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The bootable disk function of iPods was really something else. It saved me multiple times through the years, at one point even functioning as a primary boot drive when the HD in my sunflower iMac G4 gave up the ghost.

I wish modern smartphones had a similar capability. I know Android phones let you copy files to them via MTP, but that’s not even a fraction as good as the portable HD function of iPods was.
Don't hate the player, hate the game.

If real estate is as an investment, then you can be damn sure that people will do everything they can to protect their investments.
> This entire post reads like some weird crypto-bro FOMO propaganda.

Its intended to be devoid of opinion to the extent possible which is probably why you don't recognize it.

Your thoughts on what they can do are incorrect. The only thing a child still cannot do is enter into a real world contract and have it be enforceable. But in environments that require zero, or less, or different kinds of non-contractually enforced trust, with a crypto balance sheet the children can acquire goods, services and investments, they can access capital, they can pool investments and share proceeds, they can hire and fire other real world humans, they can acquire real world assets where merchants accept crypto or use a payment processor that does. And this is what some or many are doing, the path of least resistance and beyond the wildest aspirations that any multinational trade deal could ever achieve. So I’m not sure what standard you can really rely on here aside from being unaware.

If you weren't aware of a crypto centric form of wealth, where the fiat dollars are the novelty to be temporarily held, then you’re a decade behind.

The only thing new here (circa the last 2-3 years) is that its much easier for the children to earn the initial crypto, given how robust that economy is.

They’ll cash out when they are 18 if they need to. No different than people only taking money out of their stock and bond holdings for large purchases. Except its a hybrid where they earned the investments directly instead of having to initially purchase them.
And that is where we learned not to trust TV shows in the beginning, but at least TV stations can only carry so many shows.

Firefly fan forever.
Ask HN: Career options for technical ex-founder?
I've been on my entrepreneurship journey for the last 3 years and started 2 startups. The first one was with a co-founder (didn't work) and the 2nd one as a solo-founder (currently bootstrapping as an indie hacker). Before that, I was a full-stack developer for 4 years or so.
Throughout the journey, I've acquired many important skills apart from development like a sense for good design, product, hiring, marketing, talking to customers, etc.
Even though I could keep building my startup, I've realized that building a startup takes lots of stress, day doesn't end at 5 pm, and I end up working most of the weekends. This means very little time for other activities/hobbies/relationships.

Long story short, I'm now looking for a less stressful role where working hours are defined and pay is decent so I could afford an exciting life outside work.

I'm not sure what kind of companies and roles should I be looking into now that I've gained experience as a technical ex-founder?
Why do you intensely dislike words on a website? I have an opinion about a toy, I’m not intensely disliking people who use it differently. I said nothing about those people. When she’s older, we might be those people. Play the Lego blocks, not the man.
Uhm... there is something called law in most of the world which kind of regulate how and why you can or cannot send money across international borders, I will never understand that "crypto let us do it better than banks".

You can send 10BTC to me, you're from Azerbaijan and I'm from France, all cool and nice until I want to cash out on that 10BTC... do you think I can receive 380k EUR on my bank without some government agency knocking on my door and accusing me of money laundering, asking me where this money comes from, asking me to pay taxes on it?

If you are forbidden by law from sending money from A to B you cannot send it, either because you cannot send from A, you cannot receive in B, a mix of the two or whatever. You can send me crypto but since I cannot buy food with crypto I need to cash out sooner or later so that's end game.

If you can send money from A to B it's way cheaper and more secure to send it using our current banking system. And BTW you pay a fee to turn money into crypto, in many cases you pay a fee to send crypto and lastly you pay another fee to turn that crypto back into money, sending crypto is not free.
Amazon's FBA support on the other hand is horrendous, possibly betraying their more adversarial relationship with their sellers. I was so annoyed by repeated incompetence that not only did I stop doing FBA side projects, but I (mostly) cut out my Amazon shopping and am unlikely to recommend AWS as a first option to a client in future.
For anyone interested in a great cookbook of classic American desserts with meticulously researched background and origin stories, I highly recommend “Bravetart” by Stella Parks. Some of the recipes can also be found on the Serious Eats website, but the historical background material is largely reserved for the book.
Could Fixing Housing Fix Everything Else, Too?
Maybe if everyone moved to the same low cost of living area and tried to achieve the same densities as the high cost of living areas for some inane reason. Realistically the increase in demand in any one area would be negligible - Tulsa isn't going to become a happening place.
~50 years ago Keynes predicted by now no-one would have to work menial jobs because everything would be automated, freeing up people to work a few days a week and pursue creative endeavors.

While we have automated things, we are nowhere close to that today. A lot of current menial jobs CAN be automated today, but the cost of labor is cheaper than designing and deploying automated solutions.

