skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The post says "Some folks would assume this is simply a cost saving measure..." and then goes on to explain in what way it actually is a cost saving measure.

Very interesting anyway to know how it works.
alar44 is not talking about Birkins when he says 'Most luxury bags are a few grand tops, not 100s...' but the LV's, Gucci, Burberry bags most people with branded handbags have. Birkins are another class of their own.
Bill Gates says he has tested positive for Covid-19
You can reduce password inquiries too by losing all your customers. It would be very Yahoo of them to lose thousands of customers and then promote the culprit because they reported that password request metrics got a lot better!

Not that I think that happened, but if it had to be any company that did that, they're a candidate.
Someone I knew worked in a very expensive jewellery / leather shop in London called Aspreys in the late 90s. A family walked in and within ten minutes had picked out and paid for a £10,000 luggage set. There's a bunch of people around - probably even more now given the rising levels of wealth inequality - who can do that kind of thing without thinking. That family probably shopped there without thinking too much about what things cost, they just knew that they liked what was in Aspreys.
Not sure how exactly this digital asset is financially intertwined with other assets, but at the very least I'd expect this to cause some significant negative sentiment within the markets. Anyone who's invested in a digital asset right now is watching this situation and thinking, could this happen to my money too? I'd guess that a sizeable portion of these people are going to end up selling.

Also, anyone find it sus that these massive selloffs are happening exactly in the middle of the night for the US east coast?
The expense is not the problem, inability to look at hubs and cables and reliably understand which ones can actually drive 4k monitors, 1Gbit Ethernet and charge the laptop at the same time without issues is the problem.
I think it's telling that the people most critical of AI alignment as cause for concern so rarely engage substantively with the very reasonable case for taking it seriously.
Not defending the prices but it seems to be the same as with paintings. It's just some water color on a piece of paper isn't it? The materials certainly won't make the price of famous artworks.
Thanks, this is really good feedback! We will update the pricing today to use a different unit that is more intuitive.
USB-C has two physical channels, and the act of having to decide that a channel needs to be used for usb or hdmi or displayport is a complication that hubs were never well specified to handle. Hence there not being many such hubs.

USB4's tunneling means that the connector does not have to enter an alt-mode. Even when transmitting displayport or hdmi, the hub or hubs and host can remain using usb4. As well as making hubs suddenly make sense (after being an unspecified ball of confusion with alt modes), this allows bandwidth sharing that was previously impossible.

In short, that these other specs had packets is irrelevant, because those solutions werent really compatible with hub-like devices. There needed to be a common mode of interoperation, which hadnt existed before usb4.
I've never heard total debt should be 1/3 of income. Having a mortgage completely blows that up. Nevermind student loans, a car, or getting a credit card.

I've heard that monthly housing shouldn't be more than 1/3 monthly take home. Is that what you're thinking?
The problem is the plethora of features USB-C supports, and the bandwidth required to pass them all downstream. In other words, you need to passthru PCIe to the hub, and break out to USB-C and other ports from there,

Which is simply expensive.

On the other hand, Kingston's Nucleum is a nice hub. It provides two additional USB-C ports with PD support in one of them, provides two USB 3.0 USB-A ports, a proper card reader and an HDMI port.

I take photos and my camera produces 50MB images, and carrying them over a nice card reader which can use the full bandwidth of the card is nice, and Nucleum delivers.
They will be penalized, by the voters, if people are allowed to discuss the politician’s actions and statements freely and make their own judgement about his fitness for office, and if they actually choose to do so.

Ask yourself why those voices of truth go unheard. Or why the politician’s lies continue without consequence. Is it not because of a lack of robust speech around the politician’s behavior?

