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I am not an NFT advocate.[1] But I do own Bitcoin, and I subscribe to the subjective theory of value.[2]

> It ends up being circular though - yes, human judgement is ultimately part of the equation

Well, I am glad you admit humans are who ultimately set prices on markets.

> but that judgment end up being based on a prediction of future value, and often we can use understanding of markets or the intrinsic value of commodities to industrial processes to assess this.

I interpret this as a more informed subjective value, but this discussion did not quite convince me there exists an intrinsic value.

The fact that you need X kg of flour to create Y kg of bread might be useful in knowing when the market prices for flour and bread are "consistent" - you call this "intrinsic value of commodities to industrial processes" - but I am of the opinion that demand prevails: the relative demand for bread and flour is what sets their relative price, and it can vary for reasons completely different from the industrial processes considered for an "intrinsic value".

Nevertheless, I thank you for going in circles with me, I feel like I have learned something, and I hope I expressed my own ideas clearly enough.

I will not follow this discussion for long; but if you feel like continuing, my e-mail is on my website which is on my profile. [3]

[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29663787

[2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subjective_theory_of_value

[3] - https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=danuker
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I have an Inkplate but it's really more a programmable display, and not tablet-like hardware/features like this.
That's the way it is, policies get put in place to protect the organization and tech stack as a whole. Documentation and separation of concerns is the norm.
I misremembered Colgan being 2008. I don’t recall the PenAir incident, I’ll look it up. Thanks for the corrections.

Not to minimize those lost but the point remains, chance of death on a US based 121 carrier is basically a rounding error.
yah, that’s why we’d want to narrow the car lanes and put trees right along the street: to aid traffic calming. by removing street parking (and putting it in the mid-block underground alley), you also make the street less about cars and more open to people (the safe streets concept).
And yet much of Google was built with Python for a very significant chunk of its life. Netflix and Uber were/are heavily leveraging JavaScript for core workloads. The machine learning ecosystem is largely dominated by Python. Stripe, GitHub, and Shopify are still investing heavily in Ruby. Almost none of this is/was for the sake of accessibility to beginners.

Your example cherry picks exactly one instance, ignoring the context of that choice. Such an assertion requires more than just anecdotal musings and ignores the tradeoffs that those teams made when choosing a platform.
I have also wondered this question, as I have relatives who always pay their tithe to the church but are middle class and have over $100k in debt at retirement age. It's seams unnecessary to require such a thing of a "saint" given they do a lot of stock piling.
Likewise, those people are flabbergasted at how people like you can just stand by and watch others get run over.
And that generation was a powerhouse of business, innovation and culture. Counter culture laid the foundation for what we now call Silicon Valley.
Which most people do -- and even if you do not, if your contact does, Apple and the FBI have access to your messages to them.
It just so happens that people have different preferences. I grew up with excellent transit and walkability, learned to drive at 30yo and never looked back.

Small example in lieu of a long post.. climbing gym halfway across Seattle is a convenient 13-18min drive, so when I was visiting family in Moscow I was grumbling about how it took 45-50mins to get to one by transit, including 10mins of walking, sometimes in the rain. I remember Moscow being very convenient, I thought, why do gyms locations in particular suck so much? Then I realized my definition of convenient has changed with driving... taking 45-60mins and the weather is how I used to go pretty much anywhere, but driving in Moscow is even worse, so I thought it was great. Now that I've discovered properly organized environment, I could never go back to transit without a strong incentive (ie some other major advantage an area has), and if someplace is too dense for cars I just wouldn't live there.
If every major company benefitting from China got together and made demands I wouldn’t be surprised if Chinas hand is forced.
You cannot leave the Apple ecosystem. It is everywhere in culture. Their tech influences everything and everyone, probably with no more than one or two degrees of separation.

Apple needs to change. Every FAANG/MANGA corporation needs to change. Management and shareholders will never do what is right, only what is profitable. You think customers have a chance of changing anything? Employee activism may be the best chance for meaningful change.
Jack up the price, reduce the free content, develop b2b packages
isn't this exactly the opposite? IIRC there was a situation where a large-ish? AMD subdivision in china was nationalized and made off with a considerable amount of AMD IP
OP here. I'm going to give Mixpanel a try. I'm essentially looking for two things:

1. Product analytics on logged in users in a SaaS platform

2. Aggregate analytics on anonymous users with funnel analysis, referral analysis, etc.
I was going to suggest a functional language, but then realized that these days it's not the language choice but rather how it's used. I can't think of a beginner-friendly functional language--F# is close but doesn't lead to many jobs. Maybe Elixir.

Regardless of what language is first learned, I wish that more attention was paid to how the language is introduced and used. Specifically, rather than going bottom up mutating things willy-nilly to get the job done, express solutions decomposed in a functional style with localized side-effects. Keep using this pattern until it's the first/second nature.

