skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Related to this, I’m constantly paranoid about entering confidential data into communications apps.

Once having typed a password into Teams, I decided to create a small Keyboard Maestro automation (on Mac) to automatically remove focus from apps like Teams after a short period of inactivity. It’s not intrusive but just ensures that the current focus is not left in the chat message box when I’m not actually typing chat messages.

Additionally I’ve taken to having all comms related apps on a separate machine to my main development machine. This was ostensibly for reasons of reducing distractions, but hugely helps reduce the risk of this sort of accidental input as well.
I just bought a Goal Zero Sherpa 100AC.

It's about the size of a VHS cassette and holds 95Wh (Maximum for airplane travel). This thing could power a dumbphone for months and it's half the size of the ye olde luggable phones.
Not your keys, not your coins - indeed!
75% of global poverty reduction has been due to China lifting over 800 million people. The real number is even higher if you account for Vietnam, Laos and Cuba. Then there are also many nations that don't classify themselves explicitly as government-planned economies where the public sector plays a huge role in providing a wide breadth of basic services to the people, rather than the private markets doing so.

So virtually all of the poverty alleviation has happened when governments have prioritized access to basics (housing, education, healthcare, public transport, pensions, wage regulations, utilities like power/water/sewerage, etc) to the common people rather than leave it up to "market forces".

Institutions that represent the interests of people using state budgets for inclusive policy have a much bigger role in poverty alleviation, by creating an environment of fair opportunity for the poor, than explicit deregulation/privatization.

Source: https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/press-release/2022/04/01/l...
Are we going to see a ridiculous outcome where FIFA license the brand to another game developer, who call it “FIFA 2024”, and then consumers just go ahead and buy “FIFA 2024” and it turns out to be something completely different than they expected?
All I want is simple reliable hub with:

- HDMI

- 2x USB A

- MicroSD
>The key to this is just searching the archives of Usenet

That's interesting... but how exactly do you do that? Seems like the search engines I tried never return anything more than 5 years old.
I believe that is exactly their point.
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So is it "some level" or is it "extreme"?

See this chart: piketty.pse.ens.fr/files/capital21c/en/pdf/F0.I.1.pdf This is the income inequality in the USA in the 20th century. The slump in inequality coincides with the post-war "golden era of capitalism". On the other hand, its return to gilded age levels heralded the decline of the working class, overfinancialisation, and eventually the catastrophe of 2008.

>All attempts for a perfectly equal economy, that I'm aware of, have ended in disaster. Sometimes horrifically.

There can never by any such thing as a "perfectly equal" economy, so it's useless talking abou it. But we can see that most of the best countries in the world to live in (economically) have comparatively low levels of income inequality.
> Coinbase Pro is FDIC insured, makes one wonder why Coinbase itself isn't.

This is exactly what those not familiar with Coinbase don't understand, the two systems are tiered and reflect that: Coinbase is by far the worst exchange experience, and they do not car about their customers unless they are Pro customers.

This gives the average person with limited knowledge the worst possible UX into thinking this is how things are and likely deters them from ever trying againg when their order doesn't get completed because of some arbitrary reason.

They did this to themselves, I can assure you this was a long time coming.
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> What 1980s fantasy is this 3x rule?

The one where you were paying 20% interest on your mortgage.
I read GP trying to draw a distinction between “real ethics of AI in practice” and “fantasies about scary overlord general AI.”

The former sounds like it would be full of reasonable cases for taking it seriously.
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Fun fact this is the second time Microsoft have pulled this. The first time was for legacy 16 bit Windows applications running on Windows NT. Since most people have moved to 64bit processors, it has been shuttered.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_on_Windows
Neoliberalism overwhelmingly rewards self interested behaviour, explicitly at the expense of cooperative and altruistic counterparts, which iteratively nurtures disproportionate sociopathic tendencies in those who thrive in the system. It’s often posited that the solution is to replace it wholesale with something else entirely, but I’ve argued for some time that it’s best to be subjected to a counterbalance in the form of a competing system that rewards cooperation and altruism at least equally.

My thesis is neoliberalism, in the way it rewards self interested behaviour closely aligns with valuing optimisation, which in turn requires quantifiable resources with which to precisely measure performance, namely those intrinsically finite. Long story short, this boils down to basically energy and time, a lay explanation I’ve used is anything that intersects with E=mc^2.

An example of a resource that’s abundant, or at least not intrinsically finite, is information. The way this is currently incorporated into our value systems is through artificial scarcity constructs, namely copyright and patents. These mechanisms incentivise locking them up as tightly as possible, manifesting as greater sociopathy.

