skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"U.S. control over transactions within the EU.

..The transaction was automatically routed through the US, possibly because of the USD currency used in the transaction, which is how the United States was able to seize the funds.." [0]

Also: "The U.S. Office of Foreign Asset Control (OFAC) enforces U.S. economic sanctions programs ... and any person or entity physically located in the United States (including branches of foreign corporations)" [2]. And most foreign banks do have US branches. And if transaction is in US Dollars, OFAC applies too [1]. I can dig deeper, down the rabbit hole :)

All right. Seems like if a transaction involves USD, it must pass US based correspondent bank.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Society_for_Worldwide_Interban...

[1] https://nacm.org/pdfs/webinars/FCIBWebinar_Compliance_OFAC_U...

[2] https://www.riskscreen.com/kyc360/of-counsel/ofac-compliance...
"No involvement in politics" is a very high barrier to cross for a lot of westerners. I would not want to personally test if retweets supporting Tibetan freedom counts as "political involvement".
You'd think based on his desire to live by the sea, he'd have been prepared to "go down with the ship". It's a maritime tradition.
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I wonder whether the "internet" vs "web" distinction was made in the survey, or whether it got lost in translation to the BBC article.

I'd agree, my grandmother never uses the _internet_, my grandfather used to use just email (probably once a week), but never used the _web_.
It's mostly about accessibility though. If something can provide a lot of value, but is inaccessible for people using an ipad with voice typing, it's the same as if doesn't exist at all for those people. And since most things are like that, the overall value of an internet connected ipad for them is not that high.
Fyi your very first link out to the "Wheel of Reincarnation" is dead. Maybe it too needs to be reincarnated?
The issue is there is a big difference between Florida and Africa.

Think about it. That hormone spray gets synthesized somewhere(on the same continent), loaded onto trucks (which are fueled, from gas reserves that are themselves kept constantly supplied and properly mixed, (by power generated somewhere else and delivered by reconstructed and maintained infrastructure(kept working by so on, and so forth, and so on...))),

There is a LOT of advantages that the U.S. has in regard to that sort of logistics. Not all of that may necessarily apply in Africa such that fleets of large capacity tanker/sprayer trucks filled with hormone solution can be trivially mobilized.

That's why this genetic shtick was so attractive. No trucks needed, no fuel or solution airlifted. Just a bunch skeeters that do all the hard work of getting the fix where it needed to go.

It was honestly looking too good to be true but also suffered from being too good not to try.
I hate how arguing about this makes me look like a shill, but here goes:

Do you think that he's innocent? If not, then I don't see what this has to do with my post.

Going further, you're implying that China is giving excessive punishments to foreigners due to geopolitical relations.

You are omitting that China isn't treating this specific example more harshly than they would treat a Chinese citizen (who can't buy their way out with money and/or influence). They are being given equal treatment.

The article even says that foreigners are typically treated favorably compared to locals. I do agree that the relaxation of this favorable treatment is related to world politics, but the way your post is framed is disingenuous.

I don't think my original post needs an explicit explanation that a random foreigner being ok in China assumes that you don't commit an obvious crime that would result in, at the very least, prison time or deportation in nearly any other country that won't let you bribe your way out.
I've also wondered this, specifically around the number of vCPU's they offer. I'm sure there is a percentage of over-commitment here, but how do you offer a 96 vCPU instance?

Someone suggested that they used infiniband or something similar to make a single instance span multiple machines, but I don't buy this. There would be performance characteristics that would show this, and it would be documented.
> you can still cause side effects and create impure functions without dealing with monads or working your way through atoms

Why do they have to put a dig to other languages in the opening paragraph?
Really? Arch is... boring. Once you've set it up, nothing happens without your permission and you can just keep developing away. Sure you have updates imposed on you, but you can delay them a bit if you dont have time right now, and its not like upgrades are indefinitely avoidable on any other OS.

Using Arch often gives me advance warning that my apps will break on users machines due to changes in libraries. I see the changes first and can add compatibility for the new library version such that it's fixed before affecting my users.

I love it as a daily driver.
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I think what OP is saying is that Hollywood isn't a great representative of U.S. culture as a whole. It is a bit of an exclusive club and it's dominated by a certain ideology.
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96 vCPUs = 48-core machine with hyperthreading?

I think all sizes they offer are available as single machines, although the really large ones maybe are somewhat exotic (NUMALink or other interconnects to get a machine with 8 sockets? Not sure if the top Intel platforms do 8 sockets natively)
A lot of work goes into making GOV.UK sites accessible to people who aren't au fait with technology. From the design of form elements and wizards to the extreme care in choosing the correct language.

It's a huge project and driven by user research and testing. Best part, almost all of it happens in the open

https://design-system.service.gov.uk

https://design-system.service.gov.uk/community/backlog

The technology and design should eventually filter down to localised services.
How is it a high barrier?

