skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In China, there seem to be no moral boundary in between just any legit banking business, and the most crazy high finance tricks being done with creditors money.

Moreover, I think most of local bankers think that's just the way it should be, thinking "boring Western style banking is just not for the high flyers like us"

Few things to tame out of this:

1. In China, a model bank can fail overnight

2. Central bank totally missed a sum on order of tenths of billions in cash being moved under it nose

3. All "good on paper banks" (which means all of them, given that is China) are under doubt now

4. Nobody knows how to tell of real risk indicators as Chinese banker got ungodly good with hiding elephants in their balance sheets

5. The alleged "private project" of a banker that has failed was a "risk free" real estate project.

6. Big banks will grow even more wary of lending to small banks with no diversity in leadership. In a big bank, you can at least be sure if 1 GM out of thousands does this, at least 1 another GM out of those thousands will try to impede him, but that's not the case with "1 man banks" which nearly all non big four banks are (which themselves evolved out of failed ITICs that were ran by party cadres https://zh.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/广东国际信托投资公司)
Certainly we are thankful to him for cutting so many checks. However “funded” is better description than “created”. Creating something requires far more effort, time investment and expertise than giving someone sum of money.
Why next? It's already an issue.
Hey Ruslan, since you’re posting here just wanted to say I love your articles, so much that I make all new hires on my team work through “Let’s Build a Webserver” as part of their onboarding :)

Thanks for your writing, and please post if you ever do turn this material into a book!
I respect your perspective, but the underlying assumption is heritage for white southerners. It’s a dangerous thing to honor.

The 1910s were also within living memory of people who were born as chattel, property of someone else. What did the heroic statue of Forrest mean to them? This was put up with because the political machinery of the south was incredibly powerful, and northerners, particularly immigrants weren’t exactly woke to the troubles of former slaves either.

The new South era was unique in many ways, including the end of open racial oppression and blacks voting in numbers. LBJ broke the back of the solid south for a few years.
They have a carefully contrived way of counting, that tries to measure money spent on database systems.

Any DB that does not consume Database Administration budget counts as zero.
The biggest reason healthcare is nuts in US is insurance. There is a mega complex of middlemen mafia between you and the doctor that need their cut.

For profit insurance means getting the highest premiums while giving out the lowest payouts. That’s American capitalism to you. There is such little transparency that the big players can price set whatever they want and coerce the public into paying it. After all, it’s your life.

America is America because of the mega corps. Some give us 280 characters, some fly shit into space, some let people die because they got no paper.
This past week I was reading Neverwhere, by Neil Gaiman which has the same interaction:

> "Now me," said Mr. Vandemar. "What number am I thinking of?"

> "I beg your pardon?"

> "What number am I thinking of?" repeated Mr. Vandemar. "It's between one and a lot," he added, helpfully.

> "Seven," said the marquis. Mr. Vandemar nodded, impressed.

When I encountered the question the first number that popped into my head was also seven. This was immediately followed by the thought that if I were the one picking a number I should explicitly avoid seven. Does this question and answer pair give anyone else a strong feeling of déjà vu? I think this interaction is a meme [0].

It's also interesting that most people will limit their choice to a (whole number | positive integer). The best choice is probably an irrational number like the square root of two (√2) or pi (π). Although those are still relatively predictable since most people would probably make their selection from the small set of well-known irrational numbers, so you should go one step further and add to or multiply the value.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meme
11 a minute? One every 5 seconds? Sustained? For 24 hours/day, 7 days/wk, 4 weeks/mo, 3 months straight?

I somehow doubt that very much.
It's been a while, I've been using Vim that way for ~5 years now. It's just less well-known, but it works very well!
Many banks in China are de-facto real estate companies

This is just how much their biggest client business and their day to day operations got conjoined
Use disable JavaScript plugin Firefox mobile for Android for but and a few others ( usually the ones that limit free articles to set number). Does not work for wsj but I have a subscription for that. I believe wsj only works for sponsored Facebook shares if you are not a subscriber. Irks me they do not let subscribers share articles to others, they used to.
I don't know. I think I'd be hard pressed to find a job outside of software engineering as a whole that paid half what I'm making now. Maybe I could get a SWE job with a company in an unrelated field, but probably not outside of software entirely.
Have watched the scene a few times but never picked up on that but it's very insightful to his reaction.. thank you for the comment!
Does anyone here describe themselves as a "cyberutopian"? I ask less about the particular word, and more about whether anyone still has an overwhelming sense of optimism about the transformative potential of the internet.
Your best choice is probably to stick with rationals, and just list off an arbitrary number of digits to the right of the decimal.
>As a PhD in physics, this just sounds like nonsense to me. Energy isn't a field and to polarize it doesn't mean anything

Well considering light is energy and you can polarize that.

