skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If only there was some sort of globally distributed, cryptographically verified database of some sort that could be used for this purpose …
To be fair the PNW still has pretty good weather, gorgeous nature, good infrastructure (natural and man-made) and a varied economy. It'd be weird if it _wasn't_ expensive.
There is a nice documentary about what remains of the Voyager project team. The video is not free however.

https://www.itsquieterfilm.com/
I agree, Apple generated 85 billion from their App Store sales in 2022. They have a rigorous refund policy making it easy to opt into purchases, work to opt-out, and nearly impossible to get a refund.

EU policy's lessen the difficulty. The US could move to adopt a similar approach which then balances the level of difficulty.

May be it would be interesting to see a company create a purchase flow as easy as Apple's but for both mobile, web, and voice.
You reminded me of my own childhood. Yes, 5 Kčs was a standard price.

I was not yet 13 when the no-longer-Communist Czechoslovak government liberalized the prices. Back then, I was profoundly unsettled by the idea that the same loaf of bread could cost a different amount of money in two different stores.

It felt as unnatural as having multiple birthdays.
Leaseholds are very common in Hawaii due to similar ownership, although here it’s privately owned land by native orgs in most cases, because the Hawaiians specifically voted down reservation-like agreements to maintain what sovereignty they have left. It works out pretty good here, buildings are routinely demolished and bigger ones grow in the place. Most of the land like this is in town, commonly Waikiki hotels and apartments are leasehold. We’re still having a very horrible housing crisis here, though.
do you support relocation?
Ironic, that same item you mention has 2 reviews (out of 3) complaining about worn out fabric within months. And almost $5k.
i'm sure this is intended as great PR and a nice story, but it just reflects the dystopia that is the uninsured/underinsured way of life in the US.
Natural Gas Producers Are Slashing Spending as Prices Stumble
I used the name “Nah Thanks” and selected that I was unemployed to pass on giving any legitimate information.
https://www.happyschools.com/bachelors-vs-masters-vs-phd/

Generally, advanced degrees are worth it for areas where you can't get the resources to learn yourself.

CS is unique in this case because all you need to learn everything computer science is a laptop.
There have been many attempts to build this, but they don’t tend to last. OnDeck is the most notable.

First, identify solo-founders you could reach out to and ask to meet them to trade learning experiences.

That’s it. Any community you join, this is the most important action you will take and the one that will matter after you’ve lost interest in that community.

You build your network.

If you need help finding people to connect with:

1. LinkedIn: search “solopreneur” and other variations.

2. X: still plenty of indie hackers to find.

If you want to add value, do a 10min podcast and invite people you’d like to meet to speak on it. Creating content is something every solo-founder needs to do more of.

You are a node in a network. Be the highest quality node you can be.

Two tips:

1. After every meeting, ask “who else would you suggest I talk to?”

Now your network building is n+1

2. Ask “who would be good to intro to you?”

Now it’s flowing both directions.

That’s it.

You’ll acquire skills, opportunities, encouragement, and the foundation you can build your career as a founder on.
A single db can handle that load easily
Sofa bases seems to be getting shitter and shitter as manufactures value engineer with increasingly more low quality engineered wood. At this point my next sofa frame is going to be sturdy metal outdoor furniture. I've also seen a few tiktok sponcon videos of sofas with industrial plastic molded frame, like industrial pallets. Probably not enviromentally friendly, but seems durable.

Seems like Sofas are last to make the economical steel channel furniture jump, you can get tons of sturdy/durable bedframes for like $100 shipped on Amazon. Most cheap metal futon frames also last forever if it wasn't for the moving mechanical components. I'd like to see more steel + bolt sofas.
Not only did Apple showcase it, Sony sued Connectix and lost, thus formally making emulators "legal". [1] Similarly though, it looks like they were able to basically shut it down by getting injunctions on it while the case was pending, and eventually buying and discontinuing it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connectix_Virtual_Game_Station
> I remember being a naive college student and hearing about a "software engineer shortage."

