skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This comment makes no sense. If my bank closed my account without warning and revoked access to all my funds, it wouldn't matter if they had my mortgage or not: I'm going to make a complaint.

>I do know that every person on that team when I was there did there best to try and resolve the issue

"My colleagues had good intentions back when I worked there" is nothing against the facts. If you had read the article, you'd see that Wells Fargo, the bank that everyone loves to hate--with 6x the customers of Chime!--has only slightly more complaints for "closed account."

It's nice for you, as a former employee, to imagine that people are unfairly complaining more about Chime taking away all their money. But you could just as easily make the reverse argument: Chime users are less wealthy than users of other platforms and are therefore less likely to have the time and wherewithal to complain to the CFPB.

You probably don't like that argument, but you have to admit that I am presenting exactly as much evidence as you are.
Same for me.

Teddit (https://teddit.net/) is a reasonable alternative to old.reddit.com provided you don't care about being logged in. I'm not affiliated with them, but I have used their Reddit front-end quite a bit and like the style.
That's probably because you have it set to show the old interface by default. Go to new.reddit.com and it should work fine.
Well you can do what we did in the UK: the non apathetic portion of propagandised society collectively decided to exit the EU backed by some dubious political and financial motives, immediately followed by slow deregulation and privatisation of everything while embracing corruption and nepotism.

So you can live in a rising socialist surveillance dystopia or robocop style capitalist dystopia. It's political hysteresis and the only thing that reverses it is war.
FYI this is a week old.

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/stolen-picasso-mondria...
It's been annoying seeing these metrics creep into marketing reports and seeing devs wasting hours "fixing" the issues. Page speed is definitely an issue but I rarely see these stories accompanied by actual user speed data from the site. Google Analytics captures this stuff so you can actually compare pages per session, time on page, scroll distance, etc to paint, load, and render times to "quantify" what users are actually seeing when they use your product.
Great idea! Where did you post the ad?
A discussion I've never really seen take place is, "Why does law enforcement have a (prominent) seat at the table for which laws should be passed?"

We in the US continually hear from the FBI and other agencies how they need to abridge rights in order to be more effective. IMO, that really shouldn't be in their wheelhouse. They should be enforcing only laws that exist. Making new laws for their convenience should be none of their business. If they are hamstrung by some pesky civil rights, tough.

I'm sure there may exist counterexamples, but I can't think of where an agency has advocated in favor of more personal protections.
There is a huge difference there though. Teaching people to read actually does make them enormously more educated. On the other hand, putting people through university does not necessarily make people even slightly more educated. Most people I know who are university graduates are not what I would call educated in any real sense and I doubt that they were significantly more educated when they left university than when they entered it.

BTW, I did not downvote you. I do not know who did, but personally I do not downvote.
Unfortunately that's a non-starter for most people who value utility over privacy. Education is key, but there's little interest in that as well.
Telegram supports E2E encrypted secret chats.

https://telegram.org/faq#q-how-are-secret-chats-different
I'm in Austin and I one of the reasons public transportation struggles is that for several months every year, it's too hot to even sit at a bus stop, let alone walk to or from one unless you have a shower available at your destination.
You are right, the Stasi would be so proud of what Europe is about to become.
Binance is resilient towards these kinds of hiccups.

Looking forward to see their solution.
> To me it looks like Andrew Hussie successfully created a moderately successful IP, but never developed the necessary management skills to run a business based on that IP of that scale.

There's a lot to support that idea. The lawsuit threats from What Pumpkin and the subsequent email chain between Hussie and this creator betray a very poor communication style.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsM9bQvpt_c
>In my ideal world this clause would be struck down as illegal

unlikely. A big part of the problem is that the government has deputized financial institutions with enforcing anti-money laundering and anti-terrorist financing laws, and those institution face stiff penalties in the event such transactions slip through.
It is a "think of the children" law, the last time the European Commission pushed a law under that reasoning it turned out they were targeting mainly political activists. Back then the super secret list of child porn sites they cited as impossible to take down through sane means contained two things: child porn sites that were taken down within 24 hours of the list becoming public and the sites of political activists. There is no way in hell any of the politicians that voted yes on this law thought of children when they did, at least not in a socially acceptable way.
Yup, they do. So it's really important to try to bring some transitional policy about just barely can wedged through that will nonetheless have such a effect that the balance electorial power and/or policy positions of the parties will realign. (In the short term, it may be the former, in the long term in better be the latter.)

Tough cookie!

If you can't do that, well, then you better consider secession or something. I don't want to live out my old age in a "New America, Yukon" military junta rump state because some people sit down, blushing, seeing Rubicons on all sides in 2021.

(The sad irony of course being that crossing Rubicons made military Rubicons then, I know. But it was a lack of meaningful other reforms too. So find a Gracchi metaphor instead, I guess.)
But that URL shows the fisher-price level interface.
A long time ago, when the whole reality tv thing was taking off, there were a lot of those rich wife of wherever shows. You want post-scarcity examples, check out them bitches. A coworker back then told me he thinks it has something to do with no real problems, thus they're bored. That boredom from real, actual problems, causes people to be... well, batshit crazy. 10+ years later, I see it repeatedly in real life. If you have no strenuous issues, you turn either crazy or a depressive lump. Humans need difficult goals. Making sure you have good livable conditions is an easy one, but obviously this shouldn't be insanely difficult either. I also believe that's why men at a certain age are perpetually doing home improvements. It fulfills that instinctual need to strive for better living conditions. I think other lofty goals are important too. But this is a massively huge topic beyond HN posts.
There is an interesting book called Lockstep that explores how a civilization might work without light speed. Essentially they have perfected cryogenic sleep and the entire civilization moves in lockstep, sleeping for many years between waking up which allows for ships to move between.

The book itself is only so so but the concept is interesting non the less.
Don't forget product placement and merchandise sales; those can pretty significantly offset the cost of making a movie. Ticket sales are becoming a smaller and smaller piece of the pie over time.
DoD cancels $10B Jedi contract
I’m prepared to go ahead and grant him Universe Brain status. ;)
How is it not a democracy? It is representative, sure, but it is still more democratic than many other nominal democracies which do not even have proportional representation.

Perhaps people just do not consider this an important issue, and do not factor it in to how they choose their representatives very much?

What do you suggest as the alternative? Direct democracy? Anarchy?

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/ziq-do-anarchists-su...
For those wondering, this is highly unlikely to be intentional. The "you broke reddit" only comes up when there is a major software error. It's one step above a python stack trace.

An actual decommissioning would be coupled with a redirect or a note or something.
It seems that the Four Horsemen of the Infocalypse [0] are as obvious as they are effective.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Horsemen_of_the_Infocalyp...
Yes, but the point is it's not all of reddit that is down, just something specific with the old interface.
How much of your salary are you willing to sacrifice in order for police to be able to afford such competent smarts?
As somebody who was somewhat in-favour of Brexit (not popular here, admittedly), my view is that it's easier to fight for privacy against just the UK government, rather than the entire EU bloc. I think if an entity as powerful as the EU puts this into legislation, it's game over.

I have a similar view on federal laws in the United States - they don't tend to repeal federal surveillance laws without violence.
Puts it back in the exact same position too
It's pretty sad how much they are getting attacked (which this is in response to) given that they haven't suddenly done anything to deserve it.

They have ~ the volume of the other 9 from the top 10 exchanges combined so these attacks are really going to hurt if they succeed plus make crypto much worse for trading by removing the cheapest option with biggest volume.

Also as someone that uses Binance exclusively via SEPA this is particularly tiresome to me.
If it didn't kill of all land animals, then it's still hard to imagine humans not surviving somewhere.
One of the more compelling factors I've heard of for the fall of the Roman Empire is their tax system for agricultural land. Essentially it's a per-acre tax regardless of the productivity and ease of access, with the obvious problem of marginal land getting abandoned because the tax wasn't worth paying.

