skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe for you "adapt to higher prices" is fine but for much of the world this will mean famine and starvation (https://www.wfp.org/stories/hunger-famine-and-starvation-750...)

Also these aren't just minor increases, e.g. Allianz estimate a 31% increase in prices in 2021; for people who live hand to mouth in the developing world this is catastrophic.
> Yeah and Russia could have ended the war by now too by simply launching their nukes.

This sentiment is nuts, in my opinion. Russia isn't the only nation that has nukes folks... everyone around Russia has them too...

If Putin were to nuke a major metropolitan area, it would be the end of Putin (literally) and likely the end of Russia (at least it's current government). The unification of NATO, the EU, and the entire "west" would be so strong and unanimous, there would be no positive outcome for Russia.

Let's stop cowering because one dude threatened the entire world... the world is much bigger than Russia.
A lot of those rights are already bought up, in some sports. I suspect Apple will need to wait til those contracts expire, no matter how much they are willing to spend.

As for Apple TV+, no, it's not a no-brainer. The approach they took was to sign up a lot of creative talent, instead, and make their own content. That's already been a proven success, so it's hard to say that a diametrically-opposed approach (which is kind of lame and would not even result in any new content) was a "no-brainer".
Does that do something to the power relationships in the world?

The fact that you're even asking that is a reason we shouldn't have billionaires -- world power relationships shouldn't be based on the wealth of individual citizens.

For example, what did Musk really talk about when he met with the president of Brazil? Did he represent American interests, Amazon Inc's interests, or Elon Musk's interests?
My local MLS has youth development teams.

Soccer will only benefit from the decline in youth American Football participation.
Of course it is a contrived, fantastical scenario. But the point is: Does it meaningfully deviate from the key points for any wealth tax scenario?
This discussion is in the context of a self-contained app called Grafana OnCall, which is built on Django, which does not particularly care which RDBMS you are using.

At the very least, SQLite should be the default database for this product, and users can swap it out with their MySQL database cluster if they really are Google-scale.
Chinese billionaires still only exist at the mercy of China. Jack Ma, anyone?
You now get durability on whatever subjects you want via NATS Jetstream: https://docs.nats.io/nats-concepts/jetstream

No additional infrastructure, just enable it on the nodes you want persistence on and create a stream. Publishers don't even have to change, consumers have a great api with lots of options
The Bitcoin price touches its linear regression line today
> The Huy Fong brand hasn't been available for a few years after the EU implemented some restriction on one of the ingredients.

My fride, my pantry and my local Asian shops would respectfully disagree with that statement.

Hui Fong Sriracha is less sweet, less garlicky, brighter and the chillies come out way more. It's not the same product as the Flying Goose brand and they certainly can't be substituted for each other. I love 'em both.
Identifying as a female and competing as one are two separate things though.

I doubt there are many if any trying to take advantage, but the fact is, the biology doesn't match up. And by definition athletic sports are physical..

It can be a touchy subject, but when you break it down to basics without needing to step on eggshells of PC it's not that hard.

Physical male identifies as a woman, perfectly fine. However those physical traits are physically there forever, regardless of identification.

Athletics as a whole has been divided by gender forever in athletic sports, for this very reason. I don't know why it should change now personally.
Wouldn't selling Crimea and recognizing the breakaway republics as countries work? It might be unacceptable, but it's definitely simple...
So "do this or we'll invade"?

Why does it matter if a NATO country is on the border anyway? In the age of ICBMs, stealth bombers, and drones is the real concern that some large NATO force would march over the border for a land invasion of Russia?
What Amazon has now is much less capital intensive than trying to do anything equivalent with retail outlets.
I was much more shocked when I came across this: https://www.amazon.co.uk/b?node=26247109031

TLDR: Amazon has a hair salon
Sign up! Maybe I'll go that way.
I don't think reaction to a twitter post is a good judge of how it would be received here -- many of the software engineers here are probably already earning over $400K in total comp. Well, at least before the recent market drop.
Coinbase had over 6000 employees?!?!?!
Think you're mis-reading or misunderstanding!

> Someone came back and pointed out that it hasn't always remained that way and there have certainly been blips

The blips didn't change the ratios though. Ratios have stayed the same.

> You then responded by saying "not in my country" for the past "1000 years".

Yeah - my country hasn't really had those blips. And the blips in other countries didn't change the ratios anyway, just transferred who owned them, so it was a separate point.

> Well, according to your first assertion we're not supposed to cover only your country for the past 1,000 years.

No it was a separate comment and point!
Making this available for free to all season ticket holders which is a really nice benefit. Right almost Austin FC games are broadcast locally over the air, but I'm really excited about being able to watch easily when I travel.
With an estate tax, the value is assessed once, I'd assume (at death/inheritance), then due to be paid. You might have to sell of a third or whatever of the fortune/company, and keep the majority.

