skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Spending billions of KWh on blockchains so rich people can speculate on buying their own number (correct me if i'm wrong but to me a NFT is just a number) is just part of this.

You say this as if numbers have no utility. Is an IP address "just a number"? What about a /8 cidr block? How much energy should we be allowed to spend to secure global address space and provide a secure implementation of identity for all people? This is one of the actual concrete uses of NFT tech, (see Urbit Azimuth.)

> We have to stop this madness, abolish private property and the capitalist industry entirely and go back to communal living and producing stuff based on actual needs, not dumb single-use Internet of Shit products and other planned-obsolete non-flashable-single-purpose computers.

Good luck making a non-disposable world where nobody has domain over their own numbers or is allowed to have their own distinct and unique identity secured by a leading consensus protocol. I for one am glad that you and others of a like mind are not empowered to tell me or anyone else that I can't have my own number if I want it, or to secure it with as many megawatts and global collaborators as I can muster.

Because you know what happens when private property is abolished? Spoiler, only the well connected and powerful will hold private property, and overall the scope and impact of inequality even broadens.

Edit: I'm getting downvotes but not sure which part you disagree with! Have you ever lived in an area where private property was abolished? (They tried this in Lithuania and USSR and that's exactly how it turned out! When nobody is allowed to own resources, who decides how they are allocated?)

"To each according to his need" sounds great until you get to see what an actual functional implementation of that looks like, and it turns out that Stalin is the one who is in charge of it all.
Corporations are people, we are the serfs
FROM scratch
COPY hello /
CMD ["/hello"]

This just raises the question of what the point of containerisation for applications with no dependancies.
Anyone who has written software to import CSV files knows that in general it's a complete mess.

Also, geneticists have been forced to rename certain gene names because Excel messed them up[0].

It would be nice if this standard would be generally accepted. This standard is from 2005 and it is pretty clear that it is not universally used.

[0] https://www.theregister.com/2020/08/06/excel_gene_names/
That wasn’t my experience, but I’m referring to the mid to late 90’s timeframe before “paywall” was even a thing.
Same team, rarely. Same company, far more often than you'd think, and definitely enough to have an effect on policy.
Awesome project. Curious question: Why not just use an embeddded v8 to sandbox untrusted code? I remember some databases used this v8 approach to let users write untrusted db plugins. Any specific advantages using webassembly instead of a v8 instance?
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Isn't the US levying corporate tax on worlwide income anyway (since the last tax reform).

So it's "only" a matter of deciding whether those taxes should be paid in US vs. other countries (and if the intellectual property was developped mostly in the US, it seems fair for the US to get most of it).
Virtual Scroll Grid for Vue 3
I have the same feeling that you do. But for some reason some stuff has been broken on GNOME that did not require breaking. My three biggest pain points (both personally and for the non-tech people i provide tech support with) is alt-tab not switching between all open window in recent order usage, the disappearance of the venerable systray, and .desktop files not proposing to be executed (at least on Debian).

These three points are contrary to every other desktop environment there is, and it's confusing the hell out of people. I really wish GNOME the best and i really like some aspects of it (it's pretty and it's well-integrated) but over the years they've dumped core features like this, and made the overall experience super slow. If you've tried to run GNOME on second-hand hardware with HDD (not SSD) you know what i'm talking about.
From what I understood the problem with Rust compilation time are more with LLVM and monomorphization of generics. I know that OCaml has a generics system that's kinda like Rust but doesn't monomorphize functions and is really really fast at compiling. OCaml also has its own backend.
What if you lived a 10 minute walk from work?
If it is important to protect eastern borders against being overrun by dictatorships how come European NATO members does not fulfill their 2% GDP military spending goal? Or is that Russia's fault?

Why does EU sanction Poland, one of the few NATO members that does fulfill its 2% goal and have beefed up it's military against potential Russian aggression, or is that Russia's fault too?

Was it Swedish politicians that downsized the Swedish military so much that it now only can defend one place in Sweden for a week (en-veckas-försvaret, ~ one week defense) or was i Putin?

Was it Germany's chancellor Angela Merkel who opened the EU borders in 2015, which directly lead to a number of terrorist attacks, or was it Putin who did that?

Was it NATO and EU that toppled Libya's dictator Gaddafi, which created a terrorist hotbed just across the Mediterranean, or was it Russia?

If you know the answers to these questions you also know what the biggest threat is.
Meanwhile my (single-person) company is paying around 20% corporation tax, and then I'm getting taxed a further 20-40% on top of that when I pay myself.
What are the exact problems with tor? That it ennables immoral behavior?

So does cash. So do these strip clubs and drug deals that you talk about.

I mean I`m a libertarian and sex positive person and I think drugs should in most cases be legalized but I don`t see how that makes me somehow problematic or inconsistent!

Can you elaborate?
Heck, I remember a salad at Harvard being $12.
Many people at college generally do not have access to a kitchen.
http://web.archive.org/web/20210603101816/https://techplanet...

In a related note, Skype had peer-to-peer and encryption back in the day, before MS bought them and centralized it. What's next for Teams, p2p?
You might be the sort of person who takes a principled stand against intellectual property, so not see Huawei's behaviour as inconsistent with protecting consumer privacy?

I don't personally trust Huawei to behave responsibly. But I don't really trust any other company either. Android is basically a Google anti-privacy play.

Western IP law is arguably just a tool to delay Chinese progress (speaking from an international perspective). A Chinese company ignoring it doesn't really tell us much about how the company will behave towards its customers.
> it's really not the goal of any FAANG company to encourage their workers to have families.

Something that for one reason or another is more popular among younger women than men. This excludes women whether they want to admit it or not.
Functional Workplaces: Moixa – Raising the IQ of the World's Batteries
That isn't fair at all.

If you're opening a location in another country, and that location takes X in revenue, the tax should be paid in that country.

Why on earth do you think its fair for US based organizations to spread across the globe, reap the huge profits from that but funnel all the cash back into the US?
The buildings are fancy, but there area has no character. I'd pick a much less fancy building most other places in London over living there.
There's a couple that spring to mind

- Consistent packaging/execution environment. containers are delivered and executed in a standard way regardless of target env.

- A level of sandboxing from the underlying host. Things like automatically applied Linux namespaces and dropped capabilities if you use Docker/runc, and then more sandboxing automatically applied if you use things like gVsior or firecracker.
Usually this is where someone from Venezuela comes along and tells us that this is a tiny minority, and most people want US Dollars because they can actually use those.
I'm not saying the reporting is wrong, but that it completely fails to remark on how essential SO is to tons of developers. When they describe the investor as "one of the most valuable", why couldn't they bear to describe SO as "the largest QA site for developers"? Is it so important for readers of WSJ that the extremely tangential relation to "financial professionals and marketers" is explained? That's what confuses me.
One year ago I hardened LuaJIT's VM against these kind of attacks. Since then, there has been a constant influx of complaints and issues filed. All bitterly complaining their code, which mistakenly assumed a fixed hash table iteration order, is now broken.

Even when told that the Lua manual clearly states the undefined order since 20 years, they do not cease to complain. They do not realize this change helped them to discover a serious bug in their code (the order could differ even before that change). Sigh.

You can now have a guess, what one of the lesser enlightened forks of LuaJIT did ...
220bn profit? Really? Surely they mean "revenue"
It's so disgusting to see Big Tech playing politics and saying what is true or not. That shit should not be allowed.
Free Pascal / Lazarus.
Respect copyright and patents as much as Microsoft respects taxation.
Isn't salary a deductible expense?
In other words, you can recommend recruiter to see if any other team wants to hire the candidate. Which makes sense from perspective of all. But you can't "veto" to hire which makes no sense.
It did, then io_uring leapfrogged it, and now Windows is moving towards adding a ring-based IO submission system: https://windows-internals.com/i-o-rings-when-one-i-o-operati...
This is fascinating. I feel like the most straightforward (but hardly efficient) solution is to provide a way for kernels to ask CPUs to "mirror" pairs of cores, and have the CPUs internally check that the behaviors are identical? Seems like a good way to avoid large scale data corruption until we develop better techniques...
I think your examples are good cases for any registry. NFTs aren’t particularly good for this as they are expensive in their current form. Any transaction should be very low cost to process and there would be no value to the NFT itself, but to the thing tracked by the NFT.

So I think the right play would be to not speculate and wait for a government to use blockchain/NFT for registries.

The land registry is a good idea, but is already done without blockchain/NFt so I’m not sure the value of layering this on. For these things to work, it’s better to have a common operator under a monopoly (government) and fees be nominal.

This is how deeds work in the US today, but there’s some clerk filing sheets in a courthouse and processing transactions. This can be improved by databases, etc but NFT doesn’t provide much benefit over a parcel number. As we automate this process, we would not have a market for selling NFTs, we would just need a robot instead of a clerk.
For testing purposes, you can create container environments that are similar to VMs.

The way I do it, is to use ansible playbooks, where the individual tasks can be run either on a VM or in a container, depending on my needs (one example https://github.com/raesene/container_sec_workstation)
In the UK you only pay corporation tax on profit
You underestimate the cognitive ability of the masses.

10/10 of people I know buy for the brand.
> How is this even an argument, given that patents expire?

These days, many patented technologies expire faster than patents on them. In those cases, patents are quite literally halting progress.
Does Anyone Use TYPO3 CMS Anymore?
Erlang's syntax is so simple I've been able to read the source code of RabbitMQ before even knowing the language.

