We're also currently in a period of Quantitative Tightening as we slowly undo the QE done during covid, which should have a deflationary effect. But who knows over what time period and with what magnitude.
You nailed it with all of those, from my experience. Nearly all of the toys we have were gifts. Two sets of grandparent, with not enough grandchildren to go around, and more options than ever. Even birthday parties have us struggling to fill the car with all the new crap. Plushies, barbies, Bluey merch, Gabby merch. I think my and my parent's generations can't seem to help themselves. I think there's also some compensating for being able to give the kids things you would never have been able to get. I know I'm susceptible to it as well. I bought a rock tumbler kit for them the other day, because I always wanted one as a kid.
Too many overcompensating adults, too few kids to be the recipients of that compensation, too many toys out there to buy. This doesn't even touch on the scarcity/scalping of certain toys as well, which also breaks the brain in its own way. What do you mean, no one has Muffin from Bluey in stock and it's $80 on ebay? Now my brain is on a mission to find it and buy it at MSRP, when I really shouldn't care to begin with.
As I understand it, the damage done by inbreeding would outweigh the benefits of selecting for new externally-visible traits not present in the mainline population.
I don't think it's been tested in studies, but I can offer that I had hand warts for 7 years until I got the HPV vaccine, and the hand warts suddenly disappeared after dose 2.
HPV functions by cloaking itself from your immune system. The reason why treatments like freezing work is not by removing the HPV -- it's by stimulating your immune system to look at the area around the wart. Then your immune system can get past the cloaking, and recognize the HPV, and then it destroys it.
So functionally, it makes total sense that the HPV vaccine would clear existing infections, and anecdotally, lots of patients (such as myself) have seen HPV clear after getting the vaccine. It's a shame that our bureaucracy doesn't have the incentives to run the studies to acknowledge it institutionally.
From my understanding most vaccines have never been compared against placebo trials, but would be happy to be proven wrong, e.g. if you can find a study on HPV vaccine.
That's just about article quality though. Is there a policy about linking to known compromised sites? Should one flag the submission for moderator attention?
Even if we assume folks are using up-to-date browsers (and many aren't!), a compromised site could deliver payloads to browsers ranging from zero-days to phishing content to browser extension compromises (esp. for crypto wallets etc.), that might be delivered differently to different viewers. We don't want to amplify the spread of an attack, especially to our community!
There are too many things to add if we start adding things like that. Each one is important in its own context, of course—like here—but once you start making lists of important things, you end up in a whole-is-less-than-the-sum-of-its-parts situation. I don't think such lists are likely to be effective in the long run.
That's also why the site guidelines (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html) are nowhere near as long as they would be if we tried to include all the important things. Better a shorter list that people can actually read.
I hope that doesn't come across as dismissive—I do see your point!
Verge reports someone has taken credit for an ongoing DDOS against IA.
"An account on X called SN_Blackmeta said it was behind the attack and implied that another attack was planned for tomorrow"
https://www.theverge.com/2024/10/9/24266419/internet-archive...
That class of sites generally is, yes. But on HN we go by article quality, not site quality (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...) and I didn't see a better specific article on this. If there is a better one, we can change the link again.
That’s my dream network. A long range, low bandwidth, decentralized network. Mesh would be cool, but even just being able to exchange with neighbors at the scale of 1-10mi would be amazing.
This sounds like what RNode devices for Reticulum networks appear to be able to do. (I haven't tried it for myself yet.)
> RNodes can be made in many different configurations, and can use many different radio bands, but they will generally operate in the 433 MHz, 868 MHz, 915 MHZ and 2.4 GHz bands. They will usually offer configurable on-air data speeds between just a few hundred bits per second, up to a couple of megabits per second.
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> While speeds are lower than WiFi, typical communication ranges are many times higher. Several kilometers can be acheived with usable bitrates, even in urban areas, and over 100 kilometers can be achieved in line-of-sight conditions.
> Reticulum is the cryptography-based networking stack for building local and wide-area networks with readily available hardware. Reticulum can continue to operate even in adverse conditions with very high latency and extremely low bandwidth.
It would be illegal (at least in the usa); you’re not allowed to share your home internet, or function as a public utility.
There are huge regulatory moats around everything that costs $20-500/mo recurring and is incurred by large percentages of the population. Internet access is a huge one.
Well that would explain the sad estate of government sanctioned Wifi. They were bought out, as usual, from people who just want an extra buck instead of properly serving the public's needs.
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