skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> we do not know for certain that is true. We have considered the possibility that information we have received could have come from a state actor hostile to American interests

If they have no way to verify or at least assure themselves that it isn’t this, then they have no business publishing it.

Also, many of their statements are just lies in that context:

E.g. We are disclosing the tax details of the richest Americans …

Is a lie.

“We are disclosing what an unknown source who could be a hostile foreign agent has told us are the tax details of the richest Americans.”

Is true.

It will be interesting to see whose secrets are included and whose are not. For example if they have Bloomberg’s details, do they have Trumps?
These are not hard best practices.
If we're sharing obligatory links, then a detailed critique of "The PGP Problem" is:

https://articles.59.ca/doku.php?id=pgpfan:tpp

It's true, though, that much work is needed to bring PGP up to the levels expected of modern crypto tools. Hopefully some of that will happen as a result of the work happening in the IETF:

https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-ietf-openpgp-crypto-re...

and due to technology built around it, such as:

https://delta.chat/en/

https://autocrypt.org/
It seems to me that Warren Buffet can do both though. He can pay more in taxes by not taking deductions or just giving more to the government and advocate for a higher rate. Lead by example.
Wow, calling people's software shitty because they care enough about it to want to vet contributions?
> "Luckily" Terraform's performance is so bad that you need to split the stacks anyways

Not sure what about terraforms performance is so bad. Seems hard to blame a tool who's main execution path is potentially 100's of network IO requests with 3rd party API's. Most of the "split stacks" I've seen is more for code organization and security reasons rather than performance. Seems safer to know 100% that deploying infra for my app isn't going to mess with my VPC settings and can be executed with a lower privileged role.

> Furthermore you can no longer effectively plan any change that affects the boundary between the two stacks.

That's fair -- you do end up with these "foundational" modules a lot of the time. Like an 'aws-account basics' module or something that other modules expect the account to be setup with that base for being able to query data objects for subnets ect... planning changes if that changes be difficult but not impossible. Good versioning is critical. Feels in the same vein as apps that need to manage framework updates and things like that. (though can be made more difficult or easier based on how you've broken up using your cloud provider -- multiple accounts by buisness unit or all in one).
Surely using while loops makes this imperative?
Live by the sword die by the sword. The author in question wanted to share and cash in on her story by selling it to the masses, when someone among the masses reacted with very mild criticism to her work she antagonized them publicly and the masses didn't like that. Oh well, be nice online if you want to harvest the denizens of the internet to make a living.
Unfortunately, Snowtrack has no collaboration workflow yet. The underlying file storage system is prepared to support collaboration in the future, but it's too early for this
This is market cap, but if you look at amount of traffic you have Akamai estimated at 15-30%, CF at 10%.

So if it would go down, it would cripple vast amount of internet.
> increase in the portfolio value will outpace the interest paid

Ah, right. Caught me twice on my fixed-pie thinking :)
The problem is you don't even have to run your operation from the country: you just have to pivot off of a box in that country as part of your obfuscation chain. In Cyber Security land, a lot of bad actors originate out of Israel, but that doesn't mean they originated there.
This would be a very interesting way to handle percentage taxation on assets like that.

Either pay %x in cash value or give %x percent of the item to the government.

Of course likely the government would just want to liquidate immediately but you could perhaps set it up as a "lien" on the stock/bond/property that gets satisfied at final sale.
But it does provide direct evidence (that average people can link to prior knowledge) in support of those objections.
all in all, just another brick in the wall

watching social trust be destroyed on this scale in real time is both amazing and deeply disorienting
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I think, at this point, doubting anything the government claims without hard evidence proving their case is the wiser play based on pure pattern recognition.
This is a really good document:

https://apple.github.io/foundationdb/data-modeling.html

I have been studying these key-value stores with efficient range iteration lately (such as LevelDB, RocksDB, BigTable, FoundationDB, etc). This is a great reference on how to make such a simple abstraction do a lot of useful things.
Storing every single version of the file which ever hit disk locally on my machine in the history would be the most accurate, yet no one seems to advocate for that. Even with immutable history, which versions go into the history is a choice the developer makes.
I am learning Mandarin and found this super useful when watching shows. The ability to slow down and replay sentences quickly, as well as show Pinying is great!

Just the other day I watched a Taiwanese movie called "Classmates minus", which was quite good.
I mean, he's not wrong. It's not going to come close to the towing or carrying capacity of a "real" pickup (standard FWD?), but on the other hand a huge percentage of pickup owners don't need that capability. Question is whether they'll recognize that, or whether it'll be "But I need a real truck!"
Most of the angst here seems to be around the phrase "provably secure". I don't think they meant that in the same sense that it's being received here. "Provably <xyz>" is just the common terminology in the theorem prover space.

