skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not sure if this is still the case ~25 years later, but when I lived in Vancouver in the late 90s, a lot of those DIY-finished basements were set up as (probably off-the-books) rental units to help cover the homeowners' mortgages.

I lived in one of those for about a year in-between actual apartments, and always thought it was weird how it was just slightly below grade. Thank you for solving that mystery :).
As a little twist on the author's badly thought out proposal, what if we simply take the NSF scheme for doling out funding and make it more broadly available. Each year (or every few years) you can submit a proposal about what you plan to do if you're given a UBI, it will go through peer-review, and about 6 months later you'll get a notification if you were selected for funding or not.

Hell, as a PI currently writing a bunch of NSF proposals this doesn't sound half bad to me.
That distinction goes back to decisions made by a few department store managers around WWII. It’s nothing but a cultural norm reinforced everywhere so pervasively most of us aren’t even aware of the pressure.

https://www.thelist.com/32342/real-reasons-behind-blue-boys-...
Oh no, our terrible secret is out! :)
These were all examples I tried myself.
no hands, please.
Abandoned: The human cost of neurotechnology failure
Remember when Warren Buffet invested into TSMC and someone said he must know something we don't?
> Nice try though.

I think you shouldn't use that type of wording on hacker news. It's clearly against the rules.
camillomiller didn't say oil executives aren't sociopathic.
https://balsamiq.com/wireframes/
My fingers get cut, scraped, and burned enough during the course of a typical work week that fingerprint readers just don't work for me in general. My fingers are very usable but my fingerprints can sometimes be unusable.
> The low-sleep phase is temporary. It’s such a short duration relative to the rest of your life as a parent that it really doesn’t matter much in the long run.

Yeah.. I am a new dad to a 21 week old baby girl (our first) and I would say that the sleep deprivation stopped after about 8 weeks. The last few weeks have been absolutely amazing. I play with my daughter every day, I cuddle her, her giggles warm my heart and make me dream and get excited about the future. So many amazing things to look forward to. I can't wait to build a snowman with her. I can't wait to go snorkelling, skiing, ice skating, surfing, etc. with her. I can't wait to take her to places and answer all her questions and tell her stories and spend time together. Until now my best friend was my wife, but now we have an additional best friend in our life. It's someone to play a board game with in the evening when all our other friends are too busy watching Netflix. It's an extra person to have dinner with and have interesting conversations with. An extra person who will challenge me in my thinking, will educate me on issues I would be unaware of as an older person now. An extra person to argue with, love, hug, miss and root for in her own accomplishments.

Who doesn't want an additional best friend in their life? Someone who you love so much that you know everything that you accumulate in your life you can happily pass down to?

What I find interesting is that the same people who argue that having children is such a churn and piece of work because of the nappy changes, short lived lack of sleep, etc. are the same people who end up having 2 cats and a dog. That doesn't make sense to me. If you don't like to change nappies for a few months then why did you pick a pet which you'll have to walk to the park at 5am in the morning for many years to come just so it can have a piss and shit every morning. My friends with pets are much more limited in visiting restaurants or going on holiday than my friends with kids. Kids go everywhere, pets don't.
And hairy palms. I've saved a lot of money on mittens.
Yup. Even with Meta's huge layoff, they still have more employees now than they did a year ago. https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/yqweue/oc_...
A First Look at Hanami 2 for Ruby
The Value of A/B Testing in Data Experimentation for Your Results
Well, if you give everyone in your country a UBI, then all geniuses in your country will get a UBI. No (means) tests needed.
Java Value Objects in Action with Valhalla
Why would you need a giant mansion if you're single? That's just a whole lot of empty space nobody is gonna use.
As a side note: the quality of life of pets has increased dramatically since the pandemic. With people working from home, they now have more company and less time spent locked in crates. That’s the reason I have for not returning to the office and will ensure I only do remote work from now on.
Agents of Influence: How Russia Deploys an Army of Shadow Diplomats
> In fact only one left to pay premiums on bitcoin due to its illegal cash flow is still Hong Kong per charts at 30%.

What? There is no HKD bitcoin premium.
The thing with Neuralink is they have clearly not followed established rules and regulations, not even close, they're way off the rails.
I'd like to second this.

Hang in there, we're probably going to be hiring starting in January. Right now things are kind of on ice because of the holidays.

Even if we wanted to get started today (and it's tough with our own department's senior people taking time off), it's hard to move the HR people and get the budgets approved, it's hard to get the GM sign off on a hire if we want them (though that's kind of a formality, frankly), etc.

In January the world starts turning again and those things get easier.

