skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I hate the tribe of lawyers, but I love Counsellor Such-a-one, and Judge Such-a-one

- Jonathan Swift

The talk is less about ‘billionaires’ and more about the system that creates and empowers them

> raw, unbridled capitalism
Yes, though they were competing under the name "Chinese Taipei" due to bullying from China.
Seems to me everyone is willing to sell out for a 49% stake in a Chinese company, for access to the Chinese market.
Homesteading and Farm Life in Siberia – Story of Justus Walker – Business Ideas
That's also my pronunciation of the two terms, and I'm from the US (Boston area)
This repository is a companion to a Youtube video I posted earlier.
Somehow Smithsonian portrays federal troops as relatively neutral.

Though many scholars attribute aerial terror’s beginnings to the Spanish Civil War (1936-9), the US Army Air Service sent bombers to threaten the United Mine Workers and their supporters. After the UMW forces disregarded his threat, President Warren Harding sent in one of the Air Service’s most capable weapons: The Martin MB-1 bomber. The Martin MB-1 was an American bomber/reconnaissance biplane designed towards the end of World War One and carried a crew of three. Unfortunately for the Air Service, a reconnaissance mission failed when one Martin MB-1 crashed, leaving the crew dead and the bomber destroyed. New developments in battlefield archaeology, however, allowed us to study the crash site. Studying the site provided an opportunity to better understand how the bombers were used within the Battle of Blair Mountain as both a military tool and a symbol of federal power.

https://digitalcommons.murraystate.edu/postersatthecapitol/2...

By August 29 battle was fully joined. Chafin's men, though outnumbered, had the advantage of higher positions and better weaponry. Private planes were hired to drop homemade bombs on the miners. A combination of poison gas and explosive bombs left over from World War I were dropped in several locations near the towns of Jeffery, Sharples and Blair. At least one did not explode and was recovered by the miners; it was used months later to great effect as evidence for the defense during treason and murder trials. On orders from General Billy Mitchell, Army bombers from Maryland were also used for aerial surveillance. One Martin bomber crashed on its return flight, killing the three crew members.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Blair_Mountain
Google Authenticator has added account transfer at some point in the recent couple years - you get a QR code that you can scan on another device to transfer stuff. It's not automated backup, but it makes migration to new devices easier.
You know what though? "The pitchforks" are never coming. At least not in any meaningful way for the people who might deserve them.

The wealthy and powerful have figured this out. They are operating under the assumption of zero/negligible pitchfork risk. Externalities? Just ignore them. If regulation looks like it might interfere with your business, capture the regulatory environment. If that doesn't work, just ignore the laws until governments can get their act together to enforce them (if they even bother).

If the government can't get its act together, people's recourse is to use the sluggish mechanisms of democracy to achieve incremental change. Meanwhile, you're moving fast and breaking things! Breaking whole economic sectors while the city council debates proposed legislation for a 0.25% surcharge.

"But eventually people will get fed up!" Maybe. But what are they going to do about it? They're not literally going to burn your corporate headquarters down. They're not going to pelt you with rocks. The few impulsive types who do commit violence and destruction will be dealt with. The rest of us will just go on the internet and complain.

If the government is sluggish and defanged (as it is in much of the U.S.), and there's no other realistic threat to business as usual, why SHOULD any of these powerful jerks change their ways?
This must be surprising to people, but the prairie co-evolved with ruminants like cows and buffalo. It literally dies and undergoes desertification without them. Buffalos can't breed fast enough to fill this niche for a long time. If we want healthy prairie we will have to have herds of cattle munching on the grass whether we choose to eat them or not.
> * 谋 appears to mean more like "plan" as a neutral word.*

So do a number of Japanese words like 知謀 (chibō): ingenuity, resourcefulness, or 深謀 (shinbō): eliberate; careful; thoughtful; deeply laid plan.
> What evidence is there that China can't win?

There's no evidence here. We're talking about predicting the future in a system that's too complex to make predictions with any certainty.

But for those of us following the politics and economics of China closely, it's pretty clear that they're screwed.

People said Japan would dominate the world. Then the demographic shift hit them and the economy has been stagnating ever since. China's demographic shift is much bigger and faster, they're further behind (per capita), and they're way less prepared. China has the same problem of not accepting enough immigrants, and they just made it worse by cracking down on after-school tutoring.

The vast majority of history is very different from the world we live in today. People can move between countries relatively easily, and all countries compete for the top talent. A huge share of workers these days are knowledge workers. You can't generalise based on history when the fundamentals are so vastly different. China has very little to offer there, and they're increasingly becoming hostile to foreigners.

They have an enormous housing bubble. Well, if you can call it a bubble when it's propped up so it never bursts. But much of their GDP is pure waste as they're building apartments nobody lives in, and that deteriorates within years. Why? Because they can't build a trustworthy stock market where people can invest, so people invest in housing. They just demonstrated once again that you should never but money in the Chinese stock market, so the problem isn't getting better.

