skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Epson have a line called ecoTank that let allows you to refill from a bottle which are also economical.
>> the battle for equality rages on

Lets call it for what it really is - battle for power and "freedom" to dominante others (those being husbands, wifes, coworkers - other humans in general). There seems to exists this general urge in some to search by all means necessary to make others an extension of their minds and not free and equal human beings.

Just my 2 cents of intuition acquired by observing some members of my closest family :(
Germany confuses me a lot here because the population is actually _declining_. Granted, more in rural area than rich urban areas, but even then.
The dogma for the past few decades has been that one is supposed to wholly ignore all performance concerns, and then try to slap some profiling-guided lipstick on the pig at the very end of the development process.

You can’t hot loop optimize a Pinto into a Ferrari, you have to be mindful of performance from the start. Unfortunately performance-related compromises net you bad code reviews and dismissive attitudes from your peers
Dunno if it's for a rich person but most likely they want to give it to someone they know and they just have to legally post it publicly before that. And putting such low salary insures no one with good credentials will ever take it.
Excuse me, but I'm still offended by the word “miscalculations”. It implies that calculations can be wrong, which dehumanizes people with dyscalculia.
The same could be said for Germany too :-)
Twitter was created originally by a much smaller team than even the one that Musk still has today.
That's not the correct syntax for the ckd_ operations. They take 3 operands, the first being a pointer to an integer where the result should be stored. And they return a bool, which you need to check in a conditional. If you're just going to throw out the bool and ignore the overflows, why bother with checked operations in the first place?
Apparently, our civil service officers and think tanks shouldn't create customized solutions to the unique problems and prerequisites we face but should ensure to come back and stand with an appointment in front of a house of a random unqualified internet stranger to meet and discuss about starting a space program.

What else? Should we be coming again and again to West because we don't have problem solving skills or at the least, a mind of our own, that we should ask elites like you?

Sewage isn't in the streets? Will you land down in my country giving free consultation if I show you cities that make you envy to be too costly to purchase a square feet of land?

The most intelligent suggestion you could come up with is to drop everything in our hands and only make sewages disappear. Till then we won't even bath or eat. How about that?
It would be pretty cool to work at Horse Guards, though.
Or rather there's more to it. Do people really prefer working from the office or do they just want to escape and dump their responsibilities on their other half or family in general?

For those that have kids - who picks them up if you're in the office? Is your partner forced not to work or remote so you get to go in?

For those that have older family to look after, again who does it?

Or who does the housework etc?

There was an earlier discussion on why open source is mostly male dominated... well guess why...
Contractor leads can earn ~£700 per day. And who knows how much Capgemini / Fujitsu / KPMG are charging the project..
Including NI it's more like 32% and 42%, and the 40% + 2% NI kicks in lower than that. But, yeah, the effective rate is far lower.

You hit 33% income tax + NI at 100k (see listentotaxman.com)
And yet their rockets really work!
Not only in management. After some recent interviews I did, I'm finding more and more companies looking for "lead developers" and "tech lead" or some variation, but what is actually expected of them is a "almost-senior developer that also interviews", since someone else (often a CTO) will be micromanaging the team's tech decisions and another manager will be, well, managing.

It is a bit funny to ask "so what's the difference between this role and that of a senior engineer in the same team" and getting people to freeze.
Somebody needs to care, or we end up with a society that doesn't know how things work at a fundamental level, which is also the bases for major innovations. Imagine LLMs coming into existence without anyone understanding the principals of linear algebra. Imagine making advances in physics or chemistry without underlying principles.
It feels like with that amount of change, doing the actual full migration every time is a bit heavy. You'll have to do that of course for new keys, but for new fields have you thought of alternative approaches?

For example using a schema version field in a record, so that you can read v5, initialise "new_field" with the default value in the model, and write back as v6 if needed? (With an occasional update of everything so you can cleanup the code)

Or maybe create new tables for the new data and do a periodic merge as needed?

