skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My recommendation is that your first investment should be a home, i.e. a property in which you live in, with the focus of paying it off as soon as possible. Obviously if you have higher interest debts (e.g. Credit Cards) you should pay that off first before making any investments.

Properties lets you leverage debt, i.e. you'll only need to put down a 10-20% deposit and borrow the rest, ideally the mortgage repayments should be lower than rent of an equivalent property. The benefit of leveraged debt is that if your property increases in value, the whole amount of the property increases (i.e. not just your debt), so with rising property value and inflation (i.e. your salary) your debt should become more smaller & manageable over time.

If you can, go for an offset account (common in Australia) so your entire savings works to keep the interest down and you don't need to divide your savings across multiple accounts, as your savings is also your emergency fund whose balance is offset against the mortgage to keep the interest down.

Once you pay off your house you'll have much lower expenses at which point you'll have more freedom to make more risker decisions like quitting your salaried job to start your own consultancy or startup, where the reward is much higher income, but can also mean your without income at the start of your venture so you'll want to have minimal expenses when making the leap.

After you've paid off your home I personally would invest in shares for future investments which in my experience provide greater ROI over property, lower holding costs & less hassles requiring time & resources to resolve.

IMO your focus is should primarily be on making more money, i.e. instead of trying to save as much as possible. So even if you have a salary capped job with no career prospects, I'd be putting my efforts into a side-hustle that has the potential to earn enough to replace your job & work on it full-time where you'll have greater earning potential than working for someone else.
I feel the need to point out the silliness of pushing one's preferred crypto in response to a comment about how crypto is full of fraud and is a risk to the entire economy.

No, it's not a good idea to invest part of your emergency fund into a highly speculative asset like cryptocurrency. Money put into crypto should come from a fund much less essential to one's livelihood.
A physical model is way more than a mathematical model. It is based on theories which acquired their epistemic weight elsewhere to lend to the problem being studied. Conclusions made about black holes are made on the basis of QFT and general relativity, unlikely to be overturned so long as the researcher is working far enough from the singularity for the idea of doing QFT on a fixed background spacetime to still apply.
He may have created it, but he is by no means the sole reason for its success.
Great idea to bootstrap a product like this using an opinionated approach that I mostly agree with. The biggest challenge here will be that the audience you're most likely to target with this will likely be more interested in doing this themselves off a repo they've already got written up and charging $10k for it to a private client instead.
I share your concern, although I'm more generally worried about volatility. Crypto is awash in fraud, but there are also thousands of porto-projects that are close to gaining product market fit. Eventually, one of these use cases will explode and give crypto a better footing. My main worry is whether this happens before a "crypto winter" induced by fraud concerns.
How does clustering work? I hope this isn't just a single instance.
I mostly don't write CI pipelines, I generally use my existing templates. Those are little annoying quick tasks, not a big deal.

There's a nice poetry to seeing a system autorecover from outages or scale correctly when it gets a huge burst of traffic. From being able to help an engineer do something they think is impossible, and do it easily.
They are probably still hoping to compete with Epic in the RealTime cinema engine market. Although it seems that Unreal has pretty much become the standard now for big film productions.
Same problem in the UK. The dumbphones are all 2G, which is going away eventually.

All the "dumb" 4G models I can find come with a Facebook app, ffs.
"when" People have been predicting this for a decade. Crashes are rare. Events like 2006 are much rarer than media hype would suggest.
Starlink hikes prices to $599 up-front and $110 per month, blames inflation
And now we have 90000 Bitcoin clones with only slight differences. Every dollar invested into these shitcoins is a dollar not invested into Bitcoin. So much for rarity
its not a killer app. it was a decent ~12 hr single player game, and yet one of the only really fleshed out games for vr so far
iPhone cameras have evolved a lot since the X. There have been 4 generations of iPhones released since then.
True, I understand that. I was assuming non-rural US.
Haha, not many people say that to me at MongoDB :-) Early adopters are, I guess, revolutionaries with all that that entails.
There’s been a steady decrease in my smartphone use from 2016 till today. In the past I used my phone 6+ hours a day. Yesterday I used it to check email once for 3 minutes, I opened safari three times for an average of less than 60 seconds in each use, and used 2FA 5 times. It was a slightly higher than average smartphone use day.

As a person that is mostly indifferent about my iPhone I don’t understand who would buy a dumb phone. Is it for the price sensitive? Is it for people that don’t know how to use a smartphone? Is it for security sensitive? Is it for people with cellphone addicted?
I'm not sure I understand. Why would someone dismiss a plan that they think is generally solid and doesn't have a large cost, just because it fails in a few edge cases (bathroom, etc.)? Seems like this is strictly about getting access to more information to increase your chances of a good outcome (even though it doesn't guarantee it).

