skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Like, little software shops which take on a stable number of projects / contracts / clients a year, focused on sustainability instead of pure profit, lose and gain people at a roughly 1:1 ratio, rarely downscale or upscale offices, have a relatively flat heierarchy, everyone is compensated realistically, reasonably and equitably, and the work is done at a rate that is a nice balance between interesting/challenging whilst relaxed enough to not cause burnout, with a sensible work/life balance. That's what I look for, and they're fucking havens.

Counterpoint: When I was hiring in another city, I routinely searched LinkedIn for candidates at the local "little software shops". Most of them went in expecting the unicorn situation you described and then realized it was actually kind of grueling, full of cliques, beholden to "customer is always right" thinking, and that they weren't really getting a chance to work on any long term projects done right.

I'm sure there are perfect unicorn little software shops like you describe, but they're not common and they're not easy to get into it. Also, being beholden to a small/stable number of clients isn't as great as it sounds once one of those key clients decides to end the contract or bring development in house. When a small software shop loses 1/4 or 1/2 of their annual billings all at once, things can get ugly.

Don't get me wrong: I, too, would love to work at the unicorn place you describe, but they're not really common or easy to get into.
MIT License

https://github.com/josh-project/josh/blob/master/LICENSE
> What other products that are as known-to-be-risky-and-associated-with-fraud are backed by an ETF?

Government bonds. There were ETFs holding Greek gov bonds for example. Greek cheated to enter the EU (by fudging its numbers, with the help of big accounting firms and banks). And government bonds are known to be risky, seen that throughout times many government have simply grown their public debt and then defaulted.

Fun fact: US public debt grew from $33 trillion (with a 't') to $34 trillion in ... drumroll ... 100 days.

Woot!

P.S: I'm not sure your question is correctly phrased... 3% to 5% of the world's entire GDP is linked to crime. By now it's not even clear if 3% to 5% of all the Bitcoin transactions are linked to crime.
Academia has become a prestige obsessed pissing contest. You need to go to a presitigous university for undergrad, so you can find a PhD position under a famous professor at another prestigious university who has lots of connections to the editorial teams of top tier journals, so you can publish at the prestigious journals, so that when you finish the PhD you can do 1-2 (or 5, or 10...) postdocs with other famous professors, so that by the time you compete for tenure track positions you use the connections with famous professors and publications at prestigious journals to become a professor yourself. Once you make it to professor, you need to use the connections and the prestige to get the big grants to hire lots of PhDs and postdocs yourself to continue the cycle.

If at any point you prioritise your drive and passion for a subject over the prestige and connections game, the peers who play the game will get far ahead of you in their careers, and you won't make it to professor. Saw too many 38+ year old postdocs who thought quietly pursuing their passion in their subject would get them anywhere.

No wonder all the people who just wanted to do their damn research went into industry. I did it myself and now get paid more than all of my former supervisor's postdocs combined. I don't think this even has to do with being a 'weird nerd'. Basically, at least in STEM, you have to specifically WANT to play the silly prestige pissing contest to stay in academia. Otherwise, forces of nature (economic and social), naturally push you out of academia.
I'm thinking of the sea shanty "Leave her Johnny" as a power point:

* shipped it green

* rotten tub

* No grog allowed and rotten grub

* we're through

* going ashore

* voyage is long

* winds don't blow

* it's time for us to leave her
That's only if there's a curator/gate keeper like radio stations or major record labels and their marketing budgets (continuing your analogy). Soundcloud has zero barrier to entry so it becomes too flooded with mediocre work to be very useful unless you already know your destination or there is a powerful ranking/discovery feature.

The music industry existed long before the internet came on the scene so there are many avenues for distribution and discovery. GPTs have been sharable for a few months now and the market looks abysmal with every website/catalog/database of custom GPTs being flooded with mediocre prompt engineering.

Hopefully the official GPT store overcomes that but I'm not very confident - one of the top GPTs listed is Grimoire and a few others and I don't have a high opinion of it after trying to use it over the last few weeks.
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Not that I’m particularly good at this myself… but it is our mission at yeekatee[^1] to help people manage their finances and invest wisely, in the long term.

Right now we offer a rather good portfolio aggregation, either via manual or automated syncing (read scraping… alas, the state of financial technology…). From basic to rather advanced figures, a lot of explanations. Market data, news, and dividends.

And finally a social network to discuss and learn with like minded folks. We wanted to do a proper Show HN in a few days actually, but I thought I’d leave it here as you could find it useful!

[^1]: https://yeekatee.com/
Astrobiological Potential of Venus Atmosphere Chemical Anomalies
You can register a legal alias (通称名) that you can use on forms. I know people who have done this with just single a single kanji to avoid a lot of the headache associated with having a foreign name or (god forbid) a middle name. I've considered a few times registering my legal alias as 一一 to have a two stroke full name.
> I always love it with someone proclaims that my benefit / enjoyment of something is invalid because Science declared it so.

