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Ask HN: Are the 2020s the decade of peak homogenisation?
There's such a low cost of entry on most forms of digital media / art now that more people than ever just seem to be copying what's popular and adding to the non-stop barrage of beige unoriginality.

The Dribbble front page could all be the same designer at this point, electronic dance music particularly could be made completely interchangeably by any artist, no one seems to have their own design flair any more. Netflix / Disney etc seem to have copped onto one idea that works and just release the same tv show / movie over and over again with a slight tweak as it brings the money in without any worries.

Am I just now very old or is individuality in art and media now seen as a negative, whilst cookie-cutter straight-down-the-middle appeal-to-the-lowest-common-denominator-guff the only way to get ahead at the moment.
Release 2.4.0: Netplay in WASM-4
This is a modern life issue, not western liberalism. Russia, China, and many other non western countries non liberal countries suffer from the same issue, many times in a worse scale
Not completely true!

For emergency preparedness, I keep a few hundred cans of food around. I live in a rural area, and this is prudent.

I never eat them all best-before, and as this is canned food, best-before is not an expiry/safety date, even remotely.

It is a flavour date.

So I donate my stuff, before purchasing new. And before anyone gets all weird about it, I eat from the same stock I donate, even the day of donation.

This means people get good quality food, I get to renew my stocks, and the grocery store with the donation bin, may or may not have been where I bought the food.

If more people did this, we'd all be better able to handle disasters, and those in need would be better fed. A real win-win.
you should have tried buck2 ;) instantaneous
The logos are great, but does anyone get the feeling the description copy is written by an algorithm? It feels so “matter of fact” and uninspired.

EDIT: I went back to reread it just to be sure and the first paragraph is a robot fellow kids. Nobody writes like this. It's hilariously bad.

"No doubt, skateboarding is an adventure of its kind. It’s popular among youth, and youngsters seem to possess endless admiration for fun, physical activity. Considering its popularity, it’s no secret that the youth participate in the sport featuring various cool skateboard logos."
1Password 8 for iOS is now in Early Access
No mention of World Industries?! Flame boy and Wet willie?! https://worldindustries.com/about/
I literally remember waiting for individual windows to close when I would press the 'x'

It took like 3-5 seconds at least, growing up
I am an ex-academic. I quit my teaching job at university for many, many reasons. By a lucky strike I found myself teaching philosophy solo online. All thanks to twitter. I have been doing this since June 2020. It's been my primary source of income so far.

It is my 'dream job' insofar as I love teaching philosophy. It isn't, however, an ideal situation. This is because at any point in time registrations for my synchronous courses might dry up.

So I have been trying to diversify my income streams too. But it's quite difficult to do so when I was a rusty academic for 7 years. The past two years were a learning experience on all fronts.

I was not sure I could actually contribute to hacker news, newbie here. So still learning the ropes, and it seems that it is not limited to tech jobs, posts, or news.

Where do I head from here? I wish I knew. The ride has been interesting though. The only reason I'm responding is because of your nickname. So, curious to hear back! Thanks!
Also:
1. Read the code.
2. Spend time thinking about the incentives of different participants.
The ability to offload it onto retail suckers before the price collapses.
Thanks for the deep dive! No games, and I didn't say that either. Although the post itself was a bit unstructured I can see how you thought that.
While saying "to be fair" may be an idiom, it is also in this case a strawman. Your comment proposes something as an alternative but provides no evidence to indicate there is any actual debate to be had.

I could mention that bicycling on Antarctica is much safer than in the Netherlands. Thus, the Netherlands should seek to emulate Antarctic policy regarding bicycling. None of that is a real argument.
Ngrok 3.0
Some simple game theory of discursive conflict
I scanned a qr code, entered an amount and clicked pay in my banking app. It automatically converted the amount from my local currency to UAH. Negligible or no fee (can't recall and can't check right now).

Seems that crypto is just a technical solution to socio-political issues that plague parts of the world.
you mean git lfs? That is alive
LaPlink (as we called it) was such a useful utility back before wireless and even before ethernet.

And they're still in business: https://web.laplink.com/
€100,000 = ~$108,000

So if that's the credit for 3 children, for 4 years, that's ~$750/month. I have zero idea about how much it would cost for the Dutch, but in the closest city center to me in the US, the average cost for a licensed daycare center is ~$1300/month.

