skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not only will there be inequality of talent (relative to whatever talents are valued at a given time, because that itself is in flux) but simulations like this show that random inequality is not an aberration, but inevitable.

The more precisely realistic one is his geometric-variance model, in which some end up in massive debt while others end up very rich--a permanent division of society into landlords/bosses and peons. In theory, the state is supposed to prevent this through taxation and policy, but what we observe in capitalist countries is that the wealthy inevitably corrupt the state that is supposed to constrain them. The US is already at third-world levels of corruption and inequality, and the EU is only 20 years or so behind on this neoliberal roller coaster to nowhere.

Capitalism promises equilibrium, but it diverges. The people in charge will always have the power and resources to see to it that (a) they stay in charge, and (b) the gains from economic growth go solely to them.
The first one:
https://music.apple.com/us/album/3n69r9x105706/1468162713

The second one:
https://music.apple.com/us/album/the-first-annual-report-of/...
A laser printer, even a B&W laser printer, is the best choice for a lot of people. I ended up getting rid of my ink jet for the reason you say. I don't print a lot but I do need to print semi-regularly and I'm certainly not going to drive 15 minutes to the nearest Staples every time I need a page or two printed out.
Climbing the Pyramid of Data Science with Hybrid Data Engineers
Oh, no, absolutely not. The sim is a proof that even in very primitive economic simulations, Central Limit Theorem absolutely does not apply.

'should' has nothing to do with it. It provably doesn't. Even in the absence of any complicating factors or considerations of value or merit.
> If you have the benefit of this inequality, you should use it to ensure the availability of life’s necessities so that any else with a similar inequality can provide the maximum benefit regardless of the circumstances they’re born into.

Well let me be the devil's advocate here and ask why.
Yeah, that model is assuming everyone consistently spends about what they earn without people having a saving/spending personal drift. Which is cool enough, models can assume what they like.

But that certainly isn't how people should operate - if you spend what you earn, sooner or later a surprise will bankrupt you. Helpful tip: nobody should plan to get that outcome. It sucks. Save some money.
Those entities (US-based and international) are what gives Bitcoin its value in fiat. Otherwise Bitcoin would still be denominated in thousands of Bitcoin per pizza.
all of these are awesome! I love single-page apps and sites. Keep on crushin!
Thank you, that sort of makes sense to me but is so counterintuitive that I feel I’ll have to do the simulation myself before I believe it!
> It's clear that OOP in the sense of "Car extends Vehicle" is not a good idea

It's not a bad base for UI programming. There is quite a lot of functionality that is suited to the OOP paradigm.
This reminds me of brutalists playgrounds. In the re-creation they couldn't use concrete because it was unsafe by today's standards.

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2015/jun/09...
And the question is why competition isn’t working
Sadly only applies to these high end ones; I got a cheap Epson one and found out after moving it to another country, that the cartridges are indeed vendor+region locked.
No. Safari is miles behind. https://wpt.fyi/results/?label=experimental&label=master&ali...

Interop2022 is probably what your referring too but that’s just a small (but still important) functionality that the browsers have agreed to focus on. Interop is great, but using it as the primary metric for your browser is very dishonest. Apple tried to do this in their regulatory filing but every other vendor and developers said that the overall stats are much more representative.
Cash held at Coinbase is insured by the FDIC to $250,000.

https://help.coinbase.com/en/coinbase/other-topics/legal-pol...
> MozJPEG use a lower value in the first position of the quantization just like this article suggests

It has lower value in the first position of the base table, i.e. the table which is used for q=50. With lower qualities this value scales up. This delays color banding from q=50 to roughly say q=40, after that the same effect is appears.
I'm 40 and I recently started Stronglifts 5x5. It's stupidly simple and makes me want to come back for more as the weights increase every training. So there's always a personal record to break.

It also doesn't take a lot of time. About 45 - 60 minutes, 3 times a week. I can do it in my home gym as everything I need is a barbell, some weights and a bench/squat rack.

