skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, so the details really matter here. A lot of people hear "In country X they live on $2 per day," and think that you can experience the same standard of living in that country as you do in the US. But that's really not the case. Even in places that enjoy a relatively high standard of living, while things like food and rent are cheap, all the things that are imported from the developed world cost exactly the same, and it just means that people can't afford them. Everyone may not want to live in America, but they all want to have the luxuries we enjoy, and which are enabled by American salaries.

But standard of living isn't really the reason someone would be miserable at work -- the real thing that makes this a bad arrangement is loss of agency, both for the off-shore contractor, and for the supervisor. This is where I accused you of not having done this before, because in my experience, and several friends' experiences, working with lower-paid, lower-experience software teams is extremely frustrating.

As others have pointed out, coming up with specs is a frustrating and unsatisfying process, and is akin to writing code, except that you don't actually get to run the code and see the fruits of your labor. Because of your working arrangement, the people actually making the product don't have the agency to take ownership of its architecture, and instead you get a whole bunch of copy-paste. If you push back and say, "no, this isn't what we agreed to," then they push right back and say that your requirements are unreasonable, because they don't have the expertise to architect the project right.

But suppose you decide you don't care about architecture, because that's what expensive people do, and you're hiring cheap people, then what's the harm? They can do things their way, even if it's less efficient, right? Except that now the team living with the bad architecture is responsible for fixing all the inevitable bugs that come up, and every time a bug is "fixed," another bug pops up somewhere else, and you, the supervisor/customer, are now responsible for all of it. You can keep filing the bugs, but you can't fix them yourself. Or maybe you can fix them yourself, but you can never improve the overall design, because your decisions will always be overridden by the copy-paste brigade doing the "real" work.

It's a world where all the code bases are awful and nobody gets any job satisfaction.
This app is not available for your device.

Too bad so sad, and I was ready to give them 6 bucks.
At Buffer (my day job) our salaries are open and transparent so I can just say what I make, which is about $155 after bonuses and profit sharing.

So for opportunity cost, I’m kinda thinking about the apps I could’ve shipped or have worked towards in that time. In many ways, I was just hitting my stride and figuring out a lot about the business side of app development when I embarked on this project. So, I’m giving up shipping apps to “ship” the book, and that has been the hardest part for me.
This is a very thorough and well-researched article that explains currency pegs in general and the UST collapse in particular.

It's one thing to try an experiment and fail. It's quite another to mislead investors and not fulfill commitments. I imagine this paragraph will come back big time during the inevitable criminal and civil trials:

> It was here that LFG stepped in by allegedly selling their Luna and Bitcoin reserves to buy up UST in an attempt to stop the bleeding. However, as the price of Luna and UST fell, so did the price of Bitcoin as the LFG allegedly sold tens of thousands of their bitcoin. (Note: It is still unknown if they actually sold the bitcoin).
Compare SpaceX to Blue Origin - while SpaceX has succeeded in conquering over 50% of the orbital launch market, Blue Origin still hasn’t made it to orbit - nor has ULA’s new rocket using Blue’s engines. Is that the fault of Blue’s engineers? I don’t think that’s fair - some of them are just as brilliant as SpaceX’s. The real blame, I think, is at the executive level. Bezos has never invested anywhere near as much of his time and energy and personal wealth into Blue as Musk has invested into SpaceX. And Musk has made much better choices of executive leadership (Gwynne Shotwell vs Bob Smith). That’s just one example of the massive difference the ability and commitment of a founder can make to the success of a business. (You’d think on a forum owned by a Silicon Valley VC firm, that point would be uncontested and accepted as obviously true.)
OP is literally a story about someone asking strangers for directions and being given the cold shoulder. You proposal is to… ask those same unhelpful strangers directions to a different destination instead?
Anyone liquidating their position ahead of the peg crash was shorting. Sell units were many.
Electric cars are usually about 4x as efficient as ICE in terms of energy input -> propulsive energy[1], so it's more like $5.50/gallon, but still pretty expensive.

