skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Switzerland is a successful economically prosperous country with a strong cultural identity.

Who is also countinously looking for people going to work there.

I got a call for a remote job for a U.N. agency two weeks ago.

They are calling it immigration, but it's more people going there for tax benefits or because have been called there or because the U.N. and many Financial or Legal HQ offices are there.
> "It is hard to overstate how many civilians suffered and died in war crimes perpetrated by Japan before and during the war"

I'll take a stab at it.

If one sums together the estimated deaths in Asia caused by Japan (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II_casualties), both military and civilian, one gets totals in excess of 15-22 million. This compares to about 5 million dead in the Holocaust. So basically, Japan effectively committed 3 to 4 Holocausts, a fact not often remarked upon in these discussions. If we compare that to the roughly 0.25 million estimated dead from Hiroshima and Nagasaki combined, the US would have had to drop 40 more atomic bombs to catch up to the Germans and another 120-176 atomic bombs to catch up to the Japanese. (If one likes, they can subtract out military casualties or otherwise adjust the numbers but the ratios are still high.)

One should also factor in that the Nazis simply executed the majority of the victims of the Holocaust as efficiently as they could in concentration camps. The deaths inflicted during the IJA occupation, on the other hand was accompanied by rape and by torture, including on children, across significant parts of a continent. It's notable that even a diehard Nazi who was in China was so revolted by what he was witnessing that he intervened to protect civilians from the IJA: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Rabe. Given the option, it doesn't seem unlikely that many of the IJA's victims would have preferred a death by nuclear blast; at least it would have been impersonal.

So, were Hiroshima and Nagasaki war crimes? I think it's not unreasonable to say that even if they were, they were negligible in the grand scheme of things.
5g can have the same range as LTE, if similar frequencies are used.
You are looking for the cover letter, a random example:

https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/series/73884/

With the current kernel development model these aren't recorded in the actual tree, though.
I would love to see someone let Bill talk about covid, the implications of economic damage and increased debt over the next 1-2 years, the inequality which covid magnifies, and future methods of prevention - for an hour or two, with a good host.

This interview is good but barely scratches the surface.

edit: I've just found a recent interview - while still high level, it's a bit more detailed. However, the comments section reads like 4chan, all of the top comments are trolls. What's going on? When/how did it become a thing to hate on Gates for his efforts to eradicate diseases?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pF752acTijY
Not to mention potentially malicious rent-seeking third parties inserted and selling financial info.
> fed is absolutely an agency of the us government

It’s absolutely not a government agency but also absolutely not privately owned. It’s best thought of as a non-governmental entity that is strongly influenced—and sanctioned—by the government, but does not operate underneath it.

This is why e.g. the Fed and Treasury negotiated how losses fell from the Main Street lending program. And if you visit a Fed, one of the first things their employees like to point out is that they’re NOT federal employees.
Okay when I finish, I’ll try to get back to you lol
Came here to basically say this - it’s got me scratching my head for sure. I bet not taking on more debt in uncertain times but many folks don’t have a choice. Any idea what could be driving this?
Special interests like it that way.
Have you asked whether you're able to use newer kernels, at least on your subset of hosts?

I've been having pretty good luck at work just asking for kernel updates - though it helps that I'm willing to stare at oopses and kcore dumps and userspace regressions (they happen!) on the canary machines.
Yeah get ready for the rent/eviction flood gates to really open. It’s going to be brutal.
I wonder how much flak you'd get for creating a "facebook login" that is just the signup workflow... if it's not in your DB, just push it as a new record for followup "signins"
Maybe, but it's a moot point since I was being pedantic.

Also it's usually not a problem with the government that causes the delay, rather the lowest bidder that they award the tender to.
It’s not baffling at all, 600 dollars a week is a huge raise for about 50% of the population. Most of the social and economic problems we have are not because people are making bad choices, we have them because people are poor. You’ll see positive effects from that spending for decades, I wouldn’t be surprised if that 600 per week left a cohort of children who grew up a quarter inch taller than they otherwise would have. People forget that Lyndon Johnson’s welfare programs were not in any way a failure, poverty plummeted when things like food stamps were introduced.
Alternately, every flipping service that demands you identify with a phone number (or billable credit card); which is being used as a proxy for an ID.
Of course the party that is doing the encryption can see the original content...
Americans have such a strange relationship with technology... the most innovative startups, and yet the worse infrastructure.

here in Europe it's the contrary :)

and btw: the service will be active in 2023 or 2024... while I enjoy immediate transfers bank to bank since years...
As someone who's lived in both New York and Los Angeles, I find the car-centric low density city to be a much more pleasant living experience. In either case, my commute to work was around 45 minutes, but in NY I faced a great deal more noise pollution as well as bad weather, crowding etc. A car commute doesn't deal with any of that.

