skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> transfer the costs to the customers

Have friends in the hotel business. There is a particular type of rich customer who serially trashes every room they stay in.

Some hotels indulge them. These customers pay for their damages and then some, after all. Others turn them away. The extra cash doesn’t make up for the toll taken on employees and other guests. These are both sensible business decisions, and they each have consequences.

Miners are the loud, trashy guest who can pay. Hetzner is saying they don’t want them because they’re ruining the experience for their other customers.
I definitely do this, but I had no idea that it makes people uncomfortable. Am from Texas.

I’m trying to rationalize this now... I guess I think of it as tension defusing? Definitely going to be more cognizant of this.
It's a neologism, or possibly the resurrection of a long unused form - I don't know exactly how we came about it but I agree completely that one of the meanings of "lesson" is "a thing which has been learned".

In my experience, there's a tendency toward folksiness in certain varieties of corpspeak that causes rejection of "formal-sounding" terms and repurposing of "plainer" forms to create new words, hence lessons = learnings, protégé = mentee, and so on.
Same as anywhere else, I suppose: because changing it costs time/money and has no obvious value. In regulated areas like health care there can also be a recertification or audit support cost if you change something.
I'm not confident any automated system could properly detect a sponsored segment. Some creators are quite sly with how they're worked in.

> pay content creators fairly so that they don't have to shill for NordVPN in every video they release.

I'm with you on that.
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Any DAOs/examples practicing this currently?

Extremely interested in the space, would love to explore further.
> when I said "dropping" I wasn't talking about a rule, I was using that to demonstrate the problem.

How is restricting activity not a rule? I don't think it would demonstrate the problem at all because I don't think it would actually do much (most people would ignore it). Maybe I'm misunderstanding what you meant originally or mean here?

> There's a nearly fixed supply, because no amount of demand can affect the shortages.

If demand dropped to the point below supply it wouldn't be a shortage.

> There's a nearly fixed demand, because enough of the cards are going to be sold at MSRP to keep stoking it.

> In a situation like that, someone arbitraging the prices is not helping supply and demand meet, they're just making a profit.

Sure they are. Without a secondary market and with a primary market that is fixed-price and a limited supply, after demand meets supply, nobody gets any more of that product, which means there's zero liquidity. With a secondary market, people re-sell for a profit, and the market has liquidity again. The people that want it are able to get it as long as they are willing to pay the extra amount. It's possible to buy the item where it would not be previously.

> You want some amount of secondary market so that the people that very badly need a card can pay extra to get one now. But a tiny percent of cards going onto ebay is enough to fulfill that role. If half the cards end up massively marked up on ebay, it doesn't help allocate them more efficiently in any significant way, it just takes more money from people.

I agree. I just don't think you can do anything about it usefully except to try to increase supply or reduce demand through various means. Everything else I've seen fails or has unintended consequences (which are hard to reason about ahead of time because they are by nature unintended).

I'm not arguing free markets always produce a good outcome, but I do think they generally provide the best outcome you can expect given the environment without relinquishing all control (and I think central planning only works for limited scopes and limited time frames).

The simple solution is to just increase the price of these cards to what the market deems they are worth, and the resale market problem goes away. The problem is that nobody (even me) really wants that, I'm just willing to say that while I don't want it for various reasons, it does solve the problem. It does that by reducing demand by increasing the price.
Yes, one of the central points of his books ("Maps of Meaning", "12 Rules for Life", and "Beyond Order") is that meaning in life is found by taking on personal responsibility. A good starting point is probably his "12 Rules for Life".
There's an extension called SponsorBlock that does exactly that. It uses user-submitted timestamps.
Was it laughter or a dominance signal?

I have seen videos on YouTube where a bull elephant will toss or trample an elephant calf and throw their trunk in the air with the head back and make a noise.
They are novel. We have had the same basic design for a century. People like seeing new concepts.
I’ve been using the ZSA Moonlander since mid Feb and love the split aspect, what I don’t love is how high off the desk it sits, having the wrist rests above the keys like this seems like a great idea. I’ve often felt like I want an infinitely thin desk so I can type basically on my lap without totally destroying any vertical space above my knees.

For anyone interested in the Moonlander, I do recommend it but be prepared for your typing speed to tank for a good few weeks. Their customer support is also amazing, I had a minor issue with my board and then sent me a new left half no questions asked.
There's a difference between product placement and intrusive ads that interrupt content for minutes at a time. YouTube Premium customers paid to get rid of the latter.
It's because of things like this—not to mention the added overhead/middleman—that I think ad blocking at the DNS level is the best way to go. With both Android and iOS supporting encrypted DNS system-wide, blocking at the DNS level is more convenient than ever (mobile & wifi are covered, no need to set DNS for each wifi network, etc.).

