skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had the exact opposite reaction, i.e. that the sudden concerted effort to suggest Biden had said he was going to do this seemed so forced and fake to me, that it immediately made me think Russia would be the culprit.

But I guess that kind of propaganda generation is semi-uncontrollable and just happens, with whatever seems to work bubbling up as successful (literal) memes replicating.

And there's probably similar people throwing stuff against the wall about why it was Russia until they find something with enough versimilitude that it sticks in the mind.

It also made me revisit the recent book "how to blow up a pipeline" as I had the same question when I heard that title. How can you justify the short term ecological damage against the long term. I assume it's possible, I just hadn't read an in depth argument on it. Interesting to read it and see if the author has been asked to comment yet.

edit, seems they have a film out, so now publicity stunt is a plausible theory:

https://boundingintocomics.com/2022/09/26/how-to-blow-up-a-p...
Europe went a different path than the US. Essentially, after cheap Eastern European countries have joined the EU, a lot of manufacturing was moved there.
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> There are many properties that are expected to burn more frequently than that.

There are 200,000 homes insured by CalFAIR plan, meaning they are in a fire prone region, “expected to burn” with some frequency.

There are 876 structures damaged or destroyed in 2022 fire season in California.

So, the real frequency looks like once in 228 years, while I am paying - as you’ve calculated- for once in 175. CalFIRE plan looks solidly in black.
Or just dropped, like a depth charge.
You own more than a quarter of the world using the same rhetoric. They include people with negative wealth in the bottom half, you don't have to go that low until the total sum of everyone there starts going negative.
Too bad that after a while
they will be acquired too. Becoming slowly unreasonably priced and our data sold etc. Arbitrage opportunity.
What if you did it and couldn't order yourself out though?
Given the ridiculous number of oligarchs getting defenestrated of late, it doesn’t seem Putin has lost his ability to cow them.

The USA would be entirely right not to trust Germany, but the risks of blowback should it be caught would make it too risky, and Biden doesn’t strike me as a gambler, unlike some.

Ukraine would be a good potential suspect but probably doesn’t have the capability. China could also be, turning Russia into a permanent vassal state would have its advantages, but it’s far-fetched.

This reminds me of the persons unknown who have been sabotaging Egyptian undersea fiber optic cables.
We've asked you many times before to stop taking HN threads further into flamewar. This was a doozy—snarkily veering straight into religious Nazi flamewar, which is close to pure internet hell.

Please don't do this on HN. It's nasty, repetitive, and off topic.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Probably hard to aggregate given that the data isn't available for every country and not continuous: https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SI.POV.GINI?gt=

But trend in the US and Germany has been steady growth.

For those unaware: the Gini index ranges from 0 to 1 (or 0% to 100%) with 0 being total wealth equality and 1 being total inequality.
Freelancers & OG remote workers have been doing this for decades especially if you consider consider outsourced work or timezones of different offices. Just that now it's happening within the same city/country is all.
Every squiggle language transliterates to 7 bit ascii without loss of fidelity anyway. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
The blockers themselves are reversible. The treatments that may follow are not necessarily reversible.

Do you really expect to simply point at a single-author paper that came out last week to “win” this discussion? Why the hour-old account focused purely on promoting trans hate?
Yes, because they must work for the organism.

No, because they don't have consciousness. So, they are less of a slave than, say, our cat.
They're saying £0 isn't a payment and Revolut should ignore it. It's not a Revolut bug but it's missed functionality for sure.
Depends quite a lot of what the "own" means and what "half the world" means.

If we are talking about stocks, it might be meaningless, if real-estate, land and so on it is way too much.
Well, these go more or less in line with my impression that European restrictions are the cause of most disruptions of normal operations, from maintenance to payment.

Add to that the NS2 pipeline, that could have been started, but never was. And Yamal-Europe pipeline that was shutdown by due to sanctions.

Diversification of supply is a good thing, sure, but how would it affect the competitiveness of European industry is a curious matter.
Equality: the fact of being equal in rights, status, advantages, etc.

https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/englis...
Not mentioned: workers.
Exactly! An unfortunate truth about running live and complex services is that they break frequently in strange and weird ways and we need to write a fix as quickly as possible, get it reviewed quickly and then roll it out asap. The term "hotfix" literally comes from that. The time range to develop and apply hotfix can be 30 mins to 48 hours--depends on nature of issue.
You have to truly hate people to license a library using anything but a permissive license, especially in the javascript ecosystem. Nothing ruins your day quicker than finding a transitive dependency with a copyleft license.

Maybe I should have been clearer. Most actual products based on OSS aren't distributed anymore. They're SaaS. The majority of the most popular app store apps are clients to a SaaS product.
Does this mean that in just a few years, about 10 people would actually own most of the world?
I'll say it depends on the company's business and objectives.

