skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had the same urge i.e. do something physical but something that was still technical in nature and you could use it as hobby income.

I bought a laundromat 5 years ago. Learned to fix mechanical issues, troubleshoot electrical issues. Learned to use tools to pull bearings out, using heat torches to remove worn out sleeves from a shaft, understanding how water valves, solenoids works. Learnt a lot.

While it is not as crazy as building something new, it is the closest I could get to with my software engineer career. My friends thought I was nuts.
May not be answering your question but I feel like U.S. news is kind of false value. Do we really need to know what's going on at the Federal level? At least not at any sub-quarterly cadence.

I use Apple News to swipe right and see various happenings on the local level. There's national stuff too, it's not perfect by any means, but point being all of it is mostly a distraction vs actually need-to-know.
Nix Flakes is an experiment that did too much at once
Something not having alternatives doesn't make it necessarily nice. It's okay to wish for better even if you have something that works.
The reality is that the happy medium is.. the happy medium. In an ideal world your job involves some amount of physical movement as well as rest time, going all in on either isn't ideal.

That said, the desk job is probably the better bargain of the two since you can always do your moving around outside of work hours, however you can't rest more to make up for overworking yourself physically.
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>convert each letter to a number, add up the numbers that make each sentence...The end result is sufficiently transformed that copyright no longer applies

the problem with this as an example is that copyright would not apply to this transformative work, not the original author's copyright nor your new authorship because this transformative work contains no creative human expression (unless the original book was designed to add up to some fortune cookie, of course, in which case you have not transformed it)

A nuttier, chewier example would be retelling a litigious story like Moana ("consider the copyright, across all these leaves... make way!"), from the pig's perspective or something, and seeing what would fly and what wouldn't.
Where I’m from (in California) the garbage collection is done by a private company, and it looks like a pretty nice job if you’re physically fit. And it’s not looked down on at all, people there know what hauling their own garbage is like.

Snow removal is very high status and pretty, er, cool because of the big machines involved, and its government work with the pay and benefits you’d expect. Probably only the postmaster is as universally appreciated up there.

I’d happily drive the snowplow if it paid half what a software job pays. The only downside is you can’t really drink in the winter.

Plumbing is very entrepreneurial, especially the emergency “unblock my pipe” kind. That person could easily be making more than you and I.

So while surely there are some jobs that are miserable, many of them connected to factory farming of meat, I don’t think “office job” is automatically enticing to everyone. And there is still plenty of social status in necessary jobs, if done in an actual community.
> those with more capital have far more influence over what laws get passed and enforced than those with less capital. And that many laws benefit those with more capital, often at the expense of those with less.

This is called corruption and crony capitalism, and it happens far less than you might think in the western world, and the effect is far greater in socialist and communist countries, or countries that don't respect capitalist fundamentals.

You can have power and rule over people without the need for a free market
I'm not certain of your point? Marx admits that LTV doesn't explain prices much earlier than the third volume; it's cental to his whole point, that the difference between the 'value' of a good and what a capitalist is able to sell it for represents exploitation. That's not a straw-man and asu_thomas was wrong to suggest it was.
yeah and that's why interesting show HNs get upvoted
I disagree. They can use a captcha at account creation to stop bots. They want to make money by tying together your activities with grey-market financial data and then show advertisers on how accurate their ad-targeting is.
He did. OP's comment above says "It's the shop Apple recommended I bring it to."
Depending on what you're looking for, you could subscribe to the Sunday edition of your local (or national) newspaper.
> Capitalism could hypothetically support a high thriving-wage for all workers

And find itself undercut by competition and/or unable to raise enough investment for capital.
You're probably right. I just wish there was an easier way to handle json on the command line that didn't turn into its own dsl. The golang scripting seems interesting, might be what motivates me to learn the language.
yall need to just read kant already
While that's true in some regard, there are alternatives. I joined a local credit union for my banking over a decade ago and I have never looked back. There is a nationwide network, so I can bank anywhere. I have not noticed much if any difference from investment banks in any negative way. It's nice to know that my money is working in the community and that I'm an owner!
https://www.nfb.ca/film/carts_of_darkness/
People with ADHD are known to pick up a million hobbies, books and art forms but struggle sticking to them, because the initial stimulation from novelty is stronger than anything else. Playing a sport or an instrument is fun, but getting good at it requires strong discipline, precisely because it's not fun. The only thing that truly helps with this is the right type and dosage of meds.
Riding on a flat surface isn't such a big deal. Riding up & down a hill street covered in snow and/or ice is non-trivial.
How would an app build relationships?
Or infinitly exploitative, depending on how comfortable you are doing all the work while someone else take the lion's share of what you've produced.
"like the diet advice "just eat less." Demonstrably impractical and debatably harmful"

What are you talking about? That is the correct, and only way, to lose weight.
I’ve always had a notion that there’s some kind of gene theft with mimicry. The combinatorics of just rattling genes into existence that build a mock termite larva seem infeasible in the timescale involved.

