skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bitcoin certainly is an attack on institutions, but not progressive in character. All the institutions it (claims to) bypass like regulators, the state, central banks, the tax system and so on, with the exception of borders maybe are quite liberal in the broad sense of the term.
It would probably be better if there was a posted article on “How to reclaim your online account if a soulless social media company you foolishly trusted arbitrarily and capriciously deletes said account” and the discussion ensued from that.

In lieu of such a article, this is a way people would address issues on tech forums back in the days of Usenet, BBSs…back in the days we elders sometime long for. Seems charming in a way…the neighbor knocking on the back door asking for a cup of sugar. Do agree it could get out of hand, but why don’t we wait until the moderators start complaining?
To quote someone smarter than I "Its about time we hold responsible the distribution arm of the CPLA".
> UBI in itself is not a bad idea. Thinking that the way to implement it is by pushing it at the federal level is a catastrophically bad idea.

No, thinking that the way to implement it is by pushing it at any lower level is a catastrophically bad idea, because the 14th Amendment, the Commerce Clause, and other federal Constitutional and legal constraints prevent any lower level from establishing any viable definition of the covered population universe.

> How about we got rid of all forms of Federal taxes and started favoring again a state-centered union?

Absent any proposal for solving the problems that occurred the last time we tried that, which is why we have the Constitution (the second federal structure of the USA), that's a decidedly no serious proposal.

> How about people started to be more interested in discussing their own town budget plans

Proposals about what people should decide to be interested in are non-actionable.
> Large countries are a very modern invention.

For much of history, most people lived in empires.
They knew they weren't good at figuring out what balance of attributes complex things needed so they copied. It wasn't their first rodeo when it came to copying something "with design allowances for local reality". Way easier to copy and alter a Fiat than trust a committee to plan a car that is a hit.

I'm not well versed on the Fiat they copied but knowing how these things usually go I can see where they'd have made changes to fit their situation (e.g. revising trivial things to use off she shelf parts already known to be available in high volume, like the soviet equivalent of spec'ing a roller blade bearing instead an odd bearing).

There are a lot of cars of that era that are like the Lada in terms of features (or lack thereof), specs, ownership experience, etc. I don't think it's anything particularly specific about the Lada that makes people like it though certainly there's some things about it that makes people with a certain worldview want to like it more than they would otherwise. I think people are nostalgic for it because it was so prolific and well cared for (or at least they were maintained) because cars weren't treated as disposable by the people who had Ladas so that makes them easy to come by and keep using today. Basically it was a decent car that got lucky in terms of when and where it existed and who it was sold to that run into a lot of staying power.
> Maybe all the bad banks had been consolidated by then, after years of Depression?

Sure, maybe after 4 years of issues things just happened to naturally get better right when the federal government carried out a targeted intervention.

> But why would money supply matter - you can simply raise the value of the existing supply to the same effect?

This is called deflation, and tends to both cause and worsen economic contractions for reasons discussed previously.

If all financial obligations happened to somehow be pegged to inflation, then the actual money supply wouldn’t matter. But the purpose of a currency is denominating prices and debts, so it does matter.

> What does "money supply" mean, the number of coins?

Literally the number of dollars that exist. At that point in time this would have been the sum of all cash and all bank accounts balances.

> yeah but that is "just" the Keynesian approach. I know he is popular, but that doesn't make it automatically correct.

Profound insights today in the HN comments section.

> For starters, why does "economy" even depend on a government?

Perhaps look into Locke or Hobbes for some background here. Economic activity is for the most part predicated on some concept of property rights, which are a legal construct and thus predicated on the existence of a government and its monopoly on the use of force.

> You have to admit it does sound slightly crazy, though?

Does it? The argument isn’t that paying people to dig holes and fill them back in (or build warships and sink them in the ocean) creates economic value, only that it creates demand, which is self-evidently true.

