skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Obviously there’s an infinite rabbit hole you can go down, but what I do is pretty straightforward.

Short term money: stored in a relatively normal checking account.

Mid term money: United States Treasury Bills. They typically beat bank interest, are just as safe (if not safer) as an FDIC bank account, and depending on where you live have a lower tax burden than regular bank interest.

Long term: Vanguard ETFs. I don’t have a ton of interest in spending hours every day trying to beat the market. I figure that as long as I can wait out bad economies, it’s better to invest in the total market than basically anything else. If you’re willing to hold onto the ETF longer than a year, typically the capital gains tax burden is lower than the income tax you’d pay in bank interest. Something like VOO or VTI are fairly low risk and since they’re not human-managed they have really low fees.

I am unemployed right now, but typically when I get a paycheck I immediately put 10%-15% of it into some form of the above savings, before I pay any bills. For psychological reasons I don’t really understand, if I pay my bills right away I never have any money left, but if I put 10%-15% aside immediately I still manage to pay my bills while also having savings.
Usually an argument from authority doesn't hold any weight, but come on.

It's their dad
The article isn’t saying that watchmakers should improve the legibility of the fonts used on the watch face though, it’s arguing that pride in craftsmanship seems to end at the font selection when there is a huge world of possibilities. I didn’t know that even Patek Phillipe has used Arial, that was amusing. These are easily $10k+ watches.
i do the same when i go to the gym or go on a bike ride. some apps are a bit of a pain to use on their own (trying to join a meeting from a calendar invite doesn't work because hrefs aren't tappable), but overall, i really like the experience and wish i could do it more often.
Agreed. BOOL in Apple ObjC is a `char` though. That is a constant thorn in the side, when you are doing slightly more sophisticated stuff with argument passing and return values as you actually have to cast a lot (BOOL (*)(id, SEL, ...)).

As the implementer of an Objective-C dialect, I am considering to go the other route and elevate BOOL to NSInteger (sizeof( NSInteger) == sizeof( id) in my case).

Conceivably the compiler could (just) for @properties combine all the BOOL fields into a bitfield, so there would be less grousing about wasted space. Maybe or maybe not.

* https://developer.apple.com/documentation/objectivec/bool?la...

* https://github.com/iterate-ch/rococoa/blob/master/ObjcMsgSen...
And once you are in the management jumping ship is even more difficult.
I'm young and I feel the same. And I have many younger cousins (gen alpha) who don't understand or don't like these new age platforms like TikTok and would never use them.
It’s easiest to schedule meetings on remote days, since they are not constrained by conference rooms or commute blocks.
Amazon's tech innovation died a while ago. It will continue to operate its successful business lines until it runs out of steam and shrivels up, just like IBM & co. It will never catch up to things like AI and will fall behind.

And it's not a bad thing for Amazon, at least for now. They are in a better position than Google, where they have a more diverse revenue stream, and can out-compete everyone else. They don't need to innovate.
It's partially a SV bubble, and partially a early-career bubble (and partially an I've-only-seen-the-good-times bubble, probably)

When having these conversations people often forget that it's pretty natural for the time between promotions to increase significantly as your experience and role level increases.

FWIW "promotion" i mean a meaningful change int he scope of your role, not a banding exercise to pay you a bit more. That can also be achieved without promotion; companies have different approaches to the 6ish meaningful role buckets in a technical career.

This means that advice about "how long is too long" isn't really general.
> Nobody's going to bother with that now - what's the point?

This is actually a great comment that I think applies well to the crypto world as a whole, even if that wasn't your original intent.
My company does week in-office, then week remote. Quite a bit of flexibility during the in-office weeks too if you have a doctor appt or whatever. I personally really like it. People get stuff done in-office, and then during the remote weeks we bust stuff out that doesn't need to be face-to-face.

We are not at all a tech company.
I'm curious about whether it's even feasible based on dispersion issues. My understanding is that it's hard to beat dispersion over long distances, regardless of your optics on the laser (and we're talking long distances here...)

