skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The question wasn't about saving the planet, it was about spending less on food.

My bad. Then my answer is don't save by eating bad food. It will limit you more compared to the extra cash you'll save (unless you're poor and you have no choice).
> Lidar! Radar! Refresh rate! A 7th camera! [..] Who the hell uses any of that stuff?

Well... you're right about the lidar, but I absolutely care about the camera and refresh rate. As a lifelong photography geek I basically upgrade for the camera improvements every year..

Camera, messaging, maps and dating apps are basically the only things I use my phone for these days...
Did you read the link I posted? I don't think the women they were quoting were kink-shaming themselves.
> just OK to seize private property of individuals

Yes, it's a war. Deal with it

If they have a problem they can take it up with their boss.

> to this is getting pretty fucking scary

I believe there are kids in Ukraine who are legitimately scared. Getting your megayacht confiscated is just a first world problem.
You're right, it's down to intent.

Where do you anchor your future times. Is the meeting literally two months, four days, three hours, 32 minutes, and 14 seconds from now, or is it two motnhs, four days from now, when a local clock in New York is 15:30?

I was thinking international meetings where "your country changed: you move", which in retrospect is not realistic.
Hmm. Isn't there something to be said about running a less popular stack so the drive-by zero days won't affect you as much? Sure there are slower fixes, but also fewer people hunting for exploits. You're a less juicy target.
Ask HN: What will it take to destroy the ads market?
The more I live the more it seems like we're living in a soulless dystopia:

- My local state TV channels feature 20 minutes of commercials for about 5 minutes of actual content
- YouTube shows more and more ads as time goes by
- Can't go in the street without being bombarded by ads wherever you look
- Whenever you Google something, the top results are SEO spam websites with jumping ads and auto-playing videos that quite literally feel like some form of digital cancer
- Services are starting to display ads even if you're a paying costumer -- e.g Samsung TVs

At which point enough is enough? They've stripped humanity out of these daily tasks so much that I can't imagine this is sustainable. What will be the last straw in this market?
That's not really the case.

Imagine two societies that have ten kinds of ideologies in them. In each society, one ideology rules.

One society will never give people like Lenin the time of day, but people of most other creeds are free to speak and act how they wish to.

In another, only people like Lenin will be approved, and a couple others tolerated grudgingly.

The first is easily much more free than the second, and I don't think you'd find a 100% free society pretty much anywhere, because even though the Paradox of Tolerance is endlessly abused, actually letting Lenin go about being Lenin is a really bad idea.

The issue is not necessarily in the argument, it's that it's wielded primarily by wokelets and other censorship-happy people in the present day, and their intolerance is not defined and narrow at all: their tolerance chart looks a lot more like Lenin's one than the anti-Lenin society's. When these people speak of tolerance, they speak of adherence with their own program since their own program is ostensibly a "tolerant" one.

The woke are, of course, tolerant the same way North Korea is democratic and the Berlin Wall was an "anti-Fascist protection rampart". "Bigot" just means "not on board with the ideological program" and is pretty expansive in definition. Lenin.
This is becoming ridiculous
What a fantastic idea, billionaires are a symptom of our unequal society.

We could have a ceiling of say 50 million quid and you get to say you won capitalism, and everyone throws you a bug party.
With respect, this implies that you are not very good at cooking.

You can make delicious, quick and easy food both with meat and with vegetables. If you try and cook a steak like vegetables, you will have poor results. If you try and cook vegetables like a steak, you will have poor results. If you treat each ingredient - meat, vegetable, or otherwise - in its own right and cook/season appropriately, then you can and will make excellent food.
Interestingly, VM instruction sets (JVM, CLR, WASM etc.) tend to have the opposite problem in that the chosen names are pointlessly long, even though the insn sets are so small that more concise mnemonics are definitely possible.
just because you view it like that doesnt mean there arent people who are kinky/exhibitionists etc, and the 'barbarity' of it is kind of part of the appeal
> Hah! I got a really cool little icon that looks almost like the cassette tape pirate logo of Piratbyrån back in the day.

I think it's a skeleton holding his arms up!

edit: Looks like I'm some green bug-monster
> Why is seizing property without due process okay when we do it

Honestly, I would have thought that the recent nationalisation of Russian oligarchs' assets over much of the Western world would sent thrills down the spines of many, many other wealthy people, no matter their citizenship. Probably it was a shock to them, too, I expect a counter-reaction via media in the coming weeks.

Locke wrote his famous treatises on government especially for cases like this one, i.e. what happens with your property when you fall on the wrong side of the current powers that be? He said that said powers shouldn't confiscate your property, and there are many smart people who have said/written during the last few centuries that that viewpoint stands at the basis of our (Western) civilisation. Interesting times, to say the least.
> So on a plant-based diet you can't save yourself?

I'd generally go for keto since that is more studied compared to strict carnivore.

