skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fun fact related to Idea #5: a couple years ago, I had my own similar idea. It was a website where you'd track your progress on various goals (whether that's working out more, writing a novel, losing weight, coding a game, etc.), and it would motivate you by collateral. When you create a new task, you pay some amount of money, and then at the end of the month (or stated goal time), you only get back a percentage of that fee based on how much progress you tracked. 100% done? You get a full refund. 50% done? Half the money is now profits for the site. Didn't do anything? Guess you want me to keep it all. No incentive to cheat since you don't make money from lying, you just end up back where you started.

There would be a second tier for an additional (small) monthly fee that lets you use the site's social media platform to track progress. This would, of course, introduce a cheating incentive, which would be mitigated with Report options and human moderation to catch suspicious activity (i.e. "I completed my monthly goal of writing 5,000 pages in one day!").

In true lazy developer fashion, though, once I had the basic social media feed and account management done... I abandoned it and never went back
Search and maps was already theirs. However they got chance to expand in Yandex Phone space (replacing iPhones/Androids) and perhaps in desktop OS space (replacing Chromebooks and maybe Windows).
I don't see anything that suggests a laser is being used in space. At 1:24 in the video, it says starlight is used. Only stars are mentioned in the press releases: https://www.universetoday.com/154623/heres-exactly-how-engin...

On the ground, you can easily place a laser in an optically identical position as a star (near infinity). In space, I don't think this would be possible, since it would require that the laser, and the optics that would be required, would all be within a fraction of a wavelength of the true optical path. In the end, you would still need to align to a star anyways.

Interferometry works just fine with starlight.
Ask HN: A Dumb Database?
I have two scenarios where I want to store certain values outside of my main database and I'm looking for a SaaS solution.

1: When a user joins my website, I want to show them a Welcome popup. Once they see this popup, I want to mark has_seen_welcome_popup to true. Next time they log in, I'll know not to show it to them. This is just one example. I may want to have a dozen of these sort of values defined per user.

2: Let's say I have a banner on the landing page that says "40% off" and I want to change that to "30% off." Instead of making a code change, I want to make this change in some sort of UI in the SaaS and have it update automatically.

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Basically just need a place to store little things that I don't really want to store in the main database. And some nice UI where I can toggle those values as an admin without touching the prod DB.

My initial thought is to use Airtable but I'm not sure if there is something more purpose-built for this sort of scenario.
It’s only fraud if the information on the fake receipt is false, and if you used this false information get money or a benefit that you’re not entitled to.
The word "electronic" neither appears in the title or body of the article, nor in the HN post title.
Previous discussion, 12 days ago, 793 comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30945444
Some tips.. As I've made up for loss of benefits, etc. in other ways after going self-employed. I've always done my own taxes so was comfortable with that aspect.

- Everything is deductible, your computer, home work space, etc.. They have phased out most deductions for employees.

- Max your 401k if you can (~55k Solo 401k) - this will make up for SE tax AND reduce your AGI so you can be less likely to be income phased out of certain benefits.

- Move to a state income tax free state, if feasible. Saved me $10k/yr.

- Look into short-term health plans. They aren't ACA, but have very desirable terms. For instance, marketplace plan for me 8700 deductible, 16000 out of pocket max was $550. Short term plan $2500 deductible $2500 out of pocket max (just no ACA protections/benefits) was $330 and is ALSO tax deductible, so more like $240. Networks are similar for instance mine is United Healthcare national network.
Houses today are much larger and more expensively built than in the 70s.

I don't know when this practice died out, but it used to be routine for homeowners to take in boarders.
Interesting, I thought it is RISC. So my opinion, they failed because obviously first have to got everything from single chip, and only than should create network.

And MICRO-computers now conquered world, because they cheap. - It is just much cheaper to package most parts of system into one chip, so they win, even when system from many simple chips achieve faster clocks.
> but it is absolutely much harder
Agree. But the upside is big too.

Is learning to ride a bicycle hard? Of course. But once you learn to ride a bicycle, the benefits are immense. That is why people learn to ride a bike in spite of the initial difficulty. They know that the payoff is much larger in the end.

If you can figure out how to be effective in a remote setup, you will not only learn how to work remotely, but also how to communicate well in a team. Physical distance should and will become a nonissue for a software development team.
It’s true that only a few elites use Twitter. But they also control the narrative in other platforms unfortunately
Really? Can you give an example of a relevant statute?
Goodbye, Google Analytics
Consider smoked and deep fried food items. Universally, we have evidence they are connected to cardiovascular diseases and cancers. Or that raw uncooked meat could be risky. Yet, the sashimi, basashi, tempura, and various grilled item food industry is going strong. Educated Japanese understand the risks but it is their way of life... Such risks from sodium get downplayed easily

I'm not sure that anyone really understands the risks, and certainly not my 84 year old Japanese mother in law that's healthy, walks to the market every day and lives on her own in a 3 story house so she's walking up and down stairs all the time.

