skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> we have verified with the Hong Kong Cybersecurity and Technology Crime Bureau [CSTCB] that the app has been used to target and ambush police

"the foxes have verified that the app has been used by hens to ambush foxes"
Bazel is here to stay. Sooo many companies are jumping on this bandwagon [1].

Bazel is better than Maven, Pants... you name it.

Think of this like Protobuf or Kubernetes. It's an open source tool used to build things at scale. There will be lots of users and contributors. A cottage industry will spring up, and this will grow well beyond Google.

[1] https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel/wiki/Bazel-Users
Honestly, I think we as in the United States have to think harder whether it is worth sacrificing our beliefs in freedom to gain a few $$$ (edit: A lot of $$$$$) from countries that don't provide their citizens with basic rights.
You do realize it wasnt too long ago the rich in the US DID pay high taxes ?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Historical_Marginal_Tax_R...

little note about how much the rich are actually paying here

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/10/08/first-tim...
The point is that a "consumer" camera in the hands of a talented photographer can easily produce better images than the "best camera in existence" in the hands of a lousy photographer.
The lack of will towards cancellation doesn't seem to be an issue given that Activision Blizzard has an "overloaded" account deletion feature which shows they have had enough deletions to make them afraid and decided to break the law over it.

Some additions though:
I know for RTSes AOE2 is still shockingly active and viable as it happens to have landed on "peak RTS complexity" from a combination of minimal auto along with some unique features like one of the fewer RTSes to have a remotely accurate tooth to tail ratio - it is extraordinarily rare for the military to outnumber the civilian sector and if you are in that position unless victory is assured defeat is inevitable.

AOE2 is conveniently open in its protocols and they demonstrate why independence from competitive tournaments is important to game making. From a business standpoint the best choice isn't to kowtow but to stay not responsible for it.

Which is an ironic but tangible advantage for open software and giving up control. Even the unreasonable can see that any controversial actions are not your fault just like Lego can't stop you from building dongs and swastikas with their bricks.

Personally I suspect MMOs would be harder to replace by "flavor" from how out of Zeitgeist they are after so many tried and failed to create WOW killers they stopped trying. Combined with Free To Play models sucking much of the staple player base away. Even longtime rivals or disliked MMO variants mourn the passing or decline of others. They have effectively become period pieces in many ways - not dead but in clear twilight.
There are two major problems with this line of reasoning:

1) The bit about the 70% tax rate is wrong. The 70% was on wage income, but other sorts of income was taxed lower, and a lot of income wasn’t taxed at all. https://taxfoundation.org/70-tax-rate-entrepreneurial-income. Actual tax rates on the rich have been highly stable since the 1950s: https://taxfoundation.org/taxes-on-the-rich-1950s-not-high/

2) The amount of tax the super rich pay is way down on the list of issues to be worried about. The top 0.01% (household income above $7.5 million per year, so not even “super rich”) make just 3.3% of all income. Tax them at 25% or 75%—it doesn’t make much of a difference to the Treasury. Taking all of their money would add maybe 3% to total government spending. That wouldn’t pay for Medicare for All. It won’t pay for the Green New Deal. It might just about pay for universal child care and pre-K.
Not saying it is easy, but its something that should at least be strongly considered.
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Good point - I agree, and I'm really disappointed it didn't play out like that.

Instead the UK has had political stalemate for 3.5 years and even now it doesn't look like we're closer to 'a deal'.
At least everyone can agree that government taxing should be higher than government spending^.

This article is mainly baiting rich v poor division; on a close read it doesn't actually say much.

The real issue is that everything in general has become so complicated that nobody has a hope of understanding how it works. Unless we have accountants on deck today nobody really has a feel for how much the rich pay in taxes (including under the '70%' regime - I bet there was nobody actually paying anywhere near 70%) and nobody has a great feel for how those taxes are being spent. And nobody has a feel for what happens to the money that rich people control and what it actually goes into doing. They aren't hiding it under the mattress, that money is out there causing real outcomes in the real world that go far beyond the rich having nice houses.

