skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unfortunately "critical theory" (as stereotyped in public discourse, but also as practiced in American academia) is generally like Marxian theory completely stripped of the materialist method and an actual attention to economic fundamentals. It's name-checked radicalism. Any "anti-capitalism" is purely skin-deep, a kind of moral grandstanding but on the whole without any program they could give as an alternative, or even the ability to fully explicate what capitalism really is.

And the milieux that circulates this is really primarily liberal, centrist in practice, overwhelmingly supporting and electing quite mainstream fully "capitalist" political parties... but with the aesthetic or appeal to a past radical, anti-capitalist, socialist "scene"... without an actual meaningful program or alternative for the working class. A working class which has as a result almost completely divorced itself from this "left."

Which is all the end product of the demolition of the organized socialist left & trade union movement in the west through the 70s and 80s and early 90s and the retreat of associated intellectuals into academia and cultural politics.

If, as I keep hearing from right-wing commentators, "the left" is somehow dominant, it's only because "the left" has wholesale dropped its historical anti-capitalist mission, and has retreated almost exclusively into culture wars; and generally taken positions which enrage the right on that basis, but doesn't actually challenge any real power. A very general "anti-oppression" politic which is primarily concerned with individual concerns, not collective ones. This "left" that I keep hearing about from the Shapiro etc types foaming at the mouth, it's a caricature not only made by its opponents... but by itself.

Just Liberalism, and a very 21st century American product.
Maybe this is common knowledge in the US, but like, you're just supposed to know what Kentucky number plates look like from a blurry image, and you're also supposed to know the logo of a sports club?
Cool.

Also, picture has to contain all these clues of course, conveniently, including a couple of street numbers.
New Orleans police use of facial recognition nets zero arrests in nine months
You're replying to a different person, now =]
The Long History of Nobody Wants to Work Anymore
If people manage to do this part:

> people are able to make a high performing material at an affordable price, people solve all the practical problems,

What are the implications of that? What are the effects? How does that change my life? How does it change society?
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One thing I noticed that doesn't generalize is exactly those house numbers. Depending on house numbering scheme, a house number may effectively be useless. Here in Israel house numbers are just sequential and most streets aren't that long, so what are you going to do with a number like "17" which appears in almost every street in the country?
Inflation is a rise in the general level of prices, more money in the economy causing the value of the dollar to reduce in value can be one cause of inflation. There are various ways to measure this like the consumer price index

Things like printing money are often said to cause inflationary pressure.

Inflationary pressure can be caused by several factors such as fiscal policies, demand-pull inflation, cost-push inflation, disproportionate minting of money compared to the industrial output and demand for goods and services, increases in production costs such as raw materials and wages, a surge in demand for products and services, different variables or disruptions that push manufacturers to adjust and respond to ever-changing supply-demand economic conditions

https://www.wallstreetmojo.com/inflationary-pressure/

https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/012115/consumer-pri...
hn has two servers at m5hosting which according to their FAQ [0] "IPv6 support is currently available for Dedicated Servers or Colocation." so you ask support, they assign you a prefix and you add a few IPs from that prefix. done. My guess is their anti spam or something else in the software expects an IPv4.

[0] https://www.m5hosting.com/support/cloud-faq/
Sadly this is the type of bounty hunting that seems quite likely to get a bounty placed on one’s own head. Making a career out of angering the rich and powerful by going after their money isn’t likely to end well.
When I'm on shell only and can't bring up an X session for a GUI.

This scenario is fortunately pretty rare these days, especially since vscode supports remote editing, but it still happens from time to time and I can still resolve the issue by just dropping emacs on the target machine and working with it in terminal mode. And vscode is a relatively new option here; If I cast the bones, I predict it will be around for awhile.
Building a modern semiconductor factory starts long before you can begin to think about the foundation. Minimizing vibration is included in thinking about the siting, seismic insulation of the building and the placement of just about everything in the fab itself.

Think 'boxes in boxes' to get maximum insulation. I also have a friend who works in this industry and he once joked that they have an almanac built in to deal with moon tides and while it is a funny joke you have to wonder if there isn't going to be a time when even that sort of effect will have to be accounted for. Amazing stuff.

ASML is one of a short list of Dutch companies that I'm super proud of, they keep on innovating no matter how extreme the challenges are. The moat they have is incredibly deep.
> [death is] an evolved strategy to allow newer models to replace us

I don't think that's true and it's pretty difficult to argue that it is given how close to universal death is among living things... if it were true evolution would also have explored the adjacent possible of near immortality more often. After all living longer also means potentially producing more offspring, so it's not an impediment to natural selection. Probably more accurate to say that between the complexity required to keep repairing the accumulated damage in an individual organism over time and simply replacing the organism with a new model every so often, evolution prudently chose the later. Evolution is economical... making highly complex systems that are eternally resilient and repairable is not.

