skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I remember a while back there were a number of stories about Chinese government officials embezzling money and then fleeing the country suddenly over night.

At that time that seemed pretty brazen, but perhaps those folks are more aware of how often random people who displease the powers that be may be disappeared or used as an example... and they knew that if there was any risk it was time to get out of town.

This is far from the only example of business people, even local celebs disappearing for a time.
This was actually an incredibly incompetent post that misunderstands WHAT Bitcoin actually is, while at the same time spewing word salad to make it sound like a well-researched opinion.
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Hardware wallets generate a new address for each transaction (receive & transmit). It's impossible to maintain a blacklist feed.
Sounds like whale-catching mobile games on a much bigger scale; Create a fake world with a bunch of fake restrictions, line up a bunch of bored computer nerds, get them to feel superior over one another by demonstrating their wealth with the purchase of expensive bits and bytes.

The cryptocurrency talk is just the mumbo jumbo to catch the idiots. It’s like those alternative healthcare practitioners who sprinkle in the words “study” and “research” to make their quackery sound legit to the unsuspecting.
"Google employs more than 130,000 contractors and temp workers, a shadow work force that outnumbers its 123,000 full-time" [1]

130K+123K = 253K
(article from May, likely closer to 260K now)

One of the main points this group is making is that they want to equally represent fulltime employees and contractors.

"All Alphabet workers deserve a voice: full-time employees, temporary employees, contractors, and vendors. We care for and support each other by striving for open and continuous dialogue among union members." [2]

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Can you please make your substantive points without personal attack? We're trying to avoid flamewars here.

I realize this can be difficult when a topic is close to home, but it's an effort we all have to make on the topics that we feel strongest about.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I really don't think we have enough evidence to backup this assertion.
Why do you think you deserve to make any decisions? What makes you special? Absolutely nothing. But in a million tiny ways, you still try to have your say in the world, as much as you can. Even this comment is an attempt to spread your ideas to others, and make the world reflect your thinking just a little bit more. And that's perfectly natural. But don't be surprised when others do the same.
Agreed completely. Discord has always been much smoother for me than Slack, and the voice/video chat quality is literally the best I've ever seen anywhere.
If they made their branding a bit more professional and changed the permission model from the (accurate) garbage you described to something closer to Slack then I think Slack would be doomed.
> the academic consensus

The academic consensus is a proxy for cultural elite; the condescending narcissists and effete.

Nothing reeks of moral superiority like brushing away opposition as "uneducated."
Addressing the problem of interstellar scale in Unreal engine
I've read that Unreal engine has trouble managing the sheer scale of large, open-space games. Here's a recent post illustrating some of the problems (https://forums.unrealengine.com/development-discussion/engine-source-github/1507381-double-precision-positionning-support-wip-continuing-effort-thread).

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I would have agreed with you a year ago, but I think I was naive about how much Xi wanted to play by international norms.

Pretty clear now that he's willing to be as ruthless as he thinks he can get away with... and this likely counts.
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What would be stupid about it?
I think it must depend on what kind of work people do. I really have no idea what non-engineering jobs are like, but I feel like they probably require less screen real-estate and text entry, and so don't demand the same ergonomics that writing software (or doing CAD modeling, etc.) requires.

I can tell you that I personally hate being away from my desktop. I like the feeling of the office chair, I like my ergonomic keyboard, I like having a ton of monitors to organize my triple-wide Emacs window, some terminals, some browsers for documentation, Slack, Discord, a music player, etc. But... other people probably don't do as much I/O with their computer, and can probably lay in bed and get stuff done.

When I worked at Google I always saw people sitting on bouncy balls typing away on their laptops, and I guess they got stuff done doing that, so I just chalk it up as "I don't personally understand it". I like my desk, but I see no reason to require people to sit at desks all day if they'd prefer to be in bed. If it doesn't work for them, they'll probably stop doing it.
I'm confused, is losing your job for disagreement on social issues good or bad now? Or do these concerns about the people and factors that decide who does and doesn't get to work somewhere mysteriously stop and start at unions.
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A decade ago I would've believed this to be the case

With what they've been doing in surveillance infra and hk in recent years though it does look like they're not nearly as subtle anymore

Possibly also just a change in our awareness, but I wouldn't be surprised if they write him off in a covid fatality or something
There are two key areas of focus for the Chinese government, there's growing the power of their country as a whole, and there's maintaining the party's power over the country. Take a look at Hongkong - is it a smart move for China to destroy one of its wealthiest, most powerful international cities? No. But it is vital to China's second goal - to maintain absolute control over the country.

So far it's been pretty clear cut the first goal hasn't been too badly impacted by their second goal.
I'll try, but I'm not a fan, so I may get it wrong and/or fail to disguise my (negative) feelings.

Imagine an MMORPG that uses a blockchain economy not only for currency transactions but also for secure storage of items. Today, we take for granted the 'vault' space offered in games, but by storing items and currency both on the blockchain, new opportunities for in-app purchase become available that players will surely enjoy interacting with.