> Plant-based meals require far fewer resources and is cheaper, which means maintaining societal stability when resources are becoming low - as there is more to go around.

But your health will (probably/maybe) be worse. There are ways to make cheap keto (ex: eating 10 eggs/day in my local area).

> A lot of farm land is being used to grow foods for livestock. We could use that land to grow food for ourselves.

Then eat grass-fed meat. I do so myself.
> No, he is making up imaginary impediments to wind power build-out.

No, he is pointing out very real impediments to wind power build-out in forsests.

> If trees could be a problem,

As has been convincingly shown elsewhere in the subthread that they can, if one were stupid enough to build one's windmills among them.

> they would be built in ways that trees would not be a problem, full stop.

i.e. not in forests. Which was user @lazide's point all along.

And if you were going to say -- as the remains of your argument seem to be boiling down to -- "So don't build windmills in forests then", YTF did you say that to @lazide and not to @Aachen?
Putting aside the confiscation question, it’s morally obtuse to liken Iraqi civilian deaths, the top cause of which per that link was execution after capture by insurgent & other non-US-aligned forces, with Ukrainian deaths from indiscriminate Russian shelling of civilian neighborhoods.
Chechen strongman Kadyrov says he is in Ukraine
Thats just not true. The relaxation of hate speech is towards Russian troops only. Not civilians.

Frankly, what kind of communication do you expect from civilians in a kill or get killed situation.
“Nobody does the high performance stuff in the real world”

We run an high performance, allocation free automated trading platform on .NET. I guess we are nobody…?
Why? Because they are American?

The case against the Russian oligarchs is better because they are quasi state actors, however, but the case against the Russian oligarchs looks bad too.
The communist nationalisation process after WW2 was also 100% legal in the countries where it was applied.

Later edit: To make things clearer, because I have the impression that people in the West live with the idea that out-here in the former Communist East (from where I'm from) things like nationalisations and all that were done sort of outside the law, hence why doing similar things in the West right now might be ok because it's done under the auspices of the law, I repeat, most of the that stuff was done with the law in hand.

I even wrote/implemented a small personal project [1] based on such a law, the June 1950 nationalisation law. I wanted to see where were located the properties of the Bucharest-based Jewish population that got their properties confiscated (remember, this was after WW2, under a regime that had fought against the Nazis). Of course that the Jews were not implicitly targeted by that law, but they were greatly affected by it (being, on average, a little better-off and more urban compared to the regular Romanian peasant).

[1]http://bucuresti.maglina.ro/nationalizari/ (you have to ignore the GMaps warning, I was too lazy to put anything else in place since their API changes some time ago; also, not sure it works on mobile).
It wasn't actually working for me; it was returning 0 actually. But yeah, this is a good point as well. :D
>So now it's just OK to seize private property of individuals without any even pretend due process?

it is a war, and the one started by them. They should be grateful of losing only property while people in Ukraine are losing their lives. They didn't afford due process to those Ukrainians. Actually they don't afford due process to any Ukrainian. What expectations of due process they may reasonably expect for themselves after that? After the war these Putin's top supporters should get punished for the war crimes together with Putin. This is the due process they should get.

Limiting blame only to Putin just doesn't make sense. Putin doesn't press the button launching missiles. All Russians in Russia are responsible for what is happening. Just looks at bacchanalia of "Z" symbol celebration these days across all Russia (https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/07/world/europe/russia-lette... - The "Z" is the marking on the Russian armor of the western invasion group in Ukraine, the one which is attacking Kiev for example, and that symbol became the symbol of that war in Russia). You wanna get beaten as a dirty traitor by a bunch of Russian passer-by-s - just make some offensive comment on the "Z".

>And now we have american media platforms saying 'yeah, it's fine to call for death to Russians'.

It is applicable only to Russian soldiers in Ukraine. It would be strange that one can shoot such a soldier, yet wouldn't be able to call for a death of the soldier on FB.
Do you really believe that there is no correlation between upvotes and good content? How do you think people decide which submissions to upvote?
Broadening compiler checks for buffer overflows in _FORTIFY_SOURCE (2021)
This is a bit of a straw man; many (most?) standards bodies aren't driven by commercial interest. I agree that there are some that are (3gp, probably wc3 though I'm not super familiar with them I just hear people complain about that as a problem all the time), but many if not most are almost entirely volunteer or have a more mixed way of doing things (ie. the within the IETF plenty of companies put their people in the bigger working groups, but also many volunteers who aren't affiliated with a company driving the work are also a part of them or completely control them). Others take an absolutely-no-company approach like the XSF who only allows three people who work for the same company to join and requires all members to be acting of their own accord and not on behalf of a company. Sure, some standards bodies have a problem with commercial interests, but it's not the big problem your question implies.
so we force productive people to retire early?

