<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: Cyph0n</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=Cyph0n</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2026 08:21:39 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=Cyph0n" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Cyph0n in "How to earn a billion dollars"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Understood, but you're removing the moral aspect of the capitalist's exploitation of labor from a discussion on why the capitalist gets to make a billion dollars and the farmer doesn't.</p>
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<p>> But it is precisely the same as the capitalist model<p>It’s only the same if you consider natural resources and human labor to be equivalent. To me, that sounds quite reductive.</p>
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<p>And you seem to not realize that a census has a much wider impact than allocation of federal funds. It’s a nationwide survey done once every 10 years. No other survey compares in scale.<p>Now think about the data you could collect and the decisions you could make based on this data to ensure a better future for all in this country; in fact, this is a stated goal of the survey that you either didn’t know about or are willfully ignoring.<p>On the flip side, think about the repercussions of tainting this data and basically wasting such a valuable chance that won’t come around again for another 10 years.</p>
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<p>It’s because people are significantly more likely to lie or omit some facts if you don’t guarantee their privacy, which means your census data ends up being worth less than a pile of shit.<p>The alternative is to water down the census questions, which also leads you down the same path (i.e. manure as data).</p>
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<p>Hogwash? More like state-backed propaganda disseminated by so-called objective and professional media organizations in order to justify an offensive war against Iran; a war that has achieved virtually none of its stated aims.<p>I personally trust OSINT sources more than NGOs these days. I would wager that the security forces numbers are higher. I would also wager that the majority of the deaths were CIA and Mossad backed insurgents operating in the context of a wider, legitimate, civilian-led protest movement.</p>
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<p>Ah, so now none of the protesters were gunned down in the streets? How convenient.<p>> As many as 30,000 people could have been killed in the streets of Iran on Jan. 8 and 9 alone, two senior officials of the country’s Ministry of Health told TIME—indicating a dramatic surge in the death toll.<p><a href="https://time.com/7357635/more-than-30000-killed-in-iran-say-senior-officials/" rel="nofollow">https://time.com/7357635/more-than-30000-killed-in-iran-say-...</a><p>Imagine infiltrating the Iranian surveillance camera network and being unable to produce footage of 30k people massacred across two days.<p>I do not like Iran because of its actions in Syria and Yemen, but even with my bias, I could hear the bullshit Western elitist consent manufacturing engine starting up from miles away.</p>
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<p>I would love to see an agreement on the supposed number of (unarmed) civilians killed. Over the course of the past few months, I have heard claims of thousands up to 50k.<p>You would think the traffic and surveillance cams hacked by the Israelis would’ve shown the extent of this bloodbath.<p><a href="https://apnews.com/article/iran-war-security-cameras-surveillance-5f9a1fe5845d94894f3edd50af560d3a" rel="nofollow">https://apnews.com/article/iran-war-security-cameras-surveil...</a></p>
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<p>Do you blame them? If a global ring of elite pedophiles turned out to be true in spite of all the gaslighting and denial, then why couldn’t the moon landing also be a conspiracy?<p>Keep in mind that the elite class couldn’t give two shits what the peasant class thinks. In fact, having us believe in false conspiracies helps distract the masses from the true conspiracies :)</p>
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<p>Astounding to watch the mental gymnastics at play.<p>It’s like how Israeli lobbying orgs state that “claiming Zionist orgs control the media is antisemitism”, and then the solution is literally “we should use our contacts & supporters in the media to stop this kind of rhetoric”. Beautiful.</p>
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<p>Yes, more specifically IBM -> AMD -> spin off.</p>
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<p>IBM no longer has fabs (spun off as Globalfoundries and later sold), and no longer manufactures PCs (sold to Lenovo?), but it does make mainframes I guess?</p>
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<p>So BYD for cars and Samsung for phones and consumer electronics more generally (from fab upwards).<p>In fact, I believe Samsung is the only company on the planet that can design & build a state of the art smartphone from scratch - silicon/fabrication, SoC, battery, baseband, camera sensor, memory, and display.<p>What other high tech vertically integrated producers exist in this group?</p>
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<p>I never had the opportunity to try out quadlets, but they seem powerful.<p>I maintain one of the competitors listed in that README (compose2nix), so I am a bit biased haha.<p>For now, I prefer the ability to interop with Compose.</p>
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<p>Ugliness is subjective :)<p>But my question was around readability: were you able to understand what the snippet I shared is doing?<p>Re: build-time checks - but systemd hasn’t done it, and I am also unsure where exactly this verification would even take place given systemd’s configuration model. Unless you’re talking about some kind of language server or IDE integration.</p>
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<p>I believe that probably won’t work unfortunately; the generated unit files have a bunch of hardcoded Nix store paths.</p>
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<p>No. Is that not readable to you lol? I think anyone with even a passing familiarity with systemd would understand what that chunk of Nix is doing.<p>Compare it to the alternative of using plain systemd (including command(s) required to enable units).<p>Also, consider what build-time validation you get <i>prior</i> to starting the unit/timer. Hint: zero.</p>
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<p>I define all units in Nix because:<p>a) It is way nicer and you get decent validation at build time<p>b) A LLM can port units over if the need arises; it’s a very light abstraction around systemd syntax<p>c) I personally don’t see how I would ever move to another distro :)</p>
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<p>+1, NixOS makes working with systemd a breeze. Defining units in Nix beats wrangling INI files.<p><pre><code>  systemd.services.sync-recyclarr = {
    serviceConfig.Type = "oneshot";
    path = [ pkgs.podman ];
    script = ''
      podman exec -it recyclarr recyclarr sync radarr
      podman exec -it recyclarr recyclarr sync sonarr
    '';
  };
  systemd.timers.sync-recyclarr = {
    timerConfig = {
      OnCalendar = "daily";
      Persistent = true;
      Unit = "sync-recyclarr.service";
    };
    partOf = [ "sync-recyclarr.service" ];
    requires = [ "podman-recyclarr.service" ];
    wantedBy = [ "timers.target" ];
  };</code></pre></p>
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<p>Uh, downvoting is definitely a useful tool to signal that you don’t agree with an opinion or subjective statement.<p>But yes, downvoting a factual statement makes no sense.</p>
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<p>u/fortran77 used the phrase <i>so-called “Palestinian” movement</i> (slightly edited since), so I simply responded with the same rhetoric :)<p>Of course, I somehow doubt that you would have a similarly strong reaction when Palestine is erased.</p>
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