In this article, a 'bank' is sold for $800,000 USD, and the purchaser of that 'bank' will, presumably, get a fractional share of the revenue from all 'vault this item' paid transactions. Since payment can occur either using in-game currency and/or real money transactions, and presuming they get a blockchain currency listed on Coinbase, the owner of the castle will be able to cash out their revenue stream into their real world bank account.

I'm probably missing some subtle aspect of the specifics here, but that's what I took away from it. I assume the creator of the game is hoping that the SEC will not realize that this is an $800,000 investment in a public offering of stock in their still-vaporware game. I also assume that by taking advantage of the Coinbase tax-paperwork infrastructure, the game's operators will attempt to have no legal obligation to register as a financial institution, or otherwise owe any regulatory debt.

You may find value in reading the novel 'REAMDE' as it spends some amount of time walking through the implications of a world where you can earn real money using virtual gameplay.
Yeah, it's a doing-one-thing-and-doing-it-well kind of mentality. It even makes (a little) money.
If Zuck lost an extradition hearing and then hid out in a foreign embassy for years I suspect he would be arrested when the embassy finally kicked him out, yes.
The UK could have asked for several different deals and got them. EEA would have taken zero negotiation, for instance.
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Please don't do flamewar here. Not what this site is for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Yes, and what if they see extraordinary people as a threat? They might be willing to sacrifice some potential growth if it helps them staying in power...
Please don't do flamewar here. Not what this site is for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Edit: looks like we've had to ask you this many times. Continuing to do this kind of thing will eventually get you banned on HN. I don't want to ban you, so please take the intended spirit of the site to heart and curtail this.
Yes, and everyone gets the message that even if successful and immense value generator for PRC, you can't expect to be safe for saying even non political stuff. This will just cause a chilling effect, there are plenty of brilliant Chinese people who might not like that.
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> gold's use-value in tech and jewelery is a small fraction of gold's exchange-value

According to Wikipedia: "The world consumption of new gold produced is about 50% in jewelry, 40% in investments, and 10% in industry.".

Now, there are ETFs, futures, options, etc, that inflate the speculative portion, but the valuation due to physical properties is still likely within an order of magnitude of its total market value.
Well, yeah. People _are_ subject to arrest and surveillance for being brown/black in the US.
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So, Eve with pseudo-8bit graphics? I always wanted something like Eve in a fantasy setting, but damn I hate Minecraft-like graphics :/
This article is missing a crucial pre-processing step to dithering algorithms: apply a Retinex-like filter to enhance the local contrast before doing the dithering. This gives a dramatic improvement of the final result. In fact, by exploring the scale parameter of the pre-processing step, you find a continuous family of binarisations that interpolates between global tresholding and local dithering.
I wish Silicon Valley wasn’t just about software, particularly adtech. Some of the most brilliant minds are working on optimizing click ratios. There is some hardware tech (Apple, nVidia, Intel, Tesla), but vast majority of the engineers are working on cushy jobs paying $400k to serve ads.

SV should be leading investments in Semiconductors, automation and manufacturing tech. It doesn’t even live up to its name. If you’ve been following how difficult it is to manufacture things at scale (Tesla), it’s a hard problem. Manufacturing is difficult.

Serving ads isn’t of national strategic importance. It’s just juicy. “Someone’s gotta make stuff” - Elon. It’s true even if you don’t like the guy.
Do you think Jack Ma deserved to be punished for speaking negatively about the CCP? In your eyes, what punishment would fit this crime?
> self-hosted

How often is Slack/Discord down? I mean it's not perfect, but I really honestly don't think I could match their uptime by self-hosting, as well as more on-call rotations for something that's not core product.

I very much prefer that for something that isn't core product, if it goes down I need to do exactly nothing for it to come back up, and that the engineers at Slack will be starting to work on it likely before I even realize it's down.
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I love that Lyn Alden get's referenced more and more on HN. She manages to break down macro-economic thoughts and analysis in a clear and concise way. +1 for reading and listening to her materials.
That is actually just the start. Wait till you want to integrate Google Services into your app/service and you require the wrong scopes. Then suddenly it is not just complicated it also gets expensive as they require a security audit which costs between $15k and $75k.
+1 to the idea of locally stored Markdown files as a database.

Obsidian is a very neat tool but I'd generally preferred using VS Code. I've used roughly the same flow here: https://kortina.nyc/essays/suping-up-vs-code-as-a-markdown-n...

The backlinks functionality is a little more hacked on than the built-in Obsidian tooling but I find most of the other editing tools and extensions to be superior. Having my knowledge database be edited in my normal text editor is easier and more powerful for me.
Not brave enough to do that myself, but I respect that you're putting some skin in the game.
I think the appeal of 'successful entrepreneur' vanishes quickly if those in power feel that entrepreneur is not doing as they wish / they feel threatened / or some other situation.

There are always more entrepreneurs.
Please make your substantive points without swipes or name-calling. Your comment would be fine without that first bit.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Couldn't it be that he just hide to stay lowkey for a period of time to avoid further trouble?

The best option right now for him is to avoid exposure and shut his mouth, TBH.
Competent ones like those you'd hear about being down on HN.

At least that how it worked at one FAANG
not true, most probably Zuck will disappear, if he releases say.. Pelosi's private DMs / WhatsApps.