skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The author missed the Fred Wilson's MBA Mondays Archive [1] which personally was a great resource in the quest for my "business success" (whatever it means). There is a more organized and illustrated edition here [2]. BTW, I always return to some articles such as "Commission Plans" for Sales [3].

Regarding books:
- Only the Paranoid Survive by Andrew Grove (Intel) [4]. It is always in my "pocket". It is real experience with pain points from a top CEO, not an academic exercise.

- Other books that are not focused on business but are more "epistemological". For example, "How Life Imitates Chess" by Garry Kasparov [5]. I don't know who created this title for the book though. Many autobiographies, in general, or good business biographies such as "Hard Drive: Bill Gates and the Making of the Microsoft Empire" [6].

[1] https://avc.com/category/mba-mondays/

[2] https://mba-mondays-illustrated.com/

[3] https://avc.com/2010/08/commission-plans/

[4] https://www.amazon.com/Only-Paranoid-Survive-Exploit-Challen...

[5] https://www.amazon.com/How-Life-Imitates-Chess-Boardroom/dp/...

[6] https://www.amazon.com/Hard-Drive-Making-Microsoft-Empire/dp...
> This has an interesting effect. I feel less inclined to mindlessly open and use apps, because it has become a fundamentally mindful gesture to do so.

This is a really important point, but I don't think it requires $3500. Switching to an android phone and a portable split keyboard for most (non-programming) deep work resulted in a huge uplift in focus for me, and I really think it's because it made context switching more of a mindful, intentional act. These days I get way more focused writing done on planes/trains/cafes on 4 inches of screen than I think I've ever done on my instant-context-switch-keyboard-shortcut-for-everything tiling wm laptop.
Car insurance rates in FL are among the highest in the nation and my rates keep going up. One of the drivers to this (no pun intended) is that so many motorists here are uninsured or underinsured (and many are not even licensed), as we are only required to carry $10k in Personal Injury Protection and $10k in Property Damage Liability, and many people carry just that. It’s also a “no-fault” state, which for simple fender-benders works pretty ok, but for more serious accidents can get very complicated and costly. It’s why we have so many personal injury attorneys and our cities are saturated with billboards shouting things like “DAN NEWLIN GOT ME $800,000”.
Doing so would necessitate the addition of another type: character/grapheme cluster.

Representing arrays as maps would impose no additional requirements outside of validation which is already considered as part of the proposal in question.
Yikes at that guy losing a $110k deposit on a house after he got fired from Amazon. Major metro housing prices are a boot on your neck. When my wife and I bought our house in 2016 it was more than an hour commute each way, but it cost less than our annual income. Next door was an abandoned house with raccoons and a fox living in it. But the other day I was at the local university and saw a basement 1BR apartment (in DC) being advertised for the same as my mortgage on a 3BR house.
To be fair, we don't need it to overtake, or even come close to, the entire plastic industry. It'd already be nice if it, and other sustainable materials, could chip away at different uses of petroplastics.
It actually didn’t, it came out of academia. Oracle just did the right thing one time.
>Like the employer offers coverage that extends to a non-employee spouse, like family health insurance?

Yes. I believe it’s typically offered for just you, you+spouse, or you+family - like health insurance. Lots of info on Google.
Why, so he can flee Texas again without getting caught next time the gas and electrical infrastructure freezes?
> In any case, your plan would destroy the land value, and the corresponding property tax revenue

Sounds like the market effectively discovered the true value of the property with all externalities priced in. I don’t see a problem here?
I don't work for microsoft, but I and everyone else knows that that is the kind of shit you'll be working on (who suggested it is irrelevant) long before you'd even do an interview with them.