I'm open to arguments about environmental impact (and also others may prefer the NY style of living and that's fine too), but I generally see a lot of negativity about cars on in this (HN) culture that runs counter to my own preferences, and the apparent revealed preferences of a huge portion of Americans. Inflated real estate costs due to lack of mobility also meant I could afford a much bigger place in LA than in Manhattan.
Also competition for jobs. I know of one instance where a country fast-tracked permanent residency for those who study accounting. Guess what happened? There's now a glut of accountants and real wages have dropped.
Planet Money did a piece on ACH seven years ago. It’s a batch system written in COBOL in the 1970s:

https://www.npr.org/transcripts/229224964

And that’s why the Feds want to replace it, not refactor it.
It depends on your domain.

RHEL7 has another year[0] of support left (until August 30, 2021), and is based on kernel 3.10 [1], which was released in 2013 [2]

RHEL 8 is expected to see support through 2029, and is based on kernel 4.18, which was released in 2018.

Redhat does backport changes, but tends to avoid backporting feature changes.

If you want to be able to use "recent" features of software, you are probably not running running Redhat But, many companies prefer the stability of systems that have been battle tested, and so are perpetually years behind the bleeding edge in terms of features.

[0] https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata/

[1] https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/what-latest-kernel-release-my...

[2] https://kernelnewbies.org/LinuxVersions
High school economics was wrong, inflation is way more complicated than that. Productivity, credit flows, balance of payments, financial flows, investment, wages, inequality, capital/labor bargaining, all of that matters too.
There's a profit to be made on the funds held while seemingly-instant transactions settle. When you Venmo someone money, you send money to their Venmo account, which has to go through the 1-to-three-day-long ACH process to get to your actual bank account. If money sits in your Venmo account, interest can be accrued on it[0].

Plus, Venmo (and PayPal) has interest in being a trusted brand in financial transactions of other sorts, I'm sure. PayPal has a credit product now, for example. I would not be surprised if they have a rent-seeking lobbying interest in making federal bank transactions remain a worse experience than their own service.

[0]:https://www.marketplace.org/2018/02/20/what-are-apps-venmo-d...
At least they’re finally working on it.
I strongly recommend watching the impromptu interview Bill Gates gave back in the 90s while visiting the Wired office, for gaining some valuable perspective on his thinking, and how comically wrong he's been before.

My internet is too flaky here at the moment to verify, but I believe this is the URL:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFFlO7yBIBM
With this tech the Fed will now be able to buy junk bonds with monopoly money at light speed.
5G communication fine. But trust?
I don't want my car accepting information from untrusted cars or roadside infrastructure.

It will be interesting riding a motorbike through these years.
I see you don't have FIPS 140-2 certification.
Your Visa transactions are running through older TPF 360 assembler. Old isn't an excuse for bad.
I hoped 5G would be like 4G but with much more speed, lower latency, and more area covered by one antenna.

But it seems it won't deliver.
thank you ! :)
Because there are already alternatives for transactions that have to instantly settle - like SWIFT or FedWire.
I feel it the same way. If they had FOSS speech to text available, then why not. But oterwise, why? For me, this voice thing is totally useless. Instead of adding it or developing new STT, they could have spend time on other innovative things. I am a big fan of Mozilla and daily user, I am still very thankful for more open and privacy friendly ecosystem it offers but implementing voice on top of Google and presenting it as a big feature looks strange to me.
Reduced cost of living. Lots of my neighbors have relatives that have moved-in recently. Houses are becoming more multi-generational/multifamily.
To tell you if you're hot or not.
> If people need financing, the status quo was to use credit card debt to keep people/business afloat as the debt is unsecured.

Was it? How much of the total credit debt held in the US was being used to weather short term cash shortfalls like this?

It seems like a more reasonable hypothesis is that "most" credit debt in fact was being used to finance luxury expenditures by the middle class instead, and that when these were suppressed by the pandemic along with everything else credit spending dropped.

Note also that for people in the first category, the very generous UI and stimulus benefits we available to bridge the gap too. We'll see what happens now that most of these are being rolled back or replaced with more regressive measures like the payroll tax suspension (which only benefits people who are employed).
Learn to use time. It's a drop down.

The web is slowly atrophying. Going back in time for originals makes a big difference.

Reverse is also true.

After a blow up the mass media will repeat the same thing on mass and swamp results.

Often an article in the last hour might have what you want, like the database link they are all talking about.
Yes, they can analyze it in the app on user devices before it is encrypted and transmitted. The app on user decide need access to clear text in order to encrypt the message. Same on the receiving end. The app on user device can analyze the message once it is decrypted on user device.
Settlement between banks in the United States is astoundingly complicated, for (fascinating, terrifying) historical reasons. FedNow is a huge step towards fixing holes that private companies have been papering over for over two decades.

