skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The fact is still that the crypto sphere is even more unequally owned than the economy or the stock market, which is already extraordinarily unequal.

What are the specific figures & sources you derived this claim from? Last time I looked into this it was somewhat surpising, but there are huge problems with the methodology (e.g. assuming that 1 address = 1 person is a really broken assumption)

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fbloc.2021.7301... is a good attempt, but still flawed methodology. It's latest estimate for bitcoin is gini index on wealth per account at ~0.45

Which if it was a country would make it one of the least high in terms of wealth inequality which is hard to believe.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_wealth_in...
> The biggest criticism I'm raising is the American (outside of border states like CA, AZ, NM, and TX where they don't put up with that shit) tendency to accept cheaper, filler ingredients as primary to the contents of a burrito.

Having lived in San Diego and SF… they do indeed put up with that shit in many parts of those border states.

Fantastic comment, though. :)
Maybe because designers are a smaller, niche community which seem to be more focused on aesthetics than usability at present?

How have you promoted the site? Can you talk to users who didn't convert? Or run a survey?
The business are the owners. And, unless they are woefully mislead or incapable, the owners will vote what is in their best interest. If the best thing for the business is NOT to grow, because a majority are happy with the current state, then the business shouldn't grow, especially if that would require sacrificing the desires of some of the workers.

This is identical to how privately owned companies are often run, especially family owned small businesses, which can be extremely successful.

Profit is at best a proxy for success, it is not a goal in itself.
You mean lennart poettering. Also the guy behind systemd. He's a bit controversial since he goes against the Unix philosophy and isn't very nuanced in expressing his opinion, but all criticism is easy in hindsight. Pulse audio was a great improvement over what was available at the time and systemd is IMO better than any alternative it replaced.
Minimize a video so it's playing in the corner of the browser; notice that the video continues to play seamlessly as you navigate around the site. You can't do that in an MPA right now.
I think 'breed true' is the key here, for example you can't plant the seeds out of that tasty Gala apple and get a tree covered with Gala apples (in 10yr - another challenge with some food crops)[1]. But for perennials like tomatoes and chiles, it's great!

1: https://hortnews.extension.iastate.edu/faq/can-i-grow-apple-...
If I were a doctor and I had no clue, I'd definitely have anxiety.
I'd argue the early 70s.

See:

https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/
I'm a firefox user too and whilst I occasionally bump into some situation as you describe where I need to hop onto Chrome, I genuinely can't remember the last time this happened.

Sadly I find it happens more and more often, even with important things like financial services.

What I haven't figured out yet is whether it's really the Firefox engine that is the problem or just that Firefox also provides better tools for blocking obnoxious trackers and the like. Maybe because I have those tools turned on by default more sites using obnoxious trackers break in Firefox than other browsers. In most cases that is a feature not a bug but it's frustrating when essential functionality on sites providing essential services gets broken as collateral damage.
Esopus spitzenburgs and golden russets cover the raw fruit bases for me. Lodi is a great early variety for baking. I definitely understand the appeal of Honeycrisp, but it is very sad seeing old orchards of Macs and galas and empires being ripped down in favour of rows of dwarf honeycrisps
Occupy the blockchain
You're assuming that these will use the same paint that legitimate crosswalks do.
Some things are still smarter than others.

Before the appearance of the iPhone, regular cellphones had always been consumer-friendly enough so that no maker would ever consider not having an instantly user-replacable battery.

Any further migration toward the anti-reuse/anti-recycling approach so strongly embraced in digital tech by companies like Microsoft would have been immediately rejected.

A battery without user access would be recognized as disposable electronics by design.

People knew that something like that would be a stupid phone, certainly not a smart one.

What made a smart phone smart at the time was its PC-compatibiliy, with regular removable user storage like memory sticks which you can pull out of the phone and plug into your PC to read & write directly. So there was functionally no limit to the internal storage to begin with. And advanced free PC software to owners so they could interface to the phone through its often-unique USB cable or alternatively by Bluetooth, or even earlier IR.

The phone couldn't actually be used as a hotspot itself, but it would get one PC on the internet and the PC could do the rest.

And that was everywhere you could get a simple cell signal, before data plans existed and for years while less-smart phones dependent on data plans were still waiting for the data roll-out nationwide to reach their neck of the woods.
Why jump to attacking them? Occam's razor applies, and there's no proof Cloudflare explicitly is targeting Firefox specifically, unless you somehow have internal access to their source and know there's checks explicitly looking for FF there.
In the world of crypto, where people keep repeating the "not your keys, not your coins" mantra, crypto exchanges are very much the owners of all the coins they hold. But I agree, it's absurd.
You can add to the set of refs that git pulls (via remote.origin.refs); so for me it's `git checkout pr/123/head` (or /merge) instead, without creating a local branch that you need to delete later.
This becomes much more of an issue as "line goes down". The normal progression in NFTs now is that the minters make money, and the suckers who bought with intent to resell lose money.
Rails never went away.
> Notice concepts such as PoS would make it even more concentrated.

