skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As far as I can tell, it's the financialization of the economy and the outsourcing of so much manufacturing overseas that's really going doing the most damage... and changing gears would require a vast re-investment of federal dollars in basic public infrastructure, rewriting the trade deals to force sellers who want access to American markets to manufacture their goods within US borders (at US labor prices), and redirecting a significant chunk of the federal military-industrial budget to more productive enterprises (A construction crane, for example, can build other things. A tank, it's just good for blowing stuff up.)

The politicians seem like little more than corporate middle managers in a crumbling Empire, regardless of political ideology. They want jobs for their districts and kickbacks for their inner circles, by and large - and the only federal jobs on offer these days seem to be MIC programs of one kind or another. It's understandable, but they have no vision and are mainly just following the herd. The real centers of power appear to lie within the networks of Gilded Age plutocrats, in finance, tech, energy, pharma, retail, ag... and half of them seem to have plans for fleeing the country if things go really sour.

Add on top of all that, increasing pressure from climate (record California drought for example), breakdowns in global supply chains (imagine if China takes this opportunity to invade Taiwan, nobody in America will be able to get socks and underwear or toothbrushes). Apparently gun sales are at record highs as well.

It's not a very pretty picture. Looks more like sitting on the edge of another 1930s Great Depression than anything else. Much of the younger generation seems to have zero hope of ever buying a home, the largest older generation is all heading for a shaky insecure retirement, and the political leaders are mostly corrupt bumbling incompetents, many of whom should have retired from their jobs over a decade ago. A radical shift in direction is really needed.
I think it would be naive to say Joe doesn’t have a specific goal when picking his guests.
Do these come from residential solar leases? does this count as commercial?
GitHub Story in 3D
I had the training and a reasonable chance at an acceptable offer if I went on the academic job market, but I bailed out and went into industry instead of trying my hand on it. To my mind, it doesn't make sense to try to break into and establish yourself in such a competitive field with all of the problems of academia.

I also knew plenty of more senior professors that left the field, which didn't encourage me to backfill it. Strangely enough, whatever difficulty there may be in the more senior ranks, entry sure seems like a grind.
"Photos showing buildings were matched up with satellite photos".

I did the same with google maps. Really authentic.
Strange, I'm not Bernie. I don't know why you would try to gotcha my statements based on someone else's, different statements from decades ago. Would you mind telling me how some people talking 30-40 years ago has anything to do with me and my observation?
One theory is that competing priorities have shifted public funds towards entitlements, especially healthcare, and away from public university. Tuition is then raised to compensate for the budget reduction. It's interesting to hear some cite that healthcare costs are the only sector that is outpacing college costs, which would explain why budgets are shifted towards it. As with any complex system, I doubt we can point to a single, simple cause.
As society continues approaching cyberpunk dystopia, I wouldn't be surprised if office workers would start paying to stay and work on farms to reconnect with land/nature.

Pick-yourself farms are big here - feels like the first step in that direction.
Exactly this. It sounds easy but this type of creator who can do this is very rare but usually has a high success rate. This should be the defintion of the "10X dev"
News about my web app has been published on one of news websites
This post is about persistence and not giving up. I'm working on web app called "Would You Do It For A Dollar?". Pure fun for me, not expecting much. I contacted countless blogs and news sites in the hope they will publish something about my journey. No response from like 95% of them. But I decided not to give up.

Yesterday I found out that an article was written about one of my users and my web app. I was amazed to be honest, didn't expect that at all

https://theunited.news/article/this-tiktok-influencer-earned-dollar10000-from-challenges/4567
I remembered once working at a large corporation with deep pockets, and lots of people with (cough) questionable value to the company.

As soon as we hit a recession there were cries to cut back on the free food and sodas.

It sent a very wrong message to me, as many of the people I interacted with on a daily basis were horrible in their jobs.

It seemed that pausing hiring recs and a few well-targeted severance packages would have saved more money than cutting back a few freebies.
Kudos for wanting to go down this route. What makes this business tough imho is the fact that it's in your interest to finish projects as quickly as you can, ideally in less time than what you estimated / quoted because that gets you more cash. But clients will always demand more, so that makes for a never ending challenge and will very much distract you from coding.

Nailing down the scope is probably the hardest part of every project and it takes several days of of meetings, analysis and back and forth. And that's just to come up with an estimation that the client might then reject, let alone not want to pay you for. So in the end you end up rushing the analysis and that will just bite you in the ass later.

One way I've found to get more money out of your clients is managing their hosting, if you're able to or can outsource it at a margin. Charge your initial fee to build the project and then charge a monthly fee to host it all. Most clients will be happy to pay a lot more than the actual cost for them to not have to worry about it. If you do it properly this will give you a nice stream of almost passive income.

Try to underpromise & overdeliver.

