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The vibe and high described here feels really familiar.

I'm involved in civic tech organizing -- communities of engaged citizens (yes tech, but also activists, public servants, lawyers, designs, and any engaged residents) who get together every week (usually in person) to pitch and work on continuing civic initiatives at "civic hacknights". Often these efforts involve some tech, but it's not a rule they must.

On a good night, it's electric: some guy who's a construction foreman might join a group working on supporting emergency shelters, led by an amorphous group of whom its unclear who's leading and who's "volunteering". (There are some white dudes, but not ALL white dudes.) Maybe they've been visiting emergency shelters doing interviews, and some projects even lure some folks with experience in the problem domain (i.e. living on the street) to take on meaningful roles and learn.

I have a hope that someday all civic action will have analogous citizen projects to complement official efforts, both intersecting in unexpected ways. Unexpected like, we've had public servants come out of their government day jobs to "launder" code into the community, meaning another community member takes over the codebase, while the staff goes back into city government to spend down some political capital in "liberating" some data to drive "that new community app that sprung up" (air quotes).

On the good days, it feels a little bit like this article conveys, and I can kinda feel the leading edge of what a future civics might be, once government is truly built openly and is more permeable to the citizenry <3
I thought this way for a long time too but maybe even more pessimist. Because it’s negatively useful not just neutral as soon as you take taxes into consideration.

What’s brought me around is this recent thing with NFTs and the question about how we price art. I’m not talking about the Mona Lisa, that’s obviously striking. I mean more like, these two pictures of an apple at a local art show. One artist wants 50 for theirs and another wants 400 for theirs.

With crypto, you’re buying a number. Some pretty fantastic numbers! I don’t know why one is worth 8x more than the other but I don’t really need a picture of an apple either.
Companies are using salary secrecy to benefit themselves and to lower salaries/competition/transparency.
Is a huge range worse than no information?
Amazon Photos? They have free storage for photos, I think there still do, if you’re a prime member at least in the US.
Many banks allow you to create a virtual CC.
It's the exponential notation for complex numbers, see for example https://tutorial.math.lamar.edu/Extras/ComplexPrimer/Forms.a...
So they are, or at least there's a group of islands called that, of which I was unaware. My mistake.

I was thinking of the more famous Marquesas:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marquesas_Islands
Why is CO attractive for remote workers?
have you tried converting any amount of BTC to fiat?
> I assume that if you hold an opinion, you can present it clearly without vague references to unnamed sources.

I don't want to get banned.

> In pseudocode, what you have written is: I assert P because I think P is best and prefer P; also, any other language that meets my requirements is P.

Your pseudocode has a type error.

I don't much care for Python myself. But I believe languages with reputations for good syntax are Python-like. If this isn't so, it should be easy to provide a counterexample: a language that has a reputation for a good syntax that isn't Pythonic.
Ketamine should be a fairly cheap treatment, but there are lots of ways that many involved will try to extract money out of 'doing good'. Check out this take [1] by Slate star codex.

[1] https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/03/11/ketamine-now-by-prescr...
> An athlete's job is to be the best at their sport.

No. Like anyone else in the entertainment business their job is to keep the customers entertained.

There are different paths, some of which involve more, or less publicity. But athletic skill is merely part of the question, and probably not the most important.
I have enough issues with phone usage. I def don’t want to use it as a remote.
The problem isn’t as much posting salary ranges as it is hiring a lawyer to make sure you’re in compliance with Colorado law.
No. It will take a driver shortage. Or a rider shortage.
It is not, however for some of us, there was an implicit “I let you datamine my images, you host them” relationship. Having to pay google tips the scales, so why not spend your $2 on a more privacy oriented service?
This is the important distinction - and the key is finding heavy duty equipment that has maintenance schedules based on usage not on clock-hours. Having to oil and maintain something that is used once a week will quickly become annoying.
"not as awful as Oracle" is hardly an endorsement :)
Any sufficiently advanced game of monopoly is a violation of SEC rules.
how is defi a ponzi scheme or fraud?
Actually Hobart and Kitchen aid always had a plastic gear with the purpose of being a fuse if some brainiac decided to make a rocky road icecream with real gravel. What kitchen aid did to decrease their quality was hosting the gear assembly in non metal housing - so you could fuck up your mixer body which makes it harder to repair.
I've done hundreds of orders on Amazon JP. I rarely return products but there are two cases:

Panasonic's microwave is dead on arrival, then Amazon shipped replacement one soon before I sent broken one.

Sony's headphone's bone is broken after a few month, so I sent it to Sony's service center but the shit support said that it's broken due to me, not product's fault even though it never taken out. They tried to charged me repair cost before repairing, so I tried to return the product to Amazon JP because it's faulty product. They accepted refunding with exactly same argument wrote here. I believe it won't happen on other Japanese shops.