Why doesn’t that robust speech occur? Sometimes it is suppressed. But more often, the root of the problem is that most people prefer to be lied to. Seeking and discovering the truth is hard work, and it is work that no person should outsource to a third party. Yet that is exactly what people do, when they rely on the press or media for the truth. Those organizations lie at least as frequently as the politician does.
Well... a single real birkin (plus all the other purchases needed at the Hermes store before someone is "qualified" to buy a bag) easily exceeds 10k.
One could just call that work satisfaction or some such thing. No need to overload words.
What stops you from creating a string key called Comment? :)
My main driver is an iPhone SE from 2016, which I bought used in 2019 for 50 euro (about 50 dollars). Best phone I've ever had. It does get worse with every update just like every other device with software updates), but it's still quite usable.

I wish I learned the trick of "buying quality devices that are a few years old and using them until end-of-life" ages ago (also works great with laptops, though Apple's ones tend to stay expensive despite their age, so it works better with Thinkpads), I've spent so much money on brand new devices, which did not benefit me in any meaningful way.

More to the thread: I too am puzzled by the idea of giving my child a device that allows them to rot their brain but doesn't allow us to call each other. Seems like it should be the other way around—I keep hearing how the people who run big tech companies don't let their kids use technology, because they know how harmful it is.
I recently left a company of 1000 employees for one with 20 and my experience has been similar: working more but paradoxically have more energy for the other two buckets.

My colleagues have a greater sense of urgency and are more biased toward action . I do believe the saying (paraphrased) “you are a reflection of the people you spend the most time with”, and I think that’s how the energy and action I get in my work life “trickles” into my social life and fitness goals.
Korean, not Chinese, but I'm a massive fan of Cowon products. The (sadly discontinued) Cowon J3 was legendary, rightfully called the best DAP of all time by many. Currently have a Cowon Plenue D2 in my pocket.
Thanks! Lots to do but it's getting there!
Bummer, I wish they'd bring back the iPod touch.
Are you serving files other then html/images/css, etc? 300tb is a lot, AWS cloudfront would be charging ~$6000/month by a quick estimate.

Recognize they were probably taking a loss with your business, I'm surprised you didn't discuss how much bandwidth you were expecting when you agreed to the contract, sounds like a miscommunication.
OwnCloud Launches Infinite Scale Beta
> Somebody once described balance to me as three buckets filled with water.

I'm not agree with this. I think physical health should absolutely be the number one priority.

Let me just put it coldly here: career can be re-established, friend can be re-found, losing family is a painful struggle but it's not impossible to start from scratch. But physical health, once you lose it, you'll likely lose everything else too. The same thing is also true for mental health.

That said, I would not put my health on any kind of trading table, it's the only thing that I actually own, and I can't afford to dis-own it.

Also, I don't think it's a "three buckets problem", someone probably invented it so they can talk about such thing safely in front of their boss.

You work to improve your life, and you need a good life so you can and know how to improve the life of the others (through the product you helped making). It is hard for someone to generate good results if they're living in miserable condition. A good boss should know this.
It's not that I dislike Jenga so much as I hadn't really expected it to be such a spot-on analogy of what tech work actually entails.
I use both Cloudflare and Fastly. Haven't done a deep comparison of their pricing, but Fastly at my teeny scale (<$100 per month) is affordable for the benefit they provide.

Is CDN bandwidth your only need or do you also need features like log streaming to BigQuery, WAF, direct integration with Google via signed exchanges (SXGs)?
To be fair, 200k+ isn't the norm outside of the FAANGs, but 100k for an experienced dev is achievable almost anywhere in the US, including places with very low cost of living. Many of the southern states have very low/no income tax, extremely cheap land/housing/food, and great weather.
> But if you’re working hard for your money, you don’t want to spend it on stupid stuff.

And so, the reasoning goes, you want to spend it on less stupid stuff, such as fakes, because, for the same amount of money, you can own 10x more fakes than the real thing.

But why do you need 10 fake Birkins?

There is something profoundly sad about people who spend time buying stuff; it's even sadder when they argue that they're being clever because they buy cheap stuff, so they can buy more of it. They are, in effect, hoarders.
At least in Europe, I think this service is more useful for small/medium sized shops than for restaurants, as we are not very used to tipping.

