skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Depending on your ethics, blockchain/crypto/DeFi (or ReFi, whatever that means, just saw the term today) and "web3" could be an option. It's not sustainable as ultimately it's either solving a problem that doesn't exist or poorly solving a problem that can be solved much more efficiently without crypto/blockchains, but there's a lot of capital and clueless investors/idiots going around that'll be happy to throw money your way if you can drum up some marketing & PR.

In terms of actual, sustainable businesses, looking beyond tech is an option. Outside of tech there's a lot of industries that still operate very inefficiently and a modern software solution combined with IoT could help - here's an example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26240581 and I'm sure there are plenty more. I'm watching the YT channel of an HVAC technician and he's still working on a lot of equipment that's 10-15 years old and clients are cheap and want to run it into the ground - no preventative maintenance and as a result a lot of his calls are "reactive maintenance" aka emergency calls when the equipment is already down. Seems like a low-cost box with a few sensors and IO lines can easily be retrofitted and would allow remote monitoring & proactive failure detection (a vibration sensor alone would probably help) and if cheap enough could be interesting to clients (or even the technician himself, if it helps him get more business or better schedule jobs around predicted failures rather than everything being an emergency job).
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From what I understand Germany already is not very start-up friendly it seems like this further exactrebates it. I put together a weekend project to see how it goes, I have a bug somewhere I didn't think of now BAM I'm on the hook for millions of dollars in "damages."

Another much more chilling question is what happens to FOSS projects? Is Germany going to start going against every software developer that uploads an MIT licensed package on Github? What about the Log4j vulnerability who is on the hook for that?

I agree security needs to be taken more seriously and we need to step up our game, but I grow concerned when the government starts making broad laws like this.
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This is ironic because next time there is a bike article, you get all the professional drivers in this thread commenting "but they never stop at stop signs!".

Can't have it both ways. The statistical evidence is clear: the average US driver is tremendously unsafe, untrained, unobservant and unskilled despite their country being built around driving everywhere. Their remonstrations on all the rule breaking they can perform safely stems purely from ignorance of their own inabilities.
Reminds me of this incident that happened to me a last December: I was driving my kid to school and I noticed some pedestrians on the sidewalk . The mom was walking and texting and the little boy was dribbling a soccer ball while they walked to the school. And suddenly the soccer ball got on the road and the kid dove after it .. in the middle of the road inches from my car. I am so grateful to whatever braking system my car had for stopping just in time. I honked and the mom flipped me the birdie and cussed me out in what I think was Russian.

Kids are stupid and unpredictable and AI/ML can't work out all the insane ways kids can put themselves in harms way. No autopilot or FSD can . Peolple should not rely upon them.
This makes the work of independent contractors more or less impossible. Only big software houses will be able to afford the insurance needed to deploy software in general.
My take on that is that you’re creating work in one place to avoid it in another.

And it sounds like it works for you, but I don’t think I’d choose that route, and I definitely wouldn’t say you can avoid needing maintenance pages just because you don’t have planned downtime to do migrations.
The headline is funny (in a bleak way), but the use of quotation marks in conjunction with the "Amazon Says" headline strongly suggests to me that Amazon actually called it that which is misleading. I don't defend Amazon at all but the way clickbait headlines have become normalised bothers me.
Of course the fine print covers their asses, but this is not what you’d think watching the marketing demos and YouTube videos around fsd capabilities.
Once you've reached a high salary, it's a "damned if you do, damned if you don't".

If you talk comp early, you'll potentially (almost certainly) lowball yourself. If you don't, you'll spend a full time job's worth of time with hopeless positions.
This is a beautiful example of why people shouldn't be too quick to tag cultural borrowings as "appropriation." They often result in a back-and-forth cross-pollination that bears novel hybrid fruit we can all enjoy.
> If each side really knew the true strength of the other side, it would be clear which would win

This is too simplistic. Often wars are heavily influenced by things other than just the strengths of both sides. For example - What if the ground hadn't been soaked from days of rain at Agincourt and Waterloo? What if the Germans hadn't held back their armor reinforcements for so long on D-Day?
They ticket everything in ohio. Drive too fast? Ticket. Drive too slow? Ticket. Lights not on after the legal definition of dusk? Ticket. Hanging out in the left lane? Ticket. Not using the blinker? Ticket. Leaving the blinker on? Also ticket. The sucky part is when you are a teenager they sometimes couple this with throwing all your belongings on the side of the road in search of the weed that you must have.
I think it looks nice.
> I want to pay for a quality product. I do not want to self-host or manage my own index.

