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No, they're not.

Yes, most of the wealth of the ultra-wealthy comes from the growth of share prices. But that growth didn't just materialize out of thin air.

It comes from other wealthy people and institutions (primarily the large banks) gambling on how successful the corporations the ultra-wealth own and run are going to be at generating profits.

Profits are the difference in the cost to produce goods and services and the revenues generated in selling them.

The production costs are a combination of the machines necessary to produce them and the labor necessary to run those machines - in a physical factory setting. In a knowledge setting, it is almost entirely the labor of the knowledge workers.

Notice how most of the billionaires come from the knowledge economy?

That wealth is literally generated by wealthy people and institutions judging that the ultra-wealthy will be ultra-successful at squeezing profits out of the people who did the work of creating their companies products by paying them less to create those products than they can generate by selling said products. And by squeezing money out of the rest of us by charging us more to use said products than it cost to create them.

It is literally generated by taking money from everyone else involved. That's what "profit" is and it's profit, or the expectation of future profit, that generates the wealth.
wish it wasnt paywalled--- what does it say ?
If I've understood Wikipedia correctly, what it's calling "Phase 2" of the Hawk missile program [0] is when some vacuum tubes were replaced.

There are 12 countries (including some rich ones) listed as using the Phase 1 upgrade of the missile, which is presumably still full of vacuum tubes [1]. This is the 30 year old upgrade to a missile developed 60 years ago.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIM-23_Hawk#Development
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIM-23_Hawk#Phase_I
Bribery is illegal in India too.
> Huawei, an arm of the PRC surveillance state, is trading on the innovations and reputations of leading U.S. and foreign companies. These companies should remove their apps from Huawei’s app store to ensure they are not partnering with a human rights abuser.

So should European Companies also pull apps from Google and Apple?

I‘m all for standing up against the horrible human rights abuses of China, but it sounds unbelievably hollow from the US, which has a track record of putting their own interest before democracy and human rights abroad.

The whole website is pitched for other countries to join in, but I really don’t see that happening except maybe the UK and Canada.
Auto Tab Discard for ff+chrome kills off old tabs without closing them. This frees up the resources allocated for that tab, and the page will reload when you focus on it again.
Don't share documentation 1-1: Set your Slack retention ridiculously low to force people to put information in documentation if they wish it to be retained at all.

This is one of those instances of pure non-sense that I hope will drive rich discussion.
In academia, nearly all our commit messages are "..."

But once the paper is published no one will ever look at the commits again
Just to follow up incase anyone reads this. After speaking with Jabra, the Engage 75 headset and stand cannot connect via BT to the computer. The headset cannot connect direct to the computer via wire either.
Not that I'm aware of, but I wish. Memory is getting hazy these days. AFAIK the kernel.org breaches were made by the kind of hackers doing it for fun and games (if you get that thing) and not the kind working for nation states. I'm sure you can (or at least, at some point could) find others who know more details at your favorite compsec conf.
Genuinely curious - what strategy do you use for unplanned power outages if you don't have a UPS? Just deal with the potential corruption?
If you're not already familiar with the history of labeling immigrants (particularly non-European immigrants) as unclean or dirty, I'd urge you to read up. This article seems to be a good start: https://journals.openedition.org/transtexts/1011

In short, calling this a "clean" network continues a long history of racist and xenophobic language in the U.S.
Point taken. Selective restore of a subset of the deleted wiki pages looki non-trivial indeed
Comparing the French and the Swedish numbers seem to indicate that the virus ran rampant in France for a shorter period, while it was less severe but was active over a twice as long period in Sweden.

To me it is a bit of a mystery why France, who arguably did a lot to contain the virus, ended up with a more or less identical result as Sweden did.

Sweden: https://91-divoc.com/pages/covid-visualization/?chart=countr...

France: https://91-divoc.com/pages/covid-visualization/?chart=countr...

Sweden actually had 11.057 deaths in December 1993 which is still a bit more than the 10.458 deaths for April 2020. But the difference in public and government reaction to those two events is like night and day.

Source: https://emanuelkarlsten.se/more-swedes-died-in-one-month-199...
What would possible make you think Biden would change course on this? Neither party likes China and the whole idea that a new administration is going to roll back a hardline policy vs them is crazy.
Because money hacks your mentality- until you can only focus on it. Which ironically destroys your ability to create anything of value..
> I don't think americans want corporations to solve this either I think they want people to have the ability for people to solve it for themselves for better or worse.

i think ideally, this is what everyone wants, but like with anything

1. you can only do as well as the system lets you (fairness, opportunity, education, livelyhood, available free-time, paperwork, insurance, healthcare etc)

2. some people can cope with things better than others... these are personality traits, physical issues (endurance, headaches, anxiety, digestive issues etc)

(1 and 2) can be helped with more universal access to (to help them stand on thier own) such as heathcare, transportation, job opportunites for when the economy goes down, minimal sheltering, cheap postal services (free even for those who dont have an address), free counceling services etc
This document looks like a prop from Starship Troopers or Robocop.
There are a lot you can buy with door anchors. Basically little discs or like a fabric 'bump' which goes the top of the door, which you close, and then you pull the opposite direction of where the door swings open.

