skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m 45 now and over half my leadership experience was before 20.

You can run a fraternity, a marching band, a 800+ member charitable organization project before 20.
Vitamix is a private, family owned company.

Your statement would be correct for the majority of companies however, but Vitamix is actually distinct in that regard (currently)
I thought early fridges did surprisingly well because they tended to be smaller and the frost-free mechanisms are wasteful on multiple levels (they're running a heater, and then probably have to run the cooler more to compensate)
How is that first issue a blocker for you? It arguably makes the plafond worse to have more gamification and social features.

Anyways, GitLab vs. GitHub is a myopic lens for the quote I posted. All proprietary software choices have consequences, and it this case we're focusing on the parent's issues with Discord vs. open alternatives.
That’s really cool actually! Did you discover any techniques to be particularly effective? I recall a PhD working on language “wait learning” which I’d love to use, but it never made it out of the lab. Maybe you’re also sitting on some good stuff. (If you’d prefer to link papers, that’d be great, too!)
I was just speaking about those specific cases. Running the smoker is a 8-20 hour endeavor. Sous vide is 2-6 usually. Smart devices are kinda nice for this.
>Navigating with a map and compass is a difficult skill that takes a lot of practise,

no one seems to realize now-a-days that using devices has that same skill window.

my father would be useless with a phone and gps app, but with the right charts and a sextant he can find his way around the sea.

in other words : navigating is difficult, and the tools you choose to use, be it GPS and electronics or the sun/compass/sextant require practice regardless.
Ask HN: How to find a small town to relocate for remote work?
Curious to hear the community’s perspective on where our next move should be.

I’m an engineering manager at a fully remote US company with long-term plans to stay (and even if not, no desire to return to the office regularly). I don’t drive but like to walk to the supermarket and restaurants. My wife doesn’t like living in a big city, so we’re in the burbs within walking distance of a little “downtown” area.

It’s a bit of an unhappy medium because the homes we want still cost $1M, yet it’s a long and limited walk. Plus we’re ready for something new. We’d likely both be happier in a town, living just off some Main Street with 20 or so shops. The city is great but honestly I don’t need more than a good diner, a supermarket, and a friendly bar. Nice to haves are a pleasant climate (not too cold), an airport within an hour or so, and decent public schools.

I’m asking here because I hear so much about NYC/SF tech workers being set loose by remote work and leaving. I’ve experienced this with colleagues relocating to SC, Lancaster PA, small towns in Maryland… etc.

Any ideas on whether this mid-sized town dream exists, ideas for cities, and/or how we’d go about finding it?
I had no choice, but came to exist. Logic suggests it is meaningless, but I fear for the truth. I'm still trying to justify my existence.
As Alec recounts you can run vinegar through it to descale it.
You can publish such an image, but you won’t be able to attest “this image came from my camera and is unedited”. It’ll be unsigned, so marked as “possibly edited” the way HTTP websites are marked by modern browsers as “possibly insecure”. The whole point is provenance chain - not to prevent any editing whatsoever or establish “DRM” that forbids the use of all images from a camera or something.
Walk in to an appliance store or website, or someone's house or a car park if secondhand, with your tool kit and expert knowledge and do a full teardown on anything your considering purchasing.

Sounds time consuming.
There's no such thing as a special battery. No manufacturer is going to have some kind of custom battery manufactured just for one part; they always come in standard sizes and voltages. At the very worst, you could hack in a similar-sized battery with the right voltage.
I ask three things of a meat substitute: Taste vaguely like meat, have macronutrients vaguely like meat, and be significantly cheaper than meat.

No child knows or cares what goes into Chicken Fingers, but their parents sure care when the price doubles. What does Quorn need to compete with existing heavily subsidized processes in US agribusiness that have a much larger ethical footprint and which are supposedly less efficient at producing protein?
I did actually have a lady yelling at me once at a street fair because one of our products had a "Made in the USA" tag on it. Called us imperialists. Yes those people are out there. (I'm in the US btw)
I'd agree, but their website is down.
I saw an interesting schematic to use a cut off casette-tape head to read the magnetic stripes on credit cards.

