skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
US tech salaries are good for only one reason, the largest tech companies went the path of public stock valuations and paid employees with stock. If anything, it's an indicator of the vast difference in income for people who make a living with assets vs people who still need to trade their labor for a paycheck.

Tech salaries are going to be on a decline for a while with the Fed rate hike, like it or not, most tech companies are floating on VC money and that all depends on a stock market giving them high valuations. In situations we're in now, fundamentals start to matter and the phony valuations get corrected.
There's no "blockade" of US against the dictatorial communist regime of Cuba, just an embargo. which is totally different. Proof of that is the thousand of Canadians that go to Cuba to have cheap sex with poor people including minors, something they cannot do on their country. With a blockade you could not do that.
Basically the Cuban government is a mafia, that never pays back what it owes to other countries on top of intentionally impoverishing its own people and violation all sort of human rights there. making paper laws for the world while doing anything they want one on the inside to its slaves citizens. In Cuba you can go to jail for 30 years just for pacifically and silently protesting on the street with a t-shirt saying: "Patria y Vida"
I've read a few of Gary Marcus' posts and I like him. My position is much more that the capabilities of current models are good enough for a lot uses. I certainly don't think language models are "real intelligence" or that we're anywhere near achieving that, just that excellent search and mashup engines (current language models) are proving to be extremely useful.
In my opinion, Patagonia's recent non-profit restructuring is one of few corporate arrangements that BESTS the Indian conglomerate TaTa's donation strategy; at TaTa, by corporate structuring/design/ownership, 2/3rds of all profits are donated to vetted non-profits.

The TaTa cousins (not actual name: the people running it) are able to keep a Top-100 marketcap entity functional with just a third of the profits. IMHO companies are definitely entitled to profits, when earned, but employees should be involved in some sort of profit-/ownership- sharing arrangement, perhaps after limited vesting periods.

MAD RESPECT TO PATAGONIA! I'll add their products to my Paul Newman's Own list (i.e. products where all/most profits are donated to charities, even if the price is higher [as long as quality/reputation is maintained]).
At this point, those at Twitter have to be getting their cut from this.
I reluctantly set up Venmo but I really don’t like services directly connected to my bank account.
This project focuses on being a drop in replacement to the proprietary firmware needed to bringup Linux on the other processor. (The ARM processor.)

Isn't anyone going to talk about running random stuff on the VPU itself?! Given it's the thing used for 3D and stuff, I imagine it's going to be crazy fast at certain computations, much faster than the ARM is.

Untapped potential of all Raspberry Pies out there... maybe the VPU can be (ab)used to do stuff similar to what the Raspberry Pico can do.
Hah! I was thinking a little more upmarket than that.
Of course not, I would be selfish and want the billion dollars. But maybe a culture of creating small companies out of VC capital only to be acquired by megacorps is not the best way forward for society. I also don't like paying taxes, but that doesn't mean there shouldn't be any.
> just not use facebook,

Good luck on getting Facebook to stop using you though [1].

In a similar vain, how does Equifax fit into this mythical world where government is the problem but corporations are not?

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadow_profile
>If people would host "xyz liked my tweet" on their own server, then everybody would claim that Billie Eilish liked all their tweets.

This problem is what public key verification is literally made to solve.

If Billie Eilish likes your tweet, her client signs the like with her private key and sends the result to your server. Other clients can verify the like is real by looking at the result you send back with the "like" and verifying it against her public key.

Edit: The person I'm replying to has edited their post at least 3 separate times in the past couple minutes, adding multiple new lines to say different things, so if this disagreement to it ends up making no sense, you know why.
Aren't companies just going to ban the entirity of Ukraine, due to it being easier than finding out if your clients are connected to Russia or in a Russia-controlled area, resulting in an outcome undesired by the Ukrainian gov?
I'm a european (with a heat pump), but i tried it anyway.