Any optics experts able to chime in?
You could also just go back to the sentence just before "8.64 joules of energy per day" and see that it produces 100 microwatts (or 0.1mW).
For me, the main sign that it's time to leave a company is when I start fantasizing regularly about leaving the company.

My gut seems to be wiser than my head on this stuff. Nearly every time that I've moved on, it's turned out to be the right call in hindsight.
Sure, but I feel it's easier to teach management skills to technical person, than it is to teach tech to someone that's only been in management.
From the article: "There is a tendency to micromanage and add process overhead…".

Yes, the day that leadership invites "Agile coaches" in to start scrumming up the works is another sign to move on.
But what’s the point of Bitcoin then? They might as well put anything in these ETFs and it’d be the same thing then: the flat rocks in my garden are limited in number and very scarce, wanna put some in an etf?
Smaller refreshes than the original grant are a clear message from management that they don't necessarily want you around, but you aren't underperforming so much as to want to bother with the hassle of a Pip. In any place that isn't massively dysfunctional, a manager can hand out large enough refreshes to the people they want to keep in the long run.
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The memory remains: Permanent memory with systemd and a Rust allocator
Knowledge of leptin changes this because what you eat does actually matter. The goal should be intermittent fasting, where you eat little-to-no carbs about five consecutive days/week and then plenty of carbs two consecutive days/week. This approach ensures leptin levels in the obese body remain high enough to prevent onset of starvation mode while minimizing glucose levels to promote catabolic action on body fat [1].

The bottom line is: you're welcome to eat your Big Mac and beers, just only two days out of the week.

Also, stress has an important role to play on weight loss. Stress causes your adrenal glands to release cortisol. Cortisol increases glucose levels through gluconeogenesis by making glucose from non-carbohydrate sources, such as proteins from muscles.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catabolism
I don't understand this fascination with central offices. We live in the year 2024. We should be able to look at our workforce, find small offices, and have hub and spoke networks of offices - and work from home as a fallback.

Rent a condo, do a communal office, if you want more close collaboration - shuffle your teams to colocate them - not force them into 1hr commutes into a fucking empty office.

Our infrastructure is now ephemeral on the cloud - why can't we be more flexible with our work situation?
Where do you keep the air quality sensor?

I suspect that if you keep it away from the purifier, and closer to where you sit in the room, it's a more real representation of the air quality. Usually the air around the purifier would be purer than other parts of the room until an equilibrium has reached.

I haven't done extensive testing to validate this theory either, just a hunch. Let me know if my hunch is incorrect.
Yep. All this is telling me ie that there are still a bunch of sheltered HN users that are in for a rude shock when they see what it’s like to work long-term in an environment without free money keeping everything afloat. A lot of you have been living in a make-believe world.
Theming is at least one reason.
I think you’re being a bit pedantic, actually. I work in power systems in the US (though not an expert) and the term thermal being used to refer to coal, gas and nuclear, with the latter a bit flexible, is very common. For example, it’s very common to say “thermal systems provide inertia”.
It's currently impossible to provide custom watch faces for the Apple Watch.

This is somewhat infuriating, especially given Apple's default watch face options. They all look nice at a first glance, but all have some small functional detail that really throws me off.

For example, what on earth are the minute/second subdivisions on most of them? It's not seconds, it's not half-seconds! What's up with the "UTC" watchface not being able to act like an actual "UTC watch"? And why is it so hard to get readable second-level precision on any of them? It's the most precise watch I own, but every new year's eve, I'm botching the countdown by having to somewhat eyeball it.
This is why I'm still surprised they separated out (and eventually killed) their disc-by-mail service. I understand the visceral feeling that discs are an antiquated relic—but you just can't beat that catalog.

Combining discs and streaming in one subscription provides customers with the best of both worlds. Need something to watch right now? No problem, we have an excellent streaming catalog and you're going to love Stranger Things! Want a specific movie or show, maybe Friends or The Lion King? We've got that too, it'll be in your mailbox in a couple days.