Microsoft employees are certified assholes, and they know it.
People don't pay to talk to media managers.
If built to modern codes houses can survive a hurricane, or so I'm told.
perhaps disaster prone areas shouldn't be worth a lot?
If you're allowed to build it tall enough, just don't even light the first stages. Launch the final stage directly from a high enough altitude that it can escape on its own.
Google keep sync deletes my notes typed in desktop, on phone
i wrote a bunch of things and it deletes it my phone wasn't synced, wrote the notes on desktop,
went over to my phone, which the note tab was blank before, goes to that, and assumes deletion;;; this is fucking bullshit!!! im so angry >_<
why does technology fail me in 2024 :(((
As a current student we're still doing this stuff to bypass the network filter
NSAIDs are pretty dangerous on the whole. It's kinda surprising they remain OTC while something like marijuana is schedule 1. This study encapsulates things pretty well: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16086703/
This is a weird hill to die on. best of luck to you
I think it will be a lot of fun to build it and then because you built it you will be highly motivated to use it for a season. Maybe a few weeks. Maybe 6 months, but eventually it will will be boring too.

I find pomodo style gorilla warfare works best for me. I tell myself I will work on the implementation for 15 minutes. If after 15 minutes I am still repelled by this task to the point I am unproductive, then I accept that, make necessary notes and do something else.

I will try again tomorrow. Eventually I hit a point where I have done enough that I am motivated to continue to see it completed.

I will do gorilla attacks on cleaning my office, writing marketing email, inbox zero, implementing some new feature. It works for me for a lot of things.

When I am just unable to do what I’m “supposed” to do then I give myself grace and go do the thing that is consuming my attention at the moment.

This “unproductive” stuff often becomes new ideas, new features, new friends, and brings meaning to my life.
This reminded me my grandparents who used to go to dance parties up to their 80s. They didn't have any falls I recall until they got onto deathbed.
I don’t wish to be rude but why do you think the author needs to convince you of something regarding what sounds like a very different and difficult circumstance for you?
Myths and Facts of Forex Trading: Exploring the Realities
Ask HN: File sharing/organizing for small teams with multiple OSes
looking for suggestions on file server solutions for sharing and keeping files organized in 1-3 person teams with 1-10 linux/windows/mac workstations. not talking about code but other files like documents, assets, media files etc. cloud solutions not an option.

also what hardware to use for serving files that is easy to expand. a real server or a NAS.
I don't get the "its hard to measure throughput" line. I'm using RDS at work. At some point we had 20TB data, with daily 500GB (batch) writes into indexed tables. Same order of magnitude cost, sure. But the combination of RDS instance monitor, Performance Insights, PGadmin dashboard means you have: visual query plan with optional profilling (pgadmin), live tracking of SQL invocations with # invokes per second, avg number of rows per invocation, and sampling based bottleneck analysis (disk reads, locks, cpu, throttling, network reads, sending data to client, etc), you have per disk read/write throughput (MBps), IOPS being used, network throughput, etc. At most times what i felt lacking was the ability to understand why PG was using so much CPU/disk troughput(e.g. inserts into indexed tables) but the disk throughput the instance was under was always very visible.

The article also doesnt mention anything about using provisioned IO instances. Nor any mention of which architectures have the highest PIOPs ceiling.
I learned something today :)

Gravity on surface of this planet will be 3(times heavier than earth)/(1.55(radius)^2), so 1.25g, however escape velocity also depends on planet radius so we get sqrt(1.55 * 1.25) = 1.4 earths escape velocity (so 15.7km/s). Assuming Isp specific impulse of engine of around 300s, let's compute
m0/mf (initial mass of rocket / payload) = exp(vEsc/(Isp*g0)) (g0=9.8m/s^2 (on both planets)):

For earth, it's 45.

For this planet, it's 208.

So, the rocket (using our current chemical engine technology) needs 4.6 times more fuel than on earth. Much more difficult, but maybe possible...

edit: formatting
What is a floss supercedant to IMAP that solves those things?
Except that if you can sniff the encryption keys, you can tamper with the OS and for example remove the password...
Ok… lots of soapboxing and tangents without answering anything.

