skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe they do the same that politicians do here... they keep the cops busy grabbing individuals, but they turn a blind eye to the shipments of tons that are sent via airplanes that could be intercepted easily. In the end everyone knows that it is a deal between traffickers and politicians.
> Cartels only exist because of its illegality.

Wait, what? You are saying there are no cartels in enterprises where the underlying good is legal? For example, oil cartels don't exist? The cartel will exist if the existance of the cartel causes it to make more money than would otherwise be the case. You should read about all the knee cappings and dirty dealings standard oil did in the U.S. When the US had mob problems, yes the mob was involved in prostitution and gambling but it was also involved in port unloading, ice delivery, meat packing, unions, and plenty of other legal goods/activities. Many of the organized crime issues the US struggled with were related to fixing elections and paying off city workers, particularly in big east coast cities like NY, Boston, and Chicago, where loyalty to the machine meant city contracts, city jobs, etc. There was fixing of construction contracts, service contracts, garbage delivery, etc. All of these goods/services were legal.

Cartels are just organized crime, and what causes an end to cartels is rule of law. As long as there is no rule of law, it will always be more profitable for someone to break into a store and take something than to obtain it legally, and it will always be more profitable to burn down a rival company's factory than to outsell the factory by lowering your price, and it will always be more profitable to seize market share with a gun than with a better product and to extract payments by offering protection to small businesses who can't rely on the police to protect them because there is no rule of law. The idea that a country without proper rule of law can get rid of organized crime by legalizing everything they do seems pretty far fetched. The Sicilian mafia existed because of a lack of rule of law, not because of drugs. It took up drugs, it took up other activities when the opportunity arose, but it far predated them. Mexico has a rule of law problem and a corruption problem, and really a weak central government problem. Fix that, and cartels can be brought under control.
Of course the standard exclusion will apply if you’re rich and powerful.
Guided missiles have to be told by a human what to strike. The dangerous thing that's happening here is that we trust the AI to kill someone all on its own without the operator having to identify the target.
Part of what's going on in Mexico is that the cartels have spread romanticized images of themselves to the point where many Mexican youngsters actually aspire to cartel life. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcocorrido
I wouldn’t mind being able to immediately send my tax to them for every purchase in exchange for not having to file tax returns since it was all tracked.
In reality, stock investments don't just get wiped out on the whim of the company.
We didn’t become the dominant species on earth by playing nice with others.
Reminds me of the Mad Men scene where the old guy is in a conference with a Japanese firm and freaks out, still mentally fighting the war, while everyone else stares at him like he's crazy
Of course it doesn't, they just transfer to other illegal activities, see: bootlegging by organized crime during prohibition.

The problem the cartels will face is that there is no other business that makes as much money, and it would require a retool of the entire organization (or scale up, at a minimum) to get back to even a fraction of their power.

Cartels are not some unstoppable juggernaut: they run on capital, same as every other business. No money for bribes & no money for foot soldiers == no more cartel at a recognizable scale.
Please correct your self.

Huawei spying is a scam. No evidence whatsoever.

This is reality. Confirmed multiple times and corroborated.

Let's not drag a perfect fine private company to the same level of shadiness of the most corrupted national government.
IIRC, when atomic bombs were first tested, there was some moderately compelling theorizing that they would set the entire planet's atmosphere on fire.

That's a black ball.
The fight for privacy is absolutely worth it. Those people have no idea about what they are getting into, they don't know anything. That is not something to base upon.
I guess it really depends on if you think the idea of decentralized finance is inconsequential. If you're happy with the idea of centralized finance, then I guess most of those things would be inconsequential. The argument for decentralized finance is more philosophical, and perhaps that is where most people are at odds with each other.

Regarding your second point, I understand what you're saying. I guess the benefit of doing that specifically in a blockchain/smart contract system instead if <insert your bespoke system + database of choice here> is you can take contracts that have been verified by others and deploy them on your blockchain and tweak the numbers and be confident on the output. Instead of blockchain, you could use any sort of "industry standard ledger/schema", but no industry standard ledger/schema exists and blockchains do exist.

ImmuDB was posted here the other day, it's pretty young but could be promising for businesses who want the benefits of blockchain without needing to use a blockchain.

https://github.com/codenotary/immudb
What does "Bernie bro" add to this?
Haha, so you think the government which has been robbing us blind at every turn needs to win?

Taxation is robbery, I do not consent to my hard earned money being spent on experimental injections and wars.
I'm fine my photos are managed by Google, so I signed up 100GB plan of Google One. Google Opinion Rewards provides me enough money to fulfill the annual fee.
If someone finds ketamine helpful for depression, I'd just recommend they buy it on the street themselves.