The inventor is saying you can create gravitational waves through with just EM. Now you need to combine sound and angular momentum. Add a shit load of volts. Like Tesla on crack. And create high frequency standing wave in a resonance chamber. Boom you have the equivalent to a laser. But using all of physics in a perfect storm of power.
Well it is also political/rhetorical to some degree. Air conditioning is energy inefficient while heating technically starts with a 100% conversion efficiency. You also can't say 'just don't use heat' without looking idiotic and out of touch.

Meanwhile air conditioning is considered a luxury even if lack of it also results in people dying - both are of course on a spectrum in terms of necessity depending on circumstances.
I've had things happen to old versions of Windows that have completely blown the system installed to the C: drive.

This was definitely a thing. You can recall an artifact of folk proof in this detail, by recalling a lot of more technical users and professional IT/desktop support staff in computer labs using C: as a system drive, and D: as the work area containing user files, even if it was a single user machine. Losing the C: partition was a bad burn, bad enough that you didn't let it happen twice.

Years later, even in the Vista days, I had a partition destroying error from a truly innocuous action (like renaming some file; and that NOT being just a coincidence, but a repeatable error with Google results), and had a flabbergasted flashback to a prior C: drive implosion, that reminded me why you always divide the bootable system install off to its own untouched C: partition, and always only put the things you care about on the D: drive, and create lots of backups.

This was real. Never touch C: and don't trust it. Never put anything that matters in the C: partition.
No. Oracle is at #1 because more money is spent on Oracle licenses, DBAs, and (less so, lately) hardware to run it, than for anybody else's.

The costs for the others are mainly for administration, so are less. Any not administered, as such, don't count at all.
The video documentary on XBAND mentions that players started forming clans with clan tags using the player chat https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_5M-z_RUKA
That's his problem: you DON'T talk to cops.
I recently got fed up with my MacBook’s keyboard and bought a mechanical keyboard with Cherry MX switches. I cannot believe how _pleasant_ I found it- I haven’t used a mechanical keyboard in nearly 20 years but it feels like coming home, almost like I’m a kid again
Why would investors consider overcompensating executives a buy signal?
I always take that as a simple shorthand for "civilisation to survive", or "survive as a technologically advanced civilisation".

I suspect for most of us, and our descendants, it's pretty academic if the future holds extinction, some Mad Max future where the few survivors have the capability of the 19th century, middle ages, or somehow bomb^W emit ourselves back to the bronze age. All will see them surrounded by tons of surviving things (and packaging) they can see but can't understand, make, repair or refill.
They also offer a glimpse into the future, with regards to preservation, as much of the content appears to be completely lost to time. It’s especially sad with Xband; I hope it gets reverse engineered and emulated to some degree at some point, but there’s probably a lot of data completely lost to time. At least someone was wise enough to make a bunch of video recordings before it shuttered.
At middle-management levels, dependencies are probably more abstract than system-level dependencies. Imagine your product has no mobile app yet, but one is in the roadmap for next year. Then someone in marketing is in talks with Apple about a chance to do a demo in a keynote or something. This would bump up the priority for the mobile app for this year, but other features previously in the roadmap have to be moved around. So there’s a level of managers which will go around negotiating the options.
htop also has clickable columns
I have been running a pi-hole server at my home for almost a year. We have, at times, around thirty devices on our network, (thermostat (non-nest), several Google Home devices, numerous phones, 4 desktops, 4 laptops, 3 ipads, 1 TV, a chromecast/roku/firestick, a few smart receptacles, and a Xfinity modem) and sometimes the traffic is pretty neat to examine. Its interesting to see which devices phone home.

Whenever a necessary site is blocked it only takes a few seconds to whitelist it. I can also easily blacklist sites. The GUI is very easy to access and use. We have never had an issue with YouTube (YT premium) or anything else really, but occasionally a link will be blocked because of Google or other ad traffic. This has never happened with YT or any other streaming services.

One thing to remember is VPN traffic ignores the Pi-Hole server. Even when the router/computer/device DNS is set to use it. This has never been an issue for us, as only a handful of devices here are using VPN, but I suppose it could be under the right circumstances, but easily fixable.
My /etc/pacman.d/gnupg/gpg.conf had this line:

keyserver hkp://pool.sks-keyservers.net
Yes, I'm not sure what he's talking about here. The IRS can't dictate how much you sell something for.

They can, however, impute market value. So yes, they could make you pay gift tax. But he says he paid back the $20k loan. Either the $20k was a loan or it was used to purchase shares. It can't be both.

Also, merely depositing money into a specific bank account has no bearing on who or what entity owns the company. You could simply account for the CD Baby funds separately and file separately. Just like lots of small businesses will use their personal bank account for both personal and business funds. Not a good idea from a bookkeeping perspective. But legally and IRS-wise, there is no problem as long as you keep track of things.