Hard as it is, try to hang in there, it will get better in a month or so.
Ukraine appears to expose Russian air defence gaps with long-range strikes
Could you elaborate on "other warning signs"? Maybe others could learn a thing or two.
Not North America, but my SaaS start-up grew mostly through networking and just cold and luke warm approaches to potential clients. We got a very extroverted team mate that didn't have any from of restraint in approaching people. This guy also had a goodwill factor surrounding him. He really helped in getting us in with a lot of companies.

It also helped that we had a very clearly defined market so we knew exactly who to approach. We also had no real viable competitors, so if they liked our proposition, we were an easy choice. So when we got in, we would set up an account with them, get them started and let them use the app for free for a month. Most would be convinced after that, some wouldn't.

Due to the interactivity, our up-front cost was quite high, but through word of mouth we started getting organic growth, which saved us from spending a lot in advertising.
Bacon & eggs. The chicken is involved but the pig is committed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chicken_and_the_Pig
We can only assume that this is taking too long if we assume that Neuralink is somehow able to skip the fundamentals and be successful. As I pointed out above Synchron is further ahead, they are making more progress because they were able to meet the required standard, and I think we can all agree standards are important for human trials (or is a few extra human deaths ok if it gets to market sooner?), so I'd suggest it's Neuralink's own fault they can't meet the advancement criteria and not just concerns about animal welfare that are getting in the way.
This is a non-story: "Artists will sell art made with new kind of paintbrush."

> But AI is different because it was trained on other people's images

Same as any other artist learning a breadth of styles from other people's works.

> But it's copyright infringement

Only if it's copyright infringement. If you use tool to make infringing image then it's infringing. Artists have been able to trace since the sun was invented.

> But you might not know it's copyright infringement

That's how it works when you buy art from anywhere. All you get is a statement from the artist or indemnification if you have a real real legal team.

> But the artist themselves might not know

Won't be the first or last time an artist has reproduced an work from a memory they thought was original.

> But I think the model itself is infringing material

Nobody knows that for sure. We'll see when it's tested in court.
Correct, they can't enter the food supply by law.
If that were true, birth rates wouldn't be declining in so many places. Any rational assessment would realize the correlation has nothing at all to do with genetics.
HBO Max has a documentary about the Automat, which was once America's largest chain restaurant. You could put in coins and receive food from small automated doors and spigots at the Automat. Its downfall came with expansion of the suburbs, as there were fewer people remaining in the city center after work. The present crisis of city centers seems similar. I'm not sure if the relevance of city centers has basically been downhill since the first half of the 20th century, or if this phenomenon is cyclical. Give it a watch.
> From a mathematical prespective, healthcare is a natural monopoly and therefore not bound by market forces.

Also, it would work basically by an insurance model, which can work cheaper the more clients it has, quite trivially. That’s why the next 23 richest country manages to pay less for better care.
Kids and covid lockdown are a combo that speaks to that "anchoring". Sure, the world has gone to hell and you can't buy toilet paper anymore. But the kids need you so yeet any nascent doomscrolling feelings in the bin, there's no room for that shit.
Durham Uni and Dell co-design systems to help model the universe
That turns out to be surprisingly hard.

Offices and housing look similar from the outside, but are quite different on the inside, and both practical and regulatory problems are quite large.
> This is a great business of course but there are not many of them given the scale of the whole economy.

This is a very good point to emphasize. Most readers here on HN work in IT and are thus inherently biased.

The reality is that the majority businesses rely on having a workforce of humans.
It's either universal, no strings attached, unconditional or GTFO!
Of course there are better situations, there's just no perfect situation. Your advice entails people should have kids in high school with their sweetheart if they want to. That's obviously wrong.
Based on his argument: Fewer people are doing a lot more thanks to being good at automation. It's the automation that's making it possible to be successful, not the engineers doing the automation.

The past three years, the YC crowd has really tried hard to justify wealth disparities, gentrification and generally treating employees like garbage, as part of their Objectivist agenda.

Paul, employees do the automation, not the founders.
> This huge of an investment in a tech where TSMC will face competition from fabs in lower-cost countries almost certainly means the company believes it can use extensive automation to avoid having labor costs sink their ability to compete on price.

What countries are you imagining that will suddenly become competitive in semiconductor manufacturing? As far as I know there are no up and coming companies of note. (Companies in China are not of note as they have been permanently prevented from further advancement.)
> I wonder how domestic the full supply chain is.

The supply chain necessarily includes some Japanese and Dutch companies for their specialized tooling that cannot be sourced from American companies. Many of the spare parts and raw materials can be sourced domestically.

However, it is ultimately unavoidable that many of the constituents within these spare parts, repair kits and raw materials would be manufactured/synthesized in China.

(I worked on the supply chain systems and processes at Samsung Austin Semiconductor for almost a decade.)
TSMC has had a license to print money for a while now given how huge ASML’s backlog is.
A more pragmatic Xi Jinping launches a global charm offensive for China
> Apparently you can have your fridge safely keeping your food for up to 4h, but you should not open it during that period obviously

Kinda depends on fridge, altho sadly it's rare to see that number in manuals.

