skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd say there's a great-er probability of a cold war now, but I get my opinions from Noahpinion https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/happy-fun-cold-war-2-update.
I assume Denmark considers US ghost pepper hot sauce producers terrorist cells?
Did you try the puzzles?
Of course, you're always at the mercy of customer service. Not having a backup email or phone number can make your account easier to attack since the customer service agent has fewer options before they resort to just giving your account away to the attacker.
The problem with ATT prepaid is it's deprioritized to the same level as mvnos - might as well buy an even cheaper mvno plan at that point.

Tmobile is the only big 3 carrier where all branded plans have the same priority
If they only committed to paying the final months bill, that's a very limited upside for customers. Far more limited than what "no price hikes" sounds like. There's basically no penalty for T-Mobile – if they raise prices and people stay, they win, and if someone chooses to leave (which they could do anyway if the price changes), they lose out in nearly the same way as if they hadn't made the promise.
> All of this after 7 to 10 years of working 80+ hours week, no social life, loosing family, sacrificing health, taking less than $100k/year salary

If you are taking less than $100k/year salary for 7 to 10 years while also absolutely no-lifing then that’s on you.

It’s true that early on you prob take ramen salary, but that’s for one or two years. You can prob scale to 200k by year 3 if your thing is viable. No-lifing when your startup is in year 5 is just a personal choice. If by year 5 you aren’t on a path of unicorn then prob it’s time to evaluate if it’s worth so much sacrifice or if you should run it as a lifestyle business (or just go do something else).
This sounds like what I remember it being described as. Thanks!
I'm lazy enough to not bother to change the home page (or default browser) on one of my computers, so it's MS Edge and this junk is the home page. It's really shocking how bad it is.

Part of the problem is the "legitimate" sources they choose to syndicate are barely distinguishable from the outright frauds. This is not a comment about political bias, the BS spans all kinds of politics.

I doubt BNN Breaking is the only blatant fraud either. I often see headlines that make me think there is zero chance the story is real.

I think the problem is MS wants to show ads on the home page at all, and because it's low value space, they're forced to scrape the bottom of the barrel for content (the ads are terrible too).

Chrome's default page is infinitely better because it just doesn't have much on it (I also never changed this from the default). For me, it's just a google search bar, and some of my bookmarks/recently visited pages. MS needs to just stop attempting to monetize this kind of space. I'm assuming google was on to something by deciding it wasn't worth it.
How accurate is the chart titled "Top 20 U.S. Cities for Tech Salaries"?

Houston, TX seems a bit high.
A reminder that a job isn't there to Do the Right Thing, it's there so you don't starve.
nvm - I just saw OpenFaas's licence since I last looked at it
Maybe one of the untold stories of the 'Browser Wars' was how Microsoft went from 80% to ~0% partially because their home page was all awful tabloid trash. Nothing new for MSN.
These are legitimately hot. I’m the idiot who orders their curry “native extra spicy” and I have half-used bottles of ghost pepper sauces in the fridge. I love ludicrously spicy food.

The 2x ramen nearly beat me. The first fork was merely volcanic. Drinking the last of the broth in the bottom was infernal. It’s hot.
Without clicking the link I knew they were talking about which Buldak Ramen noodles. I grew up eating extremely spicy food and these ones were really high up on the spice scale.

But what’s the need to recall them? It seems like an overreach to me.
The battery market is a pretty interesting market to follow. Bloomberg New Energy Fund (NEF) published an interesting report a few months ago titled "China Already Makes as Many Batteries as the Entire World Wants".

https://about.bnef.com/blog/china-already-makes-as-many-batt...

I like their reports because it injects facts into what is otherwise a very opinion driven public debate. And the facts are quite impressive.

Some key points:

- they are tracking about 6 twh of new battery production related investment for 2025 world wide

- that's about 4x the projected demand of 1.5 twh for 2025; which is up from slightly under 1 twh last year (2023). So, they are signalling massive over production of batteries is about to happen. That's quite a change from the shortages companies were dealing with in the last few years.

