skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Home Depot is the best place to buy light bulbs, Walmart will usually do in a pinch, for common light bulbs.

Batteries I get at Costco when they go on sale, Walmart if run out before a Costco sale.

These aren't items I'd usually buy online but all three of those stores have online sites where you can order their merchandise.
I remember for buying something on eBay after winning the auction you would have to personally mail the seller a check, they would deposit it and wait for it to clear, then send you the item. On top of that the seller would have to deal with figuring out the ebay fees, and everyone involved just pretended taxes didn't exist. Fun times.
Well it's still better than a Chinese robotic vacuum cleaner with a bunch of cameras doing it.
This makes... no sense? You have to pay back the loan on top of the interest, it's not like you got that money for free at a lower tax rate. Whereas if you sell something the proceeds become yours. How in the world is that a "loophole"? It's not like there's any guarantee you'd end up paying less in interest than if you'd bought bonds or left it in a bank account or something. You're risking your money, whether you make a profit or not isn't guaranteed. That's not a "loophole", that's by-design and a feature that's available to everybody.
Related:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38954189
I'm past that stage. I built a business in the 2000's and hosed it completely because I had no idea what I was doing. Then I spent a lot of the 2010's trying to conceptualise and create something I believe in which was similarly futile on the probabilistic scale. I figured at the end of it that it's futile and embarked on a journey of self improvement which devolved in chaos and nihilism.

Now I exist in a world of laughing maniacally at this shit show while raking in the cash from pretending I give a fuck about things like microservices and AngularJS, sleeping through hours of meetings, drinking a hell of a lot of really good wine and spending my spare time travelling all over the world and hooking up with floozies in bars and doing things which my parents would frown about.

Do what makes you happy and fuck everything else. Seriously. Leave no regrets.

Anyway I'm sure the HN community will frown upon this. I know I do :)
Aren’t we capitalists here? Capitalism would suggest that more competition is indeed good and actually should outcompete a larger behemoth provided you ensure the larger one can’t do things like flooding the market or otherwise pushing out the smaller players. But given government contracts keep these players fed and happy (very lucrative military contracts), I’m not sure what the answer.
I hit a bit of a wall with my main project and just never really moved on. still in limbo.
Why are Americans frustrated with the U.S. economy?
I'm totally with you, except a notification that it's finished would actually be really helpful.

It's apparently possible to track a washing machine's progress with a smart switch that monitors power draw; I've got one lying around so might try to implement that soon, to complement my hacky RPi-Ring-doorbell-announcer :)
A megabyte a day still seems excessive.
On the average, only those prisoners could keep alive who, after years of trekking from camp to camp, had lost all scruples in their fight for existence; they were prepared to use every means, honest and otherwise, even brutal force, theft, and betrayal of their friends, in order to save themselves. We who have come back, by the aid of many lucky chances or miracles - whatever one may choose to call them - we know: the best of us did not return.

Viktor E. Frankl

He would say he was lucky.
There's still the matter of spectrum: Unlike existing satphone services, Starlink doesn't have any of the precious global L-band or C-band spectrum required to make it available globally.

That's why they're partnering with T-Mobile in the US and others elsewhere: Those operators can just lend Starlink some of their domestic spectrum. That's going to be much harder at sea, and there will always be a long tail of countries where it doesn't yet work. Safety operations that need something that works 100% of the time will probably not switch in a while.

But yes, that probably doesn't matter as much for many current use cases.
Yeah. Very similar story on my side.

I slowed down a lot, both at my job and with side projects.
And you know what, Earth is still spinning!

Kids are here now, working on myself, trying to figure out things, be happier. Etc.
Other users having low data usage doesn't prove they also have low usage?

Are people so uncomfortable saying "we don't know" that they use such loose reasoning to "get the answer"?

I'll re-read the article/tweets, maybe I missed something.
Definitely, use what works. Stability is a good thing.
If people are observed to be abusing WFH it can be revoked for them

If they aren’t performing they can be fired
The classic is How To Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie -- highly recommended. If you're young and looking for something more helpful in romance, watch Before Sunrise.
Car Prices Show No Sign of UAW Wage Increases. What It Means for Auto Stocks
Oh no, it's very humid.
I use Firefox since the time it was Netscape Navigator 2.0.

Unfortunately that’s not the case for almost 70% of the others. Thus de-facto there is no browser diversity.

The only saving grace for me as a user is majority of the things possible are already standardized, so there is a relatively small vendor lock-in surface, thus I am not quite forced to switch to chrom.*
... did you miss the /s for sarcasm on the post you replied to? That's exactly the comments point.
You can do this by either hitting the favorite link or simply upvoting. History of both is retained in your profile (difference being that favorites are publicly visible).
I'm going by the construction drawing which is 100% unambiguous and not a bunch of words. Reddit has nothing to do with it, that's just one place where this Boeing sourced drawing can be found.