Chinas infrastructure is weak. Many cities are built without proper drainage. Dams are breaking. The US may have a huge infrastructure debt, but at least it was solid to begin with.

China has an insane amount of public servants per worker. The whole economy is deeply inefficient, and has only been propped up by a crazy 996 work ethic, one that Xi is now trying to crack down on.

Which illustrates the fundamental instability: they can't continue to grow through capitalism anymore. The insane income inequality is becoming a big problem, and the wealthy was accumulating too much power, threatening the power of the party. So Xi is reverting to more traditional socialist policies, to remove some of the power of wealthy individuals and satisfy the public. But that will fundamentally weaken the economy. It'll push them in the direction of economies like North Korea and Venezuela.

China is being squeeze from both ends: low value manufacturing is moving to other countries as labor costs in China increases. But China has trouble establishing high value exports and services. How many trusted brands are there from China? Quite a few sure, but not compared to its population size.
They need those billions of dollar so they can have pissing matches about who gets to space first or who has the bigger yacht.

I would like to see some stats at the end of the year on the average pay increase in the US. I have a strong suspicion the increase in good will be much higher than the average page increase.
It will come to a head with WWIII, millions dying from nuclear or biological warfare (which by the way Wuhan was the Hiroshima of biological warfare [whether it was intentional or not]). Or if we are lucky, they will just give in rather than face the next bioweapon.

Anyway, as you see I am not optimistic.
GCP Hires Forrest Brazeal (Ex-AWS Hero) as Head of Content
If Revolut is available in your country, you can use it to create disposable virtual cards for one-time transactions.
Seconded, OTP Auth is really nice. It also syncs via iCloud and you can export your info easily.
Hedge fund trader here.

Who do you think shorts are buying from? Panic sellers.

But anyway, in equities, which is what most people invest in, the longs greatly outnumber the shorts. So short covering has a much smaller impact than a reduction in panic selling.
The Economist used to be a very independent-minded publication. It's sad to see them chasing the same clickbait trend-chasing garbage that you see on most second-rate news sites.
Theres an entire other story here in your comments: ford building vehicles with a plastic oil pan / sump. That it just insane, even by the standards of "engineering says it will work and be cheaper", particularly on a truck / 4x4 where off road duty can cause stones, sticks, etc to hit the sump hard. Even in a smaller vehicle lower clearances can cause that part of the vehicle to strike the road surface often enough- just have a look either side of your nearest speed bump.

Theres likely a pro in this design for North American vehicles, where the pan won't rust. I still maintain, however, that at least a metal pan will bend or dent and be serviceable whilst a hardened plastic one will tend to crack or shatter.
Topic: China steals IP.

Top comment to top comment: diversity in the West is bad.

Geez, even given the topic (which is guaranteed to attract flamewar), this is bad. We aren't even pretending to stay on topic, are we.
We put ethnic Japanese in concentration camps after stealing away every bit of wealth they accumulated.

White women have only been able to vote for 100 years. Some black women half that.

American Indians were driven off their land.
In many ways they invert the entire recruitment process. Difficult interview on the skills, but everything else is far more relaxed.

Wish I had known I could do this the first time I interviewed for big tech.
tropicaltisbits.com also hosts the author’s blog which is well worth following when major storms are present near the GOM.
> What would be the downside of one's internet activity being public?

Are you for real?

Want to know what your employer has you working on? Let's see what searches you've done.

Want to know what your employees are doing? Let's see what things they're buying.

Fuck that obnoxious bullshit.
I believe this highlights the difference between products and services...two words we tend to use interchangeably.

Services benefit from turning things off, because operating them costs time and money. It doesn't matter if you lose a subset of users who cared, because your operational metrics are what you optimize for. I used to manage a team of three engineers that couldn't do anything new because we owned 10 legacy backend services that were relatively unused. We followed a rubric similar to this.

Products, however, never benefit from turning things off, because it lowers value. For example, imagine the trivial case where a desktop product with no backend removes a feature because it's deemed niche. This would make no sense except in cases that are, themselves, niche.

Everything is a service now, so I understand how these words can get conflated. Services have subscription fees, which are better for the business to plan YoY. However, let's not forget that services and products are different things, and if you're using something that will inevitably turn things off the longer you use it, then you're using a service. Consider this the next time you're in a thread complaining about the planned obsolescence of iPhones or that Google shut down Google Reader.
As we have three cones used to observe tone and colour, the colour/tone of something occupies a 3D space.

