skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The USA offers to continue the free visa agreement. If that ends, for reciprocity there won't be free visas for USA travelers to Europe too. It's lose lose but one of the two parties is always going to lose more than the other one. Which one? In the case of tourism probably Europe loses more from less USA tourists because of visa friction than the USA loses from European tourists staying at home. Business? It will take more time to setup a travel but people that have to travel will travel anyway.
Toyota is taking on a lot of risk with their bet on Hydrogen, especially because so far the Mirai has taken off about as well as a lead balloon.
I've been trying to tell people about this since the lead-up to the 2016 election.

It's lost me some friendships, which is sad, but I'm not going to stop.
A Tesla driver watched in horror as another Tesla burst into flames
Oh, I thought I made that clear:

> all prominent enough for me to remember when they happened

I listed pre-9/11 examples of terrorism that I remember happening.
225 processes running on my Windows 11 PC at startup, back with windows XP I got this down to 14, I no longer even try. Microsoft should plant a couple of trees for every copy of Windows 11 installed.
get that bread
Be careful with isopropyl. I've seen 70% or 91% poured over the print side of a movie DVD, causing it causing the printing to slough right off.
I don't think the key is to blame CDC or Fauci or the government. The key is that people should be able to examine their numbers, critique their analysis, and challenge their policies, just like people should do to any doctrine. Yet Twitter staff, at least some of them, turned such normal debates into political issues, and tried every way to ban the people or villainize them.
Some might say that both the patients and their colleagues are people!
Funniest thing I've read all week.
Haven't those annoying banners been prevalent long before 2018? Maybe GPDR made them more popular, but I'm not sure.
The landfill is also functionally carbon sequestration.
> is a completely fine exchange. Adding a wall of text to convey the same information does not help anyone.

Should have been a text or telegram message anyway.
>every idea I have there's already a startup that's doing something very similar (if not the exact thing) - and is super well funded or positioned

You can still differentiate yourself. For example, find out what users don't like about competing services or products, and why they don't like it. What other features do similar apps/products/services offer, and what else are users asking for? Offer that.

>I'm also having a hard time attracting a co-founder.

What do you want out of a co-founder? Letting HN know what you're looking for might help you find the right person. Chances are the right person is out there, and very well might be reading your post - but they don't know what you're looking for. Do you want a business oriented person? A product focused person? A marketing expert? Someone with a finance background? So many variables here.
This does not need Google deep pockets. It needs the motivation and some funding. SWA does not care.

Pull the backup tapes, hand those to DR team, provide bare metal, and start the stopwatch. I participated in this in 1990s across the Mississippi.
6 managers in 2 years
No sane supplier to the MIC would be pals with the likes of Medvedev.
> “The system” isn’t designed by some secret cabal of sinister tricksters who are intending it to fail specific people in specific ways.

That’s true; the elites rigging it to fail often are not at all secret about their intent, the most common of which–for the entire inadequate social safety net–is to ensure that it errs on the side of maintaining economic coercion driving people into accepting poor terms in the labor market to ensure aggregate output and low labor costs and minimize consumption of government-supplied benefits even when it would yield a palpable increase in living conditions.
Nonsense. Adding a particular skin color into the definition of racism is racist in and of itself. And the attempt to turn 'whiteness' from a racist discriminator into some sort of cultural-historical-social grouping is purely a rationalization of this racism.
Spends tends to go down with age though. If you live to 90 you aren’t going to be jetsetting around, you’ll just be resting at home all day.
I get the sense you do not quite understand how much essentially all of Europe is a vassal state of the group of people that also has a stranglehold on America.
No, she had $250k and was told it wouldn't be enough. So she then started saving more (up to 26% of her annual pay by the time she did retire).
UseDouble – Automate tedious data work
Which still happens?

If people think TSA is theater…
I prototype in python or whatever, then, if the project survives into market and has legs I either buy more hardware or rewrite the expensive parts in C++.

Reduces calendar time, risk, cost. And I'm likely to make better decisions once the code and market is better understood after the prototype is tested under real world conditions and the requirements have changed (like they always seem to do).
They tiled the kitchens themselves though so really it was quite frugal
Car rentals are a total consumer disaster and have always been this way. It keeps being like this because generally you end up with a car and that's all people need. Special shout out to Sixt that promised me a volvo xc90 over the phone and gave me a cadillac midsize crossover instead when I showed up. The employee at the manhattan location told me they've never even seen a Sixt XC90 at that location.
And Big Plastic, consumer recycling was never designed to effectively recycle, it was designed to effectively get people to buy more plastic.
Try this, replace "/foo/bar" with the path to your mount point, and the echos with additional desired behaviour.

