skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I didn't know that used to be their tagline though. That this changed is an interesting perspective.

And as for point #2 specifically, detection improved as well so it's not as if attackers are clearly winning with better attacks on larger attach surfaces. There was a talk recently (can't remember which conference) optimistically wondering if we might be succeeding more than we're failing, since the impactful bugs are getting much harder to find. We're very clearly not there yet, but try to get an exploit on a phone now and compare that to 2011 or 2001. There is a trend there and it's not the same one as GP claims HAProxy is going in. Though your point #1 might adequately explain that, in my head they're still just a proxy (I don't work with the product from a sysadmin perspective) so I wouldn't have known of it if it hadn't come up.
This is definition of ad hominem. Sure, there's a motivation, but do you think the war games are a conspiracy? I don't find it difficult to imagine the US would fail to protect an ally on enemy turf.
You didn’t say

"if the banking system as a whole has $1 million in deposits (of actual cash that people gave to the bank to put in their checking accounts) the system banking as a whole can make $10 million in loans" [and there will be in the end $11m in deposits in the banking system as a whole, offsetting the $1m in reserves and $10m in loans]

You said

"if a bank has $1 million in deposits (of actual cash that people gave to the bank to put in their checking accounts) the bank can make $10 million in loans" [which is wrong unless you assume that every loan remains in that bank as a deposit so the “banking system as a whole” case is recovered]

Of course that bank could get more reserves to be able to make additional loans. But then it could lend much more than $10m if it gets enough deposits/reserves! [One bank =/= The banking system as a whole]

Edit: by the way, I’m curious what is the thing in my previous comment that you find “simply wrong”.
> The only thing they fear is an internal uprising.

Unfortunately, they're so good at propaganda and fear that they seem to have the civil unrest front on lock. Any real protests are erased and no one is allowed to mention it ever happened.

I have to assume this practice won't last forever. Historically, it never does. But it could last a while.
Given they need to hire agents to "decipher" their returns it probably means they're using legal loopholes and hiding the money outside of the US with complicated structures.

Sure, they could start saying those loopholes are not good enough but then the political system would have a 600bn pressure to implement different loopholes or risk losing all of the tax revenue with people moving somewhere else.

These days the USA main advantage is offering highly paid jobs and venture capital - and the ultra rich definitely don't need that.

If they're still in the States and pay little tax, they most likely own the system.
My chaotic evil billionaire plan is to fund a ballot prop in California that bans use of chemicals known to cause cancer in California in food products or packages.

In seriousness though, Prop 65 does seem to mostly benefit a small group of lawyers: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.ocregister.com/2021/04/16/p...
All the non-two-party parties are called third party. This keeps the two-parties front and center, where they think they belong.
The article seems to imply that, even if the extra enforcement is 100% effective, the ratio is more like getting $2 for every $1 spent on enforcement
I'm the furthest thing from an expert, but if you think about it from a PR/publicity sense, its the best time to do it;

1. No one is paying attention due to the pandemic,

2. By 2047, there'll be no dissodence left and the transition will seem smooth, instead of a fight. The press will say the transition happened with minimal incidence, and it allows China to de-value any protests/outcry from other countries.
absolutely agreed.
They would of their own free will forgo funding opportunities ? Which planet are you from ?
Totally agree. Really rich people don't do their own taxes. They have armies of professionals doing that for them. The professionals don't get the "overlooking" defense, and neither should the person hiring them.

Require the tax lawyers to formally sign off on the validity of the returns, and give them some form of liability or consequence if the dubious tax shelters they recommend turn out to be plain old tax cheatin'.
Really? What's the exchange rate in length between seconds and meters?
Interesting! The guys putting the new road in by my house are just chain smoking WHILE they are pouring the asphalt. Kind of seemed odd, but you helped me understand. Especially when all your co-workers are also smoking. How could they ever quit without quitting their job?
We spend almost twice as much on Baby Boomer pensions as we do on the Military:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:2018_Total_US_Government_...

And a huge sum again on healthcare, overwhelmingly used by the aged (50% of healthcare costs in the final 5 years of life).

America is a giant nursing home...
Spain, Portugal, and Holland are all part of the Western world.
As a former consultant at a company that built many mobile apps, I think that was the norm. Picking either platform and trying to get some traction both focuses your dollars and developer talent on one decent thing that you can iterate ~2x as quickly on (while the app and business are very small) until you figure what you actually want to build. I think this actually applies to many things. I've seen people pick Android or iPhone apps first based on target demographic, and you might guess wrong, but usually businesses have a decent guess who their target customers are, and it doesn't seem foolish to focus on a small set of customers first.
Isn't the 28% of tax avoidance in the rich saying nothing of the legal loopholes and legal tax schemes to avoid taxes, which the average folk don't have access to. And how does avoidance look by brackets, I'm sure the doctors and lawyers dodge less than CEOs, though they're all 1% members.
Our political and economic system is warped by wealth inequality and is not fair. Taxation would help with that.
Seems like you'd have better luck trying to capture the GOP than start another party. There is a large population of Republican voters that is not really "conservative", but just anti-Democrat. Someone who captured this base while remaining appealing to some moderates/independents would do quite well.
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How many of them become customers? Great strategy!
Local vs global.
No to the first one in the same way you wouldn't lump Contagion in with other movies.

