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I don't think of Prime or Costco as subscriptions. They're money that offsets other costs.

Costco especially. The 2% yearly rebate more than pays the subscription fee. The food is much cheaper than any other grocery store I have access to and of higher quality. The hard goods they sell save me a ton of money because they have already figured out on my behalf what a good quality middle-of-the-road product is, whether a metal ladder or a mattress. It takes a lot of time to research products.
Here's how I communicate it at my company: serverless simply means there's no server for us to manage and maintain. We can focus on the solution, not the infrastructure. Of course there's a server running, we just don't have to worry about it. That goes over really well.

No-Code is understood to be Citizen Development. I liken No-Code to developing a web site using Wix. Is there code? Of course! But you don't have to manage and maintain it.

In the end these terms are delineating your concerns. "Serverless" means you don't have any concern for servers. "No-Code" means you don't have any concern for code. Not having to manage concerns allows us to focus on solutions instead.
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If you do so, I recommend keeping https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Foucault#Views_on_under... in mind
This is great, I've been really wanting to get a dedicated media/mp3 player again after finding my little zune stuffed in a drawer (which rockbox worked on that bad boy)

I've pretty much moved back to purchasing mp3s and syncing them with my phone but I would much rather have a dedicate device for it
Powershell has much better discoverability.

Just type a "-" for a flag, trigger autocomplete and you get a list of options with descriptive names
> There IS risk to the employee; they now have a real loan outstanding and 100% personal recourse, so if the common stock becomes less than exercise price, their personal assets are on the hook [1]

This seems insane. All they're doing is giving employees the means to take on a very large amount of debt/risk.

[1] https://twitter.com/theryanking/status/1493390184897032201
Having the government having information about everyone’s email address…

What could possibly go wrong?
Well the investment opportunities are so exciting. the media companies will win regardless.
BLM was...Antifa riots every night were not. The media seemed to just ignore them...maybe with the theory that they would stop if not getting covered. Millions in damage, many police officers hurt and hundreds of businesses impacted nightly. Go look for stories on all the businesses that left downtown Portland because of the riots and the lack of city leadership to address them. On top of homeless, crime and drugs...it's an absolute shit show.
> I'd say the more important part is a baseline of stability.

Hear, hear. I'm pretty sure I've seen studies that show the initial situation most likely to yield later success is the upper-middle class. Rich enough to have some resources and the stability you mention, but not so rich that "the pressure's off" and one is tempted to just rest on parents' laurels.

I think stability is also part of the argument for UBI (or similar). The burdens and instability associated with poverty are drags on the whole economy. Free people from those, and they're better able to contribute back to the economy as both producers and consumers. Unfortunately, too many people would rather limit their own prosperity as long as they can limit someone else's even more, either because they don't understand how the system works or due to a nasty quirk of human nature.
One was a Sandler course - an intro to sales for non-sales professionals. The other was Huthwaite SPIN. I find the SPIN Persuasive Case Analysis method very useful. Sandler was 1 day F2F and Huthwaite was via Zoom. I guess they all offer remote options now but IMHO a live/Zoom trainer is important as there's stuff you don't get first time, and there are often only cryptic error messages at best in real life situations.
About to jump onto the wagon. Zero emacs experience. Hoping to achieve emacs -> org-mode, org-roam, automatically publish as a Hugo site as a knowledge base. Any essential, tips, advice or "I wish I had known earlier", lay it on me. This looks to be a trek.
The firehose of falsehoods relies on this.

The liar can produce 10 lies and demands you disprove them or they are somehow true. The burden of the liar proving their reasoning is missing.

The goal is that their opinion and your fact be treated with equal weight or the opinion has greater weight simply because they can produce more "opinions" more often than you can facts.
It's true that no-one wants war. That includes Russia, actually.

The whole "war is coming" is pushed by the US for some reason and the public buys it.
As you can see it even allows the US to claim "victory" when Russia stays put.
Your formula of success has many truths in it but missed a few big and important ones:

5. Be in a hot area with many opportunities you can leverage. Being a rockstar is not enough if there aren't many employers bidding for your expertise.

6. Market yourself and have visibility to your professional successes both inside your org and, ideally, outside as well, for others to spot your talent and approach you. Being a rockstar is insufficient if the results of your work are not visible up the org chart, to the guys who sign the pay cheques or to outside competitors.

7. Have a network of contacts you can leverage. In my area, best jobs are gotten through connections. The open positions you find on LinkedIn are the bottom of the barrel left after the good spots got taken.

