skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>that modern life for most of us is incomparably better than the lives most of us had in the past.

It is, if we measure it against the average (or even worst) of the past (and go quite far back), and also include things like slavery, etc. as if they are non-separable parts of the past, and not something we could have skipped even in the past (and many places did).

>My kids are 17/18 now, while I was the same age back in the early 80s. There's no comparison. The quality of life available on even a modest salary nowadays is far, far better.

Is it? I'd take the 60's or 80's any day - less rat racy, easier employment, more value for your money, more optimism, less wage inequality, better off middle class, less surveillance, less bureucracy, more relaxed life, and so on. Also a better top-10 and nicer looking cars. And I (and perhaps others) would also gladly take fewer modern technology items over a simpler, more sustainable lifestyle.

I don't consider things like some improved smart fridge, or smart bulbs, or a car GPS and mobile phone much of a quality of life improvement. If anything, some of those are net negatives.

And things that have been worse, e.g. seggregation, they were not "1960s didn't have advance technology to avoid that", they're just cultural choices. We often mix these two ups, like we couldn't have, say, 1980 living, technology, etc. AND gay rights.
They're also covered if you don't have insurance, but yeah that could be completely correct if you're not a citizen/resident of the US. Bummer.
> There is a clear intention by these companies to bore or confuse people into signing their rights away

These aren’t “rights”. There’s no confusion either. And people aren’t entitled to getting a service for free so they lost nothing.

> Consider how many lawyers are on payroll or retention at these companies who are aware of the requirements of the law, then consider that G/FB made a cynical, calculated decision to ignore it.

Irrelevant
Just because you don’t have the imagination to see why peer to peer, censorship resistant, non-state based electronic money might be harmful, doesn’t mean we all feel that way.

Bitcoin is an attack on the core foundations of our society and is trying to actively undermine democracy. Thankfully it's pretty ineffective so far.
if 5% of the kids and 7% of the staff at a school currently had the flu, I think there would be serious consideration of temporarily closing it too.
Eschew variables altogether. It's the constants that make for a good life.
I get that it is basically an impossible problem to triage incoming issues on such large and widely used software, but my impression of the popular "community" approach is that it is useless and designed to provide an outlet for complaints rather than to identify issues.
Countries like Kazakhstan, serve russia as a buffer state from the Nato influence. If near countries start to align with the west, Russia will start to feel personally attacked.
Any kind of money only has value if there is willing social acceptance for that money, aka, people who want it. That's the point of money.

Its value comes from being in a secure, immutable database, accessible from any point on the planet with an internet connection, censorship resistant, and more private.
Regarding a unit test it looks something like this in pseudocode:

function test_addition() {
given_two_integers(2,3);

when_summed_up();

then_the_result_should_be(5);
}

Whereas I would prefer something like

function test_addition() {
int a = 2;
int b = 3;

int result = new Addition(a, b);

Assert.AreEqual(result.Sum(), 5);
}

For a non-coder it might seem more intuitive to read the first example, because it only contains natural language.
For a coder it seems more intuitive to read the second example, because it prevents "method hopping" (I have to go into the methods from example one to see what's actually happening inside them).
This. So much of this. Most of the money that disctatorship regimes steal out of their countries are actually invested into western countries by their family members, friends and their pet oligarchs.

US, EU and UK profit from oppressive regimes and don't have any interest of actually hurting them. And why should they? They have their own people to think of.
I was stuck at parents for xmas and I picked Tannenbaum “distributed systems” and “Modern operating systems”, which gave me an idea of running a "kernel" on a browser. It was more of an academic exercise than anything else, but my intention was to have a the following:

Being able to unload and reload javascript. The initial idea was to write the website inside the website, but at the core level it requires having something akin to process isolation for javascript. It also requires the dom to be isolated.

Implementing 9p2000, and share resources across browsers. I’ve been reading about the ideas of plan 9 and i would like to implement something that allows me to connect point to point to other browsers and mount their FS into mine so we can share resources.

One of the cool results that I got was that since the dom is not directly changed (each process/worker has its own partial dom and every time that it changes it a delta is sent back to the main thread for sync) it allows javascript to be running somewhere else (another browser, back end server) and sync’ed back (much like vadaain, but more agnostic).

Most of the code was inspired by the linux kernel (which gave me a reason to go learn its internals) and is kinda nasty at some points but is written in typescript as some of you have already mentioned. Someone might find it interesting even if just for the educational purpose of
Off-topic: hi Jose, what's your expectation on how much more raw performant Erlang can become in the next 1-2 years?

PHP ~3x in performance from 5.x to 7.x. LuaJIT is even faster over vanilla Lua.