Hard to say without knowing more, but my first instinct here would be to ask if there's any other approach possible which doesn't require the migrations in the first place.
I haven't dabbled too much in the UK market, but I recall interviewing for a low 6 figure position a while ago. Is the gap between public and private jobs that big?
The failure isn't on you nor the need for an office. It's on the company for not creating the culture. Online communities e.g. in gaming have always been vibrant. It didn't always require in-person meetups to make it work.
I recently did some napkin math of a YC startup cap table to see what ownership % is given up for what money after YC and what valuation should be targeted at the demo day to keep YC ownership at not more than 10% for $125K+375K with prerequisite that the demo day VC also gets 10%, triggers $125K+375K SAFEs, and requires an additional 10% to be set aside for the option pool:

If we consider that YC's $125K investment is Pre-seed and the demo day YC's $375K + VC money investments are Seed:

_____

PRE-SEED (Accepted to YC)

YC 1 ($ 125K) ---- 0% (SAFE didn't convert yet)

Founders ---------- 100%

Total Investments: $ 125k

Valuation: Isn't set yet (or $ 1 785 714 / Post money based on the non-converted yet safe)

_____

SEED (Demo Day)

YC 1 --------------- 5.6% ($ 125K SAFE converts)

YC 2 ($ 375K) ---- 4.29% ($ 375K SAFE converts)

VC ($ 700K) ------ 10%

Option pool ------- 10%

Founders ---------- 70.11%

Total Investments: $ 1 200 000

Valuation: $ 7 000 000 / Post money

_____

To sum it up, to keep around ~70% of the startup after YC, one needs to target ~$7M post money valuation at the demo day with $700K investment from a VC for another 10% and option pool of 10%. If a startup needs more VC money and doesn't want to lose a bigger share it's worth targeting at valuation higher than $7M and starting at least at $10M post money to get $1M investment.

Please, correct me if I missed something.

Calculations are done based on Safe Conversion Financing section in the The Y Combinator Deal [1]:

Step 1: Price for the round is set and the two SAFEs are converted;

Step 2: A stock option pool is created;

Step 3: New money is invested in the company.

It was a pleasant surprise to find out in the text that the priced round itself, and the creation or increase of the stock option pool, will dilute YC’s ownership. It means that 7% for the $125K SAFE at step 1 due to the dilution become 5.6% (considering that new VC gets 10% and the option pool is 10%). As also $375K percentage after step 1 is also decreased due to dilution.

[1] https://www.ycombinator.com/deal/
Taking land while letting AI usage get away scot-free? We need to close the lid on both sides.
Yeah, I've bought a knockoff on Aliexpress too, but mine was not a 100% clone. I bought a kit that came with the Bear upgrade and didn't come with the parts that would be replaced during the Bear upgrade. Those are the ones I think are hard to define without being vague. My worry is that by adding vague and all-encompassing restrictions, the license will no longer be free.
Calling anything within 30 (or even 45min) range from Zurich "affordable" is some heavy pile of BS.

Anything commutable is massively out of the budget for most people.
It’s worth considering employer payroll taxes which might be different (though my memory from looking it up a while ago was that the payroll taxes weren’t so different). It’s also possible to have another effective 9% marginal tax from student ‘loans’ though that will go away after a while.
I'd like to shift the tone of this discussion from vitriolic to something more captivating.

Why Explore Space? - https://lettersofnote.com/2012/08/06/why-explore-space/

Here is an interesting letter by Ernst Stuhlinger, then an associate director of science at NASA's MSFC, written to a nun in the 1970s. He explains the crucial role of space exploration in a country's growth. This topic sparked some engaging conversations on HN in 2012 and 2015:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4372563

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8917045
> I'm not going to take Tesla at their word when they have an extensive history of using bogus lawsuits to intimidate people.

The lawsuit wasn't bogus, and Tesla went on to win that lawsuit, with a large payout from that former employee to Tesla.

