skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Spot on. Writing, music, painting, poetry, now video games.

I think the entire idea is false anyway. There is surely a waiting list for a government job with a pension filling pot holes right now.

The author of this article probably just lives in a bubble of developers, writers, musicians, painters...
This comment belies such a fundamental misunderstanding of the modern financial system it's hard to know where to begin.

Moderate inflation is a feature not a bug. It drives investment and increases the money supply.

On the opposite side, major coins (including BTC and ETH) are massively deflationary, so much so that there's a day to celebrate the purchase of a pizza for $800 million [1]. We shouldn't even call them "currencies" because they're not. They're assets and hugely speculative ones at that.

It's really just as well it's an asset because deflationary currencies aren't good for anyone. Ostensibly your money goes up in value over time but no one spends it so the economy just grinds to a halt.

[1]: https://interestingengineering.com/bitcoin-pizza-day-celebra...
If that's the case, any price is a losing proposition - since you're competing with free. Users don't do business-case analysis, they barely compare features. I'm not sure the Signal features can easily justify $5 over FB/WA/Insta.
>What if they don't want anyone?

That's ok, but it's out of the norm so of course people will see it as not normal.

If someone is born with 6 fingers it doesn't make them a bad person. But it will generate questions as it is out of the norm.
They should sell the ability of creating an account not attached to a phone number.

Pay $5, get a code that allows creating a single account, enter the code somewhere in the app to allow using a user name in place of the phone. This limits spam and, as this code can also be sent to another person, there is a way to hide the relationship between payer and final user. No need for cryptocoins, NFTs, or other stupid things.
> Do Apple or Google get a cut of my contribution? - No.

Can someone please explain how come Google/Apple won't be taking a cut in this situation? Is it because they have a special deal with Signal?
It depends on who you are targeting.

For users willing to donate at all, the difference between (say) $2 and $5 might not be that much. Asking for more might therefore actually maximize the return.

All other users probably wouldn't donate regardless of whether it's $1 or less, so why bother considering them in your model. (edit) Offering an $1 option would just get you 0 of these users, and possibly lower the returns of the otherwise-$5-donaters above.
Right, but PaulRobinson is thinking in geological time.
> stripe's highway robbery of 3% per sale.

You clearly don't understand what the 3% is for. For one, I don't have any crypto, so I can't use your payment processor. My American Express card which charges a 3.5% processing fee is actually subsidized here.

How does your crypto payment processor handle chargebacks? Does help protect you from fraud? Do they protect your customers if you act fraudulently?
Author here. Yeah, I'm aware that this can/will happen, but as I hinted in the opening of the post: "wanted the warning from uBlock to go away if at all possible" (note the "if possible" part). In other words, if it does happen in the end, well, it's understandable, but at least I know what I'm doing in detail.
I made a working Rubik's Cube in Minecraft
I haven't tried as I started using an old fb account that i don't use anymore for nothing else, but if you still need a Facebook account to use it, you'll still have to give them heaps of data, including verifying your phone number.
Does he have a YouTube channel?
I've found that code colocation is great, especially combined with a directory structure that mimics the application's hierarchy/layers. At my place is employment we try to follow a principle of "keep related code contained to a single place". On its own this ended up causing some problems with "reinventing the wheel" and a relatively inconsistent experience when crossing borders between team ownership. The big thing that has helped a ton is having a regular meeting with nearly all employees working on the same part of the stack. We used the meeting as a space for talking about what we're working on and even get into the details of "I'm solving problem X by building solution Y." At which point others can chime in with interest in using it for their own upcoming projects, describe how they already have a solution to problem X, or provide suggestions. It's not the only thing discussed in this meeting, but it has been important for improving the consistency and general quality of the product. The resulting code follows the same principle above, but reused code ends up bubbling up to a "common" space in the lowest common shared layer; whether it's a new directory or a new package used by multiple projects.