Also, this is not proven. I suspect the parent is thinking about https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2020/oct/18/white-n..., which cites https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S10870..., which found 1 study out of 38 which "suggested the noise may lead to more disrupted sleep" and concludes that more research is needed.

Of course, individuals may find white noise personally irritating or distracting, and continuous loud noise of any sort is bad. But for others, noise can also help with relaxation, concentration, and sound masking. (I personally find white noise irritating, but I like brown noise.)
Seeing that the last time I tried to use Zig–completely inexperienced, trying to do completely basic stuff–I hit a compiler bug within two hours, I'd say that "not ready" is about right.

To be fair, the latest Github version had the bug already fixed, but it's still a sign the language is basically still in an alpha stage.
The freeness of speech is a continuum. In some countries you can't say anything critical of the ruling party, even if it's true. In other countries you can say untrue and critical things as long as you don't know they are untrue. The standards and penalties for defamation and libel are an important part of the freeness of speech.

Countries have different standards for what qualifies as obscenity and what the consequences are.

Countries have different standards for what types of hate speech are allowed.

Freedom of Speech isn't a binary value.
That's not what that comment was saying. It was an idealistic take on a small shop, not a realistic take. eg: "work at a reasonable pace", "compensated fairly" often does not happen.

What it often means is stressful deadlines and low pay for hours work.
Waymo testing driverless robotaxis on Phoenix's highways
> computer graphics

That’s a shame :( computer graphics is a very interesting topic and I always love to read things about it
How is Valve able to take down a project for allegedly using /another/ companies libraries?
> What else can you do?

Force them to enter a valid credit card and auth $1
in the early days of the internet I got introduced to Fidonet by a guy who's nickname was Fido.
Weird... Things are starting to smell a lot like 2020, again...
1 billion would fit into a cube of 1000 units long, wide, and tall. This would be 15 meters by 15 meters by 5 meters, or 49 feet by 49 feet by 16 feet, or much much larger then the entire car.
Is there any way to download this with the commit history as well?
It's not greedy to not want to give away your work for free. Greedy is wanting everything for free like a hacker.
I remember this site from back in the day! Somehow the profile view of Flo's head/shadow was still taking up space in my cranium after all these years.
Occitan is fairly similar to Italian, so I can make out what a sentence means without fully understanding the language myself.
You might want to reach out to the admins to see if they can resolve this issue somehow. The email is in the footer.

HTH!
Probably all the new NextJS / Server Components stuff - mixing and matching server & client code in the same file. Or the classic NEXT_PUBLIC_ env var
The title should be “Chinese government agency claims it cracked AirDrop” since no independent researcher has actually confirmed this isn’t just state propaganda.
They paid way too much for that LOTR related show. Though, anecdotal, the people I know who watched it never finished the first season. Wonder how many more had the same experience.
That sounds great. I think I’d love something like that if, during in-office week, it was more than just half my immediate team that showed up.

I think one reason this isn’t more popular is that it’s harder for parents to plan around. Most of the parents I work with want the same in-office schedule every week - easier to plan around other weekly things like daycare and after school activities that way.
That's a neat way of doing it, I will do the same, thank you!
It has been going on for decades, openly discussed among pro-palestine activists in the US since the early days of social media. One of the first and most reliable "mainstream" users of reddit was israel posting "idf thirst traps" though that nomenclature didn't exist for it back then.

I was a mod of a few semi-popular subs back then and we'd get bombarded by requests to remove comments critical of israel in those threads. A few times messaged by state employees under their real names making their case for a pro-israel mod stance. This was like circa 2008-2011, real ron paul le bacon atheism obama days.
The key to fighting pseudoscience isn't mockery–it's empathy
So does the “command” (say update customer address) perform the SQL and then some RDBMS trigger send the event onto rabbitMQ or is it an ORM that sends SQL and posts to rabbitMQ?

Plus where do you store events, in what format?

Tell me more please :-)

What you are missing is a cool name for the whole ecosystem
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_European_Consumer_Organisa...
Is Odin "Programming done Right" [video]
An interview with GingerBill, creator of Odin on the Developer Voices’ YouTube channel.
"dbeel" sounds like the Russian word for (approx.) moron.
One thing I noticed while abroad in china, india, and thailand, is that drivers in those countries are much more alert. This could be by necessity because of narrower lanes, or the general amount of chaos on the roads beight higher. In any case the result is that we get lulled into a false sense of security in the US because most people do follow the rules and drive predictably. Since the pandemic especially I see someone actively doing bullshit on their phone/infotainment touchscreen while behind the wheel almost daily.
There are some limitations so those with higher incomes or more complex tax situations are unable to use this option: https://www.ftb.ca.gov/file/ways-to-file/online/calfile/calf...
I didn't like that the components are all web components with their own shadow Dom inside. Makes styling really hard and didn't work with tailwind for example.
18) is a good one. You'd be surprised how refreshing it can get to get out and meet your customers
It was pre-covid, although during a time of particularly high applications (post-Brexit).
Did US states reduce DL testing complexity in 2020? I mean COVID was weird times. And that could certainly explain the 2020 uptick in wrecks that the article is about.
Absolutely. Total comp, not to mention hiring in general at publicly traded tech firms has dropped significantly since the “software recession” and mass layoffs.