Having higher cost of labor will incentivize more capital solutions to menial jobs (automation, substitutions), which will change societal patterns a lot (maybe you should expect a machine to take orders at every restaurant) but could certainly lead to a happier 'steady state' long term.
Well I'll be damned. Citations include Aldous Huxley's 1936 "Notes on Propaganda".
Go back all the way back to the industrial revolution and you will find that automation creates new jobs, just other kinds.
Flow is completely, totally different. GP is discussing self-reflection and learning to be mindful of oneself and one's surroundings - which is basically meditation.
What about everyone else who now also has the capital to pursue their dream job? Just as before basic income, there's many people competing for a finite number of dream jobs.
But the question is why you shouldn't be able to sideload an app at all. Having a curated store is pretty cool, and you can have that while also letting users install their own apps manually (even with barriers, making it as hard as they like).
You're absolutely right and I did conflate them a bit here.
Who would take a job for significantly less than they receive from the government?
If we are getting rid of serfdom why has no one suggested this money goes to third world workers?
This comment is not about MdSilo itself... but the design style on the linked page looks too much like certain splog-like landing pages I've come across (namely "this domain is for sale" pages.) Since I opened a bunch of Hacker News links all at once, I almost closed MdSilo's tab when I came across it, out of instinct.

Depending on how you spread the word about MdSilo, that may not be a problem. If it is a problem, though, you may wish to address it.
We've been happy with buildkite and hashicorp vault. One nice feature we've leveraged in our CI is that vault lets us revoke tokens after use, so we have very short lived tokens and they're made that much shorter by having the jobs clean up after themselves.
I feel like this has some parallel in the crypto space :)
The DSL I'm currently hacking around on has ++ for string (and list) concatenation and using a -seperate- operator seems to rather help.

(I've yet to conclude if stealing ++ for this rather than preinc/postinc was a terrible mistake, so far in context it hasn't seemed to be but I'm still keeping an eye on the question)
>punishing gamblers, eventually people will learn to stay away from it

Just like casinos?
R’s waxing popularity is a testament to that power. dplyr and friends effectively reject much of the R-the-language and substitute their own friendlier, more popular syntax without rejecting R-the-platform.
GraphViz is great, like Markdown. I recommend https://edotor.net for online use:

1. No set-up, no accounts/registration.

2. Free, no ads.

3. Simple, pleasant UI with variable/keyword autocompletion and even multi-cursor find/replace!

4. Your graph is saved in the URL so sharing the link lets others play with a copy of your graph. I usually link-shorten the URLs since they're long:

https://bit.ly/edotor-example-1 https://bit.ly/edotor-example-2
Market makers can't just conjure up a counterparty. The spread widens because lack a liquidity increases directional risk. If it were truly riskless, others would jump in to close the spread.
Who would pay the multi-million dollar salary of the top footballers if that came to pass? If people were suddenly paying a LOT more for strawberries and garbage collection, would they have disposable left over for footballers?

There’d still be footballers - the person who was picking fruit left that role to follow their UBI funded dream of being a footballer. They’re just not going to make the same amount of money.

Same goes for CEOs and other roles with comparatively enjoyable execution vs high pay. Every man and their granny will be a CEO of a one person company when you take all the risk out of the system by giving everyone a safety net.

Enjoyable jobs will pay less, hard jobs will pay more.
How is this better than oauth (assuming you use a provider who doesn't have or doesnt share your real name).
Aye.

It sometimes happens because mail gets accepted then put into a local queue for processing (anti-spam checks and other scans) and the fake bounce sent after that. A badly designed system (and such do exist) will do this even for messages they could immediately reject based on the invalid incoming address.

It can also happen because there is an intermediate SMTP server between the sender and receiver, the intermediate has dropped the connection to the sender before the final destination rejects, so if you want to bounce at all it has to be a fake bounce.

I don't know without checking (and I've been too lazy to test!) if my mail services properly bounce based on target address or fake bounce, so I err on the side of not causing disruption if it is the bad one. I'll be replacing Zimbra with something else (probably self-built from standard parts as my needs are much more limited than when I picked Zimbra many years ago, just mail, nothing else) for my main mail service soon, this will be one of the things to make sure I get right.
Hardware security modules are no cakewalk either. For webservers I think most people consider them overkill. They mostly IME get used to handle code signing.

And at one company they were worried about the devices getting stolen, so they could had HSMs and still couldn’t reboot unattended (though most of the signing keys were with humans rather that automated)
Anecdotally, I've heard working with netflix on the production side is not that fun. They ask a lot of you and pay a little, and you don't have creative freedom. Maybe that's the streamlining they are referring to? We will see if this helps them or hurts them by shooing what could have been good production talent for them to HBO and other competitors in town.
It would reduce mine
It's an open question [1] along with other safety checks both comptime and runtime [2]. The issue here is a balance of keeping language complexity low while providing safety at the same time and not depriving users of control when they know better than the type checker/lifetime analysis.