I entered :

- Zip 56714

- 2500 sqft

- 4 occupants

- 1 boiler

- no aircon

- natural gas

and the result was :

Switching to a heat pump will increase your cost by... $257.28 per year

So i'm not entirely sure it works as you intended, or natural gas is much cheaper than electricity. Over here, Natural gas is currently at €2.96/m3 (about 2.5x the price last year), and every calculation we've made based on the heat pump vs natual gas shows it will reduce our annual bill by about 50%.

I've had the heat pump for 6 months, and while it was spring/summer with reduced need for heating, the total consumption of the heat pump in those 6 months has been around 900 kWh, and i estimate around 2000 kWh for the winter. (2000 sqft house, well insulated compared to US standards)
Typically you, the person replied to, or someone else is simply primed to debate the use cases, in a classic dropbox-style moment about how some other combination of technologies nobody wants could do it, as opposed to diving into the technology itself and the opportunities presented by the platform

For them its a quagmire because they cant find a reason to justify any time or mindshare on the technology, and are simply using any discussion to rationalize not doing that

Its just past the point where they're relevant or the concept needs to be defended at all, its just not new or fragile enough anymore. Even politicians can debate nuanced aspects of 1 out of 100 use cases.

And then there’s the reality that speculation is a use case, so obvious yet somehow so unacceptable to technology savants, as if the entire financial services industry doesn't exist with its own niche technology to facilitate it

And then it derails into a relative utility argument, when someone points out the irony that nearly everyone here is working for a democracy destabilizing advertising conglomerate and getting paid in lottery tickets
I like the community here overall but there are far too many discussions tainted by the implicit assumption that if (royal) you see yourself as valuable then others value is synonymous with their similarity to you.
How can a 15B$ Revenue company can buy 20B$ company ?
> Many people on YouTube do it full time, with ad revenue and exposure being their primary source of income.

As the old saying goes, "your failed business model is not my problem".

Many, many people would like to make a living as performers, or creators generally, but very few succeed. If we want a world with more full-time artists, rather than forcing unwanted ads down our own throats to subsidize youtube video-makers, we'd be better off creating a basic income system.
In my experience this is fairly common for "what's changed" listings for extensions. It's probably mostly to do with how browsers don't provide any good native mechanism for that.
The Official Raspberry Pi Handbook 2023
Sublime Text extensions do this too, quite annoying when you open an editor for for a quick note and several seconds in the typing focus switches to a new tab. Of course, browser extensions that do this are annoying too, especially when you get bombarded by new tabs if you didn't use the browser in a while. This is so user-hostile, how come the issue wasn't tackled by browser vendors yet?
> however for light crashes, your hunk of 50's-70's metal will often end up with significantly less damage, and at a minimum can be driven home.

Because all that kinetic energy didn't get dissipated and so transferred into the softest bits of the car, which in the 50's-70's car was the driver.
"a bit" :)

are there no mandatory safety checks in the US? In most countries i've been in, a "home improved" car like this would need to be homologated before being driven on a public road
I'm a long time user of Trello. After the acquisition, Atlassian foisted their login system on Trello users, but otherwise didn't substantially degrade the product.

The integration with other Atlassian services improved. There is a variety of plug-ins now, and new ways to display the data for paid plans.

Do you feel different? Any specific examples of what became worse?
I understand why people like Figma. But just because you don’t like that Figma is selling their company doesn’t mean that the government should be involved.

When a group of people thought they wanted a better operating system and databases that can’t be acquired - they created an open source offering. They didn’t depend on government intervention.
https://archive.org/details/awkprogrammingla00ahoa
> Does anybody really believe it will ever stop?