That is a common misconception, it seems to me. Assume a PoS scheme in which the probability that you get the reward is proportional to your share of all coins. Yes, large holders are more likely to get the reward, but if they get the reward, it basically increases their share by close to nothing. If a small holder gets the reward, they get a substantial boost. It averages out.

It is a bit like a savings account. Everyone gets X% interest a year, so the big holders get more interest than the small holders, sure. But the proportions of wealth stay constant.
It does work though.

In the UK for example, we have the John Lewis Partnership (10.5billion GBP revenue), Co-operative group (11billion GBP revenue), and many in the 50+ million revenue bracket like Suma Wholefoods.

We've also had many major public or private corporations rescued from collapse by worker co-operatives that were able to maneuver out of problems that the centralised organisation could not. See for example Meriden and National Express.

Also, many people's financial services are provided by building societies and other co-operatives. Many of the largest banks have been these kinds of organisations at least once. HSBC for example.

That's just in the UK - it would be astonishing if there weren't many more examples disproving your conjecture from every other country.
I'm going to have to disagree. USA style freedom of speech has a hole in it - bad faith liars get to spread their lies and smears. Further, the USA seems to have given people the idea that they're being censored if a platform doesn't broadcast their ideas to everyone, even those who have zero interest in those ideas, even if that speech is clearly not topical. Personally, I think a lot of this "I'm being censored!" is said in bad faith: even the assertions of being censored are lies.

I really don't know if a "disinformation board" is a good idea, but the USA clearly has a problem.
Rails is still “a thing” and is better today than it has ever been.
I completely disagree with you. I think the author is right - requiring people to put a $1200 deposit down to rent some tools and sending them 40kg of stuff just to replace the battery is insane and clearly done to discourage repairs, the fact that you have to call their specialists to validate the battery at the end is just a cherry on top of this rotten cake - it's just done to stave off legislators ruling that apple must make their hardware more repairable. It's a token effort at best.
I assume you meant "You don't notice the good ones"?
Mind maps tend to be hierarchical. I think a network diagram like what Scapple provides might be better for less structured thinking.
Thanks! Yes, it's all done by me, I took inspiration from some "dashboard" layouts I found online and made a couple of twists.
You have to trust a whole lot of companies to get onto and use the Internet. Or just use everyday technology. I don't see why this is different.
awesome from first try on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and Mac, it even recognized that I have two screens and split them in the remote application 1-2 and can click on 1 or 2 to select what screen to show

also, it has shrink feature to make bigger screen fit on the local screen
Imagine a world in which iphones still had user swappable batteries. They would almost certainly retain their appeal and fewer would end up in landfills.

The fact that they've become a luxury brand is a compounding factor you cannot dismiss. You're comparing apples to oranges.
It seems as though capitalism has little room for craftsmanship as a virtue. The only value becomes the dollar value, people see no shame in shoddy workmanship so long as it's profitable.
Two player games do have an advantage as you only need two of you. Finding other children to play with is a huge advantage too and lots of schools have chess clubs, so I understand it's popularity. It's hard if you are much better at a game than your children. Magic The Gathering works well because they can genuinely beat us, but you need a keen player as a parent really.

There is also the age issue. I think Go is a more interesting game than chess but the scoring is a little hard to teach and it hasn't captured my children's interest as much as chess. Backgammon is interesting - been wondering about teaching it to my children as a counterpoint to chess. Not sure if mine (9 and 11) are quite ready for all the bidding conventions in bridge but working up to it with whist. Poker is very educational I think - I learned lots from playing it - but not really sure whether it would work as a family game.
Norway is at 80% EV adoption without grid issues. EVs use similar amounts of power and energy as AC.
My (relatively mild) tinitus completely dissapeated when I was severely modifying my diet.

I do not know what exactly is that cause of it but I lean in the direction that it's one of these

1) Blood electrolyte levels

2)meat

3) carbs/sugars in large amount

One could experiment with a keto diet for start.
LOL, Economic Darwinism meets Grisham's law. I find this whole superbrand concept a total crapshow.
I have a friend who bought some Sony Lavalier ECM 44B microphones - quite pricey. He also found the same thing on Ali-Express, out of curiosity he bought some. When they arrived they were identical to the Sony down to the mold parting lines and the mold inserts that are used as batch trackers for QC - the inserts are rotated to point to a number. The wire/clips/mike etc were the same. He is a Sony dealer, so he contacted Sony Canada and they agreed = same stuff. Apparently this is common in all manner of many makers products, and he said Sony also knows and they have no way to fight it as the makers and seller obfuscate at all points. Chinese authorities are no help, so they simply endure it.
High end stuff, like Sony Cameras have sole source parts, like Canon sensors and lenses that they make their real $$ on that are impossible copy in a way to make a camera that will not fall flat when the customer uses it to take a video..
This Old Man
I know, but I don’t care. I also believe that having children is deeply unethical given the state of the world. Birthing new humans into this dystopian hellscape we find ourselves in is torture.

