skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I wouldn’t dare guess how a billion people might react to something.

Yet that's exactly what people do when they are offended-by-proxy on behalf of people in one of the most powerful and long lasting empires in history. They don't need your protection.
I'd guess this was always true, but to a lesser extent. Movies today are super expensive, and at least the movies discussed here are considered failures if they don't reach a huge ammount of people.

The risk was still there before, but may be not to this extent.
Obviously not data but here's something that's a common joke in the Netherlands:

https://www.cursor.tue.nl/en/news/2016/januari/take-a-parace...
Lots of specific comments below. My experience was that game theory changed the way I think about almost any aspect of life, by giving me a set of simple tools. It's not the only toolkit you should have, but it's very powerful. "This is a coordination game; this is signalling; that is a prisoner's dilemma..." turns out to be a very useful vocabulary for thinking about situations, from everyday life up to superpower conflict.

For a great introduction from this point of view, check out Thomas Schelling's Strategy of Conflict. No maths, just a great read from a Nobel prize winner.
Just abandon it. International treaties are mostly hindrances to progress because re-negotiating them is considered hard to impossible. States should aim to be free from such obligations and reduce the amount of applicable treaties as far as possible.
Is Ngrok Down?
It seems that since Friday I can no longer connect and create a tunnel - It worked on Thursday.
I've tried different regions, that makes no difference.

reconnecting (Get https://dns.google.com/resolve?cd=true&name=tunnel.us.ngrok.com&type=AAAA: net/http: request canceled while waiting for connection (Client.Timeout exceeded while awaiting headers))

reconnecting (resolved tunnel.us.ngrok.com has no records)
reconnecting (dial tcp: i/o timeout)
reconnecting (x509: certificate is valid for tunnel.us.ngrok.com, not korgn.su.lennut.com)

It seems that lennut.com is a domain landing page?

I've tried contacting support, but no reply yet.
> US still haven't established formal diplomatic relation with Taiwan, like all UNSC countries, your argument is simply invalid.

Here's the result of an invasion by people that have looked into this more: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zs1ahNtj498

Here's info on US relationship with taiwan: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiwan%E2%80%93United_States_r...

> On July 14, 1982 the Republican Reagan Administration gave specific assurances to Taiwan that the United States did not accept China's claim to sovereignty over the island (Six Assurances),[37][39]

> Despite friendly relations with China, United States President George W. Bush was asked on 25 April 2001, "if Taiwan were attacked by China, do we (The U.S.) have an obligation to defend the Taiwanese?" He responded, "Yes, we do...and the Chinese must understand that. The United States would do whatever it took to help Taiwan defend herself."[43] He made it understood that "though we (China and the U.S.) have common interests, the Chinese must understand that there will be some areas where we disagree."[43]

Also, you have to be aware that Mao wanted to invade Taiwan but US got in the way then too (ignoring the complete incompetence and inability to launch naval invasion)
So what's the use case for this service now that there are fees? Cross border payments? Or is the banking infrastructure in the US so terrible that people would pay to send money in a way that isn't a bank transfer?
The problem with blinding pilots is actually reflections off clouds, which is not really intuitive.
1 in 20 don't usually die of COVID-19, but nearly a third of Americans never marry. I think it's obvious why the effect is much less noticeable in one case, notwithstanding that one literally ends up with people dead.
You realize this is a cultural and not political issue?
That's one positive way of looking at it. I guess I'm just a little jaded by reading about Google developers who don't really do much, by their own admission, but who are still paid WAY more than they would anywhere else (Not to single Google out, it's just an example).
ultimate backfire.
> GDP per capita is income per capita. The average European is about a third or more worse off than the average American, and it's getting worse.

European costs of living are way lower in Europe. Not just rent (fwiw, even as someone living in Munich, US rents sound utterly ridiculous) but also everything else (with the notable exception of gas/diesel). Not to mention medical insurance/debt: with a ~3500€ gross job, an employee pays ~275€ a month for full medical coverage - including, if married and the s/o not working, the whole family!