Sure, over successive generations, the family might lose control of their original fortune/company, but that is compatible with the intention of the tax.
In lab conditions, yes. In this case:

"Our attack is practical; an unoptimized version recovers the full key from a CIRCL server
in 36 hours and from a PQCrypto-SIDH server in 89 hours ... The target server and the attacker are both
connected to the same network, and we measure an average round-trip time of 688 µs between the two machines."

Note that:

• The server in this case does absolutely nothing except use the cryptographic library. Would it work on a real server that actually does something useful with the requests? We don't know, the paper doesn't try that.

• We aren't told if it works if other people are using the server simultaneously.

• They show the attack against obscure post-quantum algorithms nobody actually uses (as far as I know). Why not RSA or ECDSA or something more standard? Presumably they don't have a technique that works on those, as otherwise it'd have been a big upgrade to their paper.

• What about if you aren't running your attack physically right next to your target? Is <1msec of latency what people think of when they hear "remote attack"?

I'm not hugely surprised Intel has limited themselves to issuing guidance. This paper continues a trend that's emerged since the first Meltdown/Spectre breaks in 2018 in which attacks become ever more convoluted, theoretical and unlikely to work outside of a lab yet they're all presented as equally important by the academics who develop them. I used to follow this area of research quite closely but eventually got sick of it. Way too many papers had some bizarre caveat buried deep in the paper, e.g. eventually I noticed that a lot of attacks on Intel SGX that claimed to leak cryptographic keys turned out to be using an extremely specific version of GnuTLS. I got curious why that might be and discovered that it was absolutely ancient, dating from many years before the papers were written. They were using it because that version had no hardening against side channel attacks of any kind whatsoever. Was that a realistic assumption to make for these attack papers? Probably not, but to notice this sort of trick you had to read well beyond the headlines.

I also remember some years ago, Google researchers got worried people weren't taking Spectre seriously enough, so they released a demo that claimed it would show a Spectre attack in action inside the browser. I was keen to see this because so many posited attacks seemed to rely on extremely specific situatons that didn't seem particularly plausible in the real world. I visited it in Chrome on macOS, i.e. one of the most predictable hardware and software environments the developers could have, and it didn't work. Checked reddit, it was filling up with people saying it didn't work for them either.

In the ~5 years since these attacks came out and started being patched in software and hardware, have there been any real world attackers found using them? Maybe but I don't remember hearing about any. State sponsored attackers seem to be sticking with more conventional techniques, which probably says a lot.
The attackers do not read the CPU frequency, they estimate it based on the latency of the replies to their queries.

The attack works only for certain combinations of CPUs and cryptographic algorithms that contain a mixture of instructions that cause a CPU to lower its clock frequency, with instructions that allow the CPU to raise its clock frequency.

For such combinations, algorithms that are supposed to be executed in constant time are actually executed in a variable time, creating a side-channel.

As a response to Hertzbleed, Intel has published a guide for those who write cryptographic libraries, about how to mitigate this vulnerability:

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/developer/articles/t...

The main problem that creates this vulnerabilty is that the CPU vendors publish very little information about their turbo algorithms, so, unless you make your own measurements, it is very difficult for a software writer to predict at which clock frequency will be executed a certain segment of a program, and what should be done to avoid changes in the clock frequency.
I think that many companies don’t know or have forgotten that programming is a creative process more than a manufacturing process. You’re not pulling chicken breasts off an assembly line and wrapping them in plastic.
I didn't say the guy was wrong. I said he wasn't going to change anything by standing outside and complaining. I think your argument supports that idea. Maybe in an ideal world people would be very open to drive-by critique. In reality, not so.
> Russia has so far demonstrated that it isn’t capable of much on that front.

Russia is weeks, perhaps days, away from consolidating the Donbas. An area larger than the UK and one of their primary objectives.

> Currently Russia has only managed to weaken and isolate itself.

Russia is coming out of this with multiple new trade partnerships, financial payment integrations and military alliances.
Infants' sense of pain is recognized, finally (1987)
The real issue is that the invasion of Ukraine doesn't make sense either. Russia expected a quick victorious "special operation", where the troops go in and the Ukrainian regime collapses with minimal fighting. Those expectations had no basis in reality, and Russia ended up in a major war it didn't want and was not prepared for.

If the current Russian regime can start a war based on gross misjudgment, they can do it again. That's a real threat, even if Russian military is not as strong as we used to believe.
> Who wouldn't think Amazon is buying land for warehouses?

The people that read the article, which stated that for many years, Amazon was not buying land for warehouses.
It doesn't really matter now. Russia is about to reclaim the Eastern lands it wanted and then we'll hear about "negotiated cease fire" and the war will be over and a pointless waste of lives will have occurred as well as trillions in economic damages.