An alternate would directly value the breadth and depth of an idea’s use, the scarce component being the links between the ideas, and amplify the incentive for the idea to be used and made as widely available as possible, rewarding collaboration and altruism. I see it as basically Page Rank applied to the current scope of copyright and patents. Funding for payments would be an additional or modified source currently used by entities who hold sovereignty over their currency, and I’d argue would require much less abstraction from the realised value than existing debt and interest mechanisms.
The increased density seems like it might create cooling, and hence lifetime issues, is lifetime on solid state batteries well known yet?
Also, as a resident of an area that gets very hot, does anyone do a good job at self cooling besides tesla packs? Last I heard the leaf lost capacity very quickly in places like Phoenix.
...ackshually: https://twitter.com/t1heikkila/status/1524092117622169604

Odessa in Ukraine doesn't have gasoline or diesel. They do have electricity though and people with EVs are driving around just fine - even an electric Taxi.

Gasoline distribution points (gas stations) tend to also blow up in a pretty ball of fire when attacked.

An EV can be charged from any socket with working power.
META

I'm seeing more and more political pieces like this here. There was a similar piece yesterday about privilege and inequality.

What's the limit here before we just turn into Reddit?
> The whitelist can be seen in Webkit's source when searching

It was removed in December 2021: https://github.com/WebKit/WebKit/commit/0dc4de89f6b03870787c...

--- start quote ---

This patch loosens the user gesture requirement around using WebAuthn with respect to user gestures by removing the Quirks.h allowlist of sites that get a freebie.

Instead the new behavior is all sites get one freebie, then on subsequent attempts they show a non-modal consent dialog.

--- end quote ---

> There are better examples how to avoid users getting spammed with any requests, browsers have a long history of dealing with that kind of abuse much better.

They really don't have much better solutions than requiring user interaction. Even Media Engagement Index that you mentioned is used by Chrome only on desktop and by calculating user interaction.
Working hard is not inherently valuable. You have to do something with your labor that other people value, which may require hard work. It might also require working smarter, creativity, taking advantage of a rare opportunity, making the right connections, etc. Of course luck is involved. Do you think we should penalize people being lucky?
Bombardier is cool, but serves a very different use case.

I mentioned elsewhere in the comments that we have a Docker image, and are working on other methods of installing the CLI to alleviate some of these dependency-related concerns.

Getting side tracked here, but there seems to be a common sentiment when it comes to Node.js that it's uniquely insecure. Node.js has indeed had some unfortunate press when it comes to supply-chain security, but every other runtime is susceptible to those attacks (PiPy, Gems, Maven, Rust Crates). Ultimately of course, if you choose to avoid using any software built on top of those stacks, that's your choice.

Artillery specifically is no different to any other Node.js-based project in how large the dependency tree is. VSCode for instance is used by millions of developers has 1.6k dependencies [1].

1. https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/network/dependencies
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Coinbase looks more like a brokerage to me than a bank. While SPIC insurance covers some of your assets the bigger protection comes from brokerage rules around segregating user funds from company funds and the expectation of the courts that those funds won’t be used to settle company debts.

So it is a little surprising to me that crypto assets wouldn’t be treated similarly, which is probably why the SEC is demanding this disclosure.
Prior Art:

Brown, E.; McFly, M. (1985). Energy Harvesting of Atmosphere-Earth Electrostatic Discharge in Spatiotemporal Displacement Research
Stablecoin Terra falls as low as 30 cents on the dollar
It’s called “equity” in newspeak. We’ve gone from “equal opportunity” to “equal outcomes”. This is the great contribution elite humanities departments have made over the last 25 years. Interesting that it’s also self serving.
Very nice sentiment, but unfortunately that's not how reality works. Do you honestly look at the world and see that incomes are correlated to merit/effort/performance/work?
It's the poor's fault they are poor, is that it ? They should bet on the right numbers in the lottery, right ?

The non-stop growth of income and wealth inequality for a few decades is only fair, because if you weren't able to pay for tuition, you could still scrub toilets very very very fast and and become rich !

It's no secret to anyone who has been doing any kind of reading about economy and/or investment that money makes money. I'd like to contrast that by mentioning a quite interesting report by the french senate a few years ago which was titled "It's very expensive to be poor" [1]

I'm a entrepreneur and I'm not here to claim that we shouldn't have a free market, but I feel sick in my stomach when I feel like I'm reading that poor are meant to be poor or that it's only their fault. A lot of indicators tends to show the game is more and more biased.

As a sidenote, as i think quite a few readers are americans: I've been living in the US for a few years and I was really astonished by the lack / or malfunction of the social elevator in that country. The American Dream seemed long gone to me.

[1] https://www.senat.fr/rap/r13-388/r13-38818.html (french only, sorry)
A .reg file is to the Registry as a diff or release point is to an initialisation file. .reg files aren't the Registry, they're ways to save or set Registry values.

There remains only one registry. Much software reflects present values.

It's not possible to have multiple simultaneous Registry keys, and swapping in or out additional keys may very well produce unwanted or unintended consequences for running service instances.

