skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For people using WhatsApp as an example

https://www.businessinsider.com/whatsapp-facebooks-22-billio...

The numbers are unimpressive. Revenue was $10.2 million 2013. It had a net loss of $138 million in 2013. The bulk of that loss, or $98.8 million, came from stock based expenses. It burned $9.9 million in cash for operating activities in 2013.
GitHub Issues Reporter for Failing Kubernetes Apps
Indeed, I contracted with a company that wanted me to get some insane professional liability insurance, which would have cost a huge chunk of what they were willing to pay me. I told them sure, but I'd have to charge more due to the increased overhead, and then they relented. Point is it could have gone the other way, where they just said thanks but no thanks.

Then it did in fact take a long time to get onboarded, to the point where I didn't even have repo access for half of the contract. The experience wasn't great, and I doubt this company will do the same again.
It only works on the desktop site. Did you try on mobile?
Inflation began to spike in the U.S. in April of 2021, when it hit 4.2%. Inflation continued to climb, hitting 7% year-over-year by December 2021. Sadly, 2022 didn’t see any slowdown in inflation as the rate peaked at 9.1% in June. Starting in July, inflation began to fall slightly, though it still sat at 7.7% in November.

Your atlantafed link shows unweighted wage increase peaking at 6.7% in August 2022. In what way did wages outpace inflation?
Which Xorg would I be using for an X86_64 based core duo thinkpad with i915 graphics?

I've had little success with NetBSD 9.3 so far (Firefox needs 3d graphics these days) but I'm assuming I'm missing something.
Heat pumps are great when things are mildly cold. While do work down to -20C or so, efficiency drops off, so you need bigger and bigger units. It often makes sense to have a smaller heat pump that will only work down to -5C (random temperature, a real analysis of your house is required to give a better answer), and then a gas furnace backup for those really cold days. Once you have the gas furnace backup you can run that off of a small generator on the few days you are without power.
Interesting, wonder how this situation applies to the US? Some states have similar laws. I know of one case where a contractor that should be an employee is working ultimately for Uncle Sam in such a state.
It's not 100k users, but those are installs, even if it's in a CI/CD pipeline.
Learning to code with an AI assistant is pretty much the ideal way to learn and understand the profound limitations of LLM based AIs.

After just a few minutes, the outputs presented by your AI in a highly confident manner will be shown to be … suspect, or completely wrong.

It quickly casts a shadow over everything else it confidently spews forth as “truth”.
Wait that actually makes a ton of sense, at least in theory. Never thought about it this way. Though there’s probably a want to amortize risk of failed research projects, failed as in “didn’t contribute to a product”?
Awesome.

Evil ideas for improvements.

Random typos in class name, function names, comments, such as:
inheritance -> enheritance
class -> clas
cannot -> cannont

Pick related words:
person -> user, account, customer

Random swapping plural/singular
users -> user

Append "Class" to classnames. example:
User -> UsersClass

Insert rant comments about, politics, religion, profanity.
>Still, I'd guess you'd be right that it would be enormously expensive and difficult to bring this back.

I've moved into and out of downtown Boston over the past 20+ years, and it's been interesting to see this trend actually happen. In the neighborhoods I've lived in, there are usually 1-2 smaller markets that offer convenience at a price, and then a more "traditional" grocery store within 5-10 minutes of walking.

Over the years, a few new grocery stores have been built in the urban core, and they've actually been of the "larger traditional" variety. In most cases, they're part and parcel of new development, so the space, loading, and (reduced) parking requirements can be accommodated as part of the build.

The key is that the stores are being built concurrently with more housing being developed as well, so the stores are effectively meeting new demand. In my most recent "city phase", I actually had 3 "large format" grocery stores, 2-3 smaller markets, plus the assortment of convenience stores within a 15 minute walk.
No need for phone number, they just give you a TOTP private key you can use in Google Authenticator or something like that.
The problem with historical totalitarian states was that they were totalitarian, not that they had identification.

