skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Money isn't complicated. Save money, invest it into index funds long term, don't spend more than you earn, make sure you purchase a property, and never rent. We got through COVID due to monetary policies the Federal Reserver, White House, and Congress enacted, all levers that would disappear in this "paradise" crypto nerds/enthusiasts sell where our government loses all control over money.

Further, Venture Capitalists borrow money from Investment Banks who borrow money from the FED, how do we all envision this process working if our government can no longer issue money? A nebulous "DAO" with smart contracts? I'm not sure I'm comfortable with that.
No it is not possible for arbitrary programs with arbitrary being the operative word.
Wouldn't surprise me. The problem is how would we ever establish this, given the difficulty now of finding people without microplastic contamination?
Not on f-droid. Unfortunately there is no audio morse decoder there.
I have been blogging for about 14 years - 7 of these on a blog dedicated for software engineering topics.

I removed all commenting options after about 8 years of blogging. The reason was spam, noise and little value add.

Around 2015 70% of comments coming in to my blog were from bots and another 10% from anonymous folks making irrelevant, and sometimes insulting comments which I all had to delete. About 20% of the comments were still valuable, but moderating felt like an additional stress, on top of writing.

After a few of my blog posts made it on to Hacker News, I noticed the discussions here are far more interesting and productive, surpassing the best comment threads on my blog over the 8 years while I still had comments open.

I removed all commenting and never looked back. When I write, I focus on writing. If anyone wants to, they can find my contact details to share insights about the post - and some people still do.

As someone writing a blog, I'm much better off with no comments open to the whole world. I suspect this is what most other people have also realized.
CoreML is the API to use the ANE.
> You can't still have Red Bull and coffee-fueled all nighters hacking on that shiny new framework because your heart would literally give out.

This is the worst part of being old.
You need this ... in "the Zone".
You just join IPFS with things like https://crust.network/ and that's 'sufficiently decentralized'. People confuse decentralized with sufficiently decentralized which is what most Dapps are focusing.
The definition of "criminal activity" is constantly changing arbitrarily as governments seize more power and control than ever before.
p0f: Passive Traffic Fingerprinting Utility
Not OP but now that’s it’s happened, it will happen again. I would personally not be surprised to see some cities and states clamp down on evictions during the next recession, heat wave, drought, or similar.

These politicians are quick to take new powers and slow to give them back.
Would be something. They still have way to go stargazing-wise: https://github.com/search?o=desc&q=topic%3Avirtualization&s=...
To add more data.

Only 30% of the people younger than 35 have their own house, down from almost 60% in 2004.
> acted in bad faith I'm all for going after them in person

I agree, but this should be standard procedure. Hiding behind these peculiar "legal entities" that cannot possibly be held accountable anyway, makes no sense.

> This is one of the reasons I've never bought a new house

Same here, although the house I did buy was 160 years old; which also comes with its own set of problems :-)
Many years ago, I tried working at a bigger company. I made a mistake and accepted a job in a satellite office. I did not realize it would cause exactly this. I was supposed to be in office every day, but most of the relevant people were in the HQ, so all discussions were done online. It felt so pointless and even lonely to spend the time in the office. I tried doing that for a few months and eventually left. I really wonder what will happen now that people experience this on a larger scale.
Sorry, I mistyped. That should have read "one of the best psychiatrist ever 'I had ever' seen."
I guess you could benefit from consulting a dictionary on 'to face'.
> Around 10 million people, or one in five adults, would struggle to manage in a society without cash, a report from the Royal Society of Arts commissioned by cash machine network Link found.

Great source you got there, Telegraph.
Stopping drug dealers has the side effect of stopping drug purchasers who are trying to self-medicate in the best way they know how.

In my view that is a human rights violation.
Looking at the prices I wonder how long you have to wait until the electricity bill for sustaining an image on a normal LCD makes it economically justifiable.
You know I just had an argument with three union reps at a bar tonight - basically around the idea that "you were lucky..." but the outcome as phrased by one of them was "individual thoughts don't matter, I have no interest in that. Everything is systemic".

I've staked my entire life on being an individual who won't support a team, a religion, or a social movement (beyond individual points I agree with). I happen to believe that if everyone acted this way, we'd have a lot fewer problems as a society. I refuse to take the side of a movement that claims some holistic righteousnes, just like I refuse to accept religion and race. So on a case-by-case basis, I decide what seems fair. I should note that before that dog-beating kid drove his van into six cars, I went out there with a gun and a six pack of beer which I distributed to his 17 year old homeless friends, who I sat around with while they told me he was a crazy shithead. I think that was what really drove him mental.

Individuals. That's how the world functions. Everything else is theory.

So my rebellion didn't work? It did. I was gassed in the street in 2004 protesting the Iraq war. Everyone hates neocons now and hates that war, don't they? Did I do nothing? An argument is ridiculous if it asks every person to pawn everything they ever did to the next struggle in the future. Portland is a shit show in the real estate market, but where isn't? It's by leaps and bounds the most progressive city in America.

The boomers' homeless and ultimately functional children grew up richer than I did. They need to come halfway and see that acting savage and refusing completely to partake in society is not an ultimately winning strategy. They're not going to win some revolutionary war where they suddenly abolish all private property - and if that's their goal, they've really got to become more coherent and stop doing so much heroin, because I can't even understand what they're saying.

[edit] my contention is that the 20-yo shitting in my yard's problem is that he is spoiled and rich, by every standard I've seen everywhere I've traveled in the world. And that's why I can't relate to the conditions that led to him, or sympathize with his plight.
Alpine is still called Linux.
In my opinion there's an interesting middle ground, where you don't have comments but allow (moderated) linkbacks (I forget the name of the modern variant of this…) from other blog posts mentioning yours.
Maybe, but apparently in their case the deception lasted about a year; in Plastic Bertrand's case it lasted about 30 years.
I read blogs, usually blog posts about a specific remedy for a tech issue. The only reason for me to read/skim comments is if the suggested remedy or solution is no longer working and if somebody in the comments might have added their findings that do work. Else I have no reason to read any of the comments.
I read “change it” as encompassing any modification to the status quo short of quitting it altogether. So, yes. But so also would be writing a petition to reinstitute work from home as a “performance bonus” and getting it signed by as many other company bright-lights as possible. Lots of options.
"I would observe that employing a single militia of people with abhorrent views hardly makes Ukraine at large in need of liberation."

My guess is they would then respond by observing that it's not a single group, there is at minimum Azov, Svoboda, and Right Sector, probably more. Azov has rather notoriously been officially integrated into the Ukrainian military so it's unclear if it even makes sense to talk about it as if it were an entirely separate group now. And they would argue that if you indeed thought it was only a single militia then it'd be you under the influence of propaganda, not them, so this would probably backfire.

Now, does this justify 'liberation'. That's indeed a more fruitful ground for discussion. Highlighting the USA/Soviet alliance is maybe a good tactic, albeit it may backfire (perhaps this Russian hated the Soviet Union, a lot did). And it takes you down the more philosophical road, which I recommend, because the actual details of Ukraine are so messy that debating it may not result in the clean outcome you seek.

"I would ask to be educated on the nature of these Nazi militias. Are they members of a party? Is the militia exclusively made up of Nazis? What proportion of the armed forces are they?"

I'm not an expert, have just read a few articles about this (pre 2020). But to answer your questions:

1. Yes, it's called Svoboda. Also, after the 2014 revolution/coup/whatever it was, many were directly appointed to the government by the new president.

"After the coup, the neo-Nazis were awarded for their effectiveness. When "Yats" took power with US support, he appointed neo-Nazis to 4 ministries in his govt. Andriy Parubiy, a founder of Svoboda, and a commandant of the 2014 coup’s "self-defense forces," became the national security chief. Right Sektor and the Azov Battalion were incorporated into the National Guard of the military. Poroshenko, who succeeded Yatsenyuk, praised them as "great warriors" and dispatched them to fight the ethnic Russians and separatists in the Donbas in eastern Ukraine."

https://www.antiwar.com/blog/2022/03/27/msm-cover-up-of-neo-...

2. Militias like Azov are entirely Nazi, it seems, but are an integrated component of the wider Ukrainian military, which is not. Though I suppose we may wonder how non-Nazi they really are if they fight alongside them.

3. This I'm not sure about. A relatively small overall part of the military but their most effective and motivated fighters by far, seems to be the general consensus.
Exactly my feeling. I love working in the office, but I hate any kind of commute. Commuting in London is particularly atrocious, but I guess it could be worse (any US city apart from NYC).
I don't know yet if this thing is just a perspective deal with two right angle screens or is there something more.
> What a mess of naive and BS rambling. And that is the top comment on this HN posting right now.

(...)

> the Greens (who are happily trading with Qatar instead of Russia because Qatar is such a great place for human rights).

Very OT, but this is naive rambling, too. They are not "happily" trading with Qatar and even stated that this is the lesser evil right now.
A big difference is the source material. The Beatles didn’t have a very wide exposure to music, but they had a very deep one.

They grew up in an era when American R&B was literally revolutionizing the musical culture of Britain. And in crossing the pond and being selected by disc jockeys with rabid audiences, there was a distillation that took place.

So the Beatles in their youth were not just exposed to some American music - they were listening to the absolute best R&B ever created, and way more of it than most white kids in America were getting.

