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>> For tribal chiefs, food probably wasn't scarce. For kings and lords, land was not scarce. For industrialists, capital was not scarce.

>On the contrary, kings and lords were acutely aware of how much land they had and devoted much of their energy to amassing more. Likewise for tribal chiefs and food, and presumably likewise for industrial. They had more of it than others, sure, but it was scarce for them: it was the limiting factor on what they were doing.

I'm sure that Bezos or Musk are also acutely aware of their capital, that does not mean that they have any scarcity.

>Right, but at that individual level too, capital isn't really the issue these days. You can get a loan for anything, anyone can get a credit card. If someone wants to improve themselves, it's rarely capital that's the limiting factor - it's more likely to either be time, or something a bit more complicated.

I think you seriously underestimate the difficulties that come with being poor. There are lots of studies that show that the primary problem with poverty is actually lack of funds. There have been many projects that showed that giving poor people money with no strings attached has higher success rates than anything else. Also your advice of getting loans or credit cards is quite unrealistic and shows you the cost of being poor. The loans that a poor person will get are essentially so expensive that the only thing they do is making them poorer.
Right, we are often our worst critics when we fail to live up to some view of ourselves.

I was recently reading the book; The Words of my Perfect Teacher by Patrul Rinpoche which is a manual for introduction of Tibetan Buddhism and found it full of great practical advice on how to learn (anything). There is nothing new under the Sun. For example, here is a relevant passage;

Do not focus too intently, picking out individual words and points, like a dremo bear digging up marmots--each time you seize one item, you forget the one before, and will never get to understand the whole. Too much concentration also makes you sleepy. Instead, keep a balance between tight and loose.

Once, in the past, Ananda was teaching Srona to meditate. Srona had great difficulty getting it right. Sometimes he was too tense, sometimes too relaxed. Srona went to discuss the matter with the Buddha, who asked him: "When you were a layman, you were a good vina-player, weren't
you?"

"Yes, I played very well."

"Did your vina sound best when the strings were very slack or when they were very taut?"

"It sounded best when they were neither too taut nor too loose."

"It is the same for your mind," said the Buddha; and by practising with that advice Srona attained his goal.

Machik Labdron says: "Be firmly concentrated and loosely relaxed, Here is an essential point for the View."

Do not let your mind get too tense or too inwardly concentrated; let your senses be naturally at ease, balanced between tension and relaxation.
Much like the Keynes quote about sound bankers, a safe bank customer is not one who doesn't get hacked, but one who gets hacked in the same way at the same time as everyone else. So no, I don't worry about doing something "unsafe" with my bank details as long as it's something mainstream that everyone else is doing. If it goes wrong, the government will bail me out. It can't be less safe than paper cheques, which apparently the US still uses.
Thanks for the feedback - the karma thing is on purpose - you don’t lose the 4 badge because you got the 5, ironically as if gaining karma is a game of some kind!
You know how expensive it is currently. Even if it is not perfect just a few mouth recover the costs for health style user. ( not group 1 please )
If you think that's fun, imagine the steady state being like flu - monitoring Covid variants, then trying to predict which ones will be the next "wave".

Some years you'll get it right and put a big damper on spread and some years you'll pick the wrong variant leaving most people unprotected.

That's one reason why flu deaths in the US fluctuate annually (in addition to the severity of the flu). A few years back the vaccine basically did nothing.
I mean, supposedly that's exactly what happens with tor, nsa and friends run many, many exit nodes and scrap info from there, to such a level that people are worried that it is possible (or plausible) that they can/could identify users through different fingerprints, maybe not for something that would hold in court, but enough that it could make you a person of interest for them to see if they can deploy some of their malware packages

As for intelligence agencies, famously ProtonMail which works from Switzerland operates in a country with information sharing partnerships with the 5eyes, yet they are not all too concerned about it, nor interested on having their server-side software audited, so that to me raises eyebrows

In the past we have had the cryptoag scandal and BCCI which was an entire huge international bank with branches all over the world which basically only existed to be a front to CIA money laundering.... I personally believe that these guys are now operating with Deutsche bank and Cryptocurrencies which is just what would make sense for them as Deutsche bank is a corruption ridden company and Crypto is can be obfuscated so much as to be basically nontraceable

I have personally moved away from ProtonMail, I have 0 sources but they give me too much of a bad cryptoag vibe/honeypot, sad as it is, if you want secure email you must self host it which can be quite a pain in the arse, but these are the costs to have peace of mind

As for their VPN I would not use it, I don't like that ProtonMail centralized so many "privacy things" into a single point of failure
I don't think you're correct there as others have pointed out, but are you trying to say that taxation is bad, or that this kind of rent-seeking behavior is good? I can't quite work out what you're getting at.
The training set could have included images from or related to the movie? It's a cult classic, so it does not seem entirely unlikely to me.
As a proud owner of the "Gordon Ramsey" badge, I'd like to say that this is fucking interesting. :-D

Really inspired me to think about integrating something like this in one of our systems.
I had not realised but I will take your word for it - thanks.
> But cars are only responsible for a tiny fraction of CO2

I mean, yeah, if every billionaire tackles a fraction, then we saved ourselves?

