skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There may be some conflation of value creation with value extraction, they are not the same thing. Capitalism is a hell of a drug and can warp the mind. Some people can get very rich by running scams -- convincing other people to make bad decisions and taking their money -- but is that the person you want to be? SPACs in this time of cheap cash & extreme investor credulity...

Ethics aside, you cannot judge the quality of a decision by the result -- when judging the quality of the decision you need to tease apart the contribution of skill, and the contribution of luck. Some people can get very rich by making bad decisions, taking a huge amount of risk, and getting lucky.

Philosophy offers some consolation:

> Mild success can be explainable by skills and labor. Wild success is attributable to variance.

> one cannot consider a profession without taking into account the average of the people who enter it, not the sample of those who have succeeded in it.

> Clearly, the quality of a decision cannot be solely judged based on its outcome, but such a point seems to be voiced only by people who fail.

> The reader can see my unusual notion of alternative accounting: $ 10 million earned through Russian roulette does not have the same value as $ 10 million earned through the diligent and artful practice of dentistry. They are the same, can buy the same goods, except that one’s dependence on randomness is greater than the other.

From Taleb's book fooled by randomness.

-- https://www.nateliason.com/notes/fooled-randomness-nassim-ni...
Sad truth is that law enforcement also cannot be blindly relied on for background checks. Clerical errors happen everywhere, and law enforcement is even less accountable than some random company.
Let us not forget the value of having it mailed to their home address for majority of the population. It provides some guarantee that the person who gets mail at the address is the only one who will get to use it.

Most of the population use insecure Android phones and are not the Little Snitch & 1Password wielding HN crowd.
Was? It still is. Only the government itself uses it to send important documents. Other than that, it's mostly everyone's aliexpress orders.

The one bank that doesn't have branches, Tinkoff, uses courier delivery.
Amazing how much clearer it is having this all in one place and not just sprinkled like bacon bits across a million screens.
I strain under some miner's vengeful glee
four points below
smitten with a pick axe to the heart,
my question's right though:
is this the killer app?
Isn’t this only the case if the intent is for a range officer to abort? I.e., if this system is fully autonomous and on-board, a receiver wouldn’t be necessary?
Okay, two paragraphs in and we're already into buzzword bingo.

* "Leverage" as verb

* KPIs

* "Industry standards"

* "Cloud"

* "Performance-oriented culture"

Is this hacker news or a presser for nontechnical suits?

The rest of it doesn't look much more promising. Lots of numbers and graphs that indicate removing accreted webshit between the server and the user's eyeball improves performance, with a relative lack of awareness that maybe webshit is the problem. I'd bet that Wix (business model: Uber for GeoCities) could get much of these performance gains by simply saving the user's site as HTML and serving it as a static file.
it's not really a big deal. Just like not allowing bold or colored text in the comments.
Controlled, Repeatable Mobile Integration Tests
The farther your UPS is away from the server the fewer causes of power loss you can prevent.

I've seen people use UPSes to allow them to rearrange wiring. I've seen them fail by relying on the UPSes as well, of course.

If you wire the entire room with 2-3 separate electrical systems all powered off of separate remote UPSes, you can do whatever you want, but it's harder to change your mind or build out incrementally if you do.
Its not meaningless if you have legal rights to it. NFT's are just an accessible way of justifying rights of some sort.
I'd rather use an NFT than iLok or something.
Semantic vs utility classes is a religious war that will outlive us all, so I'll try to stick to my personal experience and not get too far into the weeds.

With that said: this resonates strongly with my experience using utility classes (Bootstrap, not Tailwind, but I think it's close enough for these purposes). On the giant front-end codebase that I used to manage - which didn't use any CSS libraries or utility classes - here are some things I learned:

- It's okay to have semantic classes and also bundle commonly repeated styles under reusable classes. Most of our classes were component-specific, but we had maybe four or five cases where a particular set of multiple(!) CSS properties were repeated in all sorts of different semantic contexts, so we encapsulated those as "utility" classes. However, when it was just one property getting used frequently...

- We learned that inline styles aren't the devil. It's perfectly fine to do `style="display:flex; margin-left:1em;"`. The only disadvantage this has compared to utility classes is brevity. And in exchange, it's much more readable and carries zero bloat or lock-in. The verbosity also encourages you to move styles to a more meaningful place once the amount reaches a certain threshold.

- For consistency in styling/spacing/branding: just use CSS variables. Preprocessor variables work fine, as do native custom-properties. `margin-left: var(--m-4);` works just as well as `class="ml-4"`, with the added benefit that it can be used equally well inline or in a stylesheet (and, again, no bloat or lock-in). Another interesting benefit is that that value can be reused and assigned to other properties; for example, maybe in one spot you want to `padding-left: var(--m-4);`.