Apart from QR, it would also be nice to pay by scanning an NFC tag, which is sometimes much faster than scanning a QR code, but of course, the question now is how to get the tag to the user. It would be complex to set up a logistics system just for this.

In any case, I think it's a very good idea. I could see myself using it every time I go to the barber.

I also like the fee system and I think it can be useful for open source projects where they collect donations, as an alternative to Buy Me a Coffee, for example.
Shameless plug, but I'm working on a job board[0] specifically for entry level developer jobs. I'm hoping to open source the job board code as well so it's taking a little longer but I'm close to making the repo public. I also publish a free weekly Substack newsletter geared toward entry level devs[1] and am close to finishing a book about soft-skills for entry level devs[2].

Why do I do all of this? Because I was also an entry level dev once.

[0]: Not live yet but it'll be at https://jobs.beginner.dev

[1]: https://newsletter.beginner.dev/

[2]: https://www.holloway.com/b/junior-to-senior
3x? That's crazy. I bought a $375k house on an $85k tech salary 20 years ago.
> The Hermes bags are made in France, by leather artisans.

And yet ironically in the article,

> She echoed a number of women I spoke with who think authentic customers are the ones getting played. “These days, the reps just tend to be better made,” a Hamptons-based chief strategy officer tells me. “They last longer. There’s more attention to detail. You can tell that things have been done by hand.”
That's a strange concern you seem to have... why does it bother you that fellow programmers are getting salaries close to yours? Do you think it would feel better if your salary could be 5x higher than theirs? Why? That will not actually affect you negatively in any way! Unless you're being actually underpaid compared to your peers with the same experience and skills, there's only good things about people with lower skills getting higher pay.
I don't remember ever hearing this, and a quick google search comes up empty. Skeptical about this claim.
You sound single. And oh so proud of how you have mastered pumping gas.

On a trip from San Jose to LA we stop once to charge for 10 minutes, arriving with plenty of charge to spare. I’m not too worried about the “extra” five minutes, which we can make good use of.
I’d pay to watch them connect up a monitor, then try fix the issue when it mysteriously stops working. Then have the replacement also fail. Then find another that works but looks identical.
Thanks for your feedback. It's very hard to even get to 1GB of data traffic via JSON. And the Pro plan includes 5 GB already.

We will update the pricing later today to make it more intuitive.
It is the job of voters to hold them accountable. Our politicians are a mirror of ourselves. We usually get the leaders we deserve.

If it’s not the voters who should hold these lying politicians to account, then who? Or what system would you put in place to ensure their honesty?
> Do you exclude NAS functionality?

Depends on the situation.

If your needs are handling large amounts of photos/videos for work/hobbies, then a NAS probably makes sense, but if you're just hoarding a bunch of movies/tv-shows, does that really need RAID5/6 ? A single drive would probably be adequate, considering that you can probably "recreate" the contents.

Personally i use a content cache on my LAN that caches data for the cloud, meaning my data i available at LAN speeds on my LAN, but still stored in the cloud.

But my original comment was mostly about self hosting services.
For anyone interested in the topic (combinatory logic as told through the medium of birds) I adore Gabriel Lebec's talk "A Flock Of Functions: Combinators, Lambda Calculus & Church Encodings in JavaScript" https://youtu.be/3VQ382QG-y4
A lot of effort went into this post but the author didnt do enough preliminary explanation. I have some limited background in logic / FP but wasn't able to follow along.

Can someone explain the notation? Might be difficult without images
that's like Google's experimental work. I mean Google & Facebook using something is kinda moot.

Is anyone non-FAANG using it ?
I use a USB-C to USB-A converter, plug in an old USB-A hub, and plug USB-A to USB-C converters into each port.

Works great. You'll be stuck with USB 2.0 speeds, but it connects to, passes data to, and charges every single dumb device I have with no problems. Mice, keyboard, USB-C headphones, my phone, other laptops that charge over USB-C... and that's all I ever really wanted.

