skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it's Americans invested in competing technologies, doing the modern cultural thing of hyperbola and escalation to the point of insisting that people retrofitting stuff with heat pumps are MURDERERS and clearly seeking to literally kill hapless victims. I'm seeing a lot of intense argument here that's going waaay over to the extremes of scaremongering, and the context doesn't seem to warrant using emotional arguments to shut down the proposal in shame and guilt over actually setting out to kill lots of foolish people. That seems… excessive, as a claim.

Me, I'm in southern Vermont, heat with a wood stove and oil furnace, and just replaced a deteriorating resistive water heater with a big heat pump water heater. I do envy the cooking-with-flame folks, though :)
Yeah, I actually nearly put in something about separate trusted vs. untrusted types but didn't want to dilute the main point or hijack it religious wars over typed languages. :P
> but (imho) it will take much more than that to keep the lights on, let alone expand...

You'd be surprised how cheap a search engine can be to operate. My search.marginalia.nu has a burn rate of less than $100/month.
A single person can't found a GbR. For that you need at least two people. And yes it is trivially easy to register for it. Also taxes are not too difficult.
> The point of the article is that cutting expenses, saving, investing wisely, and aggressively pursuing pay raises can yield a few million well before retirement age

Most people will have nowhere near the same results as the author by implementing these things.

The biggest factors here are:

1) Earn a lot of money

2) Don't spend it all

I don't think this post has much educational value at all because I think most people already understand those points, they just can't execute on them in a meaningful way.
"financially independent" doesn't necessarily mean you stop working, it's just that you have the flexibility to chose what to work on and who to work for.
We have some in Holland too. Works great. They accelerate quickly so buses don't hold up traffic and don't get many delays. Although it's too simple to suggest that by electrifying buses we save planet. Electric bikes are nice too, though fairly expensive. Most middle class folks have one. Electric cars don't seem to work at scale for now. Just unaffordably expensive and only economical for people who drive all the time and can charge on their own driveway.
xxdiff. best difftool ever. Thank you blais!
> That works out to $46.8k/yr, which is below the official federal poverty line of $52k/yr.

The federal poverty line depends on household size, and only reaches $52k/yr when the household size reaches 10 people. For a household of N people in 2021 it was 12880 + 4540 (N-1).

Did you perhaps mix the poverty line up with the ACA subsidy maximum income? The ACA subsidy maximum income is 4x the poverty line, which works out to just under $52k for an individual?
I think thats going to be one of the early successes of AR glasses. Its trivially easy to make, and freemium versions will replace generic ads with ones tailored to you.
I think it depends on the audience. In my case, I built my side project to try and solve a real problem that my accountant had. It worked, and several other businesses — mostly accountancy firms but certainly not exclusively — have paid for premium subscriptions. Some businesses have been paying me every month for years.

I think my audience is the type that prefers it if you pick up the phone and have a conversation with them, or email them, or write them a letter. So that’s what I did. I had lots of conversations with lots of people. I tried to build relationships to make sales, and the validation part only came when the customer actually paid money.

I tried the build almost nothing and throw up a fake credit card form like some people suggest, but it didn’t work. I know it works for some people, but it didn’t work for me.
Some cities do block ads in my country: https://99percentinvisible.org/article/clean-city-law-secret...
Ads should simply be illegal anywhere, anywhen.

Perhaps if we did that for, say, 80 years, then after the last advertiser has dropped dead of advanced age, we could cautiously re-enable the legality of purely informational, manipulation-free adverts.
Really? It would be nice if VR was gaining that much traction, but you dont get that general impression. I wonder how close we are to a major price reduction in the hardware that would help demand no end, but also VR versions of some big or iconic titles like GTA V or Skyrim.
625k a year. On my budget i could save a million in about 2.5 years on that income. Pretty mind blowing.

Good for him. He got a good hand but he also clearly played it very well.