- Unpopular opinion: your HTML and CSS aren't really separate concerns in most cases. Sometimes you can find repetition that can be factored out, and if so that's great, but the CSS that controls your layout is and always will be intimately tied to the DOM structure it's targeting. Given this, in my experience, you're much better off having hyper-specific class names (most of the time!) and, if you find it helpful, some sort of componentization/scoping system to make sure they stay hyper-specific and don't leak (I didn't find that we needed the latter, though only because we followed very strong conventions).

That's just my two cents. In my decade of writing CSS I've come out against utility classes as a formal methodology, though I'm also very comfortable hand-writing CSS and I've mostly worked at small companies, so those factors and others may bias my opinion.
Does Netherlands has mail forwarding? USPS in the states does mail forwarding if you change your address, it is very convenient.
The very first sentence contains a glaring error when it lists the "seven dwarves" (the other mainframe companies) as being "Burroughs, Unisys...". Unisys was formed in the 1980s from the two remaining "dwarves", Burroughs and Sperry (which itself had previously merged with Remington Rand).

By that time there were a few other mainframe class manufacturers, most notably Tandem and Amdahl.

Notably missing (and most relevant to the 2020s tech scene) was DEC, who by the late 60s was making smaller mainframes as well as minicomputers. What makes them different was their decision to tae a different, and what Clay Christainsen would call disruptive path. And while highly influential they were themselves nuked by a new class of disruptive companies.

IBM has reinvented itself several times over in its almost 150 year history. Not sure the current one is successful, but I suppose it's still too soon to tell.
Do mainframes only run on COBOL? What are these languages? Or is it that some program written in 1972 is still running everything at United Airlines today?

My understanding is at least Java is well supported on mainframes. It's not the latest greatest language, but it sure beats ALGOL.
I don't think there was a rec, or at least a published one :-)
NFT's Are BS
Though admittedly wearing a mask during the winter time has made me consider it much more than usual this year.
Successful insurance fraud presumably increases costs to consumers via higher premiums, right?
Prometheus' fire was deemed too vain a thing
compared to blocked chained trees ...
And yet, were lies the gain?
Untold amounts of money changing hands amount to naught
compared to all the promises of gold
and a world changed, made by Satoshisan
not long ago.
New local law firm in Beenleigh
The new Slater and Gordon visiting office for our Beenleigh Lawyers is close to the centre of Beenleigh at 109 City Rd, diagonally opposite Aldi.
Fragmented Store
A decade and some years passed
much DeFi's come and gone
and neither acolytes of doom
nor coiners wild
can tell, in truth
who's winning most.
(If any at all ...)
System Z is not just COBOL. C/C++, etc and Linux has run over there for years.

If I could go back 30 years, I’d have made more money, slept better and would have more hair on Z. Not that I can say for a new generation but now that everyone is a “full stack” developer and the stack changes every few years, I’d still prefer longer term niches if I was 22 again.
It's a virus, carefully placed at the center of their maze.
Meh. I grew up with x86 and it was trivial for me to get into ARM and even using ARM NEON, etc. Computers are computers and understanding of them is largely transferrable.
$1000 a month is not going to reduce anybody's drive to work. It'll pay for food and rent if you have a roomie, but nothing else. If you want a new phone, you need to work. If you can't stand having a roomie, more work. Et cetera.

And the thing about UBI is that everybody gets money, even Bill Gates. So nobody's a second class citizen.
How fair is this valuation?

If I invest $1300 to buy 0.026% of your house, does that mean it's worth $5 million now?
Just move the company to an IRC. Done, why need anything else?
Because the person you're talking to has adopted scrub mindset and constrained themselves out of winning the game.
Perhaps you just need to wait 10 year for everyone to retire and then the market supply will jack up these rates!
Some level of boring, shitty work is mostly unavoidable -- choosing to leave for that reason alone, is unlikely to be remedied at a new job.

But if you find yourself working for true assholes? That's a great reason to peace-out.
> I live in the Netherlands, a country that primarily uses debit cards

I noticed that on my very first visit to the Netherlands. Many shops just don't accept credit card and that was very strange to me on my first visit. My only use case for debit card was to get cash out of ATM until then. So, I was really surprised to see that everybody uses debit card everywhere. And I was told that credit card is mainly used for online booking and traveling.
Society? I highly doubt.
Today at least.

Satoshi's promise though, lives on
in every mint.
7-Zip is the first thing I install alongside Firefox and Everything Search. Firefox is less of an absolute requirement with Chromium Edge but I need 7-Zip and Everything Search.
I’m an Aussie who cant/won’t afford the 1000x prices squatters want for domains. Reducing the overall cost for domains by increasing them.

Way to stereotype though.
This is why it's good for hackers to bootstrap other identities over the years. You never know when they come in handy.

(Note: I have not done this. Or have I? Well, no I haven't, but if I had you wouldn't know about it.)