But one trick is to just take food that you want to eat anyway from the freezer and put it in fridge, the food will slowy defrost while cooling the fridge food. Just make sure water have somewhere to go
Seems very false to me. The rule, for hundreds of thousands of years, has always been to have kids whatever the situation, despite much higher risks and adversity in general.

Even today, the people still making kids are largely those in the poorest deciles of the population, with no stable home, etc.
There is absolutely 0 need to use a blockchain to sign something :facepalm:
Emanote – Haskell-powered structured view of your plain-text notes
Surely you have a cut off on the lower bound below which you don't offer this advice. 21? 18? 16? 13?

Yes, it's possible to put it off long enough thinking you'll find that perfect time, and either it getting to be too late, or perhaps running into the reality that with age comes higher likelihood of birth defects, in many cases. But the flat advice to just do it seems like it's missing a bit of at least a basic foundation advised.

I worked with folks who had kids in high school. They made it work, and had a different cultural background, but nothing about it seemed like the best idea -- at LEAST they had multigenerational households to cover some of the otherwise likely insurmountable difficulties particularly on the budgets they had working service industry jobs.
https://archive.ph/EmyVm
You are likely to be successful going this route.

Some advice (some of it obvious if you've dont it before and not specific for Germany but maybe it's useful):

Have a profile on Linkedin and Xing, upload to sites like freelance.de and maybe to a bunch of agencies. Be ready to send a profile, listing as many projects as possible, i.e. different roles in a company could be separate projects. Make sure all relevant search terms (languages, frameworks, tools) appear for each project even if repetitive. English-only is ok in many places, German-speaking projects can be a little better though.

It's all through intermediaries, which means you can (and should) negotiate rates hard without worrying about burning bridges. No call with a recruiter that didn't go pleasantly ever led to anything so if it feels weird just hang up. Expect to be placed 3-6 months min, 2 years max in a project. Research a little on "Scheinselbständigkeit" but it's not a huge issue these days. If you want 100% remote it should be possible.

Good luck and welcome to Germany :-)
My city has a few neat adaptive reuse projects right now converting office building to residential buildings. I really hope the concept works out.
If founding work is so simple then founders should be interchangeable? Where is the moat that ensures what two handful of people cobbled together is not replicated? Isn't it that the real moat and the real propelling force becomes more and more the capital leveraged?
What Chinese People Think of Their Government’s “Zero Covid” Policy
If others agree that the Promotions tab could be greatly improved, what are some theories as to why the Gmail team has maintained this version?
Interestingly, newspeak was about removing words from language so that certain ideas couldn't be expressed. It was explicitly not about adding words to the language, and certainly not about adding words to convey additional nuance and precision where there was previously none.

It seems to me like you're actually arguing to try and remove words that people have introduced to the language, and to erase the nuances they convey, because you don't find it to be "normal" or "natural". What is normal or natural is entirely subjective, and varies across cultures and across time, and in any case we don't generally yoke ourselves to what is natural (we are, after all, speaking through an artificial medium because we find it advantageous, and though we weren't born with wings we often find it advantageous to fly.)

It might be interesting to give 1984 another read.
- Always on a state of mind of redesigning and simplifying everything

- Spending a lot of time trying to figure out the business better

- Studying a lot of books, articles, codebases and discussions on software architecture

- Inspire the team and younger devs to avoid complex tools and solutions and stick to the basics

- Balancing everyday and urgent business needs while leading towards a more simple, boring and maintainable system.

- Trying to persuade people to avoid technical debt at all costs
Interesting. Is that for taiga next/taiga7? Or is it the legacy branch?

There's a recent update showing off new (upcoming) flows via mouse/keyboard/screen reader that emphasize their work on accessibility. I've never tried something like gitlab/github in a screen reader - so don't know how that would compare.

https://community.taiga.io/t/taiganext-update-livestream-acc...

There's also the "next" announcement and a follow-up:

https://community.taiga.io/t/announcing-taiganext-and-much-m...

https://community.taiga.io/t/important-update-on-taiganext-a...

Ed: I'm guessing this is "next" - I see the other front-end repo has a taiga 6.5.x tag in main branch:

https://github.com/kaleidos-ventures/taiga-front-next
Wouldn't that be... all of them? They were literally not build with code that didn't exist at the time. Why would that be surprising ?
I agree and would go so far as to say both individualism and looking out for your community (extending from the family unit to beyond) are crucial. I find the black-and-white rhetoric surrounding this to be dismaying. I'm not surprised that Socialist types are openly hostile to fostering individualism, though.
Refusal to conform to fashionable trends isn't evil. It is just being honest, which is admittedly rare in the corporate world.

