skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: How do I go from selling my time to owning something?
With all of the tech layoffs happening right now, it sort of dawned on me that even as a software engineer I am still very much „working class“:
The pay might be good, but there still seems to be a huge gap between people that sell their time, and people that make money through owning something. Not to get all too class warefare-y, but you get my drift.

If my company decides to lay me off, I‘m out of luck. If a bunch of enormously profitable tech companies decide to do layoffs seemingly only to suppress their worker‘s market value, then I‘m also out of luck. My entire wealth depends on my employer paycheck.
Even with a good salary, buying an apartment in a big city here in Germany (which is where the jobs are) seems completely out of reach. Let alone accruing any other wealth beyond that. And I don’t see a significant change in that even if I were to climb the software career ladder somewhere.

It feels like as long as I am primarily and employee, I will never „make it“.

So, how do I escape this state of only selling my time?

I am buying ETFs for a few hundred € a month, and the other obvious answer seems to be starting my own business/startup, but I don’t feel experienced enough for that.

What else can I do? Any advice for accruing wealth in the short/medium/long term?
Are you a manager?
Is this a case study in why early screen time could be a positive? I assumed that the corrupt garbage for children on youtube and television were enough to forbid screens for the early years in child development. Teddy, however, used a tablet and some unknown apps/videos to learn how to read.
I feel more like restricted.

I made the effort to look into security solutions for my important accounts (password only is not that!) and chose a security key solutions but the various providers have very uneven support for that - for example Apple was one notable case. Several forcing you to use phone number based solution (including banks) if you opt for secure ways but that is inadequate and risky on a whole different way for my case. Unacceptable.

It is the strong password case all over again: I took the effort to build up a layered approach seting up memorable but strong password categories for the different categories of accounts I have just to be rejected by the odd ones: you are not allowed to use that character! And sometimes: your password must be shorter! Forcing me to their ways, hugely reducing security. Not enough choice.
I am assuming it's not lost on users here, but the answer to all proposed questions is proposed as $42.

Sounds like they needed a number in a range and this one provided a nice reference to their clientele.
Chrome on iOS is Safari but with Chrome skin.

Apple does not allow other browser engines or does not even allow most Safari features to other browsers...
Or offer discounted annual subs. Or partner with credit card companies for statement credits. Lots of ways to fight churn.
It's not some impossible goal. Most of the world does not have America's crazy tipping culture.

I would say tipping is decreasing in the UK. It's pretty normal not to tip in restaurants now because the pandemic changed payment methods.

Before 10% was the standard (only if you pay after eating though).
Also at an IB. Locally, they were called “cord wood” (as in stacked firewood). It was so crazily wasteful.
Grey! Mine is white.
Simply put, there is no defense of tipping that stands up to rigorous scrutiny.

If you think any of the following points are incorrect, please look for a study that reflects this. I'm willing to bet you won't find any.

Studies show that tipping is inherently biased in favor certain races, genders, and phenotypes.

Studies show that tipping is not strongly related to service quality. In fact most people in the USA tip even when they judge the service to be bad.

People in tipping professions are more likely to be living in (or close to) poverty than people in other professions.

Tipping on price makes no sense. A bottle of wine may cost $15 or $1500 but the effort to serve it will be the same.

Expected tipping is a scam to artificially lower menu prices and nothing more.
The issue is that - and the same is true for the IT scene at large - many of the authors are disconnected from reality. It's like Marxian economics: Works great in theory when you're thinking it up all in your mind, sitting at your desk. Math is like that and coding too. Real humans are not machines though and society is immensely complex, with billions of semi-independent highly intelligent actors in different situations and with disparate goals. They are not going to behave the way the average infosec "expert" thinks they will.

>I'm surprised that not that many thoughts have been given to the fact that most of the anti-Covid measures, especially in the tech-heavy West (but not only, see also China or Singapore), were in fact pseudo-infosec measures "adapted" to real life

Among the advocates we have the aforementioned educated idiot who's not going to bring this up because they don't see the issue to begin with. Then you have those who're pushing it knowing full well what they're doing. The power hungry, the authoritarians, the psychopaths. They may mostly be less tech literate and not good at coding but it doesn't matter because they can get others to built it for them in the name of "security". In principle this isn't new, the pretense of protection has been used as a means of control for a long time.

So among the thought leaders we're left with a minority who see the problem because they don't fall in either camp and do not personally profit from such measures, nor find them ethical, but they aren't influential enough to convince the masses. They're outnumbered.
My experience travelling with kids heavily favours hotels, TBH. Especially brands hotels. They're generally:

- secure,
- clean,
- *fire-safe*,
- always have my rooms ready,
- have working WiFi,
- don't have things like unsecured bottles of bleach in bathrooms,
- don't have stray dogs hanging around,
- don't have inappropriate art, books, TV-stations, etc.

