skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are no silver bullets for things like these, you really need change - but you are in a position where you are in a very demanding period of your life and you don't really have the resources to ease the burden. I am very sorry that you are going through that.

In terms of refreshing myself, sometimes I find when I am in stressful situations that I just need a bit of grounding, I remind myself of my situation, my objectives, and my direction. But also pay attention to that if something needs to be cut, then work on cutting it. There is also no shame in finishing things later, if you need to defer for a bit - do so

Sometimes you may need to bite the bullet and accept that this is a temporarily hard situation, and it's OK to feel like crap. You know your working towards a goal, but whether you think it's worth it or not that's up to your judgment. It's tough being ambitious unfortunately
It might help to understand API vs. ABI with respect to the C language and CPU architectures.

I put definitions here awhile ago, and mentioned the Actually Portable Executable project as an example of taking the ABI philosophy to an extreme, and ignoring APIs (source code).

https://www.oilshell.org/cross-ref.html#API

Links to this thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12029321

It's unfortunately not explained well in many places, and even experienced C programmers don't understand the details. You won't learn about this in a C programming book, because it's not really part of the C language proper. It sits at an awkward spot between the language, the CPU, and the operating system.

----

The relation to Linus Torvalds is that historically Unix kernels were developed in a single tree and there was no stable ABI. For example I believe OpenBSD and NetBSD are still like this. But Linux is different in that the kernel maintained a stable ABI, and you can run different user utilities on top, without necessarily recompiling them against headers.

Highly related blog post and discussion: https://old.reddit.com/r/ProgrammingLanguages/comments/tg55o... (including comments by me/oilshell explaining the Unix kernel interface issue)
A solar powered world will mostly use large scale ground mounted solar, which is much cheaper than putting it awkwardly on roofs.
Fairly well known company in the insurance and risk business. A cool 40,000 employees around the world. Result of a merger between the Willis and Tower Watson groups.
There probably is no getting to you, but “the book presented you information in a way that helped” is the whole point of a self-help book, and when someone arrives at a better understanding of themselves or a project via presented information, it does get easier for them.
> this also prevents content injection by the malicious code that google sends to your browser to render content from third party advertisers on your device without your consent

You’re kidding right?

Deliberately watching videos on a freely provided service supported by ads, makes the ad script “malicious and non-consensual”?
My family has had 4 cars in the last 15 years (I won't mention models, but they were fairly reasonable, middle-of-the-pack vehicles). Three of them had no defects at all. The most recent one, a hybrid with a bunch of fancy electronics, had just a couple of problems, covered under warranty and fixed in less than a day. (And if our dealers flake out, there are independent service and repair shops that can do the same job, or better).

When several of my Tesla-owning cow-orkers reported waiting six months for things like body panels, I resolved not to buy one.
There will always be some excuse why the speech he doesn't like is different, and not subject to his supposed priciples.
From what I understand, housing in good school districts tends to be priced above-average.

And then there's Oklahoma, not a high-wage state, where public school is so godawful that everyone who can half afford it sends their children to private school. When you have more than one you have a bigger problem.

Schooling is part of the issue.
What I've seen from the valley people make this no surprise. Living in a place with an insane CoL so you can make an extra $20k/year. Working extra to not lose that meager amount of money because you're signed into a $3k/m studio apartment lease. Pissing away savings because you're burning out in style to deal with the extra stress.
I very much doubt companies are going to pay for your lawyers to sue them with.
how hard do you think it will be for all your customers to move out in 2 months?
"High" earner
I'm playing the world's smallest violin over here.

Anybody making that much money and still living "paycheck to paycheck" is doing so by choice, or misunderstood the question and what it means to live paycheck to paycheck.
Submitted title was "Finblox (YC Alum) the next crypto domino to fall?" but as far as I can tell, Finblox is not a YC company, so I've taken that bit out.

