skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Generally speaking, people's lives get better the more goods and services they exchange.

“Goods and services” strikes me as being overly broad. Self-education is increasingly obtainable online, and has had an outsized impact on my quality of life compared to other things I’ve spent money on. Regardless, it’d be putting it mildly to say there’s ample room for interpretation here.

(And this is without getting into all the abstract philosophical concepts that creep their way into any discussion about “life betterment”.)

> If you have all the goods and services you need, you're supposed to loan or invest your money to someone

Particularly if we take an “infinite growth at all costs despite finite physical resources” world view. But if not...

> Deflation disincentivizes these exchanges, and a fixed supply is even worse.

Worse for who? Humans? Humans are already vastly overpopulating this planet. To someone like myself who’d be pleasantly surprised if humankind lasted another three decades here on Earth, I think your system of value is of questionable merit. We need to curb growth, starting today, to avoid an ecological collapse. A deflationary economic system like Bitcoin can help avoid calamity for billions.
1/ Work backwards from results. Start with an outcome that you want and then figure out what minimal change in the code will produce that outcome.

2/ Have a reproducible process (could be manual) to test that the change you made did not break things.

3/ Spend time on things where you can produce results quickly. Bail on things that are taking too long.

4/ Take walks and think about what is going on. Are you solving the right problem? Is there a different approach? Should you switch jobs?
"problem"? I argue that a healthy economy should allow people to invest and defer consumption until they want to consume.
What rate do you consider rapid, because I really don't see it.
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You're being rather unfriendly yourself.
When Apple tests new ground, only their apps have access to a feature. Then only partners. Then only approved developers. Etc. This gradual rollout allows refinement and reduces the odds of screwups.

It looks unfair, but Apples goal isn’t to be idealistically fair, but to keep iOS a good experience to users.

For every good use of a feature there’s an abuse case.
Isn't it just perfectly sane policy for any nation/country ???

What's TOTALY INSANE is to expect that foreign corporations will play according to rules - you can expect any bullshit talk from them while actions can be whatever they curently want, including working for two or more parties.

Anyway, for basic civilisation sanity nation state >> corporations or you are in troubles.
The "founders" were GenXers and older but the internet or "cyberspace" was so tiny then that there are as many clueless GenX now as from any other generation.
We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time. -- T.S.Eliot
Plus one for this. I created a wrapper in the language I use for HERE maps, and their fremium model is great. Over 250K I start paying, but I haven't got there yet. I'm using routing, address auto-complete (International), tiles, traffic maps and so on.
The last part is shocking to say the least. It’s hard as a patient to imagine a doctor, seen as medical authority figures, have such a passive approach to the latest drug efficacy w.r.t. their prescribed treatments. That’s why teaching hospitals have more modern technology and pulse on the cutting edge.
There was pretty anti-consumer behaviour from Roku too. Imagine you bought a Roku and subscribed to YouTube TV. Last week, that subscription you paid for just stopped working, through no fault of your own.
That is a cool story, thanks for sharing.
I think you should add a link to and acknowledge the original on the actual game site. It's not really enough to link to your own github then have the link there.
This back and forth exchange between Zoom and Jeremy Provost is really all I could find on the entitlement.

https://devforum.zoom.us/t/video-camera-not-working-in-split...

And it's odd how they expect that someone integrating with the API will just be able to use it.
> Of course it's only to prevent money laundering from terrible crimes

Snowden proved that wrong.
With that diet sure thing he had several strokes!
Furthermore, if there's any branch of government that to me seems to be populated by actually intelligent people, it's the central bank.
Hmm, I think I meant "evidence" more than "source".
Two apps sit side by side. You see the camera dot. Which one is recording you?
I think the story starts with Beats. Sennheiser missed a trend or was late to adopt.
China has intruded and occupied Indian territory. Modi will not admit to it because it does not suit his strongman image.
> Great, I will eventually uninstall it when they make me.

1) It's likely you won't because of 2)

> I only keep it around to deal with people that haven't switched to Signal or Telegram yet.

2) The likeliest moment for that to happen has passed, so that might just not happen. Biggest ancedotal indicator is prevailing usage in age group < 20
If you only have a mattress, you can still move to a different apartment on your own. If you have a bedframe, you will need help. I never want to help anyone else move, so I try to keep my belongings small enough to move myself.
71 sheep is a hobby, not enough to make a living as a farmer. In Australia a family farm can have 10-20x that number.
Exercise would increase the "potential" of the brain and lessen migraines then? Not necessarily DURING a migraine, but as a preventative measure?