The bar is pretty clear: did experts in the field make the story, make the film with an intent of educating, and get the final word in the creative process? If all yes then it isn't to be lumped in with allegories about classism.
Exactly this. Business follows profit over end user benefit. When everyone is doing it, the choice to "own" gets smaller and our perception of ownership degrades. Look at Tesla nuking features in the 2nd hand market.
3rd, that would be the Green Party, no?
There is also Libertarian, Democratic Socialists, Socialist, and a handful of loca parties that only show up in ballots during election season.

I wonder if this will be a true leftist party or simply another milquetoast Democrat-light party.
Evidence for the ignorance of other people when faced with novel phenomena is not evidence that we are ignorant of all phenomena.

Just because some things are a mystery to you, doesn't make them have mysterious properties.

Microwaves cause heating. That's why we have an appliance that generates them in our kitchens. Heating is nice, to a point, afterwards it's very obvious that it's too much.

No mobile phone, has anywhere, ever, burnt someone through microwave radiation. Not 3G, not 4G, not 5G, not any # G. The power levels are just too low. It's like trying to do a spot weld with a laser pointer.

Meanwhile, high-power radar has warning signs on it, because -- duh -- it's powerful enough to cause burns: https://www.safetysign.com/rf-warning-signs

It's not some magical property of radar or 5G that does this! It's just the power level. No mystery. You turn it down... you don't get hurt.
> Amazon only has power over you because you don't care about my business and care about Amazon's

Amazon is large enough to have substantial economic power in my community and country. For example, if Amazon threatens to pull their warehouse from my community, costing 100s (1,000s?) of jobs, that's a material threat. Also, Amazon provides services that are perceived as not easily replaceable. If J's Tobacco & Beer threatens, it will get a laugh at best, but more likely an awkward silence.
Gee, so now every time I rage donate $20 to some candidate or PAC I have to fill out a tax form? Like reporting stock trades is already enough of a pain. I really don’t want one more data point to copy and paste between screens.
I don't think reducing transmission matters that much as long as R_0 is above 1. If it's above 1, everyone is getting this thing.
I am fully aware that we all make mistakes and we can all be wrong.

But when you say:
> Much the opposite. Yours is the belief which every war has been fought over: the belief that you know what's good and bad, or right and wrong.

I can also say that the same is true for all progress the world has seen. That some group of people made a decision and acted.

It’s about likelihoods. Everything can be wrong but some things are more likely than others.
> it's surprising that number isn't bigger

Voluntary tax compliance rates are surprisingly high in the U.S., even higher than countries like Germany. See https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/04/why-ame... It's a little known factoid that gets lost in all the cynical political rhetoric.
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Well, yes if you have a nothing to do then you get bored ... but the next step is that you will fill it with things to do yourself.
I don't get your point at all. If "the wealthy" are performing clever account, using expensive tax lawyers, and moving capital around to avoid paying taxes, exactly why shouldn't your average person be angry and outraged?
And translators are artists, don't trust them to know what they are doing from an IT perspective. Like using short, close enough phrases.

They also might get nationalistic and think they represent their country/culture over your app.

And fuck worrying about things like 'Flags are not languages' it's bike shedding.

And bullshit about culture and colors and what means yes/no. If they have a phone they know world/Western concepts.

These are the least of your worries over formatting and keeping updates and testing on what's now two apps.
In all seriousness, the majority of Brain-Computer Interface trials involve asking subjects (usually able-bodied in the initial stages) to imagine moving their limbs.
Not sure where to start with this ludicrous comment. It seems to break many of the In Comments guidelines, e.g. in every one of their first 6 paragraphs. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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And how much of the economy would your destroy with that much more collected, on a surprise basis, maybe spuriously?
Yang has never been my top choice, but I think he's generally a good dude. However a third party could be disastrous for the democrats, who can only just barely win elections due to the current structure of the electorate. Hopefully he will be more strategic than that, however. A third party could be really beneficial in some areas where democrats dominate everything.
That was the most pedantic correction I've ever seen on HN in a while :-). I think the parent was just speaking loosely rather than spreading "nonsensical nationalistic tropes". Take it easy.

