skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m personally of an opinion that’s a good thing — that means progress and a more robust civilization.

I don’t think there’s a limitation on places that are relatively silent. In other words, you can get a relatively silent world even 30 min for nearly every place on this map.

That said, I support forest preserves and places like the boundary waters

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boundary_Waters

Where they intentionally create preserves with no motors or human civilization.

I’ll also mention the decline in bird populations also startled me. For much of my life I went to the woods and heard so many birds. Even in the past few years I’ve notified the rapid decline.

That said, I always try to put it in perspective. 100% of the trees, grass, birds, bugs, etc in North America only came around the last 10,000 - 20,000 years. I’m not sure what is causing no the bird decline (I suspect it’s pesticides, with the protective agencies not regulating effectively or invasive species such as cats). I’m sure natural will adapt to fill the niche, but it’s definitely different.
*shameless plug*

> A possible way to make things interesting is to teach the material as a story with fiction characters and a bit of drama.

I am wrapping up the final touches on my latest book, Head First Git[1][2] and I will admit that it wasn't till I was midway through the book when it _really_ dawned on me on how important this is. Some of you might be familiar with the Head First series (if you are not, Head First Design Patterns [3] is a great place to start). It uses a very conversational tone, filled with characters, and lighthearted stories to explain technical issues. Lots of drama, visuals and exercises to help cement ideas.

I took on the project because I feel like I am intimately familiar with Git. Despite that, this book is one of the hardest things I've ever done, mostly because every chapter needs a narrative, with fictional characters, conversations, and problems they are aiming to solve, all while keeping a technical topic in scope.

I know that writing this book has certainly influenced how I might teach or speak on a topic in the future, but the OP is absolutely right—engaging the reader by making the stories about "people" certainly makes the book more interesting and easier to digest.

On the flip-side, it makes the book less _dense_.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Head-First-Git-Learners-Understanding...

[2] https://learning.oreilly.com/library/view/head-first-git/978...

[3] https://www.amazon.com/Head-First-Design-Patterns-Object-Ori...

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Not going to lie, but Americans paying 100% of their kids college is kinda weird as an immigrant.

My kid can take out loans and sure I’ll help, but hell no I’m not bank rolling multiple kids at full private school tuition.

At least where I grew up a solid public school college was not an impediment to a good career.

I’ve notice Americans tend to hyper-optimize - I love it when parents tell me they bought in Palo Alto because the public school was rated a 9.3/10 versus San Mateo at 9.1/10.
It really depends on what you want to scaffold, but I took a minimal approach and use:

https://github.com/boourns/scaffold - generates a SQL select/insert/update layer, currently specifically for SQLite.

https://github.com/boourns/go-gql-typescript-example - an example project using scaffold for the model layer, https://gqlgen.com to generate the graphql layer, and typescript.

This is my currently preferred stack. Currently in my second year of working on a 25k LOC project in this stack and it has scaled up to meet those demands.
TeXmacs is vastly superior to LyX, but, more importantly, it is a completely different thing, with a completely different concept.
The following is my opinion, which I cannot motivate in a detailed and well-funded way, based on experience of a few years of TeXmacs use and more of LaTeX/LyX: given the difference between the two programs (TeXmacs is not based upon TeX!) LyX does not have the potential to reach the quality of TeXmacs.
Mid 30s, a couple corporate experiences (non sw) and the rest “freelance”. Usually raises suspicion (lack of continuity) or gets discounted as not meaningful/relevant. Do entry levels consider anyone other than new-grads? Haven’t gotten a reply from any in the past.
Yes.
In 1987 two Danish "tourist" were caught photographing military installations in Poland:
https://apnews.com/article/d61c5f558248baf68d0de6377e09c4f1

That was also a stupid plan
Simple, you usually don't need that. Most devs now a days don't know how to build efficient websites. That's why they need a tech Stack like the Mount Everest and create a dependency hell. It was possible to serve more then 250k unique users per day from a single VM more than 10y ago on shitty hardware. You can deliver so much more on modern tech if you stick to KISS principle.

But yes, some rare sites do need to scale above >1M unique users, that's where the trouble begins. You can start by benchmarking everything you build. Think of every line of code and optimize it, or you just build your stack in smaller pieces and scale out using modern tech Stack. The question is, what do you want to learn. The first way would learn you how to build efficient software, the second one would teach you how to waste lots of resources but be new, modern and a hipster. And in addition, now a days employees are so expensive, that a company don't care about Cloud costs if this makes dev faster.
This is a really important aspect. B2B apps start out as semi consultant firms relatively often as it’s somewhat easier to simply promise you’ll solve a problem for a company for a certain amount of money than convince them that a new app will solve their problems.
The US federal government hasn't been paying people to stay home for a while and some of the more US conservative states stopped the extra payments before the feds did but those states are having trouble filling jobs too.
> media conglomerates realized hey, why not get money out of both subscriptions and ads?

