skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are right. Money without depreciation violates the second law of thermodynamics and hence it is a Ponzi scheme in a physical world. This also includes any gold based money.

There can be no economic perpetuum mobile in the real economy on earth because humans need food which is produced by growing plants which capture sunlight.

Gold will be there long after humans have gone extinct. That violates the concept of a store of value. It means that gold doesn't store any value. It means humans delegate the storage of value to each other by utilizing gold and in that respect it is identical to fiat.

The property that fiat and gold have in common is the lack of holding costs that anything including the human body has in the real economy.
I'm 66; when I was younger, I assumed (with some dread) that I'd drift right, and become more like my dad. The opposite happened; I have consistently moved leftwards, as centre-left politicians have consistently disappointed me.

I did become more like my dad; but mainly on personal matters, not on economic or social issues.
I'm not sure why git would require less security than almost any other application?

Control over what software runs is really important. If an attacker can get you to run different source code, especially if it looks like it's still signed by the people you trust to produce or review sources, would be a big deal.
No, you define a Ladder (or Climbable if you’re feeling fancy today) Protocol and all remains good in the world.
What's an Acceptable Number of Failures?
For me, there are three categories:

1. If I need a microcontroller (e.g. low power or lots of interfacing with other hardware), it's the ESP32 if the board I get can handle it. Saving a few bucks to go with something cheaper doesn't make sense, and I can have a small stockpile so I don't have to delay a new idea to wait for Aliexpress. Haven't tried bitbanging, which is non-trivial due to the complexity of the chip, but apparently (https://esp32.com/viewtopic.php?t=713) it's doable.

2. If I want to run Linux on it, it's a Raspberry Pi. The supply chain issues this year really messed with it, but I'm a huge fan of using something that's as standard as possible, instead of figuring out the quirks of a new platform each time and trying to find which accessories are compatible with what.

3. Regular computer. Probably in a VM or a cloud at that point.
Well, a few of my friends have used these domains because they were free, but it seems like they kind of use bait-and-switch tactics, monitoring DNS traffic and asking "owners" to pay a hefty fee for the domain name once popularity crosses a certain threshold.

Webmasters also have little control on records and other parameters that are standard at other registrars.
This sounds pessimistic at first but I 100% agree.
And no mention of Datalog so far
Just don't make your life revolve only around software development. Try to limit at the necessary extra hours, knowing that yes, they may boost your career for a while, but they both diminish your work quality and get you closer to burnout. In your free time, try to do other activities. Reading, fishing, hiking, learning a new language (not programming) through books and not the internet. That's what I do if anything.
You think other states will copy New York and restrict Airbnb due to this housing crunch?
They are victims, but also they are in business that should know what they are doing. This stuff isn't exactly uncommon if you do some research. And that is why they should have been entirely sure what they signed up for. They were not forced to enter this contract, but instead choose to.
Isn't that a great reason to not publish on Amazon?, you'd only increase their market share.

It's not as if Amazon is unaware, they'll fix their pricing system if enough people reject it.
>Election Science is doing yeoman's work. And they just keep getting better.

They just need a billionaire patron and they could dramatically transform American politics for the better.

All those billionaires who give fat checks to political parties and candidates are doing it completely wrong. "Don't hate the player hate the game" -- but what if you could change the game?
You take the car to the nearest big box store, mart, etc... usually miles away.
Sometimes I get prompts from Windows Defender that it would like to upload some files to Microsoft for further analysis. The weird thing is that they are well known binaries from official sources, for example node.exe (Node JS). Just to be sure a couple times I checked the digital signatures and all that.

Doesn't Microsoft download important applications to analyze or whitelist itself?
Virtual reality game to objectively detect ADHD
Right... and they use it for downloading files over HTTP(S).

