skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>But when people start to hoard or collect money for the money’s sake, then it creeps into the unnatural. There is no identifiable purpose to wealth acquisition. There is no final telos to the golden face of greed. Money, as with numbers, has no end point — you just have to get more and more of it.

Proudhon, Silvio Gesell and Keynes have discovered that money is superior over any potential good or service in the real world because money acts like a joker, you can simply trade it in for that service exactly when you need it. This means if people don't know what they want to do, they simply freeze up and never make any decision, they wait until they have no other choice than to spend their money. Being able to deal with any potential situation by being able to make decisions that are decoupled from space and time is valuable in itself, this superiority never disappears and therefore the desire to save money "just in case I need it" never disappears. Keynes calls this concept liquidity preference.

This is quite important to know, it means there is an interest rate floor below which people refuse to lend their money. After all, lending money means committing yourself to a decision, you are giving up liquidity, i.e. the ability to deal with any potential situation.

People store and hoard other things in the real economy but those things have a cost associated with storing they money is explicitly costless, actually storing cash isn't costless but digital cash is almost costless.

It is basically free insurance provided by the rest of society so people who are seeking safety just keep accumulating more and more even if they never intend to use it just so they can feel safe.

In an economy that barely experiences growth but always has positive interest rates lending money appears to be quite evil, every loan is effectively a payday loan. No wonder they banned interest, the obvious problem is that it is just treating symptoms. Banning interest doesn't eliminate liquidity preference so people just pile up more money and trading stagnates because most money is being saved rather than spent.
> Those are questionable parallels. Music, acting, sports, writing, etc are human practices many millenia old, recognized as such by universities, labor unions, etc.

We’re they delivered to us by aliens? Of course not, people thought the same of those at the time of their inception.
Yeah, but this is the equivalent of Costco raising food court prices to match real production costs. Costco would never do that, of course, because they understand how a loss leader works. The real solution is to reduce costs using vertical integration, so if AWS storage is your main cost driver then start building your own data centers. Instead, this move will harm their best customer acquisition channel, negatively affecting long-term growth.
I'm working on building a database in the same space as InstantDB. Currently, it's an "object/graph database using Protobuf". There's a check to ensure updated Protobuf definitions are backwards-compatible. Of course, this still implicitly relies on using Protobufs correctly (i.e. a missing value is the same as zero/empty/null/nil), even though I'm trying to make it safe by default.

I'm curious what your needs are. Would you mind elaborating on what kind of migrations your project would have needed to not die?
At that level, trust and skill are specialisms, not generic statements.

By analogy, I'm a skilled software developer, graduated 2006, learned to read from a Commodore 64 user manual etc., but I make iOS apps, put me on a Rust project and don't even know the syntax.

I trust a fighter pilot to be really good at spotting potential hazards in the air, and also things which are not responding to the appropriate IFF signals. While I know too little about what they do to guess much of what else they're good at, I suspect that suggesting they're too good to make mistakes is like suggesting I'm too good to write bugs.
Networking and selling yourself as consultant, book writer, library author,....
>It's just the camera sensor's color space (Adobe RGB)

Sensors don't have a color space. It's a transformation applied in the camera software. Unfortunately no commercially available camera either exposes using the sensor data output itself, leading to often considerable non linearity between the measurable output values and the actual exposure. This is applied to the raw file for exposure and post processing raw conversion. You need to analyse the non de-bayered raw files directly to assess what's happening in the captured data.
This is an excellent example of why attributing individual small contributions to your real-life identity online is not a good idea.
The story is that the FBI knowing lied to Facebook.
In this day and age that is simply not possible anymore.

Most apps have no good open source alternatives.
You can turn off random people messaging you for what it's worth.
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Not too related but that's one of the reasons I switched to macOS and struggle to move back. Even back in Windows 7 there was already a lot of preinstalled crap that just made me feel gross about my installation. Now with Windows 11 the situation seems astronomically worse. I don't want to feel disgusted by my OS installation out of the box. In that sense (of course there are other downsides) macOS feels almost totally pure out of the box, although the Apple Music stuff is an early red flag to me.
We built a super simple to help anyone sell any digital file in seconds.
> When 1 in 5 of your males and 1 in 10 of your females believe that being a parasite is the only available career choice, something is very wrong.

They provide entertainment to people, what makes you consider them parasites?
Nice way of deflecting blame there. Trump knew exactly what he was doing and he did it. He now got caught. It’s not like “hey nobody told me I couldn’t do this”, it’s why tf are you taking these documents sir. There’s no interpretation of reality which makes that an accident or oversight.
Firefox users are asked to please stay away:

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To use Clipchamp, make sure you're using the latest version of Google Chrome, or the latest Microsoft Edge
There's kinda of a https://xkcd.com/1172/ vibe to that use case.

