skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why is it that whenever intrinsic, usual operations of capitalism are described (which happen 99% of the time) such as…

1) whenever VCs invest in shares of a project

2) they tend to subsidize money-losing unit economics to “reduce friction” resulting in attempts to lock-in people and monetize their attention later

3) when the VCs later dump it on the public, the company has to now answer to wall street shareholders and its executives are heavily pressured to have quarterly earnings calls

4) they must find ways to extract rents forever because whoever bought at the top (the majority) wants to see their shares go higher, even at the expense of the public interest

5) whereas cryptocurrency could be about collective ownership, if there is no separate shareholder class then the network participants ARE collectively owning the means of production (basically, textbook socialism)

Whenever something like this is stated, anarcho-capitalists and right wing libertarians say:

Oh, there is NOTHING wrong with capitalism. That’s not REAL capitalism. That is corporatism / cronyism. (Some go further and quote Mises/Say/Praxeology: “only individuals can act, organizations can’t act.”)

Then about collective ownership of the means of production / distribution / the network they say… “That’s not REAL SOCIALISM. Socialism is when you use central government and planning and has led to so much misery and famine…”

So, a mainstream application of capitalism isn’t “real” capitalism because laissez faire capitalism doesn’t require the State. But credit unions, housing cooperatives, democratically run universities and now cryptocurrency DAOs are not “real” socialism because socialism requires the State?

There is a huge double-standard here, and I would encourage ancaps to answer the following questions:

Why not use mainstream dictionaries and
encyclopedias for definitions?

Why not admit libertarian socialism exists

Why not compare the results of democracy
vs top down ownership in organizations
on both the participants and the public good

Also, we can move beyond Libertarian Capitalism vs Libertarian Socialism discussions, to simply ask how to best structure decision making in a project.

You can have cryptocurrency run top-down where people work on stuff to survive, and the parent company must make profits. Or you can remove the profit motive and have wikipedia, open source, science, etc. But then you’d need to subsidize people’s maslow’s needs with a UBI.

See for example how your very news and media is affected by the profit motive… compare something like WikiNews vs CNN and Fox. Where are the movements to do something about it? Here is one example I am working on myself: https://rational.app
Microsoft used to do this together with Deutsche Telekom in Germany. They started phasing it out in 2018. https://mspoweruser.com/microsoft-is-discontinuing-the-germa...
The SciAm paper says

“ the so-called normal distribution of statistics assumes that there are default humans who serve as the standard that the rest of us can be accurately measured against.”

This is so stupid that SciAm has lost any credibility even as mere divulgation.
Back in 2013, as part of my consultancy services, I built a simple email support site for a client, whose most difficult part was just a background job (mailman) that would need to pull emails from different providers and send emails through them, as per replied by this client's support reps. The customer wanted a sort of custom service rather than using Zendesk or something, because he was providing a "outsourced support services" to his clients. I charged only $950 to build the initial version, but charged monthly maintenance which started from $300 something, and over the months/years went onto $840+ monthly.
Mostly, it was Mailman that would require some tweaks re error handling/retry logic, as there were weird errors I would see from different providers once in a while. However, the code would work flawlessly and for months I didn't even need to check it at all.

So, yes it's possible IMO, just that you need to be in a right situation at the right time with the mindset of a hacker (the one who wants to make machine works for him), you can achieve something like this.
Kinda expected YC crowd to cheer for more policing. This is a failure of UP to protect their cargo. All the more reason aging slow existing train freight infrastructure is keeping America behind. Invest in new train infrastructure NOT made by Elon Musk.
I have this book and haven't read it yet... but will start it! thanks for the reminder.
I don’t know. I grew up in the earlier era of internet mischief as well, but things are very different today.

Back then, if a school’s website went down (for whatever reason) it had basically zero impact on anything. Schools were offline-first and the website was basically a side project.

Now, everything revolves around the internet and websites. A school’s website going down could be a big deal for a large number of people, including interfering with the education of 100s or 1000s of students, as well as disrupting the lives of all of the parents who have to work around the disruptions.

