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by Jimmc414 | 2025-09-05 18:46:52+00:00
"In recent years, this reluctance has been exacerbated by a web of conspiracy theories claiming that "global elites" are forcing the public to abandon meat in favour of bugs."

It's a bit disingenuous to pretend that the WEF and EU have not been suggesting a global switch to insect protein.

[0] 5 reasons why eating insects could reduce climate change

https://www.weforum.org/stories/2022/02/how-insects-positive...

[1] Why we need to give insects the role they deserve in our food systems

https://www.weforum.org/stories/2021/07/why-we-need-to-give-...

[2] Saving Lives and the Planet: Balancing Diet with Alternative Proteins Can Cut Deaths by 5% and Emissions by 25%

https://www.weforum.org/stories/2021/05/europe-insect-based-...

[3] Europe backs insect-based food in a bid to promote alternative protein

https://www.weforum.org/press/2019/01/saving-lives-and-the-p...

[4] Will you be eating insects soon? Can insects feed the world?

https://intelligence.weforum.org/monitor/latest-knowledge/e9...

[5] Meat: The Future series - Alternative Proteins

https://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_White_Paper_Alternative_Pr...

[6] EU Regulation authorising the placing on the market of UV-treated powder of whole Tenebrio molitor larvae (yellow mealworm) as a novel food and amending Implementing Regulation (EU) 2017/2470

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg_impl/2025/89/oj/eng
by perihelions | 2025-09-05 18:46:56+00:00
It's manly to take an austere approach to life and economics. Complaining about inflation is for little girls. To quote the strong-man:

> "“I don’t think that a beautiful baby girl needs — that’s 11 years old — needs to have 30 dolls,” Trump said. “I think they can have three dolls or four dolls, because what we were doing with China was just unbelievable. We had a trade deficit of hundreds of billions of dollars with China.”"

https://thehill.com/homenews/5283281-trump-dolls-economic-po...
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-09-05 18:47:22+00:00
> The miners get the fees. The fed does not keep the dollars they make.

Somebody gets the money. Banks and government contractors get the money. It's not clear how that's any better than miners getting it, and either way it's creating new money that dilutes the value of your existing money.

> They also adjust the rates to avoid things like recessions.

There is nothing stopping the government from setting up a fractional reserve banking system denominated in a cryptocurrency. It works the same as it does in dollars. Alice borrows from the bank, pays the money to Bob and now the bank credits Bob's account and balances its books through the money that Alice owes the bank. If Bob wants to withdraw the money as physical cash or cryptocurrency in a non-custodial wallet then the bank either has enough reserves to do that or can sell the loan and use the proceeds to pay Bob. But if that doesn't happen -- which is more common -- then the balance credited to Bob's account only ever exists in the bank's computer and the bank has effectively created new money in that denomination.

> The US dollar is considered fungible... Help me understand how any of this is specific to blockchain technology and not included in non-blockchain technology.

US dollars as bills in your pocket, sure, but it's hard to transfer those over the internet without involving a middle man.

> Also, what about things like venmo and zelle? zero fees, super fast.

Venmo isn't a protocol, it's a company. It isn't free for businesses and they can still shut down your operations without recourse.

Zelle is a protocol, but it's designed for transferring money between individuals, not making purchases from a business or setting up autopay. What we need is a protocol that is designed to do those things, but the banks fight attempts to create it because they want to keep getting the 3% from credit cards.

> I'm not saying they are not useful. I am saying the technology behind them is irrelevant to the costs.

Suppose that something with the transaction fees of Bitcoin Cash was more widely used and therefore a viable way for small businesses to accept payments from ordinary customers. Which existing non-cryptocurrency service is a viable means to do the same thing for the same or lower fees? A real one, not a hypothetical cost structure that nobody actually offers.
by arp242 | 2025-09-05 18:49:31+00:00
Sure: https://gist.github.com/arp242/3800893c531d185abfd06f82ed0c3...

Going over things, the dividing line between "good" and "superb" is somewhat arbitrary, so I included both, because well, why not? I did it like that to mimic the commonly used "5 star" rating, but maybe it should just be three: "bad", "okay", "good". Dunno.

Also note that I haven't played many games. I'm just now getting around to The Witcher 3, which is over ten years old. So...

"-" starts a new entry, followed by one or more titles, followed by "tag: value", followed by whatever I wanted to write (if anything) as Markdown. It lists "superb" first, alphabetically, then "good".
by petsfed | 2025-09-05 18:50:10+00:00
Cost to repair correctly is almost always a lot higher than the fence value of the material, but more importantly, repair cost is always higher than the labor/tool cost to steal the material. Dunno how long it takes to cut off a 12 foot section of guard rail, but the fence value of that rail only has to be more than $15/hr over the time it takes to find and remove the rail to make it profitable.