So much of becoming a good developer is unlearning bad habits picked up starting day 1.
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Unfortunately this won't work as I have an SPA
Please don't post generic flamewar comments to HN, and certainly not generic nationalistic flamewar comments. It's against the site guidelines and everything we're trying for this forum to be.

No, I'm not defending genocide. I'm just trying to defend this forum from burning itself to a crisp. There are lots of other places on the internet to hurl platitudes at enemies.

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Tech companies have a really weird culture, and it seems to entail employees identifying closely with their employer. A big part of it is that "bring your whole self to work" thing, the tendency for extended hours, and all of the additional amenities and on-site extracurriculars that tend to be offered: Employees end up having a very significant work-social circle, and a near non-existent non-work social circle. (This goes so far as that I'd say I see a larger portion of married couples having met at their employer, and both working there, an additional layer on top as well.)

People leaving a FAANG isn't significantly different than people extricating themselves from a cult, and most of the same reasons people tend not to apply. If you quit a Big Tech company, you are probably leaving all of your friends behind at the same time, and you'll need to find a new gym and massage place too.

If your whole life is the company, leaving the company is very, very scary.
The problem is that the company claims one thing to investors and the public. Yet practices a different thing. If all employees left investors and the public would be mislead.
The most likely explanation is that in order to have access to internal corporate resources, the Apple device needs to be managed via MDM [1]. MDM could probably enable backups. And then Apple has the ability to decrypt backups.

Another possibility is through the course of employment, the employee installs the internal dev version of an app and had to explicitly grant trust to it. [2] So even if the backup option is not used, the internal version of a messaging app could drop a second copy of messages to a database for audit purposes if needed later. It can be easy to forget that the messaging app you are using isn't the public version.

In short, this really shouldn't be surprising when working in a corporate environment that may have the privilege and/or obligation to monitor employee communications. The key takeaway is never use a business device for personal communications. If you granted your employer privileges to your device through a method like one of the ones above, consider that device compromised unless you factory reset it. If you are in a situation where the employer is requiring MDM and/or trust, then they should be buying you a separate phone for business purposes.

[1] https://support.apple.com/guide/deployment/intro-to-apple-pl...

[2] https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204460
For notes/docs, markdown using vscode extension, markdown-preview-enhanced.
For todos, a combination of trello and macOS notes app.
Thanks! I made /tap and I agree with a lot of what you're saying. The thing is, working on tap has been and continues to be fun! I think there are so many note-taking apps because a. they _can be_ easy to make and b. because everyone has their own way they want to take a note. I think of tap less as a note-taking system, more like the system to make the system. Sure there's a long way to go to _fully_ realize that, but I think we're headed in the right direction.

I like seeing tap used for stuff I didn't anticipate. And that's what it's all about for me. Like, you could just use the API and never log into /tap at all.

Also, maybe you're not into this kind of thing, how many note-taking systems have S-expression formulas that support nested functions?
Plaid is webscraping banks as a service, so I think it was good of them to use node and to priortize dev speed & hiring than to make a well tuned native monolith made by more expensive developers in a stack that had a slower iteration speed. All for a relatively smaller hosting bill in exchange for slower dev speed for something that isn't really compute, io or storage bound at all. You make the well tuned pieces of software when your dropbox writing core i/o bound infra in rust, like magic carpet.

What is the cause of the failure rate for plaid? Is it their tech stack, or the fact they are fighting with bank's anti-fraud systems constantly to make their fundamentally fragile web scraping architecture work?
I second Plausible. Have been using it close to a year now. Very happy about it. It is probably not as feature rich as GA, but who needs those features, right. On the other hand they are adding new things everyday, but they focus on what users want.
I'd really like to see this become a thing. Abstract away all the configuration/monitoring/maintenance for me. Maybe someone like a DigitalOcean bundles them up into a Privacy VPS offering.
This is a normal occurrence for me when I'm sober too :D
Where did those diagnoses come from? Psychiatry is a convenient leash for dogs that just won’t behave.
> Why do these pills even exist

Yes people with high tolerance can handle fentanyl. People press fentanyl into perks because percocet is “safer” and more familiar.

We wouldnt have these problems if there was a safe and legal route to get drugs. People in withdrawal don’t care about the laws. Pressed fentanyl and fentanyl is everywhere.

Edit: This exists because people like to get high and also because people are already addicted. Chinese supply of fentanyl has dwarfed the supply of heroin as it is way cheaper and easier to produce and import. So if you are puking and dopesick as hell you need this to literally function normally. The supply of heroin has gone way down. People don’t care if it is dangerous when they are in withdrawal, or basically just generally. Also, “everyone” other than the user ODs is the mentality. Either it won’t happen to me or I am so depressed/fucked I don’t care if I die.