Russia literally had a 0% chance of losing this thing in the end. Ukraine did well to defend early and Russia certainly mismanaged the strategy. Going at the mainland was stupid and indefensible and the Ukraine fighters should be commended. But it was never the main objective and the truth is, Russia is on the verge of accomplishing their main objective.

It's time to stop fighting.
I'm not them, but Lithium can have an acquired resistance develop over time, which is unfortunate given how stable it is. It will be used as a first step for determining bi-polarism, or when a stable med is immediately needed, from what I've seen.
Even more detailed is the original book by Leland Wilkinson, on which ggplot2 is based: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/0-387-28695-0.

The original implementations go back to SYSTAT and SPSS GPL (Graphics Production Language).

GPL especially, with its statement-based approach, has arguably better ergonomics for interactively and iteratively producing plots compared to function-based approaches.
Cool. They can retire and one of the thousands of other people who can (and want to) do their job can step in. If that starts causing problems, companies need to work on training programs for their leadership. It'd be an amazing side-effect if this pushed us toward it being more common to "rise through the ranks" and end up CEO. And if it caused us to start generating tens of people with a $100m net worth for every one one billionaire we'd have had otherwise.
http://web.archive.org/web/20211224010002/https://www.nytime...
Taxes != spending so this is the wrong frame to view taxes through.
exclusively yes
I'm still hanging around https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/ but that's more of a sci-fi nerd ish forum than a SW one.
Man gets two years in prison for selling 200k DDoS hits
I have no idea why you're confused. :D

Does the concept of a recursive array make sense to you? A recursive(ly typed) function? Or do you think such things can't exist? Like "[[[], []], []]" could be an instance of "mu X.[X]" right?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recursive_data_type#Isorecursi...
it’s just data though. json, yaml, xml, bytes in a file, they are all capable of representing the same data. why validate them all indifferent ways? their syntax is different, but their semantics, or some common subset, is identical.
That's up to the CEO.

Recognize that you — and everyone else — are relying on him to work just as hard, to take on just as much responsibility, while sacrificing more and more for every incremental dollar of value he creates.

Your question implies a hope that the CEO will continue to take on massive responsibility and produce massive wealth, even when the main beneficiary of his productiveness will be the government, not him.

If he doesn't choose to work harder, every incremental dollar disappears and the scheme fails. What happens then?
Cigarette smoking increases testosterone levels in men [0]. With the decreased prevalence of cigarette smoking in many countries, we should expect average testosterone levels to fall as a result. The hard part about historical data would be to disentangle the smokers from the nonsmokers and then find a way to measure testosterone to see if there is yet another factor at play. I'm not aware of any easy methods to conclusively preform that analysis.

[0] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24457405/
This is interesting given that Amazon was recently reported to be trying to sublet 10M sqft of excess warehouse space[0].

If both of these stories are true, it makes me wonder why they're acquiring so much real estate.

0: https://www.techradar.com/news/amazon-now-has-too-much-wareh...
The peasant was working for their master a lot less because if the master asked for more, the peasant would literally starve to death, because he wouldn't have enough hours in the day to work for himself.

The ruling class will happily soak up all spare productive capacity - and as the amount of work necessary to keep someone clothed, sheltered, and fed went down, that spare productive capacity grows, and more of it flows upwards.
We already have this issue for our existing tax system. You have to declare your income and use a huge set of tax rules and laws to determine your AGI and appropriate tax bracket. Taxing billionaires changes nothing here other than deciding once your AGI has enough zeros you get more taxes applied.
Would it help to slighty reduce the granularity of the frequency adjustment? Just enough to make the analysis infeasible? It doesn't have to be all or nothing. We had a similar issue with browsers restricting access to high-precision timers in JavaScript.
there appears to be some existential threat for the eastern U.S.
> But this is different from if we can simulate some amount reality at all, which I think is possible, and I use that to demonstrate why I think computers can contain human like intelligence in theory.

In what kind of theory, though?

In mathematical theory you can use a googol watts. In "things you can do in this universe" theory you can't use a googol watts.

I understand the argument of taking a small accurate simulation as a basis point and extrapolating to a larger simulation. But if you're stuck with exponential complexity, then that extrapolation doesn't work. The demonstration of simulating 5 particles becomes useless. Even if you can massively simplify it, if you can't eliminate the exponential cost you're screwed.
This tiny detail buried in the middle of the article is amazing.
You've constructed 'httpClientError', but how do you end up using it in your program? You have "pkg/httputil" or whatever, and the methods in it return "(Response, error)", not "(Response, httpClientError)".

Even within your own program, you now have to read the code in "httputil" to understand what possible error types can be returned.

It's idiomatic to never return concrete error types, whether from the stdlib, or third party libraries, or even methods within your own program.

Even for types you do write yourself, you still have to either memorize what errors each method may return, or you have to constantly refer to docs or source code reading.

