skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Out of these two phenomena, which do you think is the most problematic when it comes to making a less hellish society?

I'm not sure I could differentiate on the basis of some objective criteria. Capital rent-seekers seem to attempt to build a moat around their capital so that other capitalists can't compete with them and drive the rate of return down. Worker rent-seekers seem to take advantage of vulnerabilities in the social fabric in order to parasitize the system. They both take advantage of the regulatory system in order to enable this activity. The capitalist rent-seekers each individually have a larger effect, but there are many more worker-level rent-seekers.

> Usually capital allocators have captured massive surpluses without giving equivalent productivity in return, and the work of allocating capital is romanticized by those same allocators to be far more productive than it probably is in reality.

I'm not buying that. Allocating capital is productive activity, its what enables the workers to work more productively. The capitalist risks his capital by making allocation decisions, the profit he earns is his wage. You want me to give the worker credit for being productive when he is so productive because the capitalist created the conditions for that productivity by hiring him and giving him access to tools. Some other capitalist would have made different, possibly inferior, allocation decisions and the worker wouldn't have been as productive. People also romanticize labor, and labor is a necessary disutility.

> Not to mention that the work that actually generates capital or labor itself will logically be far more important in aggregate to work that merely allocates capital they did not generate, even if of course that work can have positive consequences.

Correctly allocating capital does make more capital. Allocating capital is labor. Investment decisions generate more capital.

> If these professions were to strike, would the public even notice unless told to?

Yes, they would. People who want to sue other people would have difficulty finding a lawyer. People with pending disputes wouldn't reach timely resolution and would have to find other dispute resolution methods. People who want to invest their surplus would find it harder to invest, and would have to find another way to allocate their surplus, since the investment market was on strike. People who wanted to find other people to invest in capital for their business would be unable to, and innovation would decrease.

> Some specific capital owners would not get wealth redistributed to them from other unluckier owners with less redistribution specialists, but the welfare of the rest of the population would not be impacted since the actual wealth produced would still be there.

Wealth is continually increasing. You're suggesting that we could stop generating more wealth with no ill effect.
So what you are saying is that to win a conflict a country must simply be sneaky and fast. And then accuse the other side of resorting to violence when they protest?

For example Russia and Crimea - Russia took it over with little violence, but to undo that requires violence, which your rules do not permit.
Because AMA's always just decent into advertisements.

"we are the developers behind service_x, ask us anything"
I've seen this take a few times.

It's common, at least in my bubble.
When you work in a sensitive environment such as the middle east as a journalist, one really needs to go overboard and keep an insulated protection layer - separate devices, clean contacts, Tor and VPN, the whole gamut. It is the journalist's responsibility in such environments to ensure their survival and make sure that they don't engage in something stupid.

I presume AJ, just like the others, tends to use a lot of freelancers - in fact, they pay out some of the highest commissions to freelancers. Most freelancers are responsible for their own lives.
Yeah I totally agree. One bad modem could take out/degrade internet for hundreds or thousands of customers connected to the same CMTS. It's actually surprising it doesn't happen more often.

I don't see many (any?) people trying to connect their own GPON equipment to GPON fibre networks.
Would a betrayed wife act out of compassion or revenge when given the chance to free or condemn her cheating husband?
This is nonsense.

Apple maintained the iPhone 30 pin connector for 10+ years. The Lightning port is 10 years old. Apple supported Thunderbolt for its entire life as a standard. Apple was one of the first to use USB-A and supported it for ~20 years until they switched to USB-C (another standard).

Apple does tend to go all in on a bus, but they don't change them often. You won't find 8 different ports on a Mac to satisfy the previous 4 generations of various connector technologies.

Regardless, if you buy a USB-C powered computer, it doesn't matter a bit what Apple does next year. It's USB-C. Whether Apple changes next year or not, you can still buy cheap/ good third party USB-C charges and they are likely only going to get better.
Plenty has been written in this thread about the article's take on SV attitudes on sex workers. For the most part, I think the article is right. But there's another reason why tech orgs and banks don't want porn, which it completely ignores: the sheer quantity of bad actors around the industry. Chargebacks, disputes, hacking, spam, money laundering, content theft, stalking, child pornography, and so forth are all endemic to the porn industry. Sure there's gold in them thar hills, and lots of it, but the hills are being shelled and ninjas are hiding in every bush. Perhaps OnlyFans is finding a better path. Or maybe they're just in the early golden age before the same forces crowd in and shell them, too.
> The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim. --- Dijkstra

Better/faster we would not directly compare to humans, but to benchmarks and timed experiments.

