skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mainly do 2 things to validate my project:
1. find relevant threads on reddit or other communities. If people are asking the same question again and again, it's a good signal.

2. find if any products exist to solve the problem. If there are a few of them, try to guesstimate the market size. Mostly likely, there is a market for that if the number is ok. If there are many existing players, there is no need to validate because obviously there are many competitors in the field.
Please advertise your RSS/Atom feed
I have found that many websites have RSS or Atom feed but they don't advertise it, there is no HTML Anchor for their RSS feed. As a result view-source is required to find it.

I think this is a bad thing to do. So please put a mention to your RSS feed on your website that it easily accessible.
It stops being plasma, but it keeps being hundreds of cubic meters of hot gas at about ten times the temperature of the (core of) the sun. It's low by mass, but it would still be extremely dangerous, and radioactive.
Nailed it. Couldn’t take the article seriously in its omission of these facts. I believe I read that immigration policies are having a negative effect of removing around 1.5m workers from the force.

Not just in low income jobs, either. I’ve been unable to hire quite a few folks in high tech because of our VISA process issues. Such a fucking mess.

This labor shortage feels like it could have been easily avoided with some common sense govt regulation, but America has gone totally off the deep end there.
If people are not born into wealthy or well networked families in an environment where they can acquire the skills and connections that allow them to choose between multiple hundred thousand dollar desk jobs that can be worked from home versus working as a janitor in hospitals, do you have a free market?
So you called that artist a "vandal". Would you also call Bansky a "vandal"?

Some people find unapproved grafitti objectionable. How do you feel about that?
very much with you and GP on this. the route I personally take is to learn with small trials and error of what comments and advise is good and what is silly or outright dangerous. Places I frequent for such advise though aren't YT videos but forums where it's easy for others to call out silly ideas (which isn't always the case on YT). YT is at best a gateway to deeper content such as explosion-charts, repair and maintenance manuals, etc. I think batteries here are not too different than breaks, steering or suspension (all components I've grown comfortable to touch although not on my very first DYI project but years into messing and learning about the same vehicle).
> we'll be forced to reinvent ASN.1

I think this already happened with Google Protocol Buffers
This sounds like the sorting hat algorithm (tiktok) applied to query search engines. If there could be a way to visualize your recommendations network and switch to others without logging out, this could work really well. But a lot of research needs to be done, and the interest of big actors is to keep users blind inside their webs.

This topic is interesting to me because I'm building a faster search engine for programming queries and trying to solve the core issues that got us stuck with crappy engines.
Have not seen this being mentioned yet, here goes:

Choosing a large cloud provider is often much greener than doing your own or using a smaller provider.

Carbon is a large cost.

GCP has been carbon neutral for over a decade, AWS and Azure have made big public commitments.

Sourcing clean energy for 1000s of servers is not always easy.
I'm literally missing one of my exterior walls and have been unable to repair it properly because getting permits through NIMBY municipalities is slow and painful by design. I've done my best to tarp over the hole and abandon and seal off the impacted rooms, but that only goes so far to reduce loss.
I don’t think the UK has a European style safety net, they don’t tax enough people for that the first £12.5K of your income (below £100K) are income tax exempt the UK has the narrowest tax base in Europe.
Outside of my office's window I can see a billboard about 2 blocks away from my apartment. For about 30 minutes every couple of hours it flashes red, blue, white and purple at about 3 different colors per second, with the following text in the middle: "You should advertise here!"

It honestly blows my mind how someone can look at it and think it's a good idea, instead of how absurd that someone is allowed to put up a giant seizure machine in one of a city's busiest streets.

I used to think that advertisement had gone too far when it was used to track people online, but a literal real life recreation of the iCarly episode where Spencer causes a traffic accident using a billboard caught me by surprise.
I've been trying to persuade baybal2 for years to stop breaking the site guidelines, and have banned and unbanned him over the years, but you're quite wrong in your assumptions—he has a lot of experience in the region and knows a lot. Not only that but people have attacked him unfairly in the past here too (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21195898). I also don't believe that he's primarily an ideologue—his comments (at least many of them) are more interesting than that. Whether he was using an obsolete transliteration as flamebait or not is beyond my ability to say, but he's not a native English speaker, so maybe there are some crossed signals here too.

This is a good example of how people jump to conclusions and assume the worst about each other. It's no more ok when you do that than when other users do it, even if you are (or feel you are) part of a minority that gets treated unfairly.

I understand and empathize about how frustrating this is—but lashing out at the very people who are bending over backwards to try to bring some semblance of tolerance and neutrality to an impossible situation is neither nice nor helpful.

