skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had typed up a full point by point reply, but honestly,

> naive children

If you're going to end with ad hominem attacks, you don't deserve it. You've made it clear to everyone here what kind of person you are, and I shouldn't be wasting my time replying.

(Also, your comment history suggests you own an M1 Air since you were commenting about PWM flicker and QEMU VMs... so maybe check out a mirror before insulting people who choose to buy these machines)
It is nice when a few houses do this in a neighborhood, but when more do it then the electric company is going to get challenges that come with the high demands of power.

Electrifying everything in a whole city will come with very expensive infrastructure changes.
Especially if every house can also be a supplier so the amps can ramp up in different cables every time

(Also wow, your solar panels are expensive. Is that inc. Battery? I put down 4kw systems for about 3-4k 10x400wp panels)
(1) Ads on busses

This is the obvious spin, that anyone trying to undermine such ideas would do. So I just checked the yearly (pre-pandemic) financial report for our bus service - the buses are COVERED in adverts. From what I can tell, those ads bring in less than 2% of all income.

The ads on bus stop were given in exchange for running the bike rental service, but that service isn't free to use, so the income can't be that great.

(2) Ignoring ads
I have a feeling that "I can just ignore it" is the critical fallacy that will undermine ideas such as mine.

To know just how much they are affecting you, you have to go to a place with no ads.

Honestly, if you're using ad blocking on your computer - turn it off completely. The difference in physical ads is not as big (since action blocking popups are not a thing), but even discounting those, just the saturation of "things going on" is tiring. Ignoring things is an active action that requires energy and focus... why you are giving that away freely to someone trying to manipulate you ... I do not understand.

The fact that you use "waiting to click a skip button" as a comparison shows how normalized ads have become.
The alternative to "fewer ads" isn't "ads being forced down your throat" but "no ads, at all".
The eating part might be more literal than most expect.

For example, it's hard to argue that software made journalism better. Sure, there is some efficiency in using a phone to record interviews and sending the results of your work on seconds on the other side of the world - as opposed to things like notepads and telexes.

On the other hand, Google and Facebook almost completely eviscerated the revenue streams that fed traditional journalists, without putting anything in it's place.

Instead of a large number of local papers and ad agencies earning local revenue and funding journalists, you have a massive revenue stream going into Google's offshore tax shells, of which a part is used to fund their software mercenary army, and the bulk is reimvested into further tech monopolies.

The corrupt and the despots surely welcome the tech overlords.
> We plan to start work on a distributed crawler, probably implemented as a browser extension that can be installed by volunteers.

Is there a concern that volunteers could manipulate results through their crawler?

You already mentioned distributed search engines have their own set of issues. I'm wondering if a simple centralised non-profit fund a la wikipedia could work better to fund crawling without these concerns. One anecdote: Personally I would not install a crawler extensions, not because I don't want to help, but because my internet connection is pitifully slow. I'd rather donate a small sum that would go way further in a datacenter... although I realise the broader community might be the other way around.

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Unless, the crawler was clever enough to merely feed off the sites i'm already visiting and use minimal upload bandwidth. The only concern then would be privacy. oh the irony, but trust goes a long way.
I wouldn't mind ads in my browser if they behaved inobtrusively. What makes me block them is their infuriating attempts to hijack my attention even at a cost of preventing me from reading / listening / watching the real content.
No, it’s not completely painless. You need to recompile a lot of packages and are spammed with warnings.
There are some really nice places in the states - although SF or NY are not one of them...

Saying that, I'd rather live in NY than London.
One of the biggest tragedies, in my view, is what a lovely place Europe is to live, and what utter lack (seemingly for no great underlying reason) of class mobility exists there.
But the fact they chose that career often implies they like it. The transactional nature of living wages is always there but let's not forget careers can be picked.