You're a visitor in a foreign country. Whatever your opinions are I think it is not too difficult to refrain from being involved in politics or sensitive issues.

It's common sense of travelling to a foreign land, really.
I would suggest that in general, avoid8’g countries that have both questionable legal systems and the death penalty for things one would consider normal in their home country. This would encompass much of the Middle East but exclude Singapore, for example. It is unfair to single out China in this case, and, “Canadians” is a single person here, not even two.
So drug offences are in china punishable by death. Previously, I think China was a lot more leniant on westerners committing such offences; they held them for a bit, then sent them home and banned them from reentering.

Here, they decided to enforce the law fully. You can argue it's unfair because the attitude of the state has changed and likely because of geopolitics. But from my point of view, the death penalty for drug offences was always a risk, so you're on your own if you decide to do stuff like that anyway.

So the tl;dr is, white westerners no longer get a free pass in foreign country.
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And what happens to society as a whole when we abandon a person's right to own the products of their labor? What happens when highly productive people decide they have better things to do than go to work and get taxed at 70%?

A lot of people like a carbon tax because it will lower carbon emissions, if you tax productivity it has the same effect. A lot of people like clean energy subsidies because it makes clean energy more common, unfortunately subsidizing poverty often has the same effect.

I'm not saying you're wrong to care, I'm saying it's not a simple problem.
In addition to those already mentioned - z/VM. It's the grand-daddy of all hypervisors. z/VM can run Linux, CMS, DOS/VSE, z/OS, or even another z/VM (referred to as 2nd-level VM).
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I don't believe they're going door to door and knocking on random doors. It's not said explicitly but it's implied that they're sending postal mail and following up with people who respond for in-home interviews.

The methodology is outlined here:

https://oxis.oii.ox.ac.uk/research/methodology/
Others have said that it is quite important, and it is, but picking the wrong name (such as if that’s the only one available) can also be the kiss of death. If the name just sounds dumb, people either won’t want to use it, or might use it but won’t tell anyone, costing you word of mouth marketing.
Are you are suggesting that they make a spec that implements API's that would conflict with 70%+ of the web and they deal with those conflicts by adding a `if (window.jQuery) return;` in all those calls? Are you in all seriousness saying that a native spec should account for a library?

My point is that you simply can't do that. It would be irresponsible, short sighted, and dangerous. We are talking about a language used in nearly all of the web. The decisions that get made around it have an impact of decades. I HAS to play nice with all the prior art out there and it would be a _terrible_ decision to start adding one off handling for compatibility with libraries built atop it.
I hate the "fun" of debugging jQuery. I'd rather have a plain boring easy api.
Minor technical remarks:

1. Since when is a currency a "product"? Did I miss a macroeconomics memo?
— This statement is antithetic to the structure of modern economies, or to Facebook's claims about Libra for that matter.

2. As for cynicism, if you look at Facebook's history and mindset, their decisions and policy... I feel like "cynicism" qualifies as an appropriate response.
— for reference: an inclination to believe that people are motivated purely by self-interest; skepticism.
yes, here is a temporary link

https://file.town/uploads/a6u268ar8mcebjkbqp7a02fzl.pdf
The other thing is that mainframes can be (and usually are) partitioned using software called PR/SM. It wouldn't be uncommon to have z/OS running in 1 partition and z/VM running in another.
Ugh. Apparently this happens when HN is under attack. Not sure if the cause justifies the means in this case. For many HN'ers having their HN account associated with their other Google database entries or employment records would be a line they surely do not want to cross.
That’s a falsifiable argument. US has averaged faster economic growth with high marginal tax rates than low ones. The reality is rich people have no choice but to invest their wealth or inflation eats it up. The only real change from 15% to 70% marginal tax rates is the amount of effort put into tax avoidance. The reason for this is maximizing income occurs before taxes are calculated, so you can get nearly identical behavior independent of tax rates.

Further, equality of opportunity is surprisingly cheap over time. You end up with more capable workforce which pays for the cost of maintaining it.

PS: Now targeted deductions are another story, those can cause real economic harm.
"running out of file descriptors (at an OS level) is really difficult to predict or deal with"

Hard to predict I agree with. My experience, though, is that some ops person usually either overprovisions, or throttles, and that particular instance of "out of descriptors/sockets" goes quiet for a long time. Basically, people other than the dev team (who have conflicting priorities), can mitigate it.

Poorly written Java (like null pointer exceptions) otoh, is hard to mitigate from the outside. So it endures.
That's an interesting essay.