Adults whining that other adults make amounts of money that they dont like is cringe worthy
Even with binning, the problem is one of accurate sampling from an unknown probability distribution.

Biased samples produce biased results and this OP correlation coefficient might be sensitive to such an issue.

In one of the projects we were assuming gamma distribution (for speech processing) and sampling that is notoriously hard. Trying to use binned MI produced serious errors, as opposed to Minimim MSE one, even Maximum Likelihood did better (if noisy).
You might think that. My search engine runs off <$5k worth of consumer hardware off domestic broadband. It survived the hacker news front page for a week, saw a sustained load of 8000 searches per hour for nearly a day.

It's got a fairly small index, but yeah, it's not particularly hardware-hungry.
I know people that spend months in a tent on an Antarctic or Greenland Glacier, with no access to mains gas.

They don’t freeze to death.
Yeah I've tried setting it up for a library but Sorbet won't pick it up, Tapioca won't pick it up. It'll generate its own types which are exactly what I don't want.

Beyond that, it's too intrusive in the code for me. I could live with 'sig' blocks above methods, but there's an immediate readability cost when you start having to wrap stuff in T.let, T.must, T.nilable, etc.

Personally I'd rather improve my testing skills here too. Knowing how to write a good test is a valuable skill.
> But what do you do with the rest of your life?

I spend virtually all of my free time and energy on side projects, and my list of side projects grows faster than I can take them on. When I retire, I’ll have no shortage of things to spend my time on.
I highly agree with this approach.

Specifically about fried chicken, I love it myself, but it turns out making "fried" chicken in the oven is super easy. And it's not really fried, so super healthy. I learned it from this Youtube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jACqgyPAtD4&t=671s

But just to outline how easy it is, the whole process is basically to cover the chicken with some cornstarch and salt, let it sit in the fridge for a few hours, then cook it in the oven for forty-ish minutes. So easy, and tastes 80% as good as real fried chicken.
> While it's true that share buybacks are a nice way to return value to shareholders compared to dividends from a tax perspective they also have little to do with a business's growth or improvements in profitability.

Dividends also "also have little to do with a business's growth or improvements in profitability."

At the end of the day, with either 'system', company management has decided that they cannot find internal uses for cash that give decent rates of return, and have decided to return the cash to shareholders.

But it seems to me only one system is 'vilified'. There's a lot of magical thinking that goes on around dividends:

* https://canadiancouchpotato.com/2011/01/18/debunking-dividen...
What flat did you buy in Soho for 480K assuming that it was a 10% deposit, or a better question would be when…
I heard some gas stations have ads on the pump display
I agree with you, but you might be getting down voted because you didn't say why you think it's unethical.
I use the duckduckgo browser.

I hadn't even realised it blocked such stuff by default ...
1) If that money isn't going to be needed, why continue to accumulate it?

2) Why would a job be necessary to have something to challenge/strive for?
still no DOOM (MF)...
It surprises me that people can be so cynical about Big Pharma so often, yet in this situation they trust the new technology, believe that the best they can do is a necessary second shot, then a third, and according to an HN link recently, maybe a fourth.

Who is paying for these shots which Big Pharma would like to keep giving forever?

What incentive is there to make any kind of one-shot fix?

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.

I'm not an AV, just FYI.
It only makes sense if youve got something else you want to do. Id venture almost none of the FIRE crowd end up sitting in front of a tv eating microwave dinners for 60 years because they retired. I mean maybe thats what some people want and more power to them but thats not what FIRE is about
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> The "its just a flu" people were dead wrong in 2020, but very soon they're going to be entirely right. That doesn't fit neatly into the way that we carve up our society into Team Blue / Team Red though so its difficult for a lot of people to understand.

While I do agree (of course) with what you say about how the immune system cope with covid I still do disagree that those people will be right. Covid is still not a flu and unless the next variant loses its ability to wreak havoc on multiple organs it won't ever be like the flu.