From this experience, I sometimes buy from Amazon for products that possibly fragile and manufacturer's support is not reliable. (Or add extended warranty that covers my fault)

My friend often buy Chinese cheap electronics from Amazon JP (a.k.a. AliExpress Japan branch) and often return crap. He said it work flawlessly.

I've never lost my package, thanks to high quality delivery company and secure place.
"For example people will often say give me that liter of wine, when in fact the bottle it’s 750ml"

No one has ever said this. Ever. In the history of ever.

Wine and spirits in the US were sold as "fifths" or one fifth of a US gallon, equal to 757ml. This became a "metric fifth" or 750ml. No one is even slightly confused by this.
RocksDB Secondary Cache
They starved out any other provider who could offer photo storage with their free storage. Now they discover they need to charge for it.
> I feel you are hiding the adversity inherent to employee-employer relations.

The only adversity inheritent to the employer/employee system is the same adversity inheritent to any buyer/seller relationship. Both want to extract the most from the other while providing the least. Sellers curse when it's a buyer's market and buyers curse when it's a seller's market, and buyers always want it to be a buyers market and vice versa. That's pretty normal and appears in every market, including the labor market. If you are buying flat screen TVs, you need to understand that the flatscreen TV makers are not your friend. They will charge as much as they possibly can. That doesn't mean you hate them, but if you feel personally wounded when they try to screw you over, then you are in for a life lesson. Be wary and avoid brand loyalties. The same with your employer. I don't think this is something I am trying to hide.
Some balls are more webby than others. Your counterpoint is valid but it is additive: the discrete balls exist too in cases where there are significant stepwise breakthroughs.
Have you read this? https://crypto-anonymous-2021.medium.com/the-bit-short-insid...

Tether smells extremely fishy and seems to be used for a huge amount of trade volume on BTC and other cryptocurrencies.
Reading the article it wasn't clear to me why exactly they couldn't sell elsewhere cheaper. That seems to be an important detail. Is there some fine print stating if you're 'caught' selling cheaper elsewhere you lose the buy button? This wasn't clear to me from the article.
I've outgrown one of my earliest mentors in most ways but I can see how she's still useful.
The derivation comes from Taylor series expansion of the exponential function e^x = 1 + x/1! + x^2/2! + x^3/3! + …

You can throw together a program that will show numerically that this both converges to e^x for real x and that e^ix converges to cos(x)+i*sin(x). You can also find proofs online I’m sure.
They’re just recently coming out of one of those.
OneDrive. If you can get 5 other people to go in on a family plan with you, it's $17/year for 1TB storage. You can get OneDrive app for your phones and tablets to auto sync camera roll, etc. to OneDrive. As an added bonus, OneDrive is really well integrated with Windows 10 (if you are a windows user) so your pictures will just magically show up on your system as files you can drag and drop.
It has to occupy space in your brain.

In an ideal world, if you want to make a job posting, you just put up the job posting. Instead, now in Colorado you have to make sure you do it right, or else — this is the crazy part — you get punished.
Corporate America is clearly willing to do almost anything to avoid empowering employees.
> Pythons “ease of teaching” actually could yield bad systems engineers, because it shields users from the system...

Not necessarily. Most of what it "shields" users from is unnecessary ceremony and clutter rather than relevant system behaviour.

> Honestly, I would personally teach plain C for algorithms because it has the simple for loops and while loops, tail-call recursion, arrays and structures.

C's loops are not simple, C implementations do not generally have tail calls, C makes the distinction between arrays and pointers far too subtle (which not only confuses learners but also causes bugs in real code), C's structure support is bad (primitive unchecked unions, but no support for proper disjoint sum types). It may have been useful as a portable assembler at one point (back when it was compiled in simple fashion), but it's not a good language for anything these days.
i'm glad at least one other person here has insight, i honestly don't understand why people here are so uninformed
> Serious question for sports fans: do you find the athlete interviews before and after the game all that compelling? Many athletes don't seem interested in doing them and often times they offer a nothingburger response that allows them to get through the interview without having to say too much or expend much emotional energy.

Reference: Bull Durham
It’s the next state on the list for Californians to ruin.
This HN post [1] from a few days ago offers some alternatives to Google Photos [2].

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27294703

[2]: https://github.com/pluja/awesome-privacy#photo-storage
Meh, it's an iteration on guided missiles.
Does anyone accept the bottom 1/2 of the range after posting that wide a range though? Suddenly instead of actually hiring for 85-250k, your juniors at the position want 175k and all seniors want 250k.
This good cluster RCT is in the midst of being done.

https://www.nber.org/papers/w28734

In this paper they demonstrated an intervention in Bangladesh that increased mask usage by 30 percentage points (from ~10% to ~40%). In the follow-up paper they are doing random antibody testing between the two groups.
You've made the case for the particular category of cryptocurrencies that encrypt transaction details ('privacy coins').
Falsifiability would be something like: we know what the genetics of lab-made viruses look like; they have certain base pair signatures; therefore if this virus were made in a lab it would have those signatures.