There were multiple attempts at creating an Erlang JIT for well over a decade now and last year BeamAsm was released but in everyday use it seems to net about a 10-15% boast.

I ask because it'd be great if we didn't have to create so many Rust NIFs in order to address Erlang raw slowness.

Curious what your take is on speeding up raw Erlang (please note, I'm not talking about concurrency & I do truly love Exilir/Erlang/OTP)
I bet he went heavy on early bitcoin and is now a billionaire
True. At that point one may as well get a pull out sofa.
From https://docs.github.com/en/github/site-policy/github-decease...

> Once we have received your request, we may follow up with a request for additional information, such as a copy of your photo identification, copy of the death certificate, and documentation confirming you are authorized to act in relation to the deceased user’s account, to verify that we are properly authorized to process your request.
It's not about trusting the transactíon. It's about trusting that the value will be sustained.
you can do six figure bank transfers for zero fee
Under stress the body increases cortisol production to keep the energy level up and remain alert. When the stress subsides, the cortisol production is reduced to normal and the suppressed ills break out.
Scientific progress has slowed, but engineering progress is only just beginning. For instance, the electronic transport chain of respiration/photosynthesis, is a series of quantum tunnels. Man has barely scratched the surface of quantum-level control which nature already exhibits.
It’s fine, Bitcoin has worked exactly as expected for the 13 years of its life. It will work as expected for the next 13. It doesn’t need your approval, it just is. The next 13 years might well be considerably more interesting than the first. You are welcome to throw rocks from the side lines. It is an entirely opt-in and voluntary monetary system.
Content moderation is a labor problem, not a technical or "operations" problem. There's simply not enough profit in any online forum/platform to cover the labor costs of effective moderation, which is why Facebook/Google use AI-based pre-review of reports - and very cheap labor from countries where both language and cultural barriers lead to lots of problems.

How are you intending to fix that? Especially since you have a lot of extra overhead because you have to handle an API call for every page a user loads in their browser?

Please publish a privacy policy and disclose what data you collect/retain, and when. Otherwise, I'm assuming your plugin is collecting extensive client-side data including every URL I visit, my IP, etc.

Also, why haven't you done more of a quiet roll-out before announcing it on HN? Your status page says you've got ~100 comments. I really don't understand why you wouldn't have rolled this out via an invite system, starting with trusted friends, your professional network, etc.
With no setup, no network, no products or existing business? Probably a freelancing website, or finding local businesses that need help creating a website. Try contacting local agencies to see if they have any work they need help with.

Meaningful amounts of money require existing resources. It's like losing weight - you have to do it over time.
I dont understand this entirely .
A lot of the article is spent talking about how great and fast Cloudflare is.

Then at the end he says he uses Bunny as the CDN for images.
Why use Bunny instead of Cloudflare?
One more moving part.

I presume it is cost related?
This represents a serious misunderstanding of fiat currencies. Fiat currencies are fully backed when issued. When you take out a loan, the bank creates money, hands it to you, and creates a negative entry on their balance sheet. Once you repay your loan, that money evaporates. However, that money when in circulation is backed by the demand for repayment of the loan itself.

A fiat currency will only collapse if you lose faith in the state, your fellow humans and the ability of the judicial system to enforce repayment.

Once that happens you have much bigger problems. Like Mad Max style problems.
Thank you. Your gem helped me multiple times throughout the years and helped me dealing with some hard problems
New York Attorney General flags 1.1M online accounts compromised by
>but both of those have very powerful organizations presiding over them who ensure that the value of e.g. the dollar will not crash overnight

And look where that got us: the federal reserve printed trillions of dollars in 2020 to prop up the stock market.
Did you even read the rest of that post?
Zen 4 is on TSMC 6nm and so is the new line of laptop skus running Zen3+, so I'd guess that they are just waiting for sufficient volumes to release another 7nm Zen 3 product. Epyc & Ryzen almost certainly pull much higher volumes for AMD than TR/TR Pro, and although Ryzen at least has been mostly available for the past couple months it was in short supply for quite a while there.

I'd guess they planned on TR / TR Pro being a quicker followup after Epyc 7003 launched, but then chip capacity just wasn't there to justify it. And now it probably is, especially as their new stuff is on a different node.
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most fiats currencies have a Goverment/military behind them
A) why would I need to?
B) why would I need to?
C) why would I need to?
A few passages from Limits to Medicine, Medical Nemesis: The Expropriation of Health by Ivan Illich, 1974:

"A world of optimal and widespread health is obviously a world of minimal and only occasional medical intervention. Healthy people are those who live in healthy homes, on a healthy diet, in an environment equally fit for birth, growth, work, healing, and dying; they are sustained by a culture that enhances the conscious acceptance of limits to population, of aging, of incomplete recovery and ever-imminent death."

