skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Drugs are actually very expensive relative to production costs because of the added risks. Marijuana, for example, is a very easy crop to grow. There isn't any reason it should cost more than any given spice per gram. However, since it was illegal, street vendors could charge significant markup because 'shoe-leather' cost is very high. Now that it's becoming legal, the gov is extracting the difference as taxes, keeping prices high for revenue.
Or so logic would suggest, but observation suggest otherwise, at least for ~mainstream/normal people.
Maybe they meant the death sentence for the team of scientists working on coronavirus research at the Wuhan virology lab, that surely must have had to make some kind of statement to the Chinese state if it did exist. I’m sure they have the greatest interest to leave the rest of the country and world in the dark.
If you know what to do you can certainly hijack many TV broadcasts even today, and thanks to destaffing and automation they won’t be noticed or blocked for a long time.
Yeah... because being played by random whales and pump and dumps has totally different outcomes.

If Bitcoin was actually some country's currency, that country would have imploded by now. Hyperdeflation is just as deadly to an economy as hyperinflation

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To the replies about other things affected by those factors: You're kind of making my point. We have countries that built their economies entirely on oil... the ones that diversified seem to be doing just a tad better.

BTC is not saving any economies. It might save some individuals which is not nothing, but please let's not pretend the IMF has some kind of conspiracy against BTC to maintain their control...
It was the NRO in 2012. I don’t know if the CIA operates satellites itself.
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It would be really great if, when announcing the deprecation with a firm date, they would also announce a firm (preferably earlier) date for the replacement iOS Firefox functionality.
AFAIK, unless this changed British scientists can apply to Horizon Europe funding, which includes ERC grants. However, there is some uncertainty as this is related to the trade and cooperation agreement, which looks a bit shaky right now.

One of the problem was that the British government does not keep its word, so people are wary of putting British colleagues only for their funding to get pulled at the last minute because lord Frost wants to annoy the EU.
You don't go psychotic and destroy your brain from neurotoxic doses from chronic caffiene abuse. In the past you could take cocaine like you took coffee, but only stimulants were the ones to be pretty much universally controlled. Many countries do not even allow the entire category of stimulants to be prescribed as a medication for ADHD, such as Japan or Germany.
Earth is going to get very crowded in the next couple of centuries. The economic case for large-scale expansion into space isn't exactly clear at this point, but when things get tight I'd rather have state and corporate actors looking outwards for their next growth fix, and for that to be a possibility we need to be investing in space technology now even if there is no tangible short-term ROI.

Unless we can change our essential nature, I don't see any sustainable path where human civilization stays confined to Earth forever. Those doomsday weapons "keeping us safe" will inevitably be used, especially when it becomes clear that we're utterly trapped.
Hello, just a heads up, your account is shadow banned, and unless someone who sees it 'vouches' for your comments, they wont be seen by normal users.
This just speeds up the rise of Dexes. How do you block an exchange like Bisq in India?
While I don't disagree that IMF recommendations should be taken with a grain of salt, they're hardly the only people speaking out to say this is a bad idea. There has been mass protest against the adoption of Bitcoin across the country citing fears around the stability of the cryptocurrency.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-58579415
> Even in the United States the conditions for a startup ecosystem to thrive are localized mostly to California, both financially and culturally.

I largely agree with this, and I (mostly) love California for many of these traits.

That said, I think startup ecosystem 2.0 will be centered around Austin. It will look very different than the California startup scene, but it will be just as transformative (if not moreso) imho.
Is there a school or a correspondence course where people enroll in order to learn how to make up stuff about the FSF when posting online, instead of just familiarizing oneself with what the FSF actually has to say about a given topic?

> if you ask someone of the FSF group what "open source" means and they'll say the obvious meaning is you can look at the source code

Extremely inaccurate. FSF's definition of open source matches the OSI's. Here are some words that are not the product of my imagination—what FSF actually has to say about the relationship between the two: "Among all programs that are open source, only a minuscule fraction are not free".
This is open source serverless functions that implement Web API functions.

Some distinctions:

1. Cloudflare Workers are Isolates, Blueboat are processes.

2. Cloudflare Workers are globally distributed and working in an anycast network, blueboat doesn't manage the network layer and are not distributed.
Just because a store has 'dollar' in its name doesn't mean it's a dollar store. Dollar General in particular is not the kind of store where all or even most things are a dollar, which was the traditional meaning of 'dollar store'.

At least your own source notes this: "And despite their names, many dollar chains, including Family Dollar and Dollar General, sell items that cost $10 or more. Dollar Tree remains the only major retailer that continues to price its entire inventory for $1."