(I'm assuming you're writing a bash script on a Linux system)

if grep -qs '/foo/bar' /proc/mounts; then

echo "/foo/bar mounted"

else

echo "/foo/bar not mounted"

return 1 || exit 1

fi

Put these commands below the shebang but before the start of the script. I hope this helps you!

Edit: I added a crapload of newlines to better show the indentation and newlines required for the script to work. Sorry it's ugly
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> pain, misery, and utterly debased

I think this is because we often see pain and misery as "bad things" that must be avoided at all cost. This tends to lead to the assumption that people who have pain and misery in their lives don't have "good lives" and that the only real option then is to end it.

Pain and misery have purpose and meaning. It can cause people to look beyond themselves. Some very beautiful things have come from people who were in deep pain.
I'm in my late 20s. Still no kids but a long term partner.

Since finding a fully remote job, I've been going back and forth. I stay one month in my city where I am independent, go out with friends, basically where I live my life.

Then I stay 2-4 full weeks with my folks. I bought new office equipment to work as comfortably as in the city, and nice things to make my space really mine.

It's an interesting cycle that I've learned to accept and enjoy. When I'm with them, I work a bit more because I have less social distractions, I go to the gym every day, and I see them all day. When I go back to my place, I go out with everyone, eat less meat, go to events, and do my regular activities that make me feel myself.

It's a 6 hour cheap trip, which is not bad considering I stay in one place for weeks. It's not perfect, and maybe not permanent, but I can see my folks. Half the year at least, even if they never visit me. They're getting older. If they leave this world today, I will be devastated, but happy that my present self is doing the best it can to be with them.
> Are you suggesting you'd force social media platforms to carry all voices, no matter what they're saying? How would you achieve that? Would community & content quality guidelines become illegal?

No, my OP and this thread's link is about government intervention, which then lead to social media action.

Whilst I do think social media platforms should have additional regulation once they are big enough to become the new public square, there's no need to go that far yet and I'm uncertain of the appropriate balance.

However when it comes to the government's own response, they should have higher bar for taking action due to the oppressive influence it can have backed by it's monopoly on force. And again I state that this should be serious scientific study as the minimum prerequisite for this bar.

> in times when there's a national crisis occurring & you have people continually posting about how to take off-label drugs causing shortages for people who actually need it & injury to those taking it incorrectly, you run into misinformation causing real tangible harm to people. You cannot just ignore that.

Just like you cannot ignore the horror of slipping into a tyrannical police state like China.

Instead of shadowbanning and actual banning I was previously in favour of fact checking and warning labels under legitimately harmful information. Unfortunately even this tool has been abused by being misapplied to factual information, as well as non-harmful opinions. I have yet to see an intervention method since COVID that hasn't been corrupted to oppress the population, so I'm inclined to think that some harm is an inevitable tradeoff for living in a free society.
Age 55 (says "mid 50s")

Savings $250k

Age 65 (retirement "about 3 years ago", now age 68)

Savings $1m

10 years working while saving 26% of $250k = $650k

$250k + $650k = $900k

Add another 10% for investment returns.
I am starting to think that the prediction thread we had on HN the other day called it. GPT will become end up a fad with few niche ( useful, but niche ) uses, while our signal to noise ration will become even worse.

I do not like that one bit. I am already spending too much time deciding whether email in my box is a waste of time.
The Grinch Stealing the Future of Gen Y and Z
> "This isn't a drill you can run."

When characterized as something that can't be done instead of something they don't know how to do, you know exactly where they are on the Dunning–Kruger curve.
Many countries have been above 100% for a while now without any apparent issues
Have you seen some of the videos coming out of Canada, where "doctors" who are more or less agents of the state have presented that not as an option, but the best option.

For example there was one person that was trying to get In-Home nursing, which my understanding was an option but the "doctor" kept pushing suicide as the better choice, this person clearly did not want to die, but it was being pushed as the first option for them.

The perverse incentives of state run healthcare combined with a suicide option opens up all manner of abuse, and unintended results.
"With interest rates rising, Mr. McKinney believes bonds are a bad bet and has all of the couple’s portfolio—now worth $700,000, due to withdrawals—in stocks. He favors stocks with high dividends and trades ETFs that rise when the market falls."

Seems bold.
She began with $250k and after 15 years of saving 26% ended up with somewhere over a million.
Is it a good idea to save spectrograms as JPEGs? Won't the lossy compression be an issue?
All this reminds me of MAGA treatment of Trump's ambiguity. A straight shooter and a troll at the same time..
What's the value of the reputation risk of a major, very high profile failure?

