skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>While the files show Uber executives identified Macron as an ally, they marked Valls down early on as a “strong-minded” opponent, privately denouncing him as “enemy #1” and plotting demonstrations against him – including the surreal suggestion from one senior executive of “lots of drivers with Valls mask on and a guillotine”. Uber discussed – and often tried – everything from “civil disobedience” to social media campaigns and relentless court challenges.

Uber is kind of starting to sound like a terrorist organization
They're not prescribing any policy in the paper. But you seem to be saying it's impossible to write about your observations of humans without having some ulterior political motive. This seems pretty tenuous, can you back it up? What policy do you think the authors are trying to secretly advocate for?
Technically binance.com is not the parent company of binance.us - they set this all up under the framework of the so-called 'Tai Chi' document. [1] CZ is on the board of the '.us' and '.us' licenses the brand and technology from '.com'

With that in mind, the law takes a dim view of such shenanigans. I suspect that '.com's tacit acceptance of VPNs in serving US customers is probably more than enough for a judge to pierce the corporate veil.

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaeldelcastillo/2020/10/29/l...
A slight tangent, but do you have any pointers on how one might get involved in either:

- The SQL standardisation process (or whether this is even feasible as someone who isn't involved in the development of a major database engine)

- Postgres development

The feature I am particularly keen to get accepted is trailing commas in SELECT column lists (potentially other places too, but SELECT lists would be a very good start). And there are potentially a bunch of other improvements in the syntax sugar department that I might be interested in spearheading if I could successfully get this accepted (e.g. being able to refer to select list column aliases in GROUP BY clauses).

I don't have much experience with C, but I would potentially be up for actually implementing the change if I could get buy in from the maintainers.
The article itself focuses exclusively on the U.S. sanctions and legal issues.
"only 1 entry is allowed not to have the data, all others must be unique" makes sense in larger schemas as the database grows. It replaces is_default_address, is_primary_child etc. fields and constraints on relational tables. In the perfect world all the data would be normalized not to have such columns and cases, but in real life it just grows that way. So for some cases NULLS NOT DISTINCT will be a welcome addition.
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That IP list does not contain warp ip addresses. It contains IPs that are used in cloudflare networks such as Proxying with the orange cloud or tunnels

The point of that list is if you are behind a cloudflare proxy in some form and only want to allow traffic from cloudflare
It’s a car alarm.

Kids these days…
So if three cars are speeding, right, and an officer pulls over the first but lets the other two go - you know what's not a good defense? "But officer, they were speeding too!! Therefore speeding must be ok, right? I'll be going now."

[edit] to rephrase: US cops close like 50% of murder cases. Is your gut reaction anger that since they can't catch 100% of them, they may as well not bother catching any at all? It's not really fair to the ones who get caught if some of their peers are getting away with it yeah?
Visa or Mastercard debit (not credit). They used to be American Express exclusive.
Here I am clicking color after color like a dunce, wondering when I get to see the ranking. After 20-30 or so clicks I finally notice the ultra-tiny-low-contrast "Ranks" text.

In my defense I'm outside with a ton of glare...
> exactly what they are doing

Pretty sure the non-US Binance entity would like to be able to maintain dollar bank accounts, or let their executives and employees travel to America and allied territory. (Which is why they banned these users.)
I used an Uber for exactly that trip in 2019 and it was only €56, at 17:30 (which I would consider prime time).

Just putting this number out there to put the €120 into context.
Have to wonder whether it’ll change in another 5 years.

Making 4% back on gas is mega killer though.
This is stupid... I buy one stock of tesla, Elon does something bad, that I literally have no control over, and i go to jail (along with thousands of others)?

Aren't CEOs paid "that much", because they carry all those responsibilites? If they're responsible enough to get so much money, they're responsible enough to deal with the consequences of fucking up.
Yeah, it's basically a software update to the cars, and suddenly the cars are only pulling from the grid at 4am based on the average spot price of electricity.

I think the biggest issue is that if nobody charges during the day, and all the energy is coming from solar, demand for energy during the night will skyrocket.

But that's solvable by literally putting some power plugs into parking spaces.

Not a huge ask.
I actually used to maintain a "kill the servers" script, long ago when I was responsible for servers that had sensitive data on them. Tried to rather; they're hard to keep up to date and hard to test. Worse than backups in the "will we ever need this?" priority race.

Physical demolition is much less likely to fail, and more fun to test. Thermite charges are easy enough to make.
That's fair - as I said in another comment, it breaks down with keys. I can't think of a great way to model "this row definitively does not have whatever is referenced in another table". Using anything other than NULL for that means you can't use proper foreign keys.
Did you follow any part of the last X years in Afghanistan and Iraq? Seemed to work out for them -> the US left.

