skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And alot of times, especially with mass transit, there are economies if scale.

So it's even more efficient with higher population.
I'm a software developer in the US and this is all a pipe dream to me too - I started in the (software) workforce a few years before this person but at close to half the salary. After my first year of employment my net worth was nowhere near positive, especially not five figures positive - I had a student loan burden that was more than my yearly salary. I didn't get into the positive net worth territory until around year ~5 in the workforce.

2009 was also a recession year where it was difficult to find an entry level job at all, at any salary. I went without (software) work for half a year when I was laid off at the end of 2008 and ended up having to relocate for employment.

I'm in my late 30s now and I'm well off by almost every measure (I max out all retirement accounts, I have a six figure brokerage account) - but I'm nowhere near a millionaire or financially independent. I'll need to work another decade best case scenario.

The biggest boost to my savings rate/financial position came from getting married and sharing income/bills with my husband.

If I did it over again I'd pay off my loans slower and put more in my retirement accounts earlier.
Close to $10M for me, currently sitting on about $4M. I fully understand the 4% rule and a conservative 3% withdrawal rate wrt historical returns, but I have no confidence that those will continue to be true moving forward.

So for my calculations I am assuming my portfolio will have a 0% real growth, and that it will just keep up with inflation after volatility. In the best case I am expecting about 65 years to live (wildly optimistic), so my withdrawal rate is 1/65 ~= 1.5%.

I understand this might be overly conservative, but everyone is entitled to their own opinions, and when I pull the plug I better be damn sure I won’t go broke ever.

As mentioned earlier I should be getting there in about 5 years with some luck, so it’s not too long. If the luck won’t materialize maybe I will revisit my plan and the opportunity cost trade-off.
Some unvaccinated have always maintained COVID is equivalent to the seasonal flu. So from that standpoint getting vaccinated should do more than that.

I agree with your thinking in general but am not sure it would reach everyone in the way you might think.
Built my first multiplayer web game using reactjs, Node.js and WebSockets
there seems to be a lot of comment about some form of distributed trust/reputation bashed system.
> Disclaimer: I acknowledge that I’ve been very privileged, especially in the educational opportunities I’ve had.

This might sound reasonable from a US-centric perspective, but to me it reads like utter nonsense. The main privilege here is access to the US labor market and tax policy. There are no stories like this one where I live (in Sweden). Absolutely none.
Ads should actually be blocked in your city. Advertising as such should be something done in catalogues for this specific purpose. If you are looking for "random things to buy", there is a section for that in the catalogue.
I had COVID before vaccines were available as a healthy and fit 23 year old. I would compare it to the swine flu, which I've also had when I lived in Buenos Aires, and put both far beyond a cold.

A non-ignorable section of the population cannot be vaccinated, others have risk factors that vaccinations mitigate but no guarantees. We currently believe Omicron arose from an HIV patient in South Africa, where only ~25% of the population is vaccinated for lack of doses. The virus is more likely to mutate in immunocompromised patients, and mutations increase the chance that existing vaccinations become ineffective.

If people are serious about wanting to forget it and go on with their lives, the failure to vaccinate poor populations because it is not profitable to do so is a much larger issue than first worlders getting boosters.
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One idea I have been kicking around is the idea of federating the indices, not the crawling.

If every contributor maintained their own index, then you could reward contributors based on how many hits their index generated.

This would open up the possibility of people maintaining indices for specialized topics that they were experts in, and give the federated search engine a shot at taking on Google.
I do not have a financial planning team nor I am interested in getting one, I feel I am educated enough on the topic to self manage.

By most conventional standards I could already retire now, but my stance is more conservative than average: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29691550
I think you are right, it probably wasn't. Since people are good at adapting then "new normal" for them is the noisy world.

On the other hand, a place I currently live in, almost no one keeps horses, cows, chickens etc, anymore, which are audible. Only a handful of dogs which love to bark. When every household was a private farm it had to be much louder around here! It's not as simple as I thought.
Now all we need is Conway's Game of Life written in this lisp.
I once went across the border between Germany and Poland when it was officially closed due to flooding. But I highly doubt that would have happened when the Iron Curtain was still up.
Tralee, Ireland is slightly further to the west than Lagos, Portugal, so in geodesic distance I suppose it's further. A pity that there are no plans for a rail tunnel to Ireland at all.
Yep. Unless you've got running water or a high cliffside for wind, the best off-the-grid heat source for cold climates is an acre of woods and an axe.