Being able to go back through two years of chats with your wife most likely was never an intended use case for Slack. For a free tier, 90 day retention seems reasonable. The issue Slack has in their pricing, for private use, is that the cheapest tier is pretty expensive. This could be remedied by adding a private tier, for $1 per month per user. I think Slack has put a large number of potential customers in a position where they are asking them to upgrade to a paid tier, but not providing a realistic tier to upgrade to.

I am fascinated by the amount of people who use Slack though. While completely off topic, it an absolutely mess of a thing. It has to be one of the worst UIs I had the misfortune to use. It makes Google Chat look reasonable.
>>I have recommended Slack for almost any project! I can't do that anymore... :-(

Yeah, don't recommend something you have no control over DONT DO IT....EVER!!!
You need a lifestyle switch
They pretreated with a 10-millimolar solution, which is 0.46 grams per liter; 0.58 cubic centimeter volume makes the solution 0.06 percent ABV. That's one hundred times more dilute than beer.
This is good advice. Thank you. I hadn’t considered possible (radiation?) interferences from my tech devices could be disruptive to my focus, alertness, etc. Not to mention, the overload from social media. Although, I don’t use platforms such as Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat. So, those sensory bombardments would be limited. Ideally, the more holistic approach is what I’m after. But, if that’s not possible, then my options are with what I wrote.
This. What helps me was that the company provided a work laptop (I have nothing in there apart from a few files. I don't even play music from it). At the end of days, I power everything down (and I don't have company emails and slack on my devices) and enjoy the rest of the time doing my own stuff, reading books, drawing, spending time with my girlfriend,...)
One word: slavery.

As long as you have cheap labor (in the form of slaves), the economic incentive to invent labor-saving devices is much smaller.

It’s no accident that the industrial revolution only came after slavery (and it’s ugly cousin, serfdom) was abolished.
Printfs can be slow but their performance varies by implementation and may have no meaningful performance implications in many cases.
Though I agree with the sentiment, the core feature this seems to provide is stock video integration. And stock media services always require login.
Why do you call it a "user gesture" and not "consent" as it should absolutely be? Is it to reinforce the notion that users' actions are only to be taken as mere suggestions and ignored if they are contrary to your goals?
They were saving them advertising money.
i feel like i’m the only one not on the food delivery bandwagon. i have ordered delivery food exactly 0 times in the last 5 years. probably even 10. i know i’m an outlier. no i won’t change
This is affiliate blogspam. Why is this on HN?
After decades as a cycle advocate / user in and around London I recently had a cycle accident that has changed my views (I was commuting to work - approx 10 miles and could not avoid the situation ahead).

The "it's too dangerous to cycle the Dartford tunnel so here is a bus" amuses me. In my view it is too dangerous to put cycles on the same roads as cars and lorries. And if we want to promote cycling (perfect mix of exercise and local transport) then we need to invest in totally separate pathways.

My simple question is "why can't every child cycle to school on a car free path way?"

If we had started 30 years ago with a principle of every road must have seperated cycle lanes and overpasses, then we would have built slightly less roads in the marginal cases (probably a win anyway) and be in a better position now. So what do we do for the next30?
In 2022, having 4 bytes to store the length of the string (or even 8 if you want to be fancy) is not onerous.

Like all things, never say "for all" or "always" but almost all strings can be buffers packed with a size in a struct like in the top comment.
> whoever still cannot justify their subscription price after that time

There's also a lost opportunity in not selling these users a subscription at a lower price. Products like Gmail partly succeeded because that's what people used at home, so they wanted to use something equally good at work.

If you push users towards alternative in their private life, you risk that they want to bring new product into work.
NIMBYism is a huge factor. Where I live, most new projects are attacked legally by individuals or small groups who wish to conserve the neighborhood in precisely the same state that it is today. Sometimes, even individual houses. It is expensive to fight those challenges off and they are often successful to the degree that the investor just abandons the project.

Our societies have grown older, and with it, they have a lot less tolerance for change. The "get off my lawn" mentality is becoming stronger with every extra year added to the national average age.
It is a big story on the conservative side of the ever more inflamed culture war. Few recognize it as a civil war because it’s 2022, and so is being fought with information rather than gunpowder. Mostly. So far.
> what is keeping you from doing it?

Mostly intertia and post-covid fatigue.

Thank you for kicking me in the butt and providing the valuable information :-)
So sick of sites doing this. Labelbox even does it! Absolutely absurd.
Ah, reminds me of a recent experience. Looking for a local, nonchain pizza place and came across a nice Italian sounding place, Pasqually's Pizza & Wings.

