skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Stack Overflow existed for a couple of years before taking any funding and it was developed by three people who were friends (Jeff Atwood, Jarrod Dixon and Geoff Dalgas) none of which were even getting paid regularly at the start and who were all primarily familiar with the .NET stack from previous jobs.

It makes total sense why the tech is what it is. One could argue they could have shifted away from that stack since then, but one could also easily argue (very convincingly to anyone who has ever been involved with any significant project rewrite) "but... why?".
During the day I just kind of loaf around, answer questions on slack, practice music, work out, etc.

Late at night is the only time I can get any deep work done.
A memory foam or Purple mattress/pillow might help, they isolate movements when you lay on them. You might experiment with making a sort of 'child seat' made of the foam, which you might be able to get from a used mattress? You can also buy memory foam toppers which are somewhat cheaper than a full mattress.

However, one part of me thinks that if you ever rode on an Amtrak train, you'd never complain about movement on European railways again =]
> We already had our own resource bundle format, but now we also support photoshop layer style libraries and brush libraries.

This is great to hear!

I had to reach for The GIMP a few times to make D&D maps using PS style brushes, glad that I can stick with Krita now!
I’ve also done both of those jobs, and they have quite a bit in common. The scale of the problems to be solved may be different, and that naturally results in some differences between the roles, but the fundamentals are all the same.

It’s unclear what kind of point you’re trying to make and how it had any bearing on the cannabis angle.
Wow, thanks for this viewpoint. It's cool how weed can have such opposite effects for different users. For me (and apparently for tons of other weed smokers given the "And then I got high" song), it is 180 the opposite - weed makes me completely useless.
> objective measure

How would a bunch of subjective meatbags be able to come up with an objective measure?

If everyone agreed that X is an objective measure, it could still be wrong.

Give me a concrete example of what you think is an objective measure.
Was this conclusion informed by primary evidence (please link), or from decades of ideological conditioning by Western establishment media?
The strike slip fault system in most of California can produce earthquakes up to about 8.0. Subduction zone earthquakes that occur in many places, like Northern California up to Alaska, Chile, Japan, etc, can produce 9+ earthquakes. 10 and above only occur during large impact events. So California can have buildings "earthquake proofed" for much lower cost than say Seattle and they come at higher frequency. That may be one of the reasons that California's infrastructure is pretty well prepared for coming earthquakes while Seattle will have major damage when the next 9.0 hits in 0-400 years.
Archery and resin casting. I'm fortunate that I have a back yard large enough to do some archery, though I'm limited to short distances and low draw weights for safety's sake. Equipment only cost a few hundred bucks. When I started I used to shoot a few sets between meetings. Nowadays it's between chores. Either way, it's a nice quick break. Unfortunately it's only a three-season option around here.

Resin casting is a bit more expensive to get into because you have to buy supplies constantly, including molds (or mold-making material) and PPE, but it's still cheaper than a lot of other hobbies. It's also easy to make stuff that looks beautiful, even early on the learning curve. After I started posting pictures, friends and family started asking if I could make earrings and such out of the materials I was using. Just finished my fifth and sixth such gifts. Bringing joy to family and friends with something I made myself feels really great. I've also started making phone cases, and I could make some actual money from that on Etsy or similar. And I'm just getting started. There's a near infinite number of techniques I still have yet to learn, so it's likely to keep me amused for quite a while.

In both cases, YouTube videos have been absolutely invaluable. Particularly with the resin casting, I'll see some technique I haven't tried yet, watch several more videos to get different perspectives or explanations, then try it myself. Often I have to go a second round to fix mistakes and improve points of technique that I'd totally missed until I tried it. I try to do at least one pour most days, and to try something new each time unless I'm working on a commission. I literally have a stack of about forty test coasters from working out various techniques, and some of the "failures" showed new effects that I went on to refine. So basically it's practice, practice, practice ... but it's usually practice guided by watching people who have already done stuff.
NFTs aside, this is a solid question: "what is ownership"?
I've had the same experience. It forces me out of that obsessive debugging loop and gets me thinking about something else for a while. Though I'm sure there are plenty of other activities that could accomplish the same thing.
Regardless of the divisible nature, it's still an asset - not money. Poor people don't have enough to invest in assets. They live week to week with enough cash to buy shelter, food, and the bare necessities. If they do have enough to save, it makes more sense to keep that savings in cash so they can pay for unexpected incidents and needs without having to first convert BTC into their local currency.
I'm working on making org more portable (at least bring parts to iOS), via https://plainorg.com and flathabits.com.

