skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, but it's a mass delusion.

1) Vaccination doesn't appear to turn COVID19 into a cold/flu, except for death rates (https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-03495-2/)

2) If it did, COVID spreading wildly would mean more variants would evolve, and specifically, vaccine-hopping ones. COVID has shown how bad variants can get.

It's worth looking at diseases both historically and world-wide for how these things can effect humanity.

Part of the reason for mass delusions is oversimplified messaging. At this point, we should have been able to educate everyone about COVID19 to the level where we could hold rational discussion, and perhaps even discuss things like probabilities (we don't know X, and there's a chance of Y and a chance of Z, rather than polarized battles).
> More accurate for me to say we have never eradicated a coronavirus with a vaccine.

We've never had a coronavirus get as widespread and to persist as long as to require a vaccine to combat it.
So, I'll speak as a recently retired principal engineer from big tech.

(1) The number to reach is an inflection point where you can pivot and focus on things you don't like about work. For example, as much as I like architecting systems, I definitely don't like architecting through people which is what the job demands. A good question then is why do the climb at all, and there is a bit of disease of more in our culture.

(2) Whatever you want! One of the reasons I retired was so that I could better balance time with my wife and work on my open source project: http://www.adama-lang.org/blog/retirement-going-all-in
cheap pans are 3 for $12, 8x as cost effective
Child care in the bay area is $2-3k / month per child. Plus you need a bigger home with one more bedroom so an additional $1-2k/month. Then a bigger car. This is without all the expenses related to having a child such as healthcare, food, activities…

It goes up quickly!
Eating only protien (versus carbohydrates) should smooth out the hunger. Keeping busy helps me ignore the hunger. For the first two weeks, the hunger was mostly mental. Drinking lots of water helps also curb the hunger as well as keep me focused. I don't know if there is a universal answer, just my experience. I don't sleep any better or any worse during versus before the diet. And actually, I've wanted to go to bed earlier to so I can sleep through the hunger rather than be awake to deal with it. Four, almost five weeks in, I don't have any mental hunger any more, I still have some occasional physical hunger, but its timeline varies. Somedays I feel like I could go all day without eating, somedays two meals isn't enough. I always stick to two meals a day: one breakfast, and one lunch which eventually moved back towards about three hours after normal lunchtime.
Umm. why wouldn't you run Ceph yourself? It speaks S3. (It has an component called RGW - Rados gateway, completely stateless, scalable, implementats the S3 ACL Policy xml)

And yes, running it has a cost.

But it's also has the advantage that devs can run it locally in docker easily. CI can spin up endless test clusters.

And so on.

Obviously you are right that the right way to compare cloud vs non-cloud is to look at the full picture. And that also means we need the context.

Small/hobby project? Doesn't matter. You can run on your own toaster or on Oracle cloud or on AWS/GCP/Azure. Just do what you want, the costs are negligible.

Operating business with stable well predicted size? Again, do whatever you want. If IT is a big part and costs matter, optimize for cost and run it on a few dedicated boxes. If you are not cost sensitive and you want to be one of the cool kids run it in AWS or whatever. (We have a client that exists for 25+ years, reached its optimal size, does some innovations from time to time, but it is basically a new website or app. The underlying backend is the same, maybe they'll replace it eventually. Probably with a complete SaaS and then they'll only need to host a landing page.)

Large multinational company with more departments than sanity? Again do whatever you want, likely you have bigger problems than the cloud bill or the inability to run one more app in your DC.

"Unicorn" startup? Crunch the numbers, do what makes sense. Everyone knows that "Netflix went full AWS" but maybe not everyone knows that they went full on-prem CDN more with their hundreds/thousand (s) of local caches at ISPs / IXPs.

And so on.
This makes my blood boil as a European.Our lives are basically capped at lower middle class for FTE positions.
Always loved this episode of Late Late Show where Craig interviewed Archbishop Desmond Tutu. "You know craig, I think you're crazy. We need your kind of crazy. giggles" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12OlAe2Sfes#t=14m
How much of those stats are pandemic related? (i.e. were true in 2019).

