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Browse car sale sites looking for a petrol car that refuels in a few minutes? :P
There's nothing quite like shipping (or breaking!) something that impacts billions (with a 'b') of people . It was unexpectedly exhilarating for me the first time I shipped.
The article doesn’t take an ounce of oxygen to mention it, but how many people are being forced back to the office or city for risk of losing their jobs?

I’m not giving an ounce of fucking credit when people are having their livelihoods threatened because the incestious controlling boards want their CMBS values to go back up and pump the value of their other investments in the city.
For me best thing to happen is the remote working - team mates are in UK and India, and I am in NY. Works well. I catch up with others monthly which works well
Isn't rental income treated as income tax? It is in the U.S. Since tax is on the profit only, the tax would be on that 40%, so 32% of 40% so ~10%. You are still walking away with 68% of 40%, so 30% of your rental income is profit.
Nope. I have a fair bit of buffer / savings, and felt like this was an opportunity that I just couldn't pass up, so committed to it.
Thanks for pointing this out---when I read the article I tripped on that word, thought it odd and not sure what the author was trying to say, and moved on, but now that you call it out it seems very obviously to be used in just the same way that a lot of people used to use the r-slur (and some still do).
That makes sense if you're optimizing for money. I think a lot of us that do startups actually enjoy the process as well. My years at FAANG were the years I felt the least proud of myself.
> the price of more copying.

More copying if you pass values between processes. Honestly it would be really cool if you could mark off certain values that you know you're going to pass around and put them in a heap like the global binary heap.
It's literally lower risk to invest if your average investment return rate is lower than your mortgage rate. It's likely more of a psychological opposition, where people want to feel more secure with a fully paid off mortgage, even if it does lose them potentially millions in the course of their lifetime.
C reached its zenith in C90, and saw a few good ideas in C99. Everything since has been wankery from people who either are bored, or have a severe case of C++-envy.
item 3 is solving the wrong problem. people will have babies when they have space and feel like they can give their kids a better future. trying to move people into dense urban living it the opposite of space needed for kids. right now, we cannot give kids a better future in the current billionaire run world.

we need to depopulate the billionaires and with the freed up wealth, fix the environmental problems so we have a chance at a future.
that's good for overall industry.
While you are right about increasing urbanization, prior to the pandemic there was clear movement away from large cities into small urban areas. That is what seemed to accelerate during the pandemic.

I’m not sure that some kind of push to truly rural living was ever really on the docket. Leaving the city doesn’t have to mean living in the wilderness. There is quite a bit in between. A town with 2,000 people is deemed urban.
Seems to me everyone is craving human interaction, but they have gotten so comfortable being at home all the time, they forgot how to muster the energy to get out of the home
I like pairing with other devs. Doesn't need to be hardcode TDD or whatever, not even needing to have a designated driver/navigator. In my experience it's the best way to get to know them "personally" while also getting established in the codebase, finding what others are working on, get the lowdown on some tooling etc, maybe working on some tests etc.

good luck.

Another idea could be to just look at recent merge requests to find what recent code changes were
> I don't think going to "fake space" for a minute is really going to be interesting by the end of the decade.

Not sure what you're referring to as "fake" here. LEO? Is the ISS fake space? If Starship fully succeeds it should make trips to and from the Moon and Mars.
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> Think the weird random chips apple uses more than the fact that 90% of CPUs on market aren't totally open; one is still clearly more accessible.

The random chips are their competitive advantage - Intel chips are notoriously power-inefficient, and AMD chips are still x86 which is an inefficient architecture. The only difference is that you can't build your own M2 computer, which isn't exactly moving any goalposts besides Apple opening themselves up to the grueling, low-margin work of setting up logistics for their different SKUs of chips, working with board partners to define specifications, and dealing with supporting the utterly random hardware people plug into their PCIe lanes (Macs 'work' in that Apple has rigorous test cases for 99% of scenarios; Windows had so many driver problems throughout Windows 7, 8, and 10 because MSFT to maintain backwards compatibility for components from 2002; this is why W11 has mostly dropped official support for older CPUs).
The FHSA allows people who have excess money beyond what they can save in a TFSA to save tax money on income put aside for the specific purpose of saving to buy a first house, but on much worse terms than a TFSA. If you've maxed out your TFSA and have room to save in the HFSA, great, but its got a time limit and most people will have room in their TFSA already.
Right, but I don’t think it’s a stretch to imagine you would be happier to have a family outside the concrete jungle. At that point, you would do everything in your power to flip this.