Karl Voit is doing the hard work of rallying folks to promote org markup outside of Emacs and hopefully create a diverse ecosystem under the Orgdown proposal https://gitlab.com/publicvoit/orgdown
It's possible to have different reactions to the same drug :)

As someone that is a heavy longtime user and recently diagnosed ADHD (there is a deep relationship between cannabis/substances and ADHD), I did find during the pandemic that smoking cannabis prior to writing software made it feel more productive. Given I couldn't prove that I was really more productive, and there are other costs, I decided against using it at least for my full time job. This is all to say, YMMV with cannabis or any psychoactive substance.
> How do you create scarcity in a digital infinitely copyable world, without an authority figure.

This is a problem created to fit the solution. Why in the name of God would anyone want to re-introduce scarcity into a post-scarcity space? Such a person is so narcissistic, so greedy, so sociopathic that they would deny others something they could have for nothing in order to enrich themselves. It is sickening.

> A game can go under, and a new game can pop up and respect the accumulated wealth of the community.

People keep saying this and it makes no goddamned sense. They didn't accumulate any wealth, they accumulated some entries in a database somewhere. A developer could even more easily just make a game that uses those assets without all the artificial scarcity.
I love the concept, specifically launching new servers to avoid dynamic allocation. However:
> no dependency on OpenSSL - TinySSH has its own crypto library compatible with NaCl, Libsodium

Apologies in advance for being a security curmudgeon, but I'll eat my hat if their homegrown crypto library doesn't have vulnerabilities. Crypto is hard, even for the best experts. The only way to get this right is with code that's had many eyes on it and has been battle tested.
The US incarcerates many, many more than China, as a much higher fraction of its population. Probably at least as many are on no better pretext, and are similarly exploited for prison labor.

Thus, a boycott-US movement would be (also!) justified, but better would be to check on practices and boycott specific companies that do not take particular care not to rely on prison labor in any country. That is more work, but supporting liberty everywhere is always going to be very hard work. However much, it is worth doing.

I type this posting on a phone. We are all almost as complicit as we can be.
Really? I mean I don't like wearing a mask on a long plane flight but lots of people have to do this at their jobs all day so saying it makes commercial travel "unbearable" seems like quite a stretch.
That social contract is stored off-chain (if at all), and the work itself is stored off-chain. Combined with the fact that you can perfectly duplicate the thing that is stored on the blockchain and I think that all radically reduces the value proposition of NFTs.
People didn’t use the donation buttons.

Now that you have a market for it, people use it. Something something human nature.
I’ve experienced this. Generally following ikea step by step style directions is just boring af when high and my mind wonders. But if I put that same energy towards something more creative I can really lock in. Although, sometimes my brilliant creative ideas are complete garbage when seen through sober eyes.
Pirsch does track returning visitors. As long as no PII is stored, it's fine.
Alternatively, use Choosy: https://www.choosyosx.com/
Most devs at “$FANCY_CO” aren’t writing kernel code or microcode either.

There is merit to the idea that different developers focus on different kinds of problems, but the positioning of the parent comment - that this variance is due to the size/prestige of the org - is incorrect.
When people say own, they are referring to current possession. This a colloquialism that does not distinguish the legal rights, surprising that this has to even be said but it keeps coming up exclusively in the NFT topic. Try not to overthink it?

An artist can attempt to additionally bundle explicit rights into an NFT transaction. Just like they can attempt to bundle a physically copyright assignment with a sale of physical art. But they don't, in either case, thats not how the market has formed. Its a very uncommon thing that also has nothing to do with the technology, but the technology can help it, its still not what people are doing.

"But I like physical things because theyre valuable to me because I can touch them and look at them without a computer", okay, there are multiple generations of people that don't care by now. Compare it to the digital things then.

These populations do care that their earned digital goods are arbitrary modifiable and revokable entries in a company database, and have different limits about how much money they put towards something like that, versus this format of possession.
I've used FreeFileSync to keep two Windows machines in sync for years. It works incredibly well. It's very fast too; copying lots of files in Windows is often bafflingly slow. Whatever this tool does is not.

I finally quit using it because I got Starlink at my house and now have enough bandwidth to just let Syncthing keep the machines in sync. But if you need to sync through a hard drive you carry around FreeFileSync is great.
Public Streets Are the Lab for Self-Driving Experiments
Coding while really high is difficult. Coding while a little buzzed is a wonderful experience. It's almost like an artificial flow state.
Really have to challenge this comment.

"We're early" in the internet had the dotcom bubble, the development of mobile 3G infrastructure and devices, the advent of smartphones, the VC-fueled app craze, and then eventually, now. The innovation mostly occurred in certain geographical areas, under the control of a relatively small population, with global impact.

The progression of blockchain technology - and dare I say culture - is speedrunning the history of human communication, including currency. Mainstream attention is high, but not adoption of paramount fundamental tech like ENS for identity and reputation. I'm guessing critical mass sometime in the next 18-36 months.