I read that a lot of the invading tribes were treated as liberators from the Romans for that very reason. Malthus was in full force in the era, so you had edge-of-starvation villages next to productive land that could be cultivated but wasn't due to taxes, and the barbarians rolling in meant you could do that now.
Sounds similar to what Saluda medical does.
Thanks, I know, I wish i had at least included the language softening it in the original comment.
That's very strange, I checked with my brother and he's never had that problem either with the official wii adapter.
> now these smart-enough and educated people bitterly hate what they call the "trash" (which I guess are the middle class, "general contractors", etc)

This isn't resonating with me. Generally I see those "baristas with masters degrees" (which I viewed here as an alias for the 60-70% of all degreed people who lean somewhat left) are typically advocating for policies to help the working class. It doesn't seem fueled by hatred for the working class.

Sincerely, a middle-class oilfield worker.
Hah yes. I got used to the CLI/STI pattern around perf-sensitive or concurrent code on <=386 back in the day.

EDIT: though I wonder now if you could use the fact that flags are returned from basic memory ALU operations to implement some basic atomics.
That's absolutely not true, since Google is now signing app distributions and can easily swap them out. Additionally, there's no guarantee that Signal is shipping the same code to the app stores.
I think that the Economist headline misrepresents Turchin's theory. The issue is not that there are too many smart people, it is that there are too many university graduates who feel entitled to a limited set of niches in the upper strata of society. Those are two different things.
> Twitter

Except the most important part of Twitter -- timelines, of course. [1]

> Snapchat

Except the $1 billion contract from AWS, of course. [2]

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2020/12/15/twitter-taps-aws-for-its-l...

[2] https://fortune.com/2017/02/09/snap-inc-signs-big-aws-deal/
If society "need" people to do non-fullfilling work it should compensate them well for it. Amazon need people to do menial work at starvation wages so that Jeff Bezos can grow his fortune, but that is not a societal need.
Native support for this would be good, but I think you can already compile most desktop apps to HTML5/WebGL using WebAssembly.
> [...] as thanks to "Messages in iCloud" (cross-device sync) being on by default [...]

Messages in iCloud is off by default AFAIK.
"All homes will be equipped with fireplaces, wood stoves and chimneys."

In West Texas? Which has no trees? "Sustainable", right.

What this guy is missing is that small towns were originally service centers for surrounding farms. When 60% of the population worked in agriculture, towns were needed as distribution points for goods and services. With under 2% of the US population working in agriculture, that function is gone. Plus, between WalMart and Amazon, distribution no longer requires a town.
GCP runs on Google, Google doesn’t run on GCP.
And Rockefeller, Cargil, Rothschild ...
The virtual dom concept and this blog’s concept has this in common, but this is different because this blog is generalizing it away from the dom. For an example, it applies ideas to graphics (via WebGPU).
And what good does it do me to have three months, six months, or heck 3 years worth of living expenses saved if the financial institution I've saved it with tells me that the account has been closed and the funds have been confiscated?

We make fun of old people who lived through the Great Depression for keeping their money as cash or gold, but if this is the future of finance, well, gold bars under the mattress are looking batter and better with each passing day.
I did find it weird to assert that you can't use wood for construction materials because it wouldn't fit, but then require it for fuel. If you can't find enough wood to build out of, then it seems even harder to find enough to cook & heat with, even in a relatively warm climate like Texas.
I don't think you have an accurate account of American education. Often times there is some level of freedom in high school, but undoubtedly one is forced to take classes from most disciplines. I think what changes is often the advancement one gets to (some might take Calculus, others stop at pre-Calculus or even trigonometry). But I don't think there are many high schools where one stops taking math, science, humanities, etc at all possibly with the exception of the last year. Similarly, most colleges have broad requirements beyond your major. I had to take many classes in humanities, physical, math, sociology, and other areas, for example, even though I was a cognitive science major. My understanding is that this is actually more broad than typical universities in Europe where one only focuses on their area (or certainly at least medical school is that way in many European countries).
https://defipulse.com/

This site shows the top DeFi protocols and their locked value in their smart contracts. It's hardly exhaustive but just visiting and researching the top 10 or 15 will be instructive for you.

