skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What is sad is I think as generations go by people will be more willing to accept it. All we need is crisis after crisis to get people to trade freedom for safety bit by bit. Create a crisis where billions are stolen because "the system is broken", offer up social credit and a new monetary system as a solution, have the AP and Reuters send the same propaganda copy to all the news institutions for them to recite in unison with a new repeated phrase like "mutuality" followed by "this is the new normal", call the minority of dissidents "reactionaries" or "right wing", and your new mechanism of authoritarian control can be installed (literally) without any meaningful fight.
* turns us off enough
> This is a bad idea.

Why did you have to add this? The rest of your post raises a valid point and then suggests a way to address it.

Is one small addressable flaw enough to render the rest of the project "a bad idea"?
I find it completely hard to believe with the way that I live my life that I am eventually in quotes going to get covid. I would have to go out of my way and inconvenience myself in some unfathomable change of daily routine and life for me to get covid eventually. So have fun making generalizations
False dichotomy. You left out the obvious US style republic with heavily enforced rights that can't be voted away.
They run to Europe because we bombed Libya and continue the economic warfare and exploitation against the entire continent.

The Cold War was also won with coups and invasions and death squads and infiltration. What you see now is entirely in character with western imperialism, merely turning inwards as it collapses.
The article is about a post on the IMF's blog by Arnoud Boot, Peter Hoffmann, Luc Laeven, Lev Ratnovski [1], which itself is basically just summarizing a more detailed working paper by the same authors [2].

The working paper doesn't really contain any original research (at least on this topic); they cite a single paper by Tobias Berg, Valentin Burg, Ana Gombović, Manju Puri [3]. The IMF working paper/blog post concludes, on the basis of this paper, that a system "powered by artificial intelligence and machine learning" (ugh) can improve credit assessments using features such as "the type of browser and hardware used to access the internet".

I feel kind of depressed that this needs to be said, but...

1. There is no causal link between user-agent and loan repayment.

2. Attaching high-value signals such as credit scores to such easily spoofed data as user-agent and browsing history has some amazingly obvious problems that are never mentioned.

The level of technological and statistical incompetence on display here is rather astounding, and it's difficult for me to take any of this seriously even before the ethical questions begin.

This is part of an ongoing trend I've noticed: the quality of human capital in financial services seems to be in rapid decline. The cream of the crop was scraped off by huge tech companies on the industry side. On the academic side, all the top students are choosing CS PhD programs instead of econ/finance and top-tier faculty are leaving core econ/business/finance/etc. departments for specialized institutes/departments. And even within finance, already degraded, the under-60 talent that does remain isn't doing stuff like loan origination or credit risk assessment for obvious reasons.

I think it's time to start strictly regulating things like credit scores. If not for reasons of privacy/equality, at least merely because the entire industry seems to be incompetent and getting worse.

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[1] https://blogs.imf.org/2020/12/17/what-is-really-new-in-finte...

[2] https://www.imf.org/en/Publications/WP/Issues/2020/08/07/Fin...

[3] https://academic.oup.com/rfs/article/33/7/2845/5568311
Yeah, much better to live under the tyranny of the minorities like in the West.
But are regular users aware of any of that? Do they know how app publishing works at all? Do they know about the absolute disgrace that is the app review process and the "guidelines" it follows? Do they know they can't sideload apps? Do they know every single binary that an iOS device runs has to be signed by Apple?

I bet they don't. And Apple would've lost some part of their user base if they were honest about this with their users, not just developers.

Though around me in particular, many people became acutely aware of that in 2016 when Pokemon Go became huge and those with iPhones found out they can't just download the game from somewhere else and install it to bypass the geographical restrictions in the app store. Some made separate Apple IDs for a country where it was available. Many were envious to those who use Android, because you'd just download an apk and be done with it.
Swedish sources do state that the bitcoin came from selling drugs.

https://sverigesradio.se/artikel/domda-knarklangare-far-mang...
>- The program received a LOT of donations. While the facility we lived at was in disrepair, the administration building was brand new and well designed. I remember the program director having many nice watches and cars.

