skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> most societies at most times in most places in history seem to have done just fine managing “the commons”

You mean through exclusionary rules, investing in monitoring and punishment etc all of which divert resources from the productive activity solely by the existence of the incentive to overuse the "commons" or others' goodwill.

True, while the subgame unique subgame perfect equilibrium of most models is full free-riding, most lab experiments show less than full free-riding. That does not mean the incentives are not there.

Why are dorm bathrooms not as clean as bathrooms in your house?

> inventing money because barter is inefficient

That's a silly statement: No one decided to invent money in a similar process of invention like the lightbulb. Instead, coins, tokens, and other recognized mediums of exchange dominated over barter because barter is inconvenient and inefficient.

Even animals can learn to use a medium of exchange[1].

[1]:https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/06/090608095044.h...
I think you're spot on about the keyboard being rubbish, but overall bbm was great.

Everytime I upgrade my iPhone I find myself removing more and more apps. At this point all I really want/need is google maps, iMessages and... yaknow a phone. idgaf about anything else.
Forced registration after a few article reads then you're saying (was the major wrong)?
The problem with allowing stuff like this is that it creates an arms race: If one company can reduce their room rate 5% and shift it to a hidden "charge" then all their competitors MUST do the same to remain competitive. The net result is that nobody is making more than they were before, but customers feel mislead.

So while there a prevailing "regulation is bad" attitude about stuff like this, it really does benefit both the customer AND business if all pricing is listed equivalently up-front. Which is to say: I hope the UK bans this too, and room-rates are again flat (with or without VAT).
Modern Curriculum
If French society is anything like Danish society, migrants from certain regions will use more in Government services than they will contribute in taxes:

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/S00148-017-0636-1

"Immigrants from Western countries have a positive fiscal impact, while immigrants from non-Western countries have a large negative one"
I used to be quite an Adam Curtis fan until I realized his work is basically the narrative fallacy gone wild.

I still recommend Century Of The Self as a great piece of documentary filmmaking.
RF Energy Harvesting systems which run perpetually!

The very idea seems like Sci-Fi to me and i am quite mystified why this is not more widespread.

Would love to know the Experts take on this !
I loved my centro. My first “smart” phone
https://youtu.be/RAJrgCig3o8
I'm probably in the Minority here, but I prefer the franchised dealer model over Tesla's for 2 reasons:

1. When I've a Tesla problem, they simply don't respond. They don't answer emails. They don't answer the phone. They don't return calls. It's literally impossible to remedy a problem. It took 6 months of unbelievable frustration to resolve an obviously incorrect lease issue ("You owe X.", "No, I already paid. Here are the receipts."). This same issue with a BMW, Porsche, or Lexus is resolved in 2 minutes in a normal model.

2. The franchise model - at a maco level - keeps more money locally. I like money staying local, seeing kids sports teams sponsored by Bob's Ford, and generally support anything that promotes a broader distribution of wealth. The extraction of wealth out of a community and simply concentrated up to the already mega-wealthy disturbing. This is Standard Oil putting local gas stations out of business by price dumping, only to later swoop in unchallenged.
my first time touching Linux, was when these Kernel versión was new.
I kinda wished more adults would walk like children. All the variety is smashed out by age 20.
What is the worst case scenario that the author imagines happening to Rust due to Amazon’s influence (or anyone’s influence)?

This is unfamiliar to me - are there notable stories of what poor steering has done to a programming language? What were the consequences?

I can parse the basic grievances here on power dynamics, losing control of something you helped build…that’s familiar enough…but I’m having trouble understanding the gravity of what the author is passionate about preventing.

(In case it isn’t obvious I’ve never been a long term contributor to an open source project - genuinely curious about the context here)
Happy to share!