Axie Infinity the game has hundreds of thousands of users and growing like crazy. Tens of millions at least own some cryptocurrency. Ethereum has more than 1 million active wallet addresses and it's growing on an exponential curve.

https://www.benzinga.com/markets/cryptocurrency/21/07/218240...

You probably haven't seen it because you are following HN and mainstream news and expect to be informed on it through their filter.

The main success stories I would point out are Uniswap, Sushi, Aave, Compound, Maker, Synthetix, Liquity, OpenSea, Rarible, Sandbox, Decentraland, Aavegotchi, Audius, Matcha, Zapper, and more than I can list to be honest. It's a bit like trying to explain all the interesting use cases of the internet to an early dot com skeptic.
It's true, but the comment does make sense. It happens all the time, some people complain, some don't. Wells Fargo was more than happy to let fraudsters and all sorts of legal impropriety happen under their books. Might be one reason they had less complaints. Chime, doesn't have that benefit of being Wells Fargo's size tbh.
To wipe humans out, you would have to make the entire planet unlivable, which includes high altitudes, polar regions, remote locations, islands, etc. I don't see that happening short of a gray goo scenario.
You mean like this one?

https://www.niaid.nih.gov/diseases-conditions/researching-eb...

Where else would you research ebola?
This reminds me of another, similar blog post:

Let's Build A Traditional City (And Make A Profit) (2013)

https://www.andrewalexanderprice.com/blog20130330.php

...which was also discussed on the HN front page:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8111406

There is also a sequel post:

Let's Build A Village From A Parking Lot (2015)

https://www.andrewalexanderprice.com/blog20151203.php
> That some business guys are amazed by the "lone wolf dev skills" might be explainable, but on HN we should know better. Yes, there are devs that get a ton done irrelevant of framework, but "getting things done" (in terms of business requirements) is only part of the story.

No, you shouldn't be surprised about this, it's natural that smaller dev teams are actually faster. This is Mythical Man-Month.
In recent months they also promised to strengthen law and access to privacy and anonymity, make it a human right. Talk is cheap.
I've just found another source corroborating this: https://www.euractiv.com/section/data-protection/news/new-eu...
Doesn't matter how common it is. There is no practical need for collecting that data and... *puff* the obstacle magically disappears.
I consider that dark humor.
Congratulations !

I use curl at least 10 times a day. I'll consider donating !
99% of people don't care enough to do any of these things.
I'm not even sure if he would argue that this is a bad thing?

I 100% think a society with a stratified lower caste could be more stable than one where everyone has equal resources - but I don't think that makes it better.
> how do we make sure we are not making proportionality errors in either direction?

LOL, yah, I’d hate for the ocean to not have plastic, or CO2 levels to get back down, or to not breathe mercury from the local coal plant, or… gosh, any of those errors in the wrong direction, you know.

Whataboutism and analysis paralysis are not helpful modes of behaviour. Immediate action to begin remedying the obvious problems would be helpful. We can do that on an individual basis, and must also press those with more power to do the same.
Well, so is default Reddit, therefore I think there is little news here.

https://www.reddit.com/

Edit: this is only because I am logged in and have set my Reddit interface to old.reddit.com
I saved my beech tree by wrapping the trunk in burlap starting mid-may, and then burning it/squishing all the (thousands of) caterpillars under it on a weekly basis. It has been traumatizing, but my tree is fine. I also sprayed BTK on my small fruit trees and they have been unaffected. So it can be done... but it is time consuming and disgusting.
this is good for bitcoin

/s
Time to include a hidden 10000x10000 white PNG to all your webpages I guess.
I had a 5mm stone in late 2018. Even if a therapy based on this research had existed at that time, I doubt anyone would have suggested brain surgery when I presented with an acute abdomen at the ER. Granted I did end up having to have surgery for another stone the following year, but that surgery definitely did not have anything to do with my brain beyond anesthesia. That's not really the end of a human in which urologists specialize, you know?