I also worry you may be subject to observation bias and ensuing feedback loops; if you primarily encounter negative headlines around crypto, it reinforces your opinion. But there are treasure troves of data, assembled by tens of thousands of exceptionally talented engineers, researchers and philosophers, that are also available for your observation. I wonder, if you spent some time there, perhaps your opinions would be more plastic.
> most of their designs are stolen from small western fashion creatives.

I agree. I was referring to this claim. This is a bit special in fashion. We can see often how inditex and others copy designs. Just remarking that some things that would clearly be copyright infringements in other contexts might not be in fashion.
Make an e-ink display for Pinebook, please. It would be a game changer for working outside, despite all the faults e-ink displays have.

I write often, and I think I could adapt to code without colors with a little effort.
I got into Gunpla and other scale models about 6 years ago, and the great thing is you can get as deep into it as you want. Bandai is the cutting edge of snap-fit models and it easy to get started with a $10 toolkit from Amazon and a $15 High Grade kit. Building the kits straight is enjoyable and in my opinion rewarding. The engineering of Bandai kits are simply amazing. Plus, it's easy to go from straight builds to kit-bashing (combining multiple kits into a custom model) to painting to full custom LEDs and dioramas. Watch the EA Gunpla and Otaku Builder channels on Youtube for more examples (these are my favorites). I went from 1 kit bought at a local Anime convention to 100+ built kits and a deep backlog of kits to build.
Different people work differently. I don't have the spare working memory necessary to be very productive on cannabis, except with respect to very menial tasks. But in college I knew people who studied for our calculus and physics exams stoned and did quite well.

I'd be skeptical of a programmer who claimed cannabis made them more productive, especially at high doses, but if I could see that their work were consistent and good, I might believe them.
NFT's aren't about artificial scarcity, they give owners rights. Being able to control a digital asset is important. Take the ENS (it's like a domian service). Having exclusive control over a domain is not scarcity, it's what makes it practical.

To get in the right mindset, you should stop thinking of NFT's as pictures. That's not the primary use case. It's a stupid game that became popular. NFT's are just tokens on the open blockchain that you can exclusively control.
Just read the abstract but seems to make sense. Weed (in a low/moderate dose) is great every once and awhile if you're trying to brainstorm or think holistically about how something should work. Sometimes if you have to work on something really boring it allows you to see it in a new light and appreciate interesting the aspects of the task. But if you're actually trying to get work done, good luck remembering what loop iteration you're on!

Despite the above, personally I have a hard time justifying getting "high on the clock" as ethical even if it makes me more productive in some things. Though it feels like having a little puff on a wide-open, set-aside Friday afternoon isn't too much different than having a drink in that situation, something I'm occasionally guilty of. IDK. What do people here think?
Every time I feel an earthquake in LA, my first question is, “was that a small one near me or a big one far away?”
You don’t have to view the content though. I hope wherever you work your customers pay for your services.
I don't think it's nonsense, and it doesn't "work" the same way on everyones brain, that's like the whole reason psychiatry is a thing and research like this makes sense. If cannabis helps 10% of the population get into their "programming zone" all power to their nonsensical selves.

Thinking "this drug makes me useless hence it should make the rest of the world also useless and any claims to the contrary are nonsense" it not only a blatant abuse of incomplete induction, but also kinda rude as it can make some people feel othered out just because of how their brain chemistry works.
Making closed source software is a way to create scarcity in a post scarcity space. Are you innocent of that too?
>The "value" of an NFT is that there is only one unique occurrance of it in a pile of bits called a blockchain. It is very hard to hang it on a wall.

It's worst than that because almost all NFTs are only an pointer/URL and the art itself is not on the chain.
For a digitally savvy community, HN takes on NFTs are surprisingly backwards looking. NFTs most people have seen/heard of are just links to a JPEG with little to no utility. That has caused all the hype/OpenSea volume, but there are many interesting crypto projects that ascribe utility to NFTs (but are also much less accessible).

Interesting NFTs are those that: prove identity, serve as a key to a private community, yield tokens with utility, prove ownership of an asset that generates royalties, augment a gaming experience, etc.

What's unique about how NFTs solve existing problems is fundamental to crypto - the data layer is open source, so everything is composable. Maybe the folks here working for large cap tech firms in effort to monetize proprietary data are offended by that.
Commercial air travel was already unbearable before the pandemic.
Fear not! Experts will always be inclined to make tools that match their skill level. You can still buy longbows today!
No. It's the one level you can't turn off.
If people are interested, Joplin is a great FOSS note taking software built on markdown but adds e2e encryption, a web clipper, a nice desktop UI, Integrated syncing (you can use Dropbox or something like that, or pay for their service), and more. The mobile app needs some work, but overall I like it.
Most libraries have already fallen pretty far from their original mission. A lot of them are primarily free movie/video game rental facilities that also provide a place to use a computer and get on the Internet. The book-side is almost secondary now, and tends to have a massive recency bias combined with a general predilection for romance, mystery, and political novels.