A DDoS is never really okay or cool, but I’d say that the disruptions are much worse in 2022 than they were in the days when the internet was a novelty.
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This is good advice on what I am seeing. As someone who does alot of interviewing, pitching and quoting projects, there seems to be a very pragmatic approach with a "jobs to be done" mentality in the toxic corporate space regarding hiring and tech labor. I have seen a switch from developing talent and the person to a form of cancel culture and finickiness in looking for the "perfect candidate" but focusing so hard on pragmatic skills they "cant find talent!". I had an interview where they asked about my front end skills, I name off a dozen libraries and tech I know (all the while doing more on screen video appearance time than Taylor Swift each week practically), only to be told "we dont use any of those do you just know css". Or how about Indeed.com rejecting or alerting on my resume just because I dont have "web design" on my resume. WTF take one look at my work, meet me as an individual, talk to me like a human and invest in developers cause we generate more value for a company than most roles and are beginning to be unappreciated. I feel they take advantage of our "labor of love" that it takes to keep this shit running.
This exactly. "Selling" a password manager to a non-tech person who either uses the same password everywhere or someone who writes weak passwords on post-its is a hard sell. It's a lot of added complexity and more importantly, a different way to think about passwords: you no longer know any of your passwords, except one for the password manager itself.

1Password does a pretty good job of this; as a user I do not need to worry about syncing the database, keeping an app up to date (the website is always up to date) etc.
This story is a pretty accurate fable for the pointlessness of the modern economy and its inability to provide real value to anyone. Man spends all day playing video games, because he automated his largely superfluous job at a law firm which itself likely only exists to deal with bureaucratic or unnecessary cases (assuming this is true, as they have a single absent IT person who handles their entire infrastructure.)

On top of all that, this story itself is probably made up, created to get attention from other people in pointless jobs. It’s a meta-exercise in pointlessness.
It seemed quite buggy when I tried it.
I think a lot are missing that this is extremely low profile and has a separated port in contrast to a more typical PCIe riser adapter and HHHL card. Much more suited for hacking in embedded builds, 1u builds where a gpu already takes the horizontal slot, or even laptops if you're brave enough. I don't think it's meant to replace/compete a standard m.2 to PCIe riser on an HTPC or NAS that most are used to seeing.
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If his employer learned they didn't need to pay him for 40 hours a week, why would they maintain his employment?
I think the big VC raise is often the moment that many companies' relationship with their users goes from friendly to adversarial. I suspect this is because the incentives become misaligned. A bootstrapped company needs to keep its users happy to keep the money coming in for operations and growth. User churn is expensive at this stage. A funded company has other options such as running at a loss to attract new users and outpace any churn in the existing user base.
Everyone who’s just looking at this as a simple password app might be missing the boat. One killer feature for enterprise customers is teams can share secure variables as well as new credentials for services. Now I imagine a world where 1Password can be a secrets manager for your environments. I know a lot of cloud services offer this already however they’re not always great, and since most of your org may be using 1Password this would be a huge value add.

I think what this is fueling is the ability for 1Password to grow beyond a password manager to handle other sensitive sharable data
Totally hear your point! Chore > reward is not our long term goal either. I think you actually nailed it that our longer-term goal is to add more depth (i.e. integrating books, math problems, other learning resources, etc.) into the platform to wean off of just chores. This is just our MVP state right now where we had launched a small solution that parents have been expressing a need for.
Why isn't France in red? IIRC, the French started the whole EU anti-Google campaign since they have the presidency of the EU. Also, Germany used to be far ahead almost anyone else when it comes to privacy, so why aren't they in red? This map seems wrong.
Ask HN: Engineering Job Market in Switzerland?
My partner and I are thinking of moving to Switzerland to settle down and raise a family. Are there any engineers currently based in Switzerland than can shed some light on the current state of the job market there?

1. Are engineers in demand to begin with?
2. We're aware of how expensive Switzerland can be. Do the jobs pay well enough?
3. Even more interestingly - what's the current attitude in Switzerland towards 100% remote work? Is it primary office-based over there? What's the work culture like?

Any insights are much appreciated.
They're probably going to develop some proprietary, closed source authentication SDK, that's not compatible with other password managers, and bribe websites to use it.

Your choice eventually will be entering a standard password and specifically engineered to be annoying CAPTCHA, or pay for 1Password. Use Keepass or BitWarden? CAPTCHA. why? "Security".
I really do think it happened. Just look at the explosion of no-code tools that handle this sort of tedious work for small businesses. The caveat is that once the owner figures out they can automate this person's work, that person will be out of a job.
10 megatons = 100 average thunderstorms?

https://www.quora.com/How-does-the-energy-of-a-thunderstorm-...

If that's correct than that comparison doesn't initially sound as cool as a nuclear blast... :). But I guess that that's related to the duration of a blast vs. thunderstorm...?
Indie games might be a good place to start. Whatever genre of older games you are into, there are probably new indie games exploring the same ideas.
That's a totally fair point! We've seen technology help expand kids imagination, and we're hoping to do the same.
I don't personally agree with paying the ransom but the logic seems sound.

