skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Laws are not ideal and are often used to discriminate against certain groups

and your virtual ideology is better, how?

since nobody can enforce anything.

> As I said, there is a period of funds lock-up. In the worst case, Bob has to wait some time until the smart contract sends him his payment.

What if they payment is never sent and "some time" is forever?

You need laws after all (AKA a solution outside of the chain, or a deus ex machina if you want)

If I was Bob I would not see this thing you're talking about like a great advancement and would continue doing my job like I do it now.

I mean, I get you watched a lot of fiction and wanna feel like living as an outlaw, but even outlaws have laws and follow some of them.

You are trading mid to low trust in your local community for zero trust to some entity you'll never know, who'll never know you, couldn't care less about you and respecting the terms of some virtual contract and pretend we all should do the same.

Do you understand that this is the exact definition of "out of touch"?
The solution of using {nolookups} on every logging pattern is only available from version 2.7 and above.

https://stackoverflow.com/a/42802636/270317
That was also a decade of explosive automation and globalization. There was much more cash floating around, but far more goods and services were produced than ever before too, thus the balancing of prices.

If they hadn't printed all that money, a lot of prices would have stayed flat - and perhaps a lot more folks would feel much richer right now.
Getting a bit off-topic now, but I'm reminded of the song Logos by Faded Paper Figures looking at the photos of empty signs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oO_e7Qq2WKg

Signs on every mountain side, Line highways, stitching desert thread ... My soul goes with your logos, There's no place left to dream tonight
I’ve used Stripe in the past and it was a joy to use. Used it for an simple online shop selling shirts.

In my case I only sold to one country within the EU which is my home country and therefore I didn’t have any problems with EU taxes and stuff like that. If you plan to sell in the EU from outside or to multiple EU countries I’d strongly recommend a merchant of record.

The most known I think is Paddle, as also mentioned in this thread. But their pricing is hidden deep inside their ToS and in general you don’t get that many information just from the website, best to contact their sales department and check with them if they would like to onboard you. But it’s definitely more expensive than Stripe for fees but in my opinion you’ll save that money in accounting as you only get one invoice per month and don’t have to worry about taxes in X countries.

Also a small tip, check if your country has laws on “fake self-employment” (Scheinselbständigkeit in German) because I know for a fact that some (at least German) finance authorities don’t understand how a merchant of record works because even though you have multiple customers, on the paper you only have one, Paddle.
It’s not as polished. The base16 aspect just comes up with the color swath, but you rely on community contributions to port that into different app themes. For example, the VS Code themes look terrible. The way they choose colors for the UI just isn’t appealing. I think base16 has a standard, like “05 is used for menus” but that doesn’t translate very well.

I think it’s good for syntax highlighting, but I had a lot of difficulty translating it into UI themes in a way that I liked.
We should mandate better health and exercise for all too!
I was just reading an article on a nuclear power plant built (in Norway?) recently that mentioned how it was a considerably more difficult/costly project due to the fact that there was not sufficient expertise left in the West since so few reactors had been built over the past decades....
I agree that the people who can see the ongoing shortcomings in how people act should be able to try and do better, as well as use whatever legislative powers that they have to ensure the best outcomes, even if that's just voting, or making sure that health/safety norms etc. are followed.

Yet, at the same time, we're all just human and it's easy to have similar shortcomings ourselves, because if we spent all of our days worrying about every minuscule thing, we'd never get anything done (of course, that doesn't excuse the behavior, i'm merely pointing out this human cognitive limitation).

For example, i got some cheap running shoes for running in the evenings in my countryside home. The only factor that mattered to me when i got them, was that they'd be cheap enough for me to be able to throw them away once they get worn. Of course, the price point essentially meant that i'm probably supporting businesses in countries where the working conditions are oftentimes very poor, as well as ones where the human rights situation has problems in some cases. I don't doubt that the way my phone was made was all that different, nor were the circumstances surrounding it. Similarly, i support unethical corporations whenever i pick up a box of cereal at the store, or when i buy a cocoa drink that i want to enjoy. I'm also contributing to the furthering of unsustainable farming practices almost whenever i buy meat at the store, as opposed to sourcing it locally (e.g. smaller farms or hunting).

Of course, the impact of many of those is lower than the aforementioned things, yet the principle of the human mind being fallible is the same. So i think we should all remain self critical and watch out for things like that when we can.
Never. The only proper response is to force healthy, thin, young people who've already recovered from Covid to get vaccinated. And continue to get tested for Covid before traveling.
> Ultimately it has to be determined whether the election was or was not fraudulent.

I honestly think it would be preferable if we changed it to "Ultimately it has to be declared whether the election was or was not fraudulent." To me, this is more palatable as "determined" implies the unequivocal truth is known, something which is plausibly not possible at least under the current design of the system.

