skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Mega banks are objects of the big state, without exception. They're used by the governments in the nations where they reside. That's true across Europe, it's true across Asia, and it's true in the US. The big banks, wherever you go, are extensions of power for the government in question. It's just as true in the UK as it is in Ukraine. They don't get swooped down on, for that very reason, the people in power have no interest in doing anything overly detrimental to their own arms of power. So usually at best what you'll get are some slaps on the wrist handed out, the powers that be don't particularly like slapping their own wrists.

JP Morgan, Wells Fargo, Bank of America, Citi, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, these are financial arms of the US Government. They help the government in countless ways, they do things the Fed or Treasury tells them to do, when they're told to. They assist the government with its funding processes, or with any agendas it might have (eg housing, or sanctions). And no doubt they occasionally do bad things at the behest of someone in government as well. They're amazing scapegoats too, everyone hates big banks, you can just point at them anytime you feel like it; no matter how dirty you are as a politician, you can always win some points by attacking big banks.
It's like the old joke that Bill Gates walks into a room and now people in that room are billionaires (on average).
can a federated service become easy or self-managing enough for people to run without needing sysadmin expertise?

Sandstorm is/was most of the way there; it makes installing server apps really easy (assuming a hosting provider installs Sandstorm for you).
Once you subtract US Debt liabilities, citizens end up with -88826 per person though.

https://www.usdebtclock.org/#
Not exactly what you want, but one option is to do something like:

struct OptionsStruct {...}

impl Default for OptionsStruct {...}

impl Add for OptionsStruct {...}

fn port(portnum : u16) -> OptionsStruct {...}
fn timeout(millis: u64) -> OptionsStruct {...}
fn maxconns(conns: usize) -> OptionsStruct {...}

fn main() {
...
// startServer("localhost", default())
startServer("localhost", port(54321) + timeout(1000));
...
}

Not the most ergonomic, I know, and requires custom architecting for each instance of this, but somewhat doable.
DROPping a UDP packet costs much less that REJECTing it. I cannot imagine why one would use REJECT for those.

I don't know why to mention them in the firewall at all. The kernel knows which ports it is listening on, and drops the rest without prompting.
Morality and ethics are not universally shared among people within a country. Consider debates in the US about abortion, same sex marriage, imprisonment of illegal immigrants... The list could go on for a while.
PS. Yes, that was the Google version I used.
Without also providing the median stock value, that is a meaningless statistic.
A GPU-accelerated cross-platform terminal emulator and multiplexer
People seem to get stuck in support work. That would be my aversion to doing too much of it. At some of my prior workplaces, there have been people who have been so good at support that they never got assigned to do new development work. Engineers far more experienced and senior than I was (or currently am) were dealing with trivial issues as they were good at it while I got the nice greenfield project.

They had to quit to get out of support.
Mastodon is proof at least that federation doesn't fix the issue of censorship. There's a common ban list in Mastodon that if you don't include, you will not be able to join the "main" Mastodon cluster.

And if your not part of the main group, what's even the point of federation? It's practically "servers" at that point.
> A better metric would be tracking the median or quartile values

A better for what purpose? You comment seems to imply a bias towards celebrating only some people's wins.
Yes, two things can be true at the same time: The US does some bad things, and Assange was trying to break a supposed hash to help Chelsea Manning steal more stuff.
Yeah, or maybe it genuinely broke and then not much fuss was made.
according to wikipedia the dc-10 went out of production the year -after- the merger.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonnell_Douglas_DC-10
Couldn’t figure out what this was trying to say.
A climate-related problem with jet planes - which unfortunately hydrogen doesn't solve - is inversion traces, which serve as a greenhouse layer.

Turboprops don't have this problem, as I understand.
Relative to GDP, US debt is still far below countries like Japan. In fact during low interest times like right now it would be almost irresponsible not to take on more debt, from a purely financial engineering perspective.
That's how a business gets forced to do something: money.
It’s a good question. I don’t have any numbers, but I visited my old (early 90s) campus, Exeter (UK) recently. The Chemistry and Music departments had closed down and some kind of shiny Financial Engineering building had appeared. A lot of new purpose-built student accommodation had been built on campus and off. Is it the case that students are viewed more as customers looking for a return on investment and the money is dedicated to that end?
> Even then, in the 1970s, there was a shortage of coconut harvesters.

What's the problem with letting the coconuts fall off naturally? Danger?
Ah yes, the insinuation that Assange was hacking stuff because he supposedly sent a message saying, "no luck with that."

If there was evidence they wouldn't have fabricated it. You should be ashamed of being an apologist for tyranny.
>"according to wikipedia the dc-10 went out of production the year -after- the merger."