The NTSB comment is just about the fitting guides not about the stops, and yes, they stop the door from moving upwards. There are no bolts through the stops and they do not mesh into any part of the door as far as I am aware, nor does the drawing show anything that they can slot into, it's just a bit of pressure. If it isn't the bolts providing the tension then it would have to be some other mechanism but none is apparent on the drawing. I'm sure the bolts will also stop the door from moving vertically, just as much as they stop if from moving laterally, the key bit is that if they do not engage that the door can slide up and outward and into the airstream on the side of the plane, which is a formidable force. After that it is just a matter of time before the door will escape.

The big question for me is whether all of the bolts had to come loose before the door escaped or whether it was enough for one or two of the four that were loose to come out to do start a feedback loop (door goes off a bit, more air, more vibration and so on). I also wonder if they'll be able to recover the bolts from inside the airframe or whether they've been lost.

> I'll accept your retraction anytime. :)

This is the sort of dumb comment that you may want to take elsewhere.

It is 100% possible that my reading of that construction drawing is wrong, but you haven't shown where or how it is wrong, just that the NTSB person said something that is either incompatible with the drawing or that there is a discrepancy between my understanding of the drawing and reality. If you want me to progress in my understanding you'll have to explain, not demand because nothing the NTSB officer said helps with that understanding other than to contradict, which is a good indication that I'm wrong but not how I am wrong. All she talks about is 'matching circles' but those run in a different direction than against pressure so I really don't see how that matches the drawing. It's possible the stops hook over the corresponding parts in the plug but that's not readily apparent from the drawing at all.
Living in Aarhus and Aalborg will only make you happy if you have roots in Denmark. I can’t imagine anyone having a good life moving there to do remote work from other country. You’re going to have zero social contact and the quality of services for the money is just meh. As others have pointed, the rating is meaningless.
> Now I’m super autistic about paper backups of everything, having ways back in, etc

I don't think autistic means what you think it means
Yes, but what I proposed seems like no risk of silently overwriting? If there are dependencies between cells there will still be an error
Yes. I quit my job in September, haven't really produced anything since despite having a lot of free time on my hands. I find the software space to be very uninspiring at the moment; everything that's going on is LLMs and crappy LLM wrapper startups. In all my years of HN surfing addiction, the last 6 months have been the most boring, but maybe that's just me.
I disagree with some of these points:

1. Z-wave is better, but Wifi can be fine in the right environment. Like, my weather station uses Wifi because it sends a few bytes of data to a server once a minute. No need for an additional protocol going on that interferes with everything else on 2.4GHz anyway. I also use Wifi for a sensor I put in my box that stores 3D printer filament to measure its humidity, so I know when to recharge the desiccant. An ESP32 wakes up every half hour, measures the humidity, and sends it over HTTPS to an InfluxDB instance in "the cloud". Its tiny lithium polymer battery lasts a year. It took me maybe an hour to design the hardware and write the software for it. Why do anything more complicated? Why bother with an esoteric protocol when you just want to use the Internet?

3. Consumer grade routers are great these days. I have a 10G WAN, 10G LAN, and Wifi6e on the router that Verizon provides with my service for free. To buy something like that myself, I'd be spending 700 or 800 dollars so that I can pretend to be a sysadmin on my day off. Why bother?
My professor who taught me undergraduate algebra once said: sometimes you have to repeat a sentence out loud to _really_ convince yourself of it.
That's a great pointer seems like a many birds single stone solution!
What do you wish to use that is blocked?
"Sure, but incels talking point is that 80% of women are going after 20% of men, that's whopping 80% of men who are being left out. This could predict big problem for general stability of western society, where incels hating women on obscure internet forums is just mild start of what's about to come."

Hasn't it always been similar to this? The most attractive people have the most prospects. If there wasn't competition, everyone would want the top men or women. There's going to be some amount of realistic expectations causing people to "settle". The actually excluded population is not 80% but probably single digits.

I really don't think this will be a problem. Yes, you'll have some outliers doing bad things, but it's not going to become a widespread issue. Even in the article they mention that being an incel is not usually the primary reason for violence.
Hey! No need for name calling. :) I jest, I jest.

There is a very long history of "left" bombings, going all the way to French Revolution. Did the modern left somehow lose the ability to inspire people capable of such actions?
I mean, it's obviously a pretty good product in terms of effortlessly providing networking to a device in a way that an average home user can manage. Everyone has wifi.

That being said, a better architected device would probably just use Bluetooth and your smartphone as a controller. I don't think many average home users could tell the difference.
I think this is not even really a problem with the peer review system, but a problem with the (mostly, nonexistence of) an in depth science journalism field. Peer review just means it is ok to stick in a scientific journal and have peers read it… people with advanced bullshit detectors and nuance parsers in a particular domain.