As long as people willingly subscribe to services whose terms explicitly allow to ban users for no reason whatsoever, no. I don't see how this will ever stop.
YouTube Free Is Silently Testing 5 Ads, Instead of 2, Before Your Video Starts
Show HN 10 years ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4744877
> ...schools have been preferring Python as a first language which I think is far more appropriate. My teacher used to argue Java is good for beginners because it's a strict OOP language and teaches good habits, but I question how true that is. For one, it falsely assumes OOP is a good approach for an application that asks you to enter your name then prints, "Hello [name]".

I weep for the world of programming.
I don't see that phrase in the article
I had to Google that phrase to see if there was any record of it. It's genuinely astounding to me that a robot came up with that.
Hi there, it’s Eldad from the Appwrite team

I’m thrilled to share that Appwrite 1.0 is finally released. This is the first stable, production ready release of Appwrite. This version is a major step in our mission toward reducing software development complexity, and making software development accessible and more enjoyable for all developers.

What is Appwrite?

Appwrite is an open-source backend-as-a-service solution that provides all the core APIs required for building a modern web or mobile application. The different Appwrite services have APIs for managing Authentication, Databases, Storage, and Functions with support for most of the popular coding languages.

What we introduced in Appwrite 1.0

- New DateTime attribute

- Upgraded Permissions model

- Upgraded Database queries syntax

- Additional SDK helpers for permissions, queries, roles, and IDs

- Introduction of improved logs for Appwrite Functions

- Guest users can now create Documents, Files and execute Functions

- Ability to import users from other platforms into Appwrite

- New Etsy, Disqus and Podio OAuth providers

- Automatic cache cleaning to keep your storage usage in check

You can check out our full release announcement here: https://appwrite.io/1.0

How We Got Here

Appwrite started as my passion project in 2019 to try and solve my own frustrations with software development. A lot of development was repetitive and complex. During this time, We were fortunate to get massive support from the open-source community who shared my frustrations and quickly joined in to help.

With the help of 600 contributors, we’ve made 4,600+ Pull Requests and 13,000+ Commits to arrive at Appwrite 1.0. I’ve been lucky to be part of such an inclusive community that is always happy to welcome new contributors, get feedback, and collaborate to improve this platform.

What’s Next?

Appwrite still has tremendous room for growth. While we see 1.0 as a stable basis for our workflows and APIs, our team intends to add many more cool features to make Appwrite even more exciting. Here’s a sneak peek at ideas I’ve been excited to discuss:

- MongoDB and PostgreSQL adaptors

- GraphQL support

- More flexible queries and relations

- Geolocation Data and Querying

- Push Notifications

- Offline Sync Support

Let us know what you’d like to see next on Appwrite and what you think is missing from my list! I’m active on Reddit, GitHub: https://github.com/appwrite/appwrite, and Discord: https://appwrite.io/discord.
Well, if there isn't much adoption, there likely won't be many products and services for you to use. You may be fine with that, but it's not necessarily congruent with the enormous amount of hype this whole experiment has received in the last decade or so.
Apt/yum repositories using Cloudflare R2
Was looking for this comment. I loved Freehand. It was so much better than Illustrator. Don't get me wrong, Illustrator today has come a long way. But I can only imagine what Freehand in 2022 would be like.
My 2022 Vaillant model can operate down to -25C, and has a backup electrical heating element built in for when it gets colder than that.

https://www.vaillant.com/home/products/air-to-water-heat-pum...
Appwrite is my backend of choice since I learned it. Stable release is AMAZING news for me!
"Actual scientists point out science doesn't support anti-trans ideology" -- unfortunately, "actual science" is defined by who speaks for it and what is permitted to be published and any criticism of the sexualization or surgical/therapeutic treatment of vulnerable minors is automatically "transphobia". Right now, we are in a very dark place with powerful lobbies dictating things unimaginable in prior eras and which would and should be illegal in a sane society/world.
I'm surprised Figma is worth that much. For a while I was considering bootstrapping a business in this space and I was never very impressed with what I saw of Figma. Does not look that hard to compete with or replicate.
Ah it still is, as of 3.4.2. The newest version is still GPLv3.