I'm ex-bay area since 2016, but I recall standing room only BART and shoulder-to-shoulder CALTRAIN can't add another body when heading to south bay. Although I didn't take SF bus, or send kids to Kindergarten.
It's not everyone else's job to work around someone using words incorrectly to make nonsensical comments.
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Best comment! Nailed it down! :D
There are also a lot of people who think they are in group A, move to the cloud and find out they are much closer to group B.
Roommates are extremely common among young people, even when they aren't strictly financially necessary. Pretty much everyone I know has lived with a roommate at one time.

They are uncommon after around age 30 unless financially necessary.

If you're older than 30 or married you probably won't be interested in a roommate simply to save money unless you already know the person well or you have a mother in-law apartment set-up.
Do people not steal traffic signs on your part of the world? This "sabotage" sounds a lot more like an embassy staffer behaving like the spoiled rich kid they are than an attempt at sabotage. Though given the article one never knows, I suppose.
Not any more I’m on £150K base and total cash comp of around £200K with bonus, car allowance and some other perks.

Whilst it’s true that I probably won’t find a pay like this outside of London it’s also quite hard to get it within London if I lose my job it’s more likely that I’ll have to take a pay cut than not.

In fact once you get to 6 figures in the UK outside of contracting it’s not uncommon to essentially bounce up and down by as much as 30% between jobs.

Looking at the more median salaries especially post COVID the pay gap has shrunk considerably.

Finance/Fintech is still very much London centric and those places pay the most in uk tech outside some senior FAANG roles but not everyone is lucky enough to land those.

It’s even not about being good or asking for more it’s really about just landing a job with an employer that is able and willing to pay that much and being able to justify that to them and it’s not as easy as it seems to be in SV.

In fact just before the pandemic I was looking to make a move and I went to a few recruiters and their honest advice was pretty much stay where I was (less than what I get now but 20% (5/15 split) pension and very very good benefits).

I did managed to move in early 2020 to my current role but that was through my network.

Overall considering it the loss of pension I probably came out even it was more of wanting to do something new in a different setting than the pay.
Also, advice depends on the generation the author is part of. Millennials have more difficulty getting to financial independence than, say, baby boomers or Gen-Xers had.
The thing is, there's only 1 situation where being a part of a certain socioeconomic group sucks. Being poor.

So any country that optimizes for improving that, kind of by definition, improves the average happiness of its citizens.
Starlink is fixing that, available in Spain 2022
In practice it's kWh you care about, and you get significantly fewer hours of sun in winter. No cloud days are rare in some regions in winter too.
GuideStar is the veteran in this space. I agree that doing this based on web scrapes and robots.txt is probably going to be pretty tough to get quality results. GuideStar always sells there product on the premise that they're vetting the financial statements of non-profits of best results. The real money might be on figuring out a way to scale reading and classifying non-profit financials - then see if you can quality control using a set of patterns.
That's lithium metal though, lithium ion batteries don't behave like that. The flammable part is the electrolyte, and the high power density of lithium cells which produces a lot of heat when short-circuited.
But you don't know about many specific random people with no connection to you taking a jog or sitting down on a bus because it made enough of an impact on other people that they told you about it
We abandoned Cadence three years go in favor of KiCAD. We miss online DRC a lot, now with 6.0 this issue has to be solved.
If my attention has value, then hijacking it is a form of theft.
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Yeah, this has worse complexity than Pearson. However, it's not competing on complexity.

The point of it is to detect general dependencies, where Pearson only detects linear ones (cases where Y is completely determined by X but their Pearson correlation is 0 are trivial to construct). The "linear" in linear dependency isn't the same as the "linear" in linear complexity here, but it doesn't seem surprising for an algorithm that can detect more general dependencies to have worse than linear performance (and nlogn is pretty much the next best).