I don't doubt we'll soon be able to extend lifespan (and healthspan) by quite a bit but not indefinitely unless we can transfer the mind to a new body. And frankly I doubt that makes a lot of sense because I don't think 200-year-old me will feel much identity with 20-year-old me anyway. The Buddhists probably have it right that the sense of a continuous self is largely an illusion.
> What if all corporate accountants were required to be government employees?

So then what if a company is seeking to expand internationally, and looking at options for various reasons (including costs, which includes the tax burden). Isn’t it a conflict of interest to have a US government employee weighing in on how to improve a company at the loss of IRS revenue?

And that’s an extreme example. Any company accountant or CFO is going to be involved in regular decisions where “paying less tax” is an important outcome to consider.
> I thought it means when you increase the money supply the purchasing power of one dollar goes down.

This is the view of right-leaning folks, most famously by Milton Friedman. It turns out to not be accurate as even Friedman realized (Financial Times (UK), June 7, 2003):

> The use of quantity of money as a target has not been a success. I'm not sure that I would as of today push it as hard as I once did.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monetarism
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Making the ReScript type system work for you (Part I)
I'm in my early 40s, and do nothing specifically for my physical health. I don't have cognitive decline, I don't suffer from little issues at all, (someone once said that'll happen once past 40), some days I skip sleep entirely.

I also learn new stuff and program on projects, which are cognitively demanding, almost every single day. I don't regularly watch TV shows. On occasion I binge-watch something, only to stop it again for many months. I don't drink alcohol at all, but I consume small amounts of THC.

Your "mid 30s" claim might be true for people who are doing it wrong, which probably/likely is the vast majority, but there's absolutely no fair and objective way of putting an age on the beginning of cognitive or physical decline as if it was outside of ones personality responsibility/abilities to prevent it from happening until a much, much later age.

But ... to be the exception that agrees with the rule: If I lived how most people around seem to be living, I'd likely suffer from decline as well.
I once saw a Johnny Long talk about how to do this for interior photos, where something like an electrical outlet or carton of milk can make all the difference in the world.
IME the implication is not a universal truth.
> incompetent and wasteful actions on huge scales

As others have pointed out, this is independent of whether we're talking about the government or private sector.

Regardless, when I see workers on a road crew standing around I don't think "wasted tax dollars", I think "money going back into the economy."

Of course in my view of a fair society it would be a preponderance of idle, wealthy money that is going back into the economy.
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Sweat Some of the Small Stuff
Here’s a paper on some research in this direction:

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.35848/1347-4065/acc18c
Contrary to what many are saying, I want the LOOK but not the usability. We've made some good leaps since then and Cinnamon desktop represents just about the cutting edge in usability and familiarity. But that squared look with high-contrast and clearly-interactable elements was lost along the way. Now everything has to be flat, flat, flat with disappearing controls. Take me back.
I ran a Snowflake server at home for a while. I shut it off because it used too much CPU for my liking, but I haven't seen any kind of negative impact whatsoever.

Domain fronting is not exactly a holy grail. Signal and Tor ran into issues when cloud providers blocked domain fronting (or rather, stopped supporting a feature that never was meant to work anyway) but I don't think that was intended to interrupt anything. "Load balancers are written to make sure they serve the correct certificates for their configured domains" isn't exactly a problematic feature on its own.

Domain fronting is trivial, all you need is a call to openssl and an nginx server. It's also trivial to bust, all you need to do is actually validate the certificate. These certificates are either self signed or are part of a random CA chain that no real system would ever trust.

It's not "a spy having their secret meetings inside an unsuspecting friend's house". It's someone putting a sign saying "white house, home of the American president, do not enter" in front of a random warehouse in Brazil.

Software that falls for domain fronting either doesn't care about the certificates and their validity, or is buggy and should get patched. Some of that software will probably be security software, but if bad actors manage to trick your security software into trusting a few readable strings, domain fronting is probably the least of your worries. I can't imagine what kind of shitty security software would possibly fall for that.
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applaud emoji - yes, enough of this single dimensional thinking on hacker news.
A JVM in Rust part 3 – Parsing class files
That's the flip side of pointless bureaucracy, wheel-spinning and busywork. When something properly important comes along, everyone is ready to make it happen.
> everything is folders and files idea of the start menu

Your comment is Ribbon/magic-search-bar vs hierarchical-organization preference in a nutshell.

