skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And just to bring that point home:

"More than 1,700 environmental activists murdered in the past decade – report"

Killed by hitmen, organised crime groups and their own governments, at least 1,733 land and environmental defenders were murdered between 2012 and 2021, figures from Global Witness show, with Brazil, Colombia, the Philippines, Mexico and Honduras the deadliest countries.

<https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/sep/29/global-w...>

Not exclusively corporate, but also not exclusively states. For the most part I find the distinction between these two (and other) forms of power to be largely a red herring. The real issue is power and its accountability, not the specific form it takes. Though at least in theory, a government can be made to answer to those it governs.
I'm not terribly worried about the entire industry undoing remote work. Mostly I really like my current job.
I've always wondered about this.

Migrating users off twitter seems like it might be simple (ie 1 click migration via oauth and apis to migrate tweets and followers I'd imagine). I think the carrot doesn't need to be all that big these days as twitter splits up their user base with paid and unpaid users as well as far too many ads in all streams (sans add blockers).

Heck I think you might even be able to post back to Twitter if the user migrated to keep un-migrated followers in the loop. (Although it's been a while since I've looked into their API).

I don't really know how you would motivate the cross section of people who have ad blockers though as I think this is the critical part (ie what is less friction).

You also need to probably have some relevant marketing (ie the Opera/Aston effect) to pull in the significance to start the fire too (this might be organic given the generational "not your parents thing")

Come to think about it. If you could overlay the graphs you might not need to assimilate but be a valid competitor making it less of a winner takes all.

Although come to think about it in that case I think perhaps APIs would be shut down to close this vector of competition.
Dom/Sub?
More than 1,700 environmental activists murdered in the past decade – report
In the jargon, this is called "parallel construction".
Sadly, Bitcoin's sales pitch was not what it delivered. It is not used as a new currency, it's simply a wildly speculative "investment".

Nature came out with a statement recently that they will only pick and choose science to publish that agrees with their worldview. Nothing published there can be trusted as Nature is no longer a true science journal.
That's what contractors are for. Snowden was making something like $150k for a fairly basic sysadmin role, and I'd imagine he was nowhere near the top of the contractor pay scale. That is a whole separate issue though, with contracting companies acting as middlemen taking a fat cut, often just for knowing the right people. Not to mention the issue of having a revolving door between the private and government parts of the military industrial complex, like with the SecDef being a former Raytheon board member (and before that, a general).
This winter is going to be interesting.
It seems risky to set this up on something you own when facing the adversary you face. Use good OPSEC. Don't do this on something than can be tied to you. Not on your servers, not from your workstations, not from your house, not from your workplace. That's 101 level operational security. It'd just take one user to be discovered using the VPN, followed by forensics and interrogation to unmask whoever sets this up. Then what happens?
Very out of date?
On the contrary. We're not complacent. The Fed is raising rates, like it should be.

Its a known fact that the Fed Rate takes months, maybe years, before its effects propagate through the economy. The 2.25% raise in just a few months is the steepest increase in decades, one of the most proactive moves ever done.

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But we as a society need to also be proactive and understand what this means. It means higher mortgage rates, higher rates for car loans, more difficult student loans, more expensive debt.

There are a couple of... other state banks... who are ignoring the issue and are dropping rates right now, despite the current state of the economy. Those are the ones who seem to have a short-sighted view on the world.

USA is actually leading the charge and is more proactive than most other countries on this matter. Furthermore, our political system is talking about it, and we're right now talking about it here on news.ycombinator.com.

We're all being proactive and forward looking right now. And even back in 2020, the political system had the debates and forward looking statements about inflation risk vs COVID19 recession risks. No one ever stopped looking forward.

Was it perfect? No. But no one's perfect when looking into the future. But the political system absolutely discussed and decided upon what we should do. I don't think anybody was short-term thinking at any of these points, we were just trapped between bad choices.

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For the most part, the super-low rates from 2010 through 2019 have been confirmed to be a good idea, as it kept inflation at the 2% for the duration. We were roughly on target. But we also were in a mystical time, of warped thinking of cheap money for the duration.
Agree 100%. Tax generation of CO2 at the energy level and all else should follow. Then allow companies to get a tax reduction if they offset their output in some well researched and supported method. Tadaa...
It actually did make sense - not GREAT SENSE - but for the crypto space it was top of the tier, and for VC in general there was a model there. You weren't reselling your bandwidth, you were communicating with other hotspots via LoRA (and yes, using bandwidth to mine and sync, but I can use bandwidth for anything)

I'm not sure what the economics would have looked like in general - certainly not $100/month for a $250 miner that's for sure, but the idea of much cheaper transmission of very low-bandwidth data by incentivizing people to put hotspots all over the world was a good one.