Its the same thing with catalytic converters. The crackhead stealing a catalytic converter from a 2011 prius is interested in the $150-$350 of platinum in the catalytic converter, not the $2200+labor replacement cost of the thing. Considering that its ~20 minutes looking, and ~2 minutes sawing to steal the thing, we should all be so lucky as to make $150-$350 for less than 30 minutes' work.
by throwawaylaptop | 2025-09-05 18:50:44+00:00
Yup, but getting people to try it involve so much effort you only really do it for people you care about. It's amazing how resistant people are to eating only meat for a month or two, but drinking alcohol is no problem. Chemical preservatives? No problem. Added sugars? No problem. Seed oils washed in solvents? No problem.
by tastyface | 2025-09-05 18:51:13+00:00
Just as a reminder, the person these CEOs are cheerfully meeting with is either a brutal pedophile, or at the very least, the documented best friend of one of the most prolific and notorious pedophiles in America -- someone the administration is trying to wipe from the news cycle through any means necessary, including pampering his co-conspirator/co-rapist and claiming the whole thing is some sort of Democratic hoax. Lies upon lies to conceal the rape of countless children in service of the glorious Party. But these tech magnates don’t give an iota of a shit as long as the money keeps flowing in.

This is some real end-of-a-republic degeneracy. Decades down the line, people will point to these events in history books to show that we weren’t remotely as civilized as we thought. In a just world everyone at this table would spend their retirement years in a cell.
by floren | 2025-09-05 18:51:22+00:00
Not to toot my own horn, but I've been fiddling with a now-discontinued, very cheap pair of display smart glasses: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45087803

You can send low-resolution images to them via Bluetooth. I just figured out how to read button presses. There are speakers and a mic, but I haven't figured out how to use them yet (they don't show up as regular audio devices on Linux).

You'd need to write custom stuff to generate the images, but with a little imagemagick scripting I've had some pretty usable results.
by antonvs | 2025-09-05 18:51:35+00:00
> My claim is that the "useful assistant for menial tasks" is the Wright brothers flyer to what we'll have in a few years.

I agree with that.

But what you originally wrote was, "The AI bundling problem is over. The user interface problem is over." It would probably make more sense to say "...will be over."

People tend to be sensitive to those kinds of claims because there's a lot of hype around all this at the moment. So when people seem to imply that what we have right now is much more capable than it actually is, there tends to be pushback.
by diggan | 2025-09-05 18:51:42+00:00
> Were you paid to moderate those boards?

No, none of the moderators were paid, but I do think the ~2/3 admins were paid. But yeah, I did it purely out of the want for the forum to remain high-quality, as did most of the other moderators AFAIK.

> Recent social media (& maybe "recent" no longer applies) doesn't have this kind of community run tooling

Agree, although reddit with its "every subreddit is basically its own forum but not really" (admins still delete stuff you wouldn't + vice-versa) kind of did an extreme version of community run tooling, with the obvious end result that moderation is super unequal across reddit, and opaque.

Bluesky is worth mentioning as well, with their self-proclaimed "stackable" moderation, which is kind of some fresh air in the space. https://bsky.social/about/blog/03-12-2024-stackable-moderati...
by nkozyra | 2025-09-05 18:51:43+00:00
If I can shine some light on my specific qualms, it's these:

> Too many people coming here that don't integrate and don't assimilate is bad.

But ... why? This is stated as a matter of fact without any real qualification. Why is different "bad." We have far too many examples in our very own country of different - sometimes dissonant - cultures in the same space and still enjoying success as a society and a nation.

> A nation cannot thrive with too many conflicting demographics.

Again ... why not? NYC is our prime example of this working and the city succeeding despite some very, very different cultures side-by-side. There are also monoculture countries that have fallen far behind us to use as counterexamples.

> People coming here and extracting value from the economy to send home is also a problem.

This is my biggest issue. If you work here, you're producing something for this country. What you do with your money is frankly, your business. In either event, you're also spending money on housing, food, etc. You're both producing in this country and contributing to our economy. If you want to send the rest back to Mexico, why is that my business? Why does that hurt me?
by sparrish | 2025-09-05 18:51:47+00:00
If they all have valid visas and are legal to work, I'm confident they'll be released.

If they've overstayed their visa or their visa doesn't permit them to work, I'm confident they'll be sent back to wherever they came from.

I've traveled and worked in other countries. You have to carry your passport (or a certified copy of it) along with your visa everywhere in case you are stopped by law enforcement - otherwise, out you go.