“Man's consciously lived fragility, individuality and relatedness make the experience of pain, of sickness and of death an integral part of his life. The ability to cope with this trio autonomously is fundamental to his health. As he becomes dependent on the management of his intimacy, he renounces his autonomy and his health must decline.”

“The more time, toil, and sacrifice spent by a population in producing medicine as a commodity, the larger will be the by-product, namely, the fallacy that society has a supply of health locked away which can be mined and marketed.”

"Health designates a process of adaptation. It is not the result of instinct, but of an autonomous yet culturally shaped reaction to socially created reality. It designates the ability to adapt to changing environments, to growing up and to aging, to healing when damaged, to suffering and to peaceful expectation of death. Health embraces the future as well, and therefore includes anguish and the inner resources to live with it".

""Health," after all, is simply an everyday word that is used to designate the intensity with which individuals cope with their internal states and their environmental conditions. The society which can reduce professional intervention to the minimum will provide the best conditions for health."
The author seems to think that the detractors are accusing Satoshi of devising a Ponzi scheme and goes on to tell us why that's not the case. This is a strawman because the real Ponzi scheme is being perpetuated by financial whales who know full well that Bitcoin is not a "currency" and are pumping it up only to cash out.

The "buy the dip" promoters don't want their net worth going down and push that so that they can sell again at the peak
I would like to introduce you to The Crafsman on YouTube.

He covers the questions in your last paragraph, specifically for small runs and low budget. Even lower budget than you're thinking, so it's a perfect starting point.

Plus he's a hell of a lot of fun to listen to and the production quality is too sweet.

Start here:
[0] Making silicon molds

[1] Cheap plastic injection molding using silicon molds + metal casing

[2] Making a complex toy with DIY injection molding

[3] Bonus: the best dubbing of a classic Star Wars scene you've ever seen.

Enjoy! And keep on steady craftin'.

[0] https://youtu.be/RC9TgAO5mGo

[1] https://youtu.be/78bM615koOo

[2] https://youtu.be/lmX5XHtr2jQ

[3] https://youtu.be/VzlkSjFXRlM
Seems like an idea that's had a lot of false starts. Best of luck to Netvyne.

Some things to consider: Is Netvyne a community? (Like Hacker News or Reddit?) Should we expect a "Netvyne" slant to the comments, like all communities have?

Assuming Netvyne is a community, would Netvyne ever evolve to have some form of content discovery? Specifically, look at how Hacker News is content discovery first. (You don't have to log in to see the list of links, and you don't even have to read the comments.)

Otherwise, moderating all of the external comments for every ^#^@$ website seems like a daunting task. Best of luck, though! IMO, I wish there was a standardize "comments engine" for every website that didn't require making an account, but allowed the web site owner to do their own moderation. I know that's impractical, but I can still wish!
> As long as companies are driven by profits

Capital really doesn't drive innovation at all except in very specific situations where there are sufficient regulations and guardrails to coax companies in the direction of progress (and you certainly won't see innovation happening under completely unregulated capitalism). It's almost always independent and/or individual people -- researchers, open source contributors, scientists, etc -- who come up with society-changing technologies and ideas. In the mid 1900s, the large tech corporations ran enormous corporate laboratories, like the famous Bell Labs that would churn out things like this (Unix, almost the internet, etc). Rampant de-regulation of capital in the 70s and 80s led to an industry shift that removed these guardrails and incentives and made it easier to simply monopolize, price fix, and acquire your way to the top, as the oil and rail tycoons had in the early 1900s, and that is where we find ourselves now. FANG companies are not innovators -- they have become machines that swallow up the innovations of others and either neutralize or begrudgingly copy them in such a way that still manages to crush competition via economies of scale.

Google, the "great innovator" of search hasn't innovated on the topic of search engines in over a decade, and instead relies on multi-billion dollar deals to ensure Google is the default search engine on every mobile device in the world. When a competitor emerges, they acquire and shutter it, or sit pretty knowing economies of scale will ensure new competitors won't get sufficient traction.

For the last decade, Apple has simply watched the tech industry very closely, cultivated their image as a glorified fashion company (everything driven by design and status-symbol imagery), exerted monopolistic control over an entire industry via their app store fees and tight restrictions, and used their unlimited resources to copy or buy their way into the features and ideas actual innovators have proven will play well in the coming years.

Amazon uses its size and its control over a global marketplace (that they completely control) to continuously enter new markets and shutter competition with economies of scale, and is taking the same approach with AWS. Notably they won't be innovating on anything outside the realm of "just run it in our network of data centers", and everything they do with AWS is designed to pull you into the walled garden of AWS products.

