skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've experienced the same repetitive realizations/ideas. I have kept 3 different files going back 10+ years: did.md which contains notes/thoughts about any interesting events by date, ideas.md which contains business/project ideas, and resolutions-yyyy.md. Whenever I revisit them, I'm always struck by the same thoughts/ideas that come up over and over again. The ideas.md file is the one that cracks me up the most--I have repeating project ideas with the same/similar set of features that occur every few years.
I agree with you for the most part. The number of people who could run Shopify at the current scale is definitely more than 80 people but probably less than 10000.

They took a big bet on global growth and this would've exploded HC related to sales, marketing, compliance, recruiting, etc. They pulled hiring forward on an expectation that the market advanced 5 years during COVID and now have to cull that new growth. Lots of late stage private companies and recent IPOs are going through the same thing.
Most blockchain tech is a disaster for privacy because it puts all your transactions on a public ledger for all to see. At least with web2 you can delete stuff you've posted.
It's amazing how strong this mental erasure of food is, to the point of overriding individual tendencies. I recently lent my car to a guy who is the epitome of do-it-yourself. He lives in a tiny house that he built himself, complete with electricity, running water, and sewage. He drives ancient cars because he would rather know how to fix every part of them than have an actually reliable car. He doesn't cut his own hair, but he does odd jobs for a friend in exchange for amateur haircuts. He works construction because making commitments longer than a month or two out undermines his sense of independence. He avoids getting medical care because it's something he doesn't understand.

So what's in my car when I get it back? A 7-11 pizza slice container. This guy doesn't cook -- at all. The guy who connects his own sewage line, who is so obsessed with relying on his own understanding and judgment that he won't go to the doctor, will put anything into his body, from any source, without question, as long as it's an easily recognizable form of food.

I wouldn't put too much stock in traditional foodways, either. The people who practice them are happy to do so on weekends and special occasions and are grateful for the easier option that fast food and frozen food provide them, because traditional foodways tend to assume that the people executing them are not working full time.

Traditional foodways that are resistant to change are a small step up from fast food anyway. With few exceptions, they're just as deadly to people who have sedentary lifestyles. The physically strenuous lifestyles and financial restrictions that made them make sense in the past are mostly gone.
Amazon is AliExpress with faster shipping.
Go look up how the Russian currency is doing.

This isn’t hard folks
In “real” currency labor is compensated by wages, resulting in a net increase of collective wealth. Building a house generates a net increase in wealth overall; there is “more there” than there was before.

Cryptocurrencies do not share this property. They are zero-sum, which is a hallmark of a Ponzi scheme.
I read it as – Engineer Sneed Art dot com

I'm too far down the rabbithole
A universal solvent doesn't exist, but there are three universal solutions: duct tape, baling [not sic] wire, and WD-40.

None are very good at their job, as it happens.
It's hard to test it since the majority of features are behind a paywall.
Soooo for every $4700 you get $1 ARR or if you assume that ARR is for 10 years not-discounted $470 for $1 ARR/10 years. I mean how much of those investment dollars came from early crypto investments in the first place (i.e. low cost) and are just gettin recycled is the real question.

I realize that's an unfair comparison but I think there are many many people who want to throw shade at crypto because a majority of it is rotten and has weighed down on the positive attributes.
Not the OP, but pretty sure it's not sarcasm. I'm not sure if all of that will happen, but I would suggest that on current trajectory at least the following is likely to happen:

- Sea level rises leading to widespread flooding of vulnerable cities (and some particularly low-lying island countries too).

- Severe droughts and water shortages in desertous areas. Some of which may not have been desertous before.

- General weather changes (both reduced rainfall and increased rainfall) leading to disruptions in food production supply chains.

All of which will likely lead to significant political pressure to mitigate further disruption.
I despise the Tories and everything they stand for. Recent events have proved me right, these people are not interested in anything but power for its own sake. Roll on the next general election where I shall express deep pleasure voting for anyone but them.
10% equity in a house that is 200k, vs 10% equity in a house that is 500k. Which is bigger?
I think you can begin to answer that question by thinking of journaling/introspection as a treatment and the negative thoughts as a symptom.

There can be a few cases:

- If you apply the journaling treatment prophylactically, does it prevent those negative thoughts?
- If you do not apply the journaling treatment prophylactically, what is the likelihood of having negative thoughts?

