skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article contradicts itself. The internet in Russia is controlled and censored, this is part of why propaganda is so successful. Not the only reason, some people just want to believe, but dictators certainly do not want a free internet at all so the articles core statement is certainly very wrong.

We are also subjected to propaganda since Google though it would be a nice idea to work more closely with government and press outlets after it established dominance in the search market. It is always the same story. A controlled internet means that someone has control. It won't be the common internet user, it will be governments like that in Russia or that in the US, China or other countries.

Trump was successful because people were fed up with established and detached politicians and activists that thought controlling language would be sensible to solve any problems. There is not much more to it, it is not rocket science. And yes, some people enjoyed the outrage someone like Trump has caused. A free internet is not the reason for this at all, it is just the same iteration on a grand misunderstanding on what motivates Trump voters.

[Silencing the opposition]

> These moves were necessary to protect American democracy.

Every dictator will think these exact line when suppressing content and information. Trump has changed formerly liberal people into caricatures without any backbone. This was his true power and how his followers see their opposition. If you think information has to be suppressed for democracy, people are correct to search for better suggestions.

I don't like Billionaires having much power over any form of communication infrastructure, but we would need people that champion a bit of freedom these days.

> even less accountable

Accountability of random internet users is not a problem, we have problems of accountability on many level in public. Twitter comments is not among that by an extremely large margin.
Wow! That's very interesting. Quite the Tax implication! Wonder if it's only in Canada ...
After Beyoncé tried Magic Leap and deemed it boring, that was the turning point.

https://www.theverge.com/2017/2/8/14549342/beyonce-magic-lea...
I feel that ZK was as much a solution to a 'problem' as it was the manifestation of an individual's personality and mindset; and one that doesn't generalize well. Not to mention full ZK is incredibly inefficient for most people.

Sometimes 'doing things to become more productive' is an easier problem to solve than simply being more productive.
Maybe Caddy was technically Apache licensed the whole time but it sure didn't feel like. And I have a hard time believing that feeling was not intentional.
For 2FA leaving out Yubico Authenticator seems strange? The TOTP seeds live on the Yubikey itself, and the app only communicates via NFC (or USB) with it - no phoning home.
These kinds of webpages ...

are very cumbersome to read....

always scrolling .....

pictures moving .....

trying to read but ....

the picture keeps .....

moving taking my ....

concentration off of the .....

still scrolling text....

This feels like a slideshow of magazine image captions and the newspaper forgot to include the article. I closed it after the third caption scrolled by. I find them very uncomfortable to read.
While certainly the taxpayers pay it ultimately, the function is to compensate those who take up the struggle with bureaucracy.

And yes, I think it would be good to put more concrete dollar numbers next to these lengthy processes. It would help legibility by making consequences clear(er) plus if there's a slight compounding by time,then it incentivizes resolutions. (Instead of the current system where applicants basically have one recourse, which is trying to sue the government.)
> memcpy(arr + i, arr + i + 1, (num_items - i) * sizeof(*arr));

Appropriately enough, this line contains a bug.
Whatever California and NYC tried absolutely didn't work so you can't just say "something else."
I would argue smartphones are one of the best all-in-one devices for creating...most people just don't use it that way.
The big idea: should we get rid of the scientific paper?
If we want the comparison to be completely fair, you need to take into account that hardly anyone lives in a major train station (or directly adjacent to one) and wants to travel to another major train station (or directly adjacent to one). More often than not, just getting to Paris is only a leg, then you need to get to Aix-en-Belle-Fountaine (fictional place, don't look it up), some 50 km away from Paris. Once you have that realisation, the same disadvantages exists for trains that you propose to take into account for planes.

> - Compare to a rail ticket for a specific train at a specific time, which is usually cheaper. The more expensive rail tickets often give you the option of multiple trains on a given day, which is a level of flexibility no air ticket gives you.

Virtually any airline outside of the no-frills-Ryanair sector happily sells you flexible tickets (often for price).

> If we want to really make it a fair comparison you should also probably compare the price to the business class flight ticket, considering that even the lowest class of train ticket gives you a comparable level of comfort to a typical intra-Europe business class airplane seat.

You must not have had the DB ICE4 experience. I'd rather jump off an office building than to sit in one of their second-class cars ever again. They are extremely space-constrained, and now they build the window walls slightly round (and rounder so than e.g. mid-range aircraft cabins), so you sit in there with an arm folded to the inside, like Ötzi. On my ride back, I shredded the already-paid ticket and bought a new one for First Class, which was only slightly better. No European airline even comes close to that awfulness (and yes, I've had non-Business Ryanair experiences).

