skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My kids are grown, but when I think of building in the woods/mountains, I'm now thinking of medical services.
Tolstoy has short story somewhat relevant to this: "How Much Land Does a Man Need?" http://www.online-literature.com/tolstoy/2738/

And a bonus anecdote:

"At a party given by a billionaire on Shelter Island, Kurt Vonnegut informs his pal, Joseph Heller, that their host, a hedge fund manager, had made more money in a single day than Heller had earned from his wildly popular novel Catch-22 over its whole history. Heller responds,“Yes, but I have something he will never have . . . enough."
Don't kid yourself. Definitely not value for money. They're checking that nobody is getting around their pay-to-play walled garden. Any security checking is probably automated and incidental.
I've only had contact with DBs during my university years so please bear with me, but at least to me (mostly a systems programmer who played around with functional and logic programming languages) SQL seems, I dunno.. very crude? For instance it seems to me that PROLOG is a lot better at querying/defining relational facts.

Also every time I looked into SQL DBs I felt uncomfortable having to patch together SQL queries as strings and compile them at runtime. Why can't I define a DB schema in my compiled programming language and have it produce a typesafe query that can execute immediately? I know there's wrappers that help you define queries in a typesafe manner, but afaik these still generate query strings in the background.
In the context of grid electricity and nuclear, this parameter doesn't matter.

For long-range passenger jets, batteries will likely never be feasible. Aviation will have other solutions.
It's really nice: https://imgur.com/a/ZKSSiQc you can click the help entry and it'll act like the real menu too.

It's part of the standard, default menus on almost literally everything. There are ways to hide it if you're determined to be an asshole app (Cisco AnyConnect does this for instance, though there are so few menu items that it's not too horrible), but it's exceedingly rare because you have to explicitly remove it to have that happen. Far, far below 1%, it's mostly just awful corpware.
Sure! I saw startyourownisp.com on HN years ago, and once I moved here I remembered that starting an ISP was actually a thing. I started a wireless ISP (WISP). The rough process is:

- Find the customers*

- Find somewhere to broadcast from*

- Find a wholesale fibre provider*

- Register with your country's regulator & read a bunch of laws

- While you are doing the above, learn about networking. Get this right before you launch, then forgot about it. Post-launch all problems will (hopefully) be non-tech related.

And also lots of good old-fashioned business cash-flow spreadsheets.

I really like enjoy it (even though it can be stressful) because:

- I like geekery

- I like business (even thought it can be stressful)

- I like being in nature, and this one of the few lines of work that combines the OSI model & chainsaws.

- I like having a reason to meet people in my area. Great way to make friends.

- This area really needs it. There is fibre in the villages, but lots of people live & work on remote patches of land. The service I provide really makes a difference to their lives.

It don't think it'll necessarily make you rich, but it may give you a meaningful livelihood if you have the market for such a service.

* You kinda need to do these three simultaneously, because they all need to be in the same location. At some point I just had to commit to one of the three and hope that everything else fell into place.
At first I liked it a lot. I could be confident that the product we were building was worthwhile (unlike in engineering where I just had to take the PM's word for it).

But after a while I started to flounder. I couldn't figure out what we should build next and didn't know what to do. I had no training whatsoever. I tried to study PM methodologies but there are a million competing ones, a bit like self-help books. I don't really know how one becomes a good PM.

(Edit) To clarify I am no longer in this role. After that experience I've been working on creating my own startup, which is like SWE and PM combined, minus the salary.;-)
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Take a look at their community, it's quite interesting.

Tokenization opens a lot of doors that traditional models otherwise don't.
I am just saying that the market for censorship resistant currency is small. No one wants to pay a premium for something he doesn't use.
In Pemberton, no less. An outdoor pool, _very_ large windows, open/not-enclosed outdoor patios, etc etc. They've basically planned to heat the outdoors when it is below 0C a few months out of the year; and most of the year it's below 18C. And all that exposed, non-insulated concrete. The thermal mass they have to heat is practically unbounded. Bonkers.

They're going to have a hell of the time with the weathering on that siding and roof in 10y, too.
Interesting observation. Fwiw, I am definitely very much a native english speaker (in fact, I don't speak any other (non-programming) language very well), and I proposed the name. As the post says at the end - it doesn't hurt that the domains are available if you don't use a "real" world. I guess we'll see if this happens.
I'm looking forward to their Vulkan renderer rewrite and Linux version release.
There was a conference room at Yahoo named Sorry! that was used during many rounds of layoffs. The entire floor's conference rooms were all named thematically after popular board games.
For immigration to USA, whatever you do just don’t be born in India where wait to get Green Card is 2-3 decades (yes 20-30 years estimated wait).
If only one could control the place of birth…
Similar benefit in Nim where types help catch stray indent issues. Plus proper scoping of automatic variables in ‘for’ loops helps too.
Well, in aviation. Not so sure for software engineering.
Star Citizen upsets me. It's in theory the video game I want, but never pre-order something like this. It should have been out in 2014. Here it is 8 years overdue.