Insulation, too. A lot of sheds and cabins (and single-family homes) could do with more. Saves on cooling bills in the summer, too.
Clearly it counts downloads. If you downloaded, deleted, and reinstalled it would count that too.
roommates
That's scary. Also, I am missing Cartman in the list of voices. And Ben Shapiro's voice talks way too slowly :D
No mention of Sao Paolo: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cidade_Limpa
idk but "a small GKE cluster and a few databases" doesn't sound like it should cost a million per year.
Create more European tech companies
The Russians did the same when they built the BAM (Baikal-Amur Magistral).
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Godwins
It's not about how old the technology is, but from when on it wasn't used as e.g. a pseudo-RNG, but rather for storing data. So, formally, still a RNG, but using a special seed to get a sequence that is equal to the data that one wants to store.

I have found that "River Raid" (1982) and "The Sentinel" (1986) were using it for game data. Apparently, the original "Elite" was supposed to use one, too, but they decided against it.
> Those two things together means people freezing to death

What is the deal with americans and freezing to death? I’m from Scandinavia, and the only times I’ve heard people discuss that is in the context of someone getting drunk and passing out outside.

Fuck me, even if it somehow reaches -20C inside all you need to do is grab a few extra blankets and stay under them in order to remain warm.

If you’re really worried, just invest some money in a sufficiently warm sleeping bag. Installing gas as a backup would be moronic unless you’re expecting to spend months without power.
Just to add an additional avenue for any people earlier in their career, starting salaries for research associates (bench-based wet lab work) in the Boston area right now, fresh out of undergrad with a 4-year degree, is $100k.
You won't be able to change it manually because it's a hard limit in their webgl implementation. But hopefully they'll increase it later.

We can't mimic the local feel of BBSes on the modern internet but i'm confident we can capture the rest of the experience, and at least have something better than the ad-infested garbage heap we see on the web today :D
> should indexing skip a blog page because a the author usually write about algorithm but here goes on and on about business while sporadically mentioning algorithmic technical aspects?

Yes, because that author's pages wouldn't even be fetched at the point of development that we are discussing.

> and what if you want to search about pottery that Sunday morning, turn to Google?

Yes, Google still exists. Why not?
changes at the individual’s level like this are meaningless on the scale at which carbon emission is occurring. for example, you could switch off every car, truck, boat, plane, train, ambulance, motorbike, etc. and you would reduce carbon emissions by less than 20%. _all_ residential usage (including electricity created by fossil fuels) by 10%. [1]

alternatively, you could switch off carbon production across all of the EU and the US. all of it. you’d cut global CO2 emissions by %15 (for the US) and ~9%. [2]

climate change is real and man-made. we need to tackle the actual causes of it, rather than make individuals lives harder: i’ve used many induction/electric cookers and they all _suck_.

[1]: https://ourworldindata.org/emissions-by-sector

[2]: https://www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/global-greenhouse-gas-emiss...
https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/neurological-manifestations...

https://www.journalofinfection.com/article/S0163-4453(21)005...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7970685/

.... and so on.

Acute are things like memory lapses and pretty severe deficits. Those are less common, but do occur. Very common is a small but statistically significant general decline in cognitive function.
Yeah I d say he s been dealt very bad cards, had no problem being independent growing up in Normandy, France. I think we're priviledged by not being in the US and that guy is at the top of a turd pile...
Feels like being able to send mail from an IPv6 address would mean no one shares a sender IP again, and everyone's sender reputation gets a fair shake.
But then you can just zigzag through Europe. That's no useful measure. You at least need a further limitation.
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Independent contractor or entering management. Employment salaries go high currently only in Switzerland, though they have definitely been rising in recent years also in Central Europe.
The clinical evidence that it "exists" is an interpretation of common grouped symptoms... There can be no real proof that it exists or doesn't, because there is no underlying cause that can be tested for. The diagnosis is just a description of symptoms, like a cough and runny nose. It's possible that there is a 'cough and runny nose disorder' which simply causes these symptoms with no other reason, but it's far more likely that you just have a cold. For the purposes of treatment, it's convenient to call these issues, that are all treated together in the same way, ADHD. But there is no evidence that I'm aware of that shows this is anything other than a symptom of poor habits and upbringing, symptoms which could be permanently fixed through lifestyle changes.