> Edge does have some nice features

Such as? This is what I want to know. What value to you as an end user does Edge provide that makes it worth tolerating the nonsense?
In South Bay there are only few options
I think what most comments try to point out, is that the problem is not the bug, but the institutions taking action knowing the software is buggy

For example the Post Office, both them and Fujitsu knew the bug for 20 years, they did not request it to be fixed, and in court denied the software could have any problem, while prosecuting people and closing branches. Looks more like a feature than a bug
NYPD officers will have to record race of people they question
In Canada, from a 2009 article, https://www.cbc.ca/news/card-costs-who-pays-what-to-whom-1.8...:

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How we pay

- Credit cards account for 31 per cent of transactions.

- Cash accounts for 29 per cent of transactions.

- Debit cards account for 26 per cent of transactions.

So what does it cost to process a transaction? The Bank of Canada survey looked at the estimated cost of processing a $36.50 transaction, which was the median cash transaction in its survey. Costs broke down like this:

Debit card: 19 cents.

Cash: 25 cents.

Credit card: 82 cents.

The study notes that the overall cost of electronic transactions falls as the volume increases, which the authors suggest, may encourage greater use of electronic payments.

====
I see shy Joe... ;-)
How big of a lunatic would our great-great-great grandparents have considered us for telling them that soon the several-month trip across the USA will pretty soon take an afternoon, and going to the moon will take 3 days?

Sure, traveling at Voyager’s (impressive, but essentially wagon) speed won’t get it done. But betting against technological advancement has made fools of a vast many.
Safeguarding Your Online Presence
The issue with “no good solution” is that sometimes things are inherently hard and certain technologies don’t permit lying.

Good example is async in Rust; people don’t like it but mostly because async is hard.

Postgres has excellent HA options, if you know what you’re trying to do with your data. CitusDB for data-warehousing storage, TimescaleDB for time-series data, and the traditional replication system for having HA (with a single write-primary) - which is the same method that Elasticsearch and ETCd are doing under the hood. Though in Elasticsearches case they do it by aggressively sharding their data set and splitting write masters across multiple nodes which has huge latency tradeoffs.

Other multi-master HA systems have trade offs (or, lie about not having tradeoffs *cough* mongo *cough*).
1. Developers managed just fine in times before pervasive telemetry was normalized.

2. How "data driven" development usually fails in practice, and is a false promise - that is indeed a big and interesting topic, spanning across issues like Goodhart's law, or whether the data is used to "improve your experience" as if the user was a Thanksgiving turkey.

3. But even if you are of pure intentions and able to avoid all the pitfals of 2, I have no reason to believe that. As a user, I don't know you, I don't trust you. All I know is that, before telemetry became something developers suddenly can't do a good job without, it was the domain of spooks, criminals, and shady advertisers. We used to call it "spyware" and classified it as a form of malware. What reason do I have to believe you are and will forever be using this data in my interest, and not against it?

4. Between HIPAA, GDPR and various cybersecurity policies of one's organization/employer, your benign, unadvertised, opt-out telemetry may be landing some of your users in hot water - and it's the major reason why organizations keep getting stricter about what can or cannot be installed on work machines. Savvy users will prefer to avoid your telemetry-rich product, rather than to take the risk of a fuss with IT or Legal if the product captures some bits of protected information.
One of the biggest hypothetical great filters is massive war. Higher engineering requirements for rockets (or even simple projectiles such as cannons or arrows) would set limits on the rate of increase of warfare technology. It's possible other means of diplomacy would advance at sufficient speed to preempt population annihilation from global war.

I'm curious what effect an increase of gravity may have on heavier-than-water displacement craft (canoes and other modern boats). I think probably none, since you're dealing with density, not weight. Except for any increase in density of early building materials and cargo/supercargo. But it's been long enough from physics I'm unsure.

I think atmospheric density is more dependent on magnetic field than gravity.
If they wanted to maintain user privacy, they should allow easy configuration with Ollama and a local hosted LLM coding model.
Point being: these researchers were chosen by, and paid by Mozilla to do this. The researchers have a strong incentive to be biased; to leave out details; to p-hack. Though they claim to be neutral, no human is capable of being unbiased, especially when his paycheck depends on it.