Edit: I always find the type of argument in the parent comment to be intellectually dishonest. "You're not going to beat the US military, they have tanks and planes!". Sure, maybe, but can we agree that if we ever got to the point where the US military is killing civilians, that you might rather have a rifle than nothing?
I've found having camera on full-time during meetings and making use of a $50 usb drawing pad has been a very acceptable substitute for in-person meetings and whiteboarding.

Being able to see the faces and body-language of your colleagues by being on-camera during the meetings solves most of that higher-bandwidth comms that in-person brings, and using either a simple drawing app or even something like MS Teams' Whiteboard app lets you get that whiteboard like experience.
Heh, no. We had a fleet of HPE Cloudline (CL3100) failing at the same time because the SSDs exhausted the writes.
I started a few years after you, around about 2003. There were certainly pockets of industry that still operated exactly the same as the article described, especially defense and aerospace.

Which makes sense, given working in embedded hardware (especially in classified contexts) back then came with a lot of the same limitations described in the article - software had to be delivered by sneaker-net, installation was burdensome, you couldn't just fire up the application for a quick bug fix at home, etc. Not to mention the inertia of having Always Done It That Way.
I like the site's 90s cyber esthetic. Makes me want to read some textfilez about warez.
Are "we" screaming at Binance?

Github got a license to operate in Iran: https://github.blog/2021-01-05-advancing-developer-freedom-g.... I don't know about Signal though, but they have been banned by Iran anyway because it allowed open communications to the outside.
What about solar for commercial buildings with large roof surface area, and/or multifamily homes and apartment buildings? Are the costs better in those situations?
Unless you are working in a domain where being serious is important otherwise it may endanger lives and most of us are not in such domains/situations, it's much preferable to be able to look at the funnier side of things.

You have a rare ability and we need more like you :-)
I feel like I have a pretty good idea of what does and doesn't impact him; he reacts quite clearly if something is problematic (he's read/watched LOTR/Hobbit and one moment he reacted to in The Hobbit movies was Bolg vs Kili). Mal in Inception was probably the heaviest thing as the gunplay there isn't overly visceral. We've watched The Matrix together, Ready Player One (undead ballroom was fine, but skipped the old zombie in the bathroom) and Ender's Game (has a graphic bullying revenge scene). I love Moon, but the language is a bit old for him for now - one day though, as I think that's one of the tightest sci-fi stories, and will get him thinking. Blade Runner too.

He'd probably cope with recent Dune, which I thought was very polished. We should watch The Martian, as he read Project Hail Mary and liked it. From memory, Arrival would be good assuming some of the undertones went over his head. Contact is another good one in a similar vein (common element with Project Hail Mary and Arrival of decoding messages).
Did scons change between python2 and python3? That looks like it might be part of the issue people are running into.
> It's just not right to ask low-income taxpayers (including those who didn't go to college)

Low-income people don't actually pay much taxes. In fact their primary tax payment may be the fixed-rate Social Security FICA that you mention, not the progressive income taxes after deductions and credits.

Moreover, what about the low-income student who have to go into debt to go to school, while the rich kids have their parents pay for everything? This is my point in relation to the article: who can afford to even get a PhD nowadays except the kids of financially well-off parents? That's one of the reason richer kids are coming to dominate academia.

> a higher earnings potential

My point is that the difference between actual and potential is the difference between a comfortable life and a lifetime of debt that may follow you to old age and death.

There's basically no return whatsoever on your investment if you spend years in a PhD program but don't finish. It's all money down the drain. Meanwhile, graduate students are exploited by universities for very cheap teaching labor.
> Over 40% of white students at Harvard are side-door admissions (legacy, donors, children of faculty, etc.).

I'm sure it's over 40%. It wouldn't surprise me if it's 70. There are a lot of side doors.

My information is dated, but as of circa-2008, the Ivies were including ZIP code and paternal (but not maternal) profession in their predictive modeling. The interviews (which are evaluative, even when people say they're not) are also driven more by class markers than academic factors.

> This is especially true for minority admissions. For the most part, Harvard won't admit lower-class African Americans; they'll select from a much smaller pool who have already moved into the power networks. That's important for maintaining power networks now that the DEI movement means minorities will likely e.g. serve on corporate boards.

This. Which is why I get so angry about right-wing populism. Yes, DEI initiatives mostly come from a place of insincerity. Corporates care about more about making the elite look more palatable than changing how it actually governs, and the minorities being accepted into the outer fringes of the (still inbred at heart) corporate elite will be discarded the minute they are no longer needed. But, nevertheless, the causes (racial, social, and gender justice) from which "wokeness" sprung are still quite laudable and necessary. The fact that we've allowed insincere corporate assholes to carry a banner on these issues is a travesty... because, while they don't know it, a lot of the right-ish populists are motivated by justified anger at the corporate system... and for us on the left to say that they're actually motivated by "anti-woke" racism does no good for anyone.
I don’t think the goal is to provide practical value.
Such a comparison operator exists: IS (NOT) DISTINCT FROM.
> Diversity and equity is taught at elite cadre schools and used as a distinguishing marker from the proletariat. This gives elite children a wedge to get into Ive League institutions without high test scores.