And if some customers choose to forgo either the digital or physical side of the package, it doesn't cost Netflix anything.
Try moving $50 in a private bank. Fees for stocks start at $200.
They're not removing propaganda only, they are also censoring pro Palestinian views in order to better enable their own propaganda.

Do not see how this shadow group of techies forcing their views on the world can be seen as a good thing.
You could also use more than one of these sources.
> but often people only think one level deep about these things.

In my experiences the ones who care about zero-carbon and renewable energy have thought very deeply about these things.

> Fossil fuels are often used to generate electricity for batteries

Yeah, but renewables are already cheaper that fossil fuels in most cases. And charging batteries is one of the most flexible loads for a renewable grid. I don't care if I charge my car on monday or friday.

> For example, you may be charging your EV with energy generated by a Coal plant.

This example is just completely irrelevant by now. Coal is dead.

Even then, it's much better to move the pollution away from where people live, and where you have an opportunity to clean the exhaust gases. (if your country cares about those kinds of things). It's also more CO2-efficient, even when not counting future battery recycling.

> If a country heavily consumes goods imported from somewhere like China, they are part of the cause of those greenhouse gases.

Fair point, but in the context of batteries I'm not too worried. Both USA and EU are now pretty damn serious about on-shoring on near-shoring both material production and battery production.

Also, we now have battery recycling at a commercial scale, which is far more energy and resource efficient.

We WILL have a couple of decades where the green transition will be quite resource and carbon intensive. But as the first big waves of EVs and grid energy batteries start to get recycled that resource use will fall off a cliff.
Please elaborate on the change in meaning?
IS NULL!!!

not = NULL!!!
Do you mark a difference between hybrid where not everyone goes in on the same days and hybrid where everyone goes in on the same days and stays away on the same days?
I agree with all but the last, as I think it's debatable.

> Leadership is fond of setting goals and deathly allergic to providing incentives

Goals are good, in any way, as long as their portioned right.

And at the level most people this is targeted to are working at, is the rather large salary supposed to be the incentive?
The only people I trust for recommendations nowadays are obsessive specialist subreddits and Stiftung Warentest.

I haven't trusted Wirecutter since they were offering recommendations for kickbacks.
The fact that Spot Bitcoin ETFs were ever contemplated into existence just shows the general insanity of crypto. After all, if you believe that cryptocurrencies, with "the code is the law" ethos and non-reputable transactions, are the wave of the future, just transact in BTC directly. If you believe crypto is actually too risky to manage individually (e.g. hacked/stolen keys) then you'd want the benefit of something like an ETF to manage your ownership. But buying an ETF that itself just holds crypto assets is either an exercise in futility or a "worst of all worlds" situation. But I guess a middle man needs to make a buck somehow...
That is not idpol
The world's foremost money launderer is a fund provider for several ETFs, eg:

https://www.justetf.com/en/etf-profile.html?isin=IE00B4X9L53...
Stocks of WeWork?
I've used this, works great.

Good option for those who prefer vanilla web components.

Only hangup I ran into was the event/callback based API for some components - promises would have been more convenient.
Norway has a village that's just named "Å"...
FreeTaxUSA
But then I have to pay taxes on it.

Time to full send my retirement accounts into these ETFs so I can retire early. /s

Actually though I might consider allocating a tiny percentage (1-3%) to these. Seems like fairly low risk with enough upside, but who knows.
To get a handle on this, I point people to this fun site https://model.energy which allows you to use historical weather data, various cost assumptions, and optimize for the cheapest combination of wind, solar, batteries, and hydrogen to get steady 24/7 power (which would be a drop-in replacement for a nuclear power plant, essentially.) By disabling the hydrogen you can get a handle on the cost bump for handling the storage with just batteries. In some places, that cost increase would be considerable (for example, Germany); in others, negligible (India).