This is unfortunately par for the course across these sorts of nonprofits, religious or not, rehab or not. The profits that help special needs kids and the elderly are unfortunately no different. All the money goes to those at the top. Generally speaking, the less directly the state is funneling "customers" to them the less slimy a given organization is.

>Honestly, spending almost a year isolated gave me enough time to think about what I wanted in life and motivate me to do something with my future.

And then what happened?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverted_totalitarianism
"Life expectancy" and all the related misunderstandings bundled into a theory.
I find the no-low-code trend really interesting, because it shines a light on the difference in perspective between programmers and non-programmers. It's generally assumed that "code is complex", and therefore that's where the complexity lies in producing software. It's a reasonable assumption if you're looking at it from the outside, but anyone who codes knows that complexity is, well, complex.
> small amount of unsafe code

You can for example have a C API accepting a Option<&mut A> if A is repr(c) and sized. This is possible due to the guarantees &mut A has about it's
representation (if A is..) and the guarantees `Option`
has about it's representation wrt. non-null values.

While such pattern exposes a often fully safe rust C-ABI API it has some drawbacks mainly that C is required to make sure the pointer they pass in is valid (null or aligned, allocated and initialized).

You can take this a step further an only accept a `&mut A` BUT that is a bit dangerous as now C calling rust with a null-pointer leads to unsound rust, as rust assumes &mut A is never null.

Another gotcha is wrt. owned heap allocated data, as you need to make sure the same alocator is used for allocating and de-allocating it. Again nothing new, but in C you often doge that issue. (E.g. if you allocate, and initialize a *A in C and then pass it to rust as a Box<A> you need to be very careful that you never drop that box in rust). Through Rust is currently getting support for keeping track of non-default/non-global allocators in the standard library, and you could always setup a global/default allocator which defers to libcs malloc/free.
1. sizeof(int) and sizeof(float) are both 32-bit on most current systems

2. Unicode is (currently) only 21-bit.

3. UCS-4 (aka 32-bit char) rarely helps because in most cases you either a) don't really care about characters (most software) and can use substrings as well or b) code points are an insufficient grouping and you need variable length units anyway for grapheme clusers (text rendering and editing).
Cool, reminds me of Codex Seraphinianus
If you view the page source: "Hugo 0.55.6 with theme Tranquilpeak 0.4.3-SNAPSHOT"
One thing this really points out is how products that's ultra-hackable and ultra-customizable are often more expensive than typical mass-produced, ultra-cost-shaved alternatives.

IE, the Ploopy mouse costs $130, but a generic wired mouse costs $13.

I'm tempted to buy a Ploopy mouse because it has dedicated copy & paste buttons... (I don't think I'd ever hack it.) But then again, it has a cord! I personally was a holdout and kept using a wired mouse long after everyone cut their cord, but I don't want to go back to a wire. (And I don't want to hack the mouse to be cordless.)
DDG doesn't seem to include pinterest in their image search, hopefully that will continue.
But... how is this easier than the solution proposed by OP?
Delegation of responsibilities. If you are running a website that is sure to set the world on fire, there should be a succession plan in case you're stuck in prison.
You could technically do these online without breaking the lockdown.
Ask HN: Software engineers who have been promoted with a large salary increase?
I'm at a younger stage in my career (25), and at least in my experience, I've always had to find another offer at another company to get a large salary increase. I've been "promoted" within the company before, but that only came with a 3% raise. Just curious what the experience is for more senior engineers out there, are there still tech companies who give substantial raises with promotions?
Oh I just realized they meant inner tube and not top tube (I was confused about that while reading it)

Yeah an inner tube for $35? And it's not even those fancy orange ones?