I say that because Finblox isn't in the YC list I have access to, and YC isn't in Finblox's list of investors here: https://finblox.com/about#full-investors.
Thanks for the detailed response.

I had guessed at your approach, and I wasn't too far off it seems. Moving the processing to the software level (rather than staying in the db layer) makes sense.

A challenge we have is that for many of our UIs, we have very wide rows. Our main "offender" has over 100 fields on the main page, and that table also has several 3-4 level deep child tables.

Would be interesting to see how it would perform using your approach. I might just have found another summer vacation project, just for fun...

Not that I think it would work for us, like I said we rely on multi-column indexes for performance and consistency so that's probably a show-stopper right there. But I do like to try different approaches just for the experience.
Your logic is wrong. You could go to the Wikipedia page for contraposition and learn about this, rather than arguing in comments.

To use your own example: You have to take a long time to walk a long distance. That doesn't mean you have to take a short time to walk a short distance.
Half the commenters on this site are under 25. Every topic about parenting / children makes it pretty obvious.
Try to voice a comment that goes against the flow of that enthusiasm and you'll be downvoted to oblivion, even if you speak with more experience and context than the masses. I'm horrified by some of the stuff I see here and feel like it's often useless to speak out.

Fighting idiocy that gets entrenched by the even a few comments is challenging. But depending on circumstances, there are specific rhetorical strategies that can be effective. IE, sometimes they work and sometimes they're futile. I like to flatter myself that deciding whether you can make an impact is bit like looking for a good shot in advanced pool.

But the thing here is, there's no guarantee that an actual expert "old hand" is going to know any of these approaches. So you have to read the discussion with this in mind.
Try Oklahoma, it'll change your mind.
I thought the whole point of modern cockpit rules was to prevent that sort of unquestioning obedience that has caused thousands of deaths over the years.
^^^ This person cryptos. ;-)
> The Fed clearly deciding that it is time to crash the economy into the wall rather than allow workers to get raises

Wealthy people in power only care about other wealthy people.
Or he’s just a jerk on the Internet with nonspecific POV just reading your comment and trying to find a piece to sark about.

Good luck with your IVF!
Maybe you could substitute it with a very good homeschool co-op. Public school has gotten borderline abusive lately in most places.
Why do this rather than offer customers a chance to continue service at some higher cost?
Does calc do something neat that

bc -l

is missing?

It is a funny omission in an article about using old programs -- it is arguably older than vi (not vim).
It’s still wise IMO to have some liquid cash on hand. In the event that you lose your job or have some unexpected big expenses come up.
I have an LLC on Brex, but haven't gotten an email yet. I'm not sure if that means if I'm in the clear or if the email just hasn't rolled out yet.

Would be great if you could send an email to _all_ customers, including the ones who weren't affected as a reassurance, so we could either rest in peace or get the migration started ASAP.
> are you mostly asking for us to verify 3rd party bank accounts via microdeposit instead?

Yes, I'm fine waiting a couple days for the initial setup if it means I don't have to let Plaid see every single transaction coming in and out of my account (and see my password in plaintext and all that). If you'd support USDC deposits, that would be even better (instant settlement with no reversibility, so no risk to you), but I'm guessing that might be a stretch. Regardless, Mercury is a very nice service as is, thank you!
"Nobody is getting free chemo or radiation therapy, treatment for chronic illness or anything like"

Sure you can. In the US, you cannot be denied chemo or other treatments. You will be billed after the fact, and it's going to be a ton of money, but it's not as if they have security escort you out just because you don't have an insurance card. That simply doesn't happen. You'll get care, and if you don't qualify for aid programs or indigent care schemes (of which there are many), you'll probably file for bankruptcy and have the slate wiped clean.

By law, nonprofit hospitals must provide charity care to needy patients. 57% of US hospitals are non-profit. Only 24% are for-profit. (The rest are government run)
In the spectrum of humanity, "high net worth" would be much less than $1M USD.
Comments moved thither. Thanks!

