skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your previous comment certainly appeared to misunderstand dual criminality since you thought it was relevant whether or not Lauri had been convicted of a crime in the UK. Clearly, however, that is not relevant to the satisfaction of the dual criminality requirement, which is the requirement that the offence for which the person is being extradited is also an offence in the country they're being extradited from.

With regard to your Iceland example, I doubt that Iceland and Sudan have an extradition treaty. If they do, I don't see in principle why someone who lived in Iceland but was involved in producing pornography in Sudan should not be extradited for it. In practice, however, the probable lack of an extradition treaty, and the probable flaws in the Sudanese justice system, would make it very unlikely that an Icelandic court would approve such a request.

I'm not really sure why you bring the example up. People don't in fact get extradited from Iceland to Sudan, so it's not as if it highlights a problem with the present system.

>The Nigerian scammer is still committing fraud, but in Nigeria.

I don't see how that is necessarily the case, if the victims are in other locations.
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As far as I understand, media was (is?) stored on sdcards, which uses (can use) FAT, which has no permissions support.
Would be an appropriate measure but I do not have too much hope at the moment for such a clear political move. Later there may come a point where it's too late.
Mostly if I'm looking for new sport gear like running shoes I don't mind clicking on ads if I see a shoe I like.

And if a company is the top result and also shows up in the ads above I click on the ad.
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And allows to forget about lot of configuration, automation and scaling. Which also has lot of value.
Reid Hoffman makes clear like I suspected that SV power players are skeptical about Sam Altman. YC is becoming Jack of all trades master of none. Jury is still out on YC under Sam's leadership. By 2020 I think we'll start to see the wheels fall off.
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The point is that these phrases become buzzwords, at which point deep-learning vs AI becomes a distinction without a difference. In the mainstream media you can safely replace both of these terms with "statistics" and not alter the meaning of the sentence.

In other words, terminology can be used to make precise, meaningful distinctions, or it can be used to embellish.
That's true. They bought a company back in the 90s that had a technology that was a big influence on MPLS. Ipsilon? Something like that. It would assign tags to packets and then let you assign tags to specific paths.
Inequality is bad. Other things may be good. If your action achieves something good at the expense of more inequality, then it may still be worth doing.

If inequality itself is good, then does that mean we should apply punitive taxes to poor people and subsidize the rich?
I gathered a lot of bookmarks for major IaaS clouds comparison on twitter:

https://twitter.com/nivertech/status/679058892052168705

https://twitter.com/nivertech/status/782892922580664320
No, usually the opposite.

Greatest period of equality: 1950s

Greatest period of growth: 1950s

Greatest periods of inequality: 2010s/1930s

Guess what?
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Simple thought experiment.

There are plenty of markets that are mostly private. All have some regulation, but some markets are mostly left alone.

Let's pick one. How about pickles?

If my local government wanted each of it's citizens to have a jar of pickles, what would be the best way to do that?

I'd argue that a gift card to Amazon for pickles handed out is probably the easiest way. They don't get into the produce business, they don't get into the warehousing or distribution business, they just hand out gift cards. Somebody else -- who is really good at that other stuff, by the way, handles the rest.

This is what every enterprise learns: stick to what you do best. Let everybody else to do the same.

So obviously strict product movement and provisioning, such as municipal water and electric services, are solved problems. There is no value added here based on who is doing what.

Social services, on the other hand, is a mess of nuance and policy. It's not a solved, commoditized problem, so it doesn't make sense to have somebody else do it. If your local government does their social services well, it's something they've been tweaking for quite some time.

We don't need to continue the thought experiment any further. "privitization increases inequality" is far too broad of a statement, since easy examples are found both supporting it and opposing it. Some further narrowing of terms is required for this to have enough meaning to discuss.
I'm sorry to tell you don't really understand how derivatives work, even price fixing for that matter.

Prices of derivatives such as forward contracts and options are freely floating and are widely traded. "price-fixing" is defined as a coordinated effort to corner the market, a good example would be when siegel tried to corner onion futures, which lead to creation of "onion futures act". Historically, only few have succeeded in cornering the market.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onion_Futures_Act
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How does the cost of doing it yourself compare to AWS for what you need?
How do they handle GHC or Rust which must have a compiler to build?
I've done the same: I remapped my azerty keyboard to carpalx (http://mkweb.bcgsc.ca/carpalx/?full_optimization). I created a rails app to generate the private.xml file. I also created a custom special-chars mapping. The rails app is here: https://github.com/pinouchon/keybest.

