skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Anecdote warning as well... Same with my somewhat local (UK) Porsche dealership. They've been stellar over 4 years of looking after me with a 10+yr old car. They typically give me a cost and say it might be a bit more in labour if the job gets difficult/complicated (rusted bolts shearing, etc.), but give me an upper limit. I totally understand that from an engineering point of view. Sometimes, old rusty shit just breaks. They've still come in under the initial quotes pretty much every single time. I've actually spent less on maintenance of the car than I did on a previous Ford in a similar time period. I now just trust them as they've always been honest with me from day 1.

They've always got the work done within a day and if they think it's going to run over, they give me a loaner no questions asked and tell me to come back at my convenience in a few days time. Conversations typically run along the lines of "I talked to the mechanic who saw your car last time and he's confident on his time estimate. He's suggested doing x while he does y, as it's really only going to be a parts cost as he's stripping x off in the process of doing y, and it'll need doing in x months anyway, but it's up to you".

Anything they want to raise to my attention, they send me a simple clear video with a mechanic clearly describing/visually highlighting the problem(s), how long they think it's safe to leave to be fixed and have an open discussion with me about what I want to do and when I want to do it. I literally can't fault them. It's certainly dealer specific - I researched where to go on a UK car forum, and found out the nearest dealership seems like an absolute shit show of basically scamming customers, so I travel a bit further out and haven't been disappointed (yet).
Good question - what you see on (https://log.kradeelav.com/) is basically as close as I can get. Menu with custom css at top (or left side, honestly, no hamburger menu though), big images, optional text, and then permalink with tags. Pretty simple stuff.
It is meant to be regularly serviced every few years. It's just that instead of a hard interval, there is a sensor that detects when the oil is dirty.
In the parts of the world that were prone to this, we're too atomized, lonely. We've also been more educated through documentaries to be wary of cult compounds. People are very cynical of spiritual belief and skeptical of the intentions of a hierarch. Forming an in-person cult is also harder now because people are more diverse and you have to account for many backgrounds. It's easier to scoop up on trends from a general population that is dominated by one demographic.

I'm of the persuasion to think that our society has allowed for the permeation of an invisible communion; the loneliness death-cult of the self. There are not mass suicide events, but individual devotional ritual endings to life. The drug overdoser, the lone gunman, the suicide. Instead of communal attendance, adherents live largely as anchorites and communicate their discontent to their peers by digital epistle. This prepares them for their time. The ultimate virtue in that system is control enough over one's life to choose how to end it, be it via "revenge" or self-destruction.
> Sure as shit beats roofing. Won't wreck your knees and back like the trades or concrete work or framing. Industry as a whole's less of a sausage fest than those are, which may be a perk (I dunno, I'm not a barber).

Every woman I've ever known who worked in a salon quit after a few years due to RSI issues in their hands.
I meant are tabbed views possible with wails?
Perhaps they know they can’t offer a cost that makes sense / is competitive for those customers and would rather devote resources to a product that is competitive?
Speed Up Mac by Disabling These Animations
That's one I'd never found before. Thank you!
Is it worth to pay $24 for Ngrok?
I think Ngrok has increase their price recently from $9 per month to $24 per month.

I have no idea why the price increases so much.

What I need from the service is to expose my local website with the custom subdomain and the password protected.

I also think their customer service is not responsive as well.
I have always done everything in vi, and it will likely be around in another 30 years. Just recently got an ubuntu laptop after being on macbooks since probably 2006 - and FreeBSD on latops from their first laptop distros in the 90s to then. I can't believe how much I missed a *nix environment, I had forgotten. It's actually beautiful to see it now. Strange to say it, but using a *nix laptop again makes me feel like myself in a way I hadn't felt in a long time. There's something intrinsically hopeful about using linux as your primary environment. As though it's part of the real internet that is still there.

