skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, and peasants under feudalism were much better off than they were as cavemen - none of that justifies economic/social stagnation
The founding father of the Republic of China, Dr. Sun Yat-sen, was heavily influenced by Georgism. He believed all income derived from land, including appreciation of the land, should be heavily taxed. He incorporated it into three principle of the people, which is the cornerstone Kuomintang ideology.

But nobody would argue Taiwan is a Georgism heaven right now. Why? Rich and political powerful people own the land. Georgism as a practical matter is very difficult to push through.
Encase the computer (along with a backup power supply that can last up to one month) in enough concrete that it would be impractical to break open. Ensure network packets can get out to issue commands to your smart house, but inbound connections are not allowed for one month.
Meteor did some pretty interesting work with this by tailing mongodb’s oplog. Definitely still room for innovation.
That's terrible. I am a manager and actively discourage people from working late / weekends. I find it's not sustainable. People who do that, regardless of children status are much less predictable in their output. They go through peaks of productivity and then they crash. It also ends up happening that they work on the wrong thing because no one is around at night or weekends to answer basic questions that may unfortunately not be in the ticket. Some of our employees with highest productivity have kids. I think your story means you should look for a new job when it is possible for you.
Lists of Centenarians
Ford to offer Covid-19 testing for symptomatic workers as part of reopening plan
In their attempt to remain relevant, (amateur) philosophers will take anything and run with it, sometimes totally incorrectly.

There's a special place in face-palm hell for philosophers who've argued that Godel's Incompleteness Theorems place a fundamental limit on human understanding.
Not sure what the article indents to show, those "surprises" are the expected behaviour of `append` on slices.
If it's a tool, I find a book packed with practical examples, follow it for a few chapters to get the gist of it, and then build something with the tool. I toss the book away at that stage and look at online resources that would help me in a real-world scenario. Then I usually return to the book because later in the book you usually find best practices and similar. At the end, I improve those things I've built with best practices I've learned.

If it's something theoretical, I write down notes with it in a Q&A format, and then test myself by answering those questions using spaced repetition (at the time I wrote them, a few days later, a week or two later, and a month or two later).

> How do you pick a subject or tool to learn?

I have a list of tools I'd like to learn and then I tackle whichever one seems most relevant to me from the list. Currently on top of it is tmux, which I have a practical use case for. AWS is somewhere at the bottom of such list, because I can't think of a project that would benefit from knowing it.
alternate summary here

https://www.engadget.com/dysons-electric-car-n526-085341772....
SSC also uses the a whalefall event as a very effective analogy in this older post:

https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/

Which was the first thing to come to mind when I saw this post
I hoped this one wouldn't depend on WebCrypto (in Javascript), but seems like it is dependent :( No cryptography without https, still.

I just don't get it: why can't I use `ed25519.sign` without being on secure origin.

The only reason I can think of is: don't allow people to create p2p networks without CA control and approval. I'm talking about this https://github.com/w3c/webcrypto/issues/28 . Because of that requirement, you can't use WebCrypto primitives on http sites.

So I can't implement my own security on network channel (in web app) without first getting approval from Big Guys, who can revoke it at their will.
because things can and will fail inbetween updating the db and publishing the event leading to inconsistency between your database and kafka. a better approach would be to update the db and then use something like debezium or maxwell to pull the updates from the db's bin log and publish them to kafka.
The question is do the posts come up for searches around the topic their cover, not that the domain is discoverable.
You would truncate to 72 bytes, not 20 characters (which might be more than 72 bytes anyway).
I had no idea about this. I'll try this out to reach more users. Thank you!
Ask HN: Ideas and Getting 'Stuck'
Hi HN

How does the community take an idea and prevent themselves from getting stuck or even better, how to 'unstuck' yourselves to be able to move beyond and work on a side project?
Be sure to check out the issues, too :)
How would the user tell the 73rd byte is truncated? Might as well call bcrypt itself misleading.

In any case this doesn’t preclude client-side validation.
This part about Georgist economics is quite startling.

You have an economical theory following in the footsteps of classical economists at the beginning of industrial revolution like Adam Smith and David Ricardo. It becomes incredibly popular with massive amount of followers. You were not an intellectual back then unless you knew about this school.

Somehow it offered a way out of the societal mess, but costing great fortunes to the economical parazites - monopolies (neo-aristocracy).

Some people in the school argue it was strategically removed from the society by funding a competing economical theory which removed land from the 3 factors of production and kept only 2 - labor and capital. Thus divert the attention from the real parazite (monopolist, rentier and landlord - someone who monopolizes land) to the conflict between employer and employee as depicted in the Marxist view on societal problems - which actually never existed.

