skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the Video ( in terms of context from https://kenp.io/airpods-dirty-secret/ ) is great. But most people come on HN when they are working. ( LOL ) Hence Video and audio content aren't exactly the best type of information.

I brought first gen AirPod [1] but then quickly discovered AirPod is actually a consumable devices. You have to keep buying it. And I know a lot of people do that. Their fourth or fifth pair of AirPods.

Normally I dont have a problem with this as a design decision. ( I would just stop buying after my first pair ) But this is coming from Apple, the company that claims, whether it was themselves or through PR submarine articles how they care about the world. Getting rid of headphones or charger because it was environmental friendly.

[1] I bought the first gen, mostly because to vote with my wallet, my middle finger to the whole god damn stupid Bluetooth industry, AirPod was how a half decent bluetooth connection should work. I say half decent because AirPod isn't perfect, far from it. But it was finally touching my bar of good enough. Or may be all the other Bluetooth peripheral were crap that my expectation of AirPods were lowered.
That last line is probably the one thing I love about facebook, the "5 years ago today" posts that show you little snippets of your past activity. You probably wouldn't go and actively look for them, but seeing them is always a nice surprise!

A while ago I built basically what you describe but via whatsapp instead of email [1] and I think those are the perfect interfaces for filling out a journal, so many people recommend writing "as if you were writing to a friend" and that makes it so much more natural than any app or website could.

[1]https://github.com/caruano95/diarist
More broadly I point to the disappearing stay at home parent. It turns out young kids need to be in bed between 7:30-8:00 for enough sleep. Good luck cooking from scratch when neither parent is home before 6:00. (Ask me how I know)
Thats yoyr problem right there.. its 10x the cost and only feasible if hydrogen cars become the norm, and hydrogen cars will not be the norm if no fillingstations are available. Meanwhile with an EV, I will never really need to visit a charging station, unless Im on a road trip.
I wonder why a student from Philippines is using a Russian version of the game (as evidenced by labels on screenshots with various charts)?
I still have a little over a year left on my NordVPN subscription (bought 3 years for $80 awhile back), but as soon as that's over I'll be switching to Mullvad. I prefer their stance on privacy, and I like the private payment options.
Could this not be said about any stylistic choice though? Why should websites pick their own heading weight? What's wrong with the default text colour? Who are you to tell the browser not to use the default padding?

People have been mucking about with typography since Gutenberg's day and they're not going to stop now.

I'm personally 'font blind', but I don't have a problem with people being creative and making aesthetic choices.
My experience correlates - Google ads for early stage startups and SMEs is a terrible product.

Clearly, it has been optimised for businesses with significant ad budget.

But I do wonder - are they not leaving significant SME money on the table?

You would think that's a large enough SME market globally to support building an SME product experience that isn't so terrible.
Paper destroys sewing machine needles. They get blunt and then you'll have jams and knots everywhere before long. Make sure you have a spare for actual sewing before doing this...
The funny thing is, and it shows in this mail, Tobi built a true profitable Unicorn. And outside of Shopify, and even within eCommmerce, he has such a low profile as a person. Founders here in germany look to Musk, I suspect (and now for a fact) a lot of them don't even know who he (Edit: Tobi) is.

I like that mail, ckear, to the point, factual and self critical. Severence packages are good, really good. All in all, quite a change from other companies firing people over zoom.
Why stop there? How about privacy cards in every big box store?
Also, a lot of people who spend their lives working very hard seem to die as soon as they stop.
Having read a lot of the comments here, I tend to agree with you.

Leap seconds have not sit well with me ever since I learned about them. Messing with the number of seconds in a certain minute a few times a year just seemed ... unclean.