Of course this isn't the best solution (the best solution would be for drugs to be legalized), but if you're strapped for cash and ketamine is having a seriously positive impact on your life, then I think it probably makes sense.
In part, but it still takes a while to play, and the outcome is obvious long before the end, leading to an anti-climatic slog at the end. This happens even if you play by all the rules.

"I got 6 hotels and half your properties are mortgaged. Let's play for another 15 turns until you happen to land on my hotel, then I will win."
Yes, I have it installed locally. Haven't played around with it much though, features like grouping by face were not present the last time I checked. Honestly, Google Photos is just too convenient. Photoprism is a good backup option though.
That could also be a description of its northern neighbor...

Edit: admittedly, a rather loaded statement. There's a lot more complexity involved, but essentially, it's an analogous situation: corporations and cartels are dictating politics. This is corruption! (Perhaps it's too much to call it a "failed democracy", but it's certainly a "subverted democracy".)

In the context of illegal drugs, Mexico would not be in this state without the US; and vice versa. Is it a parasitic or a symbiotic relationship...?
> How poorly you are informed about international politics?

> How naïve you are!

Why the hostility? I've asked a handful of questions in good faith and another commenter politely corrected me on a few issues I was not aware of.

It sounds like you have a better understanding of the issues at hand so I'd invite you to correct me rather than insult me.
True, although an ETF purely in a single crypto seems exactly like what Robin Hood or Coinbase are doing but with extra, presumably non-free, steps.
Nearly all of them? This problem is not caused by some weird, out of line policy of the USA. Basically nowhere wants hard drugs on the streets. And some places that experimented with legalisation rolled it back or changed their approach. Where I live there are still quite a few places with junkie lights, remnants of a hands off approach some decades ago. It led to a central public park becoming completely taken over and turned into a shanty town by addicts. Eventually the approach changed to one of less tolerance, the addicts were moved into rehab or died, and the shanty town was forcibly cleared by police.

I see people on this thread acting as if Mexico's inability to control cartels is a problem exclusively created by America. But those cartels exist elsewhere and America is not the only market for illegal drugs. The issue is wider than that.
Why would anyone hiring anyone anywhere, much less across jurisdictions, not hire counsel? If you don’t you’re almost certainly exposing yourself to more legal risk.

This isn’t about legal costs, it’s about people who are accustomed to exploiting legal benefits in their favor being upset that one avenue is less advantageous for them. They’ll take their low risk stakes to another table and whine about the previous one in hopes the advantage will open back up for them there too.
In Spain (a liter-only country very adept to wine) you can buy wine in two ways:

1. By the bottle. Bottles are usually 750ml, but 700ml and 1000ml are not that rare. In any case, you bought that bottle of that specific wine brand/year. The quantity is whatever the producer decided. The price is per bottle and quantity doesn't factor in.

2. By volume. This is only used when you buy in bulk. You go to a winery where they have huge barrels with a faucet. You can taste the wine and then buy any quantity you want (you can even bring your own container).
This is the sort of BS paranoia-propaganda that is contributing to the propagation of walled gardens and continued mass user oppression and "herding".

List the last known remote exploit that will work for someone behind a NAT, and that doesn't involve visting a malicious site with all the default settings of IE or downloading and running an executable (at which point nothing will save you but the most authoritarian of walled gardens.)

Don't forget, the new stuff is not free of attack surfaces either.
I explained that for years I've been making a living by getting paid in Bitcoin, and that there isn't a better alternative. To argue that Bitcoin's uses are unimportant, you must argue that it is unimportant for me to make a living, much as Roca did with the Native Americans he murdered and enslaved.
Companies (and especially banks) have been running large scale databases for decades. The cost of IT infrastructure is absolutely negligible compared to salaries.

And yes they have been given assurances to entrepreneurs. I have been on this planet for 30+ years and my bank accounts have never gone to 0 because of a “database problem”

I really don’t understand what your point is.
I know. I worked on Presto :)
Those easily repairable laptops are also significantly thicker than my 11" Macbook Air.
Any dating founder with advice to ramp up female users?
Any dating founder with advice to ramp up female users?

my app ratio is 9:1 (male/female) lol

It's pretty easy for me to ramp up male users but female I have not found product market fit. I cannot ask the female users because the whole purpose of the app was to be date secretively.

any suggestions are appreciated. or if you want to join me as growth hack, sales co-founder then let me know

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If someone punches you in the nose, you(or someone you love) might want to punch them in the nose twice. Repeat x 100000000
Maybe try purchasing a gram or two on the street/dark web?

