skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That analogy doesn't hold. The reason they see those below them as ants is because there are so few like them. If there are only 2,640 billionaires in the entire world then that is very different from being middle class. Billionaires never have to take a commercial flight and never have to wait in line, and never have to wait for table, etc.
Maybe the well-off want things like paved roads and landscaping?
https://www.xbox.com/en-US/legal/community-standards#iv
Okay, so I confused the cause of the acid rain with an entirely different man made climate atrocity. The point still stands if not even stronger as we've just provided a separate example
> But if extracting a key is mildly inconvenient or legally questionable, it will be enough to deter honest casual users but not profit-motivated attackers, and you get the worst of both worlds.

it will also create a market for people selling and buying keys

it'll be like buying a grey market software key, you hop onto aliexpress, pay $5 and you'll have an iphone 11 attestation key

remote attestation as a process sows the seeds of its own destruction
> Maybe they know how to use a computer.

Seems uncalled for.
I think Reddit modding has thoroughly answered that questions of nuance and context doesn't really matter. Internet modding typically has zero transparency or recourse when mods consistently get it wrong / abuse power.

I'd be surprised if Xbox is any different.
I remember when voice chat first became available in multiplayer shooters (outside of addons) and became aware almost everyone else was a male adolescent, knew my mother, and all of them were cursing up a storm like South Park characters. It was pretty disappointing and I turned it off after a few matches on different servers.
How Prime Video updates its app for more than 8k device types
The compiler is not trying to fix your program. It is just assuming that somehow those lines are never hit, and then is deleting the dead code to make your binary smaller.
Windows Pro (and K/N versions), as well as Enterprise, should minimize the consumer-oriented software.
Many reasons, but if you're going to whatabout this aggressively it's not worth arguing. But chiefly because African poverty isn't closely related to inflation in the West, while corporate profits are, and are possibly causal for it.

You're recasting this as "they have too much money!!" But that's obviously not the problem and it's just bad faith to claim that it is.

If you want to get riled up, get riled up over the idea that maybe the same people responsible for poverty in the Global South are also responsible for inflation in the West.

Or you can try to deflect on any related issues in the hope that you never have to worry about it, your choice.

Edit: you added this and I found it particularly ridiculous.

> no problem making thousands more than the global poor and the global rich making more than me either. It is what it is.

Great, so let other people who care do their thing. Do you expect someone making $100k a year to give it all away to some random family with less money? That's an individual act of heroism, but it doesn't make a dent in the problem on a bigger scale.

Also let's be clear: I for one don't care that some people are rich, I care that some people are poor. If one person's richness is a cause for the other's poverty, then it's a problem.

> Not impose meaningless arbitrary income limits.

Who is?

You might not be aware, but a large number of people in the US and Canada are struggling financially right now due to inflation. So when someone else seems to be making increasing profits at the same time as they're raising those prices, you start to wonder about the causes.

This isn't some Harrison Bergeron situation, it's about actually trying to solve problems. If you are content with your life then stay out of the way of the people who want to make things better.
“His tax bracket is say 50%”

Even for HN this level of delusion is rare.
> If you’re ultimately going to be reading actual env vars

I would argue that most of the time, you don't need to do this in the first place. Far too often people shoehorn things into environment variables that really shouldn't live there, like secrets and app configuration.

If you're interfacing with existing software that reads from the environment, obviously you don't have control over that, so using a different format is out of the question (unless you're willing to convert it to env vars at runtime, but that sounds like more effort than it's worth).
> We just don’t the government enough to let them track us everywhere.

That statement is both true and emblematic of the problem. Everyone is so cynical that a clean public-key, offline, certificate-based solution, with an absolute zero visibility to the government of who is doing what, would always be assumed to be part of some nefarious Illuminati/Democrat/Republican plot. Proving it to people with technical tests wouldn't prove it. They'll always be convinced.

What we need from the government is so minimal really, just to sign certificates if we prove our identity. But it'll never happen in the US due to the distrust situation.
$200 dollar phones likely aren't rolling their own HSMs. It'll probably be one of a few made big Co.s like Google, Samsung, Qualcomm, etc. I expect it'll be about as hard as getting them off $2000 dollar phones.

Even if it's possible, that too will be a cat and mouse game which won't work for long. Hardware DRM has been an evolving industry, and now with the commonality of TPMs and HSMs it's here to stay.
> do not forbid fertilizers

Of course they do. Even green hippies don't want to go back to yields that are less than a quarter of modern ones.

> They just try to avoid it wherever possible and in general try to keep use on a sustainable level (and organic farming certificates require no use of chemical fertilizers).

This is a lie by omission. "Organic" farming is dependent on nitrogen from manure. And most of the manure is produced by animals fed with very "non-organic" corn.

