skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
almost nobody pays for 'ad free' experience
There are almost zero people on the entire planet whose personal impact is noticeable at this scale. But so what? We need both individual and policy action.

“At scale, nobody notices the harm I’m doing” can be used to justify all manner of antisocial behavior. I don’t buy the argument.
If your wok has a flat bottom, then it’s not a wok. The circular shape of a wok diffuses heat up the sides, which a flat bottom pan doesn’t do. A flat bottom pan also doesn’t allow you to toss whatever it is you’re frying properly. If an induction cooktop was capable of providing the appropriate amount of heat, this would simple end up burning some of the food. However, it most certainly is not. An induction cooktop _might_ be capable of heating a pan up to the appropriate temperature (I’m skeptical about that), but it can’t keep it there. That temperature will drop the moment you put anything in it, and if you want to properly stir fry something, you need your wok to keep that scalding temperature the whole time you’re cooking.

You can cook food in a flat bottom frying pan on an induction cooktop, but you can’t do anything close to a traditional stir fry technique.
It’s more like 3 or 4 years due to taxes, even if you don’t spend your money. Feels like government is hellbent on making sure you don’t become a millionaire.
In case some moron from the west comes after you, please accept my permission as an Indian to use Apu's voice. Pathetic puritans killed off my favourite character.
Insecurity, lack of self-awareness, lack of support
This is not accurate. This year coal has produced 23% of US electricity. See table 7.2a. https://www.eia.gov/totalenergy/data/monthly/
Looks like a lot of these have been pulled from songs/movies, so their voice pattern follows of that media type.
I would never make assumptions banking on "most people understanding" anything.
> That's not relevant.

it serves to disprove your misleading implication that free markets were destroyed by the goverment paying ppl to stay at home.

> Citation?

look around
Ask HN: Best Talks of 2021?
2020: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25537230

2019: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21858866

2018: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18740939

2017: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16045859

2016: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12637239

Ever: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18217762
I should point that Pearson's correlation coefficient can be updated on-line, the storage complexity is O(1). The storage complexity for sorting is O(N).

Thus, this particular algorithm will not fit into, say, traffic analysis framework.
What is an "imbicile"?
Woah, people have some issues with homebrew? Legit I’ve been a happy user of homebrew forever; I never stopped to analyze it much though.

If you would be so kind to elaborate? I’m curious what the pain points or issues are with homebrew.
> as an online discussion grows longer (regardless of topic or scope), the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Adolf Hitler approaches 1

GP compares gamers to right wing ideologues. QED
Using a different metric the Netherlands are slightly better than the US, but Germany is slightly worse.

https://www.oecd.org/els/soc/1-5%20generations.png
I'm a software engineer who saw a few videos on YouTube, and read a few articles on this topic, I don't think I am the right person to ask about this, sorry.
Do Chinese lack sweat glands in their armpits? (2002)
> I don't understand why people say things like this. According to a quick search, it's 8°C right now and is forecasted to be as low as 3°C later this week.

That's still above freezing, which some may not consider "cold".

For example, even 'basic' heat pumps, the ones that look exactly the same as AC-only boxes, can typically work down to 5C. However once you drop down freezing and into the negatives (C) you tend to need mini-split systems. That's what the GP may mean when the word "cold" was used.
exactly, free and opensource is amazing, but the developer should also earn money to live, maybe add donations, or maybe add some web3 features
Another free and open source note taking app with WYSIWYG is TagSpaces (https://www.tagspaces.org).
I had a similar feeling moving from London to deep English countryside with my parents as a kid. But it was the sheer silence of the place we moved to that unnerved me, and it took me a good few weeks for me to go to sleep normally. (There were plenty of small animals, but my bedroom was on a high first floor, so I couldn’t hear things scuttling about). I live in a small city again now, and really miss the true quiet at night. Funny enough, the pandemic lockdowns in the UK were reminiscent of being in the country - far fewer cars and public transport meant that there was real quiet for once and the reduction in pollution meant that you could smell al sorts of things that were normally dominated by ambient exhaust fumes. I remember one time in particular when i realised I could hear a train in the far distance for the first time since I moved here.
Surely it wouldn't be much harder to build an actual theremin rather than faking it with lidar?

Certainly the real theremin is conceptually simpler, though the availability of pre-packaged lidar chips removes a lot of the complexity.
I've learned the most working with account managers/account directors at an agency, especially more experienced ones.