This is normal stuff, people, and these workers should know that.
by adamcharnock | 2025-09-05 18:52:17+00:00
Our experience with Hetzner /Cloud/ is similarly shaky. But Hetzner dedicated servers all altogether a different story.

We (lithus.eu) deal with their custom solutions team regularly and often provision private networks in the 10-100G range. On top of that we deploy MinIO and OpenEBS/Mayastor, and the whole thing just hums along very nicely indeed.
by slim | 2025-09-05 18:52:19+00:00
> MeWe which is weird because nobody I know has ever heard of it. Another interesting choice was Rumble. Twitch was left alone but Rumble was blocked

From experience, this is a symptom of them wanting to censor a specific piece of content which is on all those platforms. Look for it, you may discover something interesting.

I live in Tunisia, which had one of the most censored internet in the world before 2011.
by bobbylarrybobby | 2025-09-05 18:52:22+00:00
It's a low level language with a high level interface. In theory, GC aside, you should be able to write code as performant as C++ without having to actually write C++. It's also homoiconic and the compiler is part of the language’s API, so you can do neat things with macros that let more or less you temporarily turn it into a different language.

In practice, the Julia package ecosystem is weak and generally correctness is not a high priority. But the language is great, if you're willing to do a lot of the work yourself.
by Twey | 2025-09-05 18:52:46+00:00
As other people here have said, type systems are merely an automated check that interfaces are used correctly. But to read this more generously, the author is saying that with sufficiently simple interfaces such checking isn't necessary. That's arguably true, though rather limiting (since a direct composition of simple interfaces is not necessarily a simple interface): a system that presents a single call that reads one byte and adds one to it, with wrapping, doesn't need a type because all inputs are valid.

Unfortunately, the examples given are not particularly representative, because they all imply complex interfaces (reading? writing? buffering?) and complex input/output formats: the shell that is doing the piping only cares about ‘bytes’, but the programs themselves have much more complex requirements on the data, which tends to be what happens once you start assigning semantics to your interfaces.

Even with spatial locality limiting the number of inputs and outputs, the ‘interfaces’ that hardware uses are usually specified in multi-hundred-page manuals, and that's mostly due to having to encode the semantics of what it means to put volts on those wires.
by strbean | 2025-09-05 18:52:52+00:00
> I'm not a big fan of banning things like this.

I think this is a pretty perfect use case for banning. The harms are mostly derived from the business model. If the social media companies were banned from operating them, and the bans were evaded by DIYers, Mastodon and the like, most of the problems disappear.

When there's still money in the black market alternative, banning doesn't work well (see: narcotics).
by techpineapple | 2025-09-05 18:53:30+00:00
What are people regularly using Wikipedia for that the bias is that terrible? Are you exclusively looking up controversial conflicts, right wing leaders and climate change? I just have never had my everyday curiosity cross paths with only those things which are controversial by Wikipedia standards.

Also I find a lot of people’s disagreements usually come down to “ok, I see that the information that I thought was censored is actually available but not in the format that I prefer”

And if you’re looking for objective information about the Israel Palestine conflict you’re hardly going to get it anywhere.
by iparac | 2025-09-05 18:53:34+00:00
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by cultofmetatron | 2025-09-05 18:53:47+00:00
Its a double edged sword. social media is also the only reason any of us know about the genocide going on in gaza right now. I'm pretty sure thats why there's such a rush to start locking down the internet since western governments aiding theocracies in mass murder puts a real "are we the bad guys?" kind of taste in your mouth.
by kingstnap | 2025-09-05 18:53:48+00:00
Extremely poor takes.

I distinctly remeber back in 2017 or so I was using tensorflow to train a CNN.

At the time Python really hadn't gotten its shit together with regards to typing.

Googles Tensorflow documentation was heavily filled with completely useless high level nonsense like this.

from tensorflow.datasets import mnist from tensorflow.models import alexnet alexnet.train(mnist)

Or something like this. Useful maybe if you wanna put "wrote a machine learning classifer" on your resume or something. But not useful.

But the biggest pain of all was that I had no clue what I was supposed to put into any of these functions. The documentation was the function name and arguments names. I ended up just opening Python in interactive mode and calling type on various intermediates running through examples and writing it down.

When you want others to actually be able to use your code you NEED to specify in what actually are your inputs in a clear and unambiguous way. This is fundamentally why typing is vital and usedul even in small codebases. Argument names (or even worse just being like *args, **kwargs just doesn't work.