Anyway I actually found myself looking around at Enlightenment as a desktop environment just to see if I could get that old HR Giger theme going again. My .fvwmrc from those days has to be around somewhere as well. Some of these tools don't so much become obsolete as converge on an essential form. Not old, perfect.
There are so many problems that people of present face, and it is so obvious that people must have faced it before. And they did solve it.

That's why the search for the books.
US Bank is the 8th largest bank. I'm surprised with your experience with Wells Fargo since they didn't require that for my sister. Maybe they changed rules or it was a particular state?

How good is the online/mobile app access for US Bank?
That's a quite simple query to just about any database.
In such cases wouldn’t a credit card suffice to tide you over till you can liquidate assets (or cash flow from paycheck)?
Well, that was certainly a successful nerd-snipe.
Leaked Internal Slack Messages Show Twitter Employees Reaction to Elon Musk
I think the difference lies on the number of people affected. The philosophy behind those laws is that it's generally a bad idea to let one single company (or very few companies) control the pipe from which so many economic activity flows.
That's a perfectly valid choice! FWIW, I actually do like Mercury's UX marginally better than Brex.

I would just prefer to have my banking and spending in 1 place, and if I did that with Mercury, I'd be sacrificing 1%+ rewards, which I would not consider a financially responsible option when Brex exists and has a good enough banking experience.

Wouldn't it be nicer for everybody if there were more options that had both a great banking experience and credit-level rewards that all competed for our business? That's all I was trying to encourage with my feedback, but the fanboyism in this thread has proved to be too strong for that message to get through.
They’re asking for full details of my cap table to stay on. I signed up last week and got the fancy credit card in the mail today. Wtf.

Bad luck I didn’t pick Mercury in the coin flip between them.
> There has got to be a better way for us to accomplish this.

One path forward is Oauth, which several major institutions use on Plaid (Capital One, Wells, Chase are ones I know of).

This definitely solves “entering login information into random forms”.

I’m pretty sure I have seen these institutions offer you some control over what data you share when you link, but it was minimal control, and didn’t work well. Ideally that would be more fleshed out.

You’d still be sharing balance and transaction data with Plaid though, that part isn’t solved by Oauth. I think to solve that you need to have a European style standard banking API that makes direct bank-to-bank data sharing tenable?
Or a different definition of living paycheck to paycheck (as others commented, if one is out of money at the end of the month but one's net worth increased, I don't think that'd meet the definition).
Don't underestimate the ability of people who make 500k+ to believe they're the struggling middle class.
Cheap and free one-liner to cut silent audio with ffmpeg

ffmpeg -i input.mkv -filter_complex "[0:a]silencedetect=n=-90dB:d=0.3[outa]" -map [outa] -f s16le -y /dev/null |& F='-aq 70 -v warning' perl -ne 'INIT { $ss=0; $se=0; } if (/silence_start: (\S+)/) { $ss=$1; $ctr+=1; printf "ffmpeg -nostdin -i input.mkv -ss %f -t %f $ENV{F} -y %03d.mkv\n", $se, ($ss-$se), $ctr; } if (/silence_end: (\S+)/) { $se=$1; } END { printf "ffmpeg -nostdin -i input.mkv -ss %f $ENV{F} -y %03d.mkv\n", $se, $ctr+1; }' | bash -x
How Many Tracks Do Train Stations Need?
Make all the excuses you want, but the OP isn't "forced" in any real sense.

They want children, and they're choosing to pay a high price for them.

If the OP made minimum wage would they make the same choice? If they were really "forced" into it, then they would have to.
It makes establishments viable by raising the barrier to people cutting hair in their basements.

