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> Once your financial house is strong, you can make decisions for the rest of your life that optimize for things other than money.

Even if you are not a long-term thinker, just doubling your pay for a year is almost like being able to skip work for 9 months after.

High paying jobs come with other externalities (managers who are beyond caring for anything other than their cars's model years, deadlines which are about some VP's travel schedule etc), which suck while it is happening, but having the ability to just step away from it for a 3-6 month period afterwards makes you feel less trapped in that.

The pain is real, but feeling less trapped can alleviate the suffering.

That's not to say that you should rush into a burnout factory, but getting paid more has immediate consequences to your time-value at a young age - I took a sabbatical at 28 years old, which was triggered by personal issues, but the fact that I could stop work & not worry about rent for 3 months was a big factor in actually doing it.
I've done most of this. 10+ years ago I started working for a company in a city with good salaries (for Europe, not so much for the US), London. After a while I decided to go back to my home country, and the company offered me to work remotely. I've lived in my hometown for most of the past 9 years or so, a small town in southern Europe, much cheaper than London and any other big city, including the ones in my country.

Main differences vs. what the article says are: I've been working for the same company all these years, rather than chaining months-long contracts. Also (sadly?) I didn't invest most of my money, I simply saved it and bought a nice place this year almost upfront (had to get a mortgage for the taxes, basically). Also I've worked hard, very hard.

This strategy is good to make good money, I think. Often here in HN I see comments saying that you must hop from job to job in order to get raises, but if you stick long enough so that your knowledge is very valuable, the raises will keep coming.

Word of warning though: unless the company is remote-first you can forget about promotions, at least in my experience. It kinda hurts seeing how you've worked your ass off for a long time and despite making good money other people get promoted while you stick to the same role as when you joined.
I happen to have been an avid user of the Lynx web browser. A long time ago yes but I still remember it.

HTML forms are pretty flexible and could be designed in a low CPU environment.
No cookie popup without JS. Props.
It's very rarely come up for me that multiple open issues depend on each other. Maybe it happens more in some codebases than others.
I am confused about the self-hosted section of this document ...

If I operate a static site, presumably I am using neither php nor a database ... and I wouldn't add things like that to enable comments.

But then how do the comments function ?

Are there really javascript-only comment engines that store their data ... in flat files ? I'm not sure that's possible ...
Thing is in a closed system that is steady in other ways, wages should keep up with inflation.

It would be interesting to graph inflation adjusted wages per capita ignoring employment rates to test whether increased women or minority participation in the workforce explains the lag of wages behind inflation.

Once again I have to point out that supply and demand economics are as amoral and apolitical as physics. Don't read any opinion commentary into that.

There is talk of labor shortages now and employers are being forced to increase wages. If workforce equality is a major explanation then maybe the change in employment demographics has played itself out and now wages will start keeping up a little better. Maybe. Or maybe more jobs will get replaced by robots and industry in other countries.

Any remaining gap is probably attributable to outsourcing.

What I do wonder is whether the decoupling of the dollar from gold and consequent monetary inflation masked the effects of all the other things I mentioned enough that we could impoverish the middle class without people rioting in the streets. If we'd stayed on gold people would have seen their paychecks decline in both nominal and real terms.
That means you have to build from source which kinda goes against the spirit of a decentralized network.
> I have one moral standard to which I hold myself and others: do no harm.

Right, but who determines what's "harmful"? Is it more harmful to punish a child or to not punish him? Is a cartoon of Jesus harmful? Muhammad? Are "micro-agressions" actually traumatic?

Furthermore, what does it mean to "do" something? Is "meat-eating" a default state, or are you actively "doing" harm every day you continue to not be a vegan? Are you "doing" harm if you purchase some sneakers without knowing whether they were produced in a polluting or exploitative manner?

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I'm personally not a moral relativist; I think there are better and worse answers to most of the issues above. But I've just found that short commandments like "do no evil" or "do unto others as you would have them do unto you" don't really offer any real guidance when tested against challenging real-world ethical problems.
> People on HN are trying to cancel Feynman as well.

What does the word "cancel" mean to you? Feynman can't be deplatformed since he's dead, and no one can deny his fundamental contributions to physics.

> Please stop this onslaught of taking down the history for some axe to grind.

You know, if someone told me to stop saying something about a historical figure because they'd "rather focus on their positive sides", I might call that "taking down the history".
Wow. While any author would clearly have some opinion which would show in their writing, this author definitely feels too eager to paint Singapore into some kind of bleak dystopian society. My favorite part - randomly putting many pictures of security cameras throughout the article. As if office buildings anywhere in the world do not have security cameras.
> wouldn't they switch off the platform as soon as they get big enough?