This is exactly the reason why I advocate against YT Premium. You're still providing data to Google (and you need to provide real data otherwise the payment may fail) who has proven their bad faith several times with dark patterns and their non-GDPR-compliant "consent" flow.
Hi Neighbor! I'm also in Southern Vermont (Readsboro), also heat primarily with a wood, also have fuel oil backup, and also recently replaced my resistance water heater with a heat pump. I don't know if you need to envy the flame for cooking, though. We've got a fairly weak propane range top, and while the largest burner works OK, I'm thinking of upgrading to induction at some point.
Assuming the rationality of economic actors goes wrong primarily because economists don’t know what “rationality” is and come up with weird accounts for what “rational” behavior would be under given circumstances. They aren’t talking about “rational” behavior in the sense laymen use the term.

The “invisible hand” is also something that actually does exist and is straightforward to explain. It’s the tendency individuals making decisions in their own self-interest to find others with compatible self-interest as the motivation to make a trade. Every mutually self-interested transaction adds up to a total gain for the overall economy because each side makes the trade precisely because they judge the other’s offer to be of higher value to them. The key to demystifying the observation is the insight that “value” is a judgement made by individuals in relation to their own lives, not some inherent property that can be determined apart from individuals value judgements.
For a 2019 purchase there is no way that’s more than a studio maybe maybe a tiny 1 bed, if I want to buy where I rent now (W2) I’m looking at 1M+ for any two bed that isn’t a 50sq/m lower ground closet, the non council is a given I don’t think there are any council properties in Soho…

The 2 bed flat I’m renting got recently evaluated at 1.7M it’s very nice and very large (for London)but the lease remaining on it is 68 years and the Victorian building it sits in would need a lot of work very very soon so the buyers are looking at 350-400K bill within a few years of buying the flat (leasehold renewal and building repairs) on top of that which also is why the current landlord is looking to sell.

As it stands now if you want to buy a property for £600K you are looking at £60K deposit, £20K stamp duty and probably another £20K for misc costs.

£600K is a below what an average new build in a Zone 3 would cost you these days outside of the few units they reserve for HTB. If you can save £3K a month you’re looking at 3 years of saving. Since most people / couples would struggle to save even £1K a month especially in their early careers they are probably looking at a decade of saving for a property or even more if the house prices keep on rising as fast as they are now.
I think crawling and indexing should be treated differently.
Indexing is about extracting value from the data, while crawling is about gathering data.

Once a reference snapshot has been crawled, the indexing task is more easily verifiable.

The crawling task is harder to verify, because external website could lie to the crawler. So the sensible thing to do is have multiple people crawl the same site and compare their results. Every crawler will publish its snapshots (which may contain some errors or not), and then that's the job of the indexer to combine multiple snapshots of various crawler and filter the errors out and do the de-duplication.

The crawling task is less necessary now than it was a few years ago, because there is already plenty of available data. Also most of the valuable data is locked in walled garden, and companies like Cloudflare make the crawling difficult for the rest of the fat tail. So it's better to only have data submitted to you, and outsource the crawling.
You’ll also need some kind of SEO to drive traffic to the page.

And if your project is in a niche area, then it probably not help at all.

I setup a landing page and in the last 6 months I’ve had less that 100 visits and no interactions with any of the call to actions; even with paid advertisements on linked in and google.
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A lot of doubters in this thread, but the linked interview [1] answers most of the questions. Wikipedia corroborate the story with links to New York Time [2]

- USSR had opened up for tourists in cars as long as they stayed on designated highways (not unsimilar to North Korea and their guided tours)

- Makinen had already visited the USSR before being contacted by the CIA

I don't think it is unreasonable to believe a young man would greatly underestimate a risk and do something crazy just because he is patriotic. I do think it is absolutely irresponsible of the CIA to recruit young people like this, and someone in the CIA ought to go to prison for it.

I also think the file on Makinen is absolutely lovely, and I wish the article would link to a full copy of the file.

[1] https://cen.acs.org/articles/91/i7/Chemistry-Spy-Story.html

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvin_Makinen
This is a whataboutism apologia, which is cool. But the English mainly "lucked" out by settling into pre-agriculture (or post-agriculture) places with very small number of natives. Where there are many, like in Canada, New Zealand and even CONUS, the English (and most protestant colonizers) were much more willing to live and let live compared to Catholics.

