skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The report cites recent large increases in the price of structural steel and copper wire as driving the cost increases, together with higher interest rates. It would seem to follow that other sources of power which rely on steel and copper, and which are financed by loans in dollars — most of them, last I checked — would be similarly affected. Nuclear power does usually involve a lot more concrete than alternatives, but this was not cited as a cost driver.
Well, yes, but how many people going into a sit-down restaurant in the US don't know that they're on the hook for about a 25% add-on when they get the bill? Maybe if it's the first time visiting but certainly not in general.
> Much of the whole babel/webpack/react/ts stuff would be just a bunch of macros instead of idiosyncratic build tools and so on. And we would have had much less compatibility churn.

Wouldn't that just trade compatibility churn against running the transpilers on client side in javascript, making it even slower to execute? Moving this part of the execution on the developer side seems like a good choice to me.
Exploitation involves, by definition, giving the exploited something they need. If you don't have food, and someone gives you food in return for slave labor, they are exploiting you.
-Is there any hope for someone like me?

Yes.
I reset my career 3 times between 30 and 40 and I did progressively better each time.

-Is there any reasonable path to starting over?

No. Jump into it. Be unreasonable. Fail fast.
Accept lower seniority positions if it gets you in the area you want to work in.

-Where do I even begin?

LinkedIn Jobs, trade shows, old friends and former coworkers.
Hit up on LinkedIn founders and upper management of the companies you want to work with, you would be surprised how many have answered me back over the years.

-Will tech co’s ever consider hiring someone like me?

We live in credentials bubble where everyone has a piece of paper saying they are a senior specialist on yadda-yadda, but finding someone who is lean and mean, hungry and means it, who would be willing to work 12 hours a day to bridge the gap and overtake the rest of the team? That's really hard.
In the future, with electric cars and gas cooking ban, average energy consumption of a household will go up significantly, but perhaps will be somewhat offset by local solar/wind generation and/or battery storage.
The expression

> AI models like ChatGPT sometimes make confident assertions that turn out to be false

- apart from the very improper use of the term '«AI»' -, is becoming an irritating unduly unintelligent consuetudinal formula to express the actual "produce unverified, unreflected, unreasoned... unfounded statements". Recursively.
Life insurance is probably silly with no dependents like OP, but long term disability insurance not tied to your employer is a good idea for peace of mind. There's a lot of unpleasant states between healthy and deceased.
I don't invite people over anymore because their fussiness scales negatively - where if you want to mix 5 people who each have a rule about what they cannot abide, the common denominator is rarely special enough to leave the house for. Between the discretionary lifestyle demands of vegetarians, vegans, non-glutens, non-porks, non-drinkers, anti-smokers, non-problematics, non-outdoorsies, hover-parents, maskers, and the increasingly insane milenial need to make all their experiences on-brand and instagrammable, the closed path through those obstacles is a Hard problem.

(Your former comment)

I travel with someone who will die within an hour of exposure to peanuts...

A person who is vegetarian or vegan or pork-free or gluten-free or alcohol-free is as easy - or easier - to accommodate as someone with a peanut allergy. Don't you think?
True, but think of it this way:

If 1 of these 7 Berkeley CS Ph.D.'s decides to leave to found his own company, now that they all have exec experience - what VC would turn them down?

Every single one of them will have top tier startup experience, having been part of the founding team of a huge success story, AND the most technical of their first 10 hires at the same time.
Just got 1 going - https://garden.bradwoods.io/rss.xml
And if it hadn’t happened, I doubt such enthusiasm would have been shown by this app to this open platform. But anyway it’s a good development eventually.

Now I am looking at all those “Oh, we are only on Apple platforms” apps. If you are a third party app anywhere, it actually helps if the platform you are on has intense competition.
Seeing how many parents refuse the HPV vaccine for their children, I don't see any STD vaccine getting enough uptake (at least in the US) for containment, let alone elimination.
Metatext on IOS is good.

https://elk.zone/

https://pinafore.social/
> I'm not convinced unions would make things better. Teachers and nurses(not an exhaustive list, just the first things that came to mind) have unions and are still criminally underpaid compared to the value they provide to society.

