skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was part of FE International newsletter. So, I got to see financials of some companies.
You always have costs. Like stripe costs, hosting costs, licenses etc.

So profit is never 90%, its typically like 30% of gross
How about 0%(poverty line or below) - 18%(max for anyone) income tax and we forget all other taxes? Income happens when it is realized or upon transfer. I'm sure there's some other definitions that need to be added to this but this is the fairest way I can think of supporting savers, supporting investing, supporting small businesses, and allowing the wealthy to be taxed at a reasonable rate. This also incentivizes congress to actually grow the GDP and work within a budget.
The untold want by life and land ne’er granted,

Now voyager sail thou forth to seek and find.
Yeah, amongst us old people over the age of, say, 35 :)
>They don't have the right to do it.

Well, if they say they have the right then they have the right. They are, after all, as free to govern themselves as we are. If you mean ethics doesn't allow them, sure, but the same ethics doesn't allow us to let them pay for the damage we did and especially since much of their pollution is actually them producing stuff for us. Chinese made pollution creating stuff for Americans should clearly be in the US pollution account, not the Chinese one.

It is going in circles, wasting time on talk. The only solution is that those that polluted in the past pay for those that are on the rise now. Either directly or by not pollution in the future. Anything else (unless you invent a Pollution Eater 9000) is the typical talk and zero real action.

Step one: Let companies like Apple pay for 100% of their pollution all the way from mineral mining to garbage disposable.
I assume he means one of the inventors who are not dead.
A lot of cellular modems have a secondary processor, not surprised that it's phoning home.
You’d have to convert it to usable energy. Efficiency might not be the greatest.
For marine, it seems that cargo ships could have large solar arrays for energy regeneration

I do not think there is any practical scenario where a vehicle can be self-solar powered for long distance journeys. The energy demand scales up with the size of the vehicle. This is why you don't see EV's with solar panels for primary power (I am aware of some like Fisker that have essentially novelty solar panels). A cargo ship loaded with solar panels would be highly impractical on a number of levels, and would not be able to gather enough energy to make it worthwhile without a massive increase in panel efficiency.
I’ll go one better - I have live still open RadioShack nearby!
Does it relate you (as a person) to that data though? I believed that was anonymous.
Pulling out my phone while in motion greatly increases the likelihood I will drop it, or that it will be stolen out of my hand (especially by a thief going the other way).
Cheaper, but not available. So not abstract.

So if Jevon's Paradox holds true for transportation as it did for steam power, we may need lots of fossil-fuel electric plants just to meet demand. Maybe that's "temporary", but so was coal.
So, on the one hand ...

I have actually used 'sz' and 'rz' in relatively modern times for quick and dirty file transfer and found it very convenient in a very narrow set of use-cases.

However ...

It's a serious violation of the cleanliness and available attack surface involved in a terminal interface and we should be on the lookout for, and reject, similar interfaces and applications.

In order for zmodem to work over the terminal, the terminal program itself needs to know something about the text flowing over the connection and then invoke special, extra routines based on monitoring that textual flow.

This opens up all manner of weird, extra attack surface.

The beauty of the text terminal is that I can, theoretically, cat any file I want to without fear of what it contains. I can open up (perhaps with 'strings' or 'hexedit') any email attachment without fear of the strings that it contains. I can do this because I am using a dumb terminal.

As soon as the terminal is smart - even a little bit - you've got vectors for weird strings doing things you don't want them to.
Recently I took a leetcode screening, my first ever, and failed to complete one single question in the allotted time due to a minor panic attack and a sudden loss of focus. The whole time I couldn't help but think about the state of the economy and how "this is it, this is my only chance." Half the time I was fighting with the in-browser IDE and struggling to remember names of JavaScript builtins that usually come easy.

Immediately after the time was up I magically started to realize how much I'd over complicated my one almost finished answer and quickly came up with much more efficient answer. Suddenly it started clicking how simple the first two problems were and how easy it would have been to crank them out if I wasn't panicking about the tech bubble collapse.

The recruiter later asked me how it went and I grumbled something about how it was a leetcode test. He said "oh well they need to make sure you have the skills for the job." At that point I was over the whole thing and honestly pretty fired up.

Over the next week I proved to myself that I do have the technical skills for that job, and that's honestly what counts.

¯ \ _ ( ツ ) _ / ¯
Not really. Lower tax rates for remaining spouse. Huge reduction in food expenses from having time to cook at home.

Cost of childcare for even 1 child is huge. Unless spouse is making major money, it just isn’t worth it from a money standpoint.
Is this Hacker News item a sponsored ad? Why doesn't it allow comments?
Two names come to mind, but they aren't perhaps nice/good people.

