skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, this is my point. I'm not a fan of the "agile nomenclature". I see project management failing a lot.

I can only marvel at the stuff and complexity SpaceX and Tesla seem to be able to pull off, both in terms of software and hardware engineering and other organizing and logistics.
> Everyone building some "crypto", "blockchain", or "Web3" thing claims they're creating some kind of value, and yet in all I've seen so far, they don't actually solve the real world problems they claim to be solving, and if you were to remove the speculators from the game then the whole thing would collapse. I just see one pyramid-shaped casino after another.

The problem I see is "fake innovation", everyone with a new web3/crypto project talks about how their project is going to change the game but when you step back and look at the space as a whole, everyone is just doing the same thing with different variables.

Every new NFT project is just a copypasta of all the other NFT projects with different pictures, not to mention the sheer number of projects that are straight up copying Bored Apes with different animals.

And every new crypto project seems to have the exact same goal of making the investors a ton of money while also talking about how they are going to somehow save the world in the process.

Every new web3 game is some spin on the Metaverse, with NFT items and the promise that you can "play and make money".

There's no innovation in this space, every new "innovation" is just a rehashed old thing with different variables.
> Well, India did have 31% of the world's GDP before they looted it and left it with 2%.

That's a misleading statistic, because your share of world GDP could go down merely from other people skyrocketing in GDP faster than you are. And, given the timeframe we're talking about, "other people skyrocketing in GDP" is precisely what happened (namely, the Industrial Revolution).

The statistic that is more useful is real GDP per capita, and what the trajectory looks like before and during British rule (though I suspect this won't make the British look good either).
> conflate E2EE to being the only encryption in the world

It is the only relevant one. Nobody who cares about protected messages would be satisfied with untrustworthy encryption.

Sure, technically even a messenger using Caesar cipher is encrypted, but most people expect more than a ticked checkbox.
No real user cares about what technically still counts as encryption, just like nobody outside of biology cares whether walnuts are actually nuts.
There's a guy who made it big in Silicon valley and bought 150 hectares near Cluj , north west Romania, he's built/building 28 houses with a school and afaik there's a agricultural component attached... curious if he's using ecological insulation (compressed sawdust, hemp, wool) or ecological plumbing, heating systems... seems a good intent but such initiatives have a tendency to push up local land prices :-( I have no idea how much his houses cost but since people have been going to Europe as "cheap" labour and especially since the banks have gotten involved in lending money for real estate purchases , prices have been going through the roof...
https://youtu.be/VCBIyvYtMBI
Not particularly fun as a game, but it’s the best narrative in the medium by a large margin.
> i learned how to build houses

Where/how did you learn?
Considering that every other country in the world does fine without employing taser drones, I think there are better solutions
Yeah, the main benefit of docker desktop is packaging up a nice Linux VM on Mac/Windows, plus some UI features. There’s a reason ’Docker Desktop for Linux’ came so much later.
On the Myths and Truths of the American Revolution
Not the poster, but I have to reboot at least one a day to clear up Docker networking/DNS gremlins.

I thought moving to Linux from Mac would make Docker better due to the lower resource usage but I would guess the fact that it’s isolated in a VM in Mac is why I never had network issues there
The author's problem is that he is under the misapprehension that Spotify gives a fuck about what he wants.
GNU yes is not doing anything crazy imo why are the BSDs not using GNU yes if it’s this much faster?
Don’t forget Mrs. Frisby
I just want to sync my music library on my hard drive to my iphone. All I want is a UI on iOS that doesn’t force my classical music into an album view.
I used to use Apple Music and liked it, but the bitrate (music quality) of the music was too low so after a few years I cancelled it. For me it's really audible the difference between 320kbps music.
On the other hand, those OSS closed loop systems are only possible because of such vulnerabilities that allowed reverse engineering.
I spent a few months in Turkey last year. You could tell that there was a risk of mass unrest because there were heavily armed police with armored vehicles prominently parading around.

I thought this was to be expected.

