skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
China’s current government quite literally killed 30 million people under the cultural revolution and Great Leap Forward, and until 2015, killed all children past the first.

China is not motivated by what makes economic sense. The party openly says this - the very fact corporations exist is a concession to not having achieved pure communism yet. The party openly hates the fact they need an economy, after having failed for the first few decades to operate without one.

All it takes, quite literally, is one hardcore communist after Xi who isn’t afraid of a second cultural revolution. Maybe a chance to fix all their consumption, housing, and youth issues once and for all in one painful societal restructuring? The very economic and social issues we point to as why they would never do it, I fear, might actually become reasons they will do it.
it is why i don't update my OS, and selectively only apply security patches (that should, in theory, not affect the compatibility of printer drivers).

I do the same with my mobile phone. Only update when i know the need - aka, an app has a new feature that is worth the risk of an update. And only update that one app.

The security threats from external sources are less than the "real" threat - the very companies trying to sell you the update.
I got a Dreamcast a few months ago and fired up Ducati World with great anticipation. The coolest part of the game ended up being the Windows CE logo on the boot screen... Moto Racer it certainly ain't. I immediately fired up Rez for some EDM-scored mainframe hacking to wash away the disappointment :-D
Every action should be assumed to be as short-sighted as the American President’s attention span.

The people who articulated a more complex and nuanced strategy didn’t get any traction. We’re left with those who want chaos, power grabs, and fantasies of a hemispheric empire.
> What is he going to do? Not send checks to senior citizens?

Yes, he's going to do precisely that. Musk will identify that some segment of the recipients is "fraud", or identify some employees who play a critical role in the processing pipeline as "waste". Then when the first senior citizens stop getting their checks, he'll call the reporters who talk about it liars or blame the Social Security Administration for "malicious compliance".

I don't necessarily expect you to believe me, even though he's already run this playbook in multiple other agencies. I'm just some guy on the Internet. But when you read the headlines in a couple months about missed Social Security payments, I hope you'll remember this comment, and adjust accordingly for your future predictions about what the administration wouldn't dare touch.
What I don't understand about the proposal is that every c-c bond the fungus could make still has to be shipped from earth.
I'm pretty sure the CEO of AWS can't do any engineering work anywhere in AWS. He's an MBA and an Industrial Engineer (whatever that is). He used to be a product manager.
What will make the hemp?
I had a brother for 12 years. It finally died.

It took about 5 minutes to see that I would not be replacing it with another.

Canon for now.
> I thought the point of office was to be paid tools for professionals?

Desktop publishing professionals don’t use Publisher - nowadays mostly they use Adobe InDesign, 20 years ago it was mainly QuarkXpress. Also Adobe FrameMaker - InDesign is more heavily used for consumer-facing output such as magazines and brochures, FrameMaker more for technical documentation

Microsoft Publisher was always a tool targeted at home users, small businesses-even if some of its users were “professionals” in other contexts it was never a professional tool
Makes sense. Hope you landed somewhere where you are happy and doing well.

I guess my point is that most people aren't in imminent physical danger in Hungary right now and could just leave and that'd be fine for them and the regime.

That's a better situation to be in than "leave in 72 hours" for most people.
of course it is, it is the premise of the article. The author compares and ranks the people who perform activities.
Mind boggling. This isn't even a feature freeze / slow deprecation, it's a hard cut?
The gold standard didn't fail: Fiat money just completely obliterated it with its success.

Being able to issue fiat money is a feature of high trust governments and societies, not a bug, and people yearning back to needing a gold standard scare me, because that inevitably implies dismantling that trust to get there.
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For me it was “Socialism Bad”
So what do you propose? What is Ukraine's path to victory? Conscript the 18-24 range so that when Russia's economy collapses in 1-2 years time they'll have no male population left?
I don't think they were rebutting that, it's just that Bitcoin supply is only capped if you consider it the one true currency, but there is no cap on the supply of forks that perform identical function, only difference being adoption. It's like you could take the entire gold supply and put it through a Star Trek replicator, but now you have the job of convincing the world that your vault is full of gold too
I'll toss my "works on my machine" hat in the ring with two things that I have found invaluable in combination with iTerm2's tmux integration:

- env KUBECONFIG=$HOME/.kube/setup-1 tmux new -s setup1

- teamocil: https://github.com/remi/teamocil#readme (MIT)

The first one I use for circumstances where I want to investigate a lot of different things in a dedicated cluster, without the hassle of having $(kubectl --kubeconfig ...) or the risk of k() { kubectl --kubeconfig ... "$@"; } and losing track of what context I'm in[1]. Because, with iTerm2's integration command-n or command-t opens a new window or tab but with retaining the credential scoping. If I need to change scopes, I can just detach from the tmux session, attach to a different one, confident that I don't have any variables to unset

