skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
like banning Russians from sport (something we managed to avoid in the Cold War but apparently not this time)

That isn't as persuasive a point as you might want it to be. It may be the case that we are, now, simply being more comprehensive in defending against a descent back into those awful cold war times. Once we were already in the thick of it during the Cold War, even a little bit of cooperation was useful in not descending even further.

It's like a phase transition. When society is already functioning at a higher level of cooperation, appropriate consequences of deviating from that are highly exclusionary. But the game-theoretic risk/reward balance changes when society is functioning at a more adversarial level. At these different phase states, an action that may incentivise de-escalation in one phase state may have a different (even inverse) effect in another phase state.
Mormon boss, eh
I really think than one, we are going to have to end up with search engines managing a curated list of 'roots', and two, those roots are going to end up consisting substantially of a mix of more 'human' sites and, let's be honest with ourselves, a certain amount of content that is paying for favoritism.

I think it's very possible that we have effectively raised the noise floor so high that there is no signal, but also likely that perverse incentives from trying to profit off of search engines have made them our enemies instead of our friends.

For instance, does Google favor sites that run their own tools on them? I've stopped paying attention but recall hearing mutterings to that effect. If so then running the tools is a protection racket.

For other perverse incentives: if you try to rank sites by how long someone stays on them before backing out, or searching again, then you end up favoring rabbit-hole sites, that either string you along or suck you into a tangent. "Oh, this must have answered their question about keeping bees," no, they're reading gossip about the Queen of England and have forgotten all about beekeeping.
> It's not only the "console effect" for the OS though. It's the vertical integration of the hardware to begin with. It's just better than x86 platforms because Apple control everything and can make sure it works together well. It's been very apparent as we work on the platform just how well everything ties together internally.

I don't think I agree with you on this. It may be easier for Asahi's developers to manage but it's not like Apple hasn't been cutting corners[1][2] in some areas either, which affects the actual users. I don't know if a power outage leading to lost data or incredibly fast SSD wear are better.

It's also only good for the use cases it's advertised for and falls drastically short in other areas.It's not close to either NVidia's or AMD's low-mid range GPUs when it comes to gaming, for example. It is excelling because it's a tool designed for a handful of specific purposes and the related audiences. It's very good to have a non-x86 competitor in the market and it would be amazing if one day I could build a comparably performant ARM-based (or heck even RISCV-based) system for home.

[1]: https://twitter.com/marcan42/status/1494213855387734019

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26244093
What’s funny is how much property values and rent have risen in the US in 2020 to 2022, when population growth has been flat due to Covid. (Population has increased 1 million in that time, from 331.5 million to 332.5 million.) obviously, newborns aren’t buying houses, but the excess deaths (not to mention early retirements requiring around the clock care) were entirely due to Covid and should have opened up a number of properties for first time homebuyers.
Jonathan Pie: How Putin Weaponized London’s Greed | NYT Opinion

https://youtu.be/YAblAQENQhE
Employment at DARPA
Maybe, maybe not. Certainly some people who are doing this will continue to do so despite regulation. In any case disproves the comment I was replying to.
A quick search of the term in my post instead of just saying no would have been useful. https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/engineering/blocking-di...
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For example, the California State Parks website complied with this. Here's an example of a PDF that needs to be requested: https://www.parks.ca.gov/pages/21299/files/angel_island_gp_a...

It seems silly, but it does create a very strong motivation to make these documents accessible. And I can already tell that previously removed PDFs are now available again, presumably with their accessibility issues fixed.
Same with the web. Fully abled users benefit from keyboard accessibility when e.g. their mouse runs out of batteries, or they’re dominant hand is occupied (e.g. carrying baby).
Not all heroes wear capes. :)
You’re about to take his code and run it as a bootloader and you have concerns with piping a command into a shell?
If you take this argument to its logical conclusion, anarchism is the only form of free government.

All laws and regulations necessarily take freedom away. That is the basis of the social contract: you aren’t free to harm others.
The nature of the benefits and harms of such a thing is highly context dependent. Making an absolute statement like this is basically meaningless without specifying more.
My bank account is insured by the government up to 250k. To trust the banking system is to trust the government.
Ok. So we should hug and support Russia in those difficult times and it will inevitably result in lowering Russian patriotism and becomming more westernized? Because we were trying to do for the last 3 decades and nothing like that happened. Russians are very patriotic and strongly support their government when it confronts the western world by bombing civilians.

