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My night vision is also significantly deteriorated. I can drive fine at night, as I can see lights and reflective surfaces just fine, but walking around at night is definitely more difficult, and sometimes concerning.

I'd had issues with dry eyes for most of my adult life. When I was still wearing contacts, I had a doctor tell me it was likely that I wasn't blinking enough. It seemed silly to me at first, but then I paid more attention (I did tend to stare at screens for 18-20 hours at a time back then), and realized the doctor was spot on.

I learned to blink more while working and it's made an enormous difference. On occasion, I'll still find myself completely submerged into whatever I'm doing, eyes wide open, dry as dust, and I'll sit back, squeeze my eyes shut a few times until they water again, and then take a break.
>This attitude also seems to be behind the competing ideas of alcoholism being either a disease or a behavior. If it's a behavior, you can blame the alcoholic for failing to sort themselves out, but if it's a disease, maybe they're truly helpless.

Implicit in this is the idea that behavior originates from an identity, from some independent center.

You have to believe in the notion of free will to assign blame.
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This is the first time I've heard the quote, but I think it's to appreciate that life is short and could end at any time, and while bleeding out you'd realize that worrying about these long-term things was a waste of time.
Articles tend to pigeonhole her as an Apple designer, but that sells her influence short; Kare also designed the icons for Windows 3.x and the cards for Solitaire.
This sounded pretty cool so I googled it. The proper name is Orthokeratology.
I suspect it's mostly not a matter of some VC/advisors being good and others being harmful across the board, but rather the appropriateness of a particular VC/advisor for a particular business. The Dunning-Kruger effect is probably very much in play: someone who has been successful with one kind of business may tend to overgeneralize the applicability of what they learned.
had LASIK two years ago. dry eyes and starbursts quite a bit in the first 6 months, but the dryness is gone now and night time vision is good. I can live with very minor starbursts/halos at night that don't interfere with my vision vs having contacts or glasses. the procedure got me to 20/15 and I'm seeing more clarity than I ever did with glasses or contacts.

I was told about still requiring reading glasses when you hit a certain age because that's an entirely different condition and sometimes people confuse that with the procedure having failed them later.
Make a reasonable estimate - what do you think is the total number of people earning in the range of 400K at FAANGMUA? How about in terms of percentage of engineering staff?

Do bear in mind that it takes almost 10 years of steady relevant experience to get to that level (L5+). As another commenter points out, 8 years of solid experince only made an L4.
I've always been surprised that people are willing to do LASIK. Maybe I've just been very lucky with contacts, but I notice pretty much no life difference versus before I needed contacts or glasses, other than the need to find contact solution to store them in at night. Nowhere near inconvenient enough to get me to consider carving my eye up with lasers.
> It makes sense, but that doesn't make it true. Is your argument based on your personal beliefs, or is it based on actual outcomes in the economy?

Seems to me it's based on basic arithmetic. Are you arguing that $250,000/year isn't a very comfortable take-home wage?
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Going back and fixing up is almost never as legible as getting it right the first time. Even for human readers.

If you truly want to write fast, you go with a shorthand system. I don't know many folks that have tried reading other's shorthands. It probably isn't as tough as you'd imagine, but most of those systems are more demanding on stroke order, not less. If only because the speed is gained by being very prescriptive.
Ask HN: Why do you hate (or love?) your bank?
This is an attempy at a (very) informal survey about what people in this community love or hate about their current bank.

As a tech savvy consumer I've complained about banking for years, and there are a lot of things I wish it would do differently (For instance, why cant I just constantly be underwritten once I have an active mortgage - is it really necessary for me to "apply" again when I've been paying my bill on time for years?)

Like many of you I really hoped Simple would fix this years ago but that seems lost with the time now ... I'm just hoping to hear some of your thoughts on banking as this is a community of smart people who's opinions I usually hold in high regard
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FWIW, I think it's useful to see that if you exhibit a number of these behaviors, you either have mental issues (which is OK but help is needed) or you need to change your lifestyle and attitude. It's not trolling if it's not intentional, so don't use that term inappropriately.
Why not just buy some glasses that blur up your vision? And then go put them on in Central Park?
With amateur athletes it’s a balance of both. You have to put in the hours. You can film your gait or your stroke all you want but you have to practice first.

A lot of your practice is trying to cement the last four things you learned. You put in the hours and periodically you check in about improving your technique again. If you feel stuck in a plateau it’s probably time.
Sounds like Cap Table hell. If you're only there for 3 months, why should you get rewarded when chances are you didn't contribute anything to the company? I think a 1 year cliff makes even more sense for a startup than an established company because you really should contribute something before hitting the cap table as someone with employee options.
Hey ammmir, sorry about the slow reply.

