skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> he writes about CSS on a regular basis, so I'm sure he understands a great deal about it.

Don't be so sure. The world is full of people that excel at the fake it til you make it skill. As long as you say it loud and full of confidence, people will just tend to accept whatever you're saying. Anyone that comes along and challenges will just be dismissed as a hater or similar. In software dev, these types tend to migrate upwards into management
Strictly economic theoretical speaking, inflation wouldn't happen if the money isn't "new" money, but instead is fully reallocated money.

A likely picture would be less money going into assets (where wealthy people money tends to end up) and more money going into consumables (where poor people money tends to end up). However the money pile should stay the same all else being equal.
>It's mainly wealth distribution

No it isn't. The problem is that all these programs never actually end up redistributing wealth, but they always end up redistributing income, usually taken via higher taxes from the already shrinking middle class, leading to further deepening of wealth inequality.

As the super wealthy don't just have a public bank account with billions of $ under their own name, like your grandma, but have their wealth under various assets, entangled corporations, trust funds and non-profits, spread across various tax jurisdictions both on- and off-shore, making their wealth very difficult to track and tax correctly, plus gaming the financial system so that their companies are always billing each other for services till they're running at a loss, never seemingly generate any meaningful profits in their home "high-tax" jurisdictions.

FFS they have entire teams of well paid experts dedicated to these "tax optimization schemes", something the middle class and small business owners can never afford. THIS IS WHY WE HAVE WEALTH INEQUALITY, not because some middle class people earn higher wages after busting their asses in school and university. Just look at IKEA's elaborate tax dodging scheme. [1] Why can't he pay Swedish taxes like all Swedish businesses?

[1] https://www.greens-efa.eu/legacy/fileadmin/dam/Documents/Stu...
Good point. Yeah I think you're right and I just didn't see the big picture. Seems totally consistent with the NYT's general support of American foreign policy in general.
Show HN: DomainSync – A tool to setup domain with DNS and Email providers
Launched a tool to connect DNS and Providers where you habitually add (synchronize) your domains. Currently, it supports Cloudflare, Bunny, and Mailgun.

The main idea besides is to make it easy to configure the domain on multiple providers without having to go to each platform and add/configure the domain.

It's on ProductHunt too: https://www.producthunt.com/posts/domainsync.

Available for any suggestion (or feature request).
Shantel VanSanten is also really bringing it, acting wise.
Every single place I've worked that adopted it has like one or two elm repos left where no one has had the time to rewrite it into ts yet, and there's maybe one developer who still understands it.

I've not seen anyone picking it for new dev in... a really long time.

Shame, really.
"EU's AI act and Cybersecurity act are terrible for FOSS and small start-ups"

Add the Unified Patent Court to the list.

Software patents through the backdoor, the President of the Court is already showing some love for EPO's practice, which they failed to copy/paste into law in 2002/2005.
The DAG concurrency stuff feels familiar to what I've been doing with our language, mcl. https://github.com/purpleidea/mgmt/

Our goal is NOT a general-purpose turing-complete language like this one is, but we do some amazing lock-free, DAG concurrency things to achieve the processing wins.
There's a lot of leeway between advocating for gradual, realistic change and reaching for an impossible utopia.
"If you use a product for the whole month, we will continue to invoice you for the same monthly amount as always."
I learned to slow my thinking with cannabinoids.
[dupe]

More discussion over here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39543281
This is only correct in lawless land, such as right in the middle of Africa.

In most nations, in even some totalitarian dictatorships(dictatorships hate those opinionated and powerful), you are only allowed to deny services by conditions and to extents tolerated by law.

Some developed countries are moving towards Internet and smartphones as human rights, and handing out phones to homeless people. That implies it's rather phone network operators that don't have the entitlement to speak of such entitlements.

The nation owns everything. The nation can take and give anything anytime so long its owners agree(the monarch, the dictator, the party, the people collectively). It's always been that way.
> I moved from .NET to Java

Oh boy. That's just the first gate of hell. You should try JS!
Someone shared what I was looking for!

It's called Attribution-Based Economics, it pays out to all contributors based on some measure of relative contribution.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xnppM6GG9Q
https://drym.org/attribution-based-economics-for-open-source...
Yeah, this is so annoying, thank you for bringing it up here.

Here's a discussion on reddit about it:
https://old.reddit.com/r/chrome/comments/1aygq7v/the_disable...