If the idea is that 5 minutes isn't enough time to beat the traffic -- well, yeah, could be, but that also depends on where you live.
I don't recall ReactOS, or the creators of wireguard having 'multi million dollar budgets'. How is it that even projects like RedoxOS [0] are able to self-host on a GitLab instance using a subdomain, without giant budgets in the millions?

You don't need a 'multi-million dollar budget' to self-host a git repo and may of these open-source projects have been doing so even before GitHub existed for years. Even if they did have such a budget, there isn't an excuse left to self-host and avoid going 'all in' on GitHub.

At the very least I would expect something like what ReactOS is doing by having a self-hosted backup just in case GitHub goes down or vice-versa. [1]

Looks like that is proving to be useful.

[0] https://gitlab.redox-os.org/redox-os

[1] https://github.com/reactos/reactos#code-mirrors
K8S is an infrastructure jungle of YAML files, I am very sure and completely guarantee one can build a $1M/ARR SaaS tech business without that.
It's a desktop environment, a picture seems appropriate?
I think Incredible String Band sums it up nicely in their song Job's Tears:

"Happy man, the happy man
Doing the best he can,
the best he can
"

Surprisingly deep wisdom from such young artists, I think.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dd5yq76q51c
I don't see how "dictatorship is the default human civilization" (which seems true!) implies "so many people legitimately want to live under one". The fact that many/most people do live under authoritarian control, to me does not say anything about those same people's desire to continue doing so.

Totally agree with the main point of denuclearization, it needs to be pursued even more aggressively in the future. The current 12,000 nukes is yes way lower than Cold War, but it's an insane level / irrational overall.
... right, a colony. That's the whole point I'm making, that charter cities are colonialism redux. And if you'll recall it didn't go well for the people already there at the time - the other point I'm making.
Nonequilibrium topological spin textures in momentum space
This type of tech though is heavily used by the film industry already though - dynamically reacting is not much of a concern there at all.
I expected this article to discuss some skunk works project to fuse the two M1 Max chips together that began 20 years ago, but instead the basic premise is:

The original Mac mini was made from an aluminum slab 20 years ago.

The Mac Studio has a similar form factor, but uses a better process leading to more recycled aluminum usage.

That's... kinda it? Am I missing something from this article?
It's definitely fair to mention and I really appreciate your comparison since it shows the major price disparity.

I'm just complaining to complain lol.
> And there would be no civilian casualties if Russia wasn't supporting the separatists and if they weren't constantly pushing misinformation over their borders

Sure. And there would be no civilian casualties in Ukraine if its government didn't insist in joining NATO and cease to be a neutral country.
There's no Pine64 controlled firmware. There's no Pine64 controlled hardware in the phone, it's all sourced from other companies.
I really hope they make use of the Steam Audio API in the game, which can simulate sound reflections, occlusion, reverb, and HRTF directional positioning to the listener for sound sources. Would make a ton of sense for a cave environment.
Ok… go and buy a house now. Buy the biggest one you can afford, with an adjustable rate mortgage. See what happens….
They have to either be horrible at managing money or have other expenses or are being impractical. I am sure a 200-500k salary is enough to buy a decent home almost anywhere in California. Just run the numbers. "According to website HowMuch.net, your household needs to make roughly $95,000 a year to be able to afford the median home in L.A. which they value at around $480,000."
I have a VR headset. What I don't have in my apartment is a lot of empty space, nor do i want to move furniture around to create a play area whenever i want to do something in "real VR."

Everyone dismisses 3DOF VR but that is realistically the only form of VR that is widely consumer friendly. If I can't stand or sit more or less in a single place, I'm simply not going to use an app despite having a headset that supports it.
Afghanistan girls' tears over chaotic Taliban schools U-turn
> completely destroyed any innate faith I could have in markets

Faith is a bad advisor. I had a similar experience in 2000 (was a millionaire for a while, then abruptly returned to middle-class). Brazilian economy also provided me numerous opportunities (such as when BRL and USD were untied and, suddenly, my friends who were leasing cars in USD had to pay twice as much) to lose faith in markets and capitalism overall.