Flamingly controversial opinion over here, but I don't think either are criminally underpaid. Both professions make well above median income. Teachers especially considering they only work ~180 days a year and get a pension. It is probably the region I live in, but I don't know any teachers who are doing poorly in life.

You can argue teachers are important to society, but given how opposed some unions have been to education innovation (like Common Core or Direct Instruction) I think an argument could be made that unions help teachers, but not necessarily improve the quality of teaching.
The tip isn’t the price of delivering the order though, you’re conflating the price and the tip into the same thing, which they’re not.

For the record, I’ve been a delivery driver before. Getting tipped at all was amazing, so I literally can not imagine pounding on the door, handing the person their pizza and telling them that they should tip more because I want more money.
I've been on the fediverse for years and while I enjoy it, I think it's naive to think it'll replace Twitter. Fundamentally it lacks good discovery, features take too long to implement (or simply can't be implemented), and verification is impossible without setting up your own server which seems like too much overhead imo. Further it just doesn't scale, although Andrew Torba was never known for his coding ability there's a reason he left the fediverse and I think the issues are fundamental to a federated site.
> Their office suite is pretty impressive

Speaking of usability, Quip is much better in my experience. Office 365 is more feature rich. If anything, I think GSuite is falling behind. A few killer features that GDocs should've had since years ago:

- A link to any line. Quip has it, yet in gdoc I have to create a bookmark first.

- Any table is a spreadsheet. I mean, isn't it obvious? Who says one never needs to calculate anything in a table, or never needs to format anything in a spreadsheet cell?

- Embed formula anywhere and refer the result anywhere. Dah! So convenient for technical docs, yet gdocs has shit.

- Latex support. I'm sorry, but gdoc's equation is both ugly and crippled.

- Embed any file. I mean, really, this is year 3202 and I still have to upload a file to gdrive, find its link, and paste the link back to my doc?

Google used to an avantgarde in product design. What happened?
> Also, people generally do crime because of lack of opportunity or options, which is why many countries treat the criminal justice system as an opportunity to rehabilitate people.

I agree with rehabilitation, but I personally would like to be alive tomorrow, which is why I do not choose to live in Oakland.

> Imagine if we were able to spend all that money on helping to lift struggling people, instead of punishing them.

These two can happen at the same time. It's less about punishment, and more about making everyone else feel safe. If they want to create a "city of crooks" in the middle of Nevada that isn't a punishment but a rehabilitation center I'm all up for that.
Sounds to me like you just can't mentally handle the mere existence of someone who disagrees with you, even if nobody's forcing you to listen to what they say.
> Mechanical Turk

And also inspiration for Amazon's Mechanical Turk. [0]

[0]: https://www.mturk.com/
Most people in prisons are there for violent crimes (partly because they tend to have longer sentences).

Property crimes are definitely under-policed.
Yeah, it's crazy to me that the UK has no armed forces, the military are all personally bound to the monarch. The king has interfered in politics too, so arguments based on royalty not being active are off to a bad start.
Kev Quirk celebrated ten years of blogging today, he seems pretty happy

https://kevquirk.com/ten-years-of-blogging/
The equivalent of not getting a tip is not getting a bonus. It isn't having your base pay docked.
> Cities contain large quantities of people -- that's why they are called population centers. Large numbers of people generate lots of votes. As compared to locations with fewer amounts of people, cities will have an outsided influence on the outcome of elections.

> How else do you want it to work? Normalize vote weight by acreage?

You're implicitly assuming something like a single central authority. I think the idea would be to have more local control, so your local conditions aren't controlled by some distant group that has no concern for them. If the decisions are being made far enough away, there's not that much practical difference between a king and a "population center."