Good luck!
That's really quite worrying. You'd have been screwed without HN, but not everyone has that recourse. How many other domains have been affected by "false positives" announced with a "we've banned you and we aren't telling you why; now fuck off" type email.
That implies proper use man, which for a public street includes not peeing on it and not mugging people.
As true as that is, it takes ~2 years to get a battery plant from shovels in the ground to decent volumes. It won't take long, but 2025 is probably the first year to see anywhere close to demand satiation for EVs, and even then it may only be in some segments.
HK's Lam invokes security law when asked about legality of remembering Tiananmen
Not everything is permanent code that has to be maintained forever. Sometimes you have a migration, or a bunch of data to suck in one time from a vendor or acquisition, or whatever. You can run appropriate quality checks to bound the error rate.
There are also more considerations. For instance, a QR code library I use in .NET has a few Debian packages as dependencies for Linux (like Imagemagick). With Docker, these installed packages ship with the product as well.
I think it has a very different timing than java. When java came out c++ was the standard and java was clearly easier (although slower). Go is not that much easier than java or c# and it is not much faster. I don't think the standard library is much better, or even better at all and when it was new it had a lot less 3rd party libraries.

Go will probably continue to grow in usage a while but I'm not certain it will pass even c# in usage.

I think there is too little to gain from rewriting java or c# code and for speed I think rust is better.
We will see what happens the next 5 years or so.
> Do checks really take 3-6 months to be received from clients?

We resisted way way too long before using a factoring agency; it costs money but it takes away the chasing, stress etc and, very importantly, they make the contracts and invoices better. At least ours did (and this is over 10 years of being happy clients).

A good factoring agency also lets you negotiate % for outliers (we had mostly 50-1500k contracts and at one time we had a 10m one; they made a really nice deal on, with us and the clients, over payments were both client and them gave up % of payment to get to a deal that worked for all.

My only tip after running dev shops of different sizes is to believe in your own strength; clients try to work you; the bigger the company, the more they might be trained for this. And I mean have staff particularly trained for screwing/squeezing small agencies; it happens a lot. Make your own plan and don’t go for pots of gold; there is enough if you are good. And I don’t even mean at tech (which needs to be good in my opinion) but mostly understanding what the client wants and discussing that at a level they understand and like.

The hardest thing, and why I will never do that again, after having successful (in my country quite sweeping) companies, I will never do services again is; I do not like talking about things that are not the project. And clients do demand that of you; the bigger, the more time.
I'm confused as to how you don't understand that it's a joke.

None of those statements are literal. He does not believe those things. Nobody does. Those statements are jokes because they are absurd, unexpected and ironic.

This is equivalent to somebody writing that "birds aren't real" and people laughing, and you getting upset because birds are real. The absurdity is the humor.

Does that help explain it?
LMAO "battle-tested" that's one way to describe that Meteor.js pile of junk. I'll never forget that time one of my users on my small Rocket Chat server two or three years ago changed their username and it not only immediately crashed the server but also corrupted the database because the change had to check every message ever sent for that user in the database because they didn't put an index on an immutable ID. I had to write a program to manually remediate the data in order to get our chat back online.

Don't get me started on the mobile app. I have so many stories of pain from Rocket Chat that it isn't funny.

I then spent several months writing a bespoke application to extract my community from RocketChat and move it to a different product because it was so terrible.

Now, I stopped using it in 2019 but had used it for the prior four years every single day and it only got worse with every release. I used to joke to my friends "what new bugs will this release have?" until the mobile app rewrite became so unbearable that it almost killed my community entirely.

Is it better now? Well, I bet it has more half baked features, like Matrix integration I guess. Rocket Chat always looked great on paper... Just don't try to use it too much, or look at the code.
That's true for Wordle, but I think according to the dontwordle rules you are allowed to make a guess with an em on one of the grey squares anyway.
How do we square declining nutritional value with people living longer __and__ spending more years in a healthy state?
These will be commercial and utility scale solar facilities. We may get into residential in the future!
Cutting it to 200 pages, discarding the filler, would be a good start.

Nobody needs a grudge against Lakos, he generates his own opposition. (You know it is true.)
The Volt died due to lack of marketing because GM didn't really didn't want to make it due to cost.

The problem is that all the car manufacturers know that hybrid is a dead end. So, everybody wants to produce all-electric since all-electric is ridiculously cheaper to produce than hybrid or combustion engine cars.

In the meantime, back in the real world, the infrastructure for all-electric is rolling out very slowly. This means that you need to be a short-distance (read: larger city) commuter who owns a house with a garage parking spot (read: stupidly expensive real estate because in/near larger city) in order to take advantage of having an electric car.

So, nobody wants to roll the infrastructure out since that's expensive and there's no lock in. And the manufacturers don't want to roll out hybrids since those are a dead end.