Googled for more reviews, and found out it's just the fancy sounding name for the godawful Chuck E Cheese kitchen.
So, the "tweak" was to make it spread as much as a regular post on FB

Funny...
> Present and past participles are a common distinctive feature of Indo-European languages, and their use to form specific aspects of the present and past tenses in English is a common feature across Germanic languages.

They are used in Romance languages as well. Half the tenses in French are auxiliary+participle combinations (Latin even has future participles).
When looking for 'clojure' none of the results are even related to programming
The feature only snaps to the nearest keyframe though.
I'm still a bit surprised how basic human defects can reach even the 'smartest' spheres of society.
Anything that involves money or things of value I use my yubikey for. If they don't provide 2FA via that method I just look elsewhere. If it's a magazine or comments section? who cares, use a mozmail temp address.
One of my main concerns about IRC, for the average user, is the lack of good modern clients. IRCCloud is pretty good, but that's also sort of missing one of the point with IRC, to me at least.

That being said, it's not like Slack has a fantastic UI either... Actually it's horribly confusing.
Where did you learn this taoist meditation? Do you recall the name?
Twitter was quite famous for their fail whale page which would come up often. Reddit also had a lot of trouble keeping up with user visits.

From a technical stand point, they aren’t great examples of scaling away from a simple mvp implementation.

They did manage to give users something so good that users were willing to put up with the outages.
I understand what the AI model claims to want to do. And I can see how Wikipedia can be a decent testbed for the model.

But the title "factcheck wikipedia" is not what the model does. At best the model would make bad actors game references the same way people game page rank on google. Sure, deterrent, meh.
Does changing it to require permission would mean that every "Copy Code" button will need a pop-up?

I am torn between the usability vs security of this issue.
For people who don't want to sign up but still like the idea of a video editor running in a browser (that doesn't upload anything), I am working on an alternative:

https://vidmix.app
The difference isn't all that subtle. Uk and usa english have regional differences in their english that goes beyond putting the 'u' in colour.

Emphasis on streams of thinking and constructing sentences in ways that make sense to locals, is different to the formal-ish and almost toneless communication we do online.

Internet communication flattens out cultural shortcuts and cultural deepening you can do with fellow speakers in the same nation and locale.

Everything has to be expanded out so that you can 'see all the moving parts', whereas local english can be a lot more intuitive and cultural.
You should practice what you preach.
> The question I have would be, what would we as a species need to demonstrate to be allowed "off leash," in a community of other spacefaring civilizations? What consistent understanding would each person as a random human need to have to be able to be relied upon to interact safely with a spacefaring being?

I think that Martin Luther King, Jr. answered this question in 1967:

> Modern man suffers from a kind of poverty of the spirit, which stands in glaring contrast to his scientific and technological abundance. We've learned to fly the air like birds, we've learned to swim the seas like fish. And yet we haven't learned to walk the earth like brothers and sisters.
HN title needs editing.
A waste of 8 bytes?
Thats crazy, ive used various voips, skype, teams ans discord is #1
And if you decide to take it upon yourself to do something about it.. John's good friend Casey can give you the blackpill: https://www.twitch.tv/handmade_hero/clip/GrossResilientYakin...
Don't forget the Chatr/Lucky/Public sub-econo-brands.
> I strongly doubt

Based on what?

https://www.flatcreekinn.com/bison-americas-mammal/

"The Bison: from 30 million to 325 (1884) to 500,000 (today)"

So the estimate for the number of buffalo only in North America alone already includes hundreds of millions. Then we have Africa, Asia and Europe.

That is easily that many bovines. The Eurasian steppes are (and were) even more vast than the ones in NA (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b0/Steppe_P...). Map for Africa, steppe and savannah: https://exploringafrica.matrix.msu.edu/wp-content/uploads/20... (also remember Africa is much larger than shown on our common Mercator maps, so those areas are even larger than they appear)

There is no reason to assume the herds on other continents - before human hunting - were any less than the ones in NA. And bovines were not limited to the savannahs and steppes, just that there were the largest herds. Just look at the distribution map for the aurochs -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurochs#/media/File:Aurochs_di... -- it is much larger than just the steppe areas.

It is not just bovines either - other groups of which include animals like deer, giraffes, elephants and many others are also plant eating large mammals.

Also, I don't understand this modern need of saying things like "I honestly believe" and, in your case, "I strongly doubt". Feeling "strongly" does not improve the quality of your argument.

In your first reply you even used "I strongly strongly doubt " - riiiight... I would like to see more focus on the facts than on the feelings. Or do you feel that we are in some sort of competition here?

> If you don’t get how what I’m saying related that is fine.

