skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was hoping the pandemic taught people to read.

I didn't say profit was bad. The discussion point was not about razor-thin margins.
The 5% was just notional for discussion. The same problems occur with fat margins.

Building on your point that profits are necessary for growth, stability and job security, presumably you have in mind that the company gets to keep the profit, to use for those things as needed.

The GP proposal I replied to is a tax system which sets a legally required minimum profit margin, and then takes 100% of that required minimum as tax, though I expect the poster didn't think of it that way.

As the proposal is to force the company to make some profit percentage and take that directly from the company, the remaining profit the company can reinvest in growth, stability and job security is reduced. Aside from reducing the amount available to plow back, this also acts to amplify variance in profit from period to period, increasing instability in the company's finances. Reducing profit that can be used by the company and amplifying instability both reduce growth, job security, upward mobility etc. So much for understanding business.

It's also ridiculously harmful to the "food chain" because it would tend to destroy independent supply chain companies, and prevent new ones from being competitve.

The GP proposal takes the legally required minimum profit margin from every individual company in a supply chain, so the total tax taken is the required margin multiplied by the number of companies in the chain. I.e. more companies in a supply chain == proportionally more tax. This creates an extreme pressure to merge small supply chain companies into a giant conglomerates that pay less tax for the same task. I say extreme because it is: Merging brings a benefit of 10-100x tax saving.

If you like giant conglomerates that's fine, but if you want a food chain of independent companies, it's a disastrous policy.

The tax level in that proposal could be set low enough to allow small supply chain companies to survive without succumbing to tax pressure to merge, but if that was done, giant conglomerates would pay a tiny amount of tax, compared with small companies. There would still be a 10-100x tax advantage available to giant conglomerates. Since this entire discussion is a complaint about giant companies paying too little tax, presumably that is not the intended effect.

Some accounting could obviously be done to ensure giant companies pay a similar share to small companies in a chain doing the same thing, to remove the tax pressure to merge. But that's what we have already, that's corporation tax.
> The SolarWinds attack affected only something like 1% of their customers, when it could easily have been 50% or more!

If it was me (it was not), I’d use it to gain persistance in companies like Kaseya, extending my beachhead as first priority. After that is basically game over, cleaning it would take making new IT systems from scratch. And lets not forget firmware…
Ireland won't be able to hold out long.

I don't know about the others.
> And it is a lesser crime than murder.

As it should be. I never intended to imply otherwise.

> The original claim was that these particular capitol rioters could have actually destroyed the republic in that moment.

I think there is a reasonable chance that they could have, had the been able to murder the "enemies" on that day. What does that mean or look like? I don't know. But what happens when the only decision-makers left for our Republic are those that tacitly and explicitly supported this action, if not immediately then more and more in hindsight.
I don't think it's just rework, it's also any other future risks or difficulties implied by taking the easy way for now.

I should just edit the wikipedia page, but they won't accept edits from my current IP address.
https://ewasion.github.io/opendirectory-finder/

https://www.eyeofjustice.com/od/

https://opendirsearch.abifog.com/
See also, https://archive.vn/WVDGU and https://reclaimthenet.org/world-economic-forum-makes-censors...
>The article fails to mention that the “censored” outlets are state-owned.

That is not strictly true. Either that the FAIR article fails to acknowledge state ownership or that all of the media outlets are state owned.

The article acknowledges Press TV is an "Iranian state broadcaster". It also refers to RTS as a "Serbian state broadcaster".

It doesn't say RT America, Abu Dhabi TV, or Al Jazeera are state media, but one could charitably assume this is because it's common knowledge.

As to non-governmental media, it looks like all of the ones that are specifically mentioned in this article are state owned, but if you follow the link near the beginning, it has some others which seem not to be, e.g. LuaLua TV or Al Masirah.

The article does seem to concentrate on state-owned media, and to imply that impeding them or requiring people to register as foreign agents is an assault on free speech, which may not be a view that can get much traction with the American public.
That is hilarious, because BBY IT is basically two different IT departments (brick/mortar and dotcom) and they HATE EACH OTHER.

At the C-level, the brick/mortar IT group was more influential/ingrained/in-power, despite their absolutely idiotic outmoded IT management policies.

Since I've left, they still are doing financially ok, but it just seems like a company where suddenly the floor will fall out. Their stores just sell floor space to vendors who staff it with their own people IIRC.