I use this everyday on both my work and personal macbooks.
Russia was a the big buddy and teddy-bear of US and EU during the Yeltsin years, while the oligarch were grabbing everything and anything they could of the soviet industrial capacity for their own enrichment.

Then comes Putin, clamps down on said oligarchs, and all of a sudden we are right back at cold war rhetoric.

As for repressing dissidents, lets have a look at the number of civil wars and whatsnot that was instigated by USA around the "free" world during the same timeframe.
WhatsApp messed it up particularly bad, but it's not the only example. The point is that there was no private access to the SD card. If you had large files that did not fit on the internal storage, using the shared external storage was the only alternative. Developers abused that and ended up putting all sorts of private data on the SD card.
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One possible reason: long-term exposure, even at low volumes, damages hearing.
"Your OS is getting better again"

Literally the first time I've heard someone say that about the recent state of Windows outside of Microsoft PR.
We (Erigones, https://www.erigones.com/en/) are making our own virtualization, orchestration and cloud suite, available for public use, based on SmartOS.

So far for commercial customers only (demo available) but we will release opensource community edition soon on Github.
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I have had a great experience with Telegram app with poor connections.

No wonder it's so popular in Asia, Russia and Middle East.
The directory issue ties in with several of the other problems of email, and how you want to address them.

If we're assuming pervasive use of mobile devices, with no fixed static IP addresses, and quite possibly dynamic IPs even for stationary devices, several of the avenues to establishing reputation, identity, and routing get difficult.

If the idea is to offer a very large number, rather than a small number, of messaging hubs (equivalent to, though offering more services than, an email server), then issues of reputation, configuration, and administration come into play. You want something that's simple, bulletproof (not in the spam-friendly sense), robust, and useful.

Many erstwhile email replacements are premised on a single global directory. I don't think this can work, nor is it on the whole desireable, though it's certainly simpler to get started.

For point-to-point messaging, especially if we're including realtime protocols (chat and voice/video, not just text/files), you need a system in which either scheduled contacts can be made, or in which at least certain trusted/whitelisted parties can reach a given device, regardless of location, within seconds, or at the outside, a few minutes, so long as both parties are online.

Avoiding central peering and routing structures should be part of the system, for privacy and resilience reasons.

Addressing a few of the other issues I mentioned above, including standards for comms and the like, should also be supportable.
Was this comment really so unhelpful as to merit a downvote?
It's kind of a moving target. When we first tested Azure it was awful and we went with AWS, but it's got a lot better recently.

The new UI is nice but I think a bit rushed. It was pushed before all the features were ported from the old one and there are still things that are easier to do from the old UI (firewall rules for example). The embedded VS Code is really nice though.

I think this rushing applies to all of Azure. It feels like a very MVP approach and AWS is more polished. Agree with you about Beta services, don't use Previews for anything serious.
Bingo. Postal services were usually priced such that the high volume central routes would subsidize the more remote ones.
I consider myself a relatively gung-ho free-market type, where it's appropriate. Utility and transport networks are one place where it isn't appropriate. This is for three fundamental reasons:

1. A free-market dynamic requires an actual market. If the buyer can't chose among competing sellers, then it's not a market. At the grocery store you can choose from among many different sellers: that's a functional market. The point where your plumbing connects to the water main, simply isn't.

2. The entire purpose of infrastructure is to generate positive externalities. Ready availability of transport, water and electricity, etc., makes it easy and desirable to do business in a place and with each other. This leads to emergent urban economies, where mutual comparative advantage among a heterogeneous population leads to mutually beneficial exchange, which in turn leads to more growth and prosperity for everyone. The fewer low-level frictions, the more prosperous everyone becomes. But capturing value at the point-of-use -- which is what private operators generally do -- creates a low-level friction with substantial knock-on effects. Every dollar you extract from the farebox of a public transport system, for example, is many dollars removed from the wider economy. It's much more appropriate to subsidise the infrastructure networks and then tax the positive externalities (via sales, income, and property taxes) after the uplift has been created.

3. There are broader socio-economic issues of accessibility to services that profit-driven companies have no incentive to be responsive to.
His are way, way nicer than most of what you can get on eBay these days. And if you find the big IN-18 or Z568M tubes, they will have comparable prices.

