skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hum I was half trolling half serious, having skin in the game in favour of Taiwan. Interesting the game Wargame: Red Dragon has exactly a campaign about UK vs PRC over HK.

And I spoke that after having of talk with a Japanese people today and they fear they are the next on the list. I told them Japan at like 6th or 5th powerful army despite Article 9, + US alliance (that we all understand as half trustable only), so quite able to defend themselves. A lot of people in East Asian (HK, Vietnam, Philipines, Japan) fear China. This is what I got from talking with friends from this country. Everyone think there will be war at some point, only the time and starting place is unknown.
It also shows how many people are coaching from the sidelines so to speak.

Although the decision theoretically affects them, they shouldn't constantly nag the maintainers. (Not respecting their decision is not a sign of great character either.)
Every time someone argues in favor of equality as an unquestionable good I have to ask: Have you done a thought experiment where you have a perfectly equal society? Like tomorrow imagine that all the world's wealth was equally distributed for a moment. Now play out the scenario into the future one year, 5 years, 10 years, 25 years, 50 years. Think about all the unintended consequences of that policy.

What does it mean for those that now have power? What does it mean for those that do not? Is the equality maintainable? How are decisions made? Other than maybe land, is the wealth that has value today even valuable any more once divided equally and everyone has it? From the point in time where the wealth is divided equally, does it increase or decrease globally from that point forward? Why or why not? How does the change in incentives change people and change the world?

Now this thought experiment should be the most extreme end but not misaligned with what many people think is ideal. Ideal doesn't mean workable and it's important to explore what aspects are workable and what are not because if we're going to chase something utopian on paper, we better well understand the unintended consequences.

My bet is that anyone that honestly pursues this line of thinking and really considers the second and third order effects, that they'll quickly discover lots of problems and come to the conclusion that like extreme inequality, extreme equality is also bad over time, and it's only after coming to that conclusion do they concern themselves with the better question "how much inequality is the right amount of inequality and what kinds of inequality are in everyone's best interest?

Anyone that has spent time really pondering Rawls' thought experiments such as the original position and veil of ignorance should be right at home here.
His work, personally? Not his executive team, not his engineers, not the warehouse workers making $15/hour, the work of Jeff Bezos and only Jeff Bezos?
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> WebKit/Blink hegemony that is impossible to topple

The hegemony you're referring to is Blink, and it doesn't help the "toppling" effort when you lump WebKit in with it. WebKit is an effective check against Google's power, but not if folks continue imagining that two distinct projects that diverged years ago are one and the same.
I'm pretty sure that if Amazon had failed at any point, all of its employees would have been out of a job (and not just the engineers, also the thousands of minimum wage employees), and it's not like Bezos would personally be billions in dollars in debt to the investors of the company -- companies don't work like this, at least in the US. What was exactly the risk taken here by himself, personally?
> Actually google is one of the few organizations out there

Where are you gathering that knowledge from? Can you cite a source please.
The CEO doth protest too much, methinks.
> What most developers want is not having to pay for their tools, hence why so much love for GraalVM community edition.

Well I agree that developers do not want to pay in general. But Graal VM CE/EE are firmly in enterprise domain, so companies have to take a call on Graal.
This. I play a mobile game that I'm 90% sure has its own 'bot' accounts to make matchmaking easier and more varied. I'm pretty sure I'd always match against the same players if they didn't do that.
But what's the threat model here? That your counterparty's phone has been compromised? In that case they can be leaking location through wifi/cell signals as mentioned earlier. There's also nothing preventing the counterparty from carrying a gps-enabled phone with him, which would be trivially linked to his Encrochat phone if he takes them both to the same locations.
Well for me it was back in the 90’s
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I put $750 into 401k last year (I was tech ''''contract'''' worker and wasn't being paid well in the first place and ended up with a cool $459 in my 401k at the end of the year and I stopped contributing until 2021. Technically I'm contributing so I'm in that stat, but I've lost money. Yes I know that can happen in 401k's temporarily, but I'm not in a financial place for that to be acceptable. How many people are contributing their minimum 3% in a small paycheck for a 1% match and in the end have an extremely small 401k, but get counted in your statistic? How many earn $10/hr, put 3% in and it ends up being like $22 bi weekly and they only began contributing a year ago? 401k's aren't really a great measurement of much in my opinion. You can't assume everyone has thousands saved up in them and I'd be willing to bet less than 50% of 401k contributors have even more than $5000.

That $18,000 check would have given me the ability to pay off my medical debts immediately, and have complete economic security and peace of mind through COVID.
You're absolutely right. I don't try to pretend that it would be possible in the slightest. Just that stock wealth is a societal, and thus arbitrary, construct, unlike, say, gold and precious gems, which have intrinsic value across time, space, and cultures.
It's a quick and dirty sane default used for development.
Contemplated changing that wording before posting but decided that it’s a bit of a ship of Theseus thought exercise.

If Uber radically shifts its focus to focus solely on smaller profitable markets and the people working there are swapped out then has the company ultimately failed/died and had to be reborn?

It may not be a General Magic style death but it seemed reasonable to me that at least philosophically it is a death spiral nonetheless.
Similarly, people in this thread who so readily provide their own interpretations of this data as supporting their existing beliefs: please stop and consider that data in itself doesn't prove anything. Interpretation is what matters. You'll see plenty of excellent questions both elsewhere in this thread and even posted as a response to the research. The point is not that the data itself is wrong - though it may well be, given the sources - but that the interpretation and conclusions may be far less straightforward than they first appear.

Consider what else you may be ignoring as you seize an answer that feels concrete and rational, and just happens to agree with your existing political stance. This is, indeed, a teachable moment.
The exploits in MMO Servers and security workarounds seem to prove otherwise.
Modern Android is pretty secure
Sure you can. Of course pune has 10 times as many people (including those not in the city but close enough to commute), which limits things. I work in a city much smaller and we have several different great teams of engineers.

Kids who grow up here are excited to bring their degree back close to their family. We have no problem relocating people from other parts of the US, when they need a job and look they realize our small city has what they need, and while the exact attractions are different and lesser, they are still good enough.
So did I miss anything here, or is this a story of how law enforcement took over an entire fleet of devices, put a rootkit on all of them, and the only reason we know about it is that the company seems to have had a solid reason (wouldn't call it backbone in this specific case) to publish the whole thing?

It reads to me like, had Encrophone not opted to inform all their customers, this would have simply gone on?

I have a hard time condemning the specific case here, but if you substitute any other phone manufacturer here, this becomes quite obviously scary.
I think it get's a bit harder than this, with newer systemd supporting name resolution over dbus. It's conceivable that some programs may move away from libc resolvers using resolv.conf and start querying the service directly over dbus.

I'm not sure I'm personally a fan, just saying it's something that might become more common based on my read of the systemd docs awhile back.
Wasn't this the plot of Synecdoche? https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0383028/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
>>> I personally know at least 5 exploitable vulnerabilities in some government websites, but I won't be disclosing them, since that will land me in a lot of trouble.

I can tell you from experience, the only way to reliably get a vulnerability fixed is to publish on Twitter.

Of course if you've got vulnerabilities in government sites and power plants, you may prefer to not disclose to twitter to avoid harm to the public. Sitting on vulnerabilities in the absence of alternative is a perfectly ethical and reasonable choice.
This "they took a risk!" stuff is just success worship crap grilled into people in our culture to justify someone amassing more wealth than most of us can even mentally comprehend.

Bezos came from a privileged background. What was the big risk involved that makes his current level of success so sacrosanct? It's not like he'd be thrown in jail (or worse) if the company had failed. He would have moved on and started a different company or gotten another 6+ figure job.
Sadly, no. Sorry!
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Can you speak to how propping up the stock market has benefits for all?
Everyone has a bad reaction from overdoing anything, even water.
Someone a lot better a doing good were not apparently good enough at getting the resources to do good.

You can't just dump a lot of power into someone you think that does good, because you have know way to know if (s)he is even able to manage that to start to do go.

At least bezos continues to improve the world infrastructure through amazon, and financing the space industry though blue origin.
Yes or even 0%.
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I cannot believe I haven't heard of this. You're going to send me down a manic rabbit hole...

I've heard that said about Eyes Wide Shut before! These people truly live in a different world.
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Completely agree, my issue is only with the presentation of data while not providing context for it which I feel is disingenuous in an argument that has no need to be disingenuous.
King Leopold II 'owned' Congo as his personal property, before it became a Belgian colony.
Something many of us have been speculating for some time now.
Make is not just a build system; it's also an interactive development tool. It's useful to be able to build parts or variants, run tools such as static analyzers, build and run unit tests, flash embedded devices, etc. Make can orchestrate all that without duplicating the effort to track source lists, dependencies, platforms, etc.

Here's a typical example that happens to be my current hobby project. Take a look at the first block comment and the "help" target.

https://github.com/kbob/MinimumViableSynth-5/blob/master/mak...
The point that just because software is signed does not make it reputable. A lot of malware is signed these days.
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They can be relatively safer in multi-vehicle collisions (importantly, that remains the case whether you're comparing 3 vs 2.25 ton vehicles or, e.g. 2 vs 1.5 ton -- you're not objectively safer, but you are safer in the current metagame at the cost of killing more people who aren't you).

In single-vehicle collisions against approximately immovable objects (trees, barriers, etc) though, that mass is no longer an advantage, and if the crumple zone doesn't function as well because of the frame design in a larger vehicle then you'll be worse off.

It's probably also worth mentioning that heavier vehicles tend to be more susceptible to rollover. More importantly, traction scales sub-linearly with vehicle weight, so stopping distance, the ability to not slide off a curve, and whatnot all have reduced performance. That increase in the chance of an accident matters.

It might be the case that most accidents are completely unavoidable multi-vehicle collisions where one would want to optimize with a heavy, sturdy vehicle. That's a bit of a different argument from just pointing out that heavier vehicles suffer lower acceleration when colliding with lighter vehicles.
>Forgiveness of PPP loans is contingent on keeping staff on payroll and salary levels constant. So it's very much targeted at helping main street.

Helps main street? Businesses just got free money from taxpayers. Sure for the forgiveness you have to spend 75% on payroll, in many instances what the amounts to is a business owner paying themselves 8 weeks of salary with taxpayer money and then that loan being forgiven. In the instance it actually goes to employees, again taxpayers basically just paid for 8 weeks of your payroll (these helps politicians by keeping unemployment numbers artificially low for 2 months, and keeping people off the temporary Covid unemployment benefits), the jury is still out if any of these employees will remain employed after 8 weeks (or we will see unemployment again be flooded with millions of applicants, only the extra $600/week won't be there).

>my impression is that that's mostly worked out

Its as much of a scam as the NINJA (no income no job applications) were leading to the financial crisis, people just formed businesses made up salaries and got a free 8 weeks of said salary (up to $100k salary). Or the fact that law makers and their families have specifically been exempt from any ethics review for conflict of interest, and in some cases law makers set up brand new companies just to obtain PPP loans.
signal probably isn't a good example because your identity is tied to your phone number, which can tie back to you unless you're really careful (eg. renting a VOIP number with cryptocurrency over tor).
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I guess what you are saying is that correlation does not imply causation, and in this case the causality arrow may go the other way round.

In this case, there's something that actually can help establish the direction of the causality arrow: time. If the citations precede the downloads, then sure, it's more well known papers get downloaded more. This papers show that the downloads precede citations though:

"number of downloads from Sci-hub was a robust predictor of future citations"

While it's not a watertight argument that downloads lead to citations, the theory is at least plausible.
> Someone a lot better a doing good were not apparently good enough at getting the resources to do good.

Yes, that is pretty close to my point. We have created a system in which good people are not the people who get a lot of resources.
As an American residing in Estonia, I’m not sure what the benefit of a state compromising the card crypto would be. There are four broad categories of uses for the ID cards:

1) Obviously, a government-issued photo ID

2) For an increasing number of shops, as your “frequent shopper” card, which admittedly is slightly related to...

3) Authentication, including: logging into your bank, government websites (the state portal, the tax authority, the the “digital story” - all your medical records, the online booking website for booking some
combination of surgeons/specialists that operate under the public healthcare system), the (one) online pharmacy that exists, etc.

4) Signing things. I’ve signed my lease with it (though “paperless” Estonia still wanted me to sign a paper version as well) and more routinely you have to “digitally sign” any bank transfers... which are the standard way to pay bills in Estonia, so you do it a lot. Finally, voting online.

I don’t see how broadly compromising the crypto would really benefit anyone for any of those things, it would have to be a more specific individual attack, like draining your bank accounts.