There could be a lot of reason's he would have this issue of not being the primary owner of CDBaby. But none of the reasons given are valid ones. Perhaps daddy money bags wanted his cut but instructed his accountants to make up a reason why he had to get $3.3 million without letting the son know that he really just wants a return on his investment.
I would rather make my commute by scooting the fifteen miles on my ass across hot asphalt than sleep in a 90 degree bedroom.
JS is on, so no.

Maybe they think it has to do with javascript, and it does not for them either.

This is chromium on Linux.
It really is a tragedy of selfishness. The economy would be better overall but the vested interests want non-competes. The best thing federally that would draw heavy backlash would be to abolish non-competes federally.
When I was in my early twenties I had some amazing experiences that prompted me to ask the question, "if I died today, would I be ok with it?". I'm thirty five now and no matter how hard a day has been I have always been able to answer "yes".

Often the journey is hard, really hard, but if you are moving in a direction you are excited about and being true to yourself it's ok.

There is no success, there is no winning, there is only your own comfort when the lights turn off forever.

That's not to say you can't have financial success and career satisfaction. It's just to say that those things won't give you the freedom to die.
nano also has mouse support
Another approach is whitelisting. Like a default firewall rule of "block all" and a set of specific exceptions, I find this approach can be easier to manage. Probably not going to work for everyone but works for me.

Figure out what domains I need to access for the content I am after[1] and just allow those. "Block" everything else. For example, I might need something like .googlevideo.com once in a while but I will never need something like googletagmanager.net.

1. To do this, I just go through the logs of a local authoritative nameserver that I run solely for this purpose, i.e. collecting lists of needed domains. Then I add the necessary DNS data to /etc/hosts or another local authoritative server, e.g., tinydns. I believe unbound or pdns_recursor can serve static data as well.

Does the author mention avoiding using Google as a third party DNS service. In the beginning, PiHole, i.e., preconfigured dnsmasq, was pointed at some third party DNS service, maybe Google. Not sure what the default configuration is today. If it was Google, then is there any irony in that a project designed to blocks ads is by default having its users send their IP and ISP location to an advertising company probably hundreds if not thousands of times over in a single day of web use.
You just described how bubbles work. Real estate is still in a bubble, and there are still fools.
Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes to stand trial in 2020
I was thinking The Yellow Kid https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Yellow_Kid
You essentially combine multiple fields. Creating a quantum entanglement between each force.

This will create a small field of negative energy. Think opposite of black hole.
About a third of the way through the Triassic period, (which predated the Jurassic and Cretaceous), a mass extinction did in most of the crocs, and the dinosaurs and pterosaurs took over. Before that there were crocs living in trees, crocs that ran like hell on two legs, and, yes plant-eating crocs. It was the crocs' world to lose, and they did; like we will, someday -- maybe soon. Then the raccoons or bears can take our place.

But according to the article, many interesting croc lineages survived for another 150 million years after the dinos took over, and succumbed along with the non-avian dinos.
And Zipf distributions would suggest that the most frequent transmitters dominated the transmissions.

The numbers stated work out to suspiciously close to a transmission every 30 seconds, which may suggest this is a capture including both routine cell-tower transmissions and texts, with the former dominating the data.

I doubt the accuracy of the story as reported, though whether that's a misstatement in the report or a misunderstanding by the reporter isn't clear.

The report in question:

https://www.uscourts.gov/statistics-reports/wiretap-report-2...

It states:

The federal wiretap with the most intercepts occurred during a narcotics investigation in the Southern District of Texas and resulted in the interception of 9,208,906 messages in 120 days.

XLSX tables with underlying data are provided.

My read is that intercepts are not limited to user-initiated comms, and include automated telco service messaging
I have run a Pi-Hole server in my home for almost a year and have never had an issue with recaptcha.

Anything that is blocked is SUPER quick and easy to resolve through the web GUI (but recaptcha has ever been an issue). It seems to be smart enough that I rarely have to access it to unblock anything.
Heat via natural gas is far cheaper than air conditioning via electricity in all parts of the US, as far as I’m aware. And cheaper by a wide margin.

Electricity costs due to AC are typically at least 3x more in the summer than gas costs due to heating.

Edit: I shouldn’t have written all parts of the US, but wherever you’re trying to bring temperatures down just as much as you’re trying to bring them up in winter.
nah, it's MIT licenced. they're rebuilding, while redesigning, linux - without GPL. i think it's in a way that makes driver development less expensive for hardware manufactuters. stable driver apis mean a hardware manufacturers can care less about maintaining them while the kernel can still update without worrying as much about breaking drivers.

it doesn't really matter if it's currently in secretive development, or not - the result will be that fewer people have access to the code their phone/other device is actually running.

in essence: there's still cause for concern.
Many (most?) American corporations have already been subverted on a level where they make major decisions against US long term interests in favor of short term profits and working for China. Working for China I say!? how outrageous! A board member, middle manager, CTO, etc. can literally be bought by the Chinese government and NOTHING will ever happen. The Chinese have looked at our corporate system and found the weakness in decision makers. Without strong laws in place preventing this we will suffer a death of a thousand cuts as our companies sell out secrets and markets to the Chinese government.