> What the heck happened? It could happen here too.

What happened is mostly that the US exploded their financial industry over the last decades.

In Europe, pension funds are (mostly) on a "rolling" basis - meaning that the contributions of the current working generation plus tax-funded prop-ups are used to pay for the current pensioner generation. Also, there are decent public social security networks (unemployment insurance, health insurance, assistance for the poor), and universities are government-funded which means that (UK excepted) tuitions are either not existing or extremely low if you are a citizen of an EU country.

In the US in contrast, people are supposed to save on the capital markets for their retirement via 401k and the likes, for their kids' education (529 plans) and for their medical needs (MSA). That money is parked for extremely long time and available to prop up the economy - and in times of extremely low interest rates, that money is available to fund even the most dumbass ideas (remember Yo?), stuff that eventually destroys societal foundations (not just "social" networks, but also Walmart/Amazon who kill off retail and other "gig economy" companies) or for predatory lending (the money backing student loans, paycheck loans and five-digit credit card limits has to come from somewhere!).

The downside of this: the US economy is massively dependent on "the stonks go up and up", which means that times of crisis hit the US population extremely hard as both 2008ff and corona showed, with dozens of millions losing their jobs and homes or depending on food banks over the course of maybe a month; Europe meanwhile weathered the crisis way better on these metrics.

> the world's biggest free trade zone became the world's biggest regulatory-stagnation, high-tax, welfare-state disincentive zone

LOL What? At least our people don't suffer for over half a decade from lead in water pipes (Flint), week-long power cuts due to natural disasters or shoddy maintenance (California fires, Texas snow desaster), our consumers aren't ripped off for internet and cable TV, full-time employees generally aren't depending on food banks/food stamps to survive while their employer's owners rake in billions... regulation is a good thing because usually the only ones profiting off of de-regulation are the 0.01% elites while everyone else and nature pays the price.
They don’t really grow much but cattle in Texas. Doubt there’s a correlation.
If it's an "app" I would expect to be able to uninstall it and install my own.

If it's a basic operating system functionality (dealing with files, viewing photos) it's fine if you can't uninstall it, but then it better not come with any kind of separate user agreement, separate updates, changes in functionality, upselling attempts etc.
> not as if the rolls all disappeared into thin air

No, they were going down the drain.
Everyone could be equally poor.
Obv question: why doesn't someone undercut them if they are making rents? What's the barrier to entry? My local coffee shop does its own delivery. Seems to work. Is it network effects?
Would be nice if you could provide some visual examples of it. Intrested to see how it will look like in the end.
Last year we had:

1. Biblical scale locust infestation in much of Africa, and Asia

2. Floods in East Asia

3. Early winter in Russia, Ukraine, and North China

4. Failed, and missed sowing of grains in much of above regions

5. Shipping disruptions, and resulting food spoilage, and waste

6. Granaries busted, and people burning through many months worth of grain, and flour in much of third world due to initial COVID panic

7. Financial speculators having the best field run on agriculture in decades

8. Anxiety about point 6 repeating runs on food wholesalers again

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/12/10/nobel-winner-wfp-w...
Here are the official free YouTube links to most of the films mentioned in this thread, all have english subtitles:

'Sauna Blues' aka 'The Irony of
Fate, or Enjoy Your Bath! (1975)':
Part 1:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVpmZnRIMKs

Part 2:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TmGPeowN-0

Other good films:
Kin-dza-dza! (1986):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYHv8eJrW2Y

Ivan Vasilievich Changes Profession (1973):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a50qT9bW2Qo

Welcome, or No Trespassing (1964):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-r9XNmqQHk

Bootleggers (1961) (doesn't have dialogue, so no subs):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_-ehagcrBg

The Most Charming and Attractive (1985):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7PbeasXUbM

All have english subtitles.
That's not Google Pay's fault. The changes are mandated by financial authorities in order to fight terrorism, money laundering and child pornography.
What's more, tv shows are also often adapted from comics or books in a way that satisfy the advertisers.

