skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Inflation and the fact that new cars are super hard to come by. I just bought a new truck, I was able to get the allocation as I have a friend at the dealer. I got the only allocation they were getting this summer, and I’ve been waiting since March.
We're being watched closely by the same people responsible for the behavior talked about in the article. Hacker News is not an oasis of free thought. It can be managed in its own way: unlike Reddit and Twitter and Facebook you can't just directly use raw power to do it, but you can keep a sharp eye on discourse and be vigilant about stamping out discourse that you don't like.

And this is the only way to do it: flag positive interest, and flag anybody saying anything you don't want said. And then accuse them of being a bot army or something. Bot armies don't work on Hacker News, but false flagging does. My assumption is that the threshold for taking action is low enough to be reached by an innocent-looking number of brigaded complaints.

This very article from the BBC and its multiple, stifled attempts to show up at all on Hacker News is evidence of this tactic being employed. The conversation around it's lively enough to demonstrate enough seed interest in article discussion, but just try and engage in such discussion.

Somebody is stifling this topic through attempts to use the rules of Hacker News against it.

Or, 'it's Tuesday'. In other words this is completely normal and to be expected given the conditions the article itself reports on. We're stuck going 'meta' even to talk about the article at all, because the management of such talk is coordinated, effective, and extensive.
I'm sure that John Carmack is crying on top of his money mountain.
Life expectancy in the US just dropped by 1.5 years in 2020, the biggest drop since WWII. [1]

Life expectancy for Black people fell by 2.9 years and life expectancy for Hispanic males dropped 3.7 years to 75.3

[1] https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-07-22/us-life-expectancy-in...
He stated multiple times in the article that he runs OpenBSD, which doesn't fully support the M1.
Previously discussed:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27927867
If women were paid less than men, why aren't there women-only staffed businesses dominating markets due to less cost for production/services?
Why is py-cryptography not comparable?

Had py-cryptography done the same thing (i.e. made the same announcement and promises, and followed through on them), I'd think we could say the exact same thing about py-cryptography as above too.
were there less SQL injection vulnerabilities in the search results back then?
100%. new reddit UI is soooo slow.
> “In essence, these company towns were doing what Google does today, competing for workers with amenities.”

This. These companies bring a greater level of prosperity to the locals as well. In my experience, far more exploitation occurs in cities.
You're contradicting yourself.

> Whereas people in SF who have voting rights DO have power over what politicians do about the local homeless situation.

But they don't. Politics is a winner-take-all system, as you said yourself: "voting out the ruling government might mean voting in someone they disagree with on other issues"

As we know from arrow's theorem, a sufficiently complex schedule of multiple choices (in this case competing policy issues that must be represented by a slate of government officials) can wind up misrepresenting group preferences no matter what the preference selection criteria.

The answer of course could be to fix the homelessness situation outside of the political system, however as the tiny homes for homeless in LA guy found out, often people are powerless to go outside the system, too, they will find themselves shut out for trying to do some good.
Options trading is not new or novel at all. Maybe new to you.
You're right (and it's too late to edit) but I'm just tired of the nonsensical "it just works" claims that keep on being parroted by people.

I researched silent PCs heavily before buying any parts and bought the best I could with that mission in mind only to find out that there's a bunch of gotchas and variations in QA -- even amongst the finest PC components. So I ended up spending even more money on more components and doing a bunch of A/B testing. I got to that silent PC goal, but with a lot of pain.

Another common one I see is "Switch to a Linux desktop. You can play all your favorite games!" The reality there being, yeah sure you can more or less play them as long as its not multi-player.
Yeah, same here, it was pretty impressive. Worth noting too that this is coming directly on the heels of a week+ long heatwave, so unpaved ground is going to be baked hard and won't be soaking up much. (During water shortages TPTB always comment that summer rain doesn't help much, winter rain is the thing.)
My dad is 75 and his health is deteriorating rapidly. He's never exercised in his life, and I've suggested that maybe he should start, but he's not interested. I wish I could inspire him to make this kind of change, because I am getting worried about him.
In school back in the day HR was always the lowest rung on the ladder. The ones that couldn't make it in any other program could in HR.
I still don't really get what the point of DW is. German news for non-german speakers? But they also have German-language content?
Well lets see what did we have in a rack? Router, Switch, Servers... And there you have your VPC.
I agree with you. This is another propaganda piece.
Most issues I hear about are missed calls during phone sleep, due to wake being too slow.

This has been recently improved in most distributions: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mobile-broadband/ModemManager...
My first instinct was also to wince when the Pi Zero came out, since this is a very simple application, perfect for, say, Sparkfun's Arduino Pro Mini.

