skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ever-growing Google Docs text files tell you everything about my life, going back to about 2007. Bank balances, payment schedules, work tasks, personal tasks, items ordered, deliveries expected, and even a couple sentences about how I felt and what happened. As you might expect, there's a simple format that is followed for each day, so that someday I could parse these files into a database of some sort. During meetings, I type non-stop taking notes into this file. If I promise someone something, it goes into the file. Because of this, I can tell you that I did 'x' on Tuesday, March 12th, around 2pm, and for that it is invaluable because if I were to rely on my grey matter for all of this, I would fall flat on my face. If I promised someone something or began a task, it keeps getting rolled over into the next day's notes until it's complete. It is extremely uncommon for things to 'slip through the cracks' as a result.

It doesn't really matter which tool you use, as long as it's predictably formatted and easily searchable. There is simply no way I could deal with the insane demands of life without relying on an external memory. Google Docs is nice because it's highly available and replicates between desktop, macbook, and iphone almost instantly, such that I can leave one device and pick up the next without losing my 'memory'. This is one feature that I find extremely valuable.
You said it yourself "Genius Principal"! What happens when they retire? Sure, occasionally you will get excellence despite a lack of resources but that's sheer luck.

My high school was exceptional due to a confluence of factors leading to a great staff but it has faded in the past 40 years and is now only average in our province.
People on Tildes thought the author of that article was a lunatic

https://tildes.net/~food/1b92/im_a_microbiologist_and_here_i...
brilliant leadership? considering that overall Games out-grossed Movies about 15 years ago.. that trend only continued when the largest Game rollout of all time beat the largest Movie rollout of all time.. that has happened multiple times in 10 years.
Not really, because I'd still have to have a wire flopping around and when it does get snagged I lose my audio. Its still not as good as just not having a wire at all.

I can pair my headphones to my laptop, start playing something, and then walk all around my house without any interruptions. I can't do that with wired headphones, I'd have to carry something around with me everywhere I go. I can walk around the room without issue. I can quickly get up and go make some food in the kitchen without interruption. I can answer the door and sign for a package. All kinds of things that don't require me to then change to a different device, restart some stream there, etc. Its just freedom to get up and move.
How, exactly, are they "grabbing coffee afterwards"? From what I've seen so far, it looks like there is no direct communication between competitors.

If I ran a bakery, say, in New York City in 1900, I could send a boy around to the nearest five bakeries and get answers within an hour. That would be "real time" within that context, in the sense that customers would not respond faster than I could gather the information.

If I ran a stall at a market in, say, 1500s England, selling potatoes, I would know what price my competitors were selling potatoes for, faster even than an hour.

If I ran a gas station at an intersection, I could see at a glance what price my competitor across the street is displaying.

With current stock market tools, I can see the backlog of both buy and sell orders.

When I go to sell a house, my agent tells me the asking prices of comparable houses that are currently for sale, as well as the actual selling prices of comparable houses that have recently sold.

This is how markets are. Sellers know each others' prices.

So the only thing different is your "grabbing coffee afterwards" claim, and so far, I have seen nothing of substance to back it.
That's hardly on their "gaming space", like OP said.
It's kind of basic and error-prone but my girl and I share a private discord server where we share pictures, put notes about upcoming events, share links when planning, store our grocery lists, etc. I also use Notion for note taking. I haven't yet found a solution that I like for setting and achieving longer term goals.
corporate virtue signaling is not commentary
A few things, and I am likely forgetting others:

Backwards compatibility: It was a mess on the PS3 with different launch models having different levels of compatibility. They later removed this functionality completely on the PS3. The PS4 had no backwards compatibility for PS3 instead you had to purchase (or subscribe) to play games in the cloud, games you may already own.

Compared to Xbox which the Xbox One did not launch with backwards compatibility once the leadership was changed they started a project to bring backwards compatibility to Xbox 360 and OG Xbox games (admittedly on a limited basis but you could stick in your original disks and it worked, no extra charge). This carried over to the Series consoles.

