skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The startup system is pretty rigged against accidentally making anyone rich who is a mere employee. That money is for the investors, not the working class. The days of the office assistant making millions on stock are long gone. There's options with huge tax implications, long vesting periods, the investors get preferred stock, they get guaranteed multiples, if there's a down round there's a carve-out that you won't be part of.

Not only do the investors have priority shares over employees, each investor can negotiate a guaranteed multiple. For example if they put in 100 million for 10% ownership but also had a 5X multiple guarantee and a sale price of 1 billion then the 500 million they walk away with ends up being 50% of the sale price. That part of the agreement isn't made public as far as I know.
At a guess, not even a rounding error?
Wut? Their anti-nuclear policy reveals them as pro-nuclear? What new nuclear was built during the last 2 decades, before they had to change the anti-nuclear policy?

The population is pro-nuclear, sure. But the policy was set by the anti-nuclear supporters of the green deal and we had to wait for many years until reality forced them to accept nuclear.
Laptop batteries are Wh marked always, because there are 4, 6, 9 cell options, always in series. Power banks are 99Wh or fractions thereof due to airline safety requirements.

If you want to charge a laptop with a 4S 11Wh slim pack using a 20100mAh battery with 20V/3A USB-PD out, that's 4 times worth laptop capacity...? Who cares? Is that why you want everything to be Wh marked?
Why is it always Japan and anime? It'd be nice to see articles like "32 Telenovelas for 32 States of Mexico" or "16 Home Renovation Shows for 16 Bundesländer of Germany" every once in a while.
The US government has literally unlimited money, like they can print as much as they want. They can just put up their own satellite network and use it to wage wars on the other side of the world. Why is it the responsibility of a private entity to enable death and destruction in a country on the other side of the world?

Side note: How the heck is the anti-capitalist camp somehow aligned with the pro-war camp now?
I know more than one occasion where that has gotten an angry reply.

It's also not the default in many clients. It's tedious and error-prone.
I've been down that path with both Acme and Kakoune, although I went with separate formatting scripts based on whatever seemed to work best for each language. But I started to go a little insane trying to extend those editors, because I realized that I hate working with the shell and prefer to avoid working with it at all cost. And so back to Emacs I went. And now I oscillate between repeatedly poking my config with a stick, and trying to force myself to migrate to VS Code.
A Nigerian-American famous musician, David Adedeji Adeleke, widely known as Davido, and his wife, Chioma Rowland, welcomed twins in the United States on Tuesday, October 9, 2023

Davido & Chioma

The couple sadly lost their son, Ifeanyi, in October last year at their Banana Island, Lagos, property, according to LEADERSHIP.
Evangelist Gospel Agochukwu broke the news on Tuesday morning, October 10, 2023, when he posted a video of his conversation with Davido on his church’s official Facebook page.
I feel like each of this points can be reasonably disputed.

1. One app - one repo. There is nothing fundamentally wrong with multiple apps (as in separate pods/containers/processes) being developed in a single repo, as long as they are tightly coupled functionally, share the release cycle, but still need to be deployed separately to get advantages of separate processes and independent scaling. The first example that comes to mind is separation of public api and worker processes, e.g. ruby's sidekiq, python's celery or a generic kafka consumer.

2. > A twelve-factor app never relies on implicit existence of system-wide packages.

This is incredibly hard to achieve in practice if you're not running something nix, and even then there are leaks of dependencies on kernel syscall APIs. Every Rust app implicitly depends on a glibc (except musl ones), which is present in major Linux distros except slim ones such as Alpine. In fact, the whole Docker crutch IMO is needed specifically to alleviate this problem.

3. > The twelve-factor app stores config in environment variables

It seems to me much more brittle, as it forces you to store secrets in envs, which could be less secure, and to abandon structured file configs, which may enjoy type safety, IDE autocomplete and automatic parsing. With envs you are forced to implement parses for non-trivial and non-string config vars yourself. In fact, envs are often committed into repos as well in form of dot-env files, so the point about commit-safety is moot as well.
Their SHARK framework is actually really cool, see: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34078222

...And yet, its had basically zero uptake in the Stable Diffusion community.
http://tinnitustalk.com/ as a few have mentioned.

I dove into research as well and found one which sounded promising but I didn’t research further. Shocking the tongue.

On the website under pulsative they mention surgery based on a specific MRI for pulsative tinnitus being read by a specialist. It cured some people.

Mine changes often and both ears are different with multiple different sequences of sounds. I wear hearing aids which I can switch on/off white noise or play music through them with Bluetooth. I play music, videos, or podcasts most of the day and take something to help me sleep.

