skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a mistake to think of it as based on ideas or economic theory, debunked or otherwise. "Trickle-down-economy" is a marketing term, intended for rhetoric.

Tax policies, and other corporate friendly loophole machines are all about detail. At the detail level, both rhetorical slogans and technical theories have no meaning. Any given legislation can only be understood as accounting spreadsheets and scenario plans. There's no way to "narrate" it.

One side thinks in terms of objects that have independent moral implications, like shell companies. The other thinks in terms of objects that are a collection of accounting details, like pass-through entities.

There's an old business adage: "you name the price, I'll name the terms." In a startup context, that could mean investing in a company at valuation X, but with terms (eg liquidations preferences, performance goals, etc.) that make a mockery of X as a valuation. Many a vein founder has been scheisted this way. Proudly boasting their impressive, $X valuation and paper-wealth, while giving away the farm.

In corporate law and tax codes, one side has been consistently been winning this game.
it's not fraud as in "tax evasion" it's 100% legal albeit morally bankrupt "tax avoidance". the problem is that if you grow a company to a certain size the only way to compete is to be part of this rigged system. not a single fortune-500 company that is in the top 500 because they don't use thick layers of shell companies. the strategy is always to squeeze the supply end and the demand end while scooping the profits in the middle (the low-tax jurisdiction).
It is just a plant
or saucy.
> Okay, so establish some sort of "crisis service fund" that pays out when payment processing breaks through no fault of your own.

One company which suffered a cyber attack solved this partly by transferring a rough estimate of what a vendor should've been paid as a bank transfer. This up front. They did similar things for smaller vendors (smaller vendors might have bigger issues not getting paid on time). Not for everyone due to the amount of work involved. They got agreements in place to sort out the exact amounts afterwards. This required a huge trust and at the same time it created a great amount of goodwill from those vendors. Meaning, these vendors took over work on behalf of the company.

Afterwards the exact costs can be figured out. What is important that business continues as much as possible, if you completely stop your business you'll also not have any revenue you could maybe charge later.

I think the pipeline action on first hand is a rather stupid action. Loads of business is pretty predictable, plus often you already had the insight on the orders for the coming period. The cost of some mishaps and the economic damage to the country should be considered as well. It seems a case of "penny wise, pound foolish".

Regarding "payment processing" breakdowns: there are various things in place in NL for that, though most don't know. Simply stated: you fill out a paper form, sign it, done.
Massive fines to whom?

In this case the taxpayers will bear the brunt of those fines. In other cases, the consumers.
> Ok, so marketers were so powerful also in Soviet Union, as most of the Underground was built then. This gets really interesting. I would never say communists fell into ads tech stuff too.

Don't you see it? What are the glorious murals depicting the advancements of the workers, if not ads for The Party?
What makes you think employers want to fix it?
Wonder if you could design the battery to be ejectable - you'd want some way to get them in and out anyway.

In the event of a fire just dump it overboard.

I guess the usual problems apply, you can't eject underwater without a pressurised system (now we have a torpedo launcher) and you can't eject over the waterline because you want the battery low for center of mass/center of bouyancy.

Kinda funny image though "Launch Ze Batteries!"
> There are clearly worldwide problems with the hardware, software and protocols we use today.

You can have the best protocol in the world, but it's useless if nobody uses it.

These breaches aren't some amazing hacker. These breaches are outsourced, lowest bidder doing dumbshit stuff.
That can be true while tax evasion is rife. There can't be too many reasons our plasterer expected £4000 worth of work paid in cash. Any honest business would worry about the costs involved in handling that much cash.

Of course plastering is a very labour intensive process and it would be easy to pay all of the guys cash in hand.

Another time I asked our plumber if she minded receiving a large amount of cash (which we'd been legally given by our grandparents) she said it made no difference, she would have to put it into her bank because she was applying for a mortgage.
> To some extent this dynamic must already exist, which is a troubling thought.

I've not seen any evidence for this behaviour existing, even with Microsoft Bug Bounties of up to $250,000, or even heard of developers being tempted to introduce bugs for friends to find them.

I assume the bigger risk is developers intentionally introduce bugs for nefarious purposes (i.e. black market sale), rather than to win a bug bounty.
I think my biggest annoyance using fish daily for years is with certain string subcommands just barely not having enough power to replace sed/grep/awk usage in bash scripts but that's been improving.

