skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, the Mario Brothers are plumbers, remember.

("Musta been a non-union job." - Super Mario Bros., 1993, looking at some pipework).
> There are many countries, and lots of history. Maybe you could point to an example of getting rid of wealthy people and the lot of everyone else improved?

I would argue that you are not talking about getting rid of wealthy people in the same context as those you replied to. This is not about 'class warfare' or 'revolution'. No one is going to the 'killing fields'. This is about changing policy via democratic process that changes incentives and structures that allow this to happen in the first place, not by chopping off the heads of rich people.

However, I would argue against 'getting rid of billionaires'. The billionaires aren't the problem -- the inequality is the problem. If we put in place a system that had a 'bottom rung' which was high enough from poverty then it wouldn't matter.
That’s because it is.

China lacks a safe financial system that the ordinary person can invest in, the way that an American can park funds in an index fund and expect a reasonable rate of return. (The Shanghai and Hong Kong indices are not as healthy as the general economy.) It also lacks generous pension schemes like those in Europe. So part of the reason this is so bad is because most Chinese citizens put their nest eggs in real estate, and now the bubble has popped.
This whole comment is an unhealthy take.

> Would the world really be any different if executives were paid $4 million instead of $4 billion?

Definitely! You're asking if worsening wealth inequality hurts anything. This greed and unfair compensation is the entire reason why vasts of people suffer through life while ridiculously few get to have control over theirs. I mean that on one hand you have people who can't afford housing and food, and the other can't meaningfully spend whatever they are bestowed with.

> How would the world be a better place if we stripped executives of their wealth?

Would a redistribution of that wealth imply better living standards for everyone?
I ended up cutting my teeth working on maintaining a MUD (that sadly just recently went offline). I think gaming is a big draw for tinkering and programming simply because how much time we spent interacting with it and how (at the time at least) it was very accessible to modify. A lot of what you're working on is changing data values and plugin-style things rather than getting bogged down in modeling and other much less approachable aspects of the game.

I imagine you can't throw a rock in the HN crowd without hitting someone who once worked on an EVE Online spreadsheet of one disposition or another.
They used an older Debian. Wouldn't work on the latest.
What does the year have to do with it? Aesthetics and appearance have a lot to do with our decisions every day. The people you date, news you read, shoes you buy, etc.

There's nothing wrong with having a preference and/or being put off by something. I'm not bringing her down, her appearance and vibe just isn't for me.

I do like some things she has built and said, but I don't go out of my way to follow her or keep up with her.
Volume is cheap, on aircraft. If a normal freighter today takes off with 25t of kerosene, the similar-sized LH2 craft needs only 10t of LH2. That means it can take an additional 15t of paying cargo.
https://archive.is/bo6m3
You are 100% right, although I think "hate speech" is kind of an extension to swearing in this context. After all, what is classified as hate speech is practically insults, just based on protected characteristics instead of something else. The goal is the same - either to take the mickey out of someone or to make them upset. The major difference is the way of doing so and how much it hurts the target. I think it can reasonably be argued that those two are related and comparable things.
Yes, performance does come from how a program is written, like choice of data structures and algorithms.

But performance is also

- defined by fairly simple, measurable parameters that everyone agrees on, like execution time, code size or memory use;

- subject to automation: compilers can take a program which, if run literally as written, is slow, and speed it up. (Or make it smaller or require less memory.)

Correctness is not like this.

- There is no universal definition of correctness; it is the degree to which a program matches its arbitrary specification.

- Compilers cannot take a program that is incorrect and optimize it to have more correctness. They don't read the specification.

If I ask someone to write a program which demonstrates how a null pointer deference results in a predictable segmentation fault, then this will be a correct program:

int main(void} { *((char *) NULL) = 0; }

A correct program could crash in this way even none of its requirements say that it should exercise null dereference or any other error on purpose.

A correct program could be given incorrect data, for which its behavior is not specified. The program is then being misused; the ill behavior doesn't demonstrate that it's incorrect.

A program which has no requirements for handling unexpected inputs, and does not do so, cannot be safely deployed in certain situations, like when it runs in one security domain, but inputs are coming from a different one. That situation implicitly adds requirements, which that program does not meet; effectively the program is interpreted as incorrect. That shows that there can be misunderstandings and disagreements about what is correct, which boils down to disagreeing on what is and isn't a requirement.

We would never disagree that a program which calculates something in 3 seconds is faster (on that input case) than one which does the same in 5 seconds. (All else being same; hardware, OS, ...)
There is no war in Bao Sing Se!
But gamer culture has always included yelling slurs at each other! You're destroying history! You're erasing our culture!

/s
> Ultimately these discussions devolve to people just being bitter others have more than them.

No, just like complaining abou theft doesn't betray the secret wish to be the thief, but for there to be no theft. Same for wages not matching productivity, not even inflation, while inequality keeps rising. If you can't understand that, that says solely something about you.
Comparing background radiation to exposure from artificial radiation sources does not sound right to me. The background radiation is absorbed relatively evenly by the body surface. However, various artificial radiation exposure is local, such as dental x-rays or CT, which, for example, will increase the thyroid cancer risk at seemingly small exposure levels compared to cosmic radiation exposure.
'Open source' and 'free (as in speech)' are, in the software context, synonyms. It is incoherent to say 'open source but non-commercial'.
I don't think openly asking you to enable history is a dark pattern, at all. that doesn't matter, though.

so, seems to me that what they're doing is encouraging users to watch more videos, so Google can serve more ads, and thus increase revenue.

Surely they understand that this has to end at some point, right? They keep taking steps to get users to watch more, so they can serve more ads, "earning" more money from advertisers. Users will continue to resist changes like this, which will encourage Google to get more aggressive about getting people to "play along" which will push more users away, and so on.

at some point, SURELY, Google will understand that previous growth rates are impossible to sustain, right? and that this is a normal thing when you have an entire market completely and totally dominated across all demographics? Right?

Like, how far are they going to go? until every last video on the Internet is served by them? until everyone either pays for YT Premium or watches 6 ads every 90 seconds?

They understand that they are just creating a dystopia so that people click ads, right? They obviously know, because they measure the performance of the company by how many people watch ads, click on ads, and pay for YT Premium. So they're aware that they're creating something unsustainable and they're doing it anyway? for a good evaluation on their performance review?

what the fuck?

"Successfully wore down enough people so they stopped blocking ads and watched more videos served with ads, wasting literally millions of person-hours per year, and lowering the quality of life for those users so that value can be extracted from their activities more completely, all for the glory of Google quarterly reports."

at this point, if you work for any company that puts ads in front of people's eyes, please sit down for a minute and think about how you'll feel after retirement when you recount how you spent your gift of time on Earth. