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> Crypto is "cult by design" in much the way all greater-fool scams are. Namely, since coins are incredibly deflationary

I think you have it backwards. Bitcoin is not deflationary by design, but rather it becomes deflationary when demand increases. This is a property of any scarce asset where there are constraints on supply. Conversely, as demand decreases it becomes quite violently inflationary!

For assets that are not scarce, such as fiat currency, deflation is avoided by creating more units as demand grows. There is also an allocation fairness problem in this case, at it is just as bad if adoption is growing as fast as it is for bitcoin. Who has the right to produce new supply, and how do you stop them from becoming incredibly rich when you give them this privilege? Ironically, those sorts of systems also tend to result in feudal like structures as well.

What I don't understand is most people think bitcoin must either go to zero or take over the entire world. It is entirely possible that some subset of people decide to adopt bitcoin, other people decide they want nothing to do with it, and that its value stays relatively steady once everyone has decided. This would still offer great utility as a protection against inflation of fiat (the expectation is not necessarily huge returns), in the same way that other scarce collectables are used. Most people don't view other markets with such extreme views.
No I mean this specific statement: "Differences in world view are less significant when the bureaucrats and executives with power over your life live nearby instead of in another city and state."

During the period in the US where power was most abused by bureaucrats and executives, they were also extremely local to the people they were wielding that power against.

I'm not trying to figure out some personal-freedom-vs-collective-justice conundrum, I'm asking a very concrete question about whether the quoted statement is even true. In one highly notable case affecting tens or hundreds of thousands of americans and lasting for nearly a century, that wasn't the case. That calls the assertion into question, I think.
I am increasingly disabled, but I'm still managing to keep my job and its amazing health insurance, thank God.

Insurance this past year has paid for like, a couple dozen specialist visits, 6 MRIs, weekly rehab, a reclining desk and a power wheelchair. I maxed out my deductable in February :D

My health would be better if I could go on disability but that pays like, $1K a month and is ridiculously hard to get.
Well, it's certainly traditional to get that wrong. Technically nothing's wrong in graphics as long as you get some kind of image out of it, it's just different :)
> Why is an essay needed to descibe obvious behaviour that everyone sees and can intuitely understand with their eyes.

Because we disagree on the assertion on what everyone can see and understand with their own eyes.

> There is access to more information and education then ever has been.

It's also getting harder and harder to discern malicious disinformation from legitimate information, particularly among those that aren't as technologically literate. The last 6 years have shattered the utopian dream of the internet bringing the world together through shared information. For example, many people still believe that the Newtown massacre, one of the most heinous crimes committed in my lifetime, was a government hoax. This is the opposite of enlightenment.

> We are slowing coming towards ultimate prosperity.

We are reaching levels of wealth inequality not seen since the Gilded Age. I'd love to know what metrics you're using to come to that conclusion. The middle class in America is eroding at an alarming rate and more as more people fall into financial insecurity.
Train's bonus over driving a car is that I have no chance to kill/break anyone/anything. IMO people should think driving a car is a special operation that have high risk in daily basis.
How is that pay calculated?
The philosophy of minimizing benefits to maximize salary is the one espoused by Amazon. It isn’t a hypothetical, it’s used by one of the most successful businesses on the face of the earth.
I was expecting a rant about the Finder, found one on window management (which has infinite solutions).

Other than the spacebar and column view, the Finder is a toy compared to File Explorer.exe and I’ll never forgive Apple for it. 20 years of staleness.
Joining the board limited his stock ownership to something like 14.1%. That's a deal killer when he can not be a board member and just keep buying up shares to take control.
I dunno, I really like being able to set out my most-used apps and cycle between them with Win+n - much quicker than alt tab / cmd tab.

But then that’s not obvious unless you’ve read any of the documentation - so that’s another question, how many people actually read up about their OS features ?
Meh, I know that we did not get greedy. Greedy implies we were driven by a selfish goal of making more money for ourselves. As the founder, I can truly state that it was not our intention.

We honestly thought that smartwatches were about to be a big thing for a lot of people and started scaling up. As I outlined in the post, we (poorly) tried to target a larger market segment and also scaled up our team. We were mostly right - smartwatches are objectively a major industry right now, but our strategy to do so was pretty bad. I don't think I would have changed anything, but looking back of course I see what would have been a more successful (but smaller) path.
The Russian people have been watching this happen for 20 years have have become complacent. Nobody stopped the czar from extending term limits that are supposed to prevent this sort of power grab from happening.
Well then it's not "short-hand".
Gopro?

Roomba?
This is bad for one main reason: it legitimizes vigilante justice. There is no premise of guilty or innocent, because it’s all through the civil courts, with no onus on the accusers. There’s no downsides for anyone who wants to abuse it.
This is a great improvement over the existing workflow.