Most companies that hoist the pride flag probably do not care about gay rights any more than your previous employer. They just do it to mollify Western activist Twitter. Their Middle Eastern branches, if extant, will do the precise opposite in order to mollify Middle Eastern activist Twitter and not get kicked out of the conservative kingdoms/emirates.

Once you start consider most big companies as perfect psychopaths who know how to simulate deep feelings on the surface while having none inside, the world starts making a lot more sense.
> on the right hardware Linux runs so much better than Windows.

Does your right hardware have a battery?

I was recommended Lenovo x220 as the best laptop and Linux-friendly one. Now I have it and I noticed that if web-browser has some moderately heavy pages opened like 20 tabs with Youtube, and dozens of light ones like HN - in Windows+Chrome this scenario eats slightly more energy then reading a e-book while in Linux+FF this halves battery time. Now my country suffers from shifting blackouts, so I installed Windows 7 on all my laptops with battery, and I have a significant benefit in mobility time.
Do modern browsers check this though? It would introduce a large latency to each request, I bet none of the browsers do that.

Moreover, Chrome removed the browser extension API for TLS certificate details, so it is not even possible to do CT log verification via extensions.

Only way to do CT log verification would be by customising an existing TLS MITM software. As far as I’m aware no such solution exists at the moment.

Certificate system is actually rather insecure, and although solutions are possible to develop, nobody has taken time to do it.
One potential danger is that some of the more extreme therapies for gender transition are permanent and work best when used early. If a person's trans orientation is the result of a poorly formed sense of identity, as alleged by the article, there's a stronger chance they may change their mind later, after irreversible harm has been wrought.

In other words, there's a chance that some kids may not be "really" trans, but rather attention-seeking or mentally ill. And for those kids, transitioning would, in fact, be harmful in the long run.

Do we, as a society, have an obligation to prevent these children and young adults from harming themselves in this way?

I don't have a firm answer because it's a difficult and emotional subject, but I think it's extreme to pretend this is not an issue, and equally extreme to encourage kids for whom it might not be safe to transition.

Perhaps the informal controls we have in place prior to gender reassignment surgery are already adequate to filter out these vulnerable kids. Perhaps there are other interventions I'm not aware of that are already in use. But I don't see the harm in discussing and exploring whether there is a proportion of the trans population that is, in fact, suffering from social or mental illness and not actually a more innate form of gender dysphoria.
As a fullstack dev, there's so many things I'm proficient but not expert at, design/frontend aspects - esp. w/ Tailwindcss is one of the less proficient things I deal with, It's helped me not only double or triple the speed of building frontend templates, but also helped me finally click on some of the things I hadn't known about tailwind, or didn't use very much.

I may never need to go to stackoverflow or get disgruntled by google's failings of late, and that's a good feeling.
A statement overfit to the point of absurdity. You think that attending a madrassa for long enough will make one a Marxist? Rather clearly, “education” homogenizes beliefs with “teachers.”
South Korea's Population Pyramid
lol. no.
There's just a lot of variation between people and families.

I would prefer hanging out with my children over doing most anything else. That comes down to who I am and who my children are, and probably other circumstances.

It's also worth recognizing that the early childhood years (0-3) can be difficult and super isolating. We had fun during that time, but it got way more fun as they got out of that age and became fully interactive.
Can I ask if you know how average costs in Scandinavia hold up to that? Working in Norway atm making ~90k€ equivalent after some time, but I took the paycut from the US because of quality of life/healthcare/state pension, etc. Still, it’s a very good salary here, I’m in the top few % of all Norwegians.

But it was a huge paycut. I’m definitely happier than I was in the US but I have been considering moving a bit further south. Bumping up to 120k and getting more sunshine would be very nice.
AFAIK Almost all crypto companies operate in the dark. There's little due diligence to be had when none is (legally) required.

I recall coming across a clip of Chamath Palihapitiya, a prominent VC saying he once had the opportunity to invest in one of SBF's companies and demanding he (SBF) create some corporate governance in order for him to invest and SBF blew him off.

There were clearly some concessions made by thirsty VC firms to pass on the due diligence in the promise of 'guaranteed' returns.

Does any of this information matter to clients? Ofc not when they continue to get their annual dividends from the VC firms.

Crypto is just one piece in the basket of investments for them. The smart VCs hopefully didn't invest too much of their allocation.
I'd like to say that I see what you did there... but I don't.
I hate the concept of certificate authorities in general. I wish we had a way to do robust security without them.

The idea that you need the approval of one of these companies to publish to the web without a wall of alerts is just absurd.
Who’s going to write new code to train the model? Who’s going to figure out why the code generated by the model is slightly off?

The performance gains from chatgpt are going to be amazing from a quality of life perspective but overall not a huge change (except maybe in some niche roles). Programmers are not spending much of their time figuring out code that chatgpt can generate.