skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems that the Graham's point (a trap in which the OP's critique falls) is that obscene riches are OK if they are not inherited. Following this logic, Hitler is better than the Queen of England because he earned his power instead of inheriting it!

In fact, the Industrial Revolution that he claims to be the last "time of entrepreneurship" created the the Dickensian's work conditions and such a strong class divide that lead to the worker's revolutions of the 19th and early 20th century, to the corresponding fascist counter-revolutions, and to two world wars. It is precisely in the following "boring time" of Keynesianism and the cold-war that the west and "the second world" experienced the highest sustainable growth period ever and that the masses had access, for the firs time, to minimally decent working conditions to create that thing we call "the middle class".

So in fact, Graham is right in that we see now again, like in the Industrial Revolution, a simultaneity of great technological disruption combined with a hegemonic neo-liberal ideology. This is leading lead a new rise of world-wide hyper-concentrated capital, job instability, more and more limited access to basic goods like housing, climate catastrophe, and a new class of capitalists that believe that they are above any sense of morality.

There is nothing to celebrate here but more of the opposite: good reason to be really scared of the future to come.
Thinking about it, that makes a lot of sense. I listen to some of the folks on YouTube that do covers of songs. A lot of them speed up the song and it sounds better than the original. I wonder what causes that.

Is there any software that would allow the minimal speed-up to make it enjoyable to listen to again? Also, maybe check some of the live versions. I get the feeling those might be a bit faster.
> You mean, except triggering WWII in the West?

I think they meant Poland was promised support in case of an attack and ended up getting screwed over by all their supposed allies, who after the war didn't even have the decency of trying to help them regain their independency.
I think it is supposed to be doing that?
It's more about liability than deterrence.
Siri Shortcuts on Apple Watch
Business usually values speed. If you over engineer or just duck tape everything, so long as you are fast about it, you’ll be on the short list to be a principal.

Wrong values propel them to the top.
That's not surprising, there's some clear anti-trust issues on the mobile app market
I didn't even realize that there was a myth like that.
Ammo?! I hope you understand how ridiculous that comparison sounds to someone outside the US. You may just as well have said "What's next? Banning purchases of nuclear weapons?".
They aren't worse in every respect, they reduce emissions and prevent some types of accidents. Those things are more important to a lot of people than momentary convenience (which is how I've been impacted by newer cans, I'm not trying to say that your experience with them is the same as mine).
Kubernetes/kube-state-metrics goes v2.0
"but this is different..."

How?

As far as I can tell, the so called slippery slope fallacy came and went. We decided in favour of censorship -- but if you can censor one type of content, expect many more to be added to the list.
Yes it lets more people without money buy houses, which I can see why socialists don't like that (same as they didn't like buying your council house - reducing dependency on the state)

The problem with the council house sell off was not replacing them on a 1:1 ratio -- for every house sold, a new one was built.

It also reduces the number of people renting, which lowers rental prices, which is also good.

It may increase the price of new houses for cash buyers. I have little sympathy for people that wealthy.

If you want to get more houses built, institute a land value tax. Taylor Wimpy owns 6,000 heactares of land. With just 25 houses per hectare, that's 150,000 unbuilt houses across the country. Assuming that a land value tax would replace council tax that would be about £1500 a year tax, or £225m a year in tax, maybe that would encourage them to speed up construction rather than building them at a rate that maximises profits.
Cash is legal tender for all debts, public and private. I feel like digital representations of that same money should follow the same rule.
Reddit already censors all nudity related subreddits from r/all. Historically that was only enforced on r/popular.
Scraping.

A friend with some serious restaurant money wanted to get into a restaurant that was sold out after 1 second. Every 3 months nee reservations came up and he clicked as fast as possible.

I got the job done with Selenium. He invited me to come along on the spot.

It was an amazing culinary experience!
My point was not whether vast fortunes per se are good or not, but whether "Silicon Valley money" is a completely different creature from "old money", and, in fact, there is quite a bit of "Silicon Valley money" that is being deployed in fairly conventional "old money" ways.
It was quite entertaining and they were good guys.
The large scale war of today must include the nuclear scenario, and i do believe that rationally, nobody would want that. Unless there's some aspect for which a nation would sacrifice for - like religious zealotry.
You're probably thinking more of the exurbs. Houses with like 1-5 acres of land off of a county highway or something.

No, I'm thinking of North Dakota. We seem to have really good internet in a lot of places. The rural electric cooperatives have made real efforts at laying fiber.
You don't need to go full librem; get a moto g with an official lineage os port, add gapps if needed, add magisk to taste, done.
Grab goes public in the US through SPAC merger deal
Or drive by with an overpowered RF amp and signal generator (sdr). It would brick a percentage of the network equipment and not physically harm anyone. If you knew what equipment they had you could even research which frequencies/harmonics cause the most havoc to their gear.
TLD's have various compliance requirements around abuse, which does include the afore mentioned. There is significant volume related to this compliance as well as ensuring registrars maintain compliance. It's the nature of the existing arrangement so it's not hypothetical.