8. Have up to date technical skills that match the demand of the market in your area. Being a rockstar is not gonna get you anywhere if you were a rockstar in an obsolete tech nobody needs anymore or has been offshored.
I played them all simultaneously to see how it'd be and I can confirm it is great
Not necessarily. Northern most part of Scandinavia have among the lowest prices for electricity in Northern and Central Europe. Most of the electricity there comes from Hydropower. It's also the same area where Sweden makes it green steel. Cheap and green electricity is not an oxymoron or impossibility.
Iceland has solved the cheap electricity problem and has easy access to iron ore from the port of Narvik.
I would not say this online, my man.
Yes, that was a fraud. I was personally a victim of it. I will never do business with Wells Fargo again in my lifetime. That doesn't mean I think all banks are fraudulent. In particular I appreciate that there was a regulatory mechanism in place to protect consumers from that fraud.
Show HN: Easy Way to Improve Google Search Results
I loved visiting Vietnam, I wonder how many of the people commenting on these threads got close with locals though. I did on two separate trips and let me tell you the country is no utopia. Pollution and lack of freedoms are a big deal there. There is propaganda all over the country. There is an underbelly (potentially foreigner driven, idk) of sex work, drugs etc.

CoL and friendly people are major plusses though.
I did this last summer with my iPod classic. Fun writeup, great way to revive old tech and reclaim media ownership.

If you have the iPod already, it's a great afternoon project and not too expensive to do.
The other day I was searching for a specific kind of jewelry and realized I don't know of a search engine that can do what I needed, which is to just find good results for my search. Searches for jewelry-related keywords triggered Google to go 90+% ads, and their results (and other search engines' results) were so junked up with spam and the same couple sites over and over that they were useless.

We're back to the Web needing a search engine.

[EDIT] I should add that the ads Google was showing me didn't even do a very good job of showing me the very specific kind of thing I was looking for, even though there must be thousands of stores around the world selling pieces that fit the keywords. The ads were for jewelry, but most of them weren't anything like what I was trying to find. In this case an entire page of ads but all from different sites and mostly the thing I was looking for would have been better than nothing, but it couldn't even do that.
> I mean, we've been hearing about automobiles having subscriptions, for goodness’ sake!

The world will try to tempt you to make you part with your money. It's your job to figure out how to say no.

At least now we have choice. In the caveman days, you got beat up and your stuff was taken by force.
I torrent or use my in-laws' accounts. The only things I pay for myself is a seedbox and amc stubs a-list so I can see (effectively) unlimited movies in theaters. I can't imagine spending more than a couple bucks on media subscriptions, I only pay for a-list because I really enjoy going to the theaters and the monthly costs evens out with a single dolby cinema or imax movie. To me that's worth it because I can't replicate that anywhere else.

Edit: Don't misunderstand, for the many years before I had a seedbox (I've only had it for a year), I still didn't subscribe to things. Companies are very skilled at making you think you need things that you don't, and you don't need subscriptions. With youtube alone I could probably get all the digital entertainment I could want
and sometimes happen to be the same cognitive differences that get incorrectly hand-waved as "just being shy" by individuals who don't live with said differences.
Bro, stop optimizing future employment. Go party, it's university. Meet new people, fuck some girls. Get to know people from other departments than CS.

Trust me, in five years you are not going to regret not being more employable, you are going to regret not having partied
It's undoubtedly completely stupid, that's a given, but if your husband runs a company that deals in large amounts of cash (like one that runs ATMs), then it's plausible that seeing piles of cash on the kitchen counter might not be an immediate red flag.
Some really good thoughts here. I'll summarize the ones that hit me:

- "Why are people searching Reddit specifically? The short answer is that Google search results are clearly dying. The long answer is that most of the web has become too inauthentic to trust."

This is it for me exactly. I search for the following kinds of things on Reddit exactly because results on other sites aren't trustworthy: Reviews are secretly paid ads. The "best" recipe for pancakes is only what's trending on instagram right now. The latest conditions on mountain bike and hiking trails are being shared inside communities like Reddit but not on the web. The same for trending programmer tools.

- "It is obvious that serving ads creates misaligned incentives for search engines..."

What I'm shocked by is that Google somehow maintained a balance on this for so long. Well, at least a good enough balance that people still use it primarily.

- "Google increasingly does not give you the results for what you typed in. It tries to be “smart” and figure out what you “really meant" ..."

This is the most annoying behavior because I really mean what I write.

- "There’s a fun conspiracy theory that popped up recently called the Dead Internet Theory..."

I hadn't heard of this. Now that's some sci-fi level of conspiracy but in today's world it seems totally plausible.
I think this might be propaganda, speaking to people who have Russian/Ukrainian connections, the people on the ground don't seem worried at all. That being said, I guess we find out tomorrow, right? That's supposed to be invasion day.
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HN does the same. I messaged Dang about it and he apologized and un-shadowbanned me.

