skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We're letting over a million immigrants in every year. As an American I'm finding it's harder and harder for me to get a job in the tech industry every year and I have a decade of experience and a master's degree. I recently got a job in the industry and I'm on a team of all Indian people, my boss is Indian, and his boss, all the way up to the CEO. Just so you know it's not you. It's a clown world we live in. Vote accordingly
What I take from what he said is that the shelf life of movies has shortened. You either make it in the first couple of weeks, or you’re bust. While with the dvds the movie stayed relevant for much longer which could result in a reduced budget for marketing.
“Passions” aside, I struggle to think of any other career better than software engineering, in terms of return on investment on the effort applied. And with low barrier to entry.

I make far more money than a lot of other people while working less, and much more comfortably from my own home. Why do anything else? I’ve concluded people will really subject themselves to a lifetime of grueling pointless work just to avoid some math and science.
you need to get out more -- this is beyond 'not true'
Startups! They love generalists.
> A black woman in Italy: Impossible! Unbelievable!

You're being overly dramatic.

But if you want stories with black women in them, why are you adapting a book where there is none?

I think that's because Pinocchio is a very good story and they know it, people.know it, and also is in the public domain.

Disney "modernizing" Italian literature for free to feed their money making machine? OK!

Disney adapting an African story about black women and black mythology?

Impossible! Unbelievable!

Which one is more probable, that Disney wants to use Pinocchio IP while also riding the inclusiveness-washing activism wave, or that Disney really actually cares about black women and their culture?

sometimes people priorities really surprise me...
THANK YOU Peter, you did a good job in life !
You wouldn't want to encourage cultural appropriation would you know?
Show HN: Stop writing Excel like it's assembly
I suck at excel - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nbkaYsR94c

I would write the equivalent of:

/* Tax rate */

var b1 = 50%;

/* Salary */

var b2 = 120000;

var b3 = b1 * b2;

When excel lets you write:

var tax_rate = 50%;

var salary = 120000;

var b3 = tax_rate * salary;

I just didn't know any better. This class of problem can be solved by a linter and auto-formatter to automatically detect and use excel best practices. Which also helps you learn best practices.

Stop reading and writing excel like it's assembly. Upgrade your excel to the modern era.

If you have suggestions or recommendations I'd love to hear them. I just saw the above video linked on HN and thought I can solve this! The current version is extremely simple/naïve/ugly.
It is an investment in the future. Education is the silver bullet. I don't really understand why this is so hard to grasp for people. Perhaps its because the pay-off isn't in the next quarter, or year, or even 5 years.

But over 5, to 10, 20 years - the payoff is immense.
> The reality is that at least as a North American, nobody even knows it is an Italian story. We all know Pinocchio from our childhood. Nobody knows it’s Italian.

I love the contrast between being woke ("Be inclusive and represent all people") and being woke ("Taking another cultures history and erasing the cultural aspects of it, making it all white, is bad") on display here.
NASA – Artemis I – Liquid Hydrogen Leak Detected Once Again
Easy solution: sell the CryptoPunks and give those proceeds to charity instead.
I don't think it's the best explanation, but I do think he understands that mean as a measure of central tendency is not that useful when distributions are skewed or multimodal (the squiggly line gesture).
Anyone still use IMDb since they removed forums? Moved to TMDb at that time, old IMDb posts can be found backed up on Moviechat.
> 186 Being stuck in problem solving

Is this a real thing? I have never known there to be a technical problem in work that I wasn't able to solve, all of my problems have been from ever changing requirements and clients refusing to give detail.

Is there a role for me that maximises technical complexity and minimises managements role?
The article you're quoting directly contradicts your view, e.g.

>Generally, though, most agree, fee-only refers to payment from fixed, flat, hourly, or percentage-based fees.
So the hacker compromised... something, and then the security team had time to notice and somehow move 800 NTFs to their account. I'll admit I have very little knowledge about crypto, but I don't understand how the security team could notice the theft midway.

Could the hacker only move so many things at one time? But then why was the security team able to move everything at once?

It sounds to me like the hacker got away with the somewhat easily laundered funds and the security team tried to cover their ass by saying they saved the hard to launder NFTs. Or the security team was in on it, I have zero trust in a crypto security team.

edit what the hell is Project Venkman? Here's the start of their about section

>Project Venkman builds loyalty and membership NFTs for some of the world’s biggest brands and celebrities. As Web3 continues to evolve, we do too.

What does that mean? "We've convinced important people that we are ready to be whatever company Web3 eventually decides is necessary."
I generally bill around $175/hr to make whatever technology problems you have work out :) (Note I'm based out of Europe, though, reading some of the stuff here I should probably charge more anyways)

That's my generalized rate when the person paying me is non-technical and the actual work involved isn't clear or known to them ahead of time. I spend part of the time coming up with a plan so they know what's going to happen, of course, and coming up with estimates.