Blatant self promotion: for anybody interested in learning more about the Automated Clearing House system (which FedNow will eventually supplement) and interbank settlement in general, I wrote a summary of much of it here: https://blog.yossarian.net/2019/12/25/A-shallow-dive-into-th...
He is not about the details of the research, in the whole article he was simply talking about it as a manager who understands what he is leading. I am sorry but the way you phrased those statements feels as if you are convinced he is lying and has nefarious intent.
While i agree, be careful making claims of fact.
You dont yet have enough evidence to claim that something doesn't exist, just like they don't have enough evidence to claim that something does...

If you use the same weak foundation they do your argument is at the same level as theirs, and that is not right. They need to produce evidence to back their claims, until then the default value to apply is 0 (disbelief) .

edit Also its worth noting that the OP article isn't about facts or accuracy. its all about support structures. The guy had a few moments when he needed some and the ones that A) there and B) easy to slot back into were Christianity.

The guy was never really free of that yoke, he just didn't have a lot of need for it. Until he did and slotted back into the fold seamlessly.
I don’t understand the criticism behind RealIDs and the criticism section on Wikipedia wasn’t helpful. Are passports not basically national IDs? Does it just boil down to blocking illegal immigrants from accessing some services?
There's a lot to unpack in that quote and much of it is up to our interpretation.

I feel that the following statements could both be true.

1. Social media platforms should be able to monitor what content users are sharing on these platforms. Therefore these platforms maybe shouldn't have end-to-end encryption.

2. People need to have access to encryption for their own usage outside of social media platforms.

Where this might get tricky is in decentralized platforms which nobody owns. But we don't need to deal with this right now because it's not yet a problem. This will be a cat and mouse game always.

EDIT: Points 1 and 2 aren't necessarily my beliefs. I haven't put enough thought and research into it to have a more fully formed belief. These points are just my interpretation of what Gates could be saying. The context of encryption is in these platforms. He's not attacking encryption in general. Though other sources may reveal more information which could change my interpretation.
I am well aware, but the inefficiencies posed by regulatory capture are often used as an excuse to privatize state property, in this case the USPS and the situation with the PMG intentionally hobbling it to make that very case.
Isn't lora very low speed?
Much worse and possibly catastrophic if the government doesn’t get its shit together on the next stimulus. Now Trump gets to look like a hero with his executive orders, and honestly you can’t blame the administration for taking the easy layup. Hopefully this shames congress into doing its job because it’s unlikely that the critical unemployment benefit will be getting paid out anytime soon via this route.
PR is not a pre-requisite for citizenship. In fact, in some ways citizenship is easiest to apply for (you only need 5 years of residence vs PR's 10), though the application process is longer and more involved. Of course, you must give up all other citizenships so it is a decision not to be taken lightly.
It’s got nothing to do with that. ACH is a batch processing system written in COBOL in the 1970s. Nothing is going to get rid of the batch nature of the system except a new system based on asynchronous messaging. That’s what FedNow is.
That explains why essentially no DejaVu files show up. I was shocked to test out a .djvu search and find almost nothing.
Bill Gates is not an expert. I think I would listen to an infectious diseases professor sooner.

edit: I'm an idiot, I should have read the post, I thought this was about something else Bill Gates had said. Still, my point stands, though the tests are definitely mostly garbage.
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It was discussed https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_bombings_of_Hiroshima_a...
> is there a great crisis of fake photographs taking over the news?

Well, yes. Many newsworthy photos and video clips are doctored, and they sway the public discourse in subtle ways. That we haven't yet seen significant public outcry is as much a testament to their subtlety as it is to their effectiveness.
That's unfair.

"We don't know when the next pandemic will come, but it will come, and we should be prepared for it" is a perfectly reasonable statement. Any pandemic is likely going to require PPE, PCR testing reagents, BSL labs, etc.

Same thing for recessions; predicting the specific timing of one is difficult. Advocating preparations for one - economic, fiscal, social policies etc. to mitigate, for example - is not a bad idea even if we don't know the timing.
Well, historical narratives are often oversimplified.

If you dig deep into retrospective analyses of wars, you’ll find plenty of discussion about mistakes, missed opportunities and just dumb luck.
I wouldn't call massive sustained protests to be 'accepting'.
> Lots of my neighbors have relatives that have moved-in recently.

I haven't noticed this with my neighbors (I'm not sure I would), but amongst my friends and myself I can definitely second this.

It does make me wonder about this line

> The real estate market has been red hot after an initial slowdown during quarantine: (Median house prices)

Maybe it's the case that predominantly rich people are buying/selling right now?
How Morning Brew Grew To 1.5M Subscribers?
So, in the 80s, there was this anti-cassete copying campaign, and they were stickers etc, "Record copying is killing the music industry".

