skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Tool I wish existed: A paintbrush with an undo setting.

Amen brother.

As regards the role of pencils in the creative process, the author seems to primitise it’s role as a tool for development, less so for authorship. I can concur. Working things out seems so much easier in pencil than in digital anything. For me, this is a tactile thing… graphite is after all, a lubricant, and paper is pretty much a skin.

Anything past the development (sketching) stage is pretty much post-Morten. For the last 100 years, finalization has required mediums which reproduce effectively using photo-reproduction: pen, ink and suchlike.
HoMM2/3 are still two of my favorite games, I play them often. 3 especially has withstood the passage of time.
Nah, US workers are generally paid more even accounting for the 2-3 weeks vacation that skilled laborers get.
Marketing opportunity for "I'm No Longer Your Doctor" cards?
aka Transmission. That's what HVDC will fix. The challenge in the USA is policy, not technical. I know nothing about EU, but assume they have a similar rat's nest of red tape.

FWIW, David Roberts' Volts newsletter covers the USA-centric stuff.

https://www.volts.wtf/p/volts-podcast-the-challenges-of-buil... [2021/08/27]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-voltage_direct_current

> they’re both touching on different elements

There is no silver bullet. We need more of everything, there's always more to the story.
I don't think it's a good idea to make deviance an end-goal. It should rather follow naturally from your other goals and needs.
I was like you 7 years ago (graphic designer and did some small websites), and best thing I did was taking my savings and doing a coding bootcamp (Dev Bootcamp in SF).

It helped me understand what stuff I still needed to learn, and how to work in a team. Also helped my confidence, seeing that I was able to work with other people, some of them had already jobs as programmers, and solve problems with them.

After that I decided to work for others, but I could as well had continued doing frontend master courses and stuff like that, I think the Bootcamp taught me the "glue" between technologies, and how to think like a programmer.

There are a lot of online Bootcamps now, so no need to go to another country like I did, I'd look for some bootcamp where you work together with other students, and that has great mentors with industry experience.
> I don't understand the hate toward cookie banners.

My main issue with it is that if I disable cookies, then every single time I need to accept it. If I enable cookies then I only need to accept it one time. I think this annoying thing actually reduces security, because people are more likely to just not delete the cookies at the end of the session to avoid this annoying popup. Makes the web totally unusable if you delete the cookies regularly without a plugin to hide the cookie banner.
There are interesting ideas, but despite even speaking down on hipsters who do things just because they are not mainstream - the whole concept reminds me still of it.

Being anticultural for the sake of it.

"Being anti-mimetic is the power to live in freedom"

I mean do that, if that is your thing. But rather just do what you really want. Whether your local culture supports it, or not. This I call freedom.

Just note of course, going against the mainstream is a lot harder. And there are cultures that are very repressive against even small sidetracking from the norm. And they will try to make your life hell, for bringing chaos into their stable order of things. Because this is how they might perceive you, for not adopting to their standard.
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>"I did it and so can you"

What is the antithesis here? "You won't succeed, so don't bother trying. Become an employee, rail against capitalism and wage slavery."

Dismissing it as luck can only work if the author succeeded on the first try. Did everyone succeed on the first try? Before it can be called "survivor's bias", you need to survive. If you croak at the first unforeseen and perhaps unfair hardship...

What is missing from many of these stories are the concepts and ideas which were eliminated by failure or analysis. It would be unusual for the first idea that pops into someone's head to come to successful fruition.

Maybe it would be illustrative if the author listed all of his failed endeavors and how he reasoned his way through them. Undoubtedly, it would make for much longer-form content and perhaps ramble off-track from his chosen subject.

Persistence is an unspoken companion to what you flippantly dismiss as luck. Trial and error, iterative improvements and self-sacrifice are also key ingredients.

Of course, you don't need to listen to that. It is much easier to lay blame than manifest the change you wish to see.
If you also use the CPU Manager feature and request an integer number of cores, yes. Then for example if you request 3 cores your process will be pinned onto 3 specific cores and nothing else will be scheduled onto those cores, and CFS will not throttle your process.

https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/administer-cluster/cpu-mana...
> Barring specific examples of governments inflating their currencies to escape sovereign (not individual!) debts, can you explain how inflation "defrauds" anyone?

Why this would be barred?
The average joe who'd write this blogpost wouldn't be an average joe anymore. The reality is that most of us in tech can aspire to the author's outcome, with high probability of success. The odds are stacked in our favor. If we're willing to do the moves and do the "sacrifices", most of us can pull it off. But in the end you need the right attitude, and some advice about good strategies, like the author is giving out.

I think the cynical perspective is entirely exaggerated in the software industry. It's also an awful way to look at things, almost guaranteeing a self-fulfilling prophecy.
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> 1) Why is the labor supply so low? Workers are not interested in the relatively low salary for relatively bad working conditions.