I've decided there are two mutually-exclusive sorts of people: (a) those who want search to surface things for them, and hate having to remember where to find things & (b) those who want to remember where/how to find things, and hate relying on fuzzy search to surface them.

IMHO, there's enough of each type that any given UI should support both.

Ribbon would have gotten less flak if they hadn't also simultaneously made a mess of the organizational hierarchy behind the scenes. (MS Office-style "select things to show from a giant list in a tiny scrollbox" is terrible)
> If you insist that it's okay for all gifted students to never exceed to the point of making ground breaking discoveries

I did not write that.

> The nongifted people, even if all completely stop contributing to society, would not result in an extinction.

I'm not referring to not contributing, I'm referring to contributing negatively.
> The U.S. population is still growing, which of course may be lag, but can also be caused by immigration.

Indeed which is why I specifically talked of fertility as immigration is a thing. Irrelevant on a global level obviously.

> I expect poorer countries to continue to be baby factories indefinitely.

Highly unlikely. Fertility is getting lower everywhere. In all likelihood Africa will go the same way as South Asia as women education and access to contraception rise and children mortality rates drop. It’s already started.
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The government "responses" (already feeble in the first place) were watered down even more, into a complete nothingburger. With a supermajority on Parliament, they can't even pass their own bills.
But it's going to be much easier to demonstrate data consistency issues and bugs due to threading
> Now that the supply is debt based and abstract, it became non pragmatic to keep referencing it.

Supply has been debt-based (or rather, credit-based) for decades, if not at least a century. It was wrong for decades, and yet folks like Milton Friedman insisted on using this definition:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monetarism
I was a big fan of D, it really felt like writing the cleanest version of C ever created. If you want similar capabilities but in a language with some legs for the future, Nim is a very good choice. Some Python or Ada familiarity will make Nim feel like home.
I think one of the lessons here is how many kinds of clues like that there are, once you know what to look for.
And in this case I think it would have been a lot of work to identify the number plate & bin logo if he hadn’t already had enough context to make a probable guess. The source image he was working from looked pretty low-res, that license plate was just a couple white-ish pixels. Like you, I hadn’t heard of overpass turbo and that looks super cool, but the rest of it was “how to confirm what you already mostly know”.
this is exactly true in nearby large counties, US West
That's called electron-beam lithography:

> This form of maskless lithography has high resolution but low throughput, limiting its usage to photomask fabrication, low-volume production of semiconductor devices, and research and development. [1]

The beam has to scan across the entire wafer instead of exposing it all at once, so it's extremely slow and uneconomical for mass production.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electron-beam_lithography
Right. Because media outlets and journalists in bed with Republicans definitely don’t engage in lies and propaganda (/s). Or just maybe it has more to do with how they’re now almost entirely owned by large corporations that have their own interests in mind.
I'm not advocating for privatization. I'm advocating for decreased government spending and lower taxes. Privatization means the government gives money to private entities to do supposedly necessary functions of the government.
> I've had my fair share of useless, self interested recruitment firm representatives who enrich themselves at up to 20% of my six figure salary and literally offer me and my employer nothing.

If they truly offered nobody nothing, they wouldn't exist. What they offer is convenience - to the hiring manager. He can just ring a couple of recruiters and have a bunch of people to interview in a couple of days. In theory, the company's HR should provide this service to him instead, but some companies are too small to have HR, and many companies' HR is incompetent or dysfunctional and will not find the right match for the job.

Yes, the ~20% they charge on an ongoing basis is a lot for this service, but the hiring manager does not care, as long as he has money in the budget. So, you could say recruiters take advantage of the managerial class not really working to benefit the owners of the company, and being very loose with their money. They found a way to exploit a weakness of the corporate structure, like many other corporate vendors do - big and small, from mom'n'pop stores which deliver vegetable baskets, to your Microsofts and Googles.
Dramaphobic, and probably transphobic to boot. You need to be better than you are right now.
Most FOSS projects are unpaid, and the only reward is nerd-fame. That's why maintainers are often petty about credits and "ownership".
> they believed the bad advice that is easy to find on the Internet

I'm with you 100% on this. But vegans needing a dozen supplements for optimal health is a different claim than bad internet nutrition advice leading people astray from optimal health.

If you personally feel like you need a dozen supplements even as an informed vegan, I would give you some resources or at least refer you to a dietitian.