But the Conquistadors were just the first anyway, all the later colonizers were able to learn from them. So is all cool.
> The tax payer will find paying for these shots took a lot of money and still have to try and pay back the governmental loans which helped businesses and individuals through this.

The tax payer will not find. The lobby is alive and well and the politicians are more than happy to have a second income or a warm place to retire.
Bangalore did this for the last 2 years, albeit for a different reason. BBMP (the civic body) took down thousands of billboards and hoardings over weeks, and while there were violations, Bangalore was (for the last 2 years or so) a city with adblock.

Unfortunately, the ban was struck down by the court this year in August, so we're going back.

For what it's worth, the ban was called out as great by various citizen activist groups[0], even if the reason it happened was quite political.

A few links:

- https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-natio...

- https://www.myhoardings.com/blog/ban-on-bangalore-hoardings-...

[0]: https://bengaluru.citizenmatters.in/bbmp-bangalore-illegal-h...
When everyone does it, you are just getting a market built on nothing that will fall even harder when times get tough. The CEO regularly cashes out their stock and the public and pensions get left holding the bag of empty pumped stock. This will happen repeatedly in the next decade.
A phrase I've come to appreciate:

> Prescribe not to malice that which may well be a buggy edge case.
> If you don’t believe that try using mitmproxy or fiddler.

But those will give a TLS error unless the endpoint is already pwned.
HN is part of a Silicon Valley venture capital incubator. It exists to be capitalism fetish porn.
Not sure why people are downvoting, you are right. From TFA:

> Wireless in-ear headphones [...] are still relatively large and many of their components drain the battery quickly, restricting internet connectivity, payment functions and other smart features.

One can venture to guess this is a poor translation where original authors were hinting at all-digital signal path system, something that together with encryption is already available as DRM for video (HDCP), but not for audio yet.
What do you hope to get out of listing it?

If you hope to get customers - You're thinking about it wrong. First, the typical buyer doesn't trawl a "SaaS Apps" list site looking for services they need. Second, even when you list on a site like Product Hunt, the chances are low that any given visitor that sees your site the day it's promoted also needs your service. Instead, think about what search terms someone might use on Google when they have (or are about to have) the problem your SaaS app solves. Try and write the best answer on the web for those searches.

If you hope to get feedback - Again, probably thinking about it wrong. I'd try finding people who A.) You don't know and B.) Are uniquely qualified to give feedback on your service, and get in touch with them, try and offer something of value to them in exchange for feedback.
I agree with the general sentiment in this article. Price as a mechanism to coordinate supply and demand is underappreciated by the general public. You can use it to control the level company-internal resources are used so it stays within reasonable bounds and doesn't grow a huge backlog.

You can even use a price to make distributed, globally optimal decisions on product decision. If e.g. time to market is a scarce resource in your project, you can tell everyone that if they can reduce time to market without costing the project budget more than $x/week saved, they need no permission to adjust the requirements -- they should just go ahead and do it. (Boeing used this except for a weight problem with one of their models.)

I have but one quibble: the first point starts out true but then does a correlation-is-causation error right after that.

> 1) Broad money supply and price inflation are rather correlated.

> The most precise way to phrase it is that rapid money supply growth is necessary but not sufficient to cause widespread price inflation.

The alternative perspective here is that obviously money supply and inflation is correlated, but for exactly the opposite reason: when prices go up without real values changing, people are still going to need the same real stuff, so banks and governments will print more money so people can afford the things they need.

In other words, money supply could be a symptom of inflation as much as a cause.
Get rid of capitalism. Problem solved.
Together with my girlfriend I’m planning a trip.
Driving from the Netherlands to South Africa and back with an EV.
We want to charge the car with solar panels we bring with us.
See our website for more details: www.4x4electric.com

Challenge for now: how to charge the car with ~60m2 of flexible solar panels.
We need a threephase offgrid solar system, but did not find a suitable solution yet.

Any ideas?
Data science, before that was finance.
Bogleheads forums or whitecoatinvestor. Even just 401k, HSA, 529, and megabackdoor roth should help bring down effective tax rate (for the $500k income being discussed).

You will not get as low as someone with their own business or S corp, but the tax advantaged savings account should help.
I think you are right except for calling it a fallacy. It's a choice that most people don't take.
You are right, I should be more precise.

If you earn more than $523,600 and are single, then your tax rate is not 50% but 37%, which is still meaningful amount that is often not considered when looking at those big numbers.
https://www.manafld.com/blog/2021/2/26/rsus-no-sell-tax

If you are in California, then your employer will not give you all your RSU but sell 40% and give you 60%. So you don’t have a big scary surprise when it’s tax season. https://blog.myrawealth.com/insights/rsu-tax-rate
All grid-tied solar panels (i.e. what you get when you install solar panels at your home) will do that automatically. Don't don't have to do anything.

