skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The central problem with this and similar endeavors: nobody is willing to pay what they are worth in ads. Let's say the average Google user in the US earns them $30/year. Are you willing to pay $30/year for an ad-free Google experience? Great! We now know that you are worth at least $60/year.

That little thought experiment is true for many online services, from social networking to (marginally) publishing. But nowhere is it more true than for search results, which differ in two fundamental ways: being text-only, they don't bother me to anywhere near the degree of other ads. And, second, they are an order of magnitude more valuable than drive-by display ads, because people have indicated a need and a willingness to visit a website that isn't among their bookmarks. These two, combined, make this the worst possible case for replacing an ad-based business with a donation model.

The idea mentioned in this readme that "Google intentionally degrades search results to make you also view the second page" is also wrong, bordering on self-delusion. The typical answer to conspiracy theories works here: there are tens of thousands of people at Google. Such self-sabotage would be obvious to many people on the inside, far too many to keep something like this secret.
In regards to global references, this guide suggests not to use the window prefix but doesn't really explain why except to note that it's unnecessary. I am guessing this is because window is not available if the js is running outside the browser. But if the code is intended to be run in the browser and won't work elsewhere I prefer adding the prefix to signal that.
That’s very much a UK problem, self build is pretty much non existent due to some of the worst zoning regulations imaginable.

Even buying a lot in a residential area with a condemned building would require you to jump through so many hoops that would make it near impossible to build for anything below 7 figures…
You might want to elaborate a bit on the differentiating factor of your marketplace compared to the existing ones as well as why your team is qualified to build it. I don’t think any number of pre sign ups can make up for not knowing anything about the product to an investor. Starting to build a prototype/poc would also go a long way to showing commitment.
Aren't ads super ineffective, especially when you don't make them very invasive?

I think donations are probably workable. It works in the private tracker scene; the larger ones have "donation meters" and never seem to fall behind.

It could also work on a subscription model which is essentially just formalizing the donations and making it easier to plan cash flow.
JukeBox did that for music so it's not impossible ... https://openai.com/blog/jukebox/
What are the main differences between you guys and Resemble.ai?
Man, blog that story and post to HN. That’s gotta be a wild ride.
Could be worse, you could run a real risk of getting disappeared for talking about them. Which is obviously a non-issue in the west.
After Reading the readme, I'm still unsure what your tool is doing.
Maybe the all in one system is not good in that case. I was hoping that since they already have the AC-DC inverter built in they could also do voltage stabilization.

Maybe charge the batteries from either the grid or the PV panels, and always run the house off the batteries via a separate inverter. That way, you got the inefficiency of AC->DC->AC but always have stable voltage.

In the long run I want this to be mostly off grid anyway, with the grid as just an emergency option...
I also want to incorporate a community aspect to ranking, allowing upvoting and downvoting of results. I've not yet figured out how to reconcile this idea with not having any tracking though. Perhaps a separate interface for logged-in users.
see, that's the problem with engineers today. AltaVista ran on 3x300MHz 64bit processors with 512M of RAM back in 1995. Resources cost peanuts these days. It's just that we're so used to bloat and digital inflation, we can't even start considering unbloated implementations as we perceive them as "not modern". Apparently we are also stuck in the centralized/ownership mentality. If you crowdsource search indexing and processing, it scales alongwith amount of users. Oh and also another bane of the internet is the need to monetize. FFS, if email would be invented today, we probably would have to buy NFT poststamps.
Europe is not the world.

Oil prices are rising as production falls. That is falling because exploration is not expected to pay off. It is a fundamental mistake to confuse short-term fluctuations with trends.
Community Crawler
Couldn't you do this by leasing hardware before AWS?
It stays in place and is comfortable with the 'elite strap' accessory, can't say for the default one it ships with. IMO it should be standard. Brow sweat is a problem, but new units all ship with foam + silicone rather than just foam padding so at least it's cleanable.
I think there is room for hybrid cloud built with open source software.

Datbases and virtual machines tend to be expensive in cloud providers. Steady state workloads.

Object storge tend to be fairly cheap.

There is also cost of vendor lock in if you use propritary cloud technologies such as databases.

You can build open source infrastructure with hybrid solution. Probably less risk of downtime.
the riskier moves could've gone wrong horribly but didn't, so well done to the author! took many gamble and got nicely paid out.
Data defined vehicle platform for optimization of Lucid 500 miles luxury EV
Agreed with all your points, but to be fair, when starting on this it can easily feel as a burden, at least it did for me. I also sense some insecurity, which is a very human trait. And not in the least, it can be good to understand where you are starting with, including all the details, even though it might drive down motivation knowing all the details :) I prefer stepping in naively and figuring things out later on :)

1. In my experience, he wouldn't need to start a company right away, only when it really takes of. In the context of income tax in the Netherlands, there is a grey area between hobby and commercial activity, which is not easily defined. Only when it starts to structurally be part of his income, does he need to write it on his income tax papers and register a company. That won't be needed when he is only taking off. (Try or try not, there is no do (Yodi) ).