Netflix has simply acquired their way into controlling a large portion of the good movie studios, their only "innovation" being on perpetuating a toxic and cutthroat company culture where everyone is constantly under review and DRM and compression technology to limit who can watch what based on expensive regional licensing deals.

All of these companies are threatened by, and afraid of innovation, and they will stop it from happening if they can. They compete and innovate, only if they have to, and would much rather just pay you to not innovate. Capital isn't going to create innovation -- regulation of capital, done correctly, will. Capital has to be dragged into innovating, kicking and screaming.
I think your point of view is mostly driven by nostalgia.

I agree there are some things about today's society that are terrible, but a lot of those problems, we bring down on ourselves.
about $90-$150 initially, but usually within a few weeks the balance will be upped to $400 or so.

I have had troubles with people using the service as a way to get money off stolen credit cards, so the low initial deposit is a way to avoid that.

There is also a lot of per-customer randomness to prevent bad guys writing logic to detect which wallets are provided by my services. That's why they don't all have a fixed balance.

> Seems like you could achieve the same result if you just let your customers buy their own coins and provide an address for you to watch?

Yes - there are other services that do that for free already. This is more of an all-in-one setup for those who want to set-and-forget.
There is an obsession in knowledge work for productivity (output per time). The goal should be for efficiency (best output per time).

Having more slack / diffused time to problem solve, think things through, and actively rest brings more consciousness into knowledge work and makes people more efficient.

The problem is...line & middle managers are largely incentivized for results from their people. Results can be achieved in many different ways, but the current approach is brute force which leads to burnout and thus a "reshuffling" to find more sustainable working conditions or be paid more for how many "productive" responsibilities put on your plate.

For the workplace to embrace new technologies, this article is spot on in the fact that we must imagine our ideal ways of living, working, and playing. We can't go from screen to screen. We have to have a right to disconnect.
uh, just like 50-60 years ago there were a large group of white people fighting tooth and nail to keep black people out of their schools, you think those people didn't breed and pass on their viewpoints to their children?
True, but this can be achieved with more flexibility using formatting tools and a config file as opposed to being enforced at the language level.
The average hedge fund doesn't beat a cheap index fund. Hedge Funds haven't been sexy since that day the market neutral funds blew each other up in Summer 2007.
Can you explain why the freedoms you mention are the result primarily of central banking and not social and technological change?

The key freedom lost via central banking (at least irresponsible central banking) is the freedom of those in the future to do anything other than meet debt obligations.

Debt and credit is obviously necessary, and making money easily accessible and keeping markets liquid is a good thing, but if debt obligations grow too large, people increasingly forfeit their future productivity and the future of their children’s productivity to paying interest.

No one can enjoy increased freedoms if they are spending all their time paying off individual and collective interest.
Out of complete curiosity: any particular reason to avoid traditional food?
Ah, got it---I completely missed that they used open-close for the day after.
It's not a ponzi scheme. It's an mlm, like beachbody or primerica
From the introduction "Compiling programs into JavaScript, asm.js, or WebAssembly with tools like Emscripten or GopherJS isn't enough to successfully run many programs client-side" it seems like the intent is to be able to port "Unmodified C, C++, Go, and Node.js programs" to the browser.

Big use case for this I would imagine is games
> But from a scientific standpoint, do you think a software can be 100% correct?

Sure it can. I've written 100% correct code using Coq. For example, I wrote a relatively simple program (~1.7k LoC) to interpret a simple programming language, but it was definitely correct (certified by a machine-checked proof).

Of course, for larger programs it's much harder to do that. But it's just a matter of how much time you're willing to invest.
One way was Java applets. Back in the mid-nineties, applets were the only way to make web pages meaningfully flashy and interactive. They pioneered the space later conquered by Flash.
I forget how many heads of states have conveniently asked for US intervention in their own country.
Flailing wildly around in value, unfit for purpose is how it was intended?
Should have met Jim.
Jim spoke about himself in the third person exclusively.
I hated working with Jim.
I think it's trite to pick on The Jetsons, while ignoring the many attempted predictions of the future that did focus on "underlying social relations."

Marxism was, in large part, a techno futurism. JM Keynes predicted a future of 15hr workweeks and leisure societies. Feminism, at various point in time, was had strong techno-futuristic elements.

It's either really hard to predict people, or we aren't objective enough to do social science. Our predictions and attempts at critical analysis tend to reflect our ideals, or anti-ideals moreso than an objective conclusion.

Meanwhile, predicting the butterfly effect of a technology or change is almost impossible. Could a western european living in the 1400s and pondering the importance printing presses have predicted the Protestant Reformation?

I'm not saying it's bad to delve into such questions. I'm saying not to start with a "no one ever talks about X..."