[1]: https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/782

[2]: https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/2301
Sorry, I can't agree with you on that one at all. It doesn't "...all depend on how we want to define things." Whether the representation of an epistemic state -- any state, really -- is suitable and adequate for a task is not just a matter of definition, it depends on the reality of what you want to describe. You cannot represent the throw of a six-sided die with a set {1, 2, 3, 4, 5}, for example. If you model in ideal rational agent's belief with a probability measure, then you cannot adequately represent lack of belief. Whether that's okay or not depends on the task.

> I know your comment was about the philosophical foundations, not about the statistical methods.

Absolutely, at the risk of sounding picky I have to say that you've answered to a comment I've never made.

> But the alternative statistical methods do not have better philosophical foundations.

Frequentism and the propensity view have better philosophical justifications, though. You may disagree, but that was the whole point of my first comment. We know that there are genuine stochastic processes with corresponding objective probabilities, for example. Frequentism also prevents incorrect applications of probability such as using statistics to predict the outcome of singular events based on mere conjecture about the priors. You can only do that with an analytic model.
That seems fine, in the same way that e.g. an XML library fetching DTDs from a known public URL is fine.

However, it'd probably be better if you could have the CI framework collect and inject that information into the build using some hard-coded deterministic logic, rather than giving the build itself (developer-driven Arbitrary Code Execution) access to that capability.

Same idea as e.g. injecting Kubernetes Secrets into Pods as env-vars at the controller level, rather than giving the Pod itself the permission to query Secrets out of the controller through its API.
I would think basic income would only cover the basic necessities, plus some extra. Not enough for one person to live without a roomate, or have the latest and greatest technology.

So... to pay for a private apartment maybe that crap retail job would be ok.
It's sad but if you search for 'cereal', you're going to see the one with the awful title higher up in rankings.
> I don't see why "size gained if deleted" "does not [care about links]".

Deleting links does not give you any additional storage space beyond the minimal amount taken up by the link itself.

As for existing filesystems, yeah they're going to have problems as they're built on filesystems that for the most part are polling. I'm not insisting on a solution or saying existing filesystems need to use this though, this is all in the context of a greenfield project. Switching something like linux to use an event based system instead would be a major project.

As for distributed filesystems where every file does not own all its own bits, that's just a different way of measuring and doesn't have any major problems for the concept.
You have to work really hard to twist that comment into meaning that speech is subpar. That ambiguity is just not there.
With buildkit Docker now has support for secrets natively with `--secret`. This mounts a file that will only be exposed during build.
Original link: https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/news/2022/01/basic-inco...

Still no research paper found from this Google-Fu.
When I was writing arm26 (i.e. arm2) assembly for the Archimedes everybody passed around a block of ASM that did division since the processor had a whole 16 instructions and integer division wasn't one of them.

Things are less primitive these days but the memory still brings a smile to my face.
If the people who were attempting to ban "critical race theory" could define it precisely, and ban it equally precisely, I would not have an issue.

That it is banned in public schools is proof that they do not and cannot define it. CRT is a Graduate-level subject that had no allocated curriculum in elementary or high schools.

Rather, it's being used as a dog whistle for all debate regarding privilege, SYSTEMIC racism, the acknowledgement of US history as racist, or work still to be done today.

The bans of "critical race theory" are not actually banning https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_race_theory but openly suppressing discussion of civil rights and racism.
Ah yes. When looking at it it does indeed look darker towards the window in the screenshots.
Great point. People often try to measure "willingness to work" by looking at "willingness to harm yourself", often in service of making somebody else wealthy. Well, they do that for poor people. People of the right caste are instead, "funemployed", "taking a sabbatical", "looking for the right thing", or "a socialite".

One of the silver linings for me of the pandemic is how much the Great Resignation is revealing to the general public how much "essential workers" were poorly paid and miserable. Not even in a way that was necessitated by the work itself, but just because their bosses could get away with being jerks.
Isn’t the reciprocation that you keep voting for the people that want to send you checks? I’ve yet to see anyone explain how UBI isn’t eventually just buying future votes.

If I see them stand on a stage and tell grandmas they are going to end social security and Medicare - but will send everyone a check for $1000 instead, and I’ll think they are serious about UBI as an economic solution, but “we’ll also end other programs someday” isn’t the leading bullet point.
Any Swiss people in this thread?