The rich could pay 0% taxes if we had confidence that they believed they should invest it all into ordinary people. We could tax at 100% if we had confidence that an enlightened government would spend it with prudence and intelligence. We will do neither because we know both those assumptions are stupid.

Quoting GK Chesterton and observing that politicians are treacherous is not a powerful contribution.

^ EDIT: Thanks neogodless - I mean specific policy for literally right now, to pay down debt.
I recall something similar happening once.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust

Something of a pattern over history of some technology firms really enjoying colluding with totalitarian states in order to facilitate mass human rights abuses. It's highly profitable for one thing and for another they know they will never be held accountable. At most issue a press release decades from now saying that it is with sadness they reflect on findings that certain regrettable things may have happened in the distant past.
A blue cheese bacon cheeseburger isn't necessarily "junk food". It can actually be pretty nutritious, depending on the specific ingredients.
This is surprisingly mundane for Red Hat.
Oracle Hiring Cloud Experts, Despite Cloud Chaos
That line of thinking is incredibly harmful. It is unsubstantiated and plays into many obese individuals' idea about the world being run by thin people who have conspired against them.
> Everyone deserves a say in the allocation of resources.

How about we amend that to, 'Everyone deserves a say in the allocation of resources, in proportion to their demonstrated ability to amass and manage resources'.

Elon Musk figured out how to make a ton of money; he has more right to determine its use than some bureaucrat in an office. You say that government is our method of collective allocation, but it's really unelected officials doing what lobbyists recommend. I trust them a lot less than I trust a rich philanthropist.
Ask HN: A General Business Needs Q&A Forum
I wonder why there is no such thing as a pan industry forum for announcing your business needs.

There are some healthy business needs forums in specific niche like ideas.woocommerce.com

There was an attempt for the software industry oppslist.com but it looks like they did not continue this project.

One could say that Quora has alot of content like "how do i solve this" or "what is the best software for this" but Quora is organised for human information retrieval not for quantifying the market size of a certain business need and linking this to the market of companies offering solutions.
To say that censorship at gunpoint is a bigger problem now than it's been in the past is revisionism. I can say way more things without consequence now than I could have said 100 years ago.
>And some people now argue that disc brakes on road bicycles are more dangerous

Some people argue that the Earth is flat. That doesn't mean they have a good point.

The morons you're referencing probably think cars should all go back to drum brakes and bias-ply tires so people think more about brake fade and tire grip. It's an idiotic argument. Disc brakes on bikes are better in every way, except weight (they add about 1 pound, maybe). Reducing performance available to a cyclist doesn't make any sense at all; you never know when you're going to need to stop suddenly in the real world.
You can't just Give Up and live a life without any Trust. That's like experiencing a bad breakup then deciding that you never want to be in a relationship again, because being vulnerable is too uncomfortable.

Computing is strikingly similar. You're vulnerable when you use any service where any level of personal information or even code execution is passed to a third party. You're vulnerable even when you buy a VM from DigitalOcean, or when you edit a document on Google Drive, or when you install some binary from a company. But that's alright; to be vulnerable is to be human, and there are tons of very tangible benefits to allowing yourself to be vulnerable.

There are alternatives. You can live like RMS and be so scared of vulnerability that you lock yourself in a self-imposed computing exile. I don't trust the code; I need to see it. I don't trust the authors; I need to be able to make changes. I don't trust my contributors; they need to open-source what they make. I don't trust service providers; I need to host my own servers. That's a very sad outlook on life.