It seems to me if desktop general purpose computing becomes a distinctly minority need, then the future of hardware design will bend towards that article's view. Large scale design and manufacturer of hardware platforms will be (mostly) exclusively towards central servers and to specialized devices on the edge. I expect there's an awful lot of legacy desktop design that will disappear.
I am working on a guide (should be released tomorrow) to easily get it up and running for personal use. Here's my Twitter thread of current experiments with the model: https://twitter.com/minimaxir/status/1173081315177975810

I recommend reading the linked paper in the repo as it gives decent examples/instructions on how to use the model. Although the size and architecture is comparable to GPT-2, the emphasis on conditional generation differentiates it.
Look at FB stock in the past 2 years and see how the same stock grant value has wildly different outcomes.
Red's Parse dialect [1] (basically PEG on steroids, think OMeta [2]) has this kind of functionality build-in, but it's not limited to strings and can work with any series-like datatypes, including code itself. Consider:

; multi-line string
source: {
func main() {
fmt.Println("hello world")
}
}

parse source [thru "fmt.Println(" copy arguments to ")"]

foo: does [
print rejoin [{fmt.Println(fmt.Sprintf("Red says %s", } arguments "))"]
]

pattern: [set var skip '<= set rest skip]
; code (which is represented by heterogeneous data structure called "block")
example: [
if (width <= 1280 && height <= 800) [
return 1
]
]

parse example rule: [
some [
change pattern (random rejoin [var rest])
| ahead paren! into rule
| skip
]
]

bar: does [probe example]

Running foo and bar yields:

>> foo bar
fmt.Println(fmt.Sprintf("Red says %s", "hello world"))
[
if ("21t8w0dhi" && "tig8e0h0h") [
return 1
]
]

Of course, it's not as specialized and dovetailed to string rewriting as Comby (i.e. it's more general), but the trick is that you can build Comby-like template engine with Parse itself; this idea of building tools with linguistic abstraction is tied into Red's (and Rebol's) design: data-rich homoiconicity and idea of dialects (aka embeded DSLs) in general. Curious to see if Comby can offer similar functionality across multitude of languages and data formats.

[1]: https://www.red-lang.org/2013/11/041-introducing-parse.html

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OMeta
I have worked with a dot com that linked to commercial C libraries for which they never had the source. Did finally reimplement but not till 2016 or something.
>Java has had a fixed point type - BigDecimal - for a couple of decades now.

Which is neither here nor there. COBOL has end to end support for financial/commercial calculations, and a whole lot more.
Very true. Do you know a figure for UK pop above the age of 8? I can't find that with some quick searching.
"They're sending postal mail and following up with people who respond"

If so then even worse. They'd only be working with people that take snail mail seriously.
Internet use is very fad-like. The general public does not get on the net just to play with DNS resolution and TCP connections. For a couple years "use the net" for the general public meant certain flash in the pan individual sites; email (only used by old people, according to Koreans), ICQ, myspace, FB, yik yak, now I guess insta is momentarily where its at, but history shows that'll be forgotten like livejournal by the early 2020s.

Haranguing people as per the article about "The wide range of good health information might prove useful for many" sounds like haranguing people to subscribe to cable TV because CSPAN will make them a better citizen; thats beautiful social status signalling, but lets be realistic, for the masses the internet is for pr0n and fad site of the month. Much like people who don't have a TV are not missing valuable educational programming, they're mostly missing sitcoms and pro sports. A little less time wasting and brain rotting will never hurt anyone.

It'll be inconvenient for paying bills or customer service or whatever, but by design that has always been inconvenient so whats the difference?
I was never this person and still struggled when I initially got into industry and still do.

Part of it is because most businesses are run by people that have no knowledge of the timescale of their projects and therefore try to squeeze as much work as possible in ridiculous time frames and society trains you to stop "whining" and get it done.

The lack of empathy in industry is enormous due to profit motive. And because of the ambiguous nature of software, it's always difficult to know exactly what needs to be done. And because most people want to please their bosses, the incentive to estimate low and push yourself to get a project done is very real.
Despite your attempts to dress them up as being somehow "legally culpable" they have been charged with no crimes despite being detained for more than a year.

Their mistake was traveling to a totalitarian communist dictatorship and expecting not to be at risk of arbitrary detention.
>Or you simply piss off the wrong person.

This can be hard to avoid. For example, let’s say you get caught in a “tea room” scam. That’s where you meet a couple of attractive locals who invite you to a tea room, only when the bill comes it’s astronomically higher than you expected. Your new “friends” and the owners of the establishment are in cahoots. What do you do? If you say you won’t pay and the owners make a scene, it’s entirely possible that a crowd forms, someone shouts “That foreigner said Chinese people are trash!”, and now you’re sitting in a Chinese jail with lumps on your head and criminal charges.

Or maybe a drunk harasses you, and the same thing happens. Or you get into a fender bender with some friend of a Party member. And so on.

If you are a foreigner in China and get involved in a legal dispute, it will probably not go well for you. There is no independent judiciary. Your freedom would be subject to the Party’s political needs.