I was not much into team blue/team red but last time I said to an antivax in my family that I was still wearing a mask in public transport despite being vaccinated and she told me she wished for me to get covid so I would stop be scared of it so much I decided to drop my empathy level a bit.
I know what the article is about. I’m not commenting on the article though. I’m commenting on the more extreme opinions in this thread.

If you don’t care what those other developers do then why bother replying to me in the first place?
People also don't generally comment on the amount of pro-US or pro-Europe comments in those threads. I don't think I've ever seen any accusations of Western astroturfing. Influencing the media, sure, but not being directly in the comments.

Also, the US is trying to maintain a moral high ground (real or perceived). They don't want to be associated with China. I don't think anyone would say "well China does it too!" but they would absolutely say "well the EU does it too!".

I do think China gets dinged for their misdeeds more than other nations do. I don't see nearly the anti-India sentiment, despite the similarities. India is perceived as a country that makes some missteps on their way to modernization, while China is perceived as a country that's rotten to the core and making intentionally terrible choices.

I don't support China. I wouldn't want to live there. I just think that we're either mentally over-prosecuting China, or that we're giving more democratic nations a pass on their misdeeds. India still has castes, and didn't they just have a series of internet blackouts to suppress dissidents? The whole thing with the farmers, though I could be misremembering. They're democratic though, so we're all pretty sure they'll find their way. No one seems to consider that perhaps China will find their way as well. Germany had Hitler 80 years ago and they're doing fine today. Perhaps in 80 years China will be more free as well.
Yeah for me it's just peace of mind not worrying if I don't have a job or how long it takes me to get another one. I too strive for the idea of investing a lot/getting percentage back. I will always tinker on something.

Also I want to sleep/wake whenever.

Also variations can take lean/fat fire.
In the US, 220 Volts is standard for applications requiring high power, such as heat pumps, whole house air conditioners, cook stoves, hot water heaters, clothes dryers, electric car chargers, etc.

110 Volts is standard for lighting, ordinary outlets, and appliances drawing less than about 30 amps at 110 Volts such as clothes washing machines, dishwashers, furnaces, window air conditioners, etc.
At a glance, Vercel's pricing looks unbelievably expensive. $550/TB traffic, and $60k/yr for a 128MB function running at 100% utilization. What's the point of scalability, if you can't afford it to scale above the size of a small vserver? I'd have nightmares about a small DDoS attack costing me millions running on infrastructure like that.

What does it offer compared to other serverless offerings (aws lambda, google cloud run) to justify this cost?
i'm guessing "core gamers" stick with what works best, which is mouse, keyboard and monitors.
Over a 6 month period in 2016 I did London to Beijing by train. I blogged/tweeted the The Trans Siberian leg of it https://tombh.co.uk/tweets-from-trans-siberia
Yet there are comments here advocating that. I’m not saying it’s typical, I’m just saying why it’s dumb.

I know when Zen Gardens was released. That fuck all to do with the discussion though.

And can you please limit your replies to one thread rather than spamming the same comments on multiple threads.
> So yes, I have been to China, I can place China on a map, and it is the most terrifying reincarnation of Nazi Germany - being defended by people who will say "we didn't know any better" after the concentration camps are freed.

Oh, good to know that. I didn't know prisoners could left Nazi Germany just like that, only getting a scan. I had a completely different idea of that regime.
I don't block ads especially, I'm OK with them. I block requests to 3rd party hosts, this also blocks ads too
We had a consecutive six months of it being literally illegal to visit family in the UK.

My job was banned by the Government and hasn't recovered.

I have _still_ not been able to practice many of my hobbies because the legal framework has made it impossible to plan forward more than a week or so.

Is it a gulag? No. Is it worth it? Worth what? Coronavirus is a 1% IFR disease, lower with vaccines. Boring.
About online ads, is most of the tracking and code that runs to identify my preferences or is some kind of anti=fraud shit,that will get even more complex and invasive as bad guys will try commit fraud.