I shopped at a couple Dollar Generals on a road trip this past summer (it was interesting to see how many towns we passed through had one, as opposed to some other brand) and it seemed to me like a scaled down Fred Meyer, or a super scaled down Walmart. Maybe a scaled up gas station? And that's fine for most people, as evidenced by their market success. They tend to stock the same popular stuff as a bigger grocery store would. But you're not magically going to pay $1 for your full sized frozen pizza just because of the name. Indeed I can see an ad advertising two-for-$8 Tombstone pizzas, which is about the same as routine sales at my local Safeway in the rich Seattle area.

(And an edit for your edit, you're vaguely complaining that something is wrong for the subset of people where such stores are the only option, as if shipping and delivery don't exist, but whatever, you want them to have no options? I know you probably don't but it'd be more constructive to articulate what you actually want.)
There's tons of different companies, VC-funded high-growth startups are just a small subset of all companies. If you want to do programming in your own company you can set up some boutique working on some niche. Absolutely no need to be "a management type person" in my opinion. It certainly is possible to run company where you do up to 80% programming IMO.

But, if you want the big bucks it typicalle makes sense to hire and grow. If you want to stay small and do stuff yourself, it means less money.
Bitcoin is very volatile and offers no consumer protection whatsoever. If a developing nation encourages citizens to buy into Bitcoin for use as legal tender and then Bitcoin crashes (leaving the citizens who bought it with nothing) the result would be an international financial crisis and the IMF would step in to help resolve the matter.
Facebook can pursue malware lawsuit against Israel's NSO Group -US appeals court
don't ask, simply answer the question you have wrong.
Hadn't read this before, thank you. Mind blown. It's the missing articulation of why some of this stuff today is so serious.

The first half reads like it would be an amazing epic series, if it were written from the perspective of the complex anti-hero protagonists. I knew about Tupac's family link, and one of my high school teachers was among the white feminist women who were a part of the black liberation movement and told us stories about it, but to write about it as a history of before hiphop, before gangs, and before blacksploitation, after civil rights, this shit was real.

The second half about the mechanisms of right/left conflict is spot on, and describes undercurrents today very well.
Coke never went away but the quality went down substantially, not aided by the fact that it's all produced in the jungle under some guys plastic boots who just eyeballs the reagents used to make the end product. So you'll never get "pure" stuff like you would meth or mdma.

In his bio Keith Richards says he quit all that stuff when the quality when down. All those 80s bands that were fueled by coke ... you don't get that anymore. Basically because it's not that "nice" of a drug anymore.

In S-America from what I've heard is that all the posh party people take mdma to go out and coke is more for the low to middle class. So it's definitely less classy there, probably not in the least because of all the horrible crime associated with it (something that's out of sight for Westerners).
I keep my files well organized on disk, but I am also particular about how names are both shown and sorted, and rely on careful and comprehensive tagging instead. For example, I will not name folders "National, The" or "Beatles, The", or "Petty, Tom", but when I'm looking at my music I want The National to be filed under N, the Beatles under B, and Tom Petty under P like I would arrange on physical shelves. The compromise is that all the "Thes" land together in the filesystem, but are shown the way I like them when I go to play music.

I also want albums to be sorted by (original) release year but don't want to put the year in the folder or file names. Similarly, I want to be able to search, and with classical music it is nice to be able to show by composer or conductor or soloist, etc. Tagging and a robust music library make these things easy. Using the file system does not.
Yes, most things on Replit are open-source. Just click "show files" on the top-left corner. Also it's powered by Nix, and we wrote a ton about it here: https://blog.replit.com/
Crypto is increasingly looking like a Ponzi scheme to me. I know this is going to be an unpopular opinion on HN but it's no less true.

The fact is that blockchain solves a problem for almost nobody. The primary use seems to be to avoid real or threatened government intervention. These uses are largely illegal, by definition (eg bypassing capital controls in China). Now you can argue the morality of such laws but that's irrelevant.

Cyrptos have wildly failed as a "currency". Even so-called "stablecoins" just peg themselves directly or indirectly to fiat currencies so they're really just adding another point-of-failure. We should be calling them "cryptoassets" not "cryptocurrencies".

As for escaping government seizures and the like, try telling that to Ross Ulbricht [1]. This year, China started to crack down on crypto mining [2].

The "security" of crypto is a myth. They can and have forked and have well-known weaknesses (eg 51% attack). I can't help but think of this [3] wrt security.

Proof-of-work wastes a ton of energy for basically nothing and, just like China, countries will increasingly clamp down on this, especially as voters increasingly face rising energy costs.

Proof-of-stake is basically a fantasy of how we'll solve PoW problems with a lot of hand-waving. It having not happened yet is pretty good evidence of this being a fantasy.

All it really takes is for action by the US and/or EU to say something like "financial institutions who trade in cryptos lose access to the banking system" and the market implodes. Sure the government can't stop you adding more transactions to the blockchain but for what? If no one can take your "currency" what value does it have?