It’s ultimately better for the profession and for the state, as things like sales tax collections have higher compliance rates in established businesses.
But it’s the same in some key respects. Most of those elective deductions are hard to get the money back out of. So, for practical purposes — like if you lose that job — it’s just as if you had been living paycheck-to-paycheck, assuming you hadn’t built up liquid savings.
Finally somebody other than me who is aware of Summoning. They are awesome.
"The Passing of the Grey Company", "Land of the Dead", "Mirdautas Vras", "Nightshade Forests" and "Kor" all evoke specific scenes from the books for me.
That graphic gives zero information on how that is calculated or where the data came from. I have to assume that it includes historical data over long periods. Kia and Hyundai are totally different companies than they were decades ago and are different than even 5-10 years ago.

There's no way a modern Kia or Hyundai would appear anywhere near the same level as on that list (and definitely not below any American car company or Fiat or Volkswagon).
Never heard about it before but after reading a bit it seems like Redbean is one of the most insanely cool projects.
MAD is tricky. I would like to think once you get nuked a few times you won't retaliate to avoid MAD. But in reality it happens very fast, if you hit the enemy with enough nukes fast enough you might save a few cities. In the US urban sprawl type mega cities mean several typical warheads places strategically and getting past THAAD will need to succeed to wipe out a city. In both US and Russia, most of the rural population will be just fine after several waves of nuking it will be the aftermath (afterthought during battle) that will kill most. Critical civilian and military infrastructure will still be viable in many places with millions of lives that could be saves if you overehelm the enemy quickly enough.
I've heard this called "buffer bloat" to distinguish it from an actual memory leak.
Oh you best believe I have copies of everything now, on my own server hah. Lesson learned :)
Yes, that's why the biggest companies are constantly lobbying to pass antitrust legislation. Because of the extensive history of small upstart competitors being destroyed in antitrust cases.
None. Just being bank-rolled by Google's money.
I know. I’m not saying I am. I’m just saying it feels similar, because I remember making a thousand dollars a month and having to do odd jobs to cover rent and food. I have the same urge now.

Look, I’m not looking for sympathy. I was honest about that. I’m just trying to add some color from my perspective to this article.
Actually, all cars orbit the sun.

But seriously, that stunt has nothing to do with production Teslas. Tesla is still a very new player we are now seeing more and more growing pains, especially on the customer side, which is too bad but honestly should have been expected.

We are the first adopters to discover what kind of shelf life a Tesla car has, what it works like after 5, 10 and 15 years. Personally, I'm not optimistic about it. It seems to break down quite easily for a lot of people - add a decade of wear and tear on top of that, and it's not a great picture.
Haha this is awesome! Totally gonna steal this for the next time I want to be liked. :)
It predates Rome entirely[1]. They either picked it up from Carthage, or the Greeks.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crucifixion#Pre-Roman_states
neither of those are true. my issue with the above comment is there are many people who are truly forced to live paycheck to paycheck without luxuries like choosing many thousands of dollars per year IVF. that’s a choice. you can make a lot of choices to live as close to cash flow zero as possible but that doesn’t make it forced. and really it degrades the troubles that many other workers go through who work very hard for their money
I had disabled my account, which I conveniently forgot to mention before (I actually forgot, wasn't trying to be dramatic).
I had one remote experience but here is are the caveats: 1. Needed a valid US visa (a B1/B2 will do), 2. Needed a US phone number and 3. Needed a real US-address (not necessarily yours but not a PO box).
Excerpts:

the researchers identify the number of minutes that people waste on pointless activities each working day [...] then extrapolate these figures to come up with a “weighted total futility” (wtf) lifetime estimate of time

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Correcting typos takes up an average of 20 minutes in every white-collar worker’s day, the equivalent of 180 days, or half a year, over a 45-year career

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Shakespeare wrote “King Lear” in the time an average office worker spends changing font sizes during their career.
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Any idea why Ben hasn't posted in a while?
Yeah the issues look fairly healthy, even thought there are a lot of them.
Plaid is a menace. My checking account was synced on Venmo just fine using the small transfer method for years until plaid was introduced. I redid the old school verification 3 times before giving up and linking via Chase. I changed the password afterwards but of course that unlinked me again. Can’t wait until some regulatory agency comes after them.
Honestly, I didn’t even see that this is what the article recommended. That having been said, I’ve found myself annoyed at Google’s calculator; it switches to scientific notation before I want it to, and it has trouble with certain inputs that a real calculator does not. So I guess you get your tradeoffs.