Thats the main attitude in my experience.
Please do not take HN threads further into generic flamewar hell. It's not what this site is for, and it destroys what it is for.

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The ideological subversion of Hindu society: 4 stages described by Yuri Bezmenov
I got my first tornado alert in last week's outburst of tornadoes in the midwest.I wasn't worried about it until the tornado sirens started going off. I became quite concerned when I saw the clouds. I'd never seen them so low and moving so fast. 24 confirmed tornadoes!

Luckily, they were no where near as powerful as the ones that KY got earlier this month, but it was still alarming.

And then the geniuses decided to do a test of the system yesterday at 11PM.
But if you have 20 of them then the frequency of problems goes up.

In the context of this conversation, where people are bringing up situations with 100’s of servers, 4 servers still counts as vertical.

For AWS, where you can lose an AZ (and lately that feels like a certainty), there are arguments to be made that 3 or 6 servers are the least you should ever run, even if they sell a machine that could handle the whole workload. You should go down 2 steps and spread out. But don’t allocate 40+ 2xlarge machines to do the work. That is also dumb.

What is also screwing up the math here is that AWS is doing something untoward with pricing. With dedicated hardware, for the last six decades, you have a bimodal distribution of cost per instruction. The fastest hardware costs more per cycle, but if your problem doesn’t fit on one (or three) machines you have to pay the price to stay competitive. At the other end the opportunity costs of continuing to produce the crappiest machines available, or the overhead of slicing up a shared box, start to dominate. If you just need a little bit of work done, you’re going to pay almost as much as your neighbor who does three times as much. Half as much at best.
Big tech companies tend to not outright lie, but instead stretch the truth as far as it can go to further their ulterior motives. Apple's marketing of iMessages as end-to-end encrypted (except if you or your contact has iCloud backups turned on) certainly qualifies.
Provided the SMS features are core to the system (and it looks like they are), then this is more of a service than a software product, in my opinion. It's surprisingly expensive to send or receive a text message - about a cent[1]. A light user would cost them about $0.50/month and a heavy user would cost them several dollars. I don't know how you could provide that without a subscription.

1. https://www.twilio.com/sms/pricing/us
While equal opportunity is great, equal outcome is a stupid and bad idea which should be opposed, lest we shackle ourselves to the lowest common denominator.

To avoid distractions I would therefore prefer a better label than "Marxist" that doesn't come with all the historical baggage, and is more precise.
Moxie on Telegram Encryption
It's too bad they allow this loophole, since it gives people a false impression. Even turning off icloud backup, the other half of the conversation could be using it still.
I really resent being nagged by a device I own, just to meet the self-actualization needs of some product manager at Amazon.
Agreed. I can't anything cognitively difficult when I am any kind of intoxicated.
Please don't use HN for generic nationalistic and ideological flamewar. It's not what this site is for, and it destroys what it is for.

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I switched to Nitter after Twitter started demanding you be logged in to even click on a profile from a tweet.
A 225lb bench is often considered a kind of minimum goal to work towards, usually achievable in ~2-3 years, I believe (depending on a lot of factors obviously). So that's somewhat in line with my expectation that you need a few years under your belt before you are really competitive.

(FWIW, I've ben lifting somewhat seriously for a year and a half, far less seriously for a few years before that, and I bench ~155lbs 1RM, at least according to a 1RM calculator.)
FLAC is limited to 24 bit depth. I was thinking of intermediate format suitable for use in DAWs and samplers that also supports floating point to avoid clipping.
The implication being that wou think companies should be free to discriminate against those with a diagnosed issue? This kind of conversation makes it terrifying to have a mental illness, and it will discourage individuals from seeking diagnoses or treatment. This is how you get overdoses from self-medication.
I guess I just don’t understand why seeing people make different choices than you is undesirable to you. Moreover, I specifically don’t understand how it doesn’t make sense to you that people want to dress as comfortably as they can for what is likely one of the least comfortable common situation to be in.
The general benchmark for an addiction is whether or not the substance use interferes or causes issues in other parts of your life. Like continuing tobuse in the face of damaging side effects or damaging effects on one's interpersonal relationships.
Our obsession with non-obvious advice stems from our base addiction to novelty. For good reason, pathways in our brain become myelinated and more efficient the more often we use them, to the point where we can process well-worn thoughts almost subconsciously. Thus, toys we've played with too long become boring. Advice we've heard too many times before seems blah.

We're hardwired to notice more when we encounter things we've never heard or seen before. Novel advice just pops.

However, most good advice is common advice. In practically any field, grokking the fundamental advice and actually sticking to it will get you 99% of the way there. As Charlie Munger once said, "Take a simple idea, and take it seriously."

