skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The lowest state median income in the US is Mississippi at $45,000. I can't possibly imagine how someone mismanages their finances so much that $450,000 is not enough to raise a family on.
That is why I have a rain fresh filter. Needs no power to run either. http://rainfresh.ca/product/steel-gravity-water-filter/
uBlock has a blocklist for cookie notices and other annoyances. Turning it off feels like watching cable TV after a decade of Netflix.

It's crazy that we need to go through so much crap (tracking, cookie notices, ads, newsletter prompts, SEO keyword soup) to get the simplest answers.

The website I run is deliberately annoyance-free. I see it as a competitive advantage.
> it's also the last thing we need in a position of leadership or even as a consultant.

On technical matters, you are correct; on moral matters it's a different story.

Think about the moral tragedies of history; we didn't need someone saying "maybe we should not be so evil; let's be less evil - not stop, because that's disruptive and I am not an extremist, but maybe dial it down a bit?"

On moral battlegrounds we need someone capable of saying "we have to stop, and no price is too high to pay in order to stop being evil". Someone who is willing to pay the price themselves, and make the price as low as possible for anyone that wishes to follow through. Nothing less than that suffices; "They enslave their children's children who make compromise with sin", to say it poetically.
I added my lot in as a response.
Well, as an avid movie watcher who absolutely loves the theater experience, I truly do hope they never go away, and that my hypothetical children get to experience them too.
RMS isn't even the only person that has had a mattress by the door in their office at MIT. It used to be common enough, among both males and females, that nobody thought anything of it.
Not only do I think they do, I know they do [1].

[1] https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/global-disruption-three-terro...
I've migrated my blog [1] and another landing page from Netlify to Cloudflare Pages so far and have been pretty happy with it!

@rita3ko I would love the ability to disable automatic preview builds. My "production" branch which Cloudflare Pages deploys from has a /public directory which I ship, but my other branches are not structured the same and therefore cause build failures. I just don't need preview builds for my use case.

[1]: https://jakedeichert.com
Not sure if I'm missing something, but there have been companies operating the same way for decades, such as FastSpring. These existing companies all charge a pretty penny though - is Paddle different in that regard?
"undoubtedly, unless we have a new revolution like the personal computing/internet revolution that makes the pie bigger and accessible for people, and those types of revolution are things that you can hardly for-see.
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It seems the computing revolution lead to a massive concentration of wealth.
On the off-chance that the parent's description has a typo, it may be this 1976 court ruling:

United States v. Miller, 425 U.S. 435
I'm not a huge taylor swift fan but people who work in an industry with market disruption and the networking effect shouldn't throw stones. I'm a big fan of a number of artists personally - some headliners like RTJ and The Prodigy, and some less well known folks like m|o|o|n and bioxeed - there's a lot of good music out there but it can be quite hard to promote music and actually get it into peoples ears. That is a part of the business of music, as much as we might wish it wasn't - and it's exactly the same with other forms of art. Notoriety does help drive value since it will force people to take your production more seriously than someone hawking paintings at a farmers market - even if their paintings are technically excellent and moving.

Record labels often try to stand up rando pop groups - sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't, but those groups that manage to stay around for more than a few months do have talent that supports the large marketing campaigns being thrown behind them - they may not be the most talented out there, but a large number of people genuinely enjoy their music.
1. Rents are included in the CPI.
2. This confuses relative price changes with inflation.
You are saying exactly that, and frankly I reject it across the board.

I would continue with your other very debatable observations, but we have no real basis to do that in a way that makes sense, and I am not inclined to attempt to improve it at this time.

Should we somehow discuss struggle, necessary can enter again in that context.

Nothing personal.
I think this is pretty obvious and even mentioned this is a previous comment a few weeks ago. The US government has been saying that crypto is funding terrorism and money laundering. If you can’t read the writing on the wall then that’s your fault.
Not exactly desperate, however much pretense we can muster :/
There are a lot of people who have already taken pg to task over the rather thin chain of reasoning (anecdata about the Forbes 100 -> grand societal conclusion)

But what about the initial claim, that inherited wealth now means very little? Tech founders have always come from at least the upper-middle class (I'd say that's roughly where I hail from). But that seems to be trending upwards. Increasingly, "tech" founders have only limited tech skills themselves but hail from a class where they have access to investors, often with a significant cash injection from their own families.
> If you only look back as far as the mid 20th century, it seems like people getting rich by starting their own companies is a recent phenomenon. But if you look back further, you realize it's actually the default. So what we should expect in the future is more of the same.

First, he pointed to one other point in time. Maybe this is true (although I doubt it), but the argument would benefit from many more data points if you're going to establish that 'startups are the default'.