That said, they're the last electronics retailer you can drive to, and we need _some_ competition to Amazon.
Any chance of a citation on this? I’m interested in reading more.
I had actually forgotten about that, but you're totally right that was an additional outrage. The media was even more to blame for that one. If they had reported results comprehensively, the super delegates would have been embarrassed into silence.
I think this should be the death knell of cryptocurrencies. Or at least exchanges that allow the exchange of them for fiat.
I have wondered if the best explanation for domestication syndrome and neoteny in humans is that our species was bred into existence as pets by another humanoid race.
> Honestly, I'm at the point where I hope you get your way

What is "my way"? That I want people who clearly intended harm to be subject to the consequences of that action (within our justice system and with the burden on the state to prove their guilt)? Is that so radical to you? I'm not asking anyone be hanged ffs. Nor am I advocating for any sort of detention for every person at the capitol that day. But this isn't something we should just try to forget, downplay, minimize, revise.
I expect it will lead to greater compliance than today, in the near future even if not today. Making tens of thousands of engineers understand the nuances of various licenses is infinitely more difficult than making copilot start taking better care of licensing requirements.
First we have to ask, "why does programming get harder as the project goes on?"

Let's say you are designing a system - any kind of system - with the philosophy that everything should be connected to everything else. Your first part goes in quick with no connections. Your second part goes in quick and has one connection. Your third part has to be connected in two places for it to work right, but that's not a problem. Your hundredth part has to be connected in a ninety nine places for it to work right, and now you're spending more time wiring than you are on making parts.

Then we ask, "what can we do when that happens?"

You have to put effort into the design of the system, reassigning duties and studying the nature of the problem it's solving, so that you lay down the connections along the true contours of the map, and not between every single component. Afterwards the next component you add has to be connected only to the three other things it's actually related to and you're back in business. This results in a period of time with no new features or even bugfixes, but afterwards you move faster.

Then we ask, "why do people call it debt?"

Because you pay interest on it when you have it, you run it up when you're short, and you better have a plan to pay it down or else you will go out of business.
I think you misread that comment as anger; it's satire. Your response hoists you even further by your own petard.
I feel the same. It’s just way too overwhelming.

Checkout Amna, it might be able to help (https://getamna.com).

It minimizes those browser windows away, and you can focus one thing at a time
SARS-CoV-1 happened in Guangdong in 2003.

The Bat CoVs that are likely part of its natural zoonotic reservoir were only found in 2013-2016 in Yunnan.
The Microsoft team at a company I used to work for tried to push this very software out onto all staff machines.

Our Platform Engineering team managed to push back on it based on the grounds that it was a serious security concern and is essentially an "enterprise" backdoor.

The following year the bulk of our team decided to resign move on to other employment - I was told Kaseya was rolled out to all machines shortly after.

Companies need to ensure that risks raised by senior engineering teams are taken into account before deploying company wide software.
Such a brave meme. It might carry some water if the same problem didn’t apply to every country with both open and closed source projects.
>The Chronicle analyzed Police Department incident report data from January 2018 through April 2021. [...] The data shows that shoplifting rates dipped at the start of the pandemic, when many stores shut down, and have since recovered to just below pre-pandemic levels.

Is sampling bias potentially at play here? If you know that calling the police wouldn't do anything, why would you bother reporting it?
Arguably the most famous block of code, of all time. Maybe fizzbuzz but there are so many flavors of it. And InvSqrt is way more memeable.

So I don't know if on this alone it proves Copilot regurgitates too much. I think other signs are more troubling, however, such as its tendency to continue from a prompt vs generate novelty.
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Some of the people who had 'enable' on the routers of AS1 in the mid to late 1990s are very much out there running senior network engineering things at some big ISPs and companies to this day. You might be surprised.
Interesting. For me (in the US), UHT was usually a failure - but as I said, I do it for only 6.5 hours. I could try doing it for longer, and I guess that's convenient for overnight. But otherwise, heating + 6.5 hours for regular milk is faster.

What I don't understand is: Why does heating + 6.5 hours work for non-UHT milk but not for UHT? It's not just me - I Googled at the time and many others had the same experience: UHT milk often fails. Like me, they all were doing 6-8 hours.

Googling now, I see lots of people arguing if UHT makes it harder to make yogurt or not. Personally, I'd like to see examples of people making decently thick yogurt (without straining) in under 7 hours with UHT (whether they scald or not).

This site[1] says there was a study done that showed unheated UHT was runnier than heated non-UHT. I didn't check the study to see how long they set it for.

This site[2] also points out that UHT for 10 hours was still quite runny. They had to add powdered milk to get it thicker.

[1] https://www.healwithfood.org/recipes/uht-milk-homemade-yogur...

[2] https://www.everynookandcranny.net/instant-pot-uht-milk-yogu...
Why is him preferring the GOP an issue? He's free to have his personal opinions and it's easy to understand why he wouldn't want Clinton to be president as she, probably as a joke, called for him to be drone striked.

And Assange seems like a misogynistic antisemite from what I've seen posted by Lee. Yet even he agrees that the US's attack is based solely on disliking his journalistic endeavors, and is an attack on a free press.
I feel like this is a bold claim. I understand this to mean that you assume without crypto there would be less of a way to get payed for attacks like these?