However, as you say, a pigment colour has high dimensional properties - the spectral response. As others have mentioned this determines how it impacts on the observed/perceived colour, depending in the spectral response of the light it reflects.
everything's sinking
> I’m not sure when it all went sideways,

When we sold our manufacturing base and equipment to them, then bought the same products from them just shipped over seas. They had suppressed labor prices and used it to tilt the table.
The thing is, these plants are in Iceland for a reason: they can't be anywhere like powerplants, they need to depend on a clean energy source that is also for some reason not easy to use for other means. Such constraints aren't solved that easily.

Finding the energy for 30k plants that are 250* more productive than this one (which, the article says, is the most efficient to date) is still kind of a problem.
"I live in a city which does not yet experience severe weather events annually". FTFY.
Amazon and SpaceX fight over Starlink plan for 30k more satellites
"The West" is absolutely reliant on the people that emigrate to it from elsewhere for its success. There is empirical evidence that startups that incorporate H1B workers see their measures of "financial performance, likelihood of going public, and quantity and quality of innovation" increase significantly[1], the paper detailing as such trended on HN not one week ago[2].

Efforts to stymie diversity and decrease immigration have in fact caused permanent damage to the industry. Insularity and ignorance concretely undermines both economic and social growth. China has come far by holding tight to the reins of private capital wealth and forcing it to reinvest in common infrastructure. Meanwhile the nations of "the west" have undermined their social safety nets and unmoored their hypercapitalists to the point that they have nothing better to do with their money then burn it up chasing their toddler cowboy astronaut fantasies.

1. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3459001

2. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28276814
'the palace had been converted into a prison by then, too'

So considerate!
I once had to solve thousands of captchas for an archiving project, and buster helped me with a quarter of the captchas (https://github.com/dessant/buster)
The problem is a virus doesn't care about liberal values. It seems a little bit crazy to drag the pandemic onto some symbolic level of freedom of speech when you are facing a real, physical threat from a biological agent that has killed hundreds of thousands and continues to rampage.

Its like you're on the titanic, the ship is sinking, you're getting people into the lifeboats, and someone starts deflating the boats and your response is. Well clearly we have to listen to this man, because of the importance of dissent and liberal values!

You really have to wonder what happens to a country that is so caught up in its liberal ideology it prefers narrative to actually handling biological, immanent crises.
> no Western competitor will "win" in China. Period

define "win"? To corporate America, making profit is a win. Even being the market leader is not a requirement.
https://ghostarchive.org/archive/cYwup

https://archive.is/XXQKO
Try it. They'll still work if the server side is implemented properly. The server will be lenient on the timestamps.
NASA “reluctantly agrees” to extend the stay on SpaceX's HLS contract by a week
> The only solution to the underlying problem is to allow construction to meet the underlying demand.

While I do think that allowing more construction would be great, there's probably other things that could help alleviate the problem.

1. Limit the number of units that can be rented by a single landlord in an area
2. Limit the proportion of units in an area which can be rented (maybe creates a sort of taxi-shield problem which might be it's own weird thing, but that's a problem for multi-property landowners, not single family homeowners).
3. (as OP suggests) limit the number of nights/year which can be rented to some number which would be very reasonable for a resident-owner who's out of town sometimes but very unreasonable for owner-investors.
4. Maybe some kind of hybrid approach - you can rent out space in your primary residence all you want, but your nth residence is only rentable 1/f(n)% of the time (for some reasonable f(n))

All of the above are presumably best implemented by governments rather than a well-meaning airbnb (who, even if they existed could presumably be overpowered by a less-well-meaning competitor)
Did we know ahead of time if mRNA vaccine immunity is stronger / weaker than post covid-infection natural immunity? For each strain?

Did we know ahead of time when/where Delta will arise? Did we know ahead of time its infectiousness / virulence parameters?

Do we know when / where the next strain will arise? Do we know if it will be more/less infectious than Delta? Do we know if it will be more/less virulent than Delta? How about per age group?

Do we know whether vaccines protect against potential future vaccine resistant strains? Admittedly an oxymoron, but such is the ridiculousness of this conversation.

What we do know is that the virus is likely to mutate to avoid the narrow spectrum mRNA vaccines. We don't know when / where / how.

That's what I call educated guesses in the dark.

PS. Please do us a favor and keep your ad-hominems for yourself. It may feel good in the moment, but it doesn't strengthen your arguments.
Yes to whale-seeking, but this is otherwise not a valid comparison. Fine-dining patrons are not basing their visits around the hope that "this time they'll get the free appetizers."

Put another way, I'm reasonably sure that gambling addiction support groups outnumber fine dining addiction support groups by a few orders of magnitude.
>bash and python

Neither of those of idempotent.

It seems likely you are coming at this from the perspective of "when I find an ansible playbook on github its hard to follow whats going on".

There is a certain truth to that, but much of its complexity is probably related to said playbook developers trying to abstract away specifics and create a playbook that works on a variety of distributions / configuration options.