If it's a technical person or the problem is better-defined, then I charge different 'specialist' rates that vary based on the task and the rough 'market rate' for such a task.

Sometimes, also, it's just an unusually fun task or a task for a nonprofit or something, in which case I work with their budget and my intrinsic motivation and try to come up with something fair.
> transition to DTC?

I see it as being less about selling direct to consumers and more about building an EV brand with a strong service story. Right now, there is a perception that Tesla ships cars with superior technology, offers a superior charging network, but against that consumers feel Tesla has poor build quality and problems servicing its vehicles.

(This may be all or only partially true, but from a marketing perspective, what matters is whether customers perceive that these things are true, and the claim here is that they do.)

GM has to play catch-up with tech, and is doing its best with stuff like Super-cruise: https://www.gmc.com/connectivity-technology/super-cruise

But until Tesla gets its quality and service act together, brands with dealership networks like GM can differentiate themselves with their dealer network, which is also a service network... Provided the dealers invest in the tech and training to sell and service EVs.

Differentiating their products with "You can get it serviced quickly at your local Buick dealership" is not going to work if there's an asterisk and fine print that says "participating dealers only." So they're getting rid of the dealers who undercut an important part of their value proposition.

Will it work? :shrug: But this appears to be what they are attempting to do by dropping dealers who won't service EVs.

---

Elsewhere, Volvo is trying to have it both ways! Their Polestar brand is sold DTC, but serviced at Volvo dealerships. That avoids the negative perception of buying from dealers who add on ridiculous charges or markups, but allows them to promise Polestar buyers that service is readily available.

TL;DR
Why go on the moon if it is not to build a gigantic telescope on the tidal locked dark side? Yeah, "just need" to handle the sun once in while...
Hi, yes I would be happy to provide detail. An important part of any software development project (not prototypes, of course) is the establishment of a solid set of requirements. To do that, an engineer needs to understand the following things:

1. The context of the software. Where does the software “live” in the world? A context diagram is very useful.

2. The major interfaces. What are the channels, formats, data structures, etc. Interface control documents are very helpful tools, as are any number of diagrams depending upon the application.

3. The concept of operation and “user story.” This is a top-level description of what happens when, why, and how to whom? This involves timing, aesthetic, user inputs, safety/security, other usability factors, outputs/results, etc. When you try to describe how people use the software, salient requirements can be discovered. It also helps to create a wireframe that can be shared with the customer to uncover more details or steer the requirements in a different direction.

4. Develop a draft set of requirements. I won’t go into detail, but this is the culmination of the preceding steps.

Good luck.
I work a lot with OSM, and this is the first router I've ever discovered that supports a "river" routing mode. I've been looking for something like this!

Does anyone know how BRouter compares to the other FOSS tools, like Valhalla or Graphhopper?
Although I charge a flat fee, I've found that companies tend to be more accepting to my pricing when it's a longer engagement than a shorter one
They’ll come back when you need to use them. My experiences: using compiler theory stuff, state machines, database normalization, algorithms on the job. You start off feeling rusty and forgetful but once you do some reading and roll your sleeves up it comes back to you.

Also I wasn’t a very diligent undergrad and my memory isn’t exceptional :) YMMV
I think it's deeply ingrained in British culture, through its very much alive social class system. Precisely what Brits (seem to?) like about that qaint system is what makes it possible to maintain such a careless elite class that is not only not punished for creating extractive vehicles such as the City, but even praised and rewarded for it, through British identity politics. "Great" Britain, world power, A-rank capital, and so on.

Brits never saw a social revolution, and it shows.
A drug becoming available as a generic doesn’t mean end of shady practices to maximize profits. https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/pharmaceutical-companies-pay-...
I recommend that you double your rates -- you're worth more than you think.
No, I used the same language as parent comments.

What a weird way to dismiss my points..?
How well is the Star Wars franchise doing these days?
Hard agree. It annoys me that this has the air of a “hot take,” but I don’t believe anyone wakes up in the morning and thinks, “I’m going to write overly clever spaghetti code today and do as bad a job I can.”

People are generally good and want to do a good job and be recognized by their peers.

Different people have different strengths and skills. It’s the sum of those things that makes a team. Alone we could do some of the things we want to achieve but it’s together that we can make it happen.
> Britain has for a long time neglected energy efficiency improvements and investment in renewable energy.

Like the EU nations, the UK was designed and built to use energy in what seemed like a sustainable way. Obviously every Country in Europe is now reconsidering what to make reductions.

