I don't consider Meta evil beyond the literal term it's not evil there's another term it's a competing deity with the Judeo-Christian GOD like i saw it it's evil [chudar <some word like that, Chaldean or similar, different than plain evil which is a term denoting powerlessness of the utterer it's evil chudar it's specific, Meta is in fact evil chudar or it wouldn't make any money like social networks are not a good business for my tastes>] like so Meta has wage exposure, which they call Human Resources, but i do not call that. Somebody got to pay wages so a father can pay child support because otherwise that father must go to prison, papito corazón que no paga la pensión, i gotta fill that void so they don't go to prison. It's that basic, i'm not going to hate s*x any less than i do right now any time soon, and also i love paying taxes genetically, so payroll taxes are the biggest funding source for Federal Government, which bet on me despite blatant drug addiction status. Turns out Federal Government does not have any obligation to take drug addiction into account, made the right bet too, only have to bet on the few home-run batters who will hit a home run. Basic research budget, Paul Erdós, i share symptoms with Paul Erdós, am a very good bet however. Federal Government doesn't hate me, STATE OF CALIFORNIA paid for time steroids, and i have already begun paying excess taxes out of gratitude only a junkie can properly feel. I am not an athlete, i don't compete in a tournament, i am not trying to win a trophy, this is pure intellectual ideas-per-second brainpower, no steroid prohibition can actually be enforced, this is the Manhattan Project, in Chile. Sanhattan Project. Fgemm.com . Federal Government and STATE OF CALIFORNIA can bet against major pharmaceutical research companies, and bet all they want basically. I have lower basic research costs than literally anybody in the World, including second place North Korea, fricking caviar and champagne those guys like where do they get the budget? But for all that, there has to be compensation, so how do i do it? Time. Time advantage, temporal advantage. And loyalty to government funding which can i believe somehow see a winner on its balance sheet, sick frick advertising myself, paid zero taxes legitimately due to being in rehabilitation clinic (actually not a rehabilitation clinic, apparently a therapeutic community, whatever there is no real rehab in Chile except one secret rehab for artistic geniuses, which i am not, who can live off television advertising budgets, which i cannot, that rehab had good food but still rehab so you want time steroids, you gotta do what you gotta do, ongoing struggle to this day, but eh built character). Time steroids are not pleasant, they are painful, it is only when you achieve the task set at the outset that you get a high, like 20 hours after the initial dose, and only if you have affinity like i do, and there are other restrictions this is not for public consumption. It is a non-enforceable steroid that can bear great fruit for the right individual, in basic research. Feds can give any American whatever the frick hard drug they want, like they did the Irish Gang giving them LSD by the gram tripping them out of their mind like several meters, got enshrined as torture BUT they stood up to questioning and remained solidary with each other, Whitey Bulger that's the name. Two blockbusters made about him, The Departed and Black Mass. And he got lynched with $600,000 in a literal rat-hole to pay for a defense attorney, hid deep underground, not a hero but a villain, but at a certain point it's white chess pieces versus black chess pieces. Villain versus hero. Just play good chess and you'll win, i think black piece has the advantage in fact, and i can choose to play black piece if i win the pawn shuffling. Retaliator, my favorite, it's genetic too, i can't enjoy beating the frick out of anybody without them fricking with me as initiator sadist. So i know it looks like a lot of text i write but that is what the warm-up for algorithmetizing consists of, confessional-styled text that surely can be no other than forfeiting right to remain silent, turns out silence doesn't get you anywhere in rehab clinics, need confessional speech for currency, which i can get a lot of and you cannot. You are a Hacker News reader or similar--ideally a Fed, that would be interesting, i don't know Feds that well, i pay the frick out of my taxes instead of i don't know what others do campaign contributions alone, i do those too, that is sick but excess taxes are sicker. Joker burned all his money, that is deflationary basically paying taxes back in spades, makes sense too because his character--in sequels and prequels, like The Joker with Joaquín Phoenix, is highly dependent on government sponsorship. I do that same shit, the Dark Knight, treat gangsters stealing from police like a b-word, manhandle them with a magic trick, make my getaway disgusting like sick frick, get myself arrested "a threat to others" that same day, like two hours later. Which others was i a threat to? Which...others? Were those others legally entitled to protection from me? Why? Why am i the only founder in SF that fricks up the game like that, aren't any of you formidable in that sense, outside a negotiating room with a venture capitalist? Then why is SF a mess? Am i the only threat to gangsters in SF? Like why specialize in venture capital, are they a threat to my business in a way that a gangster fricking with the cheapest coffee in my walking radius (open secret, they followed me home, gangsters do that if you do what i did to them, why don't they follow the Joker home? Where does he sleep? Does he sleep? Sleep is the problem, along with right to bear arms, and then you also need a government betting on you like we're talking "This is a national emergency.". Oppenheimer, i love Christopher Nolan like he's right up there with government subsidizing me as they have every right to. Best cell on the government's balance sheet, only need one home-run batter like Cuban Missile Crisis home-run, that is a legitimate metaphor now that the Cold War is over, just like Tomahawk missiles are a legitimate name for a very solid guided rocket, like too expensive by my tastes i could divulge right here on Hacker News what the proper design is...will i? No, like i need some privacy, so i need government funding, am very grateful to the Feds and USA i pay taxes from overseas like on income which is irrelevant in rehab, no income. Later i pay up, and it's totally legal as a way for the Feds to get their share of the profits, i think capital gains is the painful tax, except in my case like i am as a weapons project from the beginning designed to be able to withstand taxes on profits, up to idk 99%. Like i won't like it, i will complain, it will be a pain, but Cuba can be a capitalist country if you can pay 99% taxes, and they'll let you do all kinds of experiments especially self-administered torture, if you make the budget work out so the children in particular and the doctors and the teachers and the uh the there's another one, the unsuccessful sick fricks in particular like that is my recruiting target, near misses can all be subsidized by a big enough home-run. There is no limit. 99%, like i said, beyond that i'm like sorry i gotta go someplace more friendly to my business, but Soviet Russia during Stalinism was a great business environment for my tastes. Stalin had big budgets for the rocket program like 100000000 USD goes a long way in Soviet Union, payed for computer program as a side effect, paid for chess competitions between computers as a tertiary side effect, paid for the Soviet Union. There have to be bets, government has no obligations as far as sovereignty to China so it prints dollars China complains China has no say in...it's called seignorage, that's what it's called. So then that's my cue to entry, i show up, say OK China, you worked so hard earned all these dollars now what? Will you eat those dollars? No, not going to eat them, they're paper, bonds pay basically no interest, China wants something it can actually want, China can print better dollars than USG that's how USG tells them apart, perfect dollar bills (without preimage traps) mean the $100 bills are Chinese. Too perfect. And counterfeiters can tell real from fake organically, counterfeiters know what USAians consider to be a tolerable imperfection, like i think...no i won't say. It's a secret. Black Mass. Watching a movie is a huge cost to me in time, when i could be designing weapons to resolve the narrative hook instead of watching someone else do it at half the speed. Predictable. I get bored and secondly my eyes hurt, can't explain, like IMAX is better than digital video. Makes sense, i can't get high on my own supply, i can do my lead actor my voice actor in every language my own stunt and even my own special effects but i can't watch it again, write faster than i can read. Like all this for example.