Shame to see at the heart was another Get Rich Quick For Me and Mine though.
On the other hand, if the rich want to leave the UK because of tax, I'll happily help them carry their bags to the airport.
This was a mistake and has been corrected.
8200 tons per year according to: https://www.world-nuclear.org/information-library/country-pr...

8700 tons per year according to: https://www.statista.com/statistics/264796/uranium-consumpti...

quite hard to find good numbers, but the size "thousands of tons" seems to fit. The thread starter proposed that Europa, not only France, should build more nuclear power plants, so we may even be in the tens of thousands of tons per year for the whole continent.
According to independent visual analysis Russia have lost roughly 1100 tanks, about half of Ukraines claims.

https://www.oryxspioenkop.com/2022/02/attack-on-europe-docum...

That’s still a huge amount of tanks to lose in 8 months. It’s no wonder they are cracking out the T62s already.
Sometimes, more.

<He says, with a note of pride>
E-scooters are becoming wildly popular – but we have to factor in the weather
CDR-SOB is their pre-specified primary endpoint. It's a well accepted measure of dementia. Hard to do any mining there.
Nah. This is made by Google, so it'll never become useful.

You'll have to wait a few months for someone else to replicate it.
I'm still in the habit of clicking that Facebook bookmark occasionally, and have a few extend circle contacts who regularly post. But nine out of ten times the page does not even update anything beyond the server-side populated parts above the fold. Those "story" or what they are called snapchat(?) clones? They work even less frequently. Sometimes they do, so I assume that it can't really be a systematic failure on my side like some weird browser configuration issue. Apparently Facebook, the website, is crumbling on the inside (technology) as much as on the outside (audience).
If they're not paying for anything enough to keep things afloat (as their currency, government services, and now pensions are having a hard time doing right now...) it doesn't matter if they're there or not – they're just plundering the ship and crowding the lifeboats.
Aren't ORMs supposed to give you one way to interact with a DB over different SQL dialects? Doesn't an ORM for one dialect defeat the purpose of an ORM?
Maybe ironically given all the green thread experiments in industry, but Microsoft just removed their user-mode scheduling library in Windows 11.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/procthread/u...
mailinator to the rescue. Takes less than 1 minute if you want to try it out
It’s complicated. Matt Levine of Bloomberg explains very well, as always.

https://archive.ph/2022.09.29-165000/https://www.bloomberg.c...
I recognize the HN comment!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33007995
When dealing with laws and culture, it seems the onus would be on the side wanting to change the status quo. Without a reason, why would they use political capital/effort on this (or anything else)?
They’re enshrined in the constitution of my home state, Illinois, for the public sector, I believe.
Actually, look at the deal Kissinger cut with the Saudis in the early 1970s, creating the petrodollar system: the US dollar became the world's reserve currency because the Saudis agreed to only accept dollars in exchange for oil.

The costs of the US 7th fleet in the Gulf and the entire military industrial complex behind it are what backs the global strength of the US dollar.

https://bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/the-hidden-costs-of-the-...
"If you think of the vastness of space, and how enormous our galaxy is, and how big our planet is, and how small we are, I am not really eating all that much cheese."
AvE? The pro freedom truck rally guy?
Yet another simple gpt3/codex wrapper. Monetizing is hard if not much value is offered on top of the AI.
I agree full-heartedly as a dutiful member of Citizens Climate Lobby. However, if we can’t pass this legislation with a Democratic political stack in place, then when?
Seems to me that most black mirror episodes are about the loss or restriction of freedom. I can't imagine a black mirror episode that starts with giving the protagonist autonomy and freedom instead of preventing it.

Your alternative I presume is just to treat everyone like a small child equally so that nobody can see anything potentially painful or commit any thought crimes (the ends etc etc). Certainly the internet is very hard to regulate with children but maybe they just shouldn't be spending so much time on it. It's much harder to keep track of 15v hours of usage a day vs 1 or 2. But again that's a personal responsibility thing. If a child gets hit by a car we examine the circumstances surrounding it, the logical conclusion most people would assume is not to sue the car manufacturer to prevent the operation of their vehicles. There's definitely a balance between corporate and personal responsibility but I'm strongly against the childification of the internet and apps that is occurring. It doesn't matter that most people don't understand something, if you prevent them from observing or utilizing it you're effectively enforcing that ignorance.

We should not be enforcing such restrictions. Any restriction may benefit some children, but will rob everyone of the ability to learn how to discern good from bad. We should not be training total reliance. Encountering difficulty is an essential part of human existence
Matt Levine about this on today's Money Stuff:

"I know this is bad but I find something aesthetically beautiful about it. If you have a pot of money [pensions] that is immune to bank runs, over time, modern finance will find a way to make it vulnerable to bank runs. That is an emergent property of modern finance. No one sits down and says “let’s make pension funds vulnerable to bank runs!” Finance, as an abstract entity, just sort of does that on its own."
> Nature came out with a statement recently that they will only pick and choose science to publish that agrees with their worldview. Nothing published there can be trusted as Nature is no longer a true science journal.