It's in Chrome extensions folder in Profile, in LICENSE.

I think that means the extension can still be put to github even right now and re-distributed.
That's why we have

public class SecureRandom
extends Random
Ask HN: Ever stay in a job to work on side business?
Ever work in a day job because its so disorganized that you can still get your work done and work on a business at the same time?

How long did you do it?
Todd KcKinnon (CEO) :

> https://twitter.com/toddmckinnon/status/1544046909307752448
Things about abortion, inclusive blabla, political stuff

> https://twitter.com/toddmckinnon/status/1539642789864312834
gov identity, political stuff

He seems to have been corrupted right after his gov talk.

W E A K
it hasn't yet passed that review. which is standard for deals like this, announce first then the regulators have their say.
Time to renew my Sketch license?
Interesting article. I personally don't think we'll ever have a definition of intelligence because it is an emergent behaviour. We'll just keep working on it, all the while believing that what we create is not intelligent, until one day it is and kills us all.
Note that this is for the crappy CRT TVs most people used (some home computers either connected to such TVs or used similarly bad CRTs).

This was not an issue on computer monitors that were meant to display crisp text.
Hi! Yes, the simulation is all server-side. It does take a while today -- we aren't using the beefiest machines for the site, but even locally it's a >5s process.

Some of the things driving speed:

- Fetching hourly weather data -- we use binned data for the 15-30 years used for equipment sizing and selection, but for the 12 month backtest to get savings and emissions, we're going hour by hour through the last year for the simulation.

- Loading + merging emissions data -- same deal for hourly grid emissions for your local grid, to get emissions from electricity usage (though we do make some assumptions about the grid decarbonizing when we show expected lifetime emissions figures).

- Simulating thermostat behavior -- we do some extra processing before the core simulation to model realistic human behavior on thermostat setting, so that you don't get lots of flipping between heat+cool in shoulder months or the furnace kicking on in June just because it hits 68dF in the middle of the night.

- Heat pump equipment selection -- we're doing a slightly simplified version of the backtest over 15-30 years of historical data for ~2k heat pump units (depending on ducting type) as a bake-off to choose the most efficient-but-properly-sized heat pump for the home. There's more optimization to be done there, but it's about 2-3s of the total time currently.

- Backtest itself -- once we have the equipment chosen and the weather + thermostat scenarios created, we run the simulation itself for the last 12 months, twice (once for the status quo equipment, once for the heat pump configuration). That goes through each hour of the year, simulating heat load on the home (outside weather including cloud cover and solar positioning, humidity, wind speed, temperature, plus internal loads like appliances and the heat occupants give off), simulating equipment performance (for heat pumps, a function of output, outside temp, inside temp, outside humidity, altitude, and layering in backup heat as applicable/needed), plus accounting for surplus/deficit heat that needs to roll over to the next hour based on thermostat settings or insufficient conditioning, etc. etc.. With usage, we then compile and calculate the utility bills monthly (we have support for actual rate plans, TOU plans, etc., but for now we just use statewide marginal retail prices from the EIA for the site version, because those tend to be conservative) and also calculate emissions, which is time intensive for electricity given we're layering in actual emissions from the grid in the simulated hour.

Anyways, there's definitely a lot of optimization we could do to get the processing time down, but hope that gives you a sense of what's going on server-side. Also, the model we're running is more flexible than what's exposed on the site currently (e.g. arbitrary date ranges for the backtest), and if we made a more specialized version of it, we could do a lot more pre-computing.
It looks like a third of the hash rate moved to ETC (Ethereum Classic) https://2miners.com/etc-network-hashrate
Seems like the "not with that attitude" comment was spot on.
I hear this. I think much of my early frustrations in programming were things a decent debugger or intellisense would have quickly taught me. That said, having worked with a bunch of folks who got the big nice IDE right away, what I am noticing is they do tend to use the IDE as a crutch. I use my knowledge of the tech to solve a problem efficiently, while they blunder through to a (usually sub-optimal) solution using whatever guard rails the IDE puts in their way. This is a generalization, of course, and even those raised on an IDE can transcend it. But they’re not really being taught to effectively in my opinion.
> In fact I would already pay Google and Facebook if they would seriously stop treating me as a product and would consider me a client whom they would act in best interest of.