> I respect Musk for what he contributed. But I feel that glorifying him in this way, puts down all the other work in a unbalanced way.

The thing is, beyond this HN bubble, most people need a leader of some sort. He takes credit for everything (and also the blame if things go wrong). I'd have a more funnier persona than Elon, but his cyberpunk style sells me too.

> While exploiting the workforce, yeah, but Musk has not really a great record in that realm either.

No one and no country does.
hm, I did almost none of that, missed 70% of the lectures, my (computer-taken) notes were a mess and I barely if ever reread them. Didn't miss homework tho. (french engineering school, my grades were hovering between 15-17/20, don't know how that translates to the US system).

Before that for the two "prépa" years I was definitely not the most studious given how many evenings were spent playing counter-strike, D&D and warcraft III at the dorm (miss you people), what really helped for the competitive exams allowing to get into the engineering school was doing additional exercises for 2/3 weeks beforehand ; this way I got much better grades than I had gotten for the previous two years.

So I'd err on the side of "it's mostly the exercises / homework which are useful"
In that case, having just one sticker is probably less safe than having your car entirely plastered with them.

The latter gives a vibe of a person crazy enough that you do not want to mess with them.
I had this too! But it fucking disappeared on me somehow! Yeah I got the F! Badge as well
I take the point of the linked article, but I offer this as a rebuttal:

Every time I sign a contract (in which I am effectively the "Party with less power TM") there's some sort of "maximum" clause, where if you ask the issuer they 'll say "oh this is just a formality in reality this doesn't happen".

Upon which, if you say well just remove it then, they'll reply "oh this is just a formality in reality this doesn't happen".

At which point, you'll say well just remove it then, and they'll reply "oh this is just a formality in reality this doesn't happen".

Where you then go, "uh..." and they repeat "oh this is just a formality in reality this doesn't happen".

Etc ad nauseam.

Clearly it is not just a formality, clearly it can happen, and even if it does not, that number is not exactly irrelevant and can be used for leverage. So yes, it's worth diverting attention to and calling it out when unreasonable, rather than rely on the assumption that it likely won't be used.
> Karma length check seems to be wrong. 5 figure karma und 4 figure karma can be had at the same time

That makes sense. If you have more than 5 figure of karma you also have more than 4 figure of karma.
I think it's rather interesting how this tech will change the work of human artists. By itself, AI art remains somehow limited in its development.

Decorative art creators might be threatened. But they'e been threatened by reprints for a long time. Political/philosophical art not so much as they are more cognitive and require the artist's societal involvement in some way (even as outcasts).

These AIs generate a specific style of art and you can put it up on your wall as you can put up a reprint of human art. But when they're used with purpose, they can become tools of human artists.
They could miniaturize a specialized spectrometer of some sort I suppose. I don't know. If I knew, I'd be doing it now - that's quite literally tens of billions of dollars that people would throw at you faster than you'd be able to catch it.

E.g. https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1757-899X/104/1/0...
> have little choice but to spend upwards of $600.00

If that is the case, for $600 you can get a decent non-Apple laptop. Apple is consumable jewelry, not computing.
> they can actually recognize bugs and acknowledge them

Unless it’s a hardware flaw and then they will usually ignore it until it looks like they may be legally compelled not to.

GPU failures, display flex cable issues, insufficient heat dissipation, the fact that the 16” MBP GPU pulls 100% power when connected to an external display, the fucking butterfly keyboard.