In my case, the thoughts came without journaling so I can confidently state introspection did not cause me to think I'm not special and worse than I thought.
AAA gaming is probably the worst possible example you can look at for what a well-run, sane team would look like. So let's say if you only want your people working 40ish hours a week and not 70-90, you'll 2x or 2.5x that count. Shopify also has a lot of dev rel folks even if they don't call them that - people writing engineering blog posts, working on tutorials, documentation, etc. They're typically not the same people actually working on core code day to day. My guess is all the infrastructure and security people at Shopify are non-devs. You'll also have all the devops people who are managing all the pipelines and everything. My understanding is Shopify deploys to prod many many times a day (hundreds?). The pipelines to automate that, and automate or at least manage the rollbacks, would be at least as complicated as the code itself. And across all these different areas you have that amorphous "Staff/Principal Engineer" level where you're doing a lot of reviewing, pseudo-management, that sort of thing. Not to mention managers, directors, VPs, SVPs, etc.

But you ask how they can productively use the time of 10k people and I think this post is sort of evidence that they couldn't.
When will I be able to buy a Mullvad from IKEA?
Civil servant?
InVesalius

https://invesalius.github.io/
The goal is to capture as much revenue as possible. A company would never intentionally limit their revenue intake unless it was absolutely detrimental to the business. Inconveniencing the few customers who use these cards most likely doesn't show up on their radar.
Privacy. Privacy is Mullvad's whole central thesis. When you use a credit card to sign up, they're legally required to keep tabs on you. If you buy a gift card off Amazon and use that to pay for your VPN, Mullvad will have no idea who you are and can't give much information on you even when forced by a court.
I'm feel reasonably sure that Google has introduced some kind of internal policy against employees helping out or publicly commenting on such matters.

Anyone who has read the comments of a few of these types of articles on HN over the years might recall that in the past, there was almost invariably would be a comment starting with "Hi, Googler here!" offering some help. I don't recall seeing any comments like that in the past 6 months or longer.
I'm curious about why this matter?
As an european, owning is not a goal in my life. I would love to, but for now, I still want flexibility on my wereabouts.
Given the cost a typical CI system vs the salary cost of a typical dev, the business case should be fairly easy that devs always should have CI capacity available.
Ha, nobody's paying minimum wage for warehouse workers. In warehouse-heavy Eastern Pennsylvania we're seeing billboards advertising $25/hour starting wages: https://www.lehighvalleylive.com/business/2022/04/uline-hiri...
Putting items on screen instead of scroll is not a dark pattern, it's just UI that does not think like the 2010 web
Ginkgo CADx was a project by a Spanish company giving services to public and private health services, but they dissolved some years ago, and seems like nobody took the maintenance.
> the OSS community [...] never managed to produce software that regular non-tech-geeks want to use

That's true, barely, only if you equate "software" with "things that draw stuff presented on a display to a user". Regular non-tech-geeks are using open source software (in the real sense, meaning instructions given to a computer to make it do something) pervasively, everywhere, every day, on all their devices (yes, even the Apple ones, but especially all the devices they use that aren't in their pockets).

Open source certainly isn't a failure, it literally won the war.
It works when joining the queue has a high enough transaction cost.
For example, a website or phone support line cutting off a pending connection, forcing the requester to notice and then reconnect, or give up and leave (which makes service faster for others waiting)
I propagate it for game theory reasons. If people can be counteroffered easily there is no incentive for employers to give raises of their own accord, they can just wait until you have another offer in hand.
Google is not a charity. They are not giving you gmail without charge without somehow generating profit from your data. You do not need an insider leak to work that much out.
Is there anything like instructables but for electronics? I did electrical engineering basics years ago but never really did anything with it. I'm looking for something to play around with leds and little motors and maybe some PV cells.

Any hints?
A non-magical explanation of Jeffrey Epstein (2021)
Unrelated to cryptocurrency stuff, this is such a great comment everyone going to work for a startup should internalize. The core work building a product is relatively easy to accomplish with time. The bulk of fundraising and spend is about marketing.
I like the compassionate ending. No mud, no Lotus.
It's all good; be with yourself in relationship with the phenomenal or noumenal world.

Continue to strive out the mud. Continue day in and day out to climb this unforgiving fucking cliff [..]

I know you've done your best.

There's proof.

I now started to maintain a little bliki or digital garden, part journaling, part personal wiki, research and creative expression. I can look at it from a timeline angle or tag angle, tagged collections of rational thoughts and emotional expressions.

Struggle, fear, anger, uncertainty, doubt, jealousy.
If only I remember briefly, that I am more.
and know deep down I can connect to that which is beyond my own little troubles. Connect to that which inspires me, art, people, peots, my mentors, my friends, current, lost or deceased
My "future", ¨"past" or "higher" self or selves
They are there, always, in unconditional love, as fans cheering me on.
Golden Age Hollywood Bloopers [video]
I'm talking on it right now.
CVAT, Industry-Leading Open Data Annotation Platform, Joins OpenCV
You aren't in on some secret about the "great replacement" - you're just incapable of understanding how poor the evidence supporting the theory is. I understand why it is appealing to some.
The article mainly talks about bringing new people to their platform, but another factor for most of these companies is all that juicy new viewer habit data they can harvest.
Show HN: Multy – open-source tool to deploy to any cloud and switch at any time
We have been working on Multy, an open-source[1] tool that enables developers to deploy and switch to any cloud - AWS, Azure and GCP for now.

