skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Chiming in at the end here. Assault Rifle IS a thing, being "Select Fire" weapons typically at or above a certain minimum.

The ISSUE in this microcosm of the discussion is the CONFLATION of the terms Assault Rifle" with "Assault Weapon", which a a made up term by people trying to vilify firearms, especially scary black ones.
She set out to save her daughter from fentanyl – San Francisco
Circling the rotten corpse that is a bloated tech city ruined by hypocritical liberal politics.
Hyperbitcoinization: The Path to Total World Demonetization
Satellites will be the first casualties in any major conflict. That's why the US military has placed a renewed emphasis on celestial navigation.

https://www.npr.org/2016/02/22/467210492/u-s-navy-brings-bac...
I got an under desk treadmill. It's flat -- doesn't have the bar that standard treadmills have. It only goes up to 6km/h; but I typically run it around 2km/h anyway. At this speed I can do most things - email, coding, etc. I do have to stop it during meetings where I'd love to run it the most since walking helps me concentrate. I do stop when I really have to concentrate.

I've been averaging about 8km/day on work days and apart from associated weight loss I noticed that my back doesn't hurt anymore, I can engage my core better and I don't fatigue as much. Sitting for prolonged periods (ie driving) is now acutely uncomfortable.
Great thanks, it even supports iOS. Will try it!

https://github.com/iorate/uBlacklist
Exactly. I watched read about 2009 watched the Big Short and watched all these USELESS tech companies thrive on empty promises and venture caps where rich people are basically playing the lottery.

The financial system captured our society a while ago.
This seems to be a new trend - even IBM doesn't allow you to create accounts with non-American / non-BigTech email IDs (for their free cloud offering). Makes you wonder what is going on behind the scenes.
GoatGuns makes miniature gun models that are not weapons
Goat Guns (short for Greatest Of All Time Guns) is offering collectors a brand-new kind of item to covet: miniature die cast gun models.

Affectionately dubbed “the Manly toy,” GoatGuns aren’t preassembled—they’re packaged as build-it-yourself kits with accessories and parts that the buyer constructs themselves. The 1:3 scale models are die-cast and painted to match their life-sized versions, with attachments that are often indistinguishable from the real thing.
But it can be just as fast as C. The C program that's so much faster here isn't "really" a C program it's just a fancy way to shovel machine code, which you could of course also do (unsafely) in Rust if you chose to do so but why?

However what you were asked about is claims it's faster and there micro-benchmarks like this are not revealing. At scale you're obliged to limit yourself to what you can write that works and in Rust the safety lets you reach higher - which is how it achieves better performance. In fact that's what Mozilla used Rust for. They'd failed more than once to ship a concurrent CSS speed-up, finding it too hard to successfully get the bugs out and so returning to a single threaded CSS implementation - but the attempt in Rust (Quantum) worked just fine.

This is the same reason C++ is faster, a C++ iterator isn't faster than the naive C for loop, in fact they emit identical code, but the iterator is easier to think about, which means you can confidently write more complicated software using this abstraction. Rust just provides the safety to go higher still.
> If you steal my gold or other metal store of value, I can pursue you in court and recover my loss

Stolen property is stolen property. Not all stolen property is recoverable. Even stolen property with a paper trail may not be recoverable (ask Bernie Madoff fraud victims who have expensive lawyers) or may not be compensate-able. Cars, bikes, phones, etc. get stolen every day. If I meet someone to buy something for $1000 cash and they just run off with it, I've little recourse.

I'm a crypto proponent, and I'm pretty pro regulation.

The reason is because integrating current legal systems with crypto actually makes it more powerful and valuable. Existing legal frameworks can be used to link a purely digital world to the physical world; ex. for us to reliably trade tokens in physical assets (house, painting), we need courts and systems we can leverage for confidence and rule of law.

Therein lies a tradeoff and irony, by mixing such systems. You might say "just build it on a centralized system", and in an ideal world that would be great. The problem is that bureaucracy and politicization of systems make it impossible for innovation to occur: simply look at the friction facing car sharing (Uber), online betting/gambling, housing sharing (Airbnb), etc. Those things can't be the wild west, but society is clearly better off and wants those services.

I suspect some jurisdictions will be friendlier to crypto and more willing to explore those spaces. Innovation will flock there, and eventually everyone else will just follow.
I once worked with an "interesting" guy who had a tshirt that read "If you can't duck it, fuck it" over an image of a roll of duct tape.
> The difference is that the Christians, whatever their faults, understand that good and evil is a question of something inside every person. Socialists, on the other hand, tend to have this legalistic idea that we can regulate away sin.