Can you prove that in any way? This sounds like a made up "fact."
>> I tend to go mum

Which implies you are cracking a silent joke ;-)
The CG from Escape From New York was done in a similar way.

https://beforesandafters.com/2021/07/12/escape-from-new-york...
> That's also not accurate, after all many countries in which they do business have sanctions against Iran. The EU for instance. The UN. [2]

These sanctions tend to be narrow, targeted and in general do not prohibit trade relationships.

It's an entirely different ball game than the immoral US secondary sanction regime.
VPNs aren't supposed to block traffic, so there'd be no good reason to block ssh unless you suspect your clients are malicious.

As to why Cloudflare's 8.37.43.0/24, 8.39.18.0/24, 8.40.140.0/24 and 8.42.172.0/24 networks aren't on that page which purports to be the "definitive source of Cloudflare’s current IP ranges", all I can say is that Cloudflare has a long history of caring much more about the appearance of transparency than about actually being transparent. They make reporting any abuse very difficult, and they probably wouldn't care in the slightest that their customers are doing nefarious things.
QUIC does a lot more than "the one for TCP". While I also believe that modern TCP consists of more than just one RFC (which you already hinted at).

I guess the art in protocol design is to have as few as possible mandatory-to-implement parts, which are itself minimized in complexity, so that a minimal implementation is doable with a reasonable amount of effort while already achieving a good result (and UX). Then the optional parts can be added piece-by-piece, after the implementation was already published/released.
As if ML applications were ethically sounder than PoW coins...
I don't believe that's how it works. There are plenty of businesses that do business with both Iran and USA, without apparent issue. Xiaomi (https://www.xiaomiiran.ir/), Samsung (https://www.samsung.com/iran/) or LG (https://www.lg.com/ir) for example.
There are no sanctions on selling goods to general consumers, most companies have just chosen not to do so.
Exactly I was bit confused, initially thought that I read one of his old writing. The legend is still missing.
I guess these could be particularly well suited to colder / less sunny climates. Which could be a very good thing, given that in sunny climates existing technologies are already pretty much good enough.
> Should databases have two separate values for unknown or no value? That sounds like a world of hurt, with two types of null.

It’s also a non-problem in practice, because if an application needs to distinguish between multiple types of nulls, it can very easily just use an extra column holding the information needed to disambiguate.
> It does a lot of things, none of which very well. And the one thing that I want it to do, it doesn't. Not reliable or not at all. (...) A python script, A proprietary Kobo app over wine, some bash scripts and a well kept directory achieves this. But calibre doesn't.

I prefer to have an all-in-one application that does all this for me. My ebook workflow is not particularly demanding, so I let Calibre manage everything and don't maintain my own scripts.

Such a definition of "job not well defined" is just "IDE, but for ebooks" when seen from a different angles. People swear by IDEs for all kinds of reasons, convienience and integration first and foremost. You may not need an IDE, but I'll take it over rolling my own tools any day.
Well, "Ostensibly bilateral US foreign policy actions, such as sanctions, can influence third-party compliance with US policy preferences. US sanctions simultaneously signal US preferences and demonstrate leverage, which can motivate third parties to avoid or change proscribed behavior proactively. " [1]

In other words, (US) sanctions have a lot of ways to affect even corporations from third-party countries.

[1] https://asu.pure.elsevier.com/en/publications/sanctions-and-...

[edit] Perhaps a more readable text is https://www.williamsmullen.com/news/us-sanctions-laws-danger...
>All anthropological work about contemporary society seeks to inform public opinion which dictates policy.

I'm specifically asking about the goal of informing public opinion and dictating policy which is a wildly different goal than just 'sharing their findings'.

Here is your claim:

>Theoretical physics does not aim to influence social policy.

'aim to influence social policy' is an extremely specific goal that you're prescribing to all anthropology of modern society, I'm asking you to back up that claim
As a French, I've taken French taxi maybe like 20 times in my life (Paris & Rennes), and never had any issue with them (granted it was largely post-Uber, so maybe they improved because of it). I took ubers few times, it didn't feel any better than taxis.
Also, coffee. Offices usually offer either Maxwell House drip brew, or K-cups. Increasingly, the latter. To me, Keurig tastes like powdered instant. As for sweeteners and creamers, the selection is a bit random.

At the home office, I make coffee exactly the way I prefer. If I want variety, I can take a 10 minute break and pop down to the Bucks or McD’s.

Office kitchenettes… feh.
There's like 5 different features wants I could add like this. A columnar database engine comes to mind (slightly more work involved) and poaching a few Sqllite QOL features.