Solar will be consumed in priority. If there's too much it will be sold and if there's some missing il will be automatically (by the laws of physics) imported from the grid.
IR35 hasn't really affected that path, you can find contracts that are outside of the legislation and as long as your working practices are also outside you're fine, there are also insurances now for these things.
First of all, I looked at your recent account history and it seems fine, so I've unbanned you. I'm sorry you stayed banned for such a long time, even while posting comments that were within the site guidelines (well, mostly within the site guidelines). We always unban such accounts when we see them, but we don't always see them. Sometimes users email hn@ycombinator.com to let us know about a username in this category, and we always look and are happy to unban if the account no longer shows signs of posting abusively.

> Pretty surprising and sad that you would ban me for a comment like that. Reading it back three years later I’m not wildly proud about it but I don’t think it’s ban worthy.

It's clear from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16118062 that I didn't ban you for just one comment. It says: "We've banned this account for repeatedly violating the HN guidelines with uncivil personal attacks and by using the site primarily for ideological battle. Those things are not allowed here, regardless of your politics, how right you are, or how right you feel you are." That's obviously about an overall pattern of behavior, no?

> A ban mechanism that eventuates in the banned user logging on and participating for 3 years before realizing no one can see their comments is a shadow ban! If you wanted it to be clear there should be some messaging besides a comment reply.

Definitional arguments aside, yes—you're making a fair point. It's on our list to fix this, perhaps with a probation system that tells people they're banned for a time period (at least at first) and then unbans them. Most people respond well to feedback, so it's possible this will help in other ways too. However, don't underestimate how much damage is caused by accounts that wilfully abuse the site and take advantage of such systems—it's hard to design something that's both fair to the majority and not so vulnerable to abuse.
The First U.S. Human-Operated Submersible Changed the Course of Oceanography
I looked into this claim a while ago, and actual research on the subject is equivocal at best. Most often, drivers don't even notice the sound on an already-noisy road or highway, through deliberately sound-dampening windows, over music and conversation, etc. Even if they notice, they don't necessarily know where it's coming from. Even if they know where it's coming from, it doesn't necessarily influence their actions. Some people who say "loud pipes save lives" are just fooling themselves. More often, people who say it know it's not likely to be true, but they say it anyway to put a veneer of respectability over the fact that they like the sound and don't care if it's annoying to others.
Hate to be "that guy," but learning PHP is a not-so-bad way of getting into the system architecture field.

I know that "PHP" is a dirty word, hereabouts, but I submit Exhibit A, the "fishtank graph": https://w3techs.com/technologies/history_overview/programmin...

There are some really big, well-written (and badly-written) systems out there, in PHP, and it's a great place to learn about some of the baseline technologies that any aggregate Internet system will use.

But I have never liked the language, myself, despite having developed some fair proficiency in it. These days, I like doing really nice frontend work, in native Swift. PHP is what I use to create backends. It works fine.
Where are these gas stations without them? They are everywhere!
> Yes, exactly. There are so many to choose from. ;)

Just use a good PRNG to pick one of them :D
So just doing some cursory research - and I admit, I'm not Swedish - 67% seems to be on the high side as far as EMTR estimates go. So I think you'd need to make a pretty hefty amount of money in Sweden to pay that much. Wikipedia, for instance, claims that the EMTR for an income of over 675 000 SEK is only 60%; Glassdoor tells me the average software engineer in Stockholm makes ~500 000 SEK (though Glassdoor estimates can be questionable).

I bring this up because I don't think taxation has much to do with this. In NYC I was paying around 50% of my income towards taxes (federal, state, and local); when you factor in what I was paying towards things that the Swedish social system provides, I'm sure it amounted to very close to 60% (maybe even more!). But NYC is full of plenty of engineers or similarly well-paid professionals who've achieved financial independence. And, well, at least per Glassdoor (caveat emptor), the average software engineer gets paid literally twice as much in NYC than in Stockholm. IMO that probably has more to do with it.
IMHO: CBOR is a worse encoding than msgpack, despite being a copy-paste clone of msgpack: Indefinite lengths, weird fp formats (decimal floats?), iirc CBOR also "improved" msgpack's int encoding by making it annoying to de- and encode, the whole tagging system is superfluous etc.

Just because something has an RFC number doesn't make it good.
You know, it's possible to build a house by yourself in about a day or two with no knowledge of carpentry. But I wouldn't want to live in it :)
And, he can't say "Irish" properly.
i agree. to break ties uniform distribution should be sufficient