Fried food is a regular part of her diet, yet it doesn't seem to have impacted her negatively.
let's say it costs you $100K to fix an open source issue. you are a self funded bootstrapped startup. that 100K is serious money. the same 100K, for a FAANG, is lunch money. the FAANG can take your contribution and compete with you, and put its marketing dollars to work, which you don't have.

"get paid" for open source work typically means become a contractor, paid per hour. that doesn't scale, I'm interested in getting paid repeatedly without any additional effort on my part, rather than getting paid per hour.

it would be interesting if there was a model where a contribution would cost $0.001 to use in a product. if I am a small business selling a product with that contribution in it, and I sell 1,000 products, I pay $1. if I am a FAANG and sell 20 million products, I pay 20K. that sounds like a much more fair situation. perhaps blockchain can enable this. now let's say I am a regular contributor and FAANGs use my software. I can now make let's say ~100K per year from my few contributors from FAANGs without any additional work. that would be pretty awesome.
From the docs,

> Key Ideas:

> Deno Deploy handles all scaling, sandboxing and isolate execution. You integrate against a simple HTTP API

> You implement a "relay" that forwards http requests (or events), e.g: https://dash.deno.com/playground/sub-relay

> You implement an "origin" that responds to RPCs (boot, ...), e.g: https://dash.deno.com/playground/sub-origin
>If you're a recluse you can make it work, but I can understand millenial aged people not jiving with that style

Which further creates a spiraling effect where even recluses will feel obligated to move to the city just for anything that you can't / is very difficult to get from a town. Turns out it isn't that fun when the majority of your neighborhood doesn't share your generation or interests. Especially for young people still looking to find someone to settle down with.
>This is demonstrably false:

No it's not, read the article.

https://web.archive.org/web/20220302035710/https://www.nytim...

>>the news media will now be allowed to photograph the flag-draped coffins of America's war dead as their bodies are returned to the United States

And please stop with your cheap "indymedia"

>Which is a very different thing from not reporting on them.

Yes different but not far away from hiding...you know a picture say's more then thousand word's, the pentagon knows that too.

The difference is seeing 30 coffins on the way home, compared to one coffin returning to he's home village.

1 Coffin = Bad, but it is like it is.

30 Coffins on one Flight/Picture...terrible.
> they rarely have any ideas on how Mozilla is supposed to fund itself

If we’re talking about the Mozilla foundation, they should seek donations and grants and focus on being the best user web tooling.

If we’re talking about the corp, they could’ve kept rust under the umbrella and pioneered the WASI runtime and built an alternative to k8s that runs webassemblies and built out a paid cloud infra.

It doesn’t make sense to have a foundation that is user aligned and a corp that is user hostile. There should be aligned incentives.
Aside: the page design of the original link and this New Statesman one are almost enough to prevent me from reading the articles at all; constant skipping when trying to scroll backwards, or incessant pop-ups and insertions.

Banning digital advertising feels like more of an obvious public good every day.
Obviously just looking at numbers without context of differences between Sweden and other countries it looks bad...

There's other really well written articles from PHDs about how their model literally would only work in Sweden.

The author is only bestseller of a book based on their experience not a perspective from someone trying to approach it like an academic as far as I can tell.
Almost no leetcoding for interviews at Hugging Face
Apple only nominally cares about the web. They would rather all interactions go through apps and the app store where they get their cut.
We had to mute an echo dot because our toddler was constantly trying to tell it to play songs, and alexa kept misinterpreting his requests into not-child-appropriate music.
I wrote a similar program using PDF.js that renders near real-time (https://parepdf.com). You should be able to queue it up without too much trouble. If you’re doing pixel level manipulation, you want to make sure you’re finishing within the browsers frame budget.
I always wonder if we could find similar recordings embedded in materials such as clays or paint by people speaking millennia ago. Maybe some day we will have sensitive enough technology to be able to find and decode this type of information.
It's easy to slag AMP because it's Google, and privacy-aware people really don't like Google and denounce all their actions without even thinking. But on the other hand: what if AMP is actually a good thing? Like if it speeds up the web and addresses web obesity, why not embrace it?
I still haven't seen any articles about the money. If people are being herded back into offices there's likely money behind it.

The owners of all of that office space are going to lose a lot if nobody goes back to the office. Are they paying to incentivize any of this "return to office" stuff?

Likewise, if the business real estate market crashes, what are all the ripples? Are there people paying to prevent the crash because it would hit them indirectly?
There is a similar model notes in the wiki

InstallingDebianOn HP Envy 14 Beats Edition 2020ep
https://wiki.debian.org/InstallingDebianOn/HP/Envy%2014%20Be...