What does the math look like? How many possible gene configurations are there that will build a mock termite on the back of a beetle? What’s the shortest random walk to get there from a beetle with no termite on its back and how does that compare with the total number of these beetles ever created in nature?

A single gene might have 4^300 configurations. Are there five genes or fifty or five hundred involved? How many of these beetles have ever been built? 10^20?
Kind of wild to watch him hold the rod with his bare hands while it gets red hot.
I think it makes sense.

With transparency, the information may not be able to capture the differences in expertise of each worker - like "someone who has delivered x products and is well versed in techniques a, b, and c". The market will just show a blanket designation giving an impression of fungibility (which unenlightened management already have) and the tendency will be to push rates down to the lowest common value.
Honestly, I think if someone could get really really good at one niche aspect of the problem and not do it in some obscure stack that's hard to integrate with a bog-standard early-2000s-at-best tech stack, they'd be snapped up in a heartbeat by one of the major players still trying to migrate.

Because I can name at least two times that's happened. The big guys' main concern is being able to keep a unified view of who's shipping what, where, and to whom worldwide. They don't own planes, ships or trucks, so their rep rests on stuff delivered on time to the right place and always knowing where it is.
Honestly I prefer arbitration agreements. My lazy ass aint making it down to the court house but you bet your ass I can fill out a form online. But yeah they and every other company are basically counting on no one ever doing anything.

I'm really hoping it blows up in some company's face where there are a lot of individuals with claims and it goes viral. Would tickle me funny if a Fortune 500 company got bankrupted by some zoomer on tiktok doing a stupid dance while telling people how to file for arbitration. AFAIK it is actually FAR FAR more expensive than a class action lawsuit if a non-trivial number of people actually file for arbitration.
Would this impact resolution of a disputed transaction when using their credit card product?
I had not known that there were materials called 'Scotophors', nor what their properties were, prior to reading the article, so I thought it apropos to highlight this point by requoting Wikipedia's comments about these materials, here...

I assume you're the author of this article?

It's an excellent article!

Well written...

And I learned some stuff I didn't know previously.

So, thank you for writing this excellent article!
Gonna shill my extension one last time to disable ad tracking. Unlike the article's instructions which you'll have to do for each Chrome profile on each computer, you can install it once for each Google account and it follows you everywhere.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/no-privacy-sandbox...
While skepticism is always warranted, doing a dopamine detox is also a low stakes sort of experiment. Worst case nothing really changes and you go back to doing what you were before, best case you learn of some stimulus impacts you in a way that you might be able to manage better going forward. Why not experiment?
Funny, some crazy guy's perfectly fine hamster wheel vessel gets deemed manifestly unsafe however an eccentric entrepreneur's million dollar submarine ends up crumpling up some billionaires.
> but likewise the Labor needs the tools the capitalist owns to multiply the value of their labour

Labour doesn't need to multiply its labour, though. Labour remains valuable no matter what.

> Since capital gives control of the state (indirectly)

The state is just people. In a world where capital is worthless without labour, I assume that labour makes up the majority of the population – why would a small group of people sitting on capital that does nothing and is worthless have more power than the majority of the populace who actually bring value to the table?

> which then has a monopoly on violence

In a world where capital is worthless without labour, who, exactly, is going to enact that violence? You need labour to bring the violence...
I kind of wish 95 or 98 would leak so we could more effectively patch it. I would love to see a modern TLS implementation running on 9x, it's one of the main barriers to browsing on old machines. I suppose Retrozilla comes close.

Kind of a silly thing to want, and of course "unsafe" for many tasks, but fun for hobbyists nonetheless.
1 seems most likley true. Startups are hard.
Mostly agreed, but don't discount tooling quality as a major source of flow-breakage.

