skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Life’s a Bitche: French town’s Facebook page shut down over ‘offensive’ name
Automated algorithms censoring the real world, with no effective redress mechanism...

From the linked article:

Valérie Degouy, a spokesperson for Bitche, told local radio: “I appealed on 19 March but [the page] hasn’t reappeared again. I have tried every way to contact Facebook, through the different forms, but there is nothing more to do. I tried to send a private message on the Facebook France page, I left about 10 messages every day. I was finally contacted and told that they were not in charge, that if I appealed, I would have to wait for a response from Facebook.
> The DOJ (and perhaps similarly in GB?) has repeatedly preferred to prosecute white collar crimes seeking fines instead of jail time

The fine just became a cost of doing business for the banks and corps, and a funding the gov budget, truly a vicious cycle.
Could an existing exchange like say ICE or CME jump into the fray to service institutional investors? They already have much of the infrastructure to handle much larger trading flows than Coinbase. Talent/tech required to compete could be aqui-hired
Understanding your household electricity consumption
At least for Germany it appears we produce 89% of the food we consume[1]. Assuming we have enough calorie rich foods in that percentage (e.g. potatoes and wheat are grown locally, rice and corn probably not), we would easily be able to survive or even thrive on 89% of the calories. Looking into the details of [1] we overproduce potatoes, pork, milk and cheese. These are all highly calorie dense, and if we mandated more vegetarianism we could get a lot more calories out of the same arable land.

The question is mostly how hard we'd be hit by the immediate effects that caused the global food shortage.

People might need to adapt to different/fewer vegetables, but the average BMI tells me that we're way over the caloric needs currently.

Germany is also one of the more densely populated countries. [2].

[1] https://de.statista.com/statistik/daten/studie/659012/umfrag...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and_dependen...
> Amazon [...] simply taking all of the customers and wealth away from all of the smaller businesses

Amazon doesn't "simply" take others wealth. It wins by providing a better service
The LSD would have to be handling at least half the instruction stream for this to make a big dent, and it doesn't.

Forget Bitcoin mining... how many tons of CO2 are released annually decoding the X86 instruction set?
> The comment literally suggests

There is the root of your misunderstanding.
tcsh was the default shell in Mac OS X for a while…
We're only talking about money that is being generated by crime. That is the purpose of money laundering. If the produce they were selling was procured legally, they wouldn't need to launder the money.
Spain. There are levels of taxation that provokes the following: your small company (1 to 10 employees) is doing really well so you try to increase the number of employees and business. And what happens is that when passing some threshold you will have to pay the next level of taxes and end up earning less after taxes than when you were smaller. So we have a lot of small companies that cannot or don't want to take that risk.
I believe the #1 reason is just the accumulation of really smart people in a place like silicon valley, at the time of infancy of internet. That makes things click like nothing else.
Quick point,.., as yours is valid... these days $11Bn market cap doe not represent cash in bank for development and R&D. It just reflects what the market think its worth. R&D , of which there has been a lot, and it continues, is hugely expensive.
Little reason to not use at least -std=c11 these days
In the Irish language, dark skinned people are referred to as 'Blue', supposedly as Black Man was already in use referring to Satan.

https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/2qje9o/til_t...
> If a major government wanted to break crypto, it would simply credibly threaten to launch a 51% attack.

Anyone who makes this argument likely stopped staying in touch with blockchain tech after 2016.
Intel is already producing for automotive with the Denverton chip.
I work in a lab where we have plenty D2O, I will give it a try later and report back.

Edit: The taste was definitely different but not enough so that I could say it wasn't placebo
It goes the other way around too
It's not about the commitment, but the installments. Advertising "$52.99/mo" implies your will be paying exactly that amount, each month. But in reality, there is no option to pay $52.99 each month, you only have to option to pay $635.88 in one lump sum, or pay $79.49 each month.

That's scummy, and trying to apologize for such behaviour is scummy too.
This. Having the company (aka shareholders) pay for the crimes of the executives is a hugely skewed incentive.
There are many knobs and levers. The extent to which it harnesses "capitalism and entrepreneurship" for wealth creation is not the only thing defining an economic system, and arguably the poor are not best served by maximising capitalism and entrepreneurship.
> already done 8 hours

I started my first business while working for Boeing 50 hours a week (they had mandatory overtime for years).
As the article mentioned, few other companies were hiring. The mentioned period was 2000-2002, which was during the carnage of the dot com crash. The economy was in a bad state. Maybe pushing hard to make the case for the start-up to exist in that environment was far riskier than any other mistakes they could have made along the way. Maybe you could say the same about start-ups today.

Keep your focus on the first thing which will kill you.
On HN I see the sentiment that you expressed a lot of times.

I live in a country which will be categorized by western countries as a developing country.

There is no social support system in my country, you are pretty much on your own. Nobody is coming to help you.