First time I actually have fun weight lifting/going to the gym.
Wow, you even generate some realistic-looking Greek scripture... and JPEG artefacts! I'm impressed...
Is a piece of horse shit! Notifications are a hot mess. Doesn’t sync between mobile and desktop. Can’t find active conversations.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31859806
But the underlying experiment shows the effect in the complete absence of positive feedback, and that's the most important thing about it.
Well, Brother had never done this to date. That is the real shocker.
The old world still works in those situations, but we have a better experience when the new world hasn’t experienced a fundamental failure.

Seems like a reasonable trade off to me.
Not quite useless but more like a one shot use:
I spent some days building a flight/train route optimizer for traveling to N cities, staying at least M days while minimizing travel costs for a single journey in 2018. Was fun to build and we payed like 200 € for one month of traveling in Europe :)
Toner != ink, in printer tech speak. Toner is a dry powder, and lasts forever, and laser has no jets to block.

Laser is more expensive, but is the only way to go for rare printing.
building an app for plant care,
I don't regret it just don't think its viable economically
Name and address of the company purchasing the license, which (in most countries at least) is already published in various business and tax records.
I will take a look at Shortcut and see how it fits.

For context: in almost all project (including side projects) where I am involved we are using ShapeUp.

We start with a general description of what we want to solve and what value will bring to the user. This is mostly shaped as a conversation between multiple people designers, developers, business managers.

Then we (technical) take that and create a kind of technical pitch in a format close to an RFC where we discuss and solve any architectural challenges or we define the API (it depends). Here I need to have something that has a better support for code highlighting as we sometimes use code samples. Basecamp has a very simple code highlighting support and it also does not support per line comments. Thus a discussion around the RFC can have only parent comments and we sometimes hit 20-30 comments (we mostly work async remote).

Then once RFC is agreed we need to do a high level planning of the changes needed to be done per each system.

And from there each team will create one or many PRs where the work is done. Thus from this point on the progress can only be seen in Github (or Gitlab).

So in a way from the moment the first line of code is written you can see the state of the project only in Git. Someone has to manually update Basecamp or we also tried this: create a Todo in Basecamp for each Github issue and linked them together.

Maybe what I want it does not exists!
IDK, I'm in my mid 30s and I really can't remember printers being alright.
When I was a kid much if the playground was constructed out of old tires. Car tires, truck tires, tractor tires. There was a fortress made of tires right near the entrance of the playground we called TireTown; it had tire bridges connecting the main fortress to two tire outposts. One of the most common ways to play on TireTown was a tag variant called TireTown Tag, which added the stipulation that you were "it" if you touched the ground or otherwise left the bounds of TireTown (including the bridges and outposts). There was also a tower made of stacked tractor tires, small geodesic tire jungle gyms, and other structures.

There were also the swings and slides and stuff, great big tall BurkeBuilt slides that rose like 20 feet in the air and burned your butt on a hot day.

Of course the personal injury and chemical exposure lawyers prevailed. Google Maps satellite imagery of my elementary school reveals that TireTown, the tire tower, other structures, and original steel swings and slides have all been removed. A nice, safe, colorful plastic foam-padded playground occupies a small corner of the area once occupied by my playground. Such is life.
It‘s one developer, one marketer and when I remember correctly two for support.
I find it interesting that when ecigarettes first started gaining popularity several years ago, they were marketed purely as smoking cessation tools. It was quite easy to step down the nicotine levels from 20mg/ml to 12mg/ml to 6mg/ml to 0mg/ml, eventually quitting nicotine altogether. That doesn't seem like a very good business model, though, which I'm guessing is why the industry has shifted away from being focused on smoking or nicotine cessation and instead focused on tobacco replacement.

Rather than outright banning the devices, I would prefer if the government required that the producers to offer lower levels of nicotine and provide a path to quitting nicotine altogether.

