skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Create a crisis, provide a solution. Install bought/captured politicians, perhaps a dash of tyranny, CBDC and social credit for all. Total surveillance and enslavement. It doesn't require violence, people will demand these 'solutions' when they are stressed enough.

Every tyrannical regime in the past had a constitution. Rendered mute by a uni-party system, captured media and judiciary. Now you can add big tech collusion to the fray.
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> It's actually a bit ... heartbreaking ... to see him looking so corporate, but we all age, don't we?

He's stated that you can work to change the system from the outside or from within and he chose the latter.
I was not referring to electroconvulsive therapy, and my point was that we're interfacing with a very custom, very complex system with an imprecise tool.
So, in simpler words, they are indeed a pseudo-monopolistic (pseudo means apparent, something very close to but not quite there) social media giant that can indeed censor millions (10% of USA's population is 30 millions) arbitarily and at will ? Ok :)

And whether a bakery serves your gay wedding or not is perhaps the most petty and inconsequential thing to be upset about. There are thousands upon thousands of bakeries in a large city. You can learn how to bake a cake in a weekend and home-bake your wedding cake yourself, or any one of your wedding guests can do this as a wedding gift. You can go to a no-gays-allowed bakery but simply not tell them you're gay, and take a finished cake from them then write your own name and that of the guy you will marry on it yourself. You can not get cake at all and instead get any of the thousand other types of wedding sweets and food.

It's almost like the whole thing is a hilarious non-issue that some people just invented to cry and act like victims about.
Most people I know with bycicle accidents that had to go through surgery, managed to achieve it without help from cars.
If you're going to make criticisms like this, it would be helpful to include specific links to cases where you think moderators got something wrong. That would let readers make up their own minds, and would also give us a chance to review possible mistakes.

I don't know which political prejudices you think you're observing. People make very conflicting, indeed opposite, claims about that. (No, that's not a both-sides argument. It's just an empirical observation—in fact an extremely well-established one.)
Except it's not a free market, building is regulated. You can't build whatever you want wherever you want in places like SF.
I assume "don't feel particularly strongly" based on the blurb, but new abbreviations really should be defined.
DSSS/FHSS schemes are almost magical in LPI and resilience when applied aggressively in a military setting.

Operating below the noise floor shouldn't be possible at first glance, but through the power of statistics it absolutely is feasible.
long is definitely arch dependent.

It’s even operating system dependent:

It’s 32-bits on 32-bit x86 unix-likes and windows, as well as 32-bit on 64-bit windows.

On 64-bit unix-likes it’s 64-bit.

Embedded is so varied (and generally 16 or 32 bit), that I’m not even go to hazard a guess on the distribution there.
You don't have to live in a Delhi or a Mumbai or a Bangalore. Cities like Dehradun, Ranchi, and more provide many of these amenities.
> Free market. People forget free market is not allways cheaper.

It's not a free market. Look at how hard it is to get land and approvals to build new housing.

If we had a truly free market in housing, we wouldn't have these problems. High prices would incentivize more construction which would bring down prices.
Yep, exactly. The US is nowadays Rome, and the Western world is its modern Roman empire. When the actual (Western) Roman empire fell into decline, Rome (the city) was hit last in terms of decline in standards of living. It's the peripheries which got cut off first.
Fair do's.

I based my half-joking statement on knowing exactly one colleague who worked at Oracle who couldn't program his way out of a wet paper bag, but could give you a 2-hour presentation with encompassing 80 slides on how many consultants you should hire to investigate the role of paper bags in your company.
That’s true. I think that will be the real test for the market.

Appstores/marketplaces will need to clearly show which apps are free without tracking so that consumers are aware that there are privacy-respecting alternatives, and don’t feel like they have no choice.

However, there’s also the issue that the definition of “tracking” and “privacy” is too vague. If Google or Facebook offered a paid service with privacy, I personally still wouldn’t trust them to not collect data on me.
I really dislike this type of thinking insisting that everything we do has some importance to it. I used to think like this in moral terms, my every action has consequences and I should be mindful of those consequences. And if anyone watched "The Good Place" then they know it is not a good way to live. I am paraphrasing but microoptimalisation is the root of all evil. I find it much better to just get a good understanding of what I wish to be and set a long time goals around it (Like a decade or lifetime long). Then every now and then I can asses if it is working or not. Since life is not a race and I am not competing with anyone I can settle for slow progression towards the good. I am the judge, the executioner and the audience of my life and therefore every aspect can be adjusted independently.
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Right, that's what the authors are arguing I believe.
Wait til you find out math is racist
Congress retroactively legalized some of the spying:

https://sgp.fas.org/crs/intel/RL34600.pdf [PDF]

The reforms to bulk data collection were immediately after the revelations.

