skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it is. At least when competing in the "2nd tier" as Gergely Orosz describes [0]. Of course we can't compete with the Uber/Apple/Booking etc. offices in Amsterdam. (But I do think we have a lot of other things to offer, in terms of freedom, influence and work atmosphere.

See for example listings on RemoteOK: [1]

[0] https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/software-engineering-sala...

[1] https://remoteok.com/remote-ops-jobs?location=region_EU&orde...
Mentally summarize the old context in 1-2 mins and then completely forget the old topic and focus 100% on the new one.
I don't share interests with most of my coworkers so I don't really feel like I'm missing out. The bigger issue has been adjustments to how I socialize with others from outside my work circle that share my interests during a pandemic. These challenges are greater for me than WFH.
Thank you for this comment, as a non smoker, not fat person, this is probably the most helpful comment of the week ! I made a [Ask HN] post [1], to solicit further tips.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32720738
The nuclear non proliferation treaty limits uranium refinement capabilities to a handful of corporations and state actors. Moreover the overwhelming majority of available uranium is in a handful of countries which are firmly under the control of one of a few countries.

> Portability. Energy generation is best done mostly locally. For portability you have simply connect each local area with the one next to it and you dynamically shift north or south in Japan.

Let's just put nuclear reactors on trucks, planes and and boats then shall we? Also dense fuels can be shipped which allows trading energy with anyone with a port (which doesn't include hydrogen currently, but advances in storage would solve this).

> Just put 1 reactor down for each X people and its totally fine.

So you're proposing that instead of paying $100/MWh for nuclear plants used at full capacity, we instead the same price per capacity but run them half to a third of the time thus increasing the cost to about 100x that of solar?

Existing green ammonia and hydrogen tech costs less, doesn't take decades to come online, is dropping in cost by double digit percentage per year and is nowhere near as susceptible to earthquakes.

> You clearly don't understand how air cooled nuclear works.

You have a heat engine. It has a hot side and a cold side. The lower the thermal capacity and mass of the cold side, the bigger and hotter it is. The hotter the cold side, the less efficient it is and the lower the energy throughput. If your cold side is mid-heatwave summer air you're going to have the exact same trouble france and china are nowc

Dumping gigawatts into 30-40 degree air when the sun is already shining isn't a strategy for increasing energy density over solar (especially when you're competing against 20-year-from-now solar which will likely be on the order of 40% efficient). It just costs more. Your heat exchanger is going to wind up looking like a solar farm but with the side benefit of needing incredibly complex plumbing and killing anything within a few km.
OK, but why? Is this somehow supposed to make their flaky "self-driving" work? Or what?

Certainly you can build custom chips for deep learning. It's mostly a simple inner loop, replicated many times, after all. Ideal case for ASICs. But will this actually benefit Tesla as a car company?
You've had a secured card for over a year and still receive "insufficient credit history" denials, even for basic unsecured cards?

Have you ever defaulted on a debt or something similarly bad? If you haven't, have you checked your credit reports (from all 3) to make sure there isn't false/fraudulent info on there?
I recall the original major selling point of Postfix was that it is more secure than sendmail (lots of smaller, easier to reason programs vs. one big monolith.)
A framework for naming channels is something you don't realize you need until it's too late. My company is absolutely atrocious at it, and we now have thousands of channels. Many are cryptically named, and we have at least a couple of competing "standards" for naming channels. It's a real challenge to find what you're looking for.
Sure thing, but keeping 10 gallons of gasoline is more than a couple of cans. And even then, so what? How many people need to do that, or will ever do that, except for off-roading or obscure jobs?

This is a legitimate use, but for a vanishingly small number of people. Back when LED lights were first being pushed, we saw a lot of the same resistance to a new product that was superior for nearly every single use case, except a vanishingly small number of use cases. EVs are really similar. In 10 years we will look back on the resistance to EVs and find it a bit silly and overly fearful.
Another solution to this problem is relaying through services which will do the heavy lifting for you (this was been discussed in the original thread, here and in the article I wrote).

So far people have suggested:

- ImprovMX (https://improvmx.com)

- Mailgun (https://mailgun.com)

- Postmark (https://postmarkapp.com)

Commenting for visibility: as any others come in I will update this comment (until I can't, anyway) and the article as a reference.
This is splitting hairs too much. If I'm negatively gossiping about someone and they're within earshot, that can be considered bullying which is considered a type of verbal abuse. Let's call it cyberbullying rather than harassment, just to be precise.
Same for the autistic and mentally ill. I'd like to just roll the dice until I get one that'll be easy to raise. And in much of the world girls are indeed much harder to raise
Tesla has been shipping custom 14nm inference chips in cars since 2019.
https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/tesla_(car_company)/fsd_chip
> aren't non-profit organizations obligated to have much of this public?