Admittedly I'm less price-sensitive than some, but I also don't find hotels massively more expensive.
Show HN: SQL Playground for Database
Created this tool to solve our own laziness of writing SQL queries every time.
Currently, we only display the SQL query based on the question and table selection.

Features coming soon-
1. Run the query on your database to get the result
2. Automatic table selection

Hope you like it. Cheers!
I think I could justify the world's most secure and reliable Home Assistant cluster with automatic failover...
I like the idea of wider use of TAI but there seem to be plenty of obstacles. For example:

* Is it possible to set up a standards-compliant network time server that serves the time in TAI? (The older protocols, at least, seem to specify UTC.)

* Is it possible to put the time in TAI in e-mail headers? (It would be a nice visible way of showing one's support for TAI, but it doesn't seem to be possible according to RFC 2822 -- https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2822#section-3.3 -- though you could just put "TAI" as an "obs-zone": according to section 3.4 it would be "considered equivalent to "-0000" unless there is out-of-band information confirming their meaning")
A solution already exists. Hnrss[1], just need an rss reader.

[1]: https://hnrss.github.io/
Read those podcasting contracts carefully
I do and you are. I’m also imagining one covered in hot grits…
Here’s what caught my interest:

> What has annoyed Swisher though is that the New York Times has repurposed the RSS feed of Sway [a podcast] to launch Hard Fork. What I mean is that they’ve taken the existing feed – along with all its subscribers/followers and rebranded it with new artwork. What’s more, old episodes of Sway have dropped off the bottom of the RSS feed.
1. Interoperable between all operating systems (mobile and desktop)
2. Does not lock you into proprietary ecosystems
3. Is built on free and open technology, and investing in that technology helps make it available to others
4. Is not subject to the whims, taxes and control of the gatekeepers

Web Apps can be every bit as capable as Native Apps except with security and privacy built in. For consumers, businesses and competition, Native Apps need to be relegated to to apps that require cutting edge use cases
The system might choose to use relocations for LEA and not for ADD -- this is of course not relevant for stack relative addressing and struct member addressing on the heap. I think I ran into this when coding assembler for DOS in the late 80's.

LEA also gets the "register + offset" thing done in a single instruction instead of two (MOV + ADD). It's also really easy for both assembler programmers and (dumb) compilers.

The "run in parallel" stuff is you looking at modern(ish) CPUs and thinking the original 8086 looked anything like that inside.
When you say the deal will lose money, do you mean that (1) the project’s operating expenses exceed its income, (2) the building can’t be satisfactorily recapped after completion/stabilization, (3) the MOIC at exit will be less than 1.0x, (4) the investor won’t receive their full preferred return or (5) the sponsor won’t earn any promote?

I could see any of these as being a way to describe a deal that “loses money.”
Ignoring some techincalities, the normal distribuiton pops up when you add together a bunch of independent random values. So in 50 question exam, I might have a probability p of getting any question correct. My final score might be something like the sum of 50 biased coin tosses, which will be approximately normal.

I don't think there's any reason to believe that employee scores (out of 100, say) should be normally distributed.
If Apple was forced to compete

It is not a fair market since the maker of one of the browsers also owns a significant portion of the websites that people use daily. Now Google has to play nice with Safari to some extend, since the don't want to miss out on the lucrative iPhone market. Once Google can offer Chrome on iOS, they will destroy Safari with the same underhanded practices as they did to Firefox (a pattern of subtly breaking Firefox with Google products).
The sad thing is that I live in Aomori, and the construction quality here is abysmal. I would understand the lack of proper insulation in warmer areas, but in Tohoku and Hokkaido?

And don't get me started on the lack of proper central heating and the use of the stupid portable kerosene heaters. Today I heard from a guy who is working for the village office that the most common emergency call now in winter are from elder people who suffered thermal shock inside their own houses when walking from a warm room to an almost frozen room.
Rabble rousing is a different thing.

There's numerous examples of people being stirred into violent mobs over such things as the wrong person being considered for papacy.

e.g.

http://www.csun.edu/~hcfll004/SV1378.html

http://www.csun.edu/~hcfll004/SV1484.html
When I was a child I hated going to restaurants in the winter because we'd have to sit in a cloud of smoke.

Otherwise at home and school there was no smoke.

Smoke was theoretically already forbidden everywhere but nobody cared.
> One can assume that your filesystem does their filename comparisons and possible storage with `lower(upper(filename))` or such.

The correct way to compare Unicode strings case-insensitively involves "case-folding" which directly maps "ß" to "ss".
I used to write presentation slides in Markdown using pandoc+beamer. Basic contents are written in plain Markdown, but you can always resort to LaTeX beamer for advanced features. In the end, it compiles to a PDF file.

