skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Simply divide your BTC into paper wallets in a variety of sizes from $5 to $100, and when you need to make a transaction, mail the right combination of wallets to the person you want to pay.

/s
Do you have direct experience with any of these and especially experience using them with mobile offline-first + sync?
What if that muffin recipe, if read backwards, was a report in Russian about foreign policy plans? (And would a _lawyer_ be the right person to review/decide?)
I've experienced this on OpenWrt as well. There's a backup/restore config files button but it's sort of a best-effort type of operation. If you are restoring across many versions and the config files are no longer sane, you will end up with a broken system. But the config files were restored exactly as advertised :)

Thankfully all the config files are plain text and can be manipulated however you like. It is usually not too difficult to take working config while fixing or disusing problematic files.
I read it as a form of sarcasm and irony. I liked the scare exclamations as a way to highlight the original statement about fast food and alcohol. Was not offended and didn't infer anything additional.

The reply just simply acknowledged all the things of concern, including fast food, driving patterns, and general risk overall. It's OK to be concerned about plastic, even if there are likewise additional concern areas in life.
Funny you mention that. Looking back, there's at least one company that I should've left on day 1. The flags now look bright red. But my thinking back then was that I'm probably wrong with my understanding of the situation - maybe this, maybe that. There's an emotional undertaking when you leave your old role and show up at a new place and there's bound to be some struggle.

That place was a disaster. I mean the half-the-team-ends-up-leaving kinda disaster.

Figuring out when "it's you and not me" takes a lot of introspection and that's usually accompanied by a lot of self doubt. You can't really tell except long after the fact.
Fully agree.
My weekly email rant was on how anti-customer offices are.
https://forstarters.substack.com/p/for-starters-13-there-are...
This is the dogma that I'm talking about.

> If you establish a baseline that your metabolic rate is (say) 2000 calories a day, then eating 1600 calories a day will cause you to lose roughly a half-pound to a pound per week.

At this point it's pretty safe to say that's likely untrue at the population level. This is a cutting edge area of research but the UCP1 adaptations seems to happen really fast, for some people on the order of weeks. On the order of months for the vast majority of the population. It doesn't take long for the basal rate to fall to whatever your intake is because the system evolved to naturally have a lot of room to spare. The human body always adapts and if I were a gambling man, I'd say this is largely why most people fail at dieting: after a month or two the results stop and they have to further decrease their intake which interferes with other pathways and tanks motivation.

If it works for you, that's great! You're one of the lucky ones, maybe because you've hit your floor for uncoupling proteins. But given just how hard dieting is for most people and how bad the obesity epidemic has gotten, it's probably not useful for the majority of people. A far more holistic approach that tackles macro- and micronutrient deficiency, motivation, lifestyle, and not just net calories is required.
> It's not rock if there's no guitars

That's just your opinion. I invite you to open your mind and listen to Billy Joel. Hope you enjoy it :)
I wish they would stop trying to force us into shared working spaces. They can make me work from home, a close office, a far office... I don't care. Just give me a private office and I will do my best work. At home, I don't have room for a private office, so they would need to relocate me and cover a portion of the rent for their office. I am not a contractor. I am an employee. I don't control any of my working conditions and I shouldn't have to pay out of pocket for it.
As you get closer to the top, people keep their positions longer and there are generally less of them. Natural progression.
Terry Bisson (1942-2024)
I'm currently dealing with corporate dysfunction due to fast growth.
Agreed - I think the little cryptographer in all of us regards this as a sad day.

It's going to take real courage to leave the economic systems of predation and extraction behind. Whether or not you think crypto is likely to be a large part of that motion (I do, but some reasonable folks disagree), there's nothing about this action that feels like it's part of it.
They could also add an "oops! I didn't mean to unsubscribe; please resubscribe me" button to the landing page after you click. I've seen that before.

