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My little hardware book, Computer Engineering for Babies launched on Kickstarter a few months ago and blew my mind by raising almost $250k. It’s a simple book with buttons and LEDs to demonstrate different logic gates.

I just shipped out the first batch of books a week ago and now waiting for the next batch of books. It’s gotten pretty demanding pretty quickly but I’m really excited about it. I’m hoping I can soon employ my little sister to manage all the shipping. She’s been an Amazon driver for the last 2 years and I think she’d appreciate a change of pace.
I wouldn't be looking if I was happy with the person's work.

Empathetic managers trust their employees when they say a task is difficult and will take longer than expected.

Double job workers (and slackers in general) thrive on taking advantage of this empathy by lying and manipulating their way into perceptions that they are doing more work than they really are. Not fair to the manager, company, or team mates.

It's basic due diligence of any manager to check these things.
I find these types of outlooks to be far too rose-tinted.

Productivity and other arguments aside. I think we still need a fair bit of advancement before this is possible.

We need to reach a point where robots can maintain themselves and all of our complex machinery. The maintenance required for a train engine or train tracks is non trivial for example.

We need advancements in energy. Solar is not enough at it's current state but I have hope it soon will be.

I do feel, we're at a point that, if we could focus a lot of resources, we can drive enough development to give everyone a very high quality of life for free.

At this point,the machinery we make the more machinery we have to maintain. And robots are not at the point where they can do this.
I don't think you are their target customer. Which is fine, as the GP pointed out there are other products that would probably fit you better.
I think you’re overlooking the part of their statements where they have repeatedly emphasized investor protections.

Some of the different ETFs are filed under different legislations, and the SEC claim that the Investment Company Act of 1940 provided better investor protections than the Securities Act of 1933, but I’m unclear of what particular stipulations make that so.
That's just because the purveyors of stupid pictures-with-text have hijacked the term: The GP's usage is the original meaning of the word "meme".

Ignorance like you're displaying here just helps further this trivialization of the word. Please educate yourself and join the resistance in stead.
"Balko has advocated the abolition of laws criminalizing drunk driving, arguing that the "punishable act should be violating road rules or causing an accident, not the factors that led to those offenses. Singling out alcohol impairment for extra punishment isn't about making the roads safer"

That's such a naive and irresponsible, and frankly stupid, position to take. That's the first advocate for drunk drivers/driving I've ever heard of. I'll assume he wrote that for the "shock" value (i.e. click bait). I guess that makes him "remarkable", but not in a positive way.

Regarding the Little Rock police chief -- it sounds like race has nothing to do with it. Rather, sexual improprieties and personnel issues are what peoples' complaints are about. The Intercept is hardly a credible journal anymore (hear what its founder, Glenn Greenwald, has to say about it (https://rumble.com/c/GGreenwald).
> If you care about your team, you don't sit idle while one of the employees is slacking off.

There we go! "Slacking off" is not relevant. What's relevant is that you, as my manager at a company I already work for, are happy with my work, or not. It shouldn't matter whether it takes 100%, 80%, 50%, or 20% of my capacity to make you happy. This would be completely non-controversial in the vast majority of jobs.
I have a younger relative, making a very very comfortable living, who has taken on the developing the software for a number of small companies as a solo dev, each pay him for features and a pretty decent (non software decent) annual wage for ongoing maintenance. He makes no secret that he has multiple clients, there's no duplicity, and he gets to have a flexible life where he travels when he wants and exercises a couple of hours a day. Every client he's ever picked up has kept him on. He's got the full skill set to be able to be sales negotiator, designer, tester, dev. It may be that many of us don't and are more valuable, and will be paid more, in a team that blurs our deficiencies.
Did fentanyl overdose become top cause of death for adults aged 18-45 in the US?
Someone can write a browser extension just for that but once it gets popular I'm sure they will try every technical card they have available to prevent it and as a last resource the legal ones.
That might be the other way around though: in order to become a large beast you really need that error correction.

Similar with viruses: small viruses are typically RNA because they don't need that error correction as much as their larger counterparts which are typically DNA based giving much better resilience against mutation (and hence a much lower mutation rate).
Wait, it's possible to have an ad locker on iOS safari? I thought this thing is impossible and unlock etc don't exist on iOS.
There is nothing prohibitively expensive about running such a database. If you can't resell or transfer your ticket right now, its because the seller does not want you to resell it.

Crypto posts always take every problem as a technical problem without understanding that there are very few technical problems but intentional business restrictions. Those businesses have no incentives to move to a platform which takes this power out of their hands.

There is nothing stopping ticket sellers from allowing refunds on tickets which put the tickets back in to the available pool to buy again.
I'm an author. I write books of science projects you can perform on your loved ones.