A blog post: https://ubikium.gitlab.io/portfolio/latex-beamer-flake.html
Example code: https://github.com/crvdgc/latex-beamer-flake
Something like this: [1]? Not sure if those are in fact not clear acrylic, or just grimed up.

[1]: https://whereandwander.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Vintag...
if you read the letter, it says the layoff was the right first step and calls for more cuts up to 50k people total
That's incorrect, Loki is designed for querying high cardinality data.

The difference is that in Loki the index is only used for metadata around the source of the log lines (environment, team, cluster, host, pod etc) for selecting the right log stream to search in.

Parsing, aggregation and/or filtering of log lines on high cardinality data is all done at query time using LogQL. See also https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UiiZ463lcVA and this live example where a 95th quantile is calculated using the request_time field of nginx logs https://play.grafana.org/d/T512JVH7z/loki-nginx-service-mesh...
Don't forget about long term stays
The pythonic way of doing partial function application is using functools.partial which has a couple of benefits when introspection happens. That said I personally find lambda much more readable than functools.partial.
99% accuracy is wildly overstating things. With low enough accuracy such predictions become actively harmful.
Snus is something you put between your gum and lip.
I’ve built a small rasp k3s cluster with pi4 and ssd. It works fine but one can ultimately still feel that they are quite weak. Or put differently deploying something on k3s still ends up deploying on a single node in most cases and this gets single node performance under most circumstances
Does anyone care to highlight the main differences between this and pandoc for creating slides in markdown?
You're confusing new choices with consequences of previous ones. Taking up smoking when you're fully aware that your job prohibits you from smoking is a choice and you're right - "It's an addiction" would be a poor excuse.

Quoting the context from a few replies ago:

> You don't have to ban smokers to ban smoking on a sub. Smokers don't have to smoke, they merely choose to do so.

Being asked to quit an addiction on demand is completely different, you don't "merely choose" to smoke every day. That's what makes it so difficult to escape addiction, it's not merely a choice like what you're going to have for lunch. Once you're addicted, your body psychologically and physically compels you to do it.

Would you say that giving up your passwords under the threat of being beaten with a $5 wrench is merely a choice? Addiction is like that, but it's your brain holding the $5 wrench.
and even then there should be no way to offer a completely insecure iteration count to a user because one of their devices is slow because the attacker's devices won't be.

Even on slow devices, password managers can employ techniques to help like only using the full count of rounds for a cold start but then re-encrypting the key for the vault key with fewer rounds but only keep that copy locally.

That way a user of a very slow device only needs to wait for, say, 10s once on first unlock.

While this is a downgrade in security, it's still better because now the key with the small amount of iterations is confined to the one device, not available on the server where an attacker can get bulk access.

Of course, devices where 1M PBKDF2 iterations take so long that it's noticeable are probably also old enough to be full of unpatched (due to EOL) security holes which makes such devices the weakest link anyways, but this would still be a better situation because this way not all users are punished because of one user's slow device.
Why not just check the produced response against the actual prompt in a post-processing step?
Can you explain how my cc transactions history can help them to combat money laundering?
> And due to the tipping thing, I had to carry cash, which I hadn’t done in 20+ years.

> It felt like going back in time a very long way.

I live in North America and tip for alot of things. Never paid cash. Not sure why you felt like you had to but can always tip on visa the rest of us do.
Hmm...how do we know he is not a Transformer?
If they're anything like airlines, you'll never be able to stay at any of their 6,000+ hotels after making a chargeback. That may or may not be an issue for the OP (although maybe not as the company has already overcharged them).
Well, the only problem is that I don't have where to plug it, but sure, it is feasible. My neighbor drives a Nissan Leaf, and we had a co-worker with a Tesla, so I know it is possible.
Bob Iger addressed this on the a16z podcast a few weeks back.

He said 2 things really:

* he thinks that content will beat out distribution every single time. And Disney has content Netflix doesn't and cannot get (think of Disneys huge catalogue and IP collections)

* he said when he went to the board and proposed that they (a) give up a huge revenue stream and (b) spend a tonne of money building their own streaming service, he expected it to be a hard battle. He thought it would be very hard to convince investors to look at anything beyond the effect on the next quarter financials. Instead, once they heard the case, they demanded he actually go faster, spend more and be more aggressive. He said (I have not checked) that when they announced the move, the stock price went UP...

https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5zaW1wbGV...

Personally I think he made a pretty good case that content distributors were basically commodities and were priced as such (you get low margins). Bit content creators/owners were in a non-competitive position and so had much higher margins and better long term prospects.

