slavoingilizov

Thank you for writing this! I've been thinking about this a lot after becoming a dad (3yo + a 2nd baby in about one week or so).

Ambition may or may not be the right word to use, as others have commented. One thing I have reflected on is not if I should be making a compromise with one or the other, but why in our modern society the easiest path is to only pick one. The more I read about how to bring up healthy strong children, the more I think we've just gone backwards as a species.

There is a lot of research about the bad effects of screens and constant dopamine on long-term mental health and resilience (read The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Heidt). In reality, until just maybe 50 years ago, it was socially accepted for parents to be raising children with a support network around them. That had both good and bad sides - fewer rights for moms/women, dads less involved in parenting. But instead of fixing that, we threw out the whole idea that you need a village to support you as a parent and replaced it with career maxxing as the only prominent virtue to speak about.

I have believed in individual freedom and liberalism forever, but these days I think there is such a thing as too much individualism and we've taken that to an extreme. This makes it really hard to want or be able to raise children, and our society's long-term health suffers as a result, despite all of our scientific progress. Individual parents shouldn't be forced to have the internal debate that the author is having and pick between them - we should fix our social systems and institutions to not need that choice. But that's an even harder problem.

So many seem to have made a similar move. But the one thing holding me back: starting with a new email address.

My email address is not just for email. It's so firmly embedded in my digital life, it's hard to think how to remove it. It's my identity. I use "login with Google" in most places where it's available. It's my backup recovery for my MFA authenticator. It's my github alias.

So what is the strategy everyone follows to start with a custom domain? Do people use redirection? Is that effective? What happens when an email is redirected from Gmail to my new host, and I want to keep replying without the recipients thinking I've changed email? If you do that, is it even worth switching, given you have to keep your Gmail account?

That is the more interesting part of these stories to me than which host people move to.

This is a problem specific to the US. The price of your health insurance is very far from the actual cost of it to providers.

The UK has 3 of the top 10 universities in the world: https://www.timeshighereducation.com/world-university-rankin...

It's a talent pool that many big employers want to tap into across a range of skills and industries. Cambridge is the best place to do bio-science and research. That is largely because the UK provides training and opportunities to its young people.

"I saw that 20 years go" is one data point that ignores the wider statistics. I'm not sure what else you can back your argument with.

Can you walk me through this argument for a customer service agent? The jobs where the nuance and variety isn’t there and don’t involve physical interaction are completely different to flipping burgers

Did you read the entire article? That's exactly the point it's making, but you decided to pick on the word "timetable"

I've seen this done multiple times too. It works until the human forgets about it, or knowledge is lost through collective organisational forgetfulness or churn. And the outages still happen because the lookup fails at some point.

GBP and EUR volumes are pretty similar (just north of 500K atm). I find this interesting. How can one country equal sales of the whole Eurozone? Is that more showing of commerce activity or the popularity of Black Friday in those countries?

My parents had one. My dad’s first car and I think the first one I drove too. I have a photo in front of it as a baby. It lasted until I was 16 to drive it, so draw your own conclusions. In the 80s Bulgaria, you had to wait 5-10 years to buy anything else and my dad just got a Trabant instead. We’ve been everywhere across the country with it. Plenty of jokes of course. A few other neighbors had one, and people would prank them by lifting and moving it overnight when parked to a different parking spot, it only needed a few strong men.

Understanding everything before you get into it is overrated. Belief is a necessary requirement to move the world forward. And that in itself requires some naivety. Otherwise those people who can actually see it through wouldn't even start - most of them didn't "understand" it before they started.

People have already pointed out that there's no direct correlation between "safe" and "open-source" in the other comments. I agree.

But one other reason I think this is flawed is that it assumes innovation in those models has finished. We're not at the stage where these are good enough to revolutionise everything. There's a lot more research, hard work and creativity that needs to be unleashed for all benefits to be realised. Traditionally, for-profit startups have been the best vehicle for that to happen. OpenAI has only scratched the surface and can do a lot more. Forcing them into open-sourcing and only caring about safety would quickly stop this progress. They are not a megacorp extracting rent who we need to fight - they are literally a startup changing the world in front of our eyes.

Honest question - monitoring air quality accurately is great, but monitoring doesn't solve problems. Once you know it's bad, what do you do? I've been wondering what's the point of monitoring something if you can't do anything about it? Do people move house when it's consistently bad? Are the majority of issues caused by in-house pollutants so you open windows for ventilation more? Maybe I'm biased but in my neck of the woods, the bad air quality comes from _outside_. So unless I up sticks, not much else to do.

If you look at this moment 10 years from now, you'd be surprised how early it is for you.

Eric Yuan founded Zoom at the age of 41.

David Baszucki was 41 years old when he created Roblox with cofounder Erik Cassel, who was 36 at the time.

Stan Lee created his first hit comic, "The Fantastic Four," just shy of his 39th birthday, in 1961.

Samuel L. Jackson has been a Hollywood staple for years now, but he'd had only bit parts before landing an award-winning role at age 43 in Spike Lee's film "Jungle Fever" in 1991.