Of course the individual cost is low for a single item, however, businesses have never operated on that principle. They aggregate the profit and the risk across a pool, no surprise here.
The cost of healthcare is insane in the US. Recently had to put my family on cobra for a few months as I transitioned to a new job. $1500 a month for a family of 4. That is unsustainable.
Punch cards were also easier for bad typists to correct: put another one behind it, copy up to the last good column, resume typing. Teletypes for paper tape were harder for me to use.
Discord really should explain themselves if they are able.

That said, this decision makes no sense unless Discord is being influenced by a third party, and like OP, my first and only suspect is Apple. Yeah it would be inconsistent for Apple, but it's just as inconsistent for Discord and there is at least precedent for this inconsistency on Apple's app store (eg Amazon getting preferential treatment for in-app purchases). There is also precedent for Apple not allowing app developers to explain how app functionality had to be altered to comply with Apple's whims (eg Facebook getting in trouble for publishing information about Apple's 30% cut on in-app purchases).

My best guess is that Apple thinks of Discord as a platform which is more popular with children than Reddit, so they are trying to get ahead of parental complaints by eliminating access to NSFW content via Discord's iOS app altogether. I have no evidence for this, though, so I guess we'll wait and see.
"I do see the need to censor things that manipulate people's perspectives to harm but this is different."

No, it's not different at all. Plenty of people see porn as "manipulating people's persectives to harm"; in fact Apple is doing it almost precisely because that's the mainstream opinion.

I think the dominant problem with the burgeoning pro-censorship crowd here on HN is that they still haven't grappled with the fact that they aren't going to be picking what gets censored. No matter how confidently you look out at the current landscape and think only they will be censored, you're never more than one power shift away from being the censored one, and more of you than you realize are zero power shifts away, as everetm has now just discovered.
The thing is, once you reach that level of wealth you’re surrounded by people that wealthy. There’s always someone richer and the cycle of competition never ends. The way to stop the cycle is WAY before 300 million. Stop it once you have enough to live in a nice house with a nice car and you have enough to live off of it for the rest of your life. You only need like 1-5million to do this depending on your circumstances.
Anyone living in the US after September 11th 2001 can tell you how the jingoist button was switched from off to on in the space of a month.
Didn't realize this was a joke. I was scratching my head, "There are engineering problems that intentionally aim to slow performance? Because if so all they have to do is just hire me..."
yes, but that's exactly why we are stuck and can't evolve.

if we want to get something better than current terminals, a new protocol and client are needed.

take mosh for example. it uses a different protocol than ssh too, which adds some interesting features. and it replaces ssh (except for relying on ssh to make the initial authentication)

there is no reason why another alternative to ssh could not be created. if it's good, it will catch on. just like mosh which is slowly growing, and also like ssh was in the very beginning when it slowly grew to replace telnet.
As a French person who's been lucky enough to visit Mexico and taste amazing tacos there, I just want to apologize to every Mexican for this. "French" "tacos" are closer to the cursed child of a burrito and a kebab than a taco.

It doesn't have much in common with Mexican culture (nor French gastronomy) and is borderline cultural appropriation. If you want a taco-shaped kebab, rather try an Al Pastor.

> Pelonero had never been to Mexico, still hasn’t. “But I’ve watched a lot of series about tacos on Netflix,”

I guess he hasn't watched this one, or he wouldn't dare naming his things "tacos" :

https://www.netflix.com/title/81040704

And the "GigaTacos challenge" is just disgusting.
But think about what you said. Yes the criminal had issue enjoying his money, but it had no real link with the crime committed. You make them sweat more, but ... but what ? There's nothing else to say about it. Who cares how sad or happy they are, it's the impact of their crimes that matter.

I agree maybe if they could use money freely they'd invade the system more, corrupt more people, buy a police station, whatever. But that's not what you said interestingly. The incentive might be lower for others, true, but there are already so many incentive to live an honest life, rationally, that we need to accept crime is more than an incentive tension. It's a bit that, but more, too.

I work on the other side, in a large multinational bank in Hong Kong. KYC and AML, we eat it for breakfast, lunch and dinner. We talk about it, we're trained about it, we fight each other about it, in the damn elevator people strategize about how to report this or that transaction/client/colleague for breach of compliance. It's a HUGE work, we prevent tons of people to partner or work for us, we have entire teams of engineers building systems to monitor trades, we have armies of young people wasting their youth browsing databases trying to find who would be having round-number transactions, things like that. All this, to piss off a drug dealer trying to buy a Ferrari while kids die in the streets under the batons of the Police.