Facebook fucked up. In fact, they've fucked up so much that they aren't deserving of my trust anymore. Everyone is allowed to have different opinions about who they trust, but Apple, Google, Microsoft, and many other companies have not fucked up to the same degree, and are still deserving of my trust. I don't love Google especially, and tend to think that they're headed down the same path, but they still do a lot right. Maybe I'll be burned someday. But that's alright.
The long-form documentation is really useful:

https://tiswww.case.edu/php/chet/readline/rluserman.html - GNU Readline User Interface (info rluserman)

https://tiswww.case.edu/php/chet/readline/readline.html - The GNU Readline Library (info readline, long-form equivalent to the readline(3) man page)

Why these are hidden away on some random .edu web site rather than being under gnu.org... -\_:/_/-

(OK, to be fair it's on the official GNU Readline web page, but why _that_ isn't on gnu.org is the real source of my shrug!)

The Bash manual also includes a brief summary of readline usage (I guess they too didn't know where to find Readline's official documenation) and can be read at https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/html_node/Readline-... or info '(bash)Readline'.
You seem to have skipped most of my comment, only replying to the first paragraph.

Have a look at this comment that may further illustrate my point about your assumption about "choices people make" being incorrect.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21214124
You raise an interesting point, and I'd like to follow it further with some numbers across job creation, charity, arts funding, etc, so I can follow things more closely?

Also, how do contributions to these differ across the rich? Are there a couple of 'whales' who keep the numbers high while the other freeload or are they all equally contributing in this efficient manner?

It's also somewhat implicit (correct me if I'm wrong) in your post that government spending and voluntary contributions from the super rich are almost mutually exclusive. To argue devil's advocate, if that's not the case, both can coexist and the overall amount goes up.

One last point, I would like the super rich to be taxed at the same proportion as the middle class. I know wealth isn't linearly distributed but I do expect the relative tax bill to be - would you say that's punitive?
In that case no one should pay taxes.
If that was the only tax you would have a really good point
Grammarly raises $90M and says it's now a “unicorn”
> Bullies bully when they know they can get away with it (so does criminals).

If they are facing reparations like rehabilitation they got caught.

> I would alternatively suggest to make the punishment severe and make sure bullies can't get away with it.

Harsher punishments do not deter people from committing crimes [0]

I get the sentiment but if you want results you got to face the reality.

[0] https://www.amnestyusa.org/a-clear-scientific-consensus-that...
Hi,

I believe you are talking about this repo https://github.com/jchv/go-tsf

Do you know any other project that's working on creating basic IME on top of TSF in Go?
Well, the Milkybar Kid is one of the few superheroes whose origin story has not been done to death in the endless reboots that afflicts the genre, so that could work as a good story…
You're looking at a single number, his income tax rate.

This is why high tax proponents are never satisfied: we can raise all kinds of rates, but there's always some tax that a "rich" (which is never well defined) person is not paying enough of.
One could remove the lightning port, or fill it with epoxy. But the lightning port is a replaceable module, so sufficiently motivated party would just perform an easy repair job of replacing a new lightning port.
I love my family members, but when one of them started beating my mother we cut him out of our lives.

Did I not really love him in the first place?
I like Valve too, its a really smart company in a world of stupid, but the Steam client is a really lazy thing, it has not improved much in many years, it is not worth a 30% cut to me.
That's similar to the ranking of cadets in US service academies. Think of it not as progressing through grades, but rising through ranks: 4th class, 3rd, 2nd, and finally 1st class.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Military_Academy...
>> Would it be worse to invest the money in a way that employs people fairly even if makes a profit for yourself?

TBH, I'd prefer it if they just spent the money on drugs and hookers rather than creating more useless jobs... We have too many of those already.

Drugs are good. They're rat poison for the greedy. We should legalize drugs and make them stronger.
Well, 2% of 100 million dollars is more than 30% of $40,000. However, it’s fairly easy to argue that to the earner of that $40,000, that 30% has an impact on their life significantly greater than the millionaire’s 2%.

And, if we set everyone at a flat (for example) 3%, it’s not as if the government would lose money. That additional 1% against all the super-rich would more than cover the missing contributions of those who need the money more.
> If punishment has no measurable, positive effect - why do it?