Edit: formatting, added voting
That's not a fair comparison. QE are loans that get paid back, and bailouts are equity purchases. The government makes money on these programs.

Stimulus payments are gifts, and the government loses money on them.

To be clear, the stimulus payments are essential for helping people and are a great thing for the wider economy. But you can't compare them dollar-for-dollar, as they are not like each other.
it's perfectly normal, that's the way nature and unrestrained free markets work, 'winner' takes (nearly) all.

It's just not what we want as a society. Most of us anyway. Perhaps the 'winners', or those who think they can be, disagree.
Graal VM CE is free beer, hence the attention it is getting now.
The aspect ratio is wrong for the 2 middle resolutions, really bothers me :D

PS: I don't think tables are a bad layout option. It's not as flexible as CSS obviously but you could make it scale really well to vastly different UI sizes with a combo of fixed and percentage based dimensions. Most "modern" sites just dump everything in a column in the middle. And scale everything as if everyone is on a fat-finger touch interface.

And I do miss the gradient button designs, I hate today's obsession with flatness. Bt that's a matter of taste I suppose. Maybe I don't have any :)

PS It should realllly have mentioned the <marquee>!
The C extensions are partly why Python reigns in the machine learning and data science world.
Wow. Do you happen to have more details about that fake bank honeypot?
Really? He was being literally treated as a god among man. And his word was rule there, and not just for the slaves.

Bezos is literally nothing. It's just that nowadays the average person has more power, and the average bourgeois has even much more power, but the old rulers could do anything.
Time difference issues aren’t just between engineers. You have to deal with time difference issues between engineering and other areas of the business. (Like product)

There will be a very large lag time between ideation and solid implementation unless you have an extremely verbose product team.
You’re assumption that people are unproductive when they are paid more when not working highlights your view of humans. You believe that it people are paid enough to do nothing they’ll sit around and do nothing.

I have seen friends who went on unemployment and made more than they were making employed. They were not unproductive, in fact they were more productive than when they just checked people in to a airline.

If you were, today, paid more to not have a job would you sit and do nothing? My guess is your answer is no, so why are you the exception but people who are actually in the position to be paid more to not work, expected to be lazy and unproductive?
Performance and market share are different things.
Yeah, the ability to pay $99/year. Not much else.
> As this happens, and as the honeymoon PR period dies off, the journalists will turn on Substack, just as they do on every single thing Silicon Valley puts out (see Lambda School).

This doesn’t really seem true. Journalists “turn on” every single thing SV puts out? Do you think the reporting on Lambda school is dishonest? Or do you think that journalists reporting on a SV company is in and of itself somehow wrong?
That Amazon, Facebook, Apple, Microsoft and other tech giants have become so big, is because competition is not always possible and free-markets do not regulate themselves. How can anyone compete with Amazon in its present form with hundreds of giant distribution centres worldwide? How can I create a competitor to Facebook and get even one person interested, if the other one billion are still on Facebook? How can I produce a competitor for the iPhone and get millions of apps ported?
At flare-up #237 you'd think one would have figured out a professional way to handle questions like this.

Buried in the pointless flamewar is the maintainer's own reply which is the way forward:

> Anyway, if there's a well respected network of community DNS servers that can roughly match Cloudflare/Google we can add, sure.

That is the correct and initial response the maintainer should have given. It puts the onus on OP to show how their preferred DNS stacks up against Cloudfare/Google.

Instead, the maintainer plays dumb wrt the importance of defaults, essentially guaranteeing that OP will escalate the rhetoric. Worse, the maintainer responds in kind.

If the maintainer had gone the correct (and easy!) route, we'd all benefited by having learned how this non-profit DNS stacks up against the others from a technical standpoint. (How does it, anyway?)

And to cover my bases-- when spam gets through to the inbox, no serious person asks, "Why doesn't anyone ever talk about the spammer's responsibility to prevent spam? What about the spammer?" Similar logic applies for why I'm talking about maintainer and not OP.
How do you calculate value add if you’re a factory that imports parts from another state and sells an assembled final product?
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Except that the loans they are making are not $2 below prevailing rates. Many of these businesses are near insolvency and are unable to get loans in the open market. These loans are huge gifts; if they were given by private equity, they would additionally come with a large equity position. When they don't, they are gifts, equivalent to the equity position that isn't taken and the high interest rate avoided.