I wonder if the reverse could be done-- using the heads that are still (likely) in production for use in card readers, then using some DSP magic to reconstruct a decent audio product?
I heard that one way to check quality is to look at the type of capacitors used on the board.

Capped are cheap and don’t last long (they have a vent on top) and when they blow they spread white residue on the board. The solid capacitors don’t suffer from this, last much much longer but do cost a bit more.

Ps. Maybe someone with more electrical knowledge than I can confirm or debunk this?
Scientists may, but so what? They are wrong. The Scientific Method, that concept is what matters. You can read about it in Wikipedia.

>Anybody who disagrees with them are idiots and conspiracy theorists.

It just depends, too. If someone says that there are fairies or pixies that exist, or that Pegasus exists, then that is pretty much an idiot, for all intents and purposes.

If someone says 2+2 does not equal 4, then whatever. Indiana had a bill in 1897 called the Indiana Pi Bill for bill #246. They tried to establish math by fiat, and said that a circle can be turned into a square. So yeah, the Indiana legislators were pretty bad.

>The flat earth theory is a common one where you will get that reaction.

So...I don't get what you are saying? Are you saying that the earth is flat??? Because that would be extremely bizarre to say that.

>Your reaction to religion is just a dumb take

It's a free country, you have the right to think whatever you wish.

>Pretty much every religion has a concept of development of doctrine.

Sure. The whole Santa Claus thing has a doctrine, too. The story of Santa Claus and the raindeer and how it came to be.
And they’re offended at the notion that we might want to build things in the US instead of China, because that would be racist.

No, they're not.
A small game is not even remotely comparable to an average programming language.
Late 20s is not that young for a carpenter.

Pretty common for someone to leave school at 16 and be done with their apprenticeship at 20.
YouTube Demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKT-sKtR970
Secure Enclave-like technology is becoming more widely available. ARM can build TrustZone into any general purpose CPU; they’re probably using something like that rather than building their own security module.
Except with any decent brand being sold down the river for a quick buck and all sources of review being paid shills the choice for most people that don't know the specific niche extremely well isn't cheap and crap vs. expensive and quality, it's cheap and crap vs. expensive and crap but with more failure modes.
It's capable of incapacitating any sort of system without load balancing as soon as that system is linked from the front of Hacker News.

Not the case. I've had a static site at #1 happily hum along on an AWS small.
Friedrich Hayek: Prophet of Cryptocurrency?
you are loved. you are worthy. you are enough just as you are.
I replied to the comment you wrote about “20 year olds”.
For very limited definitions of had, most and any.
The device brands itself as a "John Deere", displaying no other visible markings, so I think it is reasonable in this case.

Obviously those with inside technical knowledge can refer to it with more clarity, but the tweeter doesn't seem to be someone with strong ties to agriculture to have that technical knowledge in the moment of live-posting something happening in front of him. He's working with the information he has. A branding fail by Deere, perhaps.

It is not unusual to refer to objects by their visible markings, especially when you don't have any additional information to be more specific.
They have plenty of existing leases that they have not yet developed and for which there are no regulatory impediments to developing them.

The reasons they are not investing in new capacity in response to the current high prices are, according to the oil companies themselves, that they don't think the price is going to stay high, there are worker shortages from the pandemic, and (this is the biggest reason) investors want the oil companies to concentrate on consistent profits instead of the boom and bust way things were.

In a survey of oil producers by the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas [1], they found that 60% of publicly traded oil producers are restraining growth because of investor pressure to maintain capital discipline. Only 11% said they were restraining for environmental, social, and governance issues, and only 6% said it was due to government regulations.

The money that they would have invested in new production is going to dividends and stock buybacks.

[Edit] PS: Forbes says that they are greatly increasing drilling, with a 60% increase in the number of oil rigs over the last year [2].