As for the Apple ITP thing, they implemented a thing that looks for known trackers and strips them from emails. You're saying that this thing is incorrectly breaking the URL parameter for the opt out links? Is there an example of them actually doing that? It sounds like it would be a bug if it is happening.

I've also noticed that many places interpret "one click opt out link" to mean you have to click once on the resulting page, technically making it two clicks, but also preserving HTTP get vs post semantics.

I suppose they could also make it two clicks for people that are using text-only mail clients and will therefore send a get, but to use HTML to arrange for it to be a post for everyone else.
Deleting 1000 of my posts: inconsequential. Deleting 1000 of Musk's posts: inconceivable.
Single-Threaded Efficiency in a Multi-Threaded World
That's the definition for "HEPA," but what IKEA/Wirecutter said is "true-HEPA" which is undefined. Usually "true-HEPA" is just a marketing term used when selling non-HEPA filters.

I also feel these semantics are evading the real point of the "what's the logic" comment, which was

> we are never given a reason why H13 is good enough, but E12 isn’t. Surely it’s not just that higher numbers are better?
Archived: https://archive.ph/dk9vW
Awesome feedback, thanks for sharing. I like the Vanguard ETFs as well, keeps the long-term investing very simple.
> The content is still being developed, written, produced, performed, and provided to the platforms entirely for free.

No, it is developed because the creator expects the platform to pay them for the views. Which the platforms does. Most big channels wouldn't exist without that money.
Because browsers offer very little styling and customization options even for the handful of built-in elements. That's why every library under the sun tries to re-invent them again, and again, and again.

https://open-ui.org/ will finally help with this, but it's a very slow process.
Better sell now….
We don't really have empirical evidence that abandoning the gold standard reduced frequency and severity of crashes, either. Gold standard (or silver) has been the norm for centuries and we are only 50 years in without it in the US. So it's all a matter of opinion.
Driving licence test not much different from winning the licence in the bag of chips/crisps?
https://smallwarsjournal.com/jrnl/art/an-intelligence-profes...

The magazine was a new discovery for me as well as the annual reading list.
It is true that the boundary will be unsafe, and that's more than if it were to be all in pure Rust, but that does not change that, even when doing kernel level work, in practice it has generally been shown that unsafe code is still relatively small in amount.
That thing used the heat. A Beta battery just has new electrons appear, "magically".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betavoltaic_device
> A little secret is that the content rights holders negotiated draconian streaming contracts that are outright prohibitive to Netflix. Netflix is trying to do everything possible to hide the fact that their streaming library is small and shrinking.

I think that's fairly well-known at this point, though I agree it should be more widely known.

I think the real secret is that Netflix discovered that their users aren't trying to watch the best movies, they're just trying to kill time. Apparently you can substitute good films for generic junk and people will keep their subscriptions.

Really, the business model for Netflix has some weird perverse incentives. They make money from monthly subscriptions. They lose money when actually streaming content to users. So the ideal user from their standpoint is one who keeps paying but never watches anything.

Thus, the company is incentivized to put out just enough good stuff that you can't miss that you don't cancel, but otherwise produce garbage you don't want.
Facebook, Twitter, and Patreon are, however, walled gardens.

It's actually intensely frustrating how many small businesses (restaurants, bars, etc) have a website that's abandoned at best, and post all their updates on Instagram, almost as frustrating as when public agencies update on Twitter but not on their website. This is a clear downgrade for the public.
Back in the day there was an open officialish IRC channel from the Antartica researchers.

Sadly I missed that.

Also, on the limited connection they have, mosh and IRC among mail/nntp could be life savers for comms as they can be slow and unrealiable. If they work under mosh against a public Unix server they could discuss nearly anything.

On images, Imagemagick can do dithering magick and save lots of bytes under a JPG/PNG format with 256 colours.