On the bright side, we don't need faith. We just need to learn to use markets to our benefit.
Nah, I'm sure they'll throw some (worthless) coins upstream.
You usually do pay for a dog you adopt from a shelter. It's cheaper ofc. I paid 200, which covered his shots and vet bills that the shelter initially paid.
California, and especially the bay area, has been in housing crisis for most of my adult life. A 98th percentile income doesn't give you much buying leverage if you're only competing with other people in the 98th percentile (or higher).
> You forgot to mention that another war ongoing for 8 years now was also started by Putin

So it's OK to kill civilians, your own civilians, in a war, if it was started by somebody else. Good to know that.
In this scenario, presumably so that it can market itself as a Web3 company, which is the Future of the Internet™ and will attract investors. After all, the vast majority of NFT buyers and other crypto holders are in it to make money for free, not because they want to buy and sell real-world goods and services; as long as their money doesn't get stolen, they don't really care about the cybersecurity aspects. Even when cryptocurrencies are used as a medium of exchange or transfer, the main cited advantage is ease of use. I suspect that this comes only from the lack of regulations, and that it will die once governments start cracking down on exchanges, but perhaps I'm just being too pessimistic.
Blockchain technology to add novel complications and failure modes to flaky package managers? I'm afraid it isn't a joke.
100% I have seen the same thing. Big publicly traded publisher. If your pitch has "Unity" in it their interest sinks.
I got excited thinking all these decades of suffering through allergies were finally going to pay off…
https://render.com/render-vs-heroku-comparison is a good page on this. It totally sold me on the idea recently.
Hey guys! I'm so excited to see your launch HN! We chatted about your who's hiring thread middle of last year when you were in stealth mode. I still think this is such an epic idea, very happy to see you succeeding.

Can't wait to see what comes next!
"I'm not sure if it makes sense to "stamp out dictatorship" when so many people legitimately want to live under one"

The people who want to live under a dictator do it either because they're greatly benefiting from the status quo (these tend to be an elite minority) or those who have been brainwashed by a state-controlled media and education system to not realize how oppressed they are.

Free access to the internet lets people see outside their tightly controlled propaganda bubble, which is why totalitarian regimes such as China try to censor it. They are afraid of the internet for good reason: because once people start to find out what really happened in their country (like at Tiananmen Square) they'll start to wonder if their own government is as benevolent and if the outside world is so horrible as state-controlled media and education tells them. That could contribute to the overthrow of the old regime.

Free access to information is only one piece of the puzzle, but revolutions and deposing of dictators can and has happened.

Unfortunately, what replaces dictators is sometimes just as bad or worse than the dictator. See the results of the Communist overthrow of the Russian Czar for one example, and the military's control of Egypt after the revolution that overthrew Mubarak for another.

To be truly successful revolutions can't just replace one elite with another, but have to really empower the people.
I'd say that's vanishingly unlikely unless Putin gets absolutely sure he and his family are in imminent danger.
Many of us "only" work 40 hours at our paid employment, but do loads more hours for our other jobs:

- Maintaining our relationship with our spouse

- Caring for our children

- Contributing in our community (neighborhood, friends, church, hobby group, open source project, etc.)

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Those coworkers who get bent out of shape are probably concerned that you're raising the employer's expectations of their employees.

They may also be concerned about you personally. Your coworkers may feel that putting so much time into your employment is unhealthy for you, even if you don't realize it. From their point of view, they can't understand how you can work like that and be healthy and happy. To you that may feel annoying and judgmental, but it comes from a place of concern and care.
Condolences. That's terrible. I'm glad you're doing better than you were.
The main question for any investment, ever, should be: you have some amount of money...what will net you the highest return on that money. You can modify this with considerations for risk and diversification, but the name of the game is always opportunity cost.

People stop thinking about opportunity cost when it comes to housing for some reason because they just can't stop thinking of paying rent as "throwing away money," without understanding that you're always throwing away money.

To take a simple example, let's say that you have $500k in cash.

Scenario 1: you pay $50k per year in rent from salary, park that $500k in a $2M investment property that returns $85k in rental returns. In this scenario, your returns are property appreciation and rental income. Your costs are mortgage, property tax, home insurance, home repair, and the rent you pay.

Scenario 2: you pay $0 per year in rent from salary, park that $500k in a $2M property that you live in that returns $0 in rental returns (because you live there). In this scenario, your returns are property appreciation. Your costs are mortgage, property tax, home insurance, home repair.

It's entirely possible, and common, for these scenarios to work out to be exactly the same. If you prioritize the purchase of properties that yield very high rents compared to the property value, it's very common for the numbers to work out in favor of owning investment property. And that can include "throwing away" money on rent.

TL;DR: you're never not renting. Even if you pay $0 in rent, the price you pay is the opportunity cost of not renting your house, and not maximizing returns on the money you've parked in it.
I just want one of those mini wooly mammoths that lived on the islands off the coast of California - can we clone me one of those yet?
HostHuski is a relatively new player in the hosting market. It was founded in 2019. One might think that a 2-3 year old hosting provider won’t be reliable or will have a lot of issues but the thing is, HostHuski is extremely reliable and their pricing is also competitive.
Every place I have ever worked reported incidents going down would be good, not up.
I think Tidelift is the centralized version.
In case of a DE, that's a feature.
John Markoff – Floating Upstream: The Many Lives of Stewart Brand (New Video)
From the pricing page [0]:

Is there a free trial?