I also strongly disagree with the previous rulings that banned fruity flavoured e-juices. I don't understand the logic behind this. It's akin to banning Smirnoff Ice because underage people are more likely to choose that over straight vodka. Adults have taste buds, too.
Why not?

Is there any compelling reason not to make the life of other people better? Is there any reason we should leave people work countless hours, suffer, and likely dying due to diseases that manifest out of stress (e.g. cancer)?

Imagine for a moment a society such that there's no need for the proles to steal or hurt people. Criminality drops to near zero, world is safer, we all get to thrive.

Edit:

Kind reminder to argue for the position instead of downvoting out of disagreement.
A Twitter bot that posts images of macromolecular structures (i.e. proteins and nucleic acids) every thirty minutes. I spent an embarrasing amount of time tweaking the coloring and orientiation of the renderings, but I like the results: https://twitter.com/molecularblobs
Maddy: All-in-one mail server writen in Go
Yes: https://github.com/xbrowsersync/app
I’m sure I’ll get a settlement for like $7 in a few decades because of printer manufacturer collusion and price fixing. Like my recent optical drive settlement.
I think it’s accurate. The Netflix service historically had no ads, now they are adding a tier with ads.

Netflix has been pretty vocal on how much ads suck for users, and I agree.

I dropped Netflix because their content sucked and their prices were high and their recommendation engine was bad. And they were getting suckier and higher.

I expect that ads will creep up higher tiers and also push up prices on the ad free tiers.

Netflix is becoming Blockbuster.
I have my bin folder in ~/usr/bin. The structure of ~/usr matches /usr and /usr/local, so I can build stuff into it with ./configure --prefix=$HOME/usr or similar. (You could of course do ./configure --prefix=$HOME, but then you run the risk of ending up with ~/share and ~/include and so on, something I don't want.)
Yes, same here. It's not just "I'm hungry". It's more "I cannot think about anything other than food".

I'm not sure it has anything to do with burning fat stores though, because I don't get the same feeling after say, a 3-day water fast. At that point I'm definitely hungry, but don't have the same insatiable food craving.

In fact, when I was experimenting with extended fasting, the only reason I stopped at 3 days is because I was lifting lighter weights every day and hit a point where my strength was physically depleted. I could only do about 3 reps instead of finding 15+ easy. Hunger wasn't really a problem after the first day of getting used to it.
Yep, inkjets need to periodically "clean" the heads by squirting something through them, and they happen to be filled with ink, so that's what they use. I successfully got one working once with vodka when its self cleaning routine couldn't do the job and rubbing alcohol wasn't close to hand.

This is why I use and recommend a black and white laser printers - total cost of ownership is easiest and cheapest in my experience. I suppose they're more expensive than an ink jet to start off with, but it's not that big a difference and a decade of near trouble free printing is worth something for sure.

I don't see the need for color printing documents, but if so there's office stores. For photo prints I'd be looking at places with high end inkjets most likely these days, but there are other color processes that should still work well - I did RA-4 chemical photo printing way back when and it was excellent at the time and should hold up well, but I don't know that anyone bothers with that today.
Expired domains: https://domfetch.com/expired-domains

Deleted domains: https://domfetch.com/deleted-domains

Domain metrics examples:

- https://domfetch.com/domain/interwood.com

- https://domfetch.com/domain/hellsangels.com

- https://domfetch.com/domain/panda.tv

Roadmap wise, our short team plan is to improve the filters (next few days). Think of min/max length, moz da etc.

The plan for the next few weeks/months is to add more metrics, one of them being Majestic Million data & improving keyword & language recognition + registration detection of domains. Besides that, adding other metrics, adding marketplaces & support for more TLD's.
Yes great city and used to be very livable . But despite everything I cannot justify paying that recent increased cost of living to still be governed by Texas laws of no abortion, guns, capital punishment and pretty much every wacky right wing law possible. Great city to visit though.
> Apple gave up trying to compete with Chrome/Firefox, they lost.
Disappointing. I am on my second Brother HL series laser printer. They've been great for me. Fast cheap printing and readily available 3rd party toner and drums.