Quickly going through https://learnyousomeerlang.com/ to discover OTP, processes and supervisor and you're ready to code.

After learning Erlang, and writing some basic stuff with it, I discovered Elixir and had nothing to learn except:

- "defmodule" instead of "package"
- "@callback" / "@behaviour" instead of "callback" / "behaviour"
- ":an_atom" instead of "an_atom"
If this were the case, one would think that having a well-paying job and not having to borrow money would give one a good credit score. But it doesn't.

References from previous landlords, criminal history, and a lack of debtors would be a better indication of whether one would be a good tenant than if one financed a car and other things.
Not quite true :) I’ve played a lot with my 2 youngest daughters and the AI adapts to the fastest player. So if you hang behind the “worst” player, it will become very easy.

Subsequently, if you race full-pull the other person will be in a permanent #12 spot. They will receive a lot of star and bullet power ups though ;-)
I don't completely understand the perception that standard non hardened high-perf CPU, especially in an industry and more specifically in a segment that has been reported as consistently cutting a few corners in recent years (maybe somehow less than client CPUs, but still), should somehow be exempt of silent defaults, because... magic?

If you want extremely high reliability, for critical applications, you use other CPUs. Of course, they are slower.

So the only interesting info that remains is that the defect rate seems way too high and maybe the quality decreasing in recent years. In which case, when you are Google, you probably could and should complain (strongly) to your CPU vendors, because likely their testing is lacking and their engineering margins too low... (at least if that's really the silicon that is at fault, and not say for example the MB)

Now of course it's a little late for the existing ones, but still the sudden realization that "OMG CPU do sometimes fail, with a variety of modes, and for a variety of reasons" (including, surprise(?!), aging) seems, if not concentrating on the defect rate, naïve. And the potential risk of sometimes having high rate errors was already a very well known esp. in the presence of software changes and/or heterogenous software and/or heterogenous hardware, due to the existence of logical CPU bugs, sometimes also resulting in silent data corruption, and sometimes also with non-deterministic-like behaviors (so can as well work on a core but not another because of "random" memory controller pressure and delays, and the next time with the two cores reversed)
If people believe it... It's their loss.
> That “swipe” will happen just by starting typing/pressing any button

True. But people usually don't KNOW that. It would help if it was written out. "Swipe to unlock or type your password" is less confusing than a weird arrow-like animation going up.
Why can't governments learn that taxing corporations is pointless? The same revenue is can be raised more simply through sales tax and personal income tax on salaries and distributions.
Don't forget your cap gains and consumption taxes
The first "Erlang" I knew was as a unit of measure used in telecomm named after the mathematician:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erlang_(unit)

So, yes, a clever name all around.
Countries have different rules, the world is a diverse place. I know that's hard for some to accept but it's how it is. Is having a button to report crime on your website some horrible end-of-the-world moment?

Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, etc. all have these buttons on their site and often don't report actual crimes occurring on their platform to the police in order to protect themselves. Gitee is simply providing a link elsewhere for people who have a problem with content.

A UK man on youtube taught his dog to salute and got arrested for it because people reported it. A pregnant woman in Australia was thrown in jail for organising an anti-lockdown protest on Facebook. Many locals cheered these events on with gusto.

The people who decry the oppression in China, also actively support the suppression of opposing views and jokes back home. Maybe we aren't so different after all.

If you want to rant about Chinese laws without hiding behind the pretext of mobile OS discussion, make a proper HN thread about it or write a blogpost mate.
Are you referring to something in the article or is this a general statement about big tech?

I’m curious because I read the article and couldn’t find the instance of “big tech playing politics” you are talking about.
It's probably more fair to say that as far as "exotic" brands go, Ferrari has never deviated and produced a boring sedan or suv based no some other companies car.

Maseratti, Porsche, and Lamborghini are good examples of companies that make supercars that also make some pretty pedestrian models. To make it worse, those are usually built on an existing car platform from another manufacturer. Not to say those cars are bad, they just don't belong at an exotic car meet.

The Masseratti Ghibli, the Porsche Macan/Cayenne and whatever the Lambo SUV is called all fit this mold.
00s internet culture/content I hear everybody talking about it but I don't really get what is? Do you mean more of a feeling of companionship like in an IRC or Group?
Performance Booster with System.IO.Pipelines in C#
I guess earn enough so that it makes sense to pay a lawyer and an accountant to create this setup for yourself... maybe a startup idea? :)
You're right - but it depends how and when you pay yourself... a balance of salary and dividends, where dividends are not deductible. For me I may have a good year followed by a weak year, so I use last year's profit to keep me going!
Very fair. I don't think you can remove compensation. But, I think the post still had some good thoughts and good aims. They need some tweaking. Your post highlighted an area that needs tweaking, and mine tried to build on both posts.
Invest your surplus then you won't have any profit to be taxed upon.