Don't care what the budget was or anything. The most AAA of games can be produced in less than that time. It's very obvious it's not coming. So sad.

What makes me still curious about star citizen is why? Money was obviously not the problem. You can't blame software development framework. Waterfall vs agile doesn't matter. The least efficient processes would have delivered now. Even deadly things like micromanagement cannot be the cause because eventually you would deliver. I also suspect it's not a scam, there are employees there.

So what exactly was the failure? What exactly would cause them to never deliver?

>We can't allow for individualism... what you want is people who are positive, can do, and want to work as a team, not always trying to go 'This won't work' or 'It's about me'. - Roberts

>The race isn't finished yet. Wait till the finish line is crossed and then I'll say people can make judgements about whether it was the right way or not. - Roberts

So let's make it clear here. We can make the judgement. It didn't work. Those devs were right.

Chris Roberts most likely pushed out or fired those people who said 'this wont work' and better yet created a toxic work environment where people who were left couldn't speak up and say it wouldn't work. His toxic culture creates incompetence. The blame obvious lay entirely at the feet of Chris Roberts.
Bitcoin was meant to be fiat money, but one without any central bank. Instead, it is being treated as a financial instrument where you make an "investment" and you can buy almost nothing with it.

If you're being sold Bitcoin or any other crypto as an "investment" where you might receive a "return", you're participating in a Ponzi scam.

If you're buying crypto so that you can use it to make a payment (e.g. Lightning payment to your favourite podcaster, or buying a pizza), then ok carry on.
Actually having a smooth undercarriage and a smooth transition from truck to trailer and some wind breaking fins reduce drag a lot.

https://en.vda.de/dam/vda/publications/FAT-SCHRIFTENREIHE%20...

And the front aerodynamics dépend more on the details than it's length. Some aerodynamic designs have shockingly steep fronts.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schl%C3%B6rwagen
>secular generational trend of the millenials (the biggest generation ever) moving into prime housebuying years

I see this argument repeated everywhere and I still don't believe it. What, did these Millenials just crawl out of a swamp a week ago?

It was known 35.75 years in advance when 35 year old Millenials would turn this age (assuming they survived life to that point).

It's the world's most predictable situation. Are the same people who are surprised by this also surprised when it snows each winter?
They don't pretend they're made from animals. The labelling is quite clear that they are plant-based. What they do is mimic the form factor of animal-based foods. And generally that is just a sausage shape, or ground up stuff. There's no imitation T-bone steak AFAIK. If we all transformed into vegans tomorrow, I don't see why we wouldn't be allowed to eat items in a hotdog or hamburger form factor.
You’re right, “draft” wouldve been a better word to use. The reason lawyers do that is to make it easier on your busy friends/connections to do the favor and to ensure the right things are mentioned.

Everyone has the opportunity to change anything before signing
I'm not sure what reason I'd give to ask for their phone number as using the product doesn't really need that

Hard to know unless you describe the app. In our case we had business owners enter their business phone number to look up their business listings on the various sites, and the terms for signing up allowed us to call. Someone else mentioned that if you get support requests, ask for feedback that way (e.g. "need support? request a call back")
But USA is the most hypocritical about it. It systematically spies on its allies, with the exception of Israel and these 2 countries take active measures for some cybertools not to spy on each other. (or Israel tries to make it seem that way).
There's a few factors, all of which are in some level of change right now.

1) Cable providers in major markets (urban ones) are offering gbps service and often slightly faster (1.2gbps) now, at rates that I would say aren't great but are not terrible, in my case about $100 a month. Unfortunately that gigabit is downstream only. So high DOCSIS speeds are happening, just not as universally as you'd hope.

2) One of our biggest cable giants, Comcast, has a legacy channel planning problem related to the older Motorola STBs guide and on-demand delivery that prevents them reallocating additional channels to DOCSIS 3.1 upstream for the time being (those channels are in use by the Motorola STBs which don't support anything else). This results in a hard 35mbps upstream limit for most Comcast customers. Unfortunately the route to fixing this is to replace all of the older STBs, which Comcast is slowly doing but this requires getting customers to turn in their old one and pick up a new one... you can imagine how hard it is to get everyone to do this, even offering incentives.

3) DOCSIS 3.1 can achieve gbps+ speeds over an admirably long range but not for a very high customer count. So cable providers are transitioning their HFC network over time to a "node+0" architecture that resembles DSL with serving area DSLAMs... basically they are eliminating distribution amplifiers from the cable network and replacing them with compact field nodes (CMTS and head end) using fiber uplink. This essentially becomes a "fiber to the curb" architecture with cable last mile (more like last thousand feet in urban areas). It needs to be done mainly to reduce the number of customers on each CMTS to reduce contention, and sort of as a requirement for full performance of the DOCSIS 3.1 high speed upstream channels, but as you can imagine this large-scale change to outdoor plant is expensive and time-consuming, although it seems largely complete in a lot of cities.