If you don't like the cost assumptions (they cite sources) you can tweak them and see how the optimum solutions change.
Revolution Void. Look up the albums under Internet Archive as "Jamendo Album Collection". They are a mix between jazz, electronica and something else.
Which was down from its high of $68k! Not a game for those who like to keep their skin perhaps.
I wouldn’t argue that staring blankly is helpful in itself. But having time with nothing to engage your attention almost forces you to face your own thoughts and feelings, which many people prefer to avoid. That type of avoidance is at the root of a lot of mental health problems, and people go to therapy to learn how to face their thoughts and feelings head-on.
> - An office full of cokeheads

Ah, the 80's. What a time.
> Commercial software tended to get more features because the software was based on monopolies they had full control of.

What monopolies?
How does bitcoin "take" money from anybody? How would you classify an economically insecure investor? If they are economically insecure, where do they get the money to invest?

Food for thought, when there is currency inflation where do you suppose all the wealth goes and who is it taken from? Here I think we can use the word "take".
Whatever Works (For Housing)
You have to multiply the post count by their reach. If it is a strong exponent power law the top 1000 may be the vast majority of what people see on the topic, but they may apply greater scrutiny in removing posts with high reach too.
Not for the button batteries. They are especially dangerous, because the physical distance between the poles is small, and your digestive tract is filled with electrolytic solutions. They can cause chemical burns and even death.

https://www.healthychildren.org/English/safety-prevention/at...
I found the link interesting, that is why I clicked on it and upvoted it. Perhaps some of us here are interested in good UX design, particularly for hard-to-get-right areas like dense data tables. What satisfies your intellectual curiosity may not be the same for someone else.

Ironically, everyone in this thread complaining about the submission not being appropriate for HN are violating the guidelines.
Note that it's not exclusively targeted to game development, it's just that most companies using Live++ are in the gamedev space. There's no reason not to use Live++ on other non-games Windows applications, and we do in fact have customers outside the games industry.
Vast majority of large, publicly traded companies (at least in the US) only do pay determination (and associated raises) once per year. Promotions can definitely happen whenever but there may be a cycle associated with that as well.
I remember browsing through the Twitter Files and finding nothing interesting in them.

Yes, all social media have open channels with law enforcement. That's because social media have legal obligations and when someone comes to a moderator claiming to be a law enforcement officer working on a kidnapping or preventing a terrorist attack and needing time-sensitive help to save lives, you don't want the moderator to have to guess whether that's a real emergency or a hoax.

It's... not a secret. If you live in a democracy, you can quickly find out the name of these channels, they have websites.

Source: I've been part of a moderation team. Not on something that large, though.
oh these are very interesting

I have been looking for an open source replacement for the Elecom WRH-583BK2-S is there anything in there? It's a W65 x D35 x H20.5 (mm), dual LAN, 802.11ac router.
This is what I find ... interesting about the engineering layoffs - was Musk right? Was there a large part of the engineering function at Twitter that was just existing on some mythology, and was in fact just not needed? If so, are the FAANG companies (and others) the same? Legions of engineering roles just bullshit wastes of $200K salaries plus share options and free pizza?

I utterly hate Musk, so firmly hope he was wrong. Just wish Xitter went down more.
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"Customers don’t care what the companies buildings are like."

They never could, yet their experience is shaped by the buildings employees use. Having been moved to a hybrid office and lost my private office -- my work suffered and so did the work of my colleagues. By not taking real estate seriously, my company is pushing me to look for work elsewhere. I don't want to waste my thirties doing crappy work because I don't have an office to work in.
I had assumed that bugs allowing such miscarriages of justice would require a completely unsound accounting method in the software. Unless, eg, the accounting simply didn't store a transaction ledger and software didn't store logs, and instead mostly just updated balances with no history, it was unclear to me how software bugs in an otherwise reasonably sound accounting method could result in accounting so wrong that it couldn't seen to be incorrect when investigated at the level of thoroughness one might expect for court proceedings.

