skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Off Khao San Road, one or two streets across there was one seller of Bin Laden t-shirts and masks in 2003. He was kinda famous. Got shutdown some point later. Neutral shirts. Just had a nice picture of Bin Laden with his name, might have had the Vs. Not sure if you are saying there were a lot of "controversial in the West" T-Shirts in Thailand about 9-11 or in general, but by end of 2003 he was the only one I could find for 9-11.

Pic, I don't wear them out much - https://imgur.com/a/NK8P9ot
I don't know what level they are talking about. I wrangled a $5/month 'life' membership at a branch of a major chain, starting in 1984. I don't think that $60/year reaches $2800. The 'inflation calculator'[1] I use regularly uses USG numbers and it says that the equivalent to $60/year is $155/year today.

[1] https://www.usinflationcalculator.com/
...and gets her superannuation death benefits because they were in a relationship, and so he has legal rights in her estate
> and even "fathers" of the theory understood that and acknowledge the need for regulation when its absent.

I would emphasize that traditional forms of conservatism were never opposed to all regulation and never embraced this libertarian worship of the unregulated market. They were opposed to collectivism, but the only remaining option isn't radical individualism. Neither are good for the individual or for society.
In terms of privacy, it IS possible. Look at Monero; but there it would be very very hard to get the government to accept a plan that included that level of privacy. I suppose that one may still have anonymous wallets, which could ensure a certain amount of anonymity absent requirements to the contrary. This whole phenomenon has the eerie likeness of Revelations, buying selling without a number, etc. Let's not intentionally make it come true guys.
Have you considered stocking up at the Mexican border? So many things are available over the counter in Mexico its awesome.
It is critical to pay for everything with cash, otherwise we will find ourselves without the freedom to pay anonymously.
Yeah from the my experience the "hard" part is always about finding the right (albeit subjective) filtering in AVS/VapourSynth depending on the source.

Most of major release and fansub teams don't really vary their encoding parameters much.

Still a good article though.
Militaries are the most powerful entities on the planet. A man holding a bag of cash vs. a man holding a gun. The man holding the gun always wins.
> I’ve read many anecdotes of people who sought psychedelics after reading his book with the expectation of life-changing experiences or psychedelic treatments for their conditions, only to be disappointed when they didn’t experience the miraculous experiences and transformations he describes.

I'm in this camp (though I've never read Pollan).
Publishers generally shouldn't be in the business of poaching writers ideas, even if the writer eventually is too afraid too allow what they've written to be be published. It is not as if there was some urgent conspiracy that wasn't being exposed--the public was aware that opium existed--the tea drinking just supported the point of the essay. Your reading is rather uncharitable.
Sometimes the exact same thing is sold on AliExpress under a different brand. The IG brand is just a label on a mass-produced product but they to offer it as "artisanal" or "hand-made" to get a markup.
Unsurprisingly, anonymity is not high on the list of CBDC policy objectives.

Transactional identity is valuable for social credit systems and kill-switch mechanisms.

One LF initiative: https://trustoverip.org/
I think I understand the theory. If I was a cracker though, I would think that patching out the system clock calls (in order to prevent DRM checks) would have a lot of game-breaking unintended side-effects (animations, other time-based mechanics, etc). And if that was the case, it would be a perfect place to trigger the DRM calls, since a cracker couldn't patch the system time calls without breaking the game.

tehbeard (another comment in this thread) makes a point that maybe not attaching the DRM calls to the clock makes it easier to hide them, since a cracker would probably be looking for a time-based trigger.
Not only that - a central digital currency could enact embedded transaction taxation automatically.

It's potentially a LOT of power centralized.
The answer is: don't guess.
Cash is anonymous for now, but all the notes are serial numbered, and recorded at some stops along the banking chain. Traffic analysis is possible with the system as it is.

The very limited number of licit places to translate gold and silver coins into other forms of money are a huge barrier to avoiding tracking.
In practice, we still require ID verification to participate in markets.
> I choose Lisp for projects that benefit from Lisp

Are there any examples you have of projects or types of problems that benefit from Lisp?

I've been "learning" Lisp on and off for a while, but I always end up going back to more familiar languages.
If we use the 4 gram number, 240 million grams is about 264 tons. In recycling terms, that is really nothing - the equivalent of about 10 well packed sea containers or 13 tractor trailers. Some decent size single facilties can do that in a day.
Solving the Three Stooges Problem
>>I think a 70 year old has less to lose and more incentive to take a risk on things he really wants to do than a 57 year old. No matter how rich you are, you can't stop aging (yet).

That is perhaps true, but I was just making a point about his wealth, and comparing him to another person who is the same in all respects but that.