Or are measures of "expenditure" vs "reserve" measured in other ways than oxygen consumption / energy production?
On the contrary, I'm deadly sincere. You'd do well to read up on the Roman views on agriculture. It was, perhaps, the most respected occupation. In any case, this constant goading of science, the excision of religion, the exorcising of divinity of the soul and the blatant machinations which analytical minds use to crush the working class into their finely cut time pieces are abominable. All for the sake of... What? There's nobody in this world that could convince me there is a meaningful direction which all of this unremittant locomotion trends; other than ruin that is. And that's despite a deep desire to find precisely that.

We're sacrificing humanity for the vain and meagre rewards of the flesh and conditioned from birth to tow the line. This man seems to have entirely insulated himself from that, he renders his services seemingly for the sake of it. Lives, very apparently, with great modesty. He does this despite the social pressures to do otherwise, it is quite probable that he sacrificed romance to avoid the capricious intermingling of someone else, since few are contented without effecting their next step on the hedonic treadmill, their sisyphian burden.

I respect and admire the man.
I'm in the same boat. Some reasons why I think we're in this situation: 1) We have solved most of our own problems that we can't think of a problem to solve. 2) We don't know anyone who has a problem that is not specific unique to their situation to help them solve. 3) This is one of the big ones, we don't create. I learn best by doing things and solving problems, so if I don't have a "reason" to do something, I don't go do it. Versus I think of the instagram founders, and how they were just messing around making IOS apps for fun, which I don't think I can do because I don't have anything in my mind to make, and then because they were already making apps, how the one founders wife gave them an idea on a walk. Essentially they were half way to solving the problem by already working on mobile apps, and then an adjacent idea came along that niched into their wheel house.
I see we are from the same generation (born 1991) with the same memories on the internet.

Though I might add, that younger generations have a wast different experience what the web and _beeing online_. Is for us beeing online was not a omnipresent. When you log off icq you are simply not available. Very different to Facebook messenger / WhatsApp imho.

Not saying that we are not living in the same world today but the way to experience the web is different.
There's the good old sdcards with wifi running Linux that seems like they'd be a good candidate for that.

EDIT: This is the one I was thinking of:

http://haxit.blogspot.com.au/2013/08/hacking-transcend-wifi-...
This.

That said, and I know I’m going to get hassle for this, I’m still struggling to be against it (as long as I’m still able to spend the money on other assets as it’s obtained - on the basis that the government can’t freeze what isn’t there).

There are whole classes of crimes (financial and otherwise) that this would make completely infeasible.
Having been part of an org that asked for volunteers, we did it for two reasons:

First, to try to have a pool of repeat volunteers who we could rely on. In any other context, we would call these people "employees" but we ran on such a shoestring we couldn't pay everyone for all of their labor. Sucks, but such is the nature of the non-profit world outside of the glossy donor magazines. Most of these generous souls were recruited from friends and family or were people who'd received services from us in the past.

Second, is for advertising and to drum up support. People are far more likely to donate to a group they've volunteered with, even once, in the past as they feel a sense of ownership over the organization's outcome. Those "bring a bunch of six-figure salary folks to a group to pack boxes for a few hours?" They tended to result in some of the best donations we received for the whole year.
> has no basis for comparison

I have lived in the same place only once in my life for 7 years and it was an exception because we raised kids, even then we ripped our kids out of school to move them to a different country just for the sake of "experience" and so we wouldn't get bored and comfy (as parents).

In my whole life (close to 50 now) my average years in 1 place was 3-5. I could numerate _all_ the countries I lived in but it would look ridiculous and make boring reading (but it includes some crazy places one seriously wonders what could bring one from A->B).

Only last night I sat on the terrace of my an old friend from childhood. We downed a few Guinness (imported and considered a novelty where we are). It led us to exactly this conversation because he doesn't like anything "fancy" or imported but makes an exception knowing I love it and knowing I'd come he bought it. He is the exact opposite of me and I've always looked up to him because he got the roots (and everything that comes with it discussed here) that I lack. I'd love to have roots and in my most romantic day-dreams wonder what it would be like having never left and still among the same people. (and with my siblings not spread around the globe but in the same town)

He has also often wondered what it would be like living like me, hearing about adventures from Asia, sometimes war zones, or more recently South Eastern Europe, always "trying to make it in a different way", sometimes thriving but quite often literally just surviving.

Despite knowing another quite well, we're only able to look at each others reality in a romanticized / idealized way because we have no idea.

"The grass is always greener ...." most importantly I totally lack the basis for comparison to _his_ life as much as he does to mine, because I've been wired and set up to be me very early in my childhood (and so are my kids who also had no choice but had to endure going through the experience of getting ripped out of school and moved to a new place every couple of years).

I think we are creatures of habit. And braking them is very hard regardless if the habit is to never make any changes, or must shake things up every few years to avoid going nuts.
Or some mineral or vitamin?
Sure, just don't pay those.
I wonder if Zoom can get in trouble for spilling the beans on this private entitlement.
Finally someone has raised a question regarding private APIs and special fees from Apple for certain apps.
Apologies for the snark, definitely not warranted. I do see sentiments along those lines a lot, so it's a bit of a pet peeve of mine!

