skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Supporting GPL software, on the other hand, can be very viable

On the other other hand, it means that there is a big incentive from the software's own developers to ensure that the software needs support.
For most women, photoshopped models on billboards already crossed the line decades ago.
Thank the Lord reality (still) does not have cookie banners.
Mico: A PDM to USB Microphone Based on the Raspberry Pi RP2040
I think the real luck is getting on the ladder in the first place, where you have a prestigious job that is a natural step to even more prestigious jobs, ie you are always a likely candidate for the job above. Most hedge funds and FAANG employers get a lot of resumes that will never even be read.

Also you really don't know what you're actually applying for when you're a graduate. You think you know but only those who are fortunate are able to get it right. Plenty of people get a job thinking it leads somewhere. For instance, I've interviewed a lot of financial ops people who think they're on the ladder to becoming a trader. It does happen, but not that often.

But good on him, it still takes work and dedication to do something like this.
> Still be around and kill people? Sure, but that's true of the seasonal flu,

I wish people would stop comparing it to the flu, it's highly misleading.

1. With restrictions in place covid killed more.

2. One in ten people still experience illness 12 weeks after the infection. Covid gets into the nervous system by crossing the neural-mucosal interface. Way more people that wouldn't have ended up in hospitals with a flu do ended up in hospitals with Covid. Even with vaccines. Long covid is no joke. Etc.

> and even the common cold in rare cases. Saturate hospitals? No.

Hopium and wishful thinking.
Remember that you don't really need to save money for late-life healthcare and your childrens' education, and just get out when you have saved enough
Well, maybe not daily but everytime I configure graphics to see how hardware acceleration is doing :)
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. People who need something will find it just fine without billboards. And people buying things they don't need is not exactly in the interest of society. So why should society pay for it?

I've been working on a policy paper idea for my home country - Slovenia. Complete ban of all outdoor advertising except shopfronts and limit those.

Now, since you can't just ban it outright, there's still need for advertising, a different solution should be offered:

Every community needs to have a public billboard, setup and maintained by the local government, one per 500 residents, where 25% of the area is auctioned to commercial ads, 25% is awarded with a lottery system (to prevent money dominating too much), 25% for cultural events and 25% for nonprofits and charity.
The advertising space should be place in a crowded area (like a square). It needs some extra rules for high density area, so that space can be grouped, but not too much.

All other outdoor advertising is banned. Since a lot of companies would be effectively banned by this move, some sort of (small) compensation should be paid to them and time given, so they can pivot.
Costs of removing the advertising should be subsidized for the same reason. Any advertising facades or roofs (i.e. different colored tiles used to make the roof) can stay, but the ad has to be removed when the roof/facade is replaced.
Money coming in from the ad actions should more than cover this expense.

Possibly add an exception to "shopping center", where such advertising is permitted, but with strict rules to what such a center is (i.e. has no residents).

I know most Americans will balk at such "government overreach" but I think it could pass here if someone actually put some effort in.
You don’t want to reward people for quantity, but quality. The cost of creating a new webpage is effectively zero, so if you attach an incentive for creating them you are doomed.
I think you wanted to say the answer to my question is `yes`.
> where only ~25% of the population is vaccinated for lack of doses

South Africa is refusing vaccine shipments because their stockpiles are full.

https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/exclusive-south-africa-...
> So long as you append the "PC" part to the name, no one will associate it to the Nazi thing

Except for the more than 99% of non-gamers who don’t hang out on boards like /v/?

I’m not accusing anyone of being a Nazi, just pointing out that outside of a very specific subculture this is a very risky joke (and not a particularly funny one in any context).

You probably wouldn’t call people -fags (newfag, macfag, eurofag, etc…) either, even though “master race” carries far worse connotations than “fag”.
Hardly matters to rulers, they still get all of life's amenities.
An acre of trees should be enough to give you an average of 4 kW of thermal power year round, way more than you probably need. Though at 1 W/m^2 how much industry an area of trees could support was the binding constraint on industry for a lot of recorded history. Especially there was always pressure to turn forests into farmland.
My SO just started a PHD in chem eng, before she decided we looked for some open positions and found nothing/low paying (40-50K a year) jobs for grads.

I guess everything IS bigger in the USA
Training AI to select best-of-the-best stock trades
You think EU will become more close knit?

The Dutch government recently said that next time the EU treaty is updated they will request the "ever closer union" be removed.

Poland and some other eastern EU countries also seem to be pushing for more national sovereignty.
People can still follow some of his advice, maybe end up with less money, but there's still some good advice.
Air pump heat pump?

How many kWh of gas were you using for heating in winter before the switch? How many kWh of electric do you use now?did you have to replace your radiators or add any extra insulation?

