skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>For more than a year, Mr Ghosn spent long periods in custody or was held under house arrest in Tokyo after being bailed. It was not clear when a trial would take place - the fear was it could take years - and Mr Ghosn faced a further 15 years in prison if convicted, in a country which has a 99.4% conviction rate.

>It was during a period of house arrest, when Mr Ghosn was told he would not be allowed to have any contact with his wife, Carole, that he decided to find a way out.

Holy cow - that's an insane system for a 'modern western democracy'...
The Indian rule seems to require all data be stored strictly inside India, without any of it being stored outside the country. The EU permits data to be transferred outside the EU under a number of circumstances: e.g. if the other country has equivalent data protection laws, if the non-EU company you're transferring the data to has promised to abide by the EU rules, stuff like that. Take this with a grain of salt, of course, because I'm not a lawyer, but that's how I understand it.
The third one went out after the vaccine was widely available. Honestly with expanded unemployment benefit we didn’t even need the second one.
They don't. If you paid any attention to the Fed whatsoever, then you can see they're watching the situation very closely and signalling to markets that they'll take action when needed.

Monetary policy isn't some secret. It's pretty easy to follow.
> Any bet on the future is speculation

This is not true. Speculation is specifically referring to the situation where you are betting specifically because you think the bet you made will result in positive financial return.
> "The reality is the Japanese were dead scared (also of the incoming Soviets) and were looking to surrender."

Anytime one hears the "the Japanese were looking to surrender" narrative, it should be understood that, even being generous, it's a half-truth that isn't borne out by a closer examination of the historical record, which even Japanese historians interviewing wartime Japanese officials, who had every possible reason to want to save face for their country, don't contradict.

The reality is that while, yes, there was a peace faction in the Japanese government who did want to surrender but the ultranationalistic Japanese military was quite firmly in control and was very much _not_ interested in surrendering, even at the cost of millions of Japanese military and civilian casualties involved in continuing the war. The aim (and preference of all factions) would have been a peace treaty that let Japan keep its ill-gotten gains in Asia. It took a direct order from the Emperor to initiate the surrender, over the objections of the military, and even then a coup attempt was made by fanatics willing to defy even the Emperor in an attempt to prevent the surrender proclamation from being broadcast (the Kyuujou incident).
vs. ejecting batteries turns the aircraft into a bomber. The Air Force drop fuel tanks from some aircraft but I have no idea how much trouble they get into for doing that. [1][2]

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZfjyVbcJDI [video]

[2] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXEyETZU8ag [video]
That's valid, but writing blatant incendiary opinion pieces titled "There’s a Word for What Trumpism Is Becoming" isn't helping. People should look at Trump being deplatformed from the big social media sites, how much of a resounding success it was, and do that: deplatform their crummy opinions about him being spread. Stick straight to the news.
The Design of Everyday Things is a great book, but I feel a little bad that his name got attached to things that violate everything he pushed for :-)
Maybe it's a reasonable design decision. How often is the car going in reverse? Should you really be fiddling with the UI when the car is in reverse? Sure there could be a passenger, but is it such an inconvenience?
The bigger trouble is going to be convincing people who want to deliberately accelerate climate change, either because it will hurt the people they hate, or can be used as casus belli for the next resource war. "The problem is too many people, luckily we have a solution!" and other horrifying shit like that.

A bunch of people here are getting into the technological solutions to this problem, but I really think the even bigger challenge is the social/cultural barriers to implementing even a proven technology.
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What are/was the effects of GDPR in EU? Also, did it lead to a huge increase in the spendings for MasterCard?
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>We can't make a simulation that changes the result of infinite series.

Huh? It's trivial to do so. You just give the simulation the appropriate algebra that applies to all their measurements.

Not more difficult than setting 12=66 to programming languages that allow it (there are some, it can also be done in others like Python through some trickery [1]), and thus changing all the subsequent calculations done there.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/2441cv/can_you_chan...
typically the US would raise interest rates to combat inflation, however the federal reserve has refused and cited this to be "transient" inflation, an assertion thats really more wishful thinking.

the real reason the fed cant raise interest rates is because it never gave up quantitative easing after the 2008 housing collapse. raising interest rates would blow up the corporate credit bubble.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_debt_bubble
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This isn't true. For example, current UK government bonds (denominated in £) have a yield of 0.674%, but inflation even before the post-covid increase was around 1.8%.
Book author here. Ask me anything.