In the absence of a known algorithm with the same properties and better complexity, it doesn't seem unreasonable to call it "computationally efficient" when it comes with a complexity sufficient for most uses, rather than say quadratic or exponential.
I see a lot of people complaining that the author of this article is unrealistic or delusional. I disagree. I think he recognizes that the advice does not apply to everyone.

But it does apply to many people reading HN, and it's important - especially for young people - to realize that this kind of life path is possible. I expect and hope that in the future, a lot of cultural and intellectual progress will be made by people who spent a few years in FAANG and then retired with a comfortable nest egg, to pursue less-well-compensated goals.
Where are people asked to feel guilty specifically about the fact they received a good education?
There is a lot of encouragement of guilt in the USA today. In general, shouldn’t we embrace a value system that encourages good behavior? Eg honor those who do relatively well in life, given the circumstances they are born into?

The immediate leap to discredit the success of others through assertion of privilege seems like it would discourage doing well.

A better solution imho would be to celebrate success but to also encourage the successful to share their insights with others so as to spread the fortune - much as the author of this post has done.
As a fellow FIRE person, my key response is ATTA-boy. Huzzah! Congratulations!

What many critics will not fully get is how hard it is to not spend the wealth. I know too many people making mid six figures and they spend everything. The paradox is that this adds enough stress to their lives that they can't focus on the next level of income.

Find the gratitude for the opportunity, but please take pride in the discipline of keeping it.
Having a partner doesn't have to be an expense.

Living expenses tend to grow slower than incomes, as incomes go up.

You don't pay 200% rent for 2 people, but for sure you can earn 200% with 2 people.
I live on 25 ha of forest, have an axe and saw, and heat with wood. Let me tell you: you want to use the saw for everything but splitting. Axes are fine for burly cavemen.

Anyway, in a cold climates like mine an acre would not be enough to keep you warm because trees grow slow when it's winter six months out of twelve. It takes a lot of wood to keep you warm, and one tree gives surprisingly little wood. After a handful of years you'll have clearcut your measly acre and still have another couple of decades to go before it becomes harvestable again. I'd say you want at least 10 acres if you manage it well and the soil and drainage are at least half decent.
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This isn't a search engine for nonprofits, it's a search engine that's designed to be run by a nonprofit one day.
> Where exactly do you think schooling and medical practices happen or children are taken care of?

in close vicinity of the housing. not sure i understand the question.

> How hard is to coordinate to double the number of trains or buses?

running a bus during peak hours at twice your current rate (unless the rate is completely ridicilous) does not sound easy. why do you assume it is? at that rate, for SF at least, you are talking subway.

by streets i meant the higher volume during peak hours that need to be sustained (walking, cycling, driving, busses, trams, parking etc).
> It was also sub rosa and illegal like most truly affordable housing in San Francisco

> There would be no drama with rent controlled tenants

> The landlord did the math and agreed to sell to us at below the full market value. He would be saving so much money by avoiding the associated legal challenges from disgruntled tenants that he would net the same profit even at a slightly lower price.

It's clear from these statements that the good intentions of the politicos in SF are artificially inflating the cost of housing. The only way forward for this person was to work around those issues.

Yes, it was lucky that all of those tenants were going to move out at the same time the landlord was thinking of selling, but this person was ready to take advantage of the opportunity when it presented itself. Taking advantage meant a lot of work and coordination.

This pattern repeats with buying in Sonoma. They had prepared themselves to be ready for an opportunity, and when the opportunity arose, they could take advantage.
Junk mail is particularly frustrating because companies are generating so much paper waste only for someone to deliver it to your door, and you to put it directly in the bin. No, Dominoes, I don't give a fuck about your shit pizza, and sending junk through my letterbox 5 days a week isn't going to change my mind.