What I thought was interesting was that there was a major deployment with armored vehicles in a well to do neighborhood off the tourist trail. Literally outside the Carrefour Gourmet where I bought overpriced European ingredients, in fact.

IDK if they were extra sensitive coz expats were there, coz they were feeling extra protective of the upper middle classes or even coz they were afraid that the upper middle classes would be the ones to riot.

Ive not seen anything like it elsewhere except in altamira, caracas.
That's a fine technique. What set me off ITT was the "a kit or a flavor packet" recommendation. I have long considered these to be egregious wastes of money. The ones that act as thickeners are mostly corn starch (which is weird for non-Chinese-food), except a 2 oz packet costs more than a whole tub of corn starch. The ones for flavor are almost entirely salt and MSG. There's nothing wrong with salt or MSG, but they are also much cheaper when purchased individually.

I think this phenomenon started in USA with the "Betty Crocker" and "Bisquick" product line. This was marketed as easier than scratch cooking. There's nothing wrong with the concept (I'm sure there is a box of Bisquick in my kitchen), but it doesn't always make sense from a value standpoint. Also it is less flexible. You could apply the technique you describe no matter what you were cooking, and you could vary the timing and amounts a great deal. The "kit" stuff is more like a chemistry demonstration, which must be carried out fairly closely to the directions on the box in order to remain somewhat flavorful.

https://tastecooking.com/the-thing-about-bisquick/
They offer higher quality music now. Have you tried it?
They’re the only choice in town so…
The repo mentions a “free tier” and their website describes managed service.
No surprise there. And don't forget brake lining...
Reference to the username "Beltalowda", a character in "The Expanse" book and TV series.
That must have let to the greatest call with investors: "Hey so we trolled the internet by renaming our company....and the value of your stock has tripled"
I once got a Pad Thai with crushed cashews and a tomato based sauce. It tasted like blasphemy.
I'd consider "paying for the things you like within your means" a better option morally than many streaming sites though.
I debugged Python code in Emacs just fine. It is much less useful than logs for the work I do but it has its moments.
Not a professional farm but for our own food (as vegetarians); Spain first and now Portugal. Land is cheap and plentiful, a lot of stuff grows multiple times per year. Water is an issue which is why we moved to a wet part of Portugal. We grow all our fruit and veg etc and eggs organically. It would not be very hard or expensive to scale it up somewhat; my neighbours all make enough to live with larger plots of land. No idea how to do it on a large scale. Also I am still a software engineer but working less hours these days.
I have this text field thing happen with Apple Maps as well.

I use Apple Music and it's got all sorts of problems. "Hey Siri, play Chill Mix" "Sorry, I'm having trouble finding that in your library."

Chill Mix is generated from Apple Music based on what you play. I use it every morning except those days it just can't be found.
How do you deal with this? Do you keep your money in a foreign bank with a different currency?
Yes, almost certainly.

It's a free database created by a community for multiple different needs.

Barcodes are very useful way to check you're talking about the same item, similar to isbns for books. Of course many classics either have no ISBN/barcode or lots of them depending on how you look at it, and sometimes you care exactly which one you are talking about and sometime you care about the thing that they are all different versions of. This is a whole fascinating area of library science:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional_Requirements_for_...

You've not been super specific about what you're trying to achieve but there's almost certainly a chunk of the Musicbrainz community that wants the same thing and has a way of getting it from the interlinked data.

The benefit of doing it in one big super-complicated database is that the interests overlap and so the different needs have synergy, which makes the more obscure details more tractable.

I'll have a quick look at their wiki to see if I can give you pointers.

Also, they link the band's, songs, instruments etc to Wikipedia via wikidata IDs, so of you like reading Wiki text about things, they've got you covered.
Yes, we do (non-VR) Roblox with my son and mom while also video chatting. I also started building there full time.