And the issue on Chromium Issue Tracker:
https://issues.chromium.org/issues/41496433
My pick would be Nicolas Winding Refn (Drive/Neon Demon). You want someone that can do minimalistic style and body horror.
I disagree with you, but I upvoted you. It sucks to wade into a discussion like this where you are going to get piled on.

The most effective way for “my side” to win is to convince enough of “your side” to join me. I can only do that through understanding your position. So I appreciate your participating, even when it is unpopular.
Maybe because when Elon Musks walks into a room everybody is a billionaire on average ?

Besides what is the use of inheriting at 60 or 70 ?
They never asked for a court order. They stopped replying to my emails.

Beyond that, a court order seems excessive for something like this. Shouldn't sending along documents and proof of power of attorney be sufficient?
Interviewing Engineers for Diagnostic Skills
Well... okay.

How did concentrating extreme amounts of wealth work out for the French and Russian royalty?

Furthermore, how did it work out for their nations economically?
AFAICT, both the real and imaginary components are from (-1, 0, +1) only. No single sign, but only 8 directions and the center.
Parents aren't dead yet to get their stuff. That's where the "wealth" is coming from.
Why don't you like Foundation?
So you’re saying that the PWA experience isn’t as good as a native app and conversion isn’t as high even on Android….
I tend to agree with this sort of. In my opinion, stuff that's more real time, ephemeral, one to one, and focused on closed groups below a certain size, like IRC or Discord, or stuff that is one to many like modern social media but much less highly visible and networked, like the classic blogosphere, tends to be much more healthy and in the long run rewarding then microblogging social media like Twitter or Facebook or Instagram or whatever.

I don't think it's necessarily the anonymity though. Or even the algorithms — the fediverse has no algorithms and yet in my experience (having been a minor player in some big drama there before I left) it's getting just as toxic and judgy as Twitter, maybe even more. I think it's more that in micro blogging social media, because interactions and posts are automatically broadcast to this huge audience that doesnt necessarily share any values or social norms, and are immediately highly discoverable and visible to everyone even outside the people who initially saw it, and these interactions can sort of stay around in the zeitgeist a bit more permanently than an instant message, instead of being ephemeral, in the moment, and directed at one or two or a few people within a closed form community, every post you make and every interaction with people takes on a sort of grandstanding, performing for the crowd, dare I say it virtue signaling (I say this as a leftist lol so you know I'm serious) tenor. It becomes automatically a lot more adversarial and fake and just weird and distorted. And then if you add on top of that the fact that posts and responses are highly asynchronous, so it's actually difficult to feel like you're really having a dialogue with a person, instead of just combatting disembodied words on a screen, and difficult to engage in compassion and quickly correct misunderstandings and respond to feelings in the moment, it means that all of the grandstanding and performing for the crowd and virtue signaling will be that much more dysfunctional and detached from actual human social interaction.
That looks pretty awesome, and the graphics are way better than any NES game I can remember, it looks more like an SNES level graphics. Since you are running on an emulator there, does the emulator lock you to NES level performance?
Convention used to be

checked="checked"
HackClub.com purports to support Highschool coding clubs and building open source learning tools - I can't claim to know how successful this goal is, but it doesn't seem untoward or overly wasteful to me!
Considering the entire protocol design I don't think DMs will be that easy to implement. They'd need some form of asymmetric key encryption scheme for personal data servers and messages would then need to be read directly from the relevant personal data servers as the app view servers would not have the necessary user private keys to decrypt stuff. Will be interesting to see how they solve it for sure. But as you point out, probably far down the road map.
It's so straightforward you can't even switch to another window without pressing a separate button first!

The Gnome designers have apparently discovered that taskbars are attention vampires and a detriment to users.
I like that when KDE expresses an opinion in its defaults, they are user-malleable.
It's difficult to impossible to implement bulk level social media algorithms on decentralized networks because no single node has all the data and views/interactions are largely private.

This is a feature and is perhaps an even more compelling reason to go federated or decentralized than the other autonomy and privacy related reasons. Social media algorithms are cultural lobotomy machines.

A great example of technological limitations improving content is podcasts. Podcasts are one-way, still fairly simple in their distribution methods (RSS and a few major apps but no clear monopoly), and mostly non-interactive. This limits the ability of platforms and advertisers to ruin them, which is why podcasting is still a bastion of quality media online.
This is a good take. I can hire just about any JS/TypeScript I want, but if I need a C engineer (in which I actually might before year end) they are harder to find and command more salary.