A couple new problems we're dealing with now:

1. Finding older common things and deprecating them. When it's in a common space it feels like it's everyone's responsibility which means nobody ends up working on it. Maybe more narrow, clear ownership would solve that problem.

2. Someone finds the common thing that almost fits their need, if only it had one more little feature. The problem is when this happens many times and you end up with this complicated beast of an abstraction. This is probably solved by finding ways to decompose the abstraction and by following a principle of "do one thing well" or something about simplicity.
Guess what sends people to the ER too? freezing half to death. Being unhoused is inherently unsafe.
How do I delete other people's comments?
Running ads would make them beholden to advertisers. Though I would say don't contribute to Wikipedia because it has enough money to fund itself. What you are actually donating to is Wikimedia, which may or may not be doing things you want to donate too. Similar to how donating to Firefox is actually donating to Mozilla, who may or may not do anything you consider useful with it.
True, but you'll periodically be bombarded by donation drives instead...

Money ruins everything, sadly. Where's my barter system...
I think this is a mischaracterization of what immutability is.

Immutability means you can’t change history not that you can’t update state. If my utility company needs my new home address and they use a blockchain for some reason (maybe part of a near-realtime electricity payment system), I can always sign a transaction to associate my blockchain address with my new home address. Perhaps the electricity equipment itself can sign my signature to ensure that I am physically located with it and have authority to change who it’s representing.
It's ISO 15076-1:2010
https://www.color.org/icc_specs2.xalter gives this link:
https://www.color.org/specification/ICC1v43_2010-12.pdf
Anything that costs less than Netflix I'll subscribe to without thinking about it, especially if it's something like Signal that I use every day. If you don't have 5 dollars a month for them, that's fine, but I'm sure enough people do that they're doing alright.

I'd bet that they get more by asking this price from more users rather than targeting more subscribers at cheaper prices.
The difference is the level of knowledge required. Deep vs wide. To pick a nit, too, customers use the term pen testing very broadly. So, it could just be internals and externals, could be app sec, etc. I haven’t found a ton of changes all that important in the last decade in web app testing.
How the Trojan Horse Affair Affected British Pakistanis
My eyes weren't cooperating with the illustration from the Theory section, animated it here (author is free to use of course) - https://imgur.com/a/hVYWBB2

(note that i reverse a few frames in the loop to be less jarring visually, the current is probably not correct when the puck is moving left)
I'm happy to give my 5$/month, as I'm using Signal daily. When moving away from WhatsApp it seemed like the best option for me and my circle of friends. I can only hope that some of the money would be used to hire a developer to fix some of the issues I'm experiencing, some of which are quite annoying:

- Signal killing the whole iPad and iPhone battery in a matter of hours while running in the background, on some days

- terribly slow synchronization between phone and Desktop, catching up on a few hundred messages takes minutes

- awful UX in video calls: microphone button and camera button work in opposite ways (graying out turns one on, the other off)

- awful UX in video calls: if you have multiple people, the camera views are cut into comically wrong letterboxes, often you wont see the person at all anymore

- no giphy on the Desktop client (really, why?)

What would be the best place to voice that these issues are important to me, GitHub issues?
>In general HN commentators seems to be relatively emotionless and focus mostly on facts

This is a myth. Commenters on HN are good at disguising emotional arguments as reasoned arguments. That's not to say that people don't apply logic here--they certainly do--but don't be fooled into thinking that HN comments are relatively emotionless.
> Someone coming after you, because your have their IP in your server logs?

This is literally the day job for everyone on HN: checking so you don't accidentally log IPs.
Author here. While it's true that this depends on JS to work (because of the various new CSS Object Model APIs in the browser), I think there's enough doubt about my technique here that I can submit this for YC2023 and make bank in maybe a decade or so.

After all, I remember what everyone said about Dropbox...
> Buy land instead, build a home

You can't. That's why the prices are so high. The price of construction will be built into the price asked by the land owner such that the overall price is within bounds of an existing home, and usually more expensive as a new home is seen as a premium product.

