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Bitcoin’s supply is constrained by math. You can’t inject trillions of BTC out of thin air like US govt is doing right now. Plus low interest rates mean there is just so much money for those who already have money.

I expect BTC to rise. It’s a store of value. Holding USD in the bank is a terrible idea right now.

Even real estate is shooting up like crazy - at-least in Seattle area (well because supply is constrained)
Once you have enough money, you can focus on passion projects.

He clearly hasn't and will never be fulfilled.
I have to second this. Racket is absolutely the best place to start. There are great books for beginners, and the documentation is top notch.

it comes with its own editor (Dr. Racket) that does some really helpful things for beginners, like hovering over a variable and seeing lines drawn to where it's being used.

It's not the fastest lisp, but that's ok. It's spectacular for learning and has a huge ecosystem too. My "daily driver" is Chicken Scheme, but i wouldn't recommend it to a beginner. The docs just aren't helpful to newbs (and frequently frustrating to me even though it has one of the better set of docs)

Vim is meh for Lisp & Scheme, and I'm a Vim fan. Emacs is great. If you're a Vim user check out Doom Emacs. It's great for us geeks who love vim but want more power and better lisp support. But... start with Dr. Racket for now.

Others have mentioned the SICP book, and it is good but i wouldn't suggest it as as "how to start with lisp" book. Also, watch the free lectures of the course from MIT. Very good, and make it way easier to work through the book.
"Give a man a fish..."
Except for mobile, where recent updates made it a hot mess.
Exactly. People need to know that there are many ways to make all your money go poof in crypto.
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Ask HN: Do You Journal a Lot?
I wonder if some people are still journaling or writing about their life and thoughts in a private way (like in a diary), and not publishing it on social media.
High quality creators have largely abandoned text/open-web in favor of video, ergo YouTube channels for interesting stuff.
That just blocks common Javascript ad scripts and trackers. It doesn't block sites tracking analytics via server logs.
Oh geeze! I'll try to find a paper on this, but it varies a lot in the US's K-12 at least, hence the 'rule of thumb'.

The source I have off the top of my head is family members that are in education consulting and therefore talks over dinners and whatnot, but that is not a 'source' in the HN sense.
Hmm, I don't really mess with cryptocurrencies any more but I do have a $15/wk BTC buy and I've put in just under $500 since around April and now my balance is ~$910 which is nice. I'm still smacking my head on my desk for formatting my HD that had 100BTC on it back in 2009 that I CPU mined myself (that wasn't even worth $1 total at the time). To be fair I'm certain I would have sold at $4/$8/~$100 so it's not like I would have $2M now haha.
Well, to boot, no, film and paper were far way easier and more powerful to process than daguerréotype, and digital is also way more powerful to process than film. That being said, I do think you lose out on a lot of convenience with an iPhone as your sole camera.

To start, you can actually crop. You can use lenses with a higher focal length than 70mm, which for many people makes all the difference in portraits. If you're using something like ProRAW, you're limited to 1/3 of an FPS vs 20FPS.

If you want to capture the moment on an ILC, you can also just hold the shutter. This would be the very first time we go from a platform that has higher image quality and more editing lattitude to a technology that has less of it. The replacement isn't an entire tool belt and bags of gear, for me it's an A7ii and a 28-75 2.8 (for a total cost lower than the iPhone 12 Pro + my current phone and will outlive it by four or five times).

As for sales, the iPhone has already gobbled up everything except the high end camera market, which is actually seeing increasing sales, so we'll see about that. I don't find it all that probable.

As for ProRAW, it's technically completely inferior to, say, an ARW file.
> for the average user
I use uBlock in Chrome, and Blokada on my Android phone. Works great and highly recommend
Nobody is arguing with you about why people use Facebook.

The point is only that there is no fundamental reason this facility needs to be part of Facebook.
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Firefox got to 30% by being a good browser. An alternative take on why it is now lower: not because of dark patterns but because Google genuinely built a better product. I'm a Firefox user, but because of stubbornness. In all honesty, I find Chrome easier to use and less cluttered.
I learned Haskell due to Xmonad. That was probably twelve years ago.

Later I switched to i3 but kept using Haskell.

Even later, I mostly use Macs with a smattering of Debian with vanilla GNOME, so no Xmonad or any other tiling window manager. Still use Haskell.
Nix is something that has always seemed interesting to me, but I never actually got into it. How does it works with laptops, etc. where there's sometimes a need to install custom/obscure proprietary drivers?
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> Any time not spent consuming or creating is bad for the economy.

This is a complete countersense toward the etymology of "economy" and I would even say toward its only possible natural goal.