The current good times for employees are mainly in the economy outside of tech
Netflix feels like Blockbuster did some years ago.
It's not just a narrative, it was a discrete reality for years and years. Intuit stopped actively lobbying the federal government relatively recently. They did this for a few reasons, not just the smoke and bad PR it was getting them, but also because you can't grow a market that you have essentially captured.

Source: my company got acquired by intu and their new CEO was very and frequently open about their past bad behavior and how it was no longer relevant in today's market.
I blame Mario Cart. I have a theory that that specific game places really bad habits deep down into the brain and while someone can learn to drive safe enough for a test these latent 'skills' are lurking waiting to reappear. I'm in my mid 50s and I've seen a drastic drop in using turn signals, even by cops over the last 15 or so years. I think this competition style driving comes from Mario cart or other driving games. We played racing games a little, and some of us drove very fast, but we didn't weave and leave other drivers in the dark about our intentions and desired path.
My only issue with the IKEA filter is that it's sized too small to run quietly for any of my rooms - IKEA says 85sf on low. (My smallest room is 110sf) I guess it's okay for closets?

Also if I'm going to add an appliance to my home, why not pick the highest filtration possible? (if not unreasonably expensive)
I have no inside info, but it sounds like the key was inadvertently bundled into the client-side code. This could happen when using web frameworks that do both client-side and server-side rendering, if one of your client-side files imports something from a file that is supposed to be server-only, and contains the API key environment variable.

Some frameworks automatically detect this and fail to build if you do it, but apparently not all of them.
Honor request? You mean they sent lawyers and C and Ds after him. There needs to be the software equivalent of the ACLU to defend open source authors.
This is why I drive a large vehicle. Now I, too, get to tell people that having the right of way won't help them when they're dead. Graveyards are full of people who have the right of way and so on. Lots of small car drivers like to pretend that they get the right of way at a 4-way-stop but if you think about it: graves are full of people who had the right of way. So they should just wait for me.
The real "Netflix Optimization Problem" is them figuring out how to minimize the cost of licensing or creating content while staying just good enough that you renew your subscription.
It seems that whenever you have expertise in a given area it becomes apparent that Wirecutter gives laughable recommendations.

Their mattress recommendations, from someone whom has spent large amounts of time trying to piece together what little exists of mattress "science", straddle the border between comical and negligent.

Consumer Reports is similar.
You're both right - you point out the absolute values achievable are a bit higher, but parent is pointing out that early career jumps are typically faster than later career ones (for good reason). So maybe it's 160k (or whatever) not 128k but the argument stands. Asymptoting to some sort of local-to-you maximum is how most peoples career arc will go. At some point there are no more big jumps to be made unless you wildly change what you are doing, and many folks will be ok with that, you continue making good money (globally speaking) for the longer run, but your days of doubling salary are done.
> the home screen layout and app icons frequently changing positions for no apparent reason.

Spotify does this, too. Every morning I listen to the same two news podcasts. And every bloody morning the suggestions in the app shuffle around for no apparent reason. To add insult to injury though, when the app starts, it still shows the layout from yesterday, hangs for a second while it loads, then reorders stuff - and every time I’ll tap on something that moves somewhere else in that exact moment. It’s extremely frustrating.
> Loyalty needs to go two ways

This is one of the more perplexing elements of both working as an IC and a manager. I'm constantly battling the line between treating the relationship as purely transactional and one where work is more meaningful than that. The problem is that whenever you bring other things in - "loyalty", "passion" etc etc you are at very high risk that these are circumstantially dependent on the coincidental alignment of the employee's interests and that of the organisation. The minute that changes, you will find you now have an employee whose motivation is at odds with the interests of the larger organisation and all kinds of dysfunction stems from that. The only true stable basis for alignment is that the organisation needs work done and the employee needs money. It's great if there is more than that, but the minute anybody relies on it they are essentially rolling a dice with some odds it turns against them.
The first time I used Freetaxusa, I also filled out TurboTax as usual, and found that with TurboTax I made a mistake that would have cost me well over a thousand dollars in overpayment. I then realized that I had made the same mistake the previous year with TurboTax, so I filed an amended return and was able to get back well over a thousand dollars. Thanks Freetaxusa!