A CTO of a tech company needs to be super technical.

For example in Vercel, even CEO is a technical person.
Thanks for sharing. These data date back to 2016. In the following years, Oxfam updated the report where they found this inequality to be further exacerbated: "Just 8 men own same wealth as half the world" [0, 1].

[0] https://www.oxfam.org/en/press-releases/just-8-men-own-same-...

[1] https://www.oxfam.org/en/press-releases/worlds-billionaires-...
That's the crux with all kinds of fundamental research, isn't it? Everyone considers it a basically useless wild goose change until sometimes, something comes along that completely restructures our understanding of the universe.

I wonder if people made the same argument against funding of research in nuclear fission...
> I would say that, if you make such a claim, you should state why it is a mistake and what should be done instead.

Others have explained the problem with the von Neumann bottleneck,[1][2] and ways to overcome it or even redefine it.[3]

The industry is evolving towards programming paradigms less affected by that original computation model such as functional, functional-reactive, or agent-based programming(*), yet most of those are still converted down to Von-Neumann-style runtimes to be processed. Now that machine learning is increasingly being used to solve new problems, many computations may be done with dedicated non-VN hardware like tensor processors or analog computers (which are coming back with a vengeance).

(*) Listed in increasing order of real-world expressivity, although their computational expressivity in all them is mathematically equivalent to Brainfuck.

[1] https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1283920.1283933

[2] https://www.techtarget.com/whatis/definition/von-Neumann-bot...

[3] https://www.sigarch.org/the-von-neumann-bottleneck-revisited...*
We are all standing on shoulders of giants.
I don't think there is any software developer who can credibly claim they have not benefitted from open source software one way or another.
So one of the virtues of open-sourcing your work is about paying it forward.
This is a startling fact:

> A one-off 99 percent tax on the ten richest men’s pandemic windfalls, for example, could pay:

to make enough vaccines for the world;
to provide universal healthcare and social protection, fund climate adaptation and reduce gender-based violence in over 80 countries;
All this, while still leaving these men $8 billion better off than they were before the pandemic.
In countries with the concept of welfare and bankruptcy, "negative wealth" is impossible. Even 0 wealth is impossible because there is a value to the welfare cashflow that the person is eligible for.
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I think the most precise term for what the author experiences is "context collapse":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Context_collapse
> Sweden [...] shrugged at Russian threats and joined NATO.

Alternate take: Russia is behaving so irrationally and dangerously, their actions persuaded the Swedes to break two centuries of neutrality to cozy up with a defensive pact. They could have joined NATO in the 90s when the threat was nil, but instead they maintained their neutrality until things got dicey.
You're serious? The guy brings in the trolling from Russian propaganda forums- you should see the trash they spread there - the Russian here isn't ethnicity, it is the country Russia which has many ethnicities - and you let him just do it.

I'm not attacking him for ethnicity - i'm pointing that it is pretty obvious that he is a Russian troll. Do you really think that his comment isn't in a gross violation of all the rules, and such comment requires an answer with specific facts/references i gave? You're really on the wrong side here.

>We've had to ask you this many times

sorry, i don't remember those many times.

In this specific case what do you see as a "flamewar" on my side? Do you see any fake facts or lying? Qualification of cultural genocide as what being committed by Russia isn't just my words here - it follows definition, just google it.

Whereis the guy clearly lied without any possible factual backing when he made that statement of "fake". That is one of the main points and tools of Russian propaganda, and you just let it here. That propaganda right now is a weapon used by Russia together with other weapons in that war.

His "fake" to the cultural genocide being performed by Russia is no different than a "fake" in response to Armenian genocide or Holocaust. How can you let it here?

If one says that Turks committed Armenian genocide or Germans - Holocaust would it be attacking Turks or Germans on their ethnicity? How is that different when applied to Russians?

I'm reposting my comment. Feel free to ban me.
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Well...

a) It is still up.

b) And after all of the hacks and DDoSing by the script kiddies running booters and attempts to fully de-platform them, it is still up and working.

Looks like a complete giant waste of time and a total failure to shut them down.
I wouldn't buy such a car to be honest. I thought the future would be more accessible cars, not some locked in trash where you have to pay dividends to even more suppliers. Although the car industry is heavily guilty here as well.

For me a car is a tool. Aside from playing music, a technology available since forever, I don't expect much. Navigation is a solved issue for the most part. Self-driving cars are far away. An actual HUD is really nice, but many manufacturers already include them. If there is ever a standard, Apple would not be a good custodian.
Internet Drama is so easily ignored, why would you post it on HN?
Budibase cofounder here - we are super excited to finally ship the dev experience of 2.0 and can't wait to see what the community build with the new dev experience. Happy to answer any questions or hear any feedback that anyone may have!
I don't know which country you refer, usually (here in Italy) to sign a contract you need to be identified, i.e. to produce the actual piece of ID and (still usually) a photocopy of the piece of ID is annexed to the contract.