I got these ones before lockdown panic - though I use them with my pull up bar which allows one to do a lot more exercise than if you're stuck with a door block you. The pull up bar doesnt leave any marks though I also have an old house with solid wood frames i've wondered hw secure it would be resting on the lip of a cheap mdf narrow frame

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0787N367J/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b...
This.

Something I've wished for; hacker news only with top level comments
51nb is a premium small-scale producer in Shenzen that is kind of doing this.

Instead of making new laptops from scratch, they create modifications to existing ThinkPads.

For example, the X62: https://www.notebookcheck.net/X62-Laptop-Review.211598.0.htm...

Here's their website: https://51nb.com/portal.php
Biggest issue with this is that it destroys all history about technical decisions/processes/etc. I regularly find myself looking through old documents to figure out why something was set up the way it was.

I like the idea of marking all potentially outdated content as such. Maybe automatically archive old pages where it puts a "Warning: Potentially Outdated Content" notice to the top of any page that hasn't been updated in X months. Could also add a simple counter to the top of every page "Last updated XXX Days Ago" rather than the typical "Last Edited on <date>".
The other items at least in the US midwest would be ice storms (ice coating power lines making them heavy and branches getting too coated and falling on power lines) and thunderstorms (50+ mph wind coming through bringing down tree branches on to powerlines) or lightning strikes hitting power transformers.
Thanks for explaining.

I’m a bit more optimistic on several fronts. For example, Homebrew already has over 200 packages working on both Apple Silicon and Intel.

About Rosetta: I think the difference in instructions is overstated. Apple has tons of experience in that, and it shows. If the sheer difference in instructions were the only concern, Rosetta would work 100 % of the time.

Examples for actual translation issues in practice:
- software that uses JIT but doesn’t meet the Apple Silicon restrictions yet;
- software that makes assumptions on virtual memory page sizes;
- software that’s (partially) written in x86_64 assembly;
- native software that needs a library which is only available on Rosetta, or vice versa.

The majority of apps doesn’t fall under those cases though, and most seem to work fine already. Still, all those little special cases add up, and a couple important pieces of software still have a long way to go, such as GCC, OpenJDK, Chrome, and Firefox.

So I think you may have a point there about the niche apps. I’m betting on those issues to be solved eventually but what do I know. The points you’ve made do make sense, and I can see how one ends up leaving the platform.
It sounds to me what some people would like is for a magical box they can throw their infrastructure into that will automatically shit test all the things that could potentially go wrong for them. This is poor engineering. Arbitrary, contrived error conditions do not constitute a rational test fixture. If you are not already aware of where failures might arise in your application and how to explicitly probe those areas, you are gambling at best. Not all errors are going to generate stack traces, and not all errors are going to be detectable by your users. What you would consider an error condition for one application may be a completely acceptable outcome for another.

This is the reliability engineering equivalent of building a data warehouse when you don't know what sorts of reports you want to run or how the data will generally be used after you collect it.
Could you expand on cancellation part a bit. Why was it done?
I actually managed to get my road bike for a great price, because the owner just bought a new gravel bike for the pandemic. This is actually a decent time for buying road bikes since a ton of people are getting into gravel biking and unloading their perfectly good road bike for cheap.
It's a bit of a fallacy to say distribution is related to how much you pay in. It will take very little time for you to receive more in social security benefits than you ever pay in.
Just because they are required to do it, doesn't mean they do it. My source is experience.
Ask HN: How do you find reputable pen testers
The company I work for has some customers that are requesting a pen-testing report of our services.

We use GCP for kubernetes, blob storage, and hosted postgres.

I don't really know anything about penetration testing, nor do I know how to find a reputable provider. Does anyone have suggestions?
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Classic British "Bitters" are hardly bitter by today's standards. But they are lovely when served out of the cask in a nice pub. One of my favorite things about going to the UK is drinking the old time, local ale's from a hand-pumped cask.
I really like this idea.

When reviewing changes of the imported code, one will need the original change sets with comments. Therefore the system will need a format for representing these diffs. I don't think git is the right answer.