Secondly, of course future here isn't disambiguated so it's hard to argue with. But past performance is only a guess for future prediction. Given the rise of populism globally, I think we're in for some big big changes at the societal level.
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Bitcoin will never be regulated.
Microsoft is annoying while Google is creepy. I’m annoyed by the dark pattern designs used by Microsoft, but Google will remember things that you about yourself that you didn’t at moments when you didn’t ask for help. It’s creepy because you’d rather not know that a company has that amount of data on your life.
"with more anti-laundering features" ? did you mean anti-counterfeiting? just checking...
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My personal preference is for Spotify to leave Rogan's content on their platform with disclaimers, so I can best decide if/how I listen to it. However, this is not a free speech issue.

"free speech" only makes sense in the context of government regulation (vs individuals/corporations), because governments have a monopoly on violence. As soon as two non-government entities are "regulating each other", it is a matter of mutual free speech. e.g. what about the free speech of Spotify?

Rogan sold his intellectual property, i.e. his speech, including the speech of his guests, to Spotify. Now depending on the contract (I do not know what the exclusivity clauses look like) Rogan might be able to host that content on other platforms, or he might not. Either way, on Spotify's platform, legally the speech is Spotify's not Rogan's nor the guests.

FWIW, if recorded conversations/speech cannot be considered intellectual property, that can be bought and sold, all current media will be impacted as it cannot be run as a business.
> Ignoring toxicology is an abuse of medicine.

That may be true, it's not for me to decide. Feel free to ping me when the authors are struck off for this abuse. Until then I'll assume that their autopsy is valid. Anyway, you're just confusing matters if you keep saying "the autopsy" without referencing the one you mean. I'm not even asking you to acknowledge the other one explicitly if you don't like it.

Also, you're splitting hairs about the exact way that George Floyd was killed by the police. Both autopsies ruled homicide. The only people interacting with him were police officers. According to both autopsies, the police therefore killed George Floyd. We do agree on this, right?
My entire point relies on Apple being an openly user-hostile company, yes! It was a great victory for the FSF that they were able to get Apple to release code and build on a free-software compiler, wasn't it?

And it's actually a little strange that they still release code and build on a different free-software compiler when not legally required to, despite being so user-hostile of a company, arguably quite a bit more user-hostile than they were in the past. There's a lot of discussion we ought to have about why they're contributing, whether that leverage was real, whether we could have predicted the rest of what they did, etc.

For IoT in particular, given that the processing power on-device is limited, I think it's pretty common for the serious risk to one's freedom/autonomy to be the fact that the data is being held and processed remotely and you have basically no idea over what happens with it, let alone any control. The GPLv3 does not include a requirement to release the source for the server component, so the best you can do is reimplement the entire effective functioning of the product from scratch. Also, because the GPLv3 has no such requirement and probably couldn't, that effectively is a motivation for the manufacturer to move as much processing server-side as possible.

(And at that point, you may have a better time building the device yourself or more practically buying it from a more friendly hardware manufacturer. Even for the TiVo, if you're going to have to implement a DVR yourself, the video capture card and the hard disk are the easiest part of it.)

I can see a limited use case for things like smart TVs to just sort of prevent them from communicating with the network at all, but a firewall can do that just fine - and it's a lot more practical for most people than hacking the device firmware.

My claim isn't that there's no use for freedom on consumer devices with on-board software - quite the opposite. My claim is that the specific thing the GPLv3 tried to save us from hasn't been the priority it was made out to be, and in the process it just made free software worse. I am totally open to a counterargument - is there a device you have where a) it does run some GPL (any version) code and b) there is some meaningful change you could make to the code it runs?
I liked it better when people were religious towards philosophy and universal metaphysics rather than towards technology and science. Now that traditional religion has been in decline for some time now, people have transitioned the concept of orthodoxy towards systems that are antithetical to it. This is nothing new, as there's long been a level of orthodoxy within technology groups, academia, and so forth, but now it's actual heresy to be skeptical towards anything authoritative, especially if that skepticism stems from one's own intuition.

Inversely, the "skeptics" behave so skeptically towards anything contrary their views that it has the effect of making them hardly skeptical in the first place. I'm not even talking about Stallman's form of skepticism, but what I deem "pop skepticism" that's permeated the mainstream narrative. If one is so skeptical that they are potentially missing out on critical new information, that's not actual skepticism. It's a stroke of the ego for someone too insecure to be wrong about anything. This is especially true when the evidence in front of them is sound and they refuse to consider it.

We are living in an intellectual decline. A true skeptic can't have any sort of controversial opinion without being socially burned at the stake.
Speaking as someone with a not dissimilar background to yourself, and happening to have friends in similar circumstances.

