skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But you understand that these people are renting because they have no other choice, right?

That doesn't change the fact that renting is, by definition, non-permanent while ownership is permanent.

What do you suggest as an alternative? That all ownership be done away with? That a special exception for ownership of things be made if the thing in question is land or houses? That ownership of things that is either land or houses be limited? Taxed higher?

Government protecting the right to own things is the basis of civilisation.

Residential renters have their own protections too, in many places, allowing for renters to sometimes live for extended periods rent-free. There are limits on the rental adjustments, limits on evictions, etc.

A solution could be to encourage more housing to be built. Another one is to encourage economic development in other areas, so renters can move to other areas where they can afford to buy.

Insisting that people should not have to move and should be able to purchase their own home where they are, AND if they want to rent, then they never have to move again is simply unreasonable and ridiculous.
I've done my due diligence, there is no future in web3. I don't disparage early VCs who invested in blockchain startups because it is their job to put money into companies that could be revolutionary. However, the revolution has failed to materialize. While it may not be obvious to all it should become clearer in the coming months.

When I say 'fraud' I don't mean juicing the numbers or asking forgiveness instead or permission. I'm not talking about things that will receive a slap on the wrist or a fine from a regulator. There is a great deal of organized crime that is the backbone of the industry. A lot of people will deserve to go to prison when the music stops.
But is Game of Thrones an American or a British thing?
"planning and building nuclear plants takes a lot longer than 10 years"

Russia or Korea build a nuclear power unit in approximately 8 years, China - 6.
The older protocols that were built in the depth of 2018-19 bear markets will survive. Many of them are also doing wonderfully well in terms of revenue. COMP, MKR, AAVE, CRV all make a ton in revenue and have a well-defined product-market fit.

Crypto projects are tough to value. Their sheer global scale means that they can ramp up revenue and even profits extremely fast. StepN, a move-to-earn app reportedly made $120M in profit in its first year of operation. That might not be sustainable, but what business wouldn't give an arm and a leg to make $120M profits in just one year of operation?

Imo, crypto projects should be valued on 2-3x multiples at max.
Introduction (audio): https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/episode-66-kowloon-wa...
You declared that land wasn’t a part of wealth creation, and then pointed toward Japan as an example of wealth creation with a low amount of land and a lot of wealth and South America as an example of a lot of land and no wealth creation. All of this to support your claim that land != wealth creation

It is not a reductio ab absurdum argument to ask you to give proof to a statement that you declared.

I have already been warned about engaging in flame war arguments, so I will not respond to your other points unless you can provide evidence for what I consider your very incendiary claims that the land taken from other peoples was not in involved in wealth creation.

At best, we simply do not agree on basic interpretations of reality if you are pro free markets and capitalism but also don’t think plundered land had anything to do with wealth creation
I very much doubt this point. My reference is political comments on Facebook: these beautiful people, who otherwise do pay taxes, have kids and maybe even a picket fence, can spew hate and nonsense like there's no tomorrow, and they do so with their face attached. So while VRChat might not be a statistical representative for the population of the particular things you can encounter there, it really is just human nature and if everyone would be there, you'd see a similar level of unacceptable behavior, just maybe a different of that.

What I think happens in places like this is similar to what happens in the crypto world. Money and financial situations can be abused hard, and it has been for a long time, so we have a good amount of rules, laws, international agreements and so on regarding it. Then crypto came, it kinda resembled money, and had none of these restrictions. So every trick is new again: market manipulations, all the different kind of frauds, all unprotected from the existing legal framework that we have for regular money. I think online communications enjoy a similar situation, or at least it did, for quite some time.
I bought ETH when it was $7 back in 2017 and participated in literally every single investment I could until about 2019, resulting in 7 figure returns.

I wouldn't touch the stuff now.

The ability for regular people to invest in crypto back then made the ponzi-like architecture of it worth the risk.

Now the VCs are trying to push their agendas, and it's blatantly obvious it's vapor.
LoRaWAN generally can use less energy than cellular networks, running off batteries for e.g. 7 years, where cellular would run out within 1-2. This is somewhat mitigated by NB-IoT, which was not available in most markets just two years ago. International LoRaWAN providers such as TheThingsIndustries and Helium can have advantages if you have a low, low data transmission interval and don't care about the (supposed) guarantees a traditional mobile carrier SLA would give you.

On the other hand, since neither Helium not The Things Industries owns their gateways (run by the community) and operates in an unlicensed spectrum (much less likely to discover and fine those who disrupt communications due to negligence or even on purpose), one might opt to simply use TTN (even less promises on network quality than TheThingsIndustries) or NB-IoT.