Out the top of my head, things you should keep in mind:

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

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

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

- Always reply, never leave someone hanging;

But you'll only get these things rooted by exposing yourself and doing it. You'll just be missing someone to course correct you, and nudge you in the right direction.
Yes, that is a concern. I'd probably worry about it if and when it started happening, however.
This is really cool. I don't think you're aware of how valuable your Bayesian combination is. The reason I could claim that is that your first point was this:

>1. What should I focus on learning to get a backend developer job that pays 180k+ in a major market

You could make more as a developer; you could make more as a lawyer, but you're a develawyer (or a lawyeroper) and a non-linearity should apply.

I have some ideas for your profile. First, the obvious ones:

https://www.avodocs.com (YC) does legal documents for startups. You could work one the programing and the legal aspects for the crowd you seem predisposed to serve given your presence in this forum.

https://rebase.co. Description :

>Rebase is a new, safe, and easy-to-use platform by Nomad List for becoming a legal and fiscal resident in countries that want to attract remote workers

It sits between users and lawyers to manage the full process. It started this year and I think you could link up with https://twitter.com/levelsio and see what you could do to scale it.

Again, whether you wear your developer hat and lawyer glasses, or your lawyer hat and developer glasses; the results will be interesting.

Now for the less "obvious" things. I work at a boutique consultancy that builds end to end machine learning products for large organizations. Machine learning means we work with data and working with data means a whole lot of questions that have to be answered. Compliance with a law that was just passed or a legislation project that may become law in the future.

Sometimes, you work with an organization that serves clients, and these clients have data of their clients. The project means you may have to use data of your client A, which is data of their clients B, C, D, which itself is data of the nested "clients" E, F, G.

The conversation becomes: whose data is this ? What can you do ? What can't you do ? What should the client transmit ? Everything ? Out of the question. Is the client very sensitive (health, defense, finance, communication)? Where will the models be trained and what's the data flow (these are the meetings where people talk about territory, sovereignty, and borders). Where will the software be deployed. Which cloud provider, in which country. On-premises ? How to maintain and who will access from where ?

There are many people involved. Many conversations. Many consultations. Mutual availability. Meetings scheduled weeks or months in advance.

How about you productize this for these problems that pretty much every organization that wants to do anything with data has meetings about. No need to re-invent the wheel. You make a cookie-cutter.

One way to do this is to join a large company that does this kind of projects for organizations. Learn what the friction points are, then develop a product (software + legal) to do that.
That might seem niche from a Eurocentric perspective, but a gas burner is probably the most ubiquitous cooking appliance around the world. A lot of the worlds cuisine has been developed around cooking on top of one.
> but as someone without children

this is a huge factor that influences almost every other decision he listed there:
- living with roommates or renting a cheap apartment
- not wanting to buy an apartment
- having the time to do side hustles
- even changing career paths is challenging when you have a family to take care of
- saving the majority of his annual compensation

I don’t want to say his advices are bad, just keep in mind that it’s not applicable to everyone
Makes sense to me. However, I was still inspired by this writeup / approach. Specifically for hobbiest projects. I also think for the time being, I may implement this on my lame closet server.
> For instance, I've interviewed a lot of financial ops people who think they're on the ladder to becoming a trader

I think it is definitely possible to know. My college friends with parents in tech certainly knew.

When I was in college, I looked over H1B data to get a sense of what was really going on. The conclusion: finance, consulting, law, all vastly overrated in compensation unless you are doing quantitative finance or have a very rare job.

Medicine and tech, appropriately rated for comp.
Not "anyone", but probably most newcomers to the industry. Since they are simply not exposed to the non-cloud ways of setting up infra.

On ever AWS/cloud post here the first comment is usually rent dedicated boxes from Hetzner (or whomever) and you can cut your costs. (And especially now with k8s it is really really easy to have something sane on bare-ish metal.)

But at the same time what "cloud" gives to people is 20+ PoPs around the world. Basically giant hosting companies, with an endless list of bells and whistles.
Haskell also has `String`, which is a linked lazy list of boxed UTF32 characters. Yes, it's as horrible for performance as it sounds. Also, there are `ByteString`s which wrap strings in other encodings.
You have a similar thing with Java, but you instead learn how the JVM works.
Exactly, no comparisons have been made here.

Edit in response to your edit:

> GP compares gamers to right wing ideologues. QED

It really doesn’t, there’s no suggestion that gamers are similar to right wing ideologues.

The comment just points out the fact that a specific group of gamers has decided to borrow Nazi terminology for the name of their group, it does not imply that the gamers and nazis are similar or even somehow comparable.
You can dismiss almost anything with that. "I didn't think sitting down on the bus would register much of a blip."