WebP [1] is based upon VP8 encoding. VP8 is one of the codecs for which WebM is frequently a container. Ultimately, it's similar but achieves different objectives.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebP#Technology
Yes, an enormous amount of western culture is derived from or influenced by Christianity and the Bible, due to the extremely long timeframe that it was integral to the culture (of Europe and the Middle East and Ethiopia). The other languages took the phrase from the Bible and translated it.
Why is anyone seriously talking about Ivermectin when the Moderna vaccine is 96%+ effective at preventing symptoms that require hospitalization, and 99%+ at preventing death?

Covid-19 prevention and treatment is basically a solved problem.

My limited understanding of other's reality suggests to me that people have connected deeply with a community (through identity poltics or... fun) that is no longer relevant in a post-covid world leading towards a mania where vaccines are somehow bad is the only thing that makes sense.
Dive visibility is actually quite hard to forecast (at least in the areas I dive) and I don't know if there have been empirical studies on it.

Anecdotally I find it's best when the wind is offshore and there is low tidal movement. But there are other factors at play, such as rainfall, etc..

This is one source I found (for wave height): https://www.aviso.altimetry.fr/en/data/products.html, however it was not clear on the website whether it was paid or not.

Another one I had a poke around with: https://www.ecmwf.int/en/forecasts/datasets/wmo-essential (trying to read Grib2)
I agree with your assessment. I am pretty cynical that most people will give up meat consumption. Lab grown meats at scale or substitutes are really going to drive the reduction in emissions we need.
If you’re a consultant, then certs can definitely help you get more gigs. I saw a lot of that when I was working in various consulting companies.

If you’re looking to get hired in-house for certain types of work, then certs can help you get past the HR droids that are only looking for checkboxes. That generally becomes less and less applicable as you gain more and more experience.

Beyond that, you have to ask which certs help you learn something that you didn’t already know, and which ones aren’t worth the e-paper they’re printed on.

I’m an old-school Unix SysAdmin/DevOps guy, with over 30 years of experience in the industry. Over the years I’ve been in the business, I have found very few certs that were worthwhile. The Cisco certs used to be something meaningful, but I don’t know if they still are. None of the rest of the certs that I used to value are still being taught — who remembers NetWare?

I think some of the higher-end AWS certs are useful, but you have to start at the bottom and work your way up. Which I am now doing.

Even if all you’ve got right now are the lower-level certs, one thing they can show is your willingness to put up with BS to get some sort of minor reward. And your intention to go for something greater.
That is one opinion. Mine is that meat is gross and that vegan food is delicious.
Doesn’t matter. HN is simply a more well behaved Reddit with a higher average intelligence per user.

From reading the room I’d say Ellen Pao is typically seen as a minor villain around here. Definitely not a hero.
Never used a Blackberry, but I seriously miss physical keyboards.
How to Test Serverless Apps in AWS
Wayland is not related to the X Window System, it is a ground up redesign.

And while Microgui is nice it purposely isn’t directly comparable to a compositing window manager.
Am I the only one who really hates it when people name their projects after actual words?

Just makes it incredibly hard to search for later.
That was so good I transcribed/transliterated it for my team:

Elon Musk’s Five Steps to Optimize:

- Question the Requirements
- Delete Parts or Processes
- Simplify
- Accelerate
- Automate

Quotes:

You want everyone to be a chief engineer. So, “everyone is a chief engineer” means that people need to understand the system at a high level to know when they are making a bad optimization. Like when we put immense effort into reducing engine mass but hardly any effort into reducing propellant residuals.

All designs are wrong, it’s just a matter of how wrong.

Transcript of Five Steps description:

What I’m trying to have us all implement rigorously is the five step process.

First, make your requirements less dumb. Your requirements are definitely dumb. It does not matter who gave them to you. It’s particularly dangerous if a smart person gave you the requirements because you might not question them enough.

Then, try very hard to delete a part or process. This is actually very important. If you’re not occasionally adding things back in, you’re not deleting enough. The bias tends to be very strongly towards “Let’s add this part or process step in case we need it.” But you can basically make “in case” arguments for so many things. And for a rocket that’s trying to achieve, trying to be the first fully reusable rocket…you have to run at tight margins because if you don’t run tight margins you get nothing to orbit.

