skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Photopea.com has an option to pay for an ad-free experience, and one in 2000 users is paying for it.

I make around $.01 (one USD cent) for an hour of using Photopea with ads. If someone was willing to pay me two cents for an hour of using Photopea (with no ads), I would gladly accept it.
> woodruffw - ...all of which appear to be benign diplomatic cables or press releases. Can you state more explicitly what you're trying to imply?

Not implying anything? Can you explain why you think that? Do you think that about every fact that you are presented?
If you wait until then, it may become too late to mitigate. Unless you have a plan to remain in complete control of who contributes.
As a software engineer with two kids and a wife with a more stressful job than mine, I have no hobbies anymore. I don't even work crazy hours.
I've looked into moving to Japan. My family has a house in Setagaya, which had severely distorted what I thought Tokyo living to be. It turns out, a typical one bedroom apartment is like 20 sq meters.

Separate from that, I don't believe zoning has anything to do with housing shortages. Housing has "induced demand" similar to traffic. You can look at heavy traffic over a bridge and think, "if only we had another bridge, that would alleviate the traffic." But it turns out, when you do that, more people end up using both bridges and traffic becomes as bad as it was before. Housing is similar. If you build more houses, even more people want them. Look at places like NYC, which has extremely dense housing. It's still expensive.
It's not that kids cost a lot (though they might). I think it's because kids take a lot of time and energy.
Sure, but thinking privilege is equatable to guilt is missing the point.
I think the UK managed to strike the worst possible compromise between the Europeans and the Americans. The NHS provides some basic service, but if you want a French or Italian style healthcare, you’ll end up spending thousands of pounds per year, assuming you are relatively healthy. Childcare is nonexistent, nurseries cost in the order of 1500£ per month per child. State schools are so bad that it’s normal to send your child to a private school. Unemployment benefits are offensive.

All this while everybody with a professional job faces a 40% marginal tax rate (plus NI).
ffmpeg/libav is being fuzzed with reasonable success. See for example https://github.com/google/oss-fuzz/tree/master/projects/ffmp... and https://security.googleblog.com/2014/01/ffmpeg-and-thousand-....

They found issues in code I wrote...

(I work for Google but do not speak for it)
ACH fraud isn't news because the ACH network allows clawbacks.
> almost no ethnical divisions

Give a man a neighbour and he would find a reason to hate him. [0]

> Like the breakup of Yugoslavia

Except even more fighting for the resources and for sure it would spill out to the neighbouring countries too.
Though it would be a nice thought exercise to determine if Kaliningrad would become Königsberg.

[0] The genie offers a wish but says that whatever the peasant gets his neighbor will get doubled. The peasant thinks for a bit and then says “Make me blind in one eye”.

AFAIK there is a variant of that joke in many cultures.
Forget about books, podcasts, videos, etc. If you are joining a company where they are putting you in a client facing role, you will learn by doing, watching your colleagues, and making mistakes.

I've worked in different client facing role at Software companies for over a decade. There's a huge spectrum of people on both sides who succeed in client facing roles. Introverts, Extroverts, talkers, quiet people, people who lie about everything, people who can't keep their mouth shut and always say what they perceive is the truth, people who are easy-going and friendly, people who seem to have no ability to talk about anything apart from work and tech topics, etc. There's a lot of variance from company to company as well.

IME any "educational" material will paint an overly narrow view of the type of personality who can have successful client interactions. It may only further derail your confidence about being successful in this regarfds.

If you do get a client facing job, watch and learn from your peers. Make mistakes and learn from them. It'll take time to be comfortable, maybe a year or more. Eventually you'll be fine.
> In essence, ecosystem failure due to a non-existent overlap of the telecom industry (full of commercial and expensive solutions) and the Internet community (working in a standards committee that tracks pre-existing permissionless innovation distributing the standards at no cost, strongly affiliated with free software ideas) caused ASN.1 to fall by the roadside.