So if fellow commenters are right, that without leap seconds it would take 6667 years for the time to drift just one hour, then leap seconds are absolutely more trouble than their worth, and we should drop it this instant and try to come up with a solution for that leap hour in the next six milleniums.
Build Pong in Your Terminal with Go for Some Reason
I've been trying to learn go by building Pong in my terminal. Here is part One where I create a bouncing ball.
OsiriX is a great and bad viewer that made life easier and cheaper for lots of radiologists and doctor (although not cheap enough for some countries)

The bad part: OsiriX was LGPL for a while, but they began to mix it with closed binaries. I reported some inconsistencies on the license in their mailing list, they moderated me, and some time later stopped publishing source. That's were Horos started growing.
Those things are also not proprietary to any one company. Outsourcing labor to make generic things we could obtain elsewhere is not the same thing as teaching tools only one company controls.

We should not use schools to further the vendor-lock-in of corporations.
I use Amazon search for that. I’ve found some great books that way
That would be ironic since government customer support is many times getting a hold of your local representative and hoping they take up your cause.
Completely disagree.

It's like saying, if you are building the next google (early days) you can still easily get cash. Sure but not as much as say 6 months ago. It isn't easier than any time in the last decade - 6 months ago people didn't even do due diligence before the wrote massive checks.

edited: for politeness as per comment.
PVA glue won't dry in a vacuum bag.
> Ron DeSantis doesn't need hardware-level DRM to ban math books.

Enforcement is a different issue.
You really don't need an extra freezer to buy 3/5/10 pounds of chicken instead of 1/2 pound.
Social media has crossed the Ripley Threshold. There's nothing for it but to take off and nuke the entire mess from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.
Which science fiction are you referring to? Neom is the manic fantasy of an extraordinarily depraved trillionaire.
While I generally believe it to be possible, I am very curious about how Mullvad is storing its payment records to avoid time-based correlations.

For gift cards it's more async, but given that payment processors keep records that can be correlated, if Mullvad isn't careful about timestamping, how it records crediting to accounts, or the like, it would be extremely easy to de-anonymize account relations IMO.
Oh man this brings backs memories! When I grew up, we had this one book with all kinds of DIY home improvement and house-building instructions I loved to leaf through. It got so much use (and I think had already been passed to my family used!) that it completely fell apart multiple times. We sort of re-bound it with a similar method involving glue and some kind of reinforced transparent adhesive film more than once!
This whole blog post means very little unless you’ve read Caplan’s “The Case Against Education”
Multiple products targeting multiple users, both internal and external.
Can you link some of these promotional materials with sinister messaging, or their young leaders supporting authoritarian policies?

I think the reason I'm seeing this all over the place in conspiracy circles this week is some grift podcast brought it up - in a week or two we'll be on to something else.
> How can they manage to productively use the time of 10000+ people?

Sales and support basically scale arbitrarily large, as long as the market is there.
That's why currency is not normally treated as an investment. Meanwhile investments like equities have the property that the thing being owned actually makes stuff. Bitcoin seems to be the worst of both worlds.
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Hah, I remember something like that happening with corporate Amex cards while I was working _for_ Google.
> of course Google will never tell you that or confirm or deny this

This is my problem with de facto utilities that are not regulated like utilities. Google can have enormous impact on your business and personal life but you cannot get proper communications with them. If something goes wrong you can't fix it, even if it's your fault because often you don't know what you did wrong. If it's their mistake, you might get a chance if your issue gets attention by a large audience.

It feels like there should be a legal recourse where you get compensated for damages due to service design choices of the utility. I'm sure in many places you can get compensated if the energy company cuts your electricity and doesn't clearly say the reason and what you can do about it.

You can lose your business, you can loose access to your digital assets that you built all your life and for what? So that some employees at Google can have easier time managing an issue(not disclosing the reason for account restrictions probably makes the scammers life harder too and you are just a collateral damage that doesn't even show up in the analytics).

Can you imagine E.ON cutting off the energy of the English futbol fans because it's easier for them to internally manage the surges during the games due to the tea kettles and not give them any explanation whatsoever?