So the new aristocracy (Rockefellers, Carneggies and others) decided to fund and found universities with the main purpose of destroying Georgism and promoting red herring economical theories instead - such as Marxism and neoclassical economics, both of which remove the parasitic monopolist and landlord out of the picture.

By not fighting with their enemy directly and thus making the georgist theory indirectly more popular it was a smart move for them to silence it down by promoting other theories instead, which is exactly what happened - from the most popular theory of economics to nonexistent to this day. No mention of it in economics curricula around the world - which suggests economics as taught in universities today is a fraudulent wannabe science or form of propaganda or both.

http://dollarsandsense.org/blog/2017/04/the-dissing-of-henry...

Mason Gaffney (famous Georgist) wrote a lengthy piece on this topic - Neoclassical Economics As a Stratagem against Henry George

http://masongaffney.org/publications/K1Neo-classical_Stratag...
That was incredible! Thanks for sharing!
This is about Instagram/YouTube, I don’t see where banksy fits the comparison.
A bit tangential but it's been very relatable to me lately : 80% of my coworkers : OMG working from home gets you so much done! I've passed this and this certif and also did that side-project. Amazing. And you ? Well, I've tried to manage being a good parent while working with kids at home and god knows that was hard enough.

And that's taking into account we're the lucky ones that can work from home and keep getting a salary
Fwiw, this is by Jane Jacobs, author of the classic “Death and Life of American Cities”. She was decades ahead of her time in thinking about how to make cities livable and appealing.
Your post is from 2018, not very old and on a very niche topic. Look for the “google is forgetting the old web” article.
The problem with georgism is that “unimproved value” is a non-market price. It’s just made up by whoever is appointed assessor.

Georgism conflates made up “value” with market “value”. Ultimately some person has to assess the value of the unimproved land, meaning someone anointed to write down whatever number they want.

Value is subjective. There is no such thing as “unimproved land value”, unless you’re talking about the last sale price of a particular unimproved lot. Property taxes in general have this problem, but it’s very acute with unimproved land. Unimproved land is one of the most non-fungible goods there is.
Enterprize FizzBuzz has been one of my favourite things for a while. It perfectly captures the attitude where I used to work, where people felt that by adding later upon layer of obfuscation they were doing engineering.
Modern sea-level rise linked to human activities, not changes in Earth's orbit
On consideration, I would prefer if it worked without js. Since the whole site requires js to load content, clicking on someone's post that has js that effs with my computer is something I prefer to avoid.

At the very least, label a post that has js so I don't click it, if you are going to require the site to function with js.

Is it really necessary that every link opens in a new tab?
I know the awesome meme seems overdone, but it's cool that you can search that one word and see curated lists of interesting/high quality projects.
Oh hey! I’ve definitely mined your collection as well! Thank you for the good stuff.
I discovered a bug: the second example forgot the NUL byte.
What checks?
The "internet" is not a place. It's a network of physical infrastructure located in nation-states. It is not somehow a realm of its own separate from the physical world. The laws of nation-states apply to Facebook, its staff, its infrastructure, and its offices as much as they apply to anyone else—and the same goes for other random internet companies, including HN.com. It's reasonable to argue against particular forms of regulation, but not that internet companies have some special nature that exempts them from regulatory oversight altogether.
This is just like the economy. When a big economic whale falls, it creates opportunities for new smaller entities to evolve by feeding on its carcass.
merkle_root_in_bitcoin_blockchain is now in the Server section: https://book.keybase.io/docs/server/merkle-root-in-bitcoin-b...
I think one of the best way to learn something is by using it at work. That's it.

If learning is so important to you, for whatever reason, you should get a job that will let you use new technology to gain experience.

I just don't think it's possible to get to know everything in your spare time. Spend that time on something you actually enjoy or you will burn out sooner or later.
> You'll check the analytics. Abysmal. Nobody is reading!

And that, right there, is the best reason to remove all analytics from your blog/website[1]. At the risk of being held guilty of self-promotion, I wrote a little blog post about just this a couple of weeks ago: https://one.mikro2nd.net/2020/05/why-no-web-analytics-are-to... (Thing is, if anybody here does go and read it, I won't even know.)

At the root of the unease is the question, "Why are you blogging?" If it's something you do for yourself, then analytics -- specifically: who is reading which posts -- is a distraction, and sure to lead you astray into the thickets and quagmire of writing mere clickbait.

If you're writing to establish "thought leadership" in some sphere, then display leadership, not followership (i.e. chasing the analytics.) It's a strange and uncomfortable feeling at first (perhaps always!) but at least you'll always know who you're writing for (yourself). If you're writing for some "payback" then I'd suggest that submitting articles to magazines is a better path/platform than blogging.

