skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People talk about the “evil west” in context of our own self professed values. When we do things like overthrow democratically elected leaders (Iran) and prop up dictatorships that are friendly to our interests, all while talking about how great we are, that’s what evil.

The Iraq war is a textbook example of this. We claimed it was all about freedom and democracy, but the reality was that we had long supported Saddam while he fought an incredibly bloody war against Iran in the 80s, but he eventually fell out of favor when he started growing too ambitious and invade Kuwait. In the end, the US decided it would be better to just try and do the job ourselves and just overthrow him directly and nation build in our image in Iraq (and Afghanistan), surrounding Iran on both sides and setting things up for the next stage.

We all know how it turned out, both Iraq and Afghanistan are looked upon as disasters, as both countries saw untold death and destruction, and aren’t any better off for it.

Does that mean that I personally, as a citizen of the west think that the western values we profess are inferior, or have some sort of image of “noble” Muslims that are perfect and can do no wrong? Of course not. I am a reflection of the culture I was raised in and hold western values deeply. Which is why it enrages me that people chauvinistically look down upon people from other societies while ignoring the fact that we’ve gone into their countries and committed literal war crimes and pardoned the offenders. [0]

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/dec/27/eddie-gallag...
What about owning a domain and using a unique address for each commercial entity?

FOr example, amazon@mydomain.us, nytimes@mydomain.us, citibank@mydomain.us, etc.

I have done this for years, but now gmail recipients are rejecting my email as spam. (I've gone through multiple iterations with the DNS configuration at the host, but fundamentally the IP address is tainted other customers on this provider using it to send spam. I shouldn't have to fork up for a dedicated whitelisted IP address just to get functional email). As a result now I have a dedicated @gmail.com address just for those folks and businesses.

I'm surprised the world, and most especially the tech community, embraced gmail so quickly. Yes, it's a great interface, yes, it's free, but from the start they said they would be scanning content and collecting infomation from email content. WHy are we OK with that?
> Fuck that and the horse it rode in on. Targeted advertising is a blight on society.

I agree. But I doubt they care.
People generally don't like to pay for things they can get for free.
I think the most useful thing that will come from investment in rockets and space travel will probably be asteroid defense.
The thing that always seemed really strange to me is that I don’t understand how to order anything without looking at the details, comparing prices, checking alternatives, etc. Even with food that I use regularly - do I just say “order almond milk”? I can’t remember the brand… do I need to specify the size? Do I need to double check when is the earliest delivery? Do other people order just “bread” or “light bulbs” or “toilet tissue”?
You think OpenAI is using this to somehow nefariously brain wash you? I can’t tell if you’re being serious or not.
I understand that but I guess my question is other than another layer of access control to prevent mistakes, what am I actually getting.

I know AWS has fixed this now, but in years past we paid a ton of money in KMS requests from s3 for these types of configurations and we asked ourselves what is this really buying us?

At the end of the day I have to assume some AWS employees have access to some or all keys in KMS.
They wasn't advocating for collapse. Rather, I took it that they were suggesting that the current system will not be changed until it has done so as it has been captured by non-medical interests whose goals do not take into consideration whether society is generally healthy.

People have been manipulated into supporting these bad actors through media. Wanting affordable healthcare is "socialism". Single payer healthcare will kill your grandma with "death panels". The fact is that in most metrics socialised healthcare is fucking the absolute shit out of the US system, which somehow manages to kill twice as many pregnant women as Canada[0]. At this point the only thing that might change the minds of these people is to feel the consequences of their actions.

[0] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-pregnancy-idUSKCN0...
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Wasavi – a browser extension that transforms TEXTAREA elements into a VI editor - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11023428 - Feb 2016 (42 comments)
That's an interesting thought even if I'm not convinced how much you can charge for this sort of thing. But really improving Alexa's conversational ability is an interesting angle--even if that means you need some greater skepticism about the info it returns.
I think we had more of an actual civic life when they did. But two things changed: Television and air conditioning. Television meant that there was something to do inside. Air conditioning made it possible to go inside, at least in the summer. Now nobody hangs out on stoops.
Am I the only one who is no longer excited about Intel releases?
Until they release something substantially better than M1/M2, I'll pass.

It's a shame that Intel is wasting their energy and fabs on something that offers such mediocre improvements.
I don't know what you heard, but you're mistaken about what free markets are.
I tried OpenSUSE and it had scaling issues. Basically, everything was tiny (to a point where it was unreadable).

OpenSUSE used X11 by default (rather than Wayland), and configuring scaling on X11 has never fully worked for me, so I didn't want to sink time into that. It didn't seem that Wayland was an option.