- they expect that to have some obvious effects on prices and some of those investments: not all these projects will make it and battery over supply will drop prices and endanger producers that can't do that.

I would add to that that it is likely that wider availability of cheaper batteries is going to create new use cases as well. So their demand projection might be off. If prices drop low enough, a lot of household equipment might start coming with batteries, for example. Things like fridges and ovens for example. That's a market that barely exists now. But if prices drop enough, why not?

Another thing I find interesting is the average charge state and longevity of batteries. We're accumulating many twh of batteries on a year to year basis and they might have a life measured in decades. That's just how long it takes to get through the many thousands of charging cycles these things support even when you use them very intensively.

But mostly these batteries are at pretty high charge states because they actually aren't used that intensively. You don't drain your EV's battery every day. And your powerwall that can run your house hours is only used very lightly on a day to day basis because power outages don't happen that often.

So, that's a lot of potential energy that is pre-distributed and ready for use that the grid doesn't have to supply on demand. Tens to hundreds of twh pretty soon. Some virtual power plants are starting to rival nuclear power plants in the amount of power they can make available. And that's while these virtual power plants are still operating at relatively small scales. They can only do so in short bursts of course but it starting to affect how grid investments are being allocated.
Ireland has such a horrendous housing situation that I left for another country with a housing crisis (the Netherlands) and it felt like easy mode by comparison. €2450 for a nice 5 bed house a 20 minute train ride from Amsterdam Centraal vs some mouldy dump in Kildare that you need to fight off 100 people to get.
Zürich, Switzerland Online Tree Registry
That's not how property taxes typically work in most places. An assessor updates the values on some period, taxes go up, and they pay their share. That actually became a huge issue in El Paso. Their property taxes range 2 - 3% of home value, which was fine when everything was worth 150k 5 years ago. Today it's nearly tripled, and some got tax bills in the 5 digits for homes they've had forever. Some states, like FL, prevent that from happening, which sounds nice on paper but is essentially what you describe. I'm not sure how I feel about that, but it was intended for retirees so I kinda get it.

If your question is, is it fair people who bought before 2020 have an awesome interest rate and pay way less than newcomers, I'd say no, only because I'm angry I sold in 2019 and regret it!
I travelled to the U.S. and Mexico using eSIMs recently and was running into this issue a lot. I guess this was the reason, thank you.
Tmobile is not a representative government. It is a highly profitable company that arguably acts in a cartel fashion with the other two national providers.
... and not a single photo.
I second this. I’m a Lifelong extra spice eater and these ones made me sweat and nuked my taste buds.
This is a new low for Mozilla.
Python Crash Course, 3rd Edition: A Hands-On, Project-Based Introduction to Programming Paperback – 12 Jan. 2023
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Python Programming: An Introduction to Computer Science Paperback – Illustrated, 30 Jan. 2016
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I’m sorry, I think the era of “change the world” motivation in tech was eclipsed by “make 42 tons of money” about a decade ago.

Along that line, I would be very surprised that there are founders who don’t seek an opportunity to set aside their nest egg to “de-risk”.

You say you have seen such guileless dedication to the founding first hand, can you share what industry or type of company? Perhaps I’m just exposed to the wrong crowd.
Thanks for the reply!

>Analytics only really work when you user base is large enough.
Yes I guess that statement really is true!
Aren’t ghost peppers Indian? Nitpick aside, they’re legit weapon grade stuff:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chili_grenade
Okay, glad you made it impossible to write a comment that disagrees with yours.

You know what they say about things that aren't falsifiable, they're definitely correct!!
That seems unlikely. It felt waaaay hotter than jalapeño, like many times hotter, not just 1.5x hotter. If true, maybe it’s just the volume of it. Tabasco doesn’t register as hot at all to me, but I don’t make a habit of drinking it by the pint.
Gleam never had currying or partial application like with usual ML syntax.
Are most of the AI apps in ChatGPT wrappers?
I already started seeing Sodium based batts on Alibaba. But they are 3.1 volts, so I imagine there will be a new slew of supporting BMSs and other things that need to get involved.