If you pay them, they might keep their word. After all, how much would they get paid for a list of passwords compared to a ransom payment?

If you don't pay them, they are more likely to either sell or leak the lists.

In this case, although easy to say now, the correct answer is not to create public web applications until you know how to store passwords correctly and host databases securely, it's not like the information isn't readily available.
You're not wrong, but it's hard not to laugh when someone is the victim of their own hubris this often.
You can reduce that problem arbitrarily: To falsify determinism all you need to show is any instance, however small, of a non-random source of events without a measurable source.

To raise serious questions, you don't even need to prove the existence of such an effect - just finding even individual particles reacting in ways that seems to show structure (so e.g. ruling out randomness) without a reasonable idea as to cause would justify substantial effort in identifying the cause, and each failure to identify any would successively and significantly weaken the justification for determinism.

In other words: Same as with any other hypothesis for which no experimental data in history indicates otherwise.

Given that most of our reality involves trusting cause and effect, and to an extensive amount measuring it, and no such origination has ever been shown, it is justified to consider determinism to be true until there's data to show otherwise.
Many of the hypersonic weapons currently under development use a boost-glide design and won't have an air breathing engine running during the terminal phase.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-physics-and-h...
Congratulations. Authentication on internet is still a hugely underdeveloped topic, especially for normies. All the non-IT people basically have 5 weak passwords reused on 100 sites, written down on a piece of paper next to their computer or in their wallet. And of course what they don't know is all of those passwords were leaked 100 times anyway. This is a serious issue in digital society, to be fair.
This article[0] also has a solid list of open-source alternatives.

[0]: https://stackdiary.com/open-source-analytics/
If it comes to the worst, there are still things you can do.

1) If the stripped fastener is accessible (i.e., not down a hole) you can try cutting a new cross slot in a screw head or new flats on a nut using a Dremel tool with a cutoff wheel (or a small file, if you're old-school). This is also an option for any special fasteners that you can't get a driver for.

2) You can (carefully) drill the screw head off, then, once the piece immediately below the screw head is loose and has been removed, grab the stub with a pair of vise grips and turn it out.

3) If it's in plastic, you can heat the screw head with a soldering iron until the plastic surrounding the screw body melts and the whole thing can be pulled off (obviously this is going to result in damaging the plastic to some degree... you may need to use a larger self-tapping screw to put it back together, or you could put a small amount of hot-melt glue down the now-oversized hole, in case you need to do it again).

As others have said, hand drivers are a better choice for this than powered drivers. If you do use a power driver and it has adjustable torque, start at the lowest setting. And yeah, as much downward pressure as you can apply without breaking the case is a good idea.
Look at the stock price under him, and then after.
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Landing interviews usually just consists of submitting resumes and using LinkedIn, etc.

As for interviewing, beyond the basics of showing that you have some relevant skill/experience, there are two key things to convey:

1. Your enthusiasm for the company itself (its product/service/industry, etc).

2. Your enthusiasm for the role itself (specific application/service/technologies, teammates, etc).

You want to convey that you are excited, motivated, and "coachable" in areas where you're lacking. The best "hack" here is to look for companies and roles that you are genuinely excited about.

Be as blunt as you have to in conveying these points. Don't expect interviewers to be good at reading your signals. If you have to, just flatly state that you are excited, motivated, eager to learn, etc. to every person you talk to.

Don't overdo it but make sure this is successfully conveyed.

People are much more likely to hire someone if they seem like they'll add energy to the team. Even in cases where their skills/experience alone don't necessarily justify the hire.
Thank you. The parent comment screamed of software engineer elitism. Situations change ALL the time in aviation, sometimes in seconds, there are so many externalities. Language is by far the best way to handle them (something computers are terrible at). You don't want the pilot having to read a text output in the middle of a landing approach in bad weather, much less have to type to ask for clarification from ATC or ground.
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I helped someone do this for their accounting job once since I saw them working with obscure data re-entry moving from old DOS systems to SAP. They had a ton of material to manually move over and it seemed painful ergonomically.

I used Sikuli from MIT to deal with the randomly changing window locations.

Management got mad at them for completing the task so quickly (it took a week instead of a few months) since it fell on management to deal with what to do with the data entries next, and they didn’t like a huge stack of work looming. Ha
>and the antiwork subreddit

I thought r/antiwork was really about calling out abusive employers and guiding us to better work/life relationship, but it is actually against all work in any form. Meaning, if your house catches fire, it's up to you to put it out - they don't want anyone employed as professional firefighters who might actually know WTF they're doing. Medical problems? Fix it yourself. There's no paramedics to respond, no surgeons to fix you, no pharmacists for drugs, no nurses/techs for recovery.