> The installer isn't able to detect the Wifi or LAN network cards. To do a net install from the LAN card you need to drop to a shell and do

modprobe atl1c
echo "1969 1083" > /sys/bus/pci/drivers/atl1c/new_id
Here’s an example: https://twitter.com/Kellen_Browning/status/14298996527452201...

Despite being called out that the data was being misrepresented, they never updated the article.

The idea that Russia and a Ukraine supply 25% of the wheat in the world and they don’t correct that is egregious.
In 2013/2014 when Snowden started whiste-blowing we were hoping for Mozilla to monetize privacy, but they never did. They only recently made some very poor attempts at private email, VPN and integrated some DoH. They were very hesitant for any cryptocurrencies integration. I would be happy to pay for a serious VPN and email service (remember Mozilla owns Thuderbird) with promises like Tutanota or Proton have. They could have acquired them, but instead they acquired pocket. Mozilla had the perfect brand and enough userbase to do it. Mozilla started doing that work 5-7 years too late and did too little to be meaningful. I feel they are doomed now and their space is shrinking and there's no future for Firefox in the long term.

There's a lot that can be added here:

Mozilla promised to opensource pocket server and never did.

They promised to hire someone full-time for Thunderbird, but never did. afair there is a German company that has full-time developer working on Thuderbird.

They promised a VPN... yes, delivered something.

They promised anonymous email, I know they were giving access by invites, but nothing more about it.

They promised to unfork Tor browser and integrate Tor into Firefox, they were even running a few Tor nodes.

Remember how hyped everyone here was for Servo in Firefox and electron competitor?

MDN could have integration with GH or GL and educational content for web development, they literally had resources, brand and ability to join an online university and give degrees or at least serious bootcamps. Mozilla was a meaningful brand to do it.

They had a lot of opportunities to sell privacy, we literally demanded it from them, but they weren't interested in listening. Instead they delivered 6 rebrands each breaking my muscle memory.

Do you remember how they advised EU to regulate monopoly on the webbrowser market? There was time when they had all ability, but 0 will to keep it this way https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BrowserChoice.eu
True, but for a full picture you need to compare costs versus benefits, not just covid deaths from a year ago.

You need to compare number of cancer deaths (due to non-screening), and anything else that would have been preventative and now won't be.

You need to compare psychological cost of covid with lockdown versus no lockdown (schools, workplaces, etc.).

You need to compare all of the benefits of life without a lockdown not just the costs.

My personal feeling is that Sweden was too early to lift restrictions, but now everyone else is too late.
in really hot markets the seller often does BETTER if someone backs out and they move on to the next set of buyers. It's not worth the trouble to try and collect, which is not a gimme. The deposit is not a formula but more convention and an amount that demonstrates good faith. You want to get back on the market and not mess around to maybe capture 5 grand gross.
Your reminder that if you live in Europe and want to stay on the right side of your tax authority then what Caleb did is likely breaking the law in your country without some extra steps.

Why? If you offer incentives in return for sponsorship (e.g. extra videos) this turns it from a donation to a business transaction. That has tax implications - and you need to know which country the people sponsoring you live in to bill the right tax.

When I last checked GitHub wasn't doing this automatically (https://twitter.com/rafaelcodes/status/1448987494553473024) so it adds a bunch of complexity for you to keep track of.
I'm assuming you are talking about the US... which freedoms were violated?
That would be nice, and maybe I should have clarified why I asked the question. I was asked to add a new large feature, and some bugs popped up along the way. I thought better testing could have helped, and then I thought it would possibly help to list the requirements as well so I can determine which tests to write/perform. And really I thought I could have been writing those myself - PO tells me what is needed generally, I try to determine what's important from there.

Or maybe I just need to do better testing myself? There's no code reviews around here, or much of an emphasis on writing issues, or any emphasis on testing that I've noticed. So it's kind of tough figuring out what I can do
I said "in range", not "in a group". Given the range, that can mean several square kilometers if the terrain is right.
I feel like for many companies that was a problem that had to be solved a long time ago. It's pretty rare that you're not taking home a work laptop, or have work data on your phone or at least a company-provided phone already.
Wondering why you couldn’t use in-place upgrade (pg_upgrade [0]). Not supported in Azure?

[0] https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/pgupgrade.html
Maybe this is software that steals information for someone else other than Microsoft.

With time, every Windows install becomes info-stealing malware.
By not spending the >$1 billion they've taken in over the last decade as fast as they got it. A billion+ is a ton of money in the open source world and had they been responsible stewards they would have been able to fund development for a very long time without short term funding concerns. The fact that they've pissed away every cent taken in is their problem.
Elon Musk Should Create a New Kind of Common Carrier
This old Palm guy loved the reverse engineering done here.
This is such a huge problem. It's even worse than it looks: because users are slow to upgrade, changes to the database system take years to percolate down to the 99th percentile user. The decreases the incentive to do certain kinds of innovation. My opinion is that we need to fundamentally change how DBMS are engineered and deployed to support silent in-the-background minor version upgrades, and probably stop doing major version bumps that incorporate breaking changes.
Who is forcing you to? Again, you are not special.
There aren't enough homes _where people want to live_ and you solve that buy building more homes _where people want to live_.