Particularly when money is involved, but - only as examples - if you want to buy a phone SIM you need to present the actual document.
Custom components/datasources completely change the platform, being able to build whatever you want with Svelte and Node scripts really turns up the low code aspect of the builder!
Parsing: A Timeline (2022)
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This is the classical conspiratorial judo-move. Who does this benefit? It seems to benefit A in every meaningful way, but that's too obvious, so clearly it's B doing it to make A look bad! False flag!

Usually it's Russia doing this kind of rhetorical judo move.

But this clearly benefits Norway, Ukraine, the US and maybe the Baltics in roughly that order, and hurts Russia, Germany and to some extent Netherlands. If you think the US is too noble to play dirty on a powerful European ally, I've got an Airbus to sell you.

Russia has condemned it and called it a terrorist act. The US, conspicuously, has not. At least one prominent US commentator has suggested that the US did it and that this was good.

The sabotage happened in Swedish and Danish waters, not in Russian ones. No evidence implicating Russia has been presented, although we know that the US and allies are much better than Russia at presenting evidence - when they want to.
Considering this is based off Forbes list, and Forbes has Peter Thiel's net worth at ~1\5th the amount that's confirmed to be in his backdoor IRA, I doubt the accuracy.
By which year can we bring it down to one?

Probably a higher chance of speeding up that process than doing anything else.

After which reboot should be easier.
I want to believe this is satire but I know it's not even an egregious example.
Capture of the individuals behind it? Perhaps not. Identifying the vessel(s) supporting the sabotage operation? Much more likely.
There are 200,000 homes insured by CalFAIR plan, meaning they are in a fire prone region, “expected to burn” with some frequency.

There are 876 structures damaged or destroyed in 2022 fire season in California.
So, the real frequency looks like once in 228 years, while I am paying - as you’ve calculated- for once in 175.

CalFIRE plan looks solidly in black.
It is not about number of endpoints - libraries also have multiple "endpoints" and some are used and some are not. It is about reasonable code packaging. Most of those "micro" service just wrap some single purpose libraries and expose them as REST endpoints. That is way they are more like nano services and not micro services. This lead to modern version of "dependency hell" but much more complex becasue now we have to deal with whole class of potential network problems.
I mean the smoking gun here is a statement from Biden back in February that they will take steps to stop it.

Official statement: https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases...

> As I have made clear, we will not hesitate to take further steps if Russia continues to escalate.

Interview quotes:

> "If Russia invades... again, then there will be longer Nord Stream 2. We will bring an end to it."
> When asked how he would do that, he responded, "I promise you we will be able to do it."

Dunno if they intended to "stop" Nord Stream 1 as well, but even with Russia messing with it and frequently stopping it, it was still a huge source of income for Russia thanks to exorbitant gas prices.

Now this is pure theory / speculation on my part, but, now that Europe has filled up their gas storage and has rapidly built new coastline LNG plants to accept shipments of LNG from the US, their dependence on Russian gas has dropped fast.

I can see some motivations why the US would have an interest in cutting it off. One, force stop the flow of money to Russia. I mean they could have used political means or financial incentives too, so it seems weird they would bomb infrastructure of their allies in their allies' national waters instead.

But two is to increase European dependence on American LNG shipments, which are currently highly profitable. I'm sure we'll see a big correction in gas prices this winter, depending on the weather, Nord Stream 1/2 or no though. Nothing as sustainable as the decades of Russian gas flowing into Europe.
Isn’t Sweden insulated from the energy crisis because so much of its electricity comes from hydropower and nuclear?
Right - a fresh out of med school graduate is worth negative a lot, due to debt, but has great earning potential over their lifetime.
I think these are good points but the main shortcoming of all the theories about Russia is that we still treat (or want to) Russia as a rational actor.

I remember just before the war I would bid everything that Russia would in no way start the war. It just didn't make any rational sense. Who in sound mind would think to do it knowing that all the West [might/would] unite against you.

However rationality is being lost in personal agendas and Mafioso thinking of some sorts.

Now we see that after any Russian loss, be it a warship or loss of territory Russia responds with some pity attack against civilians. For example wasting expensive missiles to blow out a few floors of some high rise residential building. It is just hard to understand by rational western thinking.

However growing up in post-soviet country this kind of thinking is prominent amongst post-soviet mafias and similar sorts of groups - "if I can't have it nobody will". It is some kind of childish, failure to launch thing. "If I lost football match I will destroy the ball and that will show everybody". People grow out of it, thugs become thugs exactly for this reason - failure to grow up, lack of empathy because of family problems and etc.