>>And when you risk sudden catastrophic death, I'm not sure that the wealthy person really has more to lose than a poor person,

The life of a billionaire is incredible relative to the life of a poor person.
Wouldn't the incentives be the exact opposite? The "top" 1000 people on the planet currently benefit from the existing system's hegemony.
> if they directly ship from the manufacturer won't I get charged?

You do get charged. The drop shipper just charges a lot more for the same item that you could order on Amazon for less.
It matters to the risk/benefit calculations. Let's not kid ourselves to challenge some caricaturized narrative of a right-wing bogeyman, or reinforce some idealistic narrative about the worth of human life.

I mean this is not a debatable point. Studies on criminal behavior for example show that relative poverty massively increases the probability of risk-taking criminal behavior.

Jobs which pose high risk of serious injury and death also pay a premium for that risk, which shows there is an intimate relationship between resources available and willingness to take risks, which would typically make risk-taking less appealing to the wealthier party.
How do you pay bills in cash though?
The military needs to pay the troops somehow.
I wouldn't say it's trivial. EMPRESS is one of the most talented crackers on the scene at the moment and it took ~2 months for this release.

Arguably, without EMPRESS, the crack would have taken a lot longer.
510K is faster and cheaper in regards to studies given that it doesn't necessarily require human data nor clinical trials, which can be fairly large costs.
This would integrate cleanly with a reputation economy, where folks who get "bad reviews" cannot do business.
Second this. I also don't understand how people get these things to stay in their ears... I must have large or weirdly shaped earholes or something.
There are dozens of us![0]

I can't really speak to the first question, but I know of a small handful of people (who are developers or software-adjacent) who are deeply familiar with nuanced GUI details and can consciously talk about them. Plausibly, many people have historically not noticed many of these details, but got them for free when most software was built with native controls … and because they were rarely noticed, they rarely get explicitly specced for UIs built on less-robust primitives.

[^0]: https://www.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/36twsr/what_i...
We don't - and in this example we'd combine atomics rather than guess that the user wanted the thread to yield between them, since they never told us that.
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Main source: https://www.vox.com/2016/5/23/11704246/wealth-inequality-car...

Most of it was pretty standard, but this one down there was it: https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/DWy_L4Prixt113IHNkhXjA2P3ao=...

(what a horrible URL)

I expected the top 1% to make 95% of their money off investment and business, but a good number of it is salaries. And I was quite surprised to see that the upper 20% were making more of their income off salaries than before.

I had been trying to make profits off investing/businesses at that point, but it made me realize the best ROI might just be getting a better job. At least until I'm in the top 20% and can invest it into something.
Even being in the 0.00001% its incredibly hard to find out what you should do. There is the health industry, who gives you pills and thats about it. My doctor gave me blood pressure pills, I asked what can I do to get off them, the response was nothing, live with it. That wasn't true, but finding out what I should do, took me a few years. I ended up with the hippie wholistic people who had things together. A lot of them had chronic health issues that medical health couldn't treat, and so they to did this. The answer is so simple and costs very little, but you just have to avoid pretty well everything food or health wise that you see in supermarkets, cook your own food, exercise a very small amount and thats it. I actually spend less on food than I used to. It's easy, but finding out is hard and the medical profession is totally unhelpful in telling people this, at least in my experience.
If this was a non-rhetorical question - the way I use this pointer is to focus on an action I feel tension about, usually detectable as guilt.

“I shouldn’t have rushed my nephew in the store.”

The inquiry goes something like this: what emotions did I have at the moment? Did I choose those or were they caused by something? What thoughts did I have? Did I choose them or did they spontaneously appear or were they caused by something like conditioning, habits, traumatic patterns? Were we on our way to a concert? Is my nature patient or not so patient and chill and when did I get a say in my preference in how my neuropathways will get organized? Was my nephew fascinated by those books? Did I choose him to be? Did he choose to have interest in some things and not others? Did he choose to have a bit of difficulty when transitioning away from interesting activities? Did I choose how I was treated when I was a child in his situation?

Given all of these, including feeling overwhelmed and out of options, and having only the tools I had at the moment, my existing genetic makeup, thoughts, beliefs and environment, can I find a force independent of all of these that made me raise my voice at the child?

No, I cannot. It happened and I kind of witnessed it but that’s it. What I call a choice or a free will, when unpacked, is a combination of infinite causality chains which happen to express themselves through me in this moment.
I curate HN stories which didn't reach the front page [1]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27492255
Some markets. All kinds of financial transactions are happening as we speak in various DeFi ecosystems on a permissionless basis - you don't need an account, just a wallet.

Before say "your wallet is your account", only sort of. You can have any number of wallets through any number of applications that support it, including rolling your own if you so chose. Certainly nothing like the KYC/AML required of, say, Robinhood.
It is my understanding that obligatory routine care is a major component of Kaiser’s model. In the experience of those I know who use Kaiser, effectively, if they come in for something and their routine checkups are out of date, they’re obligated to get that routine checkup (at the same time due to streamline of service), before they can get what they came in for.