Now, why do we think ADHD rates seem to correlate with lifelong access to the internet?
I tend to agree with that! The main thing I wish to convey is that this is not a slamdunk for either side. But there are issues of timing and pressures to make the wrong decision whether you support the union or independence. And a small flavour of that is what i was trying to convey.
A long time ago I moved from a big city to the country and the difference in noise was remarkable. In retrospect, I’d say noise level adjustment was actually the biggest pain point. I went from being fairly desensitized to constant noise to being hyper sensitive to something like a blade of grass being bent outside my bedroom (“WHAT THE FUCK WAS THAT?”), to finally acclimating to it. Nights were difficult. Any animal going through the yard sounded like a person to me and I couldn’t sleep. Now I can generally tell what’s outside by the sound it makes and it doesn’t bother me. I can’t stand being in densely populated areas anymore.
Governed areas for advertising where you choose to be advertised at.
My dad survived stage 4 cancer... a bowel obstruction is what took him out... you don't want your bowels completely stopped, otherwise very, very bad things happen. That's why it's dangerous.
You make a lot of claims without providing evidence.
After reading your comment, I now feel embarrassed as to why I haven't heard of this site.
The author of marktext will for sure welcome your PRs for all these features! As stated in the README, "Of course, if you submit a PR directly, it will be greatly appreciated."
Tax in the UK is absurd (for what most actually get out of it)
But ads in real life do not prevent me from going on about my day. There is no analogy to interstitial pages with ads like in Forbes some time ago with the button Continue to your article: it would be infuriating if you had to view an ad before being able to use the subway ticketing system. You also don’t have ads on at the airport timetable screen. You don’t have pinkertons following you to learn your habits and show you “relevant” ads. If you walk into a grocery store wearing sunglasses, the clerk will not stand in front of you and say “I am sorry, please remove your shades before continuing because ads support our store and you need to see them.”

But yes, unhealthy amount of advertising IRL should be limited as well.
Good point. More accurate for me to say we have never eradicated a coronavirus with a vaccine.

I suppose in the present case we could try to slaughter all of the potentially infected animals. Some humans would likely resist.
Some desserts/baking and traditional woks can’t be done on electric. That’s about it. Also electric are more expensive and less reliable for the same quality
Water radiators often have a pump attached to force the hot water to move more than with a gravity system. A couple years ago, the pump on our radiator boiler went out. Only half of my house ended up with heat without it.
I have this feeling that most of time I "search" for something I already know what I'm looking for, but google via firefox's omnibox, is just the fastest way to get there, even though it's a bit indirect. Are they getting paid for that, or am I costing them money in the short term, but they get to build up a profile on me to provide more effective ads later?

I wonder if it's possible to take advanage of that type of search by putting a facade in front of the "search engine" and based on the search term and the private local user history, then go direct to a known site, or if it seems a search is needed, go to a specific search engine. This may open up opportunities for say program language specific search engines, or error messages from a program specific search, or shopping for X sites.
Turns out, earning half a million dollars every year makes it easy to be a millionaire after a few years.
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In many cities in NL the plan is to completely replace gas with electric by 2050.
New buildings will not have a connection to the gas network, existing ones will have to be retrofitted. In some test neighborhoods, this is already happening.

I can imagine it will be the same more or less everywhere at some point, including NYC. Sure, there might be a setback and the law might change, but given the plan to reduce emissions it seems kinda inevitable (again, in the long run).
Are those TTS models downloadable ?
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Existential? As in humans go extinct? I’m going to have to ask for a source.
This looks interesting, and is actually the first of these kinds editors that I'll be trying in a very long time. I got kind of jaded with the Electron experience and always go back to nvim. Of course, the WYSIWYG experience isn't as nice in nvim, but that's not that high of a priority for me.

In regard to getting the word out, it depends on the kind of person you want to reach. If you really want to reach a "general" public, the sibling's comments sound useful, in particular binary availability.

In particular for Windows. I've clicked on the link, ended up on the GH workflows page, looked around quickly, didn't see where to grab the binary and went on my way being happy that I'm on Arch Linux and there's a package in the AUR.
Housing prices in the US in 1980 were almost 7x what they were in 1950. Where are you getting the idea that they were stagnant for those decades?
> Every flatmate we've had have ended up scratching the shit out of our non-sticks (even after educating them on how to use it...).

The rule is simple: those pans must never even be looked at by something metallic during use or cleaning. Wood or plastic are fine. I use wooden tools. Fingernails are not OK too.

Of course flatmates use to be quite anarchic and careless especially young ones.
This is my year-end side project.
I want to give a home exclusively for creators to find jobs without diving into the multitude of job postings out there.
First, I thought of building a full stack web app but later changed my mind to try what other successful founders are advising: building an MVP to validate the requirement.

And I felt a bit creative this evening, it clicked on my mind that why I shouldn't go with a Twitter handle.
Twitter got everything a job board needs. Domain, hosting, messaging service, instant update etc. It's seamless. And it's free.
So I simply launched it.
The job postings I expect to include here is content creators, copy writers, marketers, reel makers, videographers, designers, etc.

I am open to your feedback, suggestions and roasts :P
Do you buy deodorant?

If so, you already bought a better version of yourself.
This is why people don’t want to talk about money
I think good quality software is a relative term, and I'd rather have useful softwares. What happens in big company is when software age, fresh employees will say it is not a good software, then they will start from fresh code base, maybe discard some features, write some new bugs, the software would generally at the same level as the old ones. The same can happen in opensource community as well, someone could start a new ffmpeg.
I think i can beat that argument pretty easy, 5 freebsd hosts with each 100 running jails...it's cheaper, uptime is something to discuss, but the data is not on someone elses computer.