Humans waste far too much of their time on unproductive persists like relationships and families. Nobody outside these structures cares what is achieved and rightfully so, human influenced by neurochemicals to influence behavior to spread genetic material, news at 11.

Meanwhile some people are building things, yourself included, that have never existed before and push humanity forward.
Show HN: Can you tell if an image was created by DALL-E or a human?
A “wrap” is the generic term for food wrapped in something vaguely large-tortilla-like. Just because people somewhere call something a burrito doesn’t make it true.
For business printing the standard was the daisy wheel - which was insanely loud and sounded like a machine gun.

Between 2X and 6X as expensive as a dot matrix. So around $2k for a mid-price model and $4k for a faster and more reliable model at the high end.

Dot matrix printers were relatively affordable. But still expensive. Maybe $300 for a budget model, up to a few k for a high end model with a 132 chars and a double density print head.

Adjusted prices are roughly 2.7X. So almost $800 for a basic dot matrix, up to a ballpark $10k for a high end printer.

Just for printing.

Compare with today where a mono laser costs ~$150 for a basic model, $300-$600 for added scanning and copying, and $400-$800 for a colour laser with extra features.
I eat burritos almost daily, and I don't see this as a problem that needed solving. But perhaps it may have usefulness in other creative applications?
Just to update you: I've added this feature. It actually doesn't take more than a few seconds to build the thread, but there's some space for progressive enhancement with a progress bar / spinner... I'll think some more on that, in the meantime.
Leonardo: A color tool for accessible schemes
Per-application volume, Bluetooth device support with automatic profile switching, headphone jack detection, and probably 5 other things I use daily but don't know about.
Sir, We've all been hearing that AI will revolutionize medical diagnostics for a long time, seen startups come & go in this space but seeing your work impact lives on the ground has convinced me that the secret missing ingredient was a self-less human who can build an accessible(non-commercial) solution for the masses.

A decade ago I did a voluntary work on a simple app for oral cancer detection(questionnaire, data-entry) with an oncologist, Who used it to for survey in the tribal regions of India and he used to say how lack of early detection is the number one reason for so many deaths(many die without knowing that they had cancer).

He's now settled in Germany, But I would still pass this story to him & perhaps his colleagues in India could make use of it.

Thank you.
> This Atari came with 100s of floppy disks

It sounds like these are homemade collections of software, not off-the-shelf store-bought stuff.

If I’m right, then this is the real gem of your collection, not the hardware. That hardware is much easier to come by than homemade, personal collections of disks. In fact, such collections are exceedingly rare and very expensive if you can find them at all. Sellers will often break a collection and sell one disk at a time for crazy prices like $10-20 each, without even knowing if the disk works.

I sincerely regret selling my collection about 15 years ago. I don’t regret selling the hardware.
I went with a 36 key Corne keyboard[0] with a modified Miryoku[1] layout. In this way every symbol is near the home row

[0]: https://github.com/foostan/crkbd

[1]: https://github.com/manna-harbour/miryoku
Who does the programmer "serve" ?
> it is very unusual to have imperfect information but no luck in a game

Rock, paper, scissors. Stratego. Many, many others.

But the author seems to miss that bridge is not one of those games. It has the dealing of cards. That's luck!

Luck, randomness, is a type of imperfect information. What is that enemy Stratego piece, really? Is the cat in the box alive? Will the roulette wheel come up red? All imperfect information. There are just different mechanics a game designer can use to achieve imperfect information. So we may as well argue about whether dice games are better than card games or games with spinners. Moot.

Here's an idea: teach your kids a favorite game. It's probably a favorite because it's challenging in some way. Great! Just make sure you all have fun.
Also: https://youtu.be/dBXL93984cQ?t=144
When is irrelevant in my eyes, it honestly doesn't matter. It will happen though.
Not to mention how to determine what coins are lost forever. I know of several addresses that are mine but the keys are unfortunately lost forever.

And additionally you might have coins that haven’t moved in 8 years that is considered lost but i just haven’t had a reason to move them. Im sure someone could come up with a decent methodology for figuring this out but this isn’t it.
> Most people have functional legs, so why install a ramp? 99% of your users can access your property, so who cares, right?

People without functional legs can't simply decide to walk up some steps.

People use Firefox can simply decide to use Chrome.