Not unrealistic, really, unless I missed something.
Immediate read, not even driving out of the gas station before it's done.
Why do they need to innovate? Their stranglehold on search isn't waning.
How facial recognition is identifying the dead in Ukraine
If you're willing to use a discontinuous subset you could probably find close enough glyphs to make a full Marain. Ordering would be messed up and require a lookup table though.
Right now the IT security dept requires that any software is approved by committee, repackaged and hosted internally. So it's a huge hurdle to overcome. It's just easier to use symlinks.
And, notably, crypto makes it easy to do this years after-the-fact by examining the public ledger. At least if you buy contraband with cash someone would need to compromise the seller or surveil the transaction in real-time to catch you. If you're transacting crypto in a state where transacting crypto is illegal, you're one op-sec failure away from your wallet being linked to your true identity and revealing all past transactions.
I enjoy such videos, but find them problematic. I'd like to filter by bouncing-camera style vs no-bounce, or perhaps on degree of bounce. Avoiding-pan style vs slow pan vs pan vs swivel to interesting things. Interesting things can be fun, but... "fun, fun, fun, fun, zap ouch! - now I get to be queasy for an hour". So perhaps intra-video filtering, like automatic blackouts, or vr-like "given the current angular velocity, we'll gray out much of the display, narrowing the field of view to a smaller circle, to avoid sickness"? Can a plug-in see an embedded video to do optical flow? Perhaps a site already curating such videos might value-add some image analysis? Are there popular channels with moments problematic for some viewers, perhaps creating a persistent niche for a mediating middleman?
You should have a great opportunity in the States for you bridge. I believe some of theirs are falling apart.
Open Source Coreboot BIOS Ported to MSI Z690-A Motherboard
I'm having a hard time figuring out what this does by looking at the main screen. Neither the menu nor the options are very enlightening without context, and I don't see an obvious way to get to any.
That's nocoalers, not nocoiners. Bitcoin is China's way of exporting coal through the atmosphere. Proof of Waste is what PoW really stands for, and Proof of Stake has always been a pipe dream that's never been delivered, and it has its own terrible problems, like being Oligarchy on Steroids.
I was expecting a US-only site, since I wouldn't expect something like this to be available globally available and usually no mention of the location means it's targeted towards the US.

Kinda refreshing to see an India-only service on the front page of HN.
Wow, this takes me back to my freshman year of college in 1993 and trying to connect computers in different dorm rooms with lengthy serial cables. We eventually got it to work, but I remember it took a couple days of tinkering.

In the summer after that year, the school networked all of the on campus housing via ethernet, so connecting things the following year was much easier.
I'd like to know this as well, and if anyone has any sources that cover it, please list them. I'm so tired of the western media lens.
`git status`. This essentially has a "prompt" mode with `--porcelain`, which can even print branch and stash state, so it features all of the information for a prompt. Prompts have been mentioned in adding the v2 porcelain format[0]

It will call the fsmonitor hook configured in core.fsmonitor - this is supposed to speed up figuring out which files to check.

The official git-prompt.sh calls `git diff`, which will do the same[1].

[0]: https://github.com/git/git/commit/00d27937bf0348e7da615f04b6...
[1]: https://github.com/git/git/blob/11cfe552610386954886543f5de8...
There is no economic utility in this system to begin with. So even if this were true, they would be optimising a quantity that would eventually be multiplied by 0 anyways.
>most Americans don't like/agree with the political aspects of their social media: to which i wonder, why don't they disengage?

It gets dragged in a lot of places whether you want it or not.

For example, I saw a discussion recently on a real estate forum where someone stated that US demographics show the population is about to tank and so real estate prices will crash when there are too many houses for the smaller population. Someone else pointed out the prediction wasn't compensating for illegal immigration and immediately the brigade went into action accusing them of being a republican.

Even on motorcycle forums with regard to Chinese-manufactured bike engines and whether you're supporting the CCP by buying one, etc. It feels like it's getting unavoidable.
This was my first thought too! The way the post is written it leads me to believe little research was actually done.

Enjoi? Blind? Sector 9? Habitat?
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Scientists Unravel How the Tonga Volcano Caused Worldwide Tsunamis
> Until there are clear consequences enacted by the populace, governments will continue this kind of behavior.

In fact, the government staged a token dissolution right before scheduled general elections, and proceeded to win the elections and come right back into power. Nothing changed.

Truly magical how accountability works.
I enjoy agad's balkan charm from time to time. His slow motion finishing bishop moves and his logical meanderings after an obvious statement are fun to watch. And he always keeps a couch for medo to chill on.
Elon Musk suggests changes to Twitter's subscription service
"thinly veiled suggestions of covert maliciousness sprinkled in."

This could be your bad-faith reading of the stories, though. You are "reading between the lines" and seeing statements that aren't actually there, then claiming bad-faith communication on others.

