skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I strongly believe that money itself has been corrupted lately, this then causes all number of bad flow on effects to happen. A massive shift happened when central banks started getting involved in direct purchases of various asset types and we started to see a major distortion happen in monetary policy that which has distorted the functioning of money itself. For example who would care if their business is completely unprofitable if it could get access to freshly printed money every quarter to prop it up. What then happens to all the other businesses who don't get access to that freshly created money? When we have situations like the BoJ owning more than 60% of the Nikkei 225 we really ought to be asking some serious questions about if we really have free markets? We also should be asking some questions about the properties we desire in money itself. If a central monetary agency can go about unconventional monetary policy such as purchasing equities we can quickly have a situation whereby an unelected group of bureaucrats can damages the ability of money to be used as a means to convey information. Further there's questions about picking winners and losers that comes up there too. As a whole I think people need to ask what money is again and have some serious conversations about what money and the monetary system should be. It seems that these difficult questions really fell out of favor a while ago and as a result things have been drifting in a direction that many people aren't comfortable with.

If we don't ask these questions then technological approaches to money, like various cryptocurrencies and other financial technologies are unlikely to actually cause long lasting improvements. We have some serious monetary policy problems in the world right now and while some tech could help (in some cases) these aren't primarily technological problems.
I see. That's why my comment was worded so carefully: though I'm sure one _could_ install chocolatey from the Windows CLI, a tiny minority ever would do so.

But that's for introducing me to the iwr command. I don't use Windows often, but it's good to know what tools are available in the rare instances that I need to. Now I need a mnemonic to remember it... "I Want Real (curl)"
I would personally not use any information source which could potentially be under the control of either the Russian or Chinese government. Both governments are tightly controlled by strongmen who spread disinformation and propaganda (information warfare).
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I imagined so, haha, glad to see you on the other side, we both survived!
The middle ground is bringing in a mediator on your behalf that is a neutral party to the issue. I.e., get a lawyer.
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Has Mozilla committed to supporting both versions into the future? Or do they intend to bend over?
A better place for people who have money, perhaps.
There is nothing wrong with wearing a mask however long you want. There is however something very wrong with being forced to wear a mask against your will however long someone else wants.
Only if the benefit of actually knowing outweighed the effort of finding out.

Twitter is a mature business. Revenue is driven by ad rates. Ad rates are driven by big buyers who know how effective their buys are — regardless of bots and whatever stats Twitter gives them or us. Therefore, investors have little reason to care about bots.
> Everyone seems to have an increasingly horrifically misguided idea of how distributed systems work.

> There is of course the most obvious horrifically misguided recently-popular "decentralized" system, whose name shall not be spoken in this essay. Instead let's back up to something older and better understood: markets. The fundamental mechanism of the capitalist model.

This article would benefit from being more specific. Take on that un-named "decentralized" system directly rather than side-swiping it as is done here. It's a cop-out.

It looks like the author is thinking while writing, which is fine. But that alone is not going to change people's minds. I'd look forward to an article where the author, after having gotten thoughts in order, comes back to write an article talking about something specific.
Possibly! This has a huge potential.
It took Google more than a decade of trying and a VM rewrite to get close to the perceived performance of iOS.

And anything performance intensive was done in the NDK anyway.

All of this because of Java.
Maybe there is already a better alternative that is enjoying meteoric success along many dimensions. Maybe that alternative already dominates the supply of physical goods and supply chains. Or maybe not.
The `data-text` attribute is used to set the `content` of the `before` and `after` pseudo-elements[0], effectively creating two "clones" of the original text. These get their own text shadows and clipping animations applied, which creates the effect. You can grab attributes from elements using `attr`[1], which they're using alongside `content`.

[0] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/::after

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/attr()
Ask HN: Why do I have this weird feeling that noone working at FB posts on HN?
I see many Googlers, Applers (?), Amazonians or Netflixers posting and commenting on HN - but almost nobody working at Facebook/Meta. This is weird, because FB employs ~60K people, including lots of engineers (and probably good ones, according to the company's average salary), so there's definitely a lot of FB people reading HN.

I wonder if, because Facebook regularly gets very bad press here (stories about Facebook are overwhelmingly negative, and so are comments), FB people don't feel confident to speak. Do you share that feeling?
I think it’s pretty clear now, google is evil and anyone who uses their services helps to enable their evil deeds
It's not replaced, it's in addition to the text. The HTML gives you one copy in black, then ::before & ::after are used to create copies in red and lime green. Partially showing those copies is what give you the glitch effect.