First Flight in 1970, produced until 1988; McDonnell and Douglas merged in 1967.
Actually yours does. The numbers are raised by billionaires as opposed to the median numbers.
Not Docker, obviously. :)

“Look, the cabinet did not break down in my living room. So I’ll ship you the cabinet with the whole living room together.”
> something they thought might be a hash was handed over.

What? Was handed over by who? Manning gave it to Assange, we have no evidence to suggest Assange did anything with it. By this logic you might as well argue that Assange was actively conspiring because he provided an SFTP server for Manning to upload stuff to.

Think of it this way: You're sitting at a bar and I'm selling you drinks. You're drinking and talking about how you want to steal some cars. You ask me, "Do you know much about defeating car locks?"

I say, truthfully, "Sure, I have a huge collection of dealer keys"

Then you pull out a picture of a Telsa, show me, and say "I want to steal one of these!"

And so I say, "Right, well I'll ask a friend about that. How about another drink?"

Then a couple of days later you come to the bar and I ask you, "Have you stolen a Tesla yet? No luck with my friend". You don't reply and we never speak of it again.

Did I actually help you try to steal the Tesla? Did I conspire with you to do it? Did I take any active steps to help you? I don't think so. If you disagree I'm curious why you think I'm wrong, either in this analogy or in what the chat logs actually say.
"so easily swayed"

You say that as though propaganda was not a real thing with a proven track record. Blaming the victim.
What was the point you were trying to get across?
> There recently was a huge controversy in Thailand about using monkey labor for coconut harvesting

Well, I read the article. Why exactly is this supposed to be a problem? By all accounts, it's a good idea that works well.
The vast majority of testers are manual testers. Testers with software development skills are used in the FAANGs and other segments where one pretty much has to be a developer in order to understand and write tests for the product but they're as expensive as a junior developer.
They aren't using household that way here. Household assets simply means assets owned by people and not owned by governments or businesses.
Ah, this is a great twist! Thank you for this great contribution to the "locked myself out" idea bank.
I don't know if HSBC have done anything at all wrong here - I completely lack the relevant information to form any judgement on that.

Until senior executives and boards of directors have something personal very much at stake, like the prospect of a couple of weeks in prison and being banned from holding positions in financial institutions they will always have an incentive to organise their systems to maximise profitability treating fines as a business expense and doing the usual expected value tradeoffs of the outcomes.

The CEO has to have systems in place to make willful infringement for profit very difficult. The buck has to stop there. If the CEO has been lax in implementing and maintaining such systems they should not be able to plead ignorance and throw more junoir employees under a bus. It happened on your watch. We've established you didn't take a proper interest in ensuring such things don't happen. Guilty. Negligence, incompetence, inability to take an interest due to more pressing concerns, these should not be valid defences.

Now HSBC may have done the right thing, this time, after all that lawlessness they've demonstrated before. I don't know. But if they haven't, the CEO doesn't need to retire on his millions, he needs have a stretch in the big house. Probably doesn't even have to be very long but it has to be to concentrate minds that this is NOT a business expense, you have a personal stake in it.

As anything it could be done terribly but seems possible to me to be done well enough to have a good, fair and jusst outcome for all. Especially underlings being surreptitiously coerced into doing bad things.
That these include retirement accounts?
It's self-evident bullcrap. The Adrian Lamo logs (published by Wired and available online) show very clearly that Manning contacted Assange with intent to leak.
This exists with the "EDIT YAML" button now.
Yes so you raise fines to the point where they outweigh the benefit of breaking the law. Right now, there is little incentive to actually follow the law when it is more profitable not to.
When I did support for a newly-launched MMO back in 2014, the policy for a chargeback was to permanently disable any using the card, and ban any cards used on those accounts.
I've barely been able to have conversations with people in public since this started. I couldn't even imagine having to try and date during all this.
Ooh, yep. This is definitely a better first line of defense than port-hopping.

Maybe you'd knock to get a number, and hash the number to get the real port.

Defense in depth! :)
Another plug for the fantastic and free yEd Graph Editor.
> I think a lot of us find the CIA more amoral and destructive than adtech by the way.

I understand that view, and I think history will show just how terribly wrong it is.

The machinations of the CIA don't even begin to compare to the long-term ills that social-media and screen addiction are going to cause all over the world over the next few decades.

I mean, Youtube and its recommendation algorithms alone have via radicalisation set the USA on a path to destruction from within. Throw in Twitter with their mob bubbles and it's beyond redemption.
That's not what the commenter said. They outlined a classic stance on the concept of civil disobedience which is that one way of fighting unjust laws is to refuse to obey them. (the corollary to that is to be ready to face the consequences)
Ultimately I think developers need to take some responsibility for causing and fixing de facto centralization by not steering new users to "default" servers and refusing signups once a server has excess market share.