I know there's some controversy about which article is better (this one or NYT's), but both links are available from the earlier thread.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Shkreli#Daraprim_price-...
Same with my several Camrys, Honda pilot, and Toyota.;)
The name Neutralino comes from supersymmetry theory and it is neutral particle (electric charge is zero) but if the naming is just saying we are better than electron and should be the modern alternative one that will replace it, then the more suitable name would be selectron (electron superpartner and it is a boson!). But that would be confusing I understand.

PS: I hope that this is really better than electron because I hate all electron apps and the desire for many developers to use it to deliver multi platform apps. It is buggy, resources monster and doesn't work consistently.
Async processing simply requires the task to be added to a queue, so those tasks are typically very fast. An artificial delay might make sense.
I think software development in general makes thinking about anything that isn't immediately pragmatic very difficult. HN tends to be pretty rough when it comes to Politics or the harder parts of Philosophy.
I'd guess that a factor in Brex's shutdown was that these rewards are unsustainable. That seems like a good reason for Mercury not to adopt the same practices.
Oh that’s annoying, sorry about that. Try this one? https://youtu.be/wuy-LKSE3y0
1. Zelle: all of the big banks have it. Credit unions are slower to adopt.
2. Mobile apps: big bank mobile apps are pretty great these days.
3. Credit cards: Bank of America rebates 2.625% for top customers.
4. Bill pay: the big bank bill pay integrations with vendors and ebills is better
What is that floor? I’m pretty skeptical of that claim given how cheap houses are where I live (relative to the rest of the country).
Your feedback was literally, "I don't like you because you're not doing the thing that <company that's kicking everybody to the curb> is doing." Ironic is exactly the word for your feedback.
The Imitation of Consciousness on the Present and Future of NLP
Or the need to spend dozens of hours on Leetcode questions for a job. Many of those questions have no relevancy to the work.

Need: Front-end developer to build basic components and style them with CSS.

Interview: Check if a given array can represent preorder traversal of binary search tree
The phrase "goes downhill" means things only get worse. The OP is suggesting that since the ping is already slow, a function that does something is going to be much worse.
I've cobbled together a few. It's half interesting, and half boring.

The boring half is all carry-the-one manual operations that are very much like the addition, multi-digit multiplication, and long division that you learned at a classroom chalkboard.

The more interesting is things like modular exponentiation: there's a trick to computing n^e%p for large values, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modular_exponentiation goes into some detail. It's an operation used in both RSA and public curve cryptography.
Well then send the kid to a public school, like the schools 90 percent of kids go to.

Did you ever consider that?
But why elliptic curve groups instead of, I don't know, some subgroup of GL(n, F_p) or something. Is it just that they happen to be the best known groups right now?
Then that reflects poorly on their budgetary decisions and prioritization.
My family is high earning, about 4-5x the threshold they are talking about, and our budget is tight enough that it feels like it's paycheck to paycheck.
We max out the 401k and IRA and invest as well, but I don't see our savings growing. High rent, taking care of my parents, and home child care almost as high as rent are the big outlays, I know these are just choices we made, we're super lucky to be in this situation, but I kind of get it. Your life starts to take the shape of the container it's in, and when you raise the cost of everything 5% a month but the income doesn't change, it does weigh on things.

Add this to the cost of homes where I live have almost doubled, from a small 1000sq foot home being priced around 1.3M now selling for over 2M and we feel like we're priced out of home ownership without doubling our salaries.

I remember being abjectly poor, and while I don't worry about money for rent or food now, I never cared about retirement back then and just had to look at what is in front of me, make rent, buy ramen, etc. I know this isn't worse, but it sure feels similar.
Home prices are higher, yes. But the higher prices are sticky, especially if local parents tend to get involved in their children's education. You can make up the cost when you sell the home after the kids are gone.
Give away free money
Or not https://drivingdc.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/autoguide-l...
Its easy to think of this stunt as some sort of playboyy thing, but I felt it was a brilliant PR move.