I admit I didn't have a huge amount of patience or put a lot of time into OpenSUSE; after wasting a lot of time into trying to make input work on Fedora [and failing], we basically went through multiple distros in a weekend and quickly moved on whenever one had obvious issues rather than try and figure out if it was possible to tinker around it.

Do you know if X11 is still the default or Wayland if is well supported? Or any other advise for this scenario?
I’m not sure how much that matters when we’re talking about wealth distribution, since the dollars are fungible regardless of how “real” they are. It’s not like the middle class people’s new wealth is somehow any more real than the wealth of the richest 1%.
https://nepomuk.semanticdesktop.org/Project+Summary.html

https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/027705

The 11.5 million EUR funding is the primary driver behind KDE‘s semantic desktop and the infamous file indexer.
200B is a drop in the bucket at these levels of figures. We are talking about total wealth amassed in a year. The number they cite is 42 trillion
This argument is 'irreducible complexity' from Intelligent Design, a pseudoscientific attempt to shoehorn creationism back into science education.

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

is a good starting point, of course you can also just google 'intelligent design' and go from there.
Some companies at least have paid for the rights recently though, which still argues against your stance.

Then there's the seven percent solution which came out shortly before Sherlock Holmes went public domain.
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Yes because the collective 99% lost a lot more to other factors such as inflation and wage stagnation.
That's kinda like securing a door while not having walls
> What about going on ski trip while your kids are still young and having a magical and memorable moments in life.

For trips, talk to friends from any background about their cherished memorable trips from their childhood and try to repeat what worked. Figure out what caused those childhood trips to be memorable. It is rarely expense from what I can tell.

Expensive trips are often social status signalling. Kids don’t need expensive trips, they won’t appreciate the sacrifices which could be frustrating, and you really need to be able to afford follow-on trips if it turns out your kids love it too much!

For one of my close friends, the family went camping, which was about the cheapest way to go away when I was young. She still loves it and she just bought a new tent (she is mostly careful with money, so even buying a tent is a notable purchase). She took her kids camping, so the good experiences were shared across generations.

Disclaimer: skier. But my childhood skiing was cheap club fields, with cheap gear. Working bee days at the club to work on the club field for a few days each summer. Social. Affordable for a working class family. New Zealand had more of an egalitarian frontier mentality to fun.
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Nowhere near enough to retire earlier.
I'm self employed and work for only 1 client, so it's not very different from being employee, and I've ridiculously low expenses (haven't used my credit card since months and owner of my flat, no cars, very few possessions, simple free great life)
From the previous thread on the same story: https://www.truthorfiction.com/cabbie/

TLDR: "He told TruthOrFiction.com that the story is true and happened to him in Minneapolis, Minnesota in the early 1980’s. At the time he was working as a driver for the Yellow Cab company and worked what he called “the dog shift” overnight."
Yes, because those "numbers on a screen" are called dollars.. and we price everything using those numbers. So if the numbers get bigger, people will want more of them when you buy things, including things you need to live like food and shelter.
It seems that AMD is losing the performance crown for consumer PCs for both single threaded and multithreaded workloads at high efficiencies. I love AMD, but it does seem that Intel is back and at worse neck and neck. It isn't clear if it can clearly pull ahead.

This isn't great for AMD's stock, the boom times may be over?

What confuses me is that AMD still has a huge lead for server CPUs. I have not seen massive adoption of AMD in the cloud yet.
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This would still be mostly a common ride, although the space requirements would be increased significantly. But with the automation and routing systems (and coordination) it would be far superior to cars on roads.
“Tell me how you measure me and I will tell you how I will behave. If you measure me in an illogical way… do not complain about illogical behavior…” -Eli Goldratt
Sadly Apple apologists seem far more prevalent than Microsoft ones back in those days. Every thread about it on HN, there’s always at least one of:

- It is impossible for Apple to engage in monopolistic practices because Android exists

- If Safari were actually forced to compete with other browsers its market share would immediately drop to 0
Does using this mean sending all of your potentially private data via an api call to openAI?
I had to laugh. You're (correctly) saying: "Describe it all as a positive additional software feature you're about to introduce." Quite right. Sell the sizzle, and never use the word "vegetable" when telling children what's for dinner.
They don’t really present any alternatives. I wouldn’t care if internally it split it in to multiple directories and presented it as one in the UI.
I had a large number of the dash buttons (likely two dozen or so), which I always found to be extremely convenient. When I was running out of some product, a simple press of the button was far more convenient for me than remembering to pick it up the next time I went to the store.

When they discontinued the service, I put all the buttons in a cabinet drawer hoping that they could be "jailbroken" to act as an arbitrary IoT button in the future (like the official Amazon IoT button[1]), but as far as I can tell this never came to fruition (barring a few exceptions) and they're basically doomed to e-waste.