The first one I got it in 2010 and I purchased a 2nd in 2018 when the first stopped working. I would have kept using the original if it were possible to repair it. I would have also paid more than the $80 sticker price
Some of my code was written in 1995, and is still being used. I tend to toss my stuff that needs tossing before anyone else sees it. :)
> very biased towards virtual methods

This is a function of the type of software you write. There are many large C++ code bases that rely on various types of static polymorphism almost exclusively, rarely having a use case for virtual methods or dynamic polymorphism. There is a similar story with inheritance versus composition; some types of code bases naturally gravitate toward one or the other.

The nice thing about C++ is that it as amenable to any of these models should it benefit the application.
What are some good unit, integration, performance tests for human beings?
I've recently become interested in small tests we can perform to evaluate if aspects of our lives are performing below the recommended levels for a long and happy existence.

What prompted this was I started training for a triathlon and thought of myself as a healthy, fit person, able to run a 5k at a decent pace. However, I've been amazed to find out how much my aerobic fitness has cratered over the last couple years of working at home (no more cycling to work) and I'm unable to train for the required 3-4 hours per week at low intensities because I'm so aerobically unfit and muscularly weak.
I see this as me passing a unit test (able to run 5k at intensity) but failing an integration/performance test (unable to string together long periods of training).
Bringing this into sharper focus is that I've learned that this exact amount of training (3-4 hours of zone 2 training per week according to Peter Attia) is the recommended dose of exercise for a long health span, making me wonder what other aspects of my life are quietly failing due to me not having a test and benchmark to measure against.

Would love to hear of various objectiv-ish ways to evaluate a person's abilities in important aspects of life: fitness/health/strength, finances, mental health, relationships.
I'm not looking for 100% test coverage here, this is merely an attempt to catalogue the important parts of our life and the ways to observe them over the long term.
Is Tren vegan? ;)
Don't be discouraged if what you produce initially is something other people dismiss as a toy. In fact, that's a good sign. That's probably why everyone else has been overlooking the idea. The first microcomputers were dismissed as toys. And the first planes, and the first cars. At this point, when someone comes to us with something that users like but that we could envision forum trolls dismissing as a toy, it makes us especially likely to invest.

(http://www.paulgraham.com/organic.html)

> you can't use this currency for day to day transactions

Not with this attitude, you can't. ;)

What currency is "this"? BTC, ETH, Doge, USDC, DAI?

> incredibly volatile

How volatile is USDC, DAI, GUSD?

> risky to hold significant amounts of it

It's also risky to walk around with significant amounts of cash in the wallet. It doesn't stop people from wanting to carry some money around. And more importantly, the alternative of "going cashless" is a whole other set of systemic risks.

> it might be useful!

The use cases exist already. Micropayments and streaming transfers (as an alternative for subscriptions) using stable currencies are already possible. If you don't care about it, it's a different story.
Occasionally I see HN posts that look to me like announcements that pigeons are extinct, and that lead to elegiac stories of pigeons, and discussions of the trends in society that led to their extinction. Only I can walk to any park in town and see pigeons roosting on the statues.

There are plenty of merry-go-rounds and monkey bars in the playgrounds of my region, plenty of tall swings and slides.
My 10 year old laser printer finally got dirty or something, the tops of pages have mottled spots on them now. I haven't tried cleaning it yet.
I miss Bas-Lag
Merry Go Round. As teenagers we would spin it until one of us gave up and flew off of it lol. Until someone was yeeted off. Loser had to buy everyone candy if they experienced no serious injuries (no injuries in years of doing it every week, somehow).
Or use it themselves. They can just print little tailored ads while you're printing based on your print history.

