skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Quite interesting that a lot of comments mentioning the technical side of scaling, when the bulk of the post was about the more social side of things.

While I don’t agree that decentralization itself is a dubious goal, the argument that moderation, the legal side of things, etc… is not scalable (moderation especially in its current form where the entire fediverse can report anything) seems quite true? We can’t rely on generous people hosting instances, taking legal risks and spending time for it if the fediverse wants to grow bigger than what it currently is.
We don't know for sure, but we have multiple decades of seeing the global fertility rate consistently dropping since it peaked in 1965, so while the error bars in the UN population forecasts are fairly broad, it'd take a staggeringly massive and rapid change to prevent us from seeing global population drops within a century, not least because these things tends to have multi-decade lag.

China started trying with the end of the One child policy in 2016, with a fertility rate then of 1.68. They've just managed to nudge it up to about 1.7, but with the total birth rate per 1,000 people still dropping, prompting them to now to not only allowing three children, but providing "supportive measures" to try to nudge it higher[1]

In other words, changing this trajectory is not quick or easy, and so it's likely the projections will hold reasonably well.

[1] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-57303592
This comment gives me serious gamestop baggie vibes
Well it can't be a replacement anyway. You can't really spend it anywhere
Google play music was this exactly. And it worked beautifully. But alas, someone at Google needed a promotion.
Also comes in flip phone form factor:
https://www.aliexpress.us/item/2251832310833680.html?spm=a2g...

Not into cars. That's fine. How about a phone for people who really like soda:
https://www.aliexpress.us/item/2255799830362840.html?spm=a2g...

Once you drop the giant screen requirement that all smart phones cater to as their design center you can kind of go nuts on the ID. A relatively modest amount of NRE will let you spin up your own absurd vision into a feature phone. (Though you may end of losing a quarter million dollars just for the pure joy of having a rotary dial mobile phone with eInk display).
They're ramping up production which will take time to see revenue. What I question most is whether the company culture has a sense of urgency needed compete compared to Tesla.
> But once they introduced new privacy controls, they seemed to suddenly start investing more seriously in their own advertising network. That, and the encryption slight-of-hand with iCloud, makes the cynic’s case for them.

This might about as clear-cut a case of unfair trade practices as there ever was.
No H1-B engineer at a FAANG class company is going to tolerate getting less compensation than their peers and their managers, many of them former H1-Bs as well, would not tolerate giving them less compensation either. Pichai at Google and Nadella at Microsoft are themselves non-US born engineers who have climbed their way to the top.

The body shops are a different story but this is about Meta.
Picolibc: C library designed for embedded 32- and 64- bit systems
That's precisely what's so deeply troubling. Thanks for sharing.
1) There is 95% chance this is a scam

2) In the event it is not a scam, that Coinbase account was probably established with a fake or stolen identity and will lead law enforcement absolutely nowhere
i would not say it's "exactly HN". lobste.rs articles are much more programming focused. majority of posts you find on HN you would not find on lobste.rs

which is fine, if that's what you want, but, as a daily reader of both, they aren't even close to being the same thing
Jellyfin is a good option too, the FinAmp app is a pretty good music player.
"Retrospective cohort study of 196,992 adults after COVID-19 infection in Clalit Health Services members in Israel between March 2020 and January 2021. [...] We did not observe an increased incidence of neither pericarditis nor myocarditis in adult patients recovering from COVID-19 infection."

Study: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35456309/
> Women have their own interests and their highest interest is that the man stays with her, to help her care for their offspring

Citation needed.
My wife would like to disagree.
This is not strictly true. I examined a master's degree thesis last semester where the student proved conclusively that Alexa devices are periodically spamming bursts of data back to Amazon HQ even when not woken. Beyond a heartbeat, too - MBs of data, not KBs.