I suggest having a more skeptical eye about what you read on the internet. There's a tremendous amount of very motivated reporters out there wanting to write about anything Musk related and will automatically believe any source that disparages Musk or a Musk company in some way. Your "See also" for example wasn't actually a Tesla whistleblower, and Tesla successfully won their case against such fake whistleblower. https://www.cnet.com/roadshow/news/tesla-lawsuit-whistleblow...

These reporters have created a false impression about Musk and his companies that's now a sort of shared deception held by many such that they believe Musk companies are bad in some way and will further believe any negative news, causing a self-perpetuating cycle. It's been interesting to watch how it works over the years.

https://www.reuters.com/article/tesla-court-tripp/former-tes...

> A former Tesla Inc factory employee will pay Elon Musk’s electric car maker $400,000 after it accused him of tipping reporters about alleged production inefficiencies and delays, a court filing shows.

...

> According to the court filing, Tripp did not contest Tesla’s claims that he stole trade secrets, and acknowledged that his counterclaims were funded by a short seller of Tesla stock. The filing was signed by Tripp and a Tesla lawyer.
Those were all hallmark left wing policies up to maybe the early 2000s but nowadays the policy programme is different. When was the last time you heard leftists talk about tax? It's like something from another time, these days it's all about other policies like racial/sexual divisions, control over media and education, "reparations" and so on.
Really?

Solar gives lots of electricity in the summer. But you have light and warmth then. In the winter when you need the electricity, you get maybe 1/10 of whatever the solar array is capable of.

Wind is not generally viable, except in very windy locations.

Biogas (eg anaerobic digestors) seems much more possible - but even these need warmth to run well - so aren't as good in the winter.

And when you think that yes - you can pay several thousands for a battery to store your electricity (for a day or so), but that the battery will only last a few years - how people think the economics make sense is a mystery to me.

I'm fast coming to the conclusion that all renewable tech is about allowing the government to have deep control over your energy, and to put you in a situation where you are forced to buy very expensive gear from mega-corps.

PS - the battery thing also applies to cars. Old electric cars are basically not worth keeping after 10 years. Who would replace the old battery that costs as much as the car? Esp when the battery slots are incompatible with the latest advances - ie you can't upgrade to a better battery, but only install yesterday's tech.
It's civil service. There's basically no negotiating on pay - they certainly won't pay an internal candidate more.
Thanks for the feedback! Should be fixed now
I think you are absolutely do D&D alignment chart on this. Musk as Chaotic Good is about right. Lets say Trump is Chaotic Evil (I think most would agree). There is plenty of Lawful Evil at the top of immensely powerful bureaucracies who do not have the interests of the people (any people) at heart
All you could muster is tu quoque fallacy. No surprises there.
Each of these steps made computation increasingly more expensive cycle- and power-wise. We counteracted that with Moore’s for a while, then had to go “scalable”. It worked because it was still cheaper than hiring an employee.

I bet that LLMs will create another level of bloat industry where computation will be as expensive as making a human to do the same thing, because there will be no human-can-do-it constraint anymore.

This promise of “AI will create cool software” is akin to “robots will fly in cars in vertical cities” of 19/20th century scifi. All we got is worse traffic and exponentially expensive housing.
HP products are now such crappy/broken products, it is incredible.

Their printers are probably the worst. All the ones I had to touch had problems: scan pages bent, adf adding a blue line on scanned documents, configuration messed up in windows because owning 2 times the same model or one of them being setup both by cable and wifi, huge software bloat on PC or android, thing that should connect but is not detected despite installing all their crappy software and resetting the stuff 10 times, printer refusing to start and scan because a cardridge is missing

That makes me totally crazy and I hate them.

I'm quite sure that they would have died a long time ago and not have this market share if they weren't so aggressive on prices. They are playing on the fact that they make you buy a lot of them. I think that some people should start to sue them.
Thanks to there always being fallback to older HTTP versions, I've never encountered an issue with HTTP/3 that prevented me from accessing a site. If HTTP/3 doesn't work, then the connection will just end up using HTTP/2 or HTTP/1.1, whichever's available.
Yep, it seems to be much better now. Thanks for the fast response!
You are sick of people wanting to live in good places? Are you really sure "dem poors should just stay in crappy places" is the point you wanted to make?
You seem to have missed the obvious Tharakaari (the Kannada word for vegetables)?
I couldn't tell the resistance difference compared to AC transmission.