A real scientist with close knowledge of the virus and the lab offered this.
Second for Lychee. If self-hosting, I would also recommend Piwigo. It has a nice complementary phone app.
I think the idea is that this is the shortest game where the loser makes no mistakes. The four turn game in TFA has the loser making no decisions whatsoever.

Of course it ignores the auction rule, but it could be amended to say the loser buys each auctioned property for a dollar (or whatever amount.) The only decisions the loser makes in this case are their bid prices which are irrelevant. The outcome is the same.

Edit: Actually it's a bit more complicated than this, as buying all of the auctioned properties and mortgaging them would give Player 2 enough money to afford the rent on Boardwalk. Player 1 would have to bid close to the mortgage price for each property. That way if they win the auction they can mortgage it to get their money back to afford houses, and if they lose the auction it doesn't help Player 2 afford rent on Boardwalk.
That post proves the point: it jumps from "use cos(t) + i sin(t)" to "use e^it" with zero explanation about why it's related to 2.718281828...

The reason I posted my comment is because e^(i pi) is obviously supposed to be -1+0j. But I see now that I was using the calculator incorrectly (I was doing the equivalent of πe^i) but there was a bug in the parenthesis operator preventing me from typing it that way on mobile.
What's your strategy to get enough users so that you become financially sustainable?
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Mondragon Though a Critical Lense
> They may be easier to reason about than lambda calculus

That was a claim someone made, but it turned out to be a misunderstanding, and is incorrect.

I've covered this here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27338055 (see the parent comment for quotes from Godel & Church that I'm referring to.)
On safari you’ll see the Apple Pay button, which automatically fills in your details on sites which offer it. It’s super convenient when it’s offered.
Yes because the philosopher’s stone is a particular (mythical) object whereas a sorcerer’s stone is merely a stone owned by a sorcerer (perhaps with some special powers or perhaps not).

I presume the editors assumed that most uk kids would have heard of the philosopher’s stone while (so I have been told) the analysis was that American kids would see “philosopher” and say “yuck”.

Out of curiosity which country are you from? Sounds like you haven’t heard of the philosopher’s stone — would be amused at the editors’ judgement if you turn out to be from the UK.
Step 1 is possible nowadays (with SNI) but was hard until recently, and I don't think practices have really caught up with that yet.

Step 2 is difficult to even define properly. What is a plugin supposed to be able to do, and what is a plugin supposed to not be able to do? If you can answer that question precisely, then you can solve the problem, but if you can answer that question precisely then you probably don't need plugins in the first place.
I'm unsure what of this information is new. It sounds like the EU just found nine sources to confirm one aspect of the Snowden leak? Were people ever really doubting the authenticity of those documents? I'm sure some people have, but it never seemed like a common realistic belief.
I'm curious - if some mystery player was objectively the best at some sport (say, tennis). Could they get away with this?

I imagine someone who could defeat any tennis player, man or woman, but simply decided to never discuss the battle after winning would be able to do whatever they want.

Would people really accept not letting such an individual participate in some tournament when everyone knows they're the best?
It’s a big club and you ain’t in it https://youtu.be/Nyvxt1svxso
And how Google degraded their search functionality by removing the + operator (which required that the following word be present in every result) because it allegedly interfered with idiotic "Google Plus." And did they restore it after shitcanning Google Plus? No.
I mean I love Victorinoxes, but 35 euro kitchen knife is far from high end. Although theirs and Morakniv Frost have surprisingly good steel and HT for the price and they can get sharp - they are the cheapest real knives in the kitchen (kiwi and some chinesse cleavers excluded), not high end stuff.
> Efficiency is not important at all when you talk about a mathematical proof. Do we really care about a proof using induction taking n or n^2 operations?

Efficiency and tractability of representation is also an issue, though, and mathematicians (and programmers) do care about that, a great deal. That's why the lambda calculus has been used as the basis for proof assistants such as Coq, whereas Turing machines have not.
Mines of the sky
For backing up photos, I've used two solutions:

1. PhotoSync[0] - it can your photos and videos to a local NAS. It has a ton of options for how to connect to a local NAS, plus it will connect to a variety of cloud services. It is very configurable. This used to be my primary way to transfer photos to my NAS, but I've since started using iCloud which does everything I need.

2. iCloud - Turn it on, sign up for the appropriate storage plan, it basically just works, and I can access my photos from all of my devices. Obviously only useful if you're in the Apple ecosystem.

For sharing photos, I like SmugMug[1].