How do you expect to have Google, Microsoft, Apple Tesla, SpaceX? if their founders were to retire once they have 50m
I really like the fact that now that RT is banned everybody read the same western articles and are attributing the whole dissent within Europe/US to Russia.

Where have you been when RT was doing that brazenly in front of your faces with full acceptance of the governments?

It's quite frankly amusing that it took Russia an invasion of Ukraine for that to become illegal, while before (Brexit, etc) it was just "freedom of speech".
Russia's list of demands are demilitarization, a formal declaration to not join NATO and the two republics in the east of Ukraine. You will hardly ever find a mention of these demands in the media because it's considered advantageous to lead people to the conclusion that Russia wants to annex or occupy Ukraine indefinitely -- which they probably don't want to do.
For information on supplements like this, examine.com[1] is great.
For many things, there is a "Human Effect Matrix" on there, which gives a good overview of the effects that were observed in studies, their magnitude, and how consistently they were found. For saffron for example, the evidence that it can help against depression is fairly solid, as other studies have shown as well[2].

Sadly, a lot of information on Examine is hidden behind a paywall by now, but it's still a really valuable resource.

[1]: https://examine.com/supplements/saffron/#effect-matrix
[2]: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31669837/
Pretty much. San Francisco fired the SF Symphony Director because... he's from Russia.

Amazing how quickly our base, tribal instincts kick in when an "enemy" appears. All pretense to "peace" and "restraint" and "avoid foreign wars" goes out the window really damn quick.

If you're the kind of person who looks back and thinks "man, how could America be so stupid to get involved in Vietnam, Afghanistan, and Iraq"? Well, you're living in those times right now.

Hell, that's exactly why we put the Japanese in internment camps. Looks like a pretty good portion of HN would support that even now.
What's mine?
In theory or in practice, where can you not get POSIX time?

(aside from devices with no RTC or for other reasons can't keep any time at all)
Thats good. That's not going to be cheap at round $200 per ounce.
Try thinking about the equivalent in decimal:

A left shift in binary adds a 0 at the end which multiplies by 2 (binary = 2)

In decimal, the equivalent, adding a 0 at the end, multiplies by ten (decimal = ten)
Mmmh, definitely looks like a kid's dick drawing
A Fasting-Mimicking Diet Thwarts Breast Cancer in Mice
> What will be the last straw in this market?

We'll be matrix-style inside an AR pod, unable to move or do anything but watch unskippable ads.

The only thing the matrix got wrong was the plot device of humans as a power source. It's far more realistic for us to be an advertising sink, to maximize how the results of increasing productivity can accrew to as few people at the top as possible.

It ends when the uber eats and amazon drivers, the only people who will be still allowed outside, stage a rebellion.
Here in Canada our government seized protesters money and the crowds cheered.
How does it compare to Cube World Alpha?
>Yes, it's a war. Deal with it

The countries doing the seizing aren't at war with Russia and seem adamant about currently not being at war.
I think you're focussing on the wrong metric. This would be like saying that phones aren't made with slave labour because the companies are in california.

There's a disconnect between where the models come from, and where the money goes.
Compared to JS SPAs such as React/Vue/Angular, Blazor obviates a huge amount of toolchain complexity, multi-language and transpilation impedance, and jank of leaky abstractions building a component model on top of Javascript.

Having worked with a mix of these, I found Blazor to be clearly much simpler, approaching though not quite reaching the simplest possible implementation for a component based UI.

I think it's probably more a matter of what you are used to than inherent complexity. The things you are familiar with seem 'easy' and the unknown seems 'hard'.

Stick with it, it really pays dividends when you get good at it!
they are not individuals. they are the Russian state.

i agree it's a fine line, but then, these people are undermining western democracies and at the same time seek safety in them. they assumed their assets would be safe and tried to max their payouts.
I'm not a fan of the tone either, and I don't think the author did themselves any favors by comparing taking about academic papers early on, because this is very much not one.

I still think you're missing the forest for the trees here. Your counterpoints are not wrong, but disagreeing with three sentences in the post and deciding that invalidates the whole thing is even worse than what you are saying the author did.
> To save his own skin.

So Russia as a functioning society is destroyed in the inevitable counter-attack. How does that benefit Putin? How does that allow him to go on living in the way that he clearly wants to?
I just want to remind those who are talking about due process that this is about crowd sourcing where assets of Russian oligarchs are. That is not the same thing as denying them due process. In other words, it's just a website.

On the other hand, the actual due process part happen when the actual authorities of those countries, follow the laws of their country, and seize those assets because of sanctions.
Should be an unlockable feature after 100 karma through a checkbox in your profile
7 max, and a dashboard on the 8th to tell you what you're looking at on the other 7
Indeed. By allowing the price of energy to settle very quickly online, Bitcoin ultimately makes it hard for world governments to keep accumulating debt to fund their wars in foreign countries. As long as the price of assets can be settled truthfully online faster than the liars can spread their propaganda, the system should work. As long as honest nodes control the CPU power, the economy remains provably secure.

