skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The best advice i've ever had for this is to just turn it around, and imagine you are hiring someone to build stuff for you - how would you want an ideal candidate to behave? Now work hard at making yourself that ideal candidate.

The second most useful advice is to consider the power dynamics in your relationship, as it is not always the direction you expect. The best long term relationships work when the client and the contractor have as much to gain from the success of the project as each other.

And best of luck with your new venture. Exciting times!
I exaggerated with "anyone near the plant", but accidentally allowing 800 cubic meters of radioactive plasma/gas starting at 150 million degrees to suddenly expand would certainly hurt any human being it comes into contact with.

Hopefully it wouldn't actually be that hard to construct a reinforced concrete shield around the actual reactor to prevent an explosion of the high temp, high pressure, radioactive material from reaching too far into the facility.

The reactor and all its complex components would almost certainly be utterly destroyed, so even if no human victims are made, the money will just have to be written off.
90% of my income is from ads. If I could not make money with my website, I would shut it down and would go get hired by some company.
The post is from 2005. A lot has changed since then and interestingly a lot hasn’t.
A "break" from work I agree. A "reset", I'm not so sure (though I'd love it to be the case!). If they're drawing from their savings and so on, then at some point they'll have to go back to whatever shitty jobs are available -- though now they and society will be much more brittle as the retirement buffer is gone.

If they took the time and money to reinvest in their skills -- I'd agree it would be a reset. But the cynical side of me says they are not, most of them.

It's just a question -- everyone is talking about this great revolution -- however who's paying the rent? I keep coming back that question. Maybe I don't have all the information, but I sure have to pay rent. I wonder how others do this too.

Thanks for your suggestion of the NPR podcast -- I'll check it out :)
You could visit a museum or a zoo. You could go for bike rides, runs, or long walks. If I were single in Manhattan, I'd run and walk.
By the time you get to 100 acres you can basically heat your house with the stuff that blows over in storms and the remainder can yield a nice cash crop every couple of years, giving space for the other trees to grow. Personally I'd prefer a chainsaw for anything but the most incidental cutting, and a hydraulic woodsplitter (rented) to get the job of preparing firewood for a while year done in a short time.
What...?

You said:

> rather than simply admitting that they willingly chose a different path in life, but they could have chased my same opportunities with largely the same financial outcome.

But then you also say

> I do not concern myself with non-practical (in my opinion) matters

The "concern" is your own advice.
The thing I learn is that when you live in US especially in SF, speak US English, you can make the highest earning in the world as a software developer. This is because the tech industry lives in this city.

Even you are a mediocre developer, you can make above average salary because you are so lucky to born in US.
Check out the latest Baikal-S chip too https://www.techpowerup.com/290061/russian-baikal-s-processo...
The Wikipedia page quotes one Director of DARPA (Stephen J. Lukasik):

The goal was to exploit new computer technologies to meet the needs of military command and control against nuclear threats, achieve survivable control of US nuclear forces, and improve military tactical and management decision making.

And Vint Cerf is quoted elsewhere [1] saying:

the original ARPAnet project was built to share computing resources among all the computer science departments. It was not built _solely_ to deal with nuclear attack, so it was a resource-sharing system

[1] https://federalnewsnetwork.com/defense/2010/05/vint-cerf-exp...
I would try two things:

1) Where do people that have use for your app hang-out or post about the problem that your app solves? Are there any online forums or subreddits or facebook groups where your target audience is? If so, I would join these communities and when someone has a problem that your product solves, I'd help them in the comments and point to your product. Many groups are (for a good reason) hostile to adposts, so your best bet would be to spend time and engage with the community as opposed to going for direct adposts immediately.

2) Post on LinkedIn (consistently) using keywords / hashtags that target your customer base. Use infographics or tutorials of your product to showcase how it solves a problem. I know LinkedIn can be a pain, but imho it has one of the best organic reaches of any big social media platform and it's free (apart from the time it takes to write and post).
I don’t disagree that zoning impacts prices, but it’s still “fair market price”, no?

I choose to move to SF knowing that rents were absurd compared to other cities I could have moved to. But I choose to roll the dice on SF being the better choice.

I get it that people who grew up in SF face a different choice - leave or not. But it’s still a choice for them.
Because of the cognitive burden of trying to optimize and work around ludicrously high rates with changing windows. It's why I cling to my outdated tiered plan - I just don't want to let yet another thing steal my attention.

Baking a loaf of bread would cost me $7 at current TOU peak. It's cheaper for me to buy one from the grocery store on energy costs alone, nevermind the material. That's craziness.

And even baseline rates in CA rise at 3-4x inflation. Maybe burning kerosene for lighting will become economically viable again.
Sub 100k engineers are a fiction. Sure, you could get somebody on staff for under 100k salary, but it's not necessarily going to be someone competent.