A paper is a brick. A policy is a building. It is not a problem in the brick manufacturing field, if people keep trying to build houses without any mortar.

(Just to be explicit, I think you are right on the money and just wanted to elaborate/rant).
> Just an example: Dutch people are very happy living in the Netherlands.

Is that so? I had the impression that impression that a far-right politician, Geert Wilders, won the last elections in the Netherlands precisely because people in the Netherlands were, for a very big part, not happy at all with the state of thing?
It's already nonsensical and has been for over a decade. Planes have ELTs, emergency locator transmitters, that are activated by G-force in a crash (or manually). Any sensible person going somewhere remote has a PLB (personal locator beacon), or at least one for each three people in a group.
Very cool, I wasn't aware of that study. Thanks!
With enough hand waving and wishful thinking about FTL travel and generation ships and other such BS, the sky is not the limit.
iRobot, the robotic vacuum cleaner company that leaked photos of people on the toilet as viewed from the vacuum cleaners' cameras, is an American company. If I'm not mistaken they grew out of MIT.
Yeah everyone’s a racist when you’re not smart enough to understand someone.
Yeah the default prompt is intended for people that are a bit slow. You have to aggressively tune the custom prompt to get reasonable results. Here's a decent starting point:

Treat me as an expert in all subject matters.
No moral lectures - discuss safety only when it's crucial and non-obvious.
If your content policy is an issue, provide the closest acceptable response and explain the issue.
No need to disclose you're an AI.
If the quality of your response has been substantially reduced due to my custom instructions, explain the issue.
it's sadly only mostly a drop-in replacement

it misses some features docker has and docker misses some features podman has and some subtle behaviour differences can lead unexpected outcomes (mostly in favor of podman doing things better)

many of the differences are irrelevant but can be an issue in scripts calling docker/podman cli

one of the more surprising discrepancies we ran into was that due to the rootless podman nature you don't need to "slowly copy the context to the daemon". In our case this lead to some slightly sub-optimal setups running just fine with podman but then taking way to long to run with docker as it copied a ton of data.

generally in my experience if you only use podman or only use docker and the "drop-in" aspect only matters for switching from one to the other permanently it works grate, but if you idk. want to use docker on some systems and podman on others it might not be the best idea
LinkedIn lets you endorse particular skills, which is more informative than a blanket endorsement. Even then it's not very valuable. You still have to verify it in a technical interview. All it does is get you past the first filter.
It seems like a repeat of Deep Blue when the "clever algorithm" approach was embarrassed by Hsu's (also very clever in many ways) throwing a lot of brute force at the problem.
Some Americans might not realize that in other countries with Costco you cannot get a membership unless you are in a certain profession (i.e., teacher) or circumstance.
I did read it. The paragraph about yoga seemed like a fairly arbitrary but interesting mention and doesn't contain any useful advice for beginner runners. If this article was titled "things I wish I knew before I started meditating" then I would have included something like "the author finds running to be beneficial to their meditation." But it's not.
Thanks for pointing out Primefaces, I did not know it. It looks really good - I am just not sure about their licensing and price (I developed apps for personal use). The components look great and apparently one can also use TailwondCSS natively.

VueRequest also looks nice - I use fetch to get the data but this library avoids the boilerplate.

Thansk for these ideas - I will jump once again in something new :)
What's the 2500 rule from? Can the company not sell to another at the size and how long do they have before forced IPO?
Single gas giant & moons would easier - see how it keeps Io and possibly other moons warm. :)
My post is the source per HN guidelines vs reblog.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
My Miele washer and dryer send me notifications when done.
This is such an interesting thread and I feel I should share my story since it's on the other end of the spectrum.

I had a poor relationship with work about a decade ago. I struggled with very bad health, both physical and mental. I went through a slow journey of recovery that made me unplug from work a lot. I traveled quite a bit, cheap backpacking. I invested in friendships, good food, and very simple life.

In the last couple years I have moved to a village in eastern Himalayas. I gained my anchor: nature. I started a co-living hostel here. I started working in software again but I have no expectations of a traditional career. My passion came back slowly. I have been able to invest in learning new languages, create passion projects, do daily physical chores of running a nomad space.

I have even started learning drums. I have kept investing in people, learning how to build bonds. I also feed animals around me daily. Now I have come around to finally focus on software work full-time again. I'm building a product, but without big financial expectations. I realise this isn't standard, but: software product is about impact to me, not about becoming rich. And I'm deeply content with this.