The second I use in "standard" setups where I want to view the same configuration every day (say: web, api, database pods). Having teamocil allows me to either have those same commands laid out in the same pattern as yesterday, or I've also had pretty good luck just generating the yaml files because their syntax is simple enough

1: related to that, if you haven't seen it, iTerm2 offers the ability to set the RGB of a tab via OSC: https://iterm2.com/documentation-escape-codes.html#:~:text=t...
The reason the western allies wanted to make peace with Hitler was because they had a role in creating him and re-arming Germany in order to create an anti-communist bulwark state. They were surprised when this Frankenstein creation backfired on them and then told a big story about how they are the good guys.

If you think about Poland, they were probably psyched that this insane anti-communist regime was moving eastward.
OPs point is funnily accurate if you’d like to consider a certain ‘real-estate’ person in government could stand to benefit from the buildings being sold at the lowest price (recovering market) and that same person people will likely be friends with the buyers (lots of negotiating power).

They never mentioned whether it’d actually be beneficial for the government.

Can’t wait for all of our federal agency buildings to be named after different members of the Trump family once they’ve changed hands! /s
>there is more to an economy than manufacturing.

Not really. Most developed economies are basically 70% Baumol's cost disease[1]. The 20% of the American GDP that goes to healthcare, half of the military budget that goes into salaries, public services, the police isn't billed on productivity. Those are non-tradeable services whose compensation inflates with growth in the productivity gaining sectors of the economy.

That's why you can go not to a wealthy Tier 1 city in China, but to a Tier 2 or 3 city and it has better public services despite having like 10% of the per capita budget of a US city. Most compensation is.. fake. If you want to know what an economy does look at the stuff they make.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baumol_effect
You can turn it back on for another couple of months in the app settings.

Short, we need to ditch chrome, but what is best alternative?
Is there any kind of alternative to uMatrix in the ManifestV3 world? I'm assuming no. It's just a shame that my browsing experience went to complete trash overnight. I'll obviously be moving away from Chrome where I can, but not sure what to do with my Chromebook.
backup MX systems are useful, but the above faq is ... naive. it's fairly simple to deploy a backup mx that does not accept mail unless the higher-priority mxes fail a health check.
I liked him better when he was fourteen and helping me jailbreak my iphone
Anyone planning on this might want to consider that particularly after a Supreme Court decision a decade or so ago, the feds can exercise eminent domain for almost trivial reasons.

They also might want to consider that the sales could potentially be later determined to have been part of an illegal liquidation of a government agency - or even treason - and find themselves with nothing.
This may work for low-ROI things or things that are not that intellectually demanding, like watching a movie, but otherwise you will have to put the hours/effort to have any hope of seeing a payoff, and even then, hardly any assurance of success. Or just raw luck, but this only applies to tiny percentage of people. yes, most people do little, but you're not competing against those people; you are competing for one of a handful of slots against those few who have talent and work hard.
The supply chain has been global for decades, especially with the countries he targeted. It’s really messy with the North American free trade area since parts are shipped around a lot as they get made and assembled and all of those supply chains break in odd ways if there are customs delays. People are predicting that will add something like $3-10k to the price of a new car:

https://apnews.com/article/tariffs-cars-automakers-trump-can...

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/03/04/business/econ...

In many cases, the U.S. no longer has manufacturing capacity in certain markets so the most likely outcome is simply that prices go up or manufacturing shifts to other countries like Vietnam, especially in an uncertain economic climate where companies aren’t jumping to take on debt chasing demand which could disappear at any time.

One other area where we don’t have alternatives: Mexican agriculture - their growing season is longer and that means American consumers either aren’t getting things out of season or are paying more for things like greenhouse crops.
When gold was money, most people were poor. Gold was mainly good for the aristocracy.
More Than 100 Buildings Vanish from Trump's 'For Sale' Wishlist
Can the firmware be downgraded to a version that doesn't do this? That is, assuming the older firmware images are archived somewhere.
The Russian planes true stealth metrics are never going to get published. Russia will exaggerate it, US will never reveal that it can be actually detected. Russia had their latest fighter at the Chinese air show, and it was FAR from stealth.

Sure there is a 0.1% chance it may be able to hold 2 circle or one circle against F22, considering that no F22 has ever flown publicly within its full maneuverability envelope, but it sure as shit would lose to the flying supercomputer that is the F35 because BVR missiles that are smart enough to avoid countermeasures are a thing now. Some even use optical tracking.

