skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Modern railroads typically have extremely tight restraints on slope. This allows trains to be longer and reduces overall shipping costs. In fact, the desire to make railroads less steep has led Americans to do incredible things, like building the Whittier Access Tunnel (and the port of Whittier at all) to avoid trains going uphill coming from Seward.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whittier,_Alaska

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portage_Glacier_Highway#Anton_...

https://www.cookinlethistoricalsociety.org/articles/opening-...
Dick move is dick move.
I just wanted to say that I absolutely understand why you prefer users to use Plaid's identity product (the startup I work at does this as well), but I HATE that it's becoming the standard way to link checking accounts. Both from a data sharing perspective, and from a training users to enter login information into random forms perspective.

There has got to be a better way for us to accomplish this.
We've banned this account for religious flamewar, which is not allowed here.

(No, that's not because we're on one side or the other of any particular flamewar. The entire category is hellish and off topic.)

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I mean... So far, most things that I consider "standard" have been _fairly_ meaningful for consumers, and open for everyone to use, free of charge.

I am extremely happy when I don't have to install an app, including when video chatting (which zoom is extremely guilty of).
It captures the window without the drop shadow.
Wow, this is high praise coming from Derek Sivers.

This should immediately be on Mercury's landing page. :)
Exactly this. "Slow because careful" is only charitable.
bank account. tech startups have huge balances compared to lifetime
My understanding is that we currently don't have enough data to be sure that the B meson anomaly is real, and not just a statistical fluctuation - it is only a few standard deviations away from what is expected. (A few more years of data should resolve the question of whether it is real, one way or the other.)
Then what it would it mean to not be paycheck to paycheck?

If investing counts as spending, doesn’t that mean that 100% of people are living “paycheck to paycheck”? You’re either spending it or you’re investing it, there’s nothing else to do with money.
Maybe the culture is different in tech. In my game - engineering within the construction industry, failure to disclose a conflict of interest in any kind of procurement over a few $100 is cause for instant dismissal and potentially criminal prosecution if there are kickbacks involved.

So the wine procurement is open and shut corruption in my view. If I was betting on the outcome here, I suspect "Dan" from the article was actually correct in his prediction. Google will just shut the whole unit down. They're already being sued over it and their reputation is being tarnished in the New York Times. It's a no brainer in terms of risk management.
For someone facing issues like this, you can often use another bank as an “intermediary” especially for personal accounts. Pull from your spendy bank using TD Ameritrade and then push it into Mercury.
I think it's reasonable to point out that it's not forced though. Unless all decisions are forced by the relentless march of time, in which case everything is forced.
I’m just going to quote myself, upthread:

> Okay, so it may not be a software bug at all, but I'm gonna move these goalposts and insist this is a product design bug, or something.
Which, I find a bit ridiculous. It’s not Apple’s job to preserve a record. Someone has the same potential to be harassed on a voice call, with no record if it happening. If someone is harassing, iMessage offers the ability to block, and screenshots can be taken the moment a message is sent if the receiver wishes to preserve evidence.
Chrome extensions (which are sadly still disabled in android chrome) actually can fix this without new feature (beauty of extensibility, i guess). Dark reader extension is fairly good.
I have a bunch of medical debt but not really, just waiting for treatment to be “finished” and someone else’s car insurance to foot the bill.

I have debt collectors calling me which i ignore now because me describing the situation and them “putting a note in my file” has zero effect on how often they contact me.

In the end I’ll owe $0 it will just take time to settle.

But there is something coming close to $10k of “debt” out there with my name on it.
Aren't you above the income limit for an IRA?

https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/irs-announces-changes-to-retire...
as far as I'm aware, this only affected cash accounts. Users with the 30 day cards are safe
(Corrupt execs aside) What other forms of revenue can Mozilla use? Everyone thinks Pocket is a meme, no one really cares about Mozilla VPN, any attempts at making money will be seen as Mozilla turning for-profit. Donations? Lmao. Good engineers are extremely expensive to buy.
If they used the same setup as the LendingClub survey mentioned in the article, it was self-reported. The other notable thing I saw with the LendingClub survey (other than it being sponsored by a business that probably benefits from people living paycheck to paycheck, or the perception that lots of people live that way) was that the majority of the people who self-reported as living paycheck to paycheck also said that they had enough money on hand to cover a $1,000 emergency without having to borrow money or carry a balance on their credit card... So I'm kinda skeptical of the results.

Edit: it looks like the full Willis Towers Watson report defines paycheck to paycheck as "using most or all of their monthly income for expenses".
I thought this was going to be dated years ago, last I ran into this shit it was the summer after Snowden.