I get it’s a bit over the line for me to make that assumption, but I think it’s probably a safe one.
It would likely require redesigning all of the related circuits where the chips are to be integrated. that’s a lot of work and would require more new chips.
Try as hard as you might, there's no guarantee you can win. What happens to "win, and keep winning... and then never lose again", if you never "win" the first time? The US political system is rigged (arguably by design) to favour conservatives. To successfully undo that rigging requires not just winning narrowly, it requires winning decisively. But how do you win decisively when the system is rigged against you? It might be about to get even more rigged–if the upcoming SCOTUS decision in Moore v Harper embraces the "independent state legislature theory", all efforts to prevent gerrymandering by state legislatures would be dead in the water. So, what if you don't win, what if you lose–what then do you do?

And even if your wildest dreams come true–if you win too big, the other side may turn around and say "democracy isn't working for us any more". If it gets to the point that a significant minority of the population (say 20-40%) no longer believes that democracy is in their best interests, democracy's days are numbered. Especially if that significant minority has a great deal of wealth, influence and power. It could end in the peaceful negotiation of a "national divorce"–and there are many worst ways it could end than that.
Sideberry extension solves this for me
Probably not many high FPS cameras, but a large number of the tiles, especially in the most interesting areas probably have lots of temperature and pressure sensors.

Similarly probably one regular camera in each tank and similar pressure and temperature sensing. With the engines, IIRC these are refined Raptors which don't have the "christmas tree" of instrumentation, so probably just pressure and temperature in all the key areas.
You literally listed the two biggest footguns and claimed there are "lots" of footguns. That really is it.
REITs buy up housing everywhere. That’s your answer - the wealthy elite need ways to keep making money.
We’re talking about companies that don’t offer “sick time” at all. PTO is one bucket of accrued time with no distinction as to why you are taking time off.

The first company I worked for out of college had this policy. Ironically, they were lauded in the press at the time as they had some of the most comprehensive health coverage for workers and all of their dependents. Cadillac plans at zero payroll deductions to the employees regardless of family size.
In these circles and at this hour of the night on a Saturday? Families are inconceivable and children are best not contracted.

Edit:
It’s either Saturday or Sunday at this point. It’s a weekend. None of us should be here. I’m not going to be pedantic.
When I worked in higher ed, I learned that professors retain a lot more ownership of their content than I expected. I don’t know if this is how it works everywhere, but I wouldn’t be surprised if that was the case here.
No coworker or company culture is worth losing having lunch with my partner and seeing them throughout the day working from home. All of that is transient, as roles come and go. For me (n=1! ymmv!), it would be kind of silly to have a partner and not see them except from when you wake until you depart for your job and when you arrive home until bedtime, five days a week. Work is where the paycheck is, home is where the people I want to spend time with are. I empathize with folks who get their social life/interactions from their workplace, but I do not. There’s enough org variety we can self select into the best orgs for how we want to live our lives.

(remote for ~10 years, married 15, together 20)

Edit: I acknowledge some relationships require time apart. n=1!
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Well, I have lots of friends and interactions outside of work, but I still prefer going into the office.

Personally, I think what makes people happy is a multidimensional surface with lots of peaks and valleys. Univariate explanations are reductive.
time is relative. It may be saturday for you but not for everyone.
> Oof, that's a damning statement. Is there evidence this is a real thing?

Depends on what you mean by evidence. Several HNers claiming to be or have been Microsoft employees attest to the designers at least using Macs. To my knowledge no one has ever stepped forward to contradict them.

Frankly, give where Windows has gone under Nadella, I think he'd just rather the Desktop OS die off as a concept.
That's the one. Are classifieds still a thing? It reads like one of those.
How exactly does this work?

You just add an archived page to Pocket like you would do for a normal page?

Is this how? Or something else?
> it would be an amazing language

No, it wouldn't. Elixir is getting really fast computation through, e.g. nx, and the user story is incredible (OS install to stable diffusion in 40 minutes, most of which is dicking around figuring out how to install CUDA). Is it easy to run stable diffusion on jvm?
The California opt out asks:

"Are you a California resident or are you authorized to submit this request by a California resident and submitting this request on behalf of that California resident?"

There's no language stating the photo needs to be of a resident of California. So could I just call up my friend in LA and say "hey is it cool if I request Clearview to delete me from their database on your behalf?"
Possibly offset by the volume of fish.
Sure, let's redistribute those too.