You might want to consider what it is, exactly, that you want out of your career.

You already are in a position to give your children a 10x better life, if that’s something that drives you (this is a common denominator for a lot of people).

The stress of chasing the 100x and the fear of the 0x, without connections and an infinite runway, might make you a 10x worse partner, parent, friend, etc. and you end up losing the things you were trying to secure.

Again I don’t know you or what drives you, but just wanted to share this idea in case you hadn’t considered it before.

Escaping poverty into 1% of income is a huge accomplishment that can never be diminished, from my humble armchair you don’t need to prove anything more to people. You’ve made it.
Of course, the European model is extremely sustainable if you can ignore the not insignificant amount of cost cutting and lack of coverage of certain drugs for orphan diseases. You can literally just talk to any doctor or nurse in the NHS system and ask them about how quality of care has declined over the past decade, while their professionals' workload has only increased unsustainably. And we're talking about one of the best run healthcare systems in Europe here.

It's of course nothing like the American system which is a bastardization of Healthcare, but it's no utopia either. Costs of delivering healthcare have increased in Europe mostly due to wasteful spending.

I don't know if you bothered to read his points after the first line, but he clearly outlined the Asian model of healthcare, and clearly criticizes the American model.
For all her money, she has a paralyzing view of relationships.

She can’t make more than him, because then he’s not a real man, but she can’t make less, because real men want power.
$1M is on the high side for SFHs in the Boston area, $1M will get you a 2BR condo in the Bay Area.
Sure, I guess my point is there will always be some kind of functional messaging in place.

If people can communicate any message, they will be able to communicate the blockchain data. Satellites, p2p networks, ham radio, but again, I don't think we'll ever see a global internet shutdown just to shutdown BTC.
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To be fair, nothing stops hedge fund management from doing this. Most funds cannot justify a "2 and 20" fee structure right off the bat. However, there is a certain bias after having some track record of success to charge that fee structure (or more) as a way to signal you are a "big dog" fund to invest in. Does a private university need to have a list price of $75K a year? No, but they do this to signal they are "elite" (even if 80% of their students get financial aid and never pay that list price).

Newer funds always start with a lower fee on AUM and sometimes have more creative fees on top of profits.

My point on universities is largely grounded in my experience at Carnegie Mellon which acknowledged they were going to just start charging more to make themselves more elite (and while some of that money did go back into making the programs better, a lot did not) and it worked...
Speaking as someone who lives near a rail hub (and indeed, one of the busiest transshipment rail hubs in the world) freight rails absolutely do cross other transit arteries, and enter urban cores where the people are. Indeed, in the U.S., most passenger lines actually run on freight lines (including almost all of the Amtrack network excluding a few lines in the Northeast).

100mph is not a "high-speed" train. It's just a train. Freight engines are capable of going up to 80pm with cars, and over 100mph without (but don't for safety and operational reasons). Freight lines are designed for cost efficiency, not speeds, but generally unless your 100mph train is using specialized wheels, it will run just fine on a freight line, though it will need to slow down for turns due to the shortened turn radius on most freight lines.
I used to have a job like this. I was a Data Scientist (who coded a lot) embedded in a team of Business Analysts.

That job did not work out at all. I was not perceived as a wizard and my work was not appreciated at all. Nobody understood why requirement X was sufficient for a business analyst but not sufficient for me. When I did something smart with technology, people only saw the front end (usually a dashboard) and had zero recognition of of the work required to display that "simple" thing. Calculating a moving average or doing some very advanced thing was seen as equivalent.

As far as everybody was concerned, a "technical person" was somebody who did Excel Macros and VBA. That was their perception of me and my value. More than anything, I think people perceived me as a "special snowflake" who needed so much more (e.g. time) than other people to get work done.
https://www.dhs.wisconsin.gov/covid-19/disparities.htm this is the data he showed.
I worked in a semweb company ~10 years ago - https://jena.apache.org/ as a general starting point is a useful library. I remember distinctly OWLIM https://www.w3.org/2001/sw/wiki/Owlim as a great triple store.
> Is there a place I can quickly catch up on these events?

Summary: https://sterling-archermedes.github.io/
ACSH, your source on the safety of DDT, has also defended the safety of, among other substances, asbestos and Agent Orange. They did, however, alert the world to the deadly perils of Obamacare…

https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/American_Council_on_Sc...
You can't transfer a billion dollars worth of cash by sending an email with your private key.
I would not work with anyone who held those views, regardless of which country they were from. I find it abhorrent and especially so in the context of work.
What’s that actual party that’s left?
I think it’s kinda like modern SSDs which also have more states than just on or off per storage cell, but it’s still holding data that can be written/interpreted in binary.
Well, what has changed is we now have CEO's of publically traded companies openly and brazenly participating in crypto-currency pump-n-dump schemes[1] because they are currently unregulated markets.