Ansible can be as simple as a single file that proceeds sequentially like a bash script.
One of the better things Apple does with their position as a middleman is give customers more control over their relationship with app creators of all kinds. If the customer is unhappy about their experience, iOS gives them what amounts to a one-click "get off my phone and get out of my wallet" button. Compare this to the notorious New York Times cancellation rigamarole where cancelling a subscription required a phone call to a person whose job was to talk you out of cancelling. This level of autonomy is clearly valuable to customers: behold the widespread dissatisfaction about subscriptions vs. one-time purchases. People don't like the experience of being strongarmed into a business relationship any more than they like it with interpersonal relationships, and rightly so. However, because Apple exerted the degree of control that it did over what shape a customer relationship mediated by their app store could look like, it hasn't been clear exactly _how_ valuable that control is to consumers.

Once app creators have options for customer relationships other than Apple's app store, I expect that we'll find out exactly how valuable that autonomy is to customers, and I'm personally fascinated about what the answer might be.
I usually can’t buy because it’s my blood already on the streets. Because I’m already invested to the tits because that is what you are supposed to do to maximize gains and I didn’t sell because you aren’t supposed to do that either.

I have no dry powder to buy with. But I’m looking to change that this time, I feel a big multi decade level drop coming.

I may be wrong but I’ve got Warren Buffet and Michael Burry on my side.
We have a tax system that most billionaires are avoiding, stop being melodramatic, it’s definitely a problem.
The National Hurricane Center has updated the forecast for Ida and now calls for it to be a 140 MPH Cat 4 (or greater) at landfall. The previous forecast had Ida topping out as a 120 MPH Cat 3. Storm surge of 10 to 15 feet above ground level will impact a broad area.

https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/text/refresh/MIATCDAT4+shtml/271449...
yep, I needed to upgrade firebase.
sixtyfps is dual-license. you can contact them and negotiate a license for commercial use. i think this is a better scheme than straight mit which accommodates no demand for financial support to the developers.
As I've said elsewhere:

These are not counterfeit goods though. Where has the law been broken in a way that gives Arm the power to act? Probably IP licensed under Chinese law and Arm China will probably get its way in Chinese courts.
Puppet is declarative, isn't it? You declare states and relationships, and it computes plan of action.

Ansible is not declarative at all though, and it's not even funny how almost every fan says it is. It's just a sequence of actions.
It's a damn shame it took until this article for me (and it appears some others) to learn about the console and the debugger; those seem like massive time savers! My own biggest helper has been to use "ANSIBLE_STDOUT_CALLBACK=yaml" wherever "ansible-playbook" is called (https://jpmens.net/2021/03/12/alter-ansible-s-output-on-debu...). It makes the verbose output much more readable and is especially handy for tasks that can spew thousands of lines at ones (e.g. "apt update/upgrade").
Saying this is the result of "printing" money is really disingenuous.

The country is facing major supply and labor constraints in many industries. Most companies would happily sell more of their products at a lower price, but they are kind of stuck producing what they can, and are auctioning it off to the highest bidder.
China's Microsoft Hack May Have Had a Bigger Purpose
Not selling was the right thing to do (since 87 & LTCM) because the Fed came in and bailed everyone out. This has led to the huge inequality problem and the biggest asset bubble in history, and now everyone assumes the Fed will bail out everyone next time as well. The problem is one day it wont happen and a lot of people will get burned. Maybe it'll be next year, maybe it'll be generations following you.
There is this guy named Karl (and actually if you read carefully a guy named Adam Smith) that has some relevant predictions on how that went sideways.
Not sure how that's relevant to the parent.
SQLite actually works just fine on Windows files shares (and yes with multiple clients since Windows file shares do support file locks) but I wouldn’t recommend it as a remote DB/multi client solution.
Code Review and Static Code Analysis
Ah yes, the old "actually the billionaires get richer when you nationalize their companies"

You sir are confusing the bandaid that is socialism for communism, because the former is what the non-republican rich people cry out for, because it maintains the capitalist system. Very very few people with wealth support ditching the capitalist system.
Can I print that QR code and stuff it in a safe to scan 3 years from now, or does it expire? It isn't clear from the export screen.
If I had to guess too heavy ones that are incredibly difficult for outsiders to break into.
Very Long Baseline radio astronomy has been around for decades. One of its early accomplishments was the realtime observation of plate tectonics motion between telescopes. These days that is observed routinely with high resolution GPS.

One EHT speaker I asked said an important advance was scaling up the VBLI procedure a thousand times from hundreds of megahertz to hundreds of gigahertz to achieve resolutions needed to image the three largest super massive black holes. This involves huge improvements across the entire system from the antenna receiver, clock resolution and petabyte data handling.
I believe the author addresses that when he discusses how Airbnb pours money into lobbying and lawsuits against city and local governments seeking to rein them in. The issue is not just that Airbnb/PE are eating the housing supply, it’s that they can do so by writing the rules that govern them