Why? ain't very hard and for a small site, it is very fast too...

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You are suggesting that 18000+ barrels of toxic waste magically vanished and nobody knew it was gone?

Doesn't pass the smell test.
I am the author. FWIW I totally understand where you are coming from; I'm not happy with our explanation of "What is Pesto?". We will take our own pass on refining this, and I'd also appreciate if you tried it and gave me your thoughts on it. Right now "digital workplace" is the best we have.
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> Self driving will always be dangerous unless overall traffic infrastructure is updated.

I don't see how people can propose this kind of thing with a straight face, when we live in a world where we can't even afford to replace the paint on the road when it gets worn away.

Yeah, sure, governments everywhere will be lining up to pay billions of dollars for putting up and maintaining new infrastructure to provide us with some low ROI shiny toys. And I have a bridge on a blockchain to sell you.
It's thousands of lines of C code that just wraps an actual execution of the `gpg` binary?
Idaho stop?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idaho_stop
I think the explanation is that it didn't occur very often, until recently, as a dye or pigment. Color terms are more useful to describe things, like shirts, that don't have an inherent color. In a society where everything just has its inherent color, you don't need many color terms. In a society where people can change things' colors, these terms are more useful.
> there is no C conference

That's shocking to me. But this goes along the fact that C on the web is scarce..

> Code sight-seeing

I would love to attend such C workshops.
> Online commerce and interpersonal connection funnels significantly, and sometimes predominantly, through iOS devices.

And not through Windows and Xbox devices which is why we're mad about it.

> Apple offers mobile payments, music, movies and television, advertising, games, health tracking, web browsing, messaging, video chat, news, cloud storage, e-books, smart-home devices, wearables, and more besides.

* Microsoft Pay (yes this exists)

* Microsoft Movies & TV (yes this also exists)

* Groove Music (failed)

* Bing Ads

* Xbox and Windows Gaming

* Edge, IE,

* MSN Messenger, Skype, Linq, Teams.

* MSN

* OneDrive

* Microsoft Store Books Section (failed)

* Cortana

* Fitbit

Seriously good lord. MS is in more verticals than Apple is. It would be easier to sympathize with them if they didn't do literally the exact same thing they accuse Apple of. The Xbox in-game purchase cut is 30%, the Windows Store cut is 15/30%. They pioneered the pay-to-play digital certification/app-signing racket. They're just mad they're not the one collecting rents.
> A "California Stop" isn't even legal in California.

I'm informed that these are actually legal as long as you don't disrespect the police by doing it in front of them. It's the same way that going slightly over the speed limit on freeways is legal as long as you don't insult the police by passing them.
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Steal/scam/extort a million dollars worth of cryptocurrency.

I recommend not doing that however.
Why would you ever engage cruise control in school zones?
I wish they'd allow configuring the keyboard layout, at least for most spoken languages of the world.
I thought Oracle bought it. I think I had to make an account to download something. And I think it was Oracle that bought the MySql user group (I attended a couple meetings) pizza.

I was the interface between Oracle Sales and management at a start up a long time ago. It was weird. They offer technical help to use their API, (so its harder to switch away, I was told by my boss). We were on using on a trial basis. They seemed to want to charge based on CPU speed of the computer installed on. The startup ran out of money...
Just because you come to work dressed as an avatar doesn't make it professional attire to wear a dog on your head.
Many school zones do not have flashing lights.

Isn't the correct answer today that humans should override in these situations?