Which is what Microsoft is doing.

Alternatively lobby your government to replace corporation tax with a company payable tax on the labour a company uses - which is actually what tax is for: to release manpower for the government use.

Then Microsoft can't avoid it by profit shifting.
I would say that it would more fair if tax was paid in the end users home country. This way these worldwide mega cooperation's would help every country where they sell their products instead of all the money goes to the US.

In 10 years from now it could easily be China that owns many of these mega cooperation's. Would you find it fair if the tax money from china "MS", china "apple", china x all would go to China and the USA would get zero.
Up to phase I think this is equivalent to just integrating the noise, so you should get some kind of Brownian function.
Dosbox in a Container with VNC Client
Swift Server Work Group Annual Update 2020
Reminds me how many people on HN... over a decade ago? were taking about dropping out of school to do startups. Ignoring that their heroes often dropped out because they didn't have time to deal with the school and their existing business, and not before they even started the company.
Populism is a hell of a drug.
How to Pitch Your Startup Without Buzzwords or Platitudes
Heron's Formula
A friend's pool in England is almost entirely sustained with solar panels: radiant ones to heat the water (as required), and PV to run the pumps.

It seems like a no-brainer to do this in Arizona, but I don't know the economics.
I've noticed GNOME is way snappier on a SSD than a HDD. But of course i'll join you in blaming JS for all the slowness and memory leaks of GNOME ;)
Ask HN: What is the most bloated website you use
Looking for examples of bloated websites where you are seeking some textual data/information but have to suffer to retrieve it. EDIT: Preferably sites that do not require log in to access the data/information.
You forgot 3.5, the step where A16Z breathlessly extols the technology in 5 podcast episodes and start a fund focusing on it...
If etherium gets down to femtocents per transaction then that would be cool. A usable distributed ledger would be nice for many purposes. But at dollars per transaction, there’s no real use cases.

Imagine if my sql db was free but charged me $10 for any write transaction. That would suck. When the price gets to an operational level, people will use it.

I think the price it will eventually get to is Napster/BitTorrent-level.
1. It's infeasible that Microsoft had profits of 200 billion euros.

2. A comment on the Guardian's journalists' potential financial conflicts of interest:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27352245
The included financial report says profit, not revenue.
> but China doesn't do huge amounts of software development.

It’s actually the first time I rethink whether there is a shortage of developers in China or not. Sheer amount there are tons of developers and the tech industry is pretty huge in China. However most are doing “application development”, definitely lacking experts from several fundamental domains (kernel, cloud backbone, etc).

Another aspect is they earned much less compared to US though still 1-2x for other type of jobs. However, many senior/principal engineers in FAANG still went back because the scope is substantially larger (you oversee 5-10x more headcount normally)
I must say I laughed when I landed on Trump's great alternative to Twitter. It really was just a tragic blog theme. Not very surprising that it didn't last long.
I also spend about 30 min per day cooking for the kids. Would you say that I could "get back" these 30 minutes by hiring a personal cook? Well, maybe, but I really don't live like that. It's a mildly pleasurable activity, even if I'm able to imagine "better ways to spend my time".
Hard to say they mean either, financials are public,

https://ie.globaldatabase.com/company/microsoft-round-island...

It lists 9bn in profit.

The quoted document
> https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/20794038/microsof...

Disagrees with the public finances above: the issue is that the document says "$ 000".

It's a typo, the numbers are just dollar amounts.

And the text of the report proves it, it explicitly says profit of the year was 13bn.

EDIT: the report is very confusing. It looks like there could be an argument to say it is genuinely 300bn -- the issue is there's *operating profit* of 13bn... but a secondary "profit" from the liquidation of subsidy companies.

So the issue is the article presents this as an operating profit, but it isnt.
He's upset that FB and Twitter banned him for inciting a violent riot and fomenting rage/doubt about an obviously free and fair election.
> And again, as you even said, for such a hypothetical sndboxing desktop os, user space needs to be rebuilt in large parts from scratch. Not in a hundred years. There so many things that are still lacking on the linux desktop today that this would at best be yet another experimental toy OS with no real world usability.

From the several toe dips I did with Linux desktop over the years, 99.9% of all user-space GUI programs will not be missed by more than 5000 hardcore fans anyway.

Rust, Zig, Nim, D -- all fine languages, and all gradually travel to having a proper UI toolkit (or solid bindings to the existing ones, more often).

I happen to believe that when the solid foundation gets created we'll see an explosion of high-quality Linux desktop programs. But various problems with Qt and GTK are preventing it (licenses included)... for now.
The fact that the "communications platform" needed to be created is by product of big tech playing politics.
I'd say that expectations require intelligence.