But the fundamentals are boring. We'd prefer to ignore them and say, "Yeah yeah I know that already," even if we're totally ignoring it. Then we retweet the next dopamine hit of novel advice we see on Twitter.
Any facility or employee on Chinese soil is a potential hostage of the Chinese government. "China's hand is forced" == your factories get nationalized and your employees' families get imprisoned or worse.
It is illegal without a proper doctor's prescription and if it's obtained illicitly (Fentanyl that looks like Percoset being a thing the Mexican cartels do[1]).

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dz9nedZmV4g
"wait, are YOU still active?" -> The last several years, I've been working on no/low code client side JS frameworks, but it's not quite ready for a compelling demo yet...
I had to look up 'highfalutin' to understand your comment on a general message board.
Then your understanding is wrong
Pill presses with name-brand impressions are pretty cheaply imported from China these days.

Unfortunately this is a very common way of cutting pills with stronger drugs and stretching products for drug dealers.

Xanex and Percs are often crushed up, then cut with Fentanyl and vitamins to be re-pressed into the original pill form to be sold on the street as a prescription drug.
That’s excellent historic facts. It’s amazing to mention something puzzling and got detailed information and perspectives here. Thanks!
I don't mind 1 if I know what it is. It's an existence proof of sorts. "I took this path to get somewhere and the fact I got there" tells you something about the level of obstacle on the way.
Gamers Rejoice Ethereum Reminds GPU Miners the End Is Near
Yes, I would consider that plaintext. I went from LaTeX to markdown. Can't go back.
Interesting perspective. Are you in China?
If I had to warrant a guess I'm gonna say it's wingsuit flying. I can imagine his friend living at the top of a mountain putting on his squirrel suit to get one last glimpse of Hawaii before shit hits the fan.
Would you mind elaborating?

It was removed from the standard library ages ago, but `crossbeam::scope` appears to still be there in the newest release of crossbeam and the git repo.
I was taught $100 an hour back around ‘01. Inflation calculator is telling me that’s $155 today, and that probably doesn’t represent real estate and Dev salaries accurately, both of which have outpaced inflation.
"Boating shoes" (e.g. Sperry's) were my goto when I went into an office. Though normally for travel I wear more of a walking shoe (or just trail shoes if I can be more casual). Allbirds are sort of a hipster fave and they are pretty comfortable. (For the plane I usually wear some very lightweight/compact shoe and have my walking shoe in my carry-on.)

But if you're talking a dressier leather shoe, they're generally not as comfortable--at least at the price levels I'm willing to pay. I do have a couple pairs with rubber soles. But I mostly don't need that dressy for travel any longer; business casual has slid a bit towards the casual side.
Seriously, how did you get to the conclusion that a) she's abusing it and b) that she's doing that without a prescription?
> I've been trying to use GIMP for the past 10 years and still have no idea how to resize an image/canvas

The tool is right in the toolbox for interactive resizing, or Image > Scale Image for blunt numeric input.

> or where the heck the crop tool is.

Also right there in the toolbox.
I exist outside its ecosystem and refuse to use any of its components. But then I build my own machines from parts and that apparently has somehow become a lost art.

Customers have all the power and they are not choosing to exercise it. They are the only ones who can make those companies change. As long as they remain junkies, this continues unabated. Not holding my breath here.
I would stay away from any company that thinks "we need to go multicloud" as a response to this outage. This affected a single az in a single region. If it caused you downtime or a partial outage, it means you are not fully resilient to single az failures. The correct thing is to fix your application to handle that.

If you can't handle a single az failure there is no way you are going to handle failing over across different cloud providers correctly.
I have two bash scripts for note taking. The first one, aliased to "daily", ensures a file for the current day is created, then opens it in vim. The second, "lsdaily", opens the directory that holds the daily notes in ranger, sorted by most recently created - this way, I can easily read notes from each day in the preview
This is an exceptionally overpriced way to do it: Dell PCs tend to just have a little push switch that's depressed when the case side panel is on. (For a corporate environment, these are also very helpful for tamper protection, of course.)
You're welcome! So glad to hear you enjoyed these projects.
You would loose fast seeking ability with gzip. Or am I mistaken?
Obviously the parent was being rhetorical. Please don't take HN threads further into generic flamewar. It's precisely the hell we want to avoid here.

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Honest question: this video on the Washington Post web site is real and not fake, right?

I had no idea that Donald Trump and Bill O'Reilly have personally received vaccinations and the booster (assuming the Washington Post video is for real).
There's a pithy take on this that I like, usually attributed to William Faulkner:

> I write only when inspiration strikes. Fortunately it strikes every morning at nine o’clock sharp.