skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Several links about Reddit's X.com bans (at the subReddit level) have been shared (and upvoted) on Hacker News.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42802166
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42798133
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42793585
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42784482

I personally don't think it's "political content." (Although some people are sensitive about "Musk-flogging" content.)
Bitcoin is certainly extremely high on the speculative spectrum, but claiming gold is anywhere near the same level of speculation is specious.

Gold has the Lindy effect going for it. Humans have been trading it for thousands of years. Bitcoin has been around for 16 years.

Gold has industrial uses and if its value dropped, its uses would expand. Bitcoin has no such inherent supply-demand curve.
It would be interesting to know if land prices have changed over the same period. Also whether any other comparable cities have had similar falls in price.
>but only provides a purely speculative asset as an output

i would expect this kind of technical ignorance from the news or my mom but not "hackernews". there is real value in exchanging value/currency P2P globally relatively quickly and cheap. you know "internet money" people dreamed about decades ago...
Good news for you: Rust is already quite mature and is mostly the same as Java in this regard. OP is exaggerating, if not misinforming.
What customer base will Render bring to them ? Google directly competes with AWS and Azure and it need the big enterprise customers if any .
Banks provide a service to the economy of connecting people with more money than needed right now (savings) to people with less money than needed right now (loans). They make money in between when this goes well. So I would contend the shifting of numbers around actually does provide a good to the economy
It's unfortunate that Briar is android-only. I know it is due to Apple restrictions on battery usage (afaik). But it is decentralized and can operate locally over wifi and Bluetooth.

These seem like good practical steps.

GrapheneOS has duress pins (type it in, and the phone is wiped). It has secondary pins for biometric - the intent being that your real password is a long passphrase, and "quick " unlock is bio+pin.

I would add to this list some method of uploading video live to another service, in a way that the video can't be deleted via the phone. I know those exist for the express purpose of civil rights, I think the aclu has a list somewhere.
You realize that heat pumps are just ACs that can just run in reverse? Most American households already have central air. They'd just swap to a reversible AC ("heat pump") when they need to replace their AC.

Mini-splits are commonly used for retrofits because they're much cheaper than installing or repairing leaky ducting. Incorrectly sized or leaky ducts lead to poor efficiency, comfort, and air quality, regardless of heat source.

"Well built passive solar" is all well and good for the tiny percentage of Americans that get newly built passive homes. The rest of us need solutions as well. The idea that building a new home is more economical than $1000 per ton of capacity for heat pumps off Amazon is hardly worth addressing.
Thanks! I was a bit disappointed that no one saw it on HN because I think they’d like it a lot.
Yes Rails is still good and IMHO Rails is still an amazing choice for a startup allowing you to do rapid iterations and focus on business logic.

Also it is true that Rails and Ruby are having a renaissance and the technical direction for both seems to me a good bet for the future.
Color management support, though taking a long time, is moving along[1], and compositor implementations have recently started appearing. Device calibration support is a different question, but a much more specialized one.

[1] https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/wayland-protocols/-/m...
It always gets me when people are like this about, of all things, the US dollar. You can argue that there are faith problems with, say, the Turkish Lira, but the USD is the hard currency that people flee to when others fail, and is accepted unofficially as hard currency in a lot of countries that have currencies of their own.

Even bitcoin is priced in USD and operates trades via a Tether/Circle "stablecoin" "backed" by USD.
Today, I noticed there was a new App on my Windows laptop at work, because the Apps section was highlighted. "That's weird," I thought "I don't _remember_ installing anything."

So, I expand "Apps", and I see an item named "Microsoft CoPilot 365". It absolutely did not occur to me that this was a rebranded/updated Office. I simply thought "Aww, man, Microsoft is at it again, raining some new crap on me that I never asked for." Without a moment's thought I right-clicked it and uninstalled. Only now as I read this thread I realize I may have accidentally uinstalled MS Office.
Rust is not taking this into the extreme at all. You're taking a ranty ill-informed article way too seriously. Maybe it confirms your bias?
Profits are higher when cooperating than competing.

Cooperation is easier than ever now, and happens transnationally and locally.

Sellers generally have more sunk investments than buyers, and hence more market power.

Regulators gain more by cooperating as well, and industries embrace regulation that reduces competition especially new entrants.

It’s easy to explain but hard to address.
that's pretty awesome, I know getting eyeballs to your newsletter is the single most difficult thing to do.
Some behaviours can be read just by looking at the subject.
Couldn't you achieve the same by just enabling airplane mode or similar on regular devices? I don't think niche devices with hardware killswitches should be necessary
> That was never going to fly geopolitically because PRC would never let US normalize that kind of leverage

Yes and the US knew that. The goal was to ban TikTok.
The Search for the Hottest Chili (2013)
https://archive.ph/WCk1z
Crypto is a commodity that is a fraud machine by nature of its trivial transferability. The lack of transfer controls makes it great for a variety of grifts, as demonstrated time and again.