Of course they are required to file tax returns with executive salaries that are public! Why would you not check it? This is how cynicism destroys a civilization. People let institutions die because someone told them they were already dead.

>The line, in some ways, is thin between a non-profit and a for-profit organization

No it isn't, it's very clear cut. To people in the industry, there's no connection between salaries and "profit". That's just not what the word means to them. Random people on the internet get confused about this because they (definitely not only you) don't have any specific idea of what "profit" means.

In fact, "profit" doesn't even mean "having extra money after paying expenses and salaries" in the non-profit business.

At a non-profit, when they have more money at the end of the year than at the beginning, it's called a "surplus" rather than a "profit", and it doesn't have to be paid out to pesky "shareholders" so the organization just keeps it and does whatever with it next year.

Instead of a triad of directors, executives and shareholders (theoretically) in charge, the directors and executives run it (or fight over it).
Yes especially when the lay person is swayed by privileged people leading comfortable lives telling others who are in danger of getting killed or lose sovereignty.

Do you provide good faith argument about the net benefits of such a system to the society? Of course not. You are mostly concerned with "OMG, they showed me an ad about a thing that I almost wanted to buy" and "why should I care about a system that could potentially prevent Isrealis from being bombed from terrorists or Ukrainians murdered by Russians"
Organizational Metabolism and the For-Profit Advantage
And that will change as renewable energy and cheap storage make micro grids economically feasible, where transmission with centralized power generation is too expensive.

In these places, EVs will be far superior to gas vehicles because they will require less infrastructure and the EVs supplement the micro grid are an asset for it.
Are "awesome checklists" a thing the same way "awesome lists" are a thing on github? If not, it should be.
Here's the Canadian drought map in case anyone's curious https://agriculture.canada.ca/en/agriculture-and-environment...
Right after he was accused of orchestrating a "pump and dump" scheme.[1]

[1] https://fortune.com/2022/09/04/bed-bath-beyond-cfo-arnal-law...
I use TaskRabbit for a lot of handyman tasks, having learned that I'm not that quick at it, and... no further excuses, I use it.

At any rate, "assembling IKEA furniture" is such a popular task on TaskRabbit
that it's featured on the TaskRabbit web site:

https://www.ikea.com/gb/en/customer-service/services/assembl...
There are plenty of scientific papers and wikipedia articles for any complex topic. The point of the article is instead to introduce the topic in plain english without extensive mathematical notation or expressions. The idea _is_ simple. Perhaps I should have added some visualizations of the Pareto front, but I think sometimes these graphs are shown unnecessarily quickly. Besides that what would you add to an introduction that is paramount to one’s understanding?
Greg Egan's distress has something similar although in that situation it's not just the retinas. All the organs are revived to make the person who died "alive" for a short while to help the police identify the culprit
I'm not sure how the agency is structured - but what I can vouch for (and seen work) is continuous communication amongst coworkers in the form of tech talks and documentation. That way, knowledge is distributed within the team and a situation like this is avoided upfront.

I'm reminded of the Bus Factor concept: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bus_factor
> You don’t have other options, and if you quit, they know there will be 10 other people ready to take you place for those wages.

I'm just imagining this dude quitting and his manager suddenly realizing that no one else knows anything about the parts he worked on and how fucked they are now. Just because a bunch of people could take your job doesn't mean they'll give a shit about the job. Good, well motivated, employees are extremely hard to find. Understand your value and don't let some dude in a button down shirt who has never written a line of code trick you into thinking you aren't valuable.
> What about review? Code review? QA? Showing off to stakeholders?

Take a look at Dave Farley's Continuous Delivery YouTube channel to see the answers.

I think it boils down to "don't do that" with good arguments why and how to assure quality instead.
You are looking at it wrong; you need to go for Breadth rather than Depth to shore up the fundamentals. Think of it as developing a "T-shaped skillset" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T-shaped_skills) and the ability to bridge the jobs of both an Engineer and a Technician (https://www.indeed.com/career-advice/finding-a-job/technicia...). Also, the topics i have listed are "Applied Computer Science" and not "Theoretical Computing Science" and thus forms the everyday "working" knowledge for all Software Engineers. The emphasis/depth may vary based on the job but the knowledge is mandatory. You should easily be able to refresh/learn the fundamentals in a month or two given that you have already been exposed to them once.
I don't understand using email alias in professional environments. At the time of replying to a forwarded email, will make you look very informal, as you would have to use your gmail address now. I wonder will it break the threading as the recipient now receives the email from gmail while at the time of sending used your personal domain.
> Let me guess, email is dead? RSS is also dead right?