(Good example of the brain damage: The Oceanside train station in San Diego has a couple of electric parking slots. The first problem is that there are too few--every spot should be electric. Second, you are only nominally allowed to use them when you are actively charging. This, of course, is stupid since you're likely to hit your charge maximum sometime when you are 100 miles away by train. Third, there is no useful shuttle from anywhere to the train station so that you could put your car there as a freeway stop and "top up" while you go shop, eat, etc.)
Not to mention the "don't worry, we've put a sticky note on this account so it won't happen again (to you)" instead of an "oh shit, we need to immediately stop and fix this automated process that is catching legitimate customers and banning them with no recourse."
Yes - and 640kb is all we'll ever need.

Global cooling will kill us all and Al Gore will save the world.

Focus on pollution and think about before buying the iphone 4na1° because the most likely problem for the problems in this world is you (and me) over consuming.

Not Brazilian farmer trying to make an honest living.
California grazing issue is much more complex than consumer preferences for beef. Humans have basically destroyed the grazing populations that used to live there, including Buffalo. If you take the current land used for grazing and just stop, you’ll significantly increase fire risks as nothing else will eat all that brush and it’ll just collect. Go look around city borders where a lot less cattle grazing goes on - those hills have been stripped of forests and are just a pile of brush waiting for light up.
Imagine that: we can’t solve a problem created by capitalism by doing more capitalism. Who’da thunk it?
"Be my guest, but don't touch the food!"
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/search/?q=throbber&... aww, was hoping for a nostalgic addon to bring it back
You'll love codecrafters.io
Will you be financing future farms, or does this only include existing farms?
You want to feed your employee healthy foods because healthy bodies are more productive.

Also health insurance costs.
I could see myself being really upset by this change. It’s not just about the cost of the soda - it’s also about convenience. Now if I want to have a soda at work I need to remember to keep change or small value bills in my wallet. And if one day I forget then I need to leave the building in search of a treat, or else just go without - in either case I’m annoyed.

And more than that it’s about feeling valued and respected. It can be really upsetting when something you’ve gotten used to is taken from you. Especially when you know the cost to the company is just a tiny fraction of the overall operating budget, and unlikely to make any significant difference to the bottom line.

Interestingly at my first job that I worked at, sodas weren’t free, and it never really bothered me. But if they had been free, and one day stopped being free, that would annoy me. I think there is an asymmetry between the satisfaction people get when they use a perk, and they dissatisfaction they get if you take it away.
Sorry, if my post wasn't clear. What I meant by mitigating this issue is, I am going to start looking in to other providers and escape routes if I anger the all mighty AI again.

I too am really interested in figuring out why I(free) and my clients(paid subscriptions) will trust cloudflare. Mistakes happen, but I can't even imagine my situation if HN didn't come to my aid.
> During the 1973 oil crisis, the Netherlands banned private car usage on Sundays to curb oil usage…It seems there’s little appetite here for anything like that

You might be surprised. I remember that California had car-free days (on Sundays, I believe) in the Bay Area in the 1970s. Perhaps someone who remembers the details can chime in. I think it had more to do with bicyclists than with oil.
It’s a giant perfect e-reader, and a small kitchen computer/TV.
Here's my attempt to maximize the amount of remaining words. I ended with 7 still remaining.

It was tough to come up with any sequence that didn't have a 50/50 chance of losing on the last guess.

https://i.imgur.com/2qZgr15.png
Sometimes it's worth paying extra to not fund hate. They can offer low prices due to scale, so help someone else reach that scale too. I know I'm paying more but at least I'm not indirectly funding pushing people to suicide.
> Unusual neutron star spinning every 76 seconds discovered in stellar graveyard

Graveyards are interesting everywhere.
Now imagine a stelar or a planetary graveyard.
Yeah there's about 0.7 m more height than a CF6. That seems like potentially not enough room for a proper fixture. In any case it's not going to fit inside a passenger 747.
I agree 100%. And yes, without HN I will be really screwed.
I just switched to eglot from lsp-mode, flymake worked by default.
How I Became A Speaker
That seems expensive to charge your car on the road. I thought it was cheaper than that. Is there a detail I'm missing here?

That round trip in a Honda Accord would be $300 total in fuel, or $350 in a Honda CR-V.
Thanks for mentioning that. It looks like there is support in HLedger for per-posting / per-account dates via `date:` tags[0]; I'm not sure how I missed that before. For the auxiliary dates, I suppose one could just ignore balance assertions when using the `--date2` option, but IMHO it would be better to set a posting date for the bank account for when the transfer cleared rather than an auxiliary date on the transaction as a whole. The expense account would then show when the expense was incurred, and the bank account would show when it cleared. Usually only the latter would have a balance assertion.