Frankly, as a human I also find "during restricted hours" signs frustrating. How do I know which hours those are?
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Beware however that this flexibility and initial ease is more often than not a slippery slope into chaos.

This article put it really well in my opionion: There are no schemaless databases, just the ones with an explicit schema and the ones with their schema defined in a couple hundred places in code.

One of them is slightly easier to start out with, the other to evolve, maintain and communicate (double serving as self-documentation) across multiple engineers.

https://orangematter.solarwinds.com/2015/02/24/schemaless-da...
Trade options.

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The reality is that life is full of edge cases. For full autonomous driving we probably need full AGI.
Sure, but we could set at least some basic parameters, e.g. "not used" = "has not been used in an actually available product in the last five years" and "fairly licensed" = "the patent holder has listed a process and conditions under which the patent can be licensed, there exists a mediation process in case an applicant deems the fees/conditions to be excessive, and there are no complaints filed at the regulatory agency about unfair treatment".
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Obviously this is geared towards software development, and my personal experience with recruiters for software jobs is similar to most here.

However, I sometimes help out my client's HR departments and the recruitment experience for other jobs is vastly different. Like searching for expert welders or other specific skillsets, not unlike the ones that exists in software development (+10 years java, +15 years embedded C, etc.). They almost always use external recruiters for the first filtering, and they deliver quality candidates. Expensive fees, but worth it.

Why is this such a problem with recruitment for software development?
Are there recruitment shops that DO understand the differences in software development?
Thanks for all the work! When do you think it would be production ready?
Thank you, this comment seems constructive.

> I am asking you how one determines which regulations are actually necessary.

This is something that experts need to work out.

> Those of you making this "too much regulation" argument never seem to go into detail on that.

Our arguments don't require us to specify specific regulation to eliminate, it suffices to note that we tolerate tens of thousands of annual deaths due to fossil fuels and we tolerate virtually zero deaths due to nuclear. We can be sure that there are regulations which are onerous for relatively little safety gains, but to your point most of us aren't experts here and can't speak to specific regulations or how they work.

> Judging by every other industry that has ever existed, this is not a tractable problem -- one determines what regulations are necessary by failing and learning from the experience.

Not at all. The number of deaths we're willing to tolerate is a choice, largely one driven by lobbyists. For example, we tolerate tens of thousands of annual fossil fuel deaths, transportation deaths, etc. The only reason we tolerate so few nuclear deaths is because of FUD campaigns.

> With nuclear, how many meltdowns are you willing to tolerate to get this experience?

Well, we could look to our own past experience or the experience of other countries which had extensive nuclear experience and virtually zero meltdowns despite far less regulation.
Are you saying that Tesla shouldn't claim to have a "Full Self Driving" feature if it's still not autonomous? Because they do.

"Will the FSD computer make my car fully autonomous?

Not yet. All Tesla cars require active driver supervision and are not autonomous. "

https://www.tesla.com/support/full-self-driving-computer
The more insidious problem is that much of this is by design. Legislators know that people don't obey the speed limits. Police officers too. It just gives them license to stop and / or charge whomever they please. It is an obvious and vulgar workaround to undermine the principle of equal protection.
Not a recruiter, but this has been my experience too
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HN limits POST requests to one every 2 seconds or so per IP address. I'm often getting this when upvoting/posting and then immediately performing an action in a different tab. I suspect this is a fairly recent change because I don't remember this being a problem a year ago or so.
> 20-hour flight

> 23-hour turnaround flight to east Asia

Qatars longest flight is under 18 hours (https://flightaware.com/live/flight/QTR921).

Doha to Tokyo is less than 10 hours (https://flightaware.com/live/flight/QTR806/history/20220131/...).

The hours in the article seem doctored upwards!
I feel this is an important step in turning software programming into an actual engineering discipline.

Engineers that design bridges and buildings are liable when these structures fail and cause damage or loss of life. Lessons-learned are critical to ensuring corrective actions are taken to ensure similar failures don't happen in the future.

Software development has almost none of that. The lessons of the past are relearned on an apparent two to four year cycle.