Didn’t realize I could use this for protobuf libs pulling in from a common schemas repo
I was one of those people, and I didn't buy it because of battery life. Unrealistic expectations, perhaps, but that's the reason.
What are those loans secured against?
The main thing is that I can't find the license. I have to assume it's a proprietary solution.

It seems like an attempt to snip the OSSC Pro, an open source hardware (OSHW) solution which is set to release soon.
> Learn about the screenshot shortcuts CMD+shift+{3,4}, 3: full screen, 4: select area or switch to window select with hitting space bar once.

I just learned about command-shift-5 for screen recordings, which is super nice for showing a visual diff of work done.
I know die hard old devs that are Mac fanboys and the first thing they do is turn off "natural" scrolling. I know because I had to ask them if I was holding it wrong. Couldn't believe it.
> So just saying "this is content marketing" I think is a shibboleth for the entire conversation that starts with "pretty shallow and non-descript".

I'd disagree with this pretty strongly since there are many examples of content marketing that are also very useful pieces of content.
OP here. I was mainly going off of this (2nd paragraph).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin_(operating_system)
I struggle to see what problem space is better for one or the other. I’ve replaced all my web service type stuff with Rust and couldn’t be happier. Also a lot of stuff I used to do in Python is more concise in Rust.

No I hung up my Go boots in 2018, so may be a little out of touch.
I assumed it to be poking fun at the use of that term in business (especially logistics) jargon.
I don't disagree that 'race to the bottom' is the rule rather than the exception in modern capitalism, but I don't think your response here captures the context. The fact that Etsy's decline into something like Amazon (which has truly embraced the race to the bottom, enabling it to thrive) was more-or-less inevitable doesn't change the reasons I've used it in the past, or the reasons I may be less likely to use it in the future.
Based upon slight experience of both, I would say rail in a third-tier German city can compare favorably with the Metro in Washington DC.
I do this. I have an email address that ends in “.work” for everything, and then a “.mail” which is only for family and very close friends. Signal-to-noise ratio is of course night and day, and I cherish getting something at my .mail account, and have the usual dread for anything on my .work account.

Another small plus: because if the rather unusual format of [myname].[mail|work], spam is virtually eliminated (at least in the .mail account).

I’d recommend it.
So the implementation I like (https://energyinnovationact.org/) would tax the production, but companies could get a tax rebate for non-fuel consumption, such as manufacturing plastics. That puts the onus on companies to get their rebate and is a lot easier to enforce, but is pretty fair -- plastics don't cause emissions aside from the energy used in their production (which would already be taxed if it comes from fossil fuels). I guess one issue would be if you're burning a lot of plastic garbage, like I've heard is common in Japan, though I don't know if that's a big contributor to emissions.
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The health insurance tax subsidy for self employed individuals is not as extensive as that indirectly provided to conventionally employed persons through their employer because it does not reduce the self employment tax, which is substantial.

Whereas with statutory employees anything the employer purchases in that regard is not included in the tax base for the payroll tax or the income tax, i.e. is basically tax free. Self employed folks are treated better than they were a few years ago (no deduction basically), but that is still a big difference.
> has already made me miss a couple meetings.

Congratulations on a novel permutation of “the dog ate my meeting notification” :-)
Ask HN: Where are ATX and ITX standards published?
Where are the standard documents for the various ATX and ITX specifications published?
Oh wow - thanks for the compliment :-)

https://randomlyunique.com/feeds/all.atom.xml
BTW I found exact quote from Sherlock Holmes: "When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherlock_Holmes
It's a little unfair to compare to Shinjuku, which is the busiest station in the world. Sure, some of the big Tokyo stations can be mazes, but the signage is always very clear. No German stations are really dealing with comparable density either.
Also, when it comes to maximizing, the green button changes modes when you hover over it with Option held and switches to tiling the window left/right or maximizing it. In general, holding Option on Mac toggles alternate behaviors for menus and buttons. (Special callout to Option+dragging a window edge)
Fiddling is generally only needed if you want pixel perfect output. Else you get OK results, which are the same OK results you'd get with a less flexible solution.

Fortunately, most of the figuring out for perfect timings has already been done by other people. I was able to just input someone's numbers for my A1200. The results look positively digital, as if there was no analog step whatsoever in the chain.
Yes, if you still have a chance to ride on a 747, take it. They will not be passenger aircraft much longer, though I think they will have a decent run in the freight world. It's an extraordinary vehicle.
Finder tells you the keyboard shortcut to Delete a file in the menu. Most every menu item on macOS that has a keyboard shortcut exposes it in this way through the menu, which is one nice feature that macOS has that Windows doesn’t have, but could have.
Probably, yes. But it's not a guarantee until you include infinity. And that's the important distinction here.