Even without my cynical opinion, Vanguard doesn’t have a heavy commodity focus, and it’s hard to diversify crypto.
Why would shareholders have a problem with it? People with big money currently value AI bullshit more than recognizable branding.
> successfully

Successfully in terms of communication or in terms of security?

Successful communication is easy if you don't worry about security. Just post it on Instagram.

How do you know if your security is successful? How do you know if your messages were intercepted and read, your app was hacked, data was extracted from it, etc.? The attackers (authorities or otherwise) are not going to tell you.
Gnome was fixed a few years ago to remove significant latency it was adding. May have been a factor if you used that as well, but it wasn't wayland specific to my knowledge.
Yes, it's extremely common, think at least 95% of the time.

Time to delivery is the main metric for almost any company that ships software.
This will not be an argument but my perspective as an amateur investor.

Main difference between gold and bitcoin is in its history. Gold as a type of investment instrument has already earned its reputation and status. It’s not just a commodity, it’s a financial instrument that had its use in building and making of history and it’s well integrated, recognized and supported by most government and societies.

We still don’t know what Bitcoin really is and how it behaves. It could be valued 10k times up or down next year and there could be no clear reason why that happened. Bitcoin is not in hands of most powerful companies, people and governments and change of its value would not affect anything but net worth of certain individuals or organizations.

By no means, I think bitcoin is here to stay and it has a very clear future as an investment and payment instrument. But I think it’s really silly to say Bitcoin is speculative as much as other investment instruments.
You’re the only one hypothesizing here. “Crypto isn’t a productive asset and is an energy sink” is a simple and straightforward observation.

But if you’re going to hypothesize things out of thin air, you can give them literally any property you want. That’s hardly interesting.
Slightly off topic…

> Suppose two players notice each other at the same time (e.g. as would naturally happen when walking around a corner in a shooter)

This is not true for third person games. Depending on a left sided or right sided peek and your angle or approach, players see asymmetrically.

For example, Fortnite is a right side peek game. Peeking right is safer than peeking left as less of your body is exposed before your camera turns the corner.

I believe distance also plays a part in the angles.
I'd say Prolog delivers in a (relatively wide) subset of its domain of application. For instance, I'm writing a solver for some common issues in epidemiology, at the moment. I was able to write a fully declarative (and purely relational) solution! But yes, some applications are better suited than others.
I feel like there’s a constant stream of news and political posts about Musk on this platform. I don’t care about him or personally respect him. It’s also not the kind of content that aligns with the terms of service of this platform. If you’re interested in keeping up with the Trump/Elon drama, you can go read TMZ or CNN.

If you review don’s recent submissions, most of them are political articles.
I have friends who disagree with me about how much taxes should be. I have friends who disagree with me about military intervention. I have friends who disagree with me about voting reform.

But I don't have friends who believe that women, people of different races, or LGBT people should be treated as lesser. Because that's not a "political belief" so much as "being an awful human being".
It’s a classical example of how power bends all the rules.
> The difference is that I can create an infinite number of different block chains and or crypto coins.

Yes, but Russian Federation uses only one to evade sanctions.
I'm anti-crypto and this kind of crypto advocacy I actually agree with. It's not as sound as the US dollar, but there are much less stable currencies.

> concerns about your country being taken over by fascists,

.. do not record all your transactions on a permanent public leger!
> One strategy law enforcement uses is to force your phone into a high energy state and zap the battery very quickly.

As a denial of service attack?
What differentiates Render from Railway and Fly.io?
It’d be cool to have a gutter on the left with the html tag that appears for that line
>There is no reason one cannot receive wage in productive assets, commodities, credit and whatnot.

You're right about that. It's called the barter system and we don't use it anymore because it's inefficient and sucks shit.

>The main reason the value of cash decays and the main reason central banks target 2% is downward wage rigidity. If you reduce wages of people, they get angry, sometimes very angry to the point of strikes. If the value simply drops, they don’t get as mad. It’s as simple as that, a matter of psychology and social institutions.

No, it's because if cash has a fixed value, then the "temporary" part of labor storage goes away and the economy grinds to a halt.
> "[...] but what should we do when the highborn and wealthy take to crime? Indeed, if a poor man will spend a year in prison for stealing out of hunger, how high would the gallows need to be to hang the rich man who breaks the law out of greed?"

-- Snuff by Terry Pratchett
There could be other fingerprints besides MAC addresses.
Is this a better heroku?

