skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Ross Ulbricht built his empire, in large part, by profiting off people's suffering.

He built Silk Road, which allowed people to sell drugs to one another.

If the 'people's suffering' you are referencing is the use of drugs, I hope you have this same ire for the pharmaceutical companies and physicians prescribing opioids linked to over 500k deaths in the US over the past two decades[1]. I hope you feel the same ire for the CIA who facilitated and supported the Nicaraguan Contra groups' smuggling of crack into the US to finance their coup attempt[2].

I would hope the "nothing short of evil" rhetoric isn't exclusively saved for the kid who built an onion site and then was entrapped by FBI agents into a murder-for-hire scheme of their creation.

[1]https://www.npr.org/2022/11/02/1133523740/cvs-health-agrees-...
[2]https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB113/north06.pdf
Thanks for at least a partial solution. Installation can be scripted.

I remember the disappointment after PC-BSD died and Project Trident invested their 'time' into Void Linux instead of FreeBSD ... then I thought that it actually my be a good move - so finally some Linux would have some ZFS and ZFS Boot Environments love - especially as these people used ZFS Boot Environments on FreeBSD earlier ... and then it all died.

A lot of potential killed/lost there. First - PC-BSD introduced PBI packages - something that is today known on Linux as SNAP for example - some application packed together with libraries and dependencies in one 'package' - then for some reason they killed this idea - while Linux 'reinvented' it as SNAP (and others) and 'The World' was (and sometimes still) is fascinated by it. Sick. Same with Docker that was introduced in 2013. The so called 'World' went crazy with 'containers everywhere' ideology while FreeBSD Jails were available 13 years later since 2000. Sometimes I just got the idea that Linux people do not see any other innovations other then that happened with Linux system. Like FreeBSD Jails or Solaris Zones or IBM WPARs or HP-UX nPars never existed ...
Cutting total light down a lot helps, too. The 60-75 watt (incandescent or equivalent) standard for lights—often with several such bulbs active per room, even—is way brighter than needed. Dropping room light to only enough to navigate the room safely, and using slightly-brighter (but still nowhere near 60 watt) lamps, either hand-portable or in particular locations, makes a huge difference, and you can still do almost anything in that kind of lighting.

Once you get used to much lower lighting at night, ordinary whole-room lighting seems insane. Why try to make it as bright as day at night? You can read, play board and card games, play music, even draw or something like that, with a small faction as much light as the typical house puts out when you flip the light switch in a room. And it has big effects on sleepiness (if you don't ruin it by staring at a hyper-stimulating glowing rectangle—color temp may help a little, but Internet-connected screens are sleep poison)
No -- it means that a single instance of illegal activity can potentially be charged-back by a government through a web of otherwise-legal transactions at any time. The immutable historical retention of all transactions has at least the capacity to threaten the immutability of transactions in the real world.
> All your other point are good but this one surprises me.

I'll tell you where it comes from. I used to like Musk in early SpaceX / first Falcon landing / Tesla Model S era. Then I disconnected from the news a bit, for a couple of years, and started to pay more attention recently (~last year). I saw constant hatred of Musk on-line. I tried to investigate what he did to make people so upset, and besides a name calling here and there, I found literally nothing.

On the contrary, what I found is smart people who I used to respect retweeting or posting trivially disprovable soundbites like the whole apartheid money thing. I haven't seen an argument that wasn't overblown to ridiculous proportions.

This is not to say Musk didn't turn into villain. I'm not convinced either way, and I'm definitely not trying to claim he's pristine and good. I may have missed some important stories in ~2018-2021. What I am convinced about, though, is the whole anti-Musk crowd literally went high on their own bullshit, and is a perfect illustration how it ends when you have a feedback loop of people one-upping increasingly exaggerated claims.
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Not sure where you got bathroom from. The people I know who have this generally do their entire apartment.

Also it gets dark here at like 5:30
This article doesn't seem to have much evidence to back it's theory about displacing the dollar.

Elon's primary motivation is quite well documented, a massive DoD program*, which requires Republicans to fund. Twitter helps him curry favors to earn these (potentially ~$500B) Republican-backed contracts.

Mike Griffin is the ringleader but he's only useful when Republicans are in power (see parts about Elon and Space Development Agency / SDI). https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_D._Griffin#Career

* The DoD program is a space constellation of ballistic missile defense satellites for tracking and targeting nuclear ballistic missiles, including HGVs and hypersonic cruise missiles".[110] " However, (UCS) warns developments could escalate tensions with Russia and China and called the project "fundamentally destabilizing".[111] They later called for a treaty halting development to prevent an arms race in space.[112] The Biden administration has largely agreed to slow it down and has been stiffing Elon (e.g. ignoring Tesla) for his involvement.

