skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I didn't say "income tax" or "federal tax". I asked for examples of economies that don't collect taxes but have been effective. Survival is one important aspect of "being effective". So, an example that has survived to the present day would be more relevant.

The reason why charities underfund public goods is because of the well-known free-rider problem. It's the same reason why cryptocurrencies need to collect transaction fees and reward miners and cannot rely on charitable miners. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free-rider_problem
I've been quietly following the development of cryptocurrencies and blockchain, although I only own a very small amount. Some thoughts I have:

1. If you study the history of technology, it becomes pretty clear that it often take decades or even centuries to see the full impact of an invention. Declaring the ultimate value of a technology barely a decade after it was invented is just ignorant. It's only been about 30 years since society became "networked" and it seems clear that some form of "Internet currency" is inevitable. If you had judged the impact of gunpowder, the printing press, or photography 10 years after their invention, you'd obviously be quite mistaken. We might not see the "killer app" (whew that's an old expression) for blockchain for years.

2. A lot of crypto-critics seem to focus on the people in the crypto world (scammers, NFT sellers, etc.) and the things that they supposedly do wrong, but then apply these criticisms to the technology itself. This is a flawed approach for obvious reasons, but I also understand it, as the crypto world is full of hero worship and hype machines. If you're interested in this tech, you have to learn how to ignore these things.

3. It's somewhat unfortunate that blockchain and crypto have become dominated by finance, as it drowns out discussion of other use cases. Hopefully, this will fade into the background more as the technology matures and is adopted by a larger percentage of the population.
2 years ago.
I was given problems that I hadn't encountered before, but I was able to solve them by deduction/critical thinking and applying the appropriate algorithms/patterns. Often the easy solution and the optimal solution weren't even that different, and just involved using a hashtable.

Yeah, no.
The neighbor parked there because he's too lazy to shovel the snow in front of his own house, where an empty, but unusable parking spot is also available, and has no qualms just sailing into the tidily shoveled spot in front of your house, so that you have to shovel in front of his house too when you return.

The city recognizes that situation as a valid complaint and will take action, and that's the end of it. It upholds the concept of parking being associated with adjacent residences, even though it isn't owned by them.
I enjoy using my iPhone for consuming content as much as I hate using it for typing. I have a hard time coming up with a worse typing experience than that of a series of tiny buttons on a touch screen.

My first phone was a Nokia 3310, and the typing experience on this was significantly better — despite it only having 10 keys. I’m not saying it was faster — although it might have been — but the enjoyment of typing in words was so much higher because I could literally close my eyes and just press the given keys a deterministic number of times to arrive at my imagined word.

The experience of typing on a touch screen, by contrast, involves constantly looking at the screen to both see if you hit the right virtual button, and also if Auto-Correct tried to be “smart” and changed the word you actually typed to something else.

sigh. Oh how I yearn for the physical phone keyboard.
Yes, some years ago during a distro jump. Went back to Arch pretty fast, like all the other times I went through a distro-curious phase. Fedora 35 has been the only distro where I have not been crawling back to arch within weeks.
They say they don't know why he would do this, and then quote someone else saying this information would be a huge advantage.

They don't seem to elaborate what that advantage is.
Its well tread territory considering they're global companies with store fronts and app stores for most countries. Moreover, I'm sure they handle more of the tax law than a crypto transaction would.
It wasn’t strangling, once again, not the way you think it was. We both got heated, but no one was physically dangerously hurt nor close to death. It’s not your story. Stay out of my story. Quit telling my story as your story and using it for your own vendetta. Focus on YOU and how you can be happy and not obsessed with the past.
Under an anarchist model you wouldn't "need" ownership of a factory to feed your family because the farmer also isn't withholding food from the hungry on condition of payment.

The only way in which you "own" something while you're not directly using it is by the implicit threat of the police and the military. Its kind of ironic that you accuse anarchists of violence while simultaneously withholding resources with threats of direct violence.

You have to understand, we're talking about an alternative economic system here, not an immediate action. Anarchism in practice within capitalism is things like this article, or mutual aid - people helping out others in need,and cooperating on mutual benefit. Anarchists also squat unused properties to feed and house the homeless, or come together to form cooperative societies in a few places like Oaxaca and Rojava.

> When you take my means of production, you deny ME access to what I gained without coercion, by using coercion.