Which is ten bucks. A Raspi Zero is five bucks. Sure, there's... something elegant about using less computer for more money but... what?

I'm sure someone has a link to an Alibaba ripoff for like fifteen cents (might even be why I'm saying this) but like: five bucks and you already know Linux?

Really, why not?
"Stereotypes"
The idea that a decline in religiousness is what lead to an increase in the valuation of the market is unsupported by any historical sequence I know of. You even have Weber's classic text, The Protestant Ethic and The Spirit of Capitalism, which more or less implied the opposite. Many very religious and very "pro-market" societies exist - the ex-USSR oppositely, was an officially godless, anti-market economy (and you can call that "a religion" but that degrades "religion" to strong belief).

The only way to argue this is a "greed became dominant when man abandoned [our idea of] true worship" approach, which many religious people indeed argue but which is a pretty clear "no true Scotsman" type fallacy when held to the light of day.
Have been self hosting this and using the dsub app for almost a year now. It’s amazing. Does everything I want it, offline caching, auto download starred music etc etc. I do however run Jellyfin along side it for desktop/laptop - it has a much better UI but lacks any sort of caching ability and suffers from cell signal issues when on the road.
Have you had a look at kneesovertoesguy? He's a trainer specialised in knee rehab, specifically helping athletes who've had multiple injuries/surgeries recover strength and range of motiong. I've done his programs for a while and learned lots of new things - big surprise as I had been lifting for 15 years before. For the first time in my life I have an easy ass-to-grass squat and massively reduced my knee pain.
Social credit score too low for rights
One thing he doesn't mention: how to move past this? I wonder if China will be happy when current sanctions are lifted, and even then they will only continue increasing their monopoly, causing an even bigger problem for the future.

Moving production back to the US/EU as he mentioned will cost so much to do in the short term that it's unviable as a solution (though it should be a long term goal)
I mean, PDO wasn't great (in contrast to perl's DBI which was pretty good and offered parameterized queries even if the underlying interface didn't), so it made sense to prefer mysql_query. But mysql_query didn't do parameters, and mysqli did, but only it you ran a new enough version of MySQL.

I wouldn't call it a language failure per se, but a problem with the libraries that shipped with the language. That distinction may not make a difference.

Bad examples that stuck around don't help either, of course.
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Tv violence making us think the world is a much more dangerous place than it really is.
High demand and low supply due to supply chain slowness doesn't immediately translate to price inflation. Prices go up in this scenario but the question is if it's just temporary (meaning supply eventually meets demand or demand goes away over time) or it is in fact permanent inflation.
You might be interested in this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIC-iGDTU40.
I don’t think many people will die (if anyone). The video in the article had a few people who either abandoned their cars or foolishly drove them deeper on flooded roads. The flooded underground stations look scary. I just don’t know how good we are about draining stations/tunnels/preventing flooding there (once upon a time, there were floodgates at the doors to the platform at stations near tunnels under the Thames but I don’t think they are operational at all.)

The flooding is less bad than flooding in Germany (something like 10-00 dead? Many evacuated or disrupted) and much less bad than in zhengzhou (likely over 10k but obviously government trying to cover it up.)
I would recommend to basically read anything by Steinbeck.
The ripple on affect of this is going to break society. You want to fly, drive or be treated with systems, people or processes that weren't hired, designed and built using merit? Of course you don't. Skill matters, who cares about color?
> doing drugs to forget your life has been a mess for a long time is not a lifestyle choice decision.

That's a bold statement. Choice and compulsion occupy the same place in hell.

Youtube is actually a fantastic resource for the average Joe (like me) who wants to hear how it is straight from the source:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6ZFzEW7_Q4
Well, conventional central banking usually has the goals of "prevent another Great Depression" and "keep inflation under control."

In that respect, they've been fairly successful.

The side effects are... less good. But worse than a national depression? Eh.
> Note for the others: Disable uBlock to play in the applet.

Odd, it works for me with uBlock in advanced mode, blocking all third-party content (which is my default) while allowing hwcdn.net. I played the whole game, no problems here.
Are you mixing up free software with freeware and/or shareware?
> Tangential, but I tend to feel this way about a segment of van life philosophy

Ah, I know what you mean. I've thought about this myself. One of those "it wouldn't work if everyone did it" kind of things. You could do van life while working for an oil company, there's people with all kinds of van life jobs, it's a way to cut expenses and have more time outside of work. But things would need to be quite different if everyone did it.

But then again, if everyone wanted to escape the drudgery of conventional society we would end up with different conventions.