I have nothing but utmost respect for Mozilla and these researchers, but the paper needs to be read not as facts, but merely conjectures, to be verified by other more neutral parties.
More reasons to avoid Kotlin :)
I live in an area where streets like this are commonplace:

https://www.google.co.nz/maps/@-41.282617,174.7614182,3a,75y...

Note that this is not some side street - it's a busy two-way thoroughfare.

Despite this we are being inundated by larger and larger vehicles. It used to be that Dodge Rams and such were a novelty that had to be imported privately. Now they are common at the city's car dealerships. I refuse to believe that people are buying these for their 'practicality'.
Could this [1] be possible with "Wi-Fi HaLow, based on the IEEE 802.11ah standard", too?:

[1] "Sensor-Free Soil Moisture Sensing Using LoRa Signals" (2022)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38768950
No, Vue’s template attributes are not valid html
>now, I don't see many places using Exchange switching to Thunderbird,

Because you couldn’t.

There was a TB extension “OWL” but it wasn’t good enough for me, still lacked things like the contact cards with data from your Active Directory install, and other default Outlook features.

So the point for me is now you could take that path - maybe.
The Cocktail Revolution (2023)
Pocket has been a built-in Mozilla-owned Firefox feature for 7 years now. You're resenting a one optional button.
Most (all?) dealers in California offer some kind of 24/48 hour insurance for you to legally drive home. The prices are sort of ridiculous when compared to normal car insurance ($50-$100 for a couple days of coverage IIRC), but thats just a function of the risk profile and the fixed underwriting costs of a short policy.
Wow, a whole 4 bills - that envelope must be bursting at the seams.
Hate what? The possibility that it might change one day?

I'm confused.
Author here—you’re not wrong, I’ve been a gadget enthusiast my whole life, and I deliberately left in the tone that I’m trying to justify owning an Apple Vision Pro, despite its flaws.

I was also serious that the flaws are part of the charm for me, because it really does harken back to the “gadget age” of the 2000s. It takes me back to being 15 years old, wearing a Fossil Wrist PDA, trying to be productive with Palm OS using a fingernail-sized stylus. I really loved that sort of thing, and it’s been really hard for me to recapture that feeling this past decade.

AVP is a device that, so far, has brought me joy and makes me think about my relationship with technology. If not for the price tag, it would be a no-brainer for me to keep. But as I continue to mess around with the device, the price is constantly ringing in the back of my mind, making me want to justify it, even though I may not be able to in the end.
holy shit holy shit it has a version history thank the stars!!!! omy ggawd my notes!!!
Leds can output 275nm-950nm.

IR is between 780nm-1mm.

These aren’t exact numbers.

Probably something in that overlap was damaging them somehow. Or it might be something totally different and the person had misdiagnosed.

What I’m uncertain of, is if the led is intended to produce a certain color (white, blue) how much it would be emitting on the IT spectrum.

Example: https://toshiba.semicon-storage.com/us/semiconductor/knowled...
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Now I guess I'm arguing against my point, but I think these numbers are out of whack.

I don't think the US limits the number of new doctors per year. That would surprise me. I do think the AMA or whatever has a vested interest in controlling the supply of physicians, because it props up salaries.

That said, it is certainly not the case that US doctors average $1m/yr in salary. There are some doctors that make that much or more, and different specializations make different salaries on average, but the overall average is more like $225k/yr.

Finally, while I am not going to argue about the benefits of deregulation - we do have to make sure people actually get appropriate care - it is the case that practices across the country are being bought up by companies like HCA. This seems to lead to the 'enshittification' phenomenon as applied to medicine. The parent companies demand more efficiency, leading to office staff having to handle more patients and more work than before, and doctors having to see more patients in the same amount of time as before. Quality, from the perspective of the patient, suffers. I don't think deregulation fixes this.