After review, the tool could upload a "passed review" signature to the central repository. Folks can see which version has been reviewed and approved by which organizations. This would let small organizations benefit from the review work done by large organizations. For example, a startup founder can feel more confident using a library version that has passed review by several of the FAANG companies.
As long as you don't want any 3.5 inch drives, sure. Otherwise you probably still want a way to power those.
> That is why a very technically solid person is gold in the first round, because they can design the signup in such a way that it's prepared for future requirements. They of course would also know that you can't store in plain text, that it should be hashed, that you might have to use a vault, that you need to randomize the hash, and that in the future limit access to the "user" table and never ever expose it through an endpoint where a user can reach it, as well as protecting against XSS and SQL injections.

Wrong. The correct technical decision is to bundle in a library that solves this for you - login with Google, or Facebook, or GitHub, or OIDC, pick one according to the context. Get password reset, MFA, password security, etc. for free.

Why reinvent the wheel, poorly?
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Yes, it is evaporative cooling. That's why I mentioned the pores. The mud wets and then later the moisture evaporates drawing energy from the surrounding clay.

Phase change can get you below zero easily, it certainly works as a poor man's AC. It is incredible how much energy phase change requires compared to just raising the temperature of the medium.
And the surrounding tooling

Git and C

I am using Mercurial and Pascal. But they seem to be dying :(
We should cautiously support this on the 1% chance that it's not a publicity stunt and actually could lead to some action on China.
this is wild
Disagree. Without standards we as a group hold ourselves there's no improvement.
> a couple of switches and hardware firewalls in your home network. Today you expect that the hardware just works.

At the end of the day, you need the guy who makes it "just work". That is a valuable skill as well.

Also knowing how your application works when you just yank the power cord on half your VMs teaches you a ton.
Jesus fucking Christ. I remember when the US government wasn't a complete laughingstock.
Why would that be necessary? Google copied celebrities the CNW founder invented out of thin air. Not just their net worth, but their very existence.
> So, what's the problem?

Eventually, sourcing replacement media and drives.
Right, the free market is a much more efficient way to do this after a couple of thousand people die from drinking adulterated fruit juice.
> Unlike a short-term supply and demand curve, the economy operates on long-term shifts of aggregate labor supply and demand, in which an increase of aggregate supply of labor causes an aggregate increase in demand for labor (by modifying the overall demand curve of goods - consumption goes up)

There are two problems here. The first is that not all goods have elastic supply and the second is that it's assuming the conclusion because you can't get an increase in demand if the initial decline in wages exceeds the increase in workforce participation.

In the first case, for example, you go from a one income household to a two income household with no increase in housing supply and housing prices just increase to eat the difference.

In the second case, if the increase in labor availability causes wages to decline from $60,000 to $30,000, there being twice as many people making half as much money doesn't lead to an increase in consumption. In theory it could even be worse than this because there is no requirement that the relationship be linear. Doubling labor availability could cause short-term wages to decline only from $60,000 to $55,000 or from $100,000 to $20,000. It depends on the supply and demand curves at the time.

And all of this is industry specific, so how it affects you depends on the work you're qualified to do.

Another issue in this context is that we're just completely disregarding the value of the household labor that had been occurring in the alternative. If someone goes from being a homemaker to working a $35,000/year job, but then as a result loses $35,000 to taxes, childcare, commuting expenses, restaurants, a housekeeper and so on, from a GDP perspective it gets counted as net increases all around even though it's really just breaking even. Or worse than breaking even after the effects of the two income trap increasing the cost of supply-inelastic products like housing.
Maybe for testing the crash-resilience of software running on the node; but not necessarily for testing how the SDN autoscaling glop you've got configured responds to the node's death.

A panicking instance is still "alive" from its hypervisor's perspective (either it'll hang, sleep, or reboot, but it won't usually turn off its vCPU in a way the hypervisor would register as "the instance is now off"); while if a hypervisor box suffers a power cut, the rest of the compute cluster knows that the instances on that node are now very certainly off.
Every inch of the British establishment was involved in anti-irish propaganda inlcuding multiple cartoons depicting the Irish as less evolved/symian.

for just a flavour: https://ukdiss.com/examples/analysing-the-political-cartoons...

https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/art-and-design/apes-psych...

This kept happening up to and through the 1970s.

Also worth mentioning this prick https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Cummings
Actually we haven't thought about message headers as we haven't used them for so long. Please submit an issue in GitHub and it would be awesome if you describe how you are using headers (what do you use them for?).

I think we should definitely support that.
If you had all the skills you needed, what program would you write? What problem would it solve?

Now start writing that program and pick up the skills to solve little pieces of the big problem you want to solve.

Does your program need to fetch something from the Internet? Learn to do that. Does it need to read a file? Learn to do that.

Break up the problem into small manageable pieces.

