skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I left it running while on vacation for a week recently, I was incredibly paranoid the entire time and I probably wouldn’t do that again.
I made a customizable, feature-packed reader mode that earns around that: https://justread.link/
> When I see something I don't understand that seems off or weird, one way I avoid judgement is to ask the five whys to myself.

There's an awesome (and odd) book, called "Outside Lies Magic,"[0] that explores many of these types of things in everyday life.

[0] https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/john-r-stilgoe/ou...
I'll play devil's advocate: I doubt increasing the punishments for drunk driving is the most effective way to dissuade people from doing it. It's true that endangering people's lives by driving a vehicle while impaired is detestable behavior, but the desire for retribution should not be allowed to fuel unreasonable sentences and punishments. (Unfortunately, it often is, and it plays well into politicians getting re-elected into positions of power, so I suspect much of it creeps far higher than optimal.)
Usually you pay for a serial number loosely related to a jpg which may or may not still be hosted on the internet. Great for the seller, perhaps not so great for the buyer.
> The 'censorship' narrative is wrong and tired. FB/Meta has no obligation to carry your speech.

they should when they become a mega-corp
Server and other (virtual) infrastructure management for nonprofits, lifestyle businesses, and hobby sites that have grown too big for managed hosting but don't bring in enough revenue to hire a full-time sysadmin. It's a narrow niche, but I've got the local market totally cornered. Each client pays me a monthly retainer. I keep their servers, droplets, etc. patched up and respond to any emergencies. Most of the maintenance stuff is automated, of course.

About $2K/mo, flexible but sometimes unpredictable schedule (log4j vuln on a Friday? Seriously?), friendly clientele, 6 years strong and going.
> came into their hometown

I don’t think that you were paying much attention during the trial. Kyle worked in Kenosha. His Dad lived in Kenosha. His own apartment was half an hour away in Antioch, IL. Most importantly, everyone in the US has the same right to travel to any place in the US that they want to go.

> threated to shoot them

Nobody at the trial testified that Kyle threatened them. Plenty of people threatened Kyle and his friends, and Kyle and his friends simply walked away.
Prostitution, got it.
For some reason, this thread is a lot better than that one. Is it timing? The fact that OP has a few sentences? Maybe it's not a problem.
I maintain the FreeBSD/EC2 platform and am currently receiving $1373/month in donations: https://www.patreon.com/cperciva

Not exactly a side project though -- more of a spinoff project, since I got started on it because Tarsnap needed FreeBSD support in EC2. Most of my recent work has been far beyond what Tarsnap needed though.
Your experience is not what the linked article is about. You sound like you essentially put in 80 hours of work a week to work two full time jobs. The entire website is about how to not actually do any work for either job while talking making it seem like you are with the ultimate goal of getting laid off on one job to collect severance.
Astronomers discover largest group of ‘rogue planets’ yet
It's not about being good enough. More often than not it's about having the time to grind LeetCode for months on end. Understandably not everyone can or wants to do this.
I have been on this whole journey of plain-text, longevity, legacy, and similar ideas. I recently moved my 20+ year old blog[1] to a plain-text (Markdown) and will continue to make it simpler that it should continue to last as long as it can be served out of the simplest hosting possible.

HTML in its raw form is very hard to read. I wanted something simple enough but still has some formatting[2] -- Markdown did that while I avoid spicing it up with formatting.

Right now, it is on Github and if needed, my 13-year old can edit directly there and it will update my website.

I hope that in few years, I shouldn't have to rely on Github either but, hopefully, decentralized that it is somewhere/everywhere on the Internet that it will live it as long as my domain is renewed.

1. https://brajeshwar.com/2021/brajeshwar.com-2021/

2. https://github.com/brajeshwar/brajeshwar.github.io
That'd be "awareness and preparedness".

I'm aware of workplaces in which all furniture > 4 ft in height requires building maintenance to move as it's bolted to walls.
Yeah I worry we can’t escape it.