And I have made serious mistakes when I was in school which resulted in not being able to go to a good college which makes things in my country ten times more harder. Even today if I were to apply to a good company (There are Google, Amazon Dev centers in my country), my resume would not get through the first pass, because I do not have a good college name on my resume.

I make 5 times what my school mates and my college mates make, which makes me a lot more successful, atleast financially.

When I meet anyone from my school or college they tell me the same things that you are writing here. They attribute my success to -

Having no family obligations
- Which is BS, My parents are middle class, I have been taking care of them since I got a job.

Having good parents, support network
- I have zero support from my parents, they were downright abusive. Since, I have been a teenager, there has not been one week where my father has not told me that I will be failure in life. My mother tried to pressure me to commit suicide on numerous occastions.

Getting Lucky
- I had the same education that my peers had, same economic level. Same razor thin opportunites that they had.

The only differentiator is that whatever tiny opportunity I got however small, I fought tooth and nail to capitalize on it. Worked for 15 hours every day, only 5 hour sleep. Ate one meal a day to save money and time.

I hate it when people like you, my school friends, my college friends try to attibute it to some external factor. You will attibute my success to anything in the world, except my relentless hardwork.

I have taken huge risks whose downside was total ruin. There is no social security checks, some benevolent relative waiting for me to fail. If I fail, I die, my family will perish. That's how high the stakes are.

Everything I had, I earned it with blood, sweat and tears. I have spent 12 hours coding in high fever just to make the release.

I will close off this rant with one last statement.

It all comes to down to how much you want and how much are will sacrifice and work hard for it. Rest are just excuses.

This sounds like a motivational cliche but it is true.
> How do you remember not to use "p-4.25" without npm installing tailwind-default-constraints or whatever the fuck

Because "p-4.25" isn't an available class.

The whole point is that you have a fixed list of sensible options. You can extend it and customise it, but out of the box your design system is sensible and predictable. "p-8" is double "p-4"; "p-6" is half way between. It's like an enum case vs just using a raw integer.

Sure you can replicate it by creating some Sass variables and sticking to them but then you're on your way to re-implementing a utility-first framework.
You're being intentionally reductive by pivoting to "popularity" when we're talking about someone who has a history of sexual misconduct, highly inappropriate behavior and outright abuse.

Women don't avoid RMS because they think he's a bit of a prick. Women avoid RMS because he's making them feel unsafe. And this comes on top of him being a massive prick to people in general.

Also not actively alienating people who work for the FSF is literally part of the job description. He's unqualified to lead a development team let alone the entire organization.
Link is dead...
Of course not! You should get the same results as someone who worked their ass off,no matter how many mistakes you make in life!
> So how do you fix this shit

The banks in question are essentially in agreement about prices and work together to keep them inflated. That's essentially cartel formation and needs to be prosecuted.

From a social standpoint, denying folks a roof over their head just because you want some numbers on a paper to look good should already mean that everyone ostracizes you. It's unquestionably evil.
Linux is C99, most microcontrollers use C99 or even C89. It would be nice to get the new features, but it's not always possible.
You should link the actual campaign: https://publicbenefit.uk/#support

You can see Google abstained. GoDaddy and 1&1 support the status quo. Tucows, NameCheap supported the removal of the board.
Cancelled my plan after reading this! No way i will stay locked in like this. I had the subscription as a “thing i use sometimes” with the idea i could cancel any time. It had of course renewed for another 12 months automatically (im not sure this is legal where i am) and they tried to pull the bullshit cancellation fee. Talked to their rep and had to say no to all their “N months free” crap and they let me go without a fee. Nice that they do own up, but automatically renewing for 12 months at a time is just nasty.
I apologise for replying to you without providing enough relevant context. It's true that you weren't the one who initially brought up the issue of "irony", but I didn't want to reply to the [flagged][dead] comment as that would provide even less context to people reading mine.

You say that you're not the person I disagree with, but by saying "it's ironic" you gave the impression that we shouldn't expect leftists to make money from their work on Patreon. The point of the comic I linked was that there is nothing surprising about people earning money in the system they find themselves in while trying to change that system.
A truly perfect democracy doesn't seem possible.

Exactly. This is why it is also possible for USA to bomb or otherwise subvert any country because they don't confirm to some definition of democracy. Because there will never be perfect democracy, the strong bully can plunder any country saying: "You're not perfect democracy, so give up your resources to me!".

This doesn't contradict the fact that democracy is something to strive for. Most people would like to have their voices heard and not be subjugated by authoritarian leaders.

Is there any country in the world where your voice would be heard unless you're a highly ranked bureaucrat or media star? In US, which is considered a "near perfect" democracy you can't say a lot of things because either you'll be blocked by monopolistic Internet media (FB, Twitter, YouTube) or you'll be "canceled" (like RMS and many others) or both.