I realize of course, though, that DNS level blocking is mostly a non-starter with regards to YouTube since the ads are served up from the same domains as the videos (mostly? generally? not certain here).
One time I broke my iPhone screen but the digitizer was still working so I used it like a blind person would for a few weeks. It's definitely far ahead of android or anything else in that regard.

Check out the older videos of Tommy Edison on youtube
(https://www.youtube.com/c/TommyEdisonXP). He's been blind since birth and put out a few videos many years ago on how he uses an iPhone.
All of that started because people were ad blocking in the first place. More competition and less eyeballs meant CPMs have been crashing for decades now.

Sure, you can do it (piracy is okay too) but let the creators support themselves somehow.
> under Swedish law

What statute in Swedish law prohibits them from selling the network to someone who "totally gave his word" for a pack of beans?
You’re talking about the legal term “disabled”. Some have opted to refer to it as a “situational limitation” or “situational impairment” to distance from the legal term which can have additional implications.

Going back to your point, though, would you say someone with a concussion is situationally disabled? I suffered from a pretty bad concussion last year which definitely caused a lot of brain fog for weeks. At the beginning I could barely think for a few hours. Would you not call this a situational or temporary disability? It’s certainly more than “brain fog for a day”.
That's a really tough problem to solve on Linux. We're actively working on it in order to make Firefox better behaved when memory gets tight but it's not easy. You can follow the work in these two bugs:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1532955

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1587762
Somewhat of a moot point when said infrastructure is already private. You can use the misaligned incentives to argue against private ownership of infrastructure, but criticizing a business for doing business is barking up the wrong tree.
> If crypto mining on their systems becomes profitable for us, why would they continue renting out their servers? Instead, they could cease their operations and become full-time miners themselves.

This does not logically follow. Why does Nvidia bother to sell hardware then when they can just keep the most powerful cards for themselves and use them for mining?
There's a saying in the space that all cryptocurrencies are built on Layer 0 which is the social consensus layer. Bitcoin is only Bitcoin because everyone agrees on it.
If that is so, then why are there still "developers in crypto" left?

Shouldn't you expect from smart people that they eventually realize the conceptual infeasibility of what they are trying to accomplish?
compare it to what actually exists in the mainstream not some dark fears of possible dystopias ...
Pretty sure it would but good luck when the tax authorities come for you.
> I'm not confident any automated system could properly detect a sponsored segment. Some creators are quite sly with how they're worked in.

SponsorBlock does it, and Google could make it part of their policy for content creators to mark sponsored ad segments in their videos so that they can be skipped.
First we had gold, and the Spanish looted the New World to acquire it and found themselves no richer. Then we had real estate mortgages and used deeds to estates instead of gold, and the speculators wrote up intangible asset prices as high as possible to get more money from central banks. Then we had digital gold, and no one used it because money is credit and no one wanted to pay excessive interest to internet goldbugs.

Ideally we would recognize that issuing money is a collective problem and attempt to fix our public money system, which is based on real estate mortgages.

We can fix it by recognizing that when a home has a fixed capital replacement cost of $150,000 and broker has written the comparable sales price up to $400,000 that it is not necessary to publicly guarantee the mortgages at the comparable sales price of $400,000 only the $150,000. Or to at least cap the public mortgage guarantees at double the replacement cost ($300,000) whenever the comparable sales price ($400,000) is greater.

It perhaps goes against libertarian sensibilities to claim that if the labor and material cost of the replacing all of the structures, fixtures, equipment, appliances conveyed with an estate is $150,000 and the comparable sales prices of $400,000 that the estate has 'intrinsic value' of $150,000 rather than just subjective value of $400,000. But with federally backed mortgages the $400,000 is not a long run competitive market value, it is a number which a specific set of brokers and banks have fixed upon which the central bank then commits to backing regardless of how they pick it.

Requiring loans which expand legal tender to be issued on at least half security of the replacement cost of non-obsolete fixed capital would be a reasonable short term reform to stabilize the public money system in case private crypto money doesn't work out.
If blockchain records are impossible to forge, then surely blockchain theft must be unheard of, right?

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/06/07/1-point-1b-in-cryptocurrency...

Oh.
Cuckstin strikes again
What kind of Engineering do you do? Depending on your degree, a legal career might be possible.

When I'd started college a long time ago, I couldn't decide between Computer Science or pursuing a legal career. I went with CS, I didn't love the CS program, so I switched to Electrical Engineering and eventually got my masters.