If nothing works I prefer to apply punishment in hopes that smart Russians emigrate and Russia will crumble. And yes, punishment should affect more civilised and smarter Russians too to either motivate them to clean up their country or leave it.
Yes. My error.
Not far off from how much airtime / mindshare their ideas get.
Not only that but the urban vision could come blasting back. If people spend more time at home, they spend more time in their neighborhoods, so they start to care about neighborhood amenities, and suburban just can't compete with urban in the neighborhood amenities (let's wave away cars/driving, noting that in America most cities are actually fairly friendly for driving, as well as have low-density residential districts that are still much more sustainable than the suburbs). Maybe?
For a Russian Oligarch London offered a community where other Oligarchs, western elites could mingle. The galleries, museums of London's are impressive but Dubai has some of the finest galleries/museums/restaurants in the world. They offer a wealth of everything and much more like Swim Amongst Sharks at the Dubai Aquarium and other things banned in the western world.
> It isn't normal (at least in a democracy) for the local rulers to have that kind of control over businesses.

Democracies are preventing businesses from operating in russia. What exactly makes democracies so special that it isn't beyond corruption or evil? People have said democracies don't commit genocide, democracies don't invade and steal territory, democracies don't enslave, etc. When the truth is that democracies have committed the greatest genocides, stolen the most land, committed the worst evils. I've yet to get a satisfactory response. Russia is a democracy and the current bogeyman was elected. It's like people are so brainwashed by propaganda that they can't see the truth.
To my moral standard, all of this is manipulative if the intention is to manipulate the Google ranking instead of seeing an improved Google ranking as a result of delivering better service to the visitor.

This does of course not imply that these things can be proven, which implies that no action can be taken. Not everything that is immoral is punishable.
Does that industry expect 1x output for 1y pay, or 0.5x output for 0.5y pay… fill in the x and the y, please.
Ethereum's Vitalik Buterin Is Worried About Crypto's Future
There are plenty of cities worldwide where building up has worked. Regardless, if buying a town home or single-family has become out of reach, it's far better to have /something/ to live in rather than be forced to fight the market for a small box in a high-rise that you still can't afford.
This makes me so upset.

I love honestly love a lot of Chromebook hardware. It's honestly exactly what I want in a laptop - long battery life, efficient, lightweight, decent enough keyboard.

But it's impossible to get without giving Google money, and without dealing with a massive warning every time you boot - if you're model even lets you install something other than Chrome OS.

I should really grab a Pinebook Pro I guess.

And that's without getting into all the privacy issues of students being forced to use Google software/hardware, or the schools spying on students through the Chromebooks.
It's funny but you're not the only one. Digital had some great engineering. Apple had a great understanding of the consumer and UX. Could have been awesome. I also thought that a similar alliance would have been awesome. Imagine if Apple had bought Sun instead of Oracle.
Seriously my Jabra's and Senny BT headphones pickup and work flawlessly with my Linux desktop.

Meanwhile my Sennhesier headphones work sometimes with my POS mac to the point where I have to tell people If i don't immediately pick up it's because I'm wasting 15 minutes trying to get my headphones to pair with my Mac.
Shouldn't there be a way to only search multiple forums through some userscript? Only found out about userscript after messing around with an iOS app called HyperWeb.

At least in my limited understanding of userscript's capabilities, you'd still need to explicitly specify the forums you want to search, but I imagine that would solve lots of use cases for search filters.
I don't know because I'm from the "if you need to write down multiple examples of how to use a command in order to move forward with it indefinitely, then it has an absolutely terrible UI and that is in fact the root problem you should be fixing" school of thought.

I'm the kind of person that prefers wrapping commands with terrible UI in functions with much better UI though https://github.com/pmarreck/pac . Like who the fuck thought that "pacman -Syyu" (where the number of y's semantically changes the meaning) would be a great idea? An idiot, a sadist or an autist, that's who. Certainly not someone who actually cares about normal humans.

In my opinion, instead of writing all these helper or cheatsheet functions as constant reminders of how bad the TUI (text user interface) is on these commands, someone should release a library of wrappers that wraps all of these turds (I'm sorry, "diamonds in the rough") in sensible and consistent TUI with consistent option formats, autocompletes, maybe some inline documentation while you type the command, etc. And then we wouldn't need all these band-aid tools.

