skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These are not irreconcileable concepts.

The externalising of costs and internalisation of benefits (within Party operations, to specific high-power entities within the Party) can explain much of this.

The specific political dynamics of pollution and environmental degredation within Western countries (the UK, US, India, Western Europpe, etc.) is often quite similar. The politically powerful impose environmental costs on the disempowered, racial outsiders, minorities, immigrants, colonies, etc.

I see far more similarity in these systems than differences.

It wasn't the captains of industry and political power who embraced Leopold, Carson, Meadows, and Commoner. And a surprising amount of early environmentalism had a strong tinge of racism about it (c.f., Muir).

Power differenctial informs far more than any specific ideology does.
Due to the screwy way credit works in the US I just use one card but have several (free) ones. Cancelling the others would make my credit worse; if I don’t use them for a while two companies have reduced the credit lines and I have heard others can be cancelled due to non use.

So I distributed my subscriptions among them (in my case news, video, apps, clown subscriptions); every month I get a reminder to consider the spend. When I had everything on one card I had only one bill to pay but these subscriptions were buried in everything else.
What about the San Diego style burrito?
Those stand-ins for men that didn't have a trace of parallels anywhere lower in the hierarchy.
No, according to https://www.census.gov/library/publications/2021/demo/p60-27... the median household income is the US is $67,521 in 2020, which $125 a month is about 2.2% of. If you look at "real median earnings", you get a number of $41,535 which comes to 3.6%. Except that number includes "all workers aged 15 and over" which includes high schoolers part time work, so it's a highly skewed statistic when talking about people who might pay for software or a monthly sub like this.

Neither of those numbers comes close to 5%, which would be a net income of $30,000/y.
> Name one company that was successful in just selling their product one time to a customer.

Every funeral home.

Anyway, I find the term "subscription" misleading. A lot of software nowadays is more accurately termed "rental". If you have a traditional newspapers/magazine/comic book subscription, you get to keep the issues forever if you want. I still have some old comic books.

Whereas a lot of so-called "subscription" software stops working entirely when you stop subscribing. This is more like rental. You lose everything when you stop renting. In fairness, there is some software that has a subscription model for software updates, where you get updates for a year if you pay a subscription, but the last downloaded version works indefinitely. But that's a minority of "subscription" software.

The key difference between rental and ownership is that with ownership, the buyer gets to decide if and when to buy the product again, whereas with rental, the seller decides.
Then how do you benefit from CloudFlare? Legit curious.
You might have had a more recent non-symptomatic infection.

All kinds of possible explanations.
Are the employees actually getting the difference though?
Sure, and I could eat rice and beans with water every day and save thousands of dollars per year. It's confusing to me how many people on here seem to think paying money for non-essential things that provide enjoyment or convenience is some sort of moral failing.
> but why exactly aren't we having 70s stagflation or worse in the US?

we had strong unions back then which would demand double-digit COLA raises in salary producing a wage-price spiral.

given how people could actually afford homes back then, though, i don't think this was a particularly bad thing.

what we have now contains all the inflation in the system to the upper class and asset bubbles.

we need either to have the cost of housing deflate or the wages paid to inflate. it will be less painful to inflate wages. this isn't what we're going to do though.
I think that a combination of the Americans with Disabilities Act and the fact that websites need to be scrape-able to show up in search results should spare us the worst of this, hopefully...
Re: the latter question, absolutely! You can create bounties both in your private Algora repos as well as private Github repos using our integration. You can share them privately (via email) or make them public on Algora - only the issue becomes visible and not your codebase. No-one can access your repo directory (codebase) unless you add them as a collaborator in the repo. People who discover your bounties can request to solve them, and you accept them by sharing the repos. You can also ask solvers to sign documents before accessing your repos.

As for the work classification, it is actually 1099 contract work! Every year, Algora Public Benefit Corporation makes an information disclosure to the IRS about users’ earnings from the previous year, summing up the money they have received. Users who made money on Algora also receive these 1099 forms, which sum their bounty payouts and come in handy when filing for taxes.

- Ioannis
Where? I was in SF last month and got more burrito than I could eat for < $10.
I would have loaded the spreadsheet into r and extracted the matches to a regex.
On iOS it is not possible to truly run a custom browser because Apple mandates use of Safari. What you get on iOS are mostly just skins for Safari.

There is no path to most of the privacy features Tor Browser implements on iOS.

https://2019.www.torproject.org/projects/torbrowser/design/

Remember, if you paid for an Apple device, you do not own an Apple device.
For people using GnuCash, you can define these in GnuCash rather than separate spreadsheets/files (menu "Actions > Scheduled Transations").

Then, whenever the scheduled time occurs, GnuCash will add the right double-entry accounting entries, and notify you the next time you start an interactive session.