Not ideal, but if it has the potential to change your life for the better, the risk is probably worth it.
That's not something most people associate with cartels in Mexico.
And even if it was legalized so anyone could make drugs in Mexico... the cartels would kill the non-cartel makers of drugs along with fighting with other cartels at the same time.
She called out health care misinfo on TikTok. Then, the trolls found her
So what you're observing is the process in which states originally asserted themselves as sovereign in the first place. Ie with a ton of violence.
Say in ~20 years if those states failed, and Narco states were born out of them, eventually they'll establish a version of governance and im sure sure the cycle would continue.
Not all new cars, but many.
How would you know if you're getting real ketamine?
The US government may be ineffective in a lot of ways, but it's still very effective at maintaining a monopoly on the use of force.
You don't get any reward for landing on "free parking.". Rewards for landing on that spot are a common house rule that makes the game worse; injecting money into the game slows it down greatly.
> Google really started this though.

I guess you must be young enough to not remember when Google didn’t exist. The anti-trust trial against Microsoft being referred to above began several months before Google was founded. The FTC inquiries into whether MS was abusing a monopoly position with IE began before Sergey Brin even started at Stanford.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft_Cor...
I wonder if Osaka showed up and only said "I didn't understand, please repeat the question" until the interview was over if she would end up banned.
Git is called a distributed VCS for a reason. And a blockchain is of course a Merkle tree. This part of the basic ideas behind crypto-coins is useful without doubt. But that's not the point.

The actual interesting and novel thing about crypto-coins was solving the "trust problem" of a distributed ledger. But this solution, to be honest, is quite clumsy: PoW. But nobody ever found a better solution until now. Any other proposal is kind of centralized somewhere.

The question that needs to be asked is now "Do we really want, or even need, a fully decentralized 'value moving system'"?

In a world where you could ultimately trust someone else the answer would be clearly "no".

But when there is on thing to learn about humans than it's "never ever trust someone ultimately as you're going to be scammed by those people eventually". Just look at what government do around the globe…

As long as this fact doesn't change (and it won't change until we create a new species of intelligent beings, better than us) there will be room for something like BitCoin. And as those are distributed systems there even doesn't need to be any agreement on that point.
These turf wars exist because these people have a lot of power from trafficking drugs over a very widespread area. In the moment that every person can have a coca plant in their house, the trafficker loses this power.
Parent mean “[Drug] Cartels” not all cartels
Commercial-grade dishwashers (or at least the ones we foolishly installed at an office I worked at) are also more about sanitizing than removing caked on food or whatever. You can probably get away with putting unrinsed glasses but plates are pretty questionable if they'll get clean.
> For example, oil cartels don't exist?

Oil cartels are a different kind of cartel. They don't go around casually murdering their rivals, let alone innocent people as acceptable collateral damage.
> bunch of shady, undocumented order types that are designed to allow HFT firms to specifically extract winnings from retail investors

Ehn, most of those order types are to try to beat other HFTs. When talking about order types, it's HFT vs HFT.
For something almost as harrowing but much closer to the US, the carjacking attempt in Nuevo Laredo while less viral is for me even more terrifying. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CyBV81kVKVw
> Wow, adding some gender to it is beautiful.

Unexploded ordinances predominantly kill young boys.

Even though it saves lives how we direct education campaigns, Twitter won't allow us to discuss this? What a world we live in, it's honestly falling apart.

"the effects of unexploded ordnance in Afghanistan. In this case, 81% of those injured were civilians, 92% were men and boys, and 46% were younger than 16" - https://reliefweb.int/report/world/differing-effects-explosi...

> child labor is limited.

For labour it's a farming and digging issue for adults but for the children killed it's mostly about play I'm not sure where this is coming from?

As I said given Kargu-2 are going to be on the surface or returned to base they will be quickly cleaned up. Also unless they have gone to suicide mode and missed they should be relatively harmless.

Without added programming they are not like mines.
While I have known a couple of people who've gotten addicted to ketamine to their detriment, the vast majority of users have no such problems.

Like everything else in life, upsides have to be weighed with the downsides. For people who can't afford clinical ketamine treatment and are depressed, I don't see anything wrong with just buying some ketamine on the black market.
Not saying it's "okay," but if you go to Mexico, most urban and vacation areas are still quite functional, although spillover has started a bit.
The video you linked to titles it a cash in transit heist. Was it really cellphones?
Mexican drug cartels have diversified into other industries, such as avocados. They employ the same tactics as they do with drugs in order to monopolize production.

Legalizing drugs would eliminate the risk premium, but both fentanyl and avocados are high-margin products. The problem is at least partially structural and cultural, not merely regulatory.
Services could be sold to existing customer with existing hardware at a moment.
Who is that Neural Network? (2017)
I had a telematics prototype long before cars had screens. I over marketed it and got caught up in the coolness factor of what I was doing (got slashdotted a few times).

I basically gave away everything I was working on and how I was doing it on my website just for clicks and comments.