In particular, art is something you usually don't do for money, and even though journalists can be uninterested, there are 'good' ones who are there because of their interest in the world around them, the facts, opinions and viewpoints.
In the UK, the stronger drag on wealth accumulation for the poor is the absurd taxation on the middle incomes (50K+), especially given the very low level of service of public schools, healthcare system, childcare, etc…
Like in They Live?
Any reason to prefer GPLv3 over AGPLv3? It might be useful to use the latter so that distributing it over a network requires distributing modifications as well.
He was a warm and humorous individual with an infectious chuckle.

I had the privilege to attend a week-long convention where he delivered the keynote address each day back in '87. Everyone talks about Mandela, but I have always had far more respect for Tutu and his role in bringing about the end of aparteid.
“X wouldn’t work here” probably stems from generations of institutional belief in American Exceptionalism, the “because” part is probably attempting to justify that (unconscious) view
And for men the same, but with boxer-shorts ads right?
have to go looking for memes of pro- vs. anti-vax karen
For a side project? I build it if I want to use it. There is a totally different goal for a business, but side projects are hobbies. They bring value to my own life regardless of what other people think of them. It is a great bonus if other people also get value of it and are willing to pay something, but there is nothing wrong with writing a project that simply helps me in my own life.
> I haven't had any Electron-related issues with it.

Maybe you just do not consider wasting energy as an issue?
The thread is titled “Ask HN: What are the best tech books you read in 2021?”

Why would someone post a book that they didn’t consider worth reading?
> The author was lucky to earn a huge amount of money.

He's not earning "huge" amounts of money for jobs in that field. (Additionally, it's a field that most intelligent people can enter with 1-3 years of study.)

https://twitter.com/danluu/status/1447997574556880902
How does new apartment construction impact nearby home values? Usually positively. There can be other issues, of course (more people!) but it’s not right to present increasing density as ripping off the neighbors.

https://www.sandyjournal.com/2021/10/04/370780/how-does-new-...
Honestly, going full subscription or bankrupt would be fine with me. It’s the publisher’s responsibility to find a business model that works. What exactly am I stealing by blocking ads? I have no moral or ethical oblication to view them or to allow them to follow me round the web… nowhere was I asked or consented to the exchange of my personal information and resources to view their content
Spanish here, same picture :/
Well Google doesn't know the answer either. Results are complete trash when you try find something niche or in a local language.

The challenge isn't to index the entire web, it's to index the useful parts of it, and I think an index covering most of the useful web can be seeded quite easily with some community effort.
Huh. My Acer has just hand controllers, no towers. I haven't noticed a difference compared to when I used the same generation HTC vive.
240m2 is a compromise... Consider the possibility that you're out of touch.
I'm confused by your question. If you take 4% of the principal and the market does not return at least 4%, your principle has shrunk. This does not account for inflation either.

The Trinity study that the 4% rule comes from is based on having some assets left after 30 years, not the original principle being intact.

Trinity study: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinity_study
The modern "progressive" thought-process is to feel guilty about having a good education. I went to private school in the UK and the only thing I feel is infinite gratitude to my parents for forking-out the money to send me there (they were not rich, they were both teachers).
I live in the area of Grenoble, a french city leaded by ecologists than banned ads several years ago (since 2014 if I'm correct).
This is a pleasure, or, more precisely, I feel overwhelmed when I exit my city and am surrounded by so many ads!

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.france24.com/en/20141124-fr...
> The gains for doing this for individual large services are significant (in the case of service-1, it's [mid 7 figures per year] for the service and [low 8 figures per year] including services that are clones of it, but tuning every service by hand isn't scalable.

This point seems wrong to me, bound too much by requiring solutions to be done by a small team of engineers who already have a mandate to work on the problem.

With numbers like that Twitter could, profitably, hire dozens of engineers that do literally nothing else. Just tweak thread pool sizes all day, every day, for service after service. Even though it's a boring, manual, "noncomplex" thing, this type of work is clearly valuable and should have happened years ago.