Historically, new homes are more expensive than existing homes, as it was in the U.S. prior to the 1990s that a new home was an upgrade from an older home for the people purchasing the new home, and the older home would be purchased (or rented) at a lower rate than the new home, a process that has disappeared due to constriction on supply and nowadays has spawned the term "market affordable housing", as I have seen this term used by charitable organizations that historically focused on housing for the extremely poor, now change somewhat to advocating for housing that merely lower class can afford, as this class is slowly being pushed completely out of affording any form of housing outside of shared rooms.
> Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past few months, you will have undoubtedly heard of Web3.

Please send these articles back to Reddit; I haven't been living under a rock and barely know what Web3 is. What a nothingburguer piece.
To Raise VC, or Not. Choosing the Road Less Travelled
The popular areas of Idaho are tiny compared to vast regions of flat land available in the middle.

Of course all of the demand directed all at once without adequate supply will result in price increases. But people incorporate the fact that some places will never have enough supply simply due to lack of sufficient land. In that sense, a house in a popular part of Idaho will always be more than a house in Iowa.
I believe the purpose of the article is to expose the paint API, rather than trying to claim that has been done with CSS alone. Which in some part is true, as CSS is allowing this at all in the first place.
> […] by the cultures that have great veggy dishes like in South Asia.

Or any country really. A good vegetarian lasagne doesn't mean replacing ground meat with a non-meat substitute; you'd want a different recipe.
There was once Tor Messenger, but now it's dead, so I guess there is not a market for such a thing:

https://blog.torproject.org/sunsetting-tor-messenger/
But the infrastructure must be <somewhere>, right?
In that case, You might like my curated list of startup tools at StartupToolchain[1]; Just added MVP.css to it.

[1] https://startuptoolchain.com
But filled with editors who accuse you of various sorts of foul play when stepping onto their turfs.
What hype? All I see is people bashing it.
That appears to not include fees.

https://bitinfocharts.com/

Ethereum ($38,451,803.7)

Bitcoin ($34,875,489.84)

Before EIP 1559 fees were much more important. Ethereum has higher rewards since about Q3 2020

edit: even worse, f2pool just multiplies the base reward (2 eth) - ignoring uncle rewards and fees, by the wrong number of blocks (based on 15 sec block time - it's actually 13.2s). Trash calculation.
I think that if a non-technical business person says something is not hard, it's "someone else must be able to do this, it can't be too complicated!" Yes, it could be done, but "easy" doesn't imagine costs (time, money) enough. If I am asked that and find that I can't do it, who will then? Trying to find someone to do the "easy" thing could turn out to be more complicated than judging the complexity level of a task.
It's not bad to make money. It's good to make money providing a service that helps people.
Even bitcoin on-chain no longer has those high fees it had in 2017.

Also, Bitcoin has lightning now. A second layer protocol that allows fast and cheap payments. Like less of a penny cheap.
That was against an old version of Stockfish. Both Stockfish and Leela are much stronger now than AlphaZero.
Capitalism gonna capitalism.
But everyone still has to go through the steps of getting their money on to those alternate chains, which isn’t free. All of the transaction costs and exchange fees leading up to the checkout transaction and when the vendor later gets their money back out of the cryptocurrency are still expensive.

The only way vendors come out net ahead by using cryptocurrency is if it affords them some additional protections at the expense of the customer. For example, forcing customers to eat the transaction costs and exchange fees, eliminating the possibility of chargebacks if the product or service is bad, and so on.

Or more simply, they use cryptocurrency to dodge taxes. Or try to, anyway.
Is Prime Matter Energy?
In Germany, we have the possibilities fixed at half-time and 2/3rds.
> “Unless you’re trying to create a cryptocurrency, buy drugs or blackmail a company using ransomware there aren’t really any use cases for a blockchain”

It's time for the OP and people agreeing with the article look deeper into DeFI. https://compound.finance/ & https://pooltogether.com/ are two great examples. Borrow or lend (and earn interest (on dollars if you wish so by using stablecoins like USDC or DAI) much higher than in banks), or participate in no-loss lotteries. All you need is an internet connection and you can use it without any arbitrary rules imposed by governments or companies.

