skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Consider it an expensive lesson on not giving your credit card to those scammers.

Aws model is incredibly predatory. All the companies I've seen move to AWS ended up spending way more than before for much less gained.
And they still needed an ops team, just more expensive than the sysadmin they had before to manage actual servers.

I'll stick to VPS
Indeed. Tesla may have entertained a few kooky ideas -- forgivable in his time because of how little we knew about electricity then compared to now -- but he was an honest man, and AC worked!

Edison was the charlatan.
No, it's one of the largest credit card processors in the country.
Just cause you wanna work in startups doesn’t mean you don’t want to any filtering lol
To be fair exporting and importing databases is a simple command on MySQL (or postgres) so it's just a command more simple than just rsyncing the sqlite file.
I'm getting around 250ms response times for https://legiblenews.com from the UK after multiple refreshes. 500ms occasionally.

I feel like it could be much faster at around 50ms or so with a cloudflare caching setup on the page, may be wrong.
Fuel is more expensive in Poland. Healthcare is nationalized but people often need to pay for private doctors. I think medication is cheaper.

The highest income tax in the US is 39%, in Poland 32%.

Generally, US dollar is much stronger than Polish currency. This means the dollar will go much further in Poland and gives you move buying power globally.

The life in Poland is much slower though, more family oriented. If it wasn't for the money I would much prefer to live in Poland but I think there is generally more opportunity in the US.
And is it correct?

http://www.mathematicsmagazine.com/Articles/NicolaTesla.php#...

“Tesla’s physics requires a quite different understanding of mathematics, in some extent it is sacral in the spirit of Pythagoras. Pythagoras considered that numbers and subjects are interrelated. They correspond to each other in property due to informational and mathematical aspects of matter existing as one of the manifestations of the Divine Logos.”

Not totally sure how to interpret that…
More addons on mobile and an more flexible add-on api on desktop. Chrome's API does what Google wants it to do, and it doesn't cost them any users which proves that's not what's the issue with Firefox.
In today market chances are that the candidate was cold called
How's that different from the Flash browser plugin? Widewine is every bit as proprietary as Flash.
> COBOL transpiled DSLs

That problem happens with any transpiled language really, now you have all the problems of the new language and all the problems of the target language, and you need to fix "supposedly compiled" output by hand sometimes.
It would be hard to miss as it’s required to display anything. However, most dev kits come with a controller which embeds a [proprietary] set of waveforms. That however leaves you with conservative implementations and far from state-of-the-art.
Nikola Tesla was a genius. PERIOD. That is it. He didn't have magical powers, he couldn't disobey natural laws and he wasn't close to inventing a revolutionary way to transmit electric energy or a ray of death. He died crazy and broken.

We have to honor his legacy, but people talking about him like he was in the brisk of changing the world (again) are ignoring significant facts.
> Estimates of the Jewish death toll were ~6 million and was responded to by full fledged, hot war.

Unfortunately that's a very common misconception, but is completely false. Nobody went to war for the Jews. Nobody fought, or did anything of note really, to save them. Hell, countries, including the almighty USA, refused refugee ships with Jews, even after the war started and concentration (but not extermination) camps were well known.

Just read Szmul Zygielbojm's suicide letter on the matter.
Back in my Newsweek days, we rebuilt the entire site with a blisteringly fast homepage. Proper caching, lazy loading where needed, and fully optimized CSS, images, and javascript. Then the sales team sold a 600px wide takeover ad for scabies medication showing an old dudes infected back.

So it doesn’t matter how fast you build the site. You don’t have control over the things that make it bad.
> I too can spin up hundreds of subnets for nothing.

Really? In completely different physical locations with inter-region routing and NAT gateways for each region that route into a redundant load balancer? Then you're right and don't need AWS any more. However, I'd suspect your costs would not be very affordable either.

> Lets talk about what it costs you put data back out onto the net, or into a different region.

If you're seriously trying to compare your residential internet connection with something like this I'm not going to go there..

> Then lets compare long term storage costs.

Same logic applies.
Soooo. I suppose this has the potential to be very interesting and at the least is very relevant to my personal research. I'm actually working (with a small team) to develop methanol powered autonomous climate research stations. It would be very neat if we could power them via CO2, or poetic.

However, wtf is this press release? Is this research? This is announcing a patent? This doesn't seem like science to me? Where's the publications, where is the methodology description? What about the constraints? Energy density of methanol is high, but what's the energy input necessary for the conversion process? Is this only effectively helpful if renewable powered? This press release is useless to anyone who actually cares about the work. It's mediocre marketing at best. God I hate academic press offices.
I found that the domain was blocked by my pihole, using the following list:

https://v.firebog.net/hosts/AdguardDNS.txt, which is available from https://firebog.net/

I don't see any particular reason for it, so I've since whitelisted it. It is indeed an odd choice, but its a long-used namespace which sees a dwindling number of available and useful domain names over time, IMO.
If you uplifted a mouse I think it'd mainly complain about its two year lifespan and the difficulty of feeding its new brain with a mouse diet and digestive system.