[1] https://www.cbsnews.com/news/oil-production-prices-us-compan...

[2] https://www.forbes.com/sites/rrapier/2022/03/27/oil-companie...
The modal looked like an iOS modal and to me very out of place on any in other device - non starter for me
There's a law of economics [1] that describes how bad products drive out good ones if they look the same:

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gresham%27s_law
Often it’s someone comparing a cheap modern version with some super high-end appliance from the 50s (because cheap low margin options didn’t exist back then).

If you were buying a $7k fridge today to compare - that’d be interesting.
Well, 500 gets you out of that level of the simulation.
I'm referring to power tools. Sears "Craftsman" power tools are incompatible with the ones everyone else sells.
It's the entire front panel. You might as well take a wire wheel to it and break out the Rustoleum.

https://www.homedepot.com/p/RIDGID-10-in-Contractor-Table-Sa...
A communal denial of service

Dare i say, a cDoS
I think about the state of the protocols involved

Having been involved with ratification of various protocols in the blockchain space

Most of the speculative action from new types of assets comes before ratification

Its much more similar to a rudimentary networking protocol than a commercialized internet
And today’s Sunday! A day we can all like.

(Would it have been better if OP posted tomorrow? Since we’re asking philosophical Qs.)
A second simulator for exhaust systems would be appealing. Perhaps he will figure it out himself, or re-open source the existing simulation once he figures out how to get the credit/compensation he deserves.
> Why can't it be like RSS, where everybody has a feed, and it tracks what posts I've read and which ones I haven't, and I can catch up with all the unread posts? Probably because that way, I could check it once a week, instead of every 30 minutes, and Twitter needs those DAUs to survive.

I use Tweetbot, which approximates this by saving my place in the timeline (though it doesn't let me mark tweets as read/unread/needs-followup on a more granular level, which would be a useful feature). But ironically, I suspect I might be better off using the standard unstable feed, precisely because I only check Twitter anywhere from once a week to once a day.

Every day, my timeline gets hundreds of tweets. The actual volume of text is not that high, compared to the long blog posts I'm accustomed to reading at a fast pace. But the tweets are about many different topics, and many of them are tips of icebergs, having links or being part of longer threads. So the timeline feels overwhelming, and I almost never read it all.

Given that, perhaps I'd be better off without the pretense. Ditch the saved place; prioritize recent tweets, so that they're still live discussions in case I feel like replying; but rather than solely prioritizing recency, use a filtering algorithm to identify which tweets are most worth reading.

But for now I'm stubbornly sticking to Tweetbot – partly out of habit, partly because I don't want to use an algorithm unless it's something open source that I can customize.
> You still have not addressed how does this square with lying.

That’s just regular fraud. It’s already illegal.
In your view what forces are keeping the economic situation as is?
I do have a fortune file on my computer, which started from another one (I forget which, but I think it was one of the BSD, and then I continued to add a lot more after that, too). Thank you for this link I will read this too.
Not financial advise

It's not really that easy because

1) There aren't at least to my eyes that many opportunities, maybe people with domain specific knowledge in other domains, will find their own opportunities. I've only made in the last 10 years maybe 3 or 4 investments in which I was extremely confident that they would succeed.

2) These investments are medium-long term, at least 2 or 3 years.

> Care to share another stock pick today with asymmetric upside?

This will not be liked by the typical HN audience, but the investment where I currently see massive information asymmetry is Ethereum.

Most people who were into crypto were oblivious that the merge was actually coming. A couple of months ago you would see in crypto forums/reddit everybody memeing that it would be delayed again and again for years. But if you were actually knowledgeable of it's development, you would know that it was coming for real (information asymmetry #1). Now that it became widely known that it's coming, ETH/BTC ratio went from 0.06 to 0.08. Easiest 33% ever.

