skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ostensibly we can vote to make them behave however we want domestically, as long as our government isn't captured. But even ignoring regulatory capture, multinationals are hard to hold to account by any single government. I've seen people saying that where we went wrong was letting any economic entity get bigger than the [democratic] government regulating it. However, that admission (true or not) doesn't present us with any obvious solution.
I didn't have broadband at home in 1995 though probably had 28k bps or something like that over a phone line--which still charged per minute outside of you immediate set of exchanges. Not sure I had a cell phone. If I did it was for occasional use for specific purposes. And you didn't really have video on demand for another decade, at least. Very little ecommerce.

Certainly 1985 was even more all this; a lot of people didn't even have VCRs for time-shifting at that point or home PCs. Prior to joining a company that had an internal email system in 1986, I didn't even have email except in a very fragmentary way through organizations like CIS.
For me the answer to that question, as with most things in life, is a do a bit of both. Don't just buy the same food from the same place all the time.

Most people choose, conciously or not, to trust in organisations like the FDA to work in their interests, and I don't think that trust is wholly misplaced - sure, guidelines might be stretched sometimes in the interests of getting a pesticide product to market, but it's rare that you hear of someone taking a bite of an apple and dropping dead. The issues that arise from toxicity in food come with small doses of the stuff building up over time. You can aleviate this by varying the source and the type of food you consume. The body is pretty resilient and has mechanisms for dealing with managable levels of toxicity. Potatoes, tomatoes and peppers are all from the nightshade family, one of the nastiest natural poisons, and yet we consume tonnes of these with no ill effect.

Try to buy seasonal produce - organic or not, things grown and sold locally will have way less chemical treatments applied to them.

Take the kids to your local farmers market once a month - talk to the stall holders and learn whats fresh and where it comes from. You get a fun family outing and a bit of variety in your food. A little bit of the good stuff is bound to help your body process the chemicals from the bad stuff you buy the rest of the time. It doesnt have to be all or nothing.
Agreed.

Magic Cap was more like Microsoft Bob than it was like the Newton.
There's much more powerful representation than that. Actually having representation in the decision making process. The most powerful, I'd argue, is being able to make the decisions of the platform.

Leaving seems like almost zero representation to me. Now, it doesn't mean zero freedom, yes, people have freedom to leave. I just don't see that as representation.
Yeah this comment became outdated with the M1.

Nothing from VMs to cross-compiling large toolchains has caused throttling in a fanless laptop. And that's while driving a 6k monitor and charging at full wattage.
Maybe they should go work for the Russian Air Force. Or maybe they already do.
The assertion in the article is that everyone selling software products and services should be qualified and insured.

You seem to be arguing for things much more far-reaching than that, which you’re welcome to do, but I’m here to discuss the contents of the article, thanks.
I think that makes a lot of sense. It's not often that you get to speak about your deepest feelings to someone with no strings or consequences attached. A stranger might judge you but at least you're not going to see them the next day. The same can't be said for acquaintances or friends. It's a shame that talking to strangers on buses and trains isn't more normalized.
The financial industry doesn't need the kind of infrastructure you get from a new kind of decentralized blockchain.
It's offline Reddit lol, you can talk about almost anything knowing that you'll never meet this person again if you don't want to.
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Outlawing insider trading is simply a bad idea, just like prohibition or trying to outlaw abortion.
In my case it only takes one electron app on my Air (with external display). Teams.
No Michael,
First of all you may find my english broken, Because it is not my first language.
Thanks for reading our story

We're not scammers. Whom we're scamming google? Users? How we're scamming?

It's my fault i should have added the background info of ours in the medium post. But i've never written any post of anything so i was inexperienced,

But let me clear something about us,

We're india based gaming company. All our games are just simulations it is not real gambling. If it was real gambling then google wouldn't have allowed us to publish it on play store for 2 years.

now this will arise some more questions in your mind,

>>Why do we mentions address of UK on our tweeter handle?
1. According to google policy we have to provide a physical address if we want to use in-app-purchases. This physical address is visible publicly on our games pages.

Reason providing our uk address is we have a representative living there who can reply to any type of physical communications such as letters on behalf of us. He also can reply to various other stuffs like GDPR and different other policies. For ex. You can send a latter to the given address to get in touch with us!

>> Where can i find your games incase i want to see them?
You can find it on apk pure. let me provide you links
- https://m.apkpure.com/developer/6Ace%20Games
FAANG companies will primarily be differenated based on network or software, rarely commodity hardware. They don't need to go all the way to silicon if they can just tune the designs for their workloads. We're early on in that process, and I think the internt giants will progress up the stack into the metaverse, not down into the physical science of it.