4) As you get customers on very fast service plans backhaul at the node becomes a problem. This is mostly being addressed through installing new fiber backhaul routes for the new nodes, but in more suburban areas can be a big limitation.

5) All the TV on the cable takes up a lot of bandwidth and makes channel planning more difficult even with the abstraction in STBs. This is why major cable providers are starting to shift towards an IP-only "over the top" architecture where they deliver IPTV over DOCSIS instead of "real" cable television. This will help but once again requires all new STBs.
Debugging maybe?

When I worked support for networking equipment every device had potentially multiple shells or APIs hidden that allowed you to do stuff that really only the engineers who made the thing should do / direct someone to do it.

I often walked trustworthy customers through using them as they knew if they did it then it was on them.
Planetside 2 was able to handle hundreds of players in the same location as a first person shooter without issues. That was almost a decade ago. No reason to believe with new advances in CPU single core perf, lockfree concurrency techniques, vectorization, etc. that 1k players wouldn't be possible.
Jacob doesn't work here at Grafana Labs anymore unfortunately, but it's nice to know he's still keeping tabs on us and likes what we're up to :)
The fact that the comment syntax seems to be from SQL, this gets even more terrifying :)
Hacks are cool and awesome! But YC is looking for products and customers, not pure hacks.

(Yeah, everyone doubted Dropbox, but everyone doubted every other successful and unsuccesful company out there in its early stages. People doubting a company isn't much of a signal. Even in its early stages Dropbox had a clear monetization and growth strategy.)
I doubt most North Americans need a 400A connection. (How much wattage is that? 48kW?) I live in an ordinary single house in a boring suburb in the bay area, and on hottest days, if I have to use the A/C, the oven, and the dryer at the same time, maybe it would push it over ~10kW. Maybe once in a year.
It really is an interesting phenomenon. The game has released several versions. A game that rolled out at a similar time, Elite Dangerous, declared itself released a ways back, with a drastically narrower feature set, and since then has constantly moved towards adding what Star Citizen claims to be. In theory, if both continue to develop in perpetuity, their feature set will eventually be pretty aligned, but one calls itself pre-release and one calls itself receiving updates.

I am not sure there is a lot of difference besides the certain expectation of polish.

There are parts of Star Citizen which, if released standalone, would be indistinguishable from release-grade games. Arena Commander is excellent, and plenty of full games are comparable to this sub-feature of Star Citizen, and Star Marine, the built-in FPS probably only really lacks in terms of playerbase: It's excellent and the touches in it's game mechanics are amazing.
There’s honestly no other way to do it. We did this way back when with TLS 1.1 depreciation. We couldn’t use “has anyone connected with TLS 1.1” because all that told us was someone had support for 1.1, not if they could support 1.2. So we turned it off intermittently with increasing frequency to try and generate support tickets.
I imagine they cut deals with the spy agencies and other authorities there to be able have much fewer regulations on what they are working on, particularly if they share it at a very discounted price with the Israeli government.
We are going to integrate this in our Lynx R-1 headset! Great to have something else than just chromium in this space.
I asked about newspapers, and you responded with TV. Huh?
Not just ISPs, some other companies (IBM ?) and universities managed to get huge address chunks early on for pennies.

This scarcity creates perverse incentives, I'm surprised that the governments aren't doing their job in first forcing new hardware to be IPv6-compatible, then later forbidding new hardware to be IPv4-compatible, like they did for digital TV tuners and low consumption light bulbs... maybe because the lobbying is pushing in the opposite direction in this case for the aforementioned reason ?
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Moxie Marlinspike's article at the start of the year got plenty of traction, and it was far more nuanced than most, not least because the author actually went through the process of creating and NFT and dApp, evaluating the tools from a software engineer standpoint, and from the consumer standpoint.

What in your opinion would count as an optimistic conclusion?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29845208
Veganism is about many things in different ratios for different people. I don't think you get to decide why people are vegan and why they aren't.

Can you give an example of suffering-free animal consumption?
But how much of that is due to safer automobiles?

How has the accident rate been affected?
I know this is like common knowledge but how true is this? Are there examples of those intentionally left in bugs?
Because they employ people that pay taxes.

In a tax convo, I wonder why we never talk about the tax their employees pay.

It seems dishonest.
“You’ll soon be glowing with health!”
Open web, decentralization, privacy/tracking, advertising in general, right to repair, walled gardens, Google shutting down projects. Just off the top of my head, these are a bunch of topics on which HN threads take the form of advocacy rather than discussion or curiosity.
If they actually do that, it could be a problem, but I'm not convinced that's a failure case that we need to worry much about.
"Personnel counts have ballooned in the era of motion capture and full voice acting; you’re often doing a whole lot more movie things like mocap, script writing, juggling a bunch of actors, etc. in a game than for a movie."