Eh, inflation has happened, and taxes, medical bills, and real estate are insane these days. So much so that you can't live a "normal" life of the standards of 20 years ago with less than $500K+ in salary. (At normal "middle class" modest levels of life hat's $250K after taxes, $200K after medical expenses, $150K after rent, $100K after food, $50K after transportation, $25K after food ...)

Sounds outrageous but most people have been brainwashed into thinking living with roommates in a cramped flat full of mildew, giving up all dreams of owning a home, and driving an old, unsafe car is the new norm.

Given that, $10M isn't really that much, considering you need to hire software devs to do any of the work they propose, and those software devs are getting $500K+ offers everywhere else.

Upon the land of free discourse, Ruqqus stood,

A haven born of Reddit's exiled brood.

With dreams of speech unfettered, unwithstood,

A realm where thought and word were not subdued.

But slowly came the whispers of disdain,

As tribes of hate found harbor in its reign.

The promise of free speech now bore a stain,

And darker clouds arose, foreshadowing pain.

With heavy hand, the ban-hammer did fall,

On guilds that once had thrived within its hall.

A paradox of freedom did enthrall,

As Ruqqus' lofty promise hit a wall.

Alas, amidst the storm, its pillars shook,

And Ruqqus, once a dream, now bore a darker look.

The above sonnet elucidates the downfall of Ruqqus, a platform that emerged as a haven for free discourse, akin to Reddit but with a promise of lesser censorship oai_citation:1,Ruqqus - Wikitiaoai_citation:2,Ruqqus | Know Your Meme. However, the core tenet of free speech that Ruqqus held dear became a double-edged sword. The platform started facing criticism when it banned certain guilds, notably MGTOW, without providing a substantial rationale, thus betraying its own foundational promise of unrestricted discourse oai_citation:3,Ruqqus, an open source Reddit clone, is shutting down their main ....