That's not true - under anarchism, you would have access to use the lab, but so would other people. It would be available in common.
I have often wondered why dates are so complicated. `timespec`, `timeval`, `tm`? Why not use a 64bit unsigned int to describe the time in TAI [1] (no leap seconds, trivial computation of difference between points in time) in nanoseconds? That would give us 585 years, so our ancestors can deal with it.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Atomic_Time
Holy fuck, these things are amazing! I might actually have two Atmos... 10000kms from where I am :(
Witnessing bullying at work: Inactivity and the risk of becoming the next target
Being technically a verifiable signature, this brings new incentives for users (emotions, possibly valuable) and devs (monetary, user base) which might change the game. But I agree, until we see more advanced intermediary-platforms only the simplest forms like unique avatars or simple rpg-items will be possible to integrate.
The others aren't crimes against humanity unlike willful and deliberate human experimentation on unwitting and unconsenting human subjects.
Ha, I totally misread your comment. My apologies.
Just the other some tourist came by in a helicopter, landing in a next-door field to take some visiting friends for a flip. They'd rented the chopper for the day as some sort of perverse idea of an adventure. Complete waste of energy, dumping C into the atmosphere in the cause of their inflated ego and distorted sense of entitlement, but hey...

How is this any different?

(Point being, there are many, many activities people engage in that are a complete waste of energy. Should PoW cryptocurrency mining be singled out for particular excoriation? Personally I'm against it for the exact reasons mentioned along with the reality that Bitcoin has failed in its mission. But let's not pretend it's the only thing we should stop doing.)
FAANG just wants immediate, perfect solutions. The OA is also now exclusively hards. People on Blind talking about giving interviews and only accepting perfect, canned solutions. No talking through, no hints, or you fail.
What is a good solution compared to firebase ? I mean for a new project, alone something like user handling, registration, email sending, recovering passwords seem to cost some effort. Also be able to react to events, is kind of trivial in firebase. So is it really a bad choise (for the beginning)? Later you can always try to optimize.
I needed a lot more interactivity, especially with things like client side animations. LiveView is great if your usecase is sending fresh data - but if you want more interactivity, you have to use JS, and frameworkless JS is setting yourself up for pain for all but the simplest projects. The usual solution is ot use Alpine to add to LiveView but it didn't do enough for me. I'm a big fan of using static rendering as far as possible - I was "raised" on SSR Rails - but I know when I need an SPA.

You can use React. I recommend it in my GP comment.
and it was a successful business.

"don't fix what works and bring money"

...until someone comes and disrupts you and all the assumptions that keeps up your business
I'm also surprised no one has pointed out the irony that the author's blog doesn't have an RSS feed. That would be the least you could do to keep it around.
I had a blog post on the frontpage of hn for more tht 20 hours and my cheap Vps for 3€ a month could handle it perfectly since my website is just a statically generated website with hugo.
During the early 2000s, the dot-com bubble coincided with a telco bubble, with everybody working themselves into a lather over the promise of WAP, basically dial-up modems for mobile phones: slow, underpowered, charged per minute and thus hugely expensive. Working at a telco operator, I had access to the logs of the WAP gateways serving up the stuff, and far and away the top use was porn, with waperotica.com being particularly dominant.

The catch: this was way before smartphones. The Nokia 3310, a typical device at the time, had a 84x84 black and white (really more black and olive) display, considerably worse than the CP/M 256×192 panned in the article -- and still people watched porn on it.
Big couch and homemade standing desk, MacBook Air M1 and Guest 2 with Immersed with 5 monitors. No special room, no keyboard, mouse, no mic, no webcam; just the MacBook Air M1.

I had many setups after 30 years wfh but this is my favourite one so far. Always only had laptops though.

I never really used a desk or special chairs; couch or standing are best for me.
A ghost ship mysteriously appears and disappears in a number of seemingly random locations, presumably leading mariners to follow it to nowhere chasing ghosts.
You changed "accepted money from" to "financially dependent on". If you're not dependent on those donations to exist, you're free to ignore what the giver wants you to do.

You're also free to ignore what they want if you are dependent, and either seek other funding, reduce your efforts, or dissolve the charity.
Suggestion: add a switch to convert American units (cups, lb, inches) to international units (ml, g, cm) and vice versa.
YK22 expands to Year 1022. Why not use the correct acronym Y2K22?
> You miss the point that the transaction fee is paid by the sender

No, I haven't missed that. So if I send 10 USD via Ethereum to Mozilla, BitPay will take 1% of the amount that reaches Mozilla, but I'll also pay a huge transaction fee on top of that, making it almost guaranteed that I'll pay more in transaction fees than what Mozilla actually gets. That means that the answer to the question "Does giving cryptocurrency result in more of my charitable donation going to transaction fees?" is a sound "Yes" in some cases.
No supercomputing ? :(