Are voice acting costs that huge?

It's not like video games have to shell out millions to get name-brand actors to star in their cut scenes. It's usually unknowns or has-beens who stoop to doing video game work. How expensive can that be?
I think there are some pretty solid reasons why certain types of people remain very interested in it. If you're a space sim nerd then it ticks a lot of boxes. I played it about a month ago for the first time, after a decade or so of mocking it every chance I got for all the usual reasons. I was looking for something new and saw enough videos that seemed to suggest it had reached a point of being interesting to me. My space nerd creds go back a long way: wing commander at release, freelancer, eve, various flavors of X3, elite, ten minutes in no man's sky, etc. I'm one of those people who wants to immerse into a game world where I can do all the things CIG promises. So I dove in.

What you can do is impressive. I'm not going into a detailed depiction, but people who've played the SC persistent universe know what I mean. It's somewhat mind blowing in scope. It's also heartbreaking because it's utterly broken in so many ways that no AAA studio that actually needed to sell new copies to new people would ever tolerate. I keep a list of the most egregious/humorous things that have happened to me from spawning in the middle of the sun for no reason, to having my ship blow away on the surface of a planet.

I think there are a lot of possible explanations for this, but I suspect the main ones combine scope creep, constant tech stack changes over a really long dev cycle, and not having to make a playable game to be rewarded financially. I hope some day it becomes playable, because it's really a neat platform, but I sort of doubt it ever will.
Probably larger than that. If they’re 200m from the transformer, 400A service requires (3) 1000kcmil cables per leg. 100m drops it to (3) 350kcmil which is still pretty beefy
Is it a sunset or does one of the photos even show a raging fire on a mountain in the background?
I continue to be astonished (and dismayed) that people use a browser on the desktop to do serious work. Really, the browser provides a horrible user experience, no matter where you use it.

I miss native apps and the engineering that went into them, as compared to the slapdashery of web apps.
I though that I in ISS stands for international.
It's a trust based tight knit community. Running PC demos on bare metal, especially those that were first shown on big name parties is not uncommon.
this is a form of two-part pricing[0], which is a compromise between simple (single) pricing and continuous pricing (aka perfect price discrimination) to maximize value capture with minimal complexity.

two-part pricing also tends to make markets (from the demand-side) more rational and efficient, but that's not often the reason it's employed, which is why regulation is often needed (particularly in monopoly markets).

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-part_tariff
Nice job. Time to release it as an NPM package I guess?
The ThinkPad 701 with the butterfly keyboard would bring up BASIC if you removed the hard drive. That was a 486, none of the later machines seemed to do so.
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shoot, you are right!
Tell me you've never worked in support without telling me you've never worked in support.
When you have plateaued post-hypergrowth is not the time to get off the market, it's time to redistribute capital by massively repurchasing shares if you can't intelligently reinvest it all. Preferably after the market slams your ticker.
Encourages you in what way? Your bill is still higher the more energy you consume, just increasing more slowly than if the rates were higher.

Many believe (and I’m inclined to agree) that encouraging a switch from locally burned fossil fuels to electricity is better even if that electricity is currently* generated partially from fossil fuel. The theory is the electric plants could more easily become cleaner than if millions of home need to have their heating equipment upgraded.

The problem where I am is that natural gas is so cheap (though less than previously) that it’s hard to make electric heating competitive.

* no pun intended
No, lots of people absolutely go to Google to get ads. How many people do you think are looking for Wikipedia when they search for something like "flowers" and it's February 14th?

This idea people seem to have here that nobody likes or ever needs/uses ads is just plain wrong. These businesses aren't the size they are because ads are useless noise.
We recently moved from Vancouver to the Island; and made a similar calculus about locations at which to live. I have a friend who ended up with 160+ acres in the interior, whereas I've settled on a quarter acre on the central island. There's a reason for this difference...

What's I found _conspicuously_ absent from the author's considerations was anything at all regarding their children. Elementary schools, family doctors, even the local density of children near to their age.

Houses in the woods are lovely for a family to visit for some of the year, and are lovely for reclusive adults; but they severely restrict the opportunities to fulfill the needs of children.
Fair. I still prefer an honest system that charges a fair, flat rate for the infrastructure, and then a usage charge for usage. If we want to disincentive usage, we can put a tax on the consumption rate; that's certainly better than wrapping up some/all of the infrastructure costs into the consumption rate just to make the latter higher.
Android already has side loading, and Epic tried and failed to get a third party store going. I highly doubt this bill will do anything unless it mandates that Google can't mandate Google Play Store as a condition of receiving development support.