1. Steve Jobs

2. Elon Musk (before the twitter madness)

Those two changed the world, or at least how the world see things.
Imma be honest I don't care about privacy as much as I care about having to actively go out of my way to close an ad.
Do any of the alternative options that you list have a battery life of more than 4 hours of usage?
If not then, indeed, we have no real options.
>I don't see any exclusivity in the meat category

It's exclusive in the resource requirements, which are an order of magnitude greater than for plant-based foods.
> the consequences for a mistake can be so great

In my (admittedly limited, personal) experience, the consequences are not so great. They send you a letter letting you know what the mistake was, and how to fix it. And then you fix it. The IRS isn't out to punish you, they just want what they're owed.

Playing it up like screwing up your taxes will get you the death penalty is a myth perpetrated by the tax prep lobby.
Work vans and cargo vans are two of the best markets here, since work vans spend a lot of time parked at jobsites and cargo vans spend a lot of time parked loading/unloading. Ford has even had some brilliant marketing on their electric transit: it's got an inverter built in, so you can just plug your tools into the van.

Issues are the same as always, though: up-front sticker shock, and even at the too-high up-front prices, they just can't manufacture enough of them to meet demand. That type of incentive can help with the former, but have a limited effect on the latter. This is why some of these new battery technologies are so exciting, even though we all know most of them won't pan out.
Taxes were complicated before Intuit existed. What was the cause of that? Blaming Intuit really seems to oversimplify the situation.

In reality there are many smaller variables but I think the single biggest factor is how regulation works. You hardly ever see all the rules thrown out in favor of a new system. It takes more buy in than you will ever get. Instead you can just add or remove a few things at a time. Over time cruft accumulates.
For what it's worth, I do interviews for my employer and we allow candidates to use Google during the coding interview as long as they screen share their browser window.

An impressive number of people still fail the interview despite the questions being pretty simple (in leetcode terms, probably on the easier side of medium).
This would cut US Government revenue by over 70%, and would not allow Social Security and Medicaid to be paid out, ignoring all other governmental programs. Nonstarter.
Neuromarketing only works if my rhetoric does. I'm just appealing to your logic here - I have no de-facto credibility and obviously don't intend to cast ads in a positive light. I'm not trying to convince you of anything, at least in the traditional sense.

Look at it this way, though: the last 15 years of computing have been characterized by the commodification of computers and the proliferation of advertisement. We're trapped in a stalemate because nothing beats free -- nothing. Ads subsidize marginal visitor fees, which account for the majority of online interaction. It makes a lot of sense for people providing online content, and hardware sales only further churns this content wheel.

So... steal your media. Install adblock. Keep backups and care about what you own digitally. Just don't pretend that you're funding a better world by buying the premium product - it's a bigger trick than advertisement itself.
Exactly. The best bargains I’ve gotten at actual liquidations (not store closings which are often manned by the store itself and not a liquidator) have been the things nobody knew how to price. Like buying the displays or similar.
This website offers a comprehensive database of upcoming layoffs across various states. The data is based on the WARN notices, which mandates that companies with 100 or more employees notify state governments in advance about their future layoffs. Users can subscribe to receive email notifications when a specific company issues a WARN notice, by providing their email address and the company of interest. Stay informed about layoffs with this website's timely and convenient notification system.

Ref: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worker_Adjustment_and_Retraini...
That's lithium metal batteries, which are not rechargeable. Most EVs use lithium-ion batteries.

Lithium-ion batteries were invented by M. Stanley Whittingham [1] and John B. Goodenough [2] who are both still alive (81 and 100 years old, respectively).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M._Stanley_Whittingham

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_B._Goodenough
but it isn't an island, because there is a global search index, allowing you to access information from each of them at will.

certain hobby forums are still central (i personally use them for my poultry, aquatics and ttrpgs hobby) - they remain dominant because these communities depend on a way to search historical data instead of reading an algorithm based flow stream with the same 10 questions every day.

unfortunately there is a large push of the younger generation who didn't grow up with forums to try and retool the concept of traditional forum activity on platforms that don't support it, most popular being discord (of all things?!), and facebook groups (just, why?). but as neither of these platforms support a search index outside of their walled gardens and encourage a spammy "flow" with peak interactions that slowly chokes any quality information, the future is pretty fucked on data if the teens don't move to classic software.

so imo, mastodon's traditional design with a modern face, together with the fediverse, has the potential to replace current commercial behemoths, and if it does, the internet might be saved. but if mastodon goes commercial, and find itself with a walled garden to generate more profits, there is little hope for the future.

just look at modern chat clients. there is a reason you can't talk to grandma's facebook account through your google chat anymore, and it isn't for your benefit.

the world used to be hell of a lot more connected and quality information used to be hell of a lot more accessible. but commercialization, SEO, and so on, is currently keeping -the internet- on life support. so a handful of people can play billionaires.
Google advertising in 2022 54,661

Google advertising in 2023 54,548
I thought it might be something like that, but in this case isn’t it the main SOC doing it?
https://browser.kagi.com
it's bristling with lasers, particle beam, and plasma weapons
> I don't get the notion hype, I just don't like it.