I have a blog of the same name: https://davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain/

And a second book, about Facebook's Libra.
Why would WASM have garbage collection? It's an assembly target, not a runtime. What if languages would want different memory management strategies?

I know it's an existing proposal for WASM, but it feels so massively out of scope. If the issue is having to include runtimes in the WASM binary it might be more useful to think about how we could serve runtimes in a more efficient way.
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Also no escape from market analysis.

Sales and marketing have more integrity in the real world when it comes down to meeting needs, not what a group decides.
Jumping from FizzBuzz to Doom is quite the leap!

It reminded me of the meme "howbro draw an owl":
1. Draw 2 circles
2. Draw the rest of the f**ing owl
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Please explain your thesis, how does CPI inflation help blue collar / service workers recover?
Sadly the Dutch have their own problems now and probably need to focus all of their efforts on their own coastline like the rest of us, unless you think they can export "an integrated approach, in which all stakeholders are involved in finding solutions for climate change issues" to other countries like the U.S. that are "more individualistic." https://www.pbs.org/wnet/peril-and-promise/2019/07/dutch-bar...
Thanks, I see. At least with `:adjust-log-time` you can make it work!

With my old log merging program, you had to supply a regex with groups for the different timezone components and optionally a UTC offset. That worked really well but was a pain to set up. Typically I was using it to look at the same format of files all the time though, so in practice it wasn't that bad.

I'm not really a C/C++ person but maybe I'll try and hack on lnav a bit and see if I can figure out how to add timezone support.
Maybe. Those benefits are usually more efficient for the employee and the employer via tax/accounting advantages and economies of scale. Eliminating such benefits directly impacts the bottom line of the employee, and increasing cash sufficiently to result in the same effective pay results in higher employer costs. Are the benefits of decoupling worth that increased friction?

For some examples like health benefits I think the answer is probably yes -- the fact that worse health care is twice as expensive without an employer (even if you personally pay the full cost) seems like an artifact of a broken system as opposed to some real benefit being provided -- even people who disagree with universal healthcare should agree on that point.

Other examples like free food and a gym/shower at the office aren't as clear cut in my mind. It's really nice to be able to bike to the office, not smell like ass when I start working, and have breakfast ready when I get there.

Plus I'm not sure eliminating those benefits would actually result in a 4-day work week. You still have per-employee overhead purely from hiring/retention efforts and whatnot, and there's a lot of inertia to the 5-day week.
How can we vote a certain way on fed policy? Voting has no impact on the fed. I thought the consensus was we need to allow companies to fail. The fed has absolutely manipulated what it means to have risk (making all investment zero risk) which has clearly created more inequality. There is also clearly a correlation between QE and asset prices exploding, or do you believe these current valuations are perfectly rational?
I agree that the easiest solution is to not collect the data, but I've worked at places that dealt with sensetive data and those limited who could see that data and when. Having procedures whereby anyone accessing sensetive data for oncall debugging work needs to inform at least one other person helps (and people not running production apps should not have access at all).

Besides that it feels like facebook never tried to create a culture within its company that respected customers privacy, so that will lead to people with already shaky moral compasses having a easier way to justify (for themselves) this sort of violation.

Your suggestion that the only solution is to not collect the data makes a lot of services impossible, including all banking, mapping, social media, and so on. Some services need that data to provide services that we want to be possible so lets make sure those are run in ethical ways.
I like canned tomato juice but never buy it because it's expensive. But on a plane it's "free" so I'll drink as much as I like thank you very much.
You can channel hop LoRa to massively increase the practicable duty cycle. I think voice could be in the realm of possibility.
>>A judge is called "objective" because they clearly articulate the inputs, scope, weightings and broader implications they considered to arrive at their outputs.

Even a judge has limits on comprehensiveness and objectivity. No human judge has perfect knowledge of every law in the United States. When making law, judges choose to uphold stare decisis in most cases but overturn decisions in others because of a certain gravitation towards certain interpretations that largely remain unarticulated. The latter is not done out of some "special" knowledge unobtainable by AI, but by the very subjectivity an AI is meant to rule out in its own considerations.