And Jello Biafra (iirc), said: "Record copying is killing the music industry - and it's about time!".

I'd say the same for the fashion industry - selling crap, made in sweatshops, marked up 10x to 100x, for mindless, environmentally unfriendly consumption based on BS advice of complicit websites, tv shows, magazines, etc., on what people should wear next...
How would you do the commentary or reviews?

In principle every software on the list should be awesome.
What's the concern about national ID and political enemies?

First, your life is already pretty bad if you don't have either federal or state ID at all. It's hard to drive, it's hard to fly, it's hard to get a paycheck. (You can live off the land in the middle of nowhere and avoid contact with the outside world, but you're not much of a political enemy for anyone if you do.)

So, your data is already in some sort of database, and if the authorities want to make your life bad, they can do it whether or not you happen to be carrying an ID on you. They've got facial recognition databases that are plugged into all of the various state IDs.

And you don't have to be compelled to carry your ID with you. This can be solved by saying, if you want certain government services, you have to have an ID. We do this for the very simple government service of public roads, and it doesn't seem like that's been a step down a slippery slope. I think it's important that we not live in a "Papers, please" society, but I don't think that's a necessary consequence of a national ID program.
Even sweatpants grow old. Feels weird but sometimes I need to put on work clothes even if no one will see me in that outfit. It helps a little to set boundaries.
> Gates attacked encryption.

Where did he do that? Slack and Microsoft Teams also use encryption, and he wasn't opposed to the method they use it.
Yes, I experienced the same issue. My first thought was that this essay was just disjointed enough to wonder if it was GPT-3.
I agree with you and I’ve been repeating this point to my close circle, though this article did (for the first time) make me sort of excited to see what will stick, if anything.

Take the searches for yeast and recipe, for example. I don’t think its totally farfetched to imagine that a sizeable handful of people have wondered, maybe for the first time, how to bake things like bread and cookies or how to make meatballs. It would be really cool if we actually saw these things’ growth in popularity persist in some tangible form into the future. These things have definitely existed for a long time, but I feel like we North Americans have been trending towards fast food and delivered meals for a few decades now.
I would bet that for all practical purposes, the CCP owns it.
> […] a national ID which I am more against the more I hear about […]

The US already has a de facto one AFAICT: the Social Security Number (SSN).

Unique to every individual, assigned from birth (or whenever applied for), and which never changes for the life of the person until they die.

> Many countries issued such numbers for a singular purpose, but over time, they become a de facto national identification number. For example, the United States developed its Social Security number (SSN) system as a means of organizing disbursing of Social Security benefits. However, due to function creep, the number has become used for other purposes to the point where it is almost essential to have one to, among other things, open a bank account, obtain a credit card, or drive a car.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_identification_number
> Japan wasn’t a monolithic government, you had competing leadership, the empowered, the military, the politicians, etc.

Many of who resumed as they did during the War in the re-construction phase, I highly recommend the book: A Nazi in Exile. Its about Martin Bormann, a high ranking SS lieutenant close to Hitler who was already making deals in what seemed like the inevitable defeat of Germany, Italy and Japan by 1943-44 or so and starting to ensure it funneled its funds out of Germany into Switzerland and helped the biggest corporations (on both sides) continue to thrive in the post-war economy.

Many of whom still remain as monoliths to this day.

I think all this does is re-enforce General Butler's claim that: War is a racket. Everything else is just footnotes that often contradict and conflict with one another to obscure the obvious fact that no one 'wins' in War except a very small collective few in Banks, Industry that shape war policy for other Poor people to fight.
This was my assumption as well. For any large company I've always assumed refund times were 100% based around earning interest.
$180-billion per week is $9-trillion per year - it’s almost half of GDP.
Why would there need to be any more ID systems in place for a payments system that just goes faster? What about bank transfers and business transfers? Why would there need to be a 'national ID' or any new system created?
If you don't have the intention to live in Japan permanently then you're supposed to give up PR. When you apply for a longer re-entry permit they ask about reasons for being abroad. I think the immigration officer would take a film view on many "visa runs" with no job, house or family in Japan.
Do we know if the small business "loans" that were a part of the CARES act would be counted in those figures?
This has little to no chance of coming into service. It's absolutely a direct threat to Visa & 100+ others. They will make sure that this is killed in Congress + legislation will likely be written prohibiting the Fed from creating something like this ever again.

[1] https://www.propublica.org/article/congress-is-about-to-ban-...

PS I knew I'd get these downvotes. The comment stands. Uncomfortable things should be said.
E-transfer seems like what the American solution would have been - private banks integrating between themselves - whereas this fed solution seems like what Canada would have typically come up with. In fairness though, Canadian banks are so few and heavily regulated they can almost be considered government.