Gonna need a source for that
Who is going to maintain this distributed app, and what incentive do they have not to change the code so every game is reported as owned by everyone?
yeah, i know what you mean

they do put in a serious effort though because of how ostracized they are, i can't help but think it will come in handy someday
Hey Bill and other elites - does this mean no more 20,000 square foot homes and private jets?
I would say, it depends.

When you focus on setting up servers, you can argue it is mainly about communication.

They cannot go after anyone who wants to be online again - but of course they will go after anyone, who set up infrastructure especially for activists.

I would frame it internally strictly as "going online".
> After all the hoopla surrounding concurrency models, it seems that languages are conceding that green threads are more ergonomic to work with. Go and Java have it, and now .NET is even experimenting with it.

Green threads were always better, the issue was compatibility with native (C) libraries. 20 years ago a language whose C FFI was as cumbersome as Go's would be laughed at.

> How long until OS vendors introduce abstractions to make this easier? Why aren't there OS-native green threads, or at the very least user-space scheduling affordances for runtimes that want to implement them without overhead in calling blocking code?

Most of the point of green threads is to avoid the OS getting in the way. Rather than OSes adding green threading, the future looks like sidestepping more and more of the traditional OS, ending up with unikernels or something that looks like them. The likes of graal native image are already a step in this direction.
Helium didn't "sell internet" in a really comparable sense.
Get a Bluetooth keyboard.
Nobody lets large sums of money sit in cash. Full-filling their retirement obligations requires them to grow that money.
That’s uncle bumblefuck for ya.
Where's the source on the methane usage? Last time that came up here IIRC it was a super small fraction of the energy production.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
If folks remember Ballblazer by Lucasfilm Games, Russ Lieblich wrote a music player that would string together riffs like weird chiptune jazz solos. The walking bass was the best part. It was constrained by the template but could come up with some surprising harmonies.
The problem was always going to be coverage that made sense and an inability to be competitive.

'Decentralizing' just meant there were zero guarantees that there would ever be service in any given area, no guarantees on how long it would take to solve outages - and completely variable pricing that fluctuated based on hype, not demand. You know, the things that businesses care about.

They wanted it to cover random far-out forests but there's no backhaul out there.

If this model made sense, like any decentralized model, it would have been cheaper, faster and more reliable for a traditional ISP to just come in and offer the service - they were the backhaul anyways. Individuals had to pay their ISP margins to sublet the pipes when the ISPs themselves obviously had no such constraint - so the floor price was always higher than what an ISP could offer it at.

This meant that no matter what an ISP could undercut this network on price with a better, faster, and more reliable service that actually had SLAs.

It was just another crypto scheme, like all the others. It was never about the business. It was always about VCs being able to flip tokens for liquidity on day 1 instead of waiting for year 10 and at some point 'talking your book' and 'delusion' blend together.
The World Wide Web is more or less dead and Google Search is increasingly useless as traffic moves to TikTok, Twitch, Discord, and other siloed ecosystems.

It's possible that purchasing a Google ad still provides higher ROI than alternative options, but I'd certainly not bet on that remaining true in 5-10 years. Google's empire is built on a foundation of sand and the fact that the company seems incapable of launching new, lasting, innovative products should have its leaders and investors quaking in their boots.
Somehow I don't think you're giving the full picture.
maybe lorawan can be used to launder the traffic? IoT traffic obfuscators running on battery power
This is wild. I didn't know Elon Musk knew that much about the best way to prepare eggs!
Interesting, I think it needs better samples though - got a real early 2000s midi feel to it.
because they haven't been able to make money by holding government debt for years. This is a consequence of 0.25% rates on government debt.
>And Meta has a vested interest in ensuring that people aren't using clients that scam their users out of their credentials because said users don't exist in a vacuum.

Did this specific app actually "scam users out of their credentials?"

I'd expect that they didn't "scam" anything. The end user installed the app and voluntarily provided their credentials in order to access their content.

How is that a scam? If I'm using an Android phone and sideload an app to access say, HN, whether that's an apk from a publisher's website or from F-Droid, have I been scammed out of my HN credentials by that app's publisher?

If the app claimed to be the "official" app from Meta and used phishing techniques to get folks to install the app and/or reveal their credentials, that would be scamming.

But a deliberate choice by a user to use a specific app for a specific purpose, with the app in question actually serving that specific purpose doesn't seem like a "scam" to me.

Sure, Meta doesn't like it for a bunch of reasons. And it doesn't surprise me that they took action to smack these guys down. But characterizing this app as a "scam" doesn't seem to reflect reality.