Usually, demand from workers earning wages drives businesses to supply goods, so an economy generally sits at a supply/demand equilibrium. But a bunch of people who are unemployed and have no money do not contribute to demand. A negative demand shock can cause an economy to contract to a new lower equilibrium. A positive demand shock can drive it back to a higher equilibrium.

> But then you can't say it is the gold standard, but the unwillingness to deficit spend?

Deficit spending doesn’t expand the money supply if the government has to borrow to spend, it just draws money out of the private sector. Hence we’re back to the gold standard as the root of the problem.
I will absolutely never use a digital service for mental health. There have been breach of personal data with very little consequences for the leakers. Mental health/wellness data is also an incredible data set to mine for targeting ads (as others have pointed out).

This is also the main reason I use a paper notebook as my diary for journaling. I’m ok with the trade off of not having backups: the alternative of this data being mined and leaked online is not a risk I’m willing to take. In fact, I simply don’t feel comfortable writing online honestly at all, my brain is conditioned to believe anything in the cloud is simply not secure.
And Emmymade: https://www.youtube.com/c/emmymade

Emmymade is a more general food/cooking channel though. I do enjoy it, mostly because she'll give anything a chance once and isn't dismissive of food she isn't familiar with or doesn't prefer.
It's the length of a car, not the size of a car.

Still the mental image is entertaining (but mostly horrifying).
Why not both? A more efficient system should be able to operate effectively with a smaller budget
> I’m guessing it’s designed because some people can process the information and others more slowly

Familiarity with the speaker's voice and presentation can influence this hugely. There's a news podcast I like listening to much faster than most other stuff I listen to just because I know the newscaster's voice so well.
His videos make me oddly happy
The HTTP specification does tell you to behave differently depending on the presence or absence of specific values for case-insensitive headers. That requires decoding the header name strings.
Is Cloud Seeding Good, Bad, or Ugly?
Yeah, I really don't understand why security properties are that important for a non-cryptographic PRNG anyway either...

Also, I'd personally argue that 'k-Dimensional Equidistribution' *is* actually fairly useful for a PRNG - certainly I'd argue it's more useful than secure properties in the use cases of simulation or MC...
Eating History involved eating decade/century old foods, including Civil War hardtack which is a MRE I guess - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt12077068/

There's a lot of overlap once you realise food doesn't go off if it's not starting fresh, then who cares about years, decades, centuries. Technically MRE's are about weight and size, but people often see them as long lasting even though all processed foods are.

As we get shut into our homes more, it will be interesting to see if the tech gets used by civilians, cheap posted foods, compact and light weight.
I'm confused about the calculation. They say we are approaching 2T a year on military spending. Over 5 years that's 10T. 2% of that is 200B - a fair sum, but no the 1T advertised. What am I missing?
Dcache impact? Of accessing the state which, for a non-cryptographically-secure PRNG, is often 128 bits? I'm not seeing it. Even CSPRNGs don't usually have state that's all that much larger. Surely there would be much higher dcache impact from storing and loading the batches of output. On the other hand, I can buy icache, along with function call overhead and lack of parallelism...
Rails’ ActiveRecord – The Bad and the Ugly
I really like Zig, but the lack of RAII means we're back to malloc/free style programming, and I would never opt into that unless Rust could not be used (e.g. binary size too large). Having said that, it's way better than C and I hope it does well.
> None of the people who entered the Capitol were armed

False:

(1) several people were charged for having and using weapons within the Capitol [0], and

(2) Even if none were specifically charged with using weapons, that would not support “None were armed...according to charges” only “None were charged with being armed”

[0] from: https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/capitol-breach-cases

Zachary Jordan Alam with Remaining in a Restricted Building with a Deadly or Dangerous Weapon, and with Engaging in Physical Violence in a Restricted Building with a Deadly or Dangerous Weapon;

Christopher Michael Alberts with both firearms offenses and disorderly conduct within a Capitol Building (note that while some of the firearms offenses were in the initial complaint and statement of facts, the full combination including disorderly conduct inside the Capitol is in the Second Superceding Indictment—the third version of the charges based on additional information.)