I find it so much easier to quickly throw together a function or a script for whatever random task I want to do in fish than in bash and actually have confidence that it'll work without tons of trial and error and needing to look up syntax.
The Soviet communists perhaps weren’t capitalist marketers, but they were propagandists of the highest order
They're absolutely fascinating prehistoric creatures, this is just another reminder why we don't want species to go extinct. Nature is the biggest inventor on this planet, not humans.
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I'm not a designer but I found a few things to be a bit off on the "One last thing..." page:

- Title is not centred [1]

- Bullet points look like checkboxes which is misleading since you can only select one [1]

- List of roles is not sorted in any meaningful way [1]

- Words are unevenly spaced inside SHOW MY SCORE [2]

- SHOW MY SCORE is slightly off centre inside the button [2]

- Another small nitpick, choice of colours, or perhaps it is the shadow, of the title makes my eyes think the text is a bit blurry. See top in [1]

[1] https://i.imgur.com/pBdz8le.png

[2] https://i.imgur.com/H1beWLY.png
>If they couldn’t track segregation and destinations in the pipeline, that is a good reason to shut down.

Wouldnt that then conceded the pipeline was not fine?

>If they were just going to be delayed in sending out invoices or had to input some items into the system manually after recovery, they most definitely should not have shut down.

I am willing to bet a signifigant number of "customers" (businesses in this case with teams of lawyers) would challenge the vailidity of invoices based on estimates and not actual usage. Theres no free lunch, the pipeline owners understand this and decided its in the best interest for their company to stop deliveries until the system that manages their order tracking is back online. Thats totally reasonable.

The US government (and states for that matter) made 0 guarantees of coverage of any thing. And even if they did, its not like the government does much to make anything a straightforward process.
China is installing a lot of renewable AND is also growing its own economy a lot WITH coal/gaz/oil.

This is simple math, China is NOT replacing carbon sources with renewable or nuclear. They are stacking them.

China is planning to open more coal plants in 2030 than the total coal plants that will be closed down in the rest of the world at this date.
Russian hackers don’t hate such tricks. But what Russians hate, is when USA starts just another propaganda campaign about ‘Russian hacking’ based on ‘evidence’ that malware was compiled on a PC with Cyrillic symbols or ‘timezone was set to Moscow time’.
I agree with you that the company can't make a decision to simply ship fuel for free. This is where the government should step in. You can't have this kind of wide-scale economic disruption occurring. Government could mandate that they resume shipments, have them bill manually as best they can, and maybe use tax dollars can plug any holes after the fact (and if necessary).

They should also be fined for letting their billing system get compromised.
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"You're always in control" means "others will always hold you responsible, no matter whether you're in control or not". This model is called "virtue ethics" and I consider it disconnected from reality.

If you don't know you're in control, you're not in control. It's as simple as that. In my ideal world, one who has lost their self-control or self-awareness would be helped by one's community to regain them. In reality, when normal people see your self-control faltering, they will either try to protect themselves from you or to take advantage of you. Maybe not murder you outright, but definitely get rid of your presence, which is only going to amplify the disconnect.

That is a positive feedback loop, in the pure physical sense: the more alienated you are, the more alienated you become. It's like pointing a microphone at a loudspeaker.

Any system, including your emotional well-being, generally needs a negative feedback loop: when you get too much of something, you start getting less of it, and when you get too little of something, you start getting more of it.

This is complicated by ideological hijack of the signifiers "positive" and "negative". When they say "positive", they mean "thanks for accepting our groupthink as self-evident, you will be favored". When they say "negative" they mean "you have no right to be critical, you will be disregarded". I consider this use of language untruthful and abusive.

> I choose how, and what, I show to the rest of the world, and if I want a positive feedback loop, it starts with me.

I can't even tell if this is supposed to be 1 or 2 insights, but I can tell you're right about running into the usual self-help territory. To me such sentences are quite intentionally devoid of meaning (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thought-terminating_clich%C3%A...), and following them to their logical conclusion would take one right back where one started, which is the ultimatum we're all born to: embrace the nonsense or perish.
Yes, the coverage of the conflict is one-sided and popular opinion is on the
side of the Palestinians. The reason for that is that the conflict itself is
one-sided. Gaza is occupied by Israel.

Further, Israel has the overwhelming advantage in military power and the
Palestinians suffer the overwhelming majority of casualties every time there is
conflict.

In the 2008-09 war, the total number of Israeli citizens killed was 13, 10 of
whom were combatants and 3 non-combatants (according to the IDF, see [1]). The
total number of Palestinians killed was, depending on the source, between 1166
(IDF estimate) and 1440 (Palestinian ministry of Health, Gaza) [1].

The IDF protects your homes and your families, yes. It also crushes the lives
and obliterates the houses of the Palestinians. Public opinion is against
Israel not because the IDF protects Israeli citizens, but because the IDF kills
Palestinians.

Finally, the IDF can protect your families and your homes, but there is nobody
to protect the lives and homes of the Palestinians. Public opinion is their only
shield and it doesn't stop bombs.

My comment is by way of explanation, not by way of accusation.