Whatever requirement or constraint you have must come with a name, not a department. Because you can’t ask the department, you have to ask a person. And that person who it putting forward the requirement or constraint must take responsibility for that requirement. Otherwise you can have a requirement that basically an intern two years ago randomly came up with off the cuff and they aren’t even at the company any more . . . these things are way more silly than you’d think.

If you’re not adding things back in at least ten percent of the time you’re clearly not deleting enough.

Only at the third step you simplify or optimize. The third step, not the first step. The reason it’s the third step is because its very common, its possibly the most common error of a smart engineer is to optimize something that should not exist. And you say why would people do that? Well, everyone’s been trained in high school and college that you’ve got to answer the question, convergent logic. So you can’t tell a professor “your question is dumb.” You will get a bad grade. You have to answer the question. So everyones basically without knowing it they’ve got a mental straightjacket on. They will work on optimizing the thing that should simply not exist.

Finally you get to step four which is accelerate cycle time. You are moving too slowly, go faster. But don’t go faster until you’ve worked on the other three things first. If you’re digging your grave, don’t dig it faster, stop digging your grave.

The final step is automate.
I remember the BlackBerry Storm, the first touch screen phone by RIM launching at the same time as the iPhone 3G. No Wifi, slow janky scrolling, no apps (well, sure, if you don't mind downloading some random .jar that had to be recompiled for the custom fork they ran on that device). Felt like a rushed beta.

Meanwhile the iPhone just worked. Smooth scrolling, fast browser especially on Wifi. You could get apps from the AppStore that launched at the same time as the phone, no friction.

By the time the 3GS was released, if your firm still issued BBs you knew it was time to look around!
Dealers have repair hour lists. For example BMW N47 engine chain guides replacement (not the whole timing service, just a broken guide = slapping/rattling noise) is still an engine out/dropped gearbox job (timing chains are at the back of the engine) and might be charged as over 10 labour hours at >$100/hour + liquids + parts + diagnosis = usually $2-4K in US. Doesnt mean thats how long it takes, good mechanic can do it in under 2h.
> Absolutely no need to make it technically impossible, or even hard.

Then why do they keep doing it? Get them to stop, please. Make them stop adding DRM to everything. Make them get rid of DMCA anticircumvention laws. Just stop interfering with our computers.
I use Seafile, but that’s not really important since you can use any other Dropbox style app. Although, everything is stored on ZFS locally in a RAID-Z2 configuration with native ZFS encryption. I can lose up to two drives out of six in my setup with no data loss. Then I take snapshots automatically and push incremental updates to a third-party server and since they are encrypted they can’t read the data either.
>Actually, you could, just by ignoring the things you don't see evidence of and focusing on the points that do, and assessing them based on merit.

No, you really can't. Just by including the other points in the discussion, but being unwilling to extrapolate on them, shows bad faith (perhaps unintentionally) on the part of Steve and compromises the entire discussion. The only reason you include some vague "Amazon did shady shit" in a tweet is to elicit an emotional response on the part of the reader and immediately biases the argument against Amazon. The argument is not based on merit; it never can be now, because it's been tainted. This is known as "poisoning the well" [0].

Even in this thread, commenters are saying how they implicitly trust Steve not because of the merits of his argument, but because of his personal brand. He's (again, perhaps unintentionally) taking advantage of that fact by mud-slinging at Amazon, priming readers to already be biased against Amazon, and then once called out on it the response is "oh just ignore the fact that I did that and look at this other argument which I promise is more substantive". That's not arguing in good faith.