Also, if the goal is to send data even with connection cuts, nncp can resume data packets on the fly until it finishes.
And here I thought Hawaii's fossil fuel of choice was oil imports...
Do these launchers actually make sense? Maybe from the moon (obviously not for earth orbit-destined satellites, but deeper space)
Thanks for sharing. What was it like purchasing a home in this market?
Real world value for which they'll be paid post-doc/PhD wages and be carrying student debt like Sisyphus carries his boulder for all eternity.
Better sell now…
What is the max power as per the USB-C spec and what is the max power the connector can handle?
> Mediatek might not be willing to provide their WiFi SoC if you are not using their compute SoC

There are some China-only ZTE devices that do this, but they obviously have a different order volume and scale that makes it possible. (The main SoC is replaced with a ZXIC one, a ZTE subsidiary)
Tengentially, a question: USB PD iis supposed to allow you to use USB-c for up to 240w, but I start feeling uncomfortable at way lower wattages. The connector just seems too small and flimsy. The wires are fine, so much I understand, but is it really sensible?
This is not financial advice but here’s what I do:

High level - "Earn, Save, Invest"

In order for your money to make more money you need to execute all three steps: Figure out how to make money, manage not to spend it, and produce a return from that money.

Try to optimize each step. Make more money if you can / are comfortable (deserve a raise? change companies/jobs? start a side hustle?). Spend less (make and live by a budget, cook your own food, buy used, get cheap hobbies, stop keeping up with the Joneses). Understand the tax efficiency, risks, potential returns, and effort required from different types of investments.

I take credit for none of the ideas above, they are cobbled together from various online sources. Some things to search / places to start: Reddit personal finance flowchart, The Millionaire Next Door, Index / Boglehead investing.
> No doubt. One of these days we might successfully drill into people's skulls "Stop getting your news from social media; that's not news that's rumors."

It's much worse than rumors: it's often deliberately misconstrued/out of context, or outright lies.

Rumors I don't mind so much, since they're usually pretty obvious.
I'm hybrid too, and while I personally like it overall [1], it doesn't help with one of the main sticking points regarding remote work vs in-office: Needing to live within commuting distance of an office. It's expensive, it limits people with kids to certain school districts etc. — In some ways it's the worst of both worlds for some people.

[1] I however, really, really dislike going into the office only to have a bunch of zoom meetings anyway.
It's sad people are so financially illiterate.

Buying partial ownership (shares) in a real company that makes a product or service profitably, or loaning money to a person or business that will be paid back with interest, are both ways to invest capital which can increase in value with no "greater fool".

Apple stock isn't worth more today than in 1990 because people arbitrarily agreed upon a bigger number, it's worth more because they've innovated and grown and now sell expensive products to a billion customers around the world.

Crypto tokens, NFTs, beanie babies, rare coins, paintings only increase in value if some greater fool comes along to pay more than you paid for it. At least with a painting or a beanie baby you could display it in your house, I guess.
you can. i use a metal funnel and unbleached coffee filters
> next payment cycle

Correct me if I’m wrong, he was selling a game based off a valve franchise using unlicensed Nintendo libraries?
> The people that stay are those that have fewer opportunities to find something better elsewhere. So when you see an architect/principal engineer that has been there for 15 years, you know they know that they'd not be hired at the same level anywhere..

..or they are simply more enjoying life by maintaining a better life-work balance.
Ask HN: When to leave a slow-growing company?
An article hit the front page this morning about when to leave an organization, particularly the author's experience with AWS.

But I'm not sure if anyone at AWS needs a bulletin that things have changed. It's obvious because their growth was so high in the early years, and there was more focus on shipping. Like all organizations they will inevitably shift into managing their success.

I'm struggling with my current job, and the problem for me is that we never have had that explosive growth. We have had slow but consistent growth over five years. That growth has very little to do with our founders or executives' competence, who have mostly flailed around or been AWOL. But we attract a highly dedicated community and quite a few excellent engineers, amidst a lot of insane mismanagement. I often compare it to early Twitter, which grew mostly despite its management.