The mistake was user error in entering a backdoor Roth IRA contribution. Freetaxusa makes it easy to enter correctly, and turbotax makes it easy to screw up.
I switched and they saved me a ton of money. Easy to use and doesn’t support a company absent of morals
SimpleTax, got bought by WealthSimple a year or two ago, but its still good.
It's accurate to say that lightning makes it's own tradeoffs, but it's not accurate to say it's not Bitcoin.

Every lightning transaction is just a regular bitcoin transaction that could be posted to the chain at any time-- you just don't have to, because the scripting functionality has been used so that if a counterparty posts an earlier state you can effectively cancel it.

The switch to deferring updates unless there is a dispute gives a massive advantage to scaling (e.g. number of tx per second possible goes up the more users there are rather than being a global constant), instantaneouness of transaction irreversability (as fast as the involved parties can make a couple round trips, vs an hour for multiple confirmations), and potentially privacy (since not every update is globally broadcast). But these benefits come at a considerable cost of requiring a degree of active monitoring so if a counterparty posts an outdated state your software can respond, along with additional software complexity, etc.

For some applications the benefits are well worth the costs, for others they aren't.

To say it's not bitcoin is like saying multisignature transactions aren't bitcoin. In both cases they're ways of using the existing functionality. In both cases they require some additional software and different approaches. In both cases they use functionality built into the protocol which was intended for their purposes (payment channels being a concept originally described by Satoshi, and specifically accommodated in the transaction format). And in both cases they change the tradeoff surface somewhat.
It would be surprisingly difficult to do, mostly because of local politics and views on development. See https://www.mauinews.com/news/local-news/2017/08/puc-pulls-p...
Side project: leverage AI to improve memory retention – looking for feedback
I was traveling to Japan in December and was having some chat with friends and I had this thing where I know I read about the topic we were discussing but didn't really remember the details and felt like I couldn't contribute to the conversation. I decided to build this app for iOS that uses AI to create a step by step process to follow after you read something online to improve your recall for that information. I typically suck at naming things but I had this stroke of genius ahahah IIRC (If I Recall Correctly) and found domain iirc.ai and AppStore name available so I snag them both right away.

Launched it yesterday and looking for feedback. First usage is completely free but if you folks wanna use it more I generated a bunch of code, so just ask for it and I'll send some.

App: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/iirc-if-i-recall-correctly/id6...
The website is: http://iirc.ai
YT video (demo): https://youtu.be/RQyMr3joWMk
This is very impressive, thank you!
and also 10 hours a week of meetings about said rigid process
It's not arrogance and not just that it is scammy or wasteful to the environment. Bitcoin is another mechanism the increases inequality.

I think Bitcoin is one of the many way that the economy is rigged against economically insecure retail investors. The more money that gets funneled from the middle class into Michael Saylor and crew's pocket the closer it brings us to civil war.

Checkout

End Times: Elites, Counter-Elites, and the Path of Political Disintegration by Peter Turchin

https://www.amazon.com/End-Times-Counter-Elites-Political-Di...
HR frowns on that.
> You are just built to work with more structure and processes.

For what it's worth, some of the most highly structured and process-heavy tech companies I've worked at have been small startups.

Small companies can be a haven for micromanaging first-time CTOs, inexperienced VPs of Engineering who learned how to "lead" from books and LinkedIn posts, Technical Program Managers who want to control every aspect of everything in the company, and Project Managers who don't have anyone to guide them so they fall back to nagging everyone about progress all day.

I don't think it's accurate to generalize all small companies as being low-structure or light on process.
Honest question: Why don't more people (especially high earners) go with a CPA firm to take care of their taxes? With the amount of money involved, and the potential legal trouble for getting it wrong, the cost/benefit calculation seems to strongly favor hiring a professional to guide you.
Funny enough it has been so long that we have come full circle on this. Studios that were pulling their content from Netflix to launch competing streaming services are now willing to license it again because their services are failing, leaving them bleeding for cash. You can even find the newest Disney and Warner Bros movies and shows on Netflix now.
hopefully people like you won't be able to figure out how to subscribe to the mailing list in the first place
Do anything of those things affect you personally though? Do most people get affected by that? People make things worse in their heads. Life is fine.
>Who is going to admit to that? To a news organisation?

Stranger things have been admitted to news organizations.
It was very sincere. Please keep your directives to yourself, if they do not add anything to the discussion.
Yeah, I've recently started another run of Space Ex.

Currently have an isolated grid with some solar/batteries for enough boilers to kick start everything.

As I scale, I'll be using a circuit network to set up a steam battery that'll be able to kick start everything and take the hit on surges of power requirements (looking at you Coronal Mass Ejections).