Apparently it was because I had two accounts made from the same IP. On on my laptop and one from my mobile phone.
Definitely impressive. However, EFS perf oriented pricing is confusing. It seems to be quite expensive if we ask for throughput comparable with EBS. 100 MB/s costs $600/month. I’m not sure why the pricing for disitributed file system is so much higher than the block storage side. For ex, this makes running a db on top of EFS very expensive for non trivial workloads.
With tons of flowers, and a restaurant and malls!
In several Countries, the tax office will use Benford's law to decide if you are "randomly selected" for an audit. And it's quite useful to detect scientific fraud, and has been used that way several times.

This is an interesting write-up, but would seem the diversity in both severity and duration of lock-downs, plus simple issues with quality of data collection mean here Benford's law anomalies, just help identify the lack of consistent approach between countries in handling the pandemic. Also the quality of their data collection process.

This more than fraud, and in any case the article also makes that case.
>OK, so you're redefining Starship into "expendable second stage".

That's not redefining, just SpaceX's confusing naming I guess but I thought I was quite clear for anyone who knows about the system. The "Starship launch system" consists of a first stage named Super Heavy (SH) and a second stage also named Starship (SS). It was obvious I was talking about expended second stage "Starship" because I explicitly noted that Super Heavy was important to land, why, and additionally why I thought that was also relatively feasible compared to the SS parts.

>I don't think that was inherently clear to anyone but you.

Only if you didn't actually bother to read the comment or don't know anything about Starship but are choosing to comment anyway. Yes, all of us wish that "Starship" wasn't an overloaded term, but it is. The context nevertheless was very clear. What else did you think I was talking about with Super Heavy?

>I don't think that's the definition the parent poster meant in the context of "Starship is going to take years longer than originally predicted".

It seems fairly clear given both the article and their "Starship is incredibly ambitious but if it doesn't reach orbit before 2025 I won't be surprised" statement? OP didn't write "if the second stage doesn't have full reuse before 2025 I won't be surprised", they wrote reach orbit. Please explain how else you can parse that except a claim that Starship won't reach orbit? And a refined expended second stage would still absolutely slaughter SLS and everything else too. And yes, I'd be surprised if it took them dozens and dozens of attempts to get SS to survive reentry, they've got plenty of mass margin for it and fundamental advantages vs a range of other reentry systems including the shuttle, and as far as landing, well they've already demonstrated the most aggressive version landing maneuver successfully! So I don't think it's going to take them 3+ years after getting to orbit to land SS.
It’s important to remember that Quadriga wasn’t able to get banking services in Canada. Canadian banks were refusing to do business with any cryptocurrency-related businesses.

Keeping the cash at home wasn’t a good idea, but being blocked from using traditional solutions necessitated that they build their own.
Why would that solve anything? Google could still cancel my gmail if I say something politically incorrect, regardless of their database technology. It's not like making my email public would change anything, they are not reluctant to cancel people just because others can see it. If anything, that makes the cancellation all the more effective.
I am not sure, english is not my mother tongue so I might have written something in a non-understandable way, if there's something that I might have written better let me know if you want. As for wokes -> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woke
This is why we can't have nice things. Pebble Core: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/getpebble/pebble-2-time... (basically android-ish + 3g + gps + bluetooth screenless widget)

Hype Article: https://www.stuff.tv/news/5-reasons-pebble-core-most-excitin...

RIP Pebble.
Perhaps I should’ve said “he definitely didn’t die of Crohns somewhere in India” - yeah, I admit he could be dead by this point for various other reasons.

As for some other comments - until you’re very old, I think the statistics are that you’re much more likely to die from a surgery that tries to better manage your Crohns than of anything Crohns can cause.

Sometimes the surgeries can go very badly very quickly for no rhyme or reason & lead to bowel rupture which is very not good. Not that this is common - just more common than “dying” of Crohns.
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i know, sample size 1, but my roommate in college had Crohns and died at 23 from it very suddenly
> And then the story invariably will say that the actual number of people doing this thing is not really known, or is pretty low.

I think some people are also using the wrong types of visas and not wanting to make their identities public to avoid trouble. Especially the "tourist visa" people in the article. I knew people (pre-pandemic) who would participate in "visa runs" in Thailand. I tried a visa run once, but suspect that I did it repeatedly it would arise suspicion. There are also longer educational visas in Thailand, and some educational programs advertise how little time commitment is required (since actual learning didn't seem to be the point).
>I use a password manager, so it's an easy thing to print the list of passwords.

Why not just provide the password for your manager? Isn't that the whole point?
Yup.

I'm often doing this with my wife when she cooks - trying to write it down so we can recreate it when something turns out great; and it often does and we haven't captured it. But I always remember the story I read about a guy whose side gig was inventing a colored solution for kids to use blowing huge bubbles (harder than you think - it's got to be colored enough to see, but become transparent and nonstaining or their moms will instantly kill the product). Several years in, he found a perfect solution - then discovered the next day he hadn't written it down and couldn't recreaate it. It took him several more years to find one that worked and successfully bring it to market.