Apple's 2-USB-C-port laptop was literal insanity.
I just joined Meta. I don't believe in the vision, or the mission, or the pillars, or whatever. I don't use Facebook, or WhatsApp, or Instagram, or any other Meta properties. I took the job for the money (I don't need or care about the name on my resume), and I plan to move on in a year when I don't need to repay the hiring bonus.

Listening to the self-righteous drivel they ram down our throats during orientation has made me literally and physically gag on multiple occasions. It's painfully self-serving, and it has made me dislike the company more than I did from the outside.

I 100% see social networking as digital tobacco, and I take pleasure in my other projects that I think are more helpful for mankind (or at least not negative). But Meta pays really well, and it's that pay that will allow me to pursue my other hobbies and interests.

Have I sold my soul? Probably. In a year I'll see if it was worth it.
"We continue to target delivery of A-sample cells to at least one customer in 2022. The A sample is planned to have dozens of layers and is intended to demonstrate the core functionality of the battery cells." That's moderately encouraging. It's better than the usual "we got this new surface chemistry result, huge revolution real soon now."

As with too many battery articles, this is either a huge deal or total bullshit.

(Electrek should have a monthly column: "1, 5 and 10 years ago in battery press releases.")
Ballerina team told me that in the future Ballerina will not be hosted on JVM.
I meet once a week with my team and once a week with my manager, that's it.
Well, even if the math is correct, the simulation will be lossy if one works with finite precision. And because of the chaotic nature of the double pendulum, small errors will eventually add up to big deviations.
To choose a CDN, will need to know following inputs:
* What kind of delivery you're using ? Images ? Videos ? Streaming ?

* Where is your major traffic coming from ? US ? Asia ? Africa ?

* What kind of integration you're using on CF ? Is there any special features on CF that you're using ?

Alternatives, i could say alot: CDN77, BunnyCDN, Fastly etc... But it's really depends on your current setup.
> if fortune 500 CEO pay is up less than 11% on avg since 2020

It's up a /lot/ more than that! And what do you know, they're also not underpaid. The former will predict the latter pretty damn well, I think you'll find. So yes, strictly speaking, annual raises and having the market power to command meaningful ones do actually have everything to do with being over/under paid.
> ...a 6.9% increase since 2020, the report found. But inflation is over 11% since 2020. This isn't an increase. The

I have heard this point made a couple of times recently. Is there any reason why these two values should be the same? It is a point of concern for those on very low incomes who spent all their income and are not able to save anythiny, but if you are on a six figure income and only a portion of that income is spent on groceries and housing then I assume you can still end up wealthier than the previous year.
You replied to GP, who was replying to GGP, who made no mention of their location.
Modifying the Starlink Power Supply to Run on AC and DC
>Potentially you could also just stop for 5 or 10 mins for a partial charge?

Exactly, that’s the trick!

Although I still meet people who don’t get this and needlessly keep their charge topped up while traveling, which is a lot slower.
50% sounds reasonable number. And probably good amount of that is actually underpaid. And I don't mean in way of people here talk, but in real way of earning sub middle class wage.
What about the cash balance? Is it also subject to seizure if Coinbase goes bankrupt?
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It's a tiny tiny part of the market. Think $500 million yacht. Yes they exist, but 99.9% of them don't cost that much.
Rich people testing positive for Covid isn't news. The majority of Americans have caught it at least once.
Do you mean that you are working for European companies and get paid more than your European colleagues?
Tax is a divisive issue and it always has been. This is because many of us care deeply about the fundamental question of
Am I getting richer or poorer?

The author of this post has answered their own question. Am I getting poorer if everyone is contributing proportionally to the burden of tax? No.

I only become poorer due to tax because I pay proportionally more than people earning more than me.

Short of an absolutely radical restructuring of the society we live in, taxes are a necessity, so why do they make the very rich so much richer (proportionally)?
That's 1-2 cents a gb. Good luck finding less than that price anywhere.