[1] http://www.afteroilev.com/Pub/EFF_Tank_to_Wheel.pdf
We also prefer Google Meet, since we're have our meeting rooms equipped with CFMs, but we live in a multilingual country and the interpretation feature from Zoom, where we can hire interpreters and our attendees can listen to the language they prefer is simply non-existent on Google Meet.
So I’m also really skeptical of blockchain-panacea. But there are a lot of wicked smart people (like Turing winners and shit) working on the Byzantine distributed consensus problem. It’s by no means solved, but also not proven insoluble, so kind of a toss up. And even if crypto-shitcoin mania did nothing but fund successful research into that problem it would have manifold applications outside of cyber-money.

Cyber-money is also kind of cool in that conventional electronic securities markets (which are every bit as crooked btw) don’t really innovate much because there’s no Jobs/Wozniak version of being an electronic financial market participant. When that stuff gets more efficient, everyone’s 401k compounds a little faster. So as a farm league for ARCA there’s some value there.

But the main use case that speaks to me is going from “unbanked” to “quite reasonably banked” in remittance scenarios. I live in California and sadly we put most of our crap jobs on semi-legal folks from Central and South America. Speaks a bit to their superior moral fiber that they often work hard to send every spare dollar home. Difficult to do via SWIFT, easy to do via USDC.

So, no fanboy here, but it’s not all bullshit.
Have you faced serious scalability issues with it? In my shallow research, a lot of devs complain about Meteor's performance, but it might be misuse or a misunderstanding of how the platform works.
I think 1 mil cash post tax would be enough to FIRE. I’d probably take a lower stress IC role and be fine at that point
There are equivalent cases in the meme stock world. GameStop, in particular, had an abnormally high market cap because of anomalous trading. If you hold onto it forever all you have is a dumb little videogame sales company worth a fraction of what you paid for it.

Meme stocks are quite interesting in that they are essentially like blockchain-driven asset bubbles, but without the blockchain. This has many advantages! It’s quite easy to trade stocks.
Haha, I am happy to share. I basically switched from a lecture-centric approach to a practice-question-centric one.

When I need to learn a new topic, I will first read the materials once thoroughly, taking notes with a paper and pencil. Then I spend the rest of my time drilling practice questions. 75%+ of my study time is drills. I just do question after question until I start getting most of them right. When I'm done and getting 80%+ right (or I run out of questions), I go back and re-do all the questions I got wrong the first time around.

I used to just pay attention in class and read the textbook, but I'd get in trouble when I needed to apply the concepts on an exam. I realized exams often tested application and mastery, not understanding, so I needed to anticipate what questions would be asked and practice all the different iterations.

Instead of relying on lectures to teach me materials, I started treating them as a nice-to-have intro or review, with the expectation that my real learning would come from drills and reading.

I also switched up my approach to classwork. I started sitting in the front row, taking notes with a pencil and paper. I was often the only one without a laptop. I'd never really look at my notes again, it was more the act of taking notes by hand that helped me with retention and staying engaged.

When I had a syllabus or learning objectives I would read it closely multiple times and use it to make sure I was meeting all the goals. I'd also write a list of the assignments in Excel and try to score 100% on each one. It was a challenge I'd set for myself.
As a C++ fan, I’d say manual memory control isn’t going anywhere but manually calling malloc and free is ridiculous in 2022 and beyond when `std::unique_ptr` Provides a better abstraction.
Rampant and near-encouraged crime forced the hands of my SF friends to move. Some pass it off as a standard of living situation but they all moved to low crime Red states..
Thank you! Will check it out!
Red Hat was pulling in $3.4 billion per year when IBM bought it.

And I paid $24.99 for my first copy of Linux.
Pretty sure the emulators there run locally, so it's of dubious legality.
Change the wording to “you will be this old this year” and it should cover both cases.
US average gas price is currently $4.60/gallon. UK average gas price is currently $7.99/gallon.