From this, I derived the argument that routine checkups are a *major* component of Kaiser’s system, to the point that, given the flow of discussion, I felt it appropriate to call it “their whole model”. I’m sorry my hyperbole was too far.
not everyone subscribes to this idea that rich people are worth more than poor people that you (apparently) believe in. so, no, it doesn't matter. perhaps it does to you, though.
Even though electron apps are strange and quirky compared to native apps, I am thankful they are being made.

The other option is what Google is doing. No native apps at all. Have a chrome tab open for everything. Chat, Gmail, calender, meet, YouTube music. Evrything in its own tab, no apps for any platform. Fuck that.
Money orders.
Not just that. I'm not an expert, but from what I read, some DRMs will encrypt assets and critical game logic and let them be decrypted in real time on a virtual machine so that they aren't directly extractable from memory.
A language is much, much more than syntax. I showed some trivial syntax, but I didn’t talk about how fast it might be to execute that code, nor easy or hard it might be to debug it, how straightforward it is to pull in a dependency, etc. You’re right, there’s little that can be inferred from such a simple code example, except one thing: the syntax really isn’t that hard to grok.

With that said, to throw a bone, for me, Lisp is valuable because it’s an incrementally and interactively developed language that makes available syntactic extension to the programmer. This makes it possible to be extraordinarily productive as a programmer on even the most difficult technical challenges.

Incremental and interactive: there is no edit-compile-run cycle. Feedback is instantaneous. Debugging is extremely fast. Concentration rarely falters.

Syntactic extension: One can author new syntax that fits problem domains. If I’m writing a lot of RESTy APIs, I might make a nice syntax for them that makes the route and consequent action front-and-center with no boilerplate.

There’s so much more than just these though. Common Lisp implementations are incredible stable and mature, there’s a huge library ecosystem, it’s possible to write code as fast as C, and the language has stood the test of several decades of time.
The command-line app is effectively eternal as long as it's mirrored and the runtime interface doesn't change. Can we count on this link to still be there when we need it?

Do you know how long most "Show HN" links still work after a year or two?
Everquest used lapis lazuli.
[Citation needed], and besides weightlifting is fine
needs a [2018] tag
Red brand color and cloths are also a big win.
DRM calls are sprinkled everywhere inside the code, usually statically linked or even inlined. This is to make it harder for crackers to identify them.

Here they put some in the zombie kill routine, but I don't think there is anything special about zombie kills. It could have been anything: picked up ammo, loading a map, pass a certain event, on a timer, during a save, all of the above, etc...

I don't have a deep knowledge about the technology involved but from what I've seen modern DRM like Denuvo are based on virtual machines and are very flexible, allowing all sorts of checks at many points. Done well, there is little overhead, but some overzealous publishers do frequent lengthy checks, killing performance.
Having a doctor verify that you're not having any issues with your prescription medication is pretty normal.

Maybe you can find someone that'll do telehealth.
A sack of asses does not a company make
I like your spirit. Welcome to the party.
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One look at that parser code makes me, a seasoned web and desktop app developer with cocky high minded "architectural" thinking, shrivel with insignificance and embarrassment.

Mad respect to the process and people that makes this possible.
Electron seems to have reached the status of being a political topic. For many people it's something to rally around or (more frequently here) against. You're either for it or against it.

The above arguments would not be taken seriously on another topic, but here their weakness can be overlooked (by some) since folks are already committed to the the stance they support.

Look at the argument more closely: they're naming several random bugs. You can name several random bugs related to any UI framework on the planet with a sufficient user count. It's meaningless.

I'd urge people to look a little closer at arguments being put forward by the anti-Electron faction here if you don't yet have data yourself.

For myself, whenever I read these kinds of comments (or the tiresome refrain about absurd memory usage) it feels to me like there must be two Electrons: the first being the Electron which is the foundation of nearly every app I actually find useful these days (which do not exhibit e.g. exorbitant memory consumption issues [it's a marginal, non-issue increase in my experience] or higher bug-rates than native apps)—and then there's the second Electron, which afaict is a conceptual construction supporting a particular perspective on the 'correct' way of writing software (hint: anything using web tech isn't it).