If anything this is quite promising for the UK's winter, as there are so many quick-win improvements to be made (assuming we can get sufficient supplies of insulation).

> The houses are the worst insulated in Europe [1].

The majority of the UK doesn't get too much below zero, spending a brief time at -10 degrees. Places in Europe can reach -30/-40 for a sustained period.

We're also talking about houses that are quite old and hard to upgrade (if not impossible due to restrictions).
Nice!

Why does the border change in each frame?
There is much more in the book than cheap amusement. It works in several different planes and there is a lot of philosophical and metaphorical content.

To write a fantasy book is easy; to do it at the Tolkien's way is extremely hard. His search for consistency in the entire work is legendary. All tiny details fall in the correct place. LOTR set the mold and reference for every single book in the "sword and sorcery" category for a good reason.
They are trying to quickly end the war, it’s Russia who’s prolonging it on purpose. Russia attacked with 1 against 4 in manpower, and is completely fine with the war lasting for a long time.

We now see how western powers are forcing Ukraine to do devastating counter offensives that will lead to quicker defeat. And even then I think Russia will take its time.

We’re approaching a 10 year long business cycle where cheap energy is everything, and Russian’s know that. There is no way out without huge money printing to replace Russian energy, all the while we finished biggest money printing cycle in our lifetimes.

Russia waited since 2014 and chose a best time. Europe will fold sooner or later.
This is not an ethical conclusion. This is a pragmatic and utilitarian conclusion where 'optimal' means minimising the cost/benefit ratio.

Incidentally, this shows that the 'perfect' ethical stance is not necessarily the one that delivers the most benefits at the least cost, aka when ideals meet the real world...
Repairing an automobile is a more difficult and valuable skill set, however.
I'm sorry to hear you had such an outlier of an experience - I've never been met with anything except understanding when asking for directions in any of the national languages.

> we spend probably half an hour in Zurich trying to find someone that knows the place and speak German or French at acceptable level to give us directions. It was during the late evening and out of 15 people we stopped like one was swiss.

Stopped...successfully? And does Swiss German count as "an acceptable level of German" :)? I don't find it hard to believe that 14 people would pass you by (as people would in a major city), but I find it hard to believe that out of 14 people, none would speak the major national languages.
Well, I guess, the UNIX derivatives were just grouped together, which is logical.
The setting in OpenTTD to close windows using right click is one of the best UI features anywhere and I miss it in daily life and especially when I go back to play the original TTD.
> The general feeling towards Russia in the UK is very hostile

It’s complicated though, as the money is loved, despite the toxic effect on property prices and political parties.

While BJ has made a show of his support for Ukraine, his relationship with Russia has been interesting.
All of these strategies make sense given the financial environment we live in, with a money supply that constantly increases via debt creation. There’s something like an arms race for attention. The combination of this arms race and unlimited financing means we have production costs for for one hour of entertainment in the tens of even hundreds of millions.

I think good art comes from individuals with fantastic visions; but since no individual can fund things at the scale to compete in the attentional arms race, we are left with endless bland re-hashes since these compete on existing brands and thus are lower risk.
Saying you didn't know that Pinocchio (!!) was set in Italy (!!!) is like saying you didn't know the first half of the Little Mermaid was set underwater.
Might have been true with Star Trek as of early TNG, but not sure it's been that way since. I imagine there was uproar around Tuvok being a black Vulcan, but would be hard to imagine Trek fans caring about that today.
All games had only 4 Colors in cga
Django dev server has reloading enabled out of the box, no?

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/4.0/intro/tutorial01/ "The development server automatically reloads Python code for each request as needed"
Bumping up visibility, is all… Lisp deserves more attention than it has.
Wow. I feel pretty bad for whoever is doing this. Looks like they’re having fun now, but imagine the weight in the background of your mind about how this ends.

Your options are probably to crash, like the Seattle dude did, to land at an airport and definitely be arrested, or land somewhere unexpected and attempt to get away.

Not fun options.
I guess this applies to all crimes, even major ones likes murder and child abuse. We can monitor everyone all the time, or make sacrifices to live in a more free society.

If you think the optimal amount of crime is greater than zero, at some point we are clearly using different applications of the word optimal. One person is talking about the level under the optimal “solution”, while the other is talking about one constraint that still must be balanced against other constraints. The optimal amount of fraud spending is zero, but then we’d be left with a ton of fraud.
>NFT consultancy Project Venkman

That's hilarious though.
Is the pop science journalism bubble about to burst?