The privacy stuff is definitely important to us, and storing user data locally is a good way to ensure it stays private. Right now, the main reason we store memories server side is so that we can use ElasticSearch for the search. In time it may be possible and desirable to move everything including the index to the client. We're also hoping to provide clients for other platforms (Window, Linux, phones) and it may end up being a better user experience for memories to stay in the server so they're accessible everywhere.

GitHub and Trello have both been requested a lot since we launched, so they're high on our list for new integrations.

I'd not seen them before, but Duck Duck Go's bang search does seem like a cool idea, and something we could definitely support. I'll be looking into this more.

Issues filed in our tracker.

Thanks for trying Pensieve, I hope you continue to find it valuable.
I am now at the point where I do need basic reader type glasses.

In most other ways, my vision is good, and I don't have night artifacts. Would take a lot for those to be worth it.

After using them for a while, I agree.
To me it seems like the real power of and differences between tools is apparent mostly in the context of offline history editing. Once you're making pull requests, nobody wants anything complex in the PR. Lowest common denominator - "here is a set of commits" might be fine.
and of course by bombing all of the competitors factories making the US a monopoly in manufacturing.
Safari Reader Mode is a habit of unmiserable people.
If you’re making $300k-$500k a year, a $1M house is extremely attainable.
I should add that I was an excellent candidate with plenty of corneal tissue and the procedure was using the latest equipment and techniques. The place I went to was reputable and turned a lot of people away because they were not good candidates. I wonder if any less reputable places are performing the procedure on higher risk people and this contributes to an increase in serious side effects?
You won’t, because you were smart and rented instead. :)
Seems strange trying to define precisely why people might have a crisis in the middle of their life, as if there would be a single reason.
Hey, that's cool! Thanks for that, will try it out on a new service/pet-project one day.

In our current service, I think we're pretty happy with the way our structure is. It's almost similar to saturn-gql but with raw javascript instead of parsing with `graphql-tools`.
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Horror stories like these have scared me away from ever getting LASIK, even though I'm apparently an ideal candidate. Vision is such a important sense, I would never want to risk damaging it.
Taxes are reflective of income. Less pay = less tax.

Ridiculous house prices are reflective of ridiculous hiring/salary practices.

Your “solution” created its own problem.
Con: Lack of mentorship because everyone is so busy and manpower is low.

Pro: Have to chance to decide what to do if the hierarchy hasn't been built up yet.
I don't know what to say other than that the entire purpose of written language is to carry information between people who aren't in a position to directly observe each other writing. (If they were, they could just talk and would not need to write.)
Getting married is expensive? How so?
Or you’re getting underpaid relative to your peers.
I don't know if Spielberg has examples like Lucus but at least for "Jaws" Speilberg acknowledges that if the tech had worked "Jaws" would likely just be a b-horror movie. The fact that the shark submarine didn't work forced them to film and edit the movie to not show the shark much which made it much better.

Wish Lucas would take that attitude as mostly the updates make his movies more cheesy imo
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From what I’ve heard, SpaceX pays pretty poorly. Extremely long hours for below-average aerospace salary. Surprised to see you mention them, but maybe they’ve improved lately.
> Yes, Amazon has lower base salaries than FB/GOOG, but they've always been pretty generous with RSUs and their stock is damn high right now.

Actually my salary was very similar at Amazon when compared with Google and my friends have similar salaries. The problem with Amazon is that their vesting schedule is very heavily weighted towards the 3rd and fourth year.

It's true that if you stay the entire time, that might work to your benefit since by that time the stock value may have increased greatly, but I'm not sure how much that should count since you could in theory just sell your RSUs and buy Amazon stocks if you wanted to.

My experience is that total comp at Google is much higher than Amazon but again this may be anecdotal?
My eye doctor basically told me that I should never do lasik and should do PRK instead. The risk of complications is WAY lower, even if the recovery is a pain.
If you're hired into the role directly.

Someone coming in straight from college can realistically expect L5 in 6-8 years. Back in the day, you used to get basically kicked out if it took longer than that.

Even coming in as an L4, you can plausibly expect L5 in 2-3 years.
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Yep, the minima are in the same locations. However, if the problem has multiple minima, then the parametrization can affect which minimum gradient descent actually reaches.
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Interesting discussion, thank you.

I am reminded of the Graffiti handwriting notation used by Palm OS. That was single stroke, and devices came with a card depicting all the characters.

I was never able to become fluent.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graffiti_(Palm_OS)
Are you in an eng ladder and in the bay area?

Because if not you're RSU grant is grossly low (since I'm an L3 who isn't fully refreshed and if my grant quadrupled, I'd be nearing 400K, and my grant isn't exceptionally high).
>loans are inherently a good thing

I'm happy to agree that loans are neutral but "inherently good" is pushing it.