The concept of economy is about reaching goals with the least effort. And the selection of those goals can certainly not be "the economy", that would be circular, an attempt to optimize arbitrary conventions that is completely meaningless.

So having a good economy is certainly not possible by the furious consumption of unneeded things.

I couldn't care less about "the economy" if its goal has shifted toward the selection of our new masters. And that state of mind about "the economy" will certainly not favor neighbourhood stores but more probably megacorps and their (often very few) owners.
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First, there's a huge difference between child pornography and other illegal activities. It will be prosecuted much more aggressively, and rightly so. It is illegal to create, distribute, or possess.

The basic rule is, these social media sites have to make a reasonable effort to keep that stuff off their sites. Based on the NYTimes report, Pornhub was absolutely not doing that. Visa and MC's lawyers would have given them no choice but to stop working with Pornhub.
As a counter-anecdote (giving us anecdata), I did not have this issue when I got started. r/lisp and comp.lang.lisp were pretty welcoming. I don't do much on IRC, but my limited time there was productive and friendly.

There were (probably still are) a few assholes and zealots on comp.lang.lisp, but they were easy enough to ignore (killfiles are your friends). I think some people also got a bit testy and short there because of the trolls. People like Jon Harrop liked to go on there and basically say, "You're all morons and lisp is useless garbage here's why..." as a way of promoting F#. It was incredibly obnoxious, and I recall during his time as a troll there people becoming overly sensitive to other posts that looked like trolling but were meant in earnest. This would have been off-putting if you got caught in the crossfire.
If the shields are electrically connected, wouldn't that mean it couldn't be an antenna? Or am I misunderstanding the setup?
Yahoo Finance isn't too terrible for that, but I definitely preferred the old Google Finance portfolio feature.
Exactly! It's not sustainable at all and the downfall of Bitfinex/Tether will be a very big one for the cryptocurrency space.
Sprawling 8-mile-long 'canvas' of ice age beasts discovered in Amazon rainforest
> North America has some of the most abundant forests, oil fields, and coal deposits in the world, and that without accepting payment to compensate for not consuming them

How much economic benefit would those resources offer if consumed? In the case of forests, is the land covered by them fit for pasture or crops? Is that an apt comparison with the Amazon?

Also, how much does North America need the money they'd get out of consuming those resources?

> Similarly, Europe has many resources of its own

Is that so? How much of Europe is covered by native forests? In Brazil it's roughly 50% of the country. And that's native rain forest, not artificial reforestation.

Is Europe willing to relocate people out of territories they've occupied for generations to restore the original forests?

> most of the consumption of natural resources in these countries predated our modern understanding of environment

Yes, but the fact is Western countries are wealthy and the resources they consumed throughout their history surely played a part in the wealth they've accumulated. Why shouldn't Brazil have that chance?

To clarify, I do not think it's reasonable to cut down the forest - but it's very easy and convenient for European countries to point fingers when they've gotten rich off their own resources and other countries' resources via colonialism.

> If the US demanded a check from Brazil in order to halt the creation of some oil pipeline or coal mine, they would rightly be laughed out of the room

If the US were a poor country and the oil pipeline would represent a big economic gain for them, I honestly don't think that would be unreasonable. You can't expect poor countries to sit on their hands if it's a game changing opportunity.

> Maybe the analog here is a border adjustment for Brazil and other countries that aren't managing their environment to some accepted standard, so that other Western countries aren't contributing to Brazilian deforestation

I would fully support that. I don't think we'll see any improvements to the situation until other countries maneuver to make deforestation an economic issue.
You're misinterpreting the statement in your search for a soapbox. Brendan was one of "Mozilla's founders," not "Firefox's founders," so he was the wrong person for the job anyway.
or in Windows
Yeah, no, hard disagree. Every citizen should have the right to free healthcare, and it should be provided for everyone, regardless of any other factors.

Roads require labour of others to build and maintain, yet every American would object if they suddenly had to pay to use them to get anywhere - how is that any different. You're just moving the line elsewhere, but the exact same principles exist in America too.
The ML algorithms are the ultimate "source: dude trust me"
Telegram, WeChat, Discord. You can also use some trending search strings on github, because you can find the project's repositories, from there you will eventually find their chat rooms.
I appreciate the post, but I'm already part-time using dwm on a Linux machine, and I'm still struggling. The screen size of that machine is smaller, so it's acceptable, but I'd never be able to use it on my main display, it's just too much wasted screen space.
Random internet meanie aside, if this happened to a friend or a family member, I would absolutely try to explain to them that they were an idiot for putting their life savings into crypto in the first place.
foo@[IPv6:2001::01], since it's an IPv6 address. Without the IPv6 prefix, it must be an IPv4 address.
It depends on the lens. Some lenses will more easily want a sensor that curves away, others will prefer a sensor that curves towards them.
Seems an easier solution to me would just be to disband Mozilla and rebuild from the ashes an org that is actually interested in building a browser.