In contrast, an AI judge could provide an exact numerical weighting and ranking to the sources it cited or present the conditions under which there would be contradictions between one law and another if one were to rule in a certain way. AI doesn't have to be a black box. If done right, it can be most transparent and revealing legal tool to have ever been created.
Apparently no one in modern UX design got the memo that Norman Doors are actually a bad thing.
Indian and Filipinos Americans earn significantly more than “white” Americans on average.
The US government has many tools at its disposal - sanctions, tariffs, supplier policy, etc.

But culturally we can do a lot more. Western filmmakers, actors, and athletes should not censor themselves (or allow themselves to be censored) to avoid irritating China. There could be a BDS-like movement against China. The media and activists could spend some cycles focusing on the genocide occurring in China in between much lower stakes issues that get disproportionate attention.
> From Tokyo, Mr Ghosn travelled by bullet train to Osaka where a private jet was waiting at the local airport to depart.

How I escaped Japan in a private jet
Yeah, you need ME to do any useful things in the real world. Like try repeatedly making the same robot without any MEs on your team.
I think the goal is only to have an early warning of medical issues, rather than finding a causal effect and preventing the issues.
It works on my iPhone too
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Large train stations are far more common than large airports in Europe, so you got this the wrong way around.
Browser extension is easiest, https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/greasemonkey/
> Isn't iCloud data backed up on Chinese servers?

Honestly, this sounds like you are lying intentionally to spread misinformation.

You are clearly informed and have a strong opinion. I find it hard to believe that you don’t know that only Chinese users data is backed up on Chinese servers.

If I’m wrong and you didn’t know this, please accept my apology in advance.
Can you stop spamming Show HN?
Yes, it is. You either need to entirely fork your operation to have it operate entirely within India, or be extremely careful with how you store your data, and store the data only in India, but process it in other data centers without ever having it touched disk. Which I believed means you can never even log the data.
Yes, and they didn't improve at all. AMD outperformed Intel on an even weaker process, TSMC 14nm.
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> the subscriptions are now required to be paid monthly by people

I have a bunch of subscriptions (App Store, JetBrains, AWS etc.,) which continue to seamlessly go through without me having to explicitly authorise each month.

I suspect there is a fine print/subtext to that subscriptions rule that isn't accessible to public.
Some of this should be taught in public schools then - unfortunately we are spending more time teaching "woke" concepts in math these days. Maybe we should return Home Economics without the "women in the kitchen" aspect.
I feel the same way. I find it very odd that GC is something that WASM ever intends to think about. If shipping your entire runtime sucks, find a smaller runtime?
I've had that same conversation, but subsititute FileMaker for Access (no access to Access on a Mac). I can run anything I want on my own Mac, but there's no way to make it shareable with the rest of the office.
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Cons: It's difficult. It's time consuming. I have less time for my hobbies. I get less sleep. I have more arguments with my wife. I save less money. I see my friends less. I rarely go out to the pub anymore. It is a huge sacrifice.

Pros: All the cons and everything else.

Conclusion: My daughter has been the greatest gift I have received.
I love this. One suggestion, instead of dedicated keys for ctrl, option and other modifier keys you can use 'permissive hold' in QMK to put modifier keys in your home row.

Hold down F or J for F Lock, D or K for Ctrl and so on. My fingers adjusted to it really fast. Your keys can act as modifiers when held, and normal keys when pressed and it is works super well.

https://beta.docs.qmk.fm/using-qmk/software-features/tap_hol...
After the stimulus checks I saw a lot of television boxes out at the curb when it was trash day. YMMV
For the record, I mentioned Vietnam and Iraq not in the context of the present day, but because a significant proportion of Americans were very outspoken about those wars as they were happening.

You're right, it's harder to remain actively informed about the day-to-day military action that accumulates into something awful. Even when we know about it, our political system doesn't give enough opportunities to give fine-grained feedback about specific issues. Usually the national conversation is dominated by culture war issues, and I can't help but feel that it's an intentional distraction so the public will forget that we're plundering the middle east etc..

But at least I am free to voice my opinion, and to bother all my friends and family about geopolitics when given the opportunity.
DeFi is crippled by design. It can't really do anything useful, because it doesn't support property rights. Any serious discussion about DeFi should start by acknowledging this basic fact.
Consider the following alternate universe experiment:

Wrap a piece of string around a circular object.Straighten it out and measure its length.Measure the distance between the center and the edge of the circular object.Then
observe that the ratio between these two measurements is 12

How would observers in this universe recognize that this ratio is not correct?
I just wish that the getting started with them (for designers) wasn't "Step 1: start by logging into Figma"
It's not about selling vs. not selling.