But even aside from that: OK, you found somebody who agrees to work for 90k. What about social security tax? Group health coverage? Workman's comp insurance? HR support? Payroll? Risk of lawsuits if someone hurts them/their feelings?
Funny that you posted this, have been using this site for a while now.
Being autodidactic myself the best method I've found is to simply over-engineer your personal projects for the sake of learning. I have side projects that I've never even launched that are built using whatever I could find as "best practice" for solving that particular problem at scale.
And yet frame.io seems to be doing very well, it is popping up more and more places.
go mod init

touch main.go
>At multiple points in the McDonald's self-order touchscreen kiosk flow.

Sounds like just one more reason in a long long long list of reasons not to go to McDonalds
That’s the great thing about Bitcoin. You can defraud people at scale and completely get away with it. Hardly seems newsworthy at this point.
I find your comment incredibly pedantic (just my opinion, no offense).

In my opinion, a practical matter is a single person (specifically, one of my peers in my home country complaining about my compensation without taking any action) deciding to make sacrifices to immigrate to the US.

A non-practical matter is worrying about everyone in my home country deciding to do the same.
Help me by answering the following questions: what's your experience with meditation already? Are you looking exclusively for an online course? How often are you willing to meet, and how much time do you have to practice? These will help people give you better suggestions.

By the way, a lot of serious folks hang out on r/streamentry, and you may be better off asking there. They're a thoughtful, welcoming, and kind community as a whole.

I'm going to be taking this course in January. It's an online, 3-day course on tummo. There will be a followup in August. https://ligmincha.pl/event/kurs-tummo-styczen/

Incidentally if you're anywhere near NY, I'm trying to put together a tummo practice group in Brooklyn, and you're welcome to join.
Way to be pedantic. You're right, strictly speaking it's about investing capital (in the economic sense) in order to profit from it. In practice it's all about reducing barriers to trade whether within or outside a country since every other economic system aims to limit some aspect of economic freedom as 'capitalism' is basically just the natural result of barrier-free trade.
It’s a trade off between speed of development and performance. Speed of development seems like a good optimization for an experimental project?
Let's see if it actually materializes. It's not hard to make such claims, it's much harder to deliver on them. I very much doubt the 5 year timeline from "net energy gain" (net plasma energy gain) to an actual power plant (actual net energy gain). Again, extracting energy from the plasma is mostly a theoretical idea at this time, and all the proposed mechanisms would likely require significant engineering challenges (the biggest temperature differential in the solar system; neutron bombardment).
Its like the 'doctors' in the 50's and 60's that endorsed smoking. Just because someone you want to trust says exactly what you want to hear doesnt make it true. Being over weight is unhealthy and hard on your joints, etc ... too much fat has no redeeming features.
Less FUD, please, don't discourage people just because you couldn't do it :-)

EDIT:

> When someone decides to run a persistent brute force attack from a botnet, eating up 100% of your CPU and you have no meaningful ways to block it.

postscreen? http://www.postfix.org/POSTSCREEN_README.html

BTW, there is soo much FUD in your comment, check http://www.postfix.org/ before claiming "someone will hack your email"

"""
First of all, thank you for your interest in the Postfix project.

What is Postfix? It is Wietse Venema's mail server that started life at IBM research as an alternative to the widely-used Sendmail program. Now at Google, Wietse continues to support Postfix.

Postfix attempts to be fast, easy to administer, and secure.
"""
> There is no such thing as labor shortage.

Of course there can be such a thing as a labor shortage, under many different scenarios (during sustained high rates of real economic expansion, specialized types of labor that are difficult to train enough of, fading-away segments that aren't being replenished with new labor due to lack of interest (yet still require active labor), not enough manual labor, not enough immigration, not enough population growth, and so on).

Low wages can make a labor shortage worse, is the actual context.
That’s entirely a judgement call. I wouldn’t assume everyone feels that way.

The people my ancestors stole the land from, stole it from another indigenous tribe. Go back far enough and everyone is living on stolen land.
Victron is top of the line stuff and will serve you well. On marine installations it's not rare at all to see their inverters outlast the hull.
> The good citizen in real life fights the planning applications for new adverts; they tell their local politicians about the damage badverts cause; they fund campaign groups to tell others the same. Make a conscious decision to avoid adverts, and enjoy your life more.

The analogue of blocking ads in real life is physically removing, destroying, or defacing them.
If youre not on the cloud (and even there on AWS and maybe Google Cloud…Azure is ok in a pinch… and iCloud everything if you also overlap with the Mac crowd) are you even an engineer, seems to be one popular strain of HN thought, which comes out particularly aggressively against e-mail servers because they are arguably the worst type of server to run on your own.
As with all social media, moderation will become a big problem.
I the webmail client experience better?