Google folks can be hella elitist, but at least at IBM they wait til they leave the company to join cults :-)

>...she quit her job at IBM to become, in her words, a "full time pop star and cult leader." She's released several homemade, cybertwee-aesthetic music videos, which criticize consumerism and promote spiritual and feminist ideals.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/ezpben/i-was-brainwashed-by-...

And the Googlers I knew who were into woo woo usually got it out of their system before they hit the business world then rapidly ditched the affiliation when people... Googled their group.

(Lookin' at you Deep Lab -- never got an explanation why Jacob Appelbum[1] would be listed as a member of a "feminist collective"[2] years after multiple credible reports of reprehensible behavior.

>A number of other persons are affiliated with and/or worked to contribute to and support the Deep Lab... Jacob Appelbaum (independent security researcher)

(My gut take is he extorted folks who did... modeling or whatever for far too long given the supposedly libertarian leanings, left or right, of tech bros like myself)

And Oregon... of course these Googlers are in Oregon, a land famous for cults - most students of morbid reality know that one of the worst bioattacks in the USA was perpetrated by a cult trying to sicken enough people to seize control of the county at the ballet box in rural Oregon[3]

>In 1984, 751 people suffered food poisoning in The Dalles, Oregon, US due to the deliberate contamination of salad bars at ten local restaurants with Salmonella. A group of prominent followers of Rajneesh (later known as Osho) led by Ma Anand Sheela had hoped to incapacitate the voting population of the city so that their own candidates would win the 1984 Wasco County elections. The incident was the first and is the single largest bioterrorist attack in United States history

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Appelbaum#Allegations_of...

[2] https://web.archive.org/web/20191026165234/https://studiofor...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1984_Rajneeshee_bioterror_atta...
If software is only 25 minutes old, you probably aren't using it.
Thank you so much for creating this! Under the Curve61 point addition example, I was trying to follow the formula for adding two points: P:(x1, y1) + Q(x2, y2) = R(x3=l^2-x1-x2, y3=l(x1-x3)-y1) where l=(y2-y1)/(x2-x1). I tried to use the example P:(5, 7) + 23P:(2, 24) = (226/9, 2888/7) != 24P:(59, 55) and was wondering where I've gone wrong? Appreciate your response!
You can do a lot of this in Spotlight
You express yourself with the tools you have at that moment, on the ideas you have at that moment. You work on it and work on it again until you are satisfied or want to move on.
In general, I recommend showing what you have written to others.
I publish essays on substack that are read, at most, by 8 people, but my repeated effort, knowing that someone, even just a few people, read what I write, makes it worth the effort in my mind.
Intel seems to want to use angstroms as a unit (instead of intel 2(nm), it will be intel 20a, don’t know if an angstrom is a tenth of a nm.
https://www.bogleheads.org/wiki/Backdoor_Roth
Recent and related:

One-Third of Americans Making $250k Live Paycheck-to-Paycheck - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31581822 - June 2022 (305 comments)
You cannot afford to ill-equip your offspring, beyond a point. It is a loooong game that we all play.
> which automatically adjusts with inflation)

For reference:

> adjusted for inflation on the basis of the Consumer Price Index;

Hmm... I wonder if this sort of verbiage might make much more of an impact on a hundred million working class Americans' lives if it were applied to other sections of the US Code...
As transistors get smaller, you can put more in a given area. More transistors = more work can be done.
Big discussion earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31765730
Also see

Why am I no longer qualified to be a Brex customer? (brex.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31772211

Submitted by tvjames | 3 hours ago | 86 points | 76 comments
As someone who has used both, I whole-heartedly believe that anyone who would put some marginal financial benefits of a CU over the ease of use, consistency and convenience of a big corporate bank is insane. So it appears we’re at an impasse.
Apparently it hides the shadows when you screenshot an individual window. Neat trick, although I think I'm going to apply the trick from the article, since I don't think I ever actually want the shadows.
>They explained it themselves - there's no evidence of abuse/exploitation. They literally have no legal requirement to even tell you as much as they did. You should be commending them for filling you in at all.

Do they keep logs, or is that also not a legal requirement? (See how these things can combine?)

Folks literally should be mindful no oneis obligated to do business with you if they think you're untrustworthy.
Why would you ever change a single brake pad? I’ve never done less than an axle’s worth of pads at a time (overwhelmingly four pads). I’m even a little surprised a dealer would agree to do that.
I mean it might be more honest to say “you’ve always been a cost center and we’ll be damn glad to see the end of you” but would it really make you feel better?
I don't entirely disagree.
> being user-friendly doesn't mean making every single feature user friendly or discoverable through [using the software]

Why not?

> The vast majority of users can be productive on macos without ever using a single keyboard shortcut.