Depends on how much more efficient the electric car is than the gas-powered car.
TerraUSD is supposedly stable only when people want Luna. But who the hell wants Luna? The whole idea failed at its very premise from the beginning.
You clearly like to write and have a lot to say. You should write a book.
> It's not too surprising that this situation has come about, it's basically monopolistic manipulation of markets throughout the whole supply chain. A deregulated neoliberal paradise has many similarities to a war zone economy.

I actually tend to interpret it the opposite direction. This is clearly price gouging, which can hypothetically be regulated.

To me, the underlying issue is that near direct-to-consumer sales combined with public APIs and tooling like these bots has led to democratization of price gouging. Instead of being able to track the gouging back to a few businesses who are doing a lot of it, we now have to track a huge number of people who are individually doing a little of it.

It creates two problems. The first is that we don't have the resources to investigate and prosecute all the people doing it. The second is that each individual does a relatively small amount of damage, but it causes a large amount of damage in aggregate. We usually prosecute based on damage caused, but it's hard to show the damage of price gouging $1,000 or $10,000 worth of goods. If they were the only ones doing it, it wouldn't even be a problem. Yet, there's also no obvious collusion. They aren't causing scarcity individually, but they are in aggregate. I don't think the laws consider that at the moment.

It also looks bad for regulatory agencies to go after fairly normal folks. I don't get the impression these people are generally rich.
Ask HN: Is there a math formula that can give me nth pie digit?
I want to make a function that gives me nth pie digit without calculating it from 1st digit.

So getNthPie(2) -> 4

and getNthPie(1000000) -> 4
We have very different lists of constraints that forced us to reason towards different optimizations. Unless your aims change drastically before launch, I don't think there's much risk that our projects would be highly redundant. It seems like you might have a larger focus on individual unit identities ala Dwarf Fortress than I do, but I still prioritize the value of identity highly with a different design approach.

Enthusiasm isn't a huge problem, it's partially that I have a great many interests of varying levels of importance where appealing ideas just pour out of my mind and that whole process enriches all other interests. The difficulty is that it keeps adding more and more considerations, so there's more complexity to comb through in order to prioritize.

Being vague is intentional, but not out of any disrespect. I'm doing strange things and part of their future appeal might be that they are strange, which wouldn't be the case if they become common in the market before I ever even get around to finishing it. :) That strangeness is also part of the problem, because there are a lot of harder to predict things that may go wrong.
Quines break my brain.
ECS is a good example of multi-benefit DoD because it's clearly meant to be performant, but there are significant benefits that come from using discrete components rather than typically more complex OO classes, for example. I've built pretty large update loops (using dozens of systems), but the complexity doesn't seem to grow much as I add more, and systems themselves are generally small. Maintaining correct order of system update calls has been the trickiest part.
Bitcoin offers "value" too - in the market economy sense. It allows you to buy illegal products and services on the DarkNet and do so anonymously (if you use one of the Bitcoin "washing" services which make it impossible to track the transfer back to you).

That is a major "value" for some people and the reason why they buy Bitcoin.
Most of my car trips are random route. Most public transit (and all rail) runs on a fixed path. It’s rare that that fixed path aligns with my random route. The only trip I regularly take that vaguely aligns with a bus route is from 2 blocks away from my house to the grocery. (The grocery is about 4 total blocks from my house meaning walking halfway and then waiting for a bus still makes no sense.)
Oh Factorio is excellent, but in my mind it's an entirely different game, for a start the whole game, even multiplayer isn't played out in the same terms. It's very much focused on logistics and production, but from the perspective that all players have access to this pipe output of a gigafactory that exists to produce useful stuff for them that they can all share / use together.

That's not the same as an economy, yes, you have logistics chains and production lines and yes, they affect each other. However, it's not a shared space and I think that leads to a very different gameplay experience.