I am thinking at a partial solution(emphasize on partial), offer the users a non-tracking account(Free) , you still give them targeted ads but using a non tracking method like a survey at account creation, options for the user to tell you that he does not like this type of ad, options for the user to tell you what kind of ads he wants to see (like I could accept non-animated ads, software related, local business related, technology related, and article related ads).
But all of this would be impossible if most of the tracking is for anti-fraud , then you would need some DRMed browsers to confirm you probably are a human.
Why would they be designed toward women; don't millions of men buy their own underwears in your country?
Ah, I guess I was thinking of libxft. There doesn't seem to be an equivalent for XCB, so you'd have to connect all the parts on your own.
Have you run into the IRL pop up ads? People walking in front of you, interrupting your UX for a quick "5 min conversation" about their chosen cause? These pesky ads get through my blockers no matter how often I update my filters.
More likely than the general population, sure, but I’m not sure about “more likely than not”.
It’s civil disobedience. I’m not sure of how SA works , but in the U.S civil disobedience was regularly used to challenge laws during the 20th century. Going into white only areas and living there, forcing de segregation was one such technique.
Thank you for this, but I feel like you should make a profit and this is currently a missed opportunity to use web3 principles to do that.

Free and open software is a great ideal, but the reality is that people need money to live - and ads are the way to make that money on web2 platforms, which is why Google is in such a sad state. Why not do something similar to Brave? You can add tokenomics to the search engine and make money while keeping it 100% useable and open source.
Isn't it obvious that an underpriviledged person has more authority in the domain of being underpriviledged than a differently-priviledged person?
My city replaced the old billboards ( primarily in bus stops, but there are freestanding ones as well ) by electronic billboards. It is like there are giant 2 meter tall Phones everywhere, but this time they only show ads.

I go out of my way to be offline when I am out of the house and now the city council has shoved these screens right in my face. No escape.
I enjoyed Freedom by Sebastian Junger, I actually read it twice. I like the directness of his writing plus I've always admired the general sense of humanity he portrays. I reread The Road by Cormac McCarthy, for me his writing style is simply a different dimension to other writers, I tend to read this every year or so.
>The “why” is more important than the “what”.

>The “what” is more important than the “how”.

This also feels very applicable to comments in source code, or internal documentation in general
A commenter below us put it rather nicely:

"Advertising is a huge business predicated entirely on manipulating people to make purchases they otherwise wouldn't, surgically exploiting weaknesses in our psyche."
I remember seeing a video on this concept like you could tell something was an airplane shape. I wonder is there anything to gain by joining the points/adding faces on outer most dots?

Unrelated but I think really neat is monocular visual inertial odometry.
Depends on which algorithm you are looking for, but these are commonly used:

* Okapi BM25 for determining the relevance of a result to a query.

* TF-IDF for determining the relevance of a term to a document.

* PageRank for ranking domains.
I mean, the simplest answer is that "your browser" implies actual possession of the browser, whereas "your city" implies only a metaphor of possession of the city, so the question is deliberately misleading.
Scottish nationalism is key to the platform of the SNP, the "Scottish National party"; it's right there in the name. And it's popular in Scotland.

They are always in favour of it, it's just the tactics and timing that changes. They will move for another independence referendum when they think the time is right to hold and win it
My late grandfather was a psychiatric expert doing psych evaluation of candidates for armed forces. His method was largely just chatting with the person for a few minutes and asking general questions. Even that revealed a lot. He didn't tell a lot about the people specifically, he took confidentiality very seriously, but could tell there where a lot of freaks applying, a notable candidate with a straight up American history X nazi tattoo.
the phenomena of "TL;DR" is satirical idiot culture made real
we stopped watching tv in our home a few years ago, coupled with pi hole and ublock origin across all browsers, i personally do not see ads and neither does most of my family. if i do see them at a friends house or somewhere, it is a really jarring experience.
i was at a friends house recently and they were watching tv. i found the ad break as a horrifying experience. the volume is turned too high, you can't skip it and it becomes irritating after the third ad break in an hour.
Half the battle is your parent insisting that the giant blue button in the center of the viewport doesn’t exist, isn’t labeled “checkout” in 24-pt font, and can’t be pressed.