It is not about what workers are interested or not. They just need to earn enough to live.

> 2) Why do salaries not rise? Mid-term the hard cap for salary increases is the increase in worker productivity.

Salaries are not proportional to productivity and you all know it. There are people out there doing the same job with the same output but one earns more than other just because companies want to pay more for one and less for other.

> 3) Why does worker productivity not rise? It does rise, but far less than inflation (about 1% p.a. for the last ten years). Mostly due to micro-optimizations of existing jobs.

There are lot's of research out there showing how much worker's productivity increased but salaries didn't increase proportionally.
The US Census Bureau basically said as much recently. Their findings from October stated that 3.7 million people in the US were currently unemployed because they were "caring for someone or sick myself with coronavirus symptoms" [1]

[1] https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/demo/tables/hhp/202...

Edit: to clarify, a lot of those 3.7 million people are probably suffering from acute Covid, but if you look back at the older survey data, the number of people not working due to "coronavirus symptoms" still seems to remain pretty high even when cases are low.
What's the mod called? It sounds great!
How do you think they traced Ross Ulbricht? You do actual detective work to figure out who did the transactions and then you can work backwards to who the coins belong to.

Same with MT.Gox the stolen bitcoin is being given to the people who had the original accounts.

Bitcoin is largely anonymous not because of its encryption but basically security to obscurity because that since every transaction is on one central ledger.
> As long as you have people unemployed, there will be no labor shortage, everything else is just an excuse.

Would you also say that as long as there are more housing units than people, there's no housing shortage?
Yep, the graphics, the writings, everything is perfect. With the HD mod it's very up to today's standard.
Liked most of this except #1

> Discovering and living out a sense of calling — a personal vocation, or something you are uniquely meant to do — is the ultimate way to cut through the mimetic noise of the world and begin to shape both a moral and a vocational compass.

There are on the order of 7 billion human beings on earth. We don't all have a personal vocation or something we are uniquely meant to do. One of the keys to leading a happy and fulfilled life is being able to be content to live within the bounds that most of us operate in. Most of us are not uniquely gifted, not particularly special, not here to do one thing in this world. But we can be kind, be helpful, try to do as little damage to other people and the world as we can, to find value in things that last and do not cost the world very much, to enjoy our lives regardless of what we do for a living, not because of it.

It may be a gift from the Renaissance to believe in individuality in the way that #1 clearly does, but it's a gift that doesn't scale to huge populations (it may not even have been right with much smaller ones). It's wonderful to live in a society that allows for individual self-discovery and self-expression, but we should not blind us to the reality that almost all of us are not on a unique, singular mission.
It doesn't take much imagination to see that this won't work.

Have you ever tried running a company? Let's say you have a band (which is a form of a company. They sell entertainment). You can't find a drummer. Would you train one? How many years are you going to able to wait before you start your band for real while your new drummer trains? In the mean time you aren't able to make any money because the band can't perform.

The average size of a company is 1-4 people. They aren't Walmart size etc.. They don't have the budget to train an employee

https://www.naics.com/business-lists/counts-by-company-size/
I'm reminded of broken mirror guy from Black Mirror who starts a YouTube (whatever it actually was) channel at the end.
She's very popular with the bitcoin crowd, tends to write respectable-looking articles legitimizing them. She's also quite a skilled self promoter. I assume that's why she gets so much attention, because her blog posts are usually pretty banal, basic stuff in my experience. Not the worst, but not particularly worthy of attention or praise, IMO.
>If I run around you all day shouting expletives at you, you might consider that there's nothing that I do that fundamentally gets in your way for as long as I keep a certain distance. But it will be annoying, exhausting and likely detrimental to your mental health in the long term.

But that's different. Ads in real life are passive. They are part of the environment like the color of the house. They don't actively interact with you specifically.

>Advertisement insofar that it lets consumers stay aware of the available alternatives for the products they need and use is a good thing

And the vast majority of people will never ever check that to find relevant things to them.
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> the tech overlords are a powerful force driving inequality today.

I would truly disagree; tech is transforming lives across the class spectrum, globally.

In fact, what you should be concerned about is how other industries think it’s acceptable to significantly underpay their average employee. And the ironic part is that tech companies still pay managers and executives way more than the average SWE - at FAANG, often directors make more than their entire reporting chain.
Ha! My spouse got $1000 per week, which I can assure you is more than enough for even both of us to live on.
“You can’t reason someone out of an opinion they didn’t reason themselves into.”
Who cares? You can only be proud of your achievements if you were born the bottom of the bottoms?
Try and not get so heated in future discussions.

The courts, and a jury of peers, decide what is and is not considered hate speech. In the USA the courts have decided that calling for imminent harm on someone (racially motivated or otherwise) is illegal.