Focusing too much on population gets you a tyranny of the majority.
が marks the subject, and the subject of わかる is the thing that's being understood, not the thing that's doing the understanding.
(Maybe you meant subject in the non-grammatical way? It's confusing.)

Either way, は is fine in this sentence to the best of my understanding.
It marks ドイツ語 as the subject, and thus the thing being understood.
My blog benefits me in two major ways.

First, I use the blog as a sort of lab notebook to record notes about and experiences with my personal projects, which I reference often. Second, I post ideas I want to share so that I don't have to repeat them over and over in online discussions.

As a bonus, the occasional post gets shared on Hacker News and generates a lot of interest.
Wouldn't all of those changes also equally effect how the people see the reference photos? I suppose myopia might if it was not corrected, but the vast majority is corrected.
Forgive any ignorance, but what is the difference from the male version?
The official statement is complete bullshit.

On Jan 17th Twitter said: "Twitter is enforcing its long-standing API rules. That may result in some apps not working."

Then on Jan 19th, they updated their ToS: https://i.imgur.com/YZn7PJY.jpg

It's not enough that you need to immediately be on the right side of any ToS changes -- now you get punished for edits that haven't yet been made!
Imagine the scene where the AI finally finds out the truth of what happened to its friends allo, stadia and G+.
I think a big factor is what tweet's page you are looking at.

When I went to a Paul Graham tweet a couple days ago, what their algorithm gave me was full of right wing conspiracy theories, climate change denial, anti-vaccine stuff, one about Bill Gates' plan to depopulate the world, Jewish bankers control the world, and that kind of stuff.

The next tweet I went too was a John Carmack tweet. The algorithm recommended a tweet from Joe Biden, a Greta Thunberg tweet, a tweet about the Formosan clouded leopard being declared extinct in 2014 after no sightings for 40 years but then was spotted in 2019, an Edward Snowdon tweet, a tweet from the National Park Service, various humor tweets, a tweet about a lecture on how to build GPT from scratch, and a couple about business acquisition. There were right wing tweets from Glenn Beck and Scott Adams included, but they were not really political. There was also an Andrew Tate tweet that was just an inspirational statement (something along the lines of the man without a vision for the future will be stuck in the past).
There's been an uptick in crime in recent years. Policing reduces crime.

https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/what-caused-the-2020-h...

If the US rids itself of petty drug convictions the incarceration rate wouldn't be so high.
The advantage of live coding challenges is that they require the employer to put skin in the game by allocating 1 hour of their own engineers' time. This encourages them to filter candidates beforehand and discarding bad-fits early rather than wasting every applicant's time even if they have no chance to begin with.
In this sequential UUIDs idea, I wonder how big of a deal it is if the prefix part wraps around often? E.g. using a timestamp-based prefix with 2 bytes, if you increase the prefix every 60 seconds, the prefix will be reset every 45 days or so (60 * 1000 * 2^16) according to that README. Does it make sense to fine tune this value based on the use case or what?
This is a nice reminder that the atmosphere is such a pain for watching stars. If light pollution for sky-watching is a problem for you, citizen stargazer, please write to your local representative and ask them to quicken those space colonization plans.
Ask HN: How to decide a late joining co-founder's equity share
I have seen the YC videos that say prevailing wisdom calls for 50/50 equity split among founders and I understand the rationality for it, but I still have some questions in cases of late stage joins.

Obviously every scenario is different...

What about a scenario where one co-founder worked for a year without a salary, built the product, built a team, and raised a significant pre-seed over the course of Year 2?

If a co-founder is brought into the business now at this stage, what would be an equitable way to approach the relationship that is as fair as possible to all parties involved?

Something about 50/50 in that scenario feels inequitable to me in principle. I have seen a suggestion that keep 50/50 but vesting schedules should handle this, but I think that doesn't really account for things properly either. I think you should want all co-founders on the same vesting schedule to keep their interests aligned.