Yep. I think this is the crux of the matter.

I don't even think it is an "uncool" thing. In a word, IMHO it's too "closed". Xml is not exactly hip, but I can find high scoring python xml libraries on snyk.io. I know that is not a very scientific metric but it's a good proxy for a bunch of things that are hard to measure.

I think even if it were "cool", it would be a struggle to get a culture to nucleate. It has the same vibe as codecs: complex, kinda arcane, too closely associated with closed source, litigious, corporate culture. It doesn't help that it is guilty by association with numerous poorly written libraries. Unless that is what you mean by "uncool".

Now that there is cbor, msgpack, cap'n proto, protobuf, thrift, and a bunch others (just in the binary space), asn.1 would have to make a really compelling argument to win out. It would need a lot more than coolness.
Ski Run
The problem I have with wearing a mask, is that it is very psychologically disturbing. I don't know how else to describe it. It is a big enough problem for me that I would not describe it as a preference. Maybe it's claustrophobia, or something to do with the touch. I hate to describe it as some kind of autism, because they said they don't like that in the other article's thread, but it feels like it.

I got vaccinated and boosted, but had I known it would have become such a political virtue signalling game, I might have opted out.
Not to disagree with you -- of course I agree with you -- but in your scenario a MacDo burger now costs $20.
I'm surprised by the tourism angle.

Can you say more about that? Are these tourists who fell on hard times and had to work to raise some money?

Or is it workers who exploit tourist visas just to get entry and take these jobs... In which case, why call them tourists?
Instead of Pi it could have been a dozen different IC, but interesting part in this kind of project is audio theory, and MEMS microphone performance.

MEMS microphone used here is mp23db01hp

https://www.st.com/en/mems-and-sensors/mp23db01hp.html

and it looks like better than ICS 43434 that I stumbled on before

https://invensense.tdk.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/DS-000...

For theory about how microphone works and performs interesting read is

https://www.analog.com/en/analog-dialogue/articles/understan...
> Broad money supply and price inflation are rather correlated.

No they aren't. Consumer prices (inflation is the ratio of the first derivative of this to itself) and broad money supply might be, though charting them against each other that doesn't look particularly true beyond “both tend to increase over time”.
How much does a McDonalds burger cost right now in the places with the best worker protections and pay?
QoS classes are only used "to make decisions about scheduling and evicting Pods." It still uses the Completely Fair Scheduler, which is where the problem came from (as far as I understand).
“ Americans paying 100% of their kids college is kinda”. As a non immigrant it’s weird to me too.

There are a class of parents who obsess about “the best”. Best schools, best tutors, best nutrition, best ‘experiences’, best neighborhood. It’s a hedonistic treadmill in the making.
That is a good point, I haven’t been following film industry closely at all for the last 5 years but

> Adobe’s $1bn acquisition of Frame.io took many in the industry by surprise [1]

I am surprised. Perhaps this is a case of me not talking to enough people, or maybe people really don’t know what they want until you show it to them.

[1] https://www.ibc.org/trends/what-frameios-1bn-sale-says-about...
OTOH, ACH lets you actually pay for goods or services received, right?

I never hear of people paying invoices with Bitcoin.
I just now realised that "panels" was solar panels, not the ovens (we call them "panel ovens" in my language). My fault!
Pretty sure it's not $20 dollars adjusted for inflation and exchange rates. Who would by them? May $5?
> there are almost no instances of CPI increase leading inflation

CPI increase defines inflation, I think you mean monetary expansion, not inflation.
I completely agree. KUTrace would have been ideal for this and indeed KUTrace was developed to diagnose this exact problem.
This one even prouds itself of being "fast".
I don't see what's pedantic about it.

Do you believe someone who were to try to take the same path as you could have the same financial outcome today?

