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Re:Why do commercial spaces sit vacant? on Wednesday June 17, 2026 @09:43AM (#48570487)
This happened on the flight to my honeymoon, and my wife took the upgrade.
Re:SQLite is all you need for durable workflows on Friday May 29, 2026 @04:55PM (#48329128)
'production' doesn't equal 'multi-user concurrent access'. There are production uses where sqlite is a valid choice even if it may not be the best choice for multi-user production use cases.
Re:Show HN: A "bank of my parents" for my young kids on Tuesday December 09, 2025 @09:41AM (#46205394)
I do something similar for my kids, but offline using GNUCash. It's from a book called "The Bank of Dad."

I track their funds, and provide a generous monthly interest rate. The idea was both to teach them how to manage money, and demonstrate compounding interest.

This looks really interesting, and if you could add different interest calculations that would be a nice addition.

Here is the study, the link is not clickable if you have an account, you have to view source to get at it.

https://web.archive.org/web/20250911165140/https://www.ojp.g...

Re:Pelicans on a bicycle on Monday December 16, 2024 @02:27PM (#42434397)
This is the the artist you are thinking of.

https://www.gianlucagimini.it/portfolio-item/velocipedia/

I left Amazon back when the 3-day RTO was announced. Their recruiters periodically ping and ask if I'd be interested in returning. So leaving on good terms will give you options to return if you want.

I haven't seen a recent who's hiring post, but searching for the most recent one can help you find jobs that are hybrid or remote friendly.

Also the startup I went to after I left is fully remote and hiring, my email is in my profile.

Re:Google Loses DOJ Antitrust Suit Over Search on Monday August 05, 2024 @04:15PM (#41165118)
I remember this article from 2017 about the google snippet for how long it takes to caramelize an onion.

https://gizmodo.com/googles-algorithm-is-lying-to-you-about-...

The gist of the story is the author wrote an article debunking the recipe myth that you only need 5 minutes. In their tests it was 25 - 45. Google snippet would report "about 5 minutes" and link to the article as a reference.

I think the information summaries at the top of searches have been wrong for a while.

Re:Beeper Mini users find Macs banned from iMessage network on Monday January 15, 2024 @05:15PM (#39006791)
> It works with SMS as well, and I just don't have to think about it.

I have a mac laptop and an android phone. My son has an iphone. Half of his responses to my text messages go to my phone, the other half go to my laptop and I miss them. This is a major problem, imessage shouldn't be greedy about grabbing messages, especially when replying to an SMS. I've missed picking him up from places because I didn't get the reply.

Re:McDonald's to retire self-service soda fountains by 2032 on Friday September 08, 2023 @07:18PM (#37440489)
Essentially yes. Distribution, instead of funding.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coca-Cola_Freestyle

"The Freestyle's beverage dispensing technology was designed by Dean Kamen, the inventor of the Segway, in return for Coca-Cola distributing his Slingshot water purification system."

I think there are limits on both. Floor area ratio (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floor_area_ratio) is how it is coded into regulations. The lot size and the height restrictions create a bounding box that the building needs to fit within.
Re:Ask HN: Top Skills to Learn for 2023? on Monday December 19, 2022 @04:02PM (#34057672)
An Italian town did build a mirror to do that.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/epnvzn/viganella-italy-fake-...

[edit] Looks like a town in Norway did it as well, and theirs tracks the sun.

https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2013/10/using-giant-mirror...

Re:Ask HN: Top Skills to Learn for 2023? on Monday December 19, 2022 @02:22PM (#34056386)
I love this goal, best of luck with it. I would like to build (or buy) a robot to protect my chickens from air and ground predators during the day so they can happily free range all day.
I think that stat came from a chart in this article https://yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com/p/a-quick-note-...
Everything I know about this comes from the children's book "Pippo the Fool."

Rivals refers to people competing against him in a competition to build the dome. For him to win and get to build his design it was important for him to both prove it could be built and not allow other builders to also solve the design challenge.