There’s a “How to manage your tinnitus: a step-by-step workbook” by James Henry, Zaugg, Myers, and Schmidt all PhD.
Ranked choice voting has gained a bit of a bad reputation in Republican circles recently as a result of a contentious 2022 congressional election in Alaska where their specific implementation[1] resulted in a Democratic candidate winning in the final round of a 4-way race despite the state historically leaning heavily Republican prior to RCV's implementation[2][3], and there being a clear majority of Republican voters in the previous round[4].

Looking into the details it seems the results can't be blamed on voter exhaustion, as the Democratic candidate would have won even if all exhausted votes in the second-to-last round would have gone to the remaining Republican candidate, so I'm open to the idea that this wasn't a failure of ranked choice voting, but rather a genuine shift in Alaskan politics. Still, it doesn't seem very likely. Alaska went for Donald Trump by a comfortable margin in the 2020 elections, and a Republican hasn't lost a statewide race there since 1972 - until now. But on the other hand, it's hard to look at the election results and see how the Republican candidate could have beat the Democrat candidate in a head-to-head first-past-the-post election.

So... I don't know. Maybe people just vote differently when forced to pick between two candidates than they do when ranking candidates on a ballot with multiple choices? Perhaps the 2024 election results will bring more clarity...

[1]: https://www.elections.alaska.gov/RCV.php

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska%27s_at-large_congressio...

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_ele...

[4]: https://www.elections.alaska.gov/results/22GENR/US%20REP.pdf
I've been using a Kindle paperwhite for a couple of years and I only wish the display was larger, not smaller. PDFs, Kindle books with code, comics, etc are terrible in the paperwhite.

I've been meaning to get a Scribe since it was released, but it's still not available where I live.
Almost like buying a retail product for $9.99 :D
"nothing else" really? why would an institution pay them?

in reality, faculty do more than publish, and are also judged by service, supervision, etc.
IRS started a tax investigation in 2007 of Microsoft's 2004-2006 tax returns, which has been somewhat exposed to the public due to the lawsuits along the way.

https://www.seattletimes.com/business/microsoft/microsoft-ir...
Nice! Yeah, CVS, I don't know much about it, but your comment reminds me I should check out things outside the git ken! They might just have valuable understandings I need to learn! Thanks for letting me know about it :)
Many early 8-bit computers didn't have a graphics chip, including the Apple II and the Commodore PET 2001. The first real GPU was the ANTIC in the Atari 400/800.
IMO: Seems expensive, unless the subscription also came with some other services, like email and storage.
> some non/psuedo-technical person has pulled out "12 factor" like a universal yellow card has been enough for me, overall, to ignore it almost completely.

Ignoring it completely on principal is just as bad as the people who treat it like mandatory dogma.

I’ve also had over-eager junior engineers or wannabe architects use the 12-factor article as mandatory requirements for any launch. It takes a firm and unified explanation that these are good goals to strive for, but in the real world we need to make compromises for launch and choose which aspects to delay or defer.
I keep hearing this viewpoint, but I really don’t understand it. I use k3s for all sorts of personal projects, specifically because it makes things easier for me. I don’t have to worry about the underlying OS. I can focus on the application that’s actually providing value for me.

On the professional side, k8s handles orchestration issues far better than anything else I’ve worked with. Using autoscaling instances is a nightmare by comparison, and requires most of the same initial effort to do it right.

There is probably a middle ground where it requires a certain amount of complexity in the K8s configuration that isn’t worth it compared to other platforms (especially on bare metal), but I haven’t found it, yet.

I think it’s easy to forget how much goes into running even a simple application with high uptime requirements. Kelsey Hightower makes some great points about this here:

https://youtu.be/Ty5Tj4Jag_A?si=CPkAIqiwKk7g4Oh5
I really like the sound of this product, both for reading and _possibly_ for writing depending on the capabilities. I've been wanting to make a little writing tool with a really long battery life that I could connect to a mechanical keyboard and carry around with me. I wonder if I could use this device as a screen for that kind of thing - plugging in and powering an external keyboard, and if it would support a word processor app.
I'm still wondering how the incentives work. It seems like more money (from renting) is better than less money.
Even if a Googler were here to answer this question, what are the odds that they are in a position in Google to make that statement? And even if, the answer would be outdated the moment it's posted because Google can change its position on this anytime. If your account is THAT important, just use a second one for YouTube. I have a Workspace account for critical stuff and a secondary one for everything else.
I've been using Peek for this for years and never thought it was a billion dollar feature
Carbon should be taxed when it comes out of the ground. It’s the only way that price signals can actually change people’s behavior.

Is also the most market friendly way to do it. But at least in the US it seems politically impossible.
I was specifically thinking of the "Moral Majority" movement, Reagan doctrine, and "trickle-down economics." It was a sea change in the party and set their direction until 2016. We're still seeing the fallout from it to this day, with consolidation of wealth, pandering to extreme religious conservatives, and endless military engagements to police the globe.
This discussion reminds me of when Dropbox was at ShowHN and someone was commenting on how this could be done with FTP.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863
That's extremely cool. I wonder what we'll learn.