No parallelism ? :(
I can quit anytime man =_=
What if you need to flee your land, take nothing with you except 12-24 words that you commit to memory… and that could store your savings. Also, nobody could take it from you, or stop you spending it on whatever you wish. Would that be a useful thing?
This... you pretty much did more than 99% of the people on the planet and produced something.
90 minutes?
Sorry if this came across as me saying he is leaking there's no desire to launch Threadripper.
To my knowledge he did not leak such a thing, but he was talking about Threadripper not making sense https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8gVyjvSZkg&t=5713s in a new podcast episode.
I have not conveyed this well enough in my original comment.
> the transaction fee is paid by the sender

You don't know that. The sender can pass the transaction fee on to Mozilla simply by deducting it from the donated amount.
With Matt Damon doing that cringy add, crypto is mainstream and we're getting close to the "shoeshiners giving stock tips" stage of the market.
Did Yahoo kill Delicious? They bought it, didn't do much with it, and sold it to YouTube's founders.

But would it have survived as anything more than a personal bookmark organiser (ie pinboard) anyway?

The killer feature of delicious was popular links, which has since been used as the main structure for forums such as Digg (originally), Reddit, and Hacker News. Curated feeds on Twitter/FB/etc also work to share popular links.

For example, you can use r/longform to find the same kind of links delicious would have provided. https://www.reddit.com/r/longform/top/?t=year.
When I interviewed at GitHub, I had to answer some questions to determine how inclusive I really am. Microsoft is very big on this new type of culture.
> (I remember when a 90 hour movie was considered long.)

I think we all still agree on that!
You're posting too.

It wasn't 3 years ago. It was 2 years ago.

I've already said everything I've needed to say on Twitter about the emotional abuse and how it lead to the physical abuse.

[name redacted] has made his own confessions in regards to how he manipulated my emotions to keep me under control.
SupaBase is a good alternative in my opinion but they are not as feature rich yet - but you do get SQL again which is delightful
And YKK expands to your fly being undone.
I'm fascinated by structural engineering as a sort of hobbyist (who has done some basic home construction/renovation and plans to build a house/houses one day) and would definitely not be opposed if you went on and on about it.
> I'm sure FB maintains a dossier on me to this day.

I almost read that as FBI dossier. Similar idea, though presumably for advertising purposes.
The first thing we are shown on this website: a bed descending upon a sofa and coffee table. And if you scroll down a bit, you will see it from the side.

Let's think about it for a second:

- you cannot have anything (unless it's flat, so maybe a book on a table) on those mebels if you want to lower the bed

- you also need to make sure nothing is around to block your bed

- you cannot use the wall at all since it's part of the lowering mechanism

- you need to fit this whole contraption inside

- there must be some additional lines holding the "inner" end of the bed otherwise it would fall apart

- having a heavy mechanical contraption right above my head doesn't really induce a feeling of safety

- it can get stuck up, so you are left without a bed

- or even worse, it can get stuck halfway through descending, so you have no room left in your room

Incidentally, a good folding couch has none of the aforementioned problems.
I'm aware of Rojava. I don't bring this up often, and I don't expect you to believe this, although I have nothing to gain from it, but I fought there with the YPG. I don't think you understand Rojava very well, there is very much capitalist trade there. You would very much be in danger if you went in and tried to "open up access" of someone's vendor stall. I have bought from capitalist vendors in Qamislo and other parts of Rojava. It is true you can walk up to a bread line and get it for free.

>That's not true - under anarchism, you would have access to use the lab, but so would other people. It would be available in common.

So I bought it and now what if I need it 24/7 to run PnP on boards that pay for my family? You're gonna tank the economy by repurposing capital used efficiently and profitably and instead just open up for somebody to just take over the production capability I paid for? That's not consensual.

>The only way in which you "own" something while you're not directly using it is by the implicit threat of the police and the military.

No I own it through consensual trade. The only way it is taken away is either consensual, by giving my permission to transact it away or for someone else to use coercion and take it.
I've heard similar about thriftbooks from others but I just don't see it. Seems to be very much on par with amazon: I can search for some old paperback you'd find super cheap (~$2 or $3) copies of in any real-life used book store, yet (typically) on thriftbooks or amazon the only way you're paying under $10 is if it's falling apart, water-damaged, etc.

I just searched for a copy of The Brothers Karamazov to double check: cheapest on thriftbooks is $6.89 in condition "acceptable". Amazon has one in "good" condition for $6.71.
Yes I know why PoW has to work that way. I explained that in my first sentence. The fact that a PoW system requires honest participants to waste more energy than attackers could in order to function doesn’t make it any less wasteful.
That is a very valid reason.
The sender has to pay the transaction fee to get it on the network.
People have different sensitivities to the subject of mortality and death, I guess.