They needed a known weight to test the rocket and orbital flight mechanics. Instead of putting any random thing, he put his car and the world went gaga over the stunt. It brought Tesla and SpaceX tremendous amount of press.

As a founder, he made full use of an opportunity.
The ice-core and dendrochron records make it clear that the YD began with a precipitous temp drop, followed in 1200 years by a precipitous temp climb. Any alternative hypotheses have to explain those changes, well-established worldwide, simultaneous Pt and Ir deposits, two well-established gigantic meltwater pulses, and hundreds of well-established megafaunal extinctions, all falling among a period of deglaciation with a fuzzy timeline. For starters.

It's a tall order, and recent and ongoing discoveries have made it less-and-less fringey. Fascinating to watch the the responses and what they tell us about 'well-established' orthodoxy.
I don’t know of many banks that offer high reward debit cards. IMO Mercury has almost perfected the banking experience, and I am perfectly happy with that.

If I want a high-reward card I’ll get an Amex Platinum (a credit/charge card) and stick with Mercury as my bank.
I was in high school when "The Ladders" commercials came out in the US. It was a job board for high earners. I remember the tag line "100k jobs for 100k talent", this was in the early 2000's. It stuck with me because this was several multiples of the household income of anyone in my extended family, and I couldn't imagine ever making that much money or what those people's lives must be like.

Then ~5 years ago I crossed the 100k barrier myself, though it didn't feel that momentous or impactful. Earlier this year I looked up the rate of inflation since those commercials, turns out that 100k when they were airing would be more like 160k now...
> 7) Whitefish, MT. This is an amazingly beautiful town. World class outdoor activities year around within a 20 minute drive of anywhere in town. Single life not so great and the dinning is not on par with the other towns but for stuff to do this is up there.

Montana is nice on paper, but it's quickly becoming an expensive place to live, especially for a single man.
NyPost first of all....

Second of all, It's not 'his cities'.

The goal is hundreds of thousands of people in those cities and they will form their own government just like they have on earth.
That’s the point of Tauri. UI is html/css/js, and the backend logic is Rust.
Yeah I’ve set myself up in a similar position. I’ve worked out how much I want to save, maxed employer matching etc and so what’s left at the end of the month is my ‘free’ spending.
Is this only for Brex Cash (bank account product) and not Brex (corporate credit cards)?
No, that's insane.

100K in Tulsa really is different than 100K in SF.
They've raised $1.5 billion in 12 rounds. I don't think this decision is due to a lack of funding; in fact, I think so much funding has significantly encouraged it. Unit economics and customer acquisition costs/lifetime total value become a lot more important when you're leveraged, doubly so with a recession looming.
Zelle should be avoided for almost every transaction. There is no fraud protection.
Or by just falling into it without really ever giving it a thought. That's not "by choice", exactly. (Though they do have the option of choosing not to do so, if they stopped to think about it...)
Truly indespensible.
This is less “the chef sucks” and more “the chef just pissed his name on the local community center building”.

I’d argue there probably isn’t enough substance to the complaint yet (Space-X brand is probably still a net positive having him in front of the company), but your line of argument would cause a quiet brain drain from organizations, not keep them healthy with open discussion. The fact that this open letter was described outside of the company might be the only reason I might side with you.
This comment was posted about https://medium.com/@kwilliamlloyd/the-cult-in-google-3c1a910..., in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31769484, which we merged hither.