But yes, Factorio is definitely the canonical example of the game in its space.
Is it for the life time of the car?
>I don't have huge sympathy for drivers per se
Must be nice living in a major city
what about Homer?
Why would they care about selling to you, in particular? It's not like they have any spare..
Is a "synthetic gallon" unit really the right thing to measure here? It seems like $ per distance traveled is more appropriate.

At $0.63/kWh, assuming a car like the Mustang Mach-E - it'd cost $44.10 to "fill up" the 70 kWh battery. That gets you ~250mi of range, for ~$0.18 per mile.

For comparison to ICE cars - take a similarly-sized crossover like the Toyota RAV-4 which gets ~27 mpg. At current gas prices in my area of ~$4.50/gallon that works out to about $0.17 per mile. In the UK the petrol option is considerably more expensive: at ~$8/gallon the ICE option is closer to $0.30 per mile.

So the fast-charge EV option is either tied (by US prices) or significantly better (by UK prices) than the ICE option? It's certainly a far cry from the $21.56 equivalent measure you've got. Obviously the math changes somewhat depending on what your benchmark EV/ICE cars are, but at first glance this doesn't actually seem like a bad deal. It's certainly a far cry from the >$20 "gallon" measure.

[edit] I was inspired to do the math on what the non fast-charging option would look like based on household electricity prices in my area. At $0.13/kWh the Mustang Mach-E would run about $0.037 per mile. Wow. Even in a state with much higher electric prices (say MA, at $0.24/kWh) that'd still work out only to ~$0.07/mile.

Really hard to beat that for gas prices.
RAII solves only a fraction of the various scenarios you encounter with memory/resource management. It helps when you're temporarily creating and then destroying a resource right after, but these only hold for very simple use cases and doesn't help with much more complex real-world scenarios.

(Example: you'll understand this when you have experience with any graphics APIs, RAII wrappers don't really help you that much and will actually make your life way harder...)

My solution for general resource management, is to manage your resources manually on a central store (as you should be), get references to these objects using either pointers or indices, and use techniques like generational references to catch use-after-free scenarios at runtime. Makes things way simpler and performant.
So fourteen years ago when Apple was still new at manufacturing phones and they were exclusive to one carrier in one country there was a problem.

Sony has been selling PlayStations for 23 years and still can’t figure out how to meet demand?

Sony is only expected to produce 18 million units this year. Reports are that Apple is going to “limit” iPhone production to around 220 million (https://www.bangkokpost.com/tech/2316406/apple-to-keep-iphon...).

Why can’t Sony produce as many PS5’s in a year as Apple produces iPhones in a month?
One of the things I love about the shift to LED lights has been the focus on quantifying the different characteristics of light they emit, in terms of brightness, color, and spectrum, etc. It affords customizing light in ways that were swept under the rug a bit with bulbs in the past.
That’s just charity not empathy
I think school shootings are rare enough events that putting armed guards in a school will not appreciably impact school shootings (remember at Parkland there was an armed guard that simply ran away) but will lead to escalations that normally wouldn’t have led to a fatality. Anecdotally a friends husband is a armed school guard and he recently shot and killed two students who had a gun in the school bathroom but had no plans to use it - one had just brought it to school to show the other one, but someone tipped off the SRO. Not saying the kids made a smart move here taking a gun to school, and they deserved some serious consequences. But if the SRO hadn’t been armed and gone in shooting it would have necessarily been dealt with differently. I have no stats to back it up, though, other than this experience and my intuition that having a gun makes it more likely a gun will be used.