The real cost of cloud is that nearly anyone think it's impossible to setup a infra for yourself....loosing systemadmin as a role in companys probably the biggest loss.
I do think that going with a dedicated device is a better approach. Imo, the screen/hardware is only a small part of a quality VR headset. Those optics probably don't come cheap, so a 'brainless' VR headset probably won't cost that much less than the Quest. Add in the problems with non-uniform phone sizes, small phone batteries/throttling under load, and the fact that the devs can't target a single HW config in what is a very performance sensitive application, I don't think the bring-your-own-phone approach can compete.
no, because free markets are an illusion (information asymetry).

also the ppl payed to stay at home are mostly not working-class.
I wish I could. Kinda hard to block billboards or screens showing ads that you don't own.
if u set duckduckgo as your default search provider, you can use bang in the omibox.
also you can toogle between local-area or global search. https://duckduckgo.com/bang e.g. !yt !osm !gi
The slides for the presentation are available here: http://blu.org/meetings/1994/08/

The audio is provided by John "Maddog" Hall, one of the critically important early supporters of Linux, while working for Digital.
I’m not sure I understand. Is it really true that you can’t extract 4% cash money per year off of a million dollars, even in a down market, without shrinking the principal?

$100k should be enough to live comfortably off of in the Midwest.
So... luck then.
Wikipedia link basically says, that ARPANET's resistance to nuclear war is a false rumor.
It seems weird to blame it on Apple (which Tumblr has form for, historically) when #submission is blocked on iOS Tumblr but not, e.g., on iOS Instagram or iOS Twitteriffic.
Show HN: wrk-utils: run wrk in clusters and have stats
Mico Is a USB Microphone Based on a Pi Pico
On my phone I cannot read more than the first page. Something wrong with the site?
If we are comparing this to the article you'd need a starting salary of ~$128,000 in 2021 dollars to have a comparable salary of $100,000 in 2009 dollars, fwiw.
I cycle to work on an ebike. About 25 km each way. One of the major issues is the lack of proper infrastructure and awful attitude by drivers, in particular service drivers.

Advertisement company vans are a prime example. There are rolling advertisement posters in most bus stop shelters. These drivers will park up on the footpath blocking pedestrians and those using the bus to update the advertisements, often in the mornings during rush hour. They will park on the cycle lanes and force cyclists out into fast moving and unaccommodating aggressive traffic.

The same goes for delivery drivers. Legally they are permitted on double yellow ‘no parking’ lines on the street but the perception is no not hinder car traffic so they park up on the footpath instead.

During the pandemic there was a lot of temporary work on cycling infrastructure, mostly lazy efforts such as painted cycle lanes and plastic bollards. These drivers simply drive over the bollards or if wide enough down the protected lane. If you challenge them they are verbally abusive.

The attitude of all persons in a mechanically propelled vehicle is that this is not their fault. They are just doing their job. Their companies trot out the tired line that they take safety seriously bla bla bla…

So in regards physical advertisement is public space, for me this is a symptom of a wider problem of perceptions of ownership of our cities public space. We forget that cities are for people. We let cars dominate the majority of the available space. We let oversized vehicles make deliveries in medieval city streets. We use cars for short inappropriately short journeys such as for bringing our kids to school, often because it’s too dangerous to let them walk or cycle because there are too many cars.

We need to start treating our cities like parks with a focus people and figure out ways to remove ICE powered vehicles and limit the space all vehicles occupy.
"Sign up to synthesize speech".
This article highlights the contortions developers go through when trying to "sell" their open source product. The GPL family of open source licences let you charge for the distribution of the source code.

The oft-repeated suggestion of selling support for your open source product is probably the least attractive option to solo developers or small teams.

An alternative is the 'source only' option. It's not open source but it gives your customers the ability to adapt the source code to their circumstances.

If you are creating a B2B product (i.e. selling to profit-making businesses), the 'source only' option let's you do the one thing GPL licences forbid: charge for the source code.

For some open source advocates the term 'source only' is a dirty word. It's up to you to decide whether it suits your product.

I posted an 'Ask HN' question on this topic the other day:

Ask HN: What are you thoughts on 'source only' software products?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29676321
We have a lot of data we don't understand and we train a model to represent that data. The model represents the data very well, but we don't understand the model. So now we have a lot of data we don't understand and a model we don't understand. What new knowledge have we acquired?

The OP is right to complain that there is no scientific knowledge gained by the mere act of modelling a poorly understood process, when the modelling is performed automatically and its results are also poorly understood. The goal of science is to gain knowledge of the processes in nature, not merely to predict their results. That's how science has advanced in the last few thousands of years and it's startling to see Nature and Science standing behind such a different idea of "science".