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A lot of tech companies are real estate companies.
Fichte's Science of Knowledge defeated me at 22, and again in my 50s. There are plenty of books that I have left unfinished, and hardly recall. But Fichte sticks with me for utter incomprehensibility. Maybe I'll give him another shot.
It's not an e-reader, it's a Kindle.
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Also keep in mind that your local library may be in a larger system. My local library can borrow books from almost the entire state (minus from the largest city in the state, for some reason). If you're willing to wait a week or more, you can put books on hold and get an email when they arrive to your local branch.
Should the title be changed from US Law Enforcement is about to put the squeeze on crypto exchanges to the actual title of the article Apparantly new legislative Push: Is the USA on the way to ban Ransomware Payments?
Reminds me of an old David Letterman joke when it was about similar news about an old asteroid. "Bob Dole: Oh was that what I heard?!". Seems like it would have been in the 90s...
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It has already been done.

https://www.investopedia.com/articles/personal-finance/05141...
Show HN: Appsolite – Take the pain out of software evaluation
>Iran was also working with the west to defeat Daesh.

I'm sure we appreciated that. What we didn't appreciate as much was his involvement in insurgent actions against coalition forces.
If those in power are the qualifier for if a country should have nuclear weapons or not, then the US should immediately destroy their entire stockpile. Giving power to launch nuclear weapons, to someone who is clearly not mentally well, is insane.
The article says there was a 1.6 second delay between what the operator saw and what the gun saw, but it's going to depend a lot on distance and angle.
If a company did that, they'd be struck down for antitrust and abuse of power. That this is celebrated is a double standard.
> A man in a desert and a sailor at sea will think about water very differently.

Maybe there are more sailors here and they may feel differently, but that's not true for me. For me open ocean is about as close to desert as possible and sea water is like sand.

Probably the only thing different is that you can stuff a lot more fresh water onto a boat that you can stuff on a camel or expedition car. And the way it is stuffed means there is less chance you will loose it. And sailing is incredibly involved and technical compared to say riding a camel so you have other problems that occupy your mind. So it probably takes less space in your mind while you are sailing than while you are crossing Sahara.

But if your boat quits on you in the middle of an ocean it is more or less as if camel or expedition car did.

You lend your life to the elements and to your equipment. If it fails and you can't fix it, you die.

---

I had a discussion with somebody that incessantly wants me to "save" water supposedly because many people have shortage of it.

I tell her "Our water comes from local river. We don't have water shortage. Any water that I do not use will just happily flow to the sea. Any water that I use will get cleaned up and dumped into the same river from which it came, to happily continue its journey to the sea."

Seems the argument doesn't work.

People are strange sometimes...
This is the thing. WFH at Google is an option now, but the uptake hasn't been as huge as people here might expect.
> Letting employees work from home: -$0

Are we sure this is true? It's easy to put $0 on a balance sheet under the real estate column. But there are certainly other costs (including opportunity costs).
You do realize that Denmark is consistently ranked as one of the easiest countries to do business in, in front of countries like the US (not much a head of the US).
I am not sure if it is a good idea to compile code targeted to modern processors to 8-bit CPUs like 6502. For example:

Languages like C (or Rust) allocate variables on the stack because it is cheap with modern CPUs, but 8-bit CPUs don't have addressing modes to access them easily. (by the way, some modern CPUs like ARM also cannot add a register to a variable on the stack).

The solution is not to use the stack for variables and instead use zero-page locations. As there are only 256 zero-page bytes, same locations should be reused for variables in different functions. This cannot be used with recursive functions, but such code is ineffecient anyway so it is better not to use them at all and use loops instead.

Another thing is heap and closures (that allocate variables on the heap). Instead of heap the code for 8-bit CPUs should use static allocation.

The article contains an example of 6502 code compiled from Rust and this code is inefficient. It uses too much locations for variables (rc6-rc39) and it wastes time saving and restoring those locations in prologue/epilogue.

No wonder that programs run slowly. It would be much better to compile CHIP-8 directly to 6502 assembly.
I think for those who are seasoned it a viable option. However, I’ve seen the new hires really struggle to come up to speed.
I mean, Israel and Iran have both been quietly blowing holes in each other's ships for the last several years, and there's been no war.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/06/world/middleeast/israel-i...
Ask HN: Resources for Cloud Architecture patterns and best practices?
Hello,

I am working at a small SaaS startup and leading the charge on our cloud infrastructure. I am looking for resources to get educated about cloud architecture patterns and best practices. We are currently on AWS, and while I have a decent amount of experience working with AWS and the cloud, I feel like I am lacking exposure to modern tools and best practices and general patterns. I want to know how other companies and people are building out their cloud infra when it comes to things like:

- Monitoring, alerting, log ingestion from multiple services
- Networking and VPN set up for accessing internal services not exposed to the internet
- Security best practices

I found blog posts like this very helpful:
- https://mangadex.dev/mangadex-v5-infrastructure-overview/
- https://anthonynsimon.com/blog/one-man-saas-architecture/

I am also currently working through Designing Data Intensive Applications.