There's often friction and lack of documentation about tooling. This results in much more frustrating flow-breakage IMO. This is something that we could fix but choose not to because we can't clearly articulate the loss from flow-breakage.
And if I want you to paint my house, what does it cost me? The objective cost doesn't matter, what matters is what others are willing to exchange for it. I could spend ten hours of back-breaking effort digging a ditch, but if nobody wants a ditch, then it has no value. And if it's just for me, that's not economic activity. Economics involves exchanging goods and services.
Perhaps blending in with termites helps it avoid being eaten by predators of termites to whom it would stand out.

Alternatively, perhaps termites are “legally blind” but not fully sightless.
Normally you need to know ahead of time what your server is going to be used for and write the code in advance.

But with Erlang, you can have a distributed network of Erlang servers where the server is a generic computing resource that can do anything the client wants.

The code actually comes from the client. No need to get your system administrators to install some binary on all the machines. You simply pass the function along and the remote machine calls it.
With ts-node or Deno there is no compile step you have to do yourself. For frontend, bundlers can be setup where it is pretty transparent.
I think it's fine to mock out a call to an external service (e.g. your app making calls to AWS S3). But when you mock out too many calls to code in your own app, that's brittle in my opinion. For example, say your testing the "Foo.new.().foo()" method, and you mock out calls to "Bar.new().bar()". You could make a breaking change in "Bar.new().bar()", say you go from returning "bar" to "BAR". The test in "Foo.new.().foo()" would keep passing while testing the wrong value. Now if you do that all over your application, you can have a nicely factored test suite that is completely detached from reality.
I wouldn't call someone on Clark's level an "employee"
I may be answering the wrong question, but I’ll give it a shot.

Erlang’s architecture is unusual; both the virtual machine and the language are built around the idea of tiny processes operating concurrently, each process running in an infinite loop waiting for incoming messages to interpret.

This allows a process to become whatever code you send it. If you need a process to control a microwave, and then run some quantum computations, and then predict the winner of tomorrow’s football game, you just send it the code it needs for each operation and it happily does so.
Or they knew/discovered that there was a repository of crash dumps - likely a widely known piece of information - and just grabbed as much as they could. Nothing in the write-up indicates any connection between the compromised engineer and this particular crash dump, other than they had access.
The academic tracks are like a pyramid scheme: professors need graduate students, who then become professors who need graduate students, who become professors who need even more graduate students.

This was successful as we forced more and more young adults to go to colleges, but that growth is slowing while the academic tracks are still multiplying, which means there are PhDs and grad students who are very upset that their expensive pieces of papers will never get them the tenure job they thought was guaranteed. So we have very angry academics teaching our young adults -- and that's NEVER gone badly.
Backup cameras weren't required in vehicles until (i think) 2018. My guess is that (similar to banning popup headlights), it was only required for new vehicle models released. The 370z had a ridiculously long production run starting in 2008, so they weren't required to put one in
Just adding that a JQ implementation already exists on the JVM[1], although it's not 100% complete.

[1] https://github.com/eiiches/jackson-jq
So you just make the three companies keep the keys then. People are out here like "a secure backdoor to encryption is impossible" and then don't even blink for the keys for root CAs which is the basis for the world's online security. Or the AWS managed S3 encryption keys.

There's a lot of of hopium in this thread for people who I think want it to be more impossible in practice than it really is.
+ ear protection + eye protection. Table saws and routers need some healthy respect, some training won't hurt. You can do a lot with hand tools and that can be fun too (and pretty safe).
It's not a labor shortage, it's a wage shortage.
> Labour remains valuable no matter what.

Maybe, but for a somewhat tortured example: if you're a programmer with domain knowledge of a specific application then your value there might be worth $150k a year. If that's taken away from you and you have to learn a new domain then your value might be only $80k per year. If even a computer to work on is taken away from you then your labor is only worth minimum wage.
Stay in a high rating hostel found on hostelworld. The vast majority of (good) hostels have custom guide books and quite often the staff is happy to to talk to you about whatever you want. I would estimate 10-20% of the staff is receptive to hanging out. The other people who are staying at the hostel are happy to be instant adventure buddies. Through talking to people you can hear what's good and what's overrated from people who are actively looking to do stuff/have just done the stuff you're considering.

Google maps "attractions" feature is surprisingly good once you learn to use it (of course google maps could be way better if google had any interest in making a great product instead of an ad platform product).

Culture Trip and Atlas Obscura/Gastro Obscura are pretty OK. Eater is pretty good for food.

Yelp and TripAdvisor are trash.

It's hard to walk 20km without running into something interesting. Aimless walking is underrated.

