skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> When someone brings up haskell as a best choice for server side web development as a replacement for php

Who is saying that? I've read through this thread and I have not read anything to that effect.
Maybe improved, but acting crazy on LSD hasn't completely gone away in the new century (see below). I suppose one lesson would be don't take 4 tabs of acid and drink as the guy in the article did, but still LSD isn't something to take lightly. https://sfist.com/2020/12/04/former-youtube-engineer-bettai-...
Yeah that's not FSOL hahaha. I mean the music is but that vid is so obviously not the business.

The only vid I ever knew of them having was this one, it was on a compilation VHS of music videos which had a pair of these prismatic glasses to wear while watching it so that every light source shimmered everywhere [1]. It looks like there's some more official ones they've done on search.

The whole proper electronic music scene was too busy throwing parties to do music videos. I think that was more of a eurodance thing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfWMv8Y1V5E
Unless it's prefab house(aka modular home), it's gonna take you at least 6 month from the signing the contract of getting a lot to the house fully built. Labor market have been really heating up too - most of the builders are focusing building $1MM+ homes in premium districts definitely not worth their time to build a $300k home when they can build a million dollar home. If you are building the home yourself, good luck it's gonna take longer even if you are not working full time and can build house full time.
ask them to show their personal coding projects. people who grind leetcode have none. because leetcode eats up all their time.
Last year, the Academy announced they were finally banning physical screeners. Voters would no longer receive DVDs or Blu-Rays by mail, with screeners exclusively available through Academy Screening Room, a free video streaming app for iOS, Apple TV, and Roku accessible only by Oscar voters.

Okay. So why is Apple still doing it?

An Apple Original on DVD: The Definitive Unboxing and UX Review

https://thenougatmachine.wordpress.com/2022/03/23/an-apple-o...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30809226
This is anecdotal, and the market deserves to be addressed holistically. In major metros, city councils refusing to permit new construction limits supply artificially and pushes up prices. It may well have fallen outside major metros where cost of construction is a bigger portion of the price of a house. However, consider that zoning rules conspire to make houses outside metros bigger even if cheaper per square foot.

[edit] btw, percent over ask doesn't mean too much by itself - after all the market in the region may default to setting asks below expected price. That's just how it's done in some places. [1]

[1] https://www.homelight.com/blog/price-my-home/
My Adsense was banned (many years ago) with similar wording and yet I was never given a real reason. The final termination email said the reason was outlined in earlier emails, but it was not actionable detail; the previous emails just said ‘click fraud’. We were getting millions of clicks a month from visitors to the content on our sites so there was nothing actionable we could do. Despite removing ads completely but that is not really a solution.

So it is not so clear if they received anything useful before or not. They did use ads and the ads team is quite trigger happy, which is interesting because competitors can indeed cancel your business by creating click fraud. The ‘AI’ can detect click fraud, but cannot filter it (wat?) so this happens a lot.
so do you think people lie on their resume? if you think they do, keep this bias in mind.
I feel the same when people use "shaken" and "jarring" :) . Always seems like a hyperbolic expression for a GUI
> Fantastic overview of how the current central banking system works

If anyone wants a quick '101' primer on monetary systems, Cullen Roche has a good paper:

* https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1905625

As does the Bank of England:

* https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/quarterly-bulletin/2014/q1/m...
Kagi founder here - this needs to be corrected.

We have a path to profitability. Indeed, the entire business model is engineered to be sustainable. Whether the price will be accepted by the market (we do not need many users to be profitable, maybe around 50,000) is another matter. I am sorry if you do not feel like on. But one thing we will not do, is loose money on every search.
There are still a ton of solid games that aren't constantly asking for money. TLOU, Elden Ring, RDR2 to name three huge ones. I'm 50/50 on Ubisoft because their games are still great standalone, but do offer IAP that I just ignore.