When should I leave?

Negatives: Options are probably meaningless now; not learning very much except how to deal with our own mounting tech debt; perennially incompetent management.

Positives: I like my co-workers; job does no harm to the world; pays okay; 100% remote; very few meetings; low standards for productivity mean I have great work/life balance. Also I'm significantly older than most working programmers and at least here, I don't suffer ageism.

Wildcards: starting in 2024, some of the incompetent management has finally been removed and we've hired some people with experience at tech giants. Will that be good or bad? Totally unclear.
But I love distracting people and making them unproductive!
I just asked a similar question. USB-pd allows for 240w. That seems bonkers.
"the product teams that are left after pruning should try to keep the most experienced employees, lay off the junior ones"

This inevitably leads to your product being owned by a few devs with no one else who has the org knowledge necessary to make meaningful changes. Your org should be making experienced devs. If it isn't, you don't own your product.

Junior devs are your future. They have motivation and want to be apart of your mission far more than the experienced devs that are there for a paycheck so they can get their own show running.
I don't understand what you're implying, and I'm a man. You're trying to be rude to demonstrate something, but I don't know what. What is it?
People collaborate easier in person.

Travel is a downside.
I love the style of these. Know of anything similar at a lower price point?
A lot of people buy in at the top, expecting "generational wealth", then sell at the bottom, losing 60% or more.

US dollar inflation has never been 60% per year AFAIK.
I do it every week. It's free (Zelle), or it's incredibly cheap. It has predictable cost and timeframe, too, unlike Bitcoin, with no customer service and no way to remediate errors and fraud! So, even if I pay to the banks, it covers people and insurance - unlike with Bitcoin, which just burns fossil fuels so that Chinese miners can get richer and richer stealing subsidized electricity!
I understand, directionally I'd agree, but practically speaking, would you rather be a computer programmer in an era when VCs are dumping money in software, or in one when this is not case?
Sell the news.
The Modern Snake Oil Salesman – Elon Musk [video]
> The fact that Spot Bitcoin ETFs were ever contemplated into existence just shows the general insanity of crypto.

Why is it the insanity of crypto? The action is entirely established interests putting a wrapper around crypto.

How do you suppose a large fund should purchase bitcoin? They specialize in markets, not wallet management. Many also do not hold their own cash individually and entrust institutions.
Yep, we actually bought a bunch for our house after reading this article. Bang for buck for the device, filters, and power usage is difficult to beat.
99.95% is the ISO (international) standard, 99.97% is the ASME (US) standard.

https://www.ossila.com/pages/hepa-filter-size-chart
Do you realize you responded precisely in the way I described a response to this would be?

This is how perfectly predictable this argument is.
Yeah. My company is in principle set 2, in practice set 1. But even so, I’m on a team where almost half of us are fully remote or working out of other offices and so don’t go in on our “dedicated in office days”. I stopped going in on those days too because it felt pointless.

I think part of what’s so insanely demotivating about all this is how hard it makes leadership/management. Or rather, how it allows poor leadership/management to get away with doing poorly and how much worse the impact of poor management becomes in this setting. Because right now, even though I’m a TL I have absolutely no idea what the people controlling the purse strings want or care about, or what their goals are. I just wait for things to filter down through the org chart to me. There is no osmosis of knowledge or thought or strategy, and I feel like lazy/inattentive/unknowledgable management kicks up politics and siloing to the next level - when we were fully remote this didn’t seem to happen as much.
I don't really want to start a debate on how HFT produces real-world value, but just consider that if these things you talk about are really useful and valuable, they might also provide competitive salaries to attract people?
Just to clarify, you primarily use cash for day-to-day spending? And does that extend to bill pay as well?
Yea, I just recently fell off my four-year "cliff" at my company and it's humbling to see your total comp suddenly reset back three or four years. This is often a very good discontinuity that justifies looking around, and it's no surprise that people tend to leave close to their whole number anniversaries.
>Let's invert it - why should I just make my boss more money forever while I get the same cut?