Going to the same establishment every day for 2 weeks will likely get the owner/staff talking to you, particularly if it is small and not busy. This has been the genesis of a few of my favorite travel memories.

As far as the question you asked, I've found the activities themselves aren't all that memorable compared to who you experienced them with. Good people make lame activities great.

So again, hostels are good ways to meet people. I always look for hostels that have the best looking common room. If you spot a place with a common room that you wouldn't mind hanging out in for 30 minutes-1 hour, and the rating is good, that is probably a quality hostel.

For what it's worth I don't think your question was asked in good faith. It's super disappointing to see this question asked without disclosure that you work in the industry.

> Full stack web developer with 14 years of experience in the hospitality industry.

> Founder: JobBoardSearch.com TouristItinerary.com VillasMediterranean.com
Is that not mostly from social security?

I wouldn't increased costs from paying for the retirement of an aging population to be an indication of welfare program strength.

Is medicaid / medicare in there too? If so, then ballooning medical costs wouldn't really be an indication of stronger programs either.
It’s not countries, but these market share numbers are higher than I thought:

Agriculture - 83% in the Netherlands, 79% in Finland, 55% in Italy and 50% in France

Forestry - 60% in Sweden and 31% in Finland

Banking - 50% in France, 37% in Cyprus, 35% in Finland, 31% in Austria and 21% in Germany

Retail - 36% in Finland and 20% in Sweden

Pharmaceutical and health care - 21% in Spain and 18% in Belgium

Source: https://single-market-economy.ec.europa.eu/sectors/proximity...
You execute that on any node in your system and send it a message `{become, fun some_function/0}`. Once it receives that conforming message (a tuple of two items, the atom `become` and a 0-ary function) and that node will stop being a "universal server" and become whatever process "some_function" describes.

And in his case he had access to some 9000 computers. If each was running at least one Erlang node and each node was running a universal server, then with a very simple program he could write a function, serialize the function, and distribute the function to his 9k+ running universal servers and turn them into 9k+ specialized servers.
I don't see where you said that. It sounded to me like you were insinuating that hooks are inherently better than class components, and that zero functionality has been removed from class components, they are still viable (but they have largely been left in the dust by most popular libraries).

Also, devs don't use hooks primarily because they are better. They use them because they are idiomatic React in 2023.
> This is a terrible line of reasoning. It is essentially a head-in-the-sand defense. Essentially saying we shouldn't talk about the failure of free markets because by acknowledging their shortcomings

I said (perhaps confusingly) we absolutely should talk about sources of market failure, but that we should not take ourselves into the weeds by calling them "free market failures" because market failures are the parts that are not free-as-in-freedom, they are on "free" as in "freedom"-to-coerce,-kidnap,-rip-off etc.

properly functioning markets require honest/symmetric information and choice, and that no player can control prices (that's off the top of my head, not writing a treatise here): then, show people that what markets do after that is precisely solve the thorniest of problems that socialists are trying to solve, allocation of resources.
The zip files have a lot in them!!!

There's a TTF, assembler for several platforms.

Amazing work. Thanks for this!!!!
It’s not a real thing, you hit the nail on the head for pop culture talking about chemicals and neuroscience. Dopamine is responsible for many things, and you can’t remove all dopamine from your brain.
Here are two separate psychiatrists debunking it but also talking about why (or why not) some things included in a “dopamine detox” can be beneficial.

https://youtu.be/-_K4Uf9smi8?si=z7qBB5sUb7x7N832

https://youtu.be/wK-s2qBU40A?si=wHwzZ7iI12MN63Nt
>I have no idea how you would get a dam to collapse with only a laptop and a network connection.

In a world where Stuxnet took out uranium centrifuges, and we've had actual PoC's of exploits that resulted in generators fragging themselves, I find your statement to be of the most shocking form of naivete I've heard in a while.

And in point of fact, the network connection would probably be for disabling alarms and control systems in order to mask work done to weaken the integrity of the structure itself. Physical and digital is inextricably linked.
https://www.readtangle.com/
> the EXIF data marker (FFE1)

This isn't quite right. That's a JPEG application specific marker (APP1). It indicates that some additional data is embedded in the JPEG file at that point which should be interpreted in an application specific manner (e.g. skipped if the program doesn't know how to handle it). That could be Exif tags but could also be other things (like XMP). An APP1 segment can be distinguished as Exif data based on the presence of the "Exif" string immediately after the segment size. (The tags themselves are stored in essentially a TIFF file embedded after the Exif identifier, if you're curious.)