I don't think 'the market' is a good solution to healthcare. When I think of healthcare, I think of people who are sick, or hurt, or whatever, and they need to get some help. If there is ever a time where having to weigh pros and cons of available services while shopping around to find the best deal is a good outcome, asking people to do this when they are hurt or sick is not it.
because the asymmetry of people who are curious and people who buy the new technology creates a demand for first impressions and think pieces
Palit reveals fanless GeForce RTX 3050 6GB KalmX GPU with DVI port
It is legal to drive without liability insurance in almost every state… you just have to post a $20k-$50k bond with the state.
> have you ever considered that maybe you need to get out of whatever online bubble you're in?

No online bubble can explain away the fact that the US has record high household debit, record high numbers of people eating into retirement, or record high numbers of people paying more than 30% of their income to rent (https://www.npr.org/2024/01/25/1225957874/housing-unaffordab...).

The fact is that most of us on this website are far better off than the rest of country. If you have just $1,000 sitting in savings you're better off than over half of the country (https://truthout.org/articles/more-than-half-of-americans-do...)

The vast majority of Americans have been forced to change their normal shopping habits because they can no longer afford what they used to. Millions of Americans are dealing with hunger and food insecurity (https://news.yahoo.com/millions-americans-live-hunger-food-2...).

None of this is a good look for our economic future.
Patriot Act 2.0
I'm sorry but I'm having a hard time understanding why a person bringing up a tool in conversation during an interview is seen as such a clear and strong signal containing so much information about their professional performance.

But nowadays it seems like one has to 'turn on' an interviewer and avoid a minefield of forbidden words to get a job. If a workplace is to become a toxic cult-like environment being policed against such thoughtcrimes as being curious and interested in technology for its own sake I think one would be fortunate to be passed on after an interview to enter such a place.
I believe the implication is that an HN post isn't a great venue for 1:1 comms.
Just yesterday, i went with my friend to some place, we park but the spot is metered, the park meters have been replaced by a “more convenient” digital system, there used to be machines where you could pay and print a ticket, of course this was still inconvenient so the machines were removed altogether and now it’s an app-only system, wonderful but there are several apps for different zones so if you go to an unusual place chances are you need to install a new app then enter the location, the time you want to park, the plate number, a picture of the tag, the payment info, the 2FA code and receive the confirmation. All this replaced the inconvenience of popping a quarter in the meter.
Not really? Encrypted sessions block the trivial attack of just watching the secret go across the bus. Pushing people to MITM attacks is already an improvement, and while generating initial trust in the TPM for that purpose isn't straightforward, it's not impossible. The almost universal implementation of TPM-backed secret management isn't secure against physical attack, but that's very different to "insecure by design". All the primitives to make this work reasonably are there, OS and firmware vendors just aren't using them.
> It is truly baffling to me how something that holds so much genuine value can be driven into the ground while making decisions left, right and center (and the whole community trying to tell you exactly what you're doing) that destroyed everything of value in the Quora process.

It's crazy that the operators of a website like this could understand so little about what made it special, but I guess all they understood was engagement metrics.
Alumnus. Alumni is plural.
They seem anti-establishment, because you need an anti-establishment attitude to do investigative work like that. If you are the average conformist, you are happy to work within the system, focusing on your personal goals.
The issues with drones is it takes energy to stay aloft and you’ll be introducing weight limits. It’ll also become a target for pet owners. Cats, in particular, will swat them down.
This is a normal rate in the Netherlands too.
They use a ton of java, they even have their own distro. In fact, they answer this question on its landing page (https://www.microsoft.com/openjdk):

> Java at Microsoft spans from Azure to Minecraft, across SQL Server to Visual Studio Code, LinkedIn and beyond! We use more Java than one can imagine.
> But overall the state has a bad history of trying to manipulate markets especially through dictate.

If the market is competitive and the cost is excessive then yes. If it's an oligopoly/local monopoly and the providers can charge as much as they want that just means there will be slightly less surplus left for the shareholders and management.
You don't need to store that key anywhere, just like you don't need to store any keys to validate TLS connections.