I’ve got a 1962 house with an oil boiler, currently using about 10 litres a day on heating, tempted to change to an air powered heat pump
Sees initial salary in 2009 (peak recession) was $100,000

Sees last salary was $625,000

Chuckles and closes the article about achieving financial independence
I don't know on MacOS, but on NixOS nix fetches pre-built binaries from Cachix. It only needs to build derivations if you customize them.
> What can we European devs do to boost tech salaries in Europe?

Basically, build a network of tech monopolies which engage in unethical, if not criminal practices, then build a VC ecosystem that is ready to spend king's ransoms to get startups to join that club. Wait as these companies compete to buy your soul.
Mouahahahahahaahah.

So the "path" to financial independance mainly involves getting a 100k/year from day one.

I hope it will inspire and convince all these people who earn below the US median salary range of 47k/year. (and they range in all age categories, not 20 years old engineers).

That guy is seriously delusional.
I have never seen that term be used in a self-deprecating way. Also, I'd want any mature community to introspect on whether it really needs to co-opt Nazi terminology.
> > MacPorts distributes source code that is compiled on install, so Macports is generally much slower to install packages

False. Binaries, built from source, are used by default.
1) why would a US president want to live in the White house in DC? It doesn't matter what they want, the official residence comes with the job. I do not think that Mr Tutu spent every single day of his tenure in Bishopscourt - you are right, it wasn't his scene. But he was a common sight there.

2) It was literally illegal for Mr Tutu to live there, then. Doing so anyway, with the backing of a major church, who chose to send him there, was a political act. Which he performed with good humour.
This is hilarious and depressing at the same time since, having turned 40 recently, I still hope to start a first career in software development in the near future.
What is X though? If it's "paragraphs" then fair enough, but if it's "obscure tikz diagram" etc. etc. then that's a different conundrum.

If this is actually a point about latex being difficult to (say) write libraries for then I agree profusely but equally if you are writing latex-without-latex or whatever then you still have to deal with latex's wackiness even if it's got a shiny new frontend with its own quirks.

Some billionaire funding a well designed latex killer would probably be a real gift to science - there is probably a lot of ground to be made up in spreading information (i.e. rendering latex for the web is surprisingly hard) and adding features like (say) structured programming to things like writing mathematics in LaTeX - I'd love for my work to be checked by a CAS automatically for example.
> Ultimately for me, that’s what financial independence is all about, and why it is all worth it. It’s not about sitting on a beach and drinking your life away. It’s about having the freedom to pursue your life purpose, whatever it may be, and however impractical it may be.

This is just my personal opinion, but this is an ass backwards way of doing things and it gets me frothing at the mouth.

If it's your life purpose, DO it already. Live lean if you have to, become a cockroach if you must, but let that purpose ROAR out of you. Don't sit around accruing meaningless tokens, becoming an old fuck with all of the juice of life wrung out of you like some decrepit mop.

Sincerely, a decrepit mop.
450k as a team lead? I’ve never heard of that. In itjobswatch.co.uk highest median salary for London is around 200k.
You and ncmncm are talking past one another.

The long-term secular cost of electricity from renewables has been falling, with a trend that can be projected back at least 50 years. The incremental improvements are slow, but very steady. I suspect this is what ncmncm is referring to. In time, that cost curve will make all but the most essential of fuel-based generation, including nuclear fission, economically infeasible.

Yes, storage needs further development. That's also been coming along, and I believe we have sufficient options to address most needs.

I suspect you're referring to recent fluctuations in grid costs within Europe, and yes, that's also a reality, but a short-term one.

Both of you would do well to actively listen to the other, and clarify points of disagreement and/or misunderstanding.
I'm not clear on your question.

The point is that autism could be the consequence of damage to nerve cells. When given to an adult, a stroke may cause physical and mental issues. The same would be the case for a child, but (especially for young children) the symptoms would appear differently.
Software companies can both transform the world and simultaneously be an equity bubble.
"We at least know that the basic concept works. It's visible every day, worldwide."

The basic concept is a very hot, very big star. We cannot really rebuild that. We can make bombs with the principle since a while - but we are still far from controlling that energy.
You can do a lot of it without moving to the US or working as a small but niche consultancy outfit (I get 200+ euro/hour from and in the eu); wfh for a US company, as a company in a cheap EU country that has favorable tax for companies. Then optimize. For instance, a UK company can deduct a lot of things especially work from home, you just need to optimize for them. Works fine for programmers at least. I do not think people who 'work jobs' know how much they can optimize their position; which is comparable to the US in rights really in many EU countries.
What literature did you use to obtain suitable algorithms for search/NLP?
I'd imagine the audiobook wouldn't be as good as the paper version of this book because:

- I find I often want to go back to earlier sections, to review a concept that's relevant to the current part, and

- Much of the information has structure that's hard to keep straight without pages and text formatting
I just had a BM, and it was more normal. Thank you for the suggestion though.
Moroccan opposition leader Mehdi ben Barka was a spy, cold war files suggest
The phone should just be the external monitor to the pc.