Clearly you think this is fine and go's type system is good enough for your use-cases, but every larger go program I've worked with, error handling has been painful since the errors are effectively untyped.

I assume we must have worked on different types of go projects if you haven't run into pain with this.

> Yes, it's unusual for error details (rather than e.g. outcomes) to be localized

I absolutely agree that it's outcomes which are localized, but to determine _outcomes_, you have to classify errors. If the _outcome_ is "File doesn't exist", that's a different error than "permission denied", so you need to classify. But the type you have is "error", so you have to constantly refer to docs.
19 hours ago with discussion:

“Downthem” DDoS-for-hire boss gets 2 years in prison (krebsonsecurity.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31733285

117 points | by todsacerdoti | 19 hours ago | 70 comments
So then you are also OK with gutting capitalism and limiting company's abilities to make mad profits? Because, you can't have one without the other.
That might be a good idea!

Let's start at a hundreds-of-millions cutoff and see how it goes.
So what did you "hard disagree" about then?
I’m assuming you are referring to this part:

> If the underlying type is not fixed and the source value is out of range, the behavior is undefined.

Note the fine print about the meaning of ”out of range”:

> (The source value, as converted to the enumeration's underlying type if floating-point, is in range if it would fit in the smallest bit field large enough to hold all enumerators of the target enumeration.)

So this is not undefined:

enum E { A = 0, B = 1, C = 2 };
E valid = static_cast<E>(3);
For more BBS-nostalgia with new releases as well, this ANSI and ascii art site is a great resource:

https://16colo.rs/
> It's the spineless cowards like you who brought us to this point.

Lmao okay buddy.

I'd argue that emotionally-charged rhetoric like that is exactly what got the West (the US especially) into the mess in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Charged rhetoric by emotional war hawks who kept shouting "you're either with us or against us" used to mask lies by US politicians and the media.

Note - I'm not saying we do nothing to help Ukraine. Economic sanctions and supporting the Ukrainian military is great. But the West must be careful to avoid escalating to WW3.
there is no problem with being a billionare provided you do the near impossible and not hurt anyone to get it.

Being rich isn't criminal, being criminal to get rich is.
There should be an exponential wealth tax past a certain point. It's absurd anyone thinks it is sane to let people amass infinite wealth, eventually it just obviously fundamentally breaks democracy.
It will be interesting to hear how this drug impacts those with alopecia universalis, a sub type of alopecia areata. My sister has universalis from birth. I doubt she would want to do anything about it at this point, she is in her 40's.
Anything can be learned in a reasonable amount of time, but I already have a job. Good luck in finding your candidate though, sounds like a great environment to work in :)
https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/use-shareplay-to-watc...

Can use SharePlay to synchronize things.
https://twitter.com/typesfast/status/1536406121249796096
> Some companies/managers actually do care about you, and it seems like Coinbase is roughly in that court.

Do they really tho? They rescinded offers to many foreign students on OPT visas who had turned down Ph.D programs and such, putting them in a pickle. And they did it over email.
Those are just round zeros. You could obtain that much money in some African countries over the last 50 years for a few dollars. The latest cryto coin could give you that many coins. But these are numbers trying to represent wealth.

Any cap you put on the top could have the effect of reducing the value of a currency meaning the buying power doesn't change. A billion cap would make your million dollar house worth $100. However you slice it you are poor and someone else is rich.
Yeah. I guess that model implies that the govt will take a percent ownership of whatever you own. I think it would destroy the prospect of high risk high reward ventures like Tesla. Maybe the tax rate can be divided by a volatility metric so investors in high risk ventures aren’t severely punished randomly.
> You enjoy time on HN

That’s what I was trying to convey. I don’t enjoy time on HN as much as I would enjoy other activities that happen to have a slightly higher activation energy.

For example: I would almost certainly enjoy grabbing dinner with a friend more than I enjoy HN. But opening HN is waaaaay easier than calling up a friend. So that’s what happens instead.
Business operation complications are not a valid reason for the violation of the rights of humans.
You're brave. I tried giving a more balanced perspective on this war in the comments here 3 times, and I was called a Russian troll in the first attempt, flagged in the next one, and I lost a lot of karma in the third. You're going to be - at least - downvoted a lot, so I thought I'll join and will get downvoted with you. The more the merrier, right.
https://jcs.org/system6c
Is there a program giving every homeless person in CA $500? The only information I could find was a UBI experiment in Stockton where they randomly selected 125 residents to receive the $500 monthly payments. Homelessness was not a requirement of the program.
In this case there is no income so nothing to tax. Yet I would be worth $50 million and some would cry that's its unfair, which I think is silly.
> Looks like you need to look Shenanigans done by Musk, Gates etc

You should check out the shenanigans that the US government gets away with. Whatever bad things Musk, Gates and crew is small fry compared to the government.