OpenStore is buying the business outright. That's what makes this venture seem crazy to me.

Maybe they'll get lucky and buy a bunch of Scrub Daddy equivalents, but I still think that the founder's personality and what they bring to the table is the determining factor in success for these breakout successes.
well if you prefer to live in the city like SF/NYC, it won't even buy you a house. a solid mortgage down payment and reserve fund - that's it.
Ask HN: How do you manage users on your API business/product?
I am building on an API product (imagine something like Twilio or Mailgun) and I am thinking about how to manage users in the following areas:

- authentication and authorization

- rate limiting

- accepting payments and billing

- other factors that I haven't thought of yet...?

I am wondering if there are existing tools or SaaS for these problems, or if this is something that I should just implement myself.

Thanks in advance for your help and suggestions!
Why not, really? I wouldn't expect it to be - just because it's so not the norm - but why not?

If you're talking about security, surely a closed-source app is just obscurity, there should be (sounds like there are) better precautions in place that it doesn't add anything.

If it's ripping off features.. meh, is it really development time in frontend logic/UI that keeps Monzo ahead of any competitors its ahead of? (I'm saying that vaguely and unassertively because users seem to get very tribal and argumentative when it comes to 'challenger banks'!)

If it's wanting to hide the API for whatever other 'it's proprietary' reason, well Monzo has a ('beta' and 'developer only' for years) public API anyway. And 'open' banking of course, so you can use TrueLayer or whatever anyway.
As far as I know, you can't monkey-patch anything in PHP, but you can in JS[1]. That alone might make JS the more dangerous of the two languages.

1. https://www.audero.it/blog/2016/12/05/monkey-patching-javasc...
Great comment, and tolerance and disagreement is to be encouraged.

Where I find a lot of serious conflict and resentment is when it comes to expanding on 'do no harm'. For example, I'm in favor of democratizing corporations, on the German model perhaps, and I view investment capitalism as a decrepit dead-end system, and the financialization of the economy as an unmitigated disaster.

Now, a lot of people I've talked to view these views as 'harmful' indeed. Investment capitalism, they believe, is the greatest engine of economic and social development in human history and any attempt to role it back would destroy the economy and bring mass ruin, poverty, desperation, North Korean dystopia etc.

I usually respond by saying, well, the employees of a corporation should have just as much power over major corporate decisions as the shareholders in the corporation, and capital flows should not be entirely controlled by a few billionaires and their pet political puppets. If the general public believes capital should go to say, renewable energy corporations rather than fossil fuel corporations, there should be a democratic process, well, why not?

So, we then need people to explicitly describe their own personal views on what 'do no harm' means before we can have a discussion in which participants do not view each other as threats to their own survival...
> Ego is a mind-killer. It is selling smoke.

I think you might be misunderstanding ego.

That's like saying, "The engine in your car is bad." It's not good or bad, it's a part of your car. Ego is part of the triad of the Freudian model of the human mind.

When people use ego the way you are using it, they are usually referring to a narcissistic personality disorder. Instead, cognitive behavioral therapists will refer to "ego strength". Which is important for healthy functioning.

"Ego strength" is what the author is referring to. It is how we act assertively, instead of aggressively (bad) or passive-aggressively (also bad). This is a widespread confusion on HN, people think being assertive is the same as being aggressive, or being a narcissist.

A person with low ego strength will act in a passive-aggressive way rather than be forthcoming, they will allow their boundaries to be ignored. Ego strength is how we hang on to ourselves.

Ego strength is critical for a mental well-being. That is what this article is about.
Same founder as Opendoor
So I read your point to be that as long as one rolls a good base character, like being born in a developed country with a good education system and fresh water, the rest just takes care of itself? You know that's not right.
Depends on your age.

$1M in 30s? Congrats you won the game.

$1M in 40s? Congrats you are doing well.
So, you’re claiming that pure FP languages need less dependencies than FP-adjacent languages like rust?

This is really interesting. Do you have a source to cite proving this claim?
I think what people get wrong with FOSS is, they assume that it's free as in beer.

If I was a big company or national government planning on moving to FOSS I wouldn't count on a cost saving at all. Instead I'd take all that licence money 'saved', ring fence it, donate half of it to the opensource projects being used (to pay full time developers to maintain them), and half to a contract developer house to create and contribute the features that turn out to be missing.

Secure software that works well and does boring useful things costs money. All FOSS does is let you choose who you pay to do that work.

