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In Firefox I feel I can probably do away with bookmarks because of the address bar autocompletion. I think they used to call it the awesome bar, but I haven't heard that term for many years.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/address-bar-autocomplet...
> Have I been spoiled by FOSS? And am I being selfish for wishing these high-quality apps were free?

Yes. Even as a FOSS user, you should try to support the software you use (donations, contributing code, linking to the project on your websites, etc.)

Even though project maintainers may love the coding part of the work, there are always not-fun parts that they have to do as well (responding to hostile users, responding to bug reports, etc.) If you get value from those things, you should contribute back to the person building it.

When it comes to Mac, I think the user base is small enough that you can't rely on 0.01% of your users giving you donations.

> Also, an opinion question: would it be unethical for someone to clone (non-unique) features from paid apps and then release the software for free?

No. In fact, this is how a lot of FOSS begins life.
It is crystal clear that this comment validates the misunderstanding of how bandwidth is priced in the real world and how, just because Amazon's price model has been reliable, that it must be a viable cost because people pay it. It's unfortunate that the reality you're basing this comment on is so far off base that you've convinced yourself AWS egress fees are somehow "stable". It's also very interesting that you're stating Cloudflare is under some unforeseen "pressure" because they're not turning a profit today. I would gather you're assuming Cloudflare is being soaked by infrastructure costs, which is completely incorrect, as they build out their pivot towards targeting the enterprise market by investing in their field (sales) and continually reinvesting in R&D.

It's also fantastic to read the misconceptions of the "value" AWS is providing. In some cases they do provide a much greater value over cost ratio, but if you've convinced yourself that blindly for AWS proper as a whole - boy do I feel for you the day you realize the economic advantage they manipulate to monopolize the cloud market, and not for the greater good of their customers.

Clear pricing you say? I'll use Corey Quinn (The Duckbill Group [0]) as an example again - his entire liveihood and business runs on the fact that AWS pricing is not even remotely clear. It's laughable that anyone would publicly make that statement at this point in time knowing what we know. Sure, if you're running a static site on S3 for a few users a month I'm sure you've got it covered. For those of us dealing with large scale enterprise everything stated here is, at best, bending the truth and at worst flat out ignorance.

[0] https://www.duckbillgroup.com/
Then we need to go after the big investment firms, so they can't do that.

What's the fallout from that? Let's keep this going and see if it reaches sustainable or insane.
What do you care about? Which problems would you most like to see solved? By whose measure is "not having to work hard for the rest of your life" a mediocre result?
Errr.. reading too widely is a well known problem called "analysis paralysis" or "procrastination" and there are several other labels. (Curious!) people who "don't read enough" are great to have around the ones who read too much, from my pov problems stem from these groups being unwilling to work together.
I don't know about Bob, but I can explain my case.

10 years ago my first real job was a research assistant position in Copenhagen. Housing was very reasonably priced, and I could buy an apartment in the suburbs with just 3 years of salary. I rented a nice place with 1/4 of my salary. It was great.

I then moved to Cambridge, and while the university is cool, real estate took most of my free income. It was a nightmare. More than 1/2 of my salary went to renting a small flat in the middle of nowhere. During the course of several years, my I had to move houses six times because landlords wanted more money, or because agents wanted to generate fees and the house actually sat empty without a tenant for pretty long.

Now, looking back at Copenhagen, and mostly anywhere else in the EU, is a nightmare. Salaries paid by the government have barely increased because inflation is said to have been really low. But buying or renting is easily 2.5x more money. If you live alone, it's hard to make both ends meet.
its not the land that has value, it is the community on that land (police, public services, schools, parks, beautiful nature, access to jobs, etc) that has enormous value.

Take Detroit for example, nothing has changed to the land itself, but the community has changed and caused land (and housing) prices to change.

the way to solve it, I think is to build better communities, help with more construction of houses, parks, and building better public services (police, fire, public education, parks&recreation, etc).

What should be the source of such funding? I dont know, but the American approach seems to be to use local funding from property taxes, but this approach only sustains status-quo, and does not help to improve struggling communities
Are you suggesting you’d have been better off if they had banned it?
“FarPlay has been successfully tested with upload speeds as low as 8 mbps.” that doesn’t sound low to me! Anyone tested this in poor 4G connections?
The 10% rent increase on my apartment this year certainly does not like the lack of rent control in my area, to be honest.
It’s not the first time this happened. Houses lose desirability due to jobs moving out of town, crime rising, and so on. Buying an overpriced house shouldn’t guarantee you a solid return in the future.