Most likely Twitter's job ladder, promotion process, and hiring pipeline is highly incentivizing people to avoid such work even when it has clear impact. They are very much not alone in that regard.
This article is quite old - the kernel patch has been available for a while now, I believe, and CMK is no longer in beta (the article references K8s 1.8 and 1.10, but the current latest version is 1.23).
My understanding from technology connections is that US circuits are 230ish volts, but it’s often centre tapped out to sockets.

I can’t imagine a permanent high energy install like a heater, shower, car charger, oven or heat pump would be 110v. If you plug in via a standard socket in europe you get about 3kW, which given european driving is probably fine overnight, but you’d want more than that in the US
The value of land increases with density, but the utility of existing properties decreases.
The sites wouldn't need to get your consent for justifiable usage only. They actively decide they want more than that, they want to sell your data. So it's on them, the law itself is fine.
Not to mention, he was also living in expensive areas. It’s amazing he saved and invested that much.
Many places the reliability of power is good enough that we're prepared to handle that by going to a hotel. It's been decades since I experienced more than a couple of minutes without power.

Meanwhile I've had gas boilers fail twice and had to resort to electric heaters while waiting for repairs.
The people I was talking about clearly have no problem with the government paying corporations to stay home, and they still call it a free market.
Not what I'm saying. Blame both sides but this is just tit for tat behaviour that happens especially when one side deems the punishments unfair. You are never going to solve anything in that manner.
Ask HN: What is the best pitch you've ever seen?
I just came across this shark tank pitch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLUyzXhoBik

He is super confident and leads this pitch in every second.

He uses storytelling to describe the problem and the need by referring to a situation that everyone knows and can identify with.

- He connects on an emotional basis

- He entertains his audience

- He did a great closing with a sticky closing and a clear CTA.

Any other examples of great pitches?
Just one example: the entirety of the American continents are culturally European. Imagine if North America was North Chinese speaking Mandarin and South America was South Chinese speaking Cantonese. Not to mention the entire concept of a nation state is a European invention. That Europe drew the borders in Africa, the Middle East, India. Then there's Australia and New Zealand. It's unprecedented. Yes China have/are imperial to an extent, but it seems like apples and oranges to me.

BTW, not to dismiss the other countries from your list, but you should really understand the history of Hong Kong, specifically the Opium Wars. The British took it when the Chinese refused to continue buying their opium.
In general, speed isn't the problem with search (at least the retrieval aspect), but memory efficiency is. Things like small object overhead and the ability to memory map large data ranges are extremely beneficial for a language if you want to implement a search index.

But I agree, get it working first, then re-implement it in another language if it turns out to be necessary.
I'm not an average. I lived frugally and haven't had a TV in a couple decades. Jeep has over 330,000 miles. My phone plan is around $30/month including tax.

Moved to place with nice community hot tub which I have time to use with other unmasked people.
Helped teach a friend machine safety while excavating at his house. We also extensively talked about how he can raise his prices and I joined him on a job bid and helped him bid it. I even wore blue coveralls!

Hike. Snorkel. SUP in river. Ski. Catch up on news by talking to tourists on chair lift. Research where to go to get a couple hundred days on a surfboard.

I feel like while I might be willing to go back, nobody cares about dirty greasy blue-collar people like me. What I did regularly involved real physical hazards while working on small to $1M÷ 'large' machines which were typically broken in sometimes undisclosed ways. An extra $5/hour is not going to do it.

It won't get better until there is a general strike for about six months and a couple crop rotations. It would need to be long enough to affect the new private charter jetsetter class. The American experiment of self-sovereignty and individual choice is done for most people who are now just debt slaves.
> The impact of that 2009 pandemic was considerably blunted by human cross reactive T-cell immunity in the older population who had seen the long-lost relative of H1 protein back before 1957. That 50 year old "pre-vaccination" did not wane and was cross reactive after 50 years of mutation and adaptation in pigs, and was still effective enough to protect against severe disease and death.