If you are into technology and finance, you should be in awe with this stuff in my opinion.
What metadata is it leaking? Any link?
South Korea still not satisfied with Apple’s App Store plans; wants more savings
For anyone who wants a bit of history, Jared Reimer did a presentation for the SIX's 20th anniversary. This was at NANOG in 2017:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2ChhZcH2ok (slides: https://archive.nanog.org/sites/default/files/4_Reimer_Seatt...)
Thanks for the friendly reminder to donate. Signal needs to stick around. I am also open to seeing some ads on the platform if that's what it takes to keep it alive and well.
Even if it's not most users, it still benefits the other people.

Why should everyone be forced to give away their phone number?

Why should everyone be forced to use the same app including it's limitations?

Why should everyone be forced to make a contract with the same vendor?

It could well be that it's not a requirement, because people don't think about it or take it as given.

Imagine Email or phones would work the same way Signal works (with respect to the above concepts).

Is non profit a requirement for most messaging app users?
Yup. I come from a culture (Ukrainian) that, due to religious reasons (even though no one is particularly religious nowadays), has a bunch of traditional, vegan lenten dishes. When you expand to all the traditional (ie. Orthodox) Christian communities, plus Buddhist communities, there's a massive range of traditional tried and true vegan foods out there.
14k is one consultants rate. Engagements are 2-6 weeks, 1-3 people typically. Bigger engagements happen often enough. Blended bill rate is lower with legacy customers, new customer bill rate is 14k/wk. Some discounts possible here and there, for purchasing a lot of work, allowing logo use, etc.
That speciality actually sounds extremely interesting. Is this the kind of thing that companies bring in a consultant for, or are these full time positions?

I’d be very interested to hear more. Do you have a blog, or can you point me to any relevantly communities?
Nice mention. ALSO they have their own decentralized mastodon instance; https://podcastindex.social/web/home

These developers are pretty interactive and responsive there. Lots going on around podcasting 2.0 right now.
I'm only aware of Dharma wallet, but I'm sure there are others - allows direct & free(well, except MATIC for gas I suppose) deposits from your fiat accounts onto Polygon, an Ethereum L2.
Matrix is probably the closet alternative but it's harder to use than Signal (lost your password? say goodbye to your messages!).
Is Z3 able to produce proofs for these problems? Or does it only say "unsat" and you need to trust it?
Twitter reinvents blogs.
Right, they just install some ads and then next thing you know they’re trying to optimize page views and mysteriously the articles get split into multiple pages and the site gets worse and worse over time.

On top of that, the fact that they could implement ads is no reason to not contribute to them right now.
Or you could just not go on twitter.

The idea there is a mass movement of people saying other people tan too much is beyond delusional.
There are no “peoples preferences” when it comes to fonts. 99% use the default settings of their browser, so any effort made to improve typesetting of a particular publication is I think more than welcome.
I don't pay much more to insure my Model S than my previous car which had less than half the power and was a lot cheaper to fix if things went wrong. Which suggests to me that the insurance companies here, Norway, don't think that Tesla's are unsafe; or at least that they aren't going to cost the insurer a lot of money. And they do have a lot of experience here, 15 % of private cars on the road here are electric, quite a few of them Teslas because they were in the market from the beginning.
How do you know the cost per user is "much, much lower"?
> In a full-reserve bank, each liability is matched 1:1 with assets in reserve. If someone with a digital dollar asks for the cash back, the holder is given the physical dollar and the corresponding digital liability is destroyed. This is how Tether, USDC, and every other fiat-backed stablecoin works.