We realized that, even when using Terraform, writing infrastructure code is very different for each cloud provider. This means changing clouds or deploying the same infrastructure in multiple clouds requires rewriting the same thing multiple times. And even though most core resources have the same functionality, developers need to learn a new provider and all its nuances when choosing a new cloud. This is why we built Multy.

Multy is currently available as a Terraform provider. You can write cloud-agnostic code and then just choose which cloud you want to deploy to. Multy will then call the cloud provider APIs on your behalf. For example, the following Terraform code deploys a virtual network in AWS and can be easily changed to deploy to Azure or GCP:

resource "multy_virtual_network" "vn" {

cloud = "aws" // or azure, or gcp

name = "multy_vn"
cidr_block = "10.0.0.0/16"
location = "eu_west_1"

}

Our goal is to expose any configuration that is common across all clouds, but there’s always specific features that are not available in all of them. For example, if you want a very specific AWS CPU for your Virtual Machine or use a region that is only available in GCP. To enable this, we implemented overrides [2] - a way to configure the underlying infrastructure for cloud-specific purposes. You can also mix other Terraform code that uses the cloud-specific providers with Multy. While this makes you somewhat locked in, having your 80% or 90% of your infrastructure cloud-agnostic is still very powerful.

You can see more complex examples in our documentation - https://docs.multy.dev/examples/.

We’re still in early days and looking for feedback from other developers on our approach. Let us know what you think!

[1] https://github.com/multycloud/multy

[2] https://docs.multy.dev/overrides
How does this kind of reactionary doomerism stuff have any traction on HN of all places?
> GPS runs TAI

GPS time is actually 19 seconds behind TAI at all times.
We lived predominantly in the .NET world and leveraged Fellow Oak Dicom pretty heavily, but when I did have to use anything in Java-land we pretty much always leveraged dcm4che, as it did what we needed and we didn't need to monkey with it much. Ultimately given my ignorance of that ecosystem I'd be hard pressed to advise about the need or demand in Java one way or the other unfortunately. Sorry about that!

You made me shudder by mentioning BizTalk just now, though. I had long since shut that way in the corners of my mind.
It can go the other way too, introspection can make you realise you're nowhere near as bad as you think you are. This is particularly true if you've grown up in one of those worldviews that give you a savage inner critic and attribute it to the voice of God.
As a manager, I agree with this. Although, I would suggest setting the stage sooner by expressing some discontent of compensation. Your manager may not have a clue, and may have 50 other fires. You need to speak up so that your concerns are on their radar. I've had managers come through in big ways, and I've had managers completely fail either of their own fault or because of limitations of the company.
> School is obligatory, we really shouldn't employ commercial products in schools to begin with.

I think a better formulation of this would be following. School is obligatory, we should not employ products that collect private information of students.
Possibly also because of the huge amounts of competition any individual rejection doesn’t need to “hurt” or be taken too seriously. Just know your worth and keep on truckin’. (But do make sure you’re a strong candidate, of course.)
What does this have to do with being rewarded in the same way a corporation was being rewarded for irresponsible levels of spending and cash burn in low rate environments which is what you saw with Shop and others?

Using cheap money to buy appreciating assets is a good use of debt. Using cheap money to spend extravagantly on headcount and perks is not.
I prefer gaffer tape, zip ties, and 3-in-one.
Sure, but at the same time, I don't think the maths make sense, given hiring costs, training and morale costs. It makes me really sad to conclude that it boils down to the fact that these are usually different cost centres and managers from one side won't bother generating costs to the other cost centres.

But yeah, it is a waste of time trying to find sense in the management folks.
I'm not really sure why sunrise and sunset times are being discussed when what leap seconds are designed to do is have noon occur when the sun is highest in the sky, which is a fraction of a split-second event.
I'm certainly more in this camp of not looking to switch, but in the past I've moved jobs in the 2-3 year range. Right now, I feel that I'm well compensated, at a place that offers great work-life balance, is tackling interesting problems, and just lets me do my job. Part of the reason I'm not interested in leaving is that this is the first place that really has all four of those things, and given it took me 9-ish years to land at a place like this, there's going to have to be a significant jump in salary (like an extra 25-35%) to get me to move because of factors beyond my bottom line take home pay.

That being said, I've "hopped" jobs earlier in my career, but more in the 2-3 year window rather than 6-8 months. I can only imagine what I'd be making if I was still at the first two places I worked. It'd probably be 2/3rds of what I'm making now at best.