I've discussed the lopsided dynamic of these conversations with you many times. The question is how to deal with it. No matter how frustrating it is, it's important not to respond to ignorance by losing your cool, becoming abusive, and so on. When you do that, you're reinforcing the very situation you deplore, and by that you actually make yourself responsible for the status quo. Each of us has a small quantum of energy to contribute, and it's important not to use yours to cause further harm (even when it's for deep reasons).

It's much better to respond to ignorance patiently and with good information, seeking points of connection and opportunities to treat the other person better than they expect and maybe better than they deserve (or you feel they deserve). Then you're investing your quantum in a good way. Also, it's good to remember that we're all ignorant, just about different things, and we all share the same hard-wiring that causes people to project bad things into dark spaces and thus treat each other poorly. If you happen to know more about $topic and thus can see how ignorant others are, that's not because you're better than them, or any different from them in the end. It's an accident of circumstance.
Some things I've found helpful (I run a niche search engine and curation platform):

1) Find niche subreddits where people that are your target audience hang out, observe communities, help people out, participate in the discussion, if someone has a problem that your product can solve, then help them out in the comments and see what their feedback is

2) Learn a bit of SEO - you don't need to be an expert to fix some low-hanging fruits and get your product in front of people who might be using search engines to find a solution for their problem. Downside: SEO can take a few months to a year to kick-in, so if you have a very short time-window, it might not work immediately

3) Create a landing page and a sign-up list - see how many people sign up

4) Find bloggers and community members that write about your topic, cold email them telling them about your product. Be prepared for the response rate to be pretty low, but it can work.

5) LinkedIn - ok, ok I know I might get downvoted for this, but imho LinkedIn still has some of the best organic reach of any social platform, so you might as well use it to post about your product (esp. if it is a B2B one)

FYI - for consumer tech products, willingness to use something doesn't equate to willingness to pay for something, which you have to account for when doing research.
I have had zero warning spam and no issues and I use it a lot.
I would highly recommend battery university, they have excellent content:

https://batteryuniversity.com/
> even an average engineer with a five-figure salary can become a millionaire by her late 30s

With my five figure salary in France the max I can invest is 1k/month, so with a 10% RoI I can expect around 200k by the time I’m 30.
That’s nowhere near a million and doesn’t take the flat tax in consideration. Maybe 10% is considered low or not risky enough?

> first salary in the low six-figure

Yeah, that’s not gonna happen in Europe.
I wonder how they are going to handle ABI conflicts in Linux distros or if they even have that as a concern.
You own your body? I feel mine more owns me. If anyone thinks a doctor is going to provide helpful advice after saying something stupid like "im not eating less, I'm not gonna quit smoking / snorting 3g of coke a day / whatever" then they can go ahead and get out of society altogether cuz theyre dragging us down.
You haven’t defended your “disagreement.” Even if your points did hold up, they still don’t counter parent’s claims.

American wages have been stagnant for over 30 years while benefits, pensions, job security, and working conditions have continued to erode. If you think that’s not going to have any consequences, you’re lying to yourself.

Unemployment insurance only lasts 6 months, is very difficult to live on for low wage workers, and people just generally know that not working is very bad because it wrecks your job history and resume.

Additionally, the majority of Americans’ finances are in very poor shape, which is why Biden was forced to extend the moratorium on student loan payments. To take your word for it, we would also have to explain why employment was ever so high to begin with.
> Also, did you just out yourself as pony** (brony)?

In all fairness, if you looked up my Mastodon account I'd be outed in moments :p

It's not that big of a deal anyways. I still consider it less degenerate than the folks who burn a decade of their life working on an SAAS that they hate. At least I got to go to a few cool conventions.
Nobody cares what your opinion about the ad is. If you do not like the "cost" of the item (watching a minute of an ad, to see a 10 second video), just go somewhere else to find an alternative. Or buy it once and never again.

What you are saying is, basically, if someone is selling bread for $100, and they dont let you taste in advance, you are allowed to steal that bread, because $100 is not a right price for the bread.
I think the best way to achieve this is to either join a tech heavy product based team or keep building side projects and I mean like proper projects and make a saas out of it. This coul cover a lot of use cases for you.
In most areas keeping them underground can get around this, you can also use a backup heater and temperature probe before charging them.
Tried and failed with the Gear
Wiki engine using Pandoc and Git
I hadn't seen Emacs's markdown-mode's markdown-hide-markup before, but trying it just now, it goes too far and has the opposite problem: it's harder to see the markup when you do want it. What Typora and MarkText (and, from the replies above, NoteKit) do is to show the markup around the cursor. (See the screenshot from NoteKit: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/blackhole89/notekit/6d6278... ) This seems to be missing in some "WYSYWIG-only" editors. I think it may be possible to implement that in Emacs, but no one seems to have done it so far.
> But ads in real life do not prevent me from going on about my day.