Although, at least mice are omnivores and don't have to build their brains out of hay like a guinea pig.
Huh, I think you just described bufferbloat.
Hibernate+Spring Data allow me to write native queries, and maps them to interfaces for me.

Using an ORM doesn't mean you have to rely on behaviour that generates slow (e.g. n+1) query issues.
Assembly is simple if all one does is printing hello world (even that is actually not trivial, because one needs to know/read the syscall and the ABI).

Anything beyond that gets complex quickly, in one way or another. On simple architectures, like the 6502, even doing a simple division is complex (heck, even additions are verbose, since 8 bits are too few for a lot of operations). On more complex architectures, like x64, there is a monstrous ISA full of inconsistencies.

Learning assembly as in learning an instruction set also doesn't include a lot of details of computer architecture, although at least some modern assembly books mix both domains.
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I expect recruiters and hiring managers to do their research too, but every time they reach out I'm still astounded how poorly they've done it. Then they still have the gall to expect you research them, which takes more than a light glance at their page written in a way to sell themselves.

It's about time we push back on this. If they need employees so bad, how about they stop making demands which resemble being in a position of power?
Hey HN! Most people are doing things using fancy web frameworks these days, but it's often easier to learn or understand something if you forgo the frameworks, so we wrote a tutorial on how to build a basic Gantt Chart without libraries. Feedback appreciated!
> Just out of curiosity: how many startups are willing to talk so openly about their finances to a candidate?

If you are gonna take a cash paycut in exchange for stock options you better damn well know this stuff. I think these questions are perfectly okay to ask.

You should also ask about preferred stock and when it converts to common stock. Since you are common stock, you won't get shit until the valuation of the company goes above whatever threshold is set for the preferred stock to convert.
This gives you a deadline while working on your own product after that, while when you find an actual income that works sideby you have no stress
Only a data point of one, but I'm surprised there's no(?) mention of humidity. Dark clothes in a dry and hot desert versus dark clothes in the US South / Florida where it's regularly 90F+ and high humidity is a very different beast. Light clothes that wick away moisture is a must in the latter environment.
(Also a former Mozilla developer, worked Fennec and Fenix)

I think a more nuanced perspective here is that roughly 80% of the work was done, and the remaining 20% require significant effort and organizational energy.

Not all of the WebExtension API surface is currently supported; there's a long tail of infrequently used extensions that require non-trivial engineering effort and often cross-team coordination to implement. However, the actual usage of these APIs in Fennec was very, very low, so the actual bet and the organization sales pitch for this work must be on building a platform, and evidently that's not happening. You can argue that this type of platform work and extensibility is why people use Firefox for Android. You can also look back at the actual usage telemetry (current whitelist is basically what vast majority of people used) and wonder if that additional investment will move the needle.

There's also front-end/back-end engineering required to fully expand existing UIs into a proper "store" experience.

Personally, I think as a matter of principle Firefox for Android should be fully open in terms of what extensions it allows installing.

I believe that will eventually happen - it's where the prevailing winds are blowing inside the org, too! but it may take time for the stars to align, people to have energy to fight through the internal malaise, to pitch work that may not immediately help with any OKRs and is mostly about building community goodwill and sending a message, etc.

As always, it basically comes down to lack of strong leadership.
I am skeptical of any locally hosted media streaming setup, since I once got a NAS device hacked about a decade ago. Checked the logs and there was shady connections in it. Not sure what vuln they were using, but all my media was exposed to the public facing Internet, which was embarrassing.

Now I just pass files into VLC and watch them at my leisure. Secure NAS is a hard problem, and there’s plenty of articles over the years that talk about NAS systems getting hacked. Even though vendors claim the devices will be secure, there’s no way of knowing, and once it can talk to the public facing Internet, assume all the contents are up for grabs.
For "gift-grade" fruit, like melons, that is indeed how it's done. They prune all but the best 3 candidates, then after they grow a bit more, select the best and prune the other 2 away so that the plant is producing only one high-grade fruit.
Un-paywall: https://archive.ph/xioDD
trisoft still hosts ROMs:

https://trisoft.de/en_c860howto.htm

Find other models linked in the left sidebar.
Yes. This is the large part of it. And it's why his primary investor, J.P.Morgan was not happy about it - the energy CAN NOT be metered and thus charged for. So he pulled the plug on Tesla.

The other aspect: when you resonant between Earth and ionosphere, you do NOT get 1/r^2 losses because you are effectively inside a parallel plate capacitor that nearly is uniform and no r dependence other than the surface area average of the Earth's surface - the power put in is uniformly distributed across the area of the Earth.