[0] https://hledger.org/1.25/hledger.html#posting-dates
There's a whole ocean between the UK and America, but what's even crazier is

4.622 $ per gallon (New Hampshire) / 4.546092 liter per gallon = 1.0167 $ / l

Converting to Canadian dollars, that's 1.29 $ CAD / liter.

My colleagues told me this morning they pay 2.123$ / liter. New Hampshire is literally a 30 minute drive. What's their excuse?
It seems you are the one who is confused. The America you are describing does not exist. The idea you have, that people can stay as long as they don't oppose what "hitovst thinks is best" is pretty arrogant.

> There is no such thing as a right to vote to violate the rights of others.

Sure there is. I voted against a proposal to fund something I disagree with. I lost, and I have to pay it each year.

You can vote to add a restriction on where someone can built a car dealership.

You can vote to prevent someone from eating something he wants to eat.

You can vote to prevent someone from leaving his house at certain times.

You can vote to prevent someone from wearing an object he desires to wear.

Like I said, the America you imagine does not exist.
I wonder if a recession or bear market environment will quickly make this type of advice – that worked well for the 2010s boom – obsolete in a harsher climate. Might be hard to scale your go-to-market by depending on startups who don't want 'enterprise-ready' features to spend money on your product.
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Great list, but why not buy the domain name until you have registered your legal business name? I haven’t heard that advice before…
> Even the old school newspapers are failing basic grammar things that anyone calling themself an editor would catch.

I've seen articles by the AP (!!) that clearly have not gotten enough scrutiny (typos, etc).

> Reports get entered into a CMS, a publish button is pressed, viola, first to publish!

Publishing articles is no time for stringed instruments [1]. Unless maybe you meant it as some kind of fanfare upon publication? :P

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muphry%27s_law
For the time being, we are working with either newly operational or existing solar farms. Once we have a community of investors, a lot of doors will open in terms of the kinds of financings we'll be able to accommodate.

For the time being, we want to keep our investors our of construction risk and tell a super simple story through our design. More to come though.
This is kind of already what's happening inside the NN. You can think of intermediate layers in the network as talking to each other in "NN-ease", that is, translating from one form of representation (encoding) to another. At the final encoder layer, the input is maximally compressed (for that given dataset/model architecture/training regime). The picture (millions of pixels) of the dog is reduced to a few bits of information about what kind of dog it is and how it's posed, what color the background is, etc.

However, optimality of encoding is entirely relative to the decoding scheme used and your purposes. Obviously a matrix of numbers representing a summary of a paragraph can be in some sense "more compressed" than the English equivalent, but it's useless if you don't speak matrices. Similarly, you could invent an encoding scheme with Latin characters that is more compressed than English, but it's again useless if you don't know it or want to take the time to learn it. If we wanted we could make English more regular and easier to learn/compress, but we don't, for a whole bunch of practical/real life reasons. There's no free lunch in information theory. You always have to keep the decoder/reader in mind.
That’s not possible - it’s like asking for a compression system that can compress any message.

All human languages are about the same efficiency when spoken, but of course this mainly depends on having short enough words for the most common concepts in the specific thing you’re talking about.

https://www.science.org/content/article/human-speech-may-hav...

And there can’t be a universal language because the symbols (words) used are completely arbitrary even if the grammar has universal concepts.
I purchased a vespa-type gasoline moped almost a year ago, and it's been an incredible tool.

It outperforms cars on every dimension.

Here's some "bare" facts, which present only a fraction of the benefits:

- ~90mpg, has a 1.4 gallon tank
- surprising amount of storage capacity (seat storage, and a hook where your fit sit)
- inexpensive - a brand new, nice scooter cost me $3800, + a nice helmet and gloves
- with proper clothing, and be worn in a quite wide range of weather/temp combinations
- less safe than riding around in an airbag-equipped heavy steel box, but not as unsafe as I was afraid it would feel

I can park it anywhere. _anywhere_. I always do trips door-to-door now. I don't pay for parking in cities anymore. I can ride to the front of a column of stopped cars (at a light or stop sign)

It's the perfect vehicle.

It got stolen 3 days ago (sigh. I forgot to lock the steering wheel column, someone rolled it away from where it was parked, probably into a pickup truck).

I bought a new one the next day. I was out a few thousand dollars and a few hours of inconvenience, but it was no biggie.

No car driver can empathize with:

- these low costs of operation
- high amount of convenience
- trivial replacement cost/inconvenience

Go visit a local scooter dealer, and do some test rides!

(I live in Denver, bought both scooters from Sportique on South Broadway. They're great, and do same-day maintenance for oil changes and such.)

I had a 125cc Genuine Buddy Kick, I replaced it with a 200cc Lance Cabo.

Lots of my friends are getting closer and closer to buying their own mopeds. Some already have. #ScooterGang