Ultimately Postgres is a community driven product, and people want to work on what they want the work on.

I don't get angry that some kind soul hasn't volunteered their Saturday for free for me.
he's not saying it's impossible to figure out some piece of code, but "all" code. There is just too much of it! Going into even something as relatively simple as an operating system, let alone a whole ecosystem with drivers, internet protocols & more would take many lifetimes.

The "anyone" part comes because there are countless parts of those infinately complex systems that have no documentation and no maintainers. They can individually be reverse engineered if it is needed in an individual case, but nobody is going to do that for most of them.
> In the south every single home has at least one large A/C unit, most of which draw the amount or more as an electric car being charged and yet the grid doesn’t fall over when it’s noon and everyone’s air conditioning is running full blast during the summer.

Texas has had grid problems because of this. It was especially bad in the winter.

> This is like that old fable about the English power companies having to fire up peaker plants during the commercial breaks of soccer games because of so many people putting the kettle on.

This isn't a fable, I've seen interviews with National Grid staff where they talk about tracking the TV schedule. This is one of the reasons why we have pumped-hydro capacity, to handle quick spikes.

I think this issue may end up being less of an issue than the doomsayers go on about. When I looked into this in ~2012 the solution was going to be "smart grids" where components would collaborate. Now, we've pretty much got there with electric cars being relatively smart, energy pricing being quite dynamic on some tariffs, and smart meters understanding that relationship.
You could look in peer to peer interactions for some actions on the board and websockets for keeping state of the board in sync for everyone.
I guess your comment is provocative intentionally. There are many countries in the world where - thankfully- certain public schools/universities are more prestigious than private ones (it comes to mind Germany, Switzerland, Spain, France).
About B) and C) I sort of agree though
"The goals of completeness and diversity are sometimes in tension. If a standard is extremely complex, it may discourage implementation diversity because the cost of a complete implementation is too high (consider: Web browsers). On the other hand, if the specification is too simple, it may not offer enough functionality to be complete, and the resulting proprietary extensions may make switching difficult (see Section 4.6)."

Noncommercial internet user here. I will gladly trade "functionality" for simplicity and implementation diversity, i.e., choice. Often "functionality" is not something internet users ask for, but something standards authors want, where either the authors are commercial entities purporting^1 to act on behalf of internet users or they are under pressure from commercial interests wanting to exploit internet users, i.e., internet traffic.

1. In truth they act on their own behalf and to satisfy their paying customers, e.g., advertisers or other "tech" companies, not internet users.
Opinions on the morality of the US system are not really relevant to the outcome here. I don't particularly agree with sanctioning Iran either, but I'm sure not about to be on the wrong side of Uncle Sam over it and expect to get away scot-free.
Note that Portunus still uses OpenLDAP, it's just "OpenLDAP server is completely managed by Portunus". lldap doesn't use OpenLDAP at all.
My french colleague's former father in law is a cab driver in Paris. What an arrogant aggressive jerk from all the stories I've heard.

Didn't mind literally throwing client out of the car in the middle of the highway because he didn't like something he said about politics. Frequently blocking highway exits with his taxi due to some protests or other, burning tires on roads (which damages them apart of other issues with this).

But yes he paid for taxi bouillon more than 200k euro, they are 3 who split it among themselves. So one can expect that folks in such a position will do literally anything to defend their status, legal or illegal.
Kids go to college because even despite the wildly unacceptable costs, it remains the single best investment a person can make in their future earning potential. They go to college because it is actually very likely the correct decision with the information they have at the time.
Look, guy. Okay? Listen up here.

> But which one of these motherfuckers is the best color?

> Together, we've voted on 0.27834177017211914% of all colors.

> (Don't worry, we'll get there.)

Good news is, you are completely right and the author agrees. It is a joke. Which brings us to the bad news — but it's a monday which is hard enough so I'll let it slide.
I am a hobbyist and frequently browse foreign language sites to engage with my hobbies beyond the Anglosphere. It’s remarkable how much more is out there when you start looking.
Aren't you going to learn that eventually, out of necessity? But hey, this way you get to start hating the school (including the interesting parts - if there are any left) and you might also get the (incorrect) impression that the only reason you need to do things you don't enjoy is because some assholes decided that you must. Great life lesson.
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>Hybrid work asks you to live nearby, and to commute

Only because people insist on defining hybrid as "n days per week in the office where n = 3 +/-1". Let teams and their leaders decide what works bet for the team. My team lives all over the country, and once every 2-3 months we meet in the office for a week. Yes, this involves flights and hotels, and I'm not saying it will work for everyone, but it's working for us in a way that 2-3X per week in the office absolutely would not have.
i always seen hybrid as a trojan horse for back to office.

i think all us desk monkeys with borderline (or fully) bullshit jobs have no good reason to be in an office full time.
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