Any suggestions for similar blogs, books, youtube channels, etc?

Thanks!
> (unless you remapped another key to capslock (why?))

When I first started doing caps-lock-to-control, I mapped my physical control key to caps lock. Eventually, I stopped bothering and kept it as control.
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0% down is impossible for FHA or Fannie/Freddy, but it may be possible as a private loan or through grants that give you the 3-5% down required.
> Letting employees work from home: -$0 (savings on building ownership, HVAC, security, extra staffing, power, etc).

I don't believe the article said anything about not letting employees work from home or forcing people to go to this office building or others in NYC. Yes, some employees will inevitably have to go into the office some of the time, but extrapolating an entire policy from a building purchase is a big leap.

> Even ignoring the environmental impacts directly and for commuting, at what point are we allowed to suggest that senior management at these large companies acts in an irrationally impulsive way? Why aren't the shareholders flagging this?

As other commenters have said, this is a rounding error on Alphabet's business, and real estate is relatively inconsequential in priority to managing its core businesses.
For a variety of real-estate industry/finance specific reasons, commercial rents in NYC are very "sticky". Many building owners would rather space sit empty for years rather than rent the space at lower rents (for various degrees of lower). In short, both the near-term and long-term future outlook would have to be quite bleak before we see a broad and substantial lowering of commercial rental rates in NYC.
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Most European countries tax petrol "about" 100%.

It's about 10¢/L cheaper in Germany or Belgium.

https://www.drive-alive.co.uk/fuel_prices_europe.html#Petrol...
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Having done academic research into N-Queens, I'll say that this is result is a remarkable step forward and, once vetted, is generations' worth of advancement in establishing the upper and lower bounds of the problem with remarkable precision.

Here's to the next few generations taking this technique and not only applying it elsewhere, but also applying it to exactly solving for higher N than 27.

It'll be fascinating to see if this supersedes symmetry breaking as done with the Q27 project in allowing us to dispatch far more efficiently the reasonable starting configurations to a highly parallelised #SAT solver, and allows us to come up with branching heuristics that are actually viable (as the research I was involved with showed most simply added overhead and little benefit for an overall negative effect).

Edit: here's the arxiv so you can read the actual results, since Quanta makes it surprisingly awkward to look for. https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.13460
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Google is sitting on bags of cash and those bags are being devalued like we live in Venezuela (40% of all dollars printed in the last 2 years!).

So if you're a cashcow like Google, you want your bags in anything and everything except dollars.

And buying commercial real estate in New York in the midst of lockdowns and remote work while the city is going through a commercial real estate market crash.. is good.
Hello HN community,

I am founder of Appsolite to answer any questions or comments.

After multiple iterations with product positioning and messaging, I feel this one may resonate with users. I am looking for feedback and would love to hear from the community if the pain-point resonates with you.

Some background around the pain-point:

Software evaluation and selection process is laborious, time consuming and riddled with a lot of guess-work. To add to that, the SaaS industry has seen an explosive growth since 2015 and IDC (a market research firm) released a report stating that the number of "apps" are expected to grow up-to 500 million by 2023 with the popularity of low-code/no-code platforms introducing new crop of "app" creators.

To that end, I've built a solution to take the pain out of software evaluation. We are leveraging data to make it easy for the users to go from searching for a solution to shortlisting without going on dozens of vendor sites. We provide software recommendations tailored to your business needs. Using Appsolite, you go from searching to shortlisting in a matter of minutes sifting through thousands of product data-point across a category of software.

Having the right tool for the job has proven to have higher adoption & utilization rate in a team, maximizing your ROI in technology spend.

The core features are:

1. Market Research: Using AI/ML algorithms we provide a visual snapshot of the whole category keeping you informed about the emerging technologies and trends in the market . Make the most informed decision and maximize the value of your investment using our in-depth market research & analytics available right to your fingertips.

2. Requirements Management: We use our research data to analyze the business process for each individual software category and then map those to corresponding business functions. Using our machine learning algorithms and simplified user interface, you are able to sift through thousands of product data-points spanning across the category.

3. Traceability Matrix: The traceability matrix provides you apples-to-apples comparison of solutions across the whole category which matches your business needs. You have the ability to align your technology stack with your business strategy and are able to benchmark your existing solutions with what's available out there.