Wait, didn't the 57's H1N1 strain reappeared unchanged in the 70's and didn't a vaccination campaign happen then ? (I seem to remember it's mostly likely an unintentional lab leak, which would explain it didn't change in 25 years).
I don't see landlords in New York forking out for induction ovens. Tenants will be lucky to get three working burners on a 1987 Daihatsu range.
I guess “small” is open for interpretation.

Let’s say 720vCPU for the cluster and about 2.3TiB of memory.

These would be quite small nodes if you bought them as machines in a datacenter. Most modern machines have 40+vCPU and 128G+ RAM each.

I have 36machines in my GKE nodepool with 20vCPU and 64G of ram. So the aggregate totals sound high but it’s not many. In terms of real machines I could have fewer, like 18 or so.
What's the point of crawling the common crawl archive? It's pointless. You can simply download it.
I think those ads were designed for womans too...
Maybe watching ads would be a fair exchange if there was an option to pay, often (mostly), there isn’t. Additionally to some (most), ads aren’t the problem, its tracking, creation of shadow profiles etc

Never used photopea, hope it works out for you, but I wish website creators stopped thinking that invasion of my privacy is a currency
What does a search engine algorithm look like, and where can I find examples to build from?
The article gives some general advice on how to manage your personal wealth. Probably the exact figures could have been expressed as percentage increases to give the article more appeal.
However, for budding engineers in the early stage of their career it gives some idea of what is potentially achievable (in US).
While Ecosia is not technically a non-profit, no one can sell Ecosia shares at a profit.

> Ecosia says that it was built on the premise that profits wouldn’t be taken out of the company. In 2018 this commitment was made legally binding when the company sold a 1% share to The Purpose Foundation, entering into a ‘steward-ownership’ relationship.

> The Purpose Foundation's steward-ownership of Ecosia legally binds Ecosia in the following ways:
- Shares can't be sold at a profit or owned by people outside of the company and
- No profits can be taken out of the company.

https://www.ethicalconsumer.org/technology/how-ethical-searc...
Some new forms of IRL ads do interrupt your flow.

Examples I've encountered:

* In a mall touchscreen navigation kiosk, an ad is shown when you first wake up the device by touching it.

* At multiple points in the McDonald's self-order touchscreen kiosk flow.

* On Starbucks screen menus, the whole menu is periodically replaced with a video ad, forcing you to wait until its end to finish making your choice.

> You also don’t have ads on at the airport timetable screen.

In the biggest international airport in my country, there are now periodical Covid-19 "info spots" interrupting the display of timetables, check-in desk and gate information screens.
I’m not sure why you’d invoke Godwin here, nothing is being compared to the Nazis.

Godwin’s law isn’t about mentions of Nazis, but specifically about using them in analogies.
I know I shouldn’t, but reading about people who successfully surfed the tech bubble makes me groan. Because, even though I’ve also done well in Europe, I almost moved to the U.S. twice (couldn’t get offers), and passed up interviewing at Shopify before they exploded

So it’s painful thinking that you were very much in the right place at the right time, but were just a step or two away from the stratosphere… however, it’s all relative I guess, those with 2 mil envy those with 5 mil
You're right. I meant a side project that you build for profit.
I totally didn't imply it's bad to build something for your own use without making profits of it :)
How would you formulate this question?
You could say that "sexy women" ads were designed for men.
I do believe that too because it seems to be the only and main factor that motivates public authorities decision and plans against covid.

And it frightens me a bit because it shows they do not care about our well-being, public hospitals saturated policy has the nice side effect of not killing us but that's it.
To me, it looks like you're computing a single element from the set, instead of the whole set. Which makes sense, but it's an important caveat.
You don’t, that’s the point of the law. As in, the old “EU cookie law” focused on you knowing the terms, but that proved ineffectual where every website operator said “accept or GTFO” (you’d think that would end up an unstable equilibrium, but it didn’t).