Hopefully third parties can still install things?
Ok, fine. Food for thought:

You'd probably like to ban the topic entirely, but it'd be weird to have one banned topic and you've said that doesn't work, so that's out.

So what's left, being even-handed, I guess. Except it's a 10-1 ratio, so being even-handed, ban people from both sides leaves you with a 9-0 ratio.. congrats? Even if you're really, really, really trying to be even-handed with regards to content, most people would bias towards handing out 50-50 to feel fair, while 10-1 (or whatever ratio) is actually statistically fair. But that would feel quite biased if you did it! Practically taking a side! So we get a phenomenon where a bad Chinese-adjacent comment (or even a polite one) is super likely to be moderated, but you can't possibly moderate all of the really bad anti-China comments in this thread, there's too many, they rule the day and they establish truth for passersby.

Tech is one of the few industries with a large Chinese minority during this time of rising tension. It would vastly improve the intellectual tone of the site if we had more of them explaining their viewpoint and less of people telling them they're brainwashed.

Failing that, I think the actual real-world answer is to pro-actively push down the repetitive anti-China stories that hit the front page multiple times a week, and then just deny it if anyone asks. They're not intellectually interesting, they're hostile to a significant tech minority, and you don't like the flamewar. Why keep them?
> My recollection is that the recipient of the claim could also voluntarily waive DMCA immunity over that specific claim by consciously deciding not to honor it.

This is another way of saying if you don't follow the DMCA you become liable for the infringing content (if the content owner sues and is successful, of course), which is indeed what the DMCA says :)
I started a news crawler service which makes > $500/mo. https://currentsapi.services/

I started this service during my last undergad year, improving the pipeline really helps me a lot in understanding crawler, schema designs which you don't learn from anywhere. This experience also helps me land my first job as well.
That’s a $30,000 rig at least. So 300 days of mining before you just break even. I’m sure that in 300 days it will only be able to mine a fraction of what it does now due to increasing difficulty. I’m not seeing how this truly works out.
If you don't mind me asking, what kind of background do you have to have to develop something like this?

These sorts of things blow my mind, and I have no idea where one would start.
> solved a big problem for digital artists who can now make money

Digital artists made and sold art online for a long time. There's a new way to do it, but "can now make money" is a weird way to phrase it.
Advance Market Commitments Worked for Vaccines and Could Work for Carbon Removal
Nah man, all good. No need to explain yourself.

It was just a bit sad to read, as it sounds exactly like something my grandfather would say. He's in his mid-to-late 70s now and still eaten up by things that happened in his childhood and early 20s (things that plenty of other people go through and don't allow to destroy their entire life).

His inability to deal with it in a healthy way has made the last 5 decades of his life miserable, and it kills me to see another person go through this as well.

I understand this is not a simple task for the average Aspie, but please try to understand what happened and integrate it into your outlook in a way that allows you to function as a healthy adult.
I'm skeptical you've never seen an employment contract, or had a verbal agreement (which is a binding contract, too).

In any case, if you're a "full time employee", there is a legal definition of that, which will be binding, as that is necessary to comply with all sorts of employment laws based around how many hours per week one works.

The only jobs without an employment agreement are under-the-table ones, or you're working for someone who has never run a business before and hasn't run afoul yet of the labor laws.
Reminds me of doing unwrapping of custom models for Quake. After a bit of practice I realized it came out much better if I made the face, head, and front parts larger so they contained more details. Then other bits could be squeezed in or mirrored to maximize those 256x256 pixel skins.
So an NFT is a digital signature that is worthless unless it "makes a market for" itself. It is a pointer to an infinitely and freely reproducible resource, meaning the owner of the signature doesn't actually have control over the underlying resource, they just have "proof" that they "own" it. And the owner needs to convince other people that their "owning" the signature has value, so that other people will pay larger sums of money for transferring "ownership", or other people will be recruited into the market to buy more stuff.