Sometimes businesses end up on the wrong side of that bet. They see only the costs but not the benefits of preparedness (by the time it fails, there will probably be a different CEO in charge) and make a bad call.
Ask HN: Private companies with no outside investment?
The last kind of thread I found was from 2017: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14768761

I'd love to learn about some other similar companies out there and maybe give them some visibility. For example, a couple I like are Plausible (plausible.io) and Remoteok (remoteok.com).
Former IBM engineer Luke Talley talks about the Saturn V rocket [video]
You could have left the first paragraph off and not detracted from the value of your contribution in any way. In truth, I think it would have been a stronger lead-in to do so.
That view that you are describing is completely culture dependent though.

The opposite is true in Asia.
Yeah there's something off about the person's competence. This is not a corrupt country with bag men and personal connections trumping law. Anything important is in writing. Even if this were a real personal injury tragedy $10K in blood money won't make legal problems go away. That's barely enough for an ambulance ride, ER examination, and some imaging.

Just like email phishing educating the public is very laborious but it is the ultimate solution. There will still be a few people who fall for scams no matter how extensive the PSA campaigns.
Pareto – Save thousands of hours on the manual tasks your business needs to grow
What are the reasons preventing flight booking software modernization?
> We can’t have nice things because of massive fraud.

Creating multiple separate bureaucracies, often with similar functions, creates more fraud vulnerabilities and more cost to preventing fraud of any given type.

Our system is not designed to prevent fraud, but to enable it.
Is this new though? I don’t think people in the past saved much either
I remember using some version of SABRE through CompuServe back in the day. All command line stuff over a dial-up modem, but it was novel and cool to be able to book your own flights with it. It would be very annoying to still be stuck on that interface, though.
Golden Age Whodunits Are Back–and a Sign of Our Times
Think of it instead as “risks beyond staying at home”. Falling and hitting your head could happen to anyone, and I’d wager it happening at work is far safer as you are more likely to be quickly found.
People who actually understand the system are punished with extraordinary pressure of keeping things running with little support.
Not enough to discourage him from doing it some more.
The whole EU economy depends on the USD-EUR liquidity swap line between the two central banks. Basically EU has to do whatever US wants.
Sounds like we can either have nice things and demand better of leadership, or not have nice things and let leadership go fallow. Losing faith in leadership means the whole thing falls apart anyways. I for one think the former is the way to go.
Lol, looks like I found my space to vent ;)
This does not seem like a hardware failure scenario where the cloud has anything to offer. More like their intricate software/database systems became out of sync with reality and disentangling the mess is a highly manual process.
I remember a bit of this in undergrad gen chem. If pH stands for -log([H+]), how can pure water (H2O) have a pH of 7? In theory, there shouldn't be any hydrogen ions in pure water. Turns out there are two simplifications being made:

i. H+ in aqueous solution is synonymous with hydronium ion (H3O+).

ii. Water is in an equilibrium autoionization reaction with itself and the hydronium and hydroxide ions:

2H2O <=> H3O+ + OH-

A pH of 7 means the negative log of the hydronium ion concentration is 7. Or about 10^-7 hydronium ions per liter. This reflects that the reaction above greatly favors water in the H2O state. We tend to make such simplifications (H+ for H3O+) in order to make teaching easier, but at some point it impedes a deeper understanding of what's really going on.
Is 'what height is most attractive to American women' a disgusting question?
Our growth rate was fairly modest by that point, about 10% YoY. That was mostly a result of me being greedy and taking cash off the table each year and running it as a lifestyle business.
I can declare it for them: $0. The garbage collection people take the trash from Amazon's customers, rather than Amazon.
Me for:

- Annual conferences or conferences that occur every-other year
- Planning family reunions because you need that kind of cat-herding lead time when you have 9 uncles/aunts on just ONE side of the family
- Periods where I have some spare cash I'd like to lock in a getaway with before I spend it or something unexpected like the invasion of the Ukraine drives up fuel costs and overall prices... or a global pandemic hits - would be sweet if I could have rebooked some of my trips for for 1-2 years out when the pandemic hit
- Travel for future medical stuff; at one point for 2-3 years I was taking my mom to the Cleveland Clinic every 4 months for periodic checks and it would have been super nice to be able to just book that stuff way in advance and have it all taken care of

Etc

etc

etc

I'd bet quite a few people would appreciate that ability
That sounds plausible, I can understand that carriers shouldn't filter traffic, because that goes against net neutrality. So it sounds like carriers can't block traffic at their level, but can attach metadata that the end user can block. I did a quick search on how that would work and found this info from Robokiller (no affiliation):

https://www.robokiller.com/robocall-blocking-technology

Under the Governmental backing turndown arrow:

We’re fighting behind the scenes to get government support for better fighting robocalls. The FCC’s TRACED Act is just one piece of legislation we’re behind that will increase penalties for robocallers–but there’s far more work that needs to be done.