I was thinking of stopping to use gmail and hotmail, and run my own webmail client on a droplet. I don't like the idea of all my documents being tracked.
Is there anything that competes with them that I could deploy.
incorporate your software company

list a couple clients if you can

point out that you’ve been working for that (your) software company for several years as a senior software engineer

pass bullshit brainteaser problems

viola
Can you send a reference for. “Statistical Inference in Computer Age?” There are several books with similar titles.
Except that the timing of those don't line up. Money supply increasing leads inflation, there are almost no instances of CPI increase leading inflation. [edit to add:] (except one very small blip at the beginning of recovery from the great depression)
That data is not hard to find:

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7036a1.htm

https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/jo...

https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/patient-safety-outcome...
> I’d love for there to be DAOs to combat those scooter companies, say for example by blocking the executives’ front doors, cars, garages, offices with giant billboards or vending machines.

Interesting. I don't think one can legitimise just about anything with DAOs. But DAOs do represent a form of group think, an in-group, a collective, so that's there too.

I wonder if GreenPeace / Amnesty / XR / Anti-FA et al have experimented with DAOs.
I think you're suffering hindsight bias, here. A trace is rarely as clear as that, and it's hard to see the details it's not designed to expose.

Your original message would probably be better received if you'd omitted the "I think this problem would have been debugged and solved much quicker [...]" and its insulting implications and instead started with "Sometimes, I find that CPU activity traces can really help with diagnosing this sort of problem".
> I am Swedish and have made significantly more in tech than the author. So has many of my friends.

If you're comfortable with sharing, was it through a company exit or IPO?
All of those things I listed are things I've either done, or that someone I know has done. Arguing that you need windows or a private room is ridiculous. You do not need them, though they're a reasonable want that nearly everyone has. Not having a private room to sleep in didn't kill me, it doesn't kill the billions of people who do it, and it wouldn't kill you.

The broader point here is that whittling away everything nice about your life to be "economically efficient" (as per the original comment I replied to) is a terrible idea unless you've got no alternative. People should have nice things, like windows and kitchens, and they should have better reasons than economic efficiency for giving them up. I don't think you or I disagree on this.
My ads are traditional ads, and the ads are almost always related to the business.

There are no good and bad ads. The creators of ad blockers decide, what the ad is. The code of an ad blocker literally contains a code like: if(website is Photopea.com) find a specific element and delete it.

If an ad blocker tells you, that they are not blocking "good ads", they are usually blackmailing ad companies to pay them, so that they do not block their ads. The money, which could go to content creators, are going to ad block creators.
It’s not a big it’s a feature :/
> Most of the population spend the majority of their income on rent, commuting, and essentials. Students also have lots of debt over the past decade (15k on average). Owning a car is expensive, but so is public transport (esp. for a family). Renting is expensive, but so is buying a house.

> Income tax brackets range from ~40-50%, while corporate and dividend taxes are minimal - 15-20%. VAT is regressive and applies on almost all goods incl. groceries, ranging from 5-21%. There is no capital gains taxes, so this obviously benefits the economically active upper/elite classes who have assets/savings to invest - while middle class families do not own much at all.

I hate to tell you, but the US practically invented all those issues. Average Americans pay a far larger percentage of their income in taxes than the wealthiest Americans or corporations do. You say VAT, we say "sales tax," and, yes, it's still just as regressive. Rent, student loans, etc.... yeah, that's all bad here, too.

https://smartasset.com/data-studies/income-needed-to-pay-ren...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/dec/09/us-student-l...

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/09/23/americas-richest-400-familie...
game: https://ncase.me/trust/

"During World War I, peace broke out.

It was Christmas 1914 on the Western Front.
Despite strict orders not to chillax with the enemy, British
and German soldiers left their trenches, crossed No Man's Land,
and gathered to bury their dead, exchange gifts, and play games.

Meanwhile: it's 2017, the West has been at peace for decades, and
wow, we suck at trust. Surveys show that, over the past forty years, fewer and fewer people say they trust each other. So here's our puzzle:

Why, even in peacetime, do friends become enemies?
And why, even in wartime, do enemies become friends?

I think game theory can help explain our epidemic of distrust –
and how we can fix it! So, to understand all this..."
Do a short exercise about your provisional persona: needs, behaviors, goals, facts. Then ask yourself where you'd find that person and post a smoke test/fake door test landing page in those spaces (for example if your demographic is 50-somethings, women, disposable income, parents, etc. you may look at Facebook and find some groups to distribute your landing page).