LeCun is saying to treat "intelligence" the same as "flight" or "swimming". It is a matter of function, not a matter of a specific instantiation on a biological substrate. You don't need to recreate flapping wings to gain "flight", you can strap a combustion engine on a cylinder and beat all birds on earth in regards to speed. You don't say "we don't have flight yet", because an airplane is not able to land on a tree branch. Maybe we don't have yet all the components and aspects of "flight", but this is not a show stopper, and drones have come a long way.

Now the more interesting question becomes: What are the laws of aerodynamics for intelligence?

Aside: I think it is absolutely insane that a conference workshop with papers yet to go through peer-review, is highlighted as a popsci article on VentureBeat. That's such a narrow workshop, that even researchers in the field may be unaware of it. And now these get to read the paper summaries from a HN-story. "the centre cannot hold".

Aside II: Yann LeCun talk from 2019 about this subject (better to debate the source ;)):

> Clearly, Deep Learning research would greatly benefit from better theoretical understanding. DL is partly engineering science in which we create new artifacts through theoretical insight, intuition, biological inspiration, and empirical exploration. But understanding DL is a kind of "physical science" in which the general properties of this artifact is to be understood. The history of science and technology is replete with examples where the technological artifact preceded (not followed) the theoretical understanding: the theory of optics followed the invention of the lens, thermodynamics followed the steam engine, aerodynamics largely followed the airplane, information theory followed radio communication, and computer science followed the programmable calculator. My two main points are that (1) empiricism is a perfectly legitimate method of investigation, albeit an inefficient one, and (2) our challenge is to develop the equivalent of thermodynamics for learning and intelligence. While a theoretical underpinning, even if only conceptual, would greatly accelerate progress, one must be conscious of the limited practical implications of general theories. --- https://www.ias.edu/video/DeepLearningConf/2019-0222-YannLeC...
If you read the book that's the original post here, it becomes very clear that Nokia had already managed to destroy itself by 2010. Elop salvaged a substantial amount of value by offloading Nokia's unprofitable mobile devices division to Ballmer.

Tomi Ahonen is a Finn with personal relationships to the old Nokia guard. Spinning the story as Elop's failure was a convenient way to let them off the hook for destroying $100B shareholder value in 2000-2010.
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Unlocking the mathematical formula of juggling (2012)
Copy+paste from the github repos of each package is hardly superior to just having package management. Node doesn't magically make every program bulky. Avoid authors that feel the need to include lots of bulky packages.
Is winning re-election really the metric for a great leader? If anything, an effective leader is going to have more opposition when it comes to re-election. No one is concerned with an ineffective leader, least of all their enemies.
Shamelessly promoting my twitter account.

If you are into retro games or retro tech in general, I run a twitter account highlighting adverts from old tech magazines like Byte, Compute! and Antic.

https://twitter.com/OldTechAdverts
This was widely known. All organizations who didn’t ditched SolarWinds by then deserved what happened. Will you risk your enterprise bussiness for someone who don’t take good care of his own passwords? Would you trust morons who disclose their own keys with your IT infrastructure? It will happen again because nobody really cares. But its our data they’re gambling.
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Look up Thomas Edison University, which will let you test out of many classes, transfer in other (US) college credit, does offer PLA credit (though that isn't as easy as just studying for and taking an exam). Also OpenClassrooms, which is project based, and offers many options for Bachelor level diplomas through a non-traditional route with many of the diplomas backed by reputable European universities such as Ecole de Paris and Lyon University.

Also check out degreeforums for other places that are legitimate.

I am not affiliated with any of these websites or businesses, but I have been through their educational programmes. If you are an intrinsically motivated self-learner/self-teacher that works well on their own with occasional mentor contact, then I can highly recommend them.
If I’m helping you move I’m taking away time from those I could be helping.

Same reason I don’t pick people from airport. I know I sound like a dick, and I don’t mind the downvotes, they are informative.

You have only so much time.
To add another opinion. I love gnome 3, Its by far the nicest DE I have used on linux and what I would recommend to anyone to start with. I have used XFCE/Mate/Plasma/Unity and none of them worked as well. Its usually not even so much the design (although xfce does look very dated) but that they seem to have such little development resources that many parts of the DE are lagging software wise 5 to 10 years behind what they should.

XFCE is still in the process of upgrading to GTK3 when GTK4 is already out and they still have made no progress on migrating to wayland so its not a usable DE for a modern desktop experience.

Gnome just works and it just works very well. After using xcfe for a year I would go to report multiple bugs only to find they have already been reported years ago while on gnome I have only opened feature requests.
The "AMT trap" occurs when you exercise and is calculated based on (options exercised)*(FMV - strike price). By not exercising, or exercising a small amount, you will not be subject to AMT.

