skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> * houses yield somewhere around 1% above inflation

But buying a house is the only way I can leverage such a massive amount and I have to have housing anyway. It also fixes my housing costs in contrast to renting.

Further, I can sell my house and take gains without paying taxes on the gains. I can't do that with stocks.

> Don't rely on credit cards for emergencies.

I'll also be able to sell metals/stonks/cryptos if need be, but overall I'm just not risk adverse. If I end up selling to get by and lose some, I see that as just making up for what I would have already lost by holding too much cash.
Yeah—-I bake sourdough and cornbread in our skillets, sometimes one upside down over the other for steaming.
Right-to-Repair is such a wonderful idea stained by people such as Rossmann IMO. Contrast this with EFF and iFixit's approach and contribution to this movement.

> Sometimes abuse and badness are necessary

Sure, but we tend to only support this argument as far as it echoes in our echo chambers. We've silenced right-wing social media and a bunch of other "abuse and badness" and HN gives a green ticket to it. Some of it is truly horrifying, but there was a lot of collateral damage to freedom of expression and speech.

I don't support badness and abuse. Protesting for a cause is more about gaining support for the cause and convincing people that are against it. It is a "pull" model, not "push". By pushing harder, you're creating more echo chambers of vile, contemptful vigilente justice damaging the original cause and making no progress at it. Self defeating.
> However, companies that have diversity goals have not been found to be discriminatory as it’s been argued that the diversity goals create a multicultural environment that benefits the business.

Is there an "it's okay if it benefits the business" clause in US anti-discrimination law? If so, could one find a few studies that highlight the ills of diversity [1,2,3], and use them to argue they're allowed to discriminate to achieve an ethnically homogeneous workplace?

[1] A Harvard political scientist finds that diversity hurts civic life. - http://www.boston.com/news/globe/ideas/articles/2007/08/05/t...

[2] Living in Ethnically Homogenous Area Boosts Health of Minority Seniors - https://www.publichealth.columbia.edu/public-health-now/news...

[3] Our analysis shows that peace does not depend on integrated coexistence, but rather on well defined topographical and political boundaries separating groups - http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjourna...
well written monoliths are the dream.....

curl is a utility, like power.

you don't worry about electricity not being able to power your TV because it was designed for light bulbs, it just works.
Get somebody who can sell. All of the points above where you say you have "no idea" are sales. Selling to customers, selling to investors.

Startups are more about sales than tech (most of the time).
People on unemployment aren't dumb: they know unemployment going to end, and that that this past check may be the last one they will see. As is the case with many government services, people who've never used it always assume it's much easier and laid back than it really is. In reality being on unemployment suuucks.

Anyone who is remotely employable will get a shitty job thrown at them and their unemployment benefits stopped. They literally say, "if you're offered a suitable job, then you must accept it." And what constitutes suitable, is pretty much any job, even if it pays less, is in a different field, and the commute is significantly longer.

Source: i've been on unemployment before.

> If someone can only go from $30K on unemployment benefits

People are not making $30k a year on unemployment. This is a total mischaracterization of what's happening. It varies by state, but in my state, benefits are 50% of your wage (plus a bonus for dependents) up to a maximum of ~$700+$300 (fed bonus).

The thing is, that maximum is only available to a person making around $72,000 a year with three or more qualified dependents, and only for 39 weeks, and only if nobody offers the person a job. And a person earning $72k is pretty much guaranteed to get a job offer.

Source: used my state's unemployment estimator.
Until the very act of using a mixer is considered money laundering. Which is ironic because you started with clean money.
> I know about IRCCloud too, but I don't use chat often enough to justify $5/month (I'm poor, and I just want to chat occasionally).

I'd also add that I've often seen IRCCloud banned from many channels due to extreme amount of spam from their users.
I'm eager to see what ETH's transition to proof-of-stake does for its appeal and adoption. Environmental concerns seem to be one of Bitcoin's biggest problems of late (among many).
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Mushrooms are just the fruiting body. Fungal cells don't differentiate, so odds are good that if the mushroom gets you high, eating the dirt under the mushroom - where most of the fungus is - will also do the same thing.

If you were somehow infected by one of these mushrooms, you'd be tripping all the time, not unlike the people who have beer yeast in their GI tract are slightly inebriated every time they eat simple sugars.
We thought it made sense given our limited budget, the price the guy was asking, and the ready-to-go equipment and clientele.

It was a minimal investment, but I was simultaneously all-in. We had to be profitable to start, and frankly that undesirable clientele kept our heads above water.

It was also easy to see how we could improve on an already-profitable business
It might be hard, but I think you've overstated the dangers of overcentralizing here. If slack is down for two hours, what's the worst that could happen? Everyone works on something on their own and sends an email or uses one of 50 video chat apps if they need to talk. I think occasional downtime is expected and acceptable.
That word order this is not a hard and fast rule doesn't stick out at all if it's shifted.
> The entire power of a modern market democracy rests in the ability to control its currency.