You still did not explain what your comparison of human to bovine biomass was supposed to be about, which was your original reply.
Oh, they’ll probably be ok if you don’t know the language. But they might be offended that you’re a gaijin.
Nuclear has had many decades of research.
Wait, what? How could electric resistive heating with its 100% efficiency possibly be less efficient than gas or oil, which are the main alternatives in use at this point?

Heat pumps have >100% efficiency, which makes them stand way out at the top, but they're an exception rather than the rule.
I think https://twist.com/ is the best solution between chat and forum. But they have the same pricing slack now starts using and that makes it unusable to keep knowledge.
Yes it's true, you piss of everyone.

LinuxFan:

What Debian?? Sooo stupid...X is much better.

WindowUser:

No cant use Linux because X, and please stop telling me that.

OpenBSD Fan:

Grrmll Grrmmll pfff Linux.

Plan9:

I hate that dirty bloated unix stuff!

OpenVMS:

Sorry my uptime is 20 years cant reboot and install an OS.

It just reminds me of that Stallmann-urge to tell everyone what "real" freedom is (his meaning of freedom only (good)freedom)
In a sense they already do with “fulfillment by Amazon”. The only thing missing compared to UPS or FedEx is the retail locations and last mile pick up.
I don't know what's happening but the font on that website rendered so bad on my standard DPI monitor with Chrome/Win11 (100%) that it's very distracting.
> Caffeine no longer keeps me awake.

Reframe your question starting from this. You should not be needing caffeine to stay awake as a rule and normal baseline in your life. Solve that problem before thinking of starting with a stronger drug.
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Look at their jobs page - backend tech is moving from python to c#. Makes sense why now.
If that was how the world worked then Blizzard would have lost the rights for Diablo to a hand full of wales.

Dumping a ton of money down the toilet doesn't mean you own the toilet.
Doesn't salt corrode aluminum? Maybe not these specific salts?
There are very few things that you really cannot express in one language. Usually there are work around a using specific phrases or prepositions. Both French and English are more or less complete in that sense.

For example, in French j’irai (I will go) and je serai allé (I will have gone) are two different tenses. Sure, you can express both meanings in English, but French has a specific tense for “things that will have happened at some point in the future” (and many other besides). On the other hand, English has continuous tenses, which cannot be expressed with just a tense in French: /I am going/ (je suis en train de partir) vs /I go/ (je vais).

Both languages can express both concepts, but they have different shortcuts.
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In Heroku's case, it could be argued the free users were a net-negative liability, causing service outages, DNS issues, etc...
This week in KDE: Re-bindable mouse buttons
Oh please. It's called "content curation". You want zero of that? There is always 8chan. If you enjoy seeing things that make you want to pour Clorox into your eyes.
I've got a MBP 2012 on Monterey. I'm not sure if SIP is disabled, I'll have to check. It's totally worthwhile, Monterey has run the smoothest of any OS so far.

You only need the root patches if you want Nvidia Kepler acceleration, you don't need it for intel graphics.
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But you don't want to use strncpy, especially not inside the kernel - since it may waste a lot of useless cpu.

char big_enough[512];
strncpy(big_enough, sizeof 512, small_string];

strncpy now fills the rest of big_enough with nuls, a lot of waste if small_string is 4 characters long.
AOU vowels are made with your tonque low. ÄÖY vowels are made with your tonque high. Mixing vowels from both groups makes tonque movements very awkward and slows down speech.
There could easily be so much more than that.

In the early 1990s, there was a popular shareware string library for C in circulation that added a whole raft of extra strXXX() functions, such as strrtrim() and strend(), to a C runtime library. All of these were useful. Indeed, they were fundamental in some other languages, e.g. some dialects of BASIC with their various string functions like MID$ and RIGHT$. But the standard C library never gained them.

The strXXX() set in the C standard library is, rather, in large part an ad hoc set of useful wrappers around stuff that could be done with assembly language idioms, like REPNE SCASB on x86 instruction sets, that had grown up by 1987. The functions weren't intended to be reducible to memXXX(). They were intended to be reducible to assembly language, or even to compiler intrinsics.

The sad part is that the context here is kernel code, in particular Linux kernel code, where human-readable text interfaces (as opposed to machine-parseable interfaces) are the norm. Whitespace-terminated or LF-terminated strings are the norm, in things like procfs for example, and it is a double irony that the C standard library addresses NUL termination more readily than it does those, and even then provides only an ad hoc collection of NUL-terminated string functions with long-since well-known glaring holes unsuitable for kernel code.

Getting rid of the problem in the way that you suggest would necessitate redesigning a lot of kernel APIs to not be human-readable text that operates in terms of variable length strings terminated by special character values with no explicit length counters. No more redirecting the output of the "echo" command to /proc/something . This is exceedingly unlikely to happen.