I realized a TL;DR of my rant after writing it:

Organized crime is stealing from members of the community and the police rarely succeed in returning stolen property. The mayor claims to be trying to help, but mostly works at reelection. Half the community wants to pass a law to fine a middleman who sees crime occurring but does little to stop it. The other half claims that the law itself facilitates the crime and wants to cancel more laws. Some people hire a watchdog to prevent the crime, and that seems to work. Others feel that if the crime affects the whole community, then a solution should be part of the commons, because vulnerable and/or impoverished members of the community would be left defenseless otherwise.

I'm in that second camp. I feel that a conservative argument here is: if I have to be bothered by every little thing because the government can't do its job to defend the community and the security of its property, then that's not a republic, it's anarchy.
>Sure but at that point isn't it better to have a lottery to establish who gets to be POTUS instead of going through the motions of campaign expenses and constant media coverage just to shove down people's throats the idea that POTUS is much better and more qualified of a person than all the other citizens combined?

The point is to find a person that is qualified and represents the will of the people. Electing a president is a tradeoff between efficiency and accuracy. A lottery would be much more efficient, but much less accurate in finding the "best" candidate for president. Elections are less efficient, but better than a lottery at choosing a competent and representative candidate.

>You just described survivorship bias: Movie with Daniel Day Lewis is better because Daniel Day Lewis is in it.

That's not survivorship bias. I fully admit that other actors could be better, and I'd imagine that many others do also. The point I'm making is that I have much more data on Daniel Day Lewis than I do on any random actor. As such, a rational individual will take that into account when deciding on a movie.

It's random chance that Daniel is famous. However, now that he's famous, we know much more about what he brings to a movie than most other actors. It would be irrational to ignore that info, regardless of how we got it.
All of our family pictures and videos are in a place that only I have the password to. If anyone wants anything, they come to me. That is another password I would want passed on. I also pay all the bills. My wife would need access to all of the utility accounts, the mortgage payment account, the credit card accounts, the insurance accounts, the retirement fund accounts, etc. There is way more than just banking.
Personally one of the basic tenets of my adulthood is realizing how many companies are a hair away from a similar scenario (differing in magnitude from an airline ofc).
> I wonder how you could ever prepare for that?

Management could consider how pay and performance programs can help ensure business continuity.

HR and MBA xls wizards don't understand how to manage for business longevity.
personally my retirement strategy is a triplex (multi-family home with 3 units). for better or for worse multi-family owner occupied housing in the united states is too lucrative. especially if you bought before covid.

the problem with equities or bonds alone is that even with a good allocation it's hard to protect yourself completely from retiring into a recession.

if the usa allowed multi families by right this would be something that could help lower housing costs and help retirees.

regarding the article, it's crazy how people making 6 figures don't properly save for retirement. Americans truly have a spending problem. based on the professions of some of the people in the article, I would expect them to have more money but it's hard to say without knowing when and how much they made.
Visitor queue are typically miniscule if you are flying in from Europe
There’s always something in the news. No matter what day you pick you can always claim it was timed perfectly
>I used to give a code refactoring exercise as a part of my interview process

I really like this - smart way to get a dialog between yourself and the candidate over something tangible. Great way to see if you can work together, can communicate effectively together, plus gets in their head about how they will approach work.
The central mystery is weak but the film is a hoot due to the order information is revealed and misdirection. I see what detractors are saying but I had fun. “It subverted my expectations.”
The HN crowd does not have sense of humour:)
I know that wasn't a serious comment, saying that federal government agencies follow their mandates and never break the law.

PS I see that you have edited your comment to add a link, https://www.aclu.org/other/nsa-spying-americans-illegal. That link shows that the government illegally spys on citizens, which is the opposite of what you meant to show.
Don't forget the bathrooms too
Evil and ideavim both do, haven't tested vscodevim
They are really good cars actually (FSD Bulls** excluded)
In this case no, but I was more referring to the 2016 delta ground stop that was due to their datacenter burning to the ground.
You should check out the GDPR and the Shrems judgements if you think that.
Congress already passed the TRACED Act. The FCC is moving relatively quickly in issuing government orders (as fast as a federal agency can move). It will take years for phone companies to upgrade to signing calls with level A attestation. Right now 20% of calls are signed and that includes level B attestation (we know the number is not spoofed but not who is using it) and level C (we only know the upstream phone company). If signing is implemented it will take more time to finally cut off non-signed calls. Tracing abuse takes time. Then robocallers can not pay fines and open another LLC. Hopefully this will reach an equilibrium like email where 99% of raw email traffic is spam but spam filters make it reasonable for individuals.
There are some pretty cool threads on the subject of rental car companies here on HN.
Property rights is a primary focus of libertarians, not the right generally.

In the West, the right believes that there is a natural moral order to reality, which generally does not include abortion or suicide. For the most part, this position is rooted in the Christian belief that all humans are made in God's image, so killing innocent humans is to spit in God's face.