Don’t get me wrong I like my MacBook as much as the next guy, but if there is a hardware problem in a MacBook you’ll be lucky if they even acknowledge it.
Isn't that the mechanism for these magic images like this:

http://www.magiceye3ds.com/3dpics/img/043magiceye3d.jpg

Some people can just adjust their focus and see it immediately. Some need to put their nose through the monitor first.

edit: you should see a heart, but if you resize the image you might see something different.
Yes, and there is credit card information leaked all the time correct? Making it illegal to copy credit card info has actually allowed banks to get away with an extremely insecure system of transferring money. Maybe it would be best if it were always legal to copy bits but the actual crimes were shown by the harms to other done.
What a breath of fresh air, finally somebody not using Electron. Great job.
Could we please not spread dangerous, reckless, lazy misinformation during a pandemic? mRNA vaccines are the result of 30 years of research and development.
What is classified as the "F Word!"?
I have alledgedly used it twice giving me the badge, but glancing through my comments I cannot see any mention of what I perceive as the american "F word"
It's never a good idea to go intro gender conversations these days, but a couple of points:

1. there were plenty of societies where one sex had it worse than the other. From what I know of theirs, I'd be shocked to here they were egalitarian.

2. Women had what we'd recognize today as jobs, and in a tribal society those were just as hard as they needed to be - it was more or less an extended family. Men on the other hand used weapons, which suggest they were quite a lot more exposed to being killed. Women would have been harmed only in a wipeout, but as a man you're never sure you'll still be alive next year. Romance aside, I know what I'd chose.
My very liberal friend thought the same thing… so he just got one written in Russian.

The reactions are pretty hilarious.
Azure IoT deployment templates are horrible and I fixed it
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> Apple is consumable jewelry, not computing.

Well, the M1 is one of the most impressive computing chips ever sent into mass production, so your remark is rather inaccurate.

Even Google is so impressed that they are trying to do something similar for the Chromebook, following Apple's model.

https://appleinsider.com/articles/21/09/01/google-making-its...
Emacs discusses web-based development workflows
How many does it take to never buy another one again?:0
It wrongly thinks that I have a Bitcoin address in my about page, and thus gives me a "Bitcoiner" badge, which… I really do not want, and almost take offense at.

More seriously, I think the app is confused by the Tor Onion v3 address in my profile.
Ask HN: Done with software development, what to do next?
Fully burned out at <30 years of age. For hobby it's great but working for a boss and having to work specific hours on projects that I don't care about is terrible. What career paths could I explore where I can utilize my problem solving skills without being forced to work behind a laptop?
Anyone else experience with completely switching field after software development?
the companies behind it (like nextcloud) make money with enterprise services and supported and maintaiend deployments for paying organizations.

since most of the cpu time is used in your browser, not in the cloud, the free offer is a relatively very cheap entry level teaser for supported, maintained and potentially on-premise deployments.
There are signs of memorization of images (or text describing them) from the actual movies. Like in Wall-E and Matrix, you can see, more or less, the robot shape and the green-digits wall in Matrix.
This youtube channel has some good videos about the creation of such dioramas:

https://www.youtube.com/c/StudsonStudio/videos

It's more on the timelapse/infotainment side of things, not exactly tutorials.
We've been doing something like this since 2014 for an enterprise iOS application.

I can't imagine us being where we are at today if we had to make a trip through shitty iOS toolchain every time we tweak a UI element. We have very complex & custom views per customer.

If I had to do it all again from zero today I'd use pure HTML solution. The advances in open web capabilities give us what we need now.
For that kind of money you'll be better off selfhosting your entire infrastructure and employing the "experts".
All I can say is hit F12 and check out the network tab for the request with F word in and look at the response it should have the examples.
It's perfectly acceptable to have a business hum along if it is stable. It doesn't have to go for the maximum possible growth, risks be damned.
Possible bug report:

The user RiderOfGiraffes is claimed to have used the F word. Searching through their comments I can find no such usage, but the replies to their comments are consistent with the count given. I think the count is incorrectly including occurrences in replies by other people to comments.

Added in edit:

Following the suggestion from elsewhere I've tracked down the problem. It's counting the "Fuk" in Fukushima, the "funk" in "jazz funk", and the "Fack" in "Fack to Brunt".

So that's wrong, being mislead by the results from the search engine's false matches.
maybe they are US centric and view an avg person as American because everyone is American
An unexpected design but seems to work well in hindsight. Beautiful!
I don't know... just created an account with them and found this extremely nice!

All those projects you mention seem awesome, but I've just never had the patience to setup all those things by myself... looks like using opendesktop.org, I get all those things working in seconds by just having an account (which took me 2 minutes to create).

For people asking how they make money: looks like they give you, for example, 5GB of file storage for free but after that you have to have a paying account to get more, which is something I am interested in as I hope they will be much cheaper than Apple/Google offerings, while being compatible with open protocols like WebDAV.

EDIT: actually, I don't seem to be able to become a paying customer?! They only seem to have "become a supporter" which is more like for donations to Pling?! How do I actually pay to get , say 1TB storage??
Interesting! I remember seeing some BB program outputs and noticing the structure.
Yeah true. Obvious question, really. And I guess we'll all face this question sooner or later...
Seems some people say the hinge is harder to turn or pops:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HI9jmw8UdN0
"Sorry, user stevewoz was not found. If they are a new user, it might take some time before we know about them."