(Since the NYT article is the OP above, I add this to avoid confusion.)
We'd need to define 'paycheck to paycheck' more precisely, but... I'm aware of multiple families in my area that used to have something left over in each check, that went in to beefing up some savings. Fuel, food and rent increases over the last 6-12 months have meant there's nothing leftover any more, and they'll need to start cutting back in some areas more aggressively. They were a bit 'close to the edge' anyway (imo), but with a couple kids, it's not hard to do.
My Knowledge Development Challenge for You
Yeah Mozilla, wasn't it you who lended credibility to those pay-as-you-go wannabe "standardization bodies" W3C, WHATWG in the first place? To give us our modern web of shit nobody wanted, and where nearly every bit of the tech stack, from HTML (WHATWG), CSS (W3C), HTTP (IETF) was foobar'd by Google via their puppet organizations? That the HTML 5/WHATWG "process" and CSS is anti-competitive crap and unproven as a spec is already evident by no new browser engines having been coded from scratch; in fact, both Opera and MS (!) stopped development of their browsers due to completely and utterly unwarranted complexity.

But you Mozilla stood by cheering, and taking Google's money, alienating your user base and sinking money into side projects instead.

Calling for new antitrust law seems just a multi-year detour to keep the status quo when there's an enforcement and bribery problem: how was Google able to acquire DoubleClick and YouTube, and Facebook to acquire WhatsApp with Zuckerberg basically lying to most governments in the world?

So you want a law to force Firefox onto iOS, including its inferior and power hungry rendering engine? Personally I'll be returning to using Mac OS later this year (after having used iOS the last three years), specifically to get away from the crap that fscking need-to-restart-now FF, and the frustratingly stalling or regressive PC hardware and O/S landscape has become.
The case you cited says nothing of the sort. It only establishes that a religious organization can be sued for fraud if it uses coercive persuasion ("brainwashing") techniques [1].

It doesn't make a statement as to what is or isn't considered a religion.

It's worth noting that the Fellowship of Friends is recognized by both the IRS and California as a tax-exempt religious organization. And, at least from my perspective, it doesn't sound all that different from Scientology, which does enjoy First Amendment protections as a religion. [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molko_v._Holy_Spirit_Ass%27n_f...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Headley_v._Church_of_Scientolo...
Low mortgage when you don't need it, high mortgage when you cannot afford one. The country can't stop screwing over the younger generation, can't it?
Perhaps this will help: https://support.apple.com/en-au/HT201236

Of course, this can only cover Apple's own software and 3rd party software which adheres to Apple conventions.
If you are maxing retirement funds you are not living paycheck to paycheck.
Don't use dictionaries that change the definitions of words for political means. Retard means slow. A retard chamber, for example, contains retardant that is meant to slow the spread of fire.

There is a perpetual movement to take words and shuffle them around as a form of purity spiraling. People who don't want to work build entire careers out of pretending moral outrage. Play their game and you give them power. Next thing you know, the words that were okay to say are verboten and you're the next one crushed under the wheel of progress.
Not exactly the same but I did taxes one year on Credit Karma. A few years pass and I'm buying a house, lenders need tax returns. Credit Karma tax was sold off, support gets back to me after two days saying they can't help me at all getting the old return filed with them. Fuck this, never again.

Turns out it was easy to get the return from the IRS directly, but this turned me off from introducing "hip" tech into my financial life ever again.
Unless that business is in crypto, in which case you'll freeze their account. This happened to us, which halted our payroll and hurt us. We had to scramble to find an alternative, which is now Brex.

To Mercury's credit, their staff was responsive the entire time in helping us transition. But the fact that they couldn't give an ETA on when things would resolve with their partner bank was distressing for us.
I said mulled wine, Jenkins, you fool, not cult wine. MULLED
10 years of malware definition updates. 10 years of countless security additions. Every operation needs to be checked for correction, memory safety etc.
Try forking Firefox without calling it a browser rendering HTML.
A combined cycle powerplant is about 10% of the cost, per unit power output, of a nuclear power plant. So we could completely back up a renewable grid with CC plants and nuclear could still be much more expensive.
Well said, and totally with you until Infinite Jest. Hanging your hat on that should haunt you like mentioning it within the same breath as Ulysses, Gravity's Rainbow or even Blood Meridian.

Infinite Jest is the Jared Kushner of literary works. BEFORE the Saudi money for selling the PDB.