My intuition is that conspiracy theorists would at least somewhat prefer this as the possibility of inaccuracy is explicitly acknowledged, although I wonder if normal people would find it unpalatable.
Ask HN: How are you preparing for a changing economic tide?
It seems, based on submissions & comments I've read here over the past several months, that many of you are anticipating a major economic downturn in the near future. What steps are you all taking to prepare for such an event? How can one hedge against the risk of a stock market crash, housing crash, and inflation all at the same time?
We haven't solved the problem of spam, and misinformation (disinformation, really) is far, far harder, because its recipients want it to be true, they are not seeking the truth but reinforcement of their confirmation bias.
You're being quite sloppy with categories. You've shifted from saying "if an action is good, it is good regardless of your lot in life" to talking about people being more or less good, based on wealth. Nothing else in the conversation so far assumed a moral status in people; only in actions.

Categorizing people by power follows from the fact that power enables actions unavailable to the powerless. I cannot meaningfully shift public opinion on climate change. Someone investing a billion dollars into cultural messaging probably could. The same ethics could apply to me and the billionaire: say, a rule of maximizing one's impact on the phenomenon most likely to negatively affect the most people. Now if you assume (as you seem to) that utility isn't part of the morality equation, then both I and the billionaire could each try our best and be equally good. But that's not an obviously true thing, and I think most people these days would assume that ends matter. In that light the billionaire can do more good than I can, and although the same ethical rule might apply to each of us, it's proportionally more relevant to the billionaire. So: an ethics for society's leaders.
Ads are pointless. No matter how much human capital was invested in making targeted ads possible, only very rarely I see something that I might be interested in buying. And I can't remember a thing that I bought due to ads. They are a better signal of what to not buy.
They're not going to ramp up a production-line option and do the QA on an ill-advised touchscreen computer for your edge case.

And people who prefer computers should be very, very happy about that; because touchscreens on computers are stupid.
That's ridiculous. We're churning out new ideas in biotech, medicine, media, finance, automobiles, airplanes, batteries, some solar stuff, and on and on. We have a huge, dynamic economy that does a lot of things really well. We've uncovered some major issues in the last two years but we've done better I think than one might have expected under the circumstances. I think in particular the rapid development and production of multiple vaccines in record time displays our capacity to innovate and manufacture complex goods.

It's impossible to know what's coming in the distant future, but it doesn't feel like any of our problems are insurmountable.
They update CPI regularly to reflect what people are currently buying. The economists and professionals who work in this industry aren't idiots.

The CPI index has been running continuously for decades and yet you've decided based on one uninformed HN comment that we need to scrap it and rebuild it with different measurements? Peak hubris.
I share your frustrations with Chatbots on the phone so much.

Weeks ago I was dealing with chest pain/heart pain. I ended up trying to call a bunch of clinics/doctors to try to get a recommendation of where to go. Everywhere I called, they would have a spiel about covid that would last 1/2 minutes. It would make me livid and my pain worse.

I understand that thats partly my fault for being impatient. But it felt so hard to just reach a doctor/nurse or anyone to talk to at the time.
You are confusing "rent" and "imputed rent". The former is easy to calculate, and the BLM does calculate it accurately by simply asking a whole bunch of renters how much they pay each month.

But imputed rent is a more subtle and difficult number. The goal is to know what the market rent would be for all the homes not currently on the rental market. I'm sure you can find other sources on why this value should be included in the CPI calculation (in addition to rent), but once you recognize that, it should be clearer why the Zillow approach wouldn't work: Zillow and similar sites only know about what homes sell for, or rent for.

Now could an expert come up with a model of what a home might rent for given sale price, number of sqft, bedrooms, etc.? Of course. But doing so very much isn't an afternoon project because the data is tricky: the owner occupied homes differ from rental units in important and hard to evaluate measure. For instance, apartments around my city are more poorly maintained than similarly aged ownership units.
Coming Soon: Presbyopia-Correcting Eye Drops
On the other hand try calling "AWS" in the same scenario. My money is on sloshed guy coming back with the faster response.
The problem will be a lack concentrated deposits making post-collapse (and new) industrial efforts much harder. A pile of rust from one tractor in someone's back yard is not going to be worth the effort to mine and refine.

Possibly an analogous situation is the history of steel in Japan and their efforts to extract iron from sand, since they don't have significant iron ore to mine on their island.
Is American Society too broad?
C64 OS: make a Commodore 64 feel fast and useful
Here is what I think we need:

- an operational model of our economy that includes failure modes, like queue failures
- open source software that can easily and reliably represent this model and simulate trajectories
- government and news reports should reference the exact configuration of the model that expresses what they are reporting

In my view, anything less than this is unactionable and basically meaningless.
Strongly agree here. I'd rather have this than generics, personally. Having to implement my own sum types every time is laborious (moreso than most boilerplate that people complain about) and it's also hard for users to understand (what are all of the permutations?) and extend (I added a new permutation; where are all of the sites I need to update?).
What else?