It sounds like you're assuming OP is getting a small cut. What if his salary is generous and there's a profit sharing bonus pool every year?

The idea that in every career one needs to be continuously promoted to new positions doesn't make a whole lot of sense in my opinion.
Who said their feelings have to be invalid just because they don’t have “ptsd”
> I'm much less inclined to believe there are any pro-israel insiders in say, TikTok.

The sheer volume of pro-palestine, pro-hamas (those are not the same), pro-islam and anti-jewish sentiment[0] I am bombarded with on Tiktok tells me that either:

* there is no moderation

* There is absurdly overwhelming pro-terrorism and racist sentiment

* The bot/spam farms are in full war mode.

I find it hard to believe that content is being moderated with any pro-israel bias on tiktok.

[0]: https://imgur.com/a/JBC8EL3
I'd say the majority of their customers wouldn't have a way to play the discs if sent.
Project Farm is good, but it's still mostly entertainment. You have to know how to filter out the things that matter versus the things that are more just for amusement, and whether the stated test is a "good test".

A more scientific (but more limited) would be Torque Test: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKXuFwB6lo0 and even they're mainly for entertainment.
As informative as I’m sure this blog post is, I had to stop reading it a paragraph or two in because its overly aggressive and snarky tone makes it completely unemployable. I am not Wirecutter. I am a nobody reading a blog post. I am not the subject of this ridicule yet I am somehow the recipient of it. If you’ve got a good point to make the proof will be in the pudding without having to be overly vitriolic on the Internet. If there was an iota of intent to have someone at Wirecutter see this, being this aggressive only serves to have them dig their heels in. It’s needlessly emotional and self-indulgent when the subject is…air purifiers? Christ.
i agree with all of what you said, but i think the main change is just that these companies aren't growing the same way they were pre-pandemic. everything feels resource constrained in a way it didn't in the mid-2010s and this makes everything inherently political and negative

edit: to give an example, you probably don't think at all about an exec's value when you see him once a quarter in an all-hands explaining the great growth and complimenting teams, your paycheck is high and growing, and your team has happy hours, lavish team all hands, and tons of autonomy. when the same exec is announcing layoffs, no growth, and reduced benefits, you start to look at the deal a little differently
> And perhaps most importantly, we got rid of the absurd mentality that what happens in other families is none of our business

I agree with your general sentiment (more recognition and treatment of mental illness is a good thing), but this line troubles me. Most of what happens in my family should stay in my family. Our business is our business. It's no one else's business. There's nothing absurd about this. There may be exceptions (and a child with severe, untreated mental illness may be an exception), but like all exceptions, they are special cases, not the norm. Let's not do away with all privacy in a rush to "turn the tide"...
People who aren’t in the tech/VC or crypto echo chambers can see that it’s (still) overhyped and mostly scams. They don’t really care or have more positive sentiment than HN.
So, to piss off as many religious people as possible....

A couple of goat herder psychologist a couple of millennia ago figured out if you told people they had a purpose things in general worked better. The particular problem is they made up a whole bunch of shit and when the sciences in general came around, people when "wow, religion is a bunch of controlling bullshit".

Now, I will say that religion is only mostly a bunch of controlling bullshit, but they did understand people and that is why these religions had staying power that lasted thousands of years in some cases. As we came into the modern age we cast the religion away, but we did forget many of the important lessons on society building it had taught us. In the meantime psychology rapidly expanded, and it was used by both governments and corporations to control individuals with very little of that knowledge being broadly taught to society at large so they could inoculate themselves to it.

Add in global internet allowing instant communication anywhere and the consolidation and formation of massive corporate entities able to shape the communication of our modern lives. That communication tells us to continually consume more of their product, and if you can't you've failed. So yea, that will lead to some problems for sure.
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