Watching closely.
Also a good reminder that ö, ä, ü should be subtituted with oe (like in Goethe), ae (aether) or ue here (Gruen's original name was Grünbaum); not o, a, u.
"Free Speech" (tm)
Interesting example. But I can't help to think that, if that was to be the case, but in place of homes appreciating in value to the point they're primarily used as investment vehicle, then local community might be better off with such deal.
This seems off. It tastes much spicier. I'd guess it's in 20-40k range.
I'm sorry, I confused you with a twitter account that used the same name as yours, as I was upset by Lynn's passing. I take back what I said about you being an asshole.
That was just a quick experiment (not fully grounded in chemistry theory) to see what would happen, since my ferrous sulfate wasn't arriving until a day later.
Looking at the data sheet for a contemporary Sony CD-ROM mechanism

◆ Service life of feed motor

The current consumption of feed motor must be less than initial value plus 30% after 50,000 cycles. (1cycle : innermost track → outermost track → innermost track)

◆ Service life of limit switch

The contact resistance must be less than 100mΩ after 50,000 cycles. (1cycle : innermost track → outermost track → innermost track)

◆ Pick-up slide operation

The pick-up should operate perfectly after 50,000 cycles. (1cycle : innermost track → outermost track → innermost track)
They said the other news outlets linked to the stories, not syndicated. I checked the Politico and Guardian links, they were linking to BNN stories to support their argument. The Guardian piece is at least labeled as opinion, which I think means anything goes these days. If it's all wrong it is just fodder for the next opinion piece calling it rubbish.
I am convinced that the WFH movement is responsible for the recent offshoring trend.

Before 2020, it was fairly uncommon to work remotely and most employees were expected to physically come to the office. You would relocate if you got a job in another state, and employers had to go through a painful visa process to access foreign workers or set up expensive international satellite offices.

The great WFH experiment kicked off by the pandemic concluded that no productivity was lost, so many employers realized that they did not actually need to hire domestically at all. Everyone can be remote and work from wherever. LCOL in the US is still extravagant compared to many other regions, so a top engineer can now be hired for pennies on the dollar. I think there's a very good chance that tech salaries in the US have begun to and will continue to equalize with the rest of the world as a result.
Conway's Game of Life running on Google results page
Agreed. I have a hard time believing anyone who could have serious problems from eating this stuff would be capable of eating enough of it to cause the problems.
Is the Tesla board in charge of a public company or the Elon Musk fan club?
If the salary is market rate for that person, I suppose it's by definition a fair deal. I've seen startups hire "founding xyz" two years after they started. Looks to be a vanity title in many cases.
How can people believe that a censored politically correct process can get even close to something like AGI is baffling to me.
Lysenkoism in computing.
but they banned that type of car for being unsafe right?.... right?
I think you’re right about this. There should be a special “limited” icon to show when your service is being deprioritized. I think would actually help the carriers as it would tell customer when a degradation of service was due to a congested network vs low signal.
Every startup CEO must demystify 83(b) for their employees.

If you don't have cash on hand to pay for early taxes, the company can pay a signing bonus or something for those who elect 83(b) to pay for the upfront taxes.

OR

Just pay market salaries and leave the choice to employees to do whatever they want with cash. You want to buy our company stock great here's the grant. You want to put your money in S&P index go ahead.

The employee equity part needs a lot more simplification. I don't know why it is not as simple as

Here are 2 options for you

Salary 200K
OR
Salary 100K Equity 100K
If equity 100K
exercise 83(b) - pay taxes at 200K income
OR
defer taxes for the subsequent exercise dates. (Could land a huge tax bill)
OR
defer the exercise date for a liquidity event/secondary sale.

Those who value risk will take the last option and those who don't will stick to full salary.
83(b) exercise, when presented like this, doesn't seem all that rosy.