Planes may be more uncomfortable, but at least they don't make you sit down for half a day.

> But for many people, having fewer steps in the journey

Are you aware how often you have to switch trains if you are doing point-to-point travel? Even within Germany, I have 4 switchovers between where I live and Berlin (that is, if I am lucky). With the plane? Sit down, stand up, Berlin.

> being able to comfortably work

Unless you travel First Class AND get a seat with a table AND somehow are able to work without internet, I don't see how that argument (which comes up every once in a while) works out for you. YMMV, depending on which country you are in.
I think newspapers might be of help with something like this.
What a silly headline. The M1 has apparently saved Apple according to sales data which compares two quarters both of which are significantly after when Apple introduced the M1. Also really appreciate the insight:

>In short, there's no specific reason that Apple is doing so well in the global laptop market right now, but it's certainly not undeserving of that success.

So basically the summary is "Apple Mac sales grew slightly more than usual and we really don't know why"
This looks like it was badly thought out. Funds in transit from buyer to the Bill.com account should be in an escrow account. Most escrow accounts are not placed where they gather interest as the time in escrow is small and rates are low. If interest is gathered = not Bill.com's as it is not on their $$. These accounts are usually run by banks who pay no interest but the $$ enters their churn and earns the bank interest - banks run these escrow accounts as a quid pro quo for the interest. It is possible that bill.com wants to do this on the same terms as arm's length banks do it - also keeping the interest. On a machine system this movement and tracking of who owns what is far cheaper than in the days of green eye shaded account managers with adding machines = a possible substantial aggregation without much costs as their system already does the lion's share of these transactions? Nothing wrong, these small increments are not significant to each account(some are larger though?) and as long as retention on the way to the client is small = the aggregate is also small, but being an aggregate could be valuable in aggregate and earn a little for Bill.com.
If all that was clear, most would let it go as Bill.com's service is useful and economical and it usually a lot cheaper than the traditional thieves.
So Bill.com - Truth up, we like you any way even if you earn a few bice on this float!
In general, you have the same three choices you have in any other situation where you don't like what's going on: loyalty, voice, or exit.

In the first, you decide to accept the general will in order to maintain your individual credit, hoping that by cooperating on this occasion you encourage people to encourage with you later. Alternatively, you can protest the decision, hoping in doing so to encourage your fellow townspeople to change their mind, or to raise the reputation cost to them of proceeding down that route. And if you don't like that either, you can leave (highly visibly or otherwise).

Not all collective decision-making processes are coercive, either, FWIW. There are systems built on unanimity where your issue doesn't even arise: if you dislike the decision of the other group members enough then you can veto the decision. This creates other issues (and doesn't scale very well) but it does happen.
It is clear that many people (sometimes with good intentions) would bring this logic to any discussion about this matter.
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China is having their Muslim population put into camps and they live in a horrible injustice situation. They are targeted because of their religion /ethnicity.

Chinese government saying that US is being hypocrite because they did so and so in Iraq and whatever happened after 9/11 from abuses..etc would be good. If only they did that in general while not trying to say okay don't talk about us doing it because we think you did the same.

That would be great if you stand up against oppression in general not just when you can benefit. It would be great if we can just talk about people suffering and try to help them in every possible way.
> Guantanamo Bay

Other than that the US kidnaps people from various countries, often without approval of the country where the kidnapping happens, brings the rebel (patriot?) to Guantanamo Bay without even trial by US legal system and waterboards and tortures them and holds them indefinitely - although some are realized to be the wrong identity and let go - there is another point...

...Cuba has denounced the US military occupation of Guantanamo Bay for decades, and requested the US to leave. So this is happening against the wishes of the country it is happening in.
I did not believe you when I first read your comment and then I scrolled down…

Do people realize that the British Empire was the thing that most opposed Hitler?

Seems like people know no history…
The places in the world that reacted the least to covid have excess deaths you can barely even tell there was a potent disease. Not a single country that avoided lockdowns is in the top 30 excess death (per capita). So did many people treat this as a crisis? I would say so. Should we have? That seems to be clearly a no.
I wish you enumerated the identity’s Iam permissions or at least did a describe-db-clusters it would give good insights into the internal security of the Aws service roles , I would have thought such a role would be restricted to only be used via internal network leg of the RDS not over the internet. Now we will never know and have to take their word for it. Imagine if that role was able to describe all instances in the region, or dump a backup to a public bucket of every rds . Now that would be a sensationalistic headline !
States can be very heterogeneous and divided. It largely depends on the topic. There is a lot of resentment towards the populated areas by those in the rural areas when it come to things like gun laws. Right now, they have a republican govenor who they might feel they can trust to veto certain things, but in general the rural areas feel their voice isn't heard on that subject and are instead subjected to the will of the urban area.