I'm OK with those offering freemium and such so long as it doesn't kill off the old model. I don't think it will.
Please don't kill StarCraft 2 MS
There's a big difference between the market of "ready to move into" houses and new construction. Lumber prices mostly impact the latter.
Mixer shutdown before their major contracts with Shroud and Ninja even expired (less than a year after).
How to Do Developer Segmentation Better
The field of "Positive Discipline" [1] or "Positive Parenting" provides workable solutions. There may not be a quick fix. The idea is to reinforce good behavior while weaning bad ones. There are a ton of podcasts and books on this topic you can find using those keywords.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positive_discipline

edit: please explain your downvotes, thanks! As interesting as discussing the problems is, there is no end to that.
I’m not a fan of loot boxes or “free to play,” but it’s hard to take this complaint about dark patterns seriously on a site with a blocking popup and back-button jankiness.
Hearing Americans regularly complain about SMS and robocall spam still blows my European mind. I haven't received a single spam call or SMS in my life, ever.

Back in the 90s and early 2000s the worst that could happen was, say, texting a commercial number to get a polyphone ringtone, and that actually being a subscription. But obviously that is something you have to initiate first, not something passive.
No offense, but if there's a 100k lot, it's because noone wants to live there.
Because renting is unlimited income and selling is a one time income?
> but the population of the US grows by 1M people per year

If they are all 0 years old, it doesn’t affect housing until about say 20 years later. If they are all immigrants over 20 then it does immediately. Demographics matter. Population growth in 2000 was about 1%, which is a lot more than your current 1 per μ annum figure.
i have gone through multiple coding interviews recently and didn’t get hired dispite being a semi celebrity in my niche and having brought multiple succesful products to market which i did all the development for. leetcode is all that is paid attention to in FAANGs.
They're saying that it's pretty silly to compare buying ice cream to being mugged. If it's too expensive, don't buy the ice cream. The price of ice cream isn't an invariant, if nobody buys it the price will decrease. If nobody has a problem paying $5/scoop for ice cream, that's what the price is going to be.
> It's shameful and disrespectful to take a client's money and give them a WordPress site in return

If their site is already Wordpress and they ask you to fix it, then your job is to fix their Wordpress site. Where is the shame and disrespect in that?

I agree about the spammy notifications and PHP code snippets. But sometimes code snippets can save time. It's better to have 10 code snippets to achieve 10 fixes, than 10 plugins to address those same fixes.

There must be a lot of developers out there paying their rent and feeding the cat from Wordpress plugin subscription earnings. While this does encourage the spammy ecosystem, it also encourages competition between plugin authors to maintain and develop quality plugins that do the job.

> Do these people actually not realize there's far better things out there?

I'd be interested to hear what good replacements there are for Wordpress+WooCommerce? I find WooCommerce slows down Wordpress, regardless of caching plugins and other tricks. It's annoying, and I'm genuinely interested in alternatives with as much flexibility and support?
Was this one of the playstation games where the soundtrack was something you could actually listen to if you put it in a CD player? I remember final fantasy 7 was like that
It wasn't intended to be. The point is that in those circumstances when we were expanding the resources we had been accustomed to there were many people who said we'd never use them. Disk space is another. However, the commoditization of a resource or the elimination of its scarcity invites us to use the resource in a way that would have seemed wasteful previously and perhaps may have blocked certain use cases before. The games industry has been loved and subsidized for driving consumption of resources up to drive new hardware adoption.

Another example of this is disk space where it's reduction in cost has driven changes in the industry. Think of NoSql and other shifts due to the reduction in cost of storage.
Any comment on Ingham's Money: ideology, history, politics?
just say no and go do something else.
I do PHP work on the side and won’t touch Wordpress. It’s just plain awful.
well their homes aren't going to go down in value lol
https://robbreport.com/shelter/home-design/japanese-homes-ar...
In California, there is plenty of land. They just choose not to use it. See Coyote Valley near San Jose. Just empty unused farmland turned into “open space.” That land is literally a whole lot of nothing while people down the street have to pay millions for a basic house. Even if you did own land, you can’t build anything on it without going to permitting that can take over a year — assuming they let you do anything at all. Look at all that land along the 280 between San Jose and San Francisco.. plenty of land: but they won’t let it be used for housing. Palo Alto and East Palo Alto— plenty of land but East PA has ridiculous rent control and Palo proper has a visceral fear of multi family housing.