I wish it was banned outright.
It's also important to note that you likely don't need a new circuit if you already have a ceramic electric hob, only if you're installing a new one. I also just did a quick google and in the supermarkets around me, the only pan I could find under £30 that isn't induction compatible is a £10 wok from sainsburys. Everything else had a steel plate.
I have to wonder why the authors skipped the potential solution of removing containers and mesos from the equation entirely.

If you gave this service a dedicated, non-co-located fleet, running the JVM directly on the OS, and ran basic autoscaling of the number of hosts, you'd eliminate a huge number of the moving parts of the system that are causing these issues.

Yes, that would add to ops costs (edit: human ops costs) for this service, but when you're spending 8 figures per year in it, clearly the budget is available.

To quote the great philosopher Avril Lavigne: "Why'd you have to go and make things so complicated?"
Tell me you only read the headline, without telling me you only read the headline.
What if the Universe lives in a false vacuum state?
lol - did you not look at the prices they were dealing with? They bought an apartment building with friends and their share of the mortgage was only $900/month - half of which was shared with their partner. $900/month is a joke - even for back then. They bought land with cash that was even remotely near SF as well - unfathomable now.

This person bought before prices in SF were so above and beyond what anyone near that level of income could ever afford.

This is just survivorship bias mixed with a bit of “I did it during a time when prices were nowhere near what they are now”.

Story sucks because it’s not a story of grit and smarts. It’s a story of unrepeatability.
> Its pretty much the only reason why I think dense living is a bad idea

You can have quiet and soundproofed dense living. It just takes some standards and codes to take it into account.

NotJustBikes recently made a video about how some Dutch cities are taking this very seriously ( like Delft), and how it works ( Cities aren't loud, cars are is the video name). In France good soundproofing is mandatory on new constructions, etc. People and regulators just need to care :)
I think this will be a whole new issue when AR becomes standard. In fact, it's the whole reason I don't want AR. I just see ads for days coming out of it. Everyone putting little ad starting QR codes (or whatever they settle on) everywhere so every time I turn my head there's a gecko on a coffee table in the random store I'm in trying to sell my car insurance.
Sure, but the time factor wasn't present in the above comment, it was just instantaneous power.
I run three separate indices at about 10-20mn documents each. But I'm fairly far off any sort of limit (ram and disk-wise I'm at maybe 40%).

I'm confident 100mn is doable with the current code, maybe .5bn if I did some additional space optimization. There are some low hanging fruit that seem very promising. Sorted integers are highly compressable, and right now I'm not doing that at all.
Maybe a 10 for Terry A. Davis, then.
If my attention has value, then not being paid for it is theft
> end up sitting in front of a tv eating microwave dinners for 60 years because they retired.

For a 21st century kick, we have superfood protein smoothies now. They're better for you, have less taste, can be consumed on the go, and are better for the environment.
Quite surprised that How I Built This has not been posted so far - https://www.npr.org/podcasts/510313/how-i-built-this?t=16405...

Very enjoyable to hear stories from founders of a selection of interesting companies and very well presented by Guy Raz.
It says '5KW', not '5KWh'.
I don’t think they are desperate to ban it right away, even if they say they are. It takes a long time to sneak in new powers into international trade agreements. It also takes a long time for an exploitable crisis to occur. They don’t want to be seen as handicapping innovation and cutting ordinary people off from a way to get rich. So they’ll wait however long it takes for people to lose faith, which could be a really long time.

I personally don’t believe those with the power to decide money supply will give it up easily.
You won't get there if you stay solo, so get hired, join a team and learn as much as you can from your peers. Large-scale is team-scale.
They are bringing them back.

Switzerland has also started Zürich to Amsterdam again just last month. They are using trains from the 70s as they currently do not have newer night travel equipped rail cars but are planning on adding a lot more routes. The Austrian rail ÖBB has been running nightjets for a while also from Zürich.

Although quite expensive the night rail has become very popular again.
All of those are on a computer screen.