I don't think it's as clear as "always stay" or "always hop". At a certain point in your career, hopping may be looked at as a liability, and staying in a position that's a bad fit or doesn't advance your career doesn't make sense. Ultimately a job and your career is more about numbers, and you've got to optimize for more than just that. Understand when you are leaving money on the table, and when you've got something worth sticking around for.
Its literally in the Google Workspace terms of service they don't do this with workspace data.
Ah okay, so... either you get a simplified version or you have to put up with the same issues as Grammarly?
> > There's no “tiny bit more” you squeeze out of anywhere (in the US, at least) that replaces California.

> Of course there is.

Show me plausible numbers based on available unused land and local yields where this can be done with land that is available without just pushing the same problem elsewhere by displacing other crops.

> > Again, California is the #2 state in Alfalfa production. You aren't squeezing a little bit out of other Alfalfa producing states to replace it's output.

> Why not?

Because the reason California is such a large share of the output is that it has twice the national average yield. And because it is such a large share. And because the other places that are relatively good for alfalfa production are already doing it.

> You don't even have to drive these industries to zero, or even reduce them much at all.

So now you are doing a complete retreat from your argument that we don't need to grow these crops in California st all and it would be easy to replace them in other states? Now your argument is only that maybe we should shave a fraction off the CA production? Well, that gets down to the fundamental problem.

> Cut alfalfa alone by 10% and every urban municipality in the state can triple their water usage.

So, get those urban residents to vote for a ballot measure requiring (and setting the funding mechanism for) the state to pay for the eminent domain costs of condemning the applicable water rights and we can do that.

Because if you are talking about that production decision as a state policy, that's almost certain to be a taking (whether direct or regulatory).
This is not true, I’ve never been to a city in the US where cooking is more expensive.
I try and remind myself that "they" are in the same position as well. I may feel some type of way about something written, but everyone's human, so do they've got something similar, I just don't know it exactly.
Very nice puzzle game
I noticed Blu-Ray discs having "better" surround tracks than DVDs not because the audio format was noticeably better but because most surround tracks for DVDs were mastered under the assumption that many people would listen to the surround track on a two-channel system.

As a result the sounds were never really sent in one direction or another, the bass wasn't completely sent to the subwoofer, etc.

For the case of the oblivious majority (sadly I suspect there are more people who play surround on two channels than have a surround system) that means they can hear the dialog without a center channel, hear some bass without a subwoofer, etc. It means though that the people who bought a surround system and bought a disk with a 5.1 surround track didn't really get what they were paying for.

By the time Blu-Ray came out they got more aggressive on mastering surround which means you get a much better experience with a surround system but if you play that track on a two-channel system you'll barely hear the dialog at best.
Life, the game of games. Which is the best game to play?
>https://languagetool.org for sure. Europe-based, can host your own server. Plus, it's the only one that doesn't seem to eat my Mac's battery.

>Some (might be all, actually?) parts are open source as well.

I was pretty impressed with languagetool and set up my own server (as I'm not interested in sharing with random strangers).

I used it for a while (local server, Firefox addon), but haven't used it for a while.

Yesterday I noted that the Firefox addon was chewing a goodly portion of CPU (perhaps because the local server is down?).

As such, I removed the addon and won't be going back -- not because languagetool is bad, it works quite well actually -- but because it didn't add enough value to me (note that only applies to me) to make the CPU load worthwhile.

That said, I heartily recommend self-hosted implementations of languagetool!
Historically enterprise SaaS with strong product/market fit has been (comparatively) safe. Companies tend to get hit in order of consumer > SMB > mid-market > enterprise. The above does not apply if you're a high burn organization that overhired, those jobs are at risk in every industry except maybe the government.

(Of course nowhere is entirely safe, even in good times)
Please consider not using phrases like "Indian giving"

That's significantly racist.
Seems like a pathological sport that shouldn't exist. The intersection of gambling(human addicts) and animal(slave) abuse. Even calling it a sport seems like messaging.
Couldn’t you, as a strategy, just dress real nice once every six months and then every twelve or so, you just go to your boss and say you received an offer at 10% increased salary or something? They “match” that and you both feel like you made a good deal.
HN post from today https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32236965 "Denmark bans gmail from public schools"...

Having some fun with that:

"Denmark bans gmail from public schools because of risk of being banned"

or even

"Google bans Denmark from gmail because a student posted an offensive comment on youtube"
I don't mind the lock, but why don't we have the key? There's no reason to centally hold these hostage.
Emoji inherited that from the Japanese though, from eons past.
Something like that would never get in today.
Ask HN: Why does “slash” is the icon for search?
On many websites (Google Search, GitHub), Command + "/" open the search bar. Anyone knows why?