Take lockes and keys on netflix. The original comics is very violent. The murdered rape the kids mother, and when he escapes jail, he pays his ride by sucking dicks. He has horrible scars because the big brother trashed him with a brick in a blood frenzy that is visually rehashed as a memory regularly in the first tome. Bode sister hurt herself and his little bro while hidding because she is holding so hard.

None of that made it into the tv show despite the fact it makes the story better: the characters make more sense, their reactions are congruent with their tragedy.
You can watch 'Sauna Blues' aka 'The Irony of Fate, or Enjoy Your Bath! (1975)' for free with subtitles on YouTube here:

Part 1:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVpmZnRIMKs

Part 2:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TmGPeowN-0

Other good films:
Kin-dza-dza! (1986):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYHv8eJrW2Y

Ivan Vasilievich Changes Profession (1973):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a50qT9bW2Qo

Welcome, or No Trespassing (1964):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-r9XNmqQHk

Bootleggers (1961):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_-ehagcrBg

The Most Charming and Attractive (1985):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7PbeasXUbM

All have english subtitles.
You got to give us more information here. There are a lot of ways and technologies to build different kinds of web applications.
We don't have exclusively public healthcare. If you're a highly-paid engineer, you can skip the wait time by going private.
Keep in mind that TFA didn't choose that title. TFA is a reasonable look at just GDP, without consideration or judgement. It asks some questions, but they are not outside the scope of GDP.

The problem is that the person who submitted the article chose an inflammatory title, just like he has done on many of his past submissions. There's an agenda at play here that goes unnoticed, and it has a lot of people in this comment section worked up.
Funny, Normal People comes out of Ireland, historically a very sexually repressed nation under the thumb of the Catholic Church. Times are changing rapidly in Ireland though.
I wonder how many potential views he loses due to his gurning? I've never watched any of his videos despite YT constantly recommending them to me because I've got a personal rule about never clicking on a thumbnail that has a picture of someone pulling a face or which has a clickbait title.
And more importantly: not spending the money from that oil wealth in a stupid way but setting it up to generate future revenue streams that benefit everybody. As opposed to other countries which squandered their riches on short term stuff.
6% is a big drop. Because it is productivity per hour worked and not overall (i.e. total of hours worked) "stronger work-life balance" policies should make no difference and furthermore nothing significant changed in that respect since 2005-2008.
Please don’t taint HN with this type of response. HN is such a rare place on the internet, and let’s keep it excellent.

The idea you’re dismissing is that of allowing small groups of people rule themselves which does mean some will use unconventional ways they consider best. Note that the Apenzellers didn’t hinder anyone who disagreed to leave or refuse to trade with them. They also didn’t force their way onto others.

Switzerland was once just a bunch of small independent nations in a military alliance, which allowed them decentralisation and having multiple competing systems, without everyone having to do it one way. If you have that, you must agree that your neighbour may live in a way you disagree with - but in exchange they will let you live in a way they disagree with, as I’m sure many from Apenzell think of the Züricher.

I imagine the Apenzellers argued that the job of the state is military protection. Conscription means the state forces you to give your life for it, and voting rights for conscripts means soldiers will only go to wars they collectively agree with, effectively ruling out wars of aggression. That’s how it was in my country, but I’m not familiar enough with Apenzell (except for their cheese) to talk about their history in this depth.
GDP isn't even measured in the same way in different countries.

1. The USA gifts itself > $6 trillion in imputed values. Or about the GDP of Japan;

2. If China measured their GDP using the formula used by India, its economy would be significantly larger;

3. Nigeria overtook South Africa literally overnight by changing (amongst other things) the value of unpaid child care.

Its largely are ruse to make public debt look sustainable.
GDP is not the only or the best metric to look at a country’s or society’s well being, life quality or even the economy.

I live in DK now, having moved from the US. I get paid less than before, but I don’t need to save for health insurance and the off chance that I might get some expensive disease that the insurance company wouldn’t cover!

Neither do I need to save for paying super expensive day care, or child education, or college costs of my son.