My suggestion is to first teach the generic concept wrapped in context that's more relatable to the student. Similar to code, it's easier to understand the purpose of a variable when you understand the surrounding context as well.

For your formula above, you could define the axes as something meaningful. Say, e.g. instead of A, B and C you have Supply, Demand and Price.

If I read a formula such as:

Demand = 100 + 50Price

Supply = 50 + 20Price

It's easier for somebody to relate to utility of the math than something like:

A = 100 + 50C

B = 50 + 20C

Of course, the math is exactly the same, but you give the student something to relate to.

Now, Supply/Demand is not something the average person can relate to. Obviously context has something of a cultural and familiarity bias. But there are examples that are likely to be close to universal. I use economics here, just because it's a discipline I'm familiar with :)

I don't advocate teaching strictly in contextual examples, but to use them first to provide ELI5 level introduction to concepts. The utility behind the math becomes more clear.

Of course, this is just my take/experience. I spent the majority of time in college skipping class and self teaching, and I discovered that the fastest approach to learning something new is to start at highest level of abstraction and work down. Usually I would learn concepts from resources other than the textbook, as they conveyed information more effectively.

Trying to learn concepts "bottom up" rather than "top down" works, but is less time efficient.
The onions seem like the wrong metaphor here, since you are going from inside to outside.

Concerning the final note: that is already the case. And then one abstracts away from that for two reasons: 1. This works just as well for boats, trucks or non-vehicles, so you use v and a. 2. Have you ever tried to write and read a formula like MassOfTheCar * VelocityOfTheCar * VelocityOfTheCar /2 =....? Notation needs to be actually usable in practice, not just pretty for single line examples.
Do you want to talk about facts or do you just want to repeat the bedtime stories you’ve internalized?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Latin-script_alphabets fascinating that Classical Latin didn't have the letter U, so they would have to write SPQR for all instances of IMPERIUM ROMANUM. But here it says they wrote V instead of U https://www.quora.com/Is-the-Roman-V-meant-to-mean-the-lette.... Nice rabbit hole...

Also the name Julius Ceasar would have to be spelled differently without the letter J in the Classical Latin script.
I think nominal types are a must, otherwise you lose most of the benefits of static typing.

Is an Email type the same as a String even though they are the same under the hood? I precisely should not accept it without explicitly casting it, otherwise I would have duck typing. But I agree that explicit structural types can be useful at places.
The thinking is that as we’re rapidly going cashless anyway, the existing inventory of cash will diminish as it’s banked and removed from circulation.

This is happening already, but is expected to accelerate over the next few years.
Could you explain further? My understanding was that every WhatsApp user had their own private key.
That's a key difference between Signal and Whatsapp. The first now comes with a lot of evangelization from current users, and people in general are just sick and tired or just deaf to any kind of "activism" trying to determine their lives. We live in a very loud world.

To be successful, Whatsapp's replacement, whatever that is, should be perceived as not a huge leap but have the right ingredients for people to naturally switch (think Unix worse-is-better philosophy), or just come with lots of positive, not negative, associations. "X is evil" is just not doing it for a lot of people.
Heart warming story. MUch respect.
> which drives creation of reserves by the central bank. Not the other way around.

How is it that the Federal Reserve added more than $4 Trillion of M2 currency since the pandemic started? [1]

Was it responding to the "increased" credit demand from shut down businesses that see no light at the end of the lockdown tunnel?

[1] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M2SL
.NET Native is what .NET 1.0 should have been all along, AOT compiled with direct mapping for COM, basically the COM evolution that there thinking about with their Ext-VOS project back in 2000.

C++/CX was the first time they finally offered something comparable to C++ Builder on the Microsoft stack.

The Windows team killed C++/CX replacing it with C++/WinRT and to this day there is no Visual Studio support for it, making even the ageing MFC feel more attractive than writing IDL files with a notepad like experience, manually copying files around.

It might be a better experience than raw COM as they were doing before with WRL template library, but surely not for the 'Developers, Developers' out there.

Then since .NET Native isn't handled by the .NET team, it might just die stuck in C# 7.

As for the rewrites, not only was WinRT a reboot, the initial version in Windows 8 required different implementations for phone, tablet and desktop.

On Windows 8.1, there was some unification on the view level, merging phone and tablets models, this UAP was born.

With the release of Windows 10, UAP became UWP.

As few companies were adopting the UWP app model, eventually XAML Islands came to be.

As that failed to gain adoption, and it became clear, just like in Android, that people don't continuously upgrade their OS as their browsers, UWP needed to be detached from the OS and Project Reunion came to be.

A project still at version 0.5 with lots of unknowns how to expose common UWP features, no roadmap for XBox and HoloLens, while WinUI is at 1700+ issues and barely has parity with WPF.