I would like to see the source where the MD governor has a 70% approval rating in urban areas. My guess is that many of those areas are ones that voted for him, not against him.

In rural PA, it's been a running a joke that the state should just have NJ annex Philly since it exhibits large political influence on the rest of the state and their wishes tend to align with the policies of NJ.
That's life.

As you gain more experience and become familliar with any system(digital, political, social), you start to recognize the frameworks behind the hype, the recurring patterns repeating ad nauseum and the hidden hands that manipulate spaces. Just accept the fact that life will wear you down and make a bitter old person out of you, eventually.

J/K, sorta. Life is an accumulation of experiences & learning, that changes you & the way you see the world around you. The 'new' things become old and the newest often resembles a rehash of the old. Find your zen wherever you can, there's lots of options.

As always, YMMV.
> 1) You are put there for your ethnicity and religion, (no suspected crimes are needed for detainment), despite being a Chinese citizen.

Ditto in Guantanamo. I suggest doing a bit more research.

> 2) Freedom of press in the US means we found out bad things were happening in Guantanamo, and the prison has since been mostly wound down.

Done not by the US press but by Wikileaks, whose founder ( Assange) is being hounded by both the US govt and the media.

Stop with the sanctimonious hypocrisy please.
It's hard to put a date on it, but tech, and especially tech companies, stopped being "cool" not too long after 2010.

The problem is that the industry has matured. And not in a good way.

Tech used to be largely about discovery and invention and making computers work to make people's lives better. Over the last decade, there has been a very rapid shift to tech being about exploitation and monetization and all the bad things that come with human endeavor.

I don't blame tech people for this. There exists an underclass of people — vultures or grifters, for lack of a better description — who wander from hot thing to hot thing trying to make money as quickly and unscrupulously as possible. I think of them as a collective of shady real estate agents and shadier used car salesmen, who follow the trends from one industry to another in order to "get my share" and destroy that industry as a result.

In modern times, it happened to banking. It happened to real estate. It happened to tech. It's happening in crypto. It'll happen to VR soon. Probably space flight shortly after that.

Tech is not inherently bad. But it's been made bad by the number of people who are in it for the wrong reasons outnumbering the number of people who are in it for the right reasons.
> Every country probably has a signature few cases of prosecution that may provoke our indignation.

A “few signature cases”??

I completely agree that what China is doing is completely wrong, immoral and bordering on genocide but let’s not swing too far the other way here.

The US has used the prison system to persecute black people en mass for the past 70 years. Look at differing rates of incarceration and length of sentences.

On top of that, the reason that the US has the highest prison population is because of the war on drugs, which the US has long used as an excuse to persecute minorities, whether they are black, Hispanic, Chinese or Mormon.
> Each employee almost certainly saw the amount the employer was contributing when they selected their insurance plan

I've never seen that happen, ever, in 25+ years of being in the working world in the US. Not saying it never happens, but I've not seen it, and after asking around, no one I know has seen that info.
In the 90s we didn’t use the term SaaS. It was ASP back then, Application Service Provider.
Technology looked like the answer because you (everyone does this) overestimated short term change and underestimated long term change.

I used to think that if only everyone had access to all the information, they would make better decisions. It turns out that given access to all the information, lots of people just want to do social things that reinforce their tribal membership. And some people make better decisions, some of the time.

In short, structural social problems are hard.
I work in HPC for a cloud provider, and fully endorse this move. Anonymously, of course.

You can make an economic argument for or against cloud in practically every IT domain, but in HPC the case for on-prem is really compelling; none of the cloud networking/resiliency value-add is relevant to batch workflows, and costs per core-hour are only remotely comparable if you use spot - which is itself a major compromise.

The only real advantage cloud has for science is object storage, which is genuinely a much better idea than trying to manage your own long-term archival storage.

If I were independent I would recommend people buy and build on-prem clusters and shuffle data out of fast scratch into Glacier, but other than that just don't worry about cloud until price pressure kicks in and we are down to 1-2 cents per core-hour on-demand.

I'd love a role where I can say these things non-anonymously, but the salary for such a position would be at least 50% lower than working for a cloud provider. Keep that in mind when talking to your supplier - we may not believe the pitch ourselves, but making it is just part of the job.
It's pretty clear that it did...on paper... Didn't actually destroy anything in practice other than the formalization of that unit
Nothing makes things seem less cool than having to do them to other people's specification, for money.
Your first interpretation is correct. Though some of the different people every day might have also had a headache the previous day.
Lagrange is the best Gemini client out there, although to be fair I still don’t think Gemini is as good an idea as it’s staunchest proponents do (no content-length in replies, puritanical markup, etc.).
My point was you had to take those factors together. Yes, they had a smaller market, but they were also spending far less to have that market. It may have been doable.