The same way, most people are unaware of the triple halvening. Ethereum miners currently get paid ~20M USD worth of ETH per day. A big chunk of that must be sold to pay for their mining bills. After the merge, that's almost 20M USD of DAILY sell pressure that will be gone (information asymmetry #2). After some months that massive reduction in sell pressure will have an impact on price. In addition, staking rewards cannot be withdrawn until a future update (shangai). Then it will be a limited withdraw queue.

Ethereum at 1000 USD just a month ago was free money in my opinion. Now at 2000 USD I still believe it's a good deal.

To be fair, there is a lot of information asymmetry in the negatives too. There are many things that are quite bad about Eth that most people into it aren't knowledgeable of either.
I interviewed at a YC startup recently and the founder was making ageist jokes to me because I was older than 25. Tech is literally insane regarding age. The assumption seems to be that once you get a single grey hair you can't use a computer any more? But I can tell you when I was writing code at like 18 or 20 everything I did was unsalvageable garbage.

It actually amazes me how much goes into writing quality code that is usable in production. I would be very surprised if any junior engineers could do it without messing up a bunch of stuff (which I certainly wouldn't fault them for as they're still learning!) You would need a good mentor if you wanted to avoid that I guess.
I wanted to check out the app and found it hilarious that I had to go through a rabbit hole of links to other articles about the app to actually get to a direct link to the app. lithub --> mentalfloss --> WaPo --> AppStore

Any idea why articles do this--is it for engagement or SEO?
I'm South Asian, have lived in the US for over 15 years, and don't know wtf you're talking about. Neighborhood doesn't ever mean caste. The reason you never hear people talking about caste is because they don't.
But that doesn't always work. I've wondered if coffee residues in the carafe contaminate the water (when the carafe is used to fill the water reservoir) and could get baked on to the surface of the heating tube.
Beware, even a dead cat can bounce.
Tesla Shanghai Plant Ships One Millionth Car
An absurd response that has no place on hacker news.

I recommend this video on why vaccines are significantly better than the alternatives.

https://youtu.be/zBkVCpbNnkU
Proved to whom, when, and in what context? Systems that were designed for easy reproducible builds from the ground up are fairly new, so how sure are you the context hasn't changed?
"This failed unit is purely an example of doing just enough to get by until it is someone else's problem" this is the trademark of humans.
XPrivacyLua has the ability to feed fake data to apps.

https://github.com/M66B/XPrivacyLua

Requires rooted Android + Xposed though.
It may be a bit overblown but it’s not wrong. We should invest in the future of engineering. I doubt you’d say that statement is controversial.
Yes, but that persists the entire system, including the kernel. AppKit's restorable state is meant to be consumed by brand new processes.
> You don’t jailbreak an Apple, you don’t borrow a library, and you don’t order a McDonald’s.

You can indeed jailbreak an Apple and order Mcdonald's.

>It’s an important distinction and everyone is looking at me like I’m a moron because I know that and they don’t.

You're being unnecessarily pedantic. Anyone who actually cares about the distinction can watch the DefCon presentation or view the associated media about it. I would think most HN users don't own industrial agricultural machinery that they'd be desperate to jailbreak, and those who do are probably already in the right communities. For everyone else this is just cool news about jail-breaking / right to repair / etc., and are not going to need to implement it in practice.

For what it's worth, it is apparently model 2630 and 4240 control consoles which appear in a variety of tractor models.

>Also, don’t tell someone to “chill.” It is extremely disrespectful and incendiary.

It is appropriate to tell someone to chill out when they're needlessly dramatic and aggressive over trivial details. Check your ego at the door.
Now that you mentioned that, I remember World of Warcraft having a pandemic event that spurred some discussion in epidemiology circles.
If you're looking for an incentive program, here's a place to start looking....

https://www.makemymove.com/

I think this site will even contact cities for you that don't have incentive programs.

Another advantage of these city programs is you're part of a cohort of relocaters - so you always have people sharing the newcomer experience with you.
Download the full collection of Paul Graham essays in ePub for easy reading
It sounds like you want more detail. That is different than claiming that the author doesn't know proper English.

To reiterate what the other poster said, referring to a tractor as a John Deere is perfectly valid coloquial English.