Though they seem to be familiar enough with the real world to have known that would have sounded overly grandiose. I think what they really meant was something like "Provably Implements Whatever Security Boundaries That It Claims To".
> You can feed JSON to Terraform however this falls over if you need dependencies for output values

This is what I've started doing with Jsonnet for generation, and also exactly why I've stopped doing it.
Agreed. Flat tax and sales tax are both regressive and both hurt the population the economy needs most to spend on consumption to be viable with circulation.
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Is it really only the job of government to make ethical decisions? Surely companies and employees can and should try to be ethical. Just because there is profit involved doesn't mean that we should throw out our humanity.
Exactly. The strategic problem here is that the changes that took place in the Vietnam era and 80s ultimately creates a concentration of capital and power that is beyond anything we’ve seen since Roman times.

In the mid-term we’re looking at some sort of weird hybrid plutocrat/government hybrid with an American flavor and a Chinese flavor. Everyone else is in the middle with the scraps.
>If the rules create incentives that lead to bad outcomes, it is a problem with the rules.

So then why complain about the people following the rules? They're just making the best of the situation they're in.

>I generally regard people building large buildings as a good outcome, so about the max-without-x-permit-sized buildings, I probably would not be too upset, but I would have to think about what buildings would exist in the absence of the rule.

So then it's about whether or not you like the outcome that rule provides?

Regardless of how much you care about compliance with the law it is farcical to pick and choose laws that get special treatment (within the same class of laws, we're not talking about dodging sales tax vs murder here). You don't get to pick one area of minor noncompliance to be good guys and one area to be bad guys, equality under law and all that.

>Do you level the same criticism at people who are upset that they are employed for just less than full time?

I levy the criticism at the people screeching online about how the companies that do it are evil, as if they have a choice and it's not a collective action problem.

Sure Home Depot could take a stand and give everyone 40hr and eat the cost of the healthcare requirements but then Lowe's would eat their lunch. The only way to fix these problems is to change the rules for everyone.
Even just finding out which forks have any changes compared to the main repo is difficult on GitHub.
I can confirm, we're using a similar approach at it mostly works.

There are still issues though, if you try to remove your cluster the k8s provider can't be configured (no module.my_cluster.cluster_id anymore) and the refresh phase of plan will fail. You can find workarounds but those I know are quite manual / ugly.
I sometimes get bored and see some interesting postings on linkedIn.

I try to apply where I'll be redirected either to their homegrown site or some random recruitment site in which I need to create account and fill myriads of forms before applying.

I might do it if I'm in dire need of a job, otherwise no thanks. Companies needs to make it easier to apply for jobs.
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YJS (and Kevin Jahns!) is fantastic, although I'm not sure they're interested in addressing all of these problems. In so far YJS has been very focused on replicating state from one place to another.

And the parent comment may be making light of some of the big issues in the space. You need to be generic, but also performant and simple compared to the competition.

Real time text editing is not trivial although there's solid prior art now. Even undo management is a whole problem space (what should a cross user undo look like if there have been dependent changes).
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Both CRDTs and OTs are broken. If you wrote them on your own, it's always "the next fixed bug will finally make it work!".
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And Jesus said to His disciples, “Truly I say to you, it is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. Again I say to you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.”
It doesn't seem to me like the rest of the world is united against China. Even the US companies and universities are very friendly with them.
Because they don't work. Many EU countries have attempted them and they have all failed. There are a host of issues with wealth taxes, one of which is simply placing value on illiquid assets is difficult. How much is that rare art price worth? Well no one knows until you put it on the market. Then there are issues with immaterial things like rights, that would be very tricky to value. What if you had the rights to all of Bill Cosby's recorded stand-up acts? That could have been valued highly before the rape convictions, now it is essentially worthless. A wealth tax would just create a battle of litigation between the wealthy and IRS, and the wealthy would win. The real solution is to just have a VAT like every other developed nation in the world, is the only way to get slice of the pie from the wealthy.
What Matters in Adversarial Imitation Learning?
The three richest families in the US are (according to a simple Google search) the Waltons, Kochs, and the Mars. These three families were already in the 1950 very wealthy. I don't know enough to say whether they were among the richest, but for sure they weren't poor.
If your web app container can query the database, and your web app container is compromised, then yes the attacker could query the database. This is an issue independent of how you conveyed that access to the web app container.

If you want to limit the blast radius, you will need to find ways to limit what parts of the database the web app has access to.
"The job is no longer available."
> Is there any chance they would cede Crimea back at this point?