As far as ICBM defense goes, we did this back in 2002:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_YAL-1

And you better believe that we have way more advanced shit now.

All you need to know about capability is to look at defense spending of a country in totality. Nothing beats US.
Offer them more money and watch them come your way!
I want to see this confirmed before we hop into it. I've been using aftermarket toner with Brother all the time and it's working well. All the posts on Louis' wiki (https://wiki.rossmanngroup.com/wiki/Brother_ink_lockout_%26_...) are 2-3 years old and the only primary sources from people on reddit and there are a total of 3 people saying this.
He's long winded video adds nothing new, this tomshardware article just repeats what he says in the video.

Literally these are the only three sources I can find of people claiming this:

1. https://www.reddit.com/r/printers/comments/s9b2eg/brother_mf...

2. https://github.com/sedrubal/brother_printer_fwupd/issues/9

3. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31860131
I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream.
I consider small business to be the professionals I refer to. Professional as in paid tools, not desktop publishing businesses.
Firefox was the right browser for a very long time. If you are a software developer and you are using Chrome, shame on you
Wow, didn’t even notice this was him. Don’t meet your heroes, kids.
Fantastic article. The banking system especially is a scam... the "fractional reserve system" basically allows elite friends of the government to create new dollars ($100 loaned for every $1 deposit). Move to gold and get rid of the corruption.
Only delayed. Eventually they had a friend move to Canada in order to straw purchase the JavaStation on their behalf. (Maybe there were other motivations for moving to Canada, like ketchup chips)
Yes, but the process of getting Gmail, Outlook etc to receive your emails and put them in recipients' inboxes is far from painless or quick. An IP address with a clean history and SPF/DKIM/DMARC are table stakes, but then you get to play the "my emails are randomly dropped today while everything looked fine yesterday" game.
India despite flaws is a democracy same as the US. It's a very different country then China. Plenty of immigrants from tyrannical countries are as if not more committed to democracy as those born here

And just because someone was born in China or India it doesn't make them any less American then someone born in Iowa. Their children might be born in Iowa
Given the raw # of government employees hasn't grown in ~40 years, plus we have the lowest # of government employees per capita...
> In theory it should only be about writing a new build script (not based on `wmake` but on a real `make`). And then workout the tiny flag/preprocessor/C compiler discrepancies.

For mostly C code like the original Doom source, yes. But it looks like FastDoom people have added quite a bit of assembly. That needs to be ported to AT&T syntax. Or you need to find out if Intel syntax works in your version of DJGPP's gas. While this should work nowadays I have not tried it. Then there's other differences like Watcom mapping low memory by default into the low part of the address space but DJGPP needing explicit mapping or access.
Mozilla literally chose the worst possible time to change the Firefox terms.

They could be scooping up disgruntled Chrome users, yet all they did was generate a load of negative noise.
Man, I wish the manager's ass was ever on the line. The amount of times I've seen a manager's whole team get laid off and the manager get moved to a different team to fuck everything up again is too many times.

I think I've seen a manager get laid off never. And often seen half their team laid off because they were terrible at their job, but the management class takes care of their own.
*sentient raccoons (we are pedantic)
No sooner than you can put one in an envelope and send it for the cost of a normal postage stamp.
What are the limitations of uBlock Origin Lite compared to the original extension?
I've been using Firefox for the last 4+ years and it's been mostly fine. I have Chrome for the very occasional site that doesn't behave right, but they're few and far between (like maybe once a year).
firefox literally just rugpulled everyone by officially selling people's data starting last week.
Unless it's actually the "best" time, because they didn't want disturbed Firefox users switching the other way...
Care to elaborate? It’s thought provoking as a mechanism to reduce all of this zero sum (or even worse, parasitic) effort that dominates our system.
Biden was producing lots of gas in the later part of his term!8-))
Or more recently, NPM's infamous "Progress bar noticeably slows down npm install #11283" issue

[1]: https://github.com/npm/npm/issues/11283
This is just step 1 in googles plan to 'fix' the mistake of the open web. Next up is DRM and web attestation.
Two quick thoughts… one, because every transaction in theory happens because the purchasing party values the good or service more than the money, every transaction does — in theory — create wealth, velocity of money is sort of measuring a proxy for growth. But I agree it’s weird.

Second, “GDP/watt” is absolutely an economic metric, and it captures something about energy efficiency but also the mix of an economy. Software and services scores highly; aluminum smelting does not.
I feel like 90% of the selection of tribes is only done by groupthink.

People seem to have opinions based on propaganda instead of reason.

Someone deciding which donut to buy in a donut shop is usually making a more informed choice.
Is 'It is' here referring to SICP?