Starlink's military satellite development is overseen internally at SpaceX by retired four-star general Terrence J. O'Shaughnessy.[113][114] O'Shaughnessy advocated before the United States Senate Committee on Armed Services for a layered space capability with lethal follow-on that incorporates machine learning and artificial intelligence to gather and act upon sensor data quickly.[115]

It is based on Starlink platforms and requires heavy lift (Starship) for actual orbital weapon deployment.

More info:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starlink#Military_capabilities

Also see: Strategic Defense Initiative. It's a big project, the recent establishment of the Space Force under Trump is built around this new program.
Back before all of the banks were wired together, I had a friend with what we called a "bottomless ATM card."

He could withdraw whatever amount he wanted from the ATMs at college, but since that region's ATM network wasn't hooked up to his home bank's ATM network, it took months for everything to reconcile.

He could keep withdrawing, even if he had taken out far more cash than he had in his home bank account.

On breaks, he would go back home and pick up enough hours at his part-time job to cover the difference (it wasn't unusual for people to be paid weekly or in cash back then), make a deposit, and everything was fine. He just had to keep one step ahead of the computer batch processes.

Also, I think Chemical is Citibank now. I had a Chemical account, and a Dime account. I still think of Citi as "Chemical," though.
One thing we could do would be to implement some common-sense election integrity improvements such as those recommended in https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/25120/securing-the..., or similarly by the advocacy group: https://verifiedvoting.org/annual-report-2021/advocating-for....

These should have bipartisan support. Things like paper votes for every election, random manual recounts to sample error rates and confirm they are low, funding improvements to security of voting infrastructure, etc.

According to Verified Voting (https://verifiedvoting.org/verifier/#mode/navigate/map/ppEqu...), ~5% of votes are made with un-auditable "direct recording electronic" voting machines, where the votes are held in memory rather than printed to paper. When you actually do pentests, it turns out that these machines are sometimes connected to the internet (even though best-practices are to not do so), and they have been demonstrated to be hackable by someone with a USB drive even when air-gapped. Any such tampering is undetectable if done well. It's simply unacceptable to use such technology for voting IMO, and we should pass laws mandating paper-trails and banning DRE voting.

One problem is that much of the worry about election fraud is motivated reasoning ("my preferred candidate didn't win therefore there must have been fraud; let me find evidence of fraud to support my theory"), rather than actual concern based on an objective analysis starting with the facts. I do wonder if we can still make some changes to the system that strictly improve security and require zero trust of the opposition party, without destroying trust in the underlying institutions.
Maybe because they have multiple party members who have said so.

Yes, it's a minority. However, in that minority are people who spout Kremlin talking points.
Wut, India started from a better state, took same amount of time, to progress 1/5th as much, while still having north korean tier food insecurity. Dooming generations and hundreds of millions of avoidable deaths due to being stuck in poverty for longer than need be. There's nothing to be envious about. Also eliminating rural poverty + building rural infra is the actual hard part that takes time and resources. We'll have to see if India has the resources to even get there, PRC didn't until $6000 gdp per capita. India and by extention relying on democracies to develop still a case of what not to do. Also India did their own sterilization / family planning campaign.
Germany lost momentum in transitioning to renewable energy when Merkel/CDU gained power in 2005.

Cheap gas was nice for people and politicians back then, in 2014 and would be nice now.

I do/did not support joining the war against Russia but reducing fossil fuel usage is the right thing anyway.
“Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. In Murray's case, physics. In mine, show business. You read the article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the issues. Often, the article is so wrong it actually presents the story backward—reversing cause and effect. I call these the "wet streets cause rain" stories. Paper's full of them.
In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story, and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about Palestine than the baloney you just read. You turn the page, and forget what you know.”

― Michael Crichton

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/65213-briefly-stated-the-ge...
Discussed yesterday:

Meta Is Preparing to Notify Employees of Large-Scale Layoffs This Week

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33497012

(377 points, 388 comments)
There are times where I feel the need for a second account, but to be clear there is no “problem” for me here. I’m very happy for my main account to be about the things which are important to me, including being a robotics engineer and being trans. I mentioned them here because some people really like that combo and some people hate it, but that’s what my account is mainly about. I don’t want transphobes following me because they think I’m just going to post about robots.
Certainly, but I recall these headlines existing for two decades. Over that period it's gone up some 10 years or something.
Who uses SMS? I am always surprised when this feature is being mentioned.
Advertising isn't neutral. It defaults to bad. It is, by its nature, a distraction. It makes the world worse. It incentivizes a business model where you attract people's attention by any means necessary and then sell off that attention.