Edit: something that would help move legitimate analysis of this topic forward: comparisons to other frameworks should be made after normalizing with respect to feature count/complexity, i.e. how much higher is memory usage vs. a competing app that actually offers similar features—e.g. comparing Discord to an IRC client would not be particularly informative (but that kind of mismatched comparison seems to be a common source of misconceptions here)
Combine it with a "Social Credit System" [1] and some Black Mirror episodes don't seem that far fetched all of a sudden.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Credit_System
Yes. It is not truly 1:1, as in they probably don't necessarily buy everything they try for free and like, but at the same time were considered a group that spent enough money on the kinda of stuff they get for free... Thinking about the definition, I knew people like that, they were reading 10-20-40 manga per week, some just to see if they liked the content and some regularly, they mostly spent money buying Collector's edition of the stuff they loved but sometimes bought regular prints because the price was deemed good.
It's the opposite. People use C and C++ because of their speed. If you don't need the speed then there is little reason to use C or C++. This makes these optimization absolutely vital for C and C++.
Or folks who do business with "bad people" or spend their money on "bad things" find their transactions taxed more heavily.

I think we can all picture what the moralizing pro-social left and religious right incarnations of that look like.
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It's incredibly easy to learn how to hack, and not how to abstract good design in a problem.

Anyone who opened a 1980s PC mag could be shown how to implement basic FOR or WHILE or if/then/else expression logic in BASIC and achieve huge outcomes: playable games, interesting solutions.

Learning how to craft code so its "better" is really hard. Abstraction is a distinct skill.

The mathematical underpinnings of code lie in things like logic, and group theory, higher order functions, recursion, you name it. These are not things to acquire by asking your kid next door to show you how his mod-scene ASM works.

I studied CS over 40 years ago. I think I'm still deficient, at the end of my career. CS is hard.

Understanding the implications of code on memory, performance, critical paths, safety, provability, type-safe all come with rules of thumb (engineering) which can often be acquired by the kid-next-door path, and fundamentals in their theory which really cannot.

FP is at the extreme end of hard-to-acquire, especially if your entry was imperative hacking.
Most people will drop their guns if paid enough.
In San Francisco at least, if you make even 100k you can still make significant retirement contributions. I can’t really think of any place where you could not save up on 300k income.
Does someone know which plugin creates the style of buffer tab that appears in the gifs on this page?
As far as a OSS citizen, I think Caddy is a good example.
I always thought that deploying web apps as desktop apps is a great thing to do. As in, not bunch it up into electron, but using shell scripting to start a local only web server and send a command to the OS to open a localhost page.

The advantages are that you don't need bloated software to do stuff, you have the full power of the OS, because you have a local webserver running, you have access to the file system, etc, you have the choice to use any programming language and framework (not be limited to JS), etc.

I keep thinking why people don't go this way. Are there any glaring mistakes to this approach I am unable to see?
Is the vaccine meant to prevent all-cause mortality? I wasn't aware we had discovered the elixir of life..

If you aren't going to compare this statistic to anything, what even is the point? The article is full of unfunny humour, and void of actual insight. "Old people still die even when we give them covid vaccine" - yes, and? Are they dying more than usual? Less? Are they dying of covid? Is the vaccine itself killing them???

A frankly pointless read.
Yeah, This I agree. Even WPF is too complicated, in spite of including XML based UI and binding paradigms.

I am really surprised there are no projects that extract the essence of the HTML/JS/CSS UI system (declarative UI with on the fly control) and use that to render to any surface.
Most consumers don't want anything to do with shell scripting or npm install.
Wow, now I understand the reasons. As Python guy I'm having trouble to understand how it is possible in R.
This is great, using Brownian motion to introduce stochastic processes is a neat way to introduce the idea of priors over a function space.

My small contribution to this area is an interactive notebook where you can add data points and see how different GP kernels behave: https://observablehq.com/@herbps10/gaussian-processes
> VS Code ... is still more feature rich than any IDE through extensions.

Not sure what you program in, but that has not been my experience at all. C# (Unity), Golang, Python have pretty mediocre support at best in VS Code. What JetBrains' products do there is miles ahead, and tacking on countless extensions doesn't get you close to the out of the box experience, so I fail to see the point.

If I'm quickly editing a single file, sure I might fire up VS Code or Micro. For actual work though, the JetBrains products can't be beat (for me at least).
They don't have to do that. You can have a tiny OS specific program that takes care of the starting part and hide the terminal window and other stuff from the user and simply open a web page.

Or, even a full web browser view embedded inside a custom window. (If users expect a non-browser UI)
i wish i read your summary of the summary before trying to save time reading the article by reading the summary
There's not actually a lot of argumentation on that page concerning the disadvantages of central bank currencies other than fairly generic criticisms like

>"the compelling of economic agents (businesses and individuals) to consume particular goods and services preferred by policy makers;"

which as far as I can tell is already the case anyway through countless of policy tools, same goes for arguments about "cyber hacking" or regulation. It's also not actually a risk from an objective standpoint because that is very much an explicit goal of such a currency.

Also I'm not exactly sure how seriously I'm supposed to take someone who advertises himself as a 'professional economist', but as far as I can tell does not actually work as an economist, has a bachelors degree and no publication history and tries to sell me gold and silver from his dealership on the same page he writes this piece about central bank currency.