As for FloC, still trying to understand FloC's implications & make a position on it. Hearing it proposed, it sounds enormously stupid, but I'm not convinced it's in fact bad. Part of me even thinks it indeed sounds like a significant privacy win over where we are.

Rather than discuss FloC though I'm wondering what other efforts you would malign.
> The TV networks already seem, grudgingly, to see where things are going, and have responded by putting their stuff, grudgingly, online. But they're still dragging their heels.

True, it took them about a decade for legacy TV networks to finally start offering first-party streaming apps (Peacock, CBS All Access, etc.)
This reminds me of a scene in The Sopranos where Tony talks about homosexuality: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=688XMcEchFQ

Tony starts going off on a homophobic rant, the therapist asks the right questions, and Tony slowly realizes that he doesn't really care about a person's sexuality.
> Core Inflation is needed so that they can apply the right monetary policy. If you want your 'personal' inflation, they have data for that too.

Why does applying the right monetary policy depend on excluding inflation in food and energy?

Edit: answered by dragontamer
I didn't yet get around to writing Go in any significant capacity (it's not in an interesting spot for me) but I've had to read some and to me it seems like about half of all Go code does approximately nothing. It seems really weird to me that Go doesn't have a Result/Optional type (or sum types in general) and instead prefers multiple return values instead, and consequentially does not have error-handling operators but requires if err != nil repeated approximately 9000 times per file.
Very selective memory... You've picked the most streamlined from each older generation, and compared it to the noisiest of the current generation. Though driving a car (I'll assume a manual that you can maintain, not an automatic with the monstrous blackbox analog computer) that is a quarter-century old and using a flip phone in 2021 is legit boomer cred. [thumbs up emoji]
I really hear you on the product quality, but that is more the result of business systems.

I find it so frustrating that I struggle or fail find quality products - for everything from forzen pizza to jeans. For some cases (frozen pizza) I just opt out. Others, I just give up and accept that I'll have to replace my jeans every 2-3 years. I try to buy recommendations from Wirecutter and do slightly better, but still so annoyed that everything is made so damn cheaply.
Is American Societal fabric too broad?
HIV is evolving to a milder for : https://www.bbc.com/news/health-30254697
I bet homelessness was less intense before the proliferation of IT. I've been unhoused for about 3.5 years now, last few months I do have a shelter situation and it's been much easier to gain weight and study. For my first 5 years in tech in SF I was stepping over homeless people on my way to my tech job asking why they didn't just pull themselves up by their bootstraps like I did in high school living with my parents. Turns out having a place to plug in a computer and a 15" monitor and a shower and clean clothes to interview in is a so-called privilege, no matter the condition of the place or quality of parenting.

It's more of an externality to IT than a direct problem as I see it. People are plugged in so it's easier to step over the problems around them. We have access to growth all over the world through chat and forums, so why would we spend our precious time on people who can most likely take us nowhere better than we presently are? Being homeless on Twitter was interesting, because it's like "if you can affort a smart phone then you can afford food;" I think the pandemic has erased that stereotype, at least. Now it's like "you have Twitter, why can't you jump on Zoom?" and "if you have time to Tweet then you have time to apply to a job"--indeed, time, but perhaps not the space or bandwidth or power or editing software to run more than Twitter. This may extend to social services via small screens but I don't have much experience with that.

We could extend the effect to reduction of menial and low-mid level management jobs as well, which keeps people working 2-3 entry levels jobs as they start families in their mid-20s and beyond. I'm less sure of that case as it starts to get complex. I saw a different dynamic in my service jobs recently than I did as a teenager in the late '90s, but I wasn't there long enough to dissect it in detail. I can say when I was in high school most of my co-workers were high schoolers except the odd "older" person, recently it was almost an opposite proportion with perhaps 1 high schooler on each team. More competition = less opportunity for the vulnerable/unmarketable homeless population is the connection.
Similar distinction for me is the difference between being right (or being convinced that you are right to be more precise) an needing others to know that you are right.

Often being willing to settle for the first can keep you out of a lot of trouble.
Your steering wheel is fly-by-wire these days. So is the pedals. Antilock brakes, sensor network (NOx sensors and the like), and more are all computer chips.

Purely mechanical designs are more expensive and harder to make.
Probably better to just reduce government spending than increase taxes.
I'd read that essay.
Prevayler: ACID persistence for plain old Java objects (2013)
Why did Borland fail? (quora.com) - June 13, 2015, 263 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9712267
Microsoft has made my early career incredibly difficult and sucked all of the joy out of engineering. Their software like Outlook and Teams has given me eye strain, RSI, and teeth grinding. In my experience the Microsoft ecosystem promotes a culture of micromanaging, sniping, and gatekeeping.
I love that!