However, I completely agree with your sentiment that knowingly granting vanilla ISOs to early employees which require any double digit percentage of salary to exercise as they vest is quite cruel, especially those that do not understand the dynamics of the "AMT trap".
The reasoning behind having the split-colour background is certainly unique and pretty interesting. However, I agree that it made the reading experience harder than it needed to be. My eyes kept darting above and below the dividing line.
And, at least for EDM, seems to have been replaced by Twitch. I'd never used Twitch for more than a minute before this year. But now I'm on there all day (I'm watching right now in fact) because you can pretty much find a music artist streaming at any time of day, any day of the week.

I'm watching someone from Germany right now. She's a bit unique in that she publishes her real time subscriber number. If you do the math you can see she makes about $25,000/mo just from subs, and that doesn't include bits during hype trains.
Every man has a balance sheet associated with his person: a sum of all his assets and liabilities, burdens and obligations. It captures one’s true wealth (or poverty). A large part of its content can only be settled in the political realm. If it’s not a balance sheet, I don’t know what else to call it.
I take it you're reacting to the title of the Ahonen article? It is a huge piece with many, many links.

Regarding Ahonen's past, look at his accuracy over the years in all things mobile phone marketing when many other supposed experts were floundering, particularly about Windows Phone.
Yep - this matches my experience too.

Snap, AirBnB, Stripe, FB, Tesla (though TSLA is kind of a weird exception in lots of ways) - it isn't that hard to see which companies are rocket ships in early growth. If you can get a seat on one even as employee 500 you'll probably do pretty well.

Yes there's risk, but the odds aren't lottery odds and it does a disservice to inexperienced people that don't understand what's true to pretend this is the case.

You also get to make this bet a few times if you're good at interviewing and willing to jump around every four years or so to a new place (something I haven't done, but I've seen people do).
Is it legal to discriminate based on native language?
V8 is superior in lots of other ways too. Interop with C is well defined and there's a lot of documentation. Overall integration is much better supported. Spider monkey has no purpose in existing anymore by comparison.
I see a lot of points about problems. Did I miss a part of the article that poses solutions?
Why are companies that stockpile zero-days for resale legal? Aren't they also a threat to the countries that host them, even if some or all of the intelligence is shared?

And why aren't countries that host these companies sanctioned?
Listen, I know what I’ve experienced.

Edit: No actually, I can't understand what this is? You are trying to convince me my experiences are wrong. You don't seem to actually want to understand my point of view, so what is this? Why are you wasting both of our time like this?
>haven’t had any issues with the game.

I try to be a kind and generous reviewer and it gets frustrating to hear people try to invalidate my experiences. I have a 2070 that runs this game just fine from a performance perspective but I've encountered multiple broken missions. I play stealth non-lethal, so me finishing a mission usually means lots of saves and a lot of time invested only to be rejected at the end because its too buggy to finish properly. Target NPCs not spawning, scripting logic errors, hostile NPCs just staring into space, broken pathfinding, broken GPS, etc. Its all here.

And as you say, completeness is an issue. Night City feels empty and boring to me. Sure its super pretty but so what? NPCs just give some canned smart-ass one-liner, traffic/life/pedestrians, etc are all simple robots. There's no "soul" in this game like in other virtual worlds I've experienced.

Also, so much of it is well written, but honestly, by game standards its where a YA novel would be. Think the first 3 Potter books, not the last 4. Its not challenging art. Its written on the 5th grade level especially Silverhand's snotty and dismissive sophomoric politics.

Lastly, its all feels so 'last gen' to me. I'm doing old school inventory management constantly because the game focuses so much on loot dropping. I can't dress up V like I'd like her to look because I need to use the top armor pieces I have. The driving feels 'cheap.' The driving GPS is not level aware so it'll take you several stories below where you need to be. The world V lives in feels dead, not vibrant and alive, which was their major marketing point.

I think the "there's nothing wrong with this game" crowd is either being dishonest or are just running and gunning speed runs and avoiding some of the more subtle bugs and don't care about this game being anything but a dumb and pretty shooter.
> If you're saying otherwise, you're insanely delusional, but well, that's probably how you see me.

My question to you is simple: do you see yourself as capable of managing your own life and being responsible for your own actions? I certainly see myself that way. My belief is that most Americans do too, so I assume you do as well. And if you do, then you are insanely delusional to be talking as though people need someone else, whether it's the government or "experts" or whatever, to tell them how to manage their lives.

Perhaps I'm wrong in my belief. Perhaps you honestly think that you yourself are not capable of managing your own life and being responsible for your own actions. Perhaps most Americans are like you and not me.