The problem in California isn’t land, it’s politicians.
> After all, machine learning isn't known for being able to explain itself.

Indeed; it is just multiple flagging by ML and that is it. Not much you or anyone can do.
> DSL (copper) will not get you the speeds people are looking for these days for broadband service

The German Telekom (same company running T-Mobile, coincidentally) has been surprisingly good at milking their existing crappy copper lines using vectoring. They run fiber up to the distribution boxes on the side of the road (up to a few hundred meters away from houses) and vector their way from there with speeds of up to 250 Mbit/s (which is great for German standards and honestly I'm okay with less).

Maybe they'll be able to increase the rates with 5G or save on distribution cost, but I'm not so sure about either. The distribution boxes are quite large and power hungry with serious cooling nowadays, but they're probably still below the complexity and cost of a 5G tower.
Does it really matter now? You can pay for faster shipping and regular old letters are obviously antique.
There's a huge difference between news organizations reporting on US govt claims, and investigators on the ground actually digging into the evidence on their own. Your assertion is basically the same as claiming that Iraq did have WMDs, but UNMOVIC etc were covering up and hiding the evidence.

For what it's worth, quite a few people were skeptical about the WMD "evidence" at the time, and even more cynics like myself figured that true or false, it was mostly an excuse for George W to Do Something(tm) after 9/11 and at the same time finish off the war his dad started.
higher socio-economic areas tend to go up in value first and go down in value last.

the amount they shift tends to be a great deal more in the up direction (percentage) and less in the down direction as well.

A rising tide does NOT raise all equally.
I think he knows the Atari too, but misrepresented it in the video, choosing to push the message of how primitive the Atari is rather than presenting technical accuracy. And, knowing that he did that with the Atari, now I have to ascribe less credibility to anything else he presents that I'm not an expert on.
clubhouse is full of VCs and angels. wannabe celebrities.
Thanks! I started Feb 1st when I took paternity leave. My wife was already back at work by then, so I mostly worked on it while the baby was napping. I've been working on it in my spare time in the evening since going back to work.
By shopping weekly ads and couponing, and being more willing to make meals from whatever is on sale (I made my first ever pot roast last week, and it was divine) -- I've cut my food budget by 50%. Granted, I wasn't being that selective before: I used to buy things like $8.99/lb 'air chilled' chicken breasts, and now I'm buying $1.99/lb value packs. I get no complaints at the dinner table, so I'm unsure what I was paying for before. Between that and limiting meals out, I'm saving more than I thought I would.

Grocery stores are beginning to level-up their "price optimization" strategies (car insurance companies have been doing it for much longer [0]): people who work for it pay less. A box of cereal is $3.99 on the shelf; with club card and digital coupon it's $1.99. That's one item down 50%. You scale that methodology to your entire shopping trip, and your dollars go way further.

[0]: https://www.npr.org/2015/05/08/403598235/being-a-loyal-auto-...
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Ask HN: How can I support Ukraine’s reconstruction?
I feel compelled to move to Ukraine once some semblance of peace returns (inshallah) in order to help rebuild all that’s been lost. From a technology perspective, what jobs/services/products do you think will be valuable?

As a follow up, if resettling in Ukraine is not possible, what are some meaningful ways to support reconstruction?
I appreciate the thoughtful advice. You probably could figure out who I am, but I’m a LONG time lurker and the comment was docile enough. Faculty senate is 200 across all 20+ branch campuses and rotates every year. The caution is just to make automated scrapping of accounts harder.