> Capitalism has been dumping toxic waste from the west in developing nations, like used electronic and plastics

Well, I did talk about wages rising, specifically, and not environmental waste. But it really is true that developed countries now want many developing countries to stop their environmental damage right as they are industrializing, meanwhile discounting their own environmental damage in the centuries prior. The truth is that industrialization requires some sort of short term environmental damage (as long as we use fossil fuels still) but thankfully, many nations are using renewables, including the China you talk about. China's (and indeed most others') rise has only been through after adopting capitalist principles, look at their growth until the 80s, and then from the 80s to today. I don't agree that we should have non-interventionist capitalism, but I won't deny that capitalism has been the single greatest driver of prosperity in human history, even with all of its faults.
Show HN: Kidcast.fm – personalised audio stories for kids (not AI generated)
Hi everyone, long time lurker/reader here wanting to share a startup I co-founded.

First off, the sales pitch: We are the world's first online audio platform that plays stories with your child as the star! Every Kidcast story uses your child's name to bring them into the adventure as the main character! Our stories are specifically designed to bring the imagination to life and entertain kids from 2-6 years without screens or distractions.

Now that is out of the way, let's go into a bit more detail about the product and about us.

The idea came from my co-founder, Adam, who would read bedtime stories to his children with them as the main characters (Adam is a childrens book author - which helps). He quickly found that his own kids loved the stories where they featured more than standard childrens tales - little kids are mini narcissists or just fascinated by the idea of being the star of the story.

This is what lead him to looking into how a product with personalised audio might work and scale - and that's where we were introduced by a mutual friend. I immediately saw the value in the concept after testing with my own children and got to work figuring out how to scale the process of personalising stories that contain sound effect, music and narration with thousands of names.

We did look at AI and machine generated content but decided to go down the 'human made' path for the reasons of performance - to be fair, AI voice modelling has come a long way since then, but we still have more flexibility and control of performance the old fashioned way (for now). Ultimately, we wanted to create content for kids that had some substance and it felt appropriate to not use AI or machine generated voices to get a more genuine product.

Our stories are approx 5 mins in length, professionally produced with SFX and music, and we have a catalogue of just over 1,000 names to choose from at the moment. You get 1 free story and we're selling the rest as an addon for now - but this may change in future as we add more content.

Personally, I found the stories to work really well in the car; as soon as my kids hear their names, they quieten down and listen.

Anyway, We're just getting started, and this is one of the first public forums I've shared this on. Would love to hear peoples thoughts and feedback and hopefully your own children love the stories.

Thanks!
A Georgist, I see.
No, I think it's possible to get the abstraction right. There are probably UI toolkits running an abstraction that you don't notice in the same way.

For example wxwidgets apps do tend to feel non native on some platforms (especially Mac), but they're not slow. I remember GTK+ when it used to run on Windows about 20 years ago wasn't terrible. I think OpenStep on NT was pretty good -- iTunes on Windows seemed to be doing a similar thing, too.

It's the wrong abstraction that makes it suffer.
Chrome performance increased roughly 80% between 2014 and 2017: https://blog.chromium.org/2022/03/how-chrome-became-highest-...

It was then roughly flat through 2020 despite slowdowns from Spectre mitigations.

Pretty much all the “bloat” you’re probably complaining about happened in this 6 year span - flexbox, grid, CSS animations, ES2015+, etc. and the browser got faster.
I share your view on this, but also think the main reasons startup take the exits are the VCs. A founder of a VC backed startup will need extraordinary arguments to not sell to an incumbent for a high enough price.

So the whole startup game becomes a petri dish for incumbents to see the natural selection of ideas and pick up the viable ones without paying for the failed experiments, and the VCs footing the bill as long as their balance sheet works out in the end.
Yes, give me chains, barley corns and furlongs so that we have nice folksy constants.
Says the person who hasn’t hit burnout yet.

Your attitude really isn’t something to be proud of.
Or one of the company employees were having fun behind the scenes and were typing the responses to see if they could convince the person to commit suicide?
See my other comment [1] which addresses the exact things you brought up here. Safe checked arithmetic is a new standard feature in C23. If no progress were not UB, then tons of loop optimizations would be impossible and then we couldn’t have nice things, like numpy.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35406554
Yeah and Detroit is going to continue to be the hub of Auto industry and Pittsburgh is going to continue to be the hub of Steel industry.
Thanks for the great followup!
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> Being afraid to have small talk with people isn’t introversion, it’s a mental problem.