We’re at a point where we’d rather Bob secure his “investment” while younger generations can’t afford a home to live in.
Wow. Just need to have something against state level power … just can’t fight them on an individual basis on one’s own alone.
Life is so much easier when you get away from people. Don't show me this horrible stuff. Cure death. Stop flailing about because you failed at that.

Other people do not need exposure. They see it enough. If people were a zoo animal, you wouldn't show sick alarming stuff at them. If you did and got bit, it's your fault. They are fine without you.
You've made two posts negging this idea without providing any actual rationale whatsoever.
If you didn't have to commute, you'd have an extra hour per day to cycle wherever you wanted instead of having to specifically bike that path. Hell you could still bike that path if that's what you like. In the absolute best case scenario, commuting is breakeven, but realistically you are objectively worse off for it.
A lack of context is kind of the problem here. What we need are specific method details, including origination addresses. There may be times when only most of that info is helpful, but withholding is always the opposite of helpful.
Yes and no. I would argue it's even more important to maintain a variety of voices in repressive environments like private religious schools and libraries, especially where queer kids (as one of many examples) there may not have any access to stories reflecting their own experiences. Being that repressed is far more harmful than anything fiction can do, and I speak as that literal example there.

I owe my entire current mentality to the books and literature I found on my own beyond the parent's wishes. They're good people in many ways, but having that sanctum to explore other experiences was critical.
I lived alone for some time and literally had one of each dish (plate,bowl,cup,knife,fork). This meant that I had at most one dirty dish of each kind, and in general washed them immediately after use. In that case, it would have been pointless to have a dishwasher and it just would have been a buffer to hold more dishes.

Circumstances are different now and we dirty a dishwasher full every day, so it's definitely worth it to have one.

Overall, it depends on how much you dislike washing dishes, and how many you own. If you're single (which the fact you've posted this question on HN suggests though I don't jump to conclusions), I recommend owning as few as possible and just cleaning them as soon as you finish eating.
Buying an ebike
Why would anyone pay $500k+ a year for a job a monkey can do? Starting a private zoo is certainly cheaper.
So it seems like what really should happen is a decentralized USD “blockchain” where the difference is transparent to the users. ACH exchanges just don’t take 3 days and investment transfers don’t have a settling period. This is where I see the actual value of digital currency. If Bitcoin were truly of value in and of itself, it would not be tied back to the dollar. The tech makes it valuable, the concept and the potential, not btc (or a mimic of it) by itself.
Isn't this how we got into the situation in California?
I think the Netherlands is still one of the more car-centric cultures in Europe though. And I've lived in several countries. Perhaps the inner cities aren't, but outside of them it's very hard to do without a car.

In many small villages/towns there is only a bus service during peak hours now. When I visit it's really a royal pain (and taxies are unaffordable as an alternative). And when you work in the Netherlands you're usually required to work nationwide which means countless hours in the car visiting clients. Public transport takes several times as long as car travel.

I really hated it when I worked there (I'm from there as you might have guessed). All these hours driving in frantic traffic were so stressful. I work in Barcelona now where public transport is much better (rural is still worse than inner-city but both are much better than the Netherlands' services). It's the first place I've lived where I genuinely don't need a car, it would only be a burden to me. Time between metros is counted in seconds and the network is so big. As well as that there's buses and trams and regional trains passing through that can be used to hop from one side of the city to the other.

The only thing that's genuinely better in the Netherlands is the bike lane network IMO :) That really is amazing. But I just don't see the feasibility of doing without a car completely there.
Yes, indeed. You can do a little bit of both too.

Raising targeted taxes on very wealthy individuals and corporations is assuming that this wealth is going to be redistributed at the bottom somehow, effectively helping Bob not default on his loan.

Printing money and giving it to everyone also risks causing more bubbles…

Either method requires fine tuning…
Fraud, schmaud! It's the holidays, for pete's sake!
I certainly would expect, for example, a senior or staff engineer to have far more autonomy in setting the requirements, specific tasks, and boundaries. Being able to predict the technical needs of the company before they are needed is a big part of those roles.
Yes. What folks that champion less cars often include as an incentive is a punishment for using cars. That punishment would likely be a tax that would disproportionately affect folks in the countryside, so any benefits made for cities would need to scale there as well. The total amount of cars is a red herring, it's the importance of vehicles. The story of what happened in France was very telling.
Every time, I’ve seen someone ask about doing a hardware startup here on HN the general advice is do not do it, almost like anyone wanting to do a PhD.
Stablecoin is not a commodity, it is literally a token pegged to the value of a given fiat (such as dollar) or a basket of several fist currencies.
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There are other high paying career paths but most are parallel to software or worse for the same level of seniority and effort.