Congress has been continuing/expanding surveillance in the years since. But, perhaps not to the degree they would have without Snowden's revelations? I want to believe that Snowden's great sacrifice made lasting changes, but I don't think the evidence supports it.

E.g.,

> Congress extends patriot act section 702 spying powers (2018)

https://www.zdnet.com/article/congress-demanded-nsa-spying-r...

> Congress extends patriot act section 215 spying powers (2019)

https://www.aclu.org/news/national-security/congress-just-te...

> With practically no public notice and no public hearings, the House of Representatives passed the College Transparency Act (CTA) on Feb. 4, 2022, by slipping it into a much larger unrelated bill called the America Competes Act, intended to better position the United States to compete with China. (2022)

> creation of a comprehensive data system that would include the personal information of every student enrolled in college or another higher education institution, and track them after their [sic] graduate.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2022/04/04/congress...
In short supply people who own has the power. No surprise here.

I recommend this article, The housing theory of everything, as an introduction on why housing is not just another problem: https://www.worksinprogress.co/issue/the-housing-theory-of-e...
I have enough hate in me to hate both.
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OK I'm not a landlord/capitalist apologist but it sure does make sense to me that rents rise in part because there are way more people that want to live in an area than available units.

For example Downtown LA and Koreatown are putting up large apartment buildings like crazy, because the zoning allows them to, and rents have not increased nearly as much as other popular LA areas that are mostly single-family zoned, such as Santa Monica.

This is why Minnesota and now recently California basically upzoned the entire state, because upzoning with local ordinances neighborhood by neighborhood is almost always defeated by NIMBYs, which are generally a combination of of local homeowners and local small-time landlords.

Don't forget that a huge portion of US landlords are "mom and pop" landlords, which have a massive portion of their net worth wrapped up a handful of rental units and don't have the capital to build net new units. These people are more economically opposed to new housing than a large developer who can stomach the capital outlay for a new building.

When they are allowed to developers can profitably build dense housing, which produces net new units into the market, which helps combat rising rent.
On the delivery services, you can search all of the menus of places that deliver to you at once. If I want a club sandwich, I can find what 32 restaurants will deliver me a club sandwich. There is no other place I know of that will tell me what restaurants in some radius of me sell club sandwiches for dine-in, that I'd then have to cross-reference with which are available on my preferred delivery service anyway. It's a lot more work.
lol yes, but 'free trade' sounds good too
Where's the button to make it unapologetically polycarbonate?
huge problem in Vancouver, a single bedroom/studio 500sqft in Vancouver is asking ~$3000 CAD / month or $2300 USD / month. 10 years ago I lived in a 600sq ft for half that rent including utilities and internet.

Wages has not changed here since the 80s and tech also underpays people for the same role. Meanwhile condo sales sees no sign of slowing down, everywhere real estate is on the decline, here it seems to continue.

I wonder if this is sustainable, there is a large number of multi bedroom condo units asking well above $5000 CAD / month
> The comparison to entrepeneurs is just... not actually ok.

True but I assume the author understands that difference , maybe he is riding a different wave just that both are looking at endless fall to the abyss.
> Total cost for 10 boards, parts, assembly, shipping + customs fees was just under $29

This is absolutely fantastic.
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This isn't supported by GitHub yet but we're hopefully working towards that too.
I don't think I'm being clear with my point

It is possible to not be involved in the ad-economy, millions of people do it everyday. I would guess that most of these millions are old, illiterate, or are very poor, but you can do it without being any of those things.

This population of people are not on the internet, they don't use credit cards, they don't have a cell phone. They work for cash, live in the same city they were born in etc..

You and I are actively choosing not to live like that, when in fact it is a completely possible, reasonable way to live and by the way we have been living like that for basically all but the last few decades.

Everyone has a choice.
IRS should hire as many people as they need, as there is usually greater return than what it costs to pay them.

Everyone SHOULD pay their fair share. If the laws suck then the lower and middle class should focus on the rich and put pressure on the puppets in the office. However, it seems many love voting against their own interest.

Edit: If you have a problem paying taxes and are in the middle class. I suggest you think about starting a life somewhere without taxes, you will quickly realize that your middle class life is actually made possible by the infrastructure in place.
Because breaking up countries, let alone over fuzzy ethnic lines, is seldom a peaceful process that leads to prosperous smaller countries (over one's lifetime anyway). A most common outcome seems to be violence and war short-mid term followed by poverty and corruption long term.
A shorter name probably broke someone's code in 1998.