Edit: If you are a Chinese business man and make decisions perceived by the PRC as selling out your people to America you would probably disappear in the night. In the US you can do this with impunity. How to succeed without becoming totalitarian ourselves?
The wealthy already pay something like 70% of all tax revenues that are raised. Unfortunately, even if the government were to outright confiscate the wealth of the 1 percenters, that would fund the government for just a few weeks. The middle class is where the real money is and that's why the government likes to raise taxes that hits everyone across the board - because the middle class will pay the majority of the new taxes.

Before raising any more taxes, how about curbing the governments appetite for spending. How about eliminating
costly weapons programs designed to fight wars that aren't very likely with the current crop of frenemies we now have. How about winding down the war in the middle east and closing many of the 700+ military installations we have around the globe. There is a lot of fat in the domestic budget that can be trimmed.

It seems to be the standard behavior in government to raise taxes rather than examine the current budget to see if we can tighten our belt and trim some spending to raise funds for some needed purpose.

Why not insist that if the government wants to spend 10 billion on some program, they have to find 10 billion in cuts to other programs.

Here's an example. Everyone pays FUSF taxes on their telephone and telecom bills. It's for a good cause. When it started out years ago, it was at 6% of interstate and international telephone fees. Well, over the intervening years the rate has increased to 24% and they've added more services that FUSF tax applies to: not just long distance, but MPLS services, data circuits if the data ever might touch the internet and more.
The appetite for 'Free Money' knows no bounds.. But it's for a good cause - right?

So, before congress raises my taxes again, I want to see that I'm actually getting a good deal and I'd like to see some of the excesses cut from the budget.

Joe
ncurses had its support written in September 1995. SysV4 curses had support earlier. I haven't been able to point exactly when xterm gained mouse support to send the data to terminal programs, but definitely before September 1995.
Quick fix for Safari can't establish a secure connection to the server error
The article mentions 2 different wiretaps. One is 9.2M with 149 people, the other is 9.1M with 45 people.
Marx once quipped that capitalists would sell the rope used to hang them. The Chinese are really only nominally Communist (and barely even that) but that statement remains as true as ever. Finance has zero foresight.
I'd be willing to pay a fee to the bank to hold my money for me. That's a useful service. Or they could take some fee off a debit card every time it's used. I can't imagine many people would rather keep all their money at home rather than pay a bank to hold it for them.
In other words policy that has applied to all companies all the time.

The US has always required approval for stuff that would affect national security (as an example, the recent WSJ article about AMD).
i think that was a hidden cost in the decrease of computer hardware price. it's hard to know what would've happened without microsoft though. whether it would be we all used expensive hardware like macs and amigas (or ibm) or whether something like linux or a different ibm os would have become the huge thing. it was great how we could build our own inexpensive system, or buy an inexpensive ibm-compatible someone else made. i have felt grateful to microsoft for that but maybe i'm wrong and it would just be another company that ibm chose.
That article is from before the Supreme Court’s decision in Carpenter, which was a pretty major change in the law on these issues. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carpenter_v._United_States
Confused, can someone explain why this is downvoted?
It does not permit the same dragnet to occur as using bare SMS messages.
I feel like I've been living in a terminal cave!
the real question is: can you prevent any suffering at all? can you ever have net positive regulation?

i am fully agnostic about what might be the answer
It worked fine on a 6" device on Firefox for Android for me, however the text was small, and when zooming it only shows the zoomed slides in the original viewpoint which doesn't change.

I tested on an iPhone 5S which has a much smaller screen, so I need to zoom, but when zooming the page ends up messed up.
yet, population density in tropical regions might mean that the impact of cooling I more important
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20308904

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20308911
There's very few places too cold for heat pumps.
I wonder if most of these older standards could be replaced by new standards that use SQLite as the Application File Format [0], making life easier for everyone.

[0] https://www.sqlite.org/appfileformat.html
> Air conditioning is energy inefficient while heating technically starts with a 100% conversion efficiency.

This is a common misconception- electrically resistive heat generation is not the most efficient way to heat a room with electricity. Rather, you can move about two to three times more heat per unit energy using a heat pump than you can with simple resistive heating.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_pump
I'm no expert, but I think AC is generally far in excess of 100% efficient. The relevant number is the SEER rating, which is the ratio between the rate of cooling and the power draw. Typical SEER ratios are 10 or higher, for an efficiency in excess of 1000%.

https://www.engineeringtoolbox.com/air-conditioner-efficienc...