There could be some legalities that I am unaware of, but broadly this should work.
I am in a unique position to answer the question as I started learning Software Development last Oct after working as Automation engineer for more than 10 years. Based on the skills and tech stack that I found would be useful to start a company are as follows:
- NextJS - FE & BE
- NodeKS - Express/Hono for backend specific
- TypeScript
- Tailwind CSS + Shadcn-ui
- MongoDB / Postgres
- Prisma ORM
- Resend / AWS SES
- Clerk / NextAuth
- AWS EC2 -> Backend Deployment
- Vercel
- GitHub
- Upstash Redis / AWS ElastiCache - DB and Session Caching
- Cloudflare / AWS Cloudfront + AWS WAF
- AWS API Gateway

You can keep 6-8 months to learn and build couple of projects using the tech stack
No. What is the purpose of this competition? Unlikely that the reason for it is to pay out an enormous reward, right? Easy or not easy, the fortune is only rewarded to the system that solves the puzzles. The reward is too valuable to be given away easily. Ipso facto, solving the puzzles is deemed challenging by those who present the competition.
What happened when 10 teens gave up their smartphones?
Merging and Splitting Partitions with Minimal Locking PostgreSQL 17
A few years ago I was really into spicy food. I would cut up entire ghost peppers or habaneros and put them in almost every meal. I was at the point where physically it made we sweat but i could actually enjoy the flavor.

Eating the 2x spicy ramen two days in a row destroyed my stomach and also had me in tears as that oil makes it linger. When I say destroyed i mean it took over a month for it to get back to normal and even after that it wasn’t like it was before.

I don’t eat any spicy food anymore. I could see why you might pull these.
This and my own experience with employee stock options led me to reject any work for startups that offer stock options. It is a way to make you work hard and allow to be treated like dirt for less money. The lowest point was having to walk across town to the office to eat energy bars from the office kitchenette, because I could not afford a bus fare or food as my pay was delayed by a week over Christmas. Meanwhile, the founder was holidaying in Dubai, driving a BMW X7 to work, and showing off a house with a small park and a pond bought in leafy Berkshire. Employee #1 treated the rest of us like dirt. I got laid off in a round of cuts just before my options kicked in and thought it was unjust, but a year later the company was sold to a competitor and the investors got a nice return, the founder got another pot of gold, and the employees with stock options got nothing, because it was a private sale and not an IPO. Employee # 1 was in a bit of a shock allegedly.
What do you mean it can 'generate python programs that solve the tasks'? I can't find any mention of that. I only see hand-coded solutions.
Yes. Because you’re literally the same as the founder, but getting waaaay less equity.

First employee is always a sucker
If your early enough (like seed stage), it's like $300 for %5.
Yeah, the American comments here seem to boil down to "technically I could walk to a school/store/cafe if I wanted to (but it's quite shit so nobody does) so it's basically Europe and Japan" and think that's comparable to a town of people who walk around daily and bump into neighbors while fetching milk from the local shop. Even Mexico is like that.

If we swapped some of this cope energy with a push to change things, maybe we wouldn't have to burn our vacation time to fly across the world to walk to a cafe on a pedestrianized street.
Banning these ramen is ridiculous, but very low spice tolerance is a thing. Used to work with a someone who could legit detect 3 black peppercorns in a gallon of chicken soup. It made the soup "a bit on a spicy side". It was so bizarre that we did an AB test to confirm it and it was true.
EU to impose multibillion-euro tariffs on Chinese electric cars
I also couldn't get sunshine to work today, and I tried swapping the S's as well. Neither worked.
I wonder if this will have the same effect as the "parental advisory" sticker on music, where the demand for these noodles among Danish spicy food lovers will skyrocket. Since buldak noodles are already so much more expensive than regular noodles (at least in Northern Europe) and are sold as more of a novelty item, they might justify the extra cost of shipping or private import from another EU country.
And I can create an infinite number of "real" bicycles since they don't use a battery at all, plus they're even better for your health than an e-bike!