Without any such guarantee of the larger result, all you have is a 50/50 chance for the next flip. With infinity, you can pick out a portion of the sequence with an unusual number of Tails and expect there to be an offsetting number of Heads elsewhere in the full (infinite) sequence.
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Had to laugh that he jumped into a paid chat service, I get combining all these services into one app is a way to "solve" this problem, but no one is going to pay $10 a month for it.
Israel gov cooperated. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/28/magazine/nso-group-israel...
At the very least we know they offered him a position on the board in exchange for a guarantee that he would not purchase more than 15% of shares. There were definitely terms, and we do not know all of them.
Unless they've changed it really recently you can't have a mouse scroll "unnaturally" and a trackpad "naturally". They're tied together for some reason. You need a 3rd party utility to it.
> even The Rustonomicon advises against it.

What is "it" here which you believe has been advised against? Please try to be specific.

> As for data races, great that it fixes data races among threads

Yes, it is pretty good. It was pretty great the last few times you "forgot" about this too.
Model deployment is an important but still tiny part of the overall ranking/recommendation systems. Bulk of the complexity stems from two key properties of recommendation systems (which are different from say computer vision models):
1. The system operates on user feedback. As a result, it needs to manage flow of lots of data, with at least some subset being managed in realtime.

2. For any single request, there are thousands of things to recommend from. As a result, a single request is not scoring a single ML model but thousands of models - one (or often more, see value modeling the post) for each candidate.
> You can use the site from most platforms, including PCs and mobiles. You don't have to install software, a single click is enough. Of course, browsers have considerable limitations, and serious users will eventually choose other tools, but providing such an accessible software is a really huge advantage for me.

In the audio world that is cool for toys.

There are a lot of really cool things to play with in the browser/multi media space, maybe this is another.

But when it comes to getting shit done, writing plugins and transports, creating instruments and rigs for live use (my hobby these days) the quite demeaning comments here are on the mark.

This "Elementary" is prioritising the wrong things. And there are a lot of frame works that do not require you know C or C++

Pure Data, and Sonic Pi are two I have played with (the former much more than the latter).

Platform independence is simply not an issue when building these systems. Installing software is not an important issue.

Sorry. This is, on the face of it, a waste of time. I hate saying that, but if it were me doing this I would pitch it as a fun toy.
I am not necessarily sure I agree with this analysis. Will fleshing out the long term vision necessarily win you more customers?

I just think that this was a sad case of a very good company that made a wrong guess - efficiency tools instead of sport/fitness. It does not even sound like a mistake. Maybe the size of the bet on a risky guess was too big, and that is what caused the failure.
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The Windows 11 taskbar was rewritten from scratch, with what it looks like a few bits from the Win32 version bolted on. Hence it never supported putting the taskbar/menu on the side.

Th ExplorerPatcher utility, on the other hand, re-enables the Windows 10 taskbar. It also disables the Snap layouts. I expect that the Windows 10 taskbar will slowly break.

Perhaps alternative taskbars [1] will become popular at some point.

[1]: https://github.com/dremin/RetroBar
> What I see missing from Haidt's analysis is increased federalism and localism as a solution.

I'm theoretically in favor of this, but ... one of the reasons we need a bigger, more powerful federal government is to have a governmental entity that can take on the massively more powerful private entities (corporations) that exist. No state government can take on Walmart or Amazon. The federal government can (or could, if it chose to).

If you weaken the power of the federal government (which ironically is what i interpret "increased federalism and localism" to mean), who deals with the titans?
Lots of things. I work for a neutral research org (so not a politician or a political party), which definitely impacts my experience. We field media inquiries, set up interviews (either with experts on staff or, if it's something general, one of us will do it- I've given talks/Q and As on local elections and stuff like that), send out newsletters, write copy for our offerings and gather contact information for people who would be interested, create graphics, answer questions from the public, manage our social media feeds, run/host webinars, etc.

On my team in particular, I'm the team member with the strongest tech and quantitative skills, so I also am the one who collects and presents metrics + owns relationships with a lot of the service providers we have relationships with.

It's not my favorite job I've done (too much 'asap' work and not enough thinking work), but I took the job because I knew marketing and branding was what I was weakest in when I was working for myself, and I wanted to learn about marketing while still having a roof over my head, so I took a comms job.
Well yes, it was functioning as a health care plan featuring actual bona fide insurance, which means you paid for yourself, and you paid an amount commensurate with the risk that your health care needs might prove to be expensive. It was not designed as a wealth transfer to the needy any more than the auto insurance market.