If I want to fire up some specific version of a process or server on, say, Linux, I can generally (specifics vary, but these are typical):

- Pass along arguments as command-line parameters.

- Set environment variables with desired values.

- Specify both global (system-wide) and user-specific configurations.

- Enable or disable specific configuration files using invocation flags.

- And if all else fails, jail the process and launch within a filesystem context in which the desired configuration file(s) exist.

Again: the Registry affords none of this.

Let alone comments, as previously noted.
Income inequality isn't evil, optimizing for it is.
Creating a system where wealth and thus power and freedom is concentrated in a shrinking percentage of the populos is wrong and exploitative.
You cannot have free markets without a government, sadly. It is either an utopia or a dystopia, depending on your point of view of private militia and consolidation of corporate power.

Also, free market ideology come from the idea that natural ressources are infinite (JB Say explained that clearly, JS Mill implied it). Later on, other free market economists corrected him (to make Say's law still relevant) and added that even if not infinite, ressources can be substitued easily once one is over-exploited.

2007-2008 put a question mark on the "easily", as the disruption from a conventional oil peak lasted until 2012 in Italy (and probably Greece, Spain and Portugal, the four EU countries that depend the most on oil to make their electricity). This year will put a bigger question mark on how well agricultural ressources substitution work.
> I'd be shocked if creditors could search through the user data for things of value.

dropbox don't own any copyright to the content from the user's uploads. So even if the creditors find any valuable IP or content, there's no way they can claim ownership over it.

Coinbase, on the other hand, is given custody of actual assets (the cryptos).
Official company statement at the time:

"Permanent suspension of @realDonaldTrump":

https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/company/2020/suspensio...

Jack Dorsey at the time:

"Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey Calls Trump Ban After Deadly Riot 'the Right Decision'":

https://people.com/politics/twitter-ceo-jack-dorsey-addresse...
> Later, the medical examiner's report, obtained by the BBC, found traces of methamphetamine in her unborn son's liver and brain.

Someone killing their baby with their drug habit is a bit different than the El Salvador case where an abortion was needed to save the mothers life.
Benchmarking container scaling on AWS in 2022
I'm sure someone could. To quote, "In comments shared on Twitter, Coinbase CEO and founder Brian Armstrong said the exchange had "no risk of bankruptcy," and that the disclosure was made due to new rules set by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission regarding public companies that hold crypto assets on behalf of others."
White European and… almost all of Asia?
That's a feature. Human words are supposed to be flexible. Re-defining and re-shaping them is a key way that we evolve as a society.

Insisting that everyone in the room uses the same definitions for all words, and trying to force some mono-mind of language, rather than actually working to solve problems is counterproductive. It can be productive to discuss and understand how terms are being used differently by different parties, and it is absolutely necessary for everyone in the room to understand that words are different for different people, but then you have to actually start working on the shared problems.

It's incredibly frustrating when people waste everyone's time trying to come up with a completely new shared "compromise vocabulary" that no one is happy with and will get discarded the moment people leave the room.
For an email file attachment it quite clearly shows it uploading.

The issue with the Instagram model is that it looks like you are just doing things locally on your phone, and haven't uploaded yet. If you have second thoughts and decide not to post the pic, Instagram could keep the photo.

That said, I don't really see why they would do this. What would it gain them to keep millions of discarded photos?
Work issued: 16” MacBook Pro M1 Max and a Dell XPS 15

I’ve also got a desktop running Fedora + KDE that I use.
This is inaccurate. The IMF and other entities do not give aid or loans to dictatorships, because anything given to a dictatorship goes straight to the cronies at the top.

El Salvador started having this problem as Bukele eliminated other branches of government. That's why he pushed Bitcoin adoption in the first place - to work around the problems caused by his desired form of government.
As an EU citizen, do the following: Paste some information about yourself into one of these forms without submitting, then send them an e-mail asking them to delete your personal information. Bonus points for having your lawyer write that mail, so it gets handled by their legal department instead of regular support. Watch them scramble trying to figure out how to even go about that. When gentle reminders to not irresponsibly collect data aren't enough, maybe a kick in the teeth will do.

Shit sites becoming responsible for all the data they soak up couldn't have happened soon enough.
Also EXTEMELY unfavorable when you can be margin called.
> GPLv3: as worthy a successor as The Phantom Menace, as timely as Duke Nukem
Forever, and as welcome as New Coke.

That's one way to make new friends :)
Equal pay for a particular role seems very in line with the market efficiency theme. For better pay, you need a better job where the effort required is actually higher.
> For that reason, I think it's fair to see some level of income inequality as a necessary evil until someone can convincingly demonstrate otherwise

If all you have to share is “I guess the status quo is as good as I’m willing to allow”, just say that instead of trying to browbeat those of us who have the ability to believe a better world is possible.