The fact that people have so much difficulty on identifying blocking ads that are actually in real life (like changing the shafts configuration of a market) is pretty good evidence that they aren't as much annoying.
Thank you for sharing this, it helps clear up the concern you had a lot.

I deal with some big German clients fairly frequently and one of the requirements is "[they] own the entire stack top to bottom, back to front." A lot of dark site operations I work on also share a similar requirement, so really it's why I'm far more open and comfortable with an all on premises situation since I see the scaling done without any public cloud.

From what I do work with on public cloud sure, I absolutely get why it is so easy to scale if you don't already have a good team to build and orchestrate a local set up. I also see some big name companies I contract with just throw money onto a fire fueled by Azure, and while the expenditure hurts sure, it's still considered acceptable.

I guess I probed because I see a lot of different sides of modern architecture and aside from a well documented and disciplined one, I'm not sure there's a right thing with modern architecture, just different comfort zones with different efficiencies.
Recovering litigator here. I was a web dev before law school (self-taught; my degrees are all non-STEM). I'm now in data/ML engineering. It took me ~5 years to complete the transition.

Focus on Python, especially if you're interested in NLP.

If you want to get back up to speed quickly, consider a bootcamp (~2 months F/T, ~6 months P/T). There are programs focused on data science. Bonus if you can convince your firm to pay for it.

Leverage your background to position yourself as a consultant. There's lots of demand for basic data analytics tooling in the enterprise space, for example. Once you have a few projects under your belt, it shouldn't be hard to lateral.

Don't waste your time with "legal tech" unless you'd rather spend more time arguing with tech-averse lawyers than coding. There's a lot more opportunity and a lot less frustration in the general market.
You start to lose your income tax allowance at £100K that more than offsets the CGT tax allowance and puts you in a hidden 60% tax rate.

Childcare is expensive as fuck and you lose your childcare allowance at £50K in fact if you share a household with anyone who claims it and you earn more than £50K they’ll deduct that from you…

Living on wealth in the UK is as easy as in the US I would agree to that perhaps even easier since there are no property taxes and probably even more tax schemes to leverage than in the US but getting to that point under PAYE even whilst earning well above the median wage isn’t easy especially if you want to have children and have to live in London for that pay.

The main issue is just how depressed many of the wages in the UK are and thus just how narrow the tax base is.
Last time I took the high speed train they left us a reminder on the ticket about how much less carbon the travel was with them. I wondered then, why was it still cheaper to fly? I took the train that time for convenience as it was direct but not much cheaper.
You can just sell ads based on time periods, then it doesn’t matter how many bots view the ads.
I figured a large portion of the blame could be laid at the feet of leadership; these people want to lead people, not run IT. Moving to the cloud gets rid of all those pesky power and environmental and raised floor and employing all those weird people…and if it’s more money, that makes my budget look good, too. If you save money, you’ll get less next year.
True of anything beyond simplistic shelter that barely keeps you alive.

Everything is a want when you want it to be. Is even living really a need? After all - you can just die and then you don’t definitely don’t need/want anything then for sure!
When physical ads track me, and harass me in a shop, then I'll consider it.
Did you mean 45' (feet) or 45" (inches)?
> don't have a burning desire to sit around with no activities for 5 days a week.

Who said anything about “no activities”? They said they wanted to retire not go to prison.
What issues would they have had other than not paying $900/m that would have caused the bank to foreclose? Even a decade ago $900/m wasn’t a lot of money for rent in a major urban metro.
I like how people always feel the need to shift a discussion on actual salary that normal people experience to a few job mostly in finance negotiated directly with key stack holders to pretend things are comparable.

Let’s forget that salaries in Europe are ridiculously low to focus on the handful of people who might get an extraordinary position - still paid less than an equivalent one in North America nevertheless - and pretends its doable and everything is fine.
Interesting. Can you give examples about when he's been dangerously wrong?