We may need more wealth transfers to the needy so that they can pay for healthcare! You will note, however, that the recent approach to reforms, which tried to turn the vehicle of “insurance” itself into such a wealth transfer, has not exactly solved the problem!! Nor has it achieved its stated goal of making healthcare and health insurance more affordable to the general population, a mission always contradictory to its goal of being a wealth transfer!
For those who don't know - Eric's new company, Beeper [1], is a proprietary Matrix chat client with hosted Matrix bridges to other chat platforms. The bridges are open sourced which is a huge contribution to the Matrix ecosystem.

[1]: https://www.beeper.com/
The west hasn’t seen proper austerity yet, just barely warming up.

Maybe soon.
Why? Errors are annotated by definition. I wouldn't feel better about returning my own string versus the error which already includes a message.

How much additional context needs to be there and how often is this convention used by simply duplicating the message with basically repetitive text?

panic(err) become "Problem with date formatting: invalid date format" or similar

I also think "antipattern" gets thrown around too often. This sounds more like a preference or convention.
I'm not the only one who's noticed that the development history of Eve Online looks a good deal like someone Reinventing Erlang Badly. But I suspect one could mine their developer blogs, especially the older stuff, for ideas on sharding and de/mux tricks. A lot of functionality they had to sweat is probably relatively straightforward/slightly clever genserver logic.
I've always felt like Apple [desktop] tries to make choices based on what's intuitive for the user, presumably through user testing, whereas Windows historically made choices that developers prefer. My impression is Windows has tried to become more user friendly over time, but it has baggage that results in trying to satisfy two influential groups. Maybe this describes a lot of software, but for better or for worse I think Apple makes a more concerted effort at putting users ahead of developer desires, or at least not sacrificing usability in favor of power users.

I have an iPhone now but I prefer Android's flexibility. I really miss the Google Translate button that comes up automatically if I copy some text. On iPhone, to translate some text, I need to copy, open the other app, make sure 'detect language' is selected, and paste. On Android that was two clicks.
A convicted child molester chasing and attacking a child on a public street at night does seem relevant.
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Counterpoint: you were always going to fail in the long run without full platform integration that you cannot have. The Apple Watch is a seamless experience and you can't replicate it. Although Google hasn't managed to produce an Android ripoff with any staying power, so maybe there's a market there.
From what I have seen, there is no requirement for instant deletes. Even emailing a support address and having them manually delete the data is acceptable. Most places using deleted_at never clean up the data from what I have seen though.
I think it's more cultural than geographical. Just anecdata, but most of the positive, restore-your-faith, "community" experiences in my personal life have come from non-Anglo migrants, as well as people from rural areas and also certain states (QLD, and to a lesser extent SA).

Long story short, I think it's simply a cultural shift more than an adaptation to any lifestyle changes.
No. Imagine you have a nuget package your solution relies on. If you want to test a change to that nuget you would need to change the nuget reference to a local project reference or publish locally.

Imagine if you could create a file on the solution level that uses the source code in a directory instead of the nuget without affecting the csproj, sln or nuget references
It most definitely isn’t
If you can tolerate graphical programming, the successor to Max, Pure Data, really rocks.
Sure. Just like “competition” in broadband has driven prices down across America.
I agree, but as aleksiy123 suggests there is an additional complexity burden and it is a long journey to teach users to make use of a new technology. I think a lot of "advanced" features get de-prioritized as not many people use them and it seems like resources could be better spent helping the masses. I think that the importance of "advanced" features is often under rated by traditional engagement models. Wikipedia is a great example of where less than 1% of users click on the edit button, but that 1% adds all the value for the other 99%.
I work in two separate areas: GUIs and CLIs. GUIs for graphical stuff, but mainly CLIs for most of my work. The command-line is just more usable for my everyday purposes. Note that I use a graphical Desktop to allow many CLI xterms to be open at once.

When it comes to programming, I use quite a few xterms at the one time. That means there is very little mouse use, and that's mainly to switch which particular xterm is open. For most of the time, I'm using just the keyboard. A text-editor for coding, gcc (more or less) for compiling, then leaving that xterm open with all the compile-errors plainly visible, while I use an xterm or two for the next set of coding with a text-editor.

Need to reference a header-file while you're coding? Display it in yet another xterm.

I sometimes have half a dozen open xterms for one task. Works for Me (TM).
Sure, I get that there are still decisions to be made, but the discussion in the article makes it seem like nobody has even thought of using an LRU cache and then having a discussion about how to tune the cache size.
It is impossible to understand, why North Korea still exists, without understanding, why it is appear - these things tightly coupled, unfortunately.
I’m using a 40” 4k monitor for Win10, and never found snapping to be attractive, although I routinely have about 20 active windows.
The law does ban that.
I view any mass transport as a security risk for me so I welcome airport "security theater". there is downside, but imo airports screen better than trains for bad actors