You can check it out here: https://appsolite.com
> Even countries ruled by theocratic leaders who promote hate and obscurity

Does not seem that different from the past 4 years in the US? If NK can have nukes, I don’t see who can’t.
I am sympathetic to your position but consider a counter theory: not everybody can agree, but perhaps they can agree to have a group of people make a reasonable decision, hopefully after asking for and getting good advice.

So what should the speed limit be? I don’t really know but they probably aren’t far off given the way the roads are built, people’s reaction times etc. Plus I know they have some people who have studied unexpected factors (e.g. too many stop signs cause speeding).

Such a system is hardly guaranteed to be “right” but is supposed to be alterable and easier to live with than people whipsawing the decision.

BTW in the case of speed limits: during a burst of sensible lawmaking, California set speed limits but also modulated them with the idea that people are sensible: if the speed limit on a road is set to 25, but the dominant traffic is at 35, the presumption is that the proper limit is actually 35.
When companies do that, it's waved away with "it's their right". Just look at stuff like the iOS App Store, Microsoft Antitrust case, etc.

When was the last time there were any actual consequences for the actions of a large corporation?
There are even some tech projects that require specialized hardware which are easier to do in the office/lab. Offices will never totally go away and you’re right that this space may seem big but it’s not that big in the scheme of google.
Googler, opinions are my own.

Google just bought another building in Boulder Colorado 4 days ago as well: https://www.dailycamera.com/2021/09/16/google-buys-the-reve-...

The price for it isn't listed yet, but my guess is in the $60m to $100m range.

Google bought the building I sit in now for $131m 4 years ago: https://www.denverpost.com/2017/09/21/google-buys-land-build...
The "Handy Library" Android app includes an ISBN scanner and allows you to import and export collection data.

You could also check out some of the tooling and APIs around openlibrary.org. Unfortunately, I think it's basically a moribund project, but may have sufficient tools for your needs. I know they have a list feature, but I don't think ingestion is particularly easy; nor am I sure of the import/export functionality around their lists.

edit: I'd forgotten about librarything (mentioned in another comment). They have better tooling that openlibrary.
It's certainly not, since Google employees receive(d?) a home office budget to buy office furniture and supplies. It's still probably cheaper than running an office, but far from $0.
I don't see anything on that list that can effectively compete with the speed, efficiency and fluency of a quick huddle around a whiteboard.
the audible app has a sleep timer you can set that will turn it off after a specified period of time. 15 mins is usually enough for me.
China Evergrande’s debt crisis is rattling global markets. Here’s why
Rakuten eReaders also have this integration. In fact, Rakuten owned Overdrive for a while.
There's something quite pleasing about simple watches. I think the think I liked primarily was only having to worry about changing/charging the battery every couple of years.

I've still got a beat up Casio VDB-200 which was a 90's touchscreen + databank watch. The last time I put a battery in it, it still had my school timetable programmed in. I'll throw another battery in it tonight and see if it's still working.

If I'm expecting to get stuck in a public waiting room then the CMD-40 is great. IRDA TV remote built in, so a TV-be-Gone a decade earlier. The TV-be-gone is a lot quicker and more ranged about it, but this was baffling to teachers in the 90s.

Having had to google both of them (I can't read the numbers off the back), I'm amazed at the sort of prices they're both commanding. I thought they were cool and rare as a kid; it still seems to be the case :)
Apple, Nvidia among tech giants caught in wake of Evergrande fears
Tsk. Someone didn’t make the right burnt offering.
There seems to be a weird reluctance in the American publishing market to split larger books into volumes. "War and Peace" editions I see on Amazon are typically single-volume; Russian editions are either two or four volumes.

Unfortunately, translated books are (in most cases) published in the same way as the original, so the tradition of multi-volume editions is dying out, being replaced by these awful bricks you can't properly hold or keep open, all set in tiny type with narrow margins.
Pretty sure it has nothing to do with any of that stuff - this is just a building with a very large footprint that was vacant, pretty much a unique opportunity in Manhattan.
Israel isn’t directly threatened by Iran having nuclear weapons either unless the leaders are willing to give up their lives and country for their goal.
By law the hotel has to register your arrival online, as a foreigner.

Obviously this is easily skirted by having another person do the check in and you arriving later. I've also stayed in some guest houses in Thailand last month and they did not register me, but that doesn't mean they should have done so.