_t acts as a namespace, and that's all namespacing you can get in C.
People still wait hours and hours in the ER [in the US]

If you have a genuine emergency, you'll be seen immediately virtually anywhere in the US.
I agree with this too, I think that the point of the article was to make it as easy to understand for people who aren't as familiar with our fungal friends.
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I believe woah was being sarcastic... Greed is pretty constant over time and isn't really responsible for rising prices.
Lol, that’s Larry’s marketing material. Database = store shelves. Likewise Safeway has thousands of products on its shelves - they don’t make any of them, not even the ones with their brand on.
The United States government has been extremely successful as the central point of authority of the 50 states.

Central planning has been extremely successful in lifting hundreds of millions of people out of poverty in China, and making China a superpower. And, I shall add, a superpower that's now remained in existence (73 years) longer than the Soviet Union did (70 years).

I'm all for local experimentation, but not for local authority to block progress for all, like countries not doing anything about the climate crisis.
No but if we want to quantify whether a decision was a net win or not, a valid approach is to express it in monetary terms. There are other approaches, some more objective some less, but money is simple.

E.g. if I worked at MS and over 10 years built a capital of $1mln, vs having worked in India and built a capital of $300k, there may be other considerations, but in purely monetary terms the MS approach would’ve been much better. Further compound interest will make the $1mln wealth run away much faster than $300k.
Sourcegraph Notebooks PM here. We have a notepad feature you can enable that basically does what you're describing and allows you to create a notebook from the saved content in one click. There's a button to enable the notepad on the notebooks page (https://sourcegraph.com/notebooks or https://<your-sg-url.com>/notebooks).

It follows you around as you navigate search results and files and you can add searches, files, and file ranges to it, as well as notes for each item. Quick demo video: https://storage.googleapis.com/sourcegraph-assets/docs/image...
What's really rich about the Equifax breach screwing up people's credit is that Equifax also makes up the credit ratings. It's the corporate equivalent of "nice reputation you have there, would be a shame if something happened to it" type of protection racket. And before anyone accuses me of hyperbole remember that Equifax themselves call it "identity theft protection”.
That's true, typical smoky bacon is quite processed as well, I guess that's what I don't like about it.
Makes all sense but not enough to migrate away from TCP. Half of the things can be also solved by higher level services (and lower than HTTP).
India is getting Russian oil pretty cheap now as far as I know, and most likely Iran as well.
The U.S is not immune to the energy problem btw, Shale oil is getting more expensive because all the easy spots were already used.
Err, even disregarding the fact that there's more to life than the money you earn, staying in the US wasn't even an option for him.
This won't fix the fragility of our economy. It would start a weird exit model for social platforms, though. Get big enough that the US buys you out.
americans can do the same - move to Europe for college and get higher education for a fraction of cost/almost free.

then come back debt free with great education.

I dont understand why Americans are not taking advantage of these arbitrage opportunities. You don't need government to do anything for you, just take your destiny in your own hands
"Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should." - Dr. Ian Malcolm
Software is still killing people despite telemetry. Look at Tesla's autopilot.
Not even just SF. Anywhere in California.
Yes, every important organization (nation, religion, corporation) does PR. Its normal and healthy to have some public image management when competitors may try to destroy your image for their own gain.

This is a far cry from having a coordinated disinformation campaign to cause political instability in a foreign country. The evidence of Russia doing this to any effect with Trump or Brexit is extremely scant and circumstantial. Such a campaign would be massive, well beyond the capacity of a hidden conspiracy. It would involve entire media companies and NGOs. There would be far more smoking-gun evidence than the current standard of "guilt by association with someone who spent some time in Russia".
> Privatization of hospital systems in the US have lead to very warped incentives, where C sections are the norm because it’s faster and more money for the hospital and Drs.

The US rate of c-sections was 32% in 2017 (and roughly the same for 2020), the same as Switzerland. It's 27.7% in Canada, 33.7% in Australia and 27.4% in the UK.

28% across the OECD, 30% in Germany, 45% in South Korea, 34% in Italy.

So much for that.

https://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/sites/fa1f7281-en/index.html?i...
The Last Express seems to have some kind of a renaissance in the past few years. It's about 25 years old buy now, which definitely fits the "retro" category, and as part of that people into computer gaming history rediscover it and laud it for what it is.
> Need to remove red tape, stop controlling prices, de-regulate business, establish free trade agreements, and do all manner of things to increase real productivity and not the government-pretend kind of productivity.

Is there any historical evidence of this approach leading to positive change?