Unfortunately, due to how organisations work, it is much harder to create and defend this 'optional' expenditure into the future than it is to just keep paying software subscriptions that turn the lights out if you stop.
Excel is 100x better than any alternative I’ve used (it’s been a while since I used an open source version though). Any savings would be offset by loss of productivity if it’s a spreadsheet heavy workflow. MS software is good, I don’t know how much it costs for enterprise but it’s probably dwarfed by employment costs.
Haven't tried this personally, but found this:

1) Turn on “Content & Privacy Restrictions”

2) Go down and tap on “Location Services”

3) At the bottom you’ll see “System Services”

Enable “Setting Time Zone” and then go back

4) At the top of the “Location Services” screen, toggle on “Don’t Allow Changes” - This should grey out the options in System Services and “Setting Time Zone"

5) Now in Settings > General > Date & Time everything should be greyed out and the kid won’t be able to change anything!

https://setupsynclearn.com/blog/15/11/2019/ios-tip-how-to-st...
Well if the platform owns enough of them they could just try to be a big destination site. But you're right, they probably would need to leave to be huge brands.
Picture a world where your the only user of twitter. Posting your personal thoughts would still enables a timeline and searchable permanent recording of your thoughts that’s accessible on any device more or less forever.

Being public means you can still access old posts even if you get locked out of your account.
When I lived there a while back the shock to me was the “What nationality are you?” when trying to find a place to rent. Discrimination was commonplace and even explained away by the majority.

I will say that the “law and order” aspect is way overblown. Residents will break laws and take shortcuts just as they do in the West. The difference is the government will not hesitate to make an example out of you (doubly if a foreigner).

It is very impressive what Singapore has accomplished but there are a lot of problems under the surface that rich expats never see.

Oh and the deference to authority is prevalent. Their Covid contract tracing app went from “for Covid only” to “general law enforcement” right quick with barely a peep from the voters before the govt passed a law making it all “legal”.
"Who knows?" is exactly the problem here. No transparency.
I tried teaching myself programming at one point, but it didn't really "click" for me. I browse HN for the non-programming topics. I steer around the "built with Rust" posts (and other programming motifs).

The value I get from Hacker News is the aggregation of interesting web content, good discussion, and learning about new apps like this one :)
I feel like I've read this exact headline like 5 times over the last 7 years
A ZIL SLOG doesn’t even speed up sync writes if your writes do not fit into RAM. It isn’t a write cache either, it is a parallel cache for integrity purposes so sync acknowledgements happen faster. But you are still limited by RAM size for large write speed as I said in my original post.
I doubt they’re going after so niche products. Article says they’re pursuing economies of scale so it has to be things that fit together.

A small company could also be an emerging “niche” in a large space. Like keto snacks were a few years ago. First you could not find, then you could but they were crap / not actually keto, now there are many actual keto snacks, and soon there will be more / cheaper / more prevalent in brick & mortar.

So just taking that as an example, if you rolled up a few keto snack brands, there’s probably economies of scale across both the audience (to personalize ads and up sell products) and supply (it’s not a big world there’s only so many manufacturers at other end)

So I think that’s a good idea. But I do think this is a sign of the times - high profile leader raises a lot of money with no proof it works. He must feel like he can prove it out and cash out before…whatever this market is…tanks.
Which is, of course, still very good money for a single earner in most of the country.
Receive a $1m windfall at age 35 in 1990: "Hot damn, I'll never work again!"

Receive a $1m windfall at age 35 in 2021: "Hot damn, I'll actually be able to retire at 65!"
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UK. Here's the Megaprocessor on the museum's website:
https://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/43063/The-Megaproces...
Did I claim that? Straw man much?
We have an open API https://docs.monzo.com
If you don't mind diffing your .spacemacs and re-customising your <theme>.el every time you update.
it was a shortcut to cull the lowest effort 4chan-style spam until moderation tools were implemented. the functionality is still there, in fact it's more configurable now

they did it because social media can't get off the ground if it's full of useless garbage. would you read hn if all the comments were just the same word over and over?
The biggest reality check in my life was working at an engineering firm with a bunch of near retirement baby boomers with no children. They all came across ass listless, unhappy, and living a life with no greater purpose. It was unquestionably one of the ugliest things I have ever seen. As you get older and friends drift and pass away family is one of the most important things in life.
I know anti-natalism is hip right now but it makes me sad to think of all the millennials and gen-z who will reach their 50s and 60s when it is too late and be stuck in a life without purpose.
Thats just being humble. Most successful people think its that way because they are special and worked hard. Wrong. Most people work hard, its the LUCK many underestimate. Being aware of this is healthy in so many ways, especially socially.
Isn't this just an issue of saving the POST until you successfully deliver it?

HTML is an async protocol. We pretend it is sync through a mountain of cookies. But innately, HTTP and HTML are all async. Without PHPSESSID, there really isn't an official way to correlate GETs with POSTs.