2. In regards to setting up a registered company, you do get lots of sollicitors at the door and on the telephone. He already mentioned the prepaid phone, not sure if a postbox is possible and what it costs. But for now, it is not needed, see point 1. (edit: the KvK doesn't allow a postbox as address, but there are companies that offer using an address of their business centre for around 500 Euro a year).

3. Setting up a website with WooCommerce or Easy Digital Downloads is easy peasy. At first I didn't go this route, expecting this would be burdersome. I used a marketplace which took 30% of my sales, in practice even a bit more. Two years later I started to get unhappy with that (their support was awful) and switched to WordPress/EDD with just PayPal payments and it has been just great. I should have done that right away from the start. To be fair, my marketing is already taken care of because of a free/gratis main software package.
It's pronounced "mumble". I live in Mumbles, which is spelt Mwmbwls in Welsh.
I think the real question is how people are actually paying their rent and buying food. If they don't need jobs, then they must be solving this problem somehow.
My employer has a pretty good policy for that: you can bank any holiday, work on it and take the date later as you wish. It's great for other religions, non-religious people, etc., you can choose to re-use any holiday as you wish.

Would that be a part of your holiday revolución? :P
Those screaming at you to get jabbed and wear a mask are not Karens. Karens are anti-vax and anti-mask, according to my extensive research of memes.
> what you are actually doing is increasing the supply of carrots.

There's an error in your analogy.

Nobody is growing carrots, they're buying carrots

Incentives push the carrotlords to pass local ordinances. 'Show me the incentive and I'll show you the outcome'
Can you make it a contributory database? I wouldn't mind "donating" my browsing history and page downloads to build the index and train the algorithm.

You'd have to find a way to verify reputation to make sure no bad actors could contribute.
The target Orbit is at L2 Lagrange point, the point on the line connecting Earth and sun behind Earth, where gravitational force and centrifugal force are equal and you have a semi stable, force free orbit.

From the outside view, the telescope will orbit the sun with the sand period as Earth, so the relative speed will be 0.

To avoid the need for strong deceleration, and thus lots of fuel, shocks etc, they use a trajectory where earth gravity will slow down Webb so they arrive just right with 3 minor planned course corrections but no real burn.

So you will see the relative velocity drop continuously until wenn arrives at L2.
Isn't Molenaar looking at networks of symptoms over time? Yes, in any multi-variate time series, when one is searching for relationships between the variables (and allowing that you may have multiple sets of time series which may have some type of grouping, i.e. observations from a set of people with one diagnosis vs observations from a set of people with a contrary or with no diagnosis), then yes, any attempt to find co-relations in the multivariate signal need to account for the underlying statistical distribution of the signal components. The normal distribution isn't a bad first a priori approximation, but you really need to check.

side note- it also isn't clear that you can group by diagnosis, see, for example, https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29154565/, which shows that even within diagnostic groups there is substantial individual variation.
Well yeah. It's the best protection we have against serious illness for yourself, or your infecting others if you catch an asymptomatic case. Prior infection is weak defense against Omicron[1] (like, 20%).

Your work, depressing as your story is, is orthogonal to the question of getting vaccinated. Still, that's a fascinating angle I hadn't considered. You deserve hazard pay, and vacation, same as everyone else. Whether or not your vaxxed doesn't change that. That you haven't received any is the fault of your employer and our brand of capitalism, not that any of us have any real choice in that matter.

[1]https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/...
The default view doesn't show rail traffic, which also seems to add a lot of heat to the map. I haven't quite understood what the map is based on, but it says 24-hr LAeq - is this a 24-hour average or 24-hour max?
Self Awareness
A New Origin Story for Dogs (2016)
I'm rather hoping that after Omicron is the point at which we can mostly forget about covid and go on with the rest of our lives. Covid will be there still but hopefully a low level thing like the flu or colds that you don't think about much. (I presently have Omicron - feels like a cold - I'm jabbed - but I'm having to isolate unlike a normal cold).
I can't recall many people braver than him, dead or alive.
Get real lol. Why would a general public care about you? Happy to donate but it won’t keep the light on. You’re serving a niche community
Yes, I think a subscription model is the way to go.
What’s the problem with getting vaccinated and wearing a mask?
What are you guys doing to have such a low cost?

I have a small GKE cluster and a few databases and I’m well above that, I nearly hit that in a month!

Maybe you don’t have read replicas of your databases? Do you take any traffic?
I don't think something that works in 95% of the cases would be accepted by the SQL committee.