Does being 5000 or 3200 years old really change the discussion to anyone but historians?
The way US elections are run makes it very hard to have anything except two dominant parties. If Yang is successful (extremely unlikely) there will still be a two-party system, it will just be his party and whichever other one still remains (probably the Democrats since they have more institutional support at the moment).
Given the source, and the framing, and the context, this means very little.

The value of free time is very highly dependent upon one's situation and one's conditioning. For a Zen Buddhist Monk it could be valuable. To an inmate in solitary confinement, probably not.

To a modern capitalist office worker with loads of debt, a house full of stuff, and a city full of cars (yeah showing my bias here, sorry), then it could be a world of possibilities while you wear a straightjacket.

Knowing what to do with free time is something we're born with, but it's also something most of us unlearn through decades of rat racing. So regaining that skill of free time appreciation takes... time.

But you can look at it from the opposite perspective. It is well documented that many people suffer increased depression upon returning to work from a holiday. And as many of us know personally, going on holiday can mean 1-4+ days of transition time to finally start to relax and forget about all the (artificial) bullshit we normally think.

So the problem is not that free time isn't useful, but that we are so trained to not know what to do with it that we struggle for a period when exposed to it.
> The Guardian is hard left-wing

me: falls about laughing

It's a middle of the road, deeply middle-class newspaper.

Edit: I don't normally worry about downvotes, but if anyone thinks of The Guardian as a hotbed of Marxist-Leninism, then they have never read it.
I'm not sure why they would be more skilled than any random people off the street, or a coin flip, etc. There's no reason to think they produce a result better than whatever control group you can think of compared to any other subset of people.
“Really rich people” are responsible for 25% of the problem here.

Also, tax lawyers already have this responsibility. Go look at all the tax shelter cases that go brought against the Big Four and associated law firms.
Most news is negative. We don’t need journalists to cheer on the government (politicians will do that themselves). We have journalists to shine a light on problems that people would rather remain hidden.
Yes, or mandating sinks be installed in the entry of buildings.
As a point of fact, that's kinda what happens at big firms. No one has yet figured out a better model. There isn't a magic oracle to point you to perfect employees.

That's not really how it happens, though. You get people who are really good at whiteboard coding and little invert-a-tree type exercises, with no other skills. Most don't do this through interviewing over and over, but by practicing online. You end up with big companies full of people with nothing better to do with their time.

A lot of the people who interview over and over really have no idea what they're doing wrong. Employers don't give feedback, aside from "Thank you. We'll let you know. [ghost]," or at best "Thank you. We filled the role." A half-dozen interviews helps, but from then, it's rapidly diminishing returns.

I like startups, where you can do all sorts of side and back hiring channels, but none of those scale above maybe 100 people, and usually not past a dozen.
Three Stanford professors who have zero business experience have all the answers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rob_Reich

https://profiles.stanford.edu/jeremy-weinstein

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mehran_Sahami

Contrast this with what Senator McGovern wrote after he retired to run a small hotel business:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052970203406404578070...

"In retrospect, I wish I had known more about the hazards and difficulties of such a business, especially during a recession of the kind that hit New England just as I was acquiring the inn's 43-year leasehold. I also wish that during the years I was in public office, I had had this firsthand experience about the difficulties business people face every day. That knowledge would have made me a better U.S. senator and a more understanding presidential contender. Today we are much closer to a general acknowledgment that government must encourage business to expand and grow. Bill Clinton, Paul Tsongas, Bob Kerrey and others have, I believe, changed the debate of our party. We intuitively know that to create job opportunities we need entrepreneurs who will risk their capital against an expected payoff. Too often, however, public policy does not consider whether we are choking off those opportunities."
> If there were no implicit threat of violence, I (and most other people I think) would never stop for a cop in the first place

I think this is outlandish. Most people are law-abiding and happily comply with the law and government authority without any threat of violence. I don't think I've ever had it factor into my decision-making.
What was pointed out was that the way the Greeks organized their battle formations, the strongest of their formation would generally face the weakest of their opponents' formation. Since Spartans were usually seen as the strongest, this meant they faced generally those seen as the weakest. And he also points out that when this general model is explicitly broken, the Spartans really suffer in their documented military effectiveness.
Didn't he get absolutely stomped in his last two runs?
Sad.

Because that's what "management" is: action by authority of position in the org chart.

That's 100% NOT what leadership is. Leadership is action by people voluntary following the leader.

It's a profound difference!
A smart contract is much more than "simply a computer program". It's a computer program which is intimately linked to a distributed ledger such that the output of the program directly determines who is allowed to make use of the assets. The "distributed" part is important since it means that you're not dependent on particular party to enforce the contract—the entire distributed system does that.
If you bothered to read the article you’d see that top donors are a small minority of the problem.