> I don't get what I am missing.

100% agree. Notion doesn't work like my brain when it comes to documents, formatting, structuring — I ended up spending most of my time configuring systems and formatting than actually inputting information & accomplishing things.

I've tried a few times to get into it, and see what others see in it. I just can't.
Actually, I just started using Safari at home recently, and I love it. Most Apple stuff, while locked down to some extent, seems to give me the freedom to actually be productive and do the tasks I need to do pretty easily. Sure, you have to adopt the "Apple Way" and use their software in somewhat the way that they designed it to be used, but for the most part it's really flexible and able to be used to achieve all of my goals in a simple way, without much fuss. Windows is laughable today and Linux is open and free but also has a minimal level of "fuss" you need to do in order to keep it working and get new software working. With MacOS I find I have to do almost zero maintenance and most of my time is productive. I'm going to switch my work PC to Mac as well as soon as this pile of silicon I'm using dies.
Maybe it's just buses are flammable: https://youtu.be/_oP9bQxl3to
That would likely significantly lower federal tax revenue and shift an even bigger burden of taxes onto lower income folks. We could adopt a graduated taxation system with 1000 gradients of slowly increasing brackets - as long as a computer can "if 18 < x AND x < 20" through the whole list having a reasonably progressive tax bracket system isn't a real cost - it's all the exemptions and BS that make things a pain... basically "I'm sure there's some other definitions that need to be added to this" is where the demons live in your idea - and they're big demons. The basic graduated tax brackets are as clear as water and trivial to implement.
OPEC only produces about 30% of the world's oil.
I don't really know that having multiple investments is outside the reach of "poor people".

If you want to put $100 in some stocks, it isn't going to cost anymore than that today.
Nice shout out to your teacher!
Done. You need a protocol where it's impossible to not be a browser.

https://gemini.circumlunar.space/

Pick your browser, I like Lagrange.

https://gemini.circumlunar.space/software/

Now we just need content.
> First off: If you're going to reference something as a way of proving your point, without any other supporting evidence, please post a link.

I really need to post a link that Epic literally just lost the case to Apple when Epic argued the same thing?

It was just discussed here yesterday.

https://techcrunch.com/2023/04/24/apple-wins-antitrust-court...

> Microsoft voluntarily changed their practices regarding IE and Teams in order to appease regulators during active litigation. Their practices regarding IE happened during the US v Microsoft that required MS be split, but was later appealed, and given the changes that happened in the meantime, the DoJ agreed to not seek to break up MS.

That also never happened. There has never been a time since IE was bundled with Windows that it hasn’t been bundled.

The DOJ did not “decide” to drop the case because MS stopped bundling IE. They lost on appeal and the new administration didn’t pursue it.

> The Teams unbundling is actively

You are linking to a “rumor”???

Did you read your own Wikipedia link?

“ Rogers found in favor of Apple on nine of ten counts brought up against them in the case, including Epic's charges related to Apple's 30% revenue cut and Apple's prohibition against third-party marketplaces on the iOS environment.”

> which is directly in-line with the changes made during the US v Microsoft lawsuit

Those “findings” never happened in the US. Which version of Windows was not bundled with IE since 2000?
Not zero but I would expect someone to just buy the name from the liquidators instead. Say if Home Depot decided they wanted to expand the furnishings/decor side.
Very recently, January this year it worked for the first time in an average neighborhood AH for me.

Funny note: Aldi accepts everything, even AMEX.
What infuriates me is the big companies selling them to farmers, probably already know this and have done for years. But they continue to get away with it.
From the limited amount I understand training an LLM solely on Wikipedia would lead to a lower quality model as there's parts of language and intelligent communication missing (but that's my intuition). Instead a LORA could be trained on Wikipedia to have it's responses more match the style of wikipedia. Or you could feed a "regular" LLM the whole of Wikipedia and it'd answer questions.
If the chances of that happening in the next 1000 years are one in a million, I would say it is absolutely not worth it.
You're right on their cookware and bed sheets. But the rest of the store is basically Amazon trash in a retail store :(
If your employee is blowing their time budget they are most likely either:

a) a bad employee who you should not try to micro manage to make effective but should just replace with a better employee

or

b) unaware of the context around the task and does not have aligned motivations with others to get this done quickly

If b - then a good manager should do a better job of figuring out how to develop the intrinsic motivation of the employee and find ways to align the incentives and motivations of management and employees better.

Trying to micro-manage to avoid employees doing things you don't want is putting a band-aid on the problem. In fact it's even worse because you're creating a bad work environment that will attract more sub-par employees who accept micro-management and will scare away the high-performing employees you so desperately desire. Eventually you have a bunch of micro-managing managers who themselves are being micro-managed and your company bloats to several multiples in size of what is actually required and efficiency is spiraling out of control.
Ask HN: Have you ever pivoted your career?
I started my career as a full-stack developer a few years ago but I've recently become very interested in computer graphics.