ID is a basic component of pretty much any functioning bureaucracy. Further, we already have near universal ID at the state level, what about the federal government makes it so much more magically tyrannical than the states?
Whoa, it has Tripod too!
You should have called it Job Assurance Generator
And what is it you're proving by taking a fragmentary quote out of context?
30M RPis per year? Fascinating, I wonder what kind of products they ship with RPis inside.
It looks like you are requesting a paperclip AI

Have you tried https://www.decisionproblem.com/paperclips/ ?
Have you considered retail
Or other distribution channels?

Do you have a SO, if so what do they think about this experiment
FWIW, I just installed two heat pumps in a 3100sf house in the US northeast this summer. We already had ducted AC. The main unit was US$17K and the mini-split for the master bedroom was US$6K. There a US$10K state rebate, but we'll probably only get 70% of that because we've retained the old heating system as a backup and for water, so total cost is US$16K. These are cold-climate units, both rated down to -4°F but I haven't actually made them work below 20°F yet. Next year I'll probably set the aux cutover temperature to something lower and see how it goes. Year after that we'll probably install solar (plus wind if the technology for that has moved along far enough) and switch to all-electric everything.

BTW my town has an all-electric mandate for new construction already, and there's a lot of that. There's also a bylaw that takes effect in 2025/2026 banning gas-powered landscaping equipment.
No, it's better. Retaining identity is _easier_ with such a system.

You mark in the DOM where the expressions are, and on updates instead of a vdom diff you check if the template rendering to a DOM location is the same as before. If it is then you just update the expressions. All the unchanged elements stay the same, and sine you don't traverse the DOM or a VDOM, the update is much faster.
Yeah, you're not wrong, here's the 2010 map;

https://assets.aecf.org/m/blogimg/blog-exploringamericasfood...
And your doctor’s office…
It turns out.. striking out on your own as a solo tech founder is truly challenging for most. I learned this the hard way myself through first hand experience. Ultimately I failed, though arguably in the long term the lessons I learned were more valuable than the few hundred thousand dollars of my own money I spent.

The reality is that it takes a certain skillset to do all the research, product development work, business development, sales, and marketing by oneself. Much less procuring VC funding (in my case) or for a physical product, creating the end-to-end supply chain and manufacturing pipeline.

If I needed a KVM I'd definitely consider a TinyPilot, because it actually looks useful and @mtlynch has demonstrated an unrelenting high degree of dedication.and commitment to this idea for years.

Edit: After writing this I checked out a review [0], was surprised how tiny it was. After reading about the Chinese vs. American metal enclosure debacle [1,2], I somehow expected it to be larger despite it having tiny in the name. To be fair, in the pics it does look similar to a PSU enclosure and my brain has heavy PC-parts bias :).

[0] https://youtube.com/watch?v=o9-1yjGWoOA

[1] https://mtlynch.io/retrospectives/2022/11/#with-metal-cases-...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34740537 (related comment in this thread)
That seems rather anxiety inducing. "Remember that you will die" is the saying, not "be obsessed with it".
You make a good point. Living in walkable neighborhoods means evacuating most of the country and concentrating ourselves in fewer, denser cities. It'll be a great thing to the extent we can accomplish it, but people have a strong attachment to place and to suburban lifestyles, and the shift will fuel the nasty culture war we already have.
Assuming that Google will stop adding AI to GSuite?
our best defense against the robots is a good offense
Immutable OS - non flatpak stuff vanishes after a major update.

Use podman + distrobox/toolbox to keep things and install packages - similar to Fedora Silverblue.