I think people over estimate how brave security guards are - most are just normal dudes that really need a job. They aren’t trained soldiers or experienced SWAT. Facing down a determined killer that’s well armed and committed to murder is precisely why we have to train soldiers extensively to fight - we aren’t built to cope with that situation naturally. That’s why I’m Uvalde the police sat outside until the border patrol tactical team came in and ended it. The police weren’t trained well enough to handle the situation but the tactical team was. What makes you think we can hire enough elite tactical teams to man every school to prevent the next school shooting? There aren’t enough of them to go around and they’re too skilled to sit in a school all day waiting for a day that at 99.999% of schools never comes.
What is the name of this knot in English? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5Iyg6c0zFk
Most iPhones are sold through carriers.
Ross Ulbricht Sentenced to Life in Prison (2015)
I can’t understand people who prefer blackout curtains over rolladen. Rolladen are the best for getting perfect darkness at any time of day <3

Good to know that the author appreciates them as well
Hmm, I initially thought you meant Omerta[0], which I've played a bit of, but did you actually City of Gangsters[1]?

- [0]: https://store.steampowered.com/app/208520/Omerta__City_of_Ga...

- [1]: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1386780/City_of_Gangsters...
What about openmaptiles.org?
There are BBP formulas. I don't know if they work in decimal though

Update: only in hex: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bailey%E2%80%93Borwein%E2%80...
I suddenly have a craving for yogurt
Sounds about right with my own experience.

I believe that each team is most productive in their own ways. In the pursuit of that, it becomes harder to measure productivity.

While approaches like agile or waterfall won't fit for many people, it does make it easy to track everything since you know what's going to happen.
Why would the only proper comparison be against a human driven car with a human in it rather than against all human driven car situations (including double parking)?
They don't host anything IIRC. But most of the FOSS maps ecosystem is based around their schema. I know Planetiler uses it at least.
33.7kWh/gal is for MPGe, which is a measure of energy content, but it ignores efficiency of converting every into motion.
Sorcery!
The biggest problem is just the value of the phone. There’s just way too much risk handing a stranger a $500-1000 object that they could just run away with!
A very long time ago, it's not quite the same thing, but if you're a big fan, you might give [0] a look, it was inspired by the game developer asking the question, what if we made a game based on the Age of Empires marketplace?

- [0]: https://store.steampowered.com/app/271240/Offworld_Trading_C...

- [1]: Which I vaguely remember he discusses in his GDC talk, "Offworld Trading Company: An RTS Without Guns
": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2C4z_apu2I
SLS Linux downloaded from one of the Bulletin Boards of that era. Around 1991 or 1992 or thereabouts. I was already using a variant of UNIX by then.

Over the next few years, I would 'look in' on the latest Linux version about every few months, usually the latest Slackware. It was amazing the huge progress in leaps and bounds as networking was added, as graphics were added, etc.

Around 2001, I felt that Linux was as good as the Solaris (SUN's UNIX) I had been using, so started using Linux full-time from then onwards.

I was using a UNIX GUI around the time that Windows 3.1 came out in 1993(?). Compared to the UNIX GUI capabilities I was used to, Windows was so bad and so primitive that I have never considered using it as my day-to-day Operating System at any time in the nearly 30 years since then.
It seems like there has been a lot of buzz lately about the importance of reducing light exposure at night and the impact it has on your health. I can certainly speak to it anecdotally - getting a nice pair of blackout curtains and putting electrical tape over the electronics LEDs in my bedroom seemed to do wonders for my sleep.

A quick search for sources led me to this article, which has a nice collection of links to studies for those interested in learning more: https://www.sleepfoundation.org/bedroom-environment/light-an...
Resources are in the eye of the beholder.
Phillips Hue lights are something you think is a luxury until you get them.

The ability to have light change colour temperature or dim depending on the time is so calming.

Whenever I revert back to the non—colour-temperature-adjusted light, I feel like I’m in an operating room.

The only thing I would note is that they are dimmer than regular lights. Having dim lights in the middle of the day really makes me sleepy.
Big Brother was the shit! It was amazing for a small IT shop to have a central view of everything in the environment. We setup basic up/down, disk, cpu, memory only and then every time there was a surprise incident asked “how can we monitor for this?”. In a fairly short time there were very few surprises…