I can only guess that your experiences with both Christianity and socialism are starkly different than what I have experienced.
They also won't take hey.com
In Poland it's a hard rule, if you have a toilet for customers, and when you serve food or beverage you must have one, you also need to allow public access to it for non-customers. I think the only exception are food trucks.
I don’t think it’s anything against competition, just that they don’t have vivaldi.net on their public email allowlist. They want enterprise customers to pay for enterprise Microsoft services.
Crypto's price has been driven by the increase in crypto allocation in the total world investment portfolio. Right now crypto is at 2.6T, gold 11T, stocks are 122T.

The percentage of crypto in the world portfolio can't grow forever though. Once it reaches its limit, the harsh reality will very slowly start to settle in. Crypto doesn't generate any value (unlike stocks, bonds, real estate) and doesn't have any intrinsic value (unlike gold). Its value is entirely based on faith.

The best case scenario would be growth proportional to total wealth growth. But why hold something more risky and with lower returns compared to stocks?
The markov chain can also power a chat bot.
I've seen YouTube videos where the creator put the entire script in the video description so I can just pause the video and read the article. More people should do this.
Oh snap, I misread the original comment and went off on the wrong rant, they didn't even mention phones :/

I use FF on Android too. Android is better than others. I have Chrome disabled on my phone and there are some things that just won't open without it. It won't let me shut off the "Play Protect" nag every single time I install or update something from F-Droid. I've accidentally turned it on countless times. But it is the least worst of the mainstream mobile OSes.
> iOS Safari's level as the only browser people should use.

FWIW, iOS doesn't chide you when you download Chrome or Firefox. Of course Apple requires them to use the iOS rendering engine - but that's perhaps a slightly different point.
There are all kinds of scaruthings going on between the US and Russia right now.

https://uncensorednews.us/russia
and
https://uncensorednews.us/ukraine
I agree. Cloud being a commodity is already prevalent. CSPs are cut throat beyond that, and bleeding into the integration space more than ever before. Data/ML is a key entry point today.
You do realize that Brian Krebs source was Nick Sharp? At least according to the affidavit. And that he did this _after_ being investigated by the FBI?

Krebs got played here.
> Cloud vendors might be pretty happy making money just in the lowest layer. Margins aren't so bad and vendor lock-in is still pretty high.

But will vendor lock-in will be significantly lowered if the scenario predicted comes to pass?
Supply chain issues may be the bigger issue now.
My body my choice is about to be ruled illegal by the conservative court.
I tried that but it’s a little too much head yaw for me. I landed with 2 monitors: 1 portrait to the left and one landscape to the right. This way I can comfortably see everything without turning my head. I keep vs code full screen on the portrait monitor and any terminals running on the landscape one.
The bitcoin brainworms do bad things to people.

I suggest you update your patter some, though. A good coin scam needs to sound a lot less dated.
All useful markets are regulated.
Or use subtle force, like it is done today in capitalism. You just need to leave people with no choices.

Pay the rent, or you and your family end up on the streets. Pay your insurance, or you will be left to bleed out and die. You have no other choice but to take any job, no matter how bad it may be.

Then foster a culture that gives everyone the hope that they also have a chance to get a good life, but only on the condition that they must only think for themselves and compete with the other poor to ascend the social pyramid. That's meritocracy.

This is how the rich (the capitalist ruling class) gets everyone else to do what they want, which is to trickle up enormous amounts of value from everyone to a handful of people.

Then if we want to talk about lethal force, capitalists used overwhelming amounts of it troughout recent history, in order to preserve the status quo that advantages them. It's not a secret and it just takes some honest study to know it.
> Now they are throwing away their good will with smarmy tactics --why? for some short term gains?

I mean... if you're paid to increase the usage of X, do you really care about long-term reputation, if you'll be five companies away by then?
Well no, it’s you and me and the whole google search quality evaluation team and everyone who works on google search and like 99% of the general public as well. The meme of falling search quality infects only HN. Mostly what people are complaining about is that the quality of the web itself is in free-fall.
Brian Kreb's role in this is, at best, unwitting accomplice. Not victim.
Yea I find it hard to believe there has ever been a better time to be alive than now. Obviously we've got a long way to go, but things have been continuously getting better overall, not worse.
What is the pattern in common among all industries politics governments and culture? The article proposes these things are all interrelated but doesn't make the connections among them.

Also for going to identify the pattern we need to have a common frame of reference. The facts have to be indisputable.

>Everyone seems to increasingly be in it for themselves

Everyone? This sort of hyperbole makes it difficult to identify patterns. We have more examples today of public benefit corporations than 10 50 or 100 years ago.

Maybe it's subjective or arbitrary, but let's say at 1 billion dollar valuation a corporation must by law become a public benefit corporation. Do we always need to have regulatory regimes compel corporations to comply with civil or social good? We know about regulatory capture. So we know a regulatory regime doesn't always work. Sure, it works better than outright feudalism.