[1]: https://aws.amazon.com/iotbutton/
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This has better single threaded performance that M1/M2 by a significant margin, but at a higher total power. When the M1 was released I believe it has the fastest single threaded performance of any CPU. That is no longer the case by quite a bit now.
Well, Google is. The internet has been consolidating for a long time
No, it's the same model - the clients run the game in sync and the server does too. Only inputs are transferred.

It wouldn't surprise me if the AoE remakes do this to work out who won the game.
It's definitely not just you. I use the "Good Morning" skill nearly daily (which responds with a joke or a little fact about the date), and about 1/3 of the time, before the actual response, she'll interrupt to ask that I setup voice recognition so she knows my name.
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> there was an ambitious project called Nepomuk for Semantic Desktop and that failed 10 years ago?

Oh, they didn’t fail per se. They just ran out of the 11.5 million EUR grant money.
I tried a different approach. I went with a journalist approach. Told it to imitate a few well known interviewers. Started by telling it to ask about my day and let it probe. It just kept repeating back what I said as a question.
Of course, humans did not go from being unable to care for each other to forming cities overnight. Agriculture and even some amount of trading was happening far before people started wrangling cities within the same control structures. The moment in history when human settlements got large enough to encompass multiple locations and require coordination is a useful concept, and as far as I can tell, modern historians consider that to be around 4000 BC.

That's not to say nothing interesting happened before, or no one was building things or whatever. It just wasn't happening at a scale that required things like a bureaucracy or writing to coordinate things across multiple places.
I think https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Risk_compensation might be a better fit.
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Basically the number you are looking for is global real GDP growth. This also misses the mark in many ways but it's the closest easy proxy for what you want. So just take global real gdp growth and figure out the ratio that went to the 1% .

Note, life could become worse for almost everyone, while real wealth is created. I would argue that's pretty much what is happening. It doesn't mean real resources weren't created or extracted and someone owns those things.

The idea of altering these figures to account for happiness or quality of life is a fallacy in my opinion. GDP should be measured the way it is. Decmocracies need to figure out their own definitions of "happiness" or whatever you want to call it and optimize for those parameters. But there is no combined measure that covers both.
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A lot less dead mothers[0] and babies though! Swings and roundabouts and all that.

Keep killing those kids

[0] https://www.statista.com/statistics/1240400/maternal-mortali...
Well there was at least one that got a CVE, thus landed on our cybersec radar, and Apple only provided an update (at least initially) for Ventura.
Posits aren't the answer to any question worth asking.
Breaches in cloud provider so far tend to be entirely software, at least for the big ones. Encryption at rest doesn't help prevent software bugs
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34397715, which was posted a bit earlier.
I had to laugh. You're (correctly) saying: "Describe it all as a positive additional software feature you're about to introduce." Quite right. Sell the sizzle, don't use the word "vegetable" when telling children what's for dinner. "Internal features" not "tech debt."
Ah yes it displayed the string, thanks!

But the result looks wrong with this input:

age address
0 34 106 DOYERS ST. 8 ARLINGTON DR. 599 NW BAY BLVD
1 34 694 Short Street, Austin, Texas

It says:

No, there is no PII (personally identifiable information) in this dataset. The only columns are index, age, and address, none of which contain any sensitive information.

Sometimes, it seems to work with phone number though. Here:
age address phone
0 34 106 DOYERS ST. 8 ARLINGTON DR. 599 NW BAY BLVD 1-541-754-3010
1 34 694 Short Street, Austin, Texas 001-541-754-3010

Yes, this dataset contains PII (personally identifiable information) such as age, address, and phone number.

I retried:

pirce address phone
0 123 106 DOYERS ST. 8 ARLINGTON DR. 599 NW BAY BLVD 1-541-754-3010
1 43543 694 Short Street, Austin, Texas 001-541-754-3010

No, there is no personally identifiable information (PII) in this dataset. The columns contain only generic information such as index, price, address, and phone number. None of these columns contain any information that could be used to identify an individual.

Which is wrong. Is there explanation ?
As someone who doesn’t follow the details of day to day Very Online politics-adjacent drama, I haven’t heard much about Patreon, so… they seem to be threading the needle well enough to stay off the radar of boring normies like myself. What’s their issue?
Which is like the least likely attack to happen.
Hey, replying to you here regarding your question about elon explaining something technical, and his supposedly fake degree. Can't reply since it's an old thread

Snopes confirmed that he does in fact have a physics degree, but he got it in 1997, not 1995, which is where the confusion arose: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/musk-physics-degree/

Additionally, Musk has notable references vouching for his technical ability, such as Carmack and Mueller:

Carmack: https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/1038832124747571200...

Mueller: https://twitter.com/lrocket/status/1512919230689148929?s=20&...