I can say as an Arch fan but pacman command-tool despiser (did I mention that it doesn't at all try to stop you from easily breaking your dependency structure JUST in order to support some very corner use-cases?), prior to writing pac I was "man pacman"'ing for months, and after I finished it I haven't needed to do that EVER. (Yet.)

The "ip" command is an example of one I'd say has a good TUI.
Maybe each person didn't individually answer each question?
> but every time I think of starting one, the build system brings me up short.

You aren't kidding: https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/setup/macos_build.ht...
Can you do ascii art in 256 bits?
I find it crazy because you know they developed all this hardware with Linux. Just release the darn code.

I haven’t been at apple for over a year but there was a strong population using apples own arch Linux distro. It’s not like people there don’t use Linux.
In a way, thanks to Russia's and recently China's economic, and military challenges; The United States has advanced and is advancing further than any of us can possibly imagine.
Yes and no. If the US company is not registered as an employer in Germany (basically, has a subsidiary in Germany), then you’re not an employee under the German law, which means that you have to work as a freelancer (self-employed, pay health insurance yourself, and so on), and the US company must thus be willing for you to work as a contractor instead of as an employee. At least that’s my understanding.
Do you mean, the actual value, or the value obtained in the survey for NYC population?
What about just non-repudiation? Proving a logfile, or evidence, etc, is from before a certain date and hasn't been tampered with?
Except popular criminal procedurals.

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2856766
I seriously wonder if you can create a digital currency that can effectively be anything other than commodity money. That is, I don't know if you can truly create a logical, mechanical system that permits all of the following: the creation of a fiat currency, the allowance of credit and debt, an autonomous system that cannot be controlled by actors like central banks, and transactional privacy.

I believe some of these things are in direct contradiction to each other and there just isn't exactly a wide amount of academic discussion going on about it that I've been exposed to.

And what's interesting to me is that if you did effectively create such a system, how would it manifest in usage? If there isn't a digital gold rush, or a speculative aspect to its consumption, well ran monetary systems from established governments give you few reasons to utilize it.
> Google's Search accomplishes the goals of 10 years ago, but steps no further than that.

Google has removed features that it had 10 years ago.
Yeah I think that's pretty fair. Music, theatre, cinema are performing arts. Not art. You qualify it with "performing".

And that's my point really. It's a distinction based on definition. Collectively, institutions recognize this and inherently add qualifiers to distinguish between these varying disciplines.
I am a person who wired ~15K to wrong bank account outside US, I only realized after got notification that money was not received it was days later, reversing wire was straight forward and took if not mistaken a week to process, while requesting to reverse transaction branch manager warned me that on another end bank might refuse to reverse transaction and then this money would be lost forever.
Am I the only person on earth who hasn't noticed any decline in Google results that everyone keeps talking about? To me it seems like people conflate the fact that there is now significantly more stuff on the internet (what's the data volume today compared to 2010, 100x? 1000x?) than there was years ago with the performance of search engines.

People say they now have to append "reddit" to their search and they didn't in 2008. Which is obvious because in 2008 there was only reddit and like 3 other sites, now there's dozens of relevant ones.
This is typical crypto-hype.

Notice that although many points are raised, it doesn’t address the direct objections of the previous post.

Obfuscate, misdirect, and confuse the marks.
https://archive.is/4vDGE
It's a curl command from a domain he controls, what's the difference between that and downloading a binary?
I think what a lot of people miss is that cryptocurrencies are different than blockchains. But also that cryptocurrencies can both work exactly like modern money (opposed to cash) but that this system is still new (e.g. DeFi: Decentralized Finance). Not only can you do smart contract escrows, but there's nothing stopping anyone from doing DeFi and having the exact same functionality as a credit card. You can also take out loans. You can invest. You can have clawbacks and credit lines. All that already exists in DeFi. Though there are also other people that think crypto/bc can work without a judicial system in place. Maybe, but probably not. Tech doesn't solve everything nor can it. People are also "solving" problems that aren't problems with tech (or creating new ones). But that's an age old story and not limited to cryptocurrencies.

There's also other things that even make it attractive for governments and financial institutions. E.g. you can use transaction fees as a form of consumption tax (especially valuable if you're the world's reserve currency or that of a major area). Through a country cryptocurrency you could set a federal consumption tax (providing a new and difficult to avoid revenue stream), give everyone free access to banking (wallets), make buying treasury bonds trivial, and other modern things that most of us take for granted but not everyone has access to (5.4% of Americans are unbanked). This would have the potential to simplify taxes but could equally complicate them. Hell, the Fed Reserve could pre-mine coins (for fast transactions and low environmental impact) and even offer interest on wallets through POS. These things could be beneficial.