Here where I live in Canada, billboards aren't allowed except on indigenous land. While I totally respect it, it's a horrible eyesore.
> Journalists do not coordinate news releases with their preferred candidates.

No, they would never do anything like that:

https://greenwald.substack.com/p/article-on-joe-and-hunter-b...
From the paper I originally linked: "Infection with one serotype likely elicits lifelong immunity to that serotype, but generally not against the other three." Dengue researchers routinely talk about lifelong original antigenic sin effects in dengue. You seem to want to split hairs and ask instead "but which papers specifically established the duration of the original antigenic sin in dengue". I can't help you with that beyond linking to the seminal Halstead 1983 paper. From there on you are on your own.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/6824120/
yes, that's been california 'environmental' policy in a nutshell: take the smallest problem, pass an uncritical law based on manufactured sentiment, back-slap all around, and put hat in hand to elicit political reward. plastic bag bans, lawn watering restrictions, prop 65 warnings, bike lanes to nowhere, even leafblower bans (as much as i hate the pollution i endure from these twice a week) are all examples of empty feel-good legislation.

it avoids taking actual political risk and spending real political capital on things that matter (and against moneyed interests) while still reaping political rewards. (this is incidentally why i've started to think that we should be able to vote 'null' for a given office, meaning no one should be in it for the upcoming term.)
Haskell packaging/building is a lot more pleasant with Nix. Cabal and stack are too fragile imho and user settings can far too easily break packages. With nix you can still do customisation but I find nix at least puts a reasonable amount of assurance that your configuration isn't going to cause the entire build to explode.
Dark Matter and Dark Energy are just catchall terms for "the force that causes more gravitation than we'd expect" and "the force that causes the universe to accelerate in expansion" respectively. Those two phenomena definitely exist, and physicists are obviously not content with concluding our understanding at that, which is why hypothesis about what they are abound.
Respectfully disagree -- these examples are mostly how the system is supposed to work to protect the rights of the individual.

OJ was found not guilty by a jury of his peers who felt there was reasonable doubt to his guilt. Sure, to the vast majority of us, he obviously did it and skated, but I'd guess there are 100 or 1000 non-publicized cases of an innocent person getting railroaded for every OJ.

Clinton paid a massive political price for his weasel language and related evasions, and some people think that price included Gore's loss of the Presidency in 2000.

Capone was brought down for unpaid taxes, not parking tickets, and that was as a result of a federal task force brought about following years of incredible gangland violence in Chicago.

I wouldn't call these bugs.
1. Monitors.

Things are finally improving but LCDs made me stop playing Quake and Unreal Tournament during the mid 2000s and into the early 2010s when 120Hz panels (TN of course) started appearing at reasonable prices.

2. Lunches with coworkers.
No longer a thing for many of us but boy I've had enough lunches with 20 somethings glued to their phones the entire time. What's the point of going together, bruh?
I’m not sure that’s a great example. mmap(2) is a swiss army knife of a function. There are many crates that build all kinds of things on top of mmap, and they’re not all interchangeable. Allocators, file io, gpio, actual virtual memory mappings.

My view is that when you develop a product, you have to own everything. The users don’t care if the bug comes from code you wrote, or code in a library, or the language’s standard library, or the OS. You have to fix the bug no matter what caused it. It doesn’t matter if the code came from a vendor or a language designer or stack overflow; you are the one responsible for fixing it if something goes wrong. Non est salvatori salvator, etc.

With that perspective, I don’t think that 23 crates is terrifying. I’m going to look them all over and either pick one, or write the 24th crate myself. The result is the same either way.

I do agree with you about APIs though. It is nice to find a crate where the author has had the confidence to stabilize their API and declare the version to be 1.x instead of 0.x. But at the same time I recognize that getting to that point requires some real software to use the crate, to create the feedback loop. If nobody ever used a 0.x crate, no crate would ever get that feedback.
I own a few of the cables. If we ever somehow meet in real life someday, would you want to try it with me and some friends?

There are moments where it feels like a bit of a Dungeons & Dragons campaign with the towns, or roadside scenes, or everyone receiving individual letters from home.
Digital broadcast used to be the best image source available to watch on your TV. As you say, far better than cable or streaming because of the lack of compression. Is that still the case?
What to Do When a Coworker Makes More Money Than You
A zombie has no thoughts, that's the point.
Car horns that beep when you lock them remotely.

The perpetrator is further away from his car, and knows to expect the sound.

It is startling, rude and offensive. The mechanism should be off by default.