There is a literal 0% chance that Crimea will ever go back to Ukraine unless there is a major collapse of the political power of Russia. It would have to be a collapse worse then the collapse of the Soviet Union with a ruler who was beyond desperate to get Western support.

The Western world can sanction Russia (and likely will for the next 50 years) non of that matters to them nearly as much as Crimea.

The only reason why it was part of Ukraine in the first place is because of inter-politburo power-struggles that lead Khrushchev to simply assign it to Soviet Republic of Ukraine because that was his power-base. For political reason all the post-Soviet states had to accepted their boarders that they had within the Soviet Union.

Sevastopol has been one of the most important power bases of Russian power for hundreds of years, and even while it was officially part of Ukraine, practically it was only just barley so and the easy of witch the Russians took it showed that quite well.

For Americans to get some context on that, when the US declare its independence the Russians annexed the Crimea. Ask yourself how much sanctions the US would endure in order to protect Norfolk Virginia and then realize that Sevastopol is basically the one practical harbor, while the US has 100s on multiple coasts.

> Rogozyn

Rogozyn is targeting a Russian audience, blaming everything on Western conspiracy is basic Russian communication. He is basically fighting to pretend that Russia is relevant in space while the actual institution is being destroyed with corruption.

Under him Roscosmos has continued to collapse and the whole industry is continuing to go down the drain.
Bank of England commentary on stablecoins also covered in this Guardian story (no paywall):

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/jun/07/digital-cur...
How are your speeds, horse?!
For a long time I did the same because some websites would refuse to load when they thought you weren't running Chrome even though it would have worked just fine in FF.
Are you suggesting that ff traffic would be substantially higher if I were to account for users that were obfuscating their user agent header?
Using something similar, but it doesn't handle well cluster deletion.
From a quick read of the SnowFS source code, it looks like it splits large files into 100Mb blocks and builds up a zip of blocks over time. A version of a file is an ordered list of hashes for the blocks in that version.

I like the simplicity of this! But is it at all problematic if something changes early in the file and all the subsequent blocks boundaries shift causing many new blocks to be created?

rsync uses a sliding window to handle this situation. The implementation would be more complicated, but have you considered using librsync internally?
> Unless you are a wage or salary earner, it is trivially easy to avoid having to pay taxes, at least in the USA. Same with the much lauded “inheritance tax” and even, to a lesser extent, sales taxes. It costs about 4000us a year to maintain the legal structures required to pay essentially no taxes, except sales taxes in some locations. In many cases, for lower levels of income, just having a small business can negate income tax burdens.

If it is that easy and costs only $4000, would you mind describing the technique(s)? I can't believe that it would be simple / cheap / legal, because otherwise every business owner would do it?!
How to say “that won’t work” without seeming like the office Eeyore
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maybe in extremes. like 100:1, but 2:1, 3:1 doesn't seem that bad... honestly better for social cohesion
How do you pass laws to make this behaviour illegal without knowing what the scope of the problem is?

Laws take political capital to pass, and without public outrage, you have zero political capital to take the first step towards reform. Any attempt to pass laws that increase transparency will be quashed, because you have no political capital to do so, and people taking advantage of this have a huge interest in squashing them, so they can keep operating in secrecy.

I'm not shilling some weird conspiracy, here. This is exactly the purpose behind ag-gag laws. [1] Thanks to them, the public can't make an informed decision on whether or not illegal activity should be prosecuted or investigated, or whether or not currently legal activity should be made illegal.

This is a similar situation, except that the financial stakes - and the incentives for secrecy - are about a thousand times greater.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ag-gag
Nonetheless, it’s effectively part of the employee compensation. It goes away if the employee does.
On memorizing: for me, it hasn't been difficult. Specialty layer switches are placed on keys that are difficult to press so I don't accidentally hit them. Additionally, since they're out of the way, it's easy to remember them because of the difficulty.

For more common layer switches, I extensively use dual-use keys. For example, if I tap "F" then I get the letter "f" but if I hold it, it switches to a vim-like layer. HJKL becomes arrow keys, Y becomes Ctrl+C, etc. The point is that you don't have to dedicate more keys to do layer switching. You can have the same key do different things depending on how it's used.

For me, memorizing has been easy due to incremental change. I didn't come up with my new layout on day one then stick to it forever. I'd find a frequent pain point, tweak the layout, and memorize the tweak. It's easy to remember 2 or 3 key changes at a time.
I don't know if they're allowed to post images because of the information that might be contained within, but this post if very hard to follow without some sort of visualization of what they generate with all this.
The bad actors with the most incentive to keep the bugs in place are the same people that put the bugs into the system: lawmakers. They might occasionally close a bug, but they are not interested in preventing them being introduced. They sell these bugs/vulnerabilities. That's the business they are in.
Coincidentally a friend of mine was just attacked and bit by a large Alsatian. Luckily he is mostly okay!