Edit: Interestingly, UK GDPR seems to have some protections agains automated decision making[0].

[0] https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-data-protectio...
Keeping in mind my perspective is as someone who helps clients with these—and I also have a tech company background, so I understand how anti-spam systems are built. I don’t have any inside knowledge.

Google likely uses privacy cards as one signal of whether an account is spammy. If you’re a customer who spends $1M a month with Google and you add a Brex card, it’s going to be far less likely to trigger an account suspension.

If, on the other hand, you’re this guy, with a brand new account and you start off with a privacy card, that puts their internal systems over the threshold for what they consider “spam” - bam, instant suspension.

I don’t think this is personally fair to new customers. Unfortunately, Google is always going to be geared to large customers and not to smaller ones. Most smaller companies will never encounter this situation anyway since they will use hard cards.
Conspiracy Theory is shaping up to be a better predictive model of the way the world works, than whatever is broadcast from my local news outlet.

I mean, at this point even lizard people are on the table.
Home Office ‘unlawfully’ approved MI5 bulk surveillance warrants
Having gotten cut many times on razor sharp edges of trimmed zip ties, I beg you to consider Velcro instead.

Or those wires used to suspend ceiling tiles, if you need something that's going to last more than a couple years
There are plenty of electronics projects on instructables. Or tiktok
FWIW, when I lived in various parts of the rural US, the schools frequently served seasonal ethnically-congruous cuisine from local ingredients. By "ethnically-congruous", I mean reflecting the historical ethnicity of the population. When I lived in a small town in the middle of the US that was ethnically Czech, a fair bit of the food at school was also ethnically Czech, even though none of them were immigrants. Often made by local grannies. Same situation when I lived on the Palouse, where the local schools often featured the local agricultural ingredients. Notably lentils and peas; not common in schools generally but ubiquitously grown in that part of the Palouse.

However, when I lived in the cities, the bad school food you mention was endemic.

There is quite a lot of local cuisine and food culture around the US, most people don't bother to find it if they are just passing through.
You don't have to buy from anywhere, you can scribble your account number on some newspaper wrapped around cash, send it in, and they credit you. I'd be surprised if you couldn't get some credits for a batch of chocolate chip cookies or something, they accept so many forms of payment.
It's hard to define best, as someone who watched a lot of it as a kid.

For a pre-teen audience, Nausicaä of the valley of the wind, Castle in the Sky, Totoro, basically all the stuff before Princess Mononoke are great films.

I see Princess Mononoke to be a film for people coming of age, where it's time to realize the binary view of the world is overly simplistic.

Just don't bother with the dubs. Hollywood just couldn't get the right voice actors to act with the right voice to fit the setting and the theme. For example, the main characters dub for Castle in the Sky felt older than the original (or Cantonese dub, which was my first introduction). Pazu was supposed to be an orphan, a child worker in a frigging mine. While the film doesn't directly call attention to that much, it hints at it by having the original voice to be too young to even crack yet.
You don't have to deal with getting fuel for it. Sure the used truck can drive to a gas station (instead of gas cans), but it is still a hassle. Large farms will have fuel tanks behind the barn so they can drive a tractor over to fill it, but most people don't go through enough fuel to make that worth it. This you just plug in when you are done and it is always ready to go.

If you use this all day it probably won't work, but most small property owners would use it for an hour or two (over the course of an entire day), and so it always has plenty of range. I don't see why they sell gas lawn mowers at WalMart (do they still?) as for home owners electric now makes more sense than dealing with gas. Sure the big lawn mowing companies use their mowers more in a day than the battery will last, but the small home owner doesn't.
I host email for hundreds of people with a $10/mo VPS.