If all you can do is dress your FUD up as shrewd analysis, at least recognize that you aren’t actually sharing anything new and are just defending the status quo. I’m sick of this kind of dishonesty and, frankly, fear mongering in defense of a machine that operates on greed and suffering by design.
The phrasing used by the poll in the article probably resulted in the vast majority of respondents think in terms of differences in pay and not in terms of investment income. I’m not a fan of wealth inequality, but some degree of income inequality is useful as an incentive. Concentration of wealth is only loosely correlated to that & evening out wages wouldn’t do much of anything to change it.
> "Let me see the generated assembly in Godbolt" why, why?

This is a embedded thing, not a C or C++ thing.

The other day someone was saying here on HN that writing Verilog feels like following a process where "you already more or less know which circuit do you want, you are just trying to figure which is the specific Verilog code that will get your synthesizer to generate that circuit".

On embedded platforms (or generally anywhere where you count memory usage in units of KB or less), that's exactly what many people do. They already know more or less the assembly code, they are just looking for the right higher-level program that will translate to that assembly. That's one of the reasons they get angry when the language tries to be too smart.

The reason you just don't code in assembly directly is because it's still a pain and your chances of mistake increase (e.g. doing complex arithmetic expressions).
> JOINS are a performance _enhancement_ in an efficient, indexed schema, especially with narrow tables when the joined pages are small enough to stick in caches longer.

When used correctly nearly everything is good. But in reality most production applications in the world you'll find them doing joins where it's not performant. You'll find 1 to 1 relationships all over the place.

In many scenarios the application and database would run quicker if you do 11 queries instead of doing 1 query and doing joins to fetch the other data. In many real world scenarios. And you can literally demostrate that to some developers with a pull request that performs better and they'll continue to write their crappy SQL.
We know there are problem on both sides:
Too big and powerful government = corruption and inefficiencies
Too big and powerful corporation = corruption and inefficiencies
I prefer going more toward the free market as corporation are in competition and that force some accountability that we don’t see in the government. Keep the government small and nimble, mostly as a control mechanism for corporation that become corrupt and monopolistic.

Read Atlas Shrugged if you want to see the opposite of your point of view.
Most definitely - it takes away from their power.
What was the impetus behind El Salvador's adoption of bitcoin? The bill seems to have been introduced by President Nayib Bukele, whose background is law.

This recent story [1] about bitcoin being pushed by fishy operatives in Catalonia is what got me curious.

[1] https://www.occrp.org/en/investigations/fueling-secession-pr... / https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31317907
they do both, you can earn interest on some things within coinbase, e.g. 4% interest on USDC (their stablecoin)
You've just posted an opinion about bitcoin without backing it up with facts. I'll happily engage if you post credible, verifiable facts that backup your claims about Bitcoin.
I'd say economics is inside the purview of hn.
Is something amiss with USDC?

If it's even partially backed by other cryptos, it could implode pretty soon.
I think the difference is that work is typically much more stressful and difficult than relationships with friends and family.

I suspect that exposure to constant stress at work causes us to have negative feelings over time (burnout), and the easiest way to reset the emotional clock is to get a different job working on something else.

But some people appear to be highly resistant to burnout, and I’m not sure why. I’d definitely like to learn more about it, though.
Why? Most people are not web experts.

There's probably an untold amount of shady data-trading stuff happening whenever I swipe my credit card at a POS somewhere. I don't know because I'm not a payment processor expert.
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Trump said he wouldn't go ever go back to Twitter. So this is a moot point because Trump is always honest and true to his word. /s
This is the system working as designed. This profound unfairness exists and propagates, and those who benefit most from it have a mental framework to justify it to themselves as "fair".
It is interesting how much influence Peter Thiel has on the main players of social media: via Facebook as an early investor and ex-board member and via Twitter with his ex-coworker from Paypal days Musk. He’s very explicit in his book about the power of monopolies and now you see this consolidation of social media companies under a specific group of closed people. WSJ reported Thiel being involved with Musk on this twitter deal, that plus his recent political investments in certain figures, did he figure out that they are not getting the same bang for buck with this ban in play? Dorsey has a financial interest of this deal going through, last I heard was at least 1 billion. So he’ll start saying yes to whatever pops up to let this go through and even more incentive with the recent downturn of tech stocks that are not profitable.
The issue is with cronyism and not liberalism.

I read this preference for inequality as: in countries with rampant cronyism and social divisions economical freedom isn't able to lift everyone but just a few that have connections to the people in power. That isn't to say that economical freedom makes the poorest more poor.

Look at this list of countries by equality.
https://inequality.org/facts/global-inequality/
Would that be 5 billion in customer assets and associated liabilities, leaving about 1 billion of equity for Coinbase? At a burn rate of 430 million per quarter that only leaves a runway about 7-8 months.