> ...also fan out and meet resistance and lose power in transmission.

Didn't know that either but magic beams also don't need cables and poles, or at least would require less infra
Theoretically the advantages are light sources focused where the plant needs when they need it resulting in faster growth. Just turns out that for most crops, that (and lower land use) isn't enough to cover the disadvantages of the extra infrastructure needed. Plus you can install lights in a greenhouse...
Can and "wants to" are two different things. On iPhones and iPads, there's very limited access to extensions. So anybody on those platforms can't. (For now. The EU decision may change things.)

As far as keyboard browsing, doesn't vimperator cover that?
Rape/Population ranking [1]:

USA 27.3

India 1.8

Time to stop all NASA programs!

[1] https://www.nationmaster.com/country-info/stats/Crime/Rape-r...
I see none (probably uBlock Origin on Firefox doing it's thing)
I assume that term mostly only makes sense within the civil service.
Without knowing the details, not really. That's more for people in Parliament these days, not the Civil Service.

£55k in London is junior management level pay in the London, if that.

Unless this is a case of give an incredible title for a junior member of staff to make it sounds attractive, then this is reallllly low pay for that type of job.

Embarassingly low. Kind of, "I have no idea what a Head of Cyber Security" does so let me price it at £55k.

Honestly, this is something a 2 person startup might do ... not The Treasury of a leading (?) country.

Maybe it's just a mistake, but it is eye-opening.
Any way to get a peek at that spreadsheet? Very curious how you’ve laid it out.
Through union yes, I think
Ah, sorry. that's right, I forgot about the ppl's sense of fairness and morality.
A proven correct binary protocol parser generator: EverParse

https://project-everest.github.io/everparse/
Presumably the article is meaning two CPU sockets, rather than two cores?
> In other words, dry wood cracks.

How dare you translate academic technobabble to common tongue?
Oops somehow skipped that paragraph, yeah that's nonsense. Unless you're comparing SF to small town UK or something
I have had NASA tell me the max pay for a security engineer is $40k. I had to question if perhaps the job was for a security guard at one of their sites or something.
IMHO Germany is killing its social stability and its future by having this situation right now. And I‘m afraid this will bring more votes to AFD and similar rightwing parties. Kinda similar to a century ago.
> This seems misleading

It's not as in those that claim so prove they can't type, write out something coherent or use online tools. They don't know how to build relationships otherwise. It's the only way they can interact with people (in-person).

> The idea isn't we should pick one or the other, it's the desire for more flexibility on how we approach work hours.

The remote argument has always been do what you like vs the in-office argument has always been force everyone back. The problem with those preferring in-office is that they don't prefer to go to the office. They prefer to have someone (unwillingly) go to the office to sit next to them.
A newspaper headline from 2024: How Russia took over the UK Treasury, inside scoop on the Great Britain Banking crash of 2023.
Same as voting in elections?
Show HN: WikiGenGPT – Dive into an Imaginative World of AI-Generated Wikipedia
Can you send me opml file, i missed my opml file ,it stuck in my old phone,that is dead
Sounds familiar.

I guess the apple doesn't fall far from the ...
>active, competent and interventionist governments
>China

oh boy, do you have some reading to do
Hopefully, yes. But one can imagine a lot of weird problems with networks treating TCP and UDP differently such that HTTP/3 performance on UDP is degraded with no fallback to earlier TCP based versions happening, because your client will only fall back if there are errors.
That's true in Germany as well, but to get cheap property, you have to go very far from the city, and Germany not being that huge, you'll be close to the next metro area by then.

Like, sure, a 120sqm house might be 400k in Hamburg and only 230k 60 minutes out to the north west (both needing an additional 25-50% of price in renovation costs), but the average net income is 30k/year and you're expected to have at least 20% in cash.