Look for microtraction, and then experiment as much as possible.
Problem is, the sun doesen't necessarily rise above the horizon for weeks in northern countries
Since this is lightning network, isnt this also possible that the users are subscribed to some payment? perhaps the subscription is malicious, or maybe its not
A few contentions:

- "Insufficient" moderation is not a cause for an externality. The default level of moderation in any system, whether in nature or on the Internet, is zero. To imply otherwise is is fallacious thinking. There is no duty of care on Facebook's part to prevent bad actors from using its services anymore than there's a duty of care for a random passer-by to stop a mugging.

- How does monopoly rent exist when nothing is being charged to the to the end-user?
Chaos and the Triumph of Survival
I don't know why the negative reaction. I've done the kind of analysis you've described many times and essentially been able to quickly identify such issues over the years. We had a similar problem in Windows when we first implemented the Dynamic Fair Share thread scheduler. It took a couple months to have the right tooling to do a proper scheduler trace, but with that available the problem was better understood in a week. I eventually rewrote the scheduler component and added a control law to give better burstable behavior than the hard cap quota that this article seems to be describing.
The older people fully own their homes, so they don’t have to pay as much to sustain their lifestyle. Then the younger lower wage people either moved in with family, got roommates, or are now homeless.
you could say that "sexy women" ads were designed by men.

This isn't so much of a FTFY as much of just a different perspective of the same comment.
psylocibin gives me bad acid reflux (even when separated from the mushroom solids). L doesn't have the same effect, only slight nausea.
Just like ACH fraud isn’t news so you only get news about bitcoin frauds
I think it makes navigation harder for me; I notice that it's a lot harder for me to parse out actually relevant information in busy spaces like airports/cities. Particularly while doing something like driving, because I'm juggling a lot of information in those situations and paying more attention to the people around me, rather than just focusing on signs.

For a long time I thought that was all just due to crowds/stress and nothing else, but I'm increasingly convinced that part of it is just that it's harder for me to pick out when scanning a room where the signs are the indicate where I'm supposed to be. Also seems to make it more likely that I'll walk past an indicator or miss something while I'm trying to navigate the space. I'm always paranoid inside of these busier spaces about whether I'm going to miss something important and end up walking in the opposite direction of where I need to go.

It may depend a lot on not just the area but also what you're personally used to; navigation in these spaces are a skill that people get better at over time. I suspect that some of the difficulties become less difficult as people's brains get better at filtering things out or recognizing indicators that they need to zero in on. In the same way that after a while playing a game you start to instinctively zero in on certain UX choices or indicators in a level, people also instinctively start to zero in on how a city indicates important information (is the sign always green, does it tend to show up in a specific place). So this might also be more of an early-user UX problem for people who don't go into the city all the time or who are particularly susceptible to getting distracted by motion/colors.

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There's a lot of research that brains are really good at learning to filter out advertising; part of the arms race in advertising isn't just with ad blockers, it's figuring out how to present ads in increasingly unusual ways where your brain won't just do pattern recognition and literally just refuse to process or register them. Human brains are heckin good at pattern recognition.

But that means that there is an arms race with advertisers trying to figure out what the next evolution is with billboards or how to trick your brain to register things, and it means that people who are less equipped to do that filtering or are just unfamiliar with the space often end up getting thrown in the deep end because their brains aren't trained to do that filtering yet, or are trained to filter different things.
This is a peak "the software is eating the world" design.

There are theremin designs will all levels of complexity, and the simpler ones look simpler than this one to me (just by virtue of consuming less power and thus being able to power from a simple battery). But well, I guess there are all kinds of adjustments that you can do digitally on the pi that wouldn't be practical on a protoboard.
My guess is some of the push back is because these kinds of articles seem tantalizingly prescriptive yet often bake in assumptions or choices that are unattainable for most.

Things like be born smart enough to land 6 figure job (or high 5 figures 20yo), be born into the middle/upper class, don't have extended family dependencies, don't have kids, don't have an SO or find one willing accept all the constraints, accept living in modest accomodations for the duration, or that now is roughly the same as when they started.
The quote continues:

"If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse, and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality."

The moral obligation Tutu captured with that aphorism has affected me immensely over the years.

Also:

“All of our humanity is dependent upon recognizing the humanity of others.”
I think the notion that government is only supposed to subsidize and help and tax break and bail and help businesses, and not people, will need more thought out support to stand a chance of being taken seriously, than a snarky half sentence :)
>> The racism, homophobia, anti-semitism and islamophobia in Eastern Europe is far worse that the UK, so what does that say about them?

I think it says that socially(i.e discrimination wise)EE is still a developing region while the UK is degrading. UK was seen as a model for many european countries. I don't think it'a the case anymore and I don't think the anti-immigration story is over in the UK.
That being said I can't wait for the UK to lecture Eastern European countries on immigration...imagine that hypocrisy