Like any transactions added manually in GnuCash, these will be matched up with imported data (and any transactions in imported data that are not already entered manually or by schedule will be highlighted as new). The scheduled transactions also show up like any other when you reconcile a GnuCash account with a statement from the bank/CC.
Assuming the median person is willing to spend ~$1440 on a laptop every 3 years which amortizes to $40/mo, to justify another $120/mo would require those services to 4x their productivity/satisfaction compared to getting a computer in the first place.
For trade to truly be useful, it needs to provide surplus value for all parties involved; and I don’t think most subscription services make a compelling case to consumers at large.

Maybe for those who have lots of money to spare, they might be willing to pay as much for incremental increases in convenience, but I doubt that applies to most people — even in rich countries.

——

This is markedly different from the sentiment expressed in an Alan Kay quote (paraphrases): Most people spend about as much in their computer as they do on television, and use it about the same way. [He] would consider a good computer more valuable than a car, for the possibilities it entails [but no hardware/software creator seems to be operating with that level of ambition in providing users that much leverage].
You'd need to talk to Rockstar and hope it gets more resources than their GTA "definitive" editions.
http://montaigne.io - made this one for myself. Just publishes website from Apple Notes. Every time time I update note on my laptop or iPhone the site is updated automatically.
Well, he wasn't wrong.
They should have sold their tech as a platform for other streamers to build on, which would have locked in a portion of those profits.
WASM has been a massive help to me.

I'm building a static analysis CLI tool in Rust. It takes 30 seconds to build the WASM version, which I then upload to a website, providing a web-based version that other developers can use to demo the tool, and isolate bugs in its analysis.

It feels sort of magic.
Sure, but what is the cause?

I think biggest explanation is complexity creep. This goes especially for backwards and software.
The ones I've seen are either metal (black ones) or very hard plastic (blue).
I really enjoy Firefox. Only time I use Chrome is for Google Meet, that really sucks in Firefox
That's rare.
>Assuming they're sold to owner-occupiers who were previously renting, you've increased housing supply in that segment of the market, but you've reduced supply in the letting market, so the net effect will be zero.

Not really. The net effect would be a distribution of wealth across a broader number of people (former renters, now owners) instead of one person (landlord who is accumulating wealth by charging rents from a number of people).
If by "WW3" you imply "nuclear war", there will be no rebuilding of anything.
Interesting... Then the fun is only guaranteed.
Not much substance here - the article tries to draw big conclusions but doesn't do so concretely at all.

The only concrete thing in the article is the 900 refusals to stop since Jan 2022. But even that is missing context. What is a "normal" amount?
Yup.

That was the Divergence Ventures/Bridget Harris play listed in the article. To their credit, they returned the money when called out on it.
That doesn't sound like fun to me. That sounds more like a nightmarish psychosis.
Fun fact: its possible to 1:1 copy an installation of GNU Linux and chances are good, it will just work

So there should be a osx kind of "hook up to internet and keep this key pressed to install" functionality.

So actually no need to manually install

Next probably will be: "i never did backups, there was always someone else to do it" (somehow)

Does Stallman do backups?

Or:

Who does Stallman trust backups to?
I was made to believe(from my readings) that it's not the browser that tracks you, it's the corporations who track you by your browsers ID(signature). Therefore, the best we can do, is to use chrome for google stuff and facebook(the 2 biggest offenders) and use FF for anything else(meaningful/serious stuff). Additionally, get the container-tab addon for firefox for super secure engagements like banking and other sensitive connections.
Phil Metzger is also working on Mars city economics: https://twitter.com/DrPhiltill/status/1548465323770200065

So far, i am not convinced by either of these analysis, so i hope they and others keep working on them.
I've worked in a similar way to this in the past and at similar price points.

Most of the time I ended up with one of two kinds of founder:

1) Very price senstive with a lack of investment mindset. With that kind of budget they would have been better off investing in themselves to either:
a) Learn to code or develop some other valuable skills.
b) Build a profitable service business.

2) Very busy running another business without the time to do the work of finding customers. They would have been better off either:
a) Focusing on growing their current service business.
b) Creating a non-software product such as a course, book, templates or a newsletter.

In general non-developers need to be prepared to invest at least an order of magnitude more than that. Any less and it's unlikely they'll take it seriously enough to succeed.

This is assuming you are aiming at clients with North American/European levels of purchasing power.
I'm around mid twenties and I'm working faaaaaaaaaar away from the company where

I've been once and I've learned more about my coworkers during that a few hours than after months of working with them over the internet.

And I do seriously believe that purely remote hurts your networking possibilities.

I didn't feel like that when I've been working remotely with ppl that I've spent 2 years onsite.

I love remote, but it's tricky topic.
> Specifically, what ‘shattered’ that trust?