But these bugs suggest that at least some of the errors would likely have been obvious in a ledger, and the Post Office simply didn't care. That rather makes Fujitsu look not quite as bad here, and the Post Office look worse.
Yup. $1m is nothing. We live in a world where movies have $100m marketing budgets, game companies invest hundreds of millions into esports events and other material, and tiny companies are bought out "just in case" for similar amounts.

$1m to generate some publicity and attract talent? Sure. They're probably paying headhunters similar amounts in comissions each year.
I've been at the same enterprise SaaS company for 10 years. Personally? Staying at the same company for a long time while performing well gave me some options I wouldn't have gotten otherwise. Like OP, the culture has shifted drastically with COVID and the post-ZIRP environment we live in.

When RTO began, my spouse got a job which would have required me to move away and make it impossible to meet in-office numbers. Thankfully I requested remote and it was approved, now I'm living in a low-COL area while doing the same job. Most people in my position don't get remote approval. Hence I'm basically stuck here--looking around for available remote positions, my TC would be in most cases cut in half.
I came here to say this. For a blog post accusing the Wirecutter of being "rife with factual errors, [and] misleading statements" the author could have, ya know, not gotten basic facts wrong about filtering standards?

Just a few sentences later the author states "This passage implies that a (“true”?) HEPA filter is designed to capture particles that are 0.3 microns or larger. But an H13 filter must, by definition, capture 99.95% of particles of all sizes."

This is explicitly wrong! According to the author's own source that they linked above! "HEPA filters, as defined by the United States Department of Energy (DOE) standard adopted by most American industries, remove at least 99.97% of aerosols 0.3 micrometers (μm) in diameter."
The inside of your body is wet, so even low voltages can make a complete circuit. Something as simple as a CR2032 button battery can burn you from the inside.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/hPKSJD3xbok

https://youtu.be/qQcxNTNRME4
Is is just me, this post and this [1] one are just people complaining about RTO?
If you were hired during COVID lockdown with the promise of your career buing built on remote only, fine but lay yourself off and move on. Else it's not entirely justifiable to be mad at AWS for RTO policies.
From an outside perspective AWS looks very healthy and ouputing great innovation.

[1]. https://justingarrison.com/blog/2023-12-30-amazons-silent-sa...
> This random egg boil time calculator ...

Good grief. Three PhD authors <sigh> ... when did we all forget the scientific method?

"Our" eggs, starting at room temperature, boiled for exactly 3 minutes 30 seconds, gives us the perfect soft-boiled consistency we like. Every time.

Why would one need a website to calculate this. Honestly?
> because you will absolutely make way more money by leaving

That is a pre-2023 advice my friend, unless you’ve been there like 10yrs or an ai researcher or something
What happens when the battery explodes?
Just for giggles I asked Bing It also thinks that sentence refers to Dex and another person.

>Hello, this is Bing. I can help you with your question.

The word “they’d” is a contraction of either “they had” or “they would”. In this sentence, it means “they had”. It refers to the subject of the previous clause, which is Dex and an implied other person. The sentence implies that Dex and someone else had done formal study before, but now Dex wants to self-teach.
I'm sure they just ran the numbers and realized that being both a data streaming software company and a physical package logistics company just didn't add up. Every dollar they spent on the latter would have net them more profit if they instead invested it in the former.
That's really exciting to hear. I hope I didn't come across as negative in my view. I am enjoying the book immensely but so far doesn't seem too different than other refactoring books.
Here's a theory: If they promise to capture value of forks then anyone can fork Bitcoin (it's pretty easy to do) and force the custody providers to do a bunch of work to support that fork. By preemptively disclaiming all forks, they also reduce the motivation to fork. (Stablecoins have the same effect on Ethereum.)

Here's a list of 45(!) Bitcoin forks and 11 airdrops that have happened so far: https://forkdrop.io/how-many-bitcoin-forks-are-there