As an aside, the "Professor Seales and team scanning at the particle accelerator" photo looks like it came from a TV show. "If we keep telling the computer 'enhance', we'll be able to read it".
Show HN: GPT-4 level summarization at 63% less cost and 11 times the speed
I wouldn't risk it.
just use your skills, i.e. mop, and soak of the cash.
Can Atlassian just for once first go and stabilize their existing product lineup before trying to shoehorn yet another thing into their offering?

I mean, it's basic stuff that just isn't possible on JIRA Cloud for example, like setting a global sender address for notification emails - something perfectly possible on on-premise installations, but on Cloud you have to do that for each project and you can't even set it up as a default for new projects.

Or maybe what about a first-party Terraform provider. Or a support that's actually worth the name instead of underpaid callcenter employees that seem to have to strictly follow some sort of script instead of actually being allowed to use their brains or to properly read what customers write them.

That billion $ they just dumped out on this acquisition could have been invested into their existing products.
> Few things to note with transition comes different pay scale. You may have less say in overall direction or even the best practices and standards.

Definitely be prepared to be paid less and have your opinion matter less.

But that may be okay. With less authority comes less responsibility. That may even be what you are seeking.

I've experienced this at my current org, where sometimes I'll just give a suggestion based on my experience. I am in a peer dept of the engineering org and see and hear a lot, but am not an engineer. My suggestion may or may not be heard and acted on. Which, to be fair, is exactly the same position when an engineer makes a suggestion about something in my wheelhouse.

I also think that performing this transition coupled with a move to a new company is probably a good idea. While it is fine to trial this with your current company, moving companies means a clean break. I can see folks deferring to you in the old org, making the new CTO's life more difficult.
You can take away their value without taking their voting power. The billions stay in the company not with an individual which can then take out a loan based on that value.
> The solution was to have a clear, documented process, and point them to that.

This has its own drawbacks. I worked for a company, in which Process Was God, and Thou Shalt Do Only That Which God Has Proclaimed Good.

It worked most of the time, but made it very, very difficult to introduce flexibility and orthogonal approaches.

There's really no way to duplicate the results of experienced, cohesive teams of high-functioning engineers, with process. We can get similar results, in many ways, but there's always a price to be paid.

T. A. N. S. T. A. A. F. L.
Linearlite – A local-first app built with ElectricSQL and React
As a reviewer, it's really painful to get a paper that's completely wrong (especially if it is over claiming) and that already has a large download count on arxiv.

I'm all for putting camera ready copies on it, but submitted drafts really shouldn't be there.
What do you mean IDL did not confirm those reports? Hamas itself published those videos proudly. IDL have videos of the kibbutz massacres
I’m not sure where you live, but I believe every battery sold in the US legally is required to label their I/O voltage and amps, and capacity voltage, amp hours, watt hours.

At the very least, every wall outlet and power bank I’ve seen has text somewhere that tells what it outputs, with the powerbanks aswell having capacity, both amp hour and voltage. Though I will say the text is rather small.
Forgot to mention that, but: same here. Both ears, multiple rather clean tones (i.e. sine waves) n both ears, different tones per ear. I always assumed I was 'lucky' to get it even before puberty when the brain is more plastic still, so learned to ignore it. Stress and other things can bring it back though.

> So e.g right now because I saw this HN post, it's feeling especially loud.

Exactly..
A government organization (I know, cringe) would be better, IMO. It's one thing for DirecTV to have 10 satellites providing TV and internet, and another to have a company with what will soon be exceeding 30 thousand. Why not make it a shared resource, like so many countries do with infrastructure projects?
i love this project. i feel like this is going to be a great source of interest and value over the next few years (and potentially immesurable value over longer time frames).
I live in my email client and only use GitHub's email notifications. When I was working at GitHub and watching Homebrew/homebrew-core: I would regularly get >1000 a day.

I still do not miss the days of doing patch management from my email client :)
I might be remembering wrong but I think hostapd's list rejects like that.

In any case, even the possibility of such an outcome is not pleasant.
Command+shift+5 is built into OSX

I find the loom extension redundant and glitch prone
"affordable" is doing a LOT of work in that first sentence of the article.
Having never used Fahrenheit in any capacity, the math for it feels inhuman.

Having grown up in metric, the values dont feel 'inhuman' just a scale that i'm familiar with. I know that my body is usually at 37, I know that water boils at 100, i know that I don't like anything below 8c or above 40c.
[dupe]

More discussion over here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37856754
Loom is an excellent piece of software, but from my perspective in IT I've never been able to justify it's ROI.