Sometimes advertising turns out to be helpful. Sometimes you learn about something that you wouldn't have known to look for that you really care about. Sometimes you're looking for something and find out there's a cheaper competitor product that's perfect for your needs. Advertisers love pointing these situations out because it makes what they do sound helpful. But they are by no means the most common case. A giant Pepsi billboard is not making anybody's life better in any way.
> They also have 300% debt to GDP compared to 84% for India.

You're comparing the total debt of China with the national debt of India.
This is one of the messages that need to be pushed hard - globalization - with it's implications on the "first world" global middle class - has helped make this possible.

It's like talking to people opposed to GMO rice. They are fine with an ideological position that GMO foods should be eliminated until you point out the alternative is hundreds of millions dead of starvation.
https://journals.lww.com/cogbehavneurol/fulltext/9900/consci...
Not OP, but I think what he's referring to is communism declining a generation ago:

> Following liberalizing economic reforms in the late 1980s and early 1990s, India is now one of the world's fastest growing economies, as well as the second most populous.

https://web.archive.org/web/20110520002800/https://www.ers.u...
We literally elected people that are telling us our elections are rigged. Even if Russia and China orchestrated it, we're stupid enough to eat it up.

"Everybody complains about politicians. Everybody says they suck. Well, where do people think these politicians come from? They don't fall out of the sky. They don't pass through a membrane from another reality. They come from American parents and American families, American homes, American schools, American churches, American businesses and American universities, and they are elected by American citizens.

This is the best we can do folks. This is what we have to offer. It's what our system produces: Garbage in, garbage out. If you have selfish, ignorant citizens, you're going to get selfish, ignorant leaders." - George Carlin
Keep in mind that Cannonical Ubuntu used to display ads/"recommendations " for Amazon products in their launch center thingy.
I thought that was pretty much the motivation. HKTs are hard - hard to implement with Rust's low overhead goals, and hard to teach to newbies. My understanding is that GATs came about as some simpler lower hanging fruit to try first.
The article isn't really about C programming, it's about C's type system being used to define ABIs for foreign-language function calls. The size of e.g. an int can vary from platform to platform. Structure layouts are also platform-specific. Looking at a C library's header file by itself tells you nothing about what to actually put in the registers.

I'm unclear on whether it would have been possible to do better without an implausible amount of standardization early in computing history. A low-level language that works on CPUs with different endianness and word size and pointer size and number of registers is by necessity going to be somewhat vague about calling conventions.
The higher end EV6 is apparently an absolute rocket.
My first job was in Infosys back in 2001. Coming from a lower-middle class farming family, it was a huge deal. My monthly gross was something my dad (farmer) + mom (school teacher) would earn in an entire year. I remember my dad proudly putting a portrait of NR Narayana Murthy (founder of Infosys) on our wall - it is usually reserved for gods/ancestors or revered sages.
>Take lots of pictures -- you will never look at the video.

Wrong.
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I'm not against social media fundamentally, I'm against the lack of privacy and emotional exploitation as means to sell more ads on social media. Social media could be done solely in the interest of its users, and I think that could be fantastic. So far, Signal has a reputation good enough to make me optimistic about it adding social network features.

I definitely do not expect Signal to drop encryption by default in any feature though. That's their fundamental value.
The problem the author has is not with the C programming language, no argument here is about some language construct or some abstraction within it, in fact very little about the actual language is said.
To me it is very clear that the issues described do not lie with C(++), the programming language, but with C(++), the language which powers everything from a 8-bit micro controller to the most modern super computer and almost every operating system you can try to put on top of them.
With any language as ubiquitous as C these issues about types had to arise at some point and the reason that most languages "feel" much more streamlined regarding types, is because they never pretend to care about some obscure niche architecture.
The same goes for "C as the language of ABIs", it is a very simplifying choice to have the ABI of your OS be described in the programming language of the kernel. Sure, it does not need to be, but if your language is the layer between software and hardware, maybe it has some right to dictate how you talk to it.

Any language which wants to have a comparable feature set to C in terms of breadth of platforms and depth of penetration will run into issues like this. Maybe it can, with the benefit of half a century of hindsight, make better choices.
The pushing and pulling was there all along:

The play/pause media key automatically starting the Music app, suggestions defaulting to include content from paid services (hey that movie is available on Apple TV!), maps links only working with Apple Maps, searching for selected text opens Safari and disregards your primary browser, permanently enabled share menu options for iCloud and Airdrop.

Privacy settings increasingly spread out and opaquely named. No more central unique identifier reset button, but individual ones for each app placed in different submenus. Completely disabling Siri has become some sort of Easter egg hunt. Not that it'll actually stop the data outflow, though.

Aggressive surfacing of ecosystem capabilities such as proximity unlock by nearby Apple watch, wake on bluetooth or network, etc. These features were previously configurable through the GUI, but those conveniences have been removed and the features are enabled by default.