Older books, even classics, even very rare books, are being "removed" from collections, almost always a euphemism for "destroyed." For example, in my large multi-county library system, there are a single digit number, total, of all the works of ancient Greece and Rome. Even the ILL network has a lot of holes in it. This was not the case a few decades ago - the library is how I was accidentally exposed to them and acquired a lifelong interest in ancient history. There are more copies of a single example of the hyped-up forgettable ideological fare that gets churned out and forgotten on an annual basis.

Typically when I bring this up, people tell me that it's all available online anyway. Sure, big-name classical works are. A lot of niche books (on narrow technical or scientific subjects, or local history, for example) are being lost forever. And accidental exposure to physical copies of books is a huge and important method of discovery.

So to be honest, I don't think libraries can get any worse. I honestly don't think most people understand the scale of the destruction going on right now.
Here's a nice writeup for that https://nicholas.carlini.com/writing/2020/digital-logic-game...
> many of the GDPR-haters here aren't people who depend on selling PII for their living

And if they are, they should be ashamed of themselves (though likely not capable of that) and shunned by all members of the industry with any ethical compass.
The Hyperbolic Geometry of DMT Experiences Harvard Science of Psychedelics Club
I don’t understand why avoiding effective COVID countermeasures is desirable.

If I had the need to fly somewhere, I’d want to fly private to avoid COVID exposure.
> How do you create scarcity in a digital infinitely copyable world

Your premise rests on this question. My counter is what is the value in creating scarcity beyond just trying to make money? Your examples are about people investing in money and not losing those assets. Your experience example is not really digital scarcity if I understand your hypothetical correctly. It is about a real physical scarcity, the number of people who will be let into the experience, being represented in a digital world. There is no new innovation there.

To me the idea of creating scarcity out of something that is not scarce is done for one and only one reason, for a financial benefit.
That’s not here yet but dapps do have millions of users already.
Sorry if you have heard this before but you may have ADHD or something similar. I found myself in a similar pattern of using cannabis to motivate myself to do the more boring tasks that inevitably come up being a full time software engineer and after several months of therapy was diagnosed with ADHD.

FWIW, I find that if I have a boring task and attempt to use cannabis to power through it, half of the time I complete the task with vigor and then other half of the time I do literally anything else. So my story is as similar to yours as those saying that cannabis leads them to be anything but productive.
Unvaccinated friend is roughly 20 times more likely to give you Covid
I thought that cannabis enhances the imagination, boosts the creativity and induces out of the box thinking up until I was late to a party. When I arrived, I was sober when everyone else was high and I couldn't bear the stupidity of those normally intelligent people. That's when I stop using the substance.

I'm more inclined to believe that Ballmer Peak[0] is a real thing and I do get productive, motivated and creative when I'm slightly drunk.

Back in the university, one night when I was lonely and bored I just got enough drunk to code a Facebook app that will give invitations to invite-only shopping startup using my referral. By the time the sunlight hit me, I was finished reverse engineering their invite system, write a code that will generate the invite, design the UI where people will request the invite, write the copy that promotes it, integrate all that into Facebook app(at that time FB was cool), post it to the social media. Not the biggest engineering or creative challenge but I was first at it.

When I woke up, my app was all over the social media, the founder had me added as a friend and invited me to their office. Lifted my max invitations limit and I made quite substantial(for a student)referral bonus and kept spending it for years to come.

https://xkcd.com/323/
I'm guessing you just don't have much experience with it? As someone who's been using IIS for 20+ years, it's all very straightforward to me.
> S-expressions in the equation example

Yes.

> You already have the app. Save notes to /tap via text message (SMS), the website or a bookmarklet.

K now I'm actually going to use this. Nice work. (Good landing page!)
Most of the device’s functionality, including the e-paper display, do not work at this time.

:-(
Do you think drinking caffeine is similarly unethical, why or why not?
I like the approach to plain text or .md files but for some reason the tool being in the web browser makes me much more productive. I suspect it's because I'm already in the browser all day.

Because the browser makes me so much more productive, I built my own second brain software tool and I posted it as a Show HN yesterday (it's a rough first go).

https://joeldare.com/i-built-my-own-second-brain-software-to...
Oh no , I like p*rn, definitely not defending any ban, I wish all countries legalize it.
What do you think is it about those few kB on the chain that you think people do own? Can't those bytes be also easily copied?