Moreover you can see this in all the Russian army from the very top to the very bottom. What self respecting army would terrorize civilians after any push back. "We are retreating but we will put grenades under every pillow in every house in this village. That will show them". If this kind of thinking is prominent among all the population, all the army and etc. it starts to make more sense.

A simple "If we can't profit out of it we will blow it up and then you will know" starts to make sense.

Then you have "we can frame this on USA/Ukraine" because everybody knows "it is not in our interest".

Then you have Putin's interest - pipeline can become very profitable thing for the oligarch who gets rid of Putin and makes peace with the West. So it becomes a personal danger to Putin.

So it really could be Russia being Russia and Russian elite trying to "stay relevant" by their own (what west would call) crazy thinking.
Ooh, nice; I had half a mind to do something like this a few years ago (called PyOS), but never had the time. My rationale was that getting python code running on boot on a raspberry pi required learning about Linux sysadmin, rather than just coding (which, for high-school students, is important to make it quick and easy to see results). Micropython does this - drop a main.py and/or boot.py and it runs on boot; or you have a repl. Why not on a fully fledged computer?
To read the comments submitted so far

seq -f "GET /v4/comments/FTC-2022-0053-%04g?include=attachments HTTP/1.1@ h1@ h3@ h2@ h4@" 1 108 \
|sed '
s/ h1/Host: api.regulations.gov/;
s/ h2/X-Api-Key: 5F20SbTVakeYfU9i5gX1dxx96sw4KELUQxAHhcHa/;
s> h3>Referer: https://www.regulations.gov/>;
$!s/ h4/Connection: keep-alive/;
$s/ h4/Connection: close/;
' \
|tr @@ '\15\12' \
|openssl s_client -connect 52.61.16.12:443 -ign_eof > 1.json

sed -n '/\"comment\" : \"/{s/ *//;s/.*/<br>&<hr>/p;}' 1.json > 1.htm
firefox ./1.htm
links 1.htm

As I type this there are 107 comments. Hence "108" above.
A detachable DOCK with keyboard, additional battery, 3 or 4 USB ports, Ethernet, HDMI, SD socket(s), headphones socket, etc., which can be attached to any smartphone via something like VESA mount for displays and TV-s. To use the keyboard, I prefer just slide it, to use like a notebook, out OR rotate it and the phone to form a cross, to use it like a portable gaming console.

This way, I can select a phone with good specs, then install LineAge with Linux terminal, and use the phone as a PC for development, note-taking, texting, etc.
Why don't French people pronounce half their letters?
So? They're dev dependencies. They're not needed to actually use the code.
I wasn't suggesting it had changed, just that I got a couple of paragraphs in and got confused when they said the prediction had come true a year early in 2015, and it's generally a trend to mark older stories with the year as the assumption is they are newly published.
Clarification: the open-source version will always remain free for developers
I think you somewhat underestimate the difficulty of blowing this up. You have to find it first. Diving to 80 metres is _not_ child's play! Then locating the pipe with possibly poor visibility. Finally it's a big chunk of metal and concrete, you'd need the kind of explosives you can't just buy at your local corner store. I'd imagine Baltic traffic is well monitored, especially now, so if you don't want to be caught, or identified post factum, parking your fishing vessel for hours on the spot won't cut it.

That said it is well within any Baltic state's or NATO country's "easy zone".
It's not a fact. They don't have that money in cash. It's mostly based on shares in their companies.

If you take those shares, who's going to buy them, given you'll probably just take them again.
It's not a clear message if they don't actually say, nor even strongly hint, "Stop pushing back on Ukraine or Baltic Pipe is next!"

No. It would make more sense for Russia to quietly blow up Baltic Pipe and say nothing.
Chalk has no dependencies aside from those vendored into the source tree.
There is Stuxnet and its predecessor, which blew up a pipeline!

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/2004/02/27/r...

The U.S. motivation is that it has tried to shut down energy trades between the Soviet Union/Russia and Germany for more than 50 years.
The average person is nevertheless still better off than they were in all of history.

Once basic needs are met (and tbh far exceeded in most first world countries), it seems that awareness about inequality only makes people less happy.
https://www.oxfam.org/en/press-releases/just-8-men-own-same-...
It was 8 people in 2017, a year after the posted article
Sure. It's a minor possibility. But we both know that personal ideology is the overwhelming motivating factor... so much so that it might as well be described as the singular motivating factor.

You don't even need to reference hacker news for evidence of this. Look at other forums, the news, the rest of the world... people operate this way by nature. It is rare for someone to make a genuine attempt to be unbiased; and even rarer for him to succeed in that attempt.
Upwork just doesn't care.

I was on the receiving end of one of these recently. I was looking for US-based contractor, found someone whose profile looked legit, and reached out. In the phrasing I got back via email, I knew this wasn't the native English speaker I was expecting.

Here's my thread: https://twitter.com/watilo/status/1561795264888901633