Mozilla is already too bloated, too rotten and too stuck in it's ridiculous ways to salvage.
ooh! Really cool to see Amna get a mention in this post. Amna lets you use your browser as part of to-do list. Though, it in in itself is not a browser.

Feel free to try it out and drop feedback! (https://getamna.com)
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Searching by hash, where the hash is locally generated and then sent to the server, avoids this sort of surveillance issue.

It doesn't stop the issue of forced changes to code that impair that local hashing, but it's detectable by the user. Server-side encryption/hashing isn't detectable by the user, and that's an important consideration in any secure system.

Best of luck with your project.
Ask HN: Architecture for building interactive server rendered (MVC) web apps?
For instance, clicking a button brings up a modal with content that is generated server side.

I have done this via the server generating JavaScript that is eval'd client side. If JavaScript is disabled, the modal is opened on a new page instead.

What are some good patterns to enable this, while also having a safe fallback for when JavaScript is disabled?
This fits in with my pet theory that universal healthcare would actually result in a huge explosion of entrepreneurship in the US.
You make an interesting point. Why would Google publish this, something that will only deprive them of revenue? They've already banned some browser extensions and Android apps that do this.
That's understandable because the tire is a fast moving object coming in contact with a rough surface, but your average plastic bag? The wear that a plastic bag experiences is absolutely tiny by comparison. Your mousepad/table/keyboard probably experiences more wear than all your plastic bag use combined.
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No worries, it was a genuine question, not a “citation needed” ;).
>Mouse is used because it has very low learning curve and you can just click on stuff that interests you without thinking how to reach it.

I have this idea for a tiling manager called rubik's cube. Basically to switch windows all you gotta use your brain and solve a rubik's cube. You also have to memorize a bunch of short cut keys for rotating the cube. Specifically avoided allowing you to use arrow keys or the mouse for this because you lose precious nanoseconds of efficiency. Also no graphics either. The cube is represented by console text in a 3 by 3 grid with letters representing color because all graphics are useless and get in the way of my efficiency. Every command is represented by a very specific rubik's cube configuration so you just need to memorize all the problems and solutions.

Want to move your cursor 1 space to the right? Solve a rubik's cube. I made sure there's a short cut keys for every possible solution so 1 key press is all you need to execute any command.

This idea is basically to design an interface for people like you and me who totally get it and understand truly what a good interface design is. It's also for people who understand that there are no tradeoffs in the UI world and that everything needs to be designed for ruthless efficiency.

Have you tried learning chinese? It's a hard language to learn how to write but pretty efficient because every freaking word has its own symbol aka shortcut key.

I'm also thinking of creating a keyboard and a programming language written in chinese where every single key you press generates an entire programming language token (written as a single chinese word), because seriously letters and english is overrated just easy learning curve that's all.

I also agree with you on animations and decorations. Never helped me and neither does any other aesthetic concept in the real world. I don't need anything pretty because it's not efficient. For example my girl friend. Getting a pretty girl is against human nature nobody wants that because it's not logical prettiness only gets in the way of my ruthless efficiency plus it's overrated.
Completely off-topic rant incoming, but Microsoft has very often sucked at advertising itself. Here's a more recent example. I bought a Windows Phone way back when. It was amazing. My favourite feature of it, believe it or not, was the keyboard. I have a sneaky suspicion that they used MS Word's dictionary somehow, because it could correct typos not just when the wrong letter was typed (for instance, typing 'aentence' instead of 'sentence'), but also words typed in the wrong order ('snetence'). It was delightful. I could type as fast as I wanted, confident that auto-correct would take care of any errors. Then I moved to Android, and I could not believe how appalling the keyboard was. But it seems that no one else was talking about it, because android users just didn't know of the excellence that existed out there.

Then, at some point, Microsoft went ahead and ruined their keyboard when they went to Windows Phone 10 or 8.1 I can't remember, and I've been searching for perfection ever since. GBoard, with it's fucking emoji page is an affront to engineering.
1) I narrowly avoided being laid off as part of a 30% reduction in staff earlier this year.

2) I bought a house with an insanely low interest rate and very favorable terms.

3) That house's value has now appreciated nearly 15% in the last 6 months.

4) My family and I have avoided contracting COVID (so far) and have been enjoyed relatively great health.