Grass-fed cattle (it's only around 5% of the total!) will only supply a small fraction of needed manure, even for the current "organic" farming.

> And apart from that, organic farming surely can scale.

Nope. "Organic" farming is nothing but a cash grab, fueled by chemophobia and the naturalistic fallacy.
https://archive.is/1hJZf
Ask HN: Is there a script that auto rejects tracking on all websites at once?
I’m looking for a tool to auto reject tracking/cookies on all major websites all at once. I want it to do this on all browsers I use, on my phone’s browsers and on my phone’s in app browsers just everywhere a user session persists.

It is so time consuming to always accept/reject cookies and I swear I’ve done it before on many sites but I cant keep track to verify

Before I make this myself, is anyone aware of this tool?
That's a nice strawman you got there, give him a spin so we can admire it in all its glory.
Strained housing affordability is a ‘manufactured crisis’ created by bad zoning
I'm actually incredibly concerned that the people that make sandwiches for me can't afford rent.

I can't speak for everyone, but I"m pretty sure most people do care about those with less than them.
Dystopian how? And does it become non-dystopian once hate speech is treated harshly but slightly less harsh than non-speech actions? What exactly do you mean?
I have been using vim and tmux for over 10 years as my primary development setup. I have tried others things like vscode, jetbrains ides and even cloud based ides (like cloud9, before Amazon bought it).

I have always gone back to vim and tmux for everything I do.
Can't believe Runescape private server are still a thing after 18 years. This is what got me into programming. I remember working with the first version back in early 2006 I believe it was called winterlove. You couldn't even play multiplayer. Then someone got multiplayer to work, I think that was called blakescape, then there was cheezscape and whitescape which became the popular versions to use because they came with a lot of content like combat ect.

All of the coding I did was done using notepad on Windows lol.

I remember when the major version this server is based on 470-500+ versions which is when they updated the graphics. We spent days trying to be the first one to get a working server and client. You had to mod the client and walk around the game to collect map data to be able to load the map on private server.

The most fun times I had programing to this day.
https://archive.is/CpVSp
I think "most famous events in human history" is probably overstating it, and even then it wouldn't be well known anyways.

Outside of the HN bubble, the average 18 year old person (even in america, as opposed to russians) would not be very informed about Chernobyl. I'd say Chernobyl is a lot less famous than WWII or 9/11 or events of that sort.

And even for big historical events... if you go to a Taylor Swift concert and asked the people there about it, 50% would probably have no clue about most historical events. For example, my 24 year old younger sister doesn't know what a floppy disk is, or what the Berlin wall is. I'd bet you can take any regiment of fresh 18 year old US Marines and tell them they're doing military exercises in Pripyat and they'll mostly ask if there's going to be air conditioning or if there are hot girls around.
Not coming back, anyway.
> Is it bad for [...] people to have too much money or not?

Yes, by definition. The question is, how much is too much money? And in what context?

Put another way, in a given economy, how much do the wages between the top and bottom earners need to differ in order for there to be not only a perceived inequity, but a genuine ethical imbalance?
"Hate speech" is not the same as "swearing".
Speaking is an action?
So not clear at all, thanks.
An officer traditionally has been a person in military with a commission (or NCO), or police. TSA are government employees, with self-created pretend titles and fake badges. TSA can't detain or arrest and if scan tunnel shows possible weapon the TSA aren't allowed to touch it and the line cop does that.
Reasonable, but I'm still not sure what makes code "systems code" or not, by that definition. Is it code that doesn't have a UI/display component mostly, as an observation that lots of Japanese Ruby programmers write code that's distant from the UI layer? Or something else?
Would you rather go to a place with no mosquitos, or go to a place where you're swarmed by mosquitos and have to swat them away?

Would you rather have no pimples, or get constant pimples and have to apply cream to heal them?

Would you rather encounter no people yelling racial slurs, or encounter it every time you game and have to endless mute offenders?

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
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Sorry, dude, but am an UHNW individual, my income comes from investments, and year in year out I pay about 50% in tax (don't forget state and city income tax, and alternative minimum wipes out long term capital gain favoritism)
I don’t know who is consulting for these companies but these new reputation systems are almost universally bad.

Another example of this stuff failing: League of Legends, where your teammate will be instantly chat restricted and eventually permanently banned if they repeatedly type “midget” into the chat. Meanwhile, another teammate could be feeding/intentionally losing and no action will be taken.

These sort of punitive measures on non-gameplay related problems do little if anything to correct disruptive behaviour.

Especially when the response from Riot’s support team when you get banned for disruptive behaviour is to simply create a new account and carry on.(????)