Therefore the USA doesn’t have free speech and you live in a totalitarian police state nightmare?
> There is no such thing as labor shortage.

The conspiracy theory going around reddit is that US companies are complaining about labour shortage to try to get their COVID payroll subsidies pardoned.
Individual prices change all the time for a zillion reasons.

The aggregate price level depends on the amount of circulating money. When gas prices go up, we have less to spend on other items, which then fall in price.

Milton Friedman figured this out in the 50s, which led to his Nobel prize.
I don't really care about the topic or person, but I dislike it when people claim that somebody else said X and Y and Z, without then linking to the posts or pages. Bad style and easily abused.
Dave Chiluk did a great talk covering a similar scheduler throttling problem.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UE7QX98-kO0
> And yet frame.io seems to be doing very well, it is popping up more and more places.

The key is knowing who your target customer is and solve for them [0]. Then, you are in a good place where you either fire ones who aren't [1] or change your solution (rather, start with a burning, hair-on-fire problem your target customer has, not solutions) [2].

Typically in a b2b setting, one starts out by addressing all needs (must-have) of their target customer as opposed to their wants (good-to-have). That is, other customers whose wants are NOT your target customers needs, you do not address them in the early stages of the product development [3]; and price / position [4] the product accordingly [5].

When changing the solution, figure out if there's another much bigger adjacent problem, that you weren't paying attention to [6], staring you down [7].

[0] https://hbr.org/2016/09/know-your-customers-jobs-to-be-done

[1] https://www.michaelseibel.com/blog/users-you-don-t-want

[2] https://www.ycombinator.com/library/8g-how-to-get-startup-id...

[3] https://apenwarr.ca/log/20211024

[4] https://hackernoon.com/obviously-awesome-a-product-positioni...

[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marketing_mix#Lauterborn's_4_C...

[6] http://paulgraham.com/schlep.html

[7] https://tomblomfield.com/post/33506878578/making-something-p...
Additionally, companies do not have a right to exist. If your business needs to pay minimum wage, profits are thin, and employees are quitting to find something better, it probably shouldn't be a thing any more. There isn't a labor shortage - your business isn't providing enough value for the labor it requires.
If your enterprise has enough control over your endpoint to add a trusted root CA to it, then they could also just read all of your private data right out of your RAM.

Lookalike domain names don't imply that TLS is broken. The guarantee from TLS is that you're talking to the owner of the domain you connect to, which is still true if you connect to the wrong one.
If Milton Friedman were right with this statement, then the increasing money supply since 2008 due to the actions of the Fed, ECB and BoE would imply that since then we've seen either a massive increase in economic output or inflation.

Neither of those things happened and as a consequence we can conclude that Friedman was wrong about this.
AFAIK Digital Ocean blocks outbound connections to port 25. Has the author actually tried this setup?

Source: https://docs.digitalocean.com/support/why-is-smtp-blocked/
Even banks still aren't snooping on people's personal devices at home.
It depends on what your definition of success is. It probably gave insight in how organized the counter intelligence is and what their various response times are.

The cost was low, especially given the possibility that the spy exchange that he took part in after a few months in jail might well have been planned long in advance.

Military and intelligence organizations do this all the time, to constantly keep track of adversaries' response plans. They constantly change and have to be re-evalutated.
Did you read the linked article? [1] The only thing that matters is if the property owner likes it. If the property owner likes it, it stays up, if they don't, they file a vandalism case with the city.

Banksy is a vandal, as I'm sure anyone would admit, himself included. I am equally sure that there have been times when property owners haven't liked his work and have tried to report him for vandalism. But given he doesn't make a habit of posting videos of his actions online and bragging about them, he doesn't get caught/attributed.

https://www.tmz.com/2014/04/02/banksy-david-william-noll-ric...
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I will take deflation over inflation any day of the week. Inflation punishes good behavior of people who save money and create cushions for the pissible bad days. It robs people of their savings.

I've been storing my life savings in crypto, and so far it's been phenomenal compared to my USD ones.

Deflation actually forces you to think of how to spend money more rationally, not to buy junk that will pollute the planet. (yes, I know BTC mining isn't great for the emissions, and I wouldn't recommend BTC anyway)
I wrote a series of blog posts about how to convert a PDM signal to traditional PCM values: https://tomverbeure.github.io/2020/10/04/PDM-Microphones-and....
I got halfway through and a newsletter signup modal interrupted me and wouldn't close. Good thing I know CSS or I couldn't have finished reading.

So much for being anti-mimetic and bucking the trends.
My point is that you distinguish it in the exact same way as you distinguish a charge from a cloned credit card, or a bank transfer with a stolen password, or cash swiped out of a wallet.

In all cases, the fraudulent money is used in exactly the same way as genuine use.