...and that's not even the whole way through the A’s.
They did say that it was the leading hypothesis that this puts aside.
Smart to use a throwaway. And I personally know someone who violated the “don’t access systems” rule. They were very well liked and they were very quickly fired.

I was wondering what the purpose of the oops team was beyond making employees’ lives a little easier. Makes sense that they would set it up as a way to avoid having devs trying to fix friend’s/family member’s problems and risk private info/PII running amok
It's either that or everyone openly accepts the ensuing suffering and death as an acceptable tradeoff.

Neither are particularly great options, but nobody said life was guaranteed to be easy or simple.
Not to worry. Os features usually have a toggle somewhere to disable. After all it is your machine, you have the final control. Don't you?
Thirteen-Stage, Four-Issue, Out-of-Order Processor
This is the equivalent to injected insulin. Solves no problem but does delay death.
For food, off the top of my head there is the famous Fontina cheese, Carbonade Valdostana – a delicious beef stew, Vapelenentse soup and of course Fonduta. And for sweets there is tegole. Aosta also has great viticulture. It has Europe's highest vineyards and a wonderful indigenous grape called Prie Blanc as well as wonderful petit rouge is grown there. Aosta wines are often spectacular and worth seeking out. Besides this there is amazing scenery and great skiing close by.
I don't think you can "swear off" your neurology, but it's good you don't see it as a disability. It isn't.
My phone use is responsible for 99% of any mental health issues I might face. The idea of solving a mental health issue with an app is crazy to me. Like treating drug addiction with more drugs (which I’m aware is a thing).
Do people not realize the social media panic is exactly the same kind of socially conservative attitudes we used to mock as children? Instead of video games, MTV and rap, we're panicking about social media.
I mean if it works for 82,000 people in the 65 year old Mondragon Corporation in Spain, I’m sure it could work for Ubisoft.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mondragon_Corporation

Maybe what you mean is “if it works why isn’t it common” which is a much more nuanced question. I would say that McCarthyism and the Red Scare in the USA had a huge negative impact on the labor movement, and there has been a big propaganda push for individualist capitalism (which benefits the powerful) since then. People seem to think that if an idea isn’t common today, it’s not a good idea. But that ignores the possibility of an idea whose time as come, or a new good idea that hasn’t been tried yet.

Of course cooperatives are not new. Credit unions are member owned cooperatives. And of course there are many individually owned worker cooperatives. I’ll leave that for you to research but do see this directory of Bay Area cooperatives.

https://nobawc.org/
So... basically further encourage a lack of transparency and funnel more resources into black ops at the expense of the altruistic and naïve -- that should be interesting. But meh, simple is simple I suppose :D
Similarly I don't think any reasonable person or judge will agree bricking a device is called 'update'.

I had a bunch of IoT lightbulbs intentionally bricked by the manufacturer. I can't remember the name of the company now. Something beginning with "F," and ending with "Electric," I think. This was back in the days before HomeKit, when IoT was even more Wild West than it is today.

I had about a dozen of the light bulbs around the house, all controlled by the company's hub, and an app on the phone. One day the company sent an e-mail stating that the system was no longer supported and would no longer function, and it also sent a forced software update to the hub, disabling everything.

I searched around the internet and found lots of people who were mad that the gear they paid for suddenly stopped functioning for no reason. Lots of speculation, but nobody ever seemed to nail down why.
> If you are just a regular tech worker advancing in your career can actually reduce your salary because of the tax brackets.