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.

There's nothing inherently offensive about advertisement, IMO. Display the products you can sell me and their prices in your storefront window. Publish informational ads in categorized directories. Advertisement insofar that it lets consumers stay aware of the available alternatives for the products they need and use is a good thing, but when advertisers are no longer content with my demand for consumption and feel like they should create that demand through manipulation, they've outstayed their welcome.
"Capitalism is about free trade."

No, it's not.
I recently got into running my own mail server on my NixOS instance using[0]. The server has a total of 1.5 GB RAM and 10 GB of disk space, but it was sufficient to get 10/10 on mail tester[1]. Here's my 12 line mailserver config[2]. It was quite liberating once everything was set up, because then you know you are in full control of your communications.

It was more annoying to set up DNS than the mailserver itself, is there a good way to automate that as well?

[0] https://gitlab.com/simple-nixos-mailserver/nixos-mailserver

[1] https://www.mail-tester.com/

[2] https://github.com/siraben/dotfiles/blob/master/server/mails...
Oculus already tried the phone route and abandoned it because of the inherent limitations of not controlling the whole hardware stack. Let's look at first mobile Oculus headset, the Oculus GO which was binary compatible with content made for GearVR;

- Performed better than GearVR with a far slower SoC than the Galaxy handsets because the thermal solution could be designed around the headset.

- Cost $200 vs the $1000 for a Galaxy handset + GearVR

- Was more comfortable with higher weight because of better
distribution across the headset instead of being concentrated in the front where the phone attaches.

- The display was sharper with lower resolution than GearVR, because you design the panel differently for headset than a handset.
At least anecdotally I can agree. Several of my coworkers and I retired early. In hind-sight I should have done it sooner.
The impacts of these deaths are going to be far reaching though. For example, I had a friend in his 30s who died from Covid during the first wave. His last tweet was about how his manager at T-Mobile was a dick for making him come into work during a global pandemic.

Even though he is but one death in a sea of almost a million, he alone serves as a cautionary tale to dozens and dozens of surviving friends, family, and acquaintances. His friends and family have a much different view now of the nature of work in the US. For many of them, this has fundamentally changed their relationship with work, and yeah, some of them quit their jobs and won’t be coming back. Big business are left scratching their heads wondering why. Here’s a hint: check the Twitter feed.

There are hundreds of thousands of such cautionary tales out there now, impacting families across the nation. I don’t think we’ll be able to really understand the full impact of this for a long time to come.
And what exactly is "your personal information", that has been sent to so many websites?
Most spaces that computers deal with are basically discrete.

Technically this may not always be the case but it's very hard to construct a convincing counter example.
Banksy is a commercial enterprise, though. There is a financial benefit to putting their work in places where the public is forced to see it. By raising their public profile, they're also raising the prices they can charge for other work. It is, in a very real sense, advertising.

I'm a fan, but there's still a point to be made here. Banksy works on public sites do function in part as ads.
If you play monopoly with house rules that make it more similar to a real mix of sovereign economies, surely the latter. (Source: I have played with such house rules. Yes, it gets more interesting than vanilla monopoly. Yes, that's how inflation happens in those games. One bank has never, so far, suddenly decided to give people money they don't need (that sounds like financial suicide). External events, however, have caused changes in demand for one bank currency which forces that bank to lend more money.)
As a fellow immigrant who never hit these kinds of incomes I agree. It’s an interesting read, the author is humble enough to realize his result involved a good portion of luck.

I judge my own progress by where I was 10 years ago, not where some random internet author is today.
From day one it was only me. I was working from anywhere, so I guess that means yes, it was remote from the start. Current pain points we are still trying to figure out:

- Gathering the whole team effectively and periodically (once a year or so).

- People speaking different languages, so everyone must switch to English when the whole team gathers, which degrades the communication flow a little - only a small percentage are native speakers. This requires good team-building activities. Still trying to figure out what activities would excite the whole team without breaking the bank.

- Disseminating our "corporate culture" - supposes daily human office interaction. Having everyone in an online chat helps a lot.

- Taking care of pension schemes, as everyone is scattered around the globe, with different systems, expenditure levels, etc.

- Having a system that shows who's at the desk, who is on a vacation, and so on. Our service business needs real-time operations, so we need to rely on people coming in at work in the morning and staying full-time.