Personally I am more interested in inciting thought and discussion through my blog, so mere visitor statistics are of little interest. What would validate what I do there would be someone who reaches out to talk about something I've written. That's the real payback.

[1] Nor any trackers of any sort.
Tremendous. Are there any great deep sea docs out there?
"The rent of land, therefore, considered as the price paid for the use of the land, is naturally a monopoly price. It is not at all proportioned to what the landlord may have laid out upon the improvement of the land, or to what he can afford to take; but to what the farmer can afford to give."

— Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, Book I, Chapter XI "Of the Rent of Land"
> Facebook argument is ‘we do not want to follow local laws because that increases cost and makes some business practices illegal in parts of the world. That mindset is destructive and fights agains society needs just to get higher profit.

I wouldn't trust Facebook any further than I could throw my smartphone, but many local laws are poorly tailored to advance "society's needs". All the censorship laws out there, lese majeste in Thailand, "don't allow insults to our religious feelings" in other jurisdictions... Then there's all the various forms of protectionism.

"Society's needs" is not a phrase that can effectively advance our understanding of Facebook, and if we're going to talk about the goodness and badness of the mindset, we should be critical on both ends. Which needs are we talking about? Why does this society's rulers think it needs them, and not the society next door? And are these so-called needs really about entrenched powers oppressing someone?
Yeah, this is a pretty bad article and telling the reader to figure out the "surprises" for themselves with no further explanation is just borderline trolling. Seriously, if you don't understand how slices work you shouldn't be claiming to "know Go".
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> Why do you think of that? were you hired as the person that knows all of them?

> Remember that as software engineers, our job is to solve problems. It doesn't matter what technology, language, or framework as long as you bring value on the table.

What I observe in the industry is different. The market is so fierce and competitive and many companies (especially non-enterprise, medium-sized startups) are looking for people who perfectly fit their positions. Tools, domain, methodologies, etc.
"Rather than nationalize land outright, the single taxers would levy a 100 percent tax on the annual land rent — the annual income from the site — which amounts to the same thing as outright nationalization." --Murray Rothbard

Georgism is reasonably well known among free-market enthusiasts and libertarians.
Can we stop posting links that require a paywall?
> If you had a choice, you would choose to be poor today, than to be poor a century or two ago.

The classic false dichotomy that somebody always feels the need to point out in justifying the status quo.
Victimhood is today's Heroism. We're supposed to admire and respect her for her unnamed mystery ailment, and disparage the society around her.
What would you suggest as a starting point for a regular software engineer who'd like to look into this? See how everything comes together at a high level I mean? Because to someone on the outside, the field of game development appears to be very daunting.
Previous discussion (2018) : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17877616
"Mastering the black art of literally repeating what people say back to them is worth a bit more than any single technical skill."

As someone with 35 years of experience, this is the voice of wisdom.
The following article:

https://medium.com/asecuritysite-when-bob-met-alice/go-and-d...
I noticed something in slight contrast with one of the critiques here, but on a real modern device.

On a kindle, if you open the browser and navigate to a random real web page, you can pinch to zoom / zoom out.

It is almost exactly like the zoom on this photo interface, sort of clicking in on a grid, one rendered rectangle at a time. It's a result of the e-ink display's refresh rate limitations, along with a simplistic approach to zooming "render every step of the zoom no matter what".

It's kinda cool, even though it's bad design. I instantly thought of bladerunner.

Funnily, I think the solution to the kindle's design problem is to go full blade runner.

First calculate the final level of zoom from the last pinch operation.

Second, isolate that area on the screen with two vertical and two horizontal lines, showing where the zoom render will leave you spatially.

Third, render the zoomed area.

For zooming out, basically the same thing, though the grid lines will show you were you were, the last fully rendered area, for one refresh cycle.
That's just how I read it, maybe it is just the click; in afterthought, it would make little sense otherwise
The reason the elderly died more often is because they didn't quarantine retirement homes, and instead send infected individuals into them.
Isn't that true of any assessment? With the ordinary property tax, you have to assess both the land value and the improvements. (There are of course ways of taxing property that don't involve that kind of outside assessment, but they're not commonly used.)
> Most adult industry workers burn out quickly and move on to other things

Do you have any data on what they end up doing? I'm curious because I haven't met anyone unsuccessful who admitted to working in the adult industry when they were younger. I don't think a woman who is attractive enough to make 10k a month is going to end up struggling to pay rent when they're 30.
Thanks Gerald ;)
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Heres a bunch of ideas.

1) Reduce your ego. Your are not the project or the ideas that went into it. It's ok to take a step back and revise decisions. It can help to document the factors that went into a decision.

2) For me reading a book that actively engages your brain can help. Let's say a book about software architecture or creativity can do it. Brainy books can take your mind out of that dead-end.