Schools classically self hosted their network services and they can do so again. It is a good opportunity to mentor future sysadmins too.
HPE has divested VMS Software Inc., so if you want hobbyist license you have to go to VSI and not to HPE. And under VSI the process of getting the hobyist license is simpler (ie. you don't have to be member of anything) and IIRC you can even get images of installation media directly from VSI.
I agree fully. Bring one the age of FR.
How to reduce Snowflake costs
Honestly i've been using it free for over a year now and I'm very happy with it. I think the free tier is worth the shot.
>The pay sucked but the checks cleared.

That's really the calculation people need to make.

At a large tech employer? How are they doing? Is what you're working on strategic? Do you seem to be valued or are you maybe a bit on the bubble?

Depending on the answers, it may make sense to stay put or it may make sense to find a life raft even if it isn't as cushy in some ways as where you are. And, as someone else noted, industries aren't homogeneous. Individual employers matter.
I'm shocked to see people here arguing for keeping leap seconds, accusing the Meta engineers of just being lazy.

Leap seconds are stupid in my opinion. Under no circumstances should a timescale have discontinuities like that.
After bus fire, CT pulls electric fleet from service
Apple’s Lockdown Mode
Some of my favorites are:

Best First Upper Confidence Bound Tree Search.

Monte Carlo Counterfactual Regret Minimization.

Temporally Weighted Averaging - eg discount the first ten samples.

Markov Chain Monte Carlo Sampling

Unification
vi/less use / as search, which come to think about it probably get it from regular expressions (eg /pattern/)
I’ve flown out or drove long distance for many software developer interviews and I’ve never had anyone “show me around” the city. Although they’re usually fine providing an extra hotel night so I have time to do so myself. Sadly it feels like post pandemic the on-site interview (at least for software engineers) may be a thing of the past.
...and before Stallman, Hayek. Hayek couldn't have seen the technological means, but he did see the "self-regulated monopolies" shaping up from anti-competition moves on the part of government (most of which are driven by lobbying).
Recent (5 months ago) HN discussion (293 comments) about Grammarly here:

Is Grammarly a keylogger? What can you do about it?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30470457
They'll just refund you.

Almost nobody ever notices.
That's fraud and illegal, though. Surely.
Everytime I move to a new city, this is my first stop.

You unload what you can't move (or don't need) before you go, then you buy what you left (or now need) once you arrive.

It's like renting furnitures :)
> There are things like the difference in the cost of a single, reasonable, serving of chicken. Buying a chicken breast is more expensive in price per pound than the family pack of chicken breasts or an entire chicken.

This is something a freezer handles very well. Chicken that's been frozen before cooking isn't quite as good, but it's very nearly, and for many dishes you can't tell.
I understand the need for support around a complex and constantly evolving codebase, but this is the scale of it that I can't grasp.

Software is supposed to scale almost for free, they don't need people to actually make the transactions and push the bits by hand, this is all automated.

My guess is they have a lot of sales and an enormous amount of overhead.

According to Price's Law about 100 people are doing half of the work, but of course it is difficult to guess which ones and they still need the other half to be there.
I love Mullvad, but I fear that they will become a victim of their own success. The more prominent the service becomes, the bigger priority it will have for intelligence agencies, despotes and ad companies to undermine/hack/subpoena it.
It doesn't do anything useful so the 10x really is meaningless if it was ever claimed by anyone in the first place.

For example you need to have locked $400 of some token for a "loan" of $100. How is this efficient?
Not much. They're now starting to fire a bunch to make the rest quit.

I'm in a well run, immensely profitable, 100+ yo company, so big a country needs us to run, literaly, and a few others would be destroyed if we suddenly closed shop and ran with the money.

We are 60 000 and feel too fat. I cannot understand what frigging shopify is doing with 10k people. We make 5bn a year profit these days, is shopify close to 1?

Edit: waoh, they indeed were at 3 bn last year, 300mil the year before, -100 mil before, without reading the details. It's not regular profit but if it was, it'd just confirm we're too fat, not them :p
Absolutely. I haven't been pulled into a puzzle like this in awhile. I'd pay a very modest amount for an app
All Florida did was add a criteria to their selection process to disallow books that include Critical Theory/Critical Race Theory or their praxis in the teaching of math, etc. Every state selects which text books can be used by their schools so if Florida "burns books" then by definition every single other state does too.