Email is dead, RSS is stone cold dead and buried under 100 ft of permafrost.

All mainstream browsers have removed RSS support. Virtually no major website still offers RSS feeds. When you see an RSS/Atom icon on a page today, it's either an old Wordpress theme that noone bothered to update, or some stubborn ideologue who insists that RSS is still a thing because there is a document somewhere that specifies it.

The dream of open syndication is over. Wanting it to be otherwise doesn't make it so.
Mobile charging is a possibility:

> Most gas-powered generators that your roadside assistance will come with provide 9.6 kilowatts and generate 240 volts. Inquire with your roadside assistance provider to know whether they offer a mobile charge. Often that not, they may be offering it.

Ya, they are coming with basically with a diesel generator that outputs 240 volts...which should give you 20 or so miles in 30 minutes?

Or towing (on a flatbed) to the nearest charger is an option if you can't bring power to the car.
> Add drum sounds.

Tried it for a bit, and definitely came across some percussion sounds. Hihats for sure, and something like a tom was there too I think.
By not having booze in the house.

By not drinking.
Transaction costs! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coase_theorem
The ecosystem can definitely use more work, but I've found maddy to be really good, because it's all in one, makes very reasonable choices, and is easy to configure.

I put maddy first because it's what I personally use (without dovecot) -- I make sure to back it up as well, and that's enough for me/most people, I think. It's the closest to the whole package which doesn't rely on.

Oh you know what, I completely forgot about iRedMail:

https://www.iredmail.org/

I haven't run this, but it's another great option when combined with SoGo.
“ We fundamentally disagree with the FTC’s allegations about marketing terms that aren’t even in use anymore”

Two problems: they explicitly dated that people were pre-approved and then denied them (after performing a credit check that would impact their credit score no less). Second: it doesn’t matter if they have stopped committing fraud, what matters is that they were.

You don’t get to use “I’m no longer committing crime” as a defense against accusations that you were committing a crime.

There are of course the usual US credit issues - no amount of credit checks of any kind should have any impact on your credit rating, etc
The complexity of C++ really does come from the yes/no decisions that every project, library, and code path get to take. Do you know if a library call will throw? hopefully they commented their code well! even better if they maintained comments for all of their dependencies...
I really like this Idea and would love to join such an organization!
> continue to profit off of these ignorant customers

What you mean? Anyway they get service fee and receive traffic regardless of origin server is vulnerable to DDoS. I agree it's good to have such feature but it's neither CF's fault nor a pitfall they make. I don't find any bad faith here.

Also it works as a CDN even if origin server is exposed, unless origin server is attacked.
There's something surreal about how I was just casually perusing the internet today and came across a random sampling of the earliest photos to exist in the digital medium, and see that the scenes captured within them are just barely contemporaneous with my own existence.
This looks exactly like MacOS though. If you like the ux/ui of MacOS that's fine, but I still don't see any reason why you say gnome devs are off the mark in terms of UX. For the record, I prefer keeping the dock out of view and pulling it up with the super key
This is one option. You can also get a Non-Lucrative Visa if you don't plan on working in the country. You have to demonstrate a certain financial capacity (to prove you won't be a drain on the system). It's valid for one year and renewable two times for two years each time. After five years you're granted permanent residency. You can join the public healthcare system after the first year. In addition, private healthcare is incredibly good and very reasonable compared to rates in the United States and not linked to employment. (Source: I live in Spain on a Non-Lucrative Visa)
Well, I don't live in the USA. Free speech purism is a US-specific sociocultural product that most people don't subscribe to.

Even then, I'd say that the USA has decided no such thing. What you're talking about is a modern civic religion and ideology that some but not all Usonians subscribe to. But the creation of law in the US has always been a pragmatic exercise. The electoral college was a highly imperfect pragmatic compromise. Exceptions to 1A were pragmatic lines being drawn. There's no God-given reason why defamation should be illegal but bullying to the point of suicide should be legal. Roe v Wade was pragmatic line drawing at the point of fetal viability. Look at how many pragmatic compromises are behind the inflation reduction act.
One of the advantages of my terrible memory is that the second play is still great fun.

It’s best with a kid who is mildly scared of the monsters.
> Almost none of the things linked there are run by serious isps that are responsible for other peoples' mail in quantities of tens of thousands of inboxes or more.