As I said my display situation is a bit weird. On the dock I have two 1080p monitors. KDE Panels sometimes disappear and need to be moved. https://i.imgur.com/Ipvj8L4.png (eDP is build in display)

Other than that there is a complete silence in my room and I don't need much stuff for web dev. The only desktop game I play is dota 2 and I can live with lowered gfx settings.
That doesn't help with IR35, as the law looks at the practical situation of the individual and not the formal situation to determine if they are really an employee.
As a fellow Rust user, please stop saying this. Not everyone who codes like us is a bad programmer. It's this kind of sentiment that gives us a bad name.

Rust may influence us into patterns that are better in some (likely even most) situations, but not always. Sometimes the situation calls for other approaches, and that's okay.
Yep. I remember back in 2003 when I wrote a personal letter to all EU MPs to ask them to reject software patents.
Software patents enforcement would have been terrible for EU software and a boon for the rich US software company who constantly lobby the EU parliament...

Well, I'm pretty sure that these same US software companies are still there lobbying in their own interest, in a complete absence of transparency.
And if you do become competent, you're soon promoted to another job you're not competent for.
Everything you said is correct and I would agree with - but under the presumption that the climate emergency is genuine and that the individual contributors in the agencies responsible for the models and predictions have not been compromised, coerced, baited, led by funding into agreeing with corporate and governmental agendas, interests.

Is it not odd that we have traditional liberal activists and corporate/government on the same side also?

I agree wholly with you regarding how it is better for everything to be community based, with people working in a local community, that cities need to downsize, that manufacturing is better to be localized, all of these things move us closer to a much better world and I would even be happy if the government used its power to force the change on the population ... but if you study the groups behind this they are international socialists, the presentations they have given quite clearly outline malicious intentions when you look at other movements and ideas the same groups are lobbying for.

Regarding the WEF point you made. I point you towards the case of Oxford City in the UK , which as of last month has already implemented a 15 minute city without any dialogue with its citizens.

The communist china style tracking camera and permit system has been created in their city and it is likely by next year its citizens will start to be fined 70 pounds sterling whenever they go to a neighboring zone without a permit.

It was reported this week 100 councils (local governmental planning agencies) have signed up to implement this in the UK in their jurisdictions own cities. This is without any dialogue or permission with their citizens.

Does the speed of this being rolled out not frighten you enough to question what is going on? It is such a drastic change. Taking a trip in a car from one part of the city to another is such a small journey, such a small cost to the environment. It is not like a cross country trip, I understand the distances between points in the USA is larger but they are planning this for the cities in the USA too, not longer journeys, but god knows where this will end.
The same points apply, most it contractors (and there are many in finance) have an LTD. Never met anyone working as a sole trader. IANAL but most of the liability gubbins falls away too, since you and the company are legally distinct entities.
Yahoo to slash 20% of its workforce
People seem to do it. I'm sure it's a lot of hard work but there are concrete examples. Stripe, Blend off the top of my head.
The farmers were not trying to grow the patented seeds. They shouldn't be liable for their neighbor's trash blowing on their fields.

The use of Roundup is another travesty.
A lot of the "reasons for Brexit" turned out to be well spread misinformation if you looked closer into them or where cause by UK government instead of the EU so that a pretty stupid argument to bring up.
It's not particularly pretty but the source can be found here: github.com/zachbellay/podscription
US Favors Securing EV Supply Chains over Subsidizing Consumers
Absolute boon for “humanity” is a such abstract notion. The reality is that farmers are robbed and food we eat are way less nutrient dense, etc etc. boon…for whom?
Most commercial stoves require a vented hood. Home depot may not tell you this, but the manual of the stove will.
Or particularly:

> Since we order a huge number of Western Digital drives already, it’s relatively easy for us to add one more line item and stock 2TB SN740 2230 ones.
But the compute hardware is fine, if you can get your own OS on it.