While at the same time you have Forms, WPF with a very relevant customer base, alongside Blazor and MAUI teams also looking for developers eyes, without the designer tooling of the former.

I feel that in the middle of this management confusion, lack of development tooling and missing features, Forms, WPF and MFC are the best bets even for green field applications on Windows.

It feels like trying to move the ship back to what should have been Window 8 to keep developers around, while having too many people on the ship bridge.
If you talk with a number that is not in your agenda, WhatsApp will display the number. If you talk with a number that is on your agenda, WhatsApp will display the agenda name. WhatsApp never displays the nickname (on the list) no matter if you accept everything or not.

They could display the nickname, that could be a nice addition, but anyway removing the contacts permissions is the same as having an empty agenda. WhatsApp isn't degrading or punishing you.
If only people bought high-end stuff... often enough, they buy low-end stuff, blocking off a product category for a while - e.g., you're not going to buy a proper quality coffee maker for yourself if you just got a shitty one as a gift from a relative, because you'll worry about offending that relative.
> It's fine, however, to eat nothing but meat and many societies did this for hundreds of thousands of years.

Other than those who live in the arctic, which societies did this? You have sources? Thanks!
I appreciate the romance, but those of us who have children leave behind much more than stone walls we built in our 20s.

He’s a 72 year old Batchelor who’s once stepped foot outside a Welsh valley. If happiness is a lobotomy then credit to us who don’t choose it.
The easiest way is with GSON:

https://mkyong.com/java/how-do-convert-java-object-to-from-j...

You would just have to have annotations on the enum names to get the lowercase values in your example json.
Yeah, it's funny how that feeling happens even if you're not coming from an "idyllic village"

Though not necessarily yearning, but more like "yes this was part of my history and you have a feeling of nostalgia"
Haha every day I hit that cross I feel like a small win. Yeah I’ll cave at some point but not without a battle!
Values require copying, so depending on the problem it can be worse from a perspective point of view.
The hedonic treadmill has a slow setting too!
How is limited exchange availability a bad thing? Just install the wallet.
I'm just about this person's age and my career has pretty much been entwined with the web since the very beginning (I started right around '93). I don't necessarily see it the way this person does. I don't think op groks how many more people are on-line now (including the web), how much it has grown, in multiple dimensions. I feel like we had our time to exert an outsize influence on it, and we did what we did, for good or ill.
They also use different tools and methods size is relative.

My favourite anecdote for visiting Welsh friends is to tell them about Anna Creek Station, a cattle farm in South Australia that is slightly larger than Wales.
I did that with pants in high school, wearing 5 identical pairs of black dockers that fit my after-school job dress code. Worked fine until another kid pulled me aside and asked if I needed help getting another pair of pants.
No, I don't think that about trying new foods. But I do think that trying new foods is on a more trivial level of openness to new experiences. When you've done it enough, it's all the same experience.

I don't mean the food all tastes the same, but rather, you've adapted to the idea of trying unfamiliar foods. At this point, every new food you try has a risk-reward where you could feel somewhere between extreme disgust or delight on either end. And people who are more open to trying new foods just weigh the reward higher than the risk. Conversely, less open people will weigh the risk higher, or they just might not care. Maybe they think, "Food doesn't move me that much. It doesn't make me nearly as happy as my sheep." (Of course, maybe they don't know because they've never tried sesame chicken.)
It would be great if there was an in-between version with a timer (or countdown) that alternates between Lovetris and Hateris.

Still a bit far from the randomness of the real Tetris but would enable quite some strategies..
> I’ve had several strokes.

This sums up the article
Is the answer that the US left the gold standard and switched to completely fiat currency?

Or the US ended the trade embargo with China?

Or Walt Disney World opened in Florida?
Free Staff? Is there another term for this that's proper and also doesn't imply compensation?
Same here. I love software but also hate it. Too many decisions.

During lockdown I relish the opportunity to clean the house and cook because they are straightforward tasks where there are clear goals and I always achieve success.

Software for me these days involves too much despair and worry over whether things are done the right way.
What Does the Son of Man Mean? – Gospel of God
Thank you for doing their job right. To be fair, desktopmetal.com is at least being linked below, but after clicking it I simply felt mislead, consequentially closing it again.
For what it’s worth, OWS (whose co-founder created WhatsApp and which is now known as Signal Foundation) implemented Signal protocol for WhatsApp’s E2EE. WhatsApp’s technical paper[0] (last updated October 2020) describing the implementation indicates that only public keys, not private keys are stored on the server.

Unless there’s been an incident I’m not aware of, all I’m seeing is you claiming that WhatsApp/OWS engineers are lying with the only substantiation being questionable ethical practices of the parent company.

[0] https://scontent.whatsapp.net/v/t39.8562-34/122249142_469857...