Just to be clear, because it seems some people still don't have any idea this stuff: Bitcoin invented a viral, self-healing economy. It's an algorithm to replace capitalism with a new economy against its will. It's possibly one of the cleverest things since the Manhattan Project. It just really annoys me that everyone on HN seems to think it's designed for trading pogs or something.
Does yours look better than mine?
Reply here if you just want to see how your username looks like, so we avoid noise and keep that Show HN on the top. comments are really interesting
You are wrong.

If a nation does something that other nations do, it is completely unjustified to pretend that their actions are wrong. The international community normalizes actions through actions. You might not like the fact that some particular action is normalized but you cannot suddenly villianize a nation for doing the same that other ("our allies") nations do regularly.
A lot of these "oligarchs" have citizenships of European countries. (Which, in my opinion, they shouldn't have been given in the first place, but that's an entirely different conversation.) So in many cases people are effectively cheering for extra-judicial property seizure of European citizens. The consequences of setting such precedent will go way beyond the scope of the current conflict.
It warms my heart this is the biggest worry on your mind at the moment. It's not beign seized though for now just frozen. Many of the so called "Olygarchs" are nominal holders of Putin's personal wealth btw.
It should be a viable product first. You need to build it fast. So you have to keep its size/feature-set minimum.
And to add some more perspective: Desert Storm started off with > 1000 sorties / day.
So now it's just OK to seize private property of individuals without any even pretend due process?

Yes, I think most of us would agree it is reasonably acceptable to freeze the assets of people who have close ties with a government currently engaged in an invasion that is being condemned by the people doing the seizing.

Of course these individuals have links to their government, you think you can find some rich Americans who aren't somehow linked to their government?

I'm sure there are – and I hope that if, say, the US decides to invade Mexico and start levelling cities, then other countries seize the property of rich Americans who are backing that invasion.

And now we have american media platforms saying 'yeah, it's fine to call for death to Russians'.

No we don't – you chose to deliberately misrepresent this.

Our response to this is getting pretty fucking scary. We need to start dialing this back or we become what we're supposedly against.

Nah, false equivalence. I think "we are going to seize the international assets of supporters of a regime engaged in a war we consider illegal" is a pretty fine tool, and really not anywhere close to "we are going to launch an all-out invasion of a relatively functional sovereign democracy".
You got a piranha plant.
About 1 year ago I changed the way we find requirements. This was after reading about non-violent communication. The basic premise is: find out what people need. Not what people want.

Most of the time users will come and say what they want. They basically describe what their "perfect" implementation should look like. But almost never do they describe what needs they have. Or what they really wanna solve with that suggested implementation.

Now we always ask: What's your need?

They can suggest possible solutions/implementation. But that's only a suggestion.

One extra benefit when asking about needs is, the person who implements that feature can better empathize with the user.
In case others were wondering, Examine requires a membership for the human effect matrix.
> So now it's just OK to seize private property of individuals without any even pretend due process?

Yes and it always has been. None of these people are actual citizens of these countries in any meaningful way, and Russia is a mafia state where the sanctioned individuals have more or less committed crime in order to gain these assets in the first place, and they are helping someone that the countries seizing assets believe is committing a war crime.

This is more like having a king and princes and princesses and seizing assets of the princes and princesses conducting the war. These aren’t like “oh shucks” rags to riches wealthy everyday Russians.

> Of course these individuals have links to their government, you think you can find some rich Americans who aren't somehow linked to their government?

Sure you can. And Iran or Venezuela or Russia or North Korea can seize their assets in those countries for committing “crimes” as they see fit. Wonder why nobody has assets in those countries?

But this whataboutism also fails because (insert cartoon CEO villain scapegoat) isn’t giving money to Joe Biden to go personally invade Canada. It’s incomparable.

> “Something something Iraq”

First who cares? We’re talking about Russia and Ukraine.

Second yes countries can decide that they don’t like Americans and seize their assets abroad.

> Our response to this is getting pretty fucking scary. We need to start dialing this back or we become what we're supposedly against.

You haven’t seen anything yet. We’re 100% going to war with Russia or will be engaging them directly unless Putin is deposed and I don’t think that’s going to happen. He wants a war so it’s just a matter of time until he decides to attack resupply missions in Poland directly on Polish soil.
People can continue to be productive without meaninglessly adding more digits to their network.

Or maybe others would be highly productive if the current people retire.
Your advice might be okay for good times (investing, buying land, houses).

But in hard economic times, the global economy will be doing badly and therefore most investments will too, even housing (see 2008). Going into debt that you then invest is doubly risky: you have debt, plus you have a risky investment.

Saving cash is actually indeed the best way to prepare for hard times.