For each of my four books, I got paid a decent advance. One of the books has been quite successful and has earned back its advance, so I now get royalty checks. An audiobook deal and half a dozen foreign-rights deals have sweetened the pot.

It's not what I would call a passive income method, however, because a lot of work goes into it, even years after publication.

If you are considering writing a book, I'd highly suggest finding a literary agent. Worth every penny of their 15% commission.
There’s no ignorance here. The parent is 100% that the word colloquially has a completely different meaning than originally intended.

You can try to “resist” cultural shifts in language, but I promise you’ll lose.
No, it's a waste of time and you being nosy. If you're not happy with my work, your responsibility is to come to me and tell me that, then see if we can work together to get to a point where you are happy.

Tell me honestly for a second: if you weren't happy with someone's work, would anything on (or not on) their LinkedIn profile make any difference to that situation whatsoever?
I’m firing someone after the holidays who tried to set expectations low, and couldn’t do the work I gave him in anything remotely resembling a reasonable time frame.

He may have been doing something like this, but honestly it doesn’t matter. The work I need done takes 40 hours to do, and sometimes more. How it gets done, or what he does otherwise isn’t really my concern, as long as it gets done.

By the way, you can do this legitimately by working as a contractor. Some companies will ask you only work on their project, but many will not. The deception is not necessary.
I own 4 shares in the S&P 500. I developed trading strategies to sell my shares and buy them back at key points using Fibonacci retracements. Best business ever. And if I leave it it still makes money.

I’m nowhere near $500/month but learning to trade simply has taken me years and I’m very proud of my smol accomplishment.
Hollywood is dying. The next generation and the one after don't give a crap about famous actors or singers declared by Hollywood.

Hollywood has 10 years or relevance and 20 years of existence as we know it.

Ask your kids who Chris Pratt is. Now ask them who Jeris Johnson is.
One thing I find helps with the vibrations (up to a point) is to keep my laptop on my lap, as opposed to on the foldup table
That's a very cool looking game. I'll have to keep it in mind for my wife closer to her birthday.
That's good too, I just find personally that in larger codebases, those TODOs tend to stay forever.
It's simple, small, clean, and Turing Complete. Most others show "interesting behaviour" (for some definition thereof) but are not Turing Complete (though some are).

I've not found a CA that's Turing Complete and as small and easy to understand (which is not to say there isn't one).
If you’re leasing all the time, isn’t that basically a subscription, where you get a newer model every few years (like Apple does with their phone plans)?
Europe here - I saw the sms part and just wrote it off as some boomer note taking app. People use sms in the US? Just ...why?
Some of the negative responses are baffling, but I guess shouldn't be too surprising seeing as they're anonymous.

>“Making a delivery might literally kill you if you get carjacked and shot. I kinda want to see this happen and see the family sue the company for like a billion dollars and win just so no company ever gets a stupid idea like this ever again.”

But getting some poor scrub contractor to do it for a fraction of the compensation is fine?
> "Own a piece of a local Olive Garden by paying us money!"

Who exactly are you quoting here? The site promised that you would own a token associated with a picture of an Olive Garden set within a frame of Olive Garden food. They have promised, however, that when enough money has been generated to buy the company and buy out all of its franchisees that those tokens would be converted to full ownership of the pictured location.

I have no reason to believe they'll default on any of this.
A solo SaaS which I’ve been jumping on and off part-time/full-time over the last 2 years (intentions to grow, hire and stay bootstrapped).

https://automations.io

Workflows + playbooks + iPaaS + task management
Indeed, I am aware of a few cases like this. But I'm also aware of a couple of companies that have swept breaches under the rug in recent times and if and when those surface they will be in pretty deep trouble.
Idiot. He easily could have found one of many groups nationwide who know exactly how to fix these batteries for a fraction of the price. There are numerous YouTube videos featuring various places that know how to do this now.
Content blockers and extensions are supported on iOS.

https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/get-extensions-iphab0...
Nominally, but in my hometown, I've actually seen a shithead landlord pull fraud on exactly those terms on some pliable marks — some immigrants who didn't feel secure in either understanding the law nor in seeking legal remedy. Basically the guy sold a house to someone on contract-for-deed, and just quietly took all of the recurring payments that were supposed to pay off the contract and ... pocketed them instead of recording them as paid. Essentially he asserted that they were years behind on paying off the loan, when in fact they had paid it in full. Almost classic "indentured servitude".

It's a gamble, plain and simple — the landlord was hustling, and gambling that the tenants would both be too poor (lawyers cost money or at the very least cost time away from work), and simply too afraid to file suit (because a lot of people come from places where if you do try to sue, gangsters come to your house and loosen your teeth a bit).