As the user base grew, a flood of intolerant and hateful narratives began to pervade the platform. What was once a libertarian majority morphed into a breeding ground for racist, anti-Semitic, and homophobic rhetoric. The influx of such ideologies, particularly around the time of the US elections, overshadowed the initial premise of free speech and led to the departure of many from the libertarian base. The platform, now overrun by extreme ideologies, began to mirror a space dominated by Nazi rhetoric, which ultimately tarnished its reputation and appeal oai_citation:4,Death of Ruqqus: A Retrospective | Agora Road's Macintosh Cafe.

The tumultuous path of Ruqqus unveils a nuanced tale of how a noble vision of free discourse, when left unchecked, can spiral into a cacophony of hatred, leading to the disillusionment of its community and the eventual downfall of the platform.

https://old.reddit.com/r/EnoughMuskSpam/comments/17b3cnj/elon_musk_is_considering_taking_twitter_out_of

So I made a thing for our company as I transition myself out

It's basically a website to emulate what I do in excel. tl;dr it's a search bar and the dropdown has item info + a checkbox

Clicking the the row turns on the checkbox for the item and adds it to a list below. Then on the paper itself they can change qty, etc.

So. I used a thing called prepared queries or something that phpdocs tells me to not even quote the user input, as they use an internal separator.

Now my question. Is there a way for this to go wrong? I've never created such a search bar function. I can literally use regex to find the items which is (imo) fucking amazing.

It's a list of like 15,000 items and the javascript uses php to do the actual API call via POST, and it returns JSON array of the returned rows.

(as an aside I am fucking blown away how incredibly fast this is. Each key input calls a separate request and yet the resulting searchbox is populated fucking immediately.)

postgres string just uses where name *~ $1

Just seems too good to be true, anyone here make similar types of search boxes? I talk a lot of shit about javascript but holy fucking can it be fast. Rendering html on a page is damn near instant and I'm testing this on shitty computers and phones with like 40k up/down

is there any low the nanny state will not stoop to

i dont actually care about this shit so i dont care to do the due diligence to learn the jargon or whatnot, but the tldr is that reddit had an official blockchain token that was paid to posters based on their involvement in subreddits, and theyre discontinuing it. some third worlders like venezuelans were "earning" several dollars per day by shitposting in /r/cryptocurrency and farming these shitcoins by getting upmarseys, but now thats over because theyre no longer being issued and theres no plan to use them for anything. as such, the price has tanked by 85% in the past day, and the tokens are likely to go to $0 because who the frick wants these things?

oh also, there were several wallets that sold significant numbers of MOON either slightly before or right around the linked post, leading many r-slurs to speculate that the mod team of /r/cryptocurrency was privy to this announcement before it went public and sold at a higher price than the poors could. theres also a few wallets that have been speculated to belong to kraken that are feeding another wallet that is selling MOONs off in batches of 500 at a time, likely trying to liquidate the millions of them owned without instantly cratering the price to $0.

extra sneed and feed to be found:

/r/CryptoCurrencyMoons

/r/ethtrader

lol even the fardnide sub is affected

https://old.reddit.com/r/FortNiteBR/comments/17a34ss/sunsetting_community_points_beta_and_special

funne maymays and schadenfreude:

https://old.reddit.com/r/Buttcoin/comments/17ad742/must_see_spez_does_a_funny_comment_meltdown

https://old.reddit.com/r/Buttcoin/comments/17a419i/so_moons_just_got_rugged

Orange site https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37922973

EXCLUSIVE: X, formerly known as Twitter, will begin charging new users $1 a year to access key features including the ability to tweet and retweet

X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, will begin charging new users $1 a year to access key features including the ability to tweet, reply, and quote, according to a source familiar with the matter and later confirmed by the company.

The company will begin charging the fee on Tuesday for new users in New Zealand and the Philippines, marking one of the most significant changes to the social media platform since Elon Musk acquired the company nearly a year ago.

In a statement published shortly after Fortune reported the news of the $1 plan, X ‘s support account confirmed the details and described the move as a way to curb the prevalence of bots and spam on the platform, rather than a money-making endeavor. “This new test was developed to bolster our already successful efforts to reduce spam, manipulation of our platform and bot activity, while balancing platform accessibility with the small fee amount. It is not a profit driver,” the company said.

https://twitter.com/Support/status/1714429406192582896

Starting today, we're testing a new program (Not A Bot) in New Zealand and the Philippines. New, unverified accounts will be required to sign up for a $1 annual subscription to be able to post & interact with other posts. Within this test, existing users are not affected.

This new test was developed to bolster our already successful efforts to reduce spam, manipulation of our platform and bot activity, while balancing platform accessibility with the small fee amount. It is not a profit driver.

And so far, subscription options have proven to be the main solution that works at scale.