Not too far out of the question the more i think about it. Remember when we used to print directions and they were often littered with ads intermingled with the steps.
Yes, and then you said "[w]hen you then exploit the resources that have randomly piled up". This is where the positive feedback begins. The final graph in the simulation represents people who just sat around and did nothing with their money. In real life, they would use their resources to accelerate their accumulation of resources.
Kids are resilient little creatures. They'll heal up from a bruise here and there or a broken bone, no problem. When you get older, you become much more massive so falls hurt you more and your ability to heal slows down.

This is why you as an adult are not allowed to enjoy a bouncy castle. The insurance companies won't cover adult use of one because the risk and severity of injury is so much greater.
going against their group think and challenging them lead to me being banned.
Considered Austin when I decided to leave Seattle. Ultimately decided on Raleigh instead. the biggest detractor to Austin for me is that you have to drive everywhere. Unless you are significantly wealthier than I am you will be living in a suburban development where you will have to drive to anything. Here in Raleigh I can (and do) ride my bike or easily walk to bars, coffee shops, restaurants, grocery stores.
Sorry to hear about your experience, Mattermost PM here.

Are you open to sharing more about the challenges you saw with notifications? We're always looking for feedback to improve the product experience.
Author believes the chefs that moved from NYC and SF suddenly lost the ability to cook good food. Clown article
My timeline thing. It gathers all my crap and puts in onto a timeline. It's a more fine-grained version of scrolling to a specific date on my photo stream.

https://github.com/nicbou/timeline

It serves no purpose, but somehow it attracted one contributor.

It's pointless on purpose. It's the thing I work on when I want to forget about work, and build purely for myself.
I've also got an Eco-Tank, and so does my mother. Ink is so much cheaper that way that I'm not even tempted to buy generics, but there's nothing else stopping me from doing it.
There are two types of "leaders". The ones you describe are authoritarians, who are basically self-centered psycopaths, using deception, power (unhesitatingly trashing or killing anyone who is inconvenient) and making everything transactional ("...but first I want a favor..."). Yes, this is "leadership" in the sense of seizing power and wielding it, but it is unsustainable and fundamentally uncivilized. Authoritarians are always present trying to steal power, but must also always watch their back, as everyone including their opportunistic co-conspirators will want to depose them. I do not call this real leadership.

Real leadership focuses around building on the intrinsic motivations of others, being more of an organizing force to help everyone achieve the goal. Maybe it is just wiser use of more the carrot than the stick, but a signal difference is how the real leader manages attention - does she or he guide all the attention to their teammates, or are they consistently taking credit for all accomplishments and focusing attention on themselves?

The focusing of attention of course creates a bias in that the authoritarians are self-centered and make themselves more visible, while real leaders turn the focus to teammates, so we are less aware of them, and of course the authoritarians exploit this bias. We all know of Jack Welsh who ruined GE and now even has a book about him pointing out how he ruined capitalism itself, but we know little of many unsung CEOs who quietly go about building great companies for their customers and employees.

A leader I worked with from the ranks of military leadership once pointed out to me that leadership, especially in the military is exactly the opposite of what we think. Yes, everyone can lead by giving out a lot of direct orders and punishment - and those 'leaders' fail inevitably and quickly, because they lose the trust and cooperation of everyone down their chain of command. So, when they give an order, the 1st officer just says "do what the chief says" instead of digging in and adding value (teaching, more detail on the commands, etc.), and generating that adding value all the way down the chain. The leader by edict & punishment gets mostly malicious compliance, and that unit degrades to failure. Real leaders, in contrast, lead by example and inspiration, with trust and getting everyone to add value down the chain. Another friend with mil experience similarly pointed out how good leaders almost never give direct orders, just suggestions. They do not want to give the direct order where if something goes unexpectedly then everyone is required to get into the mil justice system - it's better to leave leeway for improvements. I think it is also psychologically better to be implementing the chief's suggestion than following the orders.

Just a few bits of anecdata that I hope highlight the distinction...
>Your happiness has less priority than our survival as a species.

Said the next Hitler/Mao/Stalin...