Loans on things that generate more income for a socially-positive purpose can be good things but often loans can cause enormous problems of their own (see: student loan debt spiraling out of control because there is so much free money available to buy an education now).
It's not that hard. I'm a mechanical engineer who happens to care about privacy. I was able to build it by following a guide.
There are many tutorials if you search. I don't have any degrees in computer science or IT, if I could build it I would guess anyone could.
The biggest problem for me was that one of the temporary protective contact lenses that they give you after the surgery came out after a couple of days.

It was the most painful experiences of my life, absolutely execrutiating. A friend rushed me back to the clinic where they replaced it, and put me on some painkillers that pretty much knocked me out for a couple of days.

Other than that, no regrets, my quality of life is much better since I had it done.
The legal fees themselves aren't very expensive. If you can resist the societal pressures to have a large and extravagant wedding with many guests, then even the wedding itself isn't particularly expensive.

The main cost of getting married is getting divorced. Legal fees add up a lot here, and the division of assets is costly.

Now, you could argue your marriage won't end in divorce, but 60% of marriages in the US do.
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yeah, I've had better pancakes really... would be nice if they actually had good/real maple syrup, instead of corn-starch flavored crap. They need to really move it up a notch, maybe make burgers at least as good as Red Robin... maybe make some gourmet options like bison sliders or something. I usually go to local dives for a good burger, they're always sooo much better than chains.
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I'm a glad your comment is more nuanced this time. Your original one had:

>Compared to, say, someone making $200,00 post tax and spending only 25% of that on rent it is strictly better.
How do you square that with somewhere like Denmark with it's equally abysmal yet they have way less working hours and a large social safety net?
As a glasses-wearer who understands the parent commenter: the all-encompassing vision granted by taking off the glasses (which cover ~60% of our regular view) is what makes for the wholesome, nice feeling OP is talking about.
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Obvious conclusion: children wreck property values.

(this result published in "The Journal Of Correlation Implying Causation ;) )
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> And to the extent they don't have anything at stake, it's because they get bailed out, which is a different concern altogether.

The two things are directly linked. If people want to gamble on a bank deposit like any other investment, that's fine. The less sound banks will need to offer higher returns on money than the more sound banks in order to compete. The problem lies when the government (implicitly or explicitly) backs the deposits - without this backing, people wouldn't care nearly as much about the issue.
Perhaps worth noting: that "60% of marriages end in divorce" number is quirky when you pull back the skin.

60% of marriages end in divorce, but most people who marry do not get divorced from their first marriage. The 60% number is bumped out due to the segment of the population that get married 3 or 4 times.
I'd be curious to hear more on your schema validator. We've been using GQL for a little over a year and have felt some serious pain when doing big shifts in our GQL layer and even just when we're trying to clean out dead code / assess which resources are being used in which FE apps.
you have to be kidding me...
It's worth mentioning that a single drop of Alphagan (brimonidine) in each eye an hour before dark will often eliminate halos in people who've had Lasik. The effect lasts an entire night and there aren't any real dangers in the way of side effects or interactions.
No, Airbnb was self-evidently not the wrong kind of money. It was unclear whether Airbnb could succeed, but if it did, it was obvious how it would make truckloads of money. It’s practically the archetype of a shoot-the-moon business model.
You could force your eyes to blur and achieve the same effect.

It's easier to do if you are tired, if you've never done it before. Crossing your eyes slightly also helps (then hold the blurry focus and uncross them).
I've learned to read the comments to any posted NYT article, than visiting said article itself.
In some alternate reality where everyone's goals and chosen locale are identically that of their parents, yes.
Note that I've never said that Go developers don't have any idea what they're doing. Very smart, competent people can be wrong. I know I'm wrong a lot!

For what it's worth, I've also heard that Go is considering moving to a generational GC, in spite of Ian's initial arguments against it. Hopefully they do.
I believe the driving factor of climate change isn't total world population though; it's fossil fuel exhaust generated for energy. There's correlation with total population but not necessarily direct linkage; if there are fewer people, but each person is consuming 2.5x as much electricity as the generation before, we wouldn't expect to see the fossil fuel burn rate lower.
Yes, that of course was important. But given that today we see greater social mobility in wealthy social democracies than is present in the US demonstrates that this was not the exclusive cause.
Why is rate limiting only part of the $289 package?

Edit: And wasn't it cheaper earlier? I was pretty sure it was $29 for the basic version, maybe that rounding up market trick got me.
I stand by the notion that the first scenario (making $1M and spending $750k in rent) is strictly better than the second. Of course I also agree that making zero dollars and spending $750k in rent is considerably worse than spending $50K rent. But that wasn't part of the original comment.