I want to transition into this field but I'm not exactly sure how to. It feels weird to go from applying to senior positions as a full-stack engineer to junior positions in graphics. The latter of which I don't even feel fully qualified for.

So this got me wondering if any of you ever made a career pivot. Maybe you've switched from frontend to backend or infra or product management or game development. How did that work out for you?
It's an oversimplification to merely use a single property of a material as justification for choosing it when every material choice involves many factors - hardness vs toughness vs strength, weight, cost, repairability, density etc.
> If you don't believe me, ask the Zig team how they plan to solve this problem. Don't ask them if they plan to solve it; ask them how.

The Zig compiler has a counter that describes the maximum allowed amount of branching that the compiler can do while evaluating comptime code. The counter can be manually set to a higher value but all compilations will eventually fail if your comptime logic is too loopy. In practice the guideline is to not overuse comptime and instead create a dedicated build step for things like creating pre-computed value tables.

> Then if they reply, email me [3] with their proposed solution, and I will destroy it. I will do that no matter how many solutions they come up with because math says I will always win.

cringe
What was astonishing to me is the resale value of IKEA stuff. We sold off a bunch of furniture when we moved a year ago and I think that the price I got for my PAX unit was somewhere close to what my parents paid for it for me like 25 years ago.

Used furniture is a weird market because it's hard to match buyers and sellers. But for whatever reason people seek out IKEA stuff. I've never had a problem moving it and have generally been happy with the prices I get
Of course I have, but not a whole lot. 6 weeks a year builds up over five years.
"This must be the weakest reason I’ve seen in consumer tech and the bar is very low."

Wym? It's decent feature (if you are the target for it). Ability to track your subscriptions from all of the different websites in one unified place (in this case your browser) is not a terrible product
Silicon Valley Startups Brace for a Summer of Pain
Is QA part of shipping? I'm sure they're pristine off the line?
Are you implying there is some conspiracy here?
Time for a 'bot motel. The simplest way to do that is to salt your site with links which 404 and rewrite the 404 handler to serve garbage pages with more links which also 404. It can be the simplest way to solve compute resource problems. For bandwidth, you need to do some kind of tarpit. You may also need to limit simultaneous conns from e.g. specific addresses.

I haven't done it specifically for images. I imagine a tool like this is crawling pages in order to find image links, although it could be using e.g. search engine results for this. Corrupting the data is also an option.

It's a blunt tool but if people don't honor robots.txt I don't need to concern myself with their pearl-clutching notion of morality. (I don't feel honor bound to list every possible evasion in robots.txt anyway.)
Looks like ad revenue (including Youtube) is falling YoY, however their cloud income is growing and pulling up overall company revenue.
The very definition of Cherry Picking

Batteries that store vast amounts of potential energy are a fire risk, duh!

Just like tanks of petroleum.
And in the 1980s and 1990s Boston used to have a great computer museum, but that closed in 1999.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Computer_Museum,_Boston
Well, consider the fact that the vast majority of the earth surface, in fact, almost the entire surface of the earth is entirely volcano-less. Look under your feet -- no volcanoes! Move over a couple of steps and look again -- no volcanoes.

So it is safe to say that a certain thickness of rock would serve enough to prevent volcanoes. You just have to provide enough cooling to ensure a sufficiently thick layer of magma solidifies into solid rock.
Norway hit 80% EV market penetration in 2022. The problem is solvable.
Elementary particles like electrons are atoms in the original (Democrits) sense. Modern "atoms" were so-called because they were originally thought to be elementary.
...means landing must be one of the tricky parts. Just like how landing a plane is one of the tricky parts.
To answer the question, YC companies can do job ads. It doesn't allow comments since most of them would likely be negative.

This has been the case on HN for nearly a decade, and is likely the most considerate way for YC to get inherent value out of it.
> "So you can learn how it works and verify it and maybe even make some improvements or find bugs?"

That there, yes! Since it benefits all citizens there is no reason why it should not be able to continually improve and become better so that said benefit grows over time for all concerned. If closed source and / or proprietary, those things will almost certainly only happen in ways that benefit a small select group (the owners of the "IP" / source). If open source / FOSS, then anyone who understands code, or who can hire someone who understands code can contribute improvements and bugfixes that benefit the "greater good". This is one of the "superpowers" of FOSS that few seem willing or able to grasp.
Genuinely interested, why do you think Edge was faster than Chrome? What technical reason would be behind that?

I cannot imagine Microsoft improved Chrome's speed by a noticeable degree without Google noticing and applying the same improvements.
WhatsApp adds option to use the same account on multiple phones