Unfortunately, Bettridge's Law applies here.
No. People love an old wizard in grey clothing. They don't give a crap if some lore said he beat 1 Balrog but in the show it was 5 giant orcs or whatever. Casuals have never read the background material, I just want to be entertained.
> This seems like something that never should have existed

The engineers who designed and implemented the GPS system many decades ago were pioneering a fundamental technology, and worked within the constraints at the time to balance efficiency, cost, and complexity deliberately and as best they could.

Now we get to drive around in our luxurious cars, decked out with supercomputers listening to satellite communications, charting our course for us, all so we don't have to read our own maps.
I think the term you are looking for is cargo cult.
The "blame the fans" trick coined by Disney. at least they are not calling them manbabies.
Just to be very clear for anyone else who comes across:

Fee-only simply means they are paid an agreed on price from you and they don't get kickbacks, commissions, any type of reward for where you put your money. Fee-only fiduciaries will also have a link on their website to a PDF that very clearly describes the relationship and pricing.

There are hourly fees and AUM fees. I have only seen hourly fees apply for the creation of a financial plan. I did not see any offering in my area of someone managing a portfolio for less than 1% AUM.

The cost of a financial plan was quoted to me at least $6500, so not cheap.

I talked to a "normal" financial advisor as well—they get kickbacks. They tried to put me in super aggressive setups, life insurance, etc. It was not discussed upfront what their cuts are and it was very clear that it wasn't best for me. Be very very cautious if you ever go down this route.
Ask HN: Do you use k8s ConfigMap for “business” logic application configuration?
Is using k8s configMap for business logic application config considered a good use case? Non best practice? Do you prefer storing you application configuration somewhere else? Why?
Absolutely and the tools required often cost far more than a developer will ever spend during the course of their career.

But $100 per hour is too cheap. I charged more than that for carpentry repairs to homes and commercial buildings.

The local PepBoys charges $122 per hour and they’re aren’t capable of much more than oil changes and tire repairs.
Prop 13 prevents the tax base from growing, which prevents the government from being able to pay the teachers a livable wage. It needs to be reformed.
Have to check it out. Not sure about the 2022 show, but the 1996 movie sounds intriguing. Don't remember anything about Day for Night, just that I found it similarly confusing as Fellini's 8 1/2. I do remember that I really liked Jules et Jim by Truffaut, but then again, it has Jeanne Moreau. I can recommend her movie Bay of Angels. It's a simple but great movie: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056846/
The Borg are all races and Romulans, though majority portrayed as white, likely have multiple skin tones the same way the Vulcans do. Though the idea they purged different skin tones at some point fits with their overall narrative.

All the Dominion races were white, more or less. The Changelings have a whole meta commentary going for them.
Cultural Distress (and Consumerism)
It feels like a very subtle is-ought distinction, where the author is discussing something that unavoidably is the case and therefore concludes that it ought to be the case and therefore ought to be accepted if not even welcomed. The marketing example makes this pretty clear. Of course no one thinks the marketing directory could spend zero on marketing. But…surely they would love to spend zero if they could still get what they wanted for zero money.
There's 2 different things going on here:

- The optimal amount of fraud in society is 0

- The optimal amount of fraud a business/industry should accept is non-zero

The simple observation that the cost to prevent each marginal fraud attempt increases; the last 0.1% of fraud costs way too much to prevent compared to the first 99%. Obviously society would be better off if fraud didn't exist, but since it does the effort expended is only worth it up until when the marginal cost of prevention exceeds an acceptable threshold (when it starts to lose you money).

The optimal amount of fraud is still 0, but the optimal amount of fraud prevention lies somewhere on the margin.

This is why important transactions like banking have KYC checks, and buying a pair of sneakers don't.
Sounds like very poorly taught phonics. Well-taught phonics covers all the variations of sounds that letters make alone and in combination.
It's like a braindump of a thought-train trying to reach a simple conclusion rather than just stating the simple conclusion itself.
This discussion is about teaching reading skills.
Which unsuccessful show? The one that came out yesterday?
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Ukraine war: Russia to keep key gas pipeline to EU closed
Many artists specifically don't charge "market value" (ie, the most they possibly can) for tickets, because they want their fans to be able to attend the event; not just the wealthy ones. Scalpers buying out the tickets and reselling them higher defeats the point of this.
so basically the kobayashi maru?

i like the approach, do you just outright ding someone due to the googling of answers offscreen?
It hasn’t even remotely reached its potential
No, they got rid of Oldsmobile and Pontiac. Buick is not a popular brand in the US, but it was retained because (at least at the time) it was doing well in China.
I honestly don't get why IMDB would do this. They have now created a very strong signal their review scores are unreliable as they changed it simply because they didn't like it. Why would they damage their own brand like that?

As for the show itself I can't comment since I haven't seen it.
https://noah.org/science/dreamachine/