That said, I really doubt that a comparable tool to Google’s calculator couldn’t be made, so I hope someone tries to do it. Not because I mind using Google for that (I don’t; I use it at least half of the time) but because a purpose built, configurable, extensible tool could probably go quite a bit further.
The hardest part is having something to say. There is no structure, flow or organization that can make up for the lack of content.

It is a bit like those "tutorials" on how to make small talk at dinners, conferences, with people you don't know or don't know much. Sure, they tell you the right tone, the right number of words, the right posture. But it's still small talk.
Load your pickle file and it works?
Been using recut and it is amazing. The fact that this was rewritten in Rust and Tauri is impressive, and I think a very smart move. Once you know Rust, you tend (at least I do) to be very productive. Looking forward to new recut features.
I know, pickle is insecure, etc
The default is the same on Plasma. By default it's bound to the PrintScreen key, and I think to at least one alternative binding.
Do you know if they service LLC's with foreign owners (EIN but no SSN)?
Because he’s a right-wing oligarch who pretends to care about the environment but really want to leave us on earth with his ewaste. And if someone can’t see that and works for Tesla, how could they competently build a car? They can’t, it seems.
AngelList Modified My Job Status
Below is the body of a reply I wrote to an email I received from AngelList. It was titled, "Get ready to be featured!"

I do not have much of a write-up here; the reply itself conveys the point. The context of the feature in question can be seen in their blog[1].

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To whom it may concern,

Today, I simply modified my profile with up-to-date information after having received a notification that my profile was viewed by a company. This was probably the first time I logged in to AngelList in about two years.

After today's updates, I left my job status as "Open to offers", which is relevant. I am not open to interviews, nor am I seeking new employment at the moment.

AngelList personnel, or its software systems have opted me into being Featured and updated my job status to "Ready to Interview." That is a really uncool move. I truly enjoyed the platform at one point, and I'm not alone. My own company was featured on AngelList in its early days, for the reputation boost (back then) of a start-up being featured there. It's still featured on AngelList, and the account is maintained by our CEO. It's not a far-fetched scenario that he or another cofounder might see my AngelList profile updates.

I understand the purpose for establishing a feature like Featured. This explicit opt-in for (seemingly) random users however, whether purposeful or accidental, is an abuse of the feature itself and carries the potential for uncomfortable conversations at the offices of the users subject to it. I have reverted my job status to "Open to offers", but would really love to hear an explanation for why I should trust this won't happen again in the future.

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[1] https://angel.co/blog/featured-faqs
I disagree, it depends on the subreddit - a subreddit that discusses supplements is by it's very nature going to be populated with snake oilsmen selling remedies or doofuses who believe them.

Similarly self-help books.

You have provided examples of domains where charlatans are most likely to operate.

I have learned a lot from user communities in reddit and hackernews.

And hopefully contributed back as well.

There are folk who have domain expertise and have time on hand and are hungry to contribute.

You need to find them and pick their brains.
But this article is not about progress as defined by politics or political "progressives", rather it is about actual "progress", like the invention of the wheel, electricity, etc.

It's about improvements that have led to a better quality of life for humanity.
Surely that's not true?

Islam for example is a religion, that you can not leave.
Welcome to Colonoscopy Land
At the time it was very common to flee the city to escape debts that would put you into effective slavery.

The origin of the Jubilee was an occasion when all personal debts were forgiven and people could come out of hiding. These would happen every 10 to 20 years, and were necessary to keep the cities populated enough to function.

Actual currency would not be invented until thousands of years later, so money was all about ledger entries recording assets and debts.