State monopoly over money is a good thing or a bad thing?

> If you remove that power, the state itself has no legitimacy.

We've had "legitimate" states since the dawn of time, before fiat currencies. Many kings and republics ruled and minted coins, but they were always limited by what they had, and could not arbitrarily create more.
CalDigit TS3 Plus for use with a MacBook Pro. Ports for everything and completely solid (since Big Sur).

Second-hand Epson projector (EH-TW5910) for movie nights: discovered the picture is still great even when projecting from quite a long way off-centre, next to the sofa, using horizontal keystone correction. From CEX in the UK, who awesomely provide a 2yr warranty on second-hand stuff.

Monoprice Select Mini v2 3D printer, mainly for designing/downloading and printing new Gravitrax pieces with the kids during lockdown.
Yes. One of our engineers has gotten sqlite to run natively in WebContainer. Will be releasing as OSS in the next few weeks!
a lot of us og dota players got on the hon beta around summer 09 and appreciated how it faithfully preserved mechanics to the point that a lot of your skills just transferred over - the graphics were beautiful and it really felt like an upgraded dota experience. the attention to detail was absolute quality. I played it for years and it still holds a warm place in my heart. it started going south with the switch to f2p, lame in-game purchases, and generally trying to emulate LoL's pandering to the wider/younger market. I tried to like LoL and gave it an extended trial but ultimately hated how they simplified the mechanics and the casual nature of it all. they obviously made the right choices for making the most money possible but they made the shitty version of dota. it just turns out there's a bigger market for shitty dota than proper dota.
Wow. That's some explanation. Thanks.

Do you use "rainbow brackets"?

This example is first hit I found: https://kristofferc.github.io/OhMyREPL.jl/latest/features/ra...

Such an obvious idea once you see it. Wish I had syntax coloring and rainbow brackets when I coded LISP for hire.
I expect there's already been a lot of evaporative cooling in the C community and there will only be more over time. Increasingly the people who are going to be left in the C community are precisely those people who think C is generally OK. Anyone who has developed a high degree of fear of C is ever-increasingly doing what it takes to move away.

I have tried to phrase this neutrally, as to not be a comment about whether or not C "really is" generally OK. I am not sure I have 100% succeeded, as I have my opinions. But the point stands regardless; the people in the C community are generally going to be the ones who are OK with C.
Those same networks are still functioning with much less proportionate overhead.

They're also much more technically competent. Look at how the different networks handled the cross-protocol exploit a few years back where a well crafted link could cause the browser to connect to irc and spam. Most other networks required a PING/PONG on connect so they weren't vulnerable. Of the networks that didn't, they were able to mitigate that within minutes to hours by either a simple configuration change or a firewall rule. Freenode was unable to do anything for months. Their solution was to rewrite their entire ircd and tell people not to complain about the spam.
I'm all for reporting cryptocurrency as income. Bring on the tax deductions. Now my graphics card is an expense. So too the rest of my gaming rig, a rig that spends more time mining coin than it does playing games. My power bill? What accelerated depreciation can I take on a graphics card? Did I even turn a profit this year?

A few decades ago the IRS looked into rewards schemes, air miles and grocery store loyalty points. Those are technically income that must be declared. The result of the IRS investigation was that the entire are is too difficult to assess, too riddled with negative valuations that could be declared as losses (ie points that expire). I think they will come to the same conclusions for small bitcoin miners.
That makes sense. The cheap bulbs I bought were just slightly dimmer. So they must have had more resistance.

But heck, even a parking light will flatten the battery if left overnight.
Notch ruined his popularity tho by being a total bigot and jerk. :/
Tell me more about how Bitcoin uses a reasonable amount of energy while it grows and scales to use exponentially more. My SUV/Vacation energy usage doesn't need to grow. I'm putting Bitcoin energy usage in context compared to daily life. You are the one who is misdirecting. "Whatabout!?" driving an SUV, that's bad amirite?
basically node exposes all these other APIs like reading a file from disk. Browser also has APIs like detecting when the page is fully loaded that wouldn't be available on Node. What JavaScript syntax is supported can also vary between Node and browsers.
There are no straw men here and it's insulting that you'd accuse a stranger acting in good faith of that.

It's a direct answer to "Also, please explain why impoverished minority communities have not vastly improved regardless of the constantly increasing money tossed into welfare programs."

Food assistance, subsidized housing, and monthly cash payments are only really short-term stabilizing tools. For that they can be useful, but those systems are not designed or equipped to vastly improve the wealth and self-reliance of impoverished communities.