The other part: Tesla's system is exactly the same as hydrogen - it's NOT an energy source but a distribution medium of CONVENTIONALLY GENERATED electrical power. So you still need fossil, nuclear, etc. power to source the power and then you pump it into it. It's NOT FREE ENERGY as many claim. Not remotely.
There is a style of hedonistic lifestyle/culture that usually comes with an anime profile picture and pronouns in the twitter bio. If that is someone's true "form" then go for it, but when its fake yuck.
This is already the case. If wrote code for say a heart implant device and I did a shitty job and a bunch of people died because of it, I for sure would be fired, and likely sued, and possibly even face jail time (depending on the specifics). So yeah, that's the world real world for most of us.
Not to mention that a successful compromise could be used to serve malware to the users.
Gene editing doesn't seem likely to make you immune to all diseases. They get to evolve faster than you.
Or? MOV DX, 200 / INT 27H
That's because actual browser development doesn't happen there - that's at https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/.

Rereading your comment, you're referring more specifically to mobile; I suppose you might have a point there, but when almost everything is in mozilla-central, I'm not sure what you expect to see there (well, extensions, but beyond that) other than UI work.
> Right now I'm basically concatenating strings

Well, you're using query parameters, but I think I understand what you mean.

What I would do is write a stored procedure that takes whatever parameters, then I'd write PG SQL to generate bindings to that procedure for whatever language you're using (Golang here). I might write the bindings by hand if it's not a lot of work, but definitely would write a little compiler if it's a tone of work. That way you can get type-safety.
> “Pay in the private sector” is not based on accomplishing goals at all.

Where does one start with such an egregiously wrong statement? Companies go out of business if they have employees that cost more than they produce. They can't just raise taxes like the schools do. They can't run deficits like the government can. What do you think regular performance evaluations of private sector employees are for? Why do you think a lot of employee compensation is commission based?

> those who live in Kansas City

Think about it. The only reason pay is higher in SF is because it is more productive to have people in SF, i.e. people accomplish more being in SF.

> as if accomplishing goals isn’t figured into teacher pay.

It isn't, other than getting a master's degree. Which teachers in the government sector are paid based on how well their students do?
It just crashes after finishing onaboarding trying to load with:

TypeError: can't access property "push", Mo['ex-Unicorn Founder'] is undefined
Quebec is it's own thing. It even has a different legal system than the rest of Canada.
My understand is that having the copyright they have the right to acknowledge any copy happening even if it’s in a cache somewhere, on a wire somewhere. If you mount a drive remotely copies happens. Actually with dvd copies happens in memory too but those have been legally authorized.
It is indeed quite ironic, but it’s the state of affairs today.

Though true separation between church and state began in France so, yeah.
A lot of facets of this power balance have been mentioned.

Here's a new one (I think):

Imagine busy CEO B that doesn't care about your time, that you need to pester with emails to get his attention.

Now imagine thinking-along CEO T that tries to have a well organized inbox, possibly assisted by a secretary, so that when you send him an email you receive an auto-response telling you when and if you should get a response and how you should interpret a no-response; this may include letting people know that too complicated or unclear messages will go unresponded. (Richard Stallmann had this approach when I mailed him years ago, before his scandal, where I'd get a response with an average waiting time in hours, pretty neat. Using NLP probably anyone could filter his/her mail quite efficiently these days.)

Who would you want to have as a boss?

Yes, it's a power balance. But all parties should wield their power responsibly.
Both eBay and Etsy work well for me as long as I only look for a few hundred dollars per month. Once you find products that work, it starts working from alone.

It's boring work and customers are annoying and postal services really unreliable in some countries. Other than that, easy extra cash
It's conceptually simple, but like changing bases in math, the notation is confusing and the different numeric/string datatypes are not clearly annotated.
You're not imaging things: I'm running a bit hot right now from HN load (https://s3.amazonaws.com/bradgessler/Eu1cKE24dpKjTkqNcK3qPqH...) w/ ~170ms for the 99th percentile. It doesn't help that I'm running this on Heroku, which isn't known for being super fast.

I'll probably deploy this to https://fly.io/ in the future to a few different geographies around the world so that I can bring latency down for the entire planet while saving myself a boatload in hosting costs.
> YC doesn’t have a tech bro problem, but HN has a TechBro problem.

You would know...

user: TechBro8615
created: December 17, 2019
karma: 4317
about: yo yo yo

No, but seriously, this moniker has it's place, but at a time when we are seeing levels of inflation and costs for basic foodstuffs rising and outpacing wages why the hell aren't we seeing the CEOs of major petrol companies and food producers on the stand?

VC is a pernicious Industry that is made up ofpeople who are more like Banksters than anything resembling a Techbro, so what is the goal here? To expose how the two are equally as toxic to the World economy? I just can't see what anyone gets from this theater to take it seriously.