Learn git to version your code. Invest one day to learn how to commit and push your changes into GitHub or GitLab. It will save you a lot of time and will avoid breaking your heart by not losing your code.

If you have a language in mind, learn the syntax quickly and to do the most basic stuff, then get a cookbook that shows you how to do useful things, like reading or writing to a file, or sending something to a server. These will help you solve the little pieces of your problem.

Software can be useful to people. What do you want your program to help you with? Imagine you can do anything in a computer, find a problem you're passionate about, and set out to solve it. You'll be way ahead.

You can also do that when you pick an nth language. When I wanted to learn Python, I started to write a program that would allow you to send airtime (mobile money) from one SIM card to other SIM cards of different operators. You can't do that, but I essentially did impedance matching.

The service would expose n mobile numbers corresponding to n operators. You send money to the number from your same operator, and then send an SMS specifying the amounts and the recipients. The service then would use its own SIM cards for the target networks and send money.

Learning can be accelerated doing a real project.

Then you can refine your programming.
Woah there cowboy. I've been on waiting lists for any serious at home gym equipment since April. Not a peep, but I refuse to pay Marketplace/Craigslist scalpers.

I was lucky to get resistance bands and those have been working well at least.

Having a long ass commute and a dog to attend to meant my life was pretty much office and home. I was always too exhausted to consider a serious workout routine. However, since shelter-in-place started I've lost a ton of weight, gotten amazing sleep and never felt physically better. I've been working out daily and walking/hiking on the weekends, if anything, just to get out of my house.

I've also cooked all my meals because I've made it a personal goal to get abs by the end of the year. So I want to know what I'm putting in my body.

This has become a life changing moment for me, so I don't see any reason why this wouldn't be true for others. If the pandemic threw you off your old daily routines, and that's your only reason for giving up healthy habits, were you really committed in the first place? What would have happened if you simply moved or started a family or some other life changing event in the future? Would you just give up your routine then?
Are you saying you can't use a hub?

USB 3 is fast enough for a hard drive.
Most likely, minimum wage
This was just for 5 years (1936-1941); although you could perhaps also add on 3 years of British rule to that. I wouldn't really describe that as "colonialism" in the same way that e.g. Nigeria was ruled by the British for 160 years.
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We do have a secondary form of capital: what we charitably call ethics/guidelines, or uncharitably - peer pressure. This is the currency that dominates FSF language like the “harm done” by proprietary software, the free software “manifesto” and so on. It is in this currency that developers are given a “perk” of occasionally working on open code at their otherwise closed day job, or are compensated in in exchange of a more lucrative proprietary model for their side project.

I don’t have anything against those who take their free software views seriously. But I am very annoyed that the currency of “ethical behavior” is one that burdens the individual and benefits the corporation. Only individuals can feel guilty that their software is not free, can agonize over copyleft vs permissive, can feel obligated to pass up compensation in exchange for ethical currency, can feel drained by an internet argument, etc. Corporations meanwhile can mostly ignore this secondary currency and operate entirely within the system of money.
Hi, thank you for the feedback. The only reason We created this landing page was to create buzz around our idea and service. I agree as well, but we’re trying to collect user feedback from the idea; things people see in the service & of course an email. We’re also launching another page for a much larger audience. It’s really just to dip our feet into the water and see what people think. Thanks
Mr Bill please share your $100 000 000 000 so that we can buy 3 333 333 electric cars.
Can we get a clean government? Free from hyper-partisan politics, where there can be more than two sides and folks on other sides are still on the same overall team and not the enemy?

Together we stand, divided we fall.
Wow this looks cool. I didn't know there was a name for this but have had some crazy idea in my head for a few years now along similar lines. My thinking is, all chemical interactions are electromagnetic in nature right? If you could control electromagnetic fields at a small enough scale and at high enough frequencies (i.e. at rates important in chemistry like infrared-x ray) could you not mediate chemical reactions "synthetically"? I imagine something like a "fabric" of electromagnetic transducers (antenna) and transistors along a surface that could both transmit and sense particle states. Obviously, this would require insane improvements in technology, like switching speeds and computation, but is it theoretically possible? Perhaps it could use a computing model similar to a cellular automata to distribute across the "fabric" in order to react fast enough to mediate the chemical reactions. Perhaps it would need to be superconductive in order to have the necessary sensitivity/efficiency? Ultimately could it be used to do things like act as a "perfect" catalyst for electrolysis for example...? or even build things up from the atomic level a la a replicator :) ?
As a Spaniard from Andalucía (and living now in London), I am always amazed at the British obsession with Seville oranges. As it turns out, a relative of mine actually produces lots of oranges in Seville, most of them going to the UK.
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