I assume for him getting to build the dome was more important than his design ideas being forgotten.

Re:Atlantic salmon swim far and wide after fish farm collapse on Thursday October 26, 2017 @10:27AM (#15559060)
A caught fish could be wild, or from a hatchery. You can tell the difference since hatchery fish have a fin removed but I imagine it's easier to not differentiate when labelling.
I had a similar idea, but wanted to build it outside of a single news organisation. Basically a news aggregator, but it would detect when different articles are about the same topic and try to tell if the newer article added anything to the story. This aggregation system would then track public interest in a story over time (based on clicks) along with media interest (based on new stories)

I also wanted to add in user, publication and reporter 'leanings' by having a mechanism where users could say that they thought a story was left/right/neutral. The act of voting would count as a push having the affect of slightly moving the publication and reporter in one direction and the voter in another. I would then use an ELO type metric so a user who was very far in one direction wouldn't have the same impact as a user more in the center.

I had thought about something like this a couple of years ago. My idea wasn't really about tracking bias, but providing reputation for authors and news outlets. Users (via a browser plugin or some other mechanism) could declare an article or statement as biased in a certain direction. That vote would give me information about the article, the news outlet and the reader. I could then present that information back to users. In this way I could learn just how biased I am (and maybe even the areas of my bias) and the bias of authors and organizations. Perhaps you could see how an author's bias changes when they write for different sites.

However I don't think just pointing out bias will really help. People like their bubbles, and moving out of them is painful and potentially with real world consequences for them. I also think if you show a user an articles bias ahead of time, it will just be used as a filter or a way to reinforce their bubble. I thought this article was interesting.

http://www.vox.com/2014/4/6/5556462/brain-dead-how-politics-...

Re:Ants are destroying plants by nurturing perfect aphid colonies on Saturday September 10, 2016 @07:05PM (#12471287)
Aphids are fascinating (if annoying in the garden). They are capable of telescoping generations [1] which means an aphid can be pregnant with an aphid that is also pregnant.

https://simonleather.wordpress.com/2013/03/19/living-inside-...

They also can grow wings if the colony gets overcrowded or the plant they are on is starting to die.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telescoping_generations

Re:Home Is Where the Parking Lot Is [video] on Thursday September 08, 2016 @12:46PM (#12454654)
Why not have both? Cities have parks that you can lie and eat out on during the evenings and weekends. They also have dog parks. Free roaming cats are bad for birds, so keep them inside. https://abcbirds.org/program/cats-indoors/cats-and-birds/
Re:Scientists are teaching robots how to hunt down prey on Wednesday July 06, 2016 @11:11AM (#12043576)
Their was a robot in 1999 that hunted slugs and powered itself from their decomposing bodies.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/503149.stm

> Meditation is examination not supression or control.

Just one clarification on this. I recently listened to a talk by Bikhu Bodhi [1] where he said meditation was partially about the suppression of emotion, He then quickly clarified that suppression is different from repression. In suppression you investigate the root cause and work to understand and eliminate that and once done you have suppressed the emotion that springs from it.

So I think to express it in an operational analogy, suppression is finding and eliminating the root cause of an outage, repression would be turning of the alarm and pretending the site isn't down.

[1] http://bodhimonastery.org/the-buddhas-teaching-as-it-is.html

Do you need to buyout all the investors or just enough to give you > 50% (Which Zuck already controls doesn't he?)
I think if you read that article, he isn't pushing 'Black Lives Matter', but rather asked employees to stop crossing it out and writing 'All Lives Matter'

His quote from that article explains it

"'Black lives matter' doesn't mean other lives don't. It's simply asking that the black community also achieves the justice they deserve. We've never had rules around what people can write on our walls — we expect everybody to treat each other with respect. Regardless of the content or location, crossing out something means silencing speech, or that one person's speech is more important than another's."

There may be other cases of him pushing the "left agenda" but I don't think the article you link shows it.

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