It’s fascinating that this sort of convergence of all the most incredible aspects of American roots music had to take place outside of the US, create genres like Skiffle (unheard of in America), and spit out kids like Paul McCartney who would go on to “invade” America with a sound that was familiar to US ears and yet something else entirely.

The magic still happens - see Amy Winehouse, the Scoundrels - but these are sort of like subsequent moon landings, despite being amazing in their own right.
If I know these guys I imagine a very clever statistician ran the numbers on this call.

My guess is that Facebook realized that being a "shouting in the wind" platform is an excellent way to retain what I'd call the "low engagement" tail end of the distribution.

i.e. the explicit goal was to provide content for those without all that many actual friends on Facebook.

I look at Facebook now and it seems like the connect with friends part of it is very much secondary to just driving groups, marketplace, and all the parasocial paraphernalia of the modern internet.

Which is of course a very profitable thing to do if you're in the eyeball minutes business. All those features are after all, there for users 24/7. And don't rely on the vagaries of end user content creation.
Our company blog https://www.construct.net/en/blogs/construct-official-blog-1 regularly gets good amounts of comments from our community, the way we implement it we see it as a key opportunity for our customers to open dialogue with us and get their feedback. We have no plans to disable comments, benefits far outweigh the positives.

It's also a nice moral boost for the team on occasion! https://www.construct.net/en/blogs/construct-official-blog-1...

We have pretty easy tools to remove spam accounts and spam comments, it's rarely an issue. I feel like because it's a custom implementation we're off a lot of radars, and we make the process of registering to being able to post comments laborious enough to stop most of it (honeypots, verified emails, etc)
If you were to cough while this was on, you’d effectively just spread the particles everywhere.

Pre pandemic, this might have been alright. Post pandemic, it’s irresponsible.
Elm is (maybe) a good choice if you want to focus on the functional aspect. Python is arguably a better choice for high school students as it gives them a large amount of utility. You can use python to do useful things quickly - elm, not so much. Not saying I don’t like elm, but just doesn’t make sense to me for this case.
Perhaps so. Though I found structural things with each of those projects that I did not like. For example, opentaxsolver's logic is a bunch of 'monolithic' C code, and I haven't been able to find any tests. UStaxes is better in that respect, but there I couldn't get past typescript, honestly, and they have code like https://github.com/ustaxes/UsTaxes/blob/master/src/forms/Y20... where they're relying on position of an item in the array to indicate which field it is. Not trying to disparage anyone, but I did not see evidence of an attention to detail I felt I could trust (and maybe that's just me and NIH syndrome).

What I would really like is to somehow extract out a representation of the tax logic into something separate from the business of collecting the data from the user, or even calculating the results. I'm not entirely sure what that would look like, maybe it would have to be some domain-specific language (eww) in order to be able to fully express the relationships and dependencies between different fields/forms.

But I think that tax logic portion is the difficult-to-maintain part, and also the portion different projects would benefit the most from sharing.
I think you're talking about Webmentions.[0]

[0]: https://indieweb.org/Webmention
Almost all jobs have gotten rid of sick days and have you use PTO. The US labor laws suck.
Disqus? Best first check this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26033052
Hi everyone! This is my first blog post. It may be a controversial one, but someone had to say it.
For your last sentence, I’m not sure what you really mean, may be you don’t mean physical capability but more like by chance it’s unlikely.

Laser can be very dangerous, especially those used in labs. I remember in my undergrad optics labs we were all told about it’s danger by telling us a story that someone setting up an array forgetting to turn off the laser (not visible spectrum so can’t tell by the color light ray as usual) and got blinded in one eye because that eye enters the optical path momentarily.

And the main reason laser is so dangerous and useful is it’s coherence. That gives us those unique colors and also interference pattern when it’s shining on objects, and also the highly directional beam. That beam is almost perfectly parallel so no matter how far your target is, the intensity is still almost the same.

That’s why in that article, they mention the ability to target things. If you can aim accurately, it is deadly.
We should keep a broken tax system because many of your peers are paid illegally? Or because edge cases exist?

I should be a pretty typical middle-class example. Two salaries (me + spouse), a mortgage, limited other deductions. Yet every year I have to wait for various forms that the government already has, enter the values on paper or pay for tax software, hope I don’t fat finger a value, and wait 7-10 years for an audit. Heck, since Trump increased the standard deduction, I’ll probably be taking that soon (mortgage interest is near that threshold now), but still can’t just click a button at irs.gov that says “yup, that’s right, here’s my bank info for refund/payment”
One of the stupidest replies I've read on HN--well done
Looking at one of my remote servers running Debian Buster, it has about the same amount of GNU stuff on it (~100 MB) and most of that is semi-obsolete tooling that, again, just isn't necessary day-to-day. I could probably purge ~all of it without loss of functionality.