As it turns out, I ended up in a software career, but about 5 years in, I wondered about the road not taken, so I looked at what it would take to get into a legal career. Many law firms hire Engineers to do patent work and will pay your salary AND pay for you to attend law school, so I applied for roles and got one at a big law firm. I ended up not pursuing it all the way for personal reasons, but it was definitely a possible path to switch from Engineering.
Want to drive your car? The car vendor is well within their rights to eliminate your ability to drive in certain areas. That's just market segmentation.
I am genuinely curious, what do you think is the end game of this apparent conspiracy by browser creators to reduce the intelligence of users through simplified user interfaces? They will convince them to buy more things... somehow? And that benefits the browser creators... somehow?
There's plenty you can do, but you have to figure out what appeals to you, the tradeoffs, path, etc. I found that the book "Designing your life" really helped me. It encourages talking to people who are already in different fields / roles that interest you. When I did this, sometimes I found myself saying, "yes that sounds amazing." Other times I found myself saying, "ugh that's not what I thought it was at all."
Eventually I decided that the best move for me was to sales engineering. It's engineering-adjacent so I can make use of my years of experience, but it's people-oriented and has tons of variety. You'll probably have a different final answer, but I highly recommend the techniques in the book.
You may even find yourself a job you're excited about through the process of talking to people about what they do. https://www.amazon.com/Designing-Your-Life-Well-Lived-Joyful...
Makes our day to read your comment :)
Does that mean you're going to be able to drop into an Iex.pry session right in the middle of an exs script without having to wrap it all in a project?

I always found I had to do that and found it quite annoying (working through adventofcode with elixir..)
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>> should have taken a semester off college to just do this full time

This is very adjacent to what you're saying, but every time I hear this idea, I can only think that it's really taking an entire year off. Most of my courses were structured in a way that if you took a term out of the normal hierarchy, you'd have to wait until that course came around again at the same time the next year.
What if we shadowbanned all comments for half an hour, or an hour?
Big package gets delivered. Two people working down the delivery, scanning and tagging every item. Both of them scan and tag opposite ends of the same box with inventory markers. An immutable record is created that says there are two of these things in stock.

Someone buys it. It gets checked out. One of the markers gets scanned, an immutable record is created saying there's still one in stock.

Physical reality has a way of screwing with all the best laid plans of computer systems. As Pat Helland says: there's no transaction rollback when a forklift drives over a box of eggs.
I wouldn't rule it out, though I would also be cautious not to self-diagnose things as a non-medical person. I don't generally mind noise in places where I expect it like cafes or clubs.
If, at some point, all we have is hostnames and url lists to block with, the ad folks will figure out how to unblock themselves.
You mean for money laundering? No I guess not?
This is a recent change by YouTube. Wipr uses the same content blocking API as Adguard and has the same limitations:

https://giorgiocalderolla.com/wipr-faq.html#youtube
NN: This is a woman's retina.

Scientist: How do you know that?

NN: I just do, trust me.
Yeah, sorry, the openjdk situation sucks. It's an "extra" package, which means the maintainer is a community member rather than being part of the Arch core group.

The nice thing about Arch packages, though, is that they're basically just bash scripts. And if all you need is a simple version bump, it's usually quite easy: download the package tarball from [0] and change [1] to the version you want, then do a `makepkg -s` in the directory of the package. It will build the package in a (usually reproducible) chroot. If it builds without errors, then you'll end up with a tarball that you can `pacman -U ${pkg}.tar.zst` to install the produced files.

If you need help, makepkg documentation on the wiki[2] is pretty great. And don't forget to send a patch to arch-dev-public[3] and CC the maintainer. At the very least, it'll kick off a discussion that will get the package updated.

Rolling your own packages is easy in contrast to, say, Red Hat - where compiling an RPM is easy if you've done it a bunch, but really difficult to get bootstrapped on.

[0]: https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/jdk-openjdk/

[1]: https://github.com/archlinux/svntogit-packages/blob/packages...

[2]: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Makepkg

[3]: https://lists.archlinux.org/listinfo/arch-dev-public
Here's an ignorant question, but my understanding is that every element has an emission/absorption spectra. That being the case, why not point a telescope at some supernova remnant and look for any lines that do not match the known elements. If stable super-heavy elements exist, then they would probably be made in supernovae and the remnant would show signs of those elements, no?
Explain why -

Is this because you don't have interest in it, or do you have a true justification of this?

I'm willing to take this bet. Just like art, 99% can be bought for $1 at a garage sale, but there will be the 1% that has value to someone.

You are betting against the generation who spends massive amounts on video games costumes, and puts more value into their online image (instagram) than real life image, not finding value in a form of digital scarcity & status. I find that hard to believe.
Elliptic geometry is not a subset of absolute geometry (as absolute geometry is typically formalized). The problem isn't with Euclid's other postulates, it's with things that Euclid didn't formalize, specifically, betweenness. In absolute geometry, given any line containing three distinct points, exactly one of the points will be between the other two. There's no sensible way to define this in elliptic geometry. Intuitively, this makes sense; when you have three points on a line in elliptic geometry, you can travel from any of the three points to any other without passing by the third point.