How would it change if they couldn't get to the USA?
Fuck that indeed. Very strong message here, and I love it. I wish I could take all those ads and shove them into their asses. But what is being suggested here? What's mine to take? If I see an ad, can I reuse the artwork? No. If I see a car, I can't just copy it's design. Can I just paint over it, or rip it apart? No, that would be vandalism. As much as I hate ads, THEY have re-arranged the world by paying for it in a free market, and we must respect that. Soviet Union had very little ads. So, yes, we must ask permission until we figure out a better way.
Ugur Sahin and Ozlem Tureci on the Future of mRNA Therapies
I listed 5 reasons why we do that here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27132402. In this case I think it was a combination of (2) it was a step into more generic discussion and (5) the thread was top-heavy and we were trying to prune it.
This argument, most of the time, is just bad and not smart. "If you hate capitalism, why do you use iPads? etc." It's dreck and it should stop because it's rarely constructive.

Sometimes it's a necessary tool. Sometimes people are experimenting. Sometimes people do actually sell out.

The problem with this argument is that it tries to shut down the above questions.

Details matter, and bad arguments like the above rarely help.
Carbon Copy Testing
> Treating the vast majority of people as wage slaves seems particularly American.

The vast majority of people (75%?). Fascinating claim. I bet you can't support it.

Americans earn higher wages at the median than: Canadians, Germans, Swedes, French, British, Spanish, Italians, Russians, Japanese, Chinese, South Koreans, and so on.

Americans are also richer at the median than either the Germans or the Swedes (which should be impossible if you buy in to the propaganda). And that's despite the massive demographic shift at the median in the US over the past 40 years (comparing demographics to demographics, Americans are far richer than either of those two nations).

So, why are Germany's workers so poor? Why are Sweden's workers so poor? Why have incomes stagnated so horribly over 20 years across most of Europe (as with their economic growth which has been mostly net flat since ~2007)? Treating people as wage slaves must be a particularly European thing.
How would web3 and "tokenomics" solve search? If the underlying problem is that spamdexers are given a profit incentive to game search engine results with low effort and low quality content, does it make a difference whether the profit incentive is via pages generating advertising revenue or pages generating cryptocurrency revenue?
> I think Google made a huge mistake discontinuing <insert great products here>.

Google collectively as a company suffers from some kind of mental illness whereby if 20% of the world's population doesn't immediately love their product, it's considered a massive failure and abandoned in short order, instead of lovingly worked on until improved enough to be truly popular.
Lickable TV screen that can imitate food flavours
She's not an economist. She's an engineer who taught herself economics. You can tell because she gets a lot of things wrong.
I'll be interested in the one month update post.
> There is no such thing as labor shortage.

I'll be sure to tell my history professor. He'll be interested to know that all those textbooks he wrote about Europe immediately after the bubonic plague were wrong.
ACH fraud is more trackable than Bitcoin fraud and in many cases you can get the money back. For example, the most recent time I ran into an ACH scam I was able to identify the bank + individual that owned the target account.
Absolute majority through RSUs, which is why I’m objecting the GP’s claims. The vested stock I’ve reinvested through an ISK in a somewhat broader portfolio over time.
That is what you should document on your privacy page, exactly.
> If you’re still a student or open to attending grad school, do everything you can to gain admission into a top-5 Master’s program

I think you are over-estimating the impact of a "top 5" master's program vs an average master's program. I had a very similar trajectory to you and went to an average master's program.

The major difference between you and me is that I never wanted to work for a Google, Amazon, or Hedge Fund and wanted to work at smaller companies. Salary suffered because of my reluctance to even compete for those jobs.