I grew in a European catholic majority country and I can say death is much more of a taboo and a Bad Subject to discuss in general (at least compared to protestant majority countries).
> I'm not so sure why.

Because a lot of "weird" cultural norms in the US are based on its roots of puritanism.

> At the same time, the Puritans regarded death as God's punishment for human sinfulness and on their deathbeds many New Englanders trembled with fear that they might suffer eternal damnation in Hell.

https://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/topic_display.cfm?tcid=72
CABF and root programs allow NC'd CAs - they're just a pain to operate.

The infra itself, keeping up with compliance and root program changes (which happen with more frequency now!), CT logging, running revocation services (not easy at scale).
Plus then things to consider like rotation of the NC'd CA. You'd have to rotate at least once a year, perhaps less given domain validation validity periods. You'd also likely need to have the chain ('chain' used loosely, we know it's not really a linear chain) be four deep like: root->CA->your NC'd CA->leaf, 'cos the root should be offline and unless you're not doing these in much volume I assume you'd want to automate issuance and not gather your quorum of folk to sign from the offline roots. That might not be an issue for many, but it certainly is for some.

(Full disclosure, I work for a CA for almost 2 decades and have pretty intimate knowledge in this area, sadly).
Agreed, incredibly fast
Your first comment is a very common crypto talking point that isn't really borne in reality IMHO.

It takes decades to see the impact. It almost never takes a decade to see the use, and that's what people are deriding. Crypto doesn't really solve a problem that needed solving and it is often the wrong solution for many things it's used for. All at a very high cost.

Cryptocurrency hasn't really brought much in the way of new technology to the table.
I disagree. I think accepting payments in cryptocurrency does send a message that you think the ideology behind cryptocurrencies is okay.
Or why not just use Y2022 if it saves literally not a single character?

I guess the obvious answer is that everyone knows "Y2K" so "Y2K22" communicates more clearly what it is about.
That’s the point. The cost of flying currently does not account for the damage that planes do to our planet.
How are Polyhaven funding their staff? Their Patreon income won't even cover a tenth. Do they have corporate sponsors or special agreements?
NFTs are always brought up for game items but I don't understand the non-fungible part of it. A game item or cosmetic is the example par-excellence for a thing that anyone can have a copy of - I don't get why there has to be artificial scarcity in that at all.
> 13 years

I am not sure where you've lived the last 13 years, but in this reality lots of projects that were aspiring use cases of that technology were founded, somebody got wind of it with their disciples...and the coin got dumped afterwards.

So yeah, I would say crypto coins overall are a ponzi scheme. Doesn't matter how good your tech is, people will exploit it to get rich. And they successfully did, otherwise everybody (meaning the whole society) invested in BTC would be a millionaire by now and the current oligarchic structure with almost neverending wealth through manipulation of other people would not exist.

Count the coins, count the IPOs that successfully were dumped. They have a different view on it. Also ask them about whether or not two years after the IPO they've build any actual code or any actual program. Most of them, even the successful ones, abandoned their ideas because they got money out of it and that was the thing they cared about the most.

People in the crypto bubble always forget to ask these questions, because they themselves think that they are already invested into crypto and have no alternative way of using their resources anymore. But that's not true either.

Coming back to BTC: a stable coin does not have more than 20k$ difference in worth per day. Sorry, BTC failed. And now it's the competition of high frequency traders that you as a citizen have no chance against anymore. That is why I'd say BTC also has failed.
No, it outputs passwords on stdout. I use subshells and process substitution to direct the output
“Black Hole” of Atoms Observed
I had 5 1/2" floppies with nudes in .GIF files in the 80's. Maybe 1988.

Our compiter room at school was populated with BBC model B machines and a couple of BBC Master systems.

Aside from playing Firetrak, we had the pleasure of one kid bringing in three disks of his dad's with grainy as hell images that titivated the schoolboys.

Me being the class geek, I used the dual floppy Master system to "copy that floppy" as our American friends were urged not to do, and promptly secreted the copies in my bag.

I no longer have them, sadly.
Doesn't that in itself say more about the crypto tech space than I could ever have tried to spell out?
Then you would be mistaken. The proficiency in these tasks and the cost of their execution is borne by Pharma.

Regulatory capture etc is quite real and toxic. But this eat the rich stuff is getting a little out of hand.
It's fascinating that low-res images exploded in popularity, when really the technology would've been better-suited to amateur literotica.
The unit is called "1 Woody Allen".
In my own situations, I didn't hire these engineers myself. But I don't consider myself immune to this happening in one of my own hires.