Where are the text books in California that teach math using Biblical stories and imagery? Obviously California burned all those books if we accept the argument being put forth with Florida.
> There's certainly a Russian version of The Sims 4, but Russia is so existentially terrified of a computer game turning their delicate children gay that they banned it.

Sims 4 is not banned in Russia. It does have a 18+ age restriction, which, I assume, is more or less USA's NC17.
Russia Says It Will Quit the International Space Station After 2024
Hello,

Disclaimer: IANAA, please consult a professional. I can hook you up if you want, with someone who knows these things much better than me (drop a PM via twitter, we're following each other apparently)

tl;dr: Business income generated by partnerships (OE and EE) that maintain single entry accounting books is taxed at a unified tax rate of 22%. In addition, any subsequent distribution of profits is not subject to dividend taxation.

To create an OE or EE you need to have a business partner. EE is better because your partner will have limited partnership liability. The partner can be family but there are some exceptions which I don't remember (e.g. if your wife is a public servant, etc.). The catch here is that you're fully liable in case the company goes bankrupt... But that should not be a problem for companies offering services, especially IT.

The alternative, if you are sole owner, is to create an IKE. Taxation then 24% tax rate + 5% on dividends.

link (in Greek): https://www.startyouup.gr/el/a/58-eythynes-omorrythmwn-etair...

In your case there's an additional benefit. In case you decide to transfer your tax residence back to Greece, you might be eligible for up to 7 years 50% tax reduction.
> For 10 years, MI5 has been knowingly breaking the rules and failing to report it, and the government has failed to investigate clear red flags. There has been no proper investigation into MI5’s breaches by the Home Office despite having been put on notice by briefings

I've often worried that spies are perfectly capable of hiding their actions from the elected politicians that they nominally report to, but perhaps I should have been more worried that the politicians would not do anything even if given evidence of wrongdoing.
The Guide to Campus Networking
Not sure why you believe this. It's 100% false.

If someone knowingly sells fraudulent or counterfeit goods, no, they're not "just a middleman."
It's been down for a couple of hours, I managed to send some messages just before 1200 UTC but nothing since.

Whatsapp picking up the slack for us, and of course a trusty phone.
Investing into an illegally tapped coal power plant in Mongolia is about as safe an investment as investment in crypto itself.
By this logic (which I agree with), land animal fats would best match (for beef fat: "oleic acid (36.21%), palmitic (25.67%) and stearic (20.97)").

Nuts & seeds are often high in omega-6 and are hard enough to digest that it's hard to have them as a staple. I say this as someone who was a big fan of nuts, especially almonds, but had to give them up as they triggered autoimmune symptoms. Macadamia nuts by be okay though, they are also the highest in MUFA and low in phytic acid (which causes digestive troubles and inhibits mineral absorption).
> I think it's also worth asking why he didn't have more an impact

Yes... https://opensourcetogo.blogspot.com/2009/07/good-gcds-beginn...

I https://selamjie.medium.com/remove-richard-stallman-fec6ec21...

Wonder https://www.wired.com/story/richard-stallman-and-the-fall-of...

Why https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/09/richard-stallman...
To the OP's point, if you've optimized for engaging work and if you don't want to work less, you're already in a job that you want to continue working in. Your point is that you want to job-hop to get more money to pay for benefits...that you already have?

I've shared this elsewhere, but it's like the story from Oliver Burkeman's book about the NYC businessman chastising a Mexican fisherman for spending too much time on the beach drinking wine with friends instead of growing his fishing business. When the fisherman asked, "And once I have all that money from growing my business, then what should I do?" and the businessman said, "Well, then you can spend your time drinking wine on the beach with your friends."