`::before & ::after` are pseudo-elements and a very common way of creating independently styleable elements when doing CSS effects like this

`content` is a property you can use to add text to those elements (he could have also just written `content: 'Artificial Truth';` if he preferred - having it as a data-attribute puts it right next to the "real" text and makes things easier to maintain)

`attr(data-text)` sets the value of content to the value of an attribute of the HTML. data-* is a common convention for creating value that aren't used for display. It is not possible, to my knowledge, to access the text contained within the `<h1>` with CSS only, hence the above choices.
If I understand your question correctly, you just make sure that the first command is nsenter bash
There is the question of fairness, should we pay more because people who refuse to get vaccinated fill the hospitals?

Fairness doesn't even seem to be in the political lexicon anymore. It has been replaced with equity, which justifies unfairness if it results in preferred political outcomes.
Tried it but it just says: "Something went wrong. Please try again."
The first step in solving a problem is realizing there actually is a problem. If you think about it, humanity really is getting better and better over time. That thought really doesn't help much when you are fighting with a big bank about $261 in random fees, though.
You're right, those are both on me. I put the link in and will fix that and spelling.

(I run Why is this interesting? and edited the piece.)
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I think the article would argue you're making the mistake it criticizes: you're ignoring the role of regulation.

> If a central monetary agency can go about unconventional monetary policy such as purchasing equities...

If that's a problem, prohibit it.
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> Vaccines dramatically reduce the danger of the virus

Obviously, if you take the same COVID-naive person and subject this person to a virus both in vaccinated and unvaccinated state (repeatedly), you can derive a conclusion. This is a simple and easy to understand impossible experiment.

How your conclusion was derived? (I'm not arguing with it, I just don't understand the method.)
They have the schematics [0,1] for these devices and even X-rays [1] for Librem 5. Also, anti-interdiction services for the latter [2].

[0] https://wiki.pine64.org/index.php/PinePhone#PinePhone_board_...

[1] https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/community-wiki/-/wikis/Freque...

[2] https://puri.sm/posts/anti-interdiction-services/
That looks great!

Do you know of any similar efforts for Firefox?
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Natural Language Processing is a pox on modern search engines. I suspect that Google et. al. wanted to transform their product into an answer engine that powers voice assistants like Siri and just assumed everyone would naturally like the new way better. I can't stand how Google is always trying to guess what I want, rather than simply returning non-personalized results solely based on exactly what I typed in the textbox.

While that may be good for most people, there is still a lot of power and utility in simple keyword-driven searches. Sadly, it seems like every major search engine has to follow Google's lead.
They rule based on analogy though, which is how I tried to structure my comment.
If I understand the article correctly, these are one-time charges for lifetime access to the videos she produces.

I'm obviously not the target market, but I really appreciate people that don't gate repeated access to content with monthly subscriptions.
Honestly, we need to rework what we consider to be an aggregator and what we consider to be a publisher.

I'd argue that Google these days fall in line more of a publisher than a search engine.
More often than not I'm feeling that the search engine is trying to sell me something rather than do the work requested and I don't mean ads (which I think are good monetization balance).

Same goes for algorithm social networks.
Because we're not having a 2005-Web anymore. More to the point, SEO & Google have evolved together. To have barely relevant results today you need to be good. That takes stellar talent which costs huge amounts of money.

Thus, the Google of today, which is optimized to extract that money from us.
I feel like it’s such an oddball name that it sticks in my head.
Unless you happen to know of jurisdictions where there's a "no questions asked buy government bonds jubilee".
What are you actually saying? You seem to be gesturing at something, but it's not clear what that thing is.
He critiques decentralized systems taken as an independant solution in general, based on their working principle, not a specific decentralized system.
As pointed out by the original Neowin article [0], Google has been abusing its power for years in basically the same way. Two wrongs don't make a right, but Google is far from the "good guy" here.

[0] https://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-says-its-own-edge-brow...
Google itself is a torrent search engine. Just google

<anything> filetype:torrent

So when is Google going to delist Google?
Lies like telling people they don't need to wear masks at the beginning (or maybe the lie was flipping to saying we did), or the admission that the goalposts were being moved on herd immunity, or the lie that gain of function research was not funded by the NIH. There are plenty of lies. And those are just the ones admitted. Never mind the fact that Fauci and others have stakes in pharma companies.

Regarding those laws, as I alluded to, they don't take away people's livelihoods. And they are actual laws, not edicts by a governor.