Snark aside, e-bikes are great, I don't have one but that's because between my nice road bike that can crank out 100 miles no problem, and my battery car, I don't need one. But they do work for lots of people. I wish I could get one for my kid, but it is illegal for anyone under 14 to ride one, where I live.
I don’t think it can cause direct damage in the way lye or a poison would. I could imagine it causing so much pain in someone that it triggered a seizure or something else awful.

Although I think almost anyone not trying out for “Jackass” would stop eating it well before they got to that point.
> Accepting a below market salary and then doing a great job is a huge risk.

By doing bad quality work on purpose will not make you learn anything. Better idea is to leave your underpaid position, start your own startup or join another that has better salary and compensation.
It's not really possible to benchmark real-world. But to see which priority your account is provisioned at just need ability to see lower-level information from the baseband. Deprioritization = QCI 9. Different carriers use different QCI's but 9 is lowest, 6 is usually highest priority. Network Signal Guru is an app for android that will report this information, but it usually requires root (I think the pixel phones do not, qualcomm devices usually do).

The radio layer is where deprioritization happens, not through deep packet inspection (as would be the case for video throttling). Having a strong signal with good RF conditions deprioritization won't be noticed as much, also won't be noticed if the sector isn't busy. If it is busy and you are near cell edge, that's when speeds will fall off (as the radio layer will schedule less time and resources for your device, and the worse conditions means it can't send as much data with those resources allocated).
Thanks! To be honest I don't agree with that rule, but maybe HN is not the place to discuss Wikipedia's policies on sensitive subjects.
> using helium, hydrogen, hypergolic fuels

Pressure-fed engines are the simplest liquid-fuel engine design [1]. SpaceX's Raptors' full-flow staged-combustion cycles are massively more complicated. Yes, keeping your helium from boiling off is...a job. But taken as a system, the Raptor is more complicated.

> methane may be technically less capable, but much easier to work with

Also less precedented. Hydrazine/helium thrusters are amply studied. On technological risk, methane is untested.

> Steel is worse than aluminium in many ways, but it's also strong and easy to manufacture

It's also heavier and corrodes.

In summary, SpaceX chose a more-complicated engine design, a novel fuel and an unprecedented structural material and beat Boeing to the punch. In part because Boeing sucks. In part because Starliner has been obvious fuckwit fodder for at least half a decade, and that leaves you with a special sort of person who is willing to work on it.

> where the shuttle was famous for having a complex (but well engineered) sophisticated avionics system, SpaceX use "commodity" computers running Linux

The Space Shuttle's main computer was a System/360 descendant [2]. Its design philosophy implies that they would have used Linux were it an option.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pressure-fed_engine

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_System/4_Pi
I usually immediately close the window as it removes any desire to see the content. The only exception is if it's for a website that I want to sign up for.
In my experience there has never been a good time to be a founding engineer even in companies that have later made it. It's much better to join the company 1-3 years prior to IPO/Sale where you get many of the benefits but significantly less stress. If I had worked at startups I would have been taking a 30-40% pay cut compared to the roles I did work and none of those startups have gone anywhere with most crashing and burning.
I like this stuff and have to add chilis to make it spicy. Ah well.
This so much. So many folks in this thread are talking about series B+ and only paying themselves under 100k/yr and that’s just a scam. Once you have institutional money you can just start paying yourself enough to live ~comfortably.
Javier Milei pitches Argentina as low-regulation AI hub
Having been in this exact position multiple times now (once quite successful, others not), you should probably consider it a wash.

Unless the company hits unicorn AND your shares become liquid (secondaries don't count—you generally won't be able to sell enough shares to make a meaningful dent), you'd make just as much or more at a FAANG firm with way less risk.

Of course, I say this while not at a FAANG firm, because I prefer startup type work.
I hope they use this in their marketing. * * BANNED IN DENMARK * *
Danes (not all) will happily dig in to fermented fish variations like Surströmming though:

A newly opened can of surströmming has one of the most putrid food smells in the world, even stronger than similarly fermented fish dishes such as the Korean hongeohoe, the Japanese kusaya or the Icelandic hákarl.

~ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surstr%C3%B6mming

so it's a case of dancing with the devil you know.