XMPP is synchronous. It's a chat interface. I'd assume it's be harder to do async comms with it. IIRC, it's a stream of XML that coincides with the servers state.
Are there any FMP like low code products that would also allow user sign up/sign in? I believe the problem with Access/FMP were that they were single user or trusted user setups.
Btw, check this out: https://usfusionenergy.org/opportunities
Ask this again once you've worked for someone who wants to be a manager more than they want to manage people.
Indonesia nationalized all the assets of Royal Dutch Shell after independence, so there was probably some hesitation from companies to build refineries there versus Singapore.
The feeling I get from reading the article is that the author felt the need to apologize because of the current social climate, and not for some real reason.

He wasn't born into a rich family and inherited wealth, he simply studied, worked, spent less than he made and invested the difference.

The apology basically boils down to being born in a relatively okay country and being smart.
I generally do, but sometimes I use Chromium, if only for testing my own sites.
Great writeup intunderflow. The question I have, though, is how this doesn't just "push" the security problem one level down.

Point being that yes, you need to ensure that your root certs are super secure and that you have a full documented, videotaped chain-of-custody. But then at some point you need to use that root cert to sign some other cert that DOES live in your infrastructure and is used to sign requests. How do you control your systems at the point where you need to use your cert (or a cert chain) to sign requests that by their nature must be connected to the Internet?
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Some language nerdiness: Persian (Farsi), and main languages of Afghanistan (Pashto and Tajik) are all indo-european, so the same language family as Indian Subcontinent and (most) European languages.

Arabic is from a whole different family tree of Semitic languages, which also includes Hebrew and Maltese (go figure). They are totally different to indo-european languages.
To summarize my point, being a brilliant physicist and mathematician in no way qualifies one as a brilliant diplomat or foreign policy strategist. Would you want John von Neumann to do brain surgery on you, for example?
>Do this for 7 years while investing most of your salary in a diversified portfolio. Don’t go too crazy with Crypto.

Easy to do in a massive bull market.
Cashier-less has been around for a long time. While im not a fan of starbux or amazon, the article clearly states it will be staffed as normal (which I read as perpetually understaffed in the first place). Either way, even with the robotic fry cook they mention ... someone still has to build, maintain, and manage the device.
> People don't comment unless they have a point that they want to put across, which in 99% of the cases will be something negative.

Counterpoint: I've created a blog with highly technical content a couple of years ago and put there a simple home-grown commenting system with manual moderation. I expected a lot of low quality content but actually your 99% were rather a 9% and some people spent serious time writing excellent in depth comments, pointing out the limitations of the subject or extending it it one way or another.

I guess the quality of the comments on receives is directly proportional to the time taken by the content creator to deliver good quality articles and the site UX in general. Of course there's always some noise and spam but small sites are not Reddit or HN and the comment sections don't necessarily need to reflect what you see here or on other big social sites.
As a physicist I'd say these things are well understood.

- Why do certain particles decay into other particles?

Quantum mechanics is totalitarian: what ever is not forbidden is mandatory. Forbidden: excluded by some symmetry principle (violation of a conserved quantity, like energy, angular momentum, ...)

- The tau decays into certain other particles (and not the same ones every time).

Tau carries electric charge, fermion number, angular momentum. The decay products' total quantum numbers match that of the tau. But the quantum-mechanical totalitarian principle says that every possible combination that satisfies that constraint happens with some amplitude.

- The standard model records a lot of particles and things that happen, but not why those instead of others. I suspect there's a simple model underneath, but I have no idea what it is.

If by 'those' and 'others' you mean all the varied observed phenomena, then yes, there is a simple model underneath and it IS the standard model. If by 'those' and 'others' you mean 'why is the SM the way it is', that's (likely) an out-of-bounds question for the SM in the first place. But a modern perspective on the SM is to think of it as a low-energy effective field theory anyway.
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> A brilliant scientist, yes, but also an unhinged lunatic. Not an unusual situation, see Cantor etc.

What made Cantor unhinged? I skimmed his Wikipedia page (assuming you mean Georg) and the worst seemed to be a couple of sanatorium stays for depression.
I hope that the Rust Foundation (which finally exists) can put in some time / resources to help fix this.

I totally get that maintaining crates.io is a time suck for all involved, and mediating disputes would increase that even more.

But at some point, this is going to need to be addressed.
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It's all about timeframe and feedback for me. If you want to just throw things out into the universe, and hope that someday it will help someone... put it on a blog, and Google will eventually find it, and it might help someone, eventually.

If I want to discuss an idea, and get feedback on a shorter timescale, I have to leave out Google, and go where the audience is.