You can get very cheap houses in Saxony or Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, but there will be little to no infrastructure (like, the next gynaecologist might be a 60 minute car trip away), your neighbors will be down on their luck, unemployed and voting far right, and you'll essentially need to rebuild the house - and you'll need to do much of it yourself because the tradesmen work on construction sites in the big cities and rarely take local jobs.
This aligns with my experience. I used to work at a department that had a "Head". She never talked to anybody or delivered any tangible work. I still wonder what her real job was.
The scientists said they were sorry.
> So where do I go out and meet people who aren't super religious, ballroom dancing nuts, or alcoholics?

Lots of coworkers have been just the same. No difference.
The parent comment is implying that if every person donates anything on their personal capacity, this project would have been funded and executed easily. He is asking you to not bother with anything more than donations alone, had you been Indian.

But here you are bothering about India's perverse fixation about competing with West. Heck, If West violated every law there is and blatantly copied to advance its interests and no one else, India doesn't have money to fight in ICJ courts or otherwise. Why are you making your ignorance so apparent for no one to sympathize with you?
Thank you for this comment.

I moved into the 100k bracket 3 years ago, and have just hit 125k this Jan. I am the sole earner in our house, wife can't work and have a 12 year old boy.

And I've been trying (and failing) to work out why it seems like more than 40% of my earnings are taken as tax.

And why I need to do tax returns as I've always been PAYE with no other income sources.
> All C standards from C89 onward have permitted compilers to delete code paths containing undefined operations—which compilers merrily do, much to the surprise and outrage of coders.16 C23 introduces a new mechanism for astonishing elision: By marking a code path with the new unreachable annotation,12 the programmer assures the compiler that control will never reach it and thereby explicitly invites the compiler to elide the marked path.

I don't agree with this in the slightest. I'm not "outraged" by undefined behaviour, it's a fundamental tool for writing performant code. Ensuring that dereferencing a null pointer or accessing outside the bounds of an array is undefined behaviour is what lets the compiler not emit a branch on every array access and pointer dereference.

Furthermore, I really don't understand the outrage that there is another explicit tool to achieve behaviour the author may or may not consider harmful. If it's an explicit macro, it's not a tarpit!
What’s AI?
Not a “wealthy” person, but rather someone from a a large tech/outsourcing co that will get massive contracts and thus the “revolving door” of “public private partnerships” continues …
"But you have light and warmth then. "

Yes, but often too much of it, so lots of people use AC, which uses a LOT of power. Electricity is needed all the year.

"Wind is not generally viable, except in very windy locations."

And there is wind everywhere, but only if you build high enough.
So yes, there are places where it makes no sense to build them, but there are a lot more other places, where it does.

"I'm fast coming to the conclusion that all renewable tech is about allowing the government to have deep control over your energy"

So a solar + battery powered off grid home is deep controlled by the government?
May you explain how that works?

"And when you think that yes - you can pay several thousands for a battery to store your electricity (for a day or so),"

Have you looked up any actual numbers? Maybe do so. Also maybe that part, that tracks how the battery prices are changing. They are constantly getting cheaper.

Also maybe you are aware, that the whole industry that was and is fossil based needs to change. Your criticism comes from an angle, that assumes that should be for free?

Burning fossil fuels is cheap. But only if you ignore the external costs of climate change and air pollution.
> Edit: I acknowledge some relationships require time apart. n=1!

This is about the freedom to do so. Nothing stops you from going to a cafe or somewhere else. It's remote work.

It's about freedom not 1 or the other.
From your tone it looks like you don't empathize with Mr. Hitler at all or his passionate belief systems!

Don't be surprised if Hitler doesn't empathize with you either, you have only yourself to blame!
> we need to depopulate the billionaires and with the freed up wealth

You don't free up wealth that way, more likely you destroy it.
This was also discussed on Twitter a few days ago https://twitter.com/Jontafkasi/status/1641193954778697728.