3) Go for a walk, or for a run. Put on a podcast. Allow yourself to will drift away. Which is ok, there's not going to be a test.
Arguably it's safety related - arguably it's also food industrial complex actively suppressing it to prevent the competition.
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America’s Cities Could House Everyone If They Chose To
In reality many programmers do not think much about how slices really work and got stuck with many gotchas from the mentioned quizzes.
Unemployment.
> The feeling of heavy work and little work can burn you out. This is a marathon, not a race. Get your form right, take each step easy, and keep your eyes forward

Inspiring words! Thanks...
This is the voting mechanism used in the game "Civilization VI" (Gathering Storm expansion), if you are interested in checking it out
learn some freelancing skill there are several websites like skill share, coursera and etc you can learn skills from there and also from YouTube by watching videos and tutorials. Check out my blog on YouTube: https://youtubeseovideomarketing.blogspot.com/2020/03/youtub...
I disagree.

If I've built a small library that does something useful for my set of needs, it's not crap software. It works perfectly well for my needs.

If someone then goes ahead and uses my library, without understanding what needs it satisfies and what it does not, how is that on me?

I release it to the world with the understanding that someone else might have the same requirements that I had when I built it. Why shouldn't I have released it?
I think the first comment from 2018 might still answer your question.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17877616
I use 3-pass learning strategy: Mark, Drill, and Sweep.

Mark: Quick overview of the landscape marking key ideas/sub-topics.

Drill: Map task at hand to a sub-topic, drill as deep as needed to finish that task.

Sweep: If needed, systematically study the subject.

It is rare that I get to do sweep. It is "eventually" achieved through a lot of need based drilling.
thanks for catching this! as mentioned, the site is newly rebuilt. We're still doing some link fixing but if you'd like to read the Privacy Policy right now it can be found at: https://www.sonantic.io/pages/privacy-policy
How do you implement your own security on a network channel if the first network request is over http and subject to man in the middle attack?

Does ed25519.sign not work on origins with self signed certs?
He got upset when ppl with 15+ years of experience, working at dice or directors of tech at Activision pointed out that modern c++ is over complicated and they've been in that phase of liking abstractions but moved on. Funny he blanked the names of those dudes and some other milder replies.

Then he wrote a blog post on it.
No matter how you cut, a very large portion of taxes paid goes towards healthcare. 30% for social security, 30% minimum for healthcare. Military and interest costs therefore are clearly not the bigger portions of spending.

https://www.thebalance.com/u-s-federal-budget-breakdown-3305...

> The government expects to spend $4.829 trillion in 2021.1 Almost 60% of that pays for mandated benefits such as Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid.

> Social Security will be the biggest expense, budgeted at $1.151 trillion. It's followed by Medicare at $722 billion and Medicaid at $448 billion.
If we could get a windows 2000 version of this I would 100% use it for real projects...
Said the spider to the fly.
You can with Rust as well.
What's a whale fall equivalent in internet lore?
Yahoo?
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Ask HN
Question: would it be difficult to change HN so that all links/posts open in a new tab/window?

Is it just me or does anyone else hate having to right click on every post to open it in a new tab?

or, am I just an asshole...
> If China marches into Taiwan, the U.S. will be left with no advanced-node manufacturing and it will have lost the technology race.

China marching into Taiwan could trigger a global war. They'd have to get Russia on-board. Hong Kong is reasonable as a first target. This would also frighten its SEA neighboring countries. Don't forget that China has lots of enemies (ie: Japan/South Korea).
Doesn't Taiwan (in common with other Asian countries) mostly allocate land to the private sector via long-term leases, as opposed to ownership of indeterminate duration? That would be enough to regard it as quite Georgist.
I don't learn by studying (I'm just too lazy). What I do instead, is come up with a fun project that uses the technologies I need and work on that. Sort of like living in France for a while instead of hitting the books.

Currently, I need to learn HTML, JavaScript and Node.js. I've come up with project that uses a little computer (ESP32) to serve up a web page that controls a mechanical finger.
I've yet to see a single valid objection as to why LVT (Land Value Tax) should not be the primary tax, yet it's nowhere to be found in the political dialogue. Such a shame that the majority of the tax burden instead falls on the working class while the landowners get a free ride.
I really loved hearing them talking in meters
> many local laws are poorly tailored to advance "society's needs".

Philosophical question: what is a better approach to advancing society's needs' than government and its regulations? If a given corporation, ala Friedman, best serves its owners by maximizing profit, it seems corporations are not in a position to serve any interests but their own.
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The G in GIF is pronounced like a J, as in José.
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Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23192546
Reminds me of the Java version, Hello World Enterprise Edition

https://gist.github.com/lolzballs/2152bc0f31ee0286b722