Finally, saying what you think another is thinking or going to say, as in Putin's actions and motives, is very far from SUPPORTING those actions and motives.
Having to keep charging a bicycle seems like far more friction to me than having to spend 15 seconds putting on a helmet
Don't mind if I do! :D
A lot of single use hand warmers use iron powder. The ones with a small satchel inside an air tight plastic package that start reacting as soon as the package is opened.
Data can and should be versioned, but not by just `git add BLOAT`. Take a look at https://dvc.org/: blobs are uploaded to a S3 compatible blob storage, metadata is versioned in a config file and this one gets versioned in git
The families were guilty of breaking the community guidelines /s
>> He directly helped North Korea (considered to be a rogue state by the US, also a nuclear power) evade sanctions.

> Did he present anything non-public or develop some kind of cryptocurrency client or novel way to launder/hide money that wasn't already public/known at the time?

None of those things are required to help.
She was a student at the time she received the letters claiming 'missing information' that led to the (unjust) claim. This does not mean she didn't have a job before that or some other occupation. She was around 30 at that time, and study was just part of her career path.

If you have several children, the child care allowance adds up — I receive over €1000 a month for one preschool child. Multiply this for more than one child and several years…

It is a system that is increasingly seen as hostile to citizens, because you need to update your registration with every change in income. It's silly too, because the allowance you receive goes to a child day care centre or kindergarten anyway, so you are just shovelling money around which leads to almost all parents being burdened with something completely avoidable. The answer is to just make child day care free for all children and not bother citizens with subsidies to pay it. It's probably cheaper to do it that way (we would be following in the footsteps of other progressive countries).
Both vulnerabilities are reported as git for windows vulnerabilities, aren't they?

I do not quite understand what is the 'correct' behaviour considering the parent directory thing. The concrete problem seems rather than that there is no -safe switch to use in prompts, etc.
Please explain how averages work.
This is not a defense of the tax office, but it is the cause.

The 'bulgaren-fraude' was the cause for the government to change policy (and I believe law) to be much stricter on fraud and be much more vigilant when trying to detect fraud. The current scandal is one of the end results here. An interesting intermediary result is that the culture at the tax-office changed to be much more about 'getting the fraudsters' and much less about 'helping people'. Throw on a bit of "bureaucrats trying to cover their own and their bosses' ass" when people accidentally get marked for fraud, and you start getting the results we have here.

I fear that this culture (both the citizen as adversary 'getting fraudsters' culture and the ass covering) is still in place, and much more widespread throughout the government. Similar things seem to be happening at the National Mining Institute trying to discredit earthquake damage in Groningen for one example.

<sarcasm> luckily when the government stepped down because of the last scandal, the new government was a big change and a big step towards fixing these attitudes </sarcasm>
Why shouldn't governments have equal access to the tools of advertising and bullshit dissemination that citizens and corporations do? Ours and theirs.

The problem would be when thy have unequal access, wouldn't it? Them or anybody, really...
That's not how coinbase operates. You have a "Buy <Coin>" button, and you expect to get that coin without fail, every time. If a new token launches, you should be able to buy it without waiting for users to deposit and sell. Maybe you're confusing with coinbase pro, which uses the more traditional order book model, or with other exchanges?
Yes. The repetition of "skateboard logo" and some odd grammatical use keyed me into this feeling too.
This is an interesting line of thought. Which currency is more democratic: USD, or BTC/ETH?

With ETH for example, I can create a new EIP, and if the majority of users agree with it, the currency can evolve. For example see EIP-1559 adoption despite it going against miners best interests, or even EIP-721 which has led to profound changes in the way the network is now used. This is pretty much "majority rule" but obviously it is being driven primarily by developers and those with the technical knowledge needed to propose and shape these EIPs.

On the other hand, with USD (or any state currency) I have nearly zero chance of influencing its policy, inflation, and so on. The only option I have is to write to politicians and hope they take it further. If the politicians (governing body) in place do not currently agree with this policy despite a large (user) backlash, there is no way for users to "fork" the USD, and so they are forced to adopt whichever decisions are made by their current government and policy makers. This is especially true if you live outside the US (as I do), but are still required to use USD by virtue of working with US clients, US customers, and primarily USD-based payment systems (e.g. as Wikimedia is stepping closer toward with this change).

This is mostly just presented as a thought experiment in response to the idea that USD is far more democratic than an open source + decentralized currency.
Take regular amounts of time to reflect on what is working and what isn’t, and be willing to change the things that aren’t working.

When you identify a problem, be willing to take advice and experiment with ways to avoid or solve the problem.