Now, with major publically traded companies buying up other crypto-currencies, seemingly speculating on their rise in value, we may have a problem that compels some government agency to step in and ensure these organizations are truly acting in shareholder's best interests.

It's not a far stretch to see these events ushering in new crypto regulations.

[1] https://tradetheday.com/crypto-analysis/dogecoin-elon-musk-p...
Does anyone know how this compares to https://github.com/redox-os/sodium besides the fact it is still being actively developed?
Yeah I think that's all pretty stupid. For me these are good reasons not to work for Brave, but less good reasons not to use Brave. I think Mozilla is a bit different because of their leadership in the community. I know the Mozilla Foundation is separate, but it's part of that community and I think it was inappropriate for Eich to be in a position of leadership in that community.

I think Steve Jobs is a good similar example here. He was an asshole. I don't think I'd have wanted to work for him directly, and I don't think he should have been running a charity or a company where the community engagement was important, but I still bought an iPhone.
In standard American English, 'praxis' is a Marxist shibboleth. For a non-loaded term, you can just use 'practice.'
While not as good as distilling can I suggest filtering like the rain fresh system uses. I have used them for decades because well water has too much minerals (bad tasting) in this part of Ontario.
You could store the phone number in hashed form and require the user to enter their phone number for the one-time text every time they log in, if the hashed phone number matches the hash you have stored for the user account, then send the verification text and let the user enter that to complete login. This way you can use a phone number for verification while not actually storing the phone number.

you do run into the issue that getting ahold of extra phone numbers is fairly trivial, so you can’t really rely on phone numbers alone to keep bad actors out.
I’m involved with some US government OSS projects and it’s interesting US government content is public domain in the US so not copyrighted. This seems like it should be easy for open source because public domain, no copyright can be used for pretty much anything.

However, this was confusing to many users and contributors so we worked with our lawyers to update the public domain notices to also include CC0 and MIT or ASL2.

That seems to help but we still get questions about why include CC0 and an OSI license. There’s some confusion that these conflict although they don’t of material is released under both consistently. I think there are issues if you try to add one on top of the other.

But I wish there was a cleaner way to handle this to allow for software and source to be used widely.
He specifically addresses this in footnote [3].
Hey HN, liwasc, a project I've been working on for about half a year, is finally ready! It is a fast network scanner, port scanner and WoL server with a gRPC API and a PWA frontend.

I'd love to get your feedback :)
Early return is my silent gauge to tell if a piece of code has been written by a junior or a senior software engineer.

I still see far to many snippets with multiple levels of indentation, where each if branch is for the happy path, and if they were converted to early returns you could flatten the whole thing to 1 indentation level, at the expense of requiring negated boolean expressions which aren't as readable.
As far as I understand, this (as offered by many airline) is "just" a discounted rail ticket and the airline will not assume any responsibility on delays. The Lufthansa offer goes beyond that: the trains have an LH flight number, and you get a single ticket. They rebook you in case of delays and there is a dedicated luggage droppoff/collection point right at Frankfurt airport train station.
Ex-Uber isn't really a selling point for a service where you face large fines if they get fiddly little legal details wrong.
I'm kind of a contrarian myself, and what you've said resonates with me a lot. Take my upvote!
Having spent a few months at work attempting to build an application in NativeScript, my advice to others is don't touch it with a ten-foot pole.

It is marketed as a holy grail for mobile development, but it is very, very immature. It should be considered an experimental technology.

Why do I say that? It has a severe lack of features and a high bug count.

It claims to support CSS but in fact it only supports about 10% of what CSS can do in the browser.

It also has an insanely huge backlog of bugs, which you can see for yourself on GitHub. I filed a bug report for what is a fatal flaw IMO: you can't write unit tests against async code. The dev team acknowledged it is a problem and yet it has collected dust for a year. No serious business should use a tool that doesn't allow you to write unit tests. https://github.com/NativeScript/nativescript-angular/issues/...
> On the internet, there’s no scarcity: there’s an endless amount of everything available to everyone.

This got me thinking: in a post-scarcity civilization, what would people do? Probably invent new ways to create artificial scarcity.
The Fed funds rate was 21.5% in June 1982. Negative real rates in 2020. Equity models that discount future earnings to a risk-free rate are going to spit out significantly different numbers in each regime.
This is exactly why we antitrust enforcement. It's not an easy problem to solve though.