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There are a lot of well-functioning organizations for which that’s exactly what’s needed.

Leaders should be paid for outcomes not activities.

I also would want anything that I saved into AGENTS.md to be incorporated right after I saved it.

I might accept if my newly saved information was overlooked, but it's hard for me to fathom how I'd demand "I want to save this information in AGENTS.md now, but I don't want you to look at it until the next time I launch you..." and call any behavior other than that annoying or alarming.

Yes. NAND cells can only be erased and rewritten a finite number of times.

"Oshkosh", aka "EAA Airventure"

https://www.eaa.org/airventure

I’m fairly surprised you are not seeing them. As a test, I checked for US servicemember deaths in the Middle East in July 2026 and checked against my own recall from casual news consumption.

I knew of the helicopter crash (1) and missile attack (2). I did not know of the EOD accident (1) this weekend. So, 3 of 4 I knew about without any particularly directed effort to follow it (and the 4th, I’m sure I’ll see reporting about during the week but wasn’t consuming much content of any type over the weekend).

Surely power lines running directly across a residential property represent a long-term exposure.

(I personally doubt there is a significant risk, but if there is, these powerline easements would be quite risky to the residents in terms of ongoing/continuous exposure.)

Isn’t the entire point of this power line project to “upgrade the infrastructure to meet the new demand”?

I am under the impression that they are not compensated correctly when their land is taken.

I own the land that I do because I value it more than any other buyer/current bidder. (If that weren’t true, I’d sell it to the higher bidder.)

If, instead of bidding an attractive price for my land like an ordinary buyer, you win a court case or political process that says you can force me to sell my land at a “fair market value”, that previous point establishes that I’m being forced to take a loss, as I am being forced to accept a price lower than my reservation price.

At the same time, eminent domain must exist in order to let continuous projects like power lines and highways be built. I just think that 150% or 200% of what is currently called “fair market value” is a better reference price than 100% of it.

The taking of land against the owner’s will should come at a premium, but that premium should be capped rather than unbounded.

I’m in favor of transparency (and consistently argue for that and act accordingly inside my own company). I’m against adding information that will confuse far more people than it will help.

A company listing $100k-$900k per year for a role that’s not commissioned sales is exhibiting malicious compliance and should be dealt with directly as such rather than adding an additional nearly useless measure to somehow help smoke that out or avoid it.

Almost certainly an homage to “640kB ought to be enough for anybody.”

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2011/09/08/640k-enough/

How many people who are considering hiring their first few employees have an idea of what the minimum they’d likely pay and the maximum they’d likely pay for those new positions? Almost all.

Now how many could even tell you the rough definition of standard deviation, let alone be able to give a value for it? Almost none.

As an applicant for a single opening, it’s not obvious that standard deviation is helpful either.

For normal people, I think that min and max are the two most practical and understandable measures.

How do you reuse plaster or drywall walls/ceilings? I’m fairly reuse-friendly, but that stuff goes straight in the dumpster for practical reasons.

Resales of previously sold (used) goods are not included in GDP.

Services to facilitate selling [auction fees, commissions, shipping, etc.] are new services and so get counted, but the underlying asset's resale is not.

On AWS, you can enable CUR (cost and usage reporting) and get detailed, line-item billing figures that you can audit.

And naturally, companies like Cloudability [now Apptio] and others have sprung up to do parts of this for you [at a fee, of course...]

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cur/latest/userguide/what-is-cur...

I'm sure other cloud vendors have similar functionality (because they need this on the back end to do their own billing anyway).

That’s an unusual use of “supporting” for sure.

“The first is an apple and the second is an orange.”

“The first is linked to something showing the author knows it’s an apple.”

“Agreed.”

We measure resources by using per capita gross domestic product – the amount of money in a country evenly divided among its entire population.

GDP is not "the amount of money in a country".

GDP is the monetary value of goods and services produced within a country during a given period (a flow, measured in dollars-per-year).

The amount of money in a country is a measure at a point in a time (a stock, measured in dollars).

I realize Fortune magazine isn't The Economist, but I'd still expect PhDs in political science opining on economic topics to at least understand the difference between stocks and flows.

Relevant in that the directly upthread poster argued there was “zero financial motivation for the state for prevention or rehab or any other activities to reduce imprisonment rates”, which I claim is incorrect.

What’s the financial motivation for the state then?

Are you suggesting that the state turns a net profit on prisoners, making more from their labor than the full cost of their incarceration?

That seems…unlikely.

if the key is missing today you'll get nil as the value

You can add a third parameter to override the nil if detecting the missing key matters.

(You almost surely know this, but not all HN commenters will.)

  user> (:bar {:foo 1})
  nil
  user> (:bar {:foo 1} :missing)
  :missing

Most things experience higher demand when the clearing price is lower. I expect that jobs (or at least “labor hours”) would be firmly in this set.

The mechanism would be some business somewhere would have thousands of hours of tasks that were worth around $12/hr to the business. If the market wage was $15/hr, that work doesn’t get done. If the market wage is $8/hr, it gets done, at least to a much greater extent than in the $15/hr case.

Even if literally no new applications popped up, capacity and coverage increases for existing applications require increases in satellite count.

Wild take. They’re not born “used to them,” so at some point they quite literally need to get used to them…

Do you ever use GPS (for navigation or time sync)? Do you ever use Starlink? Do you make use of weather forecasts? Or fly on an airliner that uses any of those three? Watch a televised program from the other side of the planet?

Maybe we should start with a smaller prototype and test the theory on your or my assets. Still seem like a good idea?

I don’t need the source code to randomly change bytes in the compiled Linux kernel binary either.

I’m totally comfortable going out to 12 years on tires. Beyond that, I’m replacing them. 7 seems excessively conservative for road use.

Did I just read an argument that it’s easier or safer to manually check your tire pressures rather than having the car do it automatically every time the car drives fast enough to “wake up” the TPMS units?

Thinking that all help that you get comes at the direct (even if diffused) harm of others is a fixed-pie mentality. Everyone gets help; most everyone gives help to others; it’s essential to the functioning of our complex society and is how we aren’t living in trees and caves anymore.

Success is impossible without receiving help. I have someone that I’ve never met who helps by ensuring that reliable power arrives via overhead wires to my house. Someone else’s help ensures that my garbage is carted away, clean water arrives under pressure, and 100s of other things that would be incredible drains on my time before I could do the first thing that was valuable to me or my family.

Take the help when you need it.

Give the help when you can.