Semiconductors are a capital intensive and brutal business, as evidenced by Intel's recent fall - they basically made one architectural mistake and that slip up cost them the lead on multi-threaded performance for probably 5-8 years, assuming they can get it back.

Separately, Rockefeller's coercion of the railroads was not something he did because he was big, it was something he did to become big. He would strong-arm his way into controlling or coercive positions at railroads, then cut off his competitor's ability to transport their product. When they were struggling, he would buy them up at distressed prices and turn the rails back on.
He makes a lot of proclamations about what would happen, but doesn't really back up his assertions. It's just a jumble of the usual drivel about "big government bad" restated as a priori facts.
No, you're not the customer. You're the product. The customers are ad-buying corporations and data-hungry advocacy organizations.
Simple solution seems to be a forced delay between placing an order and it executing. So if an insider wants to sell, they place a binding order today and then it executes after N days or weeks.
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Yes, I thought your comment was about university regulations. Does Portugal make it illegal to list “software engineer” on your business card? (or does Portugal have a software engineering licensing system?)
Making markets more efficient should not be an end goal for any public policy. However, making markets fair is a non-pathological goal for public policy to work toward.
> well-audited public ledger overseen by democratic institutions

Yes, because democratic institutions have such a great track record of managing things like this
Relevant comic: https://pics.me.me/broken-and-unreadable-william-melancon-15...
People who interact with non-bitcoin crypto tend to be a lot more knowledgable about the tech and its implications than an average person. So I would say the answer is probably yes.
You don't have to use Facebook to interact it with. You probably did a dozen things on the internet today that somehow involved Facebook.
Reliably determine the direction of a $6T/day market, trade in it with no laws on insider trading or public disclosure requirements, and do it all with exemptions on leverage restrictions.
no need to do that. just convert to dai stablecoin and just let it sit for years or split it up among many defi protocols to collect interest. no way to trace it, nor any need to do anything.
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These things are like watching waves at the beach. You take a snapshot and show it to people and few will be able to say whether the wave is coming in or going out. Everyone will have an opinion one way or the other though. Thing to remember is, we are looking at dynamic ever changing system but discuss it in static snapshots. Thats always a source of confusion.

Whats important about any centralization-decdntralization debate is that its a Tradeoff, ALWAYS a tradeoff, between Convenience and Freedom (See Tim Wu's book Master Switch for more). No one side ever wins because both have value in different situations.

Look at covid as an example. Each govt comes out with its own vaccination, quarantine, treatment rules. This makes sense because they each have different capacities and resources. Singapore and Germany can do thing that Vietnam and Kenya cant.

Now if my job involves moving silicon chips and their raw materials through 8 countries every day, all of a sudden my work load has jumped 8x cuz I have to follow 8 different sets of rules. I say screw that shit cuz my salary isnt jumping by 8x. Next thing you know factories are shutting down and people are being let go. If you have built up enough clout over the years, you can pull different govt officials into a room and say lets solve this, and what then emerges is more standardized rules. You could say that has centralized things that were decentralized. But thats not the point cuz tomorrow you know the Germans, who strictly follow the standards, realize they can be improved but why wait around for agreement from everyone, lets add the new ones and you can see how the cycle restarts.

Things are always changing.
Yeah, that's the same as how if I don't like the country I was born in, I can make a raft and take off into the ocean to be a citizen of nothing. It might seem like a hyperbolic analogy, but it's a matter of degrees. Network effects are powerful.
If Facebook were, say, democratically operated, with users voting on feature prioritization and such, how do you think it would look different?
The original headline with the commas is much less exciting.
You're putting a lot of faith in a $20 thing from Amazon, especially for something as crucial as the charger. Which brand have you put your faith in for these adapters?
What service by Facebook is essential? Is posting and commenting on Facebook essential? Because that's what most people complain about when it comes to censorship from Facebook.
I tried to like nix. I spent many hours tweaking my macOS setup but now I’m back to brew. The nix language is just too foreign to my way of thinking. I love the concept behind it but the language is a huge barrier to entry to many people and I believe it will not gain nearly as much traction as it deserves until this is addressed.
> Decentralisation doesn’t seem to compete well with centralised alternatives

Perhaps the problem is making competition the axle around which the world revolves.
Nice to see braindead design from 2008 persisting.

https://www.engadget.com/2008-11-22-macbook-and-macbookpro-s...
For FB, like for other “free” platforms, the end users are not paying customers and are more of a necessary evil. Such a platform only needs to keep the majority of eyeballs by the number.

— It doesn’t really matter if those eyeballs are satisfied or not. There is no transaction taking place.

— Most eyeballs can’t really leave, since service is free and all their friends are here.

— There’s nowhere to leave to anyway, as new companies can’t compete with “free” (unless they are extraordinarily well-funded. As in, by a nation-state).