Things we wish we would have done sooner:

- Identified a jurisdiction and settled down at some place, call it an HQ. A company has to have a physical home where it banks and pays tax, even if it is 100% remote. An Accountant and a person with a PoA from the Director should be present there physically all the time to interact with authorities and the bank.

- This was in the original article, but I wish we would have introduced the tradition of online meetings with webcams on sooner. May sound silly, but this helps avoid turning into a bunch of cave warriors and keeping personal relationships alive.

- Introduced a single office closure dates document spanning multiple countries to accommodate for different holiday schedules.

I'd say the most important lesson of all is having the right people on the ground to handle relationships with local authorities and the bank. We can all choose to be nomads, but our business would not have survived if we weren't lucky to find a great Accountant and Director's Assistant who live in our jurisdiction, and a person on our "nomadic team" to handle that relationship.
I listened to a recent podcast on NPR that talked about this. (This is just one source so find others.) One couple was drawing down retirement money and slashing spending rather than work horrible conditions in tv/movies. They both said that they would have to start working more soon as their money buffer was getting small. I think there are a lot of people at the lower end that are doing this. Using the government payouts, plus savings, plus cutting costs to just take a break and reset what work is and what it should be.
Core gamers prefer constructed identities. Real names are secondary and for real worlds only. That's where Facebook et al and gamers disagree.
Be ready for websites that make you pay to read them.

They gotta make money to keep up somehow, and if they can't do it through ads, they will do it through subscription.
An inspiration. The best way to challenge insanity is to simply ignore it and move forward without consideration.

You can't debate apartheid because it's farcical to begin with. The terminology even - exemption - makes our brains feel fuzzy, confused. What is this "exemption"? I'll just do my thing, thanks.

We could all learn something from this.
How solid is the basis that the virus came from South Africa? I believe it was South African district which first reported but as far as I can tell South Africa as confirmed source is a meme. If that is the case it is also lacking basis to make any judgements from which the population the virus arose.
Correct. People have a “no deal I’ll wait” option.

Same as business as always had.

If we maintain that then we will have a free market in labour. Pay the price or don’t get any.

Or spend the capital automating and working out how to do more with less. It is supposed to be capitalism after all.
> outside of a very specific subculture this is a very risky joke

Welcome to the Internet?
so your notebook where you write down contacts is not yours? this does not make sense. i own everything about me also who i follow and who follows me.
It was theoretically better in selected aspects, but do we really know given how little it flew?

The USSR knockoff of the Concorde was also superior on paper in certain aspects, but firsthand accounts of flying on it and its operational history clearly expose its inferiority to western technology.
FWIW, I created a production batch transcoding backend using python to construct ffmpeg command lines. If you don't need streaming you may not need to talk to the libraries.

(The transcoding was for transforming DVB-T captures to multi-bitrate HLS and MS Smooth Streaming formats as part of a Cloud PVR. It was a separate backup pipeline in case the commercial streaming pipeline failed, which tended to happen a lot initially.)
I’m a fan of just learning as you go. It sounds like you’ve built relatively simple apps so maybe try to build something more complex, even if a “stupid” idea.

Try React or Vue with some database component and go from there.

And before you start, look up a resource for how to write good tests with the tech you choose, and work on that as you go as well.

Good luck!
> Corporate taxes are 20%, dividend taxes 30% on remaining 80? That gets you to 44% net tax. From gross to net.

No, there are special tax rules for small companies (the so-called 3:12 rules). You can pay yourself a small dividend ($15k or so), but above that you’re taxed as if it was regular income.

> Income taxes are higher but still not 70-80%?

Payroll tax is 31% and then you pay around 55% marginal tax on what’s left.

It’s debatable how you should count VAT in this context. Your consultant invoices will have 25% VAT on them that you have to pay the government. Your customers can get that back from the government, but will have to pay VAT on any value your services create. Since the name of the tax is value added tax I think it’s fair to say you are adding the value with your labor and are in fact the one paying the tax, but others may disagree.
It very much depends on where you live of course. Thankfully, most places regulate public advertisement to some extent, but the level of regulation will differ from place to place.
It is possible to do USB on microcontrollers that lack hardware USB support: https://github.com/obdev/v-usb
They didn't. Authoritarian intervention happened.
tl;dr: Get vaccinated, get boosted. It works. Even against Omicron.
The Silent Suffering of the Non-Neurotic (2006)
I've seen this domain submitted in the last year or so. Who or what is Lynalden? Are they an economist, or a blogger, or both?

Not that credentials are the be all end all, but what's different about this person vs anyone who's posting at SeekingAlpha, or any of the investing sub reddits?
A side effect of deciding systems engineers can be replaced by devops.

In reality, you want both. A good systems person can save you a ton of money.