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I'm thinking of making it easy to "teleport" to any location within the cage

Imagine typing in coordinates or picking a location on a map, and then suddenly your phone or any other device is at that location inside the cage, by a combination of GPS, cellular and WiFi spoofing

My former manager called it a portal haha: https://x.com/masadfrost/status/1856467695606345756

And the techniques to produce the material are not too crazy, all within reach of sufficiently dedicated amateurs

Now I'm imagining what history would have looked like if the alchemists had indeed stumbled upon a floating lead apatite sample a few centuries ago...

I like this description of the problem and the suggestion:

Today on Twitter, as on most social media, justice works in a roughly Stalinist style. The normal penalty is permanent execution. There is no transparent explanation for why an account is executed, before or after the execution. It has simply “violated the Twitter rules.” The public rules are extremely abstract and could theoretically justify almost any execution. The private rulebook by which the secret police, or “Ministry of Trust and Safety,” operates, is of course as secret as everything about the secret police.

Of course, it is easy to observe that a two-day-old spam account does not deserve a six-month trial, with lawyers, before getting the bullet it needs in the back of the neck. Due process in this context must not be a clone of the IRL judicial system, which is more broken than anyone can possibly imagine.

And there is a simple solution to the problem of scaling due process: *scale the level of due process to the size of the account*. An account with a million (real) followers might well deserve a six-week public trial, perhaps even with some kind of counsel. The spammer with 20 followers? Any cop can shoot him, as at present, and leave the body by the side of the road as a warning to others.

There is a use for online Stalinist justice—it is only an injustice when it is disproportional to the user’s investment in the service. When Twitter is your career and any cop can just shoot you, an eerie atmosphere of terror pervades everything.

Source: https://graymirror.substack.com/p/the-twitter-coup

Here ya go!

https://replit.com/@ArnavBansal/nixed-cobol

Was your society any less market-driven during your parents' generation, when the factory worker could support a family with a single income?

On the other hand, are societies like India or China becoming less capitalistic, where many of these trends are broadly moving in the opposite direction?

wow, Taleb's Barbell strategy at play

My sense for WhatsApp's dominance is peripheral contacts. I can convince close friends and family to move to Signal, but not distant friends, especially the large groups I'm in.

I'm pretty bearish on Signal for this reason. (even though I use it personally)

The playbook for unlocking adoption would be via a 'minority rule' where Signal users refuse to talk to people on WA, but I don't see that happening anytime soon.

Congrats to the Deno team and community on reaching 1.0!

We've launched Deno support on repl.it here (in beta): https://repl.it/languages/deno for folks to try out.

There are controls. I believe they're selective about who they let in, and let present.

Thanks! :D This made my day

Just added it. Thanks.

I'll try to import a larger set of symbols soon, to fix the gaps.

Thanks! Added hats :D

...and done! :)

Yep, I've used it. It's amazing! I'm also adding a link to it on my page, so people can find symbols they don't yet know how to describe with text

I felt that 'type and hit enter to copy' would be faster for my workflow, which is why I built this :D

Thanks! Adding them right now!

Hello HN.

I'm new to LaTeX. It was taking me a while to lookup common notation, so I took a lot longer (https://xkcd.com/1205), and built a search for it.

I'll be using LaTeX over the next few months, and will be improving this page as I do. The project is also open source.

Let me know what you think!

This gif should explain: https://imgur.com/6BnAFjh

It's probably using Google custom search. I think that's the only way you can actually get Google search results as an API.

Perhaps custom search displays differing results?