So, sure, maybe most of what goes in the notebooks is cruft, but the process is key. And the author DOES have an excellent point that the search & discovery capabilities of your system are key.
These are completely different issues. I was talking about a network-wide ban performed automatically by Reddit server-side anti-spam mechanisms, it's not about the internal policies or moderations (whether auto or manual) of a specific subreddit.
The default subreddits are really horrible. Reddit is still okay if you unsubscribe from all of those and only subscribe to the narrow subreddits that you're interested in. Of course, it's hard to find new subreddits that way.
I have customers in Vietnam; they said they had to turn around and fight the Chinese who they still dislike for many reasons including Chinese racism. I’m told they don’t even think about Americans all that much. I think they see Westerners as trustworthy business partners who are generally easy to do business with.

It’s hard to Google it now; but I remember reading how Vietnamese leaders were saying even during the war how they didn’t hate the American people and look forward to one day sitting down with them to drink tea.
Dismissing a considered response to a question as a "rant" is such lame trolling.

As to your demand for a "source" -- as if there's a scientific paper I can cite -- there are zero rational people who can read what I wrote and seriously question it, beyond weak HN trolls who have nothing.

It's uncomfortable for sure, though: Knowing that one's entire position about complex topics (vaccines, AGW, etc) is dictated by tribalism is pretty embarrassing when one really thinks about it. Particularly if one has blanketed it in lots of ridiculous rationalizations and explanations -- a legacy of nonsense -- carefully curating their YouTube channels of disinformation.
Same here. I subscribe and then immediately cancel, which stops the recurring billing but lets you use the service for the rest of the month.
Just the way Chrome insists on auto-completing searches has seriously damaged the efficiency of my Googling. I'll search something like "Type-97 whatsit making funny noises", get no results, go to search just for "type-97 whatsit" and it adds the rest back on by itself and I get the same useless results from the first time. I don't make the mistake often enough to remember not to make it, and every time I wonder what moron decided that was a vital feature that shouldn't be able to be turned off.
yeah politicians don't want people to have healthcare. cuckoo.

Sounds like a nonsense insane tin foil hat theory to me.
Partnered with the guy from this recent story: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30120762 ("Wonderland Crypto Co-Founder Revealed to Be Infamous Fraudster, Investors Shaken")

Scammers all around
Yes, be easy to work with, but once you get into institutions, that means something entirely different. One of the reasons I can be difficult to work with is that I have technical skills that make many concrete truths obvious very quickly, and truth is the ultimate forcing function. It's also the source of my value, since I trade on those skills.

However, much of business is about timing, positioning, alignment, association, exposure to opportunity, narrative attention, and literally just talking, stalling, and bullshitting until another variable in the equation resolves or falls into place and makes the decision for all involved without having to spend precious political capital on buy in.

Sometimes the technical truth is that free variable. When it isn't, as someone who trades on being the guy with insights, options, answers, and integrity, saying I don't know when I really, really do to sustain some necessary uncertainty for others is sometimes a bigger lift than I'm prepared to make. That's a natural cost of having tech skills, but it's also a ceiling on how much value you can provide if you can't sustain dissonance long enough to support your team as they get positioned around those business variables above. If you get fired, it's probably over this. The point is to say, a durable skill like room reading, extended to organization and narrative reading takes a lot of intentional practice, and a lot of the non-technical people we work with have only ever done this, and have thousands of man hours practice ahead of you.

Being easy to work with isn't about being nice, or agreeable, or even "political," it's recognizing the abstractions that hold the team and org together and providing reinforcement and continuity for it. That's the job. Revenue, growth, savings, optimizations etc are the downstream effect. I don't think anyone really articulates this stuff because you can't both play the game well while providing commentary for it at the same time, so a lot of career advice is the elaborate charade of pointing to these things without saying them and giving the game away. YMMV, but this is to say, consider whether being right is being smart, and make sure you always practice indexing on the latter and opportunity just appears.
By who you are I meant whether you come from a rich and privileged family or not.

>I think the fact that "who you are" in these cases implicitly includes a persons network [...]

Yes, you're right, in some sense a person with a good pedigree is bringing these implicit connections to the table, and that has value, for sure. But then that leaves outside the other 90% of people who do not pass that litmus test.

And then, some bad patterns emerge, like this one pointed out by our beloved Michael O. Church: https://twitter.com/MichaelOChurch/status/149157622891411456...
How to Query the Product Hunt API Responsibly with Python
Meanwhile the story below that one on axios is Putin is withdrawing a portion of the troops.
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Da nich für...

edit: meaning "Not for this" in slightly northern german slang as in "It's nothing" :-)

editit: or "De nada"