To be more direct; what's your definition of "broken"? Is it that it doesn't work for you in the manner that you'd like?
I think they have different plans and configurations for their anti-bot service [1]. I'm not sure though because I'm not using their services.

[1] https://developers.cloudflare.com/bots/get-started/
What exactly is a "single ingredient dish" to you? This "Pico de gallo" thing already consists of multiple ingredients -- or so Wikipedia tells me. So does salsa, if I understand it correctly. Your notion of "single ingredient" must be different from mine.
Philosophical bits aside, it's worth noting that in Kotlin, nullable values have somewhat similar operators as Maybe/Option types in other languages

There's safe-access "?." and ".let", which only fires if the receiver is non-nullable

api.getUser(1)?.let { user -> println("user was not null") }
This often saves me a lot of time. Not only on finding simple issues but also more complex ones.

Self-Review should be advertised more as a clean-code practice in the industry.
This.

I used to work there, and there wasn't a global "do this for this browser" (except for a little bit to reduce annoyance specifically for the Tor browser).

It is almost 99% certain to be a site operator firewall rule based on the browser user agent. This may even be accidental, they may have been hit by an aggressive bot using a UA string that matches Firefox and the site operator may not even realise they've done this (if they use Chrome, which is likely).
The influx of training and weapons only started pouring in after Russia invaded Crimea and the Donbas. At that point, Russia's aspirations on the entirety of Ukraine were apparent for all to see. The Ukrainians understandably decided that aligning with the NATO, despite it's member states' ulterior motives, were far better than becoming a vassal state like Belarus.
I certainly do not see it on the frequency the GP is talking about. But it's there. Every once in a while there is a site that insists on throwing you into infinite captchas, on requiring some extra information, or just refusing to work just because Firefox won't spy on me for their benefit.

I also do really not experience it "regularly", but different people visit different sites.

That said, the one problem I get most often is this Cloudfare one.
Intent is less important when we're burning the world for blue bubbles, cheaper waterproofing, and a few millimeters thinner.

If iphones had to be priced with externalities included (via regulation) I suspect they'd get user replaceable batteries shortly there after.
A lot of what I'm doing now would have been insanely expensive or simply impossible when I was a kid. Just as a for instance, I have a half petabyte of video and music stored on a local server to play over my local network. That half petabyte of storage is fast enough to serve over the local network and cost less than 1/3 the price of 10 megabytes of storage in the advertisements in the article.
I think the problem is that "assembly line" manufacturing has always been the wrong analogy for software engineering. A better analogy would be like a construction contractor or a machine shop. How many machine shops are not run by a machinist?

Perhaps an interesting extension of the machine shop analogy is that many organizations do not run their own internal machine shop. If they need a part, they find a shop that can make it. Software naturally tends need more ongoing maintenance and attention than machined metal parts, but I think there's an argument to be made that perhaps companies should be less eager to hire software engineers, and more eager to hire an agency.

Moreover, assembly line manufacturing is suited to a very particular scenario that software engineering is almost never in: high volume, high rate production of exactly identical things, which can be broken down into individual components.
For me, it was fine in Safari and Chrome, but got the 'checking your browser' message in Firefox
Although that might have been the case some time ago, nowadays browser history is definitely not easily searchable unless you only need results from the last 90 days. Chrome purges them after that, and Firefox has a similar limit.
This seems like an odd statement, since "dysfunctional" can only be defined in contrast to the majority behavior. It's like the chestnut that 80% of drivers are above average.
Our web product went from AngularJS to React to Angular to Angular + Spring. The addition of Spring helped us introduce a useful constraint: if you can build it as an old-school page with Spring, don't put it into the SPA. Angular is reserved for deep core business logic and UI which would be impractical to build anywhere else. One of the biggest benefits is reducing our Angular project complexity, making it easier to keep current with Angular updates. I am happy to hear that SPAs are no longer sexy because this sounds like the landscape has matured. For example, Angular started doing LTS releases.
That ship sailed when developers collectively decided that browsers should be complete reimplementations of the entire operating system, and anything less was hopelessly broken. With a barrier to entry so high that trillion dollar companies don't find it worth the investment, it's no surprise that the last independent implementation is struggling to keep up.
How can you have a user accessible door to remove the battery while still being at least somewhat thin and water resistant?

I’m sure there are ways but I would probably significantly increase the BOM costs. For example some kind of waterproof battery that connects to a waterproof jack.

That will you the battery but cracked screens and stuff? Those pretty much have to be a pain in the ass to keep the cost, weight and watertight-ness up to spec.
> However it does have a feature where crypto gains are only funded by newer people coming in and buying at a higher price.

"only" is inaccurate. This was true early on before there were markets and contracts. Now we have DeFi which allows for gains on trades by anyone who wants to provide liquidity. Similar to any sort of commodity market where people buy and sell what they own (or even don't own with margin and options).