Maybe you never understood it because you implicitly assume that punishment can't have measurable, positive effect. What's the basis of that assumption?
I'm glad to see this article rising on HN amidst the entire narrative on HK that's sprouting around the internet these days. It has finally allowing time for our minds to take a break and rationalize and see how much the propaganda has been swaying us all.

As a Chinese, I've personally been following Chinese forums and continue to see individuals that rationalize the behavior of the West and to try to put down flames that's only in the name of nationalistic pride, albeit few still. But it's an important theme, only if both side can put behind their bias can there be a better and more peaceful ending in the China-US conflict to bring benefit to us all. There are many intelligent and rational Americans, it's a sad story for Iraq and we wish them best, but at least the news is helpful in helping us collectively realize what the media has been doing to our brains.
Unfolding the Structure of a Document Using Deep Learning
Its amazing how well the sugar industry has ingrained the 'fat is bad, mmkay?' attitude into society.
It's here anyway https://hkmap.live/
The dangerously cheesy collectible Cheetos market
How is this science
> Why the notion that gov't should be the provider & arbiter of all?

Because the government is democratically elected. Billionaires are not.

> Why do none of the "they don't pay enough taxes" crowd not realize the rich do so much of, and more efficiently, what the gov't purports to with massive overhead?

[citation needed] In fact, there's an easy counter-example. Healthcare. More expensive than any public system, with worse outcomes for the general population.
Why is it tired?

The wealthy benefit from the social infrastructure they live in. Should they not pay for it ?

Think of the wear and tear the roads get from the Amazon delivery service alone.
>I always thought the main argument against disc brakes on road bikes was they they aren't good for long descents where you're riding the brake for long periods of time... due to heat fade or whatever.

No, you have it the other way around. Rubber brake pads on wheel rims fade with heat; disc brakes are able to dissipate far more heat, and are basically essential for long descents.

The only valid argument against disc brakes on bikes is that they weigh a little more (maybe 1 pound). I suppose you could also argue that brake fluid is more trouble to deal with than a cable, and certainly not as easy to jerry-rig, but hundreds of millions of cars use hydraulic brakes without any trouble these days, and I wouldn't want to have jerry-rigged brakes anyway.
Reason why Node.js is the best platform to build an eCommerce marketplace
> I much prefer freelancers like Uber drivers.

People thought that too until they ended up in accidents in their Uber and suddenly discovered the issues arising when travelling in a commercial vehicle with no commercial insurance.
No thanks! The "demonstrated ability to amass and manage resources" is mostly a matter of luck, with a small dash of willingness to exploit others. Everyone deserves an equal say in the allocation of resources. It pains me to say that this must include even those who are willing to exploit other people to amass resources.
The US doesn’t have a monopoly on defining what is and isn’t free, though, at least in this specific context
i'll add echarts (as long as they have a sane api). also plot.ly i saw mentioned.
Second-Order Thinking: Making Better Decisions
That is very unreliable, because humans can easily invent memories of events that did not occur. And it may even fool any lie detecting technology, if they truly believe it themselves.

For example, I was 100% sure that some event in 10 years past did happen, because I was there and saw it. Then a friend of mine said that it did not happen. I did not believe and checked the recording - and yes, it did not happen. What I thought I remembered actually happened at another time with a completely different person.
There is also a considerable work done by Angular team to integrate it on front end builds.
Your Mom?! Holy crap, that's a source that hadn't occurred to me.

Good job getting it together - that must have been a tough row to hoe.
Isn't that what lobby groups do anyway? Seems like this is somewhat covered by the current political system.
> Great write-up!

It's an awful post, it would take less time to point out what is correct than highlight all the mistakes.
Yes. It appears that the more stratified educational systems are, the more variance in outcomes there is. e.g. [1] Which makes intuitive sense. While there's an intellectual argument for everyone benefiting from diversity of a student body, I'm not sure I'd expect to see a benefit in strictly measurable educational outcomes at least.