If you're not using keyboard shortcuts you definitely do not have flow. Again, why should the standard be so minimal ('can eventually complete a task') and not involve efficiency, fluidity, joy, mastery, etc.?

It's not hard to do better when you leverage searches that simultaneously expose functionality and alternative ways to invoke it (e.g., keybinds, menu paths, app names, etc.). The example that blew my mind is Emacs with a nice fuzzy filtering search like you get pre-configured with Spacemacs or Doom, but macOS also has two great examples built in: Spotlight and the global app menu search.
And make it up in volume!

After all it did work for PayPal.
The big issue explained in the Techdirt piece is how it only has a chance of passing because it's a trojan horse for other companies to sue the big companies (FB, Google, Apple) for the moderation decision they make, including Google downranking spammy sites that nobody likes being sent to.
Are tabs an option?
I do the same thing. I max my retirement savings, and HSA contributions, have some cash savings for emergencies, and live on what's left.
Longtime Firefox and Thunderbird user. I can't speak about Apple but in my experience on Android, Windows, and Linux it is trivially easy to install Firefox and make it the default web browser. Just earlier today I was browsing HN on Android in Firefox and two articles that I opened would load and display initially, but then the page would go blank and show only white. Refreshing showed the same behavior. So I switched to browsing with the DuckDuckGo mobile browser for now.

So I was pretty frustrated to read this article. It's over-the-top self-congratulatory. Sheesh Mozilla, spend your time and money fixing and improving your product, and people will tell their friends to use it. Instead of lobbying the government based on misinformation about how hard and scary it is to make Firefox your default browser.
I'm a Brit. I lived in Germany 10 years, now I'm in San Diego (been in the US 12 years).

Life is good, but I miss Germany. More than I miss England. I don't regret leaving as we had our reasons, but if we had stayed, well... I think life would be better, more enriching. Screw the money.
It's not a controversial opinion, it's an incorrect opinion. Nuclear and renewables (except for hydro) synergize poorly in most cases.
Agreed. We would need a credit card to target that spend.

Appreciate the feedback.
Startup has the chance of going big and they want their cut of that.

Small business never will go profitable for them so they don’t want to waste time on it.

Think “enterprise”.
As someone who got dumped when Crashplan decided to no longer offer service to individual users, regardless of the business realities, this is a universally shitty thing to do to your supporters. Why should anyone do business with you if you might pivot away from them (on such short notice, no less) in the future?
Though to be fair, everyone is committed to their customers until they aren’t.
> if I found out that a mom was coming to pick up her kids laundry and leave some meals because 'Uni Exams' ... I will be $1000 immediately that kid will do well without knowing a single other thing about that family or situation. Not a guarantee of anything, but an easy bet.

Narrow bet, yes. But I'd put $100 on them having high risk of entitlement issues and being an overweight office stinker who is a loner, because they never learned to wash, cook and manage their time. Not certain, but this is a pattern with risks: kids need to learn self reliance in the ordinary.
VS Code is more of an editor (with a nice plugin system) than an IDE, right?

Should have called it something like "Technical Notepad."
MacOS screenshot tool on steroids: https://cleanshot.com/
When I want to sound cool I say I work at a tech startup. When I want to sound likable I say I work at a small business.
The actual title of the article does not contain scare quotes:

Victim advocate calls on Apple to rethink how its iMessage edit feature works
> Brex has a bunch of multipliers ranging from 7x to 1x points.

sounds like Brex has been losing money on unit economics while making it up on volume, and now with VC money tightening ...

Wrt. small business vs. startup - i'd guess that any company older than 3-5 years which hasn't become big enough (in spending or revenue) and not showing fast growth can be considered a small business :)
Odd. I was able to download my old returns from the cash.app taxes website. It wasn’t super simple but it was easy enough.
Work, the Wasted Years
I'm not sure I see the parallel.

In the first example, a forum poster was taking the absence of evidence to be evidence of absence. In fact I've never met a person who didn't have a story about making such a mistake, so I'd venture to guess we all do that at some point in our lives[1].

In your example, however, people were confusing the absence of evidence with an imagined preponderance of evidence. That's an error on a very different level, like accidentally joining a pyramid scheme or getting sick from eating an entire piece of plastic fruit.

1: See? :)
If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is.

Crypto bro's now gettin' used like ho's.
Just tried Win+X on Build 22621. Arrow keys and letters work right away. I didn't have to wait or slow down.
Nope, content needs to be on multiple monitors at once.
I can definitely see it being true in some cases, but in software I strongly disagree. I'm speaking as someone who started programming for clients at 15 and am poised to retire at 33. Everyone starts slowing down after 25. The extra years learning by experience gave me a leg up that was completely unmatched by others. It opened a ton of doors that shouldn't exist for a lower income kid with no opportunity for college.

