skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find it odd that Lyon is on the top ten(ish) - but not Paris?

And was hoping to see Japan here - there are some fantastic parks/temple/shrines in the big cities there.
Welp, glad I didn't go through with trying to contribute to TMW. That's disappointing to hear. I've had a much better experience trying to build my own MMO engine instead.
I’m not being sarcastic. There is engineering labor that requires hooking up all of these events. Then there is maintenance costs. And many more costs, direct or otherwise.
It's worth checking if room temperature is measured at the thermostat or at the return. It's a common issue with ducted Mitsubishi systems.

Also, a thermostat should be away from the air flow from supply registers to measure representative temperature
Stuff like this makes me believe that the entirety of life really could be encoded in DNA. I've read that if you gzipped the human genome, the file would be about 4MB, which intuitively seems too small to represent a human. But if this behavior can emerge from 256 bytes, then clearly my intuition is off.
You can add image-rendering: pixelated on the canvas element to remove the blurring. Mind you, that may be an intentional effect.
> one can surely discuss whether differentiating pay based on location is OK or not. However, comparing this to discrimination because of skin color or gender will not help this discussion at all

Exactly.

Compare it to something else, like paying people more if they own a sports car.
Woodworking is one of my many non-technical hobbies, used to switch off from the world. In particular, I will set out to make a 'thing' of non-critical nature, and abandon all measurement equipment. I'll still use a marking gauge without index markings, allowing me to mark a straight line, or a half way point, but that's it. Removing numbers from the process, for me, is a fantastic way to switch from an engineering mindset, to a purely creative one.
Time-limited licensing is the norm and has been for a very long time. Perpetual licenses are very difficult to negotiate in a way that's fair to anyone.

From the copyright owner's perspective, the value of your work typically increases over time. You don't know by how much, but you do know that the only way to extract that potential value is to ensure you have something to coerce[0] your licensees back to another negotiation. Making licenses expire is an easy and obvious way to do this. Selling 'no-strings-attached' perpetual licenses is an extremely bad deal for you.

Think about it like buying DVD boxsets (remember those?) vs. a Netflix subscription. If you buy the boxsets, that's it, you never have to pay for that show again[1]. If you subscribe to Netflix, you own nothing, meaning not only you have to keep paying for access to that show, but also that Netflix can jack up your rates and you'll pay them to retain access to the shows.

Even if a perpetual license is made available, it might not be something the licensee actually wants. The above was written from the perspective of a successful artist, but there's a flipside: works that lose value and decay in cultural relevance. The vast majority of cultural works decay like this. As much as I'm bullish on games preservation, games are especially bad at retaining cultural value, because, among other reasons, we burn down the world every 5-7 years with new console generations. A lot of games developers - or at least their bosses - are perfectly happy buying a cheap 5- or 10-year license and then just... throwing their work down the memory hole when it expires. The amount of people still buying Spec Ops: The Line in 2024 is so low that the music license would eat up all the profits and the publisher would be in the red renewing it.

Yeah, keep in mind too: all of these licenses are going to have minimum guarantees. When you license a copyrighted work, you're expected to pay a lot of money up front[2], purely for the privilege of having made that deal. Yes, you could pay a certain percentage of Steam sales, but this is almost always in addition to payment up front. First off, copyright owners don't like working with under-capitalized entities[3]; second, promises of future revenue are easily manipulated in ways that money showing up in your bank account isn't. The licensee has to open up their books and you have to trust that they aren't under-reporting copies sold.

[0] In the gun-to-head sense. When you use copyright to extract supra-competitive (read: any) profit from licensees, you're using a little bit of the government's sovereign power.

[1] Higher quality releases excepted

[2] Anime licensing calls this a "minimum guarantee", I don't know if that's a common term in other creative industries.

[3] The reasons for this are a complicated mess of elitism and business reality. Remember: the value of a copyrighted work is entirely in your ability to create demand for that work and restrict its supply. Licensing to anyone and everyone is contrary to this. Hell, game preservation as a whole is contrary to this.
>in a job interview, it's ML. in a product, it's AI.

Oh. This is good. I'm using this!
Fwiw this is spectrum, not proceedings. Spectrum has always been a bit more pop, closer to popular science than a real journal. I remember their goofy renders of folding computers in the early 00s looking like something right out of popular science
With respect to the example I gave, no, there actually isn’t. In fact I don’t even understand what you think the work and costs involved are.
Julia, for example runs by default with -O2 and debug info turned on. It's a good combo between debug-ability and performance.
There's a bunch of really good C++ profilers already. My current favourite is Tracy: https://github.com/wolfpld/tracy
Wait, Samantha one of the default Siri voices, sounds not even even close to the quality of what I heard in the examples above for this app.

I think it’s the same that Safari uses for the “Listen to this page” feature?