A controversial point of my own to some people is that vegans should and often must embrace "processed foods" to hit optimal protein goals. Foods like seitan, textured vegetable protein, tofu, and ultra-processed vegan products have the highest protein density. Yet the fear of processed foods is vogue on social media, and there are plenty of green mommy vegan blogs that will list a cup of lentils as a protein heavy-hitter yet never mention TVP, seitan, etc. There is also plenty of other vegan cringe online like the no-oil vegans who minimize dietary fat.

But that wouldn't mean you can't get sufficient protein on a vegan diet.

Social media and Youtube nutrition advice is horrible for everyone, I think. My own father has been convinced that butter is a superfood by Youtube quacks. They also convinced him to quit his blood pressure meds and that the carnivore diet is so healthy that you can dispose of any cautionary blood panel markers—they simply don't apply to you anymore.
Something tangentially related that I've learned recently from the individual sport of tennis:

You need to learn the skills, but that's not enough. You also need to know how to play the game.

And "how to play the game" requires a certain maturity of understanding what sports and competition are: physically outsmarting (an)other human(s).

Skills can be taught by a coach, but playing the game requires... playing the game; working it out by doing, and each opponent requires a slightly different approach.

Team sports (or working with other people) adds a layer of complexity to what is already complex. Games within games.

The joys and frustration of life itself.
That one never gets old. I swear I still chuckle at it so many years later.
> Do your due diligence before you claim that you broke physics as we know it

Do room temperature semi conductors break physics as we know it? I didn’t think they contradicted known physics, which is why so many people were researching them.

What known physics do they break?
> QE can cause inflation, but QE != inflation.

A reasonable case can be made that QE may actually be deflationary to a certain extent. See Cullen Roche in 2010:

* https://www.pragcap.com/quantitative-easing-the-greatest-mon...

* https://www.pragcap.com/wait-qe-might-be-deflationary/
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A bit off topic, IMO ffmpeg is one of the best software ever written. Fabian Fabrice (ff) is one talented engineer and people such as him are a gift to the FOSS community.

I used to work in a ~2 bil unicorn in which a big part of the products we worked on relied on ffmpeg.
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The problem is calculating the number of display characters… It’s surprisingly difficult.
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More like someone who works on their own car. Yeah, they lose the occasional weekend to the maintenance, but they love that they've had the same car for 35 years.

However with Emacs, there are a few thousand other people working on the car too, so despite the fact it's the volkswagen beetle you bought in 1972 and your butt shape is indelibly formed in the cockpit, it has _also_ got electric power train, full self driving and JATOs. :)
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Physics and maths papers are published everyday, claiming to have solved this or that long-standing problem. I think Twitter/HN is getting excited about this particular paper for no particularl reason, it's just random the amplification of stuff that sometimes occurs in social media.
ELI5: Parts of the Brain Functions
> first, to recognize the contributions of people with diverse backgrounds, in order to offer more protagonists who can inspire and with whom more people can identify
second, to provide examples and motivations that are relatable to under-represented backgrounds and identities, in order to reach and be more immediately helpful to more people

Seems pretty reasonable IMO. Feels like pretty mellow and easy actions to take. But the linked post I agree is a bit … condescending? Self congratulating?
I believe we are facing a strong case of naive techno-optimism. I'll give it a go: a 19 yo genius may find a way to capture kilograms of carbons in each leaf of peppermint through a new kind of photosynthesis, and by showing it to the world, we'll all be able to reproduce it and meet our carbon neutrality by 2050. And my uncle Joe, enlightened, will start spending his days drinking peppermint tea instead of making millions trading disposable plastic products from East Asia.
Nations unite against Facebook over encryption plans ‘that endanger children’
You can disable WebRTC in most decent browsers if you're afraid this will be abused. WebRTC can be used for worse things (like port scanning your internal network) and for great things (video calling with millisecond latency, Peertube).

However, it should be noted that this mechanism doesn't just allow remote sockets to be created through Javascript. It can only communicate with other servers that either use some version of WebRTC/WebSockets or plaintext services that ignore the extra protocol overhead as garbage and happily parse the rest (some IRC servers and WebSockets are a nice example).

As you can see in the technical overview, people use peer to peer technology to connect to your browser, which then uses WebSockets to communicate with a WebSocket server for a normal Tor entry point.
Dung Beetles Navigate Poop-Pile Getaways Using Celestial 'Snapshots'
We block every Tor IP we can find because we don't have the time nor patience to deal with the 99% burpsuite spam originating from these servers. Very cheap and effective solution.