I continue to be impressed by community policing (Steam’s Overwatch, Twitter’s community notes) and I wish we could see more of that being implemented in games to curb disruptive behaviour.
I haven't seen the movie so I do not know what kind of road we are talking about but stone paved roads in Pompei had two groves:

https://www.world-archaeology.com/features/crosstown-traffic...
Off the top of my head I'm running Winamp (gotta whip that llama ass!), Paint Shop Pro 5 (predates XP), RPG Maker 2000, and many more stuff from almost or over 20 years ago with no problems.

So yeah, I'll take my chances with that luck.
the basic premise is wrong: it's not a tradeoff, which would require someone to say "doing this correct and expected thing blows up because another correct and expected thing can go faster".

the problem is mixing in incorrect or unexpected things (like someone altering a global via a debugger). to some extent, it's fair to complain about archaic nonportabilities (such as whether dereferencing NULL will fault, or long-gone numeric representations) - the standards committees should take a deep breath and DTRT in those cases.
Sorry, by parent poster i meant Voldecar who was responding to you.

I don't necessarily agree with you on the 'that it never was' comment but I wasn't objecting to that opinion.
American comic artists are often big fans of attention to anatomy - however deformed - and will go on forever discussing it :-)

But manga or anime? really? Do you please have interviews or other presentations where that comes up?

I found this one, where it seems more of a hobby:

https://www.crunchyroll.com/news/interviews/2023/6/9/intervi...
I was joking. Seriously, people should just exercise in a manner that they can do it consistently for the present and future health. There are physical and mental benefits in many different types of studies. The only exceptions are people with rare diseases that prevent normal body function with exercise. The mechanism by which this benefits mice may not be the same in humans but that's no reason to not exercise.
When wealth inequality within a society is often a contributing factor to revolution and societal collapse, it's not an irrelevant factor.

Your stance is fine and logical, but most people don't feel the same. The difference between your wealth vs a poor African, vs your lack vs a rich American, is that you have the ability to collectivize and reach that rich American physically (not advocating violence, but pointing out that revolutions are violent).

I agree that Americans should also keep this in mind, when we as a country deal with the global poor. We're richer, but they have numbers. Not wise for us to fly too high above them, without using that wealth to benefit them too.
Re: Firefox, Firefox only demands restarting if you changed the copy of Firefox out from under it. This only happens if you're managing Firefox with an external package manager, or you're building from the repo and installed a new copy.

If you run Firefox from its default mechanism, it will update itself and ask to restart before applying the update, and will continue working forever, never updating until you restart it.
OpenRSC[1] has two servers that are dedicated to botting.

[1] https://rsc.vet/
From https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...

Math.random() does not provide cryptographically secure random numbers. Do not use them for anything related to security. Use the Web Crypto API instead, and more precisely the window.crypto.getRandomValues() method
There are people that are intolerant of black people or trans people or whatever, but then there are people that are just plain mean.

I used to play League of Legends and enjoyed the social aspects of unranked play; it would be fun to meet people that would show me things about the world or vice versa, but there was the awful problem that it could take forever to queue because they'd often be people who insisted on playing one particular lane. I learned to jungle early on and to be flexible about roles so I'd be part of the solution instead of the problem.

When I got into ranked though it was just awful, people were always blaming me for the team not winning and for any real or imagined screw-up. I liked to play Sona who is mainly a healer but can sometimes trash the players on the other team really good. If I was being successful at this I'd get bitched out by my bottom because I was depriving them of XP that would help their character scale but, from the viewpoint of the team, if their bottom and support are getting trashed, they're getting trashed. If I was playing well people would bitch me out, if I was playing poorly people bitched me out.

I liked the idea of "finding my level" in ranked but I went back to unranked because I couldn't handle the negativity in ranked.

Eventually I got sick of a game that committed me to 30-50 minutes of paying attention to it and it would be unfair to to other players to bail out because my wife or my son or horse lessoners or the neighbors or someone on the phone needed my attention. But seriously, if you could adjust the dynamics of a game to cultivate positive social interactions that would be a very good thing.
The question is not whether getting banned on Xbox would ban you from all the games or not, the question is whether Xbox should be able to ban you entirely.
You sure that the artist didn't just choose it because the visible spring makes it look more interesting?
My wife loves it.
Expanding and contracting Transformers' sizes is referred to as "morphing" and was much more commonly observed in the cartoon than the Michael Bay movies - but the cartoons are still better.

What are you guys talking about?
Yes and we fixed the problem by passing the ADA and ensuring that people get reasonable accommodations. We didn't build wheelchair only apartment buildings.
> I'd be much more trusting of democracy or even representative democracy if the demos had a real say

The Swiss do a much better job of this! There the people can petition for a referendum to add or delete any law or amend the constitution. They can do this at the municipal, canton (state) or federal level. The result is that politicians know that they need to negotiate with motivated minorities. The people have a veto over the politicians.
> He's good at saying things that sound right.