The dog was on the lead (or leash for you American English speakers) at the time of the attack though.
Not to say that they might not "may as well", but why exactly would the police need a scapegoat for arresting criminals?
Or maybe they are thinking that if they pay a lot, they "are not the product".

A bit like buying Apple, which is also very expensive.
So they get to set organizational policy, but still can’t compel the organization to do illegal things (like route the donors money back to them tax-free)
Yeah I’m going to stop using the platform when they get rid of this . Not interested
> I suspect you'll have trouble convincing a forum of primarily engineers that a high frequency trader is more worthy of sympathy than an engineer.

At least HFT traders don't get paid to spy on their own customers with trackers littered everywhere, I find that very unethical that engineers get paid to even do that sort of thing, and every damn website has these trackers because engineers put them there.

> They're both pretty privileged jobs and HFT is not known for having tons of benefits to society

So HFT firms don't have their own foundations and grants to give to charities and organisations then?
> Why has Twitter the company and its employees not taken action to deal with this?

Because it's not their job to moderate this stuff.

Angry, pissed off, outraged users are, from the perspective of social media companies, the best users. They refresh constantly (so more ad views), they come back constantly, and if they've gone away for too long, you can just figure out what's likely to piss them off the most, send them a notification, and they're right back into the ad delivery mill, engaged and outraged.

And all that means more money for the company. Which is their interest.

YouTube's guiding goal (at least some years back, as I heard it) was to increase hours watched. Period. Hours watched was the metric they optimized for, above all else. And it showed in the various recommendations that looked very broken from the outside world, but those tended to add hours watched.

I don't think the algorithms were nearly smart enough to know that they were recommending some conspiracy theorist gateway video, or extreme political content, or such. They simply knew, "If we get people to watch this video, they will then spend a lot more time on YouTube." So, the more people that watch that video one way or another, the more hours watched, problem improved! It's very "paperclip maximizer" seeming sort of algorithm.

Given that it's been known for years how to "drive your users nuts to keep them coming back" and social media companies have refined this to near perfection (it's Vegas in your pocket, without any of the regulations and rules Vegas casinos have to abide by), I'm in favor of some regulation on this sort of stuff, but I'm not at all sure it will actually matter. :/
What correlation does CEO salary and open source have?

Maybe the comment thinks about "not for profit" org - but even then it seems normal to pay people a competitive salary.
I believe the issue is the Terraform has been labelled: “Cloud agnostic”. That was why I believed that Terraform would abstract away the individual cloud providers.

It depends on your interpretation of the word “agnostic”. Personally I would say a more correct description would be: Support for multiple cloud providers.
Didn't the wealthy also have amazing tutors..? Today tutors are more for people who are behind but I think back then tutors would fulfill the role that the web plays today. Except way more effectively.
> Grand Theft Auto's publisher shut down efforts in the computer vision industry to use their game as a training data generation engine for self-driving car research.

Did they? The GTA5 dataset is still up https://download.visinf.tu-darmstadt.de/data/from_games/ and widely used. I've never heard about any legal issues with it.
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Half of this makes no sense to me whatsoever, but it's fascinating nonetheless! Seems like a huge challenge. And if anyone would care to explain to me what "capacity posture" means in the following sentence:

"Without having network visibility, it’s difficult to improve our reliability, security and capacity posture."

I'd be one happy camper :)
I found a previous HN submission about them: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20766283
I have used iCab for over 20 years across Mac OS 8, Mac OS X, and iOS.

Prior to the built-in inspector with Firefox and later Safari/Chrome, iCab was the best web debugging tool I used. iCab lost many advantages (and disadvantages) when it transitioned from its own engine to WebKit, but it still is filled with power user features

All iOS power users should check out iCab
You become a kidnapping target by being rich, whether that's a matter of public record or just someone cruising the wealthier neighbourhoods is arbitrary.

I mean over here you can't look up who makes how much, but the rough value of houses and neighbourhoods, which is used to determine property taxes, is public record.

I'm sure there's some rich people / families living in otherwise underwhelming houses, but they're generally a minority.
This, and several other discussions remind me of this post in SSC https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/06/15/fish-now-by-prescripti...

(Though to be fair fish oil apparently has more evidence for its efficacy)

Also the same for several purported treatments for Covid. Efficacy is less important than cost and potential profits.
This doesn't make sense to me, people take loans to make more money via starting a business or other ventures, loans cost a lot of money, so just having capital to loan out etc makes you money.. Money creates more money so the more you have the more you can make in a proportional way. No?