The way to sell a scientific paper should be with precision and honesty about what conclusions you get. Academics should have the expertise to reject dishonest descriptions of the paper's object. That not happening on practice shows a failure on the education institutions.
> from 2014 to August 2015.

Everyone here is unsurprised by this and at this point I expect the social networks to just abuse my user data anyway. They won't change and they will never stop this.

Who is to say that this is already happening with the other social networks that are scooping up our data but in 5 years time will only admit their actions afterwards.

Maybe they are all doing this as we type.

To Downvoters: So you think that these social media companies are NOT abusing our data? There's tons of evidence of this everywhere, including this confession.

There can only be one explanation of why I'm getting downvoted heavily of an undeniable known fact and it is likely that it is by those working at these companies because they know that I am right and the point still stands regardless of any downvotes (and censoring of the truth).
I think you're simplifying it by a lot.
Israel is not about "being able to do anything about" (they arguably can't do much about Israel in the sense of destroying it or changing it's policy). If that was the explanation they wouldn't call out the U.S (or sometimes Europe), yet they do (e.g Mohammed Cartoons).

The geography is also not a good explanation. The Mohammed Cartoons, which happened in Denmark, made Muslims go out to the streets all throughout the world.

My explanation for "why Israel" is another comment on this thread.
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I'm quite sure that Walter Bright is though ;)
In the same way, we could say there were people who “missed out” on buying Pets.com stock and selling it before it peaked. It doesn't invalidate the point of view of people who were Pets.com skeptics on the ride up.

Of course, the question then becomes whether Bitcoin will be more like Pets.com or whether it will climb higher. I have a guess, but I don't claim to know for sure.
Ostensible the Fed is supposed to be an independent inflationary guard. (Yes, dual remit, but fair as a blanket statement)

They could raise interest rates to break inflation, even at the cost of economic pain and forcing government to rebalance its books.

Nobody was happy with Volcker, but once inflation gets rolling, no one believes you're serious until you take a tire iron to the economy's kneecap. And tell them (loudly) that you'll be back tomorrow for the other one. Or, you could take less pain now and avoid the worst future version.
I was professionally close with an engineer who used to work on a (rapidly dwindling headcount) team responsible for the programs and related QA for mission critical flight safety systems. Think one of the big manufacturers.

The eng dealt with:

The standard was scripts with mutable variables such as `G == , B == , C == , redefine G as something else later` responsible for the processes around pretty critical airplane innards.

QA down to 1 or 2 headcount, and those 1 or 2 also doing the above program writing.

Zero hand-off once leaving the job on the mission critical QA the eng was responsible for, not for lack of effort on the engs part. Managers not aware the eng was leaving until day-of.

I could go on and on, but the point: I'm not sure how I feel about the safety of airplane travel after the above, but at least the engines were internal combustion so somewhat tied to physics vs. programming logic. A future with electric airplanes scare me a bit though. The software in them is aggressively, poorly done. I know airplanes are designed w/ fail-safes on the fail-safes and that eng had their own limited view of a complex system. But, it was bad.
How does the Oxycontin debacle fit into your theory here?
This is a pretty widespread issue I'd imagine, we just don't hear about it or people aren't caught.

I know they've been locked down since I've left, but some of the tools we were allowed to just freely access at Uber were a tad scary, to say the least.

I'm sure every company with a very large userbase, such as Facebook/Microsoft/Google/etc claim they have internal protections/checks but have even more holes like this.
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I hope they avoid situations like the SameSite=None debacle[0] if they are going to freeze the User Agent header and not provide an alternative.

The assertion of Mozilla seems to be:

>At the time sites deploy a workaround, they can’t necessarily know what future browser version won’t have the need for the workaround. Can we guarantee only retrospective use? Do Web developers care enough about retrospective workarounds for evergreen browsers?

When there are significant numbers of users on devices like iPads that don't get updated any more, you can't rely on "evergreen browsers".

[0] - https://www.chromium.org/updates/same-site/incompatible-clie...