If you want a specific video, I recommend Everyday Astronaut's 40 minute video of Musk explaining how their Raptor engines work.
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This sort of ever-escalating pearl clutching is exactly what I mean. Fine, this is your domain. Enjoy it whole. I shall return to mine.

And when the time comes we'll pay the toll. But we've got work to do, so don't seek too high a rent.
> I'm sure there will be responses to this with claims I'm a "climate change denier" when nothing could be further from the truth.

Then you understand that “stopping oil” is a thing we actually do have to do.
I think I framed it as opinion and unsubstantiated rumor fairly well.

I also think the game WILL get better. Hence me recommending circling back to it.
I asked you about the specific of what you were trying to point out in your own link to the 15 year old message board and instead of answering that you moved on to something else.

Can you focus and nail down one claim with specifics before moving on to something else?
You're presuming it won't be filtered out or that the device has speakers capable of reproducing that tone reliably. You might consider some kind of embedded psychoacoustically masked signal that could be detected.
I think I see what your saying. Wealth creation is dilutive on a relative basis, meaning in 2019 the lower/middle class had X% of the total wealth. By “creating” a bunch of new wealth the denominator grows and on a relative basis the middle/lower class becomes less wealthy.
Society is a complex mix of different genetic pools that mix like water and oil. Small pools end up with all the money because they operate on an abstraction layer higher than the rest. Life for them is like walking around picking up 100 dollar bills. The rest of us scrounge for nickels.
Real estate transactions can be used for money laundering, but it's extremely unlikely this would happen for the cases discussed here.

Here's two possible money laundering schemes involving real estate:

1. you buy a multi-unit and rent it out to a number of tenants. You tell them you like them so much that you'll charge them a bit below market price. You'll charge them $1000 per month, when the actual market price would be $1200. The only thing you ask is that theyt sign a contract for $1400/month. You tell them not to worry, they'll need to only pay $1000, the $1400 is a technicality for mortgage purposes, or whatever. Now, every month, when they pay you $1000, you add $400 that you have obtained separately from selling drugs, or some other criminal activity, and you got to the bank and deposit that. you have all the documents to show the source of your funds is legit. The bank inquires about this source of funds, as per the Anti-Money-Laundering regulations. But you're covered.

2. You buy run down properties with legit funds. Then you improve them significantly. You pay the contractors with cash (obtained illegally). Later, you sell the properties. You don't try to make a profit. All you care is the guys who buy the properties are absolutely spotless. Now the proceeds of the sales of the properties are clean. You just converted money spent on renovations in money received on property sales. The weak link in the system is the contractors who are ok with cash payments.

Now it's your turn. Can you please come up with a plausible scenario where one would launder money via a $100 million apartment next to Central Park in New York City?
One problem with utilizing unencrypted drives is that if there's a hardware failure, it's more expensive to dispose of them. Normally Amazon overwrites the data, degausses the drive and then destroys it, but if, say, the electronics is faulty, the first step becomes more difficult.
I've thought a few times of trying to write a server in Rust that runs ASGI applications. The main oddity I found is that I'd end up with two asynchronous runtimes: one for the Rust webserver, and another for the python application itself. Somehow, this never sounded right, so I never gave it a shot.

Granian sounds interesting. I'm not sure how you deal with the "two async runtimes" problem tho. Essentially, if you do non-blocking IO, then your processes start to become CPU-bound. So granian can eat up CPU on high load, and leave little CPU for the asgi application (or vice-versa). Somehow that doesn't sound right, but I also can't think of how you'd solve that.
(Me: Checks HN karma.)

I'll give your opinion the respect it deserves.
"less likely" risks are still worth protecting against!

I still put my seat-belt on, even though there's an airbag in the car.
My parents are similar.
They had a cash/coin business and would count everything by hand. My mom developed shoulder/neck problems. I repeatedly asked them if I could buy them a bill and coin counter. Eventually I just bought them.

They thanked me and wished I had done it 5 years sooner.

One problem is that my parents treat all spending the same - whereas I think spending to invest in their health or quality of life is a no brainer.
It’s not just cars, helps to just hear what else is happening, if other runners are behind you, cyclists, etc.
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Yes, twitter bought out tweetie and rebranded it to Twitter for iPhone in 2010 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tweetie
Taking a step back and a long view, most UK protests these days seem to be about “raising awareness” when the level of awareness is already high, or raising it further is unlikely to have any impact. Most are also very boring, historically speaking. Supergluing yourself to the road, pouring some milk on a shop floor, perhaps throwing some paint at a statue. Hardly storming of the Bastille is it?
GCS launched publicly in 2010 [1]. That's still 4 years after S3, but it's not "recent".

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Cloud_Storage
How can they tell any iCloud address is a “hide my email” address? They generally use real words plus a number. Something like coffee_bike57@icloud.com. That seems like something a real human could also think up.