Is there such a thing as the proper range for wealth inequality? I don't know that we even know the answer to that question of let alone what that range would be or how to maintain that range in a civil way.

The innovation of the United States of America at its founding, was its distribution of power. Forming a polyarchy instead of a monarchy. Of course, it's a biased distribution. Not everyone gets power. But the idea is that centralized power leads to corruption. And creating a competitive environment for ambition, reduces the chances not for corruption, but totalitarianism.

But I wonder if democracies have optimized as far as they can.
> The major rework we need isn't some math theory, some kind of Paxos for Capitalism, or Paxos for Government

the part time parliament https://lamport.azurewebsites.net/pubs/lamport-paxos.pdf (lamport 98)
Imagine if all that processing power was used for Folding@Home.

The problem is that cryptocurrencies do not inherently need tons of processing power to operate. You could theoretically run the entire Bitcoin network on a Raspberry Pi. But the PoW algorithm was designed to always produce a block every 10 minutes, no matter how much hashing power was dedicated to the network. Everyone wanted a piece of the block reward pie, so the arms race was created.

Proof-of-stake algorithms would eliminate this problem entirely, but PoS is a shitty "rich get richer" method. Granted, with how expensive mining power is, even PoW results in the rich getting richer, but at least it doesn't result in the wasting of gigawatts of electricity.
Good list:

https://www.gwern.net/Improvements

I feel food is immeasurably better than in the 1990's when I grew up. I'd partially attribute that to faster and better communication -- i.e. if you take the Internet away from a chef or farmer, I think their universe of ideas and ingredients would be dramatically smaller.

Speakers you can get for just $500 have made a big jump since even 2015 (though this is a tiny niche; in general audio quality is worse than in the 1970's.)

Combat sports are also having a renaissance and many people attribute that to YouTube!

That said, I totally agree with this article, and with the premise. There is rising economic inequality, and regulation has a place in imposing values on the market. Markets where nobody trusts each other aren't efficient or useful.

I think the area where that really hits home and is made tangible is architecture. If you just let the market run wild with architecture, you're going to get really ugly boxy buildings that make everyone miserable. We live in a shared space, so you need cooperation to make good architecture. Unfortunately it does seem like that's been on the decline. Architecture is worse than it was in the past.

Related: https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2021/10/wh...

I'd also agree that computing is worse than it was 20 years ago in many important ways. I wouldn't say it's worse overall, e.g. being able to handle video is a big improvement. Wireless is pretty good although there are many flaky incarnations of it. But I'd say both user interfaces and latency are worse, products are more user hostile, and the web is filled with ads and low quality information. Hardware is now proprietary software, so a Linux system is less open than it used to be.
"Facebook did the right thing" is the most un-HN thing I have read on HN in years. So while I may not agree or disagree with things you said. It is always good to have some balance on HN.
No it actually does not really stop spread to any significant degree (which is evident just by looking around what's going on everywhere). It just makes the symptoms milder.

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3...

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanepe/article/PIIS2666-7...
It might not be deep and profoundly insightful, but if it sets things up in such a way that it can credibly utter the phrase "properly designed regulation" then it's moving in the right direction.

In other words, properly designed regulation might not be a deep and profoundly insightful solution, but it might seem that way at first glance because our political discourse is so screwed up these days.
I don't understand why 3:2 and 16:10 have taken over the mobile space but if I want one for my desktop my choices are 1920x1200 or a thirty inch, thousand dollar monstrosity with bad response times.
Infrastructure as Code – Why Dev, Ops and Management Should Care
Is the assumption that those in positions of power in various governments are just watching the news, so that's why they chose to take more drastic actions with this one, even though Delta raised similar flags with the media but much less action was taken?
maybe just add small webpages into your index, dont bother yo execute JS and dont download any images.

The content quality will be higher and it's a lot cheaper.
It's not meant to make sense. You are being told that your body is no longer yours. It's owned by the state.
Market failures are too common for unregulated markets to be free.
Falling somewhat into the category of a libertarian, I fundamentally disagree that "all useful discourse terminates forevermore". My issue is with the presupposition that it's OK to force people to cooperate effectively. All of the named problems are there basically because people aren't interested in solving them voluntarily. It absolutely does not follow that therefore it's okay to use force.

The hubris required to decide that you know better than others how they should live their lives, and your ends justify the means, always astounds me. Treating people as components in a system, to be regulated and managed, is in opposition to treating them as beings with agency, entitled to choose how and when to engage with others.
You can't avoid the audit of your project packages (pip-audit)
One of my first exposures to "typo squatting" was when I accidentally typed in "hotbat" in the early 2000's. It led to some generic porn site with a girl in a tight tshirt holding a baseball bat as a splash image. No other real connection to the name as far as I could tell. Just a run of the mill (for the time) paid porn site.
I dunno, sorta seems like trying to solve rentier capitalism from the tech side isn't really going to work.
A future update will block other browsers from opening start menu or widget links.[1]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29251210
Downvote all you want you FUCKING NAZIS!