My experience is that anything outside of the standard process for deploying apps is actively frowned upon by everyone except startups that need to move extremely quickly to create PoCs. So unless this platform is much much cheaper than the public clouds it seems like a limited market.
My company is blocking it.

I don’t know by what mechanism, so it may only be possible with an enterprise license or through device management. But I know it’s possible because I’m on the email thread where someone sought guidance from management and the directive was affirmed to block it on Macs in our fleet.
Ponzi schemes usually involve promises to get back X times the money after N time. And in terms of actual cash. So whoever runs the Ponzi scheme needs to keep it growing exponentially in order to create exponential payouts. Eventually, it will grow so large that it collapses.

With Blockchains, they are more stable, as there is no such guarantee. Many people choose to HODL instead, and this gives the coin some stability. As long as there is less interest in cashing out than people trying to cash in, the value is growing. And as long as the value is growing, people cash out.

For a Ponzi scheme with guarantees in terms of currencies not minted by the scheme creator, they are bound to collapse sooner or later. Blockchains could go on forever in theory. However, latter still requires more people to cash in than people to cash out. If there is enough people trying to cash out, maybe larger number of people will panic and cash out as well, leading to an avalanche like race to zero.

Both are united by the requirement for a "greater fool", just with Ponzi schemes, this greater fool is exponentially growing while with Blockchains it can grow linearly.
Companies will make acquisitions as a means of preventing competition. It might not be about bringing a new customer base but protecting the one you already have.
How long is a second in JavaScript?
The most popular stablecoins aren't trustless, proving the parent's point.
The food companies accused of gouging are mostly publicly traded corporations that publish their finances...if profit margins shot up we would be able to see it, but everyone who does the analysis finds margins are mostly steady, slightly down overall. Yet the bullshit claim persists.

Here are some better explanations:
- the "breadbasket of the world" (Ukraine) is at war
- wages are up in the agricultural sector (a good thing overall but it's not free)
- egg shortage
- years of government deficits have massively increased the money supply...(more money chasing the same economic output)
> Was Wayland not architected to fix latency issues?

It was designed to fix tearing issues, not latency issues.

But then the Wayland designers found out that players often prefer tearing to minimize latency, so the tearing protocol was implemented.

When a committee of perfectionists, rather than real people or companies, design something, you often get something that is completely unusable by anyone but that committee.

And that's exactly how it's played out so far. Wayland is still largely incomplete, not to mention it doesn't even have a reference implementation [1], and still doesn't include/describe several essential desktop APIs and features, which results in this protocol not having a ton of universal tools and applications that work across all of its implementations, including but not limited to:

* Keyboard layout switching and input management
* Display configuration
* Clipboard management
* Tools to manage windows/automate tasks
* Lots more

It's a damn ugly mess that has led to a lot of fragmentation with no obvious benefit. Currently, only KDE and Gnome have somewhat usable Wayland implementations. If you use anything else? You're SoL.

1. https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/wayland/-/issues/233
Yes, I got voted to oblivion for stating this

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42831013
So what are you going to make the rest of the car from. I think that when oil runs out we’re all screwed, back to XIX century.
We are <one mile-sized asteroid made of gold> away from gold losing all its value. One such asteroid has been discovered already. It's called 16 Psyche, 140 miles in diameter and made largely of gold and other precious metals. To compare, all gold ever mined on Earth fits into a 22-meter cube.
The junta started the downward slide. Peronism stepped on the country's neck once it was down. Argentina has never had good economic stewardship.
It's easy for any one agency or police department to cook the books, but I don't think that scales to the kind of huge shift across multiple categories and data sources shown in the article.
In this situation, though, it's economists who are using an out-of-the-norm term and upset when people don't immediately abandon existing usages. Economy literally means "home management," after all.

That confusion is born of ideology: there's an abstraction, which economists think should capture the usual meaning in a more rigorous way, and when it doesn't, it's upsetting. So it's the people who must be wrong.
TextEdit is my editor of choice for 90% of all RTF word processing that I do, when on a Mac.
> Inflation skyrocketed in 2022 - that's not debatable. The rate has come down, which just means things are getting more expensive but more slowly.

Sadly, this is a perfect example (perhaps unintentional) of the sort of economic ignorance/elision that is at the heart of TFA.

Things only cost more (or less) if the percentage of take-home income that they cost goes up (or down). So if wages go up by more than nominal inflation, things cost less even though their nominal price has increased. Conversely, if wages go up by less than inflation, things cost more, and by more than just amount suggested by inflation.