More details → https://help.twitter.com/en/using-x/not-a-bot

The company published the “Not-a-Bot Terms and Conditions” today outlining its plan for a paid subscription service that gives users certain abilities on their platform, like posting content and interacting with other users. This program is different from X Premium, which offers more features like “Undo” and “Edit” for posts for $8 a month. Given the company's tumultuous reputation under Musk, some users have voiced their hesitancy to turn over their credit card info.

X owner Elon Musk has long floated the idea of charging users $1 for the platform. During a livestreamed conversation with Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu last month, Musk said “It's the only way I can think of to combat vast armies of bots.”

Shortly after the announcement, Musk tweeted that you can “read for free, but $1/year to write.”

“It's the only way to fight bots without blocking real users,” Musk wrote. “This won't stop bots completely, but it will be 1000X harder to manipulate the platform.”

X CEO Linda Yaccarino was asked last month onstage at Vox's Code Conference about how going to a full subscription model on X will affect revenue, something that is now going live to users today. Yaccarino answered at the time, “Did he say that or did he say he's thinking about it?”

So you can just buy a million rat neurons for ~$300

And turns out this has been a thing for a long time

https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn6573-brain-cells-in-a-dish-fly-fighter-plane (2004)

You can grow human neurons as well

I recently built a browser-based word game with my friends called Sqword (sqword.com). I'm proud to say that we've been able to maintain a steady group of daily active users over the past 6 months or so despite not doing any real advertising.

Vultures will even pick at modest success stories.

Yesterday one of my collaborators googled "sqword" and to his surprise, there were tons of first-page results that weren't the sqword.com domain. These sites are "game aggregator" sites that host your app inside of an iFrame so that they can steal ad revenue from your product.

This made me angrier than it should have - not because Sqword is a cash cow - we don't run ads on the site and don't make money from it, it's just for fun - but because it was a passion project with friends, something pure and intentionally free to play WITHOUT ads. It's against my ethos as a developer, there are banners and popups everywhere. If I build an app, I believe it should either be free or it should be up-front about what the subscription or purchase price is (and then not upsell you).

I couldn't abide seeing my code monetized in this way.

The mature and responsible thing to do would have been to add a content security policy to the page. I am not mature so instead what I decided to do was render the early 2000s internet shock image Goatse with a nice message superimposed over it in place of the app if Sqword detects that it is in an iFrame.

It has been one of my greatest achievements as a dev: to live-deploy a massive goatse image to at least 8 domains that aren't mine.

Let this be a lesson to you - if you are using an iFrame to display a site that isn't yours, even for legitimate purposes, you have no control over that content - it can change at any time. One day instead of looking into an iFrame, you might be looking at an entirely different kind of portal.

https://joshcsimmons.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

One of the worst tech labor years ever continues with the news that roughly half of Bandcamp employees have been laid off. Bandcamp employees are reporting the news via social media.

Epic Games bought the indie music platform back in 2022 for an undisclosed amount before selling it barely a year later.

Late last month, Epic Games laid off 16 percent of its workforce, or 830 employees, due to what CEO Tim Sweeney described as overspending. Epic also revealed that it would sell the Bandcamp business to California-based music licensing company Songtradr. In that announcement, Epic disclosed that an additional 250 people would be leaving Epic either through receiving offers from Songtradr or Epic's divesture from its SuperAwesome ad business. Employees who did not receive offers from Songtradr were notified today and will be eligible for severance.

In an email to The Verge, Songtradr confirmed that 50 percent of Bandcamp employees have been extended offers to join Songtradr and reaffirmed from a previous statement the company's commitment to keeping the Bandcamp experience the same.

Songtradr's statement also confirmed that its purchase of Bandcamp had been completed, but it did not confirm if it would voluntarily recognize Bandcamp's union that employees won earlier this year, despite pressure from employees and the Bandcamp community.

I think the sense of injustice may sometimes be to blame. Let me elaborate.

There have been times at Whole Foods when item after item isnt scanned, now you have to wait for an attendant. Usually they have 1 attendant for 10 machines, so now you've queued up to be helped.

Except there are times where attendants just go randomly help people, or help people who are loud or pull them in. If you have 3 or 4 people waiting for help, unable to proceed, the attendant should help in the order they needed help. You shouldnt see new people suddenly being helped if you've been waiting.

In any case, this has been so infuriating sometimes that I literally just walked away. I left everything, including frozen goods right at the checkout counter. I didnt know what to do to be helped on a fair basis.

it's like the checkout attendants aren't even familiar with a standard first in first out queue

My hard drive size is roughly 3.5Tb (out of 6Tb total size). It won't get much bigger. I use a 5TB portable hard drive for backups.

I am looking for a file backup program that can backup new or changed files, and won't need to clone the entire hard drive again for each backup, as this process takes hours and hours.

Any suggestions appreciated.

Thanks peeps