But that's difficult because cities have all these veto points. It takes forever to get new construction going, right? Exactly. That's why we aren't building enough, because in the current regulatory environment we can't. That's what people talk about when they talk about NIMBYism as the cause of the housing crisis.

The not so radical solution is to make it easier to build new homes where people want to live.
It's especially ironic to call out selection bias in a study that itself examines only one side - they did not look at what happens if you expose CNN viewers to a month of FOX News, or NYTimes readers to a month of amren.
Hunter Biden does not work for the Us government.
Keshikomi Simulator (Reconciliation Game)
1) That's a very easy one to dispute - Right Sector has 0 seats in parliament now. Nationalists were losing support consistently in Ukraine.

2) Azov battalion - indeed had been formed with a few neo-Nazis, when Ukraine was literally is complete disarray. However it's very much an overblown issue. The irony is that the people they were fighting against were Russian neo-Nazis - Rusich battalion is neo-Nazi.

2a) Ukraine actually held accountable another neo-nazi battalion for their war crimes. And Russian propaganda is calling anyone "Azov battalion".

3) Yes, there's a few anti-soviet activists that are branded as Nazis. But to point to Bandera, that spent most of the war in a concentration camp(1941-43?), is a little ignorant. There's a however - these memorials to Bandera have not had any affect on Nazi support in today's Ukraine.
I enjoyed that the hosts got progressively more pointed in their questioning as it became abundantly clear that he was full of BS.

Overall: outstanding company man, even though he doesn't work for them anymore! At no point would he even entertain the idea that Foxconn did anything wrong. I also love that he placed all the blame on the current governor, and when they pointed out that this project was a bust long before the election of the current governor he switched to blaming the voters for getting upset right away. This guy has a future in the corporate world once he gets tired of "teaching innovation" to the unqualified future workforce of Wisconsin (his words, not mine).
This.

Since joining some C64-related facebook groups after buying my TheC64 retroclone, I was surprised to find the large number of new and original games for the C64 being released all the time. And they are commercial, not free!

Really happy to find the community lives on.
The thing is, you have to produce results when you are remote. In an office, you can get by looking busy. I think the people who insist on going back to the office are the ones who are missing the stage on which they used to perform without actually doing real work.
It's cool there is a "Code & Data" link for papers at arxiv (alas there is "No official code found" for this paper -- not that I expect there would be).
The current state of general pc (x86) machines has been awful for some time but a Mac is infinitely worse IMO, awful keyboards, fragile design, useless OS for anything except basics but there are a number of reasonable machines out there just overpriced (because the market is dominated by idiot consumers) or not quite right.

For me personally the keyboard is one of the most important things and nobody gets it right anymore however I recently got a cheap Acer (usually use Asus but their keyboards took a horrible turn) which doesn't have the most awful keyboard and common keys do not require a 3 finger contortionist exercise.

It works reasonably well on either windows or Linux, despite being an AMD disaster - I got the AMD variant of the swift 3 and aside from being typical modern ultrabook filmsy crap (like appple, too), it's actually ok (but depending on WiFi environment may want to replace the mediatek, although it's only caused me issues on garbage consumer AP's like isp provided).

As for the buying experience well that's locality dependent, I ordered online and picked it up from a robot machine a few hours later (alza cz)
CDC launches new infectious disease forecasting center
Thanks for this tip! Preview has evolved so many little features the name is borderline misleading at this point.
That's a good follow-up, with the quibble that the math is wrong -- he added $7.5k for insurance as a benefit for a salaried employee, then also subtracted it as an additional expense for being self-employed. So he double-counted it. Which is odd, given that he didn't use the same logic when talking about the other benefits he lists, like vacation, 401(k) matching, and equipment. Either he should have subtracted all of those from the self-employed amount, or added them all to the salaried amount, but not both.

So really, the difference in take-home pay should be $98,058 vs. $77,842. Or to put in terms of gross revenue ("Total Income", as he puts it), the comparative target number for self-employed people would be $132,371. It doesn't negate his overall point, I just figured I'd mention it.
>the market recovered within a year after covid began.

The market only "recovered" because the government intervened and infinite money got printed and poured onto it. Otherwise it would have crashed.

The greatest wealth transfer in history is not "the free market recovered" but a rigged game.
You should look at what we did for the spanish flu before you get all high and mighty about your history take
Not if the blockchain ties back to the source / author. Maybe long after that author is dead and it has changed hands many times.