How does that work?
Doing find substring by find byte subsequence won't behave correctly in many cases, where semantically equivalent strings have multiple different bytesequence representation. Treating strings as byte slices exposes a lot of footguns; it shouldn't be easy just as e.g. treating floating-point numbers as byte sequences shouldn't be easy.
I am an impatient driver, but I think you're in the right and the other driver is in the wrong. Right lane is slow traffic/merge. Middle lane is travel. Left lane is fast/passing lane.
Homegrown Rendering with Rust
https://github.com/jackaudio/jack1/blob/master/jackd/engine....
(Trailer) the Babylon Bee Interviews Elon Musk
To have a hope of working, you'd need to get the blessing of all of the US, Russia, China, and India (and maybe a couple of countries, but those 4 for sure)--without them, there's simply not enough money in the pie otherwise. And why should those countries agree?

The appeal is that it mutual agreement has resulted in arms treaties in the past, but the closer you inspect those prior treaties, the less rosy things look. The interwar naval treaties paused battleship construction for a decade--but even at best, countries were only in nominal compliance with many of the terms, and the construction pause was driven in part by the fact that several countries were rather literally bankrupting themselves trying to keep up, so stopping meant they no longer had to spend money they didn't have. Or you can look at SALT/START, which has lasted longer. But New START is currently on rocky roads, and I wouldn't count on it lasting past this decade. The other US/USSR (now Russia) treaties have been failing (e.g., INF).

There's a lot less trust between US, Russia, and China now than there was a decade ago, and with that loss of trust, the threat of war looms larger. Wars--the big messy wars between great powers especially--tend to break out because one side miscalculates what the other side's red lines are. It doesn't even necessarily need to be a direct act by one country that breaks the red line: recall that the proximate act instigating World War I was a terrorist group outside the influence of any of the great powers. So in the current environment, anyone suggesting massive cuts to military spending seems woefully naive.
Nice try, but You conflate the process with the policy/position. It is not a "bulldozer position" to say "anybody can drive", that is an extreme Libertarian position. Bulldozer is not a position. Libertarianism a process.

A middle of the road position could be had through either bulldozery or vetocracy; furthermore, from the law or position itself, you could not say whether it was produced by bulldozer or vetocracy, you would need to know truths about the system.
Pretty bold to call it a language design mistake so confidently, when you have Rust users committing warning-emitting code to their source control.

Does Rust emit warnings for cached compilation units?
I come from the other side of the mountains in Switzerland. Aosta is an occasional destination people on that side. There is great local food, a cute town, and of course the beautiful scenery.
Does it have to be on every screen to be a privacy feature?

It's not necessary to force that choice.
This is quite nice. The problem I usually see with Figma converting to HTML plugins is that, there are too many nested divs! This might not be friendly for weak devices and is not that SEO friendly. If you are trying to solve this problem, it would be awesome!
Out of curiosity, are you saying that most tech debt is systems that don't generate much value?

If you had asked me, I'd probably say that tech debt is mostly systems that do generate value but are built poorly or in a rushed manner. Deadlines creep up, devs crunch, they ship a "working" product but it has design flaws that manifest as technical debt.

But now that I think of it, I've definitely also experienced what you're mentioning (I think). I've worked on projects with questionable motives that ultimately end up cancelled or abandoned. The leftover code remains and continues to confuse newcomers.
I feel like the megafauna that were eradicated by homo sapiens are fair game to try to resurrect. I mean, they're only gone because cro magnons got carried away slaying furry dragons.
You are literally responding to a post where I said 'I didn't say "AAA companies aren't making money"'.
I definitely have not driven one, let alone after 15-25k miles. But you know that the standard warranty for a Ferrari is 3 years with unlimited miles along with 7 years of free maintenance, right? And the extended warranty you can buy is for 15 years.
Unlike Google's wifi products, all the eeros I own, including the first generation versions, still regularly get updated and are still supported. They also still function when newer revisions are added to the mesh.
The two-weeks-away four-times-a-year thing absolutely wouldn't work for parents, but anybody with kids who's trying to do a full day's productive work from home long-term has got to have either a spouse watching them or some kind of day-care regardless. I can't imagine thinking "I don't need a nanny, I'm in the home-office."
What is your point then? Ethanol is a short-lived gabaergic anxiolytic.
Omicron variant was 73% of U.S. covid cases last week
I'm glad to hear that it's finally been defeated.
ATC remains my favourite TTY game. The adrenaline rush when managing tens of planes, the tension keeping them all afloat, all very fun. I do not want to do this as my real job though.
Those are not implied warrantees. Please read https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Implied_warranty
Aha! Here we go. Here's a telephone pole:
https://earth.google.com/web/search/39.0303298,-93.58495/@39...

