prefer a search engine that didn't search the whole web. I would prefer a search engine that searched the sites related to fields that I'm interested in.

So I would pay for or donate to a search engine that provided me good results in e.g. software development. They could add additional fields as demand warrants, so long as quality as maintained. I would even like to see a faceting feature, so I could search for e.g. Matrix and get results on the mathematical concept when need be without having to wade through movie review or fiddle with magic search keywords.
I’ve noticed on any of those deep fake sites you can’t find Dwayne Johnson the Rock. I wonder if there is a legal reason because surely he is super famous and would be there. I’ve searched multiple ones if there is one I missed it.
But think about that 1us lost. /s
So am I. You read/learn more in a specific area and you stop being a moron (in that area). Only recently I realized the source of my frustration in my knowledge pertaining to my profession. For years I've been frustrated that I don't know about certain areas that "I should know of". I just realized that I've never actually learnt anything in those areas with enough effort. Just had a superficial knowledge, thinking that this is somehow deep. Thinking knowledge comes ex nihilo is very dangerous.
It is a good point for me now, as, it turns out, there is nothing wrong with me, I just need to do my belated homework. It sounds stupid, but spans years in my example.
Do the real stuff, you will have the real knowledge/skills.
It's hasn't been just bloggers since forever. All kinds of sites, news, business, restaurants, community, ngo, all the way to the White House, use WordPress.
You can use it wireless with Steam VR using Virtual Desktop. If you have the right setup, performance is close to wired.

As a current Index and former Vive Pro, I can tell you that my Quest 2 has the most game time because of one thing: wireless. The other issue is Steam VR doesn’t have nearly as many people on multiplayer.

VR Chat is interesting, but most people in VR don’t spend a good portion of their time there.

Only VR Chat and one game take advantage of full body tracking. I wouldn’t focus to much on it.
One enterprise automating increases its competitive advantage for a while, thus temporarily increasing its profits. However, over time, all enterprises will either automate or fail.

Since profits are a portion of the value generated by labour, as the proportion of costs attributed to labour drop, so do profits. There are secondary effects as well, as workers lose their jobs, their wages fall through competition and they can no longer afford to buy the commodities produced.

This phenomenon is well documented historically, as the rate of profit has an overall tendency to drop which is more clearly noticeable after bursts of automation.

https://thenextrecession.wordpress.com/2020/07/25/a-world-ra...
The problem with relying on resistance-based emergency heat is that it means heating efficiency tanks by a factor of potentially 4 or so at the same time as heating demand is also at its highest. This is a really great recipe for collapse of the electrical grid, which of course people are going to be 100% reliant on for heating, at a time when not having heating would literally be fatal.
Same here. I tested negative before a trip, positive after landing. I’ve had colds that felt worse, but my parents are older so I missed the holidays and I missed a trip with my friends because of this. Seems really silly when other people will have the same virus around us, but they’ve made me believe that I’ll kill my own parents if I pass this along. We’re all vaccinated even with boosters but I don’t want to risk it.
As someone who grew up somewhere without any gas supply (Norway), and hadn't seen a gas hob until I moved to the UK at 25, I find it hilarious when people say this. It's different to cook on, but it really does not make much difference for most people.
You want to be hired or you want to hire someone?

[I guess it's the first one, but I'm not a native English speaker.]
Yes. My friend and I are both self taught engineers (as are several others in our social circle — all coming from similar roots and places)

We are continuously flabbergasted how much we are paid, and it’s not even FAANG levels; still, it’s more than many other skilled and important roles in the workforce.

Part of me understands that there’s still a lot of money to be made and thus, salaries should continue to be high but other parts of me wonder (especially with increased ability to work anywhere) when/if we’ll see salaries normalize.
To be honest, I’m kind of fed up with the normalisation of hate against Europeans and, in particular, Eastern Europeans. As if the Britons were some kind of a master race with a God-given prerogative re: ranking nationalities or races.

If you have a theory re: why Poles are inferior to Brits, you don’t have to share it with me.
> if you are a vim user give emacs another try.

Same here. I'm a 8 years vim user and switched to emacs last year, I would recommend the same thing. IMO Emacs is much more powerful and customizable than vim, and evil brings almost everything I need in vim to emacs.
Seconded. Earning 600k a year should automatically disqualify you from talking about living frugally.
I stand corrected one of the sites linked was uberduck and it seems to have him but I was unable to get it to work today.