> The biggest boost in my career earnings came when I transitioned from a Computer Hardware engineer to a Software Engineer

I also disagree with this. The biggest boost in your career earnings came from working at (1) financial companies and (2) working at FAANG. I don't think you have enough data to say that your area of focus is what to lead to this, and I personally think it is wrong. Maybe it opened doors for you however
Don't forget mass death - the pandemic has claimed millions of lives. That's going to deplete the workforce no matter what. Of course, most of the 'labor shortage' complaints are from people who pay bad wages and don't offer benefits, and most of that 'shortage' is from people who quit, not people who died.
Changing career tracks like that is so hard. You almost need to hide your experience in interviews. I’ve had so many interviews get derailed because the interviewer finds out that I’m looking to switch away from a field I don’t enjoy and realizes that they have another opening there they’d rather fill.
People routinely jump to conclusions like this from the small number of data points they happen to see. Specifically, when they see something they dislike, they place a far greater weight on it, and are more likely to notice it in the first place [1]. This leads to false feelings of generality [2] and basically guarantees that everyone with passionate feelings (i.e. strong dislikes) feels like the mods are against them [3]. This is all false—it's powered by cognitive bias, which is why users with opposite passions notice opposite things and feel like the mods are against them.

Consistency is a red herring, not because we secretly side with one view, but because it's impossible. We can't moderate what we don't see, and we don't come close to seeing everything that gets posted here. If you see a post that ought to have been moderated but hasn't been, the likeliest explanation is that we didn't see it [4]. You can help by flagging it or emailing us at hn@ycombinator.com.

[1] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

[2] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

[3] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...

[4] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...
All of these don't seem that out the ordinary
I think that most people don't recognize the harm that these memes can cause. Most don't see them consciously at all. I realized at some point that I am what I label a "compulsive reader". When I see a sign, it intrudes into my perception and I have to read it. Many people don't even consciously see these words/signs. It is important to realize that not all brains work the same when weighing the costs of allowing theses intrusions.
This is a question for any El Salvadorans browsing HN: are the funds stored in Chivo subject to the same financial rules and regulations as the rest of the El Salvadoran banking/financial sector?

I'm asking regardless of practical enforcement of those regulations, because I want to understand the risk model here as people actually using the app perceive it. Are the people regularly using it under the impression that the government will help claw back or recover lost or stolen funds, or is there widespread understanding that it's irreversible?
I listed the widget I made on Tindie and then promptly forgot about it for a few months. But when I got some initial purchase orders, I started paying attention again. When I got a repeat order from a customer, it had my complete attention. I called that customer, we talked about exactly what problem it was solving for them, and I learned a lot. However, it still took me another two to three years before I stopped everything else I was working on to focus on the widget full time. But now that widget has been my main focus (and source of income) for the past seven years.

Edit: One thing that helps is if your widget is a good-enough replacement or alternative for something that people are already buying for 10x the price of your widget. Even if your widget kinda sucks (it will! it does!), people will be so happy that they're saving 10x of their $$$ that they won't mind your widget's flaws... and they'll enthusiastically tell you which flaws matter and which ones don't, so you know how to improve it in the future.

tl;dr: 1) Pick a widget category where you can make a thing 10x cheaper than the competition. 2) Get a customer. 3) Talk to them. 4) Take notes.
Yes. But not everyone thinks like this.
Just place all Electron apps where they deserve to be and run them from the browser directly.

The only one I cannot do it is VSCode.
When you say “exploit”, keep in mind there are two parties in a work/employer relationship. Both are exploiting, and often the regulator is perfectly okay with that.
A single person doesn’t need a GbR but can act as a single person. You just need to register for taxes and possibly with the Gewerbeamt.
I miss the days when user names like Vermithrax Perjorative were completely normal.
> Homebrew has been around for a long time.

Since 2009. There is no package manager younger. But it sure has a lot of hype.

> I've never seen a better alternative for macOS

Because you've never looked. Every other package manager available on macOS is better than Homebrew. pkgsrc. Nix. Fink. All of them are better. Homebrew is dead last in features and stability. After using Homebrew for only a short time, you'll have a mess on your file system. Good luck cleaning it up.