There are great use-cases for LoRaWAN, though Helium comes with more drawbacks than advantages for most.
You would be more convincing with reasoned arguments instead of this "guilt by association" tribalism. You do everyone here a disservice by resorting to ad hominem.
> you ask your skip-level manager to make you whole

What does this mean?
Are these downloadable somewhere? Would like to add some of them to Slack / other apps.

Edit: Apparently "Emoji Kitchen" is a thing made for a Google keyboard, and this web page is just a frontend to show those.
The same things that make it good in a corporate environment can make it abusive in a personal machine.

By forcing the kernel to be untamperable, Microsoft can arbitrarily enforce ANY policy they choose on your PC. They could spy on every single piece of network communication. They could ban any given software from being able to run on Windows - maybe Chrome, maybe Steam, any competitor at all. They actually could easily enforce laws on banned content too - any given website, book, audio or video could be impossible to consume, and an attempt to try could be reported to Microsoft. They could stream the contents of your display and mic and camera at any time to anyone they choose. There is literally nothing they cannot do with complete control over the kernel. And since the kernel and Windows itself is closed source, there are ways to hide all of it so you would never even know.

Security is great but it also goes hand-in-hand with control and surveillance. Every capability to increase security also increases the amount of control those providing the security have.
> Maybe this would have gone over better with the community if they had made the most popular mods redundant before rendering them unusable?

...in what reality do IKv2, OSC, and Avatar Dynamics not count as literally exactly that?

IKv2: IKTweaks

OSC: VRCSTT and other mods that leveraged tweaking avatar parameters

Avatar Dynamics: Cross- avatar interactions
Criminals already have means of laundering their illicit cash. They can't just deposit it in their bank account anyway without accounting for how they got it. They have a front business that accepts small cash transactions (which would be under this limit anyway) so they can report it as legitimate income.
Mein Kampf is a banned book which I don't think many would disagree with. There are many other such books filled with propaganda that are rightly banned. I don't see why other propaganda-filled books that are being pushed on unsuspecting children shouldn't be banned too, unless the only reason is that you dislike the direction of the propaganda.
Pretty much all AC focused on protecting the client and game memory was already ring 0 before Valorant even came out.
VRchat actively borrowed ideas from mods when the base game was barren of features, then turned around and vilified them - these mods are created by other game devs. Features such as global dynamic bones interactions were ripe for a software patent. Yet, mod authors open sourced it.

Tens of thousands of hours have been spent here, and it actively increased user count and value of VRchat. Yet Tupper (ceo), not only gives nothing in return, but actively takes the work and shuts down the original.

They even banned other game devs that made good mods that were commonly known. But they didn't ban any malicious authors because they were unknown. (Duh)

They have made agreements with mod authors to not interfere with premium features, and they obliged even.

What even is there to "anti cheat" in a social game where you can do anything? This isn't an fps game, no goal, no "game". That logic is implimented per world by world creators.

Just completely disrespectful and slimy. Anything this team touches is tainted as far as I'm concerned. You don't make your product and paycheck off others work and then slap them with it. Especially not to your fellow industry.

Tbh if I were Valve id be enticed to delist this game for that behavior. It against what the VR ecosystem is for.
You may be right, of course.
But if you read the article closely, it is already here.

The difference is for now you can still go to BIOS and enable Microsoft's key for 3rd party OS.

Maybe when Windows 12 comes out that option isn't there.
Good question. Telegram's infrastructure and dev ecosystem is vaguely weird, much like its overall technical design.

Originally the bot framework was HTTP-based, in the literal sense that new message <-> new HTTP GET, and you'd have a webserver somewhere printing out a response to send back. (You can either use incoming webhooks or (yay latency+efficiency) periodically poll Telegram for messages since a given time).

Telegram later released the internal C++ shim/proxy that relayed MTProto (Telegram's protocol) to HTTP requests, so you can now colocate both processes on the one machine for better latency, although many implementations still use the old webhook method.

Later-later, Telegram also released a C++ library applications can use to abstract out the process of dealing with MTProto.

Nowadays, MTProto is well-documented enough that there are independent client implementations of the protocol (that support signing in as users and bots), which incidentally are slightly more flexible than the C++ library or bot shim (mostly because Telegram has specific needs and wasn't initially aiming for a general-purpose consumable at design time).

The record-scratch part is that the two leading independent clients are incidentally written in PHP. Yeah. I don't mind PHP myself, but it was definitely an "oh. okay" moment lol. Like I said, Telegram's infra is interesting.

So there's exceedingly-likely a Node helper library you can use (although you obviously don't fundamentally need one) to build bots in JS if you want; the next level after that would be coordinating with the C++ or PHP libraries, and the boss level :P would be connecting to MTProto directly (which isn't the end of the world, just... an "overloaded motor" number of moving parts to take on all at once for what's realistically likely a hobby-level curiosity).
The original author of the post is theoretically an architect student from the Philliphines, according to some articles. I agree, however, who knows... just screenshots.
> expected her to be mortified and sue and hide.