Some firsthand accounts (ignore the clickbait titles/thumbnails, they’re just playing the YouTube algorithm game):

https://youtube.com/watch?v=1V1Tiavb5GE

https://youtube.com/watch?v=h_2FHnYfzBg
Related: Canada Picks "Hostage Negotiator" As China Envoy

https://www.asiatimes.com/2019/09/article/canada-picks-hosta...
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Now all of my kids are super into it. 5yr, 8yr, 9yr. They are playing on 3 different devices and discussing everything. Fun and happy interactions between the kids - priceless.
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Crony capitalist dictatorship.
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huh .. Surely they've got to the US embassy. I wonder what the response was? I think there may be complications in this case due to the dual citizenship (especially with China not allowing dual citizens).
I googled it. Apparently they moved their home loan systems etc. from "windows-based mainframe" to UNIX. What is windows-based mainframe? (HP Superdome??) They also moved into SAP analytics.

There is no information anywhere saying that they moved their critical banking systems and transaction processing.
Most of this discussion comes down to "it's harder to read code than write it."
Yeah people don’t realize the IO bandwidth (off the central CPUs mostly) is the differentiator. And writing SQL for DB2 is easier than writing efficient spark jobs (with minimal shuffles across those cheap small machines).
For what value of 'probably' would you want to sit it out? Personally you couldn't pay me to go to places that do not have functional courts.
I suspect that sampling method isn't especially better at representing the entirety of "Britons" compared to the door-to-door method described by OP.
With few exceptions, every non open source software is. Without sources. Not every legacy but critical app was in-house custom software.
Let's make sure social security is around forever, and available for those that actually need it. We can slightly increase taxes and slightly reduce benefits for wealthy people to keep social security working basically forever. I'm fortunate to be a highly compensated engineer. If I'm making say $250k a year, I could pay a little bit more in taxes to help the system be sustainable, and also more likely to be there if I do need it.

Taxes for this benefit are capped at $8,240 or 6.2% of salary up to $132,900 [1]. The reason taxes are capped is because benefits are capped. My company could pay a bit more in payroll taxes and they wouldn't care, they'd love to hire 5 more experienced and well compensated engineers like me. There's a similar issue on social security wages - let's say I accumulate $5 million in assets at retirement, I'm going to be earning a pretty good amount of income even when not working, so you could reduce my social security (maybe via extra taxes?). People grumble about that money, "it's mine, I paid for it my whole career" - and you did pay for it in taxes. But things like social security also serve as a crucial part of our weaker societal safety net in America. I want it to be there for people that need it.

I probably won't need it in retirement, but most people will. If I do lose all my money, or say I wasn't as lucky in my life and was hurt or not able to accumulate so much wealth, I want it to be there - for me and others.

[1] https://smartasset.com/retirement/social-security-tax-limit
> How should internet-based start-ups react to this?

Should they? This reads to me like "how should car washes react to people who don't have a car?"
Is “a vote in” and “control” really the same thing?
Parents financial advice is kind of wrong
That is like to say in Java you can have nullable types.

But because is not in-built any advantage of use it get lost in the noise.
Hi, pedant here. That's the original meaning of the word: to inspire awe, and there is always a bit of terror in awe. A hurricane is awesome, as is a $deity that sends one.

But alas, language has changed and these kids won't get off my lawn.
I can't find corroboration for most of that. Per the Times story, the younger sibling was born in the US. None of the sources for this story seem to indicate that these two were travelling on PRC passports or otherwise in the country as citizens. Nor is there any claim of espionage on their part.

I mean, the arc of your claim (that this is just fallout of an otherwise legitimate crime investigation and not a deliberate punishment for these kids or the US in particualr) is probably true. But still, fabricating arguments against them doesn't make it OK for them to be held against international law.
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Sorry, I didn't mean to say that US culture is too prominent in Hollywood movies, but that the US culture itself is greatly skewed by the lens of Hollywood. There are exceptions, but it usually hammers on a handful of themes, and rarely allows stories that run counter to its sensibilities.

For example, in the recent Welcome to Marwen film, the attackers are all white, and one has a neo-Nazi tattoo. In the real incident the movie was based on, one of the attackers was black, and none had neo-Nazi tattoos.

A second example is the invented racist fix in a boxing match, where, again, the white boxer is shown as unfairly being selected as the winner of the match, despite incompetent compared to the black boxer. But in the real fight, most everyone, including the black boxer, agrees the match and outcome was fair: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hurricane_(1999_film)#Laws...

In the case of historical movies, this bias is easy to spot (except when it comes to the selection of which parts of history to show). But in fictional stories, it's harder to complain, yet the narrative pushing is just as strong.
Can't be lifted, when I want to squeegee the entire windshield at the service station. Can't be replaced without decoupling from complex mount. Probably less torque so mud/slush/snow will stall it.

A terrible idea, unless you're in California and drive in mostly fine weather.