This is why if you open up any half decent Python library now they actually tell you what you need to provide and what to expect out. Without it you cannot reason about what to do.
by regnull | 2025-09-05 18:53:53+00:00
To be fair, non-Tesla networks are catching up. I moved from Tesla to BMW i4 (I had a quite significant disagreement with Elon when it comes to international politics), and I was worried about finding non-Tesla charges. I took a few long distance trips so far (US Northeast), and I had zero problems. Plus, if you are lucky, you get 2 year free charging from BMW, and they've enabled plug-and-charge recently. So, you just plugin, charge and drive away, mostly for free. Not bad.
by FireBeyond | 2025-09-05 18:54:03+00:00
Yeah, the raid on Tyson that netted 950 undocumented workers came after a slew of OSHA complaints and had very "won't someone rid us of these meddlesome workers" vibes to it. Just like at Hormel. Complaining about weird sicknesses after inhaling aerosolized pork brain all day? "DHS, come get these non-team players out the way".
by mothballed | 2025-09-05 18:55:09+00:00
>You won't believe how many borders I've crossed without paying bribes, or for that matter how little attention to metrics or the goodness of people crossing was paid at the one border that did garnish their staff's wages with an unofficial dollar fee for everyone...

While we're telling stories, here's two tales from me

1) Robbed at the Mexican border by police. They didn't even bother asking me, just took it. They get no real reward for jailing people so they were very happy for the $180 and then left me the fuck alone.

2) Enter USA. Passport, everything good, everything legit. Insane border patrol degradingly strip searched me, watched me as I performed bowel movements, jailed me, took me halfway across the state in a prisoner van, and then ran up $1k in medical bills while they search my body for drugs that didn't exist. Unceremoniously dumped at the border with no apologies when absolutely nothing unlawful was found. Still debt collectors chasing me for this.

Now, which was fairer? Definitely getting robbed. The Mexican just wanted his reward. The US CBP could only get a reward by getting me arrested.

Now do both societal models suck? Yes they do. But as a guy on the street, I cannot change society, especially if I am an immigrant presenting at the border to a country I've never been to in my life. What I can do is get robbed of $200, and be in a fairer position than getting robbed of $1k of medical bills and a day in jail I'll never get back, or deported while some officer tries to win some dumb metric.

I want the border officer to have more incentive to rob me than to deport me or send me to prison for false charges.

That is the reality I am dealing with. Not a made up la-la land where top-down society is going to be changed by the immigrant presenting at the border. Legalized bribery is relative fairness in this world we live, compared to many of the actual alternatives many people have on the ground where they are staring at someone who gets to play god and the only question they have is how they can maximize their rewards.
by flail | 2025-09-05 18:55:55+00:00
Big Techs do have ways of rolling out new services step by step.

Paul Buchheit's stories about Gmail and AdSense are good examples. I was an early Gmail user when it was invitation-only and invitations were scarcely distributed (only as fast as the infrastructure could handle).

So, while I understand the difference in PR costs, it's not like they don't have tools to run smaller experiments.

I agree with the huge bureaucracy cost. On the other hand, they really have (relatively) infinite resources if they care to deploy them. And sometimes they do. And they still fail.

They often fail even when they try a Skunk Works-like approach. Google Wave was famously developed as a corporate Lean Startup (before there was Lean Startup). It was a disaster. Precisely because they did close to zero validation pre-release.

A side note, a huge flop it was (although Buzz and Google+ were bigger), it didn't hurt them long term in PR or reputation.
by Karrot_Kream | 2025-09-05 18:56:19+00:00
The consumer benefit would be when merchants start charging lower prices to payers if they use crypto. For example, I know many small businesses that offer lower prices, some on purchases as large as $9k (below AML limits), if paying in cash because it's easier to declare less in taxes when using cash. Likewise if a merchant realizes that they pay lower fees and have lower loss on stablecoin transactions, I can see a world where merchants offer discounts for those transactions.

Obviously time will tell if there's enough margin to even offer a valuable discount to the purchaser and if merchants will become savvy enough to offer this dual pricing scheme.
by sbrown12 | 2025-09-05 18:56:53+00:00
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by bhollis | 2025-09-05 18:56:56+00:00
Neat, they have Newt, the robot my dad built that was the first mobile robot with its own onboard computer. Newt is still there in his basement, and as a kid I did science fair projects programming behaviors for it. At that point the computer had been upgraded to a Motorola 68K. https://www.theoldrobots.com/Newt.html
by bityard | 2025-09-05 18:56:57+00:00
"stiff the open source contributors"

I'm not sure you realize that "open source" means anyone anywhere is free to use, modify, and redistribute the software in any way they see fit? Maybe you're thinking of freeware or shareware which often _do_ come with exceptions for commercial use?

But anyway, as an open source contributor, I have never felt I was being "stiffed" just because a company uses some software that I helped write or improve. I contribute back to projects because I find them useful and want to fix the problems that I run into so I don't have to maintain my own local patches, help others avoid the same problems, and because making the software better is how I give back to the open source community.