The whole point of self-hosting is precisely so that no entity runs tens of thousands of inboxes. If it's good enough for your personal use and the few people you're willing to help, then it's perfect.
The idea isn't actually to use an email alias -- it's to use an email relay.

Sorry if it's confusing (email as a whole is kind of confusing at first glance) -- relaying SMTP through a different server is kind of like using a VPN or a proxy.

Services like ImprovMX and Mailgun can be used for aliasing emails, but they can also just be used to deliver your emails for you (no aliasing to a new address).

The idea is to send all your email (like web traffic through a VPN) to those services.
I think a worked example of a simple problem with some accompanying visualizations would make this a more complete introduction. Links to learn more would be nice too. As it stands it feels half done.
Chilean voters reject new constitution
It's €500,000 in Spain. I don't know about Portugal but it doesn't take 3 years in Spain. Its 'immediate' upon the investment.
> This does explain a lot about what happens mentally when people self build $THING badly without doing the book learning and research first.

Did I told the story about a "slow server" where a simple 87Mb MySQL database slowed down to a crawl, like up to 40-60 seconds to respond... but not because we provided bad servers. It was slow because the main query had like 20 "SELECT *" subqueries. But people who don't even understand what SQL is (despite having two programmers and one sysadmin on the team) continued to insist what the problem is with our server, because their "testing server" (a desktop with i7) worked fine. Until I forced them to load their "production data" (87Mb) to their testing server. And suddenly - it started to respond in 40-60 seconds too. Because the test set was like 3Mb (test1, test3, testadflakjfdg and so on).

THEY built that PoS, so it couldn't be bad. It must be something else.

And now look at r/shittycarmods or whatever it called, same motto.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-09-17/behind-ch...

Clearly you don’t know what you’re talking about.

Which makes sense since you don’t even read the studies you claim “prove masks don’t work”
I didn't see any reference to freedom of speech in the article.
Location: Bangalore, India
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Technologies: Elixir, JavaScript, Kubernetes, PostgreSQL, Kafka, Redis, ReactJS, Redux, Lisp
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Email:shinde.rohitt@gmail.com

I consider myself a generalist and pick up tools and languages based on the problem at hand. I am currently working as an individual contributor, I've also worked as a consultant, have led a team for some time.
Thanks for your work on this. Maybe it’s time to introduce a paid license to support the project and even offer consulting hours to get professional support?
As a consultant/free-lancer I've seen this in plenty of SaaS businesses, even if they only have one product. The DB url would be "product-name.db.domain.tld/product-name", the database would be named "product-name" and the table would be called "product_name_users". Not really sure how it came to be, but it's not super uncommon.

For products built by outsourced teams (or if initial prototype was built by a outsourced team but then taken over by in-house), it's more common, even when building products for others.
You have to network. Go to conferences. Help people. Blog posts. Youtube videos.

I got a client immediately when certain people heard I had quit. Then a friend got me my second gig.
What exactly did he need internet for?
Is there such a thing as invisible evidence?
The Expanse is a series of science fiction novels https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Expanse_(novel_series)
If this is bothering you too much, the best thing you can do is move to a local employer where the salary range is more to your liking.

You have to think from the employer’s standpoint: if they pay you US or EU salary, why should they not just hire in those locales where it seems the company has bigger presence, or is maybe headquartered. Why would a company take the overhead of maintaining an offshore presence if there is no benefit to it.

Moreover, you are paid the local replacement cost, as in what would it cost the company to hire your replacement in your market. Unless you bring a unique value to the company you will be paid local market rate. If you are unique, then you will be paid whatever you want.
This. Qmail was the lighter option in between, along with some strong security guarantees, and for a while was used by some of the biggest mtas in the world.

Then it failed to keep up in the war against spam and it became completely irrelevant and postfix took its place as the sendmail alternative/replacement.
I’m absolutely not implying in any way that alcohol is needed to make social connections. It’s just a fact, either in scientific research and historical research, that it helps tremendously.

You are fine and that’s nice. But my thinking was about people who struggles to socialize and suffer from it.

From a health perspective, are those people better alone at home or should they profit from the alcohol properties, even at moderate doses to create better connections ?

The question is important because socialization is important for your health. It greatly reduces stress and anxiety, it improves self confidence, and more generally, it gives you more luck in life. COVID lockdowns impacts on mental health are real, for example.

You seem to don’t drink alcohol (which, again, is perfect) so maybe you don’t know that its social lubricant effects (making shy people talk without anxiety, if you want) are effective at really low dose, way before being drunk.