Large language models.
Some of my highest-paranoia sites and apps are things like my dental insurance. Yeah guys, hackers are out to get me and they can't wait to impersonate me and reschedule my next cleaning for an inconvenient time!
We are all on the same planet, but we are not all under the same jurisdiction. My vote matters for healthcare in the US, but bears no direct influence on the healthcare in countries in Africa. If I believe that healthcare CEOs don’t create as much value as they are paid, then I may gravitate towards a single payer system and vote for a candidate pushing for it.

This stats is relevant, if you vote based on data of how shared infrastructure is used.
What’s arbitrary is your choice of argument. You completely reject my point with a hand wave and make this a comparison between developed and under developed/developing nations
Your point of saying the question is between if someone makes too much is obtuse and, honestly, naiive because the concern is does someone make too much in light of the environment they exist in. If the money they make in their market outpaces and outstrips those of others involved in the same market to an unreasonable extent then that is a problem. It means the market is not being fairly compensatory to those who contribute. This is seen in stagnant wage growth across sectors. This is seen in younger generations inability to purchase homes
But let’s make this about how people on America make more than people in Africa as though such a reductive and myopic straw man addresses the real issue at hand here. No one here. No one. Is saying people in Africa should be poor or not earning a wage that is compensatory to wha they contribute to the world economy. Blood diamonds, cocoa, fishing, etc etc. but your pretending this isn’t a well discussed issue is neglectful of reality
I'm not ignoring history. You are. (Because you're a Communist.)

Communist policies caused the Great Chinese Famine. And many other man-made famines.
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I was a dog park regular at a few parks over course of a few years, as were several others so I met and befriended a lot of people but never knew any names other than dog names. Although I recall exchanging and promptly forgetting a few peoples names
> If the world adopted a plant-based diet we would reduce global agricultural land use from 4 to 1 billion hectares
> Farmyard manure in natural farming leads to higher yield than conventional method: Study

First, these two items are mutually exclusive. Second, about 95% of manure right now is produced by animals that are fed "non-organic" corn, that is produced with the help of fertilizers.

Honestly, "organic" people should just study the basics: the nitrogen cycle.
I wasn't aware that anyone except maybe the HN admins could tell who flagged a post.
I am incredibly concerned that people that make sandwiches for me can’t afford basic healthcare or stay home if they home a stomach flu.
How much does a nurse deserve make? Or a home health worker? Or a waiter? Or a teacher? Or a software engineer? Or a business executive?

I’m not prepared to put a dollar amount on what anyone deserves to make, and neither are any of you.

The thing with capitalism is that there isn’t someone going around trying to set prices for things based off some moral philosophy. Prices and wages are based on what people are willing to pay.
I'm just surprised there are apparently that many people who are (a) running around yelling racial slurs (b) as if it is a routine thing people do and (c) equating yelling hate speech as "swearing".

I mean, I grew up with goatse. I'm not a wilting flower. But I don't know anyone who regularly uses racial hate speech and the rate of gender, sexuality, and nationality hate speech I hear is ... single percentages of what it was. And that's a good thing. I'm having a hard time understanding that a private company cultivating a welcoming environment to the people who pay its bills is a bad thing.
Technically yes, but you know what I meant, please argue in good faith. There is a fairly clear dividing line between words and actions, with the only remotely gray areas being incitement for violence or doxxing. That is (rightfully) regarded as something highly condemnable and punishable.
https://archive.is/7hDIC
Anyone who consents to the full body scans does it voluntarily. Just say no.
what happened to "sticks and stones..." ? it seems to me that we've gone from "being lynched randomly is harmful to people" into "someone being a moron calling slurs is harmful".

Imagine how terrible it will be for those who are so shielded in their safespace, the day they meet someone that actually is out to harm them.
It's actually not backwards compatible with all previous Xbox games. There's a compatibility list...

https://www.xbox.com/en-US/games/backward-compatibility

However, that is an impressive amount of backwards compatibility that other game consoles don't have.
thank you for the reply. i've been meaning to check out both guile's concurrency features (i had only heard of fibers) and gerbil's actor stuff
> Nice to see a little sanity in these comments.

Seriously. I used to be much more of a free speech absolutist, but I have to admit the experiment has failed. The unmoderated Internet is a cesspool, and unmoderated game chat is a sewer within a cesspool. People are just sick of it. Whenever you see someone set up "The Free Speech Version Of Site XYZ" (where XYZ can be Reddit, Twitter, anything really) it almost inevitably fills itself up with trash. Show me an unmoderated site that isn't entirely spam and sewage.

I say run an experiment: Set up some moderated servers and unmoderated servers, and let people vote with their controllers. Normal people don't want to join a game or website where the lobby is full of 14 year olds shouting N--ger N--ger N--ger N--ger over and over.