Also smart phones, smart watches and TVs generally don't use libcurl for that. Android, iOS and WebOS have their own HTTP stacks. I don't know about cars or consoles.
That is an oversimplified solution. Access to masks was only a small part of the problem. Many people were simply unwilling to wear them. Access to N95 or kn95 masks became quite available within a few months of the shortages and people continued to wear bandanas and home made cloth.
I haven't thought about it. But something I would like is to participate more on HN. Also find communities around me with similar programming interests and be more active there.
So there you go!
Happy 2023 everyone
Good to know. So, if you get a DRM-free book on amazon, you can download it as epub?

Also, I wonder if longer code snippets are still wrapped around or are they introducing horizontal scrollbars? (for those who read on Kindle devices, web/mobile app, etc)
As the blurb says, "Damian Thompson is a journalist and author". Having not found it particularly charitable to use the occasion of someone's death to run a hit piece on both them and their successor, I take this opportunity to recommend a better (certainly more influential) reactionary author: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_de_Maistre .

Lagniappe: https://unherd.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/4.jpg (thanks Dr. Thompson for the wonderful image!)
Also here in Austria, usually broadcast shortly before midnight.

Not sure if the author confused it with Australia, which is confusingly mentioned under "Popularity across Europe", or lumps us up with Germany, which misses the fun factoid that we split up again in 1945 (and also tends to get people over here surprisingly pissy).
Früher war mehr Lametta ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
What's clever about that, is that it also avoids Amazon's "best price here" policy since the two half-books would be Amazon exclusives.
SOMA's one of my favorites - went into it blind and first played it this year thanks to it being added to Xbox Game Pass. High on Life is good too comedy/style-wise.
> What rate of return is socially acceptable?

the market rate of return. You establish this by making sure that a market has enough participants that they all vie for the investment. This will drive down the rate of return, down to an acceptable level that allows participants to continue.
Demon haunted world by Carl Sagan

Why: skeptical/scientific thinking
I do both.

Making changes during the year and new year's resolutions.

Sometimes one works, sometimes the other.
> Gabon is smaller, but still bigger than the UK, and has 2.3 million people.

I doubt GP meant 'quite small' land area. In terms of population then, the UK is roughly 35 times the size of Gabon.
> Loriot

Bourgeois snobbery!

What's wrong with laughing about a drunk butler tipping over a tiger's head?
I am from The Netherlands and I had never seen it until I started dating my now-wife. I got the impression that many Germans believe it’s a well-known sketch since it is in English.

Our 8yo daughter thinks it’s hilarious :).
God of War: Ragnarok. Preceded by God of War 4 if not already completed.

One of the best progressions for a suite of character in this decade.
I remember reading about a company that was using the latest technology to be a fully automated landlord. From video verification to sign the lease and unlock the keys, to automatically accepting and denying tenants based on AI... seems like these mega-landlords would not be possible without the use of AI and extensive automation.
B and C voters aren't strategic here. If they wish to knock out A, then placing A at the bottom would not be strategic voting.

The point is that A voters arguably should have voted such that they could influence which of the two other candidates (B and C) won. This would require 'lying' about which candidate is their favourite; i.e. strategic voting
A corporation is a type of association and has rights that are derivative of its member's rights. An association is composed of people. The only reason why a corporation (or other association) has First Amendment rights is because it is exercising the First Amendment rights of its owners and members. The personhood of a corporation is a legal fiction. The personhood of the ultimate members or shareholders of a corporation is not.
Work less, have more fun. Relax.
For the great narration with stunning visuals and great story, you might like to play Bioshock series. Right now I think they sell entire collection (Bioshock 1,2 and infinite) on sale on Steam.
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Any other resolution to better yourself you can make at any day of the year
This should have been their cue to quit

A lot of these "effective jerks" like Musk and Jobs are successful because they count on a lot of people "driven by the mission" in detriment of self-respect

The man is a billionaire. Toilet paper should have been way down on the list to cut.
Trying to wrap my head around this as a React Native developer, my biggest issue right now is that we developed mobile first and now need to create a web app.

Using react-native-web is not as straight forward as it first sounds, as there a lot of packages that don't support web and just crash when trying to run the RN app on web.