It'd be one thing if I had a pre-existing chronic pain condition for which I'd already had such an implant installed, but even in that case I'd have to have enough access to ongoing care to have someone I could call and say "this hurts in a way that's new." The implant itself would need the same kind of management as does a pacemaker or ICD, I imagine. So it seems not tremendously likely that the scenario you describe would play out in practice.

(In any case, I'm good enough at withstanding pain that I waited two full days before deciding it was time to go to the ER, and even at that raised the mild suspicion of the doctor who attended me on the basis of how I wasn't screaming, vomiting, swearing, or otherwise showing much of anything beyond being pale and dehydrated. If it hadn't been for CT results unquestionably showing the calculus, I might've had some trouble with being misidentified as a drug seeker. So I'm not super sure the implant poses much more of a risk for inadvertent self-harm, you know? If I'd been in a worse way than I was, I could well have lost a kidney entirely through sheer stubbornness, no brain implant required.)
Lina Khan’s Power Grab at the FTC
Then let's stop referencing it as Markdown and let's all use the CommonMark name.
And reading between the lines, the issue is specifically that there are too many university graduates with degrees of "elite" image and prestige but very dubious usefulness otherwise, that essentially set them up to fail in modern society. An attitude of entitlement can be especially unattractive to many employers, and many universities do not exactly try to warn their students that they should avoid this.
Then it sounds like alarms went off over at Bancorp and Chime is doing it's job
If I was someone like Elon or Obama I’d for sure think I’m a PC in a simulation.
> There will be an urge to build each home optimized for air conditioning. Don’t.

In Texas. Everything sounded somewhat reasonable up to this’d topography non withstanding. Why not make sure to build near caves to store ice from the winter.

And then it gets into batkeeping and eating pidgeons. When does a modern sustainable town end and a medieval fantasy begin.
> The "angry populist masses" are the ones without college education!

The “angry populist masses” are (one set of) the people being driven by propaganda, not the people driving it.
In the US, forcibly including certain code in your program would be a 1st amendment violation.
I always enjoy the ones that read something like:

What is a normal weight for a house cat? 150lbs
<expand>
"Is it normal for my house cat to weigh 150lbs?
No, says every vet ever."

I've found that on more than one occasion so I just started ignoring it. I really need to switch the default search engine on the rest of my devices to DDG. Google is not very useful anymore.
And at least the Xbox supports plugging headphones in to the controllers, since the controller refresh in the middle of the Xbox One generation. This doesn't entirely solve the same problem but it gets close.
Mawiają, że diabeł tkwi w szczegółach
Może Ci się wydawać, że wybrałeś idealną zabudowę kuchenną czy salonową sofę z marzeń wraz z najbardziej oryginalnym stolikiem do kawy. Cóż z tego jednak, kiedy po „złożeniu” całości okazuje się, że wnętrzom brakuje tego czegoś, co wzbudza w nas emocje estetyczne, tworzy unikatowy klimat. Owe detale bywają bagatelne, ale w obrazie całości miewają zasadnicze znaczenie!
Google, DuckDuckGo and Bing are all using 1P scripts.
I thought the same in the other post, try this someone suggested: That's probably because you have it set to show the old interface by default. Go to new.reddit.com and it should work fine.
There are some examples here [1]. Dig as I may, I cannot locate the original Google source I read about this ~3y ago.

1. https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/atc12/atc12-f...
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27750770.
https://twitter.com/redditstatus/status/1412522436440952836 Nothing to see here.
Hanlon's razor.