Well it's not hard to change it yourself, as long as they're not charging more than $4 for a basic ones. If they are actually selling it for $35 that's pretty yikes. I'd just buy it online given that it doesn't benefit from retail (you don't need to see a tube in person, just need to know the dimensions)
These types of agreement are relatively common in some manufacturing environments, and are often called "take or pay." In essence you're reserving capacity.

What's interesting to me about this one is that I fundamentally believe that both:

- Cloud computing will be increasingly commoditized, with lower cost providers emerging in the next 3-5 years

- More companies of scale will go back to building their own infrastructure as a cost savings project.

For Amazon, I think the incentive is as much about locking in revenue as it is locking in "demand" - helps with their demand planning of how much more to build out.
A trite phrase like that bespeaks thoughtlessness.

Suppose you got the time, but didn't do any crime?

Suppose your crime never hurt anyone? [e.g. third-strike cannabis possession]
This is all I've been trying to reply to people about in this. I'm already disabled I already collect SSI I'm already basically agoraphobic and if I somehow magically get covid even though I don't put myself at risk I'm just going to be even more disabled just the odds are not in my favor for this at all and it's not my doing or my fault. But everyone here seems to just be ignoring this and I don't understand it I don't think all of the nerds on this website are actually as smart as they say they are and I think they're just good at rote memorization and repetition
From 2019, should be tagged with the date
The big question is can you do this over RDP, without physical access.
"Why are you putting on running shoes? You can't outrun a bear!"

"I don't have to outrun the bear, I only have to outrun you."
'I Never Imagined Myself Doing This': Lance Reddick on America's book of Secrets
What on earth do they need that for?
Furthermore, not to discount that the program is literally feeding and preaching to these people.

So, aside from the power disparity (send them back to jail on a whim), there's an omnipresent opportunity to propagandize whatever you want.

And I'm pretty sure CAAIR isn't spending a lot of time talking to people about how chicken processing is hard, backbreaking, unsafe work, and prison is a viable option.
This is bizarre. I don't live in the US and have questions.

a) how do they acquire users' web history? Do they purchase it from ISP?

b) how do they know what ISP to ask?

c) how does the ISP know my web history? Last time I checked, almost all websites I visit use https, so the only thing they can see is domain, not /pathname/

d) how does it feel to poke your nose where it doesn't belong?
Similar story in the UK.

People are sick and tired of Amazon deriving huge profits out of the UK market ($17.5 billion in 2019) and paying just a minuscule amount of tax on those UK sales (£6.3 million in 2019) using a mixture of clever accounting techniques (not available to other businesses) and funnelling profit out via subsidiaries in low tax jurisdictions (Luxembourg).
For a print this size, I wouldn't use resin. I imagine he used FDM. You might want to consider printing food-related items in PLA. The ridges do present a problem, but could be mitigated by sanding or coating (again, food-grade).
Interesting Facts about the Taj Mahal
If I own the device, why does it have a lock to which I do not have a fucking key?

"I sold him the car, officer! I just refuse to give him the keys to actually start it."
Is it ok? I think it should be but in my experience it doesn’t often seem to be. A mid level developer who has been mid level for many years and doesn’t want to become senior level is probably more senior than he/she realizes, but even if they forever continue as a true mid level developer, that needs to be ok. Same with junior level.

I had a career before software and I knew many people twice my age whom I was “better” than at our jobs, and no one ever thought to fire that person because they weren’t ambitious enough. It’s accepted in many industries that many people won’t get promoted this decade, nor will they be let go. That isn’t always good but I think on the whole it’s more good than bad.
A hearing aid is an FDA approvable medical device that needs the FDA approval to be sold.
Makers of these devices zealously guard their turf with FDA police(whatever enforcement branch this is, I do not know) and items with an intrinsic cost of materials of $50 or so, go for thousands via ranks of licenced audiologists.
A dispensed hearing aid user has their audio sensitivity mapped via audiometers, and the amplifier is made to map to their remaining response sensitivity curve - in theor to give them normal hearing (if possible, some frequency hair cells may have atrophied or been killed by intense sound at some point - in which case they do the best they can.
Recently a number of patents have expired, so lower cost mapped hearing aid have emerged. You can buy from China for $50-150 (some have mappability, the cheap ones are just an in ear microphone and amplifier. Care must be taken to make sure that you do not crank up the volume too much = more damage.
these guys are in the middle.
https://www.bose.com/en_us/products/headphones/earbuds/sound...
This tripe is straight up Qanon incel crap.

