skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
did you need to watch the video to grasp the idea of what a rat-race is? The author thought you did, OP thought you needed "dropping out of the rat race" explained to you, meaning thta OP thought you never thought of it before.
I'm pretty sure Don's still alive and since he welcomes contact, you can call him :-) He's a nice fellow to talk to.

A surprising number of those devices are still around, but some may command premium prices since their only use is for legacy replacements. No one in 2023 should be using a 741 op-amp, but you can still buy them. I actually used a 74LS245 in a new project last summer as a 3.3 - 5V level converter because actual level converter chips were Unobtainium!

DIP packages are still around, but tend to cost more than SMT probably because of economies of scale and physical size.

You can wire wrap!!! Now there's a technology from the past :-) I recently bought wire wrap wire (makes good protoboard connections) but it's been a long time since I saw a wire-wrap socket outside one of my parts drawers. Surplus suppliers like MPJA, BG Micro and Jameco probably still have lots of them. Don't know where you're going to find a wire wrap tool tho.
"We’re pretty sure the number will go back down again — if you bought in below $X, you may want to cash out while you can. You can already see bobbles in the chart where bagholders tried to cash out where they could." - Almost everyone for 10+ years.
I don’t see rooftop solar panels unless I go outside and intentionally look for them.

A mini-split system puts an ugly, cheap, plastic wall-cyst within your field of view in every room they’re installed.
The challenge was against the status quo. It is up to such a challenge to provide a compelling reason to change the law.

Anyone with common sense knows that copying my book is theft (Assuming standard copyright. I have released several books under permissive terms myself.) This goes way back to Dickens and Beethoven, who were damaged by piracy, along with many of their contemporaries.
That's kinda the whole point of being salaried though isn't it? (At least for those of us in the US.) You are an exempt employee as defined by US labor law. You aren't required to receive overtime pay, and you are evaluated on your expertise and the results you deliver.

So if you can get in daily rides and still meet the expectations of your employer, awesome, you're doing it right.

You're likely also doing right by your employer, since the daily exercise is giving you lots of health benefits and keeping you performing at a high level mentally.
Ask HN: Best state for starting a small hardware business (LLC)?
Hi all,

I've been looking into this for a while now but all the information online is divisive or an advertisement for one online registration service or another. I am trying to start a company providing a niche hardware product, which I expect to sell about 10 of in my first year at a price of $50,000 to $100,000 each.

I am interested in raising capital but not in the near future. In the near term, I would like to optimize for tax savings. Additionally, I don't know exactly where I am going to set up shop in the long run.

Does anyone know if it is okay to incorporate in a state other than where you are going to run a business, if your business involves hardware? And if so, which state offers the greatest advantage to someone who is not immediately taking venture capital?
That seems to be a presumption...

I just googled "sketch application" or "sketch image editing software" I found sketchpad... alternatively, I found sketch.com, which seems to be design software?

I mean, it's a vague enough name that I don't think it's a good name anyways, but I'm not sure it should be obvious that this is a taken name in the way that "Photoshop" would be.
The Infinite Search for Simplicity
The no 1 reason I bought the Daikin model referenced over the comparable Mitsubishi Electric is that it has the ‘MOULD PROOF’ function. It runs the fan automatically after you have had it in cooling mode, to evaporate the moisture build up from the interior condenser coil, thereby removing the moisture required for the growth of bacteria and mould.

So far, it seems to be working! Better than relying on everyone to manually do it (literally this is the instruction in the Mitsubishi Electric user manual).
Bravely coming out against... rape victims?
There's something dirty about the fact that we have to hope that one day we'll be able to install our own operating systems on a linux device.
In New Zealand I have seen small heatpumps in bedrooms, but I would have to say it is extremely rare.

But we have many very toasty hallways leading to cold single glazed bedrooms!
Why begin watching a program that I know has already been cancelled?

Why watch a show in its infancy, when I know Netflix cancels shows early and sometimes with cliff hangers?

Why watch Netflix at this point?
Generating diagrams programmatically
Something that's always confused/concerned me - at least on Mac - is that when I get asked for a 2FA code logging into the icloud web UI or similar, the same computer I'm logging in from pops up a popup with the code the Apple site is requesting. Wonder if that sort of thing comes into play here - if you are trying to do something "untrusted" on a device, the trust check shouldn't rely on that same device? But then if you only had a single device you're in trouble...
Because people losing their data before the cloud was unheard of. The most safe option is to use the cloud but also download the data exports for local storage. This is very easy with Google Takeout but I was unable to work out how to do this with iCloud since they seem to think there would be no point ever exporting your data from iCloud.
Additionally, not all purveyors of razors and blades follow the razor and blades model: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUG9qYTJMsI
But they address what they think are their shortcomings which I feel is likely not the actual shortcomings.
> assuming that happiness is something you can find by simply changing your circumstances.