I also noticed that Dalibor provides warranty — for initial batches, even lifetime warranty. That is very impressive and well worth the prices.
No, but there's a book called "Pro Git" by Scott Chacon and Ben Straub that popped up on HN not too long ago. It does explain git on the lower level without going into the git source code.

This book is over 500 pages, but chapters 1 to 3 will get you up and efficient within 2 hours. Especially chapter 3 (I skipped to it, I kinda knew the basic git commands from "experience"), which goes over branching and how it works. It explains how snapshots are handled and what points to what, which make working with multiple branches locally and remotely a pleasure actually.

It's honestly not to hard to get decent at git. Although I never realized how much of a tool git was until I heard about people writing 500 page long books about it.
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> Usually...

Generalisations aside, this report doesn't seem to be about wealth being created unevenly.

This report claims 5 specific ways that privatisation of services has caused life to become worse for low income and/or minority citizens.
This is a strange profile of the sort of hero and status/wealth worship that only seems to have currency in the USA. The more I read the article the less I came away thinking of Altman as a genius and more of a babysitter and teacher.

I'm not really looking to attack Altman's character or competence, he seems to have both in spades, but the whole thing was just...creepy. And cultish.
You've received downvotes, but you're not wrong. Javascript security used to be a concern, but that's been effectively eliminated with modern browser design.

Code is sandboxed, processes are isolated, OS-level security is used on top of that. The few CVEs that show up are reported quickly via browser bounties or in-house testing. People claim bounties are ineffective, but how many exploits have we really seen emerge from "black markets" or other sources?

I ran without JS for a few years and then realized it was making my online experience more miserable than it needed to be. I can't remember the last time I actually saw a computer "infected" just from visiting a website, and not through social engineering. Can you?

The bottom line is that the margin for being compromised via JS is so small that it might as well not exist. If you disable it because privacy or surveillance or whatever else, that's your prerogative. But the security issue is completely overstated and largely misinformed.
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Every time I do the math the bandwidth egress costs of AWS and GCE become rather large and non-trivial. How do you make it work for your workloads?
The problem with privatization is it often involves granting monopoly powers to a private company instead of opening up the market to private competition. This in some ways is even worse than leaving the entity under government control because there is an incentive to squeeze as much profit as possible out of the entity and no pressure from competition to keep the private entity honest. Privatization in itself is not a problem, and neither is inequality (in modest form, created by competition, not unfairly), but creating an environment where the quality of goods and services suffer for the consumer/citizen because those providing those goods and services don't have an incentive to do a good job.
Yep. Apps like Hotels.com app and BA apps time out while the sites work fine on 2G. App devs think everyone has big data pipes; I almost never do. At which point Wechat is great.
You're conflating the market as a whole and an individual participant in the market.

Derivatives aren't intended to prevent volatility in the market as a whole (arguably they can have the opposite effect). What they allow is for a participant to reduce the volatility, to them, of a market price [0].

The advantage to the individual is that they can reduce their exposure to factors beyond their control, that they have no expertise in and/or that they do not wish to actively manage. The advantage to the market is that it encourages more participants.

In this context, one can look at derivatives as acting a lot like insurance. It doesn't prevent bad things happening (it doesn't prevent market volatility) but it can cushion their effect on you the participant.

The corollary of making such useful tools for hedging risk is that they can also be used for speculation too i.e. gambling. But then again, not all of us registered neo-liberals think the system is perfect.

[0] I'm using the terminology in the post I'm replying to. I'm aware that there are derivatives on underlyers other than prices and derivatives that control for factors other than price volatility but I didn't consider that hedging my language (excuse the pun) added any clarity.
>Guess what?

Correlation doesn't imply causation?
Yes, because our post office is doing great in comparison with its private competition these days.
Totally agree. I had to stop reading as the cult worship stuff started to get thicker and thicker.
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Equality does not exist. It is an abstract concept.

What the best political philosophy gave us is the another concept - the equality of rights and liberties. Equality before the law. This means than no person could be discriminated, based on gender, racial, cultural or religious context.

There is no such thing as social or economic equality. This bullshit has been oversold to us by political demagogues and populists (as opposed to political philosophers).

Society means inequality. It means hierarchy. It is based on inequality, it is driven by inequality no matter what disconnected from reality pseudo-intellectuals would tell us.

