skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The goalposts haven’t moved, it’s always been bad for a single company to have critical public infrastructure like the web to themselves. The conflict of interest that results is huge.

Manpower matters because no matter how much Chromium/Blink are forked, forks can’t be meaningfully different because they have to keep up with the firehose of changes Google is pumping out, which also makes it progressively more difficult to keep parts of the codebase that have diverged up to date. It’s a losing battle unless you’ve also got a dev team with the size and scope of Google’s Chrome team, which is a ridiculously high bar.

Even your cited examples of Edge and Brave are only superficially different, with a handful of features switched off compared to Chrome. They bring practically no diversity to the web.

> So now all open source software needs to be developed equally by purely non-profit orgs?

No, this is a special case. Web browsers are critical public infrastructure that’ve been on the precipice of total monopoly multiple times now.
Apple has trucidated Firefox, and are the last army standing preventing the Web turning into ChromeOS, they are still winning.
I don't know what a "soul" is or even if there is such a thing but if you're asking if a computer program can have conscious experiences then my answer is no. The reason simply stated is that computations are abstract, conscious experiences are not and abstract things cannot produce non-abstract things.
Because this person has made an irrevocable judgement on the way people performed because of their judgement based on how another person performed. For the very thing he was criticising them about: judging based on appearance of the situation the reality of it, he has done the same to them, but even worse, with explicit malice! I can't really imagine how someone could think they are the good guy in this situation
Yes, but authenticity as value signaling, not as a commitment to behave without unnecessary layers.

I lived in a meditation center for a year, and I saw some people there that claimed to be authentic, and worked to look like the stereotype. But they were actually hiding a desire for materialism and the failure to live up to it behind the apparent choice of rejecting it.

Irony can be pretty ironic.
The advertised benefits - non custodial ownership and peer to peer exchange - still work fine. Privacy is not a design goal of every chain but even on a public chain like Eth it’s easy to use privacy solutions like Tornado and now Aztec to achieve a level of privacy most of us would say is adequate - a similar level as Tor and E2EE messaging apps.

This regulation does little except to add an extra hurdle and unnecessary additional costs for average CEX users who want to withdraw assets to a wallet on the network.
Thanks for a counter-example. Much needed.
> > that will move (often at personal expense!) "where the jobs are".

> This is often stated on HN and Reddit, but simply not true. At no time in US history has there been less internal migration.

That's a pretty big claim. Do you have any data to support that? This [0] seems to tell a different story.

[0]: https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2022/03/net-domestic-...
What even is code? Building a non-code coding interface|Katie Bell|LCA2021Online
Teams is widely hated by many here because of its spyware capabilities.
I think his criticism of Chrome/Google in https://infrequently.org/2021/07/hobsons-browser/ is pretty solid
Just curious when I see a product recommendation here.
Me and a few hundred pseudonymous individuals on Twitter will...what? Mail different currencies to a trusted central party?
That's how I got to this question. I went through the usual guantlet of finding a self-hosted RSS app I liked as well as exploring freemium options and eventually settled on Inoreader. The "plus" tier is ~2USD/mo and is cheaper than what it would cost to host my own, and is overall one of the better readers.
The Birth of Visual Basic (2006)
So the crux of the difference between your model and the model posted above, is exactly what causes the imbalance seen!

In your model, on every step a random person gives to another random person if he has money left.

In the model from the post, every step everybody gives something, but a random person gets something. This asymmetry between getting and giving is enough to cause (large) inequality!

Everybody goes down with the same speed, but dumb luck at some point can actually bring your wealth up really high very fast, and since the downward speed is limited, you will stay rich for a long time.

At a higher level: the average behaves the same upward and downward, but the flukes behave differently.
Could be, but as someone who get lower body pains and injuries (ankles and knees mostly) and lower back fatigue relatively often (from exercising), I do prefer brands that are rooted in actually athletic use rather than purely design/looks.
Maybe it's just placebo but I feel like they're going to be more comfortable and give me better posture/support.
When everyone on the team learn to use Topics, it's life changer.
It is nice where it works out. Some organizations have staff working manual labor who are not as literate or articulate with written communication. Some organizations are competing at a pace where a rival organization can beat them with a well run meeting over waiting for emails to be written, read, and replied to.
Pretty much any shirt or hoodie or jacket you’re going to find in common stores will have a brand logo on it. If there’s no logo, at least it sports some random gibberish (New Mexico Surf Club ‘86).