Would this solve that problem, to be able to easily move a React Native mobile app to web?
The Norwegian keyboard layout defaults to Dvorak, which I suspect isn't the most common one

Sorry, our mistake. Several focus groups with Norwegians, left us assuming they thought in dvorak.

Will revert to qwerty.
Not really new year's resolution but my latest goals:

1. make $200/day with freelancing gigs

2. ship more projects

3. adapt the mindset to put in real work rather than wishing for outcomes

4. write/tweet more
Polars is already not python
Archaeology and genetics can’t yet agree on when humans arrived in the Americas
In my experience, people underestimate what these endevors actually include.

Going to the gym is so much more than getting a membership. It's also a training plan that fits you, maybe a change of social circle that helps you to be consistent, a change of diet, etc.

I often started new things just to notice weeks to months in that they don't require the work I expected.
Is Meta still actively using it?
This whole Twitter story is so unbelievable it would not pass as satire...

I wonder if any books or research will be done with it couple years... Seems like there is lot to unravel here.
This hypothetical customer has not paid enough money for the people/owners of the storage company to go to jail for.

And doing this does not change the law, so nothing changes.
Some yeas back a DR2 made a satirical parody of it called the 80 years birthday (in Danish it is called "the 90 years birthday") where all the characters was played by a series of Danish comedians https://youtu.be/H07O6j6-6vQ
Does not offer anything, indeed. It’s good and worth to know about it though.

Depends on the country/location, however, in some countries even among IT crowd he’s glorified, to the point where it reflected in workplace, which most of us have :)
Add Clairefontaine to the vendor list, as their notebooks have served me well for a decade or more. Good paper feel, little or no ink bleed. I use their engineering versions to get the gridded paper which I find more useful that ruled paper. They have all sorts of sizes, but I use what is probably A4 as it’s roughly the size of my laptop and fits in the bag.
It's been researched that not seeing notifications makes one more anxious and likely to check phone more often. Instead I've found using an app like Daywise to batch my notifications that don't need real-time attention every 2 hours (package delivered, bill is due) and still keep messaging notifications real-time.
This is just conjecture. The vaccines were a huge success at preventing severe illness and saved millions of lives.

Many people working in hospital environments wore N95 masks, gowns, and face shields. You might as well just say that vaccines were a failure because we could have just asked the world public to go on a diet and lose weight. It would be about as likely as getting the whole world to walk around in hazmat suits.
This is the command for silverblue. For Chrome to work you'll need to enable it in "Software Repositories" (which you get to through the hamburger menu in the "Software" app).

rpm-ostree install google-chrome-stable vim mozilla-openh264 virt-manager libvirt
That’s one aspect. But I would say the fact that existing Phoenix apps can migrate to v1.7 and use other features such as verified routes without going through a major migration is an important aspect that should not be downplayed, especially when other frameworks may have gone through more than one major version in those 7.5 years and broke existing code more than once.
Mine is to get better at my adopted country’s language. My Swedish is conversational, but not much more. So at a minimum I’m going to reread my grammar books, and attempt a couple of novels.
If you're looking for narrative experiences, Disco Elysium is likely the best video game story ever told - bar none.

Maybe not the best story (although it's really good) but the intersection of presentation and prose is exceptional. One of the few times the medium has really surpassed raw text on the storytelling metric.

Some of those narrative sequences will stay with me for the rest of my life.
Oh, sorry. I think the confusion is coming from the ambiguity of the word "should."

When I said "should" I meant "logically should," not "morally should." I wasn't wishing for a world where this is true but rather describing our current world where this is already true. Like, "Hitting a lightbulb with a hammer should cause the bulb to break."

It might help to have a more fleshed out example.

Imagine a system where there are only two ways to buy my book. You can either buy it new directly from my website or buy it used on eBay. I sell it on my website for $60, but the current price for a used copy on eBay is $30.