Essentially, I claimed that Scenario X is better than scenario Y, but now you're saying "but! What if scenario X suddenly becomes scenario Z?".
I had PRK, which is different but similar results. Two things I definitely noticed were worse night vision, and light sensitivity. I'm in my 30s and have developed floaters recently, but I can't say that's related at all. Would I do it again? ABSOLUTELY. The benefit of clear vision absolutely outweighs the minor annoyances.
Your comment illustrates why Palm Pilots found market success with handwriting recognition (as far as I know, the only product that ever did so).

The trick was that they treated "Graffiti" as a new alphabet that users had to learn. Thus, when the recognition engine failed, many users blamed themselves (i.e. their Graffiti fluency) rather than the product.

In contrast, when products that promised to recognize natural handwriting had a recognition failure, the users tended to blame the products.

It's a good lesson for product development--user satisfaction will depend in part on user expectations.
Aww! Seems like she lost that fun New York accent she had.

https://youtu.be/AY1-UYnaBm8
My vision is also bad enough that I basically can't function without glasses.

I always have a backup pair with me in the car, and I take 2 backup pairs on vacation, usually packed in 2 separate bags.

I also take spare shoes (even for day trips) because I can't buy another pair easily if something happens to mine--they don't sell shoes big enough in normal stores.

You obviously evaluated the risks differently, but to me not needing to pack an extra pair of glasses isn't worth the substantial, potentially life altering risk of severe dry eyes (not to mention blindness).
I scan through HN's list of articles, and click "hide" on all NYT articles, before even reading titles. Same for many other newspapers and a few "usual suspect" websites. (This article was an exception, as I've had LASIK in the past 20 years, and it caught my eye.)
The best thing about these paintings is the observation of dogs' personalities and how they can match up so well to human personalities. You could substitute cats, but because dogs are usually more gregarious and eager it just makes more sense. Anthropomorphism at its finest.
I wore them for about 10 years, from 11 to 23. They were great and stopped my eyes from getting any worse, but I ended up getting PRK ~5 years ago which has been worth it overall (exacerbated my dry eye and led to an one eye ulcer from reading too much).

The main issue is the paranoia of sleeping with them on and knowing that if you rub your eyes, it's possible for them to break and cause serious damage. I'm not sure how likely it is, but was a recurring worry and source of nightmares.

It's also something you have to do every day, otherwise it takes a few weeks for your eyes to return to the normal shape.
Curious about the circumstances which cause you to often wish that.
I'm currently in the bay area, and I've always thought that in a scenario you describe, moving to Sacramento makes a lot of sense. (curious to see the thoughts of HN on this topic) You're still close enough away from the bay that you can visit fairly often (couple times a month) to keep in touch with friends there, but housing is significantly cheaper. Lifestyle is not incredibly different than what you would be used to in the bay (Sac and east bay are relatively similar) -- it's not like you'd be shoveling snow in the winter.

For you, coming from LA, I'm not sure if it makes a ton of sense, but I would probably look at smaller cities around southern california in a similar way.
>The idea that banks "create money out of nothing" is an analogy not reality - two people swapping IOUs for a million dollars haven't created 2 million dollars.

The two million dollars gets created at a different stage, either through a government bailout, quantitative easing, or other (generally) inflationary methods but it absolutely does get created "out of nothing" at some point in the cycle. (There is also the FDIC which, while technically insured by the banks, in practical terms is backed by an implicit government guarantee that the funds will be there even if all the FDIC banks fail.)
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I think he's saying that as absolute incomes get higher, commuting cost as a percentage of income drops, because commuting cost is largely fixed regardless of income. And so it makes more sense to live in a low-COL region and commute to a high-COL region.

For the average person, flying to work every day is unrealistic. If you are making $1M/year, it suddenly becomes very realistic. Same day roundtrips between SFO and Seattle via coach are about $200 when purchased 3 months out. Times 200 workdays/year, that's only $40K/year. You end up way ahead financially buying in Seattle and commuting by plane to your job in SF, if you're willing to stomach the ~6 hours/day of commuting time.

Then if you don't want to spend an hour and a half in the terminal, you can fly private jet. Private jet time apparently runs about $5k/hour. At ~600 hours/year, you're looking at about 3 million a year to commute by private jet from Seattle to SFO. Still out of your price range at a million in salary, but quite doable if you were making say $10m, and your commute time isn't much worse than sitting in traffic on 101 between Google and the Marina.

Replace Seattle with Las Vegas and all 3 of (housing, flight time, expense) get better. Round-trip to Vegas is about an hour and a half; coach prices go as low as $59 and private jet prices would be about $1-1.5M/year; and houses can be had for $200K, freeing up lots of money for flying.