Regarding the OP, battery is a problem. These old phones have bad batteries, and buying a new battery undercuts the carbon savings. And there's no need to use a phone battery as your server battery -- you can use any external battery.
Simple to use != simple to make is so often a hard fact to keep in mind when looking at these numbers
Very much depends on location within Canada. BC has an open policy of allowing suites not to code for example
SF is a much smaller city. Areas in NYC not connected to the subway tend not to be particularly walkable like Staten Island.
Oh, boy, just wait 'til he hears about the CAP Theorem!
Why would it? Even in the most cynical business sense, a business will spend as much money on employees as they must. Again, assuming maximal cynicism, they won't care if it's salary or "ports", as long as it's the most effective buck they can spend (think ROI).

What is effective in attracting employees depends, at least partly, on what employees want. That might be either some amount of money into ports or more salary. Paying shareholders more will not attract employees.
I see. Would it be fair to say you treat it almost like Pandas, except that it has a lower memory footprint since data is written to disk instead of memory. IE you use it for on the fly analysis of large frames of data, not like more traditional database/datawarehouse?
Why “Bitcoin maximalism” is toxic (ChatGPT)
The question isn't "is it permanent" it's "what are the chances it's permanent". I can imagine that if they come to the conclusion that there's even a 10% chance then it makes sense to invest resources as if it will happen because they can always just lay people off, but it's much harder to catch up.
There is also a little bit of policy influence.

In a vacuum, a company's profits should only be used by that company to expand / pursue other ventures if that company is uniquely in a position to make the best use of it. Otherwise, shareholders would prefer that dividends be paid out, and the shareholders can choose where to invest it.

But dividends are taxed, and a company utilizing those profits to expand / pursue other ventures is not. Especially in the tech sector, this means you're essentially leaving money on the table by paying dividends. For shareholders to be able to invest better, they'd need to overcome the taxes they'd pay on receiving those dividends as income, which is very difficult.

This allows for a lot of waste in spending that would otherwise not exist. Even if all of those failed ventures and meaningless middle managers reduce the return on that investment by 25% or more, it's still saving money over just paying dividends to shareholders and staying lean.
If they take this routes, it just means there is a different “Internet” that these big techs are presenting us, and it is good just build another one. Maybe not a bad thing after all.
Show HN: What's the best models to predict French Stock Prices?
Within this repo, my goal is to make forecasts with the best model adapted to my data.
Coming from a master's degree in finance, I have had courses in econometrics during my studies and my interest in this field is growing as I start using it in personal projects.

If anyone sees any errors in my code or a better model for predictin
g this data, please contact me or comment.
I just started analyzing data on Jupyter notebook and am eager to learn more.
> What is going on? Is there a global push to get everyone to switch to heat pumps. It seems that there is heat pump content everywhere. Clearly there is a push.

Based on the lack of political dick swinging I don't think this is a "push". They're legitimately good technology for certain use cases, I'm sure the manufacturers are pushing them. They are also The New Hotness(TM) and they are billed as environmentally friendly. Both those attributes are valuable by themselves to some people.

I think this is more a case of a grassroots-originated circle jerk within certain demographic bubbles.

I get a lot of "air fryer" vibe from the whole thing. And I say this as someone who owns and really likes his air fryer.
I am more comfortable to buy from Aliexpress where 1740 other people bought that drive, than from random seller at Framework marketplace.
"privite" and "private" and "privet" but there are #defines to make them work anyway.

I actually saw code that looked like that from a very dyslexic mate of mine who I worked with a long time ago.
Vertical screen users thank you in advance!
Access Kubernetes Cluster: VPN
European carriers to create optin joint venture for ad targeting of mobile users
The toggleable map in there is amazing and you can really see how it's the schools and libraries letting the map down... which is distinct in that they're the government-provided services. Here in Ontario we had a knock-down fight like a decade ago as the province decided to save money by shutting down unneeded schools, ending a lot of locality in the school system... and ever since the school boards have been scrambling to deal with insufficient bus-drivers as they effectively offloaded the problem onto the busing system.