Unfortunately, because of the logistics of how this works, there is no free trial period. We do our best to give you an idea of what you're buying via public documentation, videos, and an overview of the repo. If you buy it and truly decide you aren't going to use it, contact us about a refund.

[0]: https://www.djangoforge.dev/pricing/
If a heart and brain surgeon can’t afford a house in California, they need to look at their spending. Are they trying to qualify for a 20 million dollar mortgage or what?

That’s an absurd anecdote.
Yes the cost of replacing houses has jumped stupendously. Building new ones likewise.
What's the best crowdsourced status monitor?
Thanks for the tip, we will take a look!
Yeah, I thought this would be good for crashes only, when the subject might be too sensitive to have on a call.

I probably won't build it or even do analysis on it. But maybe I'll look into it if there aren't any issues that other find with the idea.
For us it was mainly the fact that every month some part of Heroku is down or degraded. That and the huge price increase when jumping from the standard dynos to the large dynos.

For reference, we migrated to new t4g instances on AWS and received about a 100x performance improvement for a similar (sometimes cheaper) price than Heroku. We are also able to connect to our company VPC and use private resources partitioned elsewhere in AWS (e.g. a redis cluster that costs the same as Heroku with far fewer limitations).

The downside is obviously configuration and learning AWS. Thankfully, we are pretty well versed in AWS here.
And they were "canceled" like crazy. People spoke up about all these issues, and were fired, beaten, jailed, killed, and worse. But a white dude totally could say what he wanted to, kinda.
Same here. The last 30 years have given me a very steady growth. The last five or so have been insane. I took a hit when Putin decided to ruin his country, but, if we don't go up in a fireball, things will be good, afterwards (except, maybe, in Russia. I really hope that they don't go back to Stalin-era privation, after having a few years, experiencing Western decadence/freedom. I've really enjoyed working with Russians, and this is pretty depressing).
Finding this out would require doing mass exploratory surgery on asymptomatic people, which is obviously unethical, because it would kill a substantial number of them and damage all of their hearts.
A softbox could be used as a key light, and often is, but it’s classically more appropriate to use as a fill light.

Soft light (which a softbox ideally creates) is defined by diffuse shadows. Perfectly soft light would cast no visible shadows.

An important creative job of the key light, which is called such because it’s the main source of illumination in a scene, is to create a sense of depth by casting shadows onto the 3D objects, giving our brain cues on how to translate them from 2D space into an accurate mental image. Usually harder lights (meaning those with sharper, more defined shadows) are used for the key to create this depth, then the fill light, well, fills in these shadows with additional light to walk them back, which is why soft lights are appropriate there.

As with all creative rules, exceptions abound. Maybe you could make a virtual lighting portrait studio, have sharp white light on one part of the screen, then some sort of gray gradient on the other to fill in some shadow. Unfortunately, that would be most effective if they had a big curved screen and they were willing to sit very near to it :)
Oh I thought it was about the one from yesterday :)
Covid caused production to shutdown. This was not as much of a problem with 2007-2009. The result was a huge squeeze in prices and demand because everyone in early 2020 was expecting a repeat of 2008 or some prolonged recession, but instead the economy, stock market, GDP ,etc. went nuts.
Wind is a problem. Even with low pressure, the speeds are high enough to create some forces.
This probably isn’t exactly what you’re looking for, but optimal stopping theory [1] might be related/helpful.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optimal_stopping
The stock market is not the economy is the short answer. What is causing our current predicament has been the monetization of debt through quantitative easing programs since 2008 which was then compounded by increasing the money supply in the spring of 2020 drastically. And now the fed has to reverse course with quantitative tightening in order to beat back inflation. The easing and near 0 interest rates have gotten businesses addicted to cheap money and has kicked the can down the road in terms of how we end the easing programs. But now the Fed has no choice but to raise rates and tighten. In rational markets, you are correct, this should be priced in. But our markets have been highly irrational and algorithm driven for a while now and quite frankly, are delusional about our state of affairs. They think recession will equal more easing but that is not in the cards and there is going to be a rude awakening.
The issue is of misrepresentation of results due to the funding source, not the funding source alone but what comes with it
We have less freedom of movement at will and ability to disobey orders than at many long stretches of civilization, at least according to anthro and archaeology research covered in Graeber’s last/new book
More than half the time on my Nokia phone with "Android One" that opens with the camera itself is disabled, so the app opens but I don't see the camera image, just black.