75% of tax gap is from 99%ers (who also only pay 60% of taxes, so they dodge at a higher rate than 1%ers)
Sorry, what? How do taxes destroy the economy?
They would not be able to stop it though.

By the time it was announced, it would already be done.

The only real option China would have would be 'force' and a frontal war with China is a really big deal.

That said, US-provided nukes for Taiwan would be a major escelation and fingers would be pointed in the direction of the US for 'blame' etc.. A lot of people would throw a fit over that.

It might be better to just put a US base there because it means the same thing, and more: if you mess with Taiwan, even if you overrun the local US forces, you have 'awoken the actual Dragon' and no amount of 'internal division' in the US would hamper them from becoming united against China and of course all sorts of other huge material fallouts.

Ironically, I think it's the American regime who would not be able to pull it off. It would require cooperation among to many agencies and serious leadership. There'd have to be a pretty good President, with a lot of leverage, he'd have to be popular in the polls, have the backing of the Pentagon etc. etc.. I just can't see that working out so directly. It'd have to be done in a roundabout way.
Arul's Utilities
It wouldn't be a surprise, it'd be known well in advance. And it doesn't destroy the economy if the government goes out and spends that dollar on operations. But if someone is hoarding massive wealth, that does damage the economy because their pile of treasure isn't circulating amongst the plebians who actually form the basis of a consumerist economy.
> Our political and economic system is warped by wealth inequality and is not fair. Taxation would help with that.

a musician writes a song, one million people buy it for one dollar, the musician becomes $1M richer while every purchaser is now $1 "poorer". This is your "unfair" wealth inequality in a nutshell.
This is the natural consequence of our simple-majority single-ballot system. It so strongly favors the two leading parties that getting them to change it is basically impossible.
Think for a moment why an app should ever be considered necessary to render a web site. Especially one with little in the way of demanding UX requirements.
I don't think a country that equates mainstream Democrats with communists has the stomach for actual leftism.
> I want to make things not argue about the best, or most technically correct, way to make them.

Well, not all programming languages are for all people, and there are people who prefer the theoretical approach. Calling that an obsession with complexity is, I think, unfair, or at least inaccurate.
I remember when arguing politics at work would get you a reprimand. You were there to work, not proselytize. Now it's accepted that employees activating against their employer is not cause for dismissal.
Apple is not behaving unethically here. There is no ethical imperative for apple to pay you or roll out the red carpet for you. Their ethical obligation is to not try to attack you legally or silence you. Beyond that, there is no obligations, just behaviours that are "nice".
From the article:

What to do in such a situation?

Blacklists are still a thing. Since those attacks are not spoofed, every victim sees the attack origin as it is. Blocking it for a while should be enough to thwart the attack and not disturb the possible end-user.

Missing from the article: Links to lists of IPs that they recommend to be blacklisted. It's the same thing that's missing from pretty much every NetSec vendor.

We really need a recovery clinic for compulsive threat-data hoarders.
I'm trying to get Python 3.9 set up on my Raspberry Pi (4 Model B) and I stumbled upon this website. This person seems to have a cool history [1].

[1] https://aruljohn.com/about/
That's impossible. I've learned that only super-wealthy capitalists can accomplish anything.
I assume they mean top %1 in income (not net worth).

Apparently that put your yearly income at $361,020 (according to some searching I did). To be in the top 1% net worth wise you'll need $11,099,166.

The first seems strange to me. At $361k/year I do not see many avenue to find tax loop holes. You'll get a salary, maybe some RSUs, and you'll just duly be taxed.

If, on the other hand, your net worth is $11m, you'll probably be able to find many avenues to save on taxes (maybe all you have is long term capital gains, or whatever).

But since the talk about income in the article, I'm somewhat confused.
This is a weird special pleading argument. Chelsea Manning is literally a celebrity, and that is entirely because of actions she undertook that resulted in a 35-year prison sentence. It's not a value judgement about the sentence (I'm glad Obama commuted it). It's a simple statement of fact.
We wouldn't be trading with China if it didn't benefit us. A sanction damages the participants as much as its target. This doesn't matter if your target is a smaller country like Iran or even Russia, but China is way to big an exporter to sanction.

>Their political and religious prisoners are very often put to work in factories (if not sent to work camps or tortured in prison)

So you want them to shut down the factories, in which case they'll be sent to be sent to labor camps or rot in prison instead?

>wages for factory work are very low compared to the rest of the world.

China's average wage more than doubled over the past 10 years. Do you expect wages to increase by an order of magnitude overnight? Also, why would you blame China for this instead of the importers demanding razor thin margins or manufactured goods?
It’s not just about money, raising children well is time expensive, hence why most couples who have a choice stop a 2-3.