I have much to be grateful for despite an otherwise lackluster year.
IIRC Plenty of Fish was doing like ~1m/y in ad revenue before the guy started hiring people in 2008. Probably a less viable option now given the ad landscape, but that one always stuck with me as a solo founder success story with a nontraditional path.
I think crypto requires low level interactions for things like this. Tooling is good for abstracting payments, but if you're using it and don't understand what's happening under the hood there are so many pitfalls.
sibling comment got us covered!
Blu-ray's are still reasonably common, though they are slowly disappearing as well and I don't think there will ever be a successor. Fact is that write-once read-many is just not considered a very valuable property by itself, and as rewritable storage is becoming cheaper (if only by economies of scale) it'll displace them.
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How I long for a funding model where eyeballs=$, but NOT because of advertising or tracking. I pay money every month to be connected. I wish some of this money ended up in the hands of the software companies that created the software I used, and some of it in the hands of the content providers. I can only dream....
I never understood why its a big deal that windows are leaves of a binary tree? Its that good? Not trying to be snarky, just curious.
I hadn't considered this to be an issue - this is new to me. I would use "package" for Python as I do "crate" for Rust. It is just the terminology used on the website https://crates.io/. For me, it also indicates that it's available through the repository.
We know that not every cell has the same DNA.

First are the well known exceptions like sperm and eggs, B cells and mature red blood cells. B cells have altered DNA to make antibodies. Then there are less known small differences discovered from tissue samples around the body. There can exist several non-disease minority forms that are selected for the conditions.

But but for the 99% of cases each cell has the same DNA, random tissue sample gives match sans mutations and diseases (like cancer).
> If she wasn't doing this, with so many others, then she might not be able to pay her bills.

Walmart or something similar is probably hiring? If so, then it's about greed, not survival.
Interesting. Does anyone know if it even works anymore?
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That was the preferred tool for our finance people at a Fortune 600 sized corporation. I think it was an example from a MSDN article on using ActiveX controls to embed Excel. Give the people what they want...

I think some IE version upgrade killed it and we had to spend over a million to get an enterprise replacement that everyone hated
There are no legit/mainstream sites anymore, there are too many powerful political interests in play. What tries to pass for "legit/mainstream" these days is plain old propaganda. Thedonald.win itself exists because the original group, r/The_Donald, was censored and banned from reddit on the excuse that they were inciting violence against the police. This, of course, happened just before inciting violence against the police was considered cool. If you want to know what that other side thinks (supposing you are on the other's other side), go to thedonald.win.
I just don't know if 8% of desktop browser share is enough. It's creeping down into Opera range, and at that point, you're not a real option, you're a niche enthusiast brand.
It actually depends on the elasticity of demand and the (marginal) cost curves how the surplus is distributed.

What is true is that in a perfectly competitive market, there is no deadweight loss.

The blog post, however, is wrong.
I used i3 for a bit, but in the end I had to ditch it because I kept getting confused.

I already use tmux (since everything I do is on a remote machine) and vim for panes, and even with just two I get mixed up on which system is owning the pane that I want to switch to. Adding in the third system of i3 was really nifty, but lead to a lot of broken trains of thought. Does anyone have tmux+vim+i3? Should I just try to power through this awkward period?
xwayland helps mitigate this problem by letting you run X applications on Wayland, (though purists might differ).

I use alternate versions of Chromium, Firefox that are Wayland-compatible, see https://arewewaylandyet.com/ for more.
Not content with ruining patents and cooking, Nathan Myhrvold takes on snowflakes.
There's a world in which Apple views Mozilla as a potential ally in the whole "privacy" fight, but unfortunately I suspect it isn't the real one.
No, you get that idea wrong...

It's great Apple pretty much delivers identical devices on a same product line except on the disk space. It's more than the disks for laptops but this means everyone pretty much gets the same experience even if you get the cheapest version and you don't have to go through the technical spec sheet that most people don't understand to figure what you're missing from the more expensive versions or you're physically missing on some features.

You'd rather get the same stuff at cheaper price if you don't care about disk space. It's not the disk space is more expensive than market price...
Except if something changes suddenly and surgery is suddenly needed - that’s what makes it an emergency.
Stuxnet destroyed Iran’s air gapped nuclear reactors. I agree data exfil might look differently, but I’m not 100% confident there will never be a scenario where an attack like this is combined with others.
Why would capping/reducing our standard of living have any influence on their choices? Is there any evidence to suggest they'd say "Americans gave up meat in favor of BeyondMeat/tofu/crickets, so we will too" and if so where can I read about that?