No clear idea what that data is, though. There's at least a small chance it isn't benign.
> there can be no circumstance that changes the fact that Bitcoin only ever has 21 million units and cannot ever be inflated

Yes it is deflationary, which is worse for a currency. Why buy anything with a currency whose value will always rise? Better to just hold it. Thus it fails as a currency
Amazon did the same thing to my music library almost a decade ago. Their app even deleted some of my locally stored music.

It's best to just store it all locally (and make it read-only).
If I am spending $75k on a vehicle it better have fancy seats. What you are describing is a budget EV, in that case then yes, don't add fancy seats. But in this price range luxury is expected.
The Pirate Bay (https://thepiratebay.org/index.html) is one of the best cloud music providers, they've been around for two decades and have never deleted anything. Depending on your genre preferences they might not have everything you want, in which case there are some other competing cloud providers[0] that specialize in specific genres:

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/Piracy/wiki/megathread/music/
This looks more like pipedream.com for automation scripts than a tool builder.
Interesting, PS5 is based on FreeBSD

Are they working on a handheld that's running Android/Linux?? hmm
What mid-size electric SUVs are out there?
> Buying drugs online was a real use case that actually worked,

Kinda sorta. Wasn't that back when people assumed cryptocurrency provided the same kind of privacy that cryptography does, which was (in retrospect), pretty dumb?

> as was being able to smuggle wealth out of a country with exit restrictions.

That one doesn't make much sense either. How are you supposed to get your cryptocurrency to smuggle out in such a country? Wire your money to a foreign exchange?

> As for legal uses, yeah, there are not many at the moment. Maybe some day there will be a DAO-type org that is worth being invested in or something but not today.

I agree the "best" actual use cases involve illegal activity, but I think even those are sketchy. Most of the ideas don't actually work unless cryptocurrency is ubiquitous, but that doesn't matter since it will never become ubiquitous without compelling use cases. And given the illegal activity it enables, even if it did have compelling use cases, it would probably be made illegal if it was on its way to becoming ubiquitous (which would instantly marginalize it in a way it could never overcome).
True. I suppose it could be considered "context" for the headline, since readers are more likely to know Tesla than Rivian, although that's also true for Ford.
>that didn’t get ridiculous VC backing.

144 mil on an ICO off the bat is not ridiculous? Whatever its technical merits are, if Polkadot skyrocketed more than other altcoins (10x in 15 months) the reason was probably due to the cult of personality around Gavin Wood. If you're "a co-founder of Ethereum" in a crypto boom, you're probably riding the wave at the top.
Its not your music.
Attrition rates at Amazon are really something else
My intuition is that it's a) very high R&D costs coupled with b) being partly a hardware play, where unlike software, marginal cost of distribution does not tend to zero and where it's therefore much easier to lose money per unit sold.
> People just don't get distributed currency if they promptly undistribute it.

Same as with source code version control. As soon as distributed VCS appears (git), people promptly centralize it with another abstraction layer (github, gitlab, bitbucket, etc).
Doubtful they sell at a profit. But do they allow developers for their apps (or whatever they're called, skills I think) to charge money and then take a cut just like any other app store?

I'd imagine like any other new product, they're taking a risk and hoping the product takes off with higher adoption so they can earn more. The bet on Alexa always seemed to be that people wanted a hands-off, voice powered way to interact with the internet, and perhaps they could charge for skills (creating their own 'app store') at some point, or earn more on selling products on Amazon because people would enjoy the convenience of just asking their device to buy more detergent or whatever. Not sure I ever really got the premise here, because it was always quite easy to order stuff on my computer or phone.

Anyway, I don't work at Amazon so I'm not sure if I'm mistaken about what the idea was. I imagine only some people close to that division would really know.
Lots of automated trading by firms is still happening. There could be enough people trying to buy the dip. Or doing manual day trading/active trading. Crypto communities still have a huge number of believers.

Or take a look at the EA community and their cognitive dissonance over SBF and the general issue of bootlicking billionaires when it comes to altruism. Not everything is rational now.