Or am I missing something here. Also, Do you have an evidence to support the argument: Crypto has increased cyber crime? (I hope that is an acceptable parse of your sentiment)
Especially in the US.
Did they leave it alone for days? The FBI seized the ransom (claiming it was left in a Coinbase account) so clearly someone was doing something.
Do you do 8 reports a day? I doubt it. Probably one report that says “multiple shoplifting episodes” and SFPD counts it as one incident.

The data capture is terrible.
Yeah, fitness tracking app Strava revealed a secret army base:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jan/28/fitness-tracki...
Microsoft, Apple, and Google seem to be doing ok.
I've heard of open pit mines, but they are generally used for existing technology that lithium will replace, for example coal. Lithium tends to be mined with brines.

You have a huge bias against EVs, you call them a "half-baked solution" without any qualifications. This is a very subjective judgement that is contradicted by the large number of EVs that are replacing every day usage for people, for commuting and road trips and every aspect of life that requires a vehicle.

It's beyond ridiculous to claim that EVs be a net negative for climate change. Even the fossil fuel PR machine isn't so bold to make such ridiculous counterfactua claims. At least the people paid to lie for fossil fuel companies say that it takes until many tens of thousand is miles until an EV makes up is carbon impact, but even that is a bald-faces lie.

So I'm short, you are manufacturing ridiculous claims, without any substance, that force people to deal with extra BS and counter your lies in the public sphere. Your comments here are a drain on the discussion, fact free accusations without any merit that you are using to naysay EVs and simultaneously out of the other side of your mouth say that you have nothing against them and even own one.

This is classic FUD from the old days. If you are not paid for your efforts, you are underselling yourself. Spreading such misinformation earns many people a paycheck.
I've found single core 5950x performance to be 20-30% faster in my ruby/rails benchmarks, vs my old 4 core Xeon (which had single core turbo at 4ghz).

Very happy with the upgrade
Without crypto, would it be impossible to extract cash from a company? What is the current mechanism used to get funds that the FBI can’t track down? Wire the money to a jurisdiction mostly out of our sphere of influence.
All high rises sway in the breeze
ye olde price=utility.
If there are other insurers involved, they should already be running the lawsuit against the scam insurance company. If it only took a week to find another building like this, Florida over the next five years is going to be very good for attorneys and very bad for insurers.
> So I have mixed feeling about what the DNC did.

A) By and large the DNC actually adhered to their own rules.

B) Why should the Democratic National Committee play nice with someone who isn't a Democrat?

1) Everybody seems to forget that while Bernie caucuses with the Democrats he isn't actually a part of the Democratic Party.

2) Everybody seems to forget that Bernie wasn't winning. When you're the underdog, losing well doesn't get you anything.
Host Here. Thanks for sharing.

Richard is a great story teller and adventures that SQLite has taken him on pretty interesting. I think he in on hn as well ( @SQLite).

One interesting thing I found about how SQLite is developed is the amount of testing that is done. Between unit tests and parameterized tests and fuzzer tests they are doing billions of tests per release and spending days running them before each release. I know I don't like to wait for a long CI build before I deploy a service but something like SQLite needs whole different category of resilience.
Ah but things like "security feel good feelings", being "in the cloud" and kickbacks are more important for the higher-ups in certain companies.

And of course, it's hard to believe the (upstream) companies responsible for these weak security practices will suffer any consequences
The damage to the building is presumably in the condo's common elements, so no I do not believe it would be covered by a individual homeowners policy. Their individual unit has no damage, it's the structure below the unit that needs repair.

The homeowners are out of luck until a claim is made on the master insurance policy.

This shouldn't actually be a problem because that's what the master policy is for but it sounds like something has gone wrong with making a claim.
Distill has been an amazing journal, and I appreciate the analysis for suspending operations. Distill provides a detailed explanation of what didn’t work
You're patching over problems with short term solutions instead of investing the time and effort to fix it "the right way".

Like when you need to fix all the support columns in your building, but instead of spending millions to take them down one at a time and replace the corroding rebar inside, you just patch over the exterior cracks. They will look fine from the outside and get the job done on a day to day basis, but they hide structural problems and one day that debt will come due. Most of the time it's in the form of a giant project to finally fix everything, but sometimes it's catastrophic failure.
He is on HN. It was a great segment.
Damnatio memoriae if you don't agree to apologize 10x, cut off a pinky finger, and agree with the "correct" agenda.

This is how inverse totalitarianism "executes" people.. disables their access, shuts them out, and erases them from existence.
Complete myth that those things are what makes the companies bleed money. It's like when people said we have remove paper money because small coffee shops in italy don't report their earnings. Added it's hard to imagine that those stores steel more money than Starbucks.