The two don’t seem comparable even. What am I missing?
> Imagine they would pay Bay Area salaries everywhere including Philippines or Ukraine

That would be absurd.

But what if they paid Philippines or Ukraine salaries everywhere instead? They wouldn't hire Bay-area engineers. Okay. And maybe the offshore has too much language/timezone friction. Okay. So choose a different price point, whatever is the cheapest to get engineers who match your condition, regardless of what their steet address is.
The gnss is presumably accurate enough to tell what side of the front lines it's being used on
Microsoft denies it went back on its word on Activision job cuts
WHO may add weight drug Liraglutide to essential medicines list
I have never felt more at peace than when I took a weekend course for hand tool woodworking and spent the better part of an afternoon using hand planes to square and flatten stock in prep for the next day. The sounds and smells melted away everything else.
Harpastum – ancient Roman prototype of soccer and rugby
Water gets really complicated, legally, going back to the Romans. Water being on your property doesn’t really mean much. Imagine if you were allowed to buy 100 feet next to a river and damn it, for example.
Using some scripts/parsers to take DTrace/perf/Instruments/ETW
data and transfer it to perfetto was one of the most exciting moments of my performance engineering career. It’s such a powerful thing compared to every single other workflow I’ve ever used.

It just shows contention in a way that so hard to see otherwise.

If this tool packages some of that in an easier to use package it’s going to be a great tool for some.
Queen Elizabeth II oversaw a lot of the final decline of the British Empire and Commonwealth. She seemed okay with it.
I have over $60,000 worth of NFTs right now. Isn't that weird? I thought NFTs were dead?
A divorce might happen if:

- You decide to divorce your partner based on circumstances you weren't expecting.

- Your partner decides to divorce you.

In the analogy, those would correspond to you leaving the school, or the school expelling you.

But the element of "circumstances you weren't expecting" has been completely lost. There's nothing more predictable than the university experience.

Are 30% of Dutch undergraduates leaving because they stumbled into better opportunities? Are they leaving because they're surprised that "school, but more of it" feels like more school? Are they leaving because their schools find that they perform below what their credentials suggested? (And if it's that last one... thirty percent?)
Somehow you just lumped "the entire US" with a couple high-cost metropolitan areas. When the cost of living is easily 50%+ higher there.

If you're remote, IDK why you would want to pay that premium.
Confirmed, I have all of the datasheets/appnotes you posted first page pictures of!
> Though I would say that thinking you need a certain amount of data safety is more of an unhealthy thought pattern

WTF is that? anybody that doesn't think about data safety deserves having their data lost. and if you come back with "just download it again" just proves why you don't need to have it downloaded locally to start
Can someone explain to me why, despite Coinbase and Kraken being headquartered in the Bay Area, HN hates cryptocurrency so much? It is literally just a neutral technology.
Induced demand refers to highways. Do you know of any studies demonstrating induced demand for housing?

As a counterpoint, look at all the empty cities China built in the middle of nowhere. According to the "induced demand" hypothesis, people should have materialized to occupy them, but that didn't happen.

Cities currently prevent the market from meeting even the regular demand, let alone any induced demand. Housing isn't going to get cheaper by not building housing.
My ultimate test, because I like opening the window(s) to get proper fresh air: how loud and/or stinky is it if you do just that?

I've lived on busy intersections on the 2nd floor where you really didn't want to open it at all for both noise and stink although noise wise it was fine during the day when windows were closed.

But all the air exchangers in the world can't beat actual fresh air from an opened window.
People were paying. Even right now, I'm paying for my own internet connection (two different providers, at that. Three when I decide to enable mobile data). What happens was that platforms decided to be free for both production and consumption, and decided to finance themselves by selling our attention. Other platforms kept requesting that one of the parties (creators or consumers) pay, and it's working fine for them.

What's killing software is enshitification and growing your expenses past your revenues. People are paying for a lot of stuff and understand that products are not free to build.
> It is absolutely legal to knock down your house so you dont have to pay property or mortgage tax on it.

Yes, that's true. But that's not the same thing as claiming the resulting loss as a deduction on your income tax.
> The hiring market is a market.

Yes, and when you are hiring remote, the market is "everywhere."

No need to divide that market up by people living in a city, people owning a sports car, people with large amount of medical debts, etc.
Or have the government build houses at cost. That is how post war Europe fixed the housing crisis.

I don't blame investors not wanting to build for the poor- they would quite literally lose money.
I would say... get back to us when you turn that into $60,000 worth of some actual currency. A lot of people thought they had millions in NFT's, until they tried to sell them.
Are you building something for non go users ?
The quietest place in NYC is in lower Manhattan? Find that hard to believe. At a minimum, if we’re just talking Manhattan there’s a rather large and, um, centrally-located park that has to have least one or two quiet corners.
I wonder why cars and trains don’t use tech like this to keep passengers stable, even when the road/track has bumps. Something like this, built into shock absorbers, could be revolutionary for transport.
It’s true. Most of the common hobbies I know of my SWE friends in California:

- Woodworking
- Diving
- Restoration
> There are no more dreams of the good life.