Doubling down on failed lockdown policy long after it was known to be ineffective and hurt more people than it helped. Profiteering off of the pandemic crisis. Rampant censorship of people who turned out be correct and were trying to warn us.

If they knew that there was something wrong with the vaccine, I expect them to lie about it, and censor and coerce whistle blowers into silence. They have demonstrated their eagerness to do so over the last two years.

So what good is the word of "the science" about how effective vaccines are? These are the same people that told us that we should trust the Chinese government.

> What did you need to see from those in power that would have maintained or built that trust?

Absolute transparency. Admitting that they made mistakes and committing to avoiding those mistakes in the future with meaningful policy changes. Reparations paid to those who were needlessly harmed by their mistakes.

At the very least, something like the settlements from toxic waste dumping coverups would be a good start.
Much agreed. Data analysis needs a good theory.
Fiverrr did that, no ?
I also have played thousands of hours of Destiny 2 and I have heard a lot of "this is the best it has ever been" from my friends who still play.

But I just can't get past the content treadmill anymore. Life got busy enough that I can't keep up anymore, and losing access to old stuff sucks because it means going back to the game is that much higher of an overhead for me to re-learn.

It also would be very challenging for me to be excited for the future knowing it might become worse, and the current golden age will be completely removed and inaccessible.
I pay for my server, but I don't consider that a subscription. So I also have zero subscriptions.
The major Canadian banks offer this as a standard feature.
But they're not changing the UI regularly for the most part, they're offering new and more convenient optional UI elements that are useful. Or providing good Day-1 support for new OS notification features or new options on Apple Watch.

It also helps pay for their use of those weather data and forecasting APIs, some of the more effective of which are private and paid APIs.

And that's totally ignoring that almost nothing, especially in mobile apps can just be "written once and never updated". APIs change, new sizes of device come out...
True Scotswoman.
If we gave more stuff to people who did harder jobs, immigrant day laborers would be rich and trust fund investors would be poor.

I think you realized that you were on shaky ground and stuck "effective" in there, but I'm going to call you on that one: please, explain to me how the strong correlation between shitty jobs and shitty pay is entirely about leveraged value creation and not at all about social status and Rules for Rulers?
Yell on them on Twitter and hope you start trending.
The C source on the old site compiled and ran when I tried it:
https://www.kevinalbrecht.com/code/joy-mirror/joy.html (mirror)

My own project is here: https://joypy.osdn.io/ It includes interpreters in Python, Prolog, and Nim (and a start on Rust) and some explorations of compilers and type inference/checking written in Prolog.
Where do I need to spend that much for coffee equipment?
It's an example of how the patent system will present legal hurdles to inventors. Not just opportunities.
Did I miss something? At what point have women stopped looking for a higher income man?
Edge is the way to go for Windows machines,especially if you prefer the chromium engine.

MS made lots of Windows specific optimizations, with a focus on memory use. The other killer feature is 'secure mode' that disables JS JIT, which is where most if the security issues have come from in modern browsers. Plus, in this context, MS's incentives align much closer to mine than one if the largest advertising companies in the world.
> I would say that proper password manager is the best investment you can do from any app.

I agree but I think the point being made is that there are free password managers that do the job just as well. I use keepassxc on the desktop, it has autofill, it's backed up in my Google Drive, I have an Android app that works pretty well too.

I've never really felt a need to pay for a password manager, my current solution works well enough.
Traficking has nothing to do with it being involuntary. Many trafficked people did so voluntarily and of their own initiative.
If an organization or person is selling a product focused on privacy and there is a TOS that focuses on the org or person avoiding liability but lacks documentation or links to resources to help users to lower their liability and increase privacy, its a red flag to me.

Their servers are located in the Netherlands. Its good that they list that. It would be better to hoist information into something that is less policy/legal oriented and perhaps provide an overview of the laws of that region.

Other things that should be listed is how is the data stored, transferred, how is it protected, are there any steps to anonymize the data, hash the data, or provide a way to bring your on key for data encryption.

Is there any telemetry gathered or stored by the server? Is the code in the github project the same that is deployed in production or is there a private repo that augments the code?
Which would be great, but will upset way too many voters, so politicians won't dare touch it.

"My political opponent is attacking the middle class and their investments!"
I can’t speak for others, but I have limited, volatile income and subscriptions aren’t a realistic option for me. One-time purchases are much more realistic.

I don’t care for subscriptions because they lock out those of us with limited means.

Edit: even so, I still have $16/mo in subscriptions on my phone. :-/
Thanks for taking the time to provide this.
> looks like you could need someone helping you out with worker's rights..

Let's see it do something for European SWE salaries first. Oslo: just as expensive as SF @ 1/3 the salary.

