skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These are all major US metros where you will easily make > $100k as a software engineer ($125k median), while you'll find many Single Family Home options for $300k - $400k. That kind of home price / income ratio with low tax rate for that housing space is practically unheard of in the world (in the good way).

Chicago: https://www.levels.fyi/t/software-engineer/locations/greater...

Atlanta: https://www.levels.fyi/t/software-engineer/locations/atlanta...

Pittsburgh: https://www.levels.fyi/t/software-engineer/locations/pittsbu...

Raleigh-Durham: https://www.levels.fyi/t/software-engineer/locations/raleigh...

Boise: https://www.levels.fyi/t/software-engineer/locations/boise-a...

Nashville: https://www.levels.fyi/t/software-engineer/locations/nashvil...

Dallas: https://www.levels.fyi/t/software-engineer/locations/greater...

Minneapolis: https://www.levels.fyi/t/software-engineer/locations/minneap...
The number of people who are actually free speech maximalists has got to be tiny. I really like the way it is done in the US: the government isn’t allowed to censor you, but I don’t have to let you stay in my house if you start insulting my family or going on racist rants. This seems like the perfect balance to me.
I don’t think you understand the UK somewhat unusual and reasonably unique relationship with housing property.

Our entire social system is built around the idea that people own property, and that’s the primary driver of wealth generation. Not owning property in the UK means giving up to 70% of your salary each month on rent, and getting a shoe box in return, because renters are second class citizens in the UK with little protection.

It’s simply impossible to build any kind of wealth or security in the UK without owning property. You will forever find yourself living paycheque-to-paycheque, or waiting for the moment you get no-fault eviction which can be served to you after only 6 month from the start of your let. (And it happens, even to those with high earnings).

The UK has a strange, and incredibly unhealthy, obsession with home ownership and property prices. Millennials and GenZ pay every day for this unjust social folly.
Show HN: Dead Simple AI Tools via Templated Prompts
I'm building LowTech AI to simplify powerful AI systems even further than ChatGPT. Prompting is an acquired skill, and there's room to make these epic tools even easier to use, especially for first time AI users.

I want to attach the simplest UX imaginable to the best AI prompts backed by the most powerful LLMs. All the user sees is simplified magic with instructions.

There's a demo of the app, and a blog post about the product here: https://lowtech.ai/blog/lowtech-ai-simple-ai-tools-for-every...
I'm told that browser is Brave
To be honest, I am not all too familiar with all the pitfalls of VC funding, so I don't feel confident in either agreeing nor disagreeing with you.

Either way, there are other ways to both raise and make money.
I don't actually disagree with this. My concern is that right now the public is very far from accepting the idea that we should engage in these projects, and they only exist at the research stage. Worse: convincing the world to accept near-term SRM (or even "use dirtier fuel again" SRM) may be a tough sell, since some portion of the world isn't convinced that climate change is very serious, let alone an existential threat that needs immediate action. Even if SRM works and is safe, getting from our current situation to one where we deploy SRM could take years, and I'm getting worried that we might not have those years.
I disagree completely. Facebook was just Myspace without the terrible UX. Google was just Yahoo but better. Tech businesses can easily move in over each other if there is a way to make it noticeably better.
Climate change is just one of the things that will get us if we don't find a way to live in our environment. We can't just fuck every other issue to solve that one problem, and hope everything will be fine.
This matches my experience. I've used Terraform, TerraGrunt, TF Cloud, CloudFormation and SAM in production and I'd say Terraform is by far the best in terms of functionality vs. frustration (with CloudFormation being by far the worst). I've not tried Pulumi, but at this point I don't see a ton of reason to move.
Every video living at v.reddit.com is eating up storage and bandwidth Reddit has to pay for. Even a relatively small video eats up the storage and bandwidth of hundreds of self text posts and thousands of posts that are just links to some external video.
At a certain wet bulb temp humans cannot cool themselves off - they die without access to some other means to get cool (like cold water, air conditioning, etc).
Right. But if I have to choose between diet and normal coke, which one is objectively worse for my health now?
At a minimum, If somebody invest in such an ecosystem and is banned from it, the company should have you buy back the equipment at original retail value. This is just a start. There has to be some monetary penalty for the company to nudge them into less flipped reactions.

I also think there maybe should be blowback for false accusations on people who report them. Basically. You better damn well be sure you head what you heard. It’s becoming to easy to yell racist run away and ruin somebody’s life.

A secondary of this is the media. We keep saying there are racist everywhere. Even Biden said the biggest problem America has is white supremacy. People are going to find a racisim with out without it one actually existing.
> But in general, outside clearly defined exceptions, contracts and declarations do not have a form requirement, so even oral agreement or "conclusive behaviour" (sign language, point-and-grunt, silently carrying an item to the cash register) are absolutely valid.