I've been always pushing for it to go away as soon as had to start looking at SaaS spend. Looking at the analytics only a few power users really made use of it while the biggest majority of users never used to record or maybe only recorded 1-2 videos a quarter. It was too expensive and video is very expensive to run on the cloud.

Zoom released a competitor recently and that must be killing them. Other companies are also offering cheaper alternatives and egress traffic for video-centric businesses is crazy expensive.

They had layoffs not so long ago, like many companies, and during my last negotiations with them they were very aggressive with pricing. Aggressive to the point of their executive team asking what amount we wanted to pay, and they actually committed to the price we offered...

Glassdoor reviews and Blind comments weren't good at that time either, but that is true for most companies.
I think they couldn't keep the revenue curve up-to-the-right to offer a decent return to their investors and it was turning more into an OK business.
Time to sell, stay there for a year and move on to start their next thing. For Atlassian is a relevant acquisition, especially as they are also focusing more into chasing freshdesk or zendesk as a customer support platform.

I wish them the best, as I said, the product itself was very well designed and engineered compared to any other alternatives out there.
I think they missed to make it relevant and a must have for companies, maybe focusing more to sale to sales and customer experience/support teams which tend to have big budgets compared to other teams.
About the same as 300,000 people crossing the Pacific by jetliner assuming 50 satellites per Falcon9 launch.
The market for high end electrics looks almost as crowded as the market for high-end gas cars. When do we some competition for affordable electrics that will really make a dent in air pollution?

A car that costs half as much and has half the range wouldn't be a bad place to start, though I'm afraid battery aging would be much more of a concern for 200-mile car than a 400-mile car.
The author of the website not only made this tutorial but also ranked the OS's according to his preference too!

Windows deserves being at the bottom
Not bad looking for an electric car. Meanwhile other companies are putting green accents, painted lightning bolts, fake grills, fake engine noise soundtracks, etc. how embarrassing.
Man, that one sure aged in a hurry, huh...
Monkey survives for two years after gene-edited pig-kidney transplant
OpenAI's Technology Explained
Heya. I just want to let you know that y’all have something extremely special going on over there at Kagi. I honestly have no idea how your universal summarizer or your !expert work — not enough to implement it, anyway, beyond more than a cheap knockoff — and I’ve been in ML for a while now, so it’s genuinely thrilling to see something that even to jaded ol’ me looks like magic. Congrats and keep up the good work. I look forward to reselling your API!! Thank you!!
Hmh, browsing a bit it seems that the Dreadtool part of the source seems to be some kind of editor built with Visual C++. The Dreadmake folders seems to have actual Amiga sources.

https://github.com/Krzysiek-K/Dread-source-drop/blob/master/... (This feels reminiscent of the "generate-y-fillers" that ID did for Wolf3d)

https://github.com/Krzysiek-K/Dread-source-drop/blob/master/... (Browsing this reminds me of Fabien Sanglard's Doom/Duke3d walkthroughs)
Rent control in California isn't particularly protective of spiraling rents. The statewide law applies to 15+ year old units and per year rent increases are limited to 5% plus inflation or 10%, whichever is lower.
> I do find it a little pricey (it's roughly £110/yr just for web search).

But it's web search that works well. My experience is that Google is awful, DDG is reasonable, and Kagi is good. Search is very important to me, and if I have to pay to be able to have a good search engine, I'm OK with that.
Iridium 33 was active and capable of avoidance maneuvers. Both orbits were known. Despite this, they collided. It is clearly possible for this to get fucked up, and with 30k satellites in a shell, adding thousands of pieces of debris to the mix is clearly a non-zero risk. The exact magnitude of that risk may be debatable, but its existence cannot be waved away.

SpaceX's existing constellation (also in such a self-cleaning orbit) made 1,300 maneuvers in six months to avoid debris from a satellite explosion a year earlier. https://techcrunch.com/2023/07/10/starlink-satellites-are-do...
No, I mean, desktop and mobile screen recording, in my opinion, seems to be simple enough even for laymen. I could also be convinced otherwise :)
That's probably why nobody wants to volunteer themselves. But the survey results sure seem to indicate that this is where victory would be found.
I don't know the details of it, but note this is in Belgium.
So, BSON?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/BSON

But the argument here seems to be that we need “one format to rule them all”, which obviously never works.
Thanks for the kind words!

> As a 14-year-old it was beyond me, or so I thought, but in truth it probably wasn’t.

Eh, maybe it was, maybe it wasn't! I didn't do any meaningful open source contribution until the tail end of university/college.

> I suppose you can consider my words an ode to the old ways, and an invitation to consider whether some elements of the past should be reintroduced in today's collaborative environs.

A great idea and always worth considering <3
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There is nothing sensational to state facts. Denial would be sensational and would require introspection.