Bunny cdn is around 1-2 cents
Nope not US only, but there are a lot of US only roles. You can search by country/time zone for jobs here: https://himalayas.app/jobs - need to add a similar thing for companies at some point.
And yet, hundreds of people die in ICE vehicle fires and you just shrug it off as "such is life". How can you be worried about one thing and shrug off the other? The solution to that major risk is everybody switching to EVs. You'd save hundreds of lives that way. Every year.

The risk profile of a EV fire is mainly damaged property. You get to walk away from an EV fire almost every time because unlike petrol fires, such fires are not explosive. The random incident you mentioned (again, hundreds of thousands of ICE car fires in the US, every year) is a good example. This was a vehicle that burned for days on end. Super annoying but sounds more like it was smouldering and people probably got to walk away and watch from a safe distance. Petrol burns up quite quickly once it gets going. Extinguishing a petrol fire is not a thing. Mostly it's gone by the time the fire trucks get to the scene.

Extinguishing an EV fire is like every other fire, take oxygen out of the equation and cool the situation to below the point where it stops burning. The main challenge with batteries is that a shorted battery might heat up again to the point where it starts burning. Annoying but something fire men can be trained to deal with. A lot less dramatic than "unstoppable" fires of course. Most EV fires are complete non events. No drama with explosions. No casualties. A thing burned/smouldered, firemen showed up and took care of it, end of story. And they are rare to begin with.
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Not solely your keys, not your coins... After Mt. Gox it should be clear to anyone that unless you hold your own coins on your own you don't really guarantee them.
And about redundancy ? geographical redundancy ? With (major) cloud providers, your data is stored in multiple geographically separate data centers, meaning even if a data center burns down, your data is still available, and redundancy hastily being restored.

How about malware protection ? Most (major) cloud providers offer n days of x versions (OneDrive is 30 days worth of unlimited versions), so if your files end up as encrypted garbage, you can simply roll back to an earlier version. Unless your home server is airgapped, that could still apply to you.

You're probably also lacking in redundancy with power and internet (though if only available on the LAN that's not a problem), as well as fire protection/prevention as well as flood protection.
I'm not making a statement of fact about CEO pay since 2020. I'm saying that whether or not it's up by more or less than inflation since then has nothing to do with them being fundamentally overpaid.

Apply this to dev pay as well. Just because you're a few % off since 2020 after inflation does not mean $300k salaries are overpaid or that they're appropriate. They're two unconnected data points.
entry level jobs in software engineering at FAANG were over 120K about 10 years ago and that was already underpaid. California is a really expensive place to live long term and people generally do not do the math and do not account for child care, retirement, sickness or health issues or whatever. then there is the cost of (ongoing) education and issues of mental health in this industry.

And those who think remote will be long term to their advantage are wrong. All that will happen is that these companies will find a way to pay you less. The solution is to organize.

for those who will reply that people are making less in CA and also need to survive… i was in a black uber recently and the driver told me he was averaging 20K per month. not bad for driving a car with zero education or leetcode requirements.
Sister coin Luna gone from $88 to $5.80 in the last 7 days as they sell off to try to maintain the peg.
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That is a fantastic domain and great idea! Keen to see what you roll out!
Those are hard to find. If you filter in your 3.link it goes from 1924 -> 38. That is 2% of the jobs.
Confronting to see someone came up with the same idea for a map-based approach to job-search ...

I wasn't nearly that far, so good learning opportunity to see how you built it...

https://www.findeurostartups.com
Fine, except that presumably the previous owners knew all this, and they charged half as much. Not 5% less, not 10% less.

These people were able to double the prices, and how they did that is really the remarkable part of "how".
Cool! I'll be keeping an eye on it
Interests, not values, underpin Asia’s ambivalence about Russia
OT, but can anyone recommend a similar service not directed at SE? A friend is trying to find a remote job, but likely in HR/BD, can anyone recommend a similar service?

This is already good, it lists non-software jobs, but it seems software is clearly, and understandably, the focus.
It's too risky. Marvin will desintegrate it.