There are some truly cowardly people and malicious incentive structures there… but I met some good folk too I suppose. Shout out to the good professors there with the patience to do the right thing. They don’t always win.

WE ARE (human traffickers?). <:(
Milwaukee area checking in!

Has Madison seen an increase in restaurants compared to a couple years ago? I've only been here a year but in the last place I lived, almost everything seemed to shut down during COVID but as things eased up new places opened up to about 120% of the old capacity - the end result being everything seemed to have reduced hours because they couldn't get enough business to get enough staff. From what I've heard from friends it hasn't gotten any better. Plenty of restaurants but a lot of them are only open 2-3 days a week so you end up with servers et. al. having 2-3 part time jobs.
Unstuck yourself from the ideas that go nowhere
The old ways persist. Good games are easier than ever to find and in great quantity. So what, now you want lawsuits and legislation to destroy the fremium model? I'll just be over hear playing games I want to play, unaffected by the network effect because I don't care what strangers play. I play with my friends and we play games that are old, indie, fun, run on anyone's machine, and can be played in person on a couch if we want. There's free bots for discord poker with friends. There's countless pick up and play fremium online titles to chose from. There's decades' worth of system's libraries available on emulators. What are you complaining about again?
> It requires only additions, subtractions and bit shifts: 2x is the same as x<<1, of course. It also requires only integer arithmetic.

Does any of this mean anything in JS, where AFAIK there are no real ints? 2x is an fpu operation under the hood, and not a bit shift.
I built a lightweight group-buy platform for NFTs
Hi guys, I built a platform that makes it simple for anyone to join a group of anons to buy an NFT. No money deducted till funds are raised. Safe since the underlying is a DAO. So the steps are as follows:

1. Paste an OpenSea/Rarible link of the NFT you are interested in on our website

2. You can see if there are other people who have contributed money to this & how much money they have contributed

3. You can enter the amount you would like to invest (any amount as low as 1 USD). No money deducted at this point

4. Once enough funds have been raised, money will be deducted from your wallet, and you will own part of the NFT. You can see your ownership on a dashboard that will be sent to you by email

Thoughts on this?
Yes. I wouldn't recommend it as a revenue stream.

I've written two. They're available for free. If Google decides to can me tomorrow I'll put them on my personal site available for side-loading, maybe put them on the Amazon app store, and call it a day.

Don't tie critical revenue streams to the whim of a private corporation. It's high risk.
Yeah, people blame the developers, blame the publishers, but I think the sad truth is, gamers themselves shoulder much of the blame. Somehow the public came to believe that everything should be free. Maybe it was the internet? Maybe it was sites/apps like Facebook?

Regardless, when a great piece of software that happens to have a price tag fails to sell, whose fault is that?

Don't blame developers/publishers for going instead to the only model that pays the bills these days.
- Covid vaccines and reopening means people can socialize in real life instead.

- Competition (Callin, Twitter Spaces). Callin has unique content. Twitter Spaces has far higher reach and engagement because people already have Twitter on their phone. Notably, Twitter wanted to acquire Clubhouse and Callin's investor wanted to invest in Clubhouse.

- There wasn't much focus on content quality. Large rooms need better moderation tools, etc.

- One of my favorite shows (Good Time) isn't on anymore. That was probably the most popular show, so it's perplexing.
This. Lumber prices are down 30% since March 1st, but still 250% up since COVID.
I've been working at usps for 18 years...DeJoy is the best PMG over that entire span.. i really don't get what the hate is about
There are countless indie games out there too worth all your time and more. If you like elden ring you need to experience the whole soulsborne series. AAA games are as trash as they've ever been.
It actually stops mills from working if high prices stop people buying, which turns the price down until mills can restart operations.
Lumber is not an indicator of much, because distribution is a bit artificial. A lot of places have been sitting on lumber to keep prices high - a kind of distributed/collective collusion.