(This was 2000-2005, dashboard linux/dashpc).
I've never seen a microwave with a temperature anything.
Down in the reddit comments it says it is not self-hosted because of limited "engineering bandwidth".
Check out mindbloom.com. About 150$/treatment, is done virtually (they mail you the medication). Multiple friends have used and have had great results.
Good point, you’re right on that.
More needs to be done to wean them off drugs, rehabilitate them, teach them how to contribute to a healthy, functioning, civil society.
What I'm not satisfied is why Apple won't make their Watch to make battery life longer. It still just enough for a day even though they have most advanced technologies.
> metals and other materials that possess intrinsic value.

What role do you believe intrinsic value plays?

Intrinsic value is useful if you're trying to "peg" a currency to some other measure of wealth. But that only works for relatively small markets.

Currencies are a representation of wealth in a society. The wealth in a society is necessarily greater than that of any single asset. As such, the value of a currency based on an asset must be surplus to any supposed intrinsic value that asset has.

This means intrinsic value serves no direct useful purpose for a currency - at best, it's a secondary consequence of some more important property, such as scarcity.
A carabiner? I can’t imagine trusting my life with something bought through the Amazon marketplace.
I have often had uncertain outcomes at the end. For example, I had orange and red Monopoly with houses; the only other Monopoly with houses was green. Advantage was clearly to me. The third opponent bankrupted on green, I got the real estate tax card, forcing me to sell three houses right before my lone remaining opponent ran my gauntlet, then I hit green, jail, green again.
Is it possible that the reason they’re still doing it is because it works, for better or worse?
In terms of how we fight, I don't think any existing cryptocurrency community is providing any help. IMO, the way to help is to empower our democracy such that it represents the will of the common person. Getting people to vote and reversing decisions like Citizens United feels much more potent than any current or proposed protocol.

A government is simply a corporation with a monopoly on the business of violence. Democracy is unique in that it's a corporation owned by the employees. Let's make it work for us instead of trying to beat or force its hand through tech. That won't work.
Though I understand your point, “Disneyland Iraq” still sounds like an extremely remote possibility.
Because hardware never fails and needs to be replaced…

You do remember the disruption when the earthquake in Japan caused hard drive failures? Can you imagine what would happen if the entire supply chain gets disrupted?
I am not quite sure you understand the definition of failed state. What do you understand the term to mean? Mexico is far far far away from being a failed state.
Your bank isn't doing anything very advanced. It's just keeping the equivalent of an excel spreadsheet in a database with some front end software to manage it. You can't write apps on your banking platform.

> How much are they going to charge? Are they going to let anyone write apps on top of it?

Banks don't currently do this and never will as the overhead is way too much work and far too expensive. The closest example we have is AWS which is extremely complex and can't actually be used for anything dealing with money.

It's easy to naively think about a big organization building a platform like Ethereum but once you start designing it out you realize the problem is far larger than it first appears and it would take years and an army of lawyers to make any headway.
Maybe I'm being a bit cheeky but for me, the stochastic caffeination aspect is part of the fun.
Player two declined to buy any properties.
Scam App on App Store Forced Users to Give 3-Star Rating
There was an old (facetious) John Stewart bit where he said the cheapest way to defeat (iirc ISIS) was to not fight them at all but let them get bogged down in having to actually govern. Obviously ISIS is an extreme example but I do think this method could be applied in a way to cartels. I’m not up to date on the situation but I do know that Columbia officially ended its civil war in 2019 with the FARC becoming a political party.
All of this is quite reasonable.
ketamine has a lot of potential for abuse, especially for those with severe depression. it is why it is only allowed to be administered in a clinical setting.
I hear an electric screwdriver works too. :)

Grinding coffee beans manually helps me get that little bit of arm exercise though.
Danish whistleblower details NSA collaboration, cable and data center spying (2020)
See: https://danluu.com/hn-comments/

>HN comments are terrible. On any topic I’m informed about, the vast majority of comments are pretty clearly wrong. ...

>And yet, I haven’t found a public internet forum with better technical commentary. On topics I'm familiar with, while it's rare that a thread will have even a single comment that's well-informed, when those comments appear, they usually float to the top. On other forums, well-informed comments are either non-existent or get buried by reasonable sounding but totally wrong comments when they appear, and they appear even more rarely than on HN.
Reagent testing [1]. Dance Safe sells a kit that would last a heavy drug user years [2]. It's not fool-proof by any means and it does require some practice when reactions overlap. Ketamine is a relative easy one to test for though, since most of the reagents should not produce a visible reaction.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reagent_testing

[2] https://dancesafe.org/product/complete-set-of-all-8-testing-...
Awesome thanks! I couldn't find it
Not really. There have been anti-ship and anti-armor guided missiles available for years which fly to a designated point and then independently search for a target to attack without a human operator. This is nothing new.
The West should pay reparations to Iraq for both the illegal war and all the war crimes.