So what should we strive for?

And why would I care? What do I need to say to the government? There're 140,000,000 of us in Russia and all have different opinions and little understanding outside of our area of expertise. If we'll all say something, the result we'll be chaos and noise.

Besides, contrary to what western media says, there's more freedom of speech in Russia than in the West. E.g. I read critics of Putin every day on all Russian social networks. I have friends that criticize Putin for years openly. They were never even invited to police or their accounts blocked. So what?
My guess is that the main feature which enables this kind of automation is that they can take down any node without consequences. So they can just install an update on all the machines, and then reboot/restart the software on the machines sequentially. If you have implemented redundancy correctly, then software updating becomes simple.
In startups you have to be right only once.
The Linux sound system isn't broken. It is in excellent shape. If you choose your distro wisely [1], you will get amazing sound on Linux. You may even discover that Linux Audio rocks hard, like no other platform. [2]

What is not working, is your distributions' responsibility for setting it all up for you. What's your distro?

[1] - http://ubuntustudio.org/
[2] - http://zynthian.org/
Starting Fast: Investigating Java's Static Compilation Landscape
That's a very common and harmful misconceptions in our society. But, besides the fact that laws can make abusive terms illegal (and do), it is also very bad for the economic system in general because it increases the transaction cost for the consumer (time, hassle or wrong product choice).

The consumer now has to worry not only about choosing a decent product, but also about ways the company could extract value from them without being transparent about that, or by hiding a clause in their TOS.

Could you imagine how much slower and inefficient the economic system would be if we were expected to read every TOS of every software we install and every single service we sign up for?

No, this is not fine. Do not accept bullshit terms meant to extract value from your pocket at no marginal cost for the business or no benefit to you as a consumer.
You'd be surprised how much stuff you can move on a cargo bike[1]. A horse drawn carriage can probably carry more, but it's probably not a huge difference once you account for the number of horses vs the number of cargo bikes.

[1] https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-iooO4auj9uw/TmNXFCxkTUI/AAAAAAAAA...
It isn't a literal argument that tech founders are protestants and I think you know that.
True, but it's not quite the same as what they've done with OpenSearch/Elastic. Also, from what I've read, despite claims, the compatibility isn't complete, esp with stuff like aggregations.

There are a few use-cases where you'd want the ability to have a managed/hosted vanilla Mongo setup vs an emulated experience.
In the small city where I live a 2 BR apartment will run you at least 1200 and they wont rent to you unless you take home about 2.5x that.

After taxes someone or 2 someone's making 26,200 would be taking home 835 every 2 weeks. Realistically speaking even if anyone would rent to you, which they wont, you couldn't afford to pay rent, keep the lights on, and eat.

You are right of course if they could figure out a way to make french fries at McDonalds remotely while living in some poorer part of the world they would totally have substantial buying power.
If you replace blue jeans with opium suddenly everyone understands why it is imperialism. For me, the example you have with jeans is also unquestionably imperialist. For word definitions we have a dictionary and I think in this case that is sufficient.
You need to check out the math, https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/a/12740

This is simply not worth worrying about.
wow - just lost a customer in Novmeber 2021. Its the cancel and you get nothing, cancel and you can use until November would be fair. But they auto-renew you into a new contract without you noticing is a scam.

So i had an account which looks like they renewed my account in November 2021 without asking me.

Logging into my account there is NO refernce to the start and end date of the contract i agreed to, i never agreed to renew. I tried to cancel and says £178 to cancel.

Adobe you are now the worse company for this crap.
I'm loading up my Zynthian boxes with tons of these .. just to have some superlative background piano music to play in between sessions.

PianoTeq (shipped onboard Zynthian out of the box) is rendering some Debussy now, and it is really, really nice!

http://zynthian.org/
> And global poverty has collapsed since 1980.

IIRC it's only extreme poverty (i.e. living off $1.90 a day) that has collapsed; other poverty has seen more modest reductions.
Mate, you can read in official US documents that they spend tens, maybe hundreds of millions of USD on anti-Russian propaganda. It's just the amount that is openly admitted. Every year they open new organizations to "fight Russian propaganda", with huge budgets.

It's not a conspiracy, you can find it in the open US sources.

Even US embassies in Russia published information on how to join protests this winter.
> until we are forced to act

Are you suggesting that the Kremlin wants to escalate into full scale war with the US?
A house in Germany is being sold as an NFT
This looks like a better version of scratch.
> I think it's not scarcity itself, but constantly living under existential fear that causes so many problems.

Correct: it's not money per-se, it's about desperately needing money in a society where money are crucial for survival.

Often economists make the mistake of equating poverty == no money.

Instead, not all economies are money-driven.
> But I believe this is a kind of short-term bet against our future. Because we know the detrimental effects of cryptocurrencies.