I have been thinking instead about the following scenario:

* Whatever has vested, stays vested with the original co-founder.

* The remainder goes into a founder pool and is divided equally by all parties moving forward.

* The 4 year clock resets for all parties involved at that point (but with no cliff for the original parties).

Does this seem equitable? It seems like a good balance of reward, not taking away any equity that was already earned, and making sure that folks are aligned based on their current position in the business / moving forward.

I welcome feedback, especially from anyone who has been in a similar position.
This is an ahistorical retelling of the development of property rights and capital. Agrarian societies existed for thousands of years[0], before the enclosure movement turned to commons into capital that could be privately owned.[1]

[0] https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/salop/vol4/pp20-26

[1] https://www.britannica.com/topic/enclosure
Pro tip: Always buy a round-trip ticket when you plan to flee fraud. It looks better in court and in newspapers, and nobody will force you to take the trip back.
I suspect I’ll move to a server more capable in these ways, as I want to know what’s most discussed with or without tags.
So it is about single private company by founders of Apache Spark. Not sure I'd call it mafia. Further I see that a high performance distributed data processing system implemented in Rust is building up around Apache Arrow. So Databricks lead and hence valuations will be quite difficult to maintain.
I remember having all kinds of strange issues with subversion that were hard to resolve as a novice, not being able to commit for cryptic reasons, etc... Perforce is the only tool I've used that was actually pretty simple, and even then I'd say that dealing with merging streams was not nearly as easy as merging git branches.
> Seeing how many parents refuse the HPV vaccine for their children, I don't see any STD vaccine getting enough uptake (at least in the US) for containment, let alone elimination.

Those aren't comparable. HPV vaccination needs to be administered to kids because the virus is incurable and is routinely spread to kids/adolescents through nonsexual contact.

A gonorrhea vaccine can be administered only to adults, or to high-risk groups, and still be effective at a population level.
When my neighborhood here in Brooklyn switched over to LED streetlights I got very depressed. And angry. All of a sudden everything was drenched in this horrible white light. Plus there's a lamppost right outside our window, so my living room gets flooded in cold LED light. I complained multiple times to the city but they said it's just what it is now.

A year ago our condos switched over to LEDs on all outside building lights and I no longer feel comfortable just sitting on our stoop enjoying the city at night anymore. It just feels so harsh. I have so many good memories from hanging out on Brooklyn stoops at night, either solo or with friends. I miss that soft, warm NYC lighting.
There was that side character in The Office called Cathy Simms who tried to get Jim to cheat on Pam when they were at a conference together. This scene led to fans threatening the actress who played Cathy and they still harass her to this day despite the show ending in 2013 (OMG has it really been 10 years?!)

[1]:https://netflixlife.com/2020/08/12/the-office-lindsey-broad-...
> Smart equipment is fine as long as the "smart" part is just synchronization built on top.

... until you hit that bug that tells all the lights in the school to turn off about 100 times a second.
OK, if that's the case I retract everything and apologize. I must have misread it. Thank you.
> there are plenty of restaurants where tipping isn't expected; specifically those where you carry the food yourself from the counter to your table

I assume you haven't eaten at any of those kind of restaurants since 2019.
If HN is anything like reddit there are 1) bots going through to downvote things, 2) aggressive actors who downvote every one of your posts because you told them their idea was dumb in an unrelated thread, and -- most likely -- is that the site "fuzzies" your score after you post to obfuscate actual upvotes and make the first 2 points harder.
It's been working well for me all things considered. The harder the leetcode problem, the more I have to ask it to fit the answer it gives me, but I have always gotten it to arrive at the correct (and most efficient) answer. I'm impressed. You'll have a better time with it if you can tell it what's wrong with the code, even if it's just "given this test case, I expected X but this code gives me Y".
>we are proud to introduce Ivory for Mastodon

On the bright side for them, now that they are starting a new "app", they can double dip on those purchase fees.
> At least with Twitter, it was a corporation with rules and procedures.