It's one of the most interesting "careful" projects you can do. Something like "Satoshi Nakamoto" can release software to change the world, but you can compare their style of writing to the short list of crypto researchers whose identities are known. Similarly with JK Rowling's book released under a pseudonym. It's very hard not to slip up and have your identities connected. However, in a world where everyone is supposed to have just one identity, and present this ID to communicate or transact on a given network, and where all databases are interconnected, the only way to preserve anonymity would be to hijack someone else's identity temporarily (such as making a call from a person's phone, or having a homeless person go buy a prepaid phone for you). Sometimes people swap identities voluntarily ... such as with bitcoin mixers or when you swap DNA samples before sending them back to 23andme and other test centers (who btw keep your DNA for the government and all kinds of things). But the risk is that you can be held responsible for something someone else did, with laundered bitcoins (civil forfeiture) or some physical crime (DNA analysis might indicate it's you).

I wrote this 8 years ago: https://magarshak.com/blog/?p=114&cpage=553?p=114&cpage=553
Not the parent commenter, but I have an app whose web components inherit from a class with this constructor:

constructor(html) {
super();
const link = document.createElement("link");
link.rel = "stylesheet";
link.href = "/theme.css";
const template = document.createElement("template");
template.innerHTML = html;
this.attachShadow({ mode: "open" }).append(link, template.content);
}

Global things like vars, default typography, and input style resets go in theme.css.
I have 760+ streak in Spanish, 6 milestones fully done, 7th is done to level 3. I can understand about 75% of what is spoken in youtube videos, and about 90% if the video is slowed down to 75% speed.

Weakest skill is speaking, but I'd do mostly ok renting a hotel or ordering food.
I stare at my Echo Show (1st Gen) and it reminds me of my very first Mac Classic. Why can't Apple bring back that small computer form factor?
Locale is probably a far more desirable feature than {term -term} producing inconsistent and filtered results. The definition of that type of search used to always be a set size of 0.
tailwind ramp up is kind of jarring at first, but any verbosity is 100% made up in the prototyping and maintenance phase. i can't tell how much easier it is to just dev my components structure + style and have it reflected instantly vs trying to think of some clever div class then go to the stylesheet and work there. months later when you are re-visiting your widget you have to get back up to speed on exactly how things are structured. with tailwind i can instantly see it and adjust.
npm i card-validator
Now you need 63 friends to use 64 separate ATMs simultaneously to test their infrastructure.
Would it? Squatters charge you the maximum they can, increasing the cost reduces the profitability, if you 10x the price of domains, you will see less squatters as a result.
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> but it removes one thing from out todo list: css architecture

I thought CSS modules have done that.

Unless you are also arguing against a build step.
It extends to Topsfield. At the intersection of Route 1 and Route 6 there's a model of Eris.
Which keyword defines the axis in question?
Most RandomBigCo just sees any kind of software development as a cost center, and eventually outsources it, to keep their focus on selling their actual products, while some else writes CRUD applications for stock management.
That's an okay idea but it still dependent on secrets. The first time some books a flight or hotel on your behalf or your company pays an expense report, it's no longer a secret.

But your third point of having a variety of public names is good. Ideally, don't connect or link them in any way either.
If you read "drivers" as "employees," this is much more mixed and can get scary fast.
Because then you can't negotiate. Imagine you like Company A, and they've given you an exploding offer of $x, but suspect you will receive an alternative of $x+10 in a few days from Company B.

If you accept the offer from A then you've limited your options. You either accept less than you're worth or lose your opportunity to work for them.
Came here to say something similar.

I often use bootstrap-vue (and used vuetify on a recent project). The accessibility, documentation, testing, and consistency these projects bring to my vue projects is big. BV uses bootstrap. I can make modifications as/when needed, but I have a whole library of these components that are documented and are styled using bootstrap.

Having to rebuild these sorts of things just so I can use tailwind is... hard to justify. I was able to semi-combine both in a recent project, but it seems a little fragile.

Is everyone else just building all their components by hand all the time?
Did you hear about all the people who bought GME when it was high, then sold when it dropped realizing major losses?

It's high again. I dare you to buy some right now, while it's still high.
The conspiracy theories never end. Next they're going to say there is some 'god view' built into the uber code allowing executives to track and retaliate against journalists that annoy them!
For sure, but the original article and the comment I replied to are talking about relatively expensive spends.
Only customers can create value. You shouldn't be trying to create value at work, just do what you're told and collect a paycheck so that you can accumulate wealth.
OS just needs to know about that switch state and report it to apps if necessary.
Vim user for 12 years, Emacs user for 5. I prefer and mainly use Emacs after I finally "got it". My previous attempts at learning Emacs weren't as successful because I was too biased about what a good editor should be like because of my familiarity with vim - mainly I was annoyed about silly things like having to press 4 keypresses for tasks that would take two keypresses in vim. So, if you decide to give Emacs a try, keep your preconceptions away and accept that it will take months before you "get" Emacs, the same way it probably took months before you "got" vim.