Correct in the US, although it's worth mentioning the Statute of Frauds and the Uniform Commercial Code:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statute_of_frauds

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_Commercial_Code
Step 1: Do not.

(I'm sure there's a successful example somewhere, and in fact Tumblr may be about the best one, in that it hasn't actually collapsed or anything, but it rarely ends well...)
Perhaps you meant slashdot.org - this is a typo squatter
This baffles me too but it is the way of things. Smart people refuse to support action unless they're 100% sure no one will dislike it. Meanwhile morons wreck things without pause or consequence. I don't know what it is but I think it will doom our species. You see the same thing from climate change to deficits to wars.
> But if every fraction of a degree matters, shouldn't we also be at least continuing if not scaling up these these albedo-increasing changes?

Acid Rain is also a bad thing with bad consequences.

While I'm not necessarily that opposed to cautious attempts at some geoengineering, I don't think "scale up the sulfate emissions" is a viable solution.
Don't worry. Magically awesome, yet uninvented, or in perpetual "in the next ten years" state technology, with Star Trek scope, will save us with a technical solution. If not, we're all just going to Mars in 10-15 years, with colonies and terraformings. Even if we haven't managed to even get back to the moon for 50 years.

That's what everybody insisted for the past 20-30 years, so must be true. All we need to do is keep expanding consumption/production!
I moved from the UK but I'm not british, so not sure how useful my experience will be to you.

Since I am married and an introvert I haven't really socialized that much since we moved. People seem pretty open although it seems to me you need to get into some kind of shared hobby to meet people (isn't that just true about making friends as an adult?). However I never had a bad experience socializing in the UK, in fact I made several good friends there.
Its totally related question, if new reddit pricing is aligned with industry, then it is fair and reasonable pricing, and apps which go down are those who built little businesses on something reddit provided for free while not contributing back, and who now can't monetize their traffic well enough.

Apollo dev can start charging his customers $5/m and cover API costs, but the problem is that his value proposition is too small for such price.
by "this" i meant all the kerfuffle around Reddit's API rates
> According to the CEO, Reddit is losing money. It won't survive long-term if that doesn't change. If people care about reddit and its community, it seems like that's what they should be thinking about.

So throw a $2 price tag on API-enabled account (enough API limits to comfortably run media account). That's probably already 10x more profit that average user provides in ads. Boom, now your API earns money for you without alienating users, and it feels fair.

And maybe not dump massive amount of effort on shittifying your UI in meantime...
> More practically, I still see a lot of exaggerated expectations in the juniors coming through my employer. Maybe I’m getting old, but it’s becoming frustrating to watch people get six-figure jobs right out college doing remote coding work from the comfort of their homes with ample mentoring, only to complain because Reddit and Blind led them to believe they’d be earning $300K at FAANG jobs while working 20 hours per week

This, my friends, is an example of corporate speak. What this statement misses, is that, you NEED $300k salaries to buy houses in places where you get said salaries.

What's more? The average new grad is NOT starting at zero. They are starting at negative. So, the $300k salaries are required to get to zero first. By the time these graduates get to zero, house prices have increased substantially. So they will likely need $400k salaries to afford houses by then.

What's more, the execs and upper management are making a HELL LOT MORE every passing year, without adequate checks on their productivity. At the same time, the new grad must grind to keep making them richer.

The gen Z new grad understands this predatory exploitation very well. That's why people are complaining. Reddit and Blind are merely the channels by which the complaints are happening.

Stop this corporate-speak. Let profits got to employees, not just the shareholders passively earning income. The world will be a happier place with this small change.
* Note: This IS NOT Legal Advice *

Most states in the US could use a photo of a teenager in a bikini as enough 'evidence' to bring charges of Possession of Pornography involving a Juvenile, depending on what the actual photo depicts. Whether the contents of the image could be found to substantiate a conviction for the charge would be a trial/appeals issue. Nudity is not required for an image to be considered CSAM in most US states (or at the federal level), there are also Federal precedents that make cartoon depictions of under-aged characters count as CSAM.
I've heard about those, where people notice things going very silent before a mundane but out of place scene unfolds before them.

Wing Commander V. Goddard claimed to have spotted a Royal airforce base several years into the future, noticing mundane, but ultimately true details like the changed color of the aircraft mechanics overalls.

https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/fascinating...
>Average Antarctic sea ice concentration in February 2023, the month when sea ice reaches its summer minimum extent. Compared to median conditions from 1981–2010 (yellow line), the most recent minimum was the lowest on record throughout the month.

???
Some other fun tidbits: I'm trying to make this an API-first service, with the frontend being just a representation of how to use it. Because of that, I wanted to make the frontend as reusable/refactorable as possible, regardless of frontend framework. I relied on webcomponents for everything, and the full app is a SPA built purely in vanilla js.