Thankfully I learned years ago this doesn’t work and got past this mindset. Changing circumstances has never significantly improved things for any length of time.

> Happiness really does start from within.

I’ve also never had any luck with this and am increasingly convinced some people aren’t destined to be happy.
I still love programming but often feel burnt out at my SWE job. Things like:

- coworkers
- working culture
- autonomy
- sense of ownership
- sense of impact
- how much you actually get to code
- whether the coding you're doing is interesting

can make you hate your job even if you still like programming itself.
> They never allowed porn

WAT? I pay for porn on patreon and have for years. Maybe it's just live video porn that's banned? I have no idea. AFAIK the artists I'm subscribed to are not hiding their creations. In fact they're all over sites like pornhub, spankbang, etc with their patreon address in their videos. It's all CG or real time 3D but it's most certainly porn.
Would emailing the insurance company in question and saying you were looking to cancel your insurance policy be an option?
> When I cycle I need to cycle through kilometre after kilometre of urban jungle before I see anything resembling a field.

This is the exact realization I had that lead me to quit London as well.
Then they don’t get masacred to force others to labour on the banana plantations, and their democraticaly elected leaders don’t get overthrown by the CIA.

Maybe they find other ways to thrive, maybe not. Banan is not the only thing they could grow, and growing things is not the only way to make an economy work.

This is not an abstract economy problem from a econ 101 textbook. History cannot be rolled like that back and “what-if” is not a question we can answer.

What we know is that violence has been commited with the direct goal of securing said banana supply.
In my mid 20’s I had an order of magnitude less savings and quit my job to backpack Europe. My career wasn’t remotely impacted in the process and I genuinely think this is one of the best decisions I ever made.

The 4 hour work week has a far better treatise on this than I could ever write and I highly recommend reading it. You’re incredibly resilient in your 20’s. I’d rather be coming out of prison as a 20 something than be a millionaire in retirement.
Most services have figured this out now and normalize the field internally to prevent this, mostly for spam reasons.
I guess I was basing my recommendation on a restricted device that was waterproof, plays music, and could make phone calls. If you expand your criteria back to general mobile computing device that can run many apps then sure you’ll just have to use Android or full iOS.
I don’t know how complete / useful /well-priced this particular assortment is, but I think they’re available: https://www.jameco.com/z/7400-SERIES-KIT-Major-Brands-7400-L...
I feel like your campaign would benefit from explaining a little bit about who you are, what you've written before, and why we should believe you can actually accomplish this (understandably big project). People like to feel like they're paying a person, not an idea...
I don't know that show. It is a cliffhanger that teases the next story, or a story ended in the middle?
For shows that tease the next story at the end of an episode or season, you can just ignore the tease.
I remember few companies already doing this. The shapeshift DAO. They migrated from a traditional corporation to one incorporated and governed by a Defi contract
Getting started with the BL618 and the BL618 development board
How many standard deviations away from Ides of March is Brute force still considered acceptable?
App branding project – abstract letter icons
I don't know how accurate the various videos are, but if they are, the Delta pilot was probably able to visually see the plane on the runway ahead, perhaps even before the tower noticed it. The plane seems to begin decelerating very early, before I'd expect the "cancel takeoff clearance" message to have been fully understood by the pilot.
It’s the same paradigm. You still have to do if err != nil. Multierrors have been in the community forever. It’s just been added to the standard library is all.
If you could go back to your building instead of writing that kind of comments, I would be happy.
Queenslanders work fine in Queensland, where the lows in winter are still double-digit C. Most of the world (or even Aus) isn't like that. A Queenslander in Canberra would have a massive heating bill 8 months of the year to keep it safely livable.
Having "quit the rat race" last year, spending much time in the mountains just like the author, and now finding myself back in the corporate world again, I do have one piece of advice.

Do not let your job become a part of your identity.

I work just as hard at my new job as I did at my last one, but in my mind, they're just a client I'm choosing to offer services to at this time. I've made many good friends through work over the years, but now my loyalty to my friends is independent of my loyalty to the companies for which we work. I used to use the demonym of my place of work to tell people about myself; now I describe myself by my hobbies, my beliefs, and my aspirations.

Did that solve everything? Of course not. Late-stage capitalism is still riddled with bullshit. But I do sleep better at night.
The reader's ignorance isn't implied at all. If anything, that video is a concise, entertaining way to prime someone for the post's topic. This isn't some op-ed in the New York Times. With all due respect, maybe introspect your reaction.
Tunnel Ultra: The mind-bending 200-mile ultra-marathon in the dark
It's probably worse than that. How would you guard against the threat of someone forcing you to unlock your phone at gunpoint? Call their bluff and just throw the phone in the gutter and run away? Stall for time like you forgot the password?
No, a lot of people like I describe buy iphones simply because they're fashionable. If fashions change, they could be well served by a smart watch instead.
Interesting question. At my old job a lot of people would let vacation days accumulate and since only a few days would carry over to the next year, lots of people "had" to "think of" a vacation towards the end of the year.