I guess there's a reason you want the right to moonlight in the evenings...
- Christopher Hitchens (possibly THE biggest expert on Orwell in the late 20th century, and a great intellectual IMHO) on "Why Orwell Matters" + Q&A (2002) [0].

- Why I write [1]

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3I-FfrkGiWQ

[1]: https://www.orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-foundation/orwel...
Unusual in terms of total world population, probably not.

Unusual in terms of HN readers, I'd think most people here have at least 1x video streaming service at home.
>No, buying from a coffee shop with trained baristas making coffee all day is a much better deal

Not the OP, but my bar for "good coffee" is pretty low. I think I'm not alone, and for a lot of us the investment is way smaller. In 2017, I spent about $500 for a grinder, kettle, scale, dripper and glass containers. I haven't spent a cent since then on infra, just ongoing expenses for beans (again, not terribly expensive given the bar).

I like an amazing coffee now and then, but the number of places where the $8 coffee is really amazing is vanishingly small, IMO.
I would love your false flag interpretation, except we did see the bugs shooting down the human spaceships, in a scene I don't think was intended to be a false narration or anything. They do appear to have some space capabilities and I think the lack of clarity is better chalked up to Hollywood science than directorial intent. Your mileage may vary, of course.

In support of the whole thing being a false flag, it would explain the sheer incompetence with which the war is prosecuted... a modern infantry unit would likely fate much better than Our Heroes did. Seeing it as a deliberately harrowing experience for social purposes where the technologically-superior humans are actually in full control the whole time would be an interesting twist. But, again, this would be a lot more solid if Hollywood didn't have a track record of unironic bad tactics across the board.
This is a valid observation, however I wonder if the best frame is to consider if that toxic culture is preferable to a warmongering society.

It may be that some level of toxic behavior is inescapable when humans release their tribal competition instinct. And if team sports is construed as a war-replacement, perhaps it is a better (though not perfect) mechanism to absorb that toxicity.

Maybe there are better-still options to absorb tribal toxicity, bit I can’t think of any off the top of my head.
I saw this on reddit and a thread suggests it's probably misinformation.

https://old.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/w1ahrq/scots_tea...

> Neither Guidestar nor Charity Navigator (the two largest global watchdogs of nonprofits) list/provide any information about this non-profit, Global Oceanic Environmental Survey Foundation. It appears to be a Greenpeace-type cause-based organization.

> That's because GOES isn't actually a charity, it's a project of Clean Water Wave Ltd...a company that sells water filtration solutions.
I picked it as a random example but yes, it does do safetynet/aggressive device fingerprinting/bans root (magiskhide used to work for a bit afaik)/collecting as many identifiers as possible based on version of android.
Enterprise software can easily be 5 figures a month for even moderate usage.
Both sports and war leverage the same dynamics, just as individual athleticism improves one's chances in a fight. Neither are ends in themselves.
I had COVID back in June. Still recovering from brain fog, fatigue and yes, mild depression. I can say mild because I suffer from depression as it is, so yes it's there. I don't want to do anything, getting out of bed is a chore and so on.
What helped and helps me is sitting in the sun every day for half an hour. For some reason it gives me strength to apply myself and do some work for a few hours afterwards.
Any half-decent IDE created in this century gives you both these features and much more. I remember selecting the type of the new project in Visual Studio 6.0 and getting either a console "Hello, world" or a full-blown GUI application. VS 6.0 is literally older than some engineers I work with today
Missing country code, you are instead supposed to call: +44 118 999 881 999 119 725 3.
It’s not baffling if you think you are better, and therefore your time is more valuable, than everyone else.

And there is nothing more accurate about the average HN user than that.

Especially me. I’m the best and smartest.
It is quite limited and not very usable on cross-platform use.
Didn't know netflix actually allows to download this.

Very nice, but now i'm way more curious than before. Like prefered weekdays, top tv shows (i watch and others watch) etc.

I would also like to see when its more or less 'netflix time'.

Like right now we have stranger things, the umbrella academy and better call saul. Could easily be visualized and potentially even inform me when i can unsubscribe temporarily (not that it matters that much for a few bucks per month)
A recession has already started? Someone should tell the labor market. There is still substantial monthly job growth. 250,000 in June. Doesn’t sound like a recession to me.

What it does sound like is younger people hoping for a recession because they think it will collapse housing prices. They’re wrong, but what’s new.
Because the marginal cost of selling a license is often close to zero, and companies often add pointless cloud features to lock people into subscriptions they don't want.

It's possible to write software on your own or with a small team, and sell it for low prices, and make a decent income from it. I know it's possible because I've been doing it for a decade.

But somehow over the years software developers have moved everything to subscriptions, prices are going up, and everyone competes for the attention of the people with lots of disposable income.