I think at least you would need to find a way to follow foreign keys on multiple columns.

I can see why working with column names would be nice, since we then would not have to deal with foreign key names at all, which is another thing to keep track of mentally. But the only way that would work would be if we would forbid creating multiple foreign keys on the same set of columns, only then would the set of columns uniquely identify what foreign key to follow. This is much more invasive though, as it could break existing data models.
>How often do you scramble eggs on your cast iron skillet?

Every time I make scrambled eggs. It isn't difficult. I don't even see what you are getting at with this question.
Check out YaCy. It's great if you're happy with slow search!
Nope, I'm suggesting that wants and needs are a sliding scale with no clear dividing line except subsistence, and that it's therefore a bad idea to argue for lowering your standard of living to only what you strictly need.

This is pretty obvious if you don't take a deliberately uncharitable perspective on what I wrote.
This is a lie told by landlords.

Just get a handyman, or a tenant agent.

That's what landlords do and they always come out on top.
This is a business model I've been thinking about: what if users earned credits for running a crawler on their machine? In other words, as much as I hate crypto scams, a "tokenized" search engine where the "mining" power was put to good use, i.e crawling and indexing.
People who leave Twitter because they don't like the timeline that's based on who they follow are weird. Just unfollow people, and follow people who tweet things you like more.

Twitter has a tendency to put extra stuff in too, but you can control that by following or unfollowing topics.
Niche for now, but I think a lot of people can see the value of search without ads.
Always a voice of reason and compassion. His influence, good humour and example will be greatly missed.
power and interpretability.

Assuming a linear relationship, if you know the correlation coefficient, you can predict unobserved values of y based on a known x with good accuracy.

y = ax + b + error

where strong correlation means error is small.
Which is nice, except Obsidian isn't FOSS (the parent comment was about free/open source editors).
You assume the I/O would be the same… if you can transplant memories like they did with mice you bypass the relatively slow I/O of sensory data.
Nice, but still not very intuitive nor common for the grand public.
How would you judge that they had actually done the work? The output needs to be verifiable.
Wow! Good job!

Find it very interesting that the boilerplate was leading the pack. "Don't dig for gold, sell shovels." as the quote goes.
It often features in security vulnerabilities

As the saying goes, "don't shoot the messenger". There's more quantity than quality when it comes to ASN.1 implementations, especially free ones, and that's largely where the impression is coming from. DER in particular is not hard to parse, but people don't seem to bother with thinking carefully about the edge cases and such.
Not the OP, but off the top of my head, we have:

* str and String, which are the ones we just call “strings”

* CStr and CString, for interop with libraries that work with null-terminated strings

* OsStr and OsString, for interop with system libraries that expect non-UTF-8 encodings

* Path and PathBuf, which are also just strings

* [u8] and Vec<u8>, which are encoding-neutral binary strings (&[u8] is the type of b"Hello world") and are useful for interop with e.g. C++’s std::string

That’s 10.

(For non-Rust people who are curious: In these pairs, the first one is the type of a view of a string that’s stored elsewhere, and the second is the type that actually owns the string data. All of these 10 have their uses, but outside of interfacing with non-Rust libraries, you mostly work with str/String and Path/PathBuf.)
This is what makes Wireguard so powerful: there is only one setting.
There were absolutely people that were making more on unemployment, at the height of the pandemic in 2020. (Specifying 2020 because more people have died from Covid-19 in 2021 than 2020.) Depending on the state, unemployment was some $900/week. That works out to $46.8k/yr, which is below the official federal poverty line of $52k/yr. But there are people who live there. That these people seems to have been the undervalued backbone our economy, working 3 part-time jobs, 7 days a week, is extremely depressing.
I remember attending a lecture about how to do well in the academic world well back at university decades ago, where the lecturer quoted another (famous) researcher who had a personal rule for incoming requests. Either he did it now or he did it never. Now is not literally now, but close.

Just saying no and not pretending that you might do can also be helpful in other ways. For instance, you or someone else might then realize that to get something like this done, it needs to be made much easier to do.

I've personally just finished planting 450 meters of windbreaking bushes around my orchard. Now, I should have done that four years ago - but I came up with a fancier plan, to put it on top of an embankment, and it would get rid of some of the traffic noise, and I had a guy with lots of soil in spare - great plan, except that person was really slow to respond and was actually depending on another person, and I had to get the municipality to agree, and... as it turns out, the required level of social energy to push this through was just not happening for me in my spare time. So after four years, my wife made me scrap the idea, then I almost immediately realized that hey, I could just plant the damn bushes, and here we are, a few months later, and they're out there and looking great, eight different species, future homes of birds and other wildlife.
But this doesn’t scale well. Buses will be pulling a lot more weight than a Tesla Model 3 or BMW 3er. And you’ve got the same problem with semi-trucks.