Let's substitute "digital signature"/"NFT" for "tulip", or "star", or "moon crater", or "beanie baby", or "MLM beauty product". How is the market for NFTs any different from these essentially ponzi-scheme markets?

"NFTs allow digital artists to profit from their work!"

I mean, sure, but again, they are selling digital signatures with no inherent value that they need to "make a market for". The money they are making isn't because of their art, it is because their sales skills allow them to convince greater fools that inherently worthless digital signatures are actually worth something.

Would we say "selling stars enables amateur astronomers to profit from their work"? Or would we rather say selling stars enables scammers to scam people who don't know any better? Or charitably that selling stars enables charitable people to donate money to whoever is selling the "star", both parties to the transaction recognizing that there is nothing of value being exchanged.

The latter would be forgivable but it also seems highly unlikely there would be a large market of altruistic donators wanting to provide patronage specifically via NFTs. We have a large and robust financial system that is perfectly capable of facilitating low/no-cost donations. It seems more likely that illegitimate or shady capital needs ways to achieve liquidity and legitimacy. And the whole "supporting artists"/"allowing artists to prosper" narrative is a fantastic (and sufficiently complex) cloak that would achieve that while avoiding scrutiny.

tl;dr When a market for an inherently valueless, infinitely reproducible resource pops up out of nowhere and begins to rapidly inflate, it seems likely there's some sketchy stuff going on under the hood.
Seconding the interest in this. Some research showed that SoulCeramics and ZenConcessions are two of the commenter's businesses, but I would love to hear details on how he found them, decided to buy them, and then dealt with operating them. Selling popcorn machines and pottery kilns, such fascinating niches to become wealthy off of.
He's a brilliant author, but his characters are not well developed (esp. The older stuff). If that's what you need in fiction you're probably better off reading something else.
Damn, that really makes a massive massive difference. Makes me realise that the reason I can’t see anything in dark scenes in video games is technical limitations not artistic effect!
You've likely already read it at this point, but "Endurance: Shackletons Incredible Voyage" by Lansing is an amazing survival story.
I've been trying to get into the Homer stuff, but procrastinating because translation quality make such a big difference. Thanks for mentioning the translator.
Toll Door by Philip K. Dick has a scene pretty much exactly a "door knob as a service".
> I'm in the US and have always worked as an employee, not a contractor

> my experience as an IC

Seems to be a contradiction.
"you need limitations to be creative", who sold you that?
this whole genre of "adversity builds character" type of advice is a backwards rationalisation at its purest. no, adversity does not build character but merely reveals it, just as limitations don't make you creative, rather creativity forces you to find newer ruts. also, you lost me at aristotle ;)
Oh, I don't think it's about slacking off, either. But, clearly, most people in this comment section do. I thought you were one of them. I guess not. But, it's still not ironic that the site goes down when HN hits it. If anything, that's expected.
The ones that best match up/align with the area/field of study interest.

aka data center analytics aren't to interesting if the focus is medical study data analytics.

Of course, that assumes the AWS link & account containing the medical study data is functional at time trying to do analytics on the medical study data.
My side project of screen scraping campground websites and alerting people of availabilities has taken off to the point of making more a month than the day job.

https://wanderinglabs.com/
Your day job is OK with this? I forgot what I signed, but I believe my contract has a clause that says they own all the technical output of my brain. Did you tell your manager you have a side hustle?

I've been thinking of something similar if I can build a sufficiently relevant specialty knowledge.
I read both of these based on several independent recommendations here. The first was ok, and the second was barely readable.

Certainly not anywhere near as bad as the Three Body Problem, as far as HN recommended books go, but I think I’m still going to have to start avoiding books recommended here.

To answer the original question (and remain within sci-fi), then new Andy Weir book Project Hail Mary was pretty good. Not quite on the level of The Martian, but good enough to recommend to others.
+1 wish there were a sequel.
Mine is nothing interesting, arbitrage between shipping and buying stuff overseas on a consistent basis and selling on local marketplaces.

