skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When the giants banned that app after the incidents in 6 January in US, you see a lot of comment like "free markets" and build your own platform from scratch including banks, ISPs and hosting.

P.S. I am not from US so I am not in a blue or red camp, I just don't like it when some big corporation can lock you out of your account, decide what books you can read, what apps you can install or brick your application/device ( I am thinking at the case where Photoshop stopped working in Venezuela and how on some systems the device will contact the mother ships at boot/resume or when you launch an apo for "security" reasons that could be used in future to block you using the device or app)
Unless, apparently, you're trying to post your sweet new email address. Honest question: if this takes off, do you think HN will stop stripping them?
> There isn't enough room to put credible military capability on a vessel this size.

The USS Cole would probably beg to differ.
How about adding the S&P index to the list? That is where many people store their excess earnings (ie. retirement accounts).

I know very few people who store their excess income as cash (or Bitcoin, or gold).
It requires a lot of work and very low level configuration to go beyond the infrastructure elements. Databases? - sure. Managed apps? - here's a book on vpcs, subnets, and eni attachments in AWS.
This is good for bitcoin /s
I don't think they read the tweets.
>First, no it isn't

What isn't? That China has enough nuclear capability to cripple the entirety of NATO or vice versa? I'd like to see you justify that tall claim. Your second "point" just sounds like fear mongering without substance. If any country could develop that capability, it is Russia with the largest land area of any country.

Also, my point about the Axis having essentially already lost the war thanks to crippled supplies was incorrect because "they had a few years more of small arms supplies, and still some food" and enough fuel to "last more than a year of low intensity warfare"? That's just an inevitable loss but with extra steps in between! I might not know anything about war but clearly you don't know anything about my argument if you thought this was an actual rebuttal.

Low intensity warfare? The Allies had enough bombers to collapse entire cities! Even the hundreds of thousand Americans dead were minor compared to the millions of Germans that perished.

That's kind of why we don't engage in these kinds of large scale ground invasion type wars anymore (at least without one side being completely overwhelmingly more powerful) - the costs are so astronomically high, both in money and in causalities.
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Well, now I'm upset because I didn't know this setting existed, and I prefer the tighter layout!

How, exactly does Mozilla measure user engagement of these features? And if they are using telemetry, how are they accounting for the users that disable telemetry out of privacy concerns? (Which, I assume is a sizable amount of FF users)
This is not going anywhere.

However, I can foresee electricity rationing (not in India but here in EU) after mismanaged transition to renewables. Both rolling blackouts and spot prices are unpopular...so what else is left when there's not enough baseload?
At the very least, this shows that using Ruby is not an impediment to success. I don't think I can say the same for some other languages.
Picking a compiler backend is confusing as a new user. I remembering having questions like: is dmd going to produce a slower binary? Are gdc and ldc up to date with dmd?
So average person in USA, who is definitely not starving, will finally give up their ridiculous truck that pollutes more than 10 brazilian farmers ever could?
And because they use the hydroelectric power, other people must use the coal power for electricity.

Coal is a huge part of the grid in China.
Coercion/blackmail is going to be hard to argue when you've never asked the company for anything, nor made any offer that would involve them giving you anything.

I consider going public directly less risky than talking to the company first: They're much more likely to make legal threats/try to sue you if they think it can help hide their embarrassment. Once public, that incentive goes away, they're in the public eye, if they do go after you they can no longer prevent the disclosure, and you have a decent chance that the additional attention this generates will make them reconsider before you have to spend money on lawyers.
This sound like dogmatism. Markets fail, a lot. The fact a thing is a market is not a guarantee for the intended consequences.
At most it adheres to a paradigm of thinking which is now very popular due to percieved successful past.
> the article doesn't really seem to touch on the why of this

Turning this around, why _would_ a country want to allow people to make anonymous(ish) large digital transactions? This is the same government that outlawed some bank notes in recent memory.
Anything mediated by a mind is an artifice: art.

It may be art from an artisan or craft used in a trade. It may be intellectual such as a mathematical proof. It may arguably be non-human art or bad art--but it is art.
NU.nl used to be famous (in a bad way) for the comment section. After closing the comment section for a while they reopened it again using software 'Talk' from the Coral Project. This software was made by a few and for news organizations.

The difference is quite drastic. They still need to moderate a bit, but the effect is quite good. It also learns from the moderation, thereby lowering the amount of moderation required.

The site does close the ability to comment during the night, comments are closed after a certain period, plus commenting is sometimes not possible (if they don't expect the article to be visible during the day).

See (Dutch, use e.g. google translate) https://www.nu.nl/blog/5226107/nujij-terug-weer-reageren-nun... for details; it includes a link to this Talk software.