This is real and it still is real, these positions don't pay over 200k for a 4 year degree because there is an abundance.

>I was to play a part in the devaluation of engineering labor by helping supply exceed demand, thereby allowing company owners to commodify software labor to ultimately pay wages proportional to hours worked rather than offering a share in company ownership, which allows for compensation proportional to company success.

Wow slippery slope fallacy. The medical field has no commodity workers and they aren't given ownership.

Anyway, seems like an axe to grind rather than the reality of things.
A few of the tricks I've noticed they use:

* Review not tagged as English, or neither Full-Time or Part-Time, and those are the default filters

* Default sort is "Most Recent" and the Featured Review at the top of reviews is always a positive hand chosen review

* "Found 515 out of over 530 reviews" - I suspect they maybe take those 15 other reviews into account for the rating average, but you just can't read them right now so technically not taken down

* Negative review stays in Pending state while being screened by Glassdoor for over a month, but the time it's approved, it's buried by newer reviews

*
Last time I bought a couch, a new one, it set me back $6,000. It took me the better part of eight months to find it. Solid wood. Proper joinery. Thick padding. Pig skin leather. We kept it for 20 years before giving it to some friends who had it reupholstered where I expect it will last another 20 years.

I used to have some expensive, but ultimately crap, book cases. Book cases are not designed by people who own a lot of books. 36" to 48" spans of fast growth pine will stretch and bow within a year or two. I designed my own book case. I went to a furniture making store. We went back and forth a few times. The biggest sticking point that took four attempts for the furniture maker to understand was where to put the fixed shelf. It does not go in the middle because that wastes space. We made it out of pine. 7' 8" tall, so that when standing it up, it will clear an 8ft ceiling in modern American homes. 22" wide shelves so they cannot flex. Fixed shelf to counteract gravity. Made specifically to carry paperback novels and similarly sized books. "Sand it three times, prime it, sand it, prime it, sand it, paint it, sand it, paint it, no I don't care that a single book case will cost $200." I bought 24 of them. Many hundreds of lineal feet of book cases. We still have them 24 years later and they are as good as new. And the paint job, because it is two layers of prime and two layers of paint, on a mirror surface, looks like you just took the item from the showroom floor.

I have a plywood bookcase I made to store cooking books. The cheapest plywood you can imagine from the big box store. But because of the structural design, 15 years later it still holds up without any bowing or flexing.

Modern furniture is absolute junk. Even the "good stuff."
That being said, all the stuff about censorship and getting arrested for "treason" (basically for a political joke at the bar)

I think you didn't get it right. The joke is that they go out of their way to not say anything offensive, knowing that the situation is tense, but they get arrested anyway.
It’s funny which code I remember and which code I don’t.

There’s code I wrote 10 years ago at work that I still remember and can point out exactly where everything is. Then there’s code I wrote last week that is completely gone.
For us, the hardwired network is faster but they have pretty aggressive blocking rules (no music/social media/Debian apt repos for some reason), and the WiFi is speed limited but mostly unrestricted. Keeps the business critical stuff from getting congested when all the summer staff/guests are here.
Careful: Those are just words, written by someone who thought that the difference between them is insignificant. (Maybe it was insignificant when it was actually written.) Without having concrete confirmation, all you have is just some optimistic assumption.
I think it is region or school system specific? Here in Go! Flanders kids get served warm food by the school and they’re also welcome to bring their own lunch if they want to.
> without a mountain of certifications.

It's not a mountain of certificates, you just need one of many different options.

They explicitly mention A+ which I assume is the CompTIA one.[0] Yeah, I'm not going to say it doesn't suck to have to pay $250, but there are free practice exams[1]. Here, I even took a screenshot of their sample questions[2] there are things like

Which of the following password choices increases the chance that a brute force attack will succeed?

A. Dictionary words
B. Special characters
C. Long passwords
D. Capital letters

I'm okay verifying that someone has this basic level of competence. I would be surprised if any given Hacker News user couldn't pass one of these tests without studying. You need like a 78%...