The vaccines may have science behind their creation, but engineering always comes into play when you have to actually create something. The science created the theory, but engineering creates implementations. And I don't trust these implementations the same way I might like theory behind a programming concept but not trust implementations. Like in cryptography.
> We might lose some great works from that tiny proportion of writers who earn well for more commercial choices from those authors.

I don't understand this sentence.
The anti-piracy crowd is big on "speed bumps". They know they can't stop piracy, but they can make it a pain in the ass and hope you'll get frustrated and give up.
ddg.gg or duck.com are both easy to type. And I suppose duck.com is reasonably easy to remember.
Agree, that's on me. Fixed.
While I feel that Google has become worse in last couple of years, I'm pretty sure it is still better now when 15 years ago. Maybe it is just some kind of nostalgia?
Most of the items read like specific 2nd order effects of Capitalism 101. We were always aware of the pros/cons and the cons have overtaken the pros in our current incarnation.

https://www.economicshelp.org/blog/5002/economics/pros-and-c...
Looks like your comment here caused enough curiosity to take the service down.
The 160 limit per message segment is absolutely still a thing, but when you receive a message >160 characters your phone stitches the segments back together for you so you don't notice.

Why this matters: SMS delivery is usually priced per message segment. Going over the 160 limit ~doubles the cost to deliver the text.

(Source: I am the CEO of a company which sends millions of text messages and avoiding 2 segment messages saves us thousands each month!)

All that said, the text from the above commenter's loan servicer is unprofessional nonsense regardless of its length.
I agree, naming is very important. I once tried to have a conversation with a group of colleagues about Coq, and literally the conversation couldn’t move past the name. Now I just use TLA+ or Lean.
The web has changed drastically. I’d imagine 2005-google engine today would be nothing but abandoned Wordpress blogs with comment spam.
I have seen that failure mode as well. I cannot emphasise enough that it needs to be like pair-programming. Without the more senior person there, the more junior person will struggle to know how to get started and need to ask so many initially-ill-formed questions that it will be very slow going.
I wonder, how many of those people didn't have easy regular access to medical services.
> Let's build what we already know is right.

Agreed. And that will be 10,000 different things. Right now all the media fuss and discussion from it is about deciding "what do we know is right" without recognizing (intentionally?) that there's no one answer to that question.
Yeah, exactly. Or even just not listed in `earthly ls`, maybe you'd still want to be able to call them manually for debugging purposes.
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This is true, although it's important to differentiate active and passive adapters.

Ubiquiti sells some devices that are 24V passive PoE. These devices include their UISP products (such as devices like the AirMax). Passive injectors are dangerous because they always supply 24V to the port; this could damage a non-24V PoE device.

There's also the 802.3a* standards family, such as the 802.3at (what Ubiquiti calls PoE+). Each of the standards (e.g. 802.3at, 802.3af, etc.) support different amounts of current, but they're all 48V active adapters. Active PoE is safer because the device "requests" the power it wants; the switch does not always supply 48V power over the port, so devices that don't require PoE won't be receiving power.

Ubiquiti sells a few switches that support both 24V passive PoE and 48V active PoE. You can change this in the switch's web interface, through the port settings. You may also want to consider just using a 24V passive injector, especially if your switch cannot be configured to supply 24V power.
Previously posted. For some reason wasn't too interesting to the HN crowd even though I think it portends a recession.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29412308
I just restore the last session to reopen all my tabs.
Were demographically and geographically completely different. Our population is much denser, more like a populous US state than a sprawling continental giant. People used to compare virus control in the US to places like Singapore and New Zealand, as though their ability to control the virus has any lessons that are realistically applicable.

We were hammered early on because we are very highly connected with the rest of the world. London is very international, and Heathrow is one of the busiest airports in the world, out of proportion to our population size. We were always going to take a heavy hit.

Nevertheless as soon as vaccines became available we have had broad adoption, and ever since we've been reaping the rewards. Delta arrived here early, but by then our vaccine take up was enough that it didn't really make as much of an impact on us as it has elsewhere.

It's just amazing to me that in 2021 here on HN the fact that vaccines protect against viruses is an actual question, or in any way political.
> the most fascinating bit

It is really fascinating, but I disagree a bit with your pick :)

To me, the most fascinating part is using a bytecode interpreter. It makes perfect sense, it's basically optimizing the code size to fits in the cache. It's also a bit like defining a whole new instruction set dedicated and optimized for Fizzbuzz!

I think the approach was a bit similar to a VLIW https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Very_long_instruction_word where a single 32 bits word is loaded and interpreted at a time.

Most of the state of the Fizzbuzz program is encoded in this bytecode.