Related to this Sony has re-released their games many times and been able to thanks to the lack of proper backwards compatibility.

The price of the PS3.

The cell processor of the PS3, Sony thinking that devs would bend over backwards to support their architecture.

Paying developers either for exclusive content or for exclusive third party games. The content is the one that really drives me insane because if you buy a game on another platform you are getting less content for the same money.

Blocking cross play with other consoles for a long time and then only allowing it in certain situations (I don't actually know if this has improved yet or not).

There are likely a few others that I can't remember right now but I am about to hop into a meeting. But has Microsoft done some of these things? yes, but before Phil Spensor came in and changed Xbox.
Why bespoke licenses? Won't that make customers more wary as they have to clear the licenses through their legal too?
Interesting. Definitely trying to do a lot and managing that complexity will be tough but I like these attempts.
The way our teacher explained about justifications in general: one needs justifications in order to 'explain' unjust actions. Yes, it is morality all the way down. That's why we have theories for just war, because of the normative ought: one ought not to kill others. Same goes for justifications for abortion.
Does being outside generally hurt your eyes? Most complaints about brightness of screens has to do with the contrast between it and ambient lighting. When I'm in a dark room a bright screen is going to be hard to use. In a well lit room it's not an issue. It's kind of why ambient light sensing is a nice feature.
Alas, part of my life, and a part in alignment with my values that I really enjoy is "Run projects of huge complexity". As well as "have multiple hobbies" and "travel a lot"

And all the "live your life freely" advice in the world is not going to help me there.

I also have ADHD. I value the shit out of punctuality, but punctuality does not reciprocate without elaborate time management tools. And yes, I've forgotten to eat, or to hug a loved one, or to organize a birthday party.

The idea that there is "one weird trick" that'll just work for everybody is ignoring that we all live different lives. And there is value in exposing people to different approaches. But let's stop pretending that "Don't do A. Do B!" is good advice. The best we can do on this kind of advice is "here's what works for me"
The messaging is purely for stodgy industry customers that might perceive Flexport as yet another hire-and-fire Silicon Valley disruption fever dream.
Not very helpful advice for any folks with ADHD. We forget to eat, organize parties, go to the bathroom, etc. It is unfortunate but entirely outside our control. There is no "natural way" for me to reach the things I value because my brain is a dragon trying to find more new and shiny gold to horde while ignoring everything else around him. If I leave myself to "natural ways" then I play video games, watch videos, or binge Wikipedia all day.

I'm not sure this is helpful advice for anyone, to be honest. "The goals you think are important actually aren't if you need any reminders or tools to get there!" is a bad take for the majority of people, I think. If it works for you, that's great. I'm jealous that things align that way for you. But I'm guessing that for the majority of people, that isn't the case.
Because it means more games for GamePass and Geforce NOW.
This. Social media connecting people and making the world a better place.
I like the concept. Whenever someone is presenting such a chart, I'm hoping for the TLDR/thesis to be big and bold. Some of the existing charts in your site are 'let's wait and see' but maybe a thesis field could pull that info forward.
Yeah... but did you write your own email client and calendar? lol
But isnt the whole startup model is throwing the garbage at the wall and seeing what sticks? It's about quick testing. Even the word venture in venture capital is fitting?

I don't see any other way that it can work tbh. Do you?
As a gamer, I'm most interested in the artistic perspective.
Just to continue my metaphor (because - why not?) -

So you suspect you may have oil hiding deep in your property, and while you know your land REALLY well, you're not totally sure how to go about validating that its there; or even if you could validate it, how to proceed best.

You hear there is a very friendly and experienced outfit called YC that will help you (a) quickly figure out if there's oil, and (b) if there might be oil, set you up for success with the bigger money that you'll need to extract the oil. This YC firm is basically geared towards helping someone like you figure this out quickly. And actually, YC will give you $ to explore this very thing. In exchange, they will own part of your land (a small fraction).