I don't know for sure, but I believe the same thing happens to gas prices, whenever there is a reason for gas stations to jack up prices, they do, and justify it by 'oh there's a war in XYZ country'. Or if the headlines say 'Oil Shock' - then the bump up prices even though the pricing has not hit them at all. They can just get away with it, and they know it. So they all just do it and hold out until some of them 'blink' and prices come down.

As far as the 'new home' anecdotes, I'm not sure if NYC/SF are ever very good barometers overall. Some places are designed to have demand. Just pop out into the exaburbs and see what's happening there. Or Orlando. Or Atlanta. etc..
If it's commercial property you're getting a tax cut whether it's rented out or not.
Link to my website: https://www.metafi.build/
Honest question: I understand the gripes about lootboxes being toxic because gambling systems are generally manipulative, but I don't know how to respond to "Just don't buy them". They don't affect gameplay, they're really just there as whale bait, but if you're invested in the game you don't necessarily have to get invested in cosmetics.

The only two games I play these days both happen to be gacha games, and actually I see a lot less complaints about the toxicity of these luck-based systems in those communities. Maybe it's because they're more used to them, maybe it's because most other gacha games include pity systems, but it seems weird to me that the most vocal complaints are over systems with no bearing on gameplay when gacha games limit free access to new characters and, by extension, progress.
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I have to wonder how various materials will react. A simple plastic layer on a counter could yellow and degrade very quickly. And im sure that all sorts of drugs will need to be stored in dark boxes else they too degrade into who knows what.
Rising interest rates will cool the market but that doesn't mean that the demand has vanished. People will simply remain longer in misery in their existing housing that doesn't suit their needs.
Video games are like this because people pay for it. It didn’t start like this. Back when packaged games (i.e. shrink-wrapped cd/dvd cases) were the way games were delivered we had “online” modes that generally cost a fixed amount (including $0) to access. Then someone would experiment with something like a power up or level up for some tiny cost, or a “bundle” of them, etc. and guess what: the market overwhelmingly went for it. It made more money because it both had higher per-transaction revenue and more people converting to pay it. Then came the whales (things like Saudi princes blowing $10s or $100s of thousands on FIFA cards or whatever) and the industry never looked back.

Video games are what they are for the same reason Marvel Character CGI-fest Sequel/Spinoff X blows away the box office every summer.
>Consider the case of a crypto mine being established in a remote and isolated location in the desert (or on the moon) with plenty of sunshine and solar power. As long as the mine has an internet connection, it can use the available solar energy to mine crypto and send them to anyone on earth. This physically results in the mine being able to transmit energy wirelessly across vast distances.

When the person wants to spend the crypto to get energy later, then new energy still has to be produced in addition to the energy used for mining (either by burning fossil fuels or using some of the capacity of renewables). If they're producing 100 units of energy to run their miner to get enough crypto to buy 100 units of energy later, then there's twice as much energy having to be produced than if they didn't run their miner.

Money is a tool for humans to allocate resources between themselves. It's not energy storage.

If there was only one person on Earth that could freely use any resources available to them, then they wouldn't ever have any use in "saving up energy" by crypto-mining to spend later because it's not saving up energy. It's making energy and spending it on IOU notes to trade to other people for energy they make. It's only when you add other people to the system that it makes any sense to do. Though ideally, the people would be able to coordinate together to come up with a solution that doesn't involve twice the energy being made with half of it going into making IOU notes.
If you look at markets with lots of new construction, you'll find that prices are increasing more rapidly (not surprising, since new construction is driven by rising housing prices). Right now there are challenges in procuring labor to build new housing as well as procuring material, but permitting isn't really a bottleneck (at least in my rapidly growing region in Seattle, you only need to go on a walk to see all the new townhomes being built).
Half-Mast
Sounds like typical NYC to me, as someone from the rest of the state. Every time I've eaten in NYC it's been mediocre and expensive.