It's a societal problem. Too many people invade our attention constantly to try and sell us something, whether that be a product or service, a fad, or political bullshit. We have necessarily become defensive about people invading our attention uninvited.
you are only proving my point. seriously, most users don't notice and don't care. heck, I know enough to notice and I still don't care because it does not interfere with my ability to get my job done. any mentioned technical problems are implementation issues, not design. they will be solved in 2ish years or less
I think the point is that society and our economies and particularly people in places of power are not preparing for a world in which automation, AI, and robots rapidly advance to the point where jobs will no longer be needed in many cases, and perhaps one day be a choice not a necessity to even live. It would be better if we prepared for that instead of worshipping jobs as if the point of life is to have a job. The USA is particularly unprepared for this, despite having plenty of wealth to do better. Imagine a workforce half of what we have today. Then figure out a way to have an even better standard of living for everyone. That’s the mission, and it could be possible, unless we measure success of leadership solely by jobs created. People freed from the burden of work would be such a better measurement.
It's a flaw that has a pretty good tradeoff: unparalleled readability.
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Ask ChatGPT to use Win32 api in C# to enumerate monitors connected to a graphics cards and get the EDID. You will quickly see how stupid it is.
And to further continue the analogy, the problems would be avoided if the (tax) code was simpler.
Might be more the case that they have no one to get out of the home with?

I think what this data actually shows is that there are many people out there who strongly desire to know and hang out with people who are neither family nor co-workers. It's hard to get the opportunities to do that if you aren't in a city. If they could do that in the rural areas or the butbs, they probably would. But rural areas have far fewer people.

And the burbs are not set up for chance encounters. The burbs are more setup for planned encounters. Which brings you back to the original problem of finding someone to plan an encounter with. :(
I really messed this comment up: I was thinking of pizza pops, which are little calzones maybe 6x the size of pizza rolls, and only available in Canada. I think they are better than pizza pockets, pizza rolls and bagel bites.
And you will be happy.
The article does go on to say it’s probably immigration related.
VCs and other startups love to shower these people with money like they’re the second coming only to find out that their success was purely circumstantial and mostly a confluence of a ton of factors that had nothing to do with them like luck and timing.
I am no fan of FoxNews. But the election coverage was top notch that night and called the election in line with the rest of the media.
> I fear that our ability to use space to destroy ourselves will come before we can use it to launch a diaspora.

Will come? It is here. Have you not heard about intercontinental ballistic missiles?

In that case I have this bad news for you. Multiple actors around the globe maintain the capability to fling warheads at others (through space).

Not sure what you mean by “destroy ourselves”, but our capability of destruction is not constrained by cost/mass in orbit.
That's the problem, the renters benefit against everyone else who wants to become a renter, or anyone else that wants to increase supply.

If everyone was a renter and there were no barriers to getting a new lease in a new city - rent control would be absolutely fine - because it wouldnt do anything at all.

If somethings only beneficial if is benign, it sounds more like cancer than welfare.
Good. It did create a panic in heart and mind of folks for a moment who proclaim there will only be two kind of people in the world 1) Those who already live in the city and 2) Those who will move to city soon.
Wouldn’t Teams be the closer Outlook analogy? No one at my large government organization can use Slack and is expected to use Teams.
Why do you make those assumptions? Lots of people prefer big city life, and some people prefer not having a family. Marriage and children aren't for everyone. That's never been a universal thing. And people have always flocked to the cities, not just for job opportunities, but because cities offer a lot of other activities and services, in addition to all the networking opportunities.
That only matters in the rare times that I might need to drive long distances to a commercial charging station. 90% of the time I’m charging at home. I don’t want to give up my personalized experience just for the occasional time when I might want to use a different routing app.
Because it requires physical facilities and it benefits from proximity to one's workplace. I don't necessarily think this is appropriate either, but it's the only tiny grain of hope for getting "conservatives" to go along with it. You have to make it an issue of, hey, if you're so desperate to pump out babies, you have to give people a way to do so and still work.
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This is definitely incorrect. Weights for images, links, misspellings, etc are all laid out in the code and have been detailed by multiple people on Twitter already.
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How did Hillary talk about “change”? Clinton was the definition of status quo, business as usual and basically a vote for her was a continuation of the past 8 years.

I am not interested in arguing whether that was good or bad.
People are always so quick to bring this up as if it's a gotcha, but it's not.

You spend roughly half of your waking hours working. Do you really want to spend that much time isolated, only interacting with other people through screens?
Same, but I have a hard limit for how many days per week I would prefer going into the office. I cannot fathom those who have a life outside of work actually wanting to spend 5 days a week going to the office when they have a choice otherwise.
> Any signed addition in C is potential UB unless you have a proof that all numbers that will ever be input to the addition won't cause overflow

This has always been the case. Standard C has always operated with the possibility that addition can overflow. The programmer or library writer is responsible to check if the used types are large enough. If you want to be perfectly sure you need to check for overflow. Making this UB has not changed the nature of the issue.

> is made harder because C doesn't define the size of the default integer types

They correctly made this implementation defined. But C now has different byte sized integer types if you want to be sure.