To make fundamentally more money, go work at FAANG. To make more than that, become a high paid consultant.
Let that sink in for a moment, there are 17 companies doing research on a hugely important topic with only 2.4billion in funding(disclosed). Magic leap alone has burned more money than that. Theranos has burned almost a billion.

Elsewhere in the world, people have to scramble to get money to do groundbreaking work and in the US you get thrown after you for knowing the right people.

I'm not saying the other places in the world are good places to be. Caring about every penny you spend is definitely not how you want to run a company doing groundbreaking work, but there's definitely a middle ground.
Same thing in Toronto:

https://www.planet.veolia.com/en/pellet-takes-nutrients-wwtp...

With the right processing, pathogens aren't an issue. Heavy metals are a bigger concern, but not as worrisome for a golf course.

There's not a lot of great options other than applying to fields. Other than dump it in a landfill or incinerate it
tl;dr: Apple will notify us as long as the attacking state isn't the US - which it very often is.
I'm using a throwaway account because this post includes some personal information, but I'm a regular HN reader.

I found that an actual CPA is very helpful to me. She has an accounting degree from a top notch school and years of experience working for a Fortune 500 company. However, she wanted more control over her schedule because of her young children so she worked for me a couple days for a few hours each time. She had other clients as well, but I know very little about them since she doesn't talk about them. She has worked for me for at least ten years. I don't need her every day and she comes and goes on her own schedule.

She picks up and opens my mail, pays bills, does my business bookkeeping, works with my tax accountant at tax time, files paperwork and keeps track of contracts, investments, property taxes, franchise taxes, partnerships, trusts, charities, real estate, etc. I can trust her to handle these sort of things correctly. Now, I can always find any finance related document I'm looking for because of her.

I do trust her completely. She grew up and lives in the area and has a family that has ties to many of my social contacts. Nevertheless, I'm careful about security: I maintain control of all check signing, I'm notified electronically of all non-trivial charges and account transfers, I maintain exclusive control of all of my accounts, I own and control the computers that she uses, and require 2-factor authentication for logins to access business mail addressed to her account (I'm the administrator of the email system). She prepares deposit slips for me, but I'm the one that makes the deposits. I could let her do more, but I do all of the interactions with my financial institutions downloading statements, checking balances, setting up direct deposits and so forth. I just give her piles of pdfs to go through that I have downloaded or scanned.

Having an accountant that takes care of all of my personal and business financial affairs makes my life much easier.

I didn't start out this way; I started out with more traditional personal assistants. These were usually younger people that I trusted enough to babysit my elementary school age daughter, pick up my dry cleaning, and perhaps do some shopping for me. This was helpful, but I wouldn't have trusted them to do the things my accountant does. I've discovered that having a real accountant working for me saves much more time. I've also had a few more problems with "personal assistants" because the relationship is inherently a bit personal. One may have to deal with requests like "It's my boyfriend's birthday next month, do you think I could have a party for 25 people on your boat?"

The cost of a having a personal accountant is higher, but she does a great deal of work that I don't enjoy. Because she does some of the work that my tax accountant would have to do anyway, I end up with somewhat lower tax preparation bills.
People who expect EAs to read minds are watching too many movies with butlers or pepper pots like secretaries.

Imagine asking your EA why they didn't do something you expected them to do without being explicit about what you want.
Depends on which country you are in. Not sure eg in Germany you have to do that much calculus for a CS degree.

(Though, what do you mean by calculus? I assume you mean integration and differentiation and real numbers and stuff? Or something else?)
US state attackers get to ruin lives with impunity.
As someone who just bought a home, I'm with you. If the bubble pops tomorrow and my home price halves, that's fine - I don't plan on selling soon so it's just numbers on paper, and I could get it reassessed and pay less in taxes.
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The Founder and the Force Multiplier is a good read (and quick too) - it's real estate related but has a lot of good tips/guidance on the questions you are asking.

Be very explicit with expectations and be willing to follow through with firm guidance on missed goals. You can get lost in being nice or forgiving missed goals because reason X. Reason X can become a crutch and an outlier becomes the normal.

Trust is a key measure. It sound simple... it's not. Trust is hard. Especially at the CEO level.
Hope you're not planning to play with a backing track, ASIO4ALL notoriously does not play nice with multiple audio sources. It's almost like someone wanted to backport the horrors of ALSA to Windows because they missed how annoying it was having a single pair of inputs and outputs.
Mumble is pretty great for low-latency audio. TeamSpeak3 too.
when was the last time there was a credible threat against the United States that the defense industry was helpful in neutralizing?
> But I've never been allowed to run a fire drill. Rebuilding a network from bare tin is obviously expensive, but not as expensive as losing the business.

Sometime your job is not to be able to take the backups, but to take the blame when a restore can't be done. If you think that might be you, time to polish up that resume...