Suppose 100 buyers decide to start buying used copies on eBay. eBay sellers increase the price from $30 to $50 to match the increased demand. I, the author, still receive $0 on every sale of the used copy, so I don't see any new money directly.

But there are buyers who are open to either a used copy or a new copy, depending on the price. As the price of used copies approaches the price of new copies, more buyers will choose to purchase new directly from me rather than from eBay.

Even though the 100 new eBay buyers didn't benefit me directly as the author, it indirectly benefitted me by pushing up the used price and influencing other buyers to purchase the new copy instead of the used copy.
GP was stating that AI couldn't own copyright because it wasn't creative enough. Now you're telling me (and I agree) that whether it's creative enough is up to a court of law to decide. Feels like we're agreeing then, and disagreeing with GP?
There are some very wicked and mysterious lakes in the Swiss alps. One of then has 2 layers one of which is highly toxic yet there is life in it. A lot of research is done on collected samples.
Ask HN: What are your 2023 goals?
it'd probably harder to get going but why are you scared? it's a bit hard to comprehend for someone who never listens to podcasts/music while working out or jogging.
Until now, its worked the opposite way, where ordinary people and small businesses have to deal with every badly-reasoned knee-jerk law and regulation, while big companies and billionaires just ignore it or have armies or lawyers for their day in court.

This is just a proposal - a far cry from an enacted and enforced law.
My own diary.

It's like debugging a server log of your mind.

Note that I quickly deviated from any expected norms of "dear diary, today _____ happened and it made me feel ______", and instead simply decided to write, whatever cames to my mind, every day, no matter how nonsensical. Most of it is pointless and cringe, but there's some brilliant opinions, descriptions of values, and even poetry in there.

A diary is, after all, literally an expansion of your mind into the physical realm.
What's wrong with using the ISO codes here?

The ccTLDs belong to the sovereign entity whose code it is, in many cases they let some for-profit outfit exploit this resource and keep some fraction of the resulting income.

If the sovereign entity doesn't like how it's run, that's on them to fix it. It's unfortunate if people somehow end up building something important using a name that's ultimately controlled by some tin pot dictatorship, but it's not like you don't know up front.
Shantaram
Power of Now
Go Giver
Art of Profitability
Challenger Sale
Sapiens
Player of Games
Rogue Warrior
How did you improve your conflict management skills and do you have any particular lessons to share?
I used the free podcasts from Coffee Break Italian. They're very good. https://coffeebreaklanguages.com
Buy him a course of preventative physiotherapy, or a gym membership, or similar.

He'll be doing a lot of sitting down staring at a screen for the rest of this life, and over time this will fuck his back up.

Best to start fighting against the inevitable health conditions early on.
The reason Linux lags behind really only boils down to the chicken and egg problem:

If there's not an existing enterprise interest then Linux won't have the latest greatest fancy stuff (because someone had to pay the bills), and if there's no shiny new features then less users will use it.

That's why the server, iot, and more are Linux dominant but not desktop.

But how enterprises find interest in it comes down to if hobbyist have laid then ground work for something that somewhat show results, it's how blender and even krita has real sway in the industry.
Memories. Their Cloud
compare the typical replacement of the High by the Middle in Goldstein's The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism
Learn how to be comfortable without constantly improving and being productive :)
- Write more blog posts

- Delete more JavaScript

- Run a calmer business
Funny, I did exactly the same. Bought 486 off the ebay, got me some Turbo C and bunch of old books on computer graphics. It's very satisfying feeling vs even working on some hobby ML projects or some other new web fancy thing.

My day job(web dev) is like everyday the same house is flooded with sewage and I need to clean it quickly and also put a smile on my face and tell how great is that and that I managed to do it all today and suggest new ways of cleaning sewage better.
That is, I guess, precisely the conclusion Forbes wants you to draw.
I’m reminded of the possibly apocryphal story about 30 Rock being the worst-received comedy in German tv history.
I'm bicycling from SF to LA as part of the 2023 AIDS/LifeCycle! Please donate!