People still often complain about the comment section of NU.nl, but for me there's been a drastic change. There's almost no trolling going on. They allow different opinions, even if those comments are badly researched. People tend to focus on the poorly thought out comments. Though I appreciate them (not everyone knows everything or can easily find the answer).
I can't be the only one that feels that GitLab has extended downtime at least weekly, sometimes bi-weekly.
> there is not a serious place on earth that would let me touch their codebase.

It depends on what you mean by "serious". Software development is very much a free-for-all as far as backgrounds go. It attracts people from all disciplines. There are NO CREDENTIALS needed to be called a "software engineer", and it will remain this way for the foreseeable future. Every organization that develops software has its own rules and standards for how they staff their teams, usually these rules are flexible to almost non-existent. They hire based on whether they think someone can do the work based on some loose evaluation criteria.

But, yeah, a mid-to-late career-changer with a successful business background as highly paid executive is going to raise eyebrows if they go after some software development job-- not because of technical chops (assuming they still got it), but more "wtf are you thinking?" considerations. These people would normally just self-fund their own software projects, or partner with someone in exchange for having some fund with code (it happens).

CEO demographics vary wildly. The article just cherry-picks the top ten market cap companies, which today, happen to dominated by software companies. Most of the CEO's have been SE's? So what? That means almost nothing. Are these 10 companies supposed to be profoundly representative of the world of work in some way?
These restrictions will be more common among developing countries. This is legitimate financial regulation and has nothing to do with bombastic statements by some media accusing the Indian govt of overreach

Most developing countries are at a high risk of capital flight by the rich and hence they regulate foreign exchange with Capital controls.
India already has a cap of USD 250k limit on capital flight by individuals.

Nowadays bitcoin is a common method to escape capital controls.

This law will prevent capital flight by the rich which they earned with the patronage of Indian citizens and escape reinvestment locally
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bi7V_RoUW3k
It is very hard to create luxury wine in the middle of nowhere so the price of land is big factor in cost of wines in premium and luxury segment. 1 hectare of good plot in top regions like Barolo, Bordeaux, Champagne or Burgundy starts around 1 to 2 millions of euros, but top plots goes much further than that, 10 millions of euros for hectare of Burgundy Grand Cru is not unheard of. You are making around 4000 litres of wine per year on 1 hectare.
The project comes up on HN quite frequently, and there are many, many issues built into the project.

For a start they redefine a lot of words and concepts to their own meanings, rather than commonly accepted ones, in a way that's reminiscent of cult-y organisations. These then feed into their own obscure programming language. This serves as a barrier to entry and an in-group language.

Secondly, well it was started by Curtis Yarvin, whose (unpalatable) ideas about neo-feudalism are baked in.

But yeah, look up prior HN discussions if you want more info. Urbit is an oddity, and not necessarily a good one.
That just means there is no specific amount of value.

Water has intrinsic value, in the form of it's many direct utilities.

You could trade the water for some other good or service, or you could drink the water.

You can't do anything with a dollar except trade it to get something else that has some intrinsic value.

The dollar is only a symbol for some value. It has no value directly itself.
> But obviously few want to, especially when they don’t believe others will chip in and reduce also.

That last part there is very important. I feel much like this, me personally going ascetic, while all my fellow humans don't give a damn, doesn't help anything. This needs to come from the top, the politicians, with rules, regulations, fees and fines. Thus, I vote for the greenest and most ascetic party there is. But I have little hope left.
Not sure why you bring up authoritarianism with that argument. It's the same everywhere, authoritarian or not. Or are you saying that having a authoritarian system automatically leads to more "everyday things" getting illegal?
Every position is more or less speculative. This is why "asset management" is a thing.

Nobody knows what gold or fiat is going to do next either:

- Fiat can be advertised in whichever way but ultimately there is no guarantee things will behave the same as it's centrally planned. The pandemic triggered unprecedented action from the money printer.

- Producing more efficient ways of mining gold, discovering new reserves on the planet or outwith will trigger a re pricing of gold's value.

The only meaningful horizon is time, and so far Bitcoin is doing well.
For anyone unaware, the name of the app is a play on a swear word. "EskomSePush" is an intentional play on the phrase "Eskom Se Poes". Eskom being the power utility that provides electricity to South Africa, and has been woefully inadequate at doing so.

See here for a meaning of the word Poes in Afrikaans. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/poes#Afrikaans

Wonder if Google is aware of that and has been getting lots of "reports" by genuine users that are offended by this? And this weird "technicality" is just a cover for why they really got banned/taken down.