Or you’re right and it’s wash trading keeping the price afloat.
The distinction is that Apple doesn't monetise your data by sharing it with third party companies.

Personally I'm fine with a company I choose to do business with storing information about me and about how I interact with their services. It just seems obvious that they will need to do this in order to provide their services. I understand that some of this info may be more than the strictly necessary minimum, but I have no evidence so far that any of this info has been used for purposes I consider nefarious. If they do, ok I'll reconsider.

I do understand the argument that they're providing an option to opt out of tracking, and that some of this data appears to be what is reasonably considered tracking info. That's a potential concern, sure, but again are they actually using this for anything I'd consider nefarious? If so then again I'm interested, but if not then ok, they should stop doing it, but that's as far as my interest goes.
Amazon is almost more of a logistics company than a tech company. I'd bet they own more square feet of infrastructure than any auto company.
You can read however many PG essays you want to, but you can't control what you think of them.
The Young Ones ran on MTV in 1985. It was hilarious. There's one episode... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bambi_(The_Young_Ones) which really stands above and beyond.
Good question, I suppose. I work in the grocery industry and COVID was absolutely incredible for business -- my yearly bonus doubled. Wouldn't have wanted to own a bowling alley or a movie theatre, though.

That said, we never corrected to the degree the tech industry seems to be now. I'm glad I never followed through with those Facebook recruiters ...
As an old C/C++ programmer, I'm always surprised by how often software developers are surprised by the performance costs of inopportune value semantics (C and C++ even more so, punishes you severely for using value semantics when you shouldn't). I increasingly see the wisdom of languages with implicit reference semantics.

It's not that value semantics can't be better (they most assuredly can be), or that reference semantics don't cause their own complexity problems, but rather that so often we thoughtlessly imply/impose value semantics through interfaces in ways that negatively impact performance; getting interfaces wrong is a much tougher bell to unring.

The vast majority of my mental energy when I define an interface in C++ is carefully thinking through a combination of ownership contracts and value vs. reference semantics that I can mostly ignore in languages with implicit reference semantics. While occasionally ignoring those contracts while developing in Java/Python/whatever comes back to bite me, the problem isn't nearly as common or problematic as when I unintentionally impose value semantics in a language that allows me to.
This isn't an application of fair use. That doesn't allow you to make bulk copies of media with impunity. Lack of distribution only reduces the damages that can be claimed.

For audio this is covered under the format shifting permission provided by the AHRA.
Work Resumes at Angra 3 after 7 Years
Why upload anywhere instead of buying one sdcard?
> It's relatively easy to draw a parallel between fossil fuel corporations and the fawning media they paid for and FTX.

How?
There's a market here for a safe way to store crypto. Something like a thing you carry with you, a thing you can keep at home, a thing you have a friend hold, a thing you have in a safety deposit box, and info a service holds for you. Some combination of majority votes, time delays in days or weeks, and warning messages lets you recover from loss and damage. With backup from an insurance company. But nobody has addressed that market.
This was the same setup in a condo tower I used to live in. Touchscreen grid of floor numbers and a keypad (with Braille) at ADA wheelchair height.
No overlapping market segments. Rivian makes an SUV, pickup, and delivery van. Tesla makes none of those.
In what sense is that "the whole quote?"

Here is an excerpt from the article that puts into context why this is concerning. But honestly, just read the article.

> Now, what is a commercial activity?
The CRA does not define this term. However, conversations with people more knowledgeable on product legislation pointed me to the EU Blue guide to the implementation of EU product rules:

> Commercial activity is understood as providing goods in a business related context. Non-profit organisations may be considered as carrying out commercial activities if they operate in such a context. This can only be appreciated on a case by case basis taking into account the regularity of the supplies, the characteristics of the product, the intentions of the supplier, etc. In principle, occasional supplies by charities or hobbyists should not be considered as taking place in a business related context.
It's actually a system that screws (some of) the big guys.