Weirdly, crypto has seen the resurgence of gold bugs who have long held an irrational hatred for fiat currencies, completely with false claims in some cases (eg the US dollar was never 100% backed by gold, ever).

Things like reversible transactions and the ability to print money are actually a feature not a negative as they're often portrayed.

And even if you get past all this, you want users to securely manage a wallet when failure to do so means they could be irreversibly be robbed of their balance?

Governments are slow to react and they tend to only react to things that become viewed as a threat. Crypto is so niche it's not a threat. But that doesn't mean the US government couldn't fatally wound the crypto market tomorrow if it chose to.

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

[2]: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/24/business/china-cryptocurr....

[3]: https://xkcd.com/538/
The goal of course is so that they can arrest or threaten employees of these companies, just as China and other similar countries do.
What's complicated about Lastpass/Bitwarden?
I don't have reliable numbers on this, but rolling resistance appears to be the main factor up to about 60-80km/h, above which drag takes its place.

Looking at the fuel consumption in my hybrid it's around 50-60% higher at an average speed of 100km/h than at 70km/h.

The difference would have been 2x if was just due to drag.
> if it were a bunch of random business transactions in an OLTP scenario

Please provide a real world example of this in a client side/PWA context for the class...
If you’re stuck in France, could you not start a company anyway and only hire remote workers from outside of France?
You are late to the party. There was a thread a while ago debunking some of the misinformation in that case
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22141719
> Java is a language that basically outsourced memory management entirely to its garbage collector. This turned out to be a big mistake.

Given that Java is not far behind C and C++ for many kinds of workload and in quite some scenarios can outperform C code, I'm not sure that I buy this line of reasoning.

> Doing these updates requires freezing all threads.

Eh, what? There are multi-threaded GCs, what is this article even talking about?

> However, this does not put C# and Java on equal footing with languages like Go and C/C++ in terms of memory management flexibility

In which world are Go and C in the same worlds when it comes to memory management flexibility? That's like comparing a language that uses a Garbage Collector to one that requires manual memory management. Because - it is.

> Modern Languages Don’t Need Compacting GCs

> If need be, the Pacer slows down allocation while speeding up marking.

So, you just traded in one drawback for another?

Heck, I get it. The JVM is not a thin graceful fawn. It's a complicated beast that requires years of experience to tame it - and even then it will come back from time to time an bite you. There are many good points to critique the JVM - but I don't get the feeling that the author of this article has spent much time with modern JVMs because he's not pointing out any of them.
Don't use logic and reason in an emotional argument. Bitcoin is clearly only going up in value and will be the global currency.

If you believe this I have tulips to sell you.
This is what a landing page should look like. Your solution seems ambitious, to say at least. If I might ask, how many person-hours would you say are invested up until now?
And the pigs are flying
Urban mining for metals flashes electronic trash into treasure
They haven't been fun for a long time. I realized ages ago performance was mostly ping based. You had to have skill if your ping was OK, but if you didn't have a good ping, no amount of skill would help you.
I dunno, I always though the lab leak theory was less racist than laying blame at the feet of the dietary habits of low-income chinese.
"Right now a chain of exploits is ~$5M on iOS. What if it was $50M? Would that actually stop a nation state?"

Yes, some states yes it would. That could make it unaffordable for many of NSOs clients.

The result would not be perfect, just better.
Six important Warehouse Processes and How to improve them
This is still used today for building Android apps, it's called a nine patch.

https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/graphics/drawable...
Same. I promptly threw it away and bought an actual tire pressure gauge from a car dealer.
Why in the name of the lord would you block my ability to open links in new tabs (on the main site)

Edit: this site navigation experience is one of the worst i've ever encountered. I'm really interested in looking around but it's so painfully slow.

Edit 2: the new tab is blocked on the main site, not on the blog post
For iOS users, while autofill doesn't seem to be added just yet - passwords are available from the hamburger menu in Firefox, as well as adding, viewing, and managing passwords within iOS.

Mozilla has stated that they will add the autofill functionality to Firefox for the system-wide use.
Unpopular? What you've written is a summary of the orthodoxy on HN.
worked for china
Slight correction, In Sweden you can apply for "debt-sanitation" from Kronofogden, it requires you to pay all earned money above an level called "existential minimum" for _5_ years (ie you'll live as a really "poor person").

After that point in time all the old debts are cleared off (although you might still be stuck with bad credit scores).
Isn't that the motor oil that's not rated for cars after the mid-80s or something?
Is mine?
The sad state of GPL, zero respect for software licensing.