They have a one-hit wonder that they're trying to ride the wave on. So instead of sticking to the functionality they had (notifications/schedule/etc) which was perfect for users, they decided to add a "comments section" it seems for people to vent their frustrations. So no sympathy from me, despite Google being in the wrong here.
In theory, maybe. In practice, a lot of them mean basically nothing transferable. (See "VP of X", which doesn't tell you if the company has 5 VPs or 500, or the muddle of what constitutes a "Senior Engineer" or "Staff Engineer". "Empress of the Shopping-Cart-Subsystem" communicates more)
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Most likely fake news. The finance minister went on stage on (Mar 14, I think) and said that there will be no blanket ban on crypto.

Source : https://www.msn.com/en-in/news/other/india-today-conclave-no...
There many hosting provider, datacenter, payment gatway to choose from. But just 2 appstore to use (technically android can have as many as you want, but how many pp use 3rd store right now?)
You have alternatives for those things though, in other countries if necessary. Ok, ok, accepting payments is hard -- if you're getting booted from your processors because, say, you're in a controversial industry, you might have to get creative (look at the US cannabis industry for such creativity).
I'm starting to think someone inside Mozilla is getting paid by Google to fuck up. This level of incompetence is incredible.
A similar thing happened a few years ago after my friend died in a car crash: when I saw the unbelievable comments, I wrote to the editors begging them to delete all comments and disable any more. I feared my friend’s husband would stumble upon them. Why is a comment section even necessary on such an article?

Comments on HN are noticeably better than everywhere else. Thank you all for this oasis. I fear it’s fragile.
LOL today when i installed fresh firefox and tried to customize I found the compact density and I really love it.

I think Mozilla claim is invalid. I think its just not discoverable easy and hidden. If they give ability to setup compact density I believe many user will choose compact over fat tabs.
I think I was probably just wrong to describe it as a blockchain (sorry about that). It was a different kind of consensus ledger. Here's an article about it:

https://urbit.org/blog/why-urbit-probably-does-not-need-a-bl...

I'll revise my position to simply being that of course Urbit needs a consensus ledger, and that blockchain technology is a good solution for that.
yes, that's almost by definition
Nice elaboration!
> Musk has good enough relations and shared interests with the Chinese government that Tesla has the first fully foreign-owned car factory in China.

I don't think you can attribute that to some kind of special relationship. Tesla did not yet have a local factory when the joint-venture requirement fell, so they could start directly as a wholly foreign-owned enterprise. Established companies needed to buy out their partners first if they wanted full ownership, e.g. Hyundai in Sichuan https://www.chinapev.com/baic/hyundai/hyundai-motor-group-ac...
There's a fairly common misconception that if the people couldn't have pirated a book (song, film), they would have bought it, as if there's some sort of guarantee that a book will necessarily be purchased simply because it's been published, disregarding that people need to (1) be convinced they want it and (2) consider the price worthwhile.

Sure, a X number of people have downloaded it for free simply because they could, but this doesn't automatically means that they would have bought it in the first place.

It's likelier that some five thousand people in developing countries who couldn't afford a £30 Java study book would find other means to learn Java (other ebooks based on it, Youtube tutorials, Stack Overflow, forums etc.) if that book simply cannot be pirated for whatever reason, than the fact that those people would suddenly start to buy that £30 book.
"You get the commenters you deserve" is a common joke on Marginal Revolutions.
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I provide website repairing and restoration services. Any other pain points I shall focus on?
Just wish they would get on with a complete ban or whatever instead of sending rumours in news every couple of months. What competent government takes this long to do something that they already have declared multiple times through news channels?

It's almost like they are just setting up honeypots in the interim for later on surprise raids.
Mozilla has mutilated Firefox trying to chase after Chrome's market share instead of holding onto its users who already liked it. They're going to end up with no users at all.
> an informed population

At what stage did we ever had that? I doubt any country could claim their population is informed.

So I wouldn't use that as a requirement as its unattainable.
The problem with that line of thinking is the book burners will automatically assume your politics. Sad.
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Legitimate business are allowed to exceed capital controls after verification of intent and is a long standing practice among many countries
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This will be an interesting case study in what happens when a government goes head on against cryptocurrencies. This will lead to some interesting innovation in the space. There are too many cryptocurrency users and believers in India at this point.

We will see some interesting P2P exchange platforms where anonymity becomes paramount.
You should add a few usefulness graphs, and then include Bitcoin Cash.
I think you would classify me as one of those haters. I don't actually hate Tesla, I just think the valuation is a bubble and stuff like this reinforces my opinion.

When it comes to investments, I want substance: Don't call it autopilot if it is not an autopilot. Don't invest in stuff without inherent value. If you sell way less, then you should probably worth way less. I am just a very boring person in that way.