I don't know what to do better, I like order and I will never commit crimes, even if it's against my very immediate interests. But it feels like such a lazy solution to work the banks like that because they're an easy evil to point a finger to, while closing your eyes to the cause of crime. Maybe it's financial incentives, maybe it's more than that.
If I search "friendship" all the article titles have the word friendship in them. In my experience many HN titles don't contain the topic word.
> Chair Powell said in testimony that developing a Fed-backed central bank digital currency, or CBDC, is a “very high priority project. ”But CCP China is likely well ahead of the USA. As the Nikkei reported,

How is anything called '...central bank...' related to Bitcoin?
That was a fantastic read, thanks for the link!
Sounds like it will be punitive. You need to enable content filter (non negotiable) to enable community features. Content filter does not apply to NSFW channels. What will likely happen is that if content filter keeps "detecting" NSFW content in your channels in which it operates (non-NSFW channels) it will eventually tag the whole server as NSFW.
This is quite the skeptical take, but then again, a few startups ago I saw things that definitely suggested you are right. I often find myself wondering how some startups raise so much money. It’s tempting to think that VCs and many co-founders are playing an insider’s game. But even if so, this doesn’t imply malice or malfeasance. It implies what has always been true: tribes take care of their own in contrast to taking care of “the other”.

Of course, any VC, accelerator, or angel investor who desires success is going to work hard to make their investments identity-blind. But you can’t ignore that a startup’s success is affected by the breadth and depth of the cofounder’s network. Given two startups with equal talent, wouldn’t it be wiser to pick the cofounders who are sons and daughters with deep connections to the rich and powerful rather than the sons and daughters with no network? Objectively this is probably a rare edge-case. But startups are notoriously hard to evaluate objectively — it almost seems like a throw of the dice. This dynamic only strengthens the temptation to make judgments based on identity, as it is an easy and accurate judgment to make — are you one of us?

A large part of YC’s success is that they were able to choose winners based on merit rather than identity, because PG and team’s domain knowledge was “what it takes to be a successful startup.”

Is that the case today, when YC highlights their Alum network as a significant benefit to their startups? Presumably, YC has built a network based on merit rather than identity. But is the network itself strong enough to resist the temptation of relying on easy identity-evaluation rather than on hard merit-identification? Concretely — will two YC companies enter into business with one another due to shared identity rather than on measured merit?

There’s something really fascinating and subtle occurring here: the assumed coupling of merit with identity. Just as a good VC will try to avoid the lazy-thinking of identity-bound evaluation, I’m sure the YC alums strive to evaluate one another without reference to their shared heritage. But the temptation for a YC startup to outsource their decision-making to identity is amplified by the cognitive dissonance of trusting in their own YC-identity-as-merit while being skeptical of the other alums.

The aspiration to evaluate merit rather than identity is great, and is part of what makes America feel special to itself. But seems to me to be quite difficult to live up to that aspiration.
Have you actually checked what's available in places like LA for $1m?
Might get you close:

Until you have 1000
Find the package not included that adds the most deps
If it adds less than everything you have
Add it
Else
Kick out anything that adds less than that

And then make that a package and repeat as desired.
Yes, but an entire article can not be "a fact". The parent was referring to the entire article.
And not just for the vaccines, but the choices made in Covid policies and mandates.
It was made part of Russia by the Russian Empire during expansion a couple of centuries ago. It was its own soviet republic prior to WWII and afterwards made part of Ukraine SSR. Now Russia took it back. Majority speak Russian not Ukrainian since most actual native Crimeans were displaced during Soviet era.
I think more states need to push the electric companies into getting into to internet. Rural electric cooperatives seem to love laying fiber.
New York Times tech workers form a union
> Patton was a fan of doing exactly that: he was probably right

Yeah, sure, good luck beating the RKKA in 1945. No A-bombs ready, industry centers are behind the Urals and untouchable by the allied air power; absolutely 0 support from the civilian populations in the West, whereas the Soviet civilian population would be galvanized by the backstabbing; the UK is already at the end of its manpower; the US would be fighting an ocean behind its logistic base; the RKKA is in full swing in Europe and overwhelming the WAllies in the ETO in men and material; best case is the WAllies get thrown to the Atlantic and a white peace is signed, worst case ends in a nuclear apocalypse.

Operation Unthinkable is very fun in wargaming, but it doesn't hold water in practice.

> look at all the suffering that would have been avoided (Holodrome, etc.)

The Holodomor that happened 10 years BEFORE 1945? Do you even have any idea what you're talking about?
Interesting, it doesn't seem to show the dead pages. I have been indexing dead HN pages for several years now, with the idea that eventually I'd run some statistics on it to better understand both the auto-dead filters and the people who are submitting dead content.
From the article:

“I think this is a very low risk issue, even if causally linked
to the vaccine: 6 cases with about 7 million doses (lower than
the risk of clots with oral contraceptives) is not something to
panic about,” Dr. Amesh Adalja, an infectious disease expert
at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security in Baltimore,
said in an email.
Question: What would it look like if the currency used to measure any of these statistics is being debased at an ever increasing rate of speed? Would not that make timing of obtaining one's wealth very, very important?