____________

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualties_of_the_Gaza_War_(20...
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IIRC none of the images showed the whole guitar. Both were cropped, but one was consistent with the card layout. I agree with the test authors on that one.
AlphaStar doesn't have maphack. It has more APM than 200 but so do the top players (and so do I on good days btw, and I'm only in Diamond 3). It does have insane mechanics that no human can match, like pixel perfect clicks every time and incredible reaction times.

One streamer (Lowko I think) analyzed a game he played against AlphaStar where it would "macro" by going to some position where you could just see all the production structures (some by only a few pixels on the edge of the screen) and just click all the button needed for unit production in a few milliseconds.
I know it's silly at this point, but the idea of neuralink and "marketing" creeps me out in a whole new way.

There are uncomfortably blurry lines between marketing, recommendation engines and NN systems that will probably be core systems.

With the current FB, Youtube, Etc... it's hard to really define where marketing begins and ends. As content recommendation and ad serving engines collaborate and converge...
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The double-dutch isn’t cool. You know what’s cool? The 500,000-dutch with 50 layers
of Irish and a few Caymens on top.
They work very well via VPN. I used Google's navigation in Shanghai.
This is great, I've been wanting an ISA card with an FPGA on it for a long time so that I can experiment. I've ordered a few of these PCBs to build some myself. Its very kind of the author to give the design away for free.
I also really like the Lattice FPGAs for their FOSS tool-chain, which is a breeze to work with.
Russians pay in Rubles, but banks/payment gateways convert them to your currency, so for you Russians will pay in dollars.
It's more like capacity for legal tax avoidance is greater with megacoorps than with Mom & Pop.
I would argue while it has other benefits it probably isn't as simple. Simplicity is usually the long term better choice. As the business scales since you've probably set a precedent this pattern will be copied all over the place. After enough times trying to understand who owns the data transformations, what lives where, how to support it when one part of the puzzle fails and trying to wire it all and how all these stacks couple together becomes a nightmare. Unfortunately I've experienced some of these issues coming into organizations after the original developers have left once it became too "big" of a place to work for - few people truly understand the architecture and even when they do its flaky and recovery is hard. YMMV depending on the complexity of your business and age. In the end IMO it just seems like a big workaround to keep using Node.
If you like this kind of thing, I suggest taking the “Cluss Test”: https://absentprof.missouristate.edu/Assets/WritingCenter/Cl...

People who take a lot of multiple-choice tests have learned all the tricks, and can probably get 100%.

BTW, Evil Corp did not fool me:

We attempted to access your data 29 times

Unfortunately, we were unable to access any of it.

That's better than 99% of players

You took 424.41 seconds to complete the game

That's faster than 10% of players

You did particularly well with speedy questions

I’m not sure to be proud of this, or to be ashamed of the state of the world which has trained me to do this well.
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The author here is misrepresenting his sources to spin a specific agenda point, in order to construct a false narrative. It's as fake as fake news gets.

From the author's own sources...

> Colonial’s corporate IT network and the process control network are connected and exchange information about how much fuel each supplier or distributor receives in order to bill them for it.

> ...they could change [data about the] flow rates, they could modify the data

> Although infecting Colonial Pipeline’s process control network would be disruptive, it isn’t the only concern. Colonial’s control system also connects to the control systems at tank farms that feed fuel into Colonial’s pipeline.... An attacker can potentially pass through Colonial’s control systems into the control systems of these farms.

I really hate advocacy journalism. It's such a fundamentally dishonest medium.
“You and Your Research” (June 6, 1995)
The reason your opinion is controversial is because it assumes an ill-defined transient state as a stable equilibrium. What exactly is it about the human brain that makes it so special? Why couldn't other systems given many, many orders of magnitude more computational resources be arbitrarily better at everything it does?
Latest phones are great at thwarting Wi-Fi tracking. Other devices, not so much
Perfect HTML block requesting me to subscribe right after this:

> Once you're through the ads jungle, you enter the content maze. Many things you read, watch or listen are designed to sell you something (subscribe, by the way, and leave a comment). The aim is to get more sales, a bigger audience, more clicks, more money, more attention.
This is a theoretical framework you are presenting but it does not reflect reality. The text of many bills is written by people working for corporations. A politician needs to get funding in order to be re-elected and have any meaningful ability to make a difference.

In theory all the power for determining laws is supposed to lie in the hands of the politicians, but in practice a significant fraction of the power lies in the hands of corporations. So it doesn’t make sense to only look at part of the power structure that has set the system up this way.
I've been with Neocities for about two years and I'm very happy. Even though free hosters have a generally bad reputation, I like the community and the pleasant environment. I have written a note [1] about this that describes my experiences in more detail.

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> The pipeline is B2B with legal contracts in place and use invoices.