Federated communication or social media works differently than P2P file sharing. In file sharing you're locating random anonymous peers but in social media that's the last thing that you want. When communicating with a specific person you need their identity anyway and you can use some system like DNS or a blockchain to find the server backing that identity.

Multicast on the public Internet is not going to happen due to state management cost, and it's not helpful for federation anyway due to the spam problem.
HSBC was founded on the drug trade. Why should anybody be remotely surprised?
Like all countries really. EU and UK debts are like 80% of GDP, US's about 100%, China's is 3 times their GDP.
On what platforms are they free? They're paid games on all the platforms I know of.
How those two were as 'personalities' may not have been important, and probably neither are the 'powered by renewable energy' efforts.

The former just doesn't matter that much and the later is just marketing.

What is material is their ability to make great things, delight customers, operate effectively etc..

Organizations are often led by complimentary types, Jobs is a classic Alpha, Cook a classic Beta, they happened to work well together. But Job's assertiveness, far from being a 'negative thing' may have been a quite essential spark in the formation of the company. Just because it doesn't make you 'feel good' doesn't mean it's bad for the creative process or the company. It also may have been irrelevant: it's entirely possible jobs may have been able to be jobs without that.

Apple is an IP company, their commitment to '0 carbon' is not really important compared to a chemical company, an oil refinery, or some entity whereupon operations are material contributors to carbon.

It's a nice thing to do, and it makes for good corporate citizenry, but it's mostly just that.
Entropic Dynamics, Time and Quantum Theory (2011)
$100 total? Doesn’t sound like a lot unless you worked on it for a day.
That's not how government debt works. That debt ends up as deposits including your savings account. It's an accounting identity. Debt clock could be renamed Savings Clock.
What is old is new! Seriously, it's cool to see something like this built, especially in the analog (EM spectrum).

I imagine the people who had to use these things locked themselves out all the time. :)
> My issue with federation is that so far, everything still requires some centralisation. Take Matrix for instance. The most popular homeserver by a long, long shot is the one that the Matrix foundation runs themselves. This is same for Mastadon, PeerTube, etc. If you let this experiment play out long enough, you end up with a de facto centralised system.

Yeah this was Gagron's fault. Running a flagship instance was bound to result in this. I make it a point to educate people about not joining mastodon.social and finding another instance that better suits their interests.
My personal conspiracy is that Bitcoin is CIA coin.
If you press the sleep/wake button while an app is open, is that considered sending an app to the background?

Is it any different from going to the Home screen first prior to pressing the sleep/wake button?
Conceptually you still need to clean up the old row versions, regardless of where they're located. InnoDB has purge threads to clean up undo log entries that are older than the oldest active transaction. If too many of them accumulate, such as due to a long-running transaction preventing purge progress, it increasingly harms performance. This can be a major problem in MySQL for workloads which mix a high-volume of quick UPDATE and/or DELETE operations concurrently with other slower/longer transactions.
Apart from the slavery, that's better than today. Taxes were probably much lower too.
The XM25 air burst grenade launcher from OICW was fielded temporarily for evaluation but then the whole program was cancelled. Apparently it was too heavy and seldom useful.
To be fair, it also seems like Putin doesn't much need the help anyway. He has no problem taking care of the supposed "criminal" in situ
Wouldn't it be easier to use a VPN on your router?
This is an incredibly misleading argument to make to anyone outside of the econ or finance world who lacks context. Japan is an extreme outlier in terms of debt loads for stable developed nations and they are conducting an experiment with their economy that many think will end poorly (also many argue that it won't end poorly)

The US's current debt load by percentage would have been a national outrage at any time in the last 100 years and we really have no idea how this game will play out. I would not trivialize it. 135% is a staggering and unprecedented for a major international power and the list of countries who have faced issues with smaller debt loads in the past is long.
saw-dur.
That money just goes straight to landlords.

Henry George's time has come.
Yes but that debt/printed money is interspersed throughout the economy in incredibly complicated ways and cannot easily be reversed. This does not necessarily mean the debt isn't real or can't cause problems.
Ripeness I presume. Different coconut products require different age of the coconut.
users will naturally gravitate to the servers that spent the most $$$ money fighting spam

Or hopefully all servers have good enough open-source anti-spam built in so that it isn't a centralizing force.
> For example, consider the Facebook Android app, which contains code contributed by hundreds of different teams

You don't say
Coconuts fall off when they dry. If you want coconut water and the rather tasty wet flesh, you need to go up there and bring them down.
The problem lies much deeper. If you buy quality you buy less. Nobody wants you to consume less. You have to spend your earned money as early as possible. Do not accumulate savings, even better live on lends. Thats the force driving us all to junk.