So, money exchange is different when you don’t pay for a lot of services like in the US.

The experience we felt when our little boy was born was unforgettable. We drive to the hospital, get treated very well, get a room to stay close to the hospital with service from resident nurses in case we needed help or education about taking care of the baby, and all through this without ever thinking about money or bills....! Let that sink in. Everyone who lives here gets that treatment and gets to enjoy the baby being born instead of the financial burden. I will happily pay my 37% income tax and high VAT if it brings happiness and fairness to all. It’s not perfect, but it’s the closest there is.
"Why would you assume everyone charges for everything"

Where did I do this?!?

I know people who do this, but I know many native english speakers. People in russia for example might not have that opportunity.
> He also told NASA officials, "If anything happens to this launch, I wouldn't want to be the person that has to stand in front of a board of inquiry to explain why we launched... ."

Wise words, very wise words

But one thing that just came to my mind: were the allowed launch temperatures specified at design time? Yes, Florida is hot but it does get chilly sometimes (not rarely, sometimes).

Of course my cartoon solution to that launch would be to hold the launch with engines running for 1 or 2 seconds while giant baffles would divert the massive amounts of vapour back into the orbiter and heat it a bit
Basically, yes.

Theoretically, all modern systems have IOMMUs, which are supposed to be able to allow an operating system (or hypervisor in this case) to restrict what a device can do.

In practice, IOMMUs can't be trusted, for two reasons.

First, the implementations (i.e., the actual hardware) are frequently full of unpatchable security holes. It's not just the CPUs themselves that need to be correct; every chip in the PCI chain has to DTRT from a security perspective or risk opening up a vulnerability.

Secondly, particularly with GPUs, many systems have 'magic backdoors' that side-step the IOMMU systems completely. Frequently this is to make certain operations "faster" or "easier".

Basically, unless you have done your own audit and testing of the hardware you own (or someone you trust has done the same thing), you have to more or less assume that a malicious guest with control of a physical device could break out of the system.

In Xen's SUPPORT.md document, we very carefully tried to balance this:

Because of hardware limitations
(affecting any operating system or hypervisor),
it is generally not safe to use [PCI passthrough]
to expose a physical device to completely untrusted guests.
However, this feature can still confer significant security benefit
when used to remove drivers and backends from domain 0
(i.e., Driver Domains).
Sweden is a pretty impressive industrial exporter.
Is this a rumour, or a fact?
Well, market cap isn't GDP. Market cap is what people think a company is worth. You want to look at revenues/sales, since GDP is formed out of consumption. So that would make things a bit more comparable.

Getting back to FAANG:

Amazon: $386bn

Apple: $274bn

Google: $182bn

Netflix: $25bn

Facebook: $85bn

So that would bring the numbers up to $925bn.

Now, a lot of this revenue is global, so the US stuff is probably 50% or less. However, a big chunk of this global revenue is the thing that allows US salaries to be so high. Also, if we were in normal times, these companies would repatriate their profits and be taxed in the US, plus these profits would be reinvested in the company or invested in the US. So I'd count the US "contribution" not as strictly half ($462bn) but more likely closer to $600bn.

Also, FAANG is a catchy name but it's not a good economic representation. Netflix is big-ish, it's a household name, but it's much smaller than the others. There are also some big companies missing from it:

Microsft: $143bn

Oracle: $39bn

Adobe: $11bn

Salesforce: $17bn

IBM: $73bn

Dell: $92bn

Intel: $71bn

HP: $58bn

Cisco: $51bn

So that's another $546, using the same "formula" from above, probably another $350bn "contribution" for the US.

And that's just the absolute A tier plus the B+ tier. If we start including B (Uber, big but debt ridden; ServiceNow, etc.) and C tiers (ever heard of Axway?), I imagine we get to $1500-2000bn easily, especially since I forgot to add numbers for some big B+ tier companies up there (Broadcomm, Qualcomm, etc.).
I have one thing to argue:

- China exercise an EPIC lockdown to counter the pandemic.

- The West: This is anti-human!

- China actually contained the pandemic.