I'll list a few:

1. Owning your own money

2. Hedging against hyperinflation and endless money printing

3. Earning more than 0.1% given by your savings account

4. Instant value transfer across borders instead of filling out 5 forms and waiting 3 days for wires

5. Fractionalizing, decentralizing and democratizing ownership of assets

6. Disrupting legacy institutions such as banks

7. Offering citizens of autocratic nations a hedge against censorship and crackdowns

Awful, I know
I was in the thickets of “big bank” AML for a few years. The experience left me pessimistic.

Tragically, the process is treated entirely as a box ticking exercise. Incumbent AML systems are old and ineffective, and scores of investigators submit thousands of SARs (suspicious activity reports) to central policing authorities that 99.9% of the time are ignored until they help an ongoing case.

The process is neglected partly because it doesn’t generate money, it prevents fines, which are tricky to predict and a less obvious priority for upper management.

Launderers of any significant amount of money are savvy to the pitfalls of current systems. Best in class solutions can capture some money laundering schemes via watchlist screening and “suspicious looking”transactional patterns - but the limit is the data the company owns. The main issue is that money is spread across multiple institutions in multiple jurisdictions.

As systems to tackle money laundering become more effective, so too do the launderers.
Russia has a veto voice in the security council. Not really much the UN can do here. The way the UN is set up is entirely broken and there's very little the organization can do against authoritarianism.
Hell if you like to sleep indoors in the urban areas where 80% of the US population lives and most of the jobs are 26k with a family of 4 is pretty close to absolute poverty too.
Polyergus
Is there a link to this discussion somewhere that disproves the notion that the account is a 9-5 editing machine?
I agree with your first bit, without boundaries we will get a runaway system. But what does the reference to Ming China mean?

> Yes there is danger in retreating from the edge of chaos - but then we all live in Ming China. That is a better problem than going too far over the eve of chaos.
I'm sorry to say I genuinely don't understand what you're trying to express here.
They don't debate art, they discuss it.
What's the non-paraphrased version of Feynman's words? I could use that quote.
How Disney’s ‘real’ lightsaber patent works
I'm interested in progress in this area, but I'm disappointed the article seems to ignore the existence of powershell, which does some things different to traditional linux shells -- I would at least like a discussion of how this related to powershell.
Show HN: I made a 5-key keyboard
The features I described are not free
Why do you say "will people keep using crypto when they are forced to use centralized..."?

They are not forced to use centralized services to issue, custody or trade cryptocurrencies. They never have been since the space was born in 2009, and - accordant with the its fundamental structure and purpose - can't be.

That's... kind of the whole point?

Surely, if centralised exchanges were to turn out to be a net-negative place for users to store and exchange crypto, users on those platforms would simply pivot back to join the much larger userbase using decentralised and private alternatives from which they left?

The main reasons they left were because in early development they were difficult to use, easy to make a mistake, and volumes were low. That's certainly not still the case after 11+ years of development.

(And I wouldn't necessarily describe as "small", a market cap roughly matching that of Apple's stock.)
Forget it man. I've tried doing this on every HN thread. This place has lost its hacker spirit. It's happy toeing the status quo now.
Siri Reveals Apple Event
Non-scaremongering articles don't get clicks and shares, so you'll rarely see them unless you follow the newsfeeds directly. If you use an aggregator, like HN, you will very rarely see them.

Other comments here have already detailed how safe it is, both in this post and the previous one.
But how would that work in practice ?

Like letsencrypt ?: what's needed to incite enough people to move on so that it becomes feasible and a reality (while keeping the old system alive for legacy reasons and for the time it takes for thing to settle down) ?
From my perspective it is not Rust that is over hyped, but other languages are, like C++, where the good parts can be found only if you also accept the bad parts. Which are of course the ones one spends most time on, by far (intertwined as they are). Often one doesn't like to call the pile of shit that results by its proper name. Even less so when it pays the bills. If the language inventor wrote all programs (and the culture around the language), the language would have been fine! But shit happens. Rust might just be able to succeed because it clears exactly that (incredible) barrier.
What if I don't trust the government or their appointed "identifiers"?
Singapore-based Grab going public in largest-ever SPAC deal
The lowest CoL areas in the US are low because nobody wants to live their because there is no money to be made their either. 80% of Americans live in urban areas where the jobs are.
> And presumably this must be on primary pricing page, not below the fold

It just has to be before you commit to the contract.

> Yes, they do. [1] clearly says

No, that page shows no prices whatsoever. Your minimum commitments should be shown before you agree to the contract.

People keep making it out like it's some huge imposition on companies to tell customer how much money they'll pay. Here's an example of a more complicated flow from an Australian phone carrier Telstra, purchasing a phone over 24 months: https://imgur.com/a/XycFkyP — it's possible, Adobe are lazy and this is a dark pattern.