E.g. The Sony Xperia 1 III has a 4K 120hz screen and can be used as an external display for a Sony camera, would make sense as part of a headset too.
> And not realizing you really need 4-6 of these people to be able to get to your five nines is the second mistake (you need people on call 24x7 and when they are sick, over Christmas, etc).

If you need that kind of availability, you need to have people on call anyway to babysit your app. A good infrastructure (unless built to the minimal price point) will handle nearly all cases of hardware failure automatically, without someone having to wake up, so it's not likely to put additional load on those people.

I'm not necessarily disagreeing with your overall point, but if you need five nines, you're talking about an entirely different league of infrastructure compared to people who need two or three VMs that could also be handled by a NUC somewhere in the office (which will amortize itself against AWS in a few months).
It is probably easier to be a millionaire if you do not feel the need to socialize with other millionaires, live where they live, do what they do, send your kids to the same exclusive schools etc.

Of course, without networking with other millionaires, becoming a millionaire is a bit harder...

On yet another hand, a millionaire living in the well-to-do coastal communities of California might actually still be financially insecure, while a not-yet-quite millionaire living in rural Montana may be secure for life.

I am instinctively drawn towards the rural Montana thing, but mainly because I am introverted anyway.
It would have been more interesting that he writes on how it was complicated for him to reach financial independence even when he earned 100k/year from day one and more than 600k/year 12 years later.

Just imagine how it's impossible for someone with 47k/year!

And that's the MEDIAN salary range in the US!

But apparently that thought escaped him, whatever.
Ex Amazon here.

I've been in companies that owned their datacenters and it was much, much cheaper than using any cloud service.

Poorly managed datacenters exist but that's an organization problem. Remove the datacenter and you'll have poorly managed cloud instances and services costing millions.
There are few things we want to do on-premise any more. The main problem of on-premise, and benefit of cloud, is that we can add new capacity at a moments notice. You never have to wonder if you’ll need to add more capacity (with two month lead times) to provision a database.

Now you could say that infra teams that do not anticipate such a need are less than ideal, and I’d agree with you, but I haven’t been part of them and I imagine they have their own issues to deal with.

Cloud (as a dev) makes me not worry about infra teams, since they’re not our problem (beyond the ones managing the cloud environment).
> xchm

Some materials (like old HP-UX training or documentation) is available as CHM files. You can convert them to something else but it the looks like sh*t ... this using xchm(1) helps here. Yes, nowadays it also does not happen that often.

Besides xchm(1) does not look that bad:

- https://www.dedoimedo.com/images/computers/2009/xchm-another...

> xev

I use that to test what keys what codes have. For example with ThinkPad W520 the keys to the left and right of the ARROW keys are 'NEXT' and 'PREV' - I always map them to Page Up and Page Down keys with ~/.xmodmaprc file:

! PAGE UP/PAGE DOWN
keycode 167 = Next NoSymbol Next
keycode 166 = Prior NoSymbol Prior

... and I use xev(1) in that process first to check what codes are before xmodmap(1) does the job and second time when the new xmodmap(1) config is loaded.

Its not daily but I also do not use nc(1) or traceroute(1) or dig(1) daily but I of course use these tools when needed.

Hope that helps.
Does it also offer frequent name-dropping of the author's celebrity friends and personal stories which can be best explained by 'survivorship bias'?
Yeah I don’t get how their outgoings are so low given where they must live… rent or buy it simply doesn’t fit even if they are renting a room and living of cup noodles based on rent in the Bay Area some of their outgoings are suspiciously low.

So I think getting a house gifted by your parents is also a requirement for their path.
Presumably selling ad space on things like buses and bus stops helps pay for those services. I’m much more sympathetic to physical ads. I can just ignore it instead of waiting to click a skip button.
What happens to wooden tools after they are used? In my experience they end up in the dishwasher where they get ruined.
There is little point in discussing money and using yourself as an example when you are extremely well off.

Congrats to OP for having a lot of money in the bank, but there is nothing special or unique about their advice. It's the usual invest your money, don't spend too much, try to get into a top company, etc.

Even for someone in a similar situation, there is very little here that I haven't seen repeated elsewhere countless times.
While I was waiting for the electrician to add a new circuit for our new induction oven (replacing an aga), we bought a £35 plug in induction hot plate. 80% of our existing pans were induction ready too
Is he? In 2016 a US company from Atlanta I was doing work for was budgeting $95k+ for graduates with zero experience for junior positions in sdev.
But they do. You have to mentally process the incoming data first, then discard it. It's a waste of attention, especially with mind-catching ads you can't figure out immediately. Sometimes they are as blocking as browser pop-ups, e.g.: logotypes (or even full ads) displayed before a responsive UI is shown to you, duty-free zones in the airports, and so on. I am pretty sure we will soon have real-life targeted billboards. Even with the current tech, what prevents a webcam with NN to recognize if you're wearing sneakers and tell the display along your way to show some beanie ads, especially if it's cold outside? If you walk into a grocery store you are bombarded with displays outright, and before checking out you are tasked with cross-sale suggestions. All this crap blocks your mind and steals your attention.
I think this problem would have been debugged and solved much quicker if they'd done a CPU scheduling trace. Then they could see, microsecond by microsecond, exactly which processes were doing which work, and what incoming requests are still waiting.