But let's be real, if you're repairing for a friend, you just fucking order the stuff for them and put in their name and info (with their permission of course). The only "for anyone else" part that requires certs is if you're operating a business. I think you all are blowing this part out of proportion. Mountains out of mole hills. I know it is the internet and we like to complain without knowing what we're complaining about, but come on...

[0] https://www.comptia.org/certifications/a

[1] https://www.comptia.org/training/resources/practice-tests

[2] https://imgur.com/a/X1ajlAy
> https://help.glassdoor.com/s/article/I-m-an-employer-What-ca...

Interesting that of the 4 options to address bad employee reviews, none of those options is:

* Address the review by improving your company culture or policies
I tried it out and it's pretty pricey. My OpenAI API bill is $3.20 after using this on a few different pages to test it out.

Not saying I wouldn't pay that for some use cases, but it would limit me.

One idea: making scrapers is a big pain. But once they are setup, they are cheap and fast to run... this is always going to be slower. What I'd love to see is a way to generate scrapers quickly. So you wouldn't be returning information from the New York City property registry... instead, you'd return Python code that I can use to scrape it in the future.

edit: This is likely because it was struggling, so it had to make extra calls. What would be nice is a simple feature where you can input the maximum number of calls / tokens to use on the entire call. Or even better, do some math and put in a dollar cap. i.e., go fill out the Geico forms for me and don't spend more than $1.00 doing it.
Greg: I'm good, anyway, cuz, uh, my, so, I was just talkin' to my mom, and she said, apparently, he'll leave me five million anyway, so I'm golden, baby.

Connor: You can't do anything with five, Greg. Five's a nightmare.

Greg: Is it?

Connor: Oh, yeah. Can't retire. Not worth it to work. Oh, yes, five will drive you un poco loco, my fine feathered friend.

Tom: The poorest rich person in America. The world's tallest dwarf.

Connor: The weakest strong man at the circus.

-- Succession
The active steps to disguise the truth are hard to understand. Maybe some sort of brain damage? Or maybe a pathological disorder that I don't understand.

However, if I try to assume a good intent, here's what I come up with:

CW knows he is not Satoshi and his case is laughable. However, by chance he happens to be in a unique position (relative to everyone else) where as long as he pushes his case, he keeps attention on the mystery of Satoshi . Maybe that is his goal all along, and his calculations show that he increases the odds of the true creator being revealed by pushing his false claims.

I mean, the anonymity of Satoshi is puzzling. BitCoin is the only major modern invention with an anonymous creator, AFAIK. I guess the most bothering aspect of the whole thing is not that I don't know who Satoshi is, it's that I know there are people out there who do know (maybe in the dozens, hundreds, or low thousands). It's annoying that there are state secrets like that. So if that is CW's intent behind all his puzzling immature actions, then there's an interesting argument to consider that his actions might have a positive ends.
> no ssl certificate because?

This is way beside the point but there is nothing inherently wrong with unsecured plain http traffic if you aren't accepting user information over that connection (such as a name/password, auth token or whatever).
East Palestine, One Year After Train Derailment
Can’t they just cover his health insurance without engaging in employment fraud?
I have a cold right now. I would prefer to be off work recovering today but I work on a contract basis; if I take time off work I don’t get paid.
$500/mo for having to review transactions yourself? That's sounds like a mess.

What do you wish they did for you, that they're not currently doing?
See iFixit explain why parts pairing doesn't help reduce theft:

https://www.ifixit.com/News/91648/banning-parts-pairing-wont...

If Apple disagrees with iFixit and has genuine reasons to believe this will compromise security, they can share their reasoning publicly and let people judge. So far I don't think they have.
I doubt even VC money can afford this service.

Serverless Aurora is incredibly expensive for most workloads. I have yet to find a use case for any SaaS product that is used >4 hours a day. Since all my products span at least 3 time zones there is at least 12 hours of activity a day.
"I’m glad that there are organizations who care when they have 0 incentive to care."