I hope you all FUCKING DIE!
I switched from firefox to vivaldi about a year ago. So far it's been an improvement, tab stacks especially in my opinion.
Invoke Web Request is another good one, considering iwr is just an alias for the PowerShell cmdlet Invoke-WebRequest.
Exactly, I would do it for just enough to pay rent, food, medical, etc. for my family for at least a few years. I think these days that could be anywhere from 25k to 75k (just a guess) depending on an individual's location.
I think part of the problem is that DAO (decentralized autonomous organization) is simply a poor way to describe what these new orgs are. Yes they're decentralized, but they are not fully autonomous, as they still require people writing code, making proposals, voting, etc. I think a much better term is "decentralized open organization" DOO. This captures better the fact that this revolution is about a new type of human coordination, not automation, even if a lot is automated. I think it helps to frame this as a social revolution to understand the full power of it.

Advances in the ability to coordinate humans often leads to great advances in society and technology. Now where crypto is immensely useful, is that in the past a decentralized group of people would have still had to be tied to a specific nation for banking. Now with crypto, a group of people from all over the world can run a company that's fully internet native that relies on no single nation for it's banking needs. You may not see it, but to me that is a ridiculously powerful concept.
Never heard of Mojeek. I will try it for a month and see how it works. Currently using DDG 99% of the time.
im cracking up that you think a front page HN post is somehow worth anything substantial
> And BTW, the person making that argument before the Supreme Court yesterday was a woman, and one of the justices who is going to vote to eviscerate Roe is a woman, so this is not just the patriarchy at work.

That conclusion doesn't necessarily follow the supporting statements, though I agree with your overall sentiment.
Anyone here on HN know who is doing good work in this area?
This whole essay boils down to "This time, for sure!"
“ The whole liberal framework of how we think about freedom has to be questioned and challenged”

What do you envision as the alternative?
It's a multi part partnership with Gigablast. Gigablast sees the searches, but not who searches. Private.sh sees who searches, but not what they search for.
Really not want that.

There is a petition going on at change.org

Last time I checked it were 7000 signatures. Pewd also made a video about it.

They probably will take note of people crying about it.
That's Common Crawl, they do the spidering of some billions of webpages but that's still a tiny percentage of the web versus Google or Bing.
> Being unvaccinated is a pre-existing condition.

A "pre-existing condition" is not a medical term. It is a term used only in US health insurance. To 95% of the world, it has no meaning.

> It should inform treatment strategies the same way other co-morbidities might.

Because...?

Hospitals in the Netherlands, where I live, have stopped a lot of surgeries to deal with our fifth wave of COVID, almost entirely amongst the deliberately unvaccinated.

Innocent people will die so that guilty people can get the treatment for the disease that they spread through deliberate and wanton negligence.

It's almost 2022. Soon it will be two years of this. If we as a group took vaccination and masking seriously, and if we in the developed world had worked hard on getting the rest of the world vaccinated, COVID would be gone, but it's as here as it ever was.

If you aren't masking and you aren't getting vaccinated and you live in a developed country, then you are doing it deliberately, you are costing everyone else tremendously, and the rest of the world shouldn't be forced to carry the burden for your decision to be antisocial, irrational and to steal from the health of the group at no objective benefit for yourself.
I think it is biased, because generally HN is more rational and level headed than media coverage and popular opinion.

For example, in the US >20% of people are unwilling to take a covid vaccine, citing reasons ranging from fear of unknown side effects, to intentional government orchestrated mass steralization, to nanobots controlling their minds. I doubt more than 5% of the HN crowd is anti-vaccine, and those that are probably stick to the more realistic objections (side effects).

On the other hand, rationality is basically thrown out the window during discussions about FB (and to a lesser extent other big companies). All of a sudden, large conspiracies with thousands of people keeping silent for years are possible, impossibly sophisticated mind control technology exists, pure-evil or amoral actors pull on hidden strings to control society, etc.
I built a similar (albeit less polished) javascript interpreted language as a lockdown project.

https://github.com/raudius/homegrown
Amazon services are individually not that great in many cases. Their strength is the enormous diversity in the aggregate. You might use your own services for data and apps, but if it's all glued together with Lambda you aren't going anywhere.
Global poverty has never been lower, things are not just improving for white collar workers.
One of the first things I do when evaluating something for work is look at the documentation.

If it is video, I move on to the next contender. That's simply a hard no.