I don't think it's any wrong for this guy to do what he does, or van life people. It seems like it would be wrong to expect/force everyone to adhere to our current conventions when they don't want to. At least ideally. And he's no more of a mooch than the rentier rich and corporations who plunder the common good for profit.

I found it interesting how money and productivity are such trigger issues for many people. Perhaps because we all work a lot more than we'd like to, and aren't rich, and resent those who don't buy into the same rules.
I have a couple of friends who were regularly arrested by the police, and kept over the weekend until they would drop charges. Naturally the more it happened the more they would tell the cops how they really feel, continuing the circle of life.
Journalism's Two Americas
Hey, thx for your comment.

I spent years trading options professionally:) Options trading is not a novelty, retail options trading (for the many) still is.

Do you have any numbers regarding retail options trading prior to the arrival of RH?
In towns whose livelihood depends on a feast-or-famine industry like oil, yes. In cities with strong, diversified economies, it's just people spending disposable income on stuff they want.
This was very nice to use once you got used to it. It definitely improved the reachability of the interface and took up less space than the next UI which added a bar to the bottom, but kept the top bar.

It seemed like a very logical design. It’s too bad it would be too disorienting for most users.
Some feedback:

- Zoom already does this. Why would someone use you?

- It seems to be oriented towards teachers, they usually already use classroom software like Google classroom where they share materials, why would they use something separate for recordings.

(Also btw, your copy has errors and your websites broken on mobile).
There is a fundamental question here: what are the limits of journalism?

So you receive classified information and publish it. In the US at least there are is some precedent for journalistic protection here. Think the Pentagon Papers [1].

Let's take it a step further: what if instead of simply receiving classified information you provide material aid to whoever is stealing it? What if you're directing the thief on what to steal? Are you still a journalist?

Let's take it in another direction: how do you choose what to publish? Generally reputable news organizations will redact things that aren't newsworthy or might, say, endanger people in the field (eg by releasing details about an undercover operation).

But what if your decision on what to publish is partisan or otherwise aimed at achieving a particular end, political or otherwise? Are you still a journalist?

Some will argue there are no limits. I don't think that's a reasonable position as it essentially justifies anything as long as you claim to be wearing a journalist's hat.

So here are the problems for Assange:

1. He wasn't "passive' with Bradley/Chelsea Manning and provided material aid;

2. The Wikileaks releases were clearly aimed at hurting Hilary Clinton in 2016 (eg the Podesta emails). We can speculate as to why. Personal politics? Maybe Assange thought he'd fare better in a Trump administration? I don't know.

3. Additionally, he's kind of a creepy guy. This isn't material to an espionage case but in the court of public opinion, reputation matters. I would love to know how the incident rose to the level of rape charges that Swedish prosecutors decided to pursue because on the face of it, it just doesn't make sense. Some will argue it was at the behest of the US but I'm not really sure that adds up. Maybe someday we'll know the inside story. I can but hope.

Now on the US side, how has this desire to prosecute and to punish Assange by proxy (eg containing him in the Ecuadoran embassy was clearly a "punishment") survived a decade? At the Federal level this has gone through 2 administrations, one of each party, 4 AGs and I'm not sure how many US Attorneys.

It's a little strange that the US continues to push this so hard. Is it just about sending a message to any future leakers? For the record, the Obama administration was particularly harsh with leakers so this is possible.

Maybe this has just taken on a life of its own and there is no puppet master at the top. Stranger things have happened.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentagon_Papers
Google Slides has come a long way since it launched. Has much of the feature parity with PowerPoint, better real-time collaboration and is free with a Gmail account.
> immense numbers of bugs and security vulnerabilities directly due to C

If K&R were here they might argue that it's perfectly possible to write a memory-safe C compiler, runtime, or abstract machine, and indeed there are multiple examples of same. Certainly memory-safe compilers and runtimes were (and still are) available for Pascal and Object Pascal/Delphi.

Unfortunately, from the 1970s to the 2000s memory safety (along with software reliability/security) was often considered much less important than speed and efficiency. Along with this, much C code depends on unreliable assumptions.

Of course the speed and efficiency vs. reliability and security trade-off was made in hardware design as well, with predictable results.
>If YouTube acted like Freenom, it would wait until your video got popular, then remove it unless you paid YouTube a bunch of money.

Sort of like offering a free credit to use Google Compute Cloud, using opaque pricing, then once it gets popular, removing it until you pay Google a lot of money.
Why would this be the only instance of this behavior?

I would call it 'over-reach'. Having done this exact exploit on a wide variety of targets fruitfully, in this case they reach too far and try to get a channel that's unlikely to respond positively.