[0] https://www.photosync-app.com/home.html

[1] https://www.smugmug.com/
Would love to see a source on the every other week for their life. That's not at all my understanding of the method of action. Overall though, I agree with the sentiment of the post. I think the answer is it's expensive for no other reason than they can.
What I find more disturbing is that there are people who willingly work on this and who get rich off of it.

You know, the other day I saw a news headline about one of the world's biggest arms dealers being arrested... and the first thought through my mind was, "What? They arrested the United States?"

Being a small fry, independent arms deal is grounds for imprisonment, but doing it as part of a nation-wide effort will get you wealth, medals, social status and government funding.
The wife wants to move there in a few years. I wonder how this will affect my employment as a remote worker
> The problem is that going proportional only works out for the states if everyone is doing it, otherwise a massive winner takes all state is that much more important to swing.

It completely depends on what your goal is. If your goal is to enfranchise all of your citizens, then going proportional is great. If your goal is for your state to pick the winner, then it doesn't. But the first one seems more important to me, so I think going proportional is beneficial even if not all states are doing it (and some states do it already).
Maybe we would if you'd said what "LSTC" is.
What choice do they have when Google pushes Chrome aggressively on every website they own if you visit it on any other browser?
As a worker, none of these seem objectionable to me. They seem positive. Maybe we should adopt them in more places where remote hiring pools are available and make this transparency available more broadly, bringing CO workers back into the fold in solidarity.
Yes and no power / internet for (many) months meant there wasn’t an option to ride it out.
A Reflection on Programming in Virtual Reality
I call this the Urbit effect.
Google really started this though. And they didn’t use anti competitive advertising practices to kill IE, they used them to kill Firefox.
I hate having to dispute charges with the CC company because I don’t like the idea that the merchant gets stuck with the bill, but I have done it on a few occasions where I felt like I had absolutely no recourse. I recently had to do this with one of those gigantic furniture warehouse places. I paid full retail price + delivery and setup changes for a bed. The guys came and set up the bed, but it had some greasy smudges all over the headboard and some other ones issues I can’t recall, so I called to complain and they basically gave me the runaround and said there’s nothing we can do because I didn’t reject the item right away and that it was only cosmetic. I wasted my time begging and pleading with store management and their customer satisfaction department, but there was never any real resolution. In the end they offered me a $100 gift certificate towards my next purchase. I felt insulted and exhausted at that point and kindly informed them that I would be doing a chargeback. “ok”, they said. The next day I got a credit for the full cost, which IIRC was about $900. I honestly felt horrible for doing that because I essentially got the bed free. I suppose the company’s policies simply didn’t allow them to actually do the right thing and fix or replace the bed. Perhaps it was simply less costly for them to eat the coat of a chargeback instead of paying someone to fix the problem or replace it due to labor and other costs.
there is no such thing. Too big to fail is another coded way to describe political allies and backers who get influence in the government through their contributions. The size of the problem isn't the issue, it's who has the problem that is.
Do you know if they have a portable option so i can keep it on my external drive that i have all my media on?
I don't see how this could work in the long run. The blockchain is immutable and any encryption at some point in civilization will be broken. All transactions using weaker encryption will be retroactively also broken, no?

In other words, to me, it seems like a public transparent blockchain is inevitable, whether you're using encryption or not.
Especially because salary transparency would reveal a lot of people are being screwed.
I mean it took a decade for that internet you are describing to form in the 90s from its inception in the 80s. Even then, only a small fraction of people were participating.

BC has value because it a limited supply of a unique item that can be mathematically verified, even if it never solves all problems its advocates claim to want to solve in the world.

It might not have value to you personally, but it currently does to some people. Just like you might not value Micheal Jordan's rookie card, it is after all a supposedly limited supply piece of printed thin cardboard, there are plenty of people that do.

Let's pretend crypto currency tech didn't exist. Your local gov't wants to develop a digital currency that is verifiable, devoid of simple fraud and counterfeit, and is completely traceable by the general public.

All the smart people in the country would get to together and would come up with system that would end up looking a lot like block chain. The gov't would control all the nodes of course. They would contract out server maintenance (mining), charge fees on transactions (sales tax) and banks would hold your digital currency and give you interest (staking). Instead of stocks, companies would probably just issue, I dunno, something uniquely tied to them that equates to value, like a ... token?

It's not much different from what we do now, it just doesn't involve a bunch of baggage paper money has been carrying around for hundreds of years.
I'd wager a guess that if a crypto-dollar emerges it will be a Monero-like currency with an additional set of private read/write keys controlled by the some set of government agencies. The US government doesn't want everyone having the transaction data. Exclusive access is much valuable than a public ledger.
Scott Alexander (the SSC guy) has recently said some cautiously positive things about Zembrin for depression and social anxiety. It is OTC, and apparently quite safe.