One thing that I would recommend is that you get your name out there and become as well known as you can within your domain of expertise. This would give you more lateral freedom to pick and choose jobs that allow the benefits you're looking for.
Elm seems pretty much dead to me, tbh, which has prevented me from even trying it for the last few years and I know I'm not the only one.
I found silo to be about three times longer than the story warranted. Typical Streaming bloat.

Remember Magnolia? People said that was bloated.
Are there user profiles on Bluesky? You could make an email account just for your Bluesky dms and then write some random string on your profile and auto delete any emails that don't include that string as a sort of filter against spam. You could also post a public key there so you can have encrypted comms al la old school pgp.
The second book drags a bit with the Solo storyline, but I felt book 3 ties it all together perfectly.
> UBI's critics expected these programs to have terrible outcomes, where recipients would spend their money on trivialities (or worse: drugs).

The worst possible outcome is the intended one: where UBI recipients spend it on essentials, and society adapts over time such that a large swath of the population becomes dependent on state-issued subsidies for basic sustenance.

This would create an entrenched concentration of "soft" power that gives centralized political institutions -- and by extension, the factions that control them -- an unprecedented level of top-down control over society, which will invariably leveraged for ulterior purposes.
Objectively wrong.
In the early days of my Linux use I was on Mandrake 7.2 and loved it. All the "just in case" random packages were very entertaining and educational to me, although they were probably a distraction from whatever I was meant to be doing!

Still, the experience seems to have served me well in the end. I do miss that feeling of discovering all the weird themes and window managers they packaged by default, I don't get the same vibes of "any UI is possible" these days (even though the UX is probably much better by conventional criteria).
Plasma 5s Wayland support has been pretty good since I started using it. I started using it back in December.

Gnome just does way too many things I don't want it to do and that can't be disabled.
This is a good point actually, despite my reservations about social media, if you want to get a big message out quickly there really is nothing better than something like twitter.
I feel that 'Civilisation' was supposed to be the main character in the book, and you should be rooting for 'Civilisation' to survive and grow. The humans that come and go are bit players that are only relevant to the extent they help or hinder this main character.
Hmm I thought so, I was wondering if there was something that had an even higher concentration
In China's case, the State sides with the workers

But that's not true. It sides with a very narrow view of the role workers play in a communist society.

Try and go to China and start a workers union. You'll quickly find yourself in prison. Why? Because there is only one union ACFTU and it's controlled by the state.

So clearly China doesn't side with the workers.

The problem with China's system is that in order to maintain this rigid system it must bring the power of the state to bear against those who challenge it. It's rationale is that the state are the people. The ACFTU represents all workers, so how could anyone be opposed to it except someone opposed to the system itself?

After a while, it's just the state using it's monopoly on violence not to maintain a fair system, but rather the system itself.

It's a characteristic of all authoritarian systems.
FYI: The code is out there, but AFAICT, the language is not open source. No declared license exists anywhere. So you can't actually use this.
I'm holding out for Josephson junctions
Sure there is. Just give it back if you don't want it. https://www.fiscal.treasury.gov/public/gifts-to-government.h...
>You are attributing to federal fiscal policy what was caused by supply chain dysfunction, housing inventory shortages, and corporate profits.

Would you be shocked to learn the inflation had a number of causes, including the vast COVID stimulus? I mean, your quote above attributes 60%, and that supply chain issues resolving "contributed" to inflation easing.

I'm for UBI if we can figure out how to implement it. We've experimented with it here in Canada. But handing people money has inflationary consequences, it's not rocket science. Otherwise, generic extreme argument: give everyone a billion and we all win.
People would have known about them at least as avocado was a popular interior decorating color in the late 60s and 70s.

In general the food of that era was sweet and bland, so often recipes like this were just to give the reader a sense of excitement, rather than something likely to actually be made.
Well allow me to list them off. I'm using Plasma 5.27

- If my monitor dims due to inactivity then I start using my computer again, the monitor stays dim and does not come back up to the brightness I had it unless I turn off my monitor and turn it back on. I resolved this by just turning off dimming.

- If KDE goes to lockscreen due to inactivity but I start interacting with my computer during the transition, my monitor just stays black and doesn't return to desktop or go to lockscreen.

- My bluetooth headphones disconnect whenever KDE goes to lockscreen.

-I use multiple languages and sometimes my languages will switch randomly despite not hitting the language hotkey and often I will mash my language hotkey and the language still won't change.