Outside of the stock valuation (and maybe the environmental damage, Bitcoin causes), I find all of it very entertaining.
I worked at a company where they decided to change their titles away from industry standard norms (specific to their industry). They quickly changed back because it made working with their customers really hard. I walk into a meeting and I'm expecting a Clinical Lead and a Data Manager and I'm introduced to a Loremaster and a Sheriff of the Aethertech am I in the right meeting? Are these the right people? Not that they had such flamboyant titles but even a small deviation from the industry norm led to a lot of confusion and I suspect employees also felt it limited their career prospects since it wasn't so easy to communicate their experience. If I am a Data Manager then I want to apply for Senior Data Manager positions. If I'm a "Data Custodian" then I have to work much harder with recruiters who have been told to consider "Data Managers" for the role.
That's stunning, if (honest if, I really don't know the answer) they consume 4K memory each, that would be 50M * 4K = 200G.
The same here, the inflection point was about six months ago to me.
And it is not that ddg results got that much better, but google worsening is going faster.
True, no bank customers lost deposits to my knowledge either. And yes, a major cause of the 2008 crisis was collateralized debt obligations (CDOs) built on residentially backed mortgage securities. Often CDOs would be built on other CDOs in a way which masked the risks involved and made investments of junk look great. The resultant loss of confidence was, in some ways, a result of investors not "getting" the almost recursive nature of those products.

What I meant by the role of fractional reserve was related to capital ratios. I was incorrect to say full reserve was in effect until the 1980s, but the rate at which banks could create money was lower before then because their capital ratios were different. The rate of creation of money (usually for mortgage lending) increased from the lower capital requirements. This in turn increased the size of the market for mortgage backed securities (created to shift mortgages off the books of banks and to let them lend more) and led to 2008.

It is a sufficiently epic size of subject to not really play nicely with brief explanation, so I aimed to make a tactical simplification. Fair enough for pointing that out!
Why would capital controls ever be legitimate?
And here's a link to the app:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ashwhale.s...
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I doubt there are many professors of mathematics who have read the original Gauss! Certainly in my field of mathematics, nobody ever talked about reading older work in its original. It feels like something only of interest for historians. Mathematical notation has improved immensely and the important ideas have been clarified and refined.
these kind of government overreach is one of the reasons why capital(regardless of its size) has an insensitive to leave those countries, it's just that expenses to leave are more or less fixed, so its easier for rich people to afford it
Neoliberalism ruibed nuclear power.

Nuclear was affordable and effective when countries were building out national programs for nuclear. France was building them at crazy speed, every reactor was identical, safety information and skills were shared.

Then came the age of neoliberalism where public infrastructure for some reason needs to be build with private money for profit. We could have lent government money to the project at 0.1% interest, but instead in UK we built it with private money of 5% interest + profit. On a 50 year project that quadruples your cost. Now ever reactor is a different design with different issues, built by a firm that overpromises and under delivers, mired in contract disputes
I saw what engineers were hired by people who didn't have the slightest idea about tech.

They got fooled quite often. Not on purpose, the engs they hired didn't know any better.

This was also true for technical people who would hire outside their domain. Hardware people hiring web devs were also fooled often.
My guess: when it was about banning right-wing focused apps like Gab.
>You think that 7-11 selling eggplant parm or a specialty food shop deciding to sell some other specialty food are extremes?

No, I've been talking about slavery part.

>And is totally legal in those countries which clearly have different ideas about what is ok than you do and therefore may legitimately expect Amazon to operate with their ideals just like you expect Amazon to operate with yours.

Fortunely we have ethics, morality, international laws, human rights and many more and we're actually able to draw conclusions that slavery is bad.

>Everyone who studies media, culture, psychology, and the relationship between trauma and lifelong suffering disagrees with your framing of this, so you're probably missing something.

No doubt that I'm missing something.

>They aren't. They're deciding what they sell.

Limiting access can be form of it.

Google removing something from its search is really being close to some kind of censorship.

Google pushing one narration over other in its search index is very significant way of creating the "truth".

Some people says that a lie repeated thousand times becomes a truth and I definitely believe that it's true to significant extent.

>Sidebar curiosity: Do you know what "trigger" actually means, and does your minimization of it mean that you don't believe that PTSD is real or serious?

I do believe that PTSD is real, but I'm not talking about trigger as of flashbacks.
Nobody knows what anything is going to do for sure, but that doesn't mean we know nothing. Things that go way way up quickly tend not to be stable. Shit can change, but the probability of gold massively changing in value is much less than bitcoin taking a massive swing.
If they didn't specially target only illegal actives as their customer base then you might as well indict every gun maker and whatsapp, apple, google etc.
Pretty sure that with the funding available for this sort of projects this is already very much happening.

Check out this genius who's building this sort of stuff on his own: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zetRlliUO4