The "little guy" enjoys very low commissions and market orders with bid/ask spreads less than they ever were. Market makers are happy to give cheap liquidity to "uninformed" traders whose trades don't move markets. (People on Robinhood get very good access if they want to trade sensibly; I wouldn't blame the market makers primarily that many of them use stock trading as a substitute for sports betting.)

If you like trading limit orders on the theory that odds are very good you can set a limit 1% below the current price and get a fill thanks to Brownian motion, they are going to outtrade you because they've got answers to the risk that a limit order sometimes fills not because of Brownian motion but because the market is moving sharply in one direction and you don't.

Market makers do not want to trade with large traders who know something that not everybody knows and whose trades may be a harbinger of market moves that will go against the market makers. Market makers want to make those traders pay through the nose for liquidity and that is why large trainers are always complaining that "the prices I see aren't for real."
Do sample recordings, reduce bitrate (you can have good voice recording and playback at less than 3kb/sec) and upload only if the device detects something worthy of notification.

Hell, don't even send the sound, just send a weekly report of events.
Well, having around -7 in each eye plus some astigmatism, I define "cheap" anything under €300-400. Lenses get expensive quickly!
I'll second navidrome -- moved to this after airsonic seemingly slowed down/stopped development.

I'm using DSub on my android phone to get a nice mobile player, which also sync's tracks locally to the phone if I wander into an area with low or no signal. Navidrome being compatible with the Subsonic API means there are several players on all platforms that can hook into it.
If they set up @social@lilly.com this solves the blue checkmark dilemmas too. It verifies their identity without implying status/endorsement/$8 flex.
AST SpaceMobile hits key milestone toward satellite-to-smartphone 5G service
The plague of emoji insertion in French docs
Exactly. Look at graphs of employee growth at the large tech companies between 2019 and 2022 - we're lopping off some of that growth... probably will end up lopping off a lot of that growth before this is over.
I love OpenSUSE (esp. Tumbleweed), but every time I see a tutorial about ML stuff, they are using Ubuntu. I wonder if there's any inherent advantage to Ubuntu that other distros don't have (e.g., having some libraries preinstalled, sane default configs, etc.)
Not surprising. The US has not paid reparations to most of the people it has wronged.
I wonder if it tracks his own carbon footprint between his mansion and his private jet-setting.
I like this informative reply
Nice, I'd like to follow this. I tried browsing there with EWW, but I'm blocked by an "Enable JavaScript" message. This seems to be a Mastodon 4.x thing; 3.5.x servers work great in EWW (read-only at least). I'm hoping there's some ?nojs=1 type workaround that I haven't found yet. I wrote a blog post about this just the other day: https://www.fitzsim.org/blog/?p=465
Of course he can have $100,000 in his wallet, that $80k will be usable to exchange in return for $50k of goods, for sure!
Totally agree as someone who has been making personal sites since I was a kid in '98. My latest iteration has been nearly 2 years in the making now. I had a WordPress blog for many years but finally decided it was time as a software developer to have a site that was custom. The core idea of the site is as if you've RDP'd into my Windows 10 machine and can see all my files and apps. Everything runs client side which was also something important to me. If interested please check it out, I nickname it daedalOS and it's also open source.

https://dustinbrett.com/
I don't. I pay the counterparty directly with lightning for under 200 fiat equivalent, or on chain for larger purchases.

The point is, I never need to buy fiat (what you call withdrawing)
Did you even bother to google something like "Top democratic donor jailed" before posting this?
...what is it? I really can't see a difference.
This post made me understand React: https://blog.vjeux.com/2013/javascript/react-performance.htm...

And this one made me understand JSX: https://blog.vjeux.com/2013/javascript/react-coffeescript.ht...
There's a setting along the lines of "don't delete". People were burned by this, it boggles my mind that it's not the default...
Are you prepared to deal with the effects if the US Military stopped all operations? I wonder what the climate impact would be?
Small nit, there is no evidence that barter and trade economies ever existed.