Over-ambition. Or, 'they already got everybody get-able, and had to keep going into more dangerous territory, with entirely predictable results'.
An extremely able HR friend of mine has been following this case and at pretty much every step, the company compounded their errors. In my friend’s opinion this is going to be a very easy case of wrongful dismissal and the firm will probably end up settling out of court for a substantial amount.
I have some experience with Freenom. In fact after seeing a Show HN for Mailoji (single character emoji emails) I found the TLD .gq and registered a number of county flag single emoji domains.

In my experience it is not a total scam at all, rather they offer a freemium business model which is unique in the domain space.

Like many other freemium services the free tier is limited and just a means of getting you to upgrade. For example the free domain registration is limited to a maximum term of 12 months, they do not allow you to transfer ownership of the free domain registrations and they even froze my account after registering maybe a few dozen single character emoji domains in rapid succession.

I was actually so please with registering single character country flag emoji domains I paid the fee to upgrade and unlocked all the features.

I don’t think I can use emojis on the HN comment but for reference I registered (all .gq extensions): Cuba Flag, Israel Flag, Palestinian Flag, Ireland flag, South African Flag, Nigerian Flag and a few other middle eastern county flags.

As a side note the Mailoji service used the official Kazakhstan (.kz) registrar and I was interested and registered two single character country flag emoji domains with them (including Russia Flag) and they took that domain from me and gave it to a Developer in Kazakhstan that is clearly connected with employees that work for the registrar.
New cars aren't nearly as inflated, but the higher starting price of a new car means the absolute change is still more than a use car.
Pavement definitely soaks up less water than a lawn but note that the soil in London is rich in clay so it doesn’t drain quickly. I would expect there are plenty of waterlogged fields at the moment, though runoff from paved land surely doesn’t help.
So are you telling me I can run my signal server and use it to communicate with others on the signal network?
Same situation with my dad, only he has a real aversion to exercise due to childhood trauma. I've found 3 things help get my dad moving more:

-Health scares. A worsening diabetic retinopathy has him afraid of losing his eye and that has helped me push for changes to his lifestyle.

-Social pressure. I make it hard for him not to be around people who move a lot.

-Sneaking it into our buddy time. I'll invite him to a movie (one of his favourite things) and then suggest walking to the theatre. He loves it.

Things I haven't found helpful:

-Sending him inspiring articles
-Shaming him into working out
-Worrying or whining about it to him.
Don't force your dreams like this to be grounded!

There is complexity in this, but remember here you're talking to people who chose to get deep down into the tech in every component out of a desire to learn, do it themselves, and save money!

What I didn't mention was I built and ran that network effectively by myself (modulo mast climbing), with support of a few others who wanted to learn the ropes.

A fibre ISP is absolutely achievable and there's been a few posts about those on HN recently. Depending on how you go about it, it's absolutely feasible to build out your own fibre GPON network. Heck I know people doing this who have absolutely no background in networking, but have learned the practical skills of splicing and hired in the networking knowledge to support them.

A WISP is a bit simpler to get going than a cellular network, but you can also build one using cellular (that costs more). The big issue WISPs encounter is scaling their business and customer base up - it's easy to do lots of little point to point links in "customer obsessed" mode where you set out infrastructure to reach each rural customer. It's far harder to deliver a great service to these customers, especially as you start to distribute service from these points to multiple customers. A lot of WISPs end up with pretty messy flat networks they can't then scale up, and can't easily augment with fixed fibre to give themselves more capacity.

You absolutely can start your own ISP or WISP. I won't go so far as to say you should, because to evaluate "should" you'd need to understand the local offerings and competitors and regulatory landscape, but it's definitely possible. In the UK, I believe from memory that something like 2 in every 3 kilometres of fibre to the premises has been laid by "non traditional" providers or new entrants, independent of the big telcos.

Your own cellular operator is not impossible, but the scale you need to get to before you have a sellable product is the issue. You need to be (or use) a fibre ISP to get backhaul in. You need to understand site leasing and access arrangements. You'll need to be able to do radio planning and get spectrum access. You'll need billing and customer support and fault resolution. Managed services can help, but you'll rapidly see your revenues drain that way.

In the US there are a number of smaller state-level cellular operators, who effectively do all this themselves. I wouldn't recommend trying to run a mini mobile operator as a business just yet until the supporting ecosystems get better able to serve smaller scale customers though - the rise of private networks will change this, but everyone is still thinking of national scale for now.
This is precisely why I voted against abolishing cash bail in California last year. Because they were going to replace it with some "algorithm." I hate cash bail, I think it's garbage, but this black box approach is worse.