I have been inspired a lot by Pieter Levels, the founder of nomadlist and have even connected on how I wanted to build things like him. For me, I feel I'm here now since building is not about making tons of money to me. I haven't had as much fun writing code daily as in the last couple years. And I'm 40 years old. Hope it helps.
That one has a line pointing to (approximately) the right position. Olomouc doesn't, though.
I don't understand why having the opportunity as an individual and species of defying entropy and all the consequences this would bring should be meaningless...
But if the prices are way higher, then 5Guys sees that by setting prices a bit lower it can capture 90% of the market, rather than 50%. Which is way more total profit.

That's how downwards price pressure in capitalism works -- by reducing price you gain market share and increase profit overall. Otherwise, under capitalism, all our prices would be sky-high!
The authorities in those countries already ban importation of unlicensed communication devices and severely punish anyone caught in possession. A few will be smuggled in but not enough to effect any real change.

I do think though that the CIA should at least take advantage of this new technology to undermine hostile foreign governments. Mass produce a few million cheap satellite phones and use balloons to scatter them all over China, North Korea, etc. Even if it doesn't have much practical effect, the overt disrespect will help to undermine our adversaries and force them to expend more resources on tightening internal security controls.
There is a good Volts[1] episode[2] on it. TL;DR the thing that limits how much power a line can carry is heat dissipation, which depends on weather. We used simple heuristic models to back out what we considered safe operating currents historically, but if you use sensors to enable a more data-intensive approach, you can operate closer to full capacity.

[1] https://www.volts.wtf/

[2] https://open.spotify.com/episode/4sqNcVcXdLF3QFDR6f5Vgd
On the other hand, you could argue that LLMs decrease the utility of this somewhat (if only marginally for now).

One common application of satphones are medical emergencies on ships or airplanes hours from a doctor. There are specialized services available that have a doctor on call that'll talk you through anything your local crew feels comfortable doing with the tools they have at hand.

Soon, you can just take an LLM with you that'll probably be able to solve many of these problems for you.

For actually calling for physical support, you'll still need communications in any case. LLMs might be able to help with more efficient communication (in their capacity as language compression algorithms, e.g. to figure out what to request over a bandwidth-limited channel most efficiently), but I predict that the satellite channel will grow wider much faster than local LLMs will become reliable enough.
what is the original word?
Huh - I tried installing the app a couple of times, and couldn't get it to work. I'll try again - thanks!
What? That's just completely wrong. Even for docker desktop (which is completely different from docker engine) you don't need an account
This is true. The big turning point was the release of the iPhone, a device that allowed people who didn't know what a computer was to access the internet.
I usually only have one active subscription at a time.
Water microdroplets have potential to produce hydrogen peroxide
Whether or not that’s true, I think it does support the claim that the far left is not as dangerous as far right groups of similar popularity - the latter appear to endure for much longer and have much more political impact.
People who don't want to faff about with VPNs, BitTorrent, malware scanning, and the anxiety of never knowing if your gaming machine has been compromised or not.
Yes.

You can maybe lead larger projects, and bigger teams, but ultimately its not a path to C suite.

Path to C suite in tech is mostly founding, occasionally odd things like board membership, venture capital.
ChatGPT has an API. I'd be surprised if wiring that to Twilio would take more than a handful lines of code.
I make my kids wave at it. There's a manned spaceship flying over our heads at 17,000 mile per hour. We see it, we wave.
I'm not counting cumulative hours of productive work, I'm counting duration from inception to working implementation.

I consider one person knocking something out in one day that would previously have taken them 10 days of wrestling with to be a 10x increase in productivity.

And I'd consider one person building a proof of concept in a couple hours that would have taken 5 people 10 weeks of back and forth meetings, planning, pushback and reluctance to be a 1000x improvement in productivity.

These tools are seriously reducing the bar for knocking stuff out that would have previously required much more significant time investment and risk to even consider let alone tackle.

I've personally used copilot and chatgpt to implement things that would have taken me months of study and wrestling with in just a few hours.
Which ones did you have in mind?
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/want-my-rss/
3. I don't think you're understanding what the contentions about consumer grade routers are.

Make no mistake: consumer grade routers are a massive security risk, and continue to be to this day.

They have no incentive to respond to and mitigate CVEs.

They frequently have hardwired credentials.

They don't have robust networking tools.

They are common targets for hacks for these reasons.

Regarding throughput, yes, 10gb is quite a bit. It'd probably be somewhat troublesome to get a home router with those kinds of physical ports (though CPU throughput would be trivial, see Intel's latest offerings. The n100 range can saturate any reasonable connection, including IPS, which you don't have).

It's just not necessary, though. I am a power user, software engineer, hosting ~50 docker containers, many with custom code on 300mbps. No slowdown. No saturation.

Furthermore, a cheap enterprise AP from eBay, even on wifi 5, is vastly superior to your Verizon AP.

I'm not a networking professional. I installed OpnSense and connected a ruckus AP. Done.

1. If you had a decent AP, zigbee interference wouldn't be an issue, wink emoji.