- The West: They're hiding the real numbers!

- China: Have you considered the possibility that the lockdown really worked?
Your friend had medical indication I guess? That's a whole other story, that's not "mutilation" but "the best in the given situation according to medical science".

Medical science is very clear about both male and female genital mutilation: lots of risk and potential harm, not real benefits.

And this does not grow back like nails and hair. It's not a fashion. It's literally putting a knife in your baby because some old culture prescribes it. No problem with that: just do it when the kid reaches the age of consent.
Yes, I'm mainly complaining about the reverse happening with islam's spread (due to it being spread by wars). Instead of islam progressively adapting to each country's culture, it brought regressive practices with it.
> Most people in the western world aren't likely to buy more food, just because they have more money.

If you have more money and you use it to buy more food, that's not inflation.

Inflation is when you have more money and you use it to buy the same amount of food. Give people more money, and you will see the price of everything rise without seeing the amount of stuff they buy go up.
Dart vs. Kotlin a Detailed Comparison
To me, the main issue with ref-counting isn't "speed", it is "correctness" or "completeness".

Ref-counting cannot cope with cycles in data structures. This can be worked around by contorting your code to work around the issue, but is not what I would call an ideal situation (it creates edge cases that more natural code would be able to cope with), simply to work around limitations in the GC (I will claim it's GC, just not as good as other reachability checkers).
You can watch 'Welcome, or No Trespassing' (1964) here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-r9XNmqQHk

Kin-dza-dza! (1986):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYHv8eJrW2Y

'Sauna Blues' aka 'The Irony of Fate, or Enjoy Your Bath! (1975)':
Part 1:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVpmZnRIMKs

Part 2:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TmGPeowN-0

Ivan Vasilievich Changes Profession (1973):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a50qT9bW2Qo

Bootleggers (1961):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_-ehagcrBg

The Most Charming and Attractive (1985):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7PbeasXUbM

All have english subtitles.
> This means, big project ambitions get cut down to size, and few grand things if any, get done at the federal level. But this is glorious: it is very hard for regulations to become calcified within the state apparatus.

And yet, Switzerland's nationalised train network is one of the most extensive and effective in the world.

How did that happen?
Making Chips Requires Lots of Water and, Gulp, Taiwan Has a Drought
> people who don't want to have sex will be forced to do so

This doesn't make sense. Not everyone wants to weld either.
The figure you're looking for is called 'Adjusted Household Disposable Income per capita PPP' - probably the best indicator of material standards of living there is. The word adjusted refers to the fact that in-kind transfers, like healthcare, social benefits or universal education are paid by the taxpayer. PPP, Purchasing Power Parity, evens out the impact of price differences.

Several things stand out:

- Citizens in larger countries have it better than one would expect. This reflects the economies of scale, and matches well with the informal anecdotes of people who have lived there - that despite GDP and productivity figures, somehow life's better there

- Tax havens don't really benefit the citizens of their countries, outside of a narrow sliver of population. Material standard of living in Ireland is below that of Italy

Here's a report from Eurostat:
https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/sdg_10_20/def...

Here's a more comprehensive set of data - builds up a very interesting argument, based on AHDI figures:
https://randomcriticalanalysis.com/2018/11/19/why-everything...
I don't think that Bezos, as an individual, has any measurable impact on the US's GDP. The headline number for Bezos is his fortune of $190B, but that's the total value of his assets, not his yearly income. Furthermore, GDP primarily measures spending, not wealth, and I would be surprised if Bezos actually spent even $1B per annum (though this might be different depending on what exactly we count as "spending", as he might make stock trades in that range). In either case, he's having a very small impact on the measured GDP of $21T, something in the range of 0.01%.

Meanwhile, the difference between the US and Europe in the article is around $10K per person--hundreds of times larger than the distortion created by the billionaires.
The second one is The Netherlands, realm of the paracetamol (aka acetaminophen) addicts.
Simply comparing prices from the 90s onward. They've risen significantly more over time while wages haven't seen a bump here in Ohio since 2008.