She did sued and got money.
> if you have root

Because god forbid you have control of your own PC?
Yes ... I certainly look for chips WITHOUT certain "security features" when I'm building a system - makes it more difficult for the "bad guys" (really, just the greedy guys) to force me to do things the way they want.
I'm getting 10 USD once in one or two days from my project https://gifmemes.io. It meant spending a few hundreds of hours of programming without any validation whatsoever and then hoping for the best.
Who cares? It's not like a packet that's a result of sharing/reselling suddenly "weighs" more on the network wires.
I'm put to mind of Mike Pall's design (tragically unwritten) for a quad-color GC for LuaJIT: http://wiki.luajit.org/New-Garbage-Collector#gc-algorithms_q...

I'm just hearing of the Treadmill for the first time, so I can't compare the design in detail yet, but the two pictures tell a lot of that story.
Rechargeable AAA and AA batteries with their chargers and gadgets that need AAA and AA batteries.

I think environment-friendly and always have bought rechargeable batteries. However since about ten years I feel that rechargeable batteries don't work well anymore. They don't keep a lot of charge and die soon, sometimes only after two or three recharges.

I gave up and don't buy rechargeable AAA and AA batteries anymore and try to avoid gadgets needing AAA and AA batteries. Most toys need them, however.

What I really would like: USB-C rechargeable AAA and AA batteries by having an USB-C plug in the battery, a way to daisy-chain them during charging, a mini-display on the battery to show the charge in mAh, and a possibility to leave the batteries in the gadget during charging. Even better, don't sell gadgets without USB-C charging.
That sounds more like /. than HN.
China seeks global leadership for home-grown fast charging standards
It is still under development, but try Keylime[1]. They have also a nice agent written in Rust[2] with low footprint.

I write some notes[3] about how to use it in openSUSE MicroOS / Tumbleweed, but can be extrapolated to many other distributions too.

[1] https://github.com/keylime/keylime
[2] https://github.com/keylime/rust-keylime
[3] https://en.opensuse.org/Portal:MicroOS/RemoteAttestation
It is also a security issue for users apparently, such as client mods that are also keyloggers and their accounts getting stolen.
Which was an adaptation of a French comic from 1982 : Le Transperceneige.
Funny how there's a camera cut each time the car goes from driving to rotating the wheels, or the opposite.
> These would be DOA in America because our distrust of centralized power largely outweighs our fear of invasion or terrorism

What about organized crime? You have one of the, if not the worst crime rates in the developed world.
Is IRC respecting you when it has no encryption, no authentication, and frequently netsplits?
Until you get a Lua unlocker. Because those limits are enforced by the client, not the server.

I’m not arguing that there’s no rate limiting going on in the server, but some things such as not being able to call several api commands with only one hardware event are enforced client side because by definition the server has no idea about whether a hardware event happened.
A person's immune system is different in year 1 than in year 3 (and in basically all other variations of N and N+2).
> I haven't seen HN use shadowbanning to censor anyone.

Maybe it was the ones you didn't see? Bacause they were shadowbanned?

My post was about ethics, trying to be formal and simple about the question what is it to do the right thing. Basically it was about this: sometimes good is right, sometimes evil is right, so good can be wrong and evil can be right, and we have four things of which the main question is the question of right and wrong.

I wouldn't consider myself to be a "toxic personality" but being ghostbanned did piss me off a little. More than pacify me. I am pointing out a real ethical issue, not "escalating my bad behavior" by posting this comment is how I see it.

[Edit:]I love HN, it's one of the best sites I know. I'm just pointing out an aspect of it that I don't like. I might use different language now that I'm not as pissed anymore, but I would post it.
web3 is going to thrive whether you like it or not. Primarily because of three reasons:

- Greed. Its absurdly easy to make a ton of money very fast in crypto. As long as that's possible, money will keep pouring into the system.

- Gambling. The global gambling industry is half a trillion every year. Even if you think crypto has no fundamentals and is akin to gambling, it still represents a massive market. Opening a 50x long on a random shitcoin might be the same as yoloing in $10,000 at the roulette table. If the latter can happen sustainably, the former can as well.

- Principles. Crypto/web3/blockchain - whatever you might call it - will continue to attract people at the edge cases simply because of the principles and narratives behind it. Self-sovreignity, privacy, ownership - these are ideas worth pursuing.

If "web2" hadn't shut off its own users from any semblance of ownership in the platforms, or had done more for privacy, web3 would have died in 2017. But because they didn't, web3 will continue to find users simply because of the "privacy + self-ownership" narrative.