Don't get me wrong - you are technically correct in what you say. But all theft is inherently cheating against the grain of what's technically legal/illegal. Having something on public record makes con jobs like the aforementioned vastly harder to pull off.
Again, the NFT itself is not adding anything. If you have possession of a physical object or an agreement from someone else transferring rights to you, you don't need an NFT. If you have an NFT, you still need the documentation showing that the person who sold you the NFT had the legal rights to transfer the referenced object as well as the NFT — otherwise you've paid for a receipt for “Bridge, Brooklyn x1”.
> clandestinely scam people (...) and then hope they warn everyone and have enough resources to put together a class action suit

Do you have any idea of how much money is lost on scams via Western Union? Or how much money companies spend on fraudulent ad views? Insurance fraud?

Before you cry "this is whataboutism", the point I am trying to make is that every security/insurance system is designed around a risk/benefit analysis. There are some situations where the cost of having these systems is simply not worth the value of the transaction, so why should we use it?

Conversely, should we kill every business opportunity just because the cost of avoiding scammers and ill actors is too high? Do you think that Craigslist should be drowned into a see of ineffective regulations because of all the scammers that are there, or should we try to educate people around the potential pitfalls and let it operate in a more organic form?

> The point here is that to the market operator, it's actually less middlemen and friction than crypto

Absolutely not. If I want to sell something online and I accept crypto as payment, I can do it without any middlemen. The only "friction" the user faces is to open the wallet (or scanning a qr code) and pressing "send".

Gift cards force the user to commit to an initial higher amount and to a specific vendor. It's a whole different league.

> I don't think it would help because it doesn't explain why the fees would be lower.

Because you'd be bypassing the central bank, and you would be negotiating with other people who are also trading with the rates from the "blue" dollar (the non-official market). Nothing illegal. Kraken (a crypto exchange) operates on Argentina for years already and any "retail" account can trade there. It's just that the volume there is not big enough yet to make the government greedy about it.
In my 11th year doing Hacker Newsletter (https://hacker newsletter.com). Still enjoy putting it together each week and recently launched a daily version.
Article:

Hundreds of Salvadorans claim that money has gone missing from their digital wallets following El Salvador’s adoption of bitcoin as legal tender.

In September, the government gave each citizen US$30 in bitcoin via each person’s Chivo wallet – a digital account set up by the government. The currency could be used for shopping, or to pay taxes.

But hundreds of citizens are claiming that their payments haven’t been received by stores, and that funds have disappeared from their accounts.

A Salvadoran engineer who tweets under the name El Comisionado but wishes to remain anonymous due to fears of government reprisals has collated more than 50 examples on Twitter alone of missing bitcoin from Chivo wallets.

“The government has not responded, nor does it acknowledge the errors,” he told New Scientist. “It’s one of the things people are demanding, that they respond to their complaints. Many have waited several months for a response to get the money back.”

Zaira Navas, who served as inspector general of the EL Salvador National Civil Police and is head of legal at Cristosal, a human rights organisation, personally lost funds from the app and is now representing a total of 886 people who have had the same problem, reports La Prensa Gráfica. She hopes to force a resolution through the courts.

French bitcoin commentator Rogzy says he encountered similar issues when he visited El Salvador to see the experiment for himself. When he was shopping, funds left his account, but didn’t reach those of the stores.

Chivo is run by a state-owned company, also called Chivo, and its source code is private. Rogzy thinks Salvadorans should use independent open source bitcoin wallets instead. “I don’t think [Chivo] is secure and no one can verify it since the code is not open source,” he says.

This isn’t the first stumbling block that Chivo has encountered. The government has already had to remove a function that allowed users to freeze prices for 1 minute when previewing them, because economic traders were exploiting it to make a profit.

“Today very few people use [Chivo], because many do not know how it works,” says El Comisionado.

The company behind Chivo, the President’s office and the El Salvadorian embassy in London did not respond to a request for comment.
We have a winner. :)
Is your instruction numbers from a generational GC? Not doubting it, but perhaps that can further amortize the cost (new objects that are likely to die are looked at more often).

Cache misses are indeed true, but I think we should not pose the problem as if the two alternatives are GCs with pointer chasing and some ultra-efficient SoA or array-based language. Generally, most programs will require allocations and those will cause indirections, or they will simply not loop over some region of memory at all. Then GC really is cheap and may be the better tradeoff (faster allocation, parallel reclaim). But yeah, runtimes absolutely need a way for value classes.
Yeah, and you can setup your own servers (not one company but an ecosystem) Much better resilient than relying on the government.
It increases the opportunity cost of not fixing an old vehicle. Most people might balk at an engine rebuild, for example, but if it's that versus a new vehicle that has an added ongoing subscription fee -- it makes car repair seem relatively cheaper.
What is the reasoning behind why Fibonacci retracements should work? Did you backtest it?
In the real world, managers don't look at a task and schedule out exactly 40 hours of work each week. We trust our employees to give us feedback and healthy estimates.