The fact that we know about it means that it did register.
Being on the receiving end of racial abuse doesn't sound like freedmon to me.
Knock Knock Who's There? – An NSA VM
Ten Years of Logging My Life
Yes, the majority of American (and global) workers will not be able to retire in their 30s.
An exact comparison was made between the use of the terms master race in nazi ideology and the naming of a modern technology movement.
There are certainly companies like yours that are perhaps Web product driven and need flexible scalability, but there are many out there that have little requirements for such scaling, at least unexpectedly, which will run perfectly fine with on-premises virtualisation.

The poster above is right, both have their purpose, but those sold on cloud as the complete solution are kidding themselves in most cases, Happy to accept crazy cloud cost blow-outs above over-provisioning tin or thinking properly about the use-cases.

It honestly sounds like you don't care about efficiency because of either good inflows or a need to move extremely fast. Such is the appeal of cloud...
Catastrophic failures won't kill anyone near the plant, but when the expensive radioactive fusion reactors breaks themselves and can't be easily (or at all) repaired, it could well kill interest in fusion reactors.

I am reminded of what they did at Hanford when installing the facilities where spent fuel would be processed to extract plutonium: to show that the machinery in the hot cells could be repaired with remote control manipulators, they had the workers install that machinery with the manipulators. I'll believe a tokamak can be repaired remotely when the build one the same way.
Agreed, this was my thinking - and since I'm better at Python, it's faster for me to get stuff done. I would like to rewrite it in Rust though, all help from Rustaceans gladly accepted!
Assuming you meant 25 rather than 15
25 year old, I meant.
And the majority of Europe is still ahead of the US, so what’s your point?
Yeah, can't imagine this guy's conversation on a date. Oh, wait - having a partner is an additional expense so out of the question.
What's the size of your index in records?
I just checked the same thing. I didn’t get a consent banner at all, not sure why.

I’d just like to add that a decent chunk of the traffic to this site is from people typing “free photo editor” or things along those lines.

The creator of this site is specifically targeting people who want a free photo editor… And then complaining about people wanting to use it for free.
Yeah, good luck defining what an ad is. And adverts will always try to manipulate their audience. It would take 3 seconds for them to start doing that again.
Are we even allowed outside any more?
Also the difference between outdoors a generation ago and outdoors now. Depending on where you are, the decrease in birdcalls is huge, but happens so slowly that most people don't know what we're missing. That loss has been happening over longer than a generation or two.

Also, there are fewer places where you hear no car noises or planes at all.

We can do something about it, but it takes work.
I really don't mean this as a slight, honestly just asking, what's the big draw towards using a markdown editor (as opposed to just writing in plain text in something like vscode and clicking 'preview markdown' occasionally when really necessary) ?
I write lots of markdown but never got into using a markdown editor. Just trying to understand. Is it mainly to make sure your formatting is correct? Or to get a feel for what the final product looks like?
Bad economics is very debatable. Still a top 15 country by GDP, it virtually matches the economic output of Australia. Pensions are 20 times higher (!) from the country I'm originally from, that is still in the European Union. So yeah, if you are from US, it might look 'bad', but for about 6 Billion people it's a dream place.
But also, they certainly don't work themselves to death. Live to live, not work.
>I did a year in grad school before working in tech in the Bay Area for more than a decade, including at two companies from FAANG.

I guess moved there with a F-1 visa, then F1 OPT and then H1-B?

The "best" flow at the moment from what I have seen seems to be working for FAANG in Europe and then moving with a L1 visa, though that depends of course on the company.
There is no increase. Whey do you keep repeating these things when they are trivially disproved?

https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/grossdomesticproductgdp/times...
The dangerous thing in the ARC reactor is not the plasma; it's the magnets (most of the mass of the reactor is the steel supports needed to constrain the stored energy) and the titanium hydride neutron shield for the magnets. This shielding is close to the molten salt; at the temperature of that salt TiH2 fully decomposes, releasing its hydrogen gas. There's a lot of hydrogen there.
Impressive! Does that include the startup costs of the server you bought, and maintaining it?
Totally. With a masters, starting salary is $120k, so much more in line with OP. Also, OP is total comp, which a BS hits with equity and bonus targets.
I don’t understand why carbon steel isn’t more popular in the US.

Other than heat retention, it’s as good if not better than cast iron in every way, and it’s way lighter to boot.
True in my experience. The path is set long before you think it is. Yes, you can jump on the prestige track later on (in my field, this means joining Apple after 5-10 years of working), but a Stanford grad naturally walks into these jobs. My spouse and I have the same degree and background, aside from alma mater, but they joined a FAANG, in a design role, out of school because that’s where everyone in their Stanford circle was going. I joined a tier 2 company in QA because that’s where my school was feeding people. 6 years later, my spouse is a multi-millionare* and I’m around 1 with 4 more years of experience.