The key word in "impoverished minority communities" is "communities". Good schools, grocery stores, street maintenance, good transit, good jobs within driving distance, fair lending (and honestly lending practices designed to fix the damage of generations of unfair lending), vocational training, job placement assistance, enforcement of building codes on landlord-owned buildings, stable utility infrastructure including broadband Internet, and other things stable, wealthier communities take for granted are necessary to have a stable, flourishing community population.
You can ignore preferred pronouns until someone tells but even then it doesn't matter. It didn't affect the language at all.
You mean Mighty? /s
From my perspective as a business, I don't see a difference between my server being down and all of IRC being down. Either way my comms are down.

All I care about as a business is about frequency and duration of those outages. If Slack outdoes whatever my in house solution is, Slack wins in reliability.

You can make arguments about the net impact on society of everything being down, but from my perspective as an individual business, having everything down is a win was well.

If I explain to client that we have a delay because our in house service is down -- fault falls on our business. If I explain to a client it is because Slack is down, odds are they'll blame Slack, not us. This is especially true if they're impacted by the Slack outage as well or the outage makes news outlets.

Outages from services likes Slack, AWS, etc. that are wide spread are almost treated like acts of god. Clients seem to be far more forgiving for those sorts of issues in my experience.
well there's also 2 infants in china
I don't understand the situation in which anyone would find that acceptable. That is 60 days a year thrown away, and for what?
Right. A high-quality podcast is already lots of pre- and post-production work on just the audio. I use Rev which hires captioners on my behalf [0] but it's also expensive. I use it sparingly.

[0] https://www.rev.com/
doesn't that require going through a centralized exchange, or at least going through the trouble of organizing an OTC trade?
Haven't they been that for a long time? Wasn't Britain the country that pushed for that EU directive that required all ISPs to save all the traffic of their users? They were also the ones that tried doing website blacklists and are trying to censor social media (google: "girl punished for hate crime for posting rap lyrics").

What does the UK have to do so that people will accept that the UK is lying when it calls itself a free country? Start arresting people for speech? For activism? Kill protesters?
>could provide a regulatory moat around existing cryptocurrency exchanges

Because if there is one thing we need more of, it is government-sponsored oligopolies.
I suspect existing anti-money-laundering law will cover this somehow. Outfoxing governments through technical cleverness rarely (but sometimes!) works in perpetuity.

An example: If any future >$10k transaction can be traced back to a wallet that you control (it wouldn't matter how you got the funds, only that you transferred them), then you'd be on the hook.
I for one miss the wonky yellow first design iteration.
Broken work-from-home promises as employers bring staff back to the office
And then they'll be offended that you are a bigger minority than them
Perhaps reflection from other bodies? Or simply some kind of radiation emitted from the jets?
GCC vs. Intel Compiler Benchmarks
Foot hammock for my desk. $20 well spent. If you don't have one you're missing out.

You can find them on Amazon. Doesn't matter which vendor, they're all the same. Fits most desks.
A boxing heavybag.

The best stress reliever imaginable.
Mechanical inductors, capacitors, and even transistors? That's and incredible feat. Developing intuition about how to put the components together to build something like an oscillator or a flip flop is a must for electronics enthusiasts.
Yes!

I really loved this story. In my view, it has a lot of potential for adaptation to the screen. It has a well defined scope, in terms of sets and production. It can be done fairly lean, and hopefully that means more investment in the story, less watering down, better detail.

"WOOL" is a total romp! I may well read it again in anticipation of seeing it on the screen.
Sarcasm doesn't excuse a statement from having semantic content worth asking questions about.
I'd second this. I've never tasted anything metallic in a Hoegaarden
They seem to be harder to find, but I much prefer the 0.5mm signos over the 0.7mm when I can get them. Anything larger than 0.7 just swallows my small handwriting.
You might have better luck running those old games under Wine or Proton.
That wasn't a dev coming out of a major studio though, which is what I think is significantly harder these days. Notch got there only because it was a small indie team that hit a black swan event to hit the mainstream in a massive way, at the same time that it caught fire on YouTube with many current game streamers and channels having their roots in the early days of Minecraft videos.

Had Minecraft come from a major studio, even hitting it just as big, I don't think we associate it nearly as much with particular devs, and I can't think of another indie hitting it like that in the last decade. But if big names do still emerge, I think it will be from small breakthrough indie teams.
Mine's already in my dead tech drawer. It's just not the same as a fountain pen on good heavyweight paper for writing, and its lack of any backlight makes it suboptimal for reading. I so badly wanted to love it, too, after waiting nearly a year for my preorder to arrive. I'm glad you like yours, though!
This is going full inception mode. Nodejs is compiled to wasm (like assembly for your browser), and then loaded inside the browser, which can then run javascript.