What do we expect when GPL gets reduced to a tool to maliciously attack people politically.
Bretton Woods System
The chief features of the Bretton Woods system were an obligation for each country to adopt a monetary policy that maintained its external exchange rates within 1 percent by tying its currency to gold and the ability of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to bridge temporary imbalances of payments.
When mainstream news starts putting 'The Next' without a question mark in headlines it certainly gives conspiracy theories some credibility.
Oh, I see that now. I could have sworn that wasn't there when I read the article initially? In any case, I'm glad iOS users will still have that functionality!
You don't even need to go to this crazy extreme to find relatively modern levels of fuel efficiency. The classic 60s-era Mini could get ~40mpg with a plain old carburetor.

As ICEs became more fuel efficient, the vehicles became both larger and heavier, negating the gains. Modern ICE vehicles have become so overweight they've managed to make EVs look somewhat average in the weight department.
NSO seems to concentrate on making products for iOS
Do not add articles behind pay wall.
> How many are in China?

Virus know nothing about countries. Check all 15 labs.
He was forced out days after his mother died and his father was in the hospital. There are some life events where you just don't have a whole lot of fight left in you to deal with a hostile board of directors.
I dunno, usually it's 2 "upscale chain brand" gas stations with identical high prices and 1 "local brand" gas station nearby with significantly cheaper gas. I don't understand how competition works in the gas station business but $0.01 difference clearly does not matter.
Yeah. There are still plenty of people in modern times that want a singular scapegoat for an accident. And even people who think natural disasters are a result of god punishing us for allowing people to be homosexual
The IMF tends to have influence in a country only after that country has managed to destroy its own stabilities.

(That's not to say that their help doesn't tend to have adverse side effects, just that the IMF isn't generally doing anything to your economy if you have stability around to destroy.)
Another overly aerodynamic car from a few years earlier - Mercedes-Benz W 125, which set a speed record that wasn't outdone for some 80 years. Incidentally, someone tried to outdo them and killed themselves in doing so, which ended car manufacturers going for new records.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercedes-Benz_W125_Rekordwagen
Do not add articles behind paywall.
> Take your entitlement elsewhere.

What are your thoughts regarding ad blocking? Specifically, do you also find people who use adblockers (I assume you don't use one of course) entitled?
That particular IDE works on Windows though… no idea how to use Powershell…
The issue here is China. My evidence for this is that this keeps happening in China (SARS etc).

So if it's lab leak, the problem isn't the US or Russia or Butan doing lab work. It's China doing lab work insecurely.

And if it's a food hygiene thing, it's not a world food hygiene thing, it's a Chinese food hygiene thing.

So the action here is to sanction the fuck out of China. And that is true whether it's lab leaked or zoonotic or any other unimaginable source.
I think you're waxing nostalgically about a time that wasn't nearly as good as you think it was. There's orders of magnitudes of more useful information on the internet today than there was decades ago. Yes, it's more often on platforms and not usually personal websites anymore, but there are still plenty of creators doing it out of passion, even if sometimes - but definitely not always - they also have financial incentive as well.
You're clearly projecting in a massive way. I know plenty of people who do coke, some regularly some rarely, and they are among the nicest people I know, primarily because I don't associate with people who aren't generally nice.

Sounds like you were just associating with pricks and those pricks happened to use a popular drug.
There have not been “mass” protests. They have been quite small. And a large chunk of those protestors are countryside people paid by US funded NGOs. I’ve been to ES multiple times recently. The fact is most people there are ambivalent about Bitcoin and don’t have a strong opinion about it.
Just about every full size luxury car depreciates faster then anything else on the market meaning an older luxury sedan COULD be affordable to the average person. All though I would not consider this a smart idea unless you are mechanically inclined. Chrysler sold more V6 300's than V8's anyway -- Try again.
I mean, it probably was a "luxury" car when it was new. They do not hold their value though.
He was a literal self-absorbed man-child, and worst of all exhibited no apparent growth throughout the entire story. So much so that it was hard to suspend belief in that he was also capable of doing the real thinking required to move the story forward. I know Weir attempted to insert a reason in-story for why such a poor choice would still be sent, but I found it both unconvincing and obvious why the author needed to add it. I think it would have made a more satisfying story to revamp the character so that his position made sense naturally.

In comparison, Rocky was fantastic as a character, the problem faced novel, the solutions enjoyable. That all tips the scales into the 'still well worth the read' territory, but (IMO) it could have been so much more.
I get where you're coming from, and I would also love to have more work put into Firefox, but development speed has precisely nothing to do with why it's lost so much market share. Nobody is choosing a browser because of feature checklists. The average user has Chrome because it's the default on Android and ChromeOS, and on everything else a helpful notification tells you that your browser sucks and you should get Chrome as soon as you google something, or check your email, or watch a video, or open a document. It's the strongest software marketing in history and short of antitrust legislation I don't see any way for Mozilla to compete.
The EU was in to it : Guy Verhofstadt speaking to protesters in Maidan Square, Kiev

https://www.euractiv.com/section/eu-elections-2014/video/guy...

Van Baalen ( NL ) was there too, both were EU parliament members at the time IIRC.