And just in case you come back with a calculation on the estimated number of coffee shops in italy compared to just Starbucks. Starbucks is obviously just of the institutionalized crooks.

This discussion is basically the same as guilt tripping peoples straw usage when the biggest offender is obviously the plastic industry.
did you try to click the reader-view icon?
Then pay more?
1.) Track and manage your money better

2.) Invest, DYOR and DCA

3.) Learn more foreign languages
Great podcast! I have been following it for a while. Can I ask how ended up starting it?
Thanks, that really is a great conversation.

I'm going to have to dig to see if he describes somewhere why Fossil is such a great fit for SQLite.
Information marketing about information products for knowledge work. My head hurts.
its like not combing or washing your hair to save time but it ends up turning into dreadlocks and then it still kinda serves as hair but is much harder to work with and untangle into other hairstyles.

"Softhwair", if you will :D.
Your comment seems to imply that I support Assange. Please read my comment again, carefully. You will notice that I said nothing about whether Assange or his actions are good or not. I tried only to refute the parent's claim that Wikileaks acted with partisanship when it released the emails.

"Simple people talk about people. Common people talk about events. Highly intelligent people talk about ideas."

Government transparency is necessary to prevent a never-ending dark age of fascism and suffering. Organizations like Wikileaks support democracy and thereby support human progress.

Assange is not a nice person and that doesn't matter. Julian Assange started and ran Wikileaks, and thereby contributed massively to the welfare of humanity.
Steam does emails correctly when it comes to login/registration; your email address is just a contact method for your account, and you can have multiple accounts with the same email address.

IMO, the only client-side validation that would be done on email addresses is to ensure it doesn't have a space in it and it has an @ in it, and maybe make sure someone isn't doing funny things without a hostname (disallow IP-based hosts).
What does this have to do with cryptocurrencies?
Wow thanks for the videos. In the first video, you're right its confusing that the new node jumps to the top left. What's happening is that you create a new node that has no connections, then the layout algorithm re-runs and places your node in the top left since it has no upstream dependencies. I should probably just disallow editing an empty cell that doesn't have any adjacent nodes or something, there isnt really any use case for it.

The |+| button is only activated if you have multiple nodes selected. Clicking it will add a new node thats placed inbetween the other nodes. Like A->B, (then click), will result in A -> new -> B. There's a html title on that button but you have to hover for a second to get the details.

Sorry for the json bug :/. That probably happened when serializing to the url. I'll have to try to reproduce it. Maybe I allowed you to introduce a cyclic connection or something.

For Scaffoldly:

How do you see it as compared to Netlify or Github pages for folks like myself just deploying a static site? At some point I'll build a backend but I don't need it yet.

Is there a way I can give some feedback without altering my aws/github accounts?

Thanks again for the detailed feedback.
Compute Engine Predictive Autoscaling
Thanks for listening! I'm glad you enjoyed it.
Most of them are structural steel and not twig thin.
There are (at least) three ways to consider "harmful" too.

+ Looking at screens is actually just hard on your eyes. You can make this better (eye relief screens, less brightness, make sure to look away from screens occasionally, blink...)

+ Spending a whole bunch of time staring at a screen may be a sign something else is going on - anxiety, depression, etc. The screen isn't the cause, it's just a form of escapism.

+ "Vegging" where you endlessly scroll memes or tiktoks or whatever the cool kids are doing these days. It's not quite relaxing, but it's not beneficial either. Especially with social media, it can actually be really anxiety causing.
That has been a consideration in the AV software I recommend to friends, family, and professionally as an informal part of my threat assessment model.

I viewed it as safer to buy products from anywhere other than someone that has ANY potential at all to go to war with the government of the country I live and work in. I really hope it never happens, but 'cold war' tensions might be waged with little cyber attacks and that software came to mind as a risk.
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Sure - but the harassment and problems that encounter even after judicial scrutiny is finished and resolved that the law wasn't legit doesn't stop the harassment, financial, emotional, and reputational cost that will be incurred.

Just because something doesn't hold up to judicial scrutiny doesn't stop TX from passing anti-abortion laws all the time and making it very difficult for women.
Wire transfers themselves are straightforward to track, due to something called SWIFT. That’s one reason “money laundering” is a thing: it exists to obfuscate the trail of the money being traced.
The practical utility will outweigh the legal concerns. Engineers using this are going to be more productive and this is a competitive advantage that companies won't eschew.
No legal come up to you and say stuff like:

"You guys aren't using any free software are you? Because you can't do that."

"You mean copying software source code without respecting the license, right? Because we absolutely respect all licenses fully."

"No I mean you can't use Free software! It's a clear management directive! What are you doing?!?"

"Is that an apple laptop you're using there? Ever had a look at the software licenses for it?"

Legal are generally idiotically ignorant about the real issues. Whose fault that is we can argue about.
These attacks didn't exist before crypto.