I'd never recommend anyone take that approach, it was masochistic. Use react or something. It was a great learning experience, but writing everything in vanilla js does slow down dev time overall.
Were they always losing money? I can't imagine Reddit costing that much when all it did was serve text and was largely community moderated but now they self host videos and other things.
Why are there so many people compelled to leave such useless comments every time this subject comes up? No one experiences life relative to all of humanity. Why is this a surprise anymore?
Slow moving relative to your sense of time, sure. Extremely fast moving on a planetary timeline.
But the magic of reddit is that I can browse all my communities in one place.
Playstation, Audi, Cooking, Tennis. It's super convenient to have a single account for all of this.

Before I used reddit, I had an account at an Audi forum, a different account at a tennis forum etc.. Reddit is so much better. I'd rather some 'bluesky'-like competitor vs every community going their own way.
Why do you pay for ChatGPT? To avoid rush hours?
I think we have to be more nuanced with health than this. Vaping can be the absolute best choice if it helps you maintain a healthy weight and/or a healthy career which keeps your health insurance activated.

There are plenty of people who swear by chemicals like nicotine and caffeine that help them achieve indirect benefits and I can't imagine they're all wrong.
Historically, before the "mass migration" most Mastodon servers were built around a specific community and their shared values of what was appropriate to post. Sure it was federated but many early users tended to stick to "their" server exclusively.

It's no surprise that can end up feeling like an echo chamber. It's getting better than it was when I first started using it about six months ago but some of the posts people catch heat for seem a bit too over the top.

One of my favorite examples was a user who posted a photo of their dinner. It was nothing crazy just like rice, veggies, and chicken. They were immediately accosted for not posting a trigger warning since some people have eating disorders. That's the type of community I have no patience for.
Looks like the "Freemium" business model has it's drawbacks. Especially when you want to make more money:) They are probably looking to sell and buyers are balking.
These issues are going to impact livestock around the world - which is a big contributor to global warming. I suppose some issues are self-correcting.
The fairest I can be there is that it might make their ad sales more complicated. It'd be more difficult to count "impressions" for an advertiser if you had to work out whether an ad served through the API was actually going to be shown to a user. The advertisers might also dislike the lack of control over the context their ads would be shown in.

This isn't insurmountable, but it does present some challenges.
> Can we please have a realistic discussion on climate change?

No we can't, because of the people who actually care about it, half are "everyone is going to be dead before your toddler goes to college unless we dismantle capitalism across the globe" and half are "humans haven't caused any warming at all and dumping trillions of tons of CO2 into the atmosphere has zero measurable effect I bet you voted for Biden." Both are idiots, but the problem is if you're not in one of those camps, and you want to have a rational discussion about climate change, you're in such a small minority you look like the crazy one.

Even here where I'd like to think the users are generally intelligent, the thread is either jokes, apocalyptic predictions about billions of climate-migrants, or nonsense about communism.

It would be interesting to compare this trend in US politics as a whole and how it can also be applied to this specific issue (and other divisive issues like gun rights or abortion rights) if it wasn't so goddamn depressing.
if someone can explain how global temps are measured and weighted i’ll give you a cookie
What happens if `boothd` contains a space? or a semicolon? or any character the shell might interpret?
It's pretty easy to predict how and how quickly "reduce emissions and begin effective-but-insufficient-on-its-own geoengineering" becomes "only do geoengineering."

It's relatively much easier, especially politically. And the entities most poised to begin it are exactly the behemoths who benefit from fossil fuel use in the first place. It'll rapidly become another money-and-PR funnel for the same couple hundred individuals who got us here in the first place.
You can make the community building tools so much more powerful too!

If people want to make a bird community and ban all pro-hawk posters, that's perfectly fine. The issue's are around the secrecy in administration.

How about adding the following:

- Removing shadowbans
- Allow users to see all deleted comments if they opt in
- Allow users to see all banned accounts/reasons they got banned.

Imagine a page for each subreddit which includes a list of banned/removed comments. It would be quite telling on the moderation if that list was mostly non-spam disagreements.

How about including an internet "Bill of Rights" for free speech, illogical arguments, etc to try and help guide the flow of discussion, similar to how /pol/ has this in their rules - https://i.4cdn.org/pol/1493993226750.jpg
I was an OG r/mtb subscriber and loved the content for years. I noticed more and more low-quality content slide in around 2017-2019 and I stopped frequenting it. It was one of my favorite subs back in the day. By the time COVID hit, that sub was a dumpster fire of low-quality posts it became a complete waste to even visit, I felt dumber after visiting it each time.

It isn't just the quality of the posts that degraded though. r/MTB for example hasn't gotten as spammy as most other subs. But the quality of the community has gone to shit, and thats almost worse because that was the main value it originally had. There really good gear discussions and technique help is gone. Most posts get 1-4 comments, almost all of which are "where this at?" or "what bike u hav?" that there is no community anymore. No discussions, which to me was the real value of the sub.