Treat yourself just a little bit like a resource management game, and make sure you invest in your engines of production. This usually looks a lot like eating well, sleeping, exercising and learning regularly.
One of the best yt channels for opening study is HangingPawns: https://www.youtube.com/c/HangingPawns

Just great for starters and advanced players. Stjepan is a great teacher and 2013 ELO so not a GM but on the way towards that goal.
Speaking of Textmate do you know if there's any way to support its development? The license shop has been unavailable the whole time I've used it.
Economies face ‘long Covid’ threat as data shows rates surging
What is the origin of the word “latte” referring to a caffè latte?
I wouldn't say "scripting focused". It seems to have a good amount of Puppet lang compatibility. It is definitely an alternative to both Puppet and Ansible that doesn't introduce dependency hell.
Whenever I ask to see the useful web3 projects that have an actual user base, people point me to stuff like “automated crypto lending platform offers 10% annual gains guaranteed!” — and it just further reinforces my impression that it’s all shell games around traditional pyramid/MLM schemes.
Ok, mea culpa. However...

In the __new__ method docs they mention an "object constructor expression" which I take to mean:

person = Person("Bob", "Smith")

And in the __init__ method docs there's mention of a "class constructor expression" which I also take to mean the same as above.

Yet oddly we have no mention of constructors or constructor expressions in:

https://docs.python.org/3/tutorial/classes.html

And the act of instantiating a new instance of a class is referred to as "“calling” a class object)"

https://docs.python.org/3/tutorial/classes.html#class-object...

Would you not agree that the docs could be a bit more consistent with regards to terminology?
the monorepo is handy: simplifies dependency management
“Overzealous regulation” = regulation they prevents me as an “entrepreneur” from profiting off of unsophisticated people, in this example.
I really like to hear feedback like that! I'm really glad you found something useful in the guide. If you have any criticism or changes, please let me know.
Oh no my Queen!
I shared your concern with letting Nix manage all configs because it felt wrong to me to have an abstraction layer over all kinds of configs. I've later realized that's got a big benefit of being able to use values across various configs, like high DPI settings for specific machines with 4k monitors as an example.

Version controlling Nix expressions is trivial since it's all just text files. So i basically use just git for that. With flake lock files you get a pretty high guarantee that rebuilding your configs (or machine setup) will be quite reproducible.

I should add that I do still have some imperative/manual steps still though, mostly setting up doom emacs.
Can't agree with this. Even if it was just feeding a list to human investigators, who fairly investigated each case, there's still the significant issue of how the list is determined.

For example, the tax authority in your country right now catches a small portion of overall fraud. I give them a list of "hot leads" of fraudsters that's really just a list of all the ethnic minorities I hate. Obviously, even if they fairly investigate everyone, and nobody who's not defrauding loses out, this practice would be deeply racist and disproportionately punish the minority.

In short, we can't human-wash this problem at the end. Even if everyone punished was a fraudster, strong bias in the initial list is still clearly an issue.
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The Dutch allow companies to negotiate individual rates which are kept secret. No, this is not competition, it is corruption.
Nano is a very interesting one. The foundation developing it focuses on one thing: developing the best digital currency. They don't implement smart-contracts to make it as efficient as possible for example. The feeless aspect is what makes it great but also maybe vulnerable at the same time: the foundation will have to look for external finance a bit like the Linux foundation of which they are taking inspiration.
Please read the HN FAQ. Job ads are not allowed to be posted here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

The relevant text:

Can I post a job ad?

Please don't post job ads as submissions to HN.

A regular "Who Is Hiring?" thread appears on the first weekday of each month (or Jan 2). Most job ads are welcome there. Only an account called whoishiring is allowed to submit the thread itself. This prevents a race to post it first.

Another kind of job ad is reserved for YC-funded startups. These appear on the front page, but are not stories: they have no vote arrows, points, or comments. They begin part-way down and fall steadily. Only one is on the front page at a time. The rest are listed at jobs.
This is mostly a failure of our citizens deciding not to hold the current coalition accountable and still voting for them. There are some wider 'failure of democracy' reasons for this, but in the end I lay the blame at the feet of people who voted for the current government.
Funnily enough there was a time when MDI was a popular and favored design philosophy on Windows, practically leading to the same application/window distinction that MacOS had/has.
There are pro independence, pro union and pro status quo people in Taiwan. People are mostly pro status quo as they don’t want a war nor want to be part of china. The current government is sort of pro independence, the president once said “we don’t need to declare independence, we are already independent”, which I guess is the furthest you can go before having a war there. The KMT party if I recall correctly is not necessarily pro China but pro unification. But of course unification with China would not really be unification but annexation and assimilation by a stronger authoritarian power (which can be done peacefully but yeah, no thanks)