Thus the “new” GDPR is predicated on the idea that consent given under “... or GTFO” terms is invalid, given the imbalance in negotiating power, and said consent (where required) had to be voluntary by that definition. The result is cigarette-labelling-level malicious compliance on part of website operators (and compliance-in-a-box vendors they use).

Many of the things you see, such as requiring you to turn off every single “purpose” or “partner”, are manifestly illegal (or rather, don’t legally constitute voluntary consent, so showing them is legal but tracking you afterwards isn’t), but enforcement has been lackluster so far. We’ll see where we end up I guess. (I genuinely don’t know how I want this to go.)
here's my open data attempt from a couple of years ago:

http://www.charitius.org

goal was/is to include all charities in the world, based on open data, and open software.

It's been on pause for a while, but still works, and open for new sources of data to incorporate.
As far as I know there is no difference whether you are just watching the network or are posing as the server.
I dont have any particular axe to grind against foreigners, and there is no normalisation of hate against any particular group in the UK. They have some of the strictest anti discrimination laws in Europe. Im sure if you were say gay or black and living in say Poland or Romania you'd have a much harder time and be discriminated far more against than if you lived in the UK, so the idea that the British alone think they're better than others is wrong isnt it. The racism, homophobia, anti-semitism and islamophobia in Eastern Europe is far worse that the UK, so what does that say about them?
Here's 2 questions for the "FIRE" crowd.

1) To stop working when you hit a certain number seems to me to be falling into the faulty logic illustrated in Freakonomics -- when a taxi driver works every day towards a certain $ figure, he suffers on crappy days (keeps on driving to little benefit) when fares are just not coming, and cuts off his earnings on great days where business is pouring in like crazy. Instead, you should call it day early when the business sucks, and ride it when times are good.

If you're good at what you do, aren't physically being exhausted by your work, and pulling in good money, why wouldn't you keep on working and make the most of your time + skills? Did you go through all your education and training just to hit a certain number and call it quits?

2) In some ways I don't get the "financially independent" life. Sure, you're no longer absolutely needing to have a job. But what do you do with the rest of your life? You're just retired at 50? With what to challenge / strive for?

Maybe I'm just fortunate in that I don't mind working / find some fulfillment from it, and don't have a burning desire to sit around with no activities for 5 days a week. Maybe if I were smarter about it, I could be some kind of board member or something? Is that what people do? What takes the place of work?
That is not the case for the US president, they can live where they choose.

But I did not realize the archbishop was required to live in that residence as part of the terms of their service. That answers my question then.
Given that the sites wouldn't exist at all if it wasn't for the ad networks they use to feed their editors, it seems justifiable to me!
So basically all digital ads are bad. All analog ads are less bad.
A big part of the problem I see with decentralized search is that you basically need to traverse the index in orthogonal axes to assemble search results. First you need to search word-wise in order to get result candidates, then sort them rank-wise to get relevant results (this also hinges upon an agreed-upon ranking of domains). That's a damn hard nut to crack for a distributed system.

Crawling is also not as resource consuming as you might think. Sure you can distribute it, but there isn't a huge benefit to this.
Absolutely. I don't much care what people do with their stores but billboards are even worse than online ads because they're entirely non-consensual manipulation since you can't avoid them at all. It really should be considered a form of psychological violence.
Thanks a lot for posting this. I've been meaning to take some audio from my grandpa to resurrect my grandpa's voice before my grandma dies, so maybe I'll finally get around to doing it now.
These are all essentially browser ads, it's just not your browser.
New Electric Vehicle Battery Plants Planned in the U.S. in the Next 5 Years
Highly debatable whether the policy has achieved its goal of a "clean city". The city is uglier and dirtier than ever, especially downtown. A least billboards covered the decay (and were a source of income to buildings).
Try bamboo. Can be soaked, it's great.