— If eyeballs complain and make $platform be regulated by the government (forcing some sort of user representation, oversight of habit-forming tech use, etc.), all the better—targeted regulation would lend it the status of a public good, implying approval, solidifying its already almost-monopoly. Meanwhile, business model will find its way as user representatives and lawmakers are lobbied, regulations can’t keep up with the tech, and politics proliferate.

The root problem is that users are tricked into thinking they are customers of a service for which they are not paying. This is at odds with the way the market is supposed to work.

If we take away this trick—the core idea where a platform survives off advertiser money—we might just be able to finally let the market do its job, move towards heterogenous social tech landscape and vote with our wallets rather than being exploited.
See https://nix.dev for the best education resource.

ps. to run nix on gitpod use https://github.com/gitpod-io/template-nix

pps. i'm doing a talk on the 6th on nix. Cya there? https://twitter.com/GeoffreyHuntley/status/14424751054271528...
> In the long run we'll only use FPGAs and soft cores.

People have been saying this for decades and it is no truer today than it was then.

FPGAs and soft cores lose on cost and power--which are both ferociously tracked engineering goals when you have real volumes.

To a first and second order, if all FPGAs suddenly disappeared, nobody would care. Networking and test equipment would get somewhat more expensive and double their lead times. Nobody else would notice.
I don't think complete divestment is really required.

Professionals deal responsibly with conflicts of interest all the time. If you mishandle them, that's somewhere between bad judgement and a punishable offense.
I think your concern is overblown. They're all different brands, bought at different times, with the oldest an "Innergie" brand bought in 2016 and the newest a "Nekteck". Over those years, they've charged 5 different laptops and 4 different phones. No problems with any of the cables or devices.
Is there a reference for this to verify that this isn't just some historical reenactment? I'm trying to be more careful after I was once pranked by a friend who showed me a black and white video, claiming it was real, of people playing ping pong with nunchucks. I believed him at the time, but it was an ad campaign that someone on youtube had reposted to make it seems legit.
Culturally, this isn’t really true. Culturally, we’re moving faster than we’ve ever moved. Trends change faster than ever before. To the point where it’s blurred because things never stick for very long like they did in the past. We move too fast now for anyone to keep up.
Despite the downvotes, I am in generally in support of GP.

If you read hn a lot and built a lot over the past decade it hasn’t been hard to predict better than “a 1000 phds” which companies would win.

NVIDIA, apple, even small plays like twilio. It was obvious these companies had big leads in stuff that made money.

Go back and read the Cloudflare IPO filing thread here. That opened at what, $16?

You read the R2 thread from a few days ago it is again obvious AWS will bleed some of the most influential engineers when this becomes generally available. I don’t have a PhD mind you, but I would presume this will lead to entire companies moving to CF for some primitives, eventually CF pick up entire accounts.

Do PhDs at trading companies get annoyed because some AWS services still will only respond with plain/text in api responses containing json? That they have to write a custom parser as a result?

Or that the UI for AWS SNS in setting up an HTTPS subscriber kinda sucks? Like it was mostly done but worked so people got pulled elsewhere?

Do wall street PhDs realize the bundling of expensive AWS cloud primitives to use other AWS cloud products is anti-customer, and that maybe this is going to translate to devs voting with their feet when CF makes this move?

Heck, even the R2 announcement makes the egress fees issue clear in plain English. There are tons of comments validating that pain. Business people shouldn’t need a lot of convincing.

Do the above observations and experiences working with AWS and reading others experiences add up to more knowledge than 1000 PhDs?

I wouldn’t have thought so, but the value of an academic degree has been on a downward spiral for some time.
No, but that would be because racism or inequality is impossible to see in a positive light unless you actually like it. I still don’t see why seeing racism/i equality as bad is inherently racist in itself.

> more often that not when people say “white tech dude” they mean it in a negative way, implying that all white guys in tech are the same and bad

This is why we’re talking about the specific tweet in the article and not other uses of “white tech bro” that we cannot account for. Context matters. The usage of “white tech bro” here was referring to the archetype of straight white American male in a position of power, which actually comprises majority of people in power in America, which is a long shot from “all white guys in tech are the same and bad”. It’s really just pointing to the privilege and you’re infusing a far-fetched racist connotation to it.
Ask HN: Which major tech company (FAANGM+) is most bureaucratic?
I worked in 3 of them and Google is BY FAR the most bureaucratic (in a bad way) of the bunch.
That should say reorder buffer above.
I was thinking that perhaps carbon in the atmosphere is a form of centralization. An externality of decentralization that causes centralization. And that sequestering carbon would be decentralizing it.
Consider the cottonwood tree. Its seeds drift in the wind (definitely out of the range of the tree's roots/shade), and there's lots of seeds.