So a full JS engine is loaded, completely separate from the built-in one.
> That's why I like the idea of a negative income tax over basic income. The less you earn working the more you get in benefits, but as your income rises your benefits decrease.

I suspect you'll find that to be less effective at encouraging people to find jobs for the simple reason that it incentivizes people to work the bare minimum, if at all; when the income sources are mutually exclusive, there's no incentive to work unless the pay exceeds some threshold.

Contrast with UBI, where the alternate income source is constant. Since UBI is by definition not conditional on whether or not someone is fully employed, that someone has no incentive to not work, whereas the compensation for voluntary work (i.e. wage/salary) remains. This ultimately means that - provided it's indeed a universal basic income - you no longer need minimum wage laws, since it's no longer the employer's job to ensure its employees have enough money to survive (and on the flip side, workers have a safety net while they find jobs that actually pay fairly - or else create their own jobs by founding startups).

That is:

> Your competition is a welfare cheque that's paying people to channel surf from a sofa.

Only if it's actually competition, which would be the case for a negative income tax, but wouldn't be the case for UBI.
From what we can tell they don’t take us over and obviously change our behavior. Someone has to tell us they are on psychadelic mushrooms or took a cordyceps energy drink.

Skin infections occur.
I started using slack about two years ago, and in my opinion they have a quality problem. There are just too many issues that crop up when they roll out change.

It reeks of the "just get it done" anti-pattern where done is change that hasn't had the chaos tracked down and killed.

I bet internally they are waiting for bugs to get reported instead of pro-actively running the changed software under representative load to hunt and kill chaos.
Creating an island nation to evade laws won't work. It's the same thing as trying to evade tax laws but for content laws.

What has happened to tax havens is they are labeled tax non-compliant and then an IGO effectively embargoes them unless they turn over all tax records and come into compliance with their laws. So the same thing would apply to creating an island nation to evade some cryptography export law, or content restriction.

I don't think convincing the respective governments with arguments will work either because the incentive they have to require censorship on internet content that they are not mentioning is that they can censor it for their own purposes. For example, Russia is considering blocking Twitter entirely for having illegal content (you know what I mean by this) but I think everyone knows that's not the real reason they are considering blocking Twitter.

I don't know what the best solution is.
1 trillion dollar failure.

If only everything would fail this badly everyone on this board would be a billionaire…
What I think is the greatest problem of C is the confusing syntax for types. Other than that, I think C is good (and in many ways, does many things better than a lot of modern programming languages do), although there are things I would improve (some of which are already implemented in GCC), including a few additional macro functionalities (including adding to existing macros like {append} does in Free Hero Mesh, and a kind of macros which are scoped as variables similar to vardef in METAFONT, and the ability to count the number of arguments to a macro (without expanding any of the arguments), etc)
Stop reading books, stop getting courses and start doing things.

Some people have tendencies to never learn from other people, and they make the same mistakes other people have done again and again.

Other people, like you (it is obvious), go the other way, they want to know everything and not fail ever. The way they do it is procrastinating, never getting in the arena or over the stage until they are 100% prepared. And they are never "prepared", because failing hurts emotionally.

You are like a skier that tries to avoid falling down so much he just can't learn.

I created my own business when I was a kid, it is not that hard, offer things or services people need or want. Someone with a CS degree can figure it out.

You need to get out in the real world and fail. Then you can read books and ask for advice. Now you will be able to calibrate all the info that you get from books and people in real scenarios. Without real world experience, most info is worthless.

Spend the minimum amount of time reading, you should be experiencing life and writing down those experiences. Writing every day is much better than reading every day. One in active, the other passive and looks like work but it is not.

Minimize passive things and activities in you life, like TV, until most of your life is active.

This man was a serial entrepreneur:
https://steveblank.com/

Start getting more aggressive, learn from this man:
https://www.john-carlton.com/

You look too "soft",a "wussy", learn resourcefulness in films from people that go to war. You look too weak for making a company and need to get stronger.

You need to develop some habits that make you stronger, like making decisions fast, dealing and handling the consequences. Get used to risk every day, manage it, minimize it.

You learn those things while doing and trying. Accept failure in your life, accept rejection by other people, accept the pain and over time you will master it.
Toby Fox and Undertale also comes to mind
Psilocybin is the active ingredient (a psychedelic prodrug, or drug precursor that's metabolized into a drug) in Magic Mushrooms. The fungus generates psilocybin and sheds it into the cicada, causing them to become hypersexual.
Up until the green revolution, all land agriculture on earth was mediated by fungi. Lichen are basically fungi farming cyanobacteria, and some people suspect there's an unbroken chain all the way down the plant evolutionary tree. It's not outside of the realm of possibility that trees are just a very long breeding program by fungi as well.

We, as cousins to fungi, get to enjoy the literal and figurative fruits of their labor.