If it turns out there isn't oil after all - not the end of the world. You'll go back to farming, and at least you won't be wondering if you should have explored the oil thing more. YC won't care much about you anymore since they are in the business of owning a small % of the land that strikes BIG oil. But they also won't be a nuisance.

If it turns out there IS oil under there, then YC will help you navigate the big oil money people to help you get it out faster.

Metaphors are never perfect but I'm having fun with this one. :)
'victim of a social engineering attack'

Also a victim of an employee who mixes personal use/gaming and their work machine... or policy/procedure, I suppose
Twitter Down?
Search and tweets aren't loading for me. Anyone else?
Most of them don't even allow you to opt out, they just say "we use cookies" and there's an accept button. Yes, I recognize that's malicious compliance and not necessarily the fault of the GDPR.
This is something that has always boggled my mind.

>Gee, this stark white brightness is hurting my eyes, maybe I should turn down the brightness on my display...

>Nah, I'll just demand every single company completely overhaul the CSS and contrast of everything while begrudgingly suffering the eye-burning whiteness of companies that haven't yet overhauled their CSS

Like wtf?
https://github.com/ivaaaan/mira

I have had an idea of writing Jira tasks in markdown, and then pushing them to the server via CLI. The main principle is to use Markdown levels for hierarchy, e.g:

# Epic name

## User story 1

## User story 2

### Sub task to user story 2

Maybe I will get on it again, but parsing Markdown is no-fan.
Ask HN: Advice on which startup to work for (UK)
I have currently a job offer and I am currently facing a difficult decision to take it or stay with my current startup. I don't want to share the details on a public forum but would like some external point of view from some experienced and unbiased people. In particular, I am interested to find out if I am getting a fair deal regarding stock options (UK market), but would also welcome some opinion about the startups themselves. Any idea of a place where I could find such advice, or if anyone here would be happy to help? My contact details are on my profile. Thank you!
The word you're looking for is "jargon". It refers to niche-specific words that are hard for outsiders to understand, and isn't just tech-specific. "Lingo" is a much broader term.
While we're at it, if there is a scrollbar and i click the middle, I want to go to the middle of thr content, not move up or down one page closer to the middle.
I did read the next paragraph - I just didn't quote it because it wasn't relevant to my question. :-D
Microsoft completes Activision Blizzard acquisition
I can, 100% say that I haven't used a scroll bar on the web in years. I do find the hidden scroll more aesthetically pleasing.
https://polynomial.so

https://github.com/corradio/polynomial

As founder, I lacked a central place to gather all my KPIs. It works by integrating to other data sources you already use (Google Analytics, Plausible, LinkedIn, Google Sheets..)

It’s open source, feel free to give it a try!
Reminds me of the old Bootstrap days
> "... If someone like Stamets came out and said that point blank he could be sued for making radical claims..."

By... who? The mushrooms, for libel?

(Also, what on earth is going on with r/mycology? Impressive amount of conspiracy theory nonsense voted up there.)
Do you mean can't be changed on a live system? It's very easy to change a hard-coded password, just recompile the source and flash. That could definitely be what OP is referring to if they pushed OTA firmware upgrades.
One, insulting and name calling doesn’t further the discussion.

Two, is there any concrete evidence that may change your mind from the current position of “businesses can’t have done anything bad so if anything has gone bad it’s the government’s fault”? If yes, and if the standards for proof are reasonable, others may try to find such evidence or fail to, thus furthering the conversation. If not, consider how dogmatic your position is, and how you can open up your mind for fruitful conversations.
Airpods and similar shaped earbuds just never fit well in my ears. I couldn't tell you why. But unless they're like IEMs with molded fit pieces or those rubbery cones that dig in deep like hearing protection, they're going to fall right out of my ears.