I don't know how many of these examples you need, but all I can say is you can ignore the past. Do what you need to do, have some faith and just look forward.

Thanks for sharing this! It's quite the motivational kick for me and more people need to see it.

I still use a 2012 air. It has been demoted in the food chain (so no longer main laptop), but it’s mind blowing how well it still works for basic browsing. Maybe time I replace with a 14” MBP. If that one lasts another 11 years I’m happy.

Well... I agree with the spirit of the effort, but not the letter of it.

>>> From spring 2026, the obligation will extend to laptops

So this would force Apple to replace MagSafe with USB-C? How is that not killing innovation?

Standardisation should be a goal, but I just feel this particular effort is too specific and brings very little value to consumers. Why don't we standardise payment protocols instead? Or biometric identity verification? Or ID cards even (that the UK is allergic to)? I just feel the spirit of these efforts can be applied so much more successfully elsewhere.

If you're joking: Haha

If you're serious and this is the conclusion you reached from Celsius going bankrupt: good luck!

AFAIK, none of this is true. Banks are required by law to provide open APIs with solid authentication mechanisms, apps usually access them via aggregators and never request your banking credentials.

I understand, but that's still somewhat manual (compared to an API and a client pulling data from it without user involvement)

This comes up on the homepage consistently about every 6 months or so. I am not sure why.

Every time it does, it's obvious it has devoted fans and bitter enemies. The biggest problem with it as far as I can tell is the requirement for manual entry.

Given Europe and the UK have had Open Banking for years now, and a universe of apps automatically pulling, categorising and reporting transactions (including many incumbent banking apps) - I'm curios if this is a US-only phenomenon - why would people use decade-old software instead of the latest in banking technology? Any users from Europe or UK?

Previous threads:

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31219754

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20109545

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23237445

I also have that MacBook Air, fully functional including battery. It has only been used occasionally and lasts for a couple of hours, but nothing has been replaced and it’s still my casual personal laptop (I use another machine for work). I was tempted to get the M1 pro MacBooks, but just can’t make myself replace this one - it’s been so good to me.

The whole economy is intertwined. This is a very simplistic way of looking at it, but if you can park risk-free capital somewhere which generates high interest, the opportunity costs of investing in tech become higher, so VCs stop investing. Also - you're committing money in a business with a higher risk of not returning them given the economic outlook of their customers and revenue. Tech isn't isolated from the world.

This is genius. Attention to detail and quality of the writing and delivery is amazing. The fact that the watch in the first animation also shows accurate time reminds me of the 9:41 in each iPhone screenshot when Steve Jobs was doing the Apple demos. Sweating such details indicates a labour of love.

Many conflicting viewpoints here. Sure, there's been less of a push from Russia than everyone expected, but it's not like Ukraine controls the sky either.

Are Ukranians really still flying? If that was the case, the mentioned 40-mile convoy heading to Kiev would have been hit by now, no? Russians driving vehicles bumper to bumper shows VERY strong confidence that they own the sky, so things might not be as rosy for Ukraine as they seem.

(I worked at Telerik until 2014). They were acquired by Progress software later that year for $262m, so no longer independent nor a unicorn. Still one of the biggest successes.

The Payhawk founders are ex-Telerik and Telerik has made a major influence on the Bulgarian startup ecosystem.

I'm so happy to read this (a proud Bulgarian). The founders are amazing! We need more examples like these in Eastern Europe that can promote and create an environment for entrepreneurs.

You should really read the article. Ben is arguing that 53 foot containers exist, but not for ocean shipping, only land. The link you've posted says the same.

"The USA and Canada, however, have been using 53ft long containers for road and rail transport since 1989"

It wouldn't make a difference in the comparison against M1 Max, but the benchmark was also done on Windows 11, which introduced bugs for AMD scheduling. Fixed now, but maybe the AMD results have been skewed because of this. Overall, this is the least scientific and realistic benchmark article ever - until people get their hands on the chips and test them properly everything is speculation. Also - competing for absolute benchmark rankings, when you still need to put a discrete GPU in an intel laptop to even connect a 4k screen is meaningless - people should stop making purchasing decisions just based on benchmarks.

100% this. Collecting and validating data should be so easy that you don't have to think about it. Otherwise I find I can't stick to any solution/tool for too long. If discipline is required, then it's too complicated.

This is why I've started looking into tools which automate the data collection. In the UK (and EU more broadly), after Open Banking got introduced there are many apps popping out which basically connect to your accounts (Credit Cards, bank accounts, etc.) and combine all data into a single place. Does Plaid not enable this in the US?

It's not "100% accurate" but most enable you to do auto-categorisation, smart reporting and budgeting as well. They are not open-source but do much more than I'd ever be able to do with PTA (not because it's not supported but because it requires effort). Of the 2 bad solutions, they seem to be the less bad for me.

Some example apps: Emma, Yolt, Lumio.

The moan is about the language used, not the availability of the site.