I'm debating on testing market depth and just 3PL, but I don't want the risk of having inventory. The items weigh less than a few ounces, and really rely on inefficiencies.

I guess it's more or less knowing where to look, scrapping that data, reviewing depth (e.g. how many sold, continuously keep scraping and parsing) and seeing if margin is good.

Basically came as an excuse to kill time with regex. $1500 net profit minimum, I'm debating if I should really make it a solid business and hire some staff for it. But then that'd kill the joy and make it more work work.
I've seen your product on TikTok. Very cool.
In the world of cryptocurrency and cryptocurrency mining you really have to wade through the mounds of sh%# and scammers. In terms of trustworthy sources here are a few trusted YouTubers that are very experienced, they taught me a lot about mining, mining safety, and general crypto knowledge: ChumpChangeXD, Red Fox Crypto, Red Panda Mining, brandon coin, Son of a Tech.
It is my old startup but it's been somewhat of a side project as the revenue has gone down and consulting and other projects have grown. But I do web hosting reviews based on what people say on Twitter using sentiment analysis. It avoids the problem of fake reviews by using massive amounts of data.

https://ReviewSignal.com
I am curious, Apple's way as in Apple's ideology vs Google's ideology? Is that in terms of privacy or the company as a whole? And if you dont mind sharing what are those ideals on Apple, Google and Desktop, I am assuming that means Microsoft?
I guess I saw it differently - which is, in what world are parents handing over a motor vehicle to their children, and good lord are there going to be a billion+ restrictions/safeguards on what they can do with that vehicle if their parents are not present in it.

Also - tracking when a vehicle leaves a polygon zone feels like a minor subset of the already more privacy invasive "Where is this vehicle" that presumably exists already.
In my experience, a lot of these paid apps are gold, but discovery is tough. The mainstream, ad supported alternative gets all the eyeballs. Maybe there should be an index of tracking-free software, if there isn’t already.
Its always 'nice' to see the concern for the fellow man that informs most progressive policy discussions being put to practice.
My gut instinct is that these CSS tricks may be bad for accessibility. Does anyone know how well a screen reader would deal with it?
My kids are 3 and 4 so it’s hypothetical for now… I hope.

But I think it’s a very good question. The way I would handle it is:

“I won’t set an alert. If I ever feel like I have to, you won’t be loaned the car. As always, please endeavour to text me a couple times to help me rest easy that you’re safe. You’ll understand when you’re a dad. If I don’t hear from you I might peek at your location just to know you’re where you planned to be.”

Naturally the conversation is much longer and spans a great many years.
Ask HN: Career counseling for Biotech in Bay Area?
My spouse moved to USA recently. I am exploring ideas for a career restart in Biotech. She completed her masters in Biotech from India. It was a general Masters program. The two primary options are another Masters degree (in USA) or directly try for a job. Either way, I need some help with what would be good resources to lookup.

1. Masters in Biotech (regular or community colleges)
2. Good career options
3. Career counselors that can support and provide actionable advice

Can HN community help me out?
As an example: your driving home on a cold night, and you want to turn your heating on to preheat the house before you get home.
depends on your climate, my home needs heating like 8/12 months and gas prices have just surged more than 6x since last winter
qalculate is by far the best calculator program I've ever used.
Looming punishment at least puts it in people's minds, even if a majority still doesn't follow the law; there's a reason a lot of people have a 'designated driver', and I imagine it's more about avoiding the ticket & punishment rather than avoiding endangering lives on the road.