Or am I missing something?
Look at how ignored political groups have traditionally made their voices heard. Like racial equality movements, unions, or womens' suffrage.
Basically pensions used gilts as collateral because it was viewed as risk free. That changed overnight.
Herbs and Verbs: How to Do Witchcraft for Real (2017)
What's missing from the picture?
It’s just Kimbal dancing in a spandex suit.
Arguments about "humanity should waste less energy" OTOH are in bounds.

The number one goal of humanity should be to find or create sources of energy that give us orders of magnitude more supply than there is demand.

Unfortunately that's politically off the table so we're left squabbling over scarce energy.
Shouldn't its existence be measured since it was named, rather than categorized?
What's with the oversized (at least 1 foot x 1 foot) barcodes on the ceilings of wholefood anyhow?
I'm pretty sure it also got bad initial response because of their pricing plan. I have no idea why Google thought it was a good idea to charge both a subscription fee and a purchase fee per game in a world where services like Game Pass only charge the subscription fee; it's like they just assumed there was no competition.
Gates’ main house is actually 66,000 square feet.

He apparently has 6 total houses.

See: https://www.velvetropes.com/backstage/bill-gates-house

Anyways, Gates is always preaching about “policy” (The Gates Foundation is about power and getting governments to fund their objectives, ultimately) but never actually sets a good individual example of how to live, like normal citizens.

I mean, it is not coincidental that he is preaching about global warming right after the Nord Stream pipeline was blown, which released an unprecedented amount of methane in to the atmosphere.
The reason I don't use Gab isn't "not enough censorship", it's because none of the people I want to talk to are on there.

I use Twitter because the people I like are on there. They often get banned for dumb reasons, and I'd prefer they didn't, but the general network effect of Twitter is strong enough that people will just make new accounts and/or avoid posting stufff that trips the censors.

Plus, as some other comments mention, Gab does not in fact "not delete anything unless it is found illegal by a court", their TOS[0] says they can ban you for posting obscenity. Why would I want to go on a website full of white-christian-nationalists if I can't send them goatse?

[0] https://gab.com/about/tos
Do you think human preference is influenced by cultural upbringing? For example, if you grew up only seeing one race, would that influence your perception of other races as attractive?
Putin is expected to formally annex four Ukrainian regions, following sham elections.

From the outset Russia's war of aggression sets it outside its obligations under the UN Charter, the Budapest memorandum, and Geneva Convention. But once annexation is announced by Russia, the rest of the world has to decide what to do about a violation of the most central proscription in all of international law.

I'm skeptical the UN system avoids defacto collapse if it refuses to strangle the Russian regime at this point. And if the UN system ends, whether 5 months or 50 years, I uave serious doubts about WW3 being avoidable. The UN system stinks. But it's all we have, born from the ashes of WW1 and 2, to avoid it. Since we haven't done the hard work of getting rid of nukes, I'm also skeptical humanity avoids using at least one.

China and India need to show up and defend the Charter. They agreed to be bound by this obligation.
apparently Elon also knows about as much as "Marco", the fitness coach.
I get that the other way around by using Scala.js in the browser; I find it a much nicer language to work with than Javascript or even Typescript.
This is really cool. The next awesome breakthrough would be for the computer to describe the contents of a video. That would be a big step toward AGI, IMHO.
> From an EU perspective why would peace and trade with Russia be so bad?

Because Russia every once in a while invades a part of Europe to carve off territory for itself, then holds the rest of the continent hostage by withholding gas during the freezing winter.

Why would you want peace with a country that is just biding its time before it starts it's next war?
Got it! Based on your comment / some googling it sounds like the common use case is for managing internal secrets.

Do you think it's a good fit if you want to use it for managing API Keys for your public API (you want your customers to generate a key and use it to call your api)? The 10k parameter limit per AWS account might conflict with that usecase.
Have you considered that you have the causality flipped, and that people are generally rich because they're good at making money under adverse conditions? Would you expect someone who was capable of accumulating large amounts of wealth to get BTFO by a market downturn?

If pensions have a problem, it's because they were never economically viable, and at this point basically serve as a vehicle to transfer money away from the majority of people and towards retired boomers and government employees.
> Employees want promotions at all cost. It's not due to ambition but to comparing ourselves with our peers, thanks to lax promotion policies for years

This is how I feel about promos at my company and it's ~1/10th the size of Google. It feels like something that occurs at all tech companies. When times are good promos get handed out like candy.
I prefer sanitized spaces too. I just want to have a sanitizing tool in my own hands - sanitizing what I personally read. But my tool should have no influence on what you will see and read.

Moderation is probably needed. But it should be decentralized.
They aren’t banning it for social mores, they are banning it the same way Vegas was made “family friendly” -> to make money