If it was a movement about fixing worker conditions (a submarine advertisement for unions, if you will), it'd actually be a good movement. But right now, it's positioning itself as just an angry outcry forum that apparently wants the planet to be ruled by anarchy and extreme independence.

What a waste of potential. If you don't believe me, try asking them what the good industries are that have good work/life balance. The answers you'll get boil down to "there are no good jobs at all".
Yup.

I have been hearing about how X11/MOTIF will "end the Windows/Apple hegemony" for decades.

I don't know how often I've heard "X Windows is just as good as Mac OS."

It's like when your vegan friend keeps telling you that "Falafel tastes just like beef."

They have never tasted beef (or they hated the taste), so they don't have anything to compare it to. X Windows is GUI, written by people that hate GUI.

What could possibly go wrong?

All that said, it's a crazy amount of money, and I really feel that the only real work the password manager needs, is to be rewritten in native. Electron is less-than-excellent.

They must have some kind of strategy that goes beyond just being a password wallet.
"KeePassXC was still free open source and developed by volunteers in their free time."

This is not a benefit. Within the next 2 years, be wary of a log4j level exploit within Keepassxc.

If a software isn't being supported by a steady source of income, it really quickly can get behind in security and tech debt.

After all the discussion on here about how we can support open source projects, why is it still a badge of honour to say that a software has no support and is functioning on life support by "volunteers in their free time"?

I'd suggest any users of KeePassXC take their money and put it where it counts: find the organization that develops KeePassXC and give them the $60 a year that it costs to buy a commercial password manager like 1password.

If KeePassXC has all the features you need, it's worth paying them for it.
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$90K just to move some files from one folder to another seems high too. Either the job involves more than what's he saying, or it's simply fake.
It's not enough to save for retirement in the US, and that "majority will never be able to retire" is a reality in any of the 50 states. We just haven't had it hit the fan yet.

Edit: I read that as $90k total, to be dispensed over the remaining years. I agree that $90k per year indeed ought to be plenty.
Having "tattooed on their forehead is a metaphor" tattooed on their forehead?
he is not that young, roughly my age around 40 living in Ko Phangan

here are his videos since his website is dead and he is also not active on twitter anymore
https://www.youtube.com/user/BranoGege/videos
This has been inevitable for years.

The fact that 'productive folks' have been engaged in a chicken race with the regulators since GDPR came along in 2016 is entirely on them.

The second shoe dropped with Schrems II in 2020, and the race to find plausible technicalities to keep doing the same thing continued. Still no real attempt at fixing the problems.

If they had followed the spirit of the law rather than trying to get away with dubious technicalities, there would be no mad scramble to fix things now when it turned out those technicalities were in fact hopeful thinking at best.
Not in anarcho-tyranny world.
> Sure, they could mess it up, but any company or open source project can mess everything up.

Luckiky when they do, github just bans their account
Why would he be rewarded? They would likely try to save that $90k by replacing him, or give him a lot more work with very little increase in comp.

If there's anything I've learned in 10 years, you keep your mouth shut when things are easy because if you speak up they screw you with more work and the same (or nearly so) pay.
Because he doesn't care about the job being done, but only about getting paid for the results. It's like admitting someone already owns a goose that lays golden eggs when you can instead sell them the eggs.
I am not sure what you want to imply...but isn't it just a governmental alternative? I would guess that the current dns resolvers are in the hands of a few huge, monopolistic companies like google or cloudflare.
I keep expecting (not hopefully) the establishment of "Trans Racial" people, where people want to be recognized as the race they identify as, rather than what they were labeled at birth. The logic is precisely the same as transgenderism. There have been a few cases, with the Rachel Dolezal case of 2015 getting a lot of attention.[1] I wonder if the status that transgenderism has achieved would make such a movement easier. Or, would it discredit such movements and "dysphoria" diagnoses? I mean, if we're going to alter/deny immutable traits, and if race is truly a "social construct", why wouldn't trans-racialism become a thing?

[1] https://www.cnn.com/2015/06/12/us/washington-spokane-naacp-r...
Were any of these companies bootstrapped? Weren't they all investor-funded creations from the start?
I had a software engineering job where I clocked in and time was tracked. Pretty good deal for people who tend to overwork themselves.
I mean, it's literally something our pediatrician told us to keep track of in the first few weeks of our kid's life. And keeping track of last nap, feed etc is a useful indicator for when the next one is going to be. Micromanagement maybe, but it does make life easier.