If you in fact don't think you're capable of managing your own life and being responsible for your own actions, then I have another simple question for you: who else do you expect to do it? If you expect our politicians and other so-called "elites" to do it, then once again, you're the one who's insanely delusional, not me. If you honestly don't think you're capable of managing your own life and being responsible for your own actions, my strong advice to you is to learn how, quickly, because otherwise you are putting your life in the hands of people who cannot be trusted with it.

I suppose there is one other possibility: that you think you, yourself, are capable of managing your own life and being responsible for your own actions, but you don't think most other Americans are (presumably including me). If so, once more, you're insanely delusional, unless you have very, very strong evidence that you are that much more capable of managing your own life and taking responsibility for your own actions than most other Americans.
The market process turns these tensions between suppliers and consumers into a profit opportunity for extant and would-be competitors. The sad fact is that the market process is actively interfered with by the political process.

The history of the US and Canada is one where well-meaning individuals have been duped into giving powers to politicians who in turn create "reasonable" regulations that have the effect of protecting select firms from the market process. And when the costs of these anti-competitive regulations emerge (higher prices, worse service), those same well-meaning individuals demand those same politicians to "fix" things, but only in ways that further entrench those monopolies rather than removing the source of their monopoly power at the root.

Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose.
Right I saw that but his statement was rather short and vague, my point is I haven’t seen them directly cite how it was Russia.
Microsoft beautifully described the attack itself in a blog post recently, I’m pretty ignorant with cyber security but I wonder why they can’t show the connection to Russia with more rigor.
loderunner is a game my mother really loves, however, while playing this game, it is the only time I've heard my mother swear...a lot! as well as jump up and down in frustration and rage quit. But she always went back and played it.

this web game is a pretty good recreation of the game http://loderunnerwebgame.com/game/
The Rise of IKEA
But..but...experts on TV are saying this hack was so sophisticated it could have only been done by the Russians.
I think this is a great recommendation for any new project that is considering to use Microservices. I like the approach of an in-memory event-driven system. This helps to enforce a message-only relationship between different conceptual parts from the start.

In fact, I did the same in one project. Also, while I am not covering Microservices in my book, the Sample Application uses a similar approach. The different contexts integrate via event communication. At first, this is an in-memory implementation and everything is running in a single process. Later on, it is replaced with a filesystem-based variant and the individual contexts are operated as individual programs.
Wow.. they built an empire from their own garages and you say “yeah, but they had a nice computer in the 80’s”. I sense the resentment.
All this wibbling about GNOME 3 and so on -- it's just not relevant to the data in the original article. The same thing happened to KDE at the time.

The reason is simple: Nokia. Nokia (and to a much lesser extent, Intel) built up a lot for Maemo and Meego. Just for KOffice/Calligra, at least twenty people were paid to work on the documents application. For all of Maemo/Meego, the total number of people Nokia funded was enormous.

And then Elop, and the burning platform, and Windows, and well, that was 2012.

By 2014, my company was dead, amongst others, and, yeah, the peak had peaked, and the big chance for free software had gone.
I appreciate your thoughtfulness.
It sounds like it might worth purchasing a cheap UPS for your router.
My dad yelled at me for spending all day on the computer learning visual basic. He didn't know the first thing about computers but got one because schools were starting strongly suggest essays were typed. Wanted me to focus on school work, not waste time learning some "nerd shit" as he'd later (half jokingly) say.

It didn't help that I didn't have good grades and got in my fair of trouble. I stuck with it though, and within a year of getting out of college made more than my parents combined.
I don't think the goal would be to identify liability for this one scenario, but to establish a pattern of identifying liability for similar scenarios.
I am NOT well versed (so standard disclaimers apply :) but

https://latacora.micro.blog/2020/03/12/the-soc-starting.html

says that SOC2 is (mostly) about sales and little about validating security practices, only that you have them. I find it telling that SOC2 audits are performed by accountants.
I remember some years ago when I still lurked 4chan that /t/ was all about buying old thinkpads, installing Arch on them, and showing off your i3 set-up. Prices were rising then too.
Wayland is already done and ready. It has been the default in fedora for years and works perfectly fine. The slow rollout is because nvidia won't support it so only distros that reject nvidia like Fedora will ship it.

Fedora is probably the only distro actually pushing things forward without being tied down to vendors. When CgroupsV2 came out it was disabled for many years because docker didn't support it. Until fedora decided to turn it on and suggest users use podman instead which got docker to update to v2.
I would never ask someone to help me move. I don’t understand why anyone who’s middle class or higher doesn’t outsource that activity.

If you’re so poor that you can’t hire movers I’d rather give you cash so you could hire someone.
You’re being downvoted but I don’t see a clear reason for it. The parent gave their opinion, you give your opinion, it’s all a fair discussion. I suspect you’re getting downvoted just because people don’t agree with you.