Also one thing that makes it attractive to governments is that you have the ability to track every transaction, making it a data rich environment. This is an extreme authoritarian route although could make for simple return free filing and "stop terrorists and criminals" (I'm not bullish on that). Though personally I hope it doesn't go this route and we have ZKP transactions (i.e. anonymous like cash). Personally I don't think the gov should see that grandma gave me lunch money. Most cryptocurrencies aren't anonymous/private (not what the crypto stands for), despite what is common belief. I, unfortunately, think that this is a big reason large financial institutions and governments are interested.

But definitely agree on this being full of speculation and uncertainty. There are also plenty of people creating scams and abusing the systems. But just because a big part of the ecosystem is corrupt doesn't mean the underlying technology is useless. To determine that we'll have to wait and see, but there has been shown at least the potential for utility. I'm not trying to say that cryptocurrencies are going to be the future. I'm just also saying that there's reasons that smart people are attracted to the idea other than scams. But that also doesn't mean the ideas will work out.
> Crypto is FOSS finance, it works for the people as stated and expected.

A laughable statement in the face of crypto’s negative externalities. We’ll wreck the planet we all share, but at least we’ll have FOSS finance!
That's horrible. I hope you find a support system that helps you out of this dark place.

Do you draw a line directly specific from work-from-home to your current state? In the past couple of years we've globally had economic strife, millions of deaths and political unrest at enormous scale in addition to the switch to Zoom calls. Would -all things being equal- your desire to self harm be eliminated if you and your fellow employees were back to exchanging pleasantries at the office?
Yeah, kinda weird that everybody is so focused on inconsistencies. These questions directly relate to underlying assumptions for support for various public policies. Does HN think people have coherent views on public policies?
> There is a myth about the war that I have been meaning to set straight for years. After no WMDs were found, the left claimed ‘Bush lied. People died.’ This accusation itself is a lie. It’s time to put it to rest.”

If they lied it's not provable. Your claim is opinion not fact.
I'm entirely unconvinced that self custody is an advantage for anyone except extremely sophisticated people (sophisticated in both the technical and financial sense).

I've been doing blockchain on and off since 2008. Recently I lost a few thousand dollars by sending crypto to a L1 address when I was on a L2.

I work on self-soverign identity in my day job. I've written smart contracts. I'm a careful person. Basically I think if I'm dumb enough to do this what chance do most people have of getting this right?
That's consistent with my claim that I "agree, photography is not art". Feel free believe to the contrary.

Also, my original post takes no stance on the objective reality of the universe and the cosmos as experienced by the finite existence of the mind and self, inherent in the physical limitations imposed upon our feeble bodies by our finite sensory organs.
Why would they develop their hardware in Linux?
Claim 1: Crypto is a Bubble (Confidence: High)
Sure. All tech rushes go through a bubble.

Claim 2: Blockchain technology has no non-monetary applications (Confidence: High)
Gambling is definitely a non-monetary application of smart contracts and oracles that is truly viable as a product.

*Claim 3: Future monetary use of blockchain technology will be minor (Confidence: Medium)
There are many forms of crypto, and many are not immutable. Many have systems of governance that allow for changes in monetary policy, just like in a fiat currency.
https://www.quora.com/Can-an-ICBM-hit-a-moving-target-say-an...
Ukrainians already dethroned their corrupt system of power.

Every post-communist county did that on their own.

It can be done. So Russians can do it too. They just need proper motivation.

And that motivation for countries that did that was abject poverty that made the people realise that course change is needed.
I had two jobs when I was 23 for 3+ years. One was a large company and the other at a startup. The startup flamed out. Looking back on those days, I realize that I burnt out from the over-work.

You could look at your situation as an opportunity to develop a broader range of interests other than just work. Come clean with your SO/family. Keeping it bottled up only makes it worse for yourself. Ease off the pressure on yourself.
Space, despite what some people want to believe, is not for commercial enterprise. SpaceX is backed by uncle Sam's deep pockets. And uncle Sam is locked into a cold war with China.

"The white bird rose up once again, laser cannon in its wings. It was a moving sight. In my heart, though, I wished it didn't have to be used in war."
Somehow that feels way safer.

I guess it’s not, but it feels like it is.