They do. But their customers are their advertisers, not their users. Their users are literally the product. Their public services are bait for eyeballs.

If you were a fish, on a hook, would you offer to pay the fisherman for better tasting bait? The fisherman isn’t concerned about the bait as long as it’s good enough to catch you and send you to market.
You have too much faith in the underpaid workers - how do you think all the drugs are getting around?

Don't forget this is not a border checkpoint where they'd be stopping each car and checking visas, duty and taxes - this is inside Schengen, so there's a policeman or two if anything, and they won't ever stop you unless you look super-super-suspicious. I haven't seen anyone at all there for the past few months when I passed the border point several times, I go through at 100 km/h all the time (well there's a very short strip of 60 km/h to be exact).

Anyways, he might be lying about that, or his gang lied to him. He said nobody ever stopped him - and that's perfectly believable. It was a guy in a shirt/suit going to Germany in a nice car like thousands of others, no reason to stop him.
This article is tripping over itself to tell you how great they are.

PR like this just feels like it was written by a college kid or makes me feel like they are compensating for technical inadequacy.

No thanks.
I haven't made any claims. I said I learned something, and your buddy disappeared without explaining how to do the same thing I said I learned how to do as he said was "something you could always do," while shouting insults at me on his way like I'm somehow the one responsible for the Crypto-calypse. I'm not, and you people need to get over yourselves.
RIP Ligma
Well, it's especially because it's a French word.
Generally (at least in my part of the US) people stopped being asked to sign for small purchases several years ago; usually now convenience stores and big box stores under a certain dollar amount just ask you to tap a button instead of sign.
Is startup investing gambling?

Please do not substitute a statistical model of something for the thing itself.
main discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32850178
What's the stack at Inland Revenue? Must be something pretty old school...
It’s pretty clear to anyone under 40 working in finance that there’s room for improvement.
What are the percentages? What's the correct rate and the false positive diagnosis rate?

Or are you just anecdoting?
I put my infant in a carrier in front of the washing machine and dryer a couple of times. It was great!
Are We in 1995? Rich Templeton's of Texas Instruments Thinks So
You wrote this like the ideas are mutually exclusive. They're not. I want both regulation of massive internet services and for mastodon and others to become more common choices.

> based on free software where such type of arbitrary rulings are impossible.

Software license has nothing to do with what rulings are possible. If you're found to be doing something illegal, it's on you to figure out how to deal with that. It may involve not using that software.

But we don't live in a Cyberpunk dystopia. Government regulation is useful for many things. The answer to corps running wild does not have to be starting an isolated system from scratch.
When they were doing the massive bans in November/December/January it looked like it was to try and boost their new user stats for the rumoured upcoming public sale. But more and more it just looks like they have an errant security algorithm that bans legitimate customers with no recourse. I suspect much of Discord's new user signups are people who have had accounts banned and then have to make a new account, there probably isn't much real growth happening now and there is growing disquiet about their terrible customer support.
Oh, sorry, I meant as an alternative to Figma, not the Adobe Suite itself.

But yeah, I dabbled a bit with Affinity Designer. It is quite focused on the "PageMaker" side of things, i.e. not for medium to large documents (IIRC still no support for footnotes, multi-column mode being a bit manual etc.)
It didn't eliminated 0.2% of gloabal energy usage, it moved it.
Do you own a internet provider? DNS servers? Chip manufacturer? Do you grow your own crops?

You always need to rely on third parties for finance (even if you manage your own crypto wallet) and for other stuff in life.