You wouldn't refer to an iphone as an Apple because Apple is generally known to produce several different categories of products. John Deere is broadly understood to only make tractors. Also, the article "a" in front of "a John Deere" is an additional clue that we are talking about a product, not the company. If you find that hard to understand, you might want to avoid casting aspersions about other people's English skills.
Try the Midwest around rail commuter routes. Most of them developed small yet thriving downtowns that are quite quaint and affordable

For example check out Geneva Illinois
https://www.csis.org/analysis/cryptocurrencys-role-russia-uk...

^This will have to suffice. I've read juicier reports but they are SECRET//NOFORN. You'll have to take my word for it that the Ukrainians are using web3 payments for some...surprising activities.
Are they actually confronting the problem or merely assaying an appearance of an attempt?
Fully agree. I guess there is still some honor and the other person would invite the original author as an author of the fixed paper, but it looks very snipable.
Its a nightmare anything that will last is now “premium” and top of the line. You spend easily 4x what even a good one costs and then you get something that lasts as long as appliances did 30 years ago. Washers and dryer’s drive me mad not to mention most kitchen appliances.
Another South Asian here, you're 100% correct. I can't even imagine what the parent poster is talking about, even twisted 100 ways I've never heard someone imply caste like that.
I have never heard this either in my time around Nepali and Indian coworkers.
Lack of detail doesn't make something wrong. You are the one who is wrong here. Is English perhaps not your first language? I'm having trouble imagining how a native speaker could think referring to a specific tractor as "a John Deere" is somehow incorrect English.
From Pfizer’s site… but no adverse events were noted from the Phase 2 trial.

https://www.pfizer.com/news/press-release/press-release-deta...
Renewable is an incredibly dumb term.

You know what was renewable, using whale oil. That's very renewable in fact, but somehow most people are against running the global economy on whale oil.

Fission is incredibly sustainable in the long term. In fact, even if we mined all the easily expressible thorium volcanic activity actually continuously brings up more.
Future megaflood in California likely, could cause up to $1T in damage
I wish there was a way to get a list of predictions from a timeframe. January-June 2020 would be a goldmine.
This is presumably for VLA15, a multivalent protein subunit vaccine from Pfizer-Valneva.
You're talking about credit reporting. A credit score is where you deny someone a job or refuse a home loan or charge them more for rent because they paid all their bills ahead of time and never took out a credit card or grew up in a certain neigh orhood.
Yes and you can use rsync instead of Dropbox ($10B)

People are willing to pay for convenience. Your mutt isn’t going to automatically find all large attachment, downsize them or handle inline images, but you didn’t read the article so you wouldn’t know that.
Fission literally demonstrated that 40 years ago. But we refuse to seriously try that.
I must have expressed myself badly. I believe that, if you're engaged in a violent revolution, you have already failed; you will recapitulate the status quo, should you gain control of society. This is why I described nonviolent protest as critical. When I said the process was brutal, it was because nonviolent movements will be opposed brutally, not because brutality is any sort of virtue.

I was making a more nuanced point about this particular conversation, perhaps one that didn't really need to be made.
I think the issue would be that whereas this I think can get away with just a really fast rigid body simulation, the exhausts and so on would need to simulate acoustics where you have feature sizes in the same ballpark as the wavelength of the sound i.e. your ear will almost definitely be a harsh critic.
No vaccine is 100% safe and effective. The safety and effectiveness is presumably high enough, though, or else they would not be used (or they have found no problems yet, possibly due to the funding and the commercial interests, etc; and/or if there are some bad effects but they are rare). Also presumably they are judged as being better than the alternatives. But, that does not mean that it is 100% good, because none of them are. But still, the time that has elapsed, and tests that have been made, if shows that it is OK, then it is less cause for concern than one which has not been tested yet and might have more severe side effects.
Absolutely agree. On the other hand, I feel like such an underachiever each time I see something as impressive as this. I just lost another weekend on.. what exactly?