Local configuration profiles (a free, easy, local, and accessible way to configure your system) are being slowly phased out in favour of third party remote Mobile Device Management services such as Jamf or, of course, the one Apple launched not too long ago.

These new advertisements are so prominent and the implementation so obviously bad, that I'm almost suspecting them to be merely a distraction from the much more insidious tricks they've been pulling in the background.
I wouldn’t doubt that they are roughly accurate.

The question is is the growth worth the pound of flesh the CCP takes as its right in return for that growth and social stability?

Another fair question is could it not have been achieved through a more humane system of governance?
> Advertising is not inherently or automatically bad.

I don't agree.

I don't want to convince you or change your mind but I believe that most advertising is default immoral with few exceptions. Of course feeling that way myself I believe that it's a valid point of view, and I do make purchasing decisions based on it. In line with the article's thesis:

> feeling appalled and perplexed why a billion-dollar giant tech company would willingly cheapen their flagship product merely for a bit more money

I too am surprised that as little as this revenue can be in relation to the hardware and app store revenue that they're leaning into it this hard.
Philips Hue operates over Zigbee so there isn't vendor lock in. Like you, I've also had exposure to the high end industrial LED emitters, but using those at home is hard. I ended up going with Ikea TRADFRI bulbs, they are much cheaper than Hue (USD 9-13 each) and don't seem to be any worse than the Hue bulbs. Ikea also sells Tradfri buttons (switches to control the bulbs) and motion sensors. And not relevant for this, but also Tradfri controllable power outlets.

I'm using a Sonoff Zigbee 3.0 dongle (available on ebay for $20, uses a TI Zigbee chip) plugged into a small single board computer server. Zigbee2MQTT is FOSS software which interfaces with the Zigbee dongle and manages the Zigbee network. You can pair devices to the network with with its web GUI. Zigbee2MQTT allows you to control the devices over MQTT, a lightweight messaging protocol. I wrote a Python script for this. It connects to MQTT and listens for messages from the buttons (on, off, brightness up/down, CCT up/down). When it gets a message from a button or motion sensor, the script sends a MQTT command to the relevant bulb / group of bulbs.

My setup is all Ikea Tradfri, but I could very easily add in Hue bulbs or other Zigbee devices such as ones from Aqara or Sonoff. I just purchased a Zigbee thermostat but haven't gotten around to setting it up yet. The whole thing works without internet access. Though you could expose the MQTT server to the internet and set up a method to control your devices when away from home.

The main risk is that the industry moves past Zigbee. It's already moving to Thread & Matter, but I've only done a bit of research into that. I think Zigbee will be supported and products will continue to be available for a while. Or a self-hosted Thread software might also end up existing.

The tradfri bulbs don't dim to 0.1% but they get pretty dim. And your control software could do things like selectively turn off certain bulbs in a room as you command it to lower brightnesses. The CCT range is good enough for me. The Tradfri bulbs are specified as >90 CRI. They don't flicker.
If Rust fanatics spent as much time writing software in Rust as they do writing rants about how much they hate C and C++, they'd be a lot more productive.
About once a week I get a notification that random person X I haven't talked to in a decade is now on signal. About two months ago the super at my old apartment building got on signal and I got a notification. My late coworker's phone number finally got recycled and the new person using it is on signal too. They appear to be reaching critical mass.

Still really mad about them dropping SMS support. I'll be deleting it when that happens.
This isn't a black/white issue. How about we let each person evaluate it for themselves? I find this feature useful, but if I were a sysadmin, I'd probably block it. Not because I don't trust MS, but just that it opens up a vector that I would not want to manage.
There's some subtle technical differences that would need to be overcome, and I cannot see the existing encumbents agreeing to those differences.

First, take private messaging - on Mastodon, if @alice and @dave talk about @mallory, @mallory will be pulled into the conversation. With Fidonet, in it's simplest terms, private messaging was private.

Second, if there is a forum / discussion board for / called Java on ProgrammerWoes.fiction and a forum / discussion board for / called Java on ProgrammerSuccess.fiction then with the existing solutions a person comes along and they are unsure which is better, and one eventually dies, or a third springs up, etc.

With Fidonet, there was one forum per topic - the contents of which was federated, so you didn't end up with two Java forums.

Yes, we have hundreds of programming forums - but there's a reason people flock to Twitter or more specifically Reddit to discuss a topic that goes beyond simply signal to noise - it's that they aren't flooded with a confusing choice.
US citizens crossing border in record numbers to live in Mexico
Not to sound like the infamous Dropbox comment, but would the patent prevent you from doing? Changing light temperature and colour over the course of the day? I've been doing that for years with a cronjob. Doing so without a microcontroller? Those cost pennies nowadays.