When there is a utility for it, humans invent a form of currency nearly immediately.
as i wrote earlier, your "instance" is your "home" while the federated network is your neighbourhood. you communicate with members of your home like @john but with your neighbours as @john@neighour . you can ask your home "manager" to block someone is someone is doing something naughty and if a neighbour is doing something naughty, you can ask your "manager" to block their access to you home, like closing your own blinds. if the offending neighbour gets really loud, your "manager" can have a restraining order banning them from coming to your property.

you can talk to your home members, your immediate neighbours, your neighbours on the other side of the city or the state, whatever....

does that make some sense?
A monad is said to be a monoid in the category of endofunctors, but I think assbuttbuttass's answer is a little clearer.
Until recently all crypto exchanges had to be scams. They can only profit by selling/loaning customer funds or by trading with a dishonest advantage by being the house. If an exchange was profitable, and they all were, it was because it was a scam.

This is the same analysis that shows that Tether is a fraud. If they took a dollar for every dollar token sold and then paid to store those dollars as collateral they'd be losing money, and would have no profit because they sell $1 for $1. They are wildly profitable though which proves that it's from crime because their base model has zero profit.

Recently though, the last few years, you can loan crypto for zero time and with zero risk in a process called a flash loan. You structure a single transaction to borrow funds, spend those funds and profit, and return those funds with interest. This actually allows an exchange to use user funds without risking them.

Hopefully we're done with centralized exchanges though, because even if they can be made possible they can never actually be made safe for the users.
That seems like reporting on Meta's 2022 losses in virtual reality in late 2026, which would seem absurd, even if that's the best/only information they have at that time. (At some point, you have to admit "we don't have any relevant information" rather than report on "the least irrelevant information we can find".)
"extremely enthusiastic" is a perfectly valid and commonly used definition of the word "crazy". OP shouldn't use it because there might be some people who might inexplicably interpret them as deriding people with serious mental issues? I think it is far from a foregone conclusion that it's inadvisable for OP to use the word.
They do have 1.5 million employees (per Google)
> Rivian is a strong second

BYD would like to have a word.
Show HN: Log observability built with Rust, Parquet and Arrow
The crypto community is very much to blame for this. Initially, back when bitcoin was hovering about $1 per coin, everyone was talking about personal wallets, and educating people how the wallet was just a bunch of numbers you can write on a piece of paper and which you can keep hidden in the lining of your pants, etc.

But then bitcoin started getting popular and emerging towards mainstream culture, the talk about wallets seized. All the new crypto firms started marketing accounts and "cloud wallets" and the personal pocket wallet was never mentioned.

Crypto then continued to advance in mainstream culture and personal wallets were kept a secret. I doubt the average crypto user even knows about personal wallets.

And if you disagree, please prove me wrong. There are many crypto commercials on mainstream media, show me one that has mentioned that you can keep a personal wallet.

So the crypto industry is to blame for this. They basically hid the most important part of crypto from the public because they would make more money without it.
You cannot waive such rights in many jurisdictions, and such clauses are void there. Even where you can generally waive such warranty rights as a buyer in a contract, such waivers may still be curtailed in allowed scope. That includes most US states, too. E.g. if you sell a consumer product that's shoddily made and unfit for purpose and it blows up and injures its user, a signed contract where the buyer fully waives all implied warranties for fitness of purpose and accepts full responsibility -- caveat emptor! -- is probably void, and you are probably on the hook anyway.

> Limitation of consequential damages for injury to the person in the case of consumer goods is prima facie unconscionable

https://www.law.cornell.edu/ucc/2/2-719
I should say that what surprised me wasn't that a bunch of kids started up a company and during that process skirted, if not regulations, at least common sense. But that once serious money got involved and they grew into the millions and then billions of assets under management, nobody was around who could tell them that this was reckless and dangerous