Truth is, double job workers are usually caught because they're underperforming. But smart managers give employees the benefit of the doubt and don't go firing people at first signs of underperformance. If someone has a legitimate reason for falling behind for a while (maybe overleveled during hiring, maybe struggling with real life issues, etc.) then we work with them. If they have a manipulative/deceptive reason (working two jobs, avoiding work) then it's better off that we replace them with someone who cares.

If you think that a job is a simple matter of "do fixed pile of work every week", that's not how 95% of software jobs work. We rely on a 2-way communication with employees to establish what's reasonable, and if someone is manipulating us into lowering expectations (literally the title of this article) then they must go and be replaced with someone who cares.
That's what I did to reply, but I've never seen one person's reply link missing when all the others are visible.
I think that your comment is wrong on so many levels. Let me start.

> The folks who are in a financial position to afford private flights are the same folks to fly first class and use airline lounges. Both of them have gotten far, far worse since the start of the pandemic.

First, I'd like to know your source, because I've heard too many times that it's the opposite: rich got richer with the pandemic. Or perhaps you meant that both first and private got worse from a food perspective?

Also, how can you focus on food and beverage to explain the rise of private aviation flights? You go from first class to private jet (5x to 10x the cost) just because you don't like a cold sandwich?

Didn't it occur to you that perhaps private jets offer safer environment in a world where Covid creates so many issues? Or, allows infected people to travel despite their health conditions, and therefore it's the only viable option, despite being more expensive than first class?

Reading about food and snacks, and seeing your comment as the first in the page, sounded really odd to me.

Perhaps I'm missing something super obvious?
> an appropriate response would be to refute bad arguments with better arguments and/or incorrect information with correct information

Isn't that just demanding that everyone surrender to a shill's Gish gallop?
Oh, absolutely, make no mistake, I am entirely in agreement with the argument that you make, I'm just pointing out that the form is sub-optimal and not really in the spirit of the website it is made on. That said, I sympathize because I feel much the same way at times.
Did you run @DC_TechEvents? I used to get IFTTT to deliver me alerts, but that died when the account got suspended. Sad day.
Spend tonight on the project and you might wake up $20K richer.
I built a free reverse geocoding api about 4 years ago ( https://api.3geonames.org ) Usage grew steadily sometimes crashing the server. So I loaded the software on GCP and AWS Marketplaces. Those needing a dedicated api launched their own servers for a fee. It has made an average pf $500 a month since I made those machine images available on https://3geonames.org/api about 2 years ago.
You can oftentimes just walk into homes and take the things lying around in that home, and if you pick the right homes and the right times, you will avoid the negative consequences that come with getting caught.

The premise here is that you can stand to benefit from lying and stealing. What is there to engage with about that? Of course it’s true, but you weigh that against the negative consequences of your deception being discovered.
Timestamp link, for HN's sophisticated ædification:

https://youtu.be/7_9aVzf5fC4?t=288
Absolutely! Indeed, the protection was crafted specifically for platforms to engage in moderation without being held liable for the content they host. The whole point is to encourage moderation.

But section 230 is not a blanket immunity for anything a platform may wish to do with their content. If the actions of the social media platforms fall outside of section 230 protections (and I think such a thing could be argued) it is on the following grounds:

1. One of the stated purposes of this legislation was to maximize user control over what they view (230[b][3]). Social media censorship and algorithmic feeds take away that power.

2. Protection from civil liability extends only to those actions taken in "good faith" (230[c][2][A]). I'm not fully prepared to to outline what I think is meant by good faith here, but I think it is fair to say that not all moderation actions we have seen are "in good faith".

Outside of section 230, I also think that platforms which employ "fact-checkers" should be open to defamation suits if they make false statements of fact. Recently a court ruled that these fact-checks were "protected opinion", which is utterly stupid.
It's not "do fixed pile of work every week." It's "provide a multiple of N worth of your salary value to the company." The amount of work necessary to do so is (should be) irrelevant. Effort is not relevant, and you don't get to demand I commit body and soul to please you if I'm providing a reasonable amount of value.
> satire ceases to be such when there is mention of an actual corporate entity

You're just making up rules now.
Typical garbage from Business Insider.

It's reminiscent of the dumb rednecks I grew up around who would call every rise in gas prices a conspiracy from the government or oil companies. It's just supply and demand.

Businesses are now having to order stock in advance and hold more inventory than ever compounded by labor shortages internally and externally. Friends of the political party in power are always hungry to find ways to blame inflation on businesses greed.
In general it seems Google honors all DMCA requests immediately, and only rejects them after they're able to review it.

Wonder if this could be used maliciously for stuff closer to Google's chest, eg. blacklisting youtube.com/premium or store.google.com/product/pixel_6_pro (of course, this would be illegal, however IIRC there haven't been any cases involving punishment for issuing false DMCAs)