I still use vim when I am at a new system or on a remote server, but Emacs is love, Emacs is home. It is the most open, discoverable and hackable software system I have ever used. Every action, button, keybinding is easily introspectable - and it takes only a few clicks to get even to the source of the functionality that you are interested in. Almost every aspect of this system is modifiable by the user, even on the fly.

The only downside is that it is so much fun to play with your emacs config that you might spend too much time doing that instead of productive work. By contrast, vimscript is so disgusting that I don't think that I ever wrote a single line of vim config that wasn't copy-pasted from somewhere.
I don’t think this essay precludes that either, the 1% of 1% of books that are made better by being Proust rather than Vonnegut. And the chances of you being Proust are essentially zero.
I read that too, and just thought to myself "You just need more whiskey for that to make sense"
I'll take FOIA and a bureaucracy with official avenues of redress over a company that likely views my ability to see and rectify their data on me as anything from undesirable to an existential threat.
I certainly hope they did. They need better out reach. The license is super popular, but not well understood by the general public.
I’d rather pay my local government for drugs over a drug dealer who then used that money to do more bad.
It's really funny, but when I see an error that's a power of 2, I immediately look for a hardware bug.
Turkey had its share of MUDs in the 90's too. Turkish players would play on Bitnet on a MUD server hosted in Greece (IIRC), using 3270 terminals, before Internet arrived. There later came BizimMUD, a customized version of CircleMUD, hosted at Middle East Technical University in Ankara. I used to play there a lot back in 1995. There was permadeath and PvP was always open which made it quite exciting. Then, the last one I remember was opened up at ADANET, a local ISP in Ankara. It was a stock DikuMUD instance. It might be called "Darkwood" but I'm not sure.

My favorite international MUD was Mirkwood, which was still up and running recently.

I was also enamored by MUSH servers as how detailed they can be, but could never get to play them for long.
There's more legal recourse for a mistake from law enforcement, and furthermore, they aren't going to show cases where you were acquitted. In my case, the background check company reported a crime that I HAD been arrested for but found not guilty of. Background check companies don't do their due diligence in making sure that the records they gather are still valid. I wanted very much to sue the company that cost me that job opportunity, but they've covered their bases enough to shift accountability to the customer.

Basically, they put an asterisk next to their reports saying to take them with a grain of salt. But that doesn't change the damage done by a potential employer getting a peak into your past that they never should have gotten.

Edit: fixed some typos
But it also is as “visually noisy” as tailwind. So it fails at his first point.

Also the tailwind is bloated is disingenuous given you just remove the unused classes as Pty of your build.

Bad faith points all around, maybe except the obscure naming in tailwind. But alternatives like Hucssley solve this (name the properties the same as their css counterparts)
What we plan to grow are tomatos, cucumbers, garlic, carrots, and mesclun mix. Grow for ourselves but sell the extra.
For anyone who is going down the impulse-buying of many domains (me!) and then finding yourself having too many unused domains, I created a little tool to make use of those unused domains (and maybe even monetize them)

https://www.newsy.co
> so it shouldn't be.

I specifically framed it that way so that the WELL AKSHUALLY crowd wouldn't say what you just said.
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So you don't share confidences with a trusted friend? I'm sad for you.
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> people making significantly above the market financial trading are commonly seen as negative-value producers when most do generate a significant amount of positive value

They generate a significant amount of money - not value, money. They concentrate wealth in the hands of those who can afford to pay them to do it, a process which begets itself. That's why traders are commonly seen as negative-value producers by society as a whole - they contribute to decreased social equality.

Your argument here is circular - financial traders can only be said to be generating value if you assume that money and value are in some way equivalent. The former doesn't prove the latter.

As for nurses - if they're so easily replaced, why are so many rich societies dependent on immigrant health workers? And I'm sure you're not telling me that, if you were dying, you'd rather be attended by a stockbroker? Or could it be that "value" is a nebulous concept that is highly situational and varies from person to person?

Capitalism is very successful in certain arenas but it doesn't universally improve quality of life, and if you want an example then look no further than healthcare, and consider the difference between the US and any country with a nationalised healthcare system.
Bill Gates is worried about Bitcoin, other cryptocurrencies for this reason
There are two reasons for this:

- Other ethnicities tend to be capitalized, and Black people often don't actually have black skin, so the word is more of a description of a cultural identity than a color adjective

- The use of capitalization in the word "white" has for ~a century been coopted by white supremacist organizations (of the openly racist, cross-burning, murdering people for looking at their daughters funny variety) as their own dogwhistle.