On my own time I also like to explore VRChat in VR, as it’s a nice counter to the sanitized Roblox worlds.
According to the FDA tuna is the only one that's not required to undergo parasite destruction. Even then is not "no risk" its "extremely small risk".
It’s usually terrible. Whole Foods (used to— haven’t been in a while) have decent fresh bread. But in general, US baked goods are awful vs any other country I’ve visited.

I make no-knead Dutch oven bread and used to make my own sourdough. It’s hard to top that, and almost everything is downhill from there.
Sure, obviously you can generate strings containing HTML and send those. I'm imagining something like the serverside rendering you get with e.g. React. That said, I don't know what specifically the previous poster was looking for.
I'll never forget discovering the third track of Monty Python's Matching Tie and Handkerchief, thought I'd lost my mind.

As an Eno fan I'm not familiar with the mentioned album.

King Crimson would put hidden messages printed in the vinyl inner track, I remember seeing "The next step is Discipline", which was their next album.

I also miss the thriving bootleg community, picture discs.
Because Music is anything but "first party" from Apple's perspective.

A lot of people seem to have the wrong idea about Apple's software, with the exception of macOS. The point of the software is to entice the customer with a complete ecosystem. Once they've sold you their laptop they've made their money. At that point, they're not that interested in putting resources towards things like Music when their hardware continues to sell quite well.

I'm not advocating for that approach, but it is what it is.
To Reject Bigotry, Libertarians Should Become Neoliberals
What are you using for network streaming? SnapCast is great for that - there's a delay, but only about .5s. On the home network, that is.
Somehow related. FizzBuzz at 40+ GiB/s https://codegolf.stackexchange.com/a/236630
> an algorithm that most likely is more optimized for revenue than anything else.

Yup, that is the core issue. We have all this great tech, but then deploy it against ourselves. The peak is when FB optimized for polarized (ahem fake) content, because that is what drives "engagement".

I'm not sure what is the solution here. Regulations around more algorithmic transparency? "Low tech" alternatives? User education?
To think that the company's own ethics board voted against the proposal to equip drones with Tasers, but the CEO is going ahead nonetheless. Blows my mind!
Both are important. When governments mandate back doors such as in EU chat control or US Earn it act, centralized services can be targeted much more easily than the thousands of xmpp and matrix servers running around the world.
I’ve had similar issues with HomePod when it comes to other apps (e.g. playing podcasts from Overcast using AirPlay), but the Apple Music integration has never been a problem, that has always just worked. Siri sometimes gets confused about what you’re asking (as with all these systems), but it’s less than I expected and at an acceptible rate for me.
Well, we already have more than enough ways to pay for stuff digitally and most of them are already very easy to use, very fast and secure enough. Therefore I think it's relatively safe to say that blockchains, at least for payments, is not the next big thing.

If you work in the field, you could simply look out for things that are expensive, slow, hard, or all three and if someone is trying to fix thay.

One thing that comes into my mind are private cloud services. There aren't any good locally installable cloud platforms. There seems to be a rising need for private clouds and/or "user verifiable cloud services" aka. more or less "locally installable AWS" or a way to be sure that when you buy some cloud service, there is no way your data can leak anywhere at any point.

Speaking of verifications, guarantees and such, one interesting concept I've been looking into lately are zero knowledge proofs. Simply put, they would be a way for person A to prove to person B something about X, without revealing anything (sensitive) about X.
When you have 20 consecutive listings that all have the same first 80 characters, you don't even read those 80 characters.

But the listing only shows the part you don't read!
So, you want limit actions on node based on workflow state and user roles
This is because we cry wolf too many times. When was the last time you cared about the SSH message REMOTE HOST IDENTIFICATION HAS CHANGED DANGER DANGER SPOOKY SCARY? I bet never because 100 times out of 100 that message is because of a misconfiguration on the remote host or someone termed the instance and uses the autogenerated keys.

Same with TLS errors. I have never once encountered a single instance of someone trying to intercept my connection but I’ve encountered hundreds of misconfigured but otherwise perfectly functional servers if you just ignore the errors.