Second question: What would it look like if the person wondering about this lived in a land that expressed very clearly that there are rules for thee, but not for me? Would not that make many of the assumptions of a solid baseline not solid at all? And make the attempt at living within this structure rather flimsy, at best?

As I attempt to navigate forward, I find that many of the previous base assumptions no longer hold true...
> someone would casually remark that they're just spending time concentrating on keeping fit (aerobic and weight lifting) because "the next war is coming."

I don't understand this mentality. Are those people young enough that they expect to get drafted, or do they think their CrossFit Bod will help them take down a professional soldier armed to the teeth.
Facebook’s Ad System Lets Companies Talk Out of Both Sides of Their Mouths
I'm trying to understand why this isn't ridiculous, and I'm not sure what that reason could be.

The disease left to its own accord has the potential to kill millions (someone please correct me on this). Why would we pause a vaccine because 6 people in 7 million got blood clots? Why would we do that and risk fueling anti-vaccine viewpoints?

I'm baffled, but perhaps I'm a fool.
17+, which is quite ridiculous of course—Safari is pre-installed and allows you to see the same websites as Chrome or Firefox
> If this was true in reality, then why are there so many new wealthy people that didn't come from wealth?

The way I am reading this is you are saying

> It is easier to become wealthy if you're already wealthy or have access to wealth

is disproven by the fact that

> There exist people that became wealthy without already <being wealthy or having access to wealth>

I do not see any other way to take your statement. If you meant it some other way, please explain.

Since the original statement is "it's easier with" not "it's impossible without", it is not disproven by the second item.

As to how I define "access to wealth", I mean you either have wealth yourself or are in a position to get it (borrow it from a bank or family, etc). To take an extreme example, a penniless, homeless person with no friends or family has 0 access to wealth; they do not have their own money available, nor can they borrow from a bank or family. Everything between that and "has 200 million under a mattress" is a matter of scale in between; and the definition of what counts as "wealth" depends on the context.
> Polish allies did nothing until France was invaded

You know what, just draw us a battle plan in which the WAllies beat Germany in 1939, that would revolutionize the academic understanding of early WWII.
i got tired with buying a new plastic gas can every year because of the horrible spouts. HOWEVER there are 2 US based manufacturers who make metal cans with metal spouts that don't fall off. Both are available on Amazon. I bought the Justrite 7250120 AccuFlow 5 Gallon, 11.75" OD x 17.50" H Galvanized Steel Type II Red Safety Can With 5/8" Flexible Spout is what I bought. Very happy with it.
If you've never left the US, I'm afraid you're not qualified to comment on that.
Demonstrably false.

And even if not, so what? Every argument you make is a shifting of a goalpost.
Remember when Tumblr dropped all adult content awhile back? We're going to find out how enmeshed our favorite sites are with sex trafficking. Child sex trafficking.

There will be an upcoming pendulum shift towards puritanism of the likes our culture has never seen. HN'ers will start going to church, of all things.
I can't believe the Gates sycophants who will defend him no matter what.
The man is richer than he's ever been and people think he's some sort of hero.

The billionaires have cucked so many people.
>Those of us living in the United States and subjected to the inconsistently-applied puritanical moral code that permeates throughout it witness and experience said permeation daily.

So it's puritanical code. The same code that believes homosexuality is a sin. And you think the gay CEO of Apple is basing his decisions on that code. But there's no record of him saying or doing so and it logically makes absolutely no sense.

>I think the point of that remark is that Discord does currently allow "servers full of war scenes and car chasing with shootings", and hardly anyone bats an eye at this, yet the moment anyone shows so much as a boob it's suddenly an outrage.

And those servers are 18+... and banned from the iOS platform, and are part of this announcement. So I still am not following the logic.
so, let me get this straight. you have vaccines that use a new tech (mrna) that are awesome and vaccines that use “old tech” and at least 2 of then produce blood clots?

something is weird here. i’m not saying this is due to mass hysteria generated by people that don’t want the vaccine but this does sure look like a case where we don’t understand relative risk.

i may be ignorant and not understand all the factors but I don’t see the data that allows me to understand if suspending this vaccine is a good thing or nkt.
I know we’re in a form of technology people but to put it bluntly — nobody cares. Microsoft is a massive massive successes story for the US in which a US company has a dominant position in the world market for software.

You forget that outside of tech everything that MS did that we rail on about will be remembered as good business. Nobody except people on the inside have these idealistic views about software and freedom and all that.