What if billing is tied to metered usage and it was impossible to meter? Or what if the billing system is needed to shut off access when customer has reached a quota? The article is scant on details but "legal contracts and invoices" are not going to save a company legal fees with when multiple customers dispute their bills.
No. The laws are written by lobbyists and the personal staff of the politicians.
Duplicate: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27192334
Was it actually configured with "no draw" policy? The chess.com explains that Rybka thinks it's winning because of material advantage.
“Good, fast, cheap. Choose two.”

They have picked price and fast, so “good” has to go. Couldn’t that be something other than safety?

Thinking on the shittiest of airlines, could they go lower?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_management_triangle
to be even more correct, china isn't one culture or one ethnicity. it covers a huge area, and especially before modern times, it was composed of a lot of different cultures and ethnicities, with a shitload of different languages and customs. CCP and other earlier powers (Emperors?) just brought them all, or large chunks, under a common flag.
right if you're a small company and you pay 0% tax you're probably getting shut down and owner is having some legal problems when they investigate you, if you're big enough you might get a small fine or maybe just have investigation dropped.
They might only allow content to be visible which had been approved by the App Store review team :)
I have tried vim mode in fish and I didn't like it. I find I don't really need vim bindings in the shell because I'm almost never editing. Alt+e to open the current command line in my editor works really well for me when I do want vim.
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alrighty, I installed it. Let's see how this goes.
Maybe this is a dumb question, but even if equipment isn't producing cutting edge chips, why can't they just produce slightly less performant chips and sell those for other purposes or at a discount? The article seems to imply that anything less than the best is useless.
I know about ignition interlock devices – my company provides these – and there is a little more nuance to it than that.

Firstly (and depending on jurisdiction), IIDs have to pass fairly rigorous verification in an accredited laboratory before they are accepted for use.

Secondly, all IIDs are regularly (every one to two months) calibrated against ethanol/nitrogen gas certified to a set level, to ensure accuracy.
In contrast, police breathalysers are usually calibrated every 6 to 9 months.

Thirdly, all breath alcohol testing devices (IIDs, fuel cell breathalysers, evidential infrared breathalysers) detect ethanol.

This is well and good, but ethanol is also present in miniscule quantities in a vast array of foods and drinks, in addition to beer, wine and spirits.

If someone has consumed these in the past couple of minutes, then takes a test, it will detect the ethanol.

Some examples that people commonly report using in vehicles, which all contain ethanol:

- anything fermented. Kombucha, ginger beer

- fresh bread, pizza, doughnuts [1][2]

- mouthwash, hand sanitiser

- some medications, including asthma medications

These are common everyday items, leading to an ethanol-detecting device detecting ethanol in a substance that contains ethanol.
From the user perspective, this is a false positive.

From a technology perspective, this is working exactly as it should be.

Fourthly, alcohol readings caused by mouth contaminants aren't a surprise. Any sane jurisdiction will allow the user to take another test within a few minutes to prove they hadn't ingested alcohol (mouth contaminations will clear from the mouth within a few minutes, whereas ingested alcohol will show another alcohol reading).

To summarise: breath alcohol testing is an established technology with high standards to meet; ethanol is widely prevalent leading to IIDs detecting ethanol; recourse is available to prove the ethanol detected wasn't ingested alcohol.

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethanol_fermentation
[2]: https://cooking.stackexchange.com/questions/22237/does-bread...
There is a person in charge for this. Just like to drive a companys car to fast. You have to pay by youself. Very simple.
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in Paris, the turnstiles prevent passage when closed, so it would prevent people from using the metro if it defaulted to close in case of failure. And I don't think it's used to prevent overcrowding, just regulate the flow
I heard reproducibility is also a problem mister Kahneman
Don‘t discount a conspiracy just because the conspirators are incompetent. In fact, the opposite is usually true. Your average conspiracy usually has multiple layers of incompetents. If a conspiracy looks flawless, it is usually because there is no conspiracy.

Targetting a news organization might be a multi-purpose action, including to limit the amount of photos from the area. The fact that this action has resulted in even worse optics then the photos would have provided, and the fact that people on the ground are still a source of visual evidence for the destruction does not mean that there is no conspiracy, just that they are bad at it.

Given the absence of evidence of any Hamas activity in that tower, and given the clear motive improve the optics of IDF, I would say that both explanations hold at least the same ground.
I had never heard of this, so I googled it. Very interesting. The drawing aspect is heavily pushed, but it looked like it also runs Windows 10 Pro... can you comment on how it runs as a computer? Could it be used to make videos, with say, DaVinci Reolve, or Openshot? Does O365 work on it, and web browsing, etc.? Thank you.
Get ready for canvas-only websites with wasm. Good luck adblocking.
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