Of course, there are indeed other solutions that should be studied if they have a chance of reducing harm & death initiated by the act of driving under an influence.
I think one of the problems is that content review requires human moderation, which takes some time to occur. So the question is what to do in the meantime? You can either default to leaving the content up or taking the content down. Both are problematic for different reasons.
I wonder if there is a SIM or if it’s just software managed in some proprietary chip.
"Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End" was the most impactful book I read this year. It explores dying and illness and how we can treat the terminally ill and dying better and more compassionately.
Buy some cheap land in a desert and go 100% solar.
Wonder how that would work.
Well, I run Insect locally. The page is just for demo purposes. You just install it from NPM.
And images can be also embedded. These days you can fake a real URL completely on a fronted side.
I use this and it works great!
How Does Timecode Vinyl Work? (Pt. 2)
I created a game wiki site ten years back. I started optimizing it for SEO this year, and am about to pass $900/month. My goal is $1k/month. It's super passive and I don't do much.

Tech stack:
Static site hosted on S3 (less than $1 a month) and Cloudflare for CDN.
My impression is most of the electronic stuff added to cars went for the better (literally lifes saved)

Electronic injection control, ABS, suspension control, tire pressure sensors, near objects detection, backing monitor, automatic climate control etc.

The buggy stuff stands out while the careful done part doesn’t get much attention, as usual (and I think it should be so, we’re supposed to use as naturally as possible)

PS: most 20 years old cars are death traps compared to current cars, I’m not sure it’s a good advice to push people to keep using them for that long.
Australia has a "junior pay rate" where people under 21 can be paid less than minimum wage despite doing the same work. Sure you could argue they're less productive, but if you're doing minimum wage work I doubt it.

https://www.fairwork.gov.au/pay-and-wages/minimum-wages/juni...
I just want a car that doesn’t need a cell signal or have a black monitor in the middle of the dash.

Never buying new again at this point.
Is that $800/month profit or revenue? I'd expect it to be profit, but I don't think farms and food make that much in the first place.

Either way, congrats! It sounds like a lovely side business.
Fully working? Except for having to go through lawyers, realtors, shitty archaic databases (for 'conveyancing' if such records even exist), and proprietary opaque real estate systems (that often don't even show if a house can be lived in because a tenant is already living there. Have fun having the agent leave that out every time you go to buy a house. Protip: most houses are already being rented.)

Even a centralized system with fully digital inspections, contracts, and good indexing would be better than this. But there's too many pieces that are legacy you would need to replace and currently they work very poorly. Buying property is a nightmare of things that can go wrong.
I would also like to add these:

> Values of such an access type can be deallocated safely. GNATprove generates verification conditions to ensure that no memory can be leaked.

So... you can deallocate safely AND verify that no memory is leaked. Is it not wonderful?

- https://docs.adacore.com/live/wave/spark2014/html/spark2014_...

- https://docs.adacore.com/live/wave/spark2014/html/spark2014_...

> SPARK builds on the strengths of Ada to provide even more guarantees statically rather than dynamically. As summarized in the following table, Ada provides strict syntax and strong typing at compile time plus dynamic checking of run-time errors and program contracts. SPARK allows such checking to be performed statically. In addition, it enforces the use of a safer language subset and detects data flow errors statically.
Ever vaporized or tincture/small edible instead of smoke?
Agpl matters if you modify the code, not if you only tun it as a separate service.
You are grossly overestimating the depreciation of mining hardware. It’s pretty common to have well maintained mining rigs and farms that last several years. Also, it’s a common strategy to sell mining hardware at or near ROI time to essentially double your initial investment.

Coincidentally my GPUs have not only paid for themselves and then some, but I could sell them used now for more than I bought them for. I’m lucky in that respect.
They're only collectibles when they convey legal rights — otherwise you're bidding up a receipt, possibly one of many. Speculation has generated some activity but it's not enough to sustain the market without some kind of value.
That's a great answer. I can see it that way now. Thanks.
>they should when they become a mega-corp

"mega-corp" is a term from dystopian cyberpunk fiction people just started applying to real life. "mega-corps" aren't a real thing (at least not until they become semi-autonomous states with their own currencies and private armies,) nor is "mega-corp" well enough defined that one can use it as a means to remove free speech and association rights. If those rights even worked that way, which they don't. Nor should they.

You may as well just say "any company I don't like," it means practically the same thing.