You can’t really blame users when you hide literally all the details that would allow them to make an informed decision about whether they should hit “It’s Fine False Alarm” or “Oh Shit Got Em” and then be surprised when people hit the false alarm button without thinking when it’s always a damn false alarm.

We would do so much better if we had screens like, “Hey the cert the server sent is otherwise valid but expired 5 minutes ago, is that cool?” or “The server sent a certificate for bloop.domain” but you connected to “blorp.domain” with options like “Seems Sus”, “My b it was a typo” and “Damn, autocorrect gottem.”

Like we have absolutely zero reasonable sense of security and risk as anything other than perfectly secure and defcon 69.
I don't think you need a special grade freezer. Just one that isn't self defrosting. It only has to be at -4F for a week or two.
Almost all of the modern hyper inflation in countries is due to external debt in foreign currency which is usually USD. This could have been solved if interest rates were raised making the lira expensive.

Same with Zimbabwe with projects done in USD. Sri Lanka had a project boom last 10 years with USD.

This does not apply to US because the debt of US is either internal or USD. I guess partially the reason jpow is dragging his heels on raising interest rates
Yeah, you can‘t just ignore the analogue circuitry that you’re expected to put in place around the bare DAC. It’s part of the design!
> You wouldn't be able to keep up on my Saturday rides on a hybrid unless you've got world-tour legs.

I would easily, using my grandfathers bike and <$1K aliexpress electric bike conversion kit.
from Wikipedia

> Das Gesetz trat am 1. Januar 2008 in Kraft.[7] § 53 Abs. 1 S. 1 UrhG wurde geändert, so dass Privatkopien nicht zulässig sind, sofern zur Vervielfältigung „eine offensichtlich rechtswidrig hergestellte oder öffentlich zugänglich gemachte Vorlage“ verwendet wird.

the last sentence says that no public sharing is allowed for copyrighted works

doesn’t matter if the distributor is a library or a torrent
I’m guessing a linker like this is also a VERY extreme case when it comes to mmap’ing a huge number of files. For most software, it’s just not that big of an issue.
Obviously, privacy is a selling point. And everyone who advertise for privacy will lose users and therefore revenue if they stop being private. They wouldn't advertise for it if it wasn't the case.

And sure, some companies do privacy only as a selling point, Apple, I think, is the best example. Is it a problem? Absolutely not.
I think about this kind of thing a lot, but by no means an expert. Just some ideas which come to mind. Mainly software project related but could be applied elsewhere.

- Use diagramming to 'externalise' a problem if appropriate. This makes it easier to focus in on areas and to 'see' interactions more naturally. Also helps identify 'seams' to break out smaller pieces of work. Diagramming also works well in a group setting as a shared point of reference.

- Tackle the most poorly understood or risky elements first. In software, this could mean spiking code to explore uncertain areas to uncover complexity which might affect timelines or become a blocker later on. Prototype things in order to learn without needing to build everything out.

- Separate requirements into groups using MoSCoW - must haves, should haves, could haves, won't haves. Actively push the lower priority requirements later on the timeline (or as a later phase outside of the main project scope)

- Try not to get sucked into detail during upfront planning. It's true you'll need to work out the details anyway at some point, but without discipline you could end up taking a 'depth first' approach, and miss the wood for the trees. Domain complexity can be left to implementation time. See however the point on de-risking areas of concern.

- For team projects, consider running a session to capture risks upfront. Anything which could affect the timeline. Schedule check ins with stakeholders throughout the project. Also involve people early on from whom you may need support.

- Again for larger, or team, projects - consider keeping a decision log. Very helpful when you wonder 'why did we decide to do it that way, there was a good reason but what was it again ...'

- Break the project into milestones. A key deliverable in the real world, with a due date, for each one.

- Remember every project with any uncertainty is likely to overrun unless you bake in extra time for unforeseen problems. Trouble is, we only tend to plan for what we know about, and early planning phase is when we know the least.

- Identify external dependencies and get the ball rolling on those early on.