I guess in a way, we are back to "Netflix has to become HBO before HBO can become Netflix". Can Netflix use it's huge cash pile to build/acquire enough content to become Disney-like before Disney can build enough infrastructure/customer base to be Netflix?
Let’s complain about about water damage from firefighting when the other option is to let it burn.

Lithium mining causes extremely localized harm, ICE engines cause worldwide damage.
He said that before already:

> But yes, all major companies still do something like this AFAIK, just with a larger population size now. Speaking from my experience at Amazon, the target was around 4%, but this was across entire departments. My department was 300 people. Is it possible that you can have a department of 300 people where you can't find 12 people who are below-average performers? Yes. Is it likely? No.
Tipping is an evolved system.
If you go to most countries outside the US, you are not expected to leave a tip. But if you do leave a tip, here is what you get:

. You are the first person served, every time you walk in, no matter how crowded the bar is.

. You are poured the extra liquor that a bartender is allowed to "spill"

. When you bring your date to the restaurant next time, you are treated very well.

It is true that in America, these things are lost because everyone is expected to tip. But this is the true point of tipping a good waiter or bartender, to show your appreciation and also to be remembered.
I don't understand the US credit score at all. What's the predictive value of you paying off a mortgage based on you just shopping with a credit card? Sure if you can't pay your normal shopping cart, probably you shouldn't really be getting a mortgage, but the predictive value besides that seems lost on me. Surely a bank could just ask your payslip info and get a more accurate feel whether or not you are creditworthy?
OTOH, was there really a time when humans were not enslaving each other in any form? I don't mean in a wide marxist term like "wage slave", but more specific kinds of bonding and control. Liberal changes in Europe in end of 18th century / beginning of 19th coincided with imported slavery from Africa and new colonies. That is freer factory worker would gain their productivity and better relative freedom while producing added value to raw materials produced by serfs elsewhere.

In 20th century you either had direct serfdom in some countries like Russia, while countries like US owned slaves indirectly by setting up large-scale production in 3rd world countries and controlling their governments.

Today we could probably breakdown the supply chain so that the lower you go by the ladder of "added value complexity", the more interchangeable and less free the people are. On the top of such chain there are managers, IT people, accountants and various service workers for the above who enjoy freedom while the bottom half of the supply chain is much more prosaic and constrained.
> For the rendering, ideally it needs GPU support.

It's a 2D framebuffer library for placing single pixels like in mode 13 *eyerolling* (GPUs are hardly useful for this type of stuff).

If you want something more complete, check out the sokol headers (shameless plug): https://floooh.github.io/sokol-html5/

...but that can hardly be called 'minimal' anymore.
I booked a place and it turned out to be unlivable due to noise, I left the next morning, requested refund for remaining week+, raised a ticket, spent time on the phone eventually Airbnb refunded their fees but maybe because I booked it in advance somehow it was up to the guy to refund and he declined. At a few hundred USD it was the most expensive night in my life (I can't splurge). Never saw the guy in person either, of course.

If you have a cute listing description in a major city and a couple of friends who wrote you positive reviews you can get a steady airbnb income mostly without people properly staying in your place with tricks like this

(In this case some reviews specifically claimed superb soundproofing but it turned out to be an apartment subdivided into rooms with cardboard-like walls)

I stopped using Airbnb after a couple of such incidents. I actually don't miss it at all so far. It's mostly been a source of bad travel experience, and 99% of places that are good also publish listings elsewhere
That post sounds very confident in its take, extrapolating from one letter, but I’m curious how much sway this “hedge fund” really has. A Reddit comment said they have minimal investment in Alphabet and so what they ask for doesn’t really matter.
> Once Google can offer Chrome on iOS, they will destroy Safari with the same underhanded practices

I don't believe that would happen, firstly Apple would fight back, and secondly the competition authorities would take action against Google.

Google is under scrutiny for its behaviour too.

You can't fight or justify anti competitive behaviour with anti competitive behaviour back.
If one is looking for an alternative, may I propose Psono? (I am the main developer behind Psono) It doesn't suffer from some of the reported issues and as such uses for example scrypt instead of pbkdf2 for the hashing of the masterpassword and the urls are for example also encrypted. Noteworthy its open source so everyone can take a look at the source code or ask questions in our discord channel. https://discord.gg/RuSvEjj
yeah, like, where was that same guy a year ago? cheering on as they went on a hiring spree?
When I was in college I used interview cake a bit and enjoyed it. It’s free for students irrc.

In general I think most of the interview prep industry is kind of a grift.
Remember that profit is basically just a made up number in accounting. The "profit" or "loss" made by one business unit within a group even more so.
Your company probably does it, too, they just don't tell you and they're small enough nobody cares.

Unless it's a super small company or you're the owner of your company.