Aside, the conspiracy-theory right has decided that "15 minute city" is another "agenda 21" conspiracy to force all westerners to live in tiny urban walled ghettos, and traveling outside of your "15-minute-city" will be illegal. And of course, the mainstream right media has been feeding this monster by treating walkability as some nefarious conspiracy but without explicitly mentioning the most insane tinfoil-hat parts of it.
> there wont even be a vetted application

I do not understand your reasoning. Any app store or in general any source from where an application could be installed implicitly provides a trust model. Whether it is Google's Play Store, a GitHub repository or e.g. John Doe's personal website. The users then have the freedom to choose whom they would like to trust.

> Has that "educating" and "targeted measures" ever worked?

Yes. Users are cautious before running anything as root. They check a browser addon before installing it. They do not open media from unsolicited e-mails. And so on.

It is, however, all besides the point.

Even if there currently were no effective targeted measures that could be used, it still would not mean that we should resort to undermining everyone's freedom, in my opinion. Not in this particular case.

There are legitimate cases where everyone's freedom is restricted in order to make the society a better place. For instance, we as a society have chosen to not tolerate stealing and we put the individuals who do so behind bars. This is broadly accepted because it brings benefits to everyone. We do not need to worry about being stolen from that much.

However, there is no general benefit to the society that I am able to see which would materialize as a result of limiting everyone's freedom to use their own devices. I can only see a lot of negatives.
Heh if it was for my kid how about a modern version of Rocky's boots.

I learned this stuff around 10 playing that game and didn't even realize what I was learning cause it was fun.

But it definitely worked.. I aced every class I ever took that required logic right through college with ease. Both hardware courses, CS courses, and a philosophy course.

edit:

Here it is!

https://www.myabandonware.com/game/rockys-boots-cp

I may very well sit my child down in front of this next time he says he's bored with the typical kids coding things.
Absolutely not. The last time I have tried Haskell it was failing some pretty basic tasks. The JSON library required to be re-compiled for some reason and it used 20+G of RAM when the build crashed. The community is flat out hostile towards Mac users and a basic request was closed with a comment that Mac is a broken platform and it should not be used. I do not have time for these, Rust offers a much better experience and the community is very helpful even if you are asking silly questions.
I appreciate the clarity on the explicitly unsupported use cases in "When to not use DuckDB."

There are so many infrastructure products, especially database products for some reason, where the marketing team takes control of the messaging away from engineers, and push outlandish claims on how their new DB is faster than all the competition, can support any workload, can scale infinitely, etc.
What are the other benefits?
Why would they though? Covid just forced the development of technologies even further to make working from home even more viable than before.

Millennials followed the boomers right into the suburbs as they got older and that was before there was a path to killing the commute.

When Gen Z can get by without a commute and live in social media, where is their push for cities going to come from?
Obviously this is an unpopular opinion, but I think you're right about spez. Editing those comments in his AMA was dumb, but pretty obviously not malicious in the way that's being suggested here. I think a fair analogy would be if he gave a speech in a clown wig, and was then accused of having tried to disguise himself.
So unfortunately, this is called delusion. This is worse than working five years on a failing crypto project with funding for five years.

I tend to measure progress as a function of financial / skill gain over time spent. What a lot of solo founders fail to realize (regardless of education) is that time is the real risk in startups. Sure, you could wait five years for a $2M exit, but how much of your own time / investor time did you burn? At some point, you have to ask whether a "business" is really more of a side-project and whether you're being honest with yourself about how much you value your time.

For context, someone with a high school degree and a poor understanding of social media marketing could make more money with zero employees power-washing driveways. I don't mean to be harsh - but time is valuable.

The value of life lived is different for each individual, but slowly bleeding out what could've been a prosperous education and career for someone who might just be bad at managing a business is a travesty. I have friends who do this, they're misguided but they also have huge sums of family money paying their rent etc... alas another form of delusion and a detached form of reality.

I've literally made more revenue paying a college kid to farm black soldier flies with waste from a vegan coffee shop. I'm literally not kidding.
I found it to be too Spooky!