The English Queen's recent Jubilee was weak sauce.
Thank you for sharing your work. This is cool I like how quickly you can get to some suggestions.

Feedback:

- If saving for a home is an immediate goal, and the simulation showed it to be successful, (99% likely), Have an entire graph dedicated to showing how deceiving, down payment and mortgage payments will work.

Given present macro:

- be sure to provide some idea that your mortgage calculations reflect realistic rates. Many calculators assume low. Maybe you already factor in a refinance? Mention it!

Whether a retirement will happen is boring compared to whether we are on track to buy a home.

I’d suggest even splitting the results into completely separate pages with way more things to do / detail in each.

- a cash drawdown into stocks now? The knife is falling presently. Perhaps some trimmings on preparing to enter the market, but surely you wouldn’t advise home down payment money be invested immediately? the market is ~in free fall.

- please make the slider buttons larger and easier to grab

- when making user wait, show “running simulations” or maybe a calculations looking animated spinner so it’s clear what is happening during that pause. (Your fancy math) perhaps brand your simulator with a cool name

Ask for an email but also provide some idea of amaze privacy / unsubscribe. (We don’t track you, we delete accounts, always your choice etc. and honor this super consumer friendly stance toward finance.
At least at Microsoft this would also get you fired pretty fast, according to the infamous standards of business conduct.
Yah Honda and Toyota will eat Tesla alive once they get moving with EVs which they have.
If you don't have a paycheck you're also not living paycheck to paycheck?

It comes down to how you want to live, and what you want from life.

For our family having 1 kid was something we wanted / expected. It didn't happen naturally for several years. In 5 years, it would be nearly impossible for us to have a family (of our own genetics), so we were "forced" to go to IVF to have such a kid, or accept that she can't give birth to a child and her family line ends.

Certainly, not everyone wants kids, and that's their choice -- I respect that -- I'm just saying it's not REALLY a choice sometimes... Which makes it "forces" about as much as the news article says.. because again, most IT people could remote work from the middle of nowhere.. but that's not what most people "accept".
I don't believe any of the p-11B schemes I've seen. Like, no chance at all.
No worries; It shouldn’t be too bad. I would like to make some improvements to upstream go-webview2 when I get a chance; thanks to GitHub Actions, I bet I could implement some proper testing, which would be nice.
So all the CEOs that were fired due to sexual harassment charges were exception rather than the rule? Don't think so.

Somewhere in my employment letter it says, I'm representing the company outside my workplace and work hours as well (that is in personal life too), I can be fired if I bring disrepute to company anytime - ex. drunken brawl in a nightclub.
> it's kinda retarded (literal meaning of the word) how slowly progress is made.

Well the way to say that without redundance, parenthetical, and the sibling tree about whether or not it's offensive is 'it's kinda depressing/<emotion> how retarded the progress has been' (or similar).
It's pretty clear from the linked article that there was no continuous reporting. In fact he never reported if officially, not once. He had multiple discussions about it with a friend that was outside of his reporting chain and was fired more than a year after his last stated contact with any another employee over the matter.

Each comment of yours seeking to dismiss the issue stretches the bounds of reason even further, each one more tenuous than the last. This time you are even going so far as to turn the situation around and claim that-- counter to any evidence-- he is himself the villain with others the victim of his harassment. What began as somewhat reasonable questions about the issue by you has, as myself & others have addressed your points, grown into the ridiculous.
The downside of pumped water, of course, is you need a hydroelectric dam and there are not many sites suitable for that. Those dams also come with significant environmental disruption.

The weight system only requires part of a hillside, has a pretty small environmental footprint, and there are lots and lots of hills.
I doubt that. It's too close to completion, sadly for the ratepayers in Georgia.
Pretty much this for us.

If asked I would say we live paycheck to paycheck because I still worry about bouncing a check. But long-term we are pretty wealthy. It doesn't make financial sense to keep a ton of cash around.