Speak for yourself, O'Dwyer. There are copious get-rich-slow schemes that provide copious joy. My cup runneth over. Put on the big people pants and find a suitable community of faith.
No, it isn't. If there were a tax on the movie as an asset that would be true, but there isn't so it isn't.
I actually quite enjoy the intersection of computing and woodworking that CNC provides. It's nice to be able to use my skills to make tangible things, but admittedly the CNC also intersects several hobbies I had always wanted to try: woodworking, robotics, electronics and metal machining.

There are definitely times where I just want to work with my hands in the workshop but I have plenty to do there too, so a detour to the CNC doesn't feel like it detracts from that.
feels like there is something different between countries you have listed and Russia, just can’t put my finger on what it is… :)
I’ve seen organizations spend millions just in engineering labor costs for such endeavors. But sure, for small companies with limited domain events to begin with, the costs are relatively lower, and probably with the lower domain complexity it is less of a share of engineering time overall.

But there are still opportunity costs! It’s not free to install dependencies across numerous code bases and hook into and label the events, even for a small business.
I've installed it and am enjoying using it so far, nice work!
I don't think it's about deducting expenses, otherwise this would be entirely moot because they'd deduct for expenses no matter whether it was a hit or a flop. I understood the article to be about deducting taxable income for a loss.
On the contrary, EVs are awesome and built precisely for my benefit. That's the problem. They are largely designed for rich people. We need EVs that last 10-15 years and can be found used for a fraction of their new cost, dinged up and a little busted but mostly still working. That's the niche where they start to make a difference because that's what most people drive.
If you decide to rebuild your HQ, you may well have to destroy the old one, even if someone would have bought it from you.

When a developer buys a property, razes it, and builds a new building there, all those costs and actions are permitted.

I find it amusing that a studio, who is almost surely getting professional tax advice with full knowledge of the facts and circumstances, is having the legality of the proposed course of action not just questioned but outright confidently asserted as contrary to the law based on an article that’s light on details.
Hating a tech is a variation on the them of immaturity that powers The Subject Article itself.
I asked bard to summarize:

> The article argues that cryptocurrency exploits the vulnerable and exposes them to scams, and that it reinforces existing inequalities. It claims that cryptocurrency does not level the playing field.

and then asked for 5 items:

> Cryptocurrency is often associated with the American Dream, but it is a cruel promise that exploits the vulnerable.

> Cryptocurrency is a volatile and risky investment, and many people have lost money investing in it.

> Cryptocurrency is often used for illegal activities, such as money laundering and drug trafficking.

> Cryptocurrency mining uses a lot of energy, which is harmful to the environment.

> Cryptocurrency is not a regulated industry, so there is no protection for investors if something goes wrong.

I don't think there's anything novel with this train of thought, if anything it's not surprising that the US has embraced crypto considering you could replace Cryptocurrency with Capitalism and the previous sentences would still sorta work.

As someone who's deep into the crypto field, what I find sad is that most modern cryptocurrencies do not use mining, but the main old one (Bitcoin) still does. The high amount of scam is really sad as well, but the upside is that crypto is quite transparent and so we can detect and even catch a lot of these guys (whereas the banking scams are much more opaque and most of them don't ever see the light of day)
Access to this game is now limited to the second hand market. This generates artificial scarcity and reduces its potential audience. Luckily Spec Ops: The Line sold physical discs and was not too bogged down with DRM so it's still possible to obtain a license to run the game.

While this specific incident is tragic, we should recognize this type of loss is a common occurrence. We need to do a better job of recognizing video games as culturally relevant art that should be preserved. Preserved not only for archival -- but preserved in a way we can share with future generations. The current system of used video game markets and the occasional 'museum' doesn't work well. Emulation is the only thing making the situation bearable and it's legal stability is questionable.

There's a few improvements we can do. One simple win is to require all published games to be submitted to a central cataloging and archival agency. This way we know the art won't be lost forever. A bigger win would be to open up alternative distribution pathways for games that are no longer published. Perhaps games not actively published should have significantly reduced copyright times. Perhaps a digital library system could exist for these games.
> It gets tricky when amortization and accruals are involved

That's right. But when all the dust settles, writing off an asset that had market value when you intentionally destroyed it will not pass an audit.
I've done the same (funded and bootstrapped), and most of the conversation about this choice is just stupid.

Engineers cost easily $200k. If you need much functionality before you earn significant money, you simply can't bootstrap. If you don't have founders that can afford to earn very little money for probably 2+ years, you can't bootstrap. Even an inexpensive 4 person eng team, one cs, and some basic office space and marketing/ad spend and all the other stuff a functioning company requires costs a million dollars a year.