There is one subreddit that I don't feel comfortable mentioning because it covers a deeply personal and sensitive topic. But I joined that community back when it had 5k subs (it now has 300k). That community saved my life in many ways and provided therapy and healing by discussing a sensitive topic and help with recovery for people who were going through a similar traumatic life experience that I was going through at the time. It was an invaluable support group. Many of us knew eachother (by anonymous usernames of course), and helped eachother cope through very tough life experiences.I even participated in a few IRL Meetups. People would write research and high-quality content on there that rivaled academic content available at the time, several actually went on to do PhD research in this previously-unresearched niche. It was such an exciting time and such a healing and powerful community.

That community is 300k people now and a complete disaster. Way too many posts, most of which are off-topic. The remainder of the posts are non-constructive rants (which were previously banned). To make matters worse, there was a period of time where the community became unsafe and a mod from an opposing group had become a mod of our support group and was doxxing people in a way that ruined a few people's lives (I was luckily mostly no longer an active participant by this time, and mostly just lurking and providing occasional guidance). The community is now very rage-filled and is nothing like the quality support group/community that I was able to participate in.

Reddit is all about the communities. But it has become so commercialized and mainstream now that it has lost its original value. I don't want to scroll through a feed of memes and low quality shit posts or reposts. I want discussions and q+a forums with people who are passionate about topics, hobbies, life experiences, and shared interests. I want real discussions, not another algorithm-driven social media network spamming garbage at my eyes.
Not sure I understand. Zram allows you to store pages in a compressed fashion to memory to prevent or at least delay until the OOM kicks in and to keep hold of cached files for longer to prevent needless disk reads. Considering the tradeoff is a marginal amount of CPU resources it seems like free extra space and a no-brainer to enable if swap on disk isn't desired, at least in my mind.

I remember having issues with system starvation if it started to make excessive use of zram but that has been pretty much levitated with the introduction of MGLRU.
MSFT is the biggest software company out there.

And Google is the biggest privacy invader out there.
Indeed. A lot of people lately have been trying to erase the line between "things that were foreseeable consequences of your choices" and "things that you had no control over".
He tries a little too hard to make gradual global changes more tangible (what does 930 Hiroshimas even mean?), but in general he does a good job of stating the obvious for us lunkheads. The developed world is nearly at civil war in large part about the tiny number of refugees we have today---we will be completely unable to deal with climate refugees in the tens or hundreds of millions, and it won't be wet bulb temps that finish our society off, it will be us doing it to each other.
Yes, it applies to everyone who does business with European customers. I think that's fair – actually, it's the only way to do things on the interwebz because otherwise it would be trivial to bypass.

This is why a number of US sites have decided to just not do business in Europe and just outright block it, which I think is an entirely fair decision.

The thinkpenguin people seem to want to eat their cake and have it too.
> The recommendation against the use of NSS applies to all people except individuals with pre-existing diabetes
If whataboutism is the best defence of Russia you can come up with, you're not denying anything, right?

Once that's out of the way and we've cleared that indeed Russia is a terrorist state committing a genocide, we can also discuss the now lone superpower. The US indeed has committed a lot of war crimes and crimes against humanity. Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib are more relevant than the Tuskagee experiments which ended 50 years ago. However the US hasn't actually perpetrated a genocide, unlike Russia which is actively engaged in one as a matter of state policy. The Rwandan genocide, complicit as the US and other countries such as France and Belgium may be, was perpetrated and organised by Rwandans against other Rwandans.

Comparing the two is useful to an extent, but excusing Russia's actions with "well the US does something vaguely similar on a small scale, so that's all fine" is bullshit. Also, comparing rule of law in Russia vs US is.. laughable. Feel free to share examples of dissidents being murdered brutally in broad daylight recently with no consequences.
I have a Reddit account some years old, a few score comments, mostly on closed subreddits.

Took a bit for my profile page to show only the two comments left on unclosed subreddits.

Might be that kind of thing.
To add to this with an article I just found

“The [wet-bulb] temperature reading you get will actually change depending on how humid it is,” says Kristina Dahl, a climate scientist at the Union of Concerned Scientists. “That’s the real purpose, to measure how well we’ll be able to cool ourselves by sweating.”

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2022/jul/31/why-you-need...
Javascript is optimized for workloads to keep latency low and maximize concurrency while constraining itself for resources. This is pretty ideal for a GUI scripting language, and covers most use cases for the web.

It is hard to get performance perfect in all workloads. I have always been able to optimize my scripts to get the responsiveness that I need.
Splendid news. I can ditch the artificial sweeteners and return to putting three sugar lumps in my tea, since, somewhat counter-intuitively, using sweeteners instead of sugar doesn't help with weight control.