You would be best to keep scrolling past this.
I am using Emacs as my development tool almost exclusively. The biggest advantage to me is, that Emacs supports all languages and most file formats. I work in an environment, where I have certainly main languages, but also occasionally have to edit files from other languages or very varying text format. Emacs is one of the few tools which supports them all. And if not, can be easily tweaked to do so.

When I edit Java code, I of course grab for IntelliJ, but I am not doing much of Java any more. Yet, immediately I noticed, that while the Java support is great, you have to switch tools quickly when you want to edit something else than Java.

Emacs is very customizable, even if it is some effort, long time it is worth it. And I think Emacs is still way more optimized to be usable without a mouse than most IDEs. Reaching for the mouse is a distraction.

Finally, Emacs runs in almost any conceivable environment. If you have to switch to a different machine, sometimes with a different OS, it is easy to get an Emacs there if it isn't installed already, but getting your favorite IDE there is another task (if it is available at all).
I may be getting old, but can someone tell me how I can display more than the first ten companies on that Dealroom website (desktop browser)?
I'm surprised that static content is where AWS is competitive for you, considering the high egress pricing ($20/TB is the lowest advertised price for cloudfront).
I sometimes wonder about these huge deals like this...

Is there a bunch of AWS sales people who just became instantly "Fuck You Money"-rich as part of their sales commission on this deal?

I don't know how it works in FAANGS for sales commission, but I've heard of 5-10% being "normal"... so sales comp on this deal @ 5% comp is 150 mil? If so, are there loads of sales people just kicking around waiting for their "one big sale" and then insta-quit and go live on their own private island?

And if commission is capped, then surely the flip side is now there are loads of disgruntled sales people sitting around spitting teeth and annoyed that they just pulled in 3 billion for the company but they "only" got 100K capped-commission or whatever and so rage-quit and go somewhere else?

Anyone know how this sort of thing pans out?
Culture and family are strong.

Say what you want about any place, but it's home to someone. And their kin.

Not everyone's a traveller.
.... yea im sure it has nothing to do with the massive deadly riots that tore apart parts the country ... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
The title should read "Saudi puppet government in Bahrian hacks activists etc." Bahrain has been under effective Saudi military occupation for a while now.

Also, and as the article points that even regardless of the Saudi involvement - Bahrain is an autocracy. So it's not like it's all the KSA's fault.
It's not, but it's my response to the problem discussed by the parent comment.
It's a great book, I think Bob Young recommended it to me at Linux expo in 1995 or 1996? Amusingly, that book recommendation is one of the only things I remember from the conference and it's totally linux-unrelated. :)

I would have found history in school much more interesting if it reflected the content of that book.
Thanks for the correction, I mixed up the article's description of their existing clusters and their upcoming clusters.
Those over at https://patriots.win have been claiming this has been the plan for years. A slow move to a CCP style credit system and world government, led by the IMF (control through finances) and WHO (health experts managing governance)

Even the vice chair of Berkshire Hathaway has said he wanted a Chinese style system (among many others):

https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/30/investing/charlie-munger-chin...

It’s been real interesting to watch the conspiracy theories blend and become reality in some cases.