And yet the GP's point stands; the vast vast majority of them do not sprout, or, if they do, do not make it to maturity.
Hello there,

First of all sorry for my bad english. It is not my first language so.

It's my bad i should have mentioned more stuff to our medium post so that it won't leave users with any confusions. Please pardon me as this was my first post. I've never had written anything before.

You might got some questions like

Q: Who are we?
A: We are simply a india based gaming startup. We had 8-10 games published on our playstore account.

Q:Why do we mentions address of UK on our tweeter handle?
A:. According to google policy we have to provide a physical address if we want to use in-app-purchases. This physical address is visible publicly on our games pages.

Reason providing our uk address is we have a representative living there who can reply to any type of physical communications such as letters on behalf of us. He also can reply to various other stuffs like GDPR and different other policies. For ex. You can send a latter to the given address to get in touch with us!

Q: Where can i find your games incase i want to see them?
A: You can find it on apk pure. let me provide you links
- https://m.apkpure.com/developer/6Ace%20Games

Q: what about your domain 6acegames.com?
A: Yes, our domain 6acegames.com is new. The reason behind it is very silly you may find it funny but still let me tell you!, at first we have bought domain sixacegames.com(you can check reg. details) thinking it will help in seo and all because we didn't want to include a number "6" in our domain. But later after our games got popular user started searching for 6Acegames that's why we bought this domain as well in may 2021 just to build the presence on google search.

Q: What about social media?
A:we are not very active in social media. As you can see in our tweeter handle we have 0 followers. The reason is simple we never promoted it to our users. Although we have some followers on our Instagram handle, but they follow us because we provide free perks occasionally to our audience.
Well it’s a matter of friction. Clion gives you the same information but for each item in the chain you have to click on it bunches. In Sourcetrail you mouse over the symbol and click once. And it exposes the dependencies graphically so you can see who uses it. I hardly use that function in Clion but I use it all the time in Sourcetrail because the way it’s presented is easier for me to read and understand.
I guess I was not saying we should be equally afraid of corporations getting too centralized as we are of governments, I was just confused that it seemed to conclude with that we should only be afraid of governments getting too large. Large internet corporations can wreak havoc on one's digital life. Is that as bad as getting physically put in a cage or struck by a drone? I'd argue no. Can it still be deeply harmful to individuals? I'd argue yes.

Maybe I misread the ending of the article and that the author meant that we should worry about the centralization of any org, and more so about the centralization of government orgs.
Do you think there was a moment when the utility stopped, or was it a process? I'm only really familiar with the last days of the Australian car industry.
I expected more from the article, it discusses an interesting question, but then it goes in a very light and superficial hypothetical analysis without much substance, too bad.
Looking at the github pages for this

https://hellosystem.github.io/docs/

It looks really nice. Reminds me of MacOS X a bit, but I'm not complaining. I do hope to see a few new DE's hit the scene in the next few years that challenge our existing UX and UIs for Linux and operating systems in general. I feel like early Gnome 3 had some interesting features that I don't know if they're still on there or not. Like there was tight UI / DE integration to chat apps, to where you could talk around all your other active windows and then go back to what you were doing, regardless of Virtual Desktop being used at the moment.
How does a decentralized currency prevent websites doing what this page suggests? Maybe Namecoin or similar, but Bitcoin?
The fanless M1 MBA throttles very easily, but only slightly. The M1 MBP with its fan that barely ever is audible pretty much never throttles.
Do any of them whine when under load?
That's for the instruction selection patterns, no? I couldn't see a pipeline model in there last time I checked.

P.S. GCC descs are a goldmine for old arch's.
Doh! I tried searching internet, but not this page directly.
Just crazy enough to work!
Your privacy belongs to Amazon, period.

I have 3 Echos and 1 Ring etc. They're all collecting dust. I should never have bought them in the first place.

My family member works for Amazon(actually developing Alexa-based products for years), and we don't use Amazon gadgets in our own place.
This is fraud. Crypto doesn’t magically make it not fraud.

Edit: @hprotagonist, you too! Shouldn’t have to go comment by comment pointing out the fraud suggestions.
One way to look at it though is how easily many consumers are migrating to Chromebooks from Windows PCs (Chromebooks sales have increased over 600% during the pandemic). Since so much can be done in a web browser now, the migration isn't too hard for a considerable number of users. I think the strongest point on your list is the security migration. Hardened Linux has become a preferred OS for militaries and intelligence agencies, but there certainly is a great deal of training and certification involved with setting up SELinux, AppArmor, etc.
Ah yes.
All the geniuses that are around the crypto subreddits for example.
Definitely Turing award level.