SICP is a graduate level text? That was literally the first CS book I had to buy as an undergrad.
https://archive.today/Q9Wx3

https://www.gsa.gov/real-estate/real-estate-services/real-pr...
Tsk, don't you know that on Hacker News everybody is assumed to have the same threat model as a 3-letter spy agency, and is required to behave accordingly?
A dns based adblocker like nextdns.io can help to a large extent. It doesn't block YouTube ads in my experience though
We used to have gold certificates. If you had a $20 gold certificate and converted it to gold in the 1930s, you would get one ounce of gold worth nearly $3k today.

Then the government did an exit scam, passing a law that the gold trade in statements on the certificates are void. You can still spend one of these bills today though. For $20.

Why should anyone expect any government to indefinitely honor gold certificates?

The only currency that can avoid being devalued by a single government, is a currency no single government can control.
> Funding for Ukraine has been stopped and it wasn't through my unilateral decision.

It was through Trump's unilateral decision, which is illegal. The money was appropriated by our representatives from our tax dollars, and we want it to go. The President doesn't have the right under the Constitution and the law to halt it.

> Either US institutions don't function as you think

US institutions do function like I think, because I learned how they function, it's pretty straight forward: Congress has the power to how spend money, and the President spends it. That he chooses not to is an abuse of power, and violates the law [1], the Constitution [2], and his oath of office [3].

Congress voted for that money to be spent, and the former President signed it into law. Not spending it unlawfully usurps Congress' Article I "power of the purse", and violates the Article II "take care" clause.

I think it's pretty clear, can you cite where the law and Constitution supports your argument?

[1] https://www.gao.gov/products/095406

[2] https://constitution.congress.gov/constitution/article-1/

[3] https://constitution.congress.gov/constitution/article-2/
Strong agree. The best managers I've worked for have been capable of coding and were often former devs, but didn't insert themselves into the team's flow like that.

It's very easy to turn "but I code" into a weird ego trip for a manager to try to look good while just making their team slow down to deal with the fact they're bad at code review or coding at all.

It's not like there's a lack of work to do for most managers that's not coding.
I have a lot of respect for economists, I know several.

They are among the most rational people you shall ever meet. And they are very aware of how incomplete their tools are. But they do a lot with such tools that is worth knowing.
Well this was embarrassing to read. Good god man read an economics textbook or at least talk to an economist before posting.

Is industrial capacity important? Sure. Is it the top of the value chain? No.
Very useful when combined with TsDProxy: https://github.com/almeidapaulopt/tsdproxy
It's only a debate if you reject the very principals of science. I realize we're getting there for a lot of people, but merely disbelieving in science is not a refutal of it.

This ignores so called Austrian economists however, who are just flat out lying to either themselves or everyone else depending on the person.
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So disable data sharing. The alternative is selling your data without saying a thing.
Music data will no longer be included in the EPF as of March 17, 2025.

If there's anyone here who has access, please make a backup!
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So which printers are good to get now? I have a brother printer that I got for $30 off Facebook marketplace, which I'll keep for now, but it'd be good to know which brands are safe should I need to get another one or make a recommendation to less technical people in my circle.

I'd prefer laser printers since they handle bursty workloads better (for example I had to print 100 resumes for a career fair after 6 months of nothing), since the ink can't dry out.
Yeah and because no one beggars themselves to solve world hunger, climate change, or malaria no one cares about those things either. /s
Love all the work arounds - right click the button and inspect to undisable it, etc.

You can just install Firefox

But im scared of their bad privacy policy

But you’re logged into reddit, and you’re… using Chrome?

Why is FF the one app that you’re a privacy policy enthusiast when you couldn’t care less on every other app you’re using

Your mission is not to have invasive and possibly malicious ads then, like, Firefox does that. Its so weird to me why people make all these reasons to stay on Google Chrome when they allegedly hate it and its incredibly trivial to just use firefox
uBlockOrigin Lite. It's nowhere near as powerful but it'll help.

Edit: Sorry you said Matrix. I don't think so.
> Simple enough that it's not hard to replicate…

Yet the Product Hunt crowd mostly (a) hustle to ship each other's takes on feature innovations, (b) still fail to match each other's results.

There are under the hood differences, and whole is greater than the parts differences. Despite the arms race, most are not beating Aider effectiveness.
You can replace the ChromeOS bootloader with upstream Coreboot and use SeaBIOS or edk2 payloads to turn it into a generic x86 laptop and install Linux.
People make their own dongles using another nice!nano or something more compact like the Xiao BLE
Man has a god complex of bizaar proportions.