MacPorts will install pre-built binaries with the -b option, if you want. But building from source is superior. It's called rolling your own, because what you build is yours and yours alone, and it is more secure, allowing review of the code, has the advantage of customizing with specific variants and deeper customizations, and allows installing the most recent version of the code. With binary installs, your're stuck with whatever you get. Also, MacPorts is more compatible, will install and build from Tiger on up, anc works for all users on the system with sudo access. Homebrew abandons older systems rapidly, and only works for one user. But the most obnoxious thing about Homebrew is what it does to /usr/local, which is to say it fubars the directory and everything that lives there.
Digitimes: It will be difficult for Intel and Samsung to overtake TSMC
Staying at home in a top city, building relationships in my community, and becoming a cold expert at my craft.
Horrible horrible software, we’ve been struggling with it for years… and yet, without viable alternatives.
Good point, I did not think about the fact that the effeciency went down. But it seems to me (as a noob) that modern heat pumps specialising in low temperature conditions still can get around 2.5 at -25°, which gives you more than 10kWh of heating at 5kW, which is quite a lot.
I disagree with a lot of this. However, I do value your comments and I'm glad you wrote them. This is just another perspective.

> - It's a relationship like any other, and you earn each other trust through your interactions over time. So you need to be extremely reliable and responsive if you want to be perceived as trust worthy;

Trust does develop over time. But it's not something to worry about. It's something that happens naturally. Being reasonably reliable is important but set reasonable expectations.

> - If something bad happened, be transparent and the sooner you say it the better. It's extremely uncomfortable, and you'll try to delay it because you don't want to say shit happened, even if it wasn't your fault.

It shouldn't be uncomfortable to be honest with people about what's happening. If you are uncomfortable then there's likely a power imbalance. You don't have enough clients so you are worried about making one client unhappy.

> - Never bring up a problem without a solution, or a potential solution, or a recommendation for a solution. No one wants problems, we all have plenty of those. Even if it's something out of your control, you should always spin a solution for it.

I think the real issue here is that clients want people who are able to exude the confidence that they can solve problems. I see no problem outlining a bunch of problems that need to be solved to a client.

> - Always reply, never leave someone hanging;

Agreed. But I read a sense of urgency here. No need to reply immediately.

The missing piece here is that your skills are in such high demand that you don't need to act like a servant to your clients. If there is mutual respect you will get paid a lot more. Since you are new to this it will take time for you to appreciate this.
Yes, and doesn't makes sense, I don't know, I run my own email server for more than 10 years and my experience has been "setup and forget".

I don't understand why so much frustration coming against owning your own stuff.
Transport for London (9000 buses, 985 trains, trams, hire bicycles, taxi administration, disabled people transport, some trains, some major roads in London, 755km of railway track) have a budget of £9.7 billion, of which £5.1 billion is from passengers (tickets etc), and £0.16 billion from advertising.

That is lower than I thought it would be, and lower than one would expect given the space TfL dedicate to advertising in their budget report.

I would pay 3% more on travel tickets to not have any advertising.

https://content.tfl.gov.uk/tfl-budget-2020-21.pdf (this is pre-Covid.)
Presumably it would show as such in the app?
A street is as much a mean to an end as a laptop. I use streets to get from point A to point B, much like you use your laptop to arrive from state A to state B. I never have an intention to see ads when I go outside. Sometimes I use streets for fun, to stroll without aim, but never I go outside to "see some ads," much like you likely never open your laptop with an intention to see an ad.
that compute is much larger then startups i worked for that make millions of dollars/50+ M unique users per month. so obviously not "corporate" sized but definitely not small

Looking at the GKE price calc - N2 machines (which i have no idea if they are cheapest per vcpu/mem) * 7 will give you 896 vcpu and 3584 GB ram. that will cost you 21K per month for a zonal cluster

we can do napkin calculations but that won't help you. if you want to get your bill down you just need to open the billing reports and start slicing data by usage

Edit - i really hope i am not coming off as condescending or anything. I used to work in a startup related to cloud cost optimization and currently as a devops in a cloud env so i know how these costs can get out of hand.
When someone is mugged and has $100 cash stolen, you don't disparage the idea of holding cash.