I am curious if the new law that prevents companies from auto redirecting to a Swiss page with higher prices would require Netflix to let Swiss people purchase the subscription for example in the US where it costs less? The new law also forbids companies from blocking the use of Swiss credit cards on non Swiss sites.
Agreed. Org stuff is important, but even the most well-managed org in the world won't make good progress without the right technical people.

I have a really hard time believing that Defense has a strong bench of IC engineers and scientists working on ML Safety. I've received job offers from these types of firms and they're always paying at least 300K less than the competition when they probably need to be paying 200K-300K more (requires a clearance, WFH is impossible, my executive is not technical, etc.)
You can also make higher-quality products that require less support, and then have a smaller number of high-quality well-paid support for the fewer customers who still need it.
On the other side of the coin, in my career I've had colleagues so bad that I would gladly pay them NOT to work. They created a toxic workplace and made everything worse. Unfortunately the majority of them would likely not take UBI (in two cases they were the owner/boss). However, if UBI kept just a portion of troublesome workers out of the workforce, then that would be beneficial as well.
As an Estonian, I can relate to this. "How are you" and similar drivel gets me every time and borderline drives me mad.

There is a brilliant comic called Finnish Nightmares that covers many situations like this. For anyone not Finnish (or Estonian) it is probably an inside joke.

http://finnishnightmares.blogspot.com
You seem to ignore the fact that you would then have access to 100% of the revenue that Tesla makes by selling cars and other things.

(This in turn sort of guarantees a price floor for stocks in public companies: the price of a stock shouldn't really go below the net asset value of the company.)
At low wages (effectively starvation wages in many cases) there is a huge incentive to show up for work.

With a UBI there is less incentive due to hunger but those same wages look much more attractive. There is still an incentive to work.

The money for the UBI does imply that profits go down, taxes go up (a mixture).

But importantly those workers, previously on the edge of starvation, will start consuming services initiating a virtuous cycle. That is the theory.

But a sensible housing policy (hello San Francisco) is very important or landlords will simply hover up all the surplus.
That's just tax evasion and/or smuggling.
So you are opposed to people not working, and you're opposed to people working?
Just like if you write "alot" instead of "a lot" the reader knows exactly what you mean, and yet ...

But whatever. It's your life. You do you, and I'll do me.
I don't think deflation is an actual risk in this scenario ("value of that money plummets" = high inflation).

There are many stages between "people will starve" and having access to high quality food (and high QOL in general). For example if UBI is sufficiently high to allow most people currently employed in the food and service industries to not work (or to invest their time into gaining new skills etc.) I think a massive increase in food prices is unavoidable, at least in the short term until automation catches up. While basic foodstuffs would still remain affordable to all/most (the government would be forced to subsidize them if not), eating out and high quality, labor intensive products would likely become unaffordable to most people.
What OP unfortunately missed is a post like this: "Tell HN: You can't add “no ads” in your Play Store app's title"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29497680
I’m pretty sure there is no such announcement, if you can point to it I’d appreciate it
There were a lot of bands harkening back to an 80’s sound in the 2000’s, and people were saying that the “retro cycle” was therefore 20 years (if it was recurring in the 2020’s that’d be 40 years). But I think someone could make the case that the 80’s have just become the permanent retro decade, and that everything since 2000 has been subsumed into a sort of “infinite present”.
You are earning $4000/month after taxes and begin to receive $1000/month. What do you do?

Some fraction of people will reduce their workload so their earnings are $3000/month, bringing their total income back to $4000.

Some fraction of people will not reduce their workload at all and inflate their lifestyle to depend on $5000/month.

The overwhelming majority of people will choose the latter; we already know this, it's one of the chief complaints about a materialist, consumerist oriented society. When people get a raise, they overwhelmingly spend it. It's why most people can't save a $1000 emergency fund.

If you are earning $2000 per month and suddenly your income increases by 50% you feel like a baller, you are going to start eating better, ordering take out a little bit, replace that cracked phone, add a little more data to your cell phone plan, turn that thermostat up a little, whatever.
It seems pretty hard to me to look at charts of inflation, income inequality, and quantitative easing and compare them to stock market values and not see how the system is allowing the rich and powerful to use inflation to suck money away from everyone not heavily in the market (especially the poor as inflation is a highly regressive tax) and into their own pockets through increases in valuation.

And then look at the barriers that regulation throws against the average person to keep them from the most lucrative investments (like required accreditation) and protecting the people stops feeling like a primary (or even tertiary) goal.

I don't doubt that initial push for regulation was at least in part to protect people from the sharks, but it sure doesn't seem like that's the driving motivation anymore.
The Fed has a mandate to act in the broad interest of society. It doesn't manipulate currency by any non-conspiratorial definition of manipulate, no.
That would bei URI, universal rockstar income.
Maybe skip the sarcasm next time. It's really unproductive, and, for example, see Poe's law.