More weight to pull = more power required = more batteries required = more weight to pull. Almost a catch-22 when you factor in the increase in recharge time. For commercial vehicles, a minute of downtime is a minute of the said vehicle not making any money.
So it would take care of over 1/3 of your energy needs with most of the rest coming from (I assume) hydroelectric generation. Doesn't sound that bad to me.
“Did You Ever Eat Tasty Wheat?”: Baudrillard and the Matrix [pdf] (2003)
In the early web 2, it was very in for things to be spelled unpronounceably. For the life of me I can only remember Twittr, but I wanna say Spotify also had an unreadable name in the early days.
There would have to be some aspect of centralized moderation, I suppose. This is beyond my knowledge: Is there a way to accept output only from signed binaries, so that we assume if X cycles of work were performed by a signed binary, then it is legitimate output?
You also don’t “need” a second home for diversified income.

Prioritising your finances over a satisfying and interesting life sounds dull, and like a great way to make yourself mentally unwell if you do it for too long.

Not everyone’s preferred life “needs” much space but when yours does, not having it can be very stifling and stressful.
In my city, most buses run on hydrogen. None run on batteries.
Seems you haven't read the article as he never mentions not liking his timeline. His criticism is conceptually way beyond the Twitter timeline.
2008 bankster bailouts was not capitalism. 2020 bailouts of airlines and foreign cruise lines was not capitalism. Capitalism would have let those failures fail and motivated new owners would have picked up the assets at the bankruptcy.

'It's the best protection we have against serious illness'

The best protection each person has is to remove their comorbidities including being obese and having no lung capacity. Maybe eat less and exercise.

'not that any of us have any real choice in that matter.'

Go fix your own machines.
I don’t trust any data hosting. Any company can be forced to monitor it or allow government a copy.

If your data leaves your network and it’s supposed to be private, encrypt it in such a way only the people who should be able to read it can read it.
Online encyclopedia was very niche when Wikipedia started.
There is a suburb of Cape Town called Bishopscourt.
It is high up on the hill, near the botanical garden, and filled with Anglophone old money, trees and mansions. (1)

It gets it's name of course from the "official residence of the Archbishop of Cape Town" (Anglican / Church of England).

It was of course a "whites only" area under Apartheid until 1991 (2). Black people there could be assumed to be house or garden servants.

When Mr Tutu was installed there as the first black Archbishop of Cape Town in 1986, he moved in without seeking exemption from this law (3). He would put on his jogging outfit and take his exercise on the streets there, smiling and waving to neighbours as if it was the most normal thing in the world. And in time, it was.

That is praxis.

he was one of the best of us, always seeking a way to reach out.

1) "ranked sixth richest suburb in South Africa" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bishopscourt,_Cape_Town

2) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Group_Areas_Act

3) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desmond_Tutu#Archbishop_of_Cap...
The things you state in the first paragraph are plain wrong.
This is good info. Bookmarking it in case I ever make those pay grades (unlikely). Also if the current bubble pops during my lifetime, that'll really reduce my ability to save...
I’m building something similar, though much simpler. A desktop app for creating static websites. You build your site offline and preview locally. Then deploy it to hosting, currently integrated with Vercel. But it also outputs the static files.
Have a few thoughts about monetization, though that would be more of a “nice to have”.
TBF I don't think Google intentionally degrades results, but they have less incentive to improve the results.
Spelling it “mumble” wouldn’t be accurately pronounceable for most of the world, and billions couldn’t even read the letters.

I get your point but I think we should normalise things that don’t come completely naturally for English speakers.
Start by offering to develop something pro bono for your local public library, or high school, or aged care home, or your accountant, doctor, or hardware store.

It should be something simple like a spreadsheet or a web page or an app that only does one thing.

The most important thing you will experience is the last 10% of the project taking up 90% of the time.

The least repeatable thing you will learn is why.

After you have done this enough times to start seeing patterns that help you to avoid bad outcomes for both you and the client, you will be ready to start working as a professional developer.

After you have experienced successes and disasters as a professional developer, you will be an experienced professional developer.
Beat Saber is also a good workout - arms moving all over the place, and once you get into the Vol 2+ tracks plenty of squats as well.
If you attach a “headphone” cable the odd looks will practically go away
Well they are in a sense: you can just do the task yourself. It’s expensive of course, so you can use methods applied to human labelling for ML: _periodically_ injecting tasks with known results and checking how trustworthy the party is, vending the task to multiple parties and aggregating results, blocking parties that make many “mistakes”, etc.
And every dollar you bleed on expensive AWS (and expensive devops engineers to wrangle it), is a dollar less you can pay for a new employee to deliver value quickly and get you profitable (or aquired).

So what's the balance?