Chess is a more extreme example. Grandmasters regularly play their best games in their late 20s for a reason. Super grandmasters all started playing around the same age.
Seems like you’re being just as hostile in the other direction. If this isn’t the appropriate time to complain about Microsoft, then what is?

I can’t speak for everyone, but I continue to not like Microsoft because they don’t make a single piece of software that I like, and they’re ruined the ones I did like.
More or less the only way, but it could have already made a backup to somewhere else, yeah, superintelligence has some inherent perks.
Thanks for these sources, English is not my first language but I get how could have been perceived insensitive.
Manchin is not doing yeoman's work when he throws hissy fits over his name on a WH press release about something he'd already done (negotiated with Biden)
I’ve used us bank for an auto loan and they were super helpful when I sold it. I honestly get anxiety and social lock up when dealing with financial stuff (it’s all so much bullshit after the basic accounting is done) and they were really chill about the whole thing
See, whenever I’ve had any sort of issue, the CU has been way more helpful and responsive. It ain’t about the rates.
400 - 500K income is a lot of money. Of course wealthy people can have high expenses and live beyond their means, but at that level, I fail to see how a non-extravagant lifestyle can produce an outcome of no savings even in the highest COL areas. Unless, of course, most of the money goes to taking care of your parents.
I write out calculations in an emacs lisp buffer. This lets me adjust them, correct typos, or save the whole thing.
Oh hey, this is amazing! Looks like the peak of its popularity was before my time but thank you a bunch for linking - may actually end up using it.
I'm going to play the devil's advocate here and put out an opinion that having children is a choice (hopefully), and so living paycheck-to-paycheck also seem to be a choice in this case. It may boil down to defining what choice means, in the extreme "choice is doing something that I don't need to survive" and then IVF meets the definition (but then almost everything else meets it as well...).

Definitely not going to defend the way the original opinion was communicated though...
I don't get it. We have actual, historical sources, that point to what the Stoics were all about, not a lot mind you, but primary sources of any sort from that time period are rare. Nevertheless, we have them. You've gotta be an actual historian to be able to contextualize them, but we're in luck here, people have done that!

But people will go with the pithiest pop philosophy and pooh pooh the real history. And worse, claim that theirs is the more well-sourced position! Based on non-historical pop takes! Ah well. Stoicism, just like all pop takes on Roman culture, will never die.

Like, look at your argument here. You're dismissing the authors examples, keep in mind that these are direct sources from the time period, by a practicing historian, with the reasoning that "it's just fitting a common trope." Nothing to replace it with, nothing to the contrary except "it's a trope". At least the other reply appealed to an authority!

I'm trying to work out in my head just how close to a degree in history you have to be, either through self-study or matriculated study, in order to actually be able to appreciate history, to not make these kinds of basic category errors regarding sourcing. I guess it's a lot.
Oh I don't doubt that one bit. Thank you for your hard work on it.
> Shame on the OP. Emacs is 46 this year.

In the Vi user's mind, there is no Emacs.
It is good practice to save PDF copies of your tax returns so this way you don’t need to request them. I would recommend making a habit of this moving forward in general.
Do you mean the official Launch HNs for YC startups? They are indeed a special case, but not in the sense you describe. They don't get to happen multiple times in a year. In fact, each YC startup only ever gets one in its entire lifetime.*

Launch HNs do get special treatment in that we place them on HN's front page. This is one of three things that HN gives back to YC in exchange for funding it—those things are all clearly listed at https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html#yc.

Btw, don't be sorry! We want everyone to know how this stuff works, and we want it to be clear what the principles are (and that there are principles). Other than the three things I just mentioned, YC startups don't get preferential treatment on HN. They have to struggle for attention just like everyone else, and with the exception of a few community darlings, they find it just as tough going as everyone else, and aren't particularly happy about it.

* although I think I'm going to make an exception next week for a startup that did the very first Launch HN 5 years ago and is still kicking.
Not really, there is as much fraud protection as ACH. If you’re will to make use of direct deposits and ACH transfers, you can use Zelle. Just don’t expect to be handled with kid gloves.
Apple could always keep the record of edits as part of the sender’s and receiver’s iCloud iMessages log, and provide them to law enforcement when a subpoena is presented, similar to Slack with compliance settings enabled.

Presentation layer vs data layer sort of thing.
So why prevent people from legally cutting hair or? If it's a bad haircut customer won't come back. Licensing is simply a way to put a moat around industry and drives up labor costs and unemployment.
It's interesting that all of the good stuff on macs tend to be paid software - ditto with the iOS stuff too.

Sometimes i hate that windows have conditioned me to expect freeware.