If they don't, technically you're on the hook for not registering.
FWIW: I sell real estate in two western states. If you can find cheap land, it's generally for the following reasons:

1) It's tiny

2) There's no water

3) It's not buildable given current zoning

4) Utilities are miles away / cost to attain utilities is prohibitive

Even in my area, where we still have lots of open acreage, the cost of bare land has jumped considerably in part due to zoning - yes we have land, but local authorities aren't going to let you start carving up farm land for subdivisions. There's a middle ground here and I'm glad that's the case rather than it being 100% preserve or 100% build.
A real estate purchase is not a normal expense (on the income statement) the way paying employees is. Assuming it's a cash purchase, it's a balance sheet transfer from cash asset to a real-estate asset. If debt financing is used to pay for it, while the interest expenses would appear on the income statement, the loan itself would also show up on the balance sheet as a debt. In short, a building purchase has minimal to no impact on profits (i.e. the net income on the income statement) and if purchased with debt, minimal impact to the cash flow statement.
I think if people had been able to at the time, they would have stopped Pakistan getting nukes.
The article mentions a 1.6 second transmission delay. You can imagine how much someone could potentially move in 1.6 seconds, regardless of other factors.

Distance is the largest normal factor, and is not mentioned in the article. Under 100 meters bullet drop and time to target are negligible; with a stabilized rifle (as in this case), it would just be a matter of putting the crosshairs over the target. The communications latency, however, would make even such a short shot extremely challenging. I wonder how the AI mentioned compensated for that. They imply the vehicle may have been moving during the shot. So during a 1.6 second (presumably round trip) delay, you would need to account for movement of the vehicle during that time, movement of the target during that time, movement of the target after firing (for longer distances), wind effects on the bullet (for longer distances), and bullet drop (usually trivial, but still).

I don't know what kind of help the AI provided, but I wouldn't want to be the one with my hand on the button (normal ethical questions of assassination aside).
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Have you had to slam on the brakes in an emergency on them? That’s what makes them dangerous, because at that speed, slamming the brakes can get you killed.
Why should the danish government involve themselves in the negotiation of wages between a company and its employees?

They’re not overriding the government, because it’s not an issue where the government has any say.
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What I'm trying to say is that labor productivity does not have anything to do wages.

We can talk about productivity in terms of output divided by input wages, too, but that's not what this article is talking about from what I can tell. It is strictly talking about workers in the US and it's talking about how much output they can generate from each hour of labor performed, regardless of what they are being paid.

(I will say, the article's own loose terminology does make it a little ambiguous, but to me the context of the article points squarely at labor productivity: output per hours worked, not hours per wage earned)

Let's take an example:

Chinese worker works 40 hours at $5/hour

US worker works 40 hours at $25/hour

Weekly total sales of product from each plant is 1,000 units at $10 per unit, so revenue is $10,000

So, now we divide revenue by hours worked for labor productivity. In this example, whether the employee is Chinese or US their labor productivity is still $10,000/40 = 250

Obviously, this hypothetical company might choose to mainly use Chinese labor for this particular product, but that doesn't change the fact that each employee is equally productive in this example.

If this hypothetical company chose to increase offshoring, their revenue would not increase because the output is worth the same either way, but their profit would increase if all other costs remain the same.
> Iran is a theocratic dictatorship running a terror proxy war against its neighbors.

Hmm, at least it’s a proxy war eh? I know only one country that has started any major wars in the past 20 years.
I thought amazon stopped supporting mobi files?
Wow this got a lot of interest.

For that we cheated - someone wrote a xommand-line Windows program called GetWeb (I think) that took in a URL, fetched it, and wrote the result to a particular filename. I believe most of the clients used that, but some (especially those written in FreeBASIC) may have done their own thing.
Kind of like what the mastodon/pleroma network is to Twitter?
I wouldn't tell them the story about having fired someone. You can simply state your no moonlight policy and be done with it. There is a credibility problem. They're hearing the story from the person that was involved and only that person that they don't know, and who has a high motivation to be dishonest in how they present it in that situation.

Imagine the person sitting there. This person who I don't even work for yet is starting off with telling me about how they fired someone. Are they telling the truth? Do they really feel bad about it? Maybe it's his way of letting me know that this is the way things are around here and he knows he can't come right out and say, "I love to fire people" so he's just trying to soften it. Why's it still on his mind? Does he have a hard time letting things go and holds grudges?

How would you feel if you took someone out to dinner and on your first date started telling you some story about how bad they felt about dumping their last romantic partner? Sure maybe it was the right thing to do. You're not going to feel better about them. The best you can hope for is you don't feel worse about them. It's all down side where the best you can hope for is a neutral. If you're playing a game where the best you can do is lose or draw it's better to just not play the game. Don't talk about firing people.
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Until of course there's an ask to turn that simple website into a complex one that supports multiple flows, handle various user interactions, and begin pulling data from various sources.

A lot of the reason I think people reach for React is because they know there's a high chance of an ask to incorporate more and more capabilities.
The Kindle is an Amazon book reader. You hate it because you want it to be a generic ebook reader. It's not that.