They have at least a little reason to care since sports are about popularity and being cold-heartedis not a recipe for popularity. I'd imagine they can also write off the cost as goodwill.
...not to mention furniture stores seem to keep no inventory, so you get it 6-8 weeks after you buy because that's how it takes them to build and ship your new couch
I have pondered about this for quite some time and came to the conclusion that it would make schema migrations more difficult to handle. I think Shopify is using an approach which is similar to what you are describing. The advantage is that you don't end up with hot shards because you can move around large customers independently.

In practice there isn't a big difference, they just colocate several customers according to their sharding key in the same logical database.
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https://twitter.com/davemurdock/status/1768063124463079463

yup. this means a shadow ban of some sort, but his account still shows up when search for users

https://twitter.com/search?q=%40migueldeicaza&src=typed_quer...
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I don't think engineers doing engineering can ever get themselves in a Boeing situation. It's just completely antagonistic to a maker culture.

There are many ways engineers can create a dysfunctional culture, but this one is for management only.
This is definitely not the case with their core cloud products.

> almost every project not using Spanner was moving to Spanner

This even includes Datastore. Even Datastore moved to Spanner.
From Daydreams to Reality: Brain's Alertness Mechanism Unlocked
edit: The paper:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07192-8
Oso is abandoned by its authors: https://www.osohq.com/docs/oss/getting-started/deprecation.h...
Immediate managers must have some experience with the report's work, absolutely. But farther up the chain, they still need to check work. There's certain details of progress you just can't fake.

If you have 10 pieces of work, and you show each piece getting done at regular intervals, along with demos, then you can show your actual results and exactly how close you're getting to finished. Even someone who has no insight into the product can follow along and see the progress's results and trajectory. The more detail you get about the work, the harder it is to fake (you can fake a demo, but it's much harder to fake an entire Jira board)
> You have to keep a dozen of your favorite problems constantly present in your mind, although by and large they will lay in a dormant state. — RPF
AI keeps getting better at talking about consciousness
I’m not sure why that would be the case. If anything, I’d expect earlier code to be easier to hack.
Too bad America doesn’t have nationalized health insurance for everyone. The only argument against it that I can see is that people think standards of care will decrease. Decrease from what? From more people having insurance! They want some folks to be in dire straits so they can have cheaper health insurance, but any reasonable study shows that health care would cost less on single payer healthcare.

(I don’t care how unpopular this view is on hacker news, I stand by it. I’m ashamed sometimes that this forum is so harshly capitalist and thrives on grinding poor humans into proverbial paste, because otherwise everyone here is pretty kind and supportive of each other.)
Do people really say "I'm deliberately working slow today"? It sounds unprofessional. Just work at the pace you feel comfortable, commit to deadlines accordingly, and block your calendar if you aren't at your desk or are working heads-down on something.

Sometimes I work slow, sometimes I work fast but either way it isn't other people's business to know. I always hit my deadlines, and if I can't I meet a deadline I communicate it as early as possible.
> but inexperienced with no formal training?

someone doesn't have any experience with offshore programmers, eh?
Won’t mention it in public, but it’s not a deep secret, or anything.

Feel free to drop me a line.
Nothing screams junior dev like the snark of things they don't understand
Three threats to the age of energy abundance
As far as I know, MLB allows players to BUY into health insurance each year for life after 1 day of service. But this player was homeless, so I imagine he couldn’t buy much of anything.
I used to make airbags. People could die if I mess up. Heck, literally hundreds of thousands of people. (see Takata)

One time, I saw someone cook raw chicken at a restaurant. A $10 an hour worker can cause people to die if they mess up.

Don't let the Physician cartel make you think they have some magical powers because they have the AMA and ACGME working to limit the supply of Physicians.