Or you need significant ad spend (b2c), or you have midmarket or enterprise buyers who -- quite reasonably -- refuse to buy from a small company unless you can use millions in investment to prove that you aren't going to up and disappear after they spend serious internal effort to implement.

Or -- and this one is particularly painful -- one of your competitors raises, and can suddenly hire many more eng and salespeople, or significantly outspend on ads. That is very difficult to compete with.

These realities foreclose most opportunities to bootstrapping.
> If you’re hiring for some specific niches or need very senior people,

Okay, so you'll pay more for those niches or seniority. At whatever price is competitive with the market as a whole.

You don't need to include location. I'm sure people who drive fancy cars need more money too, but I'm not gonna pay more for that.
Congratulations on building something great!

It is immensely satisfying to build something that you believe in and succeed in selling it. I founded my company in 2019 and my experiencing and motivations in bootstrapping mirror yours.

We are in year 4 (commercials) and 6 (product development) at Factor House[1].

We build enterprise tooling for streaming systems (Apache Kafka and Apache Flink mostly). Selling software to enterprise customers is different from B2C as the sales cycles can be endless and most likely your cashflow might be more lumpy, but at the end of the day it's a very powerful thing to be profitable and independent.

As @yevpats points out sometimes the bootstrapping story does miss some details, in our case we invested roughly $500k to get through the pre-commercial period, to achieve that we sold our house (my wife is also my co-founder). Not everyone can, or is mad enough, to commit resources at that early stage. To be honest we were quite mad.

Prior to starting product development with Factor House we ran a consultancy that delivered systems for enterprise customers based on Kafka, Storm, Cassandra, etc - so we had plenty of experience. We also had consultancy customers who were eager to use the pre-commercial versions of our product and provide feedback.

I also run a meetup[2] in my hometown that specialises in programming solutions with distributed systems.

Last year we took a small amount of funding from Lighter Capital (non-dilutive, fairly simple loan terms) to unlock some growth.

Bootstrapping is hard, but my interactions with VC left me with the impression that it's a low-information lottery for the benefit of those who already have capital.

It seemed clear that if we took funding we would rapidly lose control of our vision and we don't need to 100x our business to achieve our goals. I would rather focus on delivery for our users and avoid adopting manic ideas to pay off 99 failed lottery tickets.

[1] https://factorhouse.io

[2] https://www.meetup.com/melbourne-distributed/
It's a double edged sword. A closed source non-transparent solution without a reported cve is also laughable as "secure".

Also the most recent release 22.0.2 only has 3 (known) vulnerabilities.
https://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list/vendor_id-25/p...
> I suspect that this is part of an effort to create more semi-conductor engineers to work at that plant.

Not just at Intel's Ohio fab, but across the nation as part of a much broader onshoring movement[1].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31756704
How is the location relevant? I think the subtitle of the article presents the thesis clearly: Selling itself as the new American dream, crypto exposes the vulnerable to fraud and scams, and loads risk onto the poor
Fort Bragg? Is that the central coast? I'd love to get out there; I build furniture professionally, and my training is very much in the period American tradition, but my tastes run a lot more contemporary.
Or 4 when it turns out you're trying the HDMI port instead.
I don't think they ever existed. Which Super Bowl TV commercials do you consider good?
The minority that was producing quality content for free may have left. But the content is still there, so as long the content itself is still relevant, you will have users (I've deleted my Reddit account, but still go there for some searches)
Even if that does happen I can go pluck a replacement from a sctrap yard and have installed for a fraction of a fraction of the cost of a new battery. I am practically an EV evangelical when it comes to cool cars for people with plenty of money, but we have to recognize that the tech just isn't there to make it practical for the vast majority. Not yet.
Is a misconception that DNA is enough by itself to replicate a living being, there are biological bases in the embryon that need to be pass down from the parent as biological infraestructure for the new being to form.
Indeed, what I mean is I don't personally see a huge productivity boost compared to virtual desktops, and have spent a lot of time working abroad with a single laptop. An external usb-c monitor is occasionally useful but people who swear they need a minimum of 3-4 monitors obviously have a very different brain to mine!
The reverse holds too: I know more people with PhD's through climbing than any other area of my life that's intuitively nerdier.
But it is not, if it gets used mainly for one thing: scams and eluding taxes.
It's like claiming social networks are a neutral technology. It's the lie that gets sold, but technologies are not neutral in themselves. They have underlying mechanics that lend themselves to particularly good or in some case bad use cases.
If you could go back and flip a switch and Facebook never happens, would you do it? would you rather have the minimal good that came from it, or avoid that people get slaughtered in Myanmar because of social media amplification of fake news?
Same for crypto.