More than anything else, I see the massive amounts of money flowing into web3 as a failure of the web2 platforms. If Facebook wasn't such a scummy company, and if Google wasn't tracking everything I do so maliciously, I would have completely ignored web3 as an idea.
Moelis advise on M&A though. They get fees from companies doing steps with each other, which they do in both good times and bad (aka restructuring). I didn't think it meant Moelis was investing in those companies.

It's like a lawyer getting into crypto, they do contracts for the companies, they're not buying tokens for themselves.
Well, don't put that on a personal device.

It's like your company giving you serious protecting gear to wear while doing your work on a nuclear reactor is a good thing. But having to wear such gear at home is not a popular choice, and should not be required.
Because if you have control, so many numerous other parties.
I noticed that I take different kinds of notes:
- Technical notes: How to do X in Python?
- Technical concepts: GitOps, IaC concepts, Distributed systems ideas
- big ideas concepts: Fat Tails, etc.
- Things that I am curious
> haven't seen really resolved well in modern life.

I'm agreeing with your sentiment. It is something we used to do much better, before we got politicized into tribes which are always trying to prove that the other tribe is evil.
It's odd because the original version was written in English. Then somebody (Alconost) translated to Russian, without giving credit to the original source, but putting in a bunch of advertisements for their own site, then somebody poorly translated it back to English.

How many people in the world speak Russian is irrelevant and has nothing to do with the fact that it's odd that whoever translated it to Russian didn't bother crediting the original, and just credited themselves a lot.

Then because of that omission, somebody wasted their time making such a terrible redundant translation back to English, with bizarre phrases like "Transferred to Alconost" and "The article is translated in Alconost", which make one question the skills of the translator so bent on claiming credit for themselves without giving proper credit to others.

https://archive.ph/GokfI

The original author of the city was indeed an architecture student from the Philippines, Vincent Oscala. At least Alconost left Vincent's name in when he misappropriated somebody else's article to advertise his low quality translation and advertising services.

The odd and terrible Russian translation also omits important links, including this interview with Vincent:

Viceland Games: The Totalitarian Buddhist Who Beat SimCity

https://archive.ph/eA7CX

Mammoth:

http://m.ammoth.us/blog/2010/10/magnasanti/
> These kinds of issues should be solved on the backend. Rate limiting, pattern matching, etc.

Isn't VRchat... Spoken? It's kinda hard to rate limit and pattern match speech. Text is one thing but it's going to take some compute power to do what you're asking.
Quite scary isn’t it? What a time to be alive. I’d never have believed that I am seriously questioning whether a conversation on the internet is real. Even after all the gpt3 quiz sites, like the one where you have to guess if the code is generated or real.
It's worse in videogames like Dark Souls or mobile PUBG where they simply send you off to the shadowrealm of "like-minded" players. And there's no going back. It's a sign of understaffed moderation teams.
who tryna build a new social app
A blip on the radar? I find completely insane about this response. How could we consider this even somewhat acceptable is insane. Mutilate a baby because "it looks better to me or that's how it looks usually". No, sorry, it completely unreasonable.

Adult deciding for themselves are totally fine.
Children? No, that should be disallowed by law.
Mars Express Images Show What's Inside the Biggest Canyon in the Solar System
No, Vely does not understand C. Yes, gcc produces error messages when it comes to C code itself. However, the line number where the issue is located is exactly matched to the Vely source code using #line directive, so I would say 90+% of the time you don't have to look at the generated code. If that is not enough, you can use --c-lines to get the error reported from generated code, which is the exact error, and in that case, yes like you said you need to look at the generated code. Most of the time, however, just looking at the exact embedded statement is enough to figure out what the problem is.

I mentioned in another post that a C program could be parsed to the extent to allow better checking. Not to the point where you'd build a gcc-look-alike, but just enough for instance to know the type of the expression, and if the expression used in Vely statement is correct, and such. Perhaps that's something to consider. I thought about it here and there, but found it to be more useful to check for logical conflicts, such as not providing required arguments, balancing beginning and end of multi-part statement, incorrect usage and such. Typically, using the wrong type accounts for most of the issues, and gcc produces very good messages. Again those messages get matched to the source Vely file exact line number, and I found that correcting an issue isn't difficult.

Your tool sounds great, and if it works what you need it do, awesome! I do things like that all the time, and find that often times using tools is an overkill, and just skip it. There's time and place for everything.
> And they are implemented using all the evil things like Secure Boot, TPM, and Pluton.

There is nothing evil with TPM when you fully control it. See: Librem Key.
Canals of Amsterdam was the one of the first centrally planned city development in 17th century and it still stands (and it quite enjoyable to live in) today. They did run out of money in the middle of building it though so the eastern part of the plan didn't happen. Smart money is on something similar happening to this as well.
Your given examples are not the same. The person you replied to is talking about some people misusing something and all people being punished. Your examples, at the very least the coal example, is something that is bad no matter who uses it. It is not a matter of communal punishment for individual use.