It's been a while since I've actively studied this, but my recollection is that all you have to do is replace the axioms for betweenness with axioms for separation, and you get a theory which is suitable for elliptic geometry.

(Separation is an arity-4 relationship on points. Intuitively, given any four distinct and collinear points, A and C separate B and D if the order of the points on the line (traveling in either direction) is ABCD.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundations_of_geometry#Ellipt... appears to agree
I'm not sure what you mean? It says he was an ardent anti-communist, and still had Stalin as Person of the Year twice.
To be clear though, any such consensus _could_ theoretically be modeled using a smart contract between multiple parties, including how ownership was to be revoked (e.g. "party `X` owns thing `z` unless party `Y` says otherwise").

The challenges are in:

1. knowing ahead of time what the parameters and participants of the contract need to be ("I own the house I paid for... unless 'the government' invokes eminent domain")

2. finding the usecases where it's even beneficial to store proof of ownership in a distributed fashion (rather than at, for example, town hall).
Criticisms like this are so strange to me. Blockchains are socially constructed tools. They aren't meant to be some absolute source of truth that can never be subverted by any social institution. They are meant to be a ledger that only updates in certain pre-determined conditions in certain pre-determined ways.

In the scenario described in the article, the French government can simply issue a new token and say it's the Mona Lisa's. As long as everyone else accepts this, there's no problem.

The point of the blockchain isn't to say that chain ownership is the ultimate and final source of truth, it's to say that you cannot secretly contravene that source of truth. If the French government wishes to issue a new Mona Lisa token, they must do so transparently and in view of the public.

They are forced to do so transparently because of the properties of the blockchain. It does not prevent anyone from changing the relation of chain entries to social institutions. It simply forces things that in the past could have occurred behind closed doors and without scrutiny into public view, and subject to public social censure.

This isn't just theoretical, either. This is exactly what happened with The DAO debacle early on in Ethereum. People didn't like what the blockchain said, so they simply changed it. But critically, they had to do so in public, and they had to do so in a way that was truly democratic. Democratic in the sense that nobody was forced to migrate to the new chain. Ethereum Classic is still operating today, and if you want to transact on it, nobody is stopping you. This is true voluntaryism and democracy in the purest sense.
How Discord got its first 1000 users
Does firefox provide an official appimage?
You can, because a server can reserve nicknames via a configuration directive. Many ircds also allow the /NICKSERV command.
I guess the buck stops at Blue Checkmark providers really.
For others’ benefit, Mt Gox (of Bitcoin fraud fame) was originally “Magic The Gathering Online eXchange”.
Definitely not my experience, if for no other reason than the overwhelming portion that I know or have worked with is not white, was not born in this country (regardless of which country we’re talking about/in at the time), and I only know 1-2 with any sort of real social connections in the area they now live and work in. They haven’t done as well over the years as most, but there are outliers of course (Bill G being one prominent one of course).

Also no real generational tendencies (I only know 1 or 2 folks with parents in any sort of engineering or computer discipline), unlike doctors or the like.
I'm impressed and also a bit disturbed by the vast and widening gulf between commercial OS UI/UX (especially Apple) and anything remotely FOSS. At this point I'd say FOSS UI/UX is at least 20 years behind Apple.
Luckily, it's ledger is open for everyone to see, unlike banks' ledgers.
>Such concept exists?

Yes, terms against costs incurred due to extreme, malicious or negligent conduct by a renter are fairly common I think across nearly every service aren't they? I mean for a completely different category, take typical tenant agreements for housing rental. A lot of rentals include some level of utilities, particularly if they're in a location with stuff like public water/sewer. And in turn there is a lot of language like this (first result from a quick search on google [1])

>UTILITIES & SERVICES

>"III. Tenant may not be negligent in his/her use of any included utility or service. If by tenants negligence, the utility bill or service fee dramatically increases, tenant will be billed for any overages which will then be due and payable by tenant as additional rent."

Which is just another case of writing out legally a pretty common sense social contract "don't be an asshole" type of thing. The included utilities are so that billing is easier and bills more predictable by everyone for something everyone uses and the costs of which are spread out across many. But as adults everyone is expected to not do things like leave the water running, forget and then go on vacation for a few weeks wasting tens of thousands of gallons. Since some people have inevitably decided they can do whatever with no consequences if there isn't force behind it contracts have to cover massive amounts of stuff these days which can be irritating. But the principle itself is not an unreasonable thing is it?

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1: https://auctioneersoftware.s3.amazonaws.com/ash/2021/2/VDhxp...