I see all that Steve has done for Rust and I see him post here (and on reddit) a lot, so I have respect for him. But this "discussion" was brought up completely the wrong way by him, and any outcome is going to be tainted. It'd be best to just let this current discussion die, and bring it up again in the future in a more appropriate manner.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisoning_the_well
What part of that Wikipedia document do you think contradicts what I've said? The lede says:

> Although there is no scholarly consensus as to when the Hebrew Bible canon was fixed, some scholars hold that the Hebrew canon was established well before the first century AD – even as early as the fourth century BC, or by the Hasmonean dynasty (140–40 BC). The modern Hebrew canon does not include the seven deuterocanonical books, and this was the basis for excluding them from the Protestant Old Testament.

And:

> Since the 16th century, most Protestant churches have accepted only works in the Masoretic Text of the Hebrew Bible as the canonical Old Testament, and hence classify all the non-protocanonical books from the Septuagint as apocrypha.

Those two points more or less support the points I'm making. Of course much of this is debatable, I'm not denying that, but I think the preponderance of evidence strongly suggests that these books don't belong.
Hey, tips are tax-free. I think this is mostly the reason why businesses encourage tipping. I think it's a collective failure of the electorate and the government that you end up in such a situation.
• Soil moisture data is based on DWD ICON models with up to 2 km resolution in central Europe.

• ET is based on latent heat flux. This is not the potential evapotranspiration or ET0 reference evapotranspiration. I did not dive deep into the actual radiative transfer model for latent heat flux, but you can find it in the DWD ICON description.
Scalyr is pretty good. Dunno bout affordability.

The self hosted industry standard is ELK stack
In reply, there's the famous quote by Ira Glass:
https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/113989.Ira_Glass
What taste good is just perception, I certainly pay a lot for good salmon filet, about the same as a good steak actually.
1. Low quality content / not enough "gatekeeping". My perception is that Medium presented itself as a classier / higher-quality blogging platform, but that inevitably got diluted over time as more people joined.

2. Bad timing. Medium probably could have been Substack, but Substack seems to be capturing a lucky moment when trust in mainstream media is completely imploding, censorship is rife, and lots of independent voices are looking for alternative platforms. Substack is also attracting lots of domain experts who aren't traditional writers / journalists but see in Substack an easy way to monetize their expertise.

3. As for an exodus from Medium -> Substack, probably a lot of that is just Substack seeming cooler / more exclusive than Medium at this point.

My expectation is that Substack will inevitably have a censorship crisis when it is forced to deplatform writers with "fringe" ideas (most likely on the right) and then it will lose its reputation as a more independent / free-speech platform, and the attention will move on to the next platform.
> the dosages are different, and the active ingredients differ

Neither the dosages nor the active ingredients are different. Both for humans and for animals, the recommended dose of Ivermectin to treat parasites is 200 micrograms per kilogram of body weight. The "active ingredients" are Ivermectin, period.

I have a bottle of injectable Ivermectin intended for cattle here, and it says it's pure Ivermectin in propylene glycol (typical carrier for injectables even for humans). I got it to treat Histomoniasis in our turkeys, which is btw an off-label use, because officially Ivermectin is not supposed to be effective against protozoa, but Histomoniasis is almost 100% fatal in turkeys and I haven't lost one since starting to give them Ivermectin as soon as I notice they have it. I've found that if I give them 600 micrograms/kg body weight every other day 3 times, they recover fully. What does this have to do with Covid? Only that a) Ivermectin works for some things other than those for which it's officially "blessed", b) at least in turkeys a much larger than normal dose doesn't seem to have any ill effects. As for the dose, I decided that it was probably safe for our turkeys because I read a paper where they gave that dosage to humans to combat malaria by making those humans lethally toxic to the mosquitos. The paper said the dose was "well tolerated". If they can do that to their human patients I can do it with my turkeys.