This was always insane to me, I always had my vacations and visits to family planned out well in advance, I never had anything left over.

Maybe it means something, maybe not.
There were cases that some of the earliest companies created around Bitcoin sold ownership for bitcoin only.
I agree that I'd approach this in the form of (`val completed = order.approveAs(currentUser, Instant.now())` or maybe `val completed = orderService.approve(currentUser, Instant.now())`) myself. That doesn't require any specific programming language either. I was just using the example in the blog.

However, I don't see Kotlin as a language that sticks to explicit code where you can understand what is going on. Between extensions, companion objects, infix methods and other syntactic sugar, I would say Java is much better in terms of code explicitness.
> I suppose the ideal scenario would be to not sign up for COBRA, and hopefully find a job within that 90 day enrollment period. If that does not happen, then perhaps look into one of the ACA plans assuming you can find something that fits your needs, what you can afford, etc..

Yeah thats exactly what I'm suggesting you should do. Its rare anyone even knows about the retroactive nature of COBRA so I always try to inform people of the options.
The standard “hello Wayland” project[1] is basically that, using an interface called wl_shm. You still need to do some IPC in order to arrange for the environment to so that for you, obviously, so a library called libwayland-client handles the necessary Unix socket handshake, plus some more of that to tell the system you’re done with the buffer and want to submit it. It would be possible to isolate the first part into a reusable executable that performs it then execs you leaving a well-known mmapable fd for the buffer, but the second you’d still need to do yourself. (Wayland isn’t willing to just use a pixel buffer you’re still writing to—indeed I don’t think discrete GPUs can do that as opposed to requiring an explicit transfer to video memory.)

[1] https://github.com/emersion/hello-wayland
Dark could have ended after 1 or 2 seasons (and S3 kind of tied itself in knots), but would require rewriting the make the ending work.
This seems to be a common phenomena. One thing that recently stood out as to why is the flow state famous by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi.

In short, you might experience flow outside of your day-to-day life (i.e. work). It becomes such an addicting feeling that you try to revolve your entire life around that new sensation.

It's funny, because much of the time it happens when people do something a bit difficult and outside of their current skillset. For software types it tends to always be something with nature or woodworking.
It's confusing in the context of FP that your example uses SomeX when referring to non-optional types.
A red flag for me is all the talk about optimizing which focuses on making things multi-threaded as if that was a silver bullet. Recently we took multi-threading out of a portion of a renderer and then fixed what actually was slow and it's now running single-threaded and much faster than the previous multi-threaded version. Learning to understand what your real bottlenecks comes from experience in how to profile. Saying your are going to fix things by going multi-threaded is great and all but first understand why your single threaded performance is poor. Not all systems are going to respond simply by going multi-threaded.
Any plans to post schematics, or Gerber & BOM? What GPIOs are left?

Looks like a very useful dev board!
At the risk of asking a dumb question, doesn't working great 99% of the time represent a pretty good solution to most problems by any standard? The tone of the post you're replying to seems to suggest having a backup heat source for rare situations is somehow an indictment of heat pumps, as if addressing your climate control needs 360 days a year without relying on fossil fuels is somehow a failure. Sure, those few days where an alternative is necessary means you might need a backup plan. But that's light years ahead of having to rely on the backup plan every day.

I'd also suggest that the necessity of a backup plan can be reduced as well. Having an unreliable power grid is probably not an immutable law of nature so much as a policy choice and modern heat pump technology performs well at considerably lower temperatures than you describe.
You may find other things Apple does user hostile, but they are genuinely pretty good about supporting old devices. I'm pretty sure you can even still sync original iPods on Macs released 20 years later.

The iCloud compatibility page linked above shows that it still supports devices released 13 years ago. The latest iOS is compatible with devices from 2017, and regular security updates are released for devices going back to 2015 -- that's about half the time iPhone has been on the market.

Especially if you believe that they exhibit "declining quality of software", this is a more rational explanation for the error message than a sudden, massive shift in update strategy to require everyone be running the latest software release.
As a general rule I prefer print debugging. I’ll step in with a breakpoint when I have to but odds are I’ve gone through a round of prints first.

I do not enjoy stepping through all of the context setting up the system to fail. I’ve not tried a debugger that can “back up”, that may well be a different experience. But I loathe stepping through code, walking on eggs, overstepping, “oops, thar she blows, start over”. Like Bugs Bunny on the piana.

Rather just toss in some prints, let fly, sift through the wreckage. My builds are fast enough to make the turn around acceptable.
If the result is type safe and the syntax is consistent with the rest of the language, the users won't and shouldn't care whether it's implemented as a builtin, as a macro, or as some other kind of magic.
I hope you misread who you're replying to.
GPT Index: indexes to help LLMs answer queries
> Parents who subscribe to Plato’s view can choose that.