We know that telephone poles stick about 32 feet from the ground. Measuring the shadow in Google Earth above, it's about 20 feet. Now, it's a simple ratio.

Using Earth, I measured the distance from the plane to its shadow at about 2430 feet, that would put it at 3,900ft, which is surprisingly low, but I don't know the height of that pole for sure. It's the right ballpark, though.
If thought alone were not able to help with mental afflictions, then how would therapy have any effect?
I say this as a web developer: there's far more to programming than the web.
Silicon Valley has deep roots in individualist capitalism. You don’t get big US government contracts to design transistors in the 1950’s and 1960’s if you’re a worker cooperative. Silicon Valley was created under McCarthyism and anti-communism which also opposes labor rights movements. Since the 1980’s worker cooperatives have not been very popular in the USA, but they do seem like they would present an antidote to the worker-abusing poverty-wage paying mega corps we have today.
Speaking of cybersecurity and shady marketing tactics: that website offers a "free depression test," but when you fill out the survey, they tell you that you have to give them your email address to see the results. Meaning that the test results are sent over unencrypted email.
The N66U was basically a collection of shrink-wrapped CVEs and only a lunatic would allow it on their network. Mine burst into flames.
Don’t.
Not necessary in 99.9999999999999% of cases and would just duplicate most functionality.

And no, your app is not that 0.000000000001%
When I was in Rome, I was struck by how many wealthy people had created monuments to themselves. There were statues of people, everywhere.
Great, we can also use Xmake to build zig program. https://xmake.io/#/guide/project_examples?id=zig-program
> All anyone is saying is that, if having the ability to control the output that's going to a display outside of the OS is a necessity, then you need a hardware controller. That has always been the case.

And without the orange dot issue, it wasn't necessary to have absolute perfect control. (Which could still go wrong anyway, because it's a computer.) Making it necessary all of a sudden is bad.

Or to put it another way, even without a hardware controller it was possible to have your macbook's use of an external output be one of the strongest links in the chain. Which is enough. Was enough.
So they stopped it because they were making people think they might be under investigation? Couldnt you add an Im a private citizen statement or such? We all deal with strange situations when trying to sell things, online or face-to-face.
SpaceX headquarters in Hawthorne sees Covid-19 outbreak with 132 cases
Wow, he published a book admitting to using heroin. I would think even with tenure, you would get fired for that.
You can cancel Netflix without their HR department showing up to shoot your dog.
MCG (like pcg64_fast) is like a single 128-bit mul and a mask. There’s not a lot of icache impact.
Depends on your definition of startup but a lot of people want to solve a problem that is important to them and they are smart enough to set their ego aside and recognize that they will produce a better solution if they collaborate with others and ensure those people have an equal stake.
I hear ya, its just unfortunate, but come on, a giant rideable millipede? Id trade my zero in less than that many seconds
If you want something in kit form, I’m a big fan of this: https://shop.evilmadscientist.com/productsmenu/652

It’s a beautiful representation of a 555 timer in discrete component form - and functional too.

The 555 timer itself is a pretty simple IC since it’s just a few dozen transistors and resistors at its core.
And it's a British car, so half the length of an American one.
MTV doesn't know who you're fucking.
They also issue frequent and timely updates. Their tools rely on a low level audio tool called ACE which also gets updated regularly.
I replaced Ubiquiti with refurbed Ruckus stuff and am extremely happy.
Beautiful product!

As the saying goes, the best "enterprise" products are borne out of frustration you experience while trying to build your own consumer product - sounds like this was exactly how you landed on FlutterFlow :-)