If you figure out a bitcoin private key, that doesn't give you any more right to the money than figuring out a way to guess someone's bank password. And remediation would be the same.
That's really bad because your comment would at least give people a chance to calibrate the degree to which they should trust this stuff. Any video that aims to be instructional should at least spend some time on the safety aspects of what they are doing.
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You test it regularly and hook it up to a good desulfator/maintainer when needed. A sealed battery might be acceptable for a car, if the owner has the money to replace it regularly, but not in an off-grid/residential situation.
True, I guess my mental model is to amortizing the total taxes over the total income/investment period.
I played HOMM3 for 5 hours straight when I first encountered it. I know that sounds like nothing, but unbeknownst to me, installing it had reset my graphics drivers to set my monitor's refresh to 50Hz.

50Hz is one of those things you can see if you look at it in your peripheral vision, but not so much straight on.

After 5 hours I was screaming in pain my eyes hurt so bad. I couldn't figure out why they hurt and I couldn't stop playing either.
I neither use -f "all the damn time" and nor do I appreciate that baseless accusation. Furthermore -f has literally nothing to do with my comment about -v
Sounds like no matter what the result is, you get your preferred conclusion. In other words:

big macs costs significantly more in locations that have high labor costs -> "they're just using the high labor costs an excuse to charge more!"

big macs costs slightly more in locations that have high labor costs -> "see! that proves we should raise minimum wages!"
Just remember, society will have an implict bias against anyone is is not like them. I happen to fit many of the suggestions in the list and it has gotten me nowhere.
Who exactly is complaining here? Amazon and Target have no problems with raising their wages to meet demand. A small business owner isn't going to tell you it's more profitable to have shittier service than hire more workers with higher wages, so they'll just say "labor shortage".
This is an interesting ethics question that has crossed my mind a lot. I also remember an internet post years ago about someone who had automated 95% of their job and kept it a secret from their employer, who continued to be satisfied with their output. Where do you draw the line?
i don't have any public facing repos, so i'll clean some up and try to emphasize that a bit more.

in terms of interviewing, no opportunities so no experience. in the past ive had to apply to roughly 80 jobs to get one interview. recruiters on linkedin are a little better at ~30 conversations per interview but its plain exhausting, takes a ton of time, they demand replies instantly or ghost, but really its overwhelmingly likely they'll ghost me anyways.

its been a while since the last round of attempts so ill give your suggestions a shot in a few weeks. thanks
Yes and: I concluded "peak oil" happened once Big Oil stopped investing in infrastructure, like refineries, choosing to extract as much wealth as possible on the way down. In all these food fights, I wish more of us arm chair pundits paid attention to what the major players were actually doing (finance, investment), vs taking cues from other pundits.
Had exactly this thought reading it. Here's a list of platitudes to make you a subversive independent thinker!
Will Prowse here. Are you kidding me? Those lead acids are kept at a high state of charge and not deeply discharged. Sure some expensive FLA can last much longer, but they are garbage. The coulombic efficiency is horrible. The internal resistance is awful. If I sold lead acid batteries, I would make way more money. You have no clue what you are talking about. And yes, when used for solar and deeply discharged, your lucky to get 3-5 years.
moderation is the key

combine and synthesize the best of antifragility, postmodernism, dao te ching, science and what have you

this article made step #2 of thesis, antithesis, synthesis.
Most cities in my country have multiple street cameras on every corner. Good luck "avoiding the law" here.
The big difference between cost reduction and income increase, is that one has a hard limit on possible upside, whereas the other does not. You can reduce your costs by more than your total costs, but it’s quite possible to increase your income by many multiples of your existing income.

Result is that maximising income is generally better than reducing cost. Of course, as with all generalisation, there are situations where this approach doesn’t hold true. But as a high level first order strategy, it’s a good one to adopt.
Congrats! Very nice to see results being lightning fast, I am getting 100-120ms response with network overhead included and that is impressive. The payload size of only 10-20kb helps immensely, good job!

I've built something similar called Teclis [1] and in my experience a new search engine should focus on a niche and try to be really, really good at it (I focused on non-commercial content for example).

The reason is to be able to narrow down the scope of content to crawl/index/rank and hopefully with enough specialization to be able to offer better results than Google for that niche. This could open doors to additional monetization path, API access. Newscatcher [2] is an example of where this approach worked (they specialized on "news").

[1] http://teclis.com

[2] https://newscatcherapi.com/
Heh, when I saw it on twitch it was very popular in russia and every stream was in russian :)
I went to a presentation where Capital one has an anomaly detection system for credit card fraud that could process a transaction below 1ms or even lower than that. They had a system with around a Terabyte of memory using a streaming data system (I think it was spark).

This is a nontrivial system that has false positives and negatives.
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