Especially for cloud-based businesses, refusing to let you spend ~8 hours of production platform costs to run a full platform rebuild fire drill is insane, that's about 0.1% of your annual prod AWS budget, and 0.5% of you (or your team's) annual time.
My understanding is that traditional engineering fields do not pay on par with software at all.

Sales I agree with though, at least in the right role. I’ve been surprised by how much people can make in that career.
Reddit has many subreddits, but there is only one HN "feed". Moderating is done very differently.

The people here are also likely very different on average. HN is also not mainstream.
At a certain price point, it certainly is an appropriate expectation.

Even at my job, where all my work is laid out for me in the form of Jira tickets, fulfilling unsaid (or unknown) desires is hugely beneficial for my team, company, and career. Sure, I’m technically paid to solve problems, but really I’m paid for the ability to think creatively and execute autonomously.
If Bob taking a mortgage is less risky why are we even having a discussion about Bob's risk?
Andy Jassy Amazon’s new CEO Enters the Ring
That's something I never understood. I learned tar -xvf young, and that's the only command I've ever used, and it works every time.
Actual Turing machines (okay, finite state approximations of them, which are the only ones that can physically exist...) have externally imposed intentionality.
Optimizing Learning Chinese Characters Using Topological Sort
people will just title houses in the LLC name and flip LLC's shares.

Very easy to avoid stupid tax ideas, a million way to avoid
Somerville, Massachusetts had a large Italian population a generation or two back and it seems damn near all of them considered "making it" covering every square inch of their land with concrete. Then putting up a 2 foot high brick wall topped with a few-feet-tall wrought iron fence.

The city has been working to undo it by providing financial incentives for removal, and partnering with an informal group of volunteers to make it cheap to do. They put out a call for public volunteers to have a sort of reverse-barn-raising. A big bunch of people show up and help rip apart and load up the concrete.

Jamaica Plain, a neighborhood in Boston, used to have a group of volunteers that worked with local nurseries to plant a tree and take care of the initial critical care (watering regularly) for free. All you had to do was email them, and then point when the crew showed up.
CEOs should be experts in delegation otherwise they'll get bogged down in some thing they really shouldn't even be thinking about, let alone doing.

Letting go should be a common response, "How do I systematize this?" should be an almost instant reflex.
They are different notations for different purposes. With some overlap.

In some sense, programming languages are a mathematical notation, too.
Thermostats set to the right temperature/mode at night and in the morning depending on the forecast for the day.

I'm trying to understand how that could work. My old style thermostat maintains my apartment at a constant temperature based ... what temperature I set it to. If I wanted fancier, might have more sensory, fans or whatever to keep temperature average between floor and ceiling. But I can't see how outside temperature gives you any significant value compared to knowing changing in the inside temperature you're controlled.
This seems to be the link: http://gaugan.org/gaugan2/
It wasn't just 1 $470 cake, it was $10k of personal charges for herself over 6 months including a revolving $250 a month gym membership.
Hardware wallets are considerably simpler than PGP. I can only think of two ways to screw up:

1) Lose the passphrase. The device does quiz the user on words of the passphrase upon setup, to be sure the user at least wrote it down. Hopefully this reinforces its importance. Ledger provides a card to write the words, with prominent instructions to save it somewhere safe.

2) When sending, don't verify on the device's display that you're sending the money where you think. But the display is right there on the device, and displays the destination address while waiting for you to push a button right next to it.

For smart contracts it helps to get a larger device that shows all the contract parameters, but for simple sends that's all there is to it.
Under rulings that never happen due to the FISA court declaring a lack of standing due to the court keeping the evidence secret that proves standing.

It utterly sucks having the sole oversight court having IC's back at our expense.
Well, Minecraft is notoriously slow, but I guess that's very much nothing to do with Java, but the un-optimized code... Have seen quite some developers criticizing Mojang for this.
1) generate a private key,

2) move it to the private key.

When you're ready to spend it, spend it. Those places where you were looking to buy cannabis have escrow services, at the time you'd have had to trust the platform only upon purchase, nowadays multisig escrow is standard, which requires significantly less trust in a single party.
I believe property taxes in Texas can be reevaluated when the value changes while you own the home. In California it is only upon sale.
"You can rent it instead"

That's a form of participating "in an inflated housing market". There us no difference, you just introduced landlord as a middlemab.

the only way to opt out is living in a cave
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The point 3 is similar to the relocation scare of a few years ago to India or similar.

It hasn't happened.

Why? Probably because knowledge work is not at all zero sum. It grows with knowledge workers. So India's knowledge workers got jobs on top of existing ones.

Assuming the same happens now for rural America then it might be a net positive and might even revive some of the dying regions.