Just theoretically, I don't see it--energy is a public good with tons of externalities (both positive and negative).
So between the Feds and Brookfield, Intel has no real out-of-pocket? More money for dividends/buybacks/bonuses! Who needs innovation?
>You mean like Johnson & Johnson including asbestos in their talc for decades and paying huge civil penalties for it?

Yes.

>This can’t happen when maximizing profit is the incentive. Think about it.

Yes.
The misplaced perception of permanent growth, inflationary monetary policy, stupid zoning laws, and a world generally falling apart.
There's an alternate history in which it was David Miliband who became Labour leader, not his brother. Who knows of course, but there's a decent chance it would have prevented the disaster of Brexit (and the related disaster, for Labour and the country, of Corbyn).
Of course I'm not suggesting that service providers shouldn't have robust processes to protect against rogue employees. What I'm suggesting is that from the customer's perspective, if you're running a client that was distributed to you from the provider, you should be just as worried about a rogue employee putting something malicious in that client to e.g. compromise the E2EE as you are worried about a rogue employee reading your unencrypted data on the server.
I'll stick to the old pulse dialing tech on mine:

https://imgur.com/a/0I8Ng0s
i was so delighted to find it has a video export but Twitter is not letting me tweet the video - as far as i can tell this fits under all their requirements - anyone else have the same problem?

Edit: ah you just have to run it through one of these things https://clideo.com/editor/resize-video
It's not a free market, though. It's not even a well-regulated market. It's a total mess of a market. This is a land zoning map of Toronto [1], one of the more pathological examples for a North American city. Toronto is a large and dense city with a housing shortage. And yet everything in red? It's only legal to construct a detached single family-home on that land.

In something at least vaguely resembling a free market, detached homeowners such as me would have to compete with other land use that generates much more utility, and thus income from rents, on the same land area, with something like a high-rise. But I am insulated from that, by laws that effectively entrench the upper middle class's preferred land-use pattern of detached suburban housing. Zoning bylaws that prohibit constructing anything else effectively subsidize the suburban lifestyle.

[1] http://www.datalabto.ca/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/toronto-0...
Just like how gas stations got really greedy earlier this summer - thankfully Biden told them to knock it off and now prices are falling.

Don’t let those economists tell you lies about how goods with inelastic demand will dramatically rise in price when supply can’t keep pace… they’re just covering for the greedy people.
There really need to be minimum statutory damages for this sort of thing, payable direct to consumer.

I think $10,000 per offense would be a bit too low. I want to live in a world where shareholders can look at that slide and say:

5 billion victims times $10K means they have amassed $50T in toxic assets. I'm jumping ship, and/or joining a shareholder lawsuit.
How can you make housing not an investment? Require set constant purchase and sale prices on land and houses?

Lots of people buy a starter house with the intention of selling for more when they, for example, start having kids and need a bigger house.
For the uninitiated, that's from this video of Bryan Cantrill (from Sun), link goes to the right time: https://youtu.be/-zRN7XLCRhc?t=33m1s
What free market? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoning
> while we're picky about free software on our laptops, desktops and servers lots of us have a truck load full of proprietary software in their pocket every day. Does it have to be that way?

It doesn't have to be like this, but it is also not 'early days' anymore and we have given this idea lots of time to gain any meaningful traction and it's very clear that there is almost no interest from the wider industry.

Thus, as demonstrated for many years of failed alternatives, unfortunately buzzwords like 'privacy', 'non-free software' and 'Linux' have little to no use to gaining traction and selling to mass market in a comparable manner against the existing duopoly.

And before you say 'Android', it is has tons of closed source userland software and subsystems and will get even worse once it moves over to Fuchsia OS. Therefore 'Android' as a free software example is disqualified.

We are talking about Linux distros designed to run on phones with 'free software'.
Housing should also not be finite… and yet it is. You can only stuff so many people into a city. At some point, people must accept that they will have to live somewhere else, potentially less desirable but very affordable. The only way to fairly distribute the limited supply of housing is to the highest bidders.
Yes but the answer to that should come from social security net and not from mechanisms that ruin the entrepreneur. That is the job of a good policymaker.
The pitchforks are already out, as part of the larger anti- technocratic/bureaucracy movement. Unfortunately, as that movement has gained popularity, its energy has been captured by Trumpism with its siren song of simplistic not-even-wrong answers. I'm not singling out Trumpism here, despite its seemingly exceptional virulence. Basically every political movement gets coopted and neutered this way in the US, once it gains enough popularity. There's money to be made, after all.
> I’ve worked in adtech for years and have seen a user’s phone number

Freudian slip much?
Already been done (Russia did just that with allofmp3.com back in the 2000s). It invited a lot of WTO drama until the site was sued out of existence.