I don't like earbuds, I avoid them. They're great for other people, and that's awesome, but they're not for me.
Oh wow! Definitely appreciate this new (to me) resource, as I've been in quite a radio kick recently.
I love Zork because I started learning English on it (forest being one of the first words, never could find "stiletto" in any dictionary I had!). At the same time we were all pirating punks in middle school who loved skipping copy protection or boosting stats in assembler, and Zork was one of the only games who completely baffled me, which I now know is because of the interpreter. Good times.
Or an AWS etc. account.

Maybe that account with a personal name and company domain as an address is a company thing and maybe it's a personal thing. In the case of the former, that's bad company IT practices. In the case of the latter, it's bad personal IT practices. In any case, I'm not sure I want a vendor to just hand over access because there's a company domain in the email.

Maybe there are circumstances where it makes sense to do so, but it's not clear that as a general rule, setting up an account with a company email should magically hand over all the data and other information associated with that account to the IT department. Maybe you should assume it does though.
maybe i'm dumb, but i don't see any place in my life right now where a bot (i refuse to call LLMs AI. they are not intelligent.) could help me.

chatgpt? well, i used for some funny things (like writing a poem about an amazing sandwich my wife made), but i never think "let me use this" whenever i have a problem.

image generation? i mean, maybe for memes? i tried bing-image-generator while high and had some laughs, but for the life of me i cannot see myself using it in any other way.

i also tried the notion ai stuff, but honestly, i just prefer writing everything myself, since writing is a skill that needs improvement and you can only improve by actually doing it.
Retail business profit margins are 1% to 5%. Mathematically, how can the prices be any lower without the business failing? Hence we see similar prices everywhere.

Grocery stores especially have 1% or 2% profit margins, so logically, the things they sell must be priced as low as they can. And also why a mom and pop grocery store cannot compete with Walmart/Kroger/Costco/Target/etc, you need those huge economies of scale otherwise your prices will be uncompetitive.
While I agree with you in principle, I was there in the 1990's and it was a matter of luck that they didn't went down.

Microsoft's money, buying NexT instead of Be, NeXT employees takeover from inside, having Steve Jobs back at the helm, ...
https://penpinery.com

At its core it's NaNoWriMo but I was frustrated with the limited use of NaNo after completing a novel. So this adds the social aspect found in GoodReads + the profile akin to Bandcamp. At the moment it's just a host of my own books but all the functionality is there for real use.

- Custom Author profile w/ Blog posting
- Publication list
- WIP list w/ Github-like stats
- Word count tracking and badging gamification

It's built with Django 4, Bootstrap 5 and Postgres. I'm hosting on DigitalOcean. I mention this as it was my first time working with any of those technologies, and even if the user base is nil, I've learned a lot from the experience.
I'm more concerned that I won't have access to the games because I don't play on Xbox or Windows.
> I'm unconvinced that private, smoke-filled backrooms don't have an
essential place as the grease that keeps things running well.

I hear that, and there's a case for it. Diplomacy, maneuvering and negotiation
require secrets and enclaves.

So to allow for that you need a few things;

- Strict official records of affairs

- Strong penalties for fraud, malinfluence, intimidation

- Whistleblower protection

The last of these essential checks-and-balances has gone to shit our
culture. Even if we pardoned Edward Snowden and made him a "hero of
democracy" tomorrow, it's still a mountain of work to restore the
essential sense of civic responsibility, patriotism and duty that
allows those people who discover or witness corruption to step-up and
challenge it safe in the knowledge that the law and common morality
are on their side.
Then you get programs having splits or panels or whatever they're called for multiple documents, which is just an internal window manager that's not as good as my regular window manager.
An amazing woman, and a sad story we still see repeated today. I'm reminded of the story of a Wiccan in S.C. who had some neighborhood punks shooting into her home's windows from the street. When she called the cops they asked 'You're the witch right? Uh, huh. We'll send someone when we can.", and three hours later they did.