I'm not planning to inject myself with my veterinary Ivermectin even if I did come down with Covid... because I agree that so far the evidence that it's helpful isn't very strong. But I also think that this article is quite laughable... basically it says "Why You shouldn't use Ivermectin to treat or prevent Covid: because, uh... because we haven't said it's OK to do so." Sorry CDC, but your credibility just isn't /that/ high. And going to a hospital for /anything/ is also really dangerous... almost certainly more so than a couple of doses of Ivermectin.
In my experience, this is Edge updates doing this.
Whenever I see something like this, I wish people would add a reference.
I tried to find the "original" quote. But wikipedia says there is no instance of it before 21st century.
So, "Jack of all trades" was the original -> compliment.
"master of none" got added later -> made it not a compliment.
"but better than master of one" got added more recently, to make to a compliment again.
Funny enough, this comment on a medium post is also one of the references in the wikipedia page:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_of_all_trades,_master_of_...
And their angle on this “not being a big deal” is that it’s only used on high profile targets, so they need to keep that front up to maintain their busy bottom line
No, I mean the "rules" that would enable a NPO to be able to hold IP for the project. There are no rules for that, yet PostgreSQL Europe holds trademarks and domain names for the PostgreSQL project.

And nobody has asked them, neither sued them, for this. Indeed, PostgreSQL Europe joined together with Canada to sue Fundación.

But PostgreSQL Europe is no different from Fundación: just a Postgres NPO.
Offshore developer shops/developers recommendation
Hi founders! We are an early stage startup that's looking to hire offshore developers (or work with developer agencies). Wondering if you could recommend a few names that you had good experience with? Thank you very much in advance!

More background on our project:
1. we are looking for project based hire and then turn some of the developers to long term full time hire;
2. long term full time hire needs: 1-2 developers;
3. we are building a webapp;
4. stack: front end - we are thinking of typescript+react OR/AND wordpress; backend - not decided yet
I’m not sure why this narrative continues to have purchase.

The federal government publishes its spending data[1], and that is simply not what the money is spent on.

Transportation in totality was 7% of discretionary spending, itself 24% of total spending in 2019 [1].

2020 was an unusual year with enhanced unemployment and the paycheck protection program, but depending on whether you want to count the interest on debt, 35% to 40% of federal spending was on Medicaid, Social Security, and Medicare, the latter net of premiums (so gross spending was higher).

In 2018, a more normal year, these categories represented 55% of spending, interest being 8%.

In short, most federal tax dollars represent a redistribution of income from the young and working to the old, nonworking population. That’s what the plurality of the dollars do. Whether or not that’s a “good” thing is outside the scope of this comment, but we should at least be able to be honest about it.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_spending_in_the_Uni...
Your medical exemption is GRANTED.
This kind of rhethoric weakens the discussion on the site. You can surely rephrase your counterpoint and avoid the implied sarcasm.
>something more controversial like a Christian baker being forced to make cakes for gay weddings?

I don't think this changes anything really. If religious people can use their religion as a valid reason for discrimination, why shouldn't everyone be able to discriminate?

To me, I think everyone should have exactly the same legal rights. Either everyone has to bake the cake or no one does.
This is accurate. TC was ~25% higher than I would get working in SF. Plus I got to invest it how I liked.
I encrypt stuff and just keep it in various cloud storage solutions. I wrote my own encryption program in Golang using a combination of scrypt, aes and gcm
You continue to ignore the point I'm making and the context I made it in, in what appears to be an effort to push your own agenda. You can feel free to to that, but I don't see a reason to continue my part in this conversation when it feels like you're not attempting to actually engage with me.

If you care about why I think it's not worth continuing, and why I've come to this conclusion, I suggest you attempt to re-read what I wrote previously with a more open mind and instead of trying to drag it back into the specific argument. In any case, have a good evening.
If you where sent into the year 2000 with a mission to prevent the adoption of social media and instead maintain Email's dominance, what would you do?
>And since you can't really separate wheat protein from the carbs in household conditions,

That's literally how you make seitan.

https://backyardhomesteadhq.com/how-to-make-seitan-from-any-...