But it gets worse ... measuring whether wages have gone up and by how much in a very diverse economy is very hard. Reducing the data to a single number ("Wages rose by X percent") inevitably misses a large amount of variance. Consequently, even if you were to write what you said here in a more accurate way, such as:

>Inflation skyrocketed in 2022, but in the period 2019-2024 wages grew by more than the total amount of inflation, and so most products and services cost the same now as they did then

... it would still be missing out the actual experiences of many people for whom wages did not rise by that amount.
You can say that banks manage risk of lending and charge for that.
Imagine that instead everyone can take a loan from a government without any checks. Soon financial system would collapse as a lot of irresponsible or too optimistic people would take loans for various purposes and those loans wouldn't be paid back. You need an institution that manages it and take the hit of unpaid loans for the system to be stable.
I just tried to use Excel for the first time in ages and somehow it has become completely unfit for purpose. Two series of data, one table of 300 cells containing one automatically extrapolated formula that multiplies the value of the cells in the series. A trivial spreadsheet use case that was solved 40 years ago. Changed the values in one series, and the table just... didn't update. Clicked into the cells and the formulas are right, they're referring to the right cells, it just doesn't update. I edit the cell and hit enter without changing anything. That cell updates, the other 299 don't. What? What?! How is such a fundamental feature of the spreadsheet so utterly broken?? You expect me to go and manually verify that all dependent cells have updated every time I change anything anywhere? Microsoft, you have failed at your most fundamental purpose, zero points awarded.

So yeah, I have some pretty strong feelings about Microsoft right now.
How does that mix with making direct eye contact
> White House talking with Oracle, others to save TikTok

Oh, the hypocrisy.
Stock investing has upward bias due to productivity. Also inflation offset. You can check long term S&P growth since inception. Stock market has positive EV on average. It's a positive sum game.

Sports betting or gambling has nevative EV and you lose more (on average) than you win.

So they are like night and day.

Even if the diffrence is 49.9% odds versus 51.01% odds that is worlds apart when it comes to laws of large numbers.
In my view, macro trends are important if you're trying to formulate policy or debate about it.
My numbers are from December, did we really see a drop of 15% in a month? One of us has to be wrong, and I don't see many sources claiming your numbers, the X one you gave is clearly partisan, opening with "MILEI DELIVERS".
If they think having everyone's transaction history on the public internet is a good idea, I have a hyper detailed data bridge to sell
PE has been growing at a compound annual growth rate (i.e. exponential) and has just been gobbling even sectors they didn't traditionally get involved in, like healthcare. There's definitely potential for snowballing consequences.

[0]John Coates: Most Americans aren’t aware of how concentrated the financial sector has gotten

Harvard Business School

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1-uTIN8zUQ
To have a compositor not introduce a frame of latency more or less requires it to race the beam, which has definitely been suggested[1], but you can see how it’d be difficult, and so far no operating systems have tried as far as I know. And as for good frame pacing support in UI toolkits (and not just game engines), well, one can dream. Until both of these are in place, 2.5±0.5 seems to be the hard limit, the question here is more where the Mutter is losing another frame (which even the greats tell us[2] is not hard to do by accident).

[1] https://raphlinus.github.io/ui/graphics/2020/09/13/composito...

[2] http://number-none.com/blow/john_carmack_on_inlined_code.htm...
What’s better: someone’s wife wearing a gold necklace, or a gold ignot sitting idle in Fort Knox?

What’s better: someone living in a house, or a house sitting idle as a store of value?

What’s better: someone storing his wealth in houses and gold ignots, or in special financial assets that don’t take away products from other people?
It’s practical use both increases demand and removes the commodity from the market.

BTC is more volatile than gold.
Being anti-cryptocurrency as an organisation really is an important differentiator.

Fidelity knows that investors in their cryptocurrency products will lose money in aggregate, but offers them anyway. It's a black mark against their integrity.
If you care about moderation, a lot of it has to be done manually. Manual moderation requires placing a high level of trust in the moderators. That means that either you pay them well enough to care, or you build a community which user-moderators will protect. Or both.

That makes approximately all business ideas to host user generated content non-viable. The conflict is dynamic and you are the Maginot Line...except that any breach of laws creates a potential attack by state enforcement agencies too.

To put it another way, ASCII files and a teletype were enough to see pictures of naked ladies. Good luck.
There will soon be a multitrillion dollar market for AI that is SOTA at playing Atari games trained on small datasets, but it doesn't change the fact that everything about these guys smells like a scam.
I remember being unhireable. Piece work stuff like Uber where you didn't need a resume felt like the only possible way to make money.
Thought it was viral marketing for Top Gun 3 for a second there. But thanks for the interesting read. It's a pity such a dramatic real world event never made it into either of the Top Gun movies.