To Isobel. Slàinte,a ghràdhachadh nan sìthichean
> My wife is the breadwinner right now, so no missed opportunity from a steady paycheck.

The missed opportunity is your second income, the one you could have working for someone else, they didn't mean 'your household does not have a steady paycheck'.
System Settings > Accessibility > Display > Reduce motion

Still far from perfect, but better.
Sure, but it's not just startups.

How many Fortune 500 companies have started mentioning AI on earnings calls because it's what Wall Street wants to hear?

How many companies are having internal "AI" hackathons that put the solution over the problem? (Am I the only one who has had to suffer through this?)
FTC sues bankrupt crypto company Voyager's CEO over false FDIC insurance claims
This article is built over the assumption that 1.25% is small, but it never presents how this number changes between YC and non-YC companies. Without this comparison it doesn't make sense to say 1.25% is small.
Well howdy, old-timer! That brings back some memories. (The '80s: after the dinosaurs, but before the giant armored sloths - back when neutrinos were massless and Λ was zero.)

Did you work on Axiom? That was the finest crafted computer algebra system.
This is sort of a gibberish article. It has nothing to do with YC really. The story being told is that of any venture backed startup. The investors take the risk but if you build a business they may do better than you financially. Money generates money.

Another point they make is what I call "shots on goal". Investors will have tons of shots. That's the nature of investors. If your a startup founder it's tempting to think you have "one shot" but that's nonsense. Every day you have shots, every client call is a shot, every product decision is a shot.
So, essentially all statistics in (live-science) research are just unreliable? And in general, you can not draw a single conclusion from any research?

That would be disastrous, isn't it?
I think there is a difference between "do people want a different kind of search engine" and "I'll wrap some marketing fluff around a prompt box like 500,000 other startups"
A happy life is not looking future and asking with passion. In fact, it's more about focusing today. If your life is a wall, each day is a brick in that wall.

If your days are full of anxiety and stress, your wall will not look good when it's complete. They give shape to your life and you can't go back and fix that rotten bricks in your wall anymore. No matter what is your career & life goals. Keep your wall neat & clean.

But.. how?

We make plans. Life won't follow our plans, in fact, we need to follow what life brings. Sometimes we want to pass some chapters fast and sometimes we don't want some moments to end. No matter what happened in the past and what could happen in the future. You capsulate your mind for today. You see the sun today? Now it's time to do your best.

You can't control tomorrow. You can't change the yesterday. Stop anxiety and mourning. Go for today. If you keep doing this constantly (not easy though xd), you will see your mood stays stable, this will affect your communication and probably you will get more opportunities in life.

Sometimes I find myself trying to control things more than I should. In fact, life is not a combination of states you can control, it's a flow you should kayak on. You can't make it slow, you can't make it fast. That's not in your control. What you can do is pick up the opportunities, the flow brings.

Setting goals is essential though. But goals should be abstract and meaningful. Certain things bring satisfaction to almost everyone. Like discovering new stuff, building a family, and helping others who didn't have equal conditions in their early life. When you set numeric goals, you try to hold a state in flow which is not how life works.

I find similarities between how life works and Shrödinger's cat case. When you put a numerical goal in life, like you want to hit a certain financial state, you want to have X car, wanna buy X house. This means you want to observe/experience a specific condition in the flow while killing all other conditions/opportunities.

This piece of text is from the last post in my newsletter -> meskhetian.com. Getting more subscribers makes me more appetite to write.

Thanks,
Ömer
I have been playing music in the background, and usually keep video quality to 144p, i.e. the lowest possible on youtube..

Today, is it just me or it really feel like 144p image quality on Youtube just got better, It's more clean, as if the video in this quality is upscaled, it's definitely more viewable.
Same for me as well. I thought the author was making a self-aware joke about people breathlessly self-promoting on substack, but nope.
Could there be a law affecting this?

Even in the US, while you may be able to delete a financial account, the company is required to keep the records for a number of years (7 maybe?)