Having this kind of setup lets me guide their finger.

Likewise for explaining how to do a hard reset of the device, “I pressed it but nothing happened”, etc
In that case, I wouldn't call it a side project at all. Whether it is your full-time job, or something you are building as a part-time business, the validation of the demand doesn't change -- Make a prototype and ask people if they'd pay for it. If they say yes, move on to an MVP. If not, ask for feedback and either try an updated prototype or try something else.
Thats a pretty disingenuous comparison.

You aren't just charging your users "ad views". You are also facilitating 3rd parties tracking their online behaviour, and they certainly aren't agreeing to those terms when they first land on your site.
With the effective marginal tax rate at 67% for regular income in Sweden, excluding VAT and other point taxes, the only real possible method is to start a company.
For anything versioned, I use asdf: https://github.com/asdf-vm/asdf

It's straightforward enough that the software devs I work with consider it "painless" to use.

asdf describes itself as "asdf is a CLI tool that can manage multiple language runtime versions on a per-project basis. It is like gvm, nvm, rbenv & pyenv (and more) all in one!"
Non-profit search engines are needed. It will probably still be vulnerable to SEO but will more likely be resistant to become corrupt by the interest of "investors".
Don't overcomplicate things. Ideally you or someone you know is willing to pay for said product. Then you find other people like you or someone you know who are also willing to pay.
I can't speak for macOS, but on Linux using Nix as package manager is relatively painless once you follow a recipe such as this one:

https://www.tecmint.com/nix-package-manager-for-linux/

There may be bugs with packages though, so I use it for what works for me. Not when it breaks with local dynamic libraries. It's a nice addition to get more recent packages than the distro offers.

Guix can be used as additional package manager as well.

NixOS (the distro) is steep though, like driving madly along a cliff steep. Guix even more so but with less speed.
Yup, that's why I'm building a house as far away from others as physically possible.
Can you expand more - on the ‘reversed racism’ aspect? I’ve spent a good amount of time in CT with long-time white locals, and this isn’t something I experienced or sensed.
brew is horribly slow, auto updates on any invocation I make and isn't nice to use when managing different versions of a package. It doesn't install Android studio for me correctly. Its also not reproducible. And it depends on github. And all build recipes are just Ruby, so its slow to parse and easy to pwn.
Fake door testing. Create a marketing page and see the reaction you get.
I don't understand the hate toward cookie banners. It's like if the citizens of a surveillance state complained if civilian-dressed informants had to carry a big ugly sign. Sure, the sign is ugly and everywhere; but maybe the actual problem is that there are so many informants that you have to see so many signs, rather than their signs being ugly.

Shoot the actual problem (i.e. the dark patterns and malicious compliance of the concerned websites), not the messenger.
>I wonder why society decided that advertising was so important, it was willing to let it completely dominate (and in my opinion destroy) our public spaces.

Because advertising is a form of speech, and society has decided that speech is important?
We’ve been using All Clad non-stick pans (below) heavily for maybe 8 years and they haven’t lost their non-stickiness. We tried many others, including a different kind of All Clad non-stick that didn’t last even a year, we’re very happy with these.

https://www.amazon.com/All-Clad-E785S264-Anodized-Nonstick-D...
i guess taking part in scociety is a net benefit on it's own, but the low-pay job sector is booming in no small part due to the rise of automation at discharge/distribution platforms.
The local cable co. has set up shop in random places throughout the closest grocery store to me for a number of months recently. I can't stand it; it's like walking onto a used car lot to buy groceries.
What does the 5kWh of energy turn in to, of not heat?