There seems to be a bug...(Firefox on linux)
Should the main chute be tangled and you want to deploy a reserve probably
I tend to categorize this as a combination of three problems:

1. We don't have a single defining policy platform for our society. If the CCP puts out a detailed timeline to a zero-carbon China, they have all the economic and political levers they need to pull in one place. No person or group in the US has any comparable authority.

2. Because of this, western countries tend to be limited to piecemeal solutions that can fit into smaller scale budgets and timelines. We can sell one power plant at a time, rather than a clearly strategized 50 year rundown to zero emissions. That means a lot of either-or decisions (Solar or traditional nuclear or Thorium, not funding all three) and a lot of people who are fundamentally on the same side get caught in infighting and bikeshedding trying to compete for limited opportunities.

3. You're often dealing with a problem where the solution is "yeet the entrenched counterinterest."

The counter-interest group in 3) really just has to prevent you from doing anything to win, so it tends to encourage 2) as a cheap way to keep the opposition fractured.
Ask HN: Alternative for Apple AirTag for ebike battery theft detection?
Someone stole my wife's bike battery while it was parked in a bike stand in Amsterdam :-( She was so pissed because she had secured the bike itself very well, only to realise the thief easily broke the lock for the battery and stole it leaving us a EUR 1000 damage.

Since then, she has been paranoid of her bike getting stolen and would like a GPS tracker on it. First thing came Tony mind was Airtags, but it is essentially useless in this scenario because it would prompt the their if they had an iPhone saying "you have a AirTag following you".

Is there an alternative to use for this need?

P.S - I already read about
1. Trackers based on a 2G SIM network - I don't want to use it because finding a 2G SIM is a pain, and it would just go unsupported very soon.

2. There are ones that need a pricey subscription to the tune of 4 Euros/month. I think it is too expensive. The maximum I'd spend n this is 2 EUR a month.

3. Tile would not be so useful because they rely on other Tile users which may not be close enough to be useful.

Any ideas?
Not so sure about hat. Deliverability is still a huge issue when selfhosting your own e-mail setup.
It doesn't preclude the need to mask up around vaxed folks either. Delta is spreading in part because vaxed folks stopped taking precautions, trusting in vaccines. That's not good for anyone. Vaxed folks won't get severe cases, but the jury is still out on long COVID. It also applies strong evolutionary pressure to vaccine-jumping mutations.

Note: Before anyone jumps on the above statement, I'm not trying to imply anything else. Vaxed folks who don't take reasonable additional precautions ARE a major source of spread COVID19. That's not meant as a comparative statement (unvaxed folks are ALSO a major source of spread).
> Why would you say the federation is snake oil?

With federated services your are still just user@host, completely under the control of whoever owns host. Furthermore the federation aspect is completely optional, if host decides to blacklists some other hosts, there is nothing you can do about it. So I don't see the advantage over the Twitter, Facebook and Co., when everything that makes federation special can be taken away at any moment.

Without some public-key crypto or something that allows you to move your identity to another server or better yet, never exist on any specific server to begin with, I just don't see the point.

In general, I think the only way to build a "Libre Cloud" is by making the cloud part as stupid as possible. Have the actual app run completely on the client, use the cloud just as dumb object store with little to no awareness of what it is serving.
Amazon just announced support for ed25519 keys in EC2 August 2021, so that might help adoption.
It's not really my place to "Red Pill" You but in this case I will make an exception. Two weeks ago President Biden told the world that the Afgan army had over 300000 troops and the Taliban only had 80000 and that Afghanistan was not lost. Yesterday he came out and said that if the US had stayed it would have required thousands of troops and cost many lives.

How can a critical thinker square those two statements? Unless You have bought into the propaganda being spewed by the colluding fascist corporate media You would realize that the "Real Coup" took place long before Jan 6th and involved Washington insiders, Leftist subverts and never gave the outsider who by the way was who actually negotiated the withdrawl from Afghanistan...Pres #45
I will back my statements with someone's review of the hinges:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HI9jmw8UdN0
I highly recommend the book Lawrence in Arabia, by Scott Anderson, which puts that story in context. It follows four people active in the area at the time: TE Lawrence (who first went to the Middle East as an archaeologist), an American employee of Standard Oil, the leader of a Jewish spy ring working with the British, and a Turkish official. Very interesting.

https://www.powells.com/book/lawrence-in-arabia-978030747641...