The fact that you are treated by 1 Physician instead of a team of Physician is something Physicians greedily imposed on us.
Tesla Didn't Pay Any Federal Income Taxes for 5 Years, Got $1M Tax Refund
You made a claim that packet loss in mobile networks is not a common occurrence. This claim is patently wrong and anyone with a smartphone can see for themselves.
It seems like someone at Figma decided to use the latest CSS tricks they just had discovered. Changing background color? Come on.
The project was not really designed to reach interstellar space originally. It was a somewhat rushed program to take advantage of the "Grand Tour" where the gas giants would all be aligned enough that a gravity-assist orbit could allow a spacecraft to fly by each of them. The alignment in question only happens every 175 years.

The interstellar portion was an add-on after the success of the original mission. The spacecraft were still operating so why not just keep operating them?

No one designing or building the probes imagined they'd still be operating 50+ years later. Even if they did space programs are constantly under threat from budget cuts so you can't exactly waste money on what-ifs for the future: you must focus on making the official mission succeed.

Also remember that the "desktop PC" was not yet a thing when this was designed. Engineers were drawing everything on paper. Storage space was extremely expensive in any case.

A modern program would (and most do!) put various versions of drawings in a version control system. Source would use an SCM so code history would be available. Even things like meeting notes would be available and searchable digitally.
Illusion of Control
If you're looking to short a stock, this is the one.

(This is not financial advice and I am not a financial advisor. I just get a feeling this is gonna be an absolute shitstorm)
I'm not preparing at all. I live in a city, no idea what I could even do that's not a complete waste of time and money.
the little Prince, i'd say
Yamaha NS10s are still the go-to “shitty stereo system” monitors found in most studios. Bounces listened to in cars and on phones are a basic mixing practice these days as well.
They definitely didn't say 'what if' but 'what would it take'. Which would be a massive subsidy or investment to get enough runway to get a plane out and see if it can compete.

As far as examples of 100 billion dollar companies going bankrupt? 5 of those.
Where is hardwood inappropriate? Genuinely curious to know
Same guy who discovered, among other things,

> the concept of electric potential (which he called the "degree of electrification"), an early unit of capacitance (that of a sphere one inch in diameter), the formula for the capacitance of a plate capacitor, the concept of the dielectric constant of a material, the relationship between electric potential and current (now called Ohm's law) (1781), laws for the division of current in parallel circuits (now attributed to Charles Wheatstone), and the inverse square law of variation of electric force with distance, now called Coulomb's law.

(Wikipedia)

Wonder what went wrong to need so many rediscoveries by others. Reminds me of Gauss.
> Adding an automation attribute to all of your elements that are both unique and stable helps go a long way to make E2E tests enjoyable.

First of all maybe it wasn't clear from my comment but I use (and like it a lot) Playwright on a daily basis.

Second - did you mean using a testid for example? Because we specifically avoid using special attributes for this purpose and instead follow best practices as detailed here: https://testing-library.com/docs/queries/about#priority (main reason being: killing two birds with one stone by making sure your page is accessible).
You absolutely can operate in the Chinese market. There are Chinese regulations, and companies like Meta are unwilling to abide by them because the data they're harvesting is the only product.
Every Gary Larson collection you can find.
The MLB minimum salary in 2018 was $545,000.
In the scope of these things, this is pretty above board.
Not that I'm skillful enough to make an emulator, but I've tried years ago to find technical documents on the Honeywell HDC-402 used in Voyager and Viking (it's also apparently not related to the DDP-516 or 316 AFAIK.) There's SOME information[1], but not enough to make an emulator from what I've found.

Aside from the lack of schematics or listings, there was the problem of the assembler being incomplete!

"One problem Lander software developers had was that no adequate
assembler was ever written for the computer, perhaps because of the
changing nature of the instruction set.(110) Patches had to be hand-coded
in octal, with many jumps to unused memory space because of the lack
of an assembler with relocatable addressing." p.174 on Viking, which used the same computer

[1]https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/19880069935/downloads/19... (page 174 onwards)