- For smaller (or personal) projects, keep an outlined list "Getting Things Done" style. Always have a next actionable thing noted down for each project. This makes it easier to cycle around different projects or areas with minimal context switch overhead.
This is my goal. I'm currently in the Bay Area but hope to move back to the UK and have a decent sized farm (maybe tickle my tech interests by focusing on hydroponics/aquaponics) to feed my family and then sell the extras at a local market. Currently 28, I think I'll aim to do this around my 40th birthday and see it as a pseudo-retirement.
I found the iOS Spotify app dreadful. The UX is so difficult to navigate. I can’t go into details but I had to uninstall it, it’s basically unusable.
Is Erdogan the kind of man that can see when something is not working and reverse course?
Yes and you’re the enlightened wizard lmao
2025 - Lidi acquired by AWS.
You seem very lost. I said nothing about censorship.
The zero knowledge stuff is actually fairly cutting edge (it's not often that academic papers make it into production systems within a few years).
Spotify was promoting a podcast to me for a while called “c*m town” (add a u). It was so gross, the album cover was written in white liquid. I could not make it go away! One of the worst UI experiences ever, actually made my stomach turn.
As a German I would like to point out, that German companies are (as always) too late to the party. Nothing with worldwide relevance in the software, AI nor cloud space came out of Germany / the EU within in the last decades. It's embarrassing :(
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Have you tried Schwarzbrot?
Nope, transportation and heating will still dominate.
The Chernobyl Divers
I've had the thought kicking around in my head for a while that the decentralized, difficult to alter nature of blockchain might have some use for the long-term preservation of provenance in the archival sense: Often figuring out whether something is legitimate or not requires tracking down its history of possession. This is/can be very messy, and I can see blockchain tech maybe eventually solving some of these issues.

But preserving things for future researchers doesn't earn $$, so I imagine it will take a few decades at least.
First person:

- Portal & Portal 2

- Outer Wilds

- The Talos Principle

- Antichamber (I haven't finished this)

- Quern - Undying Thoughts

- Myst Remastered

- Infinifactory

Platformers:

- Braid

- FEZ

I don't even know:

- TIS-100

- EXAPUNKS

- World of Goo

Violent but in a different way:

- Inscryption (do not look anything up about this game)

- Stone Story RPG

- Hollow Knight

Pretentious story but extremely fun puzzles (except one.... you know which one it is jblow):

- The Witness
Mark Tarver seems to have interesting ideas but produce interesting things with no market, no user base, no community, no tooling, no libraries, no ebooks,no entry level book at all because the sole book is his weighty tome at $120 because his tools are commercial products completing with free.

If it were considerably better it would still be a considerably worse choice for all the reasons above. It's a case study in what not to do.

Incidentally you should keep your contempt to yourself.
Are you speaking the language? And was it hard to create or be part of the local community?
The current view is skin color is simple evolutionary response which can easily occur on those timescales. https://www.psu.edu/impact/story/the-evolution-of-skin-color...

Several things have changed as recently as 11,000 years. “Examples for adaptations related to agriculture and animal domestication include East Asian types of ADH1B associated with rice domestication,[71] and lactase persistence.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recent_human_evolution
I'd also like to throw you some links...
https://elpocito.wordpress.com/

Pfaf.org plants for a future

Ic.org intentional communities

Basically "unproductive" land is/should be cheap, being out of the hustle and bustle of city life is great for clearing your mind, travel to a warmer climate (or snug it down) in the winter, consider it'll take you about a decade but your barren land can become a real cornucopia... There's a feel good film out there called "the biggest little farm"https://youtu.be/UfDTM4JxHl8
Web 2.0 was very much coined as a marketing ploy to sell conference tickets. We used to make fun of how little sense the whole thing made and to this day I have yet to see a coherent and meaningful definition of what Web 2.0 actually is. Still Web3 definitely got it beat on all that.
> a world where there are no products and everything is an advertising platform

Maybe the advertised products will all be opportunities to make money. Occasionally job listings, mostly crypto coins.