Personally, I think it’s more of a lose collection of similar minded people leading to certain conclusions and/or outcomes. But it does feel like an economic victory in civilization ...
Microsoft did not invent UTF-16 (which in fact is just a retcon of UCS2), they were just early adopters of Unicode and UTF-8 didn't exist yet.
Bunch of nerd programmers don't want to face reality is what that is. They want to be concerned about their kids that they can't take care of during the day because the place that they work for isn't doing remote anymore so they have to go into work or they need the kids to go to school because they can't pay attention because they are remoting. So you have that weirdness going on. So obviously the kids can't wear masks because that's just more hassle for them because they need to sit at home and they need to work and that's not their fault that they need to work it's just because we don't have basic income because no one wants basic income because everyone wants to justify themselves as needing to be productive and needing to be paid and needing to be worth something. I'm just going to go off a hacker news I'm sorry that I'm I've just been reading this whole entire thread all morning since like 7:00 a.m. EST
> That class was just a lost cause.

Nice use of social recursion.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_Cause_of_the_Confederac...
Market Data Is Social Data: Fractals to Topological Data Analysis
> Cost of living

This is the big one. I live in a major metropolitan area in a swing state, and my jaw drops whenever I see how low the costs for property, rent, housework, materials, and gasoline are in traditionally red states.
Don’t Force People to Come Back to the Office Full Time
Retool for Startups
Who is gonna stop them?

If a majority of a country wants this, we have to literally murder the majority of a country.

We also talk about these countries like they are functioning democracies. They are not. In a functioning democracy, it is against the constitution for a majority to vote over minority rights.

Should we bomb a constitution into them?

All over the world people fought to be free, against tyrants, kings, foreign suppressors. The people in these countries will want freedom as much as everyone else. They will figure it out. I think we are stopping this process from happening through our interference.

We force upon them a democracy they have not brought on themselves, and we often enough prop up corrupt politicians. The President of Afghanistan fled the country in a helicopter stacked with cash, the Army abandoned their posts. Democracy let the Afghans down.
Ask HN: Are you using Canary Deployment? Are you happy with it?
I don't remember hearing much about wealth when I read about Calvinism in college. I remember that the elect were predestined to do good works and go to heaven, and that's it.

The intriguing thing for me about the philosophy was that, yea, you're predestined so you in theory could do whatever you want, but if you're not doing good works, you're probably not one of the elect.

Where did you read that Calvinists believe that the elect were also bestowed wealth? Was this a widespread belief? I'm genuinely interested, this is new to me.
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That's not that big a deal since the UK is essentially cut off from foreign countries by water (except for northern Ireland, but there's already a ton of exceptions around that...) I wouldn't be too surprised if foreign plates got pulled over randomly just because it's so rare.
No idea why you're getting downvoted, unless the corporate drones from the company that abandoned you (a loyal customer, as far as I can tell) are trying to do damage control
Multicast is semi-broken on most networks, and devolves into pure broadcast on the current LAN or VLAN in most cases. This in turn causes chatter havoc on LANs with many devices, such as corporate WiFi. Oh, and multicast is totally insecure unless you layer your own authentication and encryption on top.

Multicast has been a dream since the 1990s but has been a nightmare in practice.
It is such a travesty what we've done in the middle east. We kept toppling people we thought we're bad and are surprised that the puppet doesn't have support. Maybe the stability that was there was hard one. Maybe everyone in Iraq hating Suddam equally was a very stabilization lodestone instead of them all fighting each other. What we did is like dropping a bomb into a river, it is going to take decades for a new stabilization to occur.
Afghanistan wasn't democratic even on paper. Only a sovereign state can be democratic, colonies and occupying territories with puppet governments are by definition non-democratic, even if they pretend to have “free” elections.
It’s also used by the rest of us to describe anything that isn’t bitcoin, our skepticism of bitcoin notwithstanding.
Nah keep Israel out of this. First, it would benefit from secular democracies in the region. Second it has seen far worse things than "Muslims united" and it has won.

The only factors are that big global/regional players (USA, Iran, Turkey, SA) like their vassal state to be easily controlled. And that most cultures there do not have a history of democracy, or for that matter of national states.