I feel this is cannon fodder for the masses to distract them from the Roe v Wade decision. It's pathetic and it shouldn't work, but just like how people flocked to see Zuck on the stand and made memes about how robotic he is: it served it's purpose.
Standing up a service isn't only about compute. Where is your logging, metrics, alerting? Even with a server, you need methods for access control, hardening, log rotation, updates/patches (what happens when the OS goes out of support?).
On HN, we go by article quality, not site quality:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...

This is just a general answer—I haven't looked at this particular article.
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"10x learning opportunity with only 50% reduction in salary"

I already may be too cynical for this author but unless this new opportunity gives me a substantial equity stake I'm going for the money 100% of the time. Learning is great and all, but unless you are learning at a FAANG (in which case I'm sure you aren't getting a reduction in salary) at the end of the day cash is king.

I've done my own fair share of startups and yeah I've learned a ton. Mostly I've learned that you very rarely get a payout with a startup and that you should just go for more money.
Thanks for the reality check, appreciate the early warning.
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Not sure about the rest of the EU, but at least in Germany, plasma donations at private collection companies are a common way for students to earn beer money or end-of-month money, as you can donate plasma every couple days.

You also get paid for "normal" blood donations, even though the payment is technically only a "compensation" for your time and trouble. The donation services like German Red Cross usually still make a profit, which is why some people make a point to donate directly to hospitals if possible.
As a non-chemist, I wonder: how did they find it? Educated guessing and a lot of experimenting?
Yeah, I'm not a top performer but I use those types of questions for a similar reason. Also any interviewer who's put off by those questions signals to me a company culture that I'm not particularly interested in. Additionally, I really enjoy flipping the script and interviewing the interviewer whenever possible.

Of course, if I was desperate for any job, I'd do what it took to get hired, not to satisfy my curiosity and find the right job.
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Even a blunt results based compensation would be far better than the current situation.
$2000 is a publicity stunt. Basically, the grower auctions the first fruit of the season and the winner is interviewed on TV and gets to promote his business. It's exactly like the ludicrous tuna auction but on a local level.

The $100 fruit is a premium item that comes in a nice box appropriate to send as a gift. Note: This isn't that different from the premium gift boxes sold in the U.S. (e.g., Harry and David box of six pears and some nuts for $100).
hmmm.. I haven't used Fedora so I can't speak to the comparison, but I just found OpenBSD so straightforward and "plain", not particularly unusual in how it actually functions. It kinda feels like a cleanly designed UNIX variant and the onboarding is so well-documented I just found it so easy to get started.

I do feel quality documentation makes a huge difference. Navigating the broken-links craziness of FreeBSD documentation was just such a frustrating experience. And even on a "first-class-supported" system at the time, they omitted a KEY (IMO) piece of information that resulted in me being unable to even run the OS until I did hours of research on OpenFirmware and realized the missing piece in the process. I could see from online discussions that most people had completely given up on FreeBSD at the same point I reached.

Ah well, for me, I don't notice any "warts" of any sort with OpenBSD, so whatever problems other people have just don't affect me or aren't relevant to my use case(s). Such is the case for any OS, I think ppl should use what works for them. No use discounting an OS completely just because it doesn't work for your purposes :)
>they should be using business logic in code to do the validation

I trust myself to do this, I don't trust my coworkers and future devs writing applications for the same database to follow the same constraints in their code though. Constraints at the DB level keep your data clean(er) even if some other devs tries to shit it up.
How in practice does this work? Does the government website ask for proof of how long you've been in the province and then refuse to redirect to the English version of the site? What government services are so critical to a young workforce that this is such a deterrent? Are we talking healthcare and if so how exactly will this work - will doctors be required to speak French after verifying that the person's been in the province longer than 6 months?
Why does the long system make vastly more sense?

$1k, $1M, $1B, $1T, $1Q seem like pretty quick and easy abbreviations for all amounts of money that are commonly dealt with, at least for US or European currencies.
Every video, I get errors in the UI. I once powered through, it seems eventually the video does play normally. Perhaps that is because of blocked ads(by newpipe then - I have no other restrictions on mobile)
How the fuck do you blow through $150k at an early stage startup???
I was hoping some folks would chime in who built these websites!

Yes, I've run big websites and they're kind of like sea faring vessels -- given enough time with a large enough team, they tend to collect barnacles and become slower over time.

I made the speed rankings so that Legible News wouldn't lose site that speed matters.
Or you can just wait two sentences into their comment when they simply can't stop thenselves saying something about progressive politics. Which you really don't need to mention, and common sense suggests you shouldn't, when criticizing a bit of software or a charity foundation on unrelated matters. Unless of course that is the point.
Why is life expectancy in the US lower than in other rich countries? (2020)