Those are just what I remember off the top of my head but I'm maintaining a list somewhere in a notebook.
Having grown up in the 70s and 80s, and who is just finishing up raising a kid in the 2010s/2020s (he's 15), I think I have some nuance on this view. While I worry about the lower amount of unstructured play my son had, he did have tons of structured/semi-structured play that I would have loved. Sure, I ran around the woods, but he was able to go on all sorts of adventures through various camps that I never got to do. I mean, I guess being bored out of my fucking mind most of the summer and doing stupid shit was helpful, but it wasn't some pinnacle of education. My son at age 11 took at digital media camp thing and walked around interviewing people at different locations and making little videos. That was pretty cool and seems kind of educational.

Plus, I know at least 3 people that were kids when I was a kid, within several years, that are now disabled adults because of that unstructured play. Two broke their necks, one broke so many bones they were in a wheelchair for several years. I know probably half a dozen kids that were hit by cars in some form. Several kids dead by drunk driving. So that unstructured play isn't without cost.

There are other tradeoffs, too. I know several kids that are raised more unstructured because of their specific situation, and they have a lot of social and physical confidence, but they are also kinda dumb. Like they lack intellectual curiosity. Anecdotal, I know, but I just don't think things are as clear as they make it out to be.

My son's playgrounds were still fairly dangerous, so I think the pendulum has started swinging back. When he was 6-9 or so, his favorite two playground stuctures were a 15' tall climbing tower, and the old school metal merri-go-round thing. Oh, and one elementary school had two huge play structures made of wood with all kinds of tunnels and nooks and crannies, he had tons of fun with that with his friends.

What I mostly missed with him is his ability to just go outside and play with a bunch of kids - there is a negative feedback loop where even if you want your kid to do that, there are no other kids out there in many places. Plus there are just not many interesting "third spaces" anymore that are fun for kids but also ok for them to be kids.
Yep, GNOME’s closest proprietary analogue is iPadOS, not macOS. GNOME omits all sorts of little power user features in comparison and takes the whole minimalism thing much further than macOS ever did (often too far IMHO).

This applies to Pantheon too, even if it’s prettier. There unfortunately isn’t a Mac-like DE.
At least one sea drone had one? [2].

"The first casualty when war comes is truth"

[1] https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=starlin...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFhADRYXi_8
Didn't we have an experiment with ubi during COVID. Everyone basically got a big check. You can see the huge impact it has on savings. You can draw whatever conclusions you want from that but what I noticed it coincided with is a huge run up in asset prices (especially speculative things like crypto), and to eventually led to broad consumer inflation.

Of course a lot of other money was spent (1 trillion in direct payments and income support respectively out of roughly 13 trillion in total new COVID spending). But I think giving out free money distorts markets in unpredictable ways.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/PSAVERT

https://www.covidmoneytracker.org/
Instead of “fell out of favor” I shoulda said “artists stopped being informed of its existence and occasionally invented poor approximations to it from first principles”. Such as tinting sprites to approximate palette swaps of the retro style they are referencing.

You can do so much more than tint with palettes. The animations in the link I posted each a composed of a single 8-bit image and a function to rotate specific sections of the palette.
> I'm using KDE ... because it has great miscellaneous apps...

KWrite and Dolphin are insane!
I've got to disagree on this point. I am a firm believer in "democratisation" of anything, including "publishing content that many other people will see".

this is what social media mainly have done, in my opinion. they have made it extremely easy to publish content. the "social" part is just to further lower the barrier: it is easier to quote or comment on something someone else has already said compared to posting something out of the blue, and features like "like" or "share" allow you to create content with push of a button. they have also used other techniques that has no social aspect (Twitter's character limit, TikTok's musics and video length limit, Snapchat's stories, etc).

of course, that means posting and spreading "worst in people" is also easier (as is spreading spam, etc). this aspect I feel has nothing to do with the "social" part of these platforms, any form of lowering the entry barrier would have caused more terrible things to be published and spread (maybe with different extents, but not essentially different).

p.s. you might find this interesting if you haven't seen it already: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuFlMtZmvY0&t
Capitalism is defined as a system of relations which prioritizes the right for one to exercise their existing capital to accumulate more of it, above everything else and indefinitely.

It's not "shady". It's just capitalism.
Can you share any of these whatsapp groups names?
The Smell of Ripe Fruit Could Halt the Growth of Cancer Cells
> As the super wealthy don't have a public bank account with billions of $ under their own name, but have their wealth under various entangled corporations, trust funds and non-profits, spread across various tax jurisdictions on and off shore, making very difficult to tax.

Report it and have it taxed. A private company can land a rover on the moon but we can't perform ETL operations on asset reporting?
If you ask me, Apple is as good at scifi as they are at gaming.