A poster said we should buy quality and another answered its no longer possible unless custom-manufactured. I fear thats true: to few bought quality to be a sustainable living for the producers.
> No one has managed or bothered to propose viable business models for decentralized services

I think that is for the better.
At install is really not an ideal experience for most apps, unless the feature is crucial to the functioning of the app (eg. camera access for a camera app).

The right time to ask for permission is when it's used. For example in iOS 14, Signal asks permission to access devices on my local network to sync over Wi-Fi at first launch. I don't want sync over Wi-Fi, so I said no, but many people might just say yes in order to start using the app.
Is it fair to blame the developers or blame Epic?

Personally I think at the very least the developers deserve equal blame for accepting the bag of money from Epic.

Money is a strong motivator but the Phoenix Point devs chose to break promises from crowdfunding to accept it. I think that reflects worse on them than it does Epic personally.
At some large tech companies, production support as a software engineer does not seem to be a path to promotion, unless you are a junior level engineer. And yet, solving some of the bugs encountered in production environments, especially with a heterogeneous set of users, requires expert level knowledge of a particular software library. It is probably a great way to coast, so I hear.
Email was already too big to fail by the time Facebook and Google got big enough to be able to kill it.

Looking at stuff created in the last 10-15 years, are there any federation successes? I can't think of any. (Blockchain excluded for the reason stated in the article)
That’s a bluff if i ever saw one
I would imagine this is going to be true at a majority of points where markets are around all time highs. Right?

This is functionally equivalent to just saying: we injected trillions of dollars into the markets in a short period of time.
Neither of those accounts are "locked up", there are ways to access your money before the government sponsored year of retirement. See rule 72(t) or periodic distributions for withdrawing without penalty. Finally you can always withdraw the money with a penalty.

You can withdraw your contributions to ROTH IRA's at any time, penalty free and ROTH 401(k)s are easily rollover-able to a ROTH IRA.

They are completely a part of net worth, it's in the very definition.
Those landlords also need bailing out. They need to pay their loans, as well.
The odds that the tactical team is in the same state as the smallpox lab are disappointingly low.
China's national debt is definitely not 300% - checking Wikipedia it says only 48.4%. If you add ALL their debt: household, corporate, and national...then it's 317%.

Please be careful citing these figures.
Were the laws actually enforced and followed?
If I had a need for that I would write a surprised snake (0..0) instead.
Also interestingly related: to Gould's sequence, Pascal's Triangle and Sierpinski (why?): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gould%27s_sequence#cite_note-5

Some element of 3 dependent on fractal, l-expressions? Similar to cantor set?

More: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharkovskii%27s_theorem

More 2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Period_three_implies_chaos

Why is 3 so special? Hmm...
Centralized servers are just as hard to run, if not harder. You just don't experience those ops yourself without working there.
Yeah upon a cursory evaluation, almost everything we have today was possible 20 years ago -- the software possibilities have barely changed. We read web pages, send messages, play games, edit photos and post them online. There are a couple things that weren't around, like high-fidelity VR, smartwatches, or always-online cars, but otherwise, the ways we interact with and use technology day-to-day have not really changed. I thought things would be a lot different by now, compared to what I imagined when I was first dabbling on the internet in the 90's.
We do have evidence Assange did something with it. Again, right there on page 6, he "passed it on to our lm guy".

I guess theoretically he might have been blowing smoke, but that doesn't matter: he said that he had done something with it. If he was lying, it's very unfortunate, because the lie claimed he committed a crime.

A server to send data to doesn't help Manning steal the data. She had to steal the data before she could leak it.

Don't go reading into what you think my logic is in the broader issue. I'm talking about the very narrow question of whether Assange crossed over from receiving data into trying to provide the ability to steal more of it. My opinion on this case as a whole is not at all reflected by analyzing my stance on that one specific legal question.
I don't want my tax money used to bail out landlords. Let the lenders foreclose. If the landlords didn't want to deal with loans then they should have paid cash for the properties.
There are "660,755" restaurants in the US (according to Google), and average rent is $5,000/month = $3,303,775,000 (3 billion per month).

Seems doable? Except .... did you forget about all the other places not paying rent? My guess is around 10 million of them.

So "only" $60 billion or so per month.

Is that affordable? Well, do you want to pay that in taxes?
Discerning products on price is so much easier than on quality. That simple quantitative measure will always drive towards lower quality, to junk.

Buying quality is a tedious task and requires to invest your time. Buying expensive is by no means a guarantee for quality, think of the many re-labelers.