I’ve been trying for years to jump to a FAANG and correct my initial career mistake, but it’s extremely difficult and I’ve only seen the top 10% of my company, in the right positions (not QA), do it. I need to do two jumps: QA to design, then tier 2 to tier 1. As a result, I’ve actually decided to throw in the towel and “reroll” as a software dev.

* For the purposes of retirement we track our net worths separately

[Edit] I also would like to mention that the article says as much
> Not really in a serious way, partly because I do not have an idea where would I start. Any ideas?

On premise search. Businesses have lots of resources on their internal websites, but no easy way to search them in one place. Addition of role based search, when I'm logged and search only shows me resources I have access to.
Ads are louder as an industry standard.

In 2012, USA tried to implement the CALM act, which mandated content and ads to be at the same level (“A/85”), but it didn’t play out because ads are measured individually whereas a program is measured as a whole. Complaints to the FCC are still about the loudness of ads… See https://www.izotope.com/en/learn/the-mixers-guide-to-loudnes...
It’s also worth noting that the OP did most of these things at a young age, when most people don’t have kids anyway. Though they may find that that $2.4m won’t generate sufficient income if they do have kids, but then I think they could probably just go back to work if necessary.
> That works out to $46.8k/yr, which is below the official federal poverty line of $52k/yr.

What on earth? It's $12,880. Not 52k. How does 52k even pass the sniff test for you?

https://aspe.hhs.gov/topics/poverty-economic-mobility/povert...
>I remember seeing one more non-profit search engine on HN but can't seem to find it right now.

Probably this one? "A search engine that favors text-heavy sites and punishes modern web design" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28550764 (3 months ago, 717 comments)
The current version of the python lib seems to be extremely badly written code. Or is the algo so bad ? Takes something like 21s to compute the correlation for just 10k samples.
Correct, they will produce more.

Solar panels produce the most power on cold winter days. The 'rated power' is for 20 degrees ambient at full (90 degrees, no cloud) incidence at sea level.
If true, that is probably the last excuse I needed to migrate my own email server off Digital Ocean to another provider. Oh well, it's been a very good run, DO.
I've met similar people who'll spend forever talking the talk but as soon as it gets to laying down some cash or doing some physical/mental work they lose interest very quickly.
I wonder if k8s' bin-packing features would help here.

The graphs seems to validate my general assumption that large-load tasks just suck at scaling whereas small-load tasks can be horizontally scaled easier without falling over. The general assumption being that for most applications, if you ignore everything else about an operation and assume a somewhat random distribution of load, smaller-load services use up more available resources on average than a single large-load service. That's just been an assumption in my head, I can't remember any data to back that up.

Back in the day when I worked on a large-traffic internet site, we tried jiggering with the scheduler and other kernel tweaks, and in the end we literally just routed certain kinds of requests to certain machines and said "these requests need loads of cache" (memcache, local disk, nfs cache, etc) and "these requests need fast io" and "these requests need a ton of cpu". It was "dumb" engineering but it worked out.
In my experience, LaTeX (especially other people's LaTeX) sucks for the same reason coding (especially other people's code) sucks in general.

People tend to be messy and don't really care about code presentation, only whether it "works".

LaTeX code written with care is a pleasure to use; same as other code in general.

I dare anyone to edit an MS Word document via its xml.
I think there are two elements at play.

Consider a person of colour living in the eponymous mansion of the city's wealthiest neighborhood.

For a racist government, it's a symbol of defiance.

For other people of colour, who have been told by the government their whole lives that they are worthless, good only for manual labour -- one of their own is living in the oldest mansion in the fanciest neighborhood in town. It's an affirmation of their worth.

As a symbol, his place of residence had great power.
What I did in Canada was to dig a bunker into the side of a hill near the house. That solved both the frost and any fluid issues in one go. It was a bit of work though to get that all done.
Are you in European Union? I imagine the consent banner may skipped when not in European Union.
I managed a deep learning team at Capital One during the period when they dropped their own data centers and moved completely to AWS. I am 100% sure that they made the right decision. My current company also uses AWS. With modern corporate infrastructure with micro services, and buying vs. building many 3rd party services, it can make sense to go all in on Cloud.

Personally, I miss the days of monolith web applications that were relatively easy to host on a leased server. I continue to be a big fan of Hetzner and their hosted servers as well as their VPSs are very reasonably priced. Another thing that I like about Hetzner, OVH, etc. is that their bandwidth costs are also very reasonable so moving databases and monolith web applications to a similar service does not have to be a big deal.

I think that each company’s needs have to be assessed separately.