Biology has precedence over physiology, psychology and sociology. Social inequality comes from genetic and economic inequality. Without the first there will be no human species, because there will be no evolution. Without the second there will be no human civilization, which is based upon trade and capital - resource allocation.

Competition for everything, not just survival and reproduction, but also social status is a part of reality of any complex ecosystem, including human societies. Capitalism is a "natural" system of resource allocation, based on partial rationality, greed and so-called human nature (which in turn is based on biological markers, psychological traits and social heuristics) that promotes competition (and also restricting monopolies and regulating markers) which is based on inequality, has inequality as its driving force.

Not a single attempt to go against physics, biology, against the laws of ecosystems (sociology) and so-called human nature would ever succeed, no matter what utopia naive human mind will produce and promote. Every single utopia that violates any single environmental constraint will fail. It happened with communism, it will happen with socialism. Economics is very real - as real as one of the main forces of natural selection (species has to balance their energy spending according to the constraints of the environment - this is what economy is).

Inequality is here and always will be, like beauty and ugliness, intelligence and stupidity, success and failure.
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Founder Depression
I hope I am doing this right as I seldom comment articles in general. But reading Founder depression, I was blown away how it not only read like me talking to myself, but in the order I speak to myself. In other words my chain of self speak (Im sure there is a word for it) matched the order in which the article was written. For me one of the most helpfull things I have read in years. Tank you!
> Increased socioeconomic and racial segregation

I think progressive black activists are supporting racial segregation. One university even offers segregated housing.
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I don't have the time to build this while employed. And doesn't 50/50 ignore the time he already put into it?

In any case, I've made up my mind about putting at least a month into this. Even if it fails, I'll probably be doing a lot more fun stuff in that month than I've done in my past couple of paid projects.

Note that the company already exists and he currently owns 100% of it. How would that work with vesting schedules? He's probably thinking along completely different lines (he has experience in traditional business, but not tech startups).
So, Sam's been at this for 2 years, inherited an extremely well oiled machine, and hasn't, as far as I know, accomplished anything extraordinary. Not sure why there's an entire New Yorker piece on him, instead of, say, I dunno, a few paragraphs in the Talk of the Town section.

Has there been a New Yorker piece on PG? I googled and didn't find anything. He's the one that put all this together and seems far more deserving of such a thing.
What I am worried about is that Facebook/Google/Microsoft/Amazon/Apple are copying the same model [1]. These companies are killing the open web.

[1] How China Is Changing Your Internet (The New York Times) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAesMQ6VtK8
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God made templeos.

A nigger does not know what the word "random" means.
How is that progressive?
Great point, now that you wrote it I realize I often do the same -- use HN comments as a signal on whether the article is worth reading. Coupled with the "do not be nasty" tone overall (a rarity online) it gives a very positive prior to YC.
Driving, showering, on the train when it's not busy. Places you are forced to disconnect and be in silence. A little less so with trains, but where I am from they are mostly silent places where you can read a book happily.
Uhh... RAII is perfectly compatible with new/delete. You just have to put all new calls in the constructor and all delete calls in the destructor.
Meta comment. I'm not even sure this is the right place for it.

I love things that are fascinating and make me think. Privitization and inequality are in that category.

I don't like feeling that I'm being bullshitted. Two articles on the same politically-charged topic both at the top of HN is whack. I do not want to be on the end of somebody's PR funnel.

Not your fault, I know. Just please post some more Erlang innards stories between the "Evidence continues to validate this thing I know you guys aren't going to agree on" stories.
Ah never tried it. I will now :)
Yeah you get what I meant. There is a disconnect with what we should be doing and the current state of having to provide for our families.

That said, I'm no communist and I'm not advocating that. I just find it sad that we're more rewarding people working on farming other people's holidays photos rather than pushing humanity forward (and no I don't meant going to Mars, although that gave me a kick!).
Inadvertently violating, or compromising your own privacy then?
Can individual towns / municipalities issue rules on top of state regulations?

I assume a private community with private roads (and private maintenance not state funded ) can forbid vehicles from their roads (via a gate,guard or regulation) as they do now.
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This seems more like 1984 future...
You could tie your cheap or free Openshift/Heroku to multiple free BackBlaze B2 storage accounts.

Depending on how 'grey' you're willing to behave you can get away with doing a lot on a virtually free infrastructure.