My mission for this company is to (1) prevent AI from devastating human economies and (2) fix gig work. My investors won't be happy if I say more than that, but I should be making some exciting announcements later this year on my website.

I'm also organizing a tiny tech conference in Southern California (Sept 2-3) so email me at hello@taylor.town if you'd like to join us!

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[1] https://www.aidslifecycle.org

[2] https://taylor.town
Independence requires free time. Kids, at least those with parent who expect them to go on to higher education, dont have free time. They dont just play baseball on the school team a couple days a week. They play on literally ALL the teams. Then there are non-school karate lessons. And thier language tutor. And thier doctor visits. And thier therapists for whatever learning disbaility they are told they have. Middle class kids are cogs in a factory. Their greatest free time is chatting with friends via smartphones while being shuttled between appointments.
I am a massive, massive fan of Thinking Fast and Slow. However, I am careful about application, because a lot of those studies seem not reproducible.
Protodump – Dump all Protobuf file descriptors from a binary as *.proto files
I fall into that trap a lot. I have stuff to say, but it can be approached in so many ways and I find it hard to choose one.

Any tips?

One thing I guess works is "just blurt it out spontaneously". Ryan Holiday also has a motivating line on that (https://ryanholiday.net/so-you-want-to-be-a-writer-thats-mis...):

> No one ever reads something and says, “Well, I got absolutely nothing out of this and have no idea what any of this means but it sure is technically beautiful!” But they say the opposite all the time, they say “Goddamn, that’s good” to things with typos, poor grammar and simple diction
A non-tech method perhaps. Find Italian friends, community or even better a partner to practice with
- Facial recognition being used in Uyghur concentration camps (1)

- Crypto being used to scam
People

- Doorbell cams providing the police with a neighborhood cctv system (2)

I could go on :(

1)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uyghur_genocide#Use_of_biometr...

2)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring_(company)#Police_partners...
Why is HN becoming reddit?

What does the 0.1% have to do with people making $500/month on side projects? How much extra do YOU pay in taxes? Can you post your donations to the IRS?
-- hmm - only 19 companies still advertise on twitter? - this list seems inaccurate --
This is ridiculous, Isn’t this a sign to leave?
> It increases quality of life. It's an integral part of one's sex life.

I disagree with both these assumptions. Curious why you think so?
Ask HN: Is there a Tinder for book readers?
What is a good app / place online to find people to read a book with? Think Tinder for book readers.

Now that I got your attention, here is my list of books that I would like to read with somebody. My goal would be to read 10 pages / day (I got kids…) and then meet once a week to have a conversation what we have learned, what notes we took, etc. Let me know if you would be interested!

1. Man’s search for meaning (Viktor Frankl)
2. The power of strangers (Joe Keohane)
3. How emotions are made (Lisa Feldman Barret)
4. Atomic habits (James Clear)
5. Strangers to ourselves (Timothy D. Wilson)
LiveView is evolving into a great piece of tech, but as others have noted elsewhere in the comments one of the challenging parts with LiveView right now (and to an extent Phoenix) is the outdated books & tutorials.

Bruce Tate and Sophie DeBenedetto have been authoring the book “Programming Phoenix LiveView” (https://pragprog.com/titles/liveview/programming-phoenix-liv...) which has the potential to be a great source for people that want to really dive into LiveView. The challenge though is they have not updated it to support the changes introduced in 0.18.0 which makes it really hard to start using the book when a new Phoenix application “mix phx.new dev_app” looks different than what’s in their book and some of their code breaks with the default installed versions of included plugs.

While I wish the book would receive an update sooner that brings it back to a compatible state (meaning there are no issues following along with the book), the good news is they have committed to having the book be updated when LiveView hits 1.0.
The revolutionary thesis here is…
Genes aren’t a way for people to make more people. Rather, people are a way for genes to make more genes. (Selfishly).

Really an astounding re-framing of biology, and one of the best books of science literature I’ve read in my life.