> "Slower L3 memory operations", I've not read that sentence before

You hear it all the time when trying to optimize for speed in a hot loop. Keep your data structures in a way that fits in the cache. Align your data with cache boundaries. Code needs to be small too, hence the bytecode approach. This is also the reason why you can't unroll loops too much.

If your implementation does not need to fetch (or write) data from(/to) higher levels of the memory hierarchy, you'll see tremendous gains. There's even this bit in the original source: "while waiting for writes to go through to the L2 cache" :)

There are a few more very interesting hacks, such as the "high-decimal" format that skips the "need to do binary/decimal conversions."
The more I study the history of writing systems, the clearer it becomes what a tremendous organizational and cultural advantage it is to be able to commit thoughts to stone/papyrus/whatever media you choose.
Not more regulation, not better regulation, but impartial enforcement of existing regulation.
I have raw html in one file, which contains a list of named links and a bit CSS from one of those "This is a motherfriendly website" variants.
The internet is increasingly getting censored. Boldened by the recent deplatforming of Alex Jones and Donald Trump as well as censorship of news that doesn’t fit their narratives has created a slippery slope.

It’s time to take a hardline stance against censorship. If we don’t do it now, future generations will never forgive us.
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That is what I'm trying to do, actually. However, the core syntax for fundamental array operations are still the same, but there is a layer of regular imperative structures around it, so you can write code that looks like JS if you want. It's just not as efficient.

It's not ready for actual use yet though, but any suggestions would of course be appreciated.
*if Vitalik agrees on it
Remember, they're just coming after the bad guys like Alex Jones, and they're just trying to stop the spread of dangerous misinformation.
100k for 6 months __living expenses__ would be without question the most generous grant I have ever seen or heard of.
He's a reporter. "Doxxing" isn't a thing in journalism, even though it upsets people on message boards to hear it.
Thanks! I do not, unfortunately. I'm thinking of making my New Tab just a webpage, though, so it can be used with any browser (with obvious disadvantage of storing your data on someone's server).
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These loans are often convertible bonds so the stock performance does impact the companies access to low interest rates.
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My first thought after I deciphered the puzzle was: oh, it's just the name of a popular compression algorithm library! :) Thanks, I didn't know about the site existence. Wondering if it got de-listed, too? :)
I have a couple of folders in the bookmarks bar and I just Ctrl+Click them. There's always one for each project I'm working on, there's one for some admin stuff, and a side project or two.
Debt is >50% of advanced economies, and it's price fixed.

Why bother with setting the price of bananas and everything else, when you can set one price and have a greater effect?
Some people try:

https://www.mojeek.com/

https://fireball.com/

https://search.brave.com/
I like having half a dozen frequently used sites on my start page, as a better bookmark solution. Don't want a bar taking up screen real estate, but if I can click into my issue tracker, doc repo, email, etc from a new tab, that works great and then it goes away once I've loaded the site. Would be great if I could just have iframes of some of them (like the page listing all the timezones for my team so I know what time it is everywhere).
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What's really unproven here is the idea that Ubiquiti lost billion of dollars in stock value over these messages. Seems pretty unlikely.
This can be a liability in some states. PP needs to take security as seriously as a bank because of the potential ramifications of being outed.
Future generations won't even know.
Reminds me of a joke my dad used to tell:

Dad: What's five plus five?

yosito: Ten!

D: How many fingers do you have?

y: Ten!

D: What's an aluminum can made out of?

y: Tin!

D: Wrong! Aluminum!
I absolutely adore Line of Duty. I like how everyone in the team of protagonists is not entirely clean, though not estirely bad either.

Of course the prime example and my favorite cop TV show ever is The Shield. You are rooting for the bad guys, though you gradually realize just how bad they are as the series progresses, and eventually you become horrified and want their punishment to finally arrive... but still, every time they evade it you (I) find myself cheering. Horrifying.
You can read the details here: https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2021/05/27/manifest-v3-updat...

TLDR: They're officially going to support MV3 but also not going to deprecate the network blocking APIs that Google is.
> just for regular people

No, for people who, for example, are convicted of a crime by a court of law and ordered to pay a fine, but refuse to do so. The system is actually much more mundane than people in the West imagine, and it affects a tiny sliver of the population (many times smaller than the fraction of people in the US who are in prison, for example).

And again, the social credit systems in China are mainly about business regulation. If a business fails one type of inspection with one government agency, that information will be shared with other government agencies, which will then scrutinize that business more carefully. The idea was to focus regulatory scrutiny on companies that have a pattern of violations, and to lessen the regulatory burden on other companies.