Tether is fully backed with physical dollars?
I grew up in Mississippi and Louisiana, and I think OP’s take is spot-on.
There are certain laptops that vary in hi quality / sturdiness level, of course, as money never lie

Lenovo Thinkpad

HP Elite x2 1013 G3

we don't put slightest mind for treating them in such chores
...because they adopted neural network enhancements inspired by AlphaZero, or so I hear.
Thank you for telling the story of worked and what didn't.

What CAD program are you using?
I'm guessing both have ways for non-profits to take donations without the normal 30% cut. Here's Apple's program: https://developer.apple.com/apple-pay/nonprofits/
The first line says

> Signal is a nonprofit with no advertisers or investors, sustained only by the people who use and value it.

Wasn't the case that Brian Acton had invested $50 million in Signal?
I think one of the major reasons is that physicists actually understand math and statistics and from the first year of university learn how to design, run and analyze experiments properly and quantify uncertainty.

This is a big difference to humanities or even biology.
That’s definitely not Turing complete. Not because of the crank, but the fact the exact number of memory cells is hard coded. I can run an n-cell Rule 110 simulation on a DFA, which is obviously not Turing complete.
This doesn’t “veganize” recipes at all — it takes a recipe URL, searches for non-vegan ingredients, and then spits out affiliate links to common vegan substitutes. Critically, it does not convert the recipe you submit to a vegan one. The “AI-based” marketing language, the affiliate links, the use of an extension … this feels a lot like spam to me.
You are taking out of context a slice of my entire argument, which includes the fact that the resources are already being consumed. The people are already living there.

The choice of an outrageously high number of homes in the example is purely to demonstrate that the fallacious claim of housing just mysteriously increasing in price without any visible cause, often presented as some magical force within the universe.

It is, in fact, not possible to have such a scenario because such a construction project would require a lot of planning, so prices would actually begin to fall once the plans are put into place, likely reducing the overall number of units constructed as developers abandon plans, and the ultimate "clearing" price will drop to within some more reasonable bounds than the current price reflects.
So you don't have any insurances?
I hope it doesn't stick around and goes down with WhatsApp at some point.

I don't like messengers striving for quasi monopolies
Not completely. The way that it works for me, is that I start work on a project, and, while building, I notice that some code that I'm working on is:

1) Pretty complex, and fairly insular; and/or

2) Possibly useful, elsewhere.

If that's the case, I will then stop work on the main project, and take some time to extract and "genericize" the subproject. I'll usually set it up as a standalone open-source project; complete with tests and documentation. As the commenter stated, I think that this results in some excellent code. I always clean the house before the guests arrive.

This may happen before I have completed the coding in the main project, or may happen as the result of a review, after the fact.

In some cases, I very clearly need to develop a subproject before starting on the main project, or before certain milestones within that project (for example, SDKs or drivers). In that case, the timelines are completely separate.

If you look at my GH repos, you'll see a whole bunch of these projects, including some rather strange ones, like an XML duration parser[0]. These are the types of projects that I extract.

In some cases, I end up not using the extracted project in my main project (happens to some of my UI widgets). In that case, even though I am not using it, I still have an excellent project for the future. Here's an example[1]. I have ended up not using the spinner in my own work, as it was too obtrusive a widget, but it's nice to have it available for future projects.

[0] https://github.com/RiftValleySoftware/RVS_ParseXMLDuration

[1] https://github.com/RiftValleySoftware/RVS_Spinner
This was a voter-led initiative and the state legislature tried to ignore it in last year’s legislative session. The governor was not a fan either. There were some other leaders who tried to challenge it in court. So I wouldn’t make that strong of a claim that you’re making…it’s still a tough fight here and very conservative. In good news, the vote for the initiative was like 70% for it.

Context on the state leg last year: https://mississippitoday.org/2021/03/22/medical-marijuana-an...

And the court case: https://mississippitoday.org/2021/04/14/mississippi-supreme-...
iPhone flaw exploited by second Israeli spy firm