I log in with OpenSSH, which listens on a Wireguard interface. The shell is whatever generic Bourne-alike Debian uses (Ash? Dash?). The administrative tools are all written in Go since they're a mix of contemporary projects (containerd) and my own administrative agents. Primary editor is vim. There's the basic tools (mv, cp) but those could just as easily be supplied by Busybox, which is installed.

It's difficult for me to imagine what sort of server would run GNU software as a majority of its workload, or even just the UX control surfaces. The GNU project has always had a strong emphasis on re-creating the UNIX interfaces of yesteryear, and modern sysadmin practices don't include running m4 or gcc in the same machine that's going to serve traffic.
Listing the Beatles in order of genius is a fun game and endlessly debatable but it’s not clear to me who you are referring to respectively. It reads as if the first two you mention are Paul and John in some order, but that would leave the “rhythm guitarist” to be George, but he is more often described as the lead guitarist. If this was bait, you got me!
Wot no Pluto? Damn you Mike Brown :) And no Eris either. This makes me sad.

And works fine in Firefox :D
handling bots is just not worth it. if there is a discussion happening on hackernews i usually add a link to the article. i also like the way lowtechmagazine handles comments but some could also argue that it builds an echo chamber if you are handling the moderation of your own content but that would also be happening on a normal blog.
1. What to charge for? Bandwidth? Storage? Other considerations?
Unless your service is predominantly driven by storage/bandwidth usage (eg: video), it makes sense to bundle these costs into the customer price.

2. How to collect payment? Is Stripe a good option? What else do I need on the backend?
(Assuming this is the US) You can go for Stripe or any other payment provider that gives you a good API for integrating with your programming language. This option eliminates the need for storing credit cards/account information securely (the payment provider is responsible for that and must be PCI DSS compliant).

3. How much to charge? Expenses + desired profit? Research competition.
Price discovery is a combination of art and science. Yes, you should price it to cover your costs + expectation of profit. When researching competition, look for feature set comparison and poll the target audience on which features they value the most (and which ones they wish were available i.e., unmet needs). If you are meeting some of those unmet needs, you should play around with price points to determine the perceived value of those features.

4. How to charge? Establishing tiers seems to be a common practice. Free, Personal, Business, Big, Gigantic. Does this simplify billing? Or is it more of a promotional thing, and establishing a single charge rate is simpler?
IMO, this helps with customer segmenting and price discovery.

5. What other questions am I not asking?

You may want to check out this resource: https://www.nickkolenda.com/psychological-pricing-strategies...

It has a whole list of pricing tactics that may help you and address some of your questions above.
This is yet another one of these problems that repeatedly remind me of what I call continuous politics:

Scenario:
A painful (unpopular with citizens/businesses) political decision needs to be made that imposes a (often times financial) burden on people/businesses.

Option A is to just push past political resistance and apply the burden (tax, regulation, ...) at once. This results in a minor/major shock to the involved systems. And it might lower acceptance of the politicians who decided it.

Option B would be to - instead of practically imposing a brutal unit step function as in A - implement a differentiable function to "go from 0 to 1". I call this continuous politics.

A physical analogy would be slowing a high velocity vehicle down to a halt because there's an insurmountable obstacle in its way. The least painful way is to simply reduce the velocity in a linear fashion.

There are of course many other variants besides a linear approach. There are probably situations for which degressive or progressive functions are better.

But the linear function is easy to implement and understand and people and businesses could plan for the future, if the numbers were laid out to them early.

Businesses are probably better than people, though. Because they are probably less susceptible to the frog-in-slowly-heating-water effect.

> I am all for alternative energy but I don't think this is an approach that would work.

I think - if implemented linearly - this approach would be the least painful. All the other "approaches" will very likely effectively carry out like shocks/catastrophes with dramatically more harm done.
It's profitable to pump pollutants into the air and it's profitable to sell you a device to filter them back out before you inhale it. Wonder if there's a better way to do things.
For Wordpress you may use an ActivityPub plugin and have your commenting coming from the Fediverse.
> Facebook, Google, etc would not be calling people back to the office which only serves to increase their costs, if they didn’t have the data to back it up

Yes they would. Both companies have the same toxic management types that see their direct reports as serfs in their fiefdom. They bitch and moan to upper management to get their serfs back in the fields.

It's not difficult to focus while hanging out with a dog. The sort of attention they want typically isn't the same as a coworker standing over your desk. Petting a dog releases endorphins and oxytocin while dealing with the hovering coworker only generates cortisol.
If asked, I'd've said: "Applied ontology[1]".

When we code, we're philosophizing about information in some language (itself an applied ontology), for the decreasingly worse.

Occasionally one arrives at a coherent, stable product.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ontology
> the descent into a Putineque regime seems unavoidable at this point.

I have hopes that this is not possible because of geographical/geopolitical reasons.