Edit: consider, by market size alone, fountain pens probably shouldn't exist anymore; per that argument.
These sort of threads always turn into a shitflinging contest
How can someone force you to take debt? Can you give one example when someone was punished physically for refusing to take debt?
Save Apple? Is this 1997? The M1 was great for Apple, but I wouldn’t say a 2 trillion dollar company needed “saving”.
I don't think it's an age thing, there were plenty of old people dreaming along with us.
Off topic, but the scrolling on that site is completely borked. Please, for the love of all that is good, don't mess with default scrolling behaviour on websites
Given that in the order of million people were killed abroad as a result of certain escapades people on the opposite site of the fence are never going to view the west as sitting on a high horse. Hell the US openly accused china of purposefully not keeping extremism in check few years prior when some ended up flowing into Afghanistan.

Fuck the CCP but I'm sure they have an easy time using the US's own actions in the domestic arena where they have the upper hand.
As they can magnify every bit of hypocrisy and flaw just like happens here.
Countless incarcerated? Still much less than in the US!
Hell they too can probably make up some stuff on the go. Refer to the Tibetans that were armed and then paid by the US to leave and claim similar stuff is happening now.
It doesn't take much for their people to align with em. Hell plenty were already mad about exemptions the uighurs got from the 1 child policy and such.
That's all nice and reads even nicer, but hell will freeze sooner than mercenary bands like former Blackwater will be prosecuted in US for war crimes they provably committed. I mean real prosecution, with life/death sentences for murders of civilians, not some sham trial just to tick a box.

The topic is out there for more than a decade. Nobody actually cares that much.

There is simply 0 political will, and the dirty work done needs to be done by somebody (in the vein of 'we need to invade yet another country for blah reasons' vein of logic).

Naive me hopes Ukraine will change US population mindset towards offensive wars done for 0 good reasons.
It's the money.
Discovering Rectangle and AltTab were the keys to overcoming my productivity issues with macOS. So much better now
There is even is-is-odd, lol
I agree with your claim to the extent that "cool" tech is more rare these days. It feels like there was something interesting being released monthly throughout the aughts. Pointing to an article posted on HN some time ago[1]; it could be that starting a company, creating a gadget, launching an app has become too easy. When things are too easy, more people do it, yields more noise in the space. Cool stuff is still out there. You just need to dig deep and look at specialized sectors.

[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27483207
Economies of scale ruined it.

Good indie games like Super meat boy & Hollow Knight take more human resources than AAA-gamechanger Doom did, back in the day. Your 'kind of useful but fun/dirty' hacker project either becomes ad-infested to survive or is too-useful and gets copied by a big-company. If your problem is cool enough and you can solve it, investors will throw millions at you in hopes of making a global success. Hard to say no to that.

There is no moderate success anymore. Economies of scale end up being all-or-nothing style situation. Just as local mom-n-pops places have gotten replaced by much cheaper national chains and building your own house is now a thing of the past because the costs for getting past regulation only make sense at scale.
> The chicken or the egg? Without people nearby, you’ll have no offices/jobs.

No, that's wrong. Cities develop for painfully obvious reasons. There are two:

1. The government needs an administrative or military hub and constructs a city to be that hub. This is only moderately sensitive to location, but it involves offices being designated to exist in a particular location and a city growing to support them. Note that there are many, many historical examples of this in which the city came into existence by government decree; it was not necessary for anyone to be living there beforehand. Offices were necessary, and sufficient.

2. Work needs to be done in a particular location. Sea trade happens at a port (and San Francisco is just such a city, though the port is now dead); river trade happens along a river; mining happens at a mineral deposit. This case also involves offices coming into existence and a city growing to support them. But unlike the first case, it's pretty sensitive to location; the hub that supports a port needs to be coastal.

Without the offices, there is no reason for a city to exist at all. Some industries may die and be replaced by other industries that take advantage of the local concentration of people in an existing city. But if every industry dies, which is what eliminating the offices means, the city will die too.
> Russia has only weeks worth of tank supply left before they are at a direct disadvantage in tank supply compared to the Ukrainians who are gaining supply.

Can I ask where you found this data? Specifically, I'd like to see the math of the war. Ideally, I want to see graphs over time.
The hardware is awesome, it's the social stuff around them that make them useless.