Well, no, by definition you need buy-in from the whole community.

In Plato's Republic, parents didn't know which children were theirs, and vice versa. This eliminated exactly the thing you were talking about: favoritism toward your own children.
> Ducts are dead

Great. You just eliminated approximately 15% of lazy screenwriter tropes for thrillers and action movies. Now they are forced to rely on replacing live surveillance camera feeds with a loop.
Exactly. In this example, which is pretty common here, I installed 1 in the living area and then 1 in each of the bedrooms.
Even in that case, they could just install and start a game, which would also prevent autosleep. Or they could just start playing an extremely long video (e.g. x days long black screen) or a video stream.
Things are set to get worse. Striking is effectively being banned by disguising 'minimal service' and employment laws are to be torn apart diverging from EU employment rights.

We all heard it was going to happen, but most people didn't believe it would.

There's no end, the Tories will be back in power come the next election. I think the UK population deserve this.
That's a depressing answer, that nobody bothers.

gettext seems pretty difficult to use in Rust - there's no obvious way to apply a runtime format string "My name is {1}".

https://blog.hackeriet.no/rust-and-translation-files/ describes using gettext from Rust but not how to handle format strings.
I wouldn't say most countries. "Cup" as a general-purpose unit is very US-centric, odd even by UK standards, and unheard of in Europe. Nobody puts carrots in cups. Unless it's a liquid you'd actually drink out of a cup, you'll rather find units like 200ml or 250g instead.
Ah yes.. the trope of overpaid (with respect to history) millennial writing about their transcendence from this absurd thing called 'work'.

Not judging harshly because I did nearly the same as the author years ago! Only I found a pot of emptiness at the end of the rainbow. I hope he really REALLY likes mountains ;)
How is that different than what I said? To quote myself:

> higher platform cost for AM5/DDR5
Looks very useful and intuitive.
Does it cost anything? Either way I think it would helpful if you called it out somewhere.
Hey, can you point me to where you were finding this? I'd very much like to try it out this weekend and that might help - I've got a personal ASN and carrier link I can exchange the actual internet table on. The only thing I could find was people receiving the "full route tables" of a private cloud instance not the net.
It would be nice to actually link the source[1] (PDF).

The stat is that you lose between 25-40% efficiency for "typical" existing installations. The document goes on to explain that an insulated duct which doesn't leak doesn't have this kind of efficiency loss.

[1] https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www1.eere.energy.gov/bu...
He wrote "When I saw those shelves crammed with hundreds, thousands of cans, cartons and goods of every possible sort, for the first time I felt quite frankly sick with despair for the Soviet people. That such a potentially super-rich country as ours has been brought to a state of such poverty! It is terrible to think of it."

Pundits aren't super far out over their skis.

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/6kh3dw/ive_h...

https://www.chron.com/neighborhood/bayarea/news/article/When...
IME long breaks do very little to help with burnout like this.

All you're doing is giving yourself a brief reprieve from an environment that drains your energy. You'll build up a bit of the energy over the break, but as soon as you come back you'll start getting drained again, possibly even worse than before because of the contrast of having to be back in that environment.

Breaks are important but if your environment is fundamentally draining you day after day, they're not going to move that needle.
Print is not the only facility where strongly typed variadic arguments are useful. If you implement it as a builtin, all those other cases will have to be implemented as a library, and as a result, argument passing looks very different from print. And it is desirable that the same thing is consistently expressed in the same manner.
Arguably we might not be able to store the resulting collection.

For example suppose we've got 64MB of RAM, and we've got the iterator 0..i32::MAX

If we try to collect() that, we're going to have a bad time, but while that's a lot of numbers, we certainly could write it to a file, we probably do have gigabytes of disk space, or we could send it over the network - the Internet certainly has storage for these numbers.
better yet, https://nosleep.page/
With regards to playlisting my digital music collection in novel and interesting ways, I've found Plexamp's "Guest DJ" feature [1] to be second to none.

It's not the cheapest piece of software. However when viewed in comparison to the cost of a standalone mp3-player, I think Plex's $119.99 Lifetime Pass is justifiable.

[1] https://mobile.twitter.com/plexamp/status/158570440123829863...
You're already on the list of people who might do illegal drugs by asking this question.

Part of the reason I linked the page I did is because they go out of their way to provide options that are LEGAL in the areas they're being shipped to.
Yes, there are so many ways Ukraine could interdict any Russian venture. It is well served by rail, but lines can be cut.
This seemed contradictory to your original comment. But I went back and read it and I guess it isn't quite so much as I thought. But a seven-figure cushion seems pretty unnecessary to me. That's a lot of wiggle room! But :shrug:, you do you.