Then, let a human go in and say "How come request#77 hasn't yet been processed at this point, even though CPU#3 is working on printing unused debug data for a low priority request and #77 is well after its deadline!??".

Then you debug deeper and deeper, adjusting parameters and patching algorithms till you can get a CPU trace that a human can look at and think "yeah, I couldn't adjust this schedule by hand to get this work done better".

In this process, most people/teams will find at least 10x performance gains if they've never done it before, and usually still 2x if you limit changes to one layer of the stack ('eg. Im just tweaking the application code - we won't touch the runtime, VM, OS or hypervisor parameters').
Being able to cook when the power goes out is resilient. 100% reliance on electricity is building a fragile infrastructure.
Streak (YC) is hiring remote (North America) Infrastructure engineers
Something like spf13/cobra?
You should reconsider your worth and attempt to re-negotiate pay.

I started out 6-7 years ago at £30k and am now at £100k + options (worthless). Have only ever worked at startups. You can 1.5x that easily at a big tech (some FAANG jobs exist in London).
TLDR; Get a job in faang and keep interviewing and you will be financially independent.

I don't like this article at all, since it does not talk about the average software engineer. The author's current salary is 625k USD which would already make one financially independent regardless of any of the other decisions that they took in their life (eg. living with roommates to be frugal like they suggest)
I bookmark every site I might possibly want to revisit - make a habit of Ctrl+D. They're totally unsorted, but the key is to wipe the regular history on exit, leaving only the bookmarks as source material for completion. That way I can type something in the url bar and get completion to interesting sites. The url bar (or omnibox) matches on page title as well as the actual address, so it's easy, and always faster than a search engine.
> Real people? That's crossing a line.

Not really. You can't force people to say stuff they don't want to say, and it was always possible (although with a higher barrier to entry) to come up with recordings of people who sound like other real people. Impersonators aren't a new concept.

Just because you have a recording that sounds like person x saying thing y doesn't mean that person x actually said thing y and, critically, it never did. Nothing has changed here.

> manipulating my face and voice to say what I did not and never would say is a misuse of my property

Your appearance and the way that you sound a) aren't property, and b) aren't yours.
Reflecting on a Post-ATI World
> The central problem with this and similar endeavors: nobody is willing to pay what they are worth in ads. Let's say the average Google user in the US earns them $30/year. Are you willing to pay $30/year for an ad-free Google experience? Great! We now know that you are worth at least $60/year.

Is this relevant for non-profit project? Do you pay $30/year for Wikipedia?
> Nobody expects them to be professional mechanics or cooks.

To be fair, there’s also nobody that would listen to them over a professional mechanic or cook.
Premature optimization is the root of all evil. Best to concentrate on the algorithm first, and then, maybe, improve it with a faster language.

Apart from that, the misconception that "python is slow" should die :-)
I think one element missing in that comparison is that you’d get a free subway ride or a grocery discount for viewing the ad.

I vehemently dislike ads but I thought that should be mentioned.
(Acronis True Image licensing model changed to subscription), customers don't seem to be happy about that: https://forum.acronis.com/forum/acronis-cyber-protect-home-o...
"Without seeking exemption from the law" is the key phrase. He refused to respect a discriminatory law, and, by living there, was effectively daring the Apartheid government to arrest a sitting archbishop.
That's amazing, I have pretty much exactly the same ideas. Advertising is a huge business predicated entirely on manipulating people to make purchases they otherwise wouldn't, surgically exploiting weaknesses in our psyche. It's immoral, and it's economically wasteful.
The social principles of classical liberalism can’t not age well. They’re essentially timeless. More specifically, for example, the morality surrounding 3WF and TERFs isn’t exactly a settled debate. I’m not now taking a position on it either — just observing that different people have wildly different perspectives, and it is foolish to believe that there is one true moral position on this or any other hot topic on Twitter. I believe that’s the point that the author is making.
The people writing articles at Forbes are on payroll. Ad blockers take food off their plate just to avoid a minor inconvenience. All you're doing is pushing these companies to either go subscription only or go bankrupt. Watch the level of entitlement of the people who will inevitably try defending their content theft. They can't win the argument and they always appeal to false moral virtues. They act like targeted ads are the dawn of an Orwellian police state.