And it's fairly obvious some of the ways that motivated and high achievement students could benefit from more customized and self-paced study while it's also obvious why a group of students lumped together as low achievers will do less well.

[1] https://www.oecd.org/pisa/keyfindings/Vol4Ch2.pdf
> I am not qualified to answer that.

God I wish more people could admit that. Things would be much more sane then. For one, anti-vaxers would be far fewer

Back to the subject, note that this was limited to some colonies and even there it will not be able to grow to any significant size.
> He's also giving thousands of people jobs

Enterpreneurs don't "give" jobs to people. Refer to the "wage labour" definition:

> Wage labour is the socioeconomic relationship between a worker and an employer, where the worker sells their labour power under a formal or informal employment contract.

precisely, they're purchasing labor. And actually, Bezos is puchasing it at a dirty cheap price.
What would you propose, squeeze more water from the stone? The bottom 45% of wage earnes are broke as hell, they hardly have any income to tax. Meanwhile, the top 20% have so much more money that you can raise 87% of income tax revenue even with today's more flattened tax brackets.
I've been using Bazel full time for over two years now to build Java/Go/Containers/gRPC and everything in between, and I must really say that it's one of the best tools that I've stumbled upon.

A huge congratulations to the Bazel team for shipping 1.0!
It's time that North Americans take a stand and use economic power for something other than furthering that goal. There are so many places where a simple refusal to kowtow/censor or technical attack on censorship infrastructure could help so many that don't have the luxury of living in our world.

If we're not going to use all this economic power for good, what's the point?
I prefer the inverse of this question. Something like... Why is the iOS Uber app taking up 250mb on my phone?
I don't know who this guy is (maybe I am out of touch), but it doesn't appear he works at stripe or is affiliated from what I see, maybe I just missed it. So is this actually Stripe's schema or just what he thinks it looks like or should look like?

Either way, it is always interesting to see how other people lay out data systems, especially when the data system is for a large dataset.

A couple of key things stood out to me right away though. Using varchar for every id, I get in very high transaction tables int (even bigint) can sometimes be a problem but there are solutions to those and int performance will always be superior, not to mention far less memory/disk space used generally.

Also the use of bigint for fixed range values is a little weird, like the legal_entity_dob_day, month & year, where for each of them it could've been a 2 byte int and been fine (or even tinyint at 1 byte), taking up far less space. This isn't a big deal for a table with 1,000 records, but for millions/billions it adds up quickly. Probably on the accounts table the size difference is reasonably minimal, but the same thing is on transactional tables which will grow significantly so those extra bytes do matter. I have seen people standardize values this way for coding purposes but that generally isn't good DB architecture/design overall IMO.

Obviously stripe is super successful and if this is their actual schema, even if it was at one point, it worked for them. But if so I'd be interested in understanding their choices around like the varchar id's and bigint's for small fixed range values etc.

*edit -- clarified a little
If health check of such systems is included in periodic maintenance events, there shouldn't be a problem at all.

I'm also not quite sure that good old mechanical cars fail less than modern vehicles supplied with lots of complicated electronic stuff.
File-Based Storage Systems for the Cloud
Why does it matter if their motives are pure? You don't need a moral justification to do a thing that helps other people and is entirely at your personal expense.
back from 2003... how is possible? even nowadays I still find places which miss the Ñ when printing documents...
Rwanda is known to be up-and-coming and is doing better at solving their problems than South Africa. At least, their derivative at this point in time looks much better.

Cape Town already has a good tech scene and is a great place to move to for programmers, but I would like to see sustained tech progress in SA's other big cities and then places like Rwanda or the eastern African countries.
You can always try Removeddit. Just replace reddit in the URL with removeddit, like so:

https://removeddit.com/r/JoeRogan/comments/dfehjt/an_explana...
Tax protestors? The Whiskey Rebellion wasn't picketing with signs.