I would submit that was is a load-bearing word in that sentence. Twitter as it exists now effectively is run by a single random individual who can read your DMs and kick you off the server if you write anything he does not agree with. Bans have gotten weirder, stupider, and more mercurial since Musk's takeover (the Tweetbot/Twitterrific bans arguably being a particular case of it), and the "Twitter Files" are a result of him giving activist-journalists access to unencrypted DMs without permission. (I'm not interested in debating whether the subjects covered in the Files prove some kind of malfeasance on Twitter's part; that's orthogonal to the point I'm making here.) Twitter may have had rules and procedures a few months ago. Now it has Elon Musk making decisions by polls he pinky-swears to abide by the results of.

In practice, major, established Mastodon instances with tens of thousands of users may well be less likely to treat their users (and developers) as badly as current Twitter is.
>HN discovers that building German cars is a very good business.

I'd rather we all cycle everywhere like the Dutch and need less cars.
> back up solar with hydrogen

There are myriads of better energy-storage solutions than hydrogen, particularly at the periphery.
The other weird thing is why only some 3rd party clients, was it the big ones that got cut? Harpy which I use seems to be working fine.
> Forgive any ignorance, but what is the difference from the male version?

It fits into the vagina, allowing those with a vagina control of barrier-type contraception.
You might be banned from flying that airline again if you don't get on the flight back without letting them know with a valid reason. Of course that's probably the least of your worries if you're fleeing your own country because of fraud.
There are indeed a few legends, however, they are rare. It would be rare for a developer to have the privilege to work with these people.

I agree there is a normal distribution, however, I disagree about the width of the distribution. The variance is much smaller than you think
"most competent companies" wouldn't rely so heavily on leetcode in the first place.
It didn't work out well for a great many of those workers or their children. The people who got rich would not accept an ROI two generations down the road. Are you willing to accept that now - lose your career, much of your income, so that the changes in society will benefit your grandchildren (while billionaires and their children cash in right now)?

'It works out in the long run' is BS, and is always applied to someone else.
> just wanted to read their non-famous pals' posts

I suspect Elon lives in a bubble where all of his friends are famous or highly desirable in some way. He doesn't understand that most people's friends _aren't_ a brand.
(speculation) they want to push everyone to use the official app so they can get as much user info as possible to sell. They want persistent location and all the other juicy stuff you can't get if a third party is standing in the way.
> “We would tell them, ‘Just take the software for free,’ and they would say ‘No, we have to give you $1 million.’ ”

I’d bet that they actually said “no, we will have to spend $1million to get it ready for us to use”
Sounds like sour grapes / cope, presumably. I didn't get that vibe reading it though.
But will it be successful? The PayPal Mafia were successful in their other pursuits. And not just successful, but all founded their own companies valued > than databricks (I think, based on rough memory of their valuations).
I only know people who have changed careers in their 40s, sorry. ;)

I'm a university instructor now having dropped out of the programming field about 6 years ago after 20 years in it. I have a lot of 30-something students in CS.

"Where do I begin" is a great question. I'd ask you, "What do you like doing?" If you didn't know, I'd start showing you different careers and you'd categorize them as "no" and "maybe".

If you know what you want to do, Google how to get a job in that field. Then do those things.

Caveat: beware of student debt! Do the math on if the career is worth it. (Some careers can't pay back the cost of the training and you end up paying for life.) Try to get grants and shop around for less expensive accredited online schools, verifying their value.

I'd also recommend that you choose a lucrative field that you genuinely enjoy. If I weren't teaching, I'd be working in GIS. (I'm going to start training for that.)

Every day is just a day later. It'll be a gift to your future self. It'll be hard work, but you can absolutely do it. No better time than the present!