I’m also from camp „not your free advertising estate“, and it’s difficult to find plain or ad-free clothes at times. Unless you’re strictly into suits, that is.
No, it's a legitimate question. There is literally nothing you can do to stop a website from logging your visit, so I don't understand your argument here. Visit logging (what Plausible does) and tracking (what Google Analytics does) are two very different things.
Something tells me you're not addressing the core of the argument because you can't.
Not being able to send things into space is not scarcity. Food, education, transportation, housing, healthcare, life's necessities.
A couple of years ago I started architecting transcoding/streaming video pipelines on AWS for my work. It sparked a general interest/curiosity into the internal workings of video compression algorithms, which then allowed me to revisit a subject I've always wanted to try out, datamoshing. Something about purposefully breaking codecs to generate artifacts that lets you peak at their inner workings really nerd sniped me.

The most advanced video I was able to create is this datamoshed version of Carpenter Brut - Turbo Killer clip : https://streamable.com/7d9h4b. I'm particularly proud/pleased with the transition at the 2:00 minute mark.
It still a long way from what I would want to be able to accomplish (as the moshing is still pretty random and looks good only by "chance"), but I'm pretty happy with my progress overall.

My long term goal for it would be able to create moshing of music video clips, and sync the glitching to the beat/structure of the music (using Spotify Audio Analysis feature [0][1]).

As a sidenote, a tool I discovered and has been a godsend into tinkering with video codecs is FFglitch[2]. It's a fork of FFmpeg with the ability to directly access and modify internal MPEG2/4 values (such as the Motion Vectors, macroblocks, DCT coefficient, etc). Compared to other datamoshing techniques (such as corrupting AVI files with random data, manual key frames deletion, etc) it's order of magnitudes more advanced and precise, allowing you to precisely and purposefully influence the codec, instead of randomly breaking it and seeing what sticks. However its downside is that you have to have a solid grasp of the inner workings of those codecs to achieve anything.

Finally, for anyone looking for a good resource to get an understanding of Video Encoding, I highly recommend this[3] github repo as a starting point. It contains a good description of the workings, as well as an amazing references list.

[0]: https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/referenc...

[1]: https://spotify-audio-analysis.glitch.me/

[2]: https://ffglitch.org/

[3]: https://github.com/leandromoreira/digital_video_introduction
Gitea looks good. I'm going to try it myself.
You’re lucky! I’ve definitely worked places where supposedly adult people made many constant tasteless jokes around sex and homosexuality, and about women while speaking to women, where the environment was actually hostile and the “adults” truly didn’t even know it and thought their conduct was okay. The problem with saying “we could be adults” is that many many people disagree on what it means to be adult, it’s a criteria that’s too vague and indirect. Counting on people being adults is what we’ve tried and failed at for, I dunno, hundreds of years? Forever? BTW, I don’t think just showing the page at work is the issue, the issue is talking about it, and that is something that would happen.
I like to wear nice clothes at work. I feel good in them and it is my way of being respectful to the workplace.

I probably carry this too far when traveling. I have very light weight traveling sport coats and slacks - all washable in a hotel room and lots of hidden pockets (TravelSmith is a favorite brand). Sometimes it pays off big: when my wife and I were traveling around Central America with a buddy of mine and his wife, my friend just packed tshirts, shorts, and sandals. Every time we walked into a restaurant to eat, his wife complemented me on looking so nice. This bugged my friend, and if we can’t irritate our friends, then what is the joy in life :-) Seriously though, it just feels respectful to be nicely dressed when entering restaurants and people’s homes when traveling.
I think OPs point is that we could be living be a “post-scarcity” world today if we simply distributed existing resources equitably to everyone.

The problem isn’t we haven’t solved how to make enough food to feed everyone, it’s that it’s not profitable to feed those that can’t pay for it.
> and the birth of my son [...] Before exercise I would drink one bottle per week

It's also the getting used with the little monster, can state that from experience... to me at least alchohol was a must-have drug to reduce & control rage and aggresiveness induced by the little one and all the people that had to be around and be interact with... not a peoples person and my natural reaction to demanding people is to want to make them go away one way or another, with a great temptation to do so violently and permanently. (to clarify, was never angry or enraged when alone with the baby himself, taken alone the little thing was sweet af... only with all the people that seemed to suddenly go crazy and become extra "caring", "attentive", "demanding" or what not... I like babies, but I find other peoples' excessive reactions to them utterly disgusting... "baby brain" is a real thing apparently and it makes people uttely unsufferabe...)
According to the article, the study entailed using avatars with or without luxury logos branded on clothing.

Suits can be luxury goods, but the study didn't explore that. It's unclear at a glance if this was actually about status given the methods. There could be other reasons people don't favor corporate-branded clothing, considering that wealthy people don't just wear polos with big corporate logos on them. Maybe it telegraphs poor taste, or that boosting luxury companies makes it seem like you're trying too hard to show that you have money (I make a distinction between this and someone who plainly looks high-status owing to their choice of wear). The obvious thing to include would have been avatars with non-luxury brands, it's possible that would have repelled as well.

On the other hand, every piece of heavily-branded clothing could be considered "luxury" in its own way and the only difference is social class, demographics. In low-culture you'll see Crooks and Castles, Fox Racing, Adidas, etc
What is there to stop beyond the horrible energy consumption and scams?

Bitcoin doesn't do anything useful at all. It's a net negative for the earth and the public at large.
There is an incentive against inequality: Fear of revolution, fear of crime, compassion (humanist) believes. There are also methods and apparently incentives to keep extracting even more money from the poor by influencing politics (lobbying).

So I don't really see the usefulness of this incentives-less simulation, money never flows randomly. To me this does not really prove anything.
As a former OCaml hobbyist programmer my take on these kind of books or articles is that, yes OCaml is extremely elegant and beautiful as a programming language and it shines for simple applications. Some parts of it are actually not so elegant, for example the object oriented aspect completely spoil the elegance of the core language.

On the other side OCaml, as a pure functional programming language with immutable value by default doesn't scale well to large, complex application. Just the paradigm is no longer tenable and you need to switch at least partially to imperative programming with mutable variable. For example this is what it does the implementation of the OCaml itself.

To develop further the point about "what doesn't scale" there is also the function with unnamed arguments and currying. While extremely elegant for simple programs it gets confusing for real-world applications when function needs quite a lot of arguments and there is no longer any obvious order to give them. If you stick with that and you choose an order it becomes arbitrary, difficult to remember and currying no longer makes a lot of sense.

Functional programming with immutable values is a wrong pattern for programming languages. Many algorithms, almost all actually, are naturally expressed in imperative style with mutable arrays or variables.

What is needed is to bridge the good things from OCaml, the type system, the pattern matching with tagged types into a modern, imperative programming languages.

Rust is a sort of answer but they got it wrong because it is too low level about managing the memory, the ownership pardon, and everything else so programmers cannot just express the algorithm or the logic they want to implement but they have to spend a lot of mental energy thinking about ownership issues and unneeded accidental complexity like lifetime annotations.
Zoho Cliq solves this by using ML to parse the message and give a suitable name.
It's suitable 7/10 times, and the remaining 3 - it either doesn't matter that much or is trivial to rename.

Zulip should try that if they haven't already.
Except with Patagonia which made the decision to no longer supply these items as the recognized they were becoming a part of the uniform for finbros[0].

[0]https://www.cbsnews.com/news/midtown-uniform-patagonia-will-...
How could weekends possibly work? Society would come to a complete halt on Saturday and Sunday! For religious reasons we can all accept Sundays off, but Saturdays? Madness!
I think the key to being happy as an introvert is not depending on the approval and adoration of others for your accomplishments. If you do, you're going to be bitter and toxic over not getting it when you feel you should.
It is the only way to make business take action to adopt quality software development pratices across the stack.

Without health inspection, those steaks aren't probably something you would feel like eating, if allowed to look into the kitchen.

When it is cheaper to ignore quality, business will do so.
We always have the choice. I've quit more than one job and divorced someone.
The link to USDA WASDE source data given by Bloomberg does not work:

https://www.usda.gov/oce/commodity/wasde/wasde0721.pdf

Though the Wayback Machine has a copy:

https://web.archive.org/web/20210712160123/https://www.usda.... (PDF)
Supreme Court Overturns Roe vs. Wade
Or you could just set up the ingress as a daemonset with a NodePort service that has externalTrafficPolicy set to local.
Not very courageous to release a piece like this AFTER the crash.

Understood that nobody would listen while times were good, but because of the timing the conviction of the author is questioned.

EDIT: Author has been releasing criticism of cryptocoins for some time now. I guess he's bona fide.
Brick-and-mortar businesses are increasingly not accepting cash at all. Not to mention the vast majority of e-commerce.
> I would like to fundraise with an international group that doesn't trust US based corporations with their personal data. Is there an existing way to do that?

Sure, there is a large semi-informal Hundi network to “move” money internationally.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hundi
Also, it is suspected than Apple actually orchestrate those "leaks" for free publicity.
And it will always be anecdata since the creation of lac-phe after working out is dependent on both your CNDP2 genetics and your intake of manganese which is the cofactor for that enzyme.
Not sure why this is about Chicago. Almost all of the major hedge funds and banks have been increasing their Miami presence over the past 18 months. Maybe it really is because of the violence, but I think he is making a political play and taking advantage of Florida’s tax breaks over anything else.
> A good petrol car can be bought used for $15-20k. Comparing the price of a new one to an EV is a false equivalency because you can't buy used EVs for anywhere near that.

You can definitely find a used EV for under 20k.

https://www.carvana.com/cars/nissan-leaf-under-15k
Ironically: the gaudy heavily branded clothing of a brand's clothing line is usually the cheapest.

The understated stuff is usually much more expensive.

I think Vercace is the only brand I know of that's the opposite.
In the US at least, a lot of people wear athleisure clothing and that stuff almost always has a logo on it somewhere.
I expect customers to sign custom firmware that they download. Some advanced users will write their own.

To address the point about companies also needing to deploy firmware — you can have two keys on the device:

1. For company firmware.

2. Included key with the device.
>“We’re intentionally small, profitable and sustainable.”
This here ^^. Too many fall in the trap of agiling themselves to death.

How do you know they don't use agile? Being small, profitable and sustainable is not necessarily != Agile.
Immich: Self-hosted media backup solution
The hook that got me in to reading acoup was the analysis of the battles in Lord of the Rings. How does book compare to movie compare to actual battle tactics.
And old pickup truck prices.
For further elaboration, self-hosted just means that you get a license to install the code on a server you control - whether that license is FL/OSS, something proprietary, or some middle ground (open core etc).
Oh, so if I change my numbers mother nature do the same?

"my numbers" are not mine, but from the current state of research on the field. The current state is simple: we can produce green hydrogen but in too little quantities, that means:

- we can't use it on scale

- there is no point in using it at smaller scale

That's why kWh count, because panels are not "toll free" coming like fruits on some tree branches, they have to be produced and they have a cost. They have a usable life, they need to be decommissioned after that. Actually we can make a single family home hydrogen+p.v. in certain area of the world, such home will cost few MILLIONS, need a variable amount of land from an hectare to few hectares, and last at around 10 years without special maintenance. We can produce few of them for the 1% of the humanity. Unfortunately such humanity can't keep up the species nor can't produce the aforementioned tech in their backyard, that's is. Is it more clear now?

We can do many things in general, some can scale, some can't, some are reasonable some are not. A green hydrogen industry so far is not reasonable and can't work on scale. We can continue researching on it of course, but we need working things, not dream, so we need something else to keep up.
I agree. I'd expect a huge compensation gap between someone who types up "make a save button" when the user says "I want to save", and some who comes up with "Users wish to persist state between uses of the application, therefore we want to retain the users current balance, brightness setting..."

The former shouldn't be paid more than a front desk receptionist, and I'll keep the difference since I'll be picking up the rest of the role.
Stripe is very often mentioned as an example of great docs - https://stripe.com/docs
lol, yes, perhaps they mean 'revenue performance'.
> Please define "best"?

Best would be the one that users choose to use, when they are given the option and full power to do so.
Reinventing the Airship for the 2020s
How? Buying a new car is far more expensive than an extra couple thousand on fuel per year. And that is if you drive 20k miles per year.

Financially, I would be further ahead if I just spend a little extra on the fuel and invest the amount I would have used to buy a new car.
Discussions involve reading and considering and responding to people, not whatever it is you're doing
I’ve twice tried to buy grease from KA for my K45, a home machine. The second time I decided to be pretty persistent, just for amusement. I kept the associate tied up for half an hour, but, no, they won’t sell to a non-commercial customer. Reasons given were I could hurt myself or damage ‘my’ machine. I’d have to be a KA certified appliance repair shop.

Finally, food-grade grease appeared on Amazon, so I got that.

It’s very different for commercial users, because the machines have to be lubed regularly, and bakers can’t wait around.

(The famous third party service of McD’s ice cream machines comes to mind.)
I got mine out recently in mid 40s. Wish I had done it sooner. Constant minor infections. And every so often the would move and cause a lot of pain, especially in 2020, when it was all arranged then got cancelled for the covid overreaction.
It's not hard to imagine a world where bitcoin wins and everyone uses it for everything.

Instead of a government blocking your bank account, they block your Coinbase account and all known addresses. Through financial networks, they tell every processor, exchange, and network to block your known addresses from transacting and impose heavy fines for negligent institutions.

Suddenly your "decentralized" bitcoin stops working everywhere unless you secretly stashed some under your bed. Which is the exact same situation that exists today.

The only difference is that promoting bitcoin enriches those with existing bitcoin investments.
Similar to Zuckerberg wearing plain boring shirts...that happen to cost upwards of $300 apiece

https://www.wmagazine.com/story/mark-zuckerberg-facebook-bru...
I don't think you are the target demographic this article is referencing.
Just because the effect might not be caused by the one specific molecule discussed in the article doesn't mean it's necessarily psychological.
Oh, this is bad. Brother has always, like for DECADES, been the non-shitty option.

Had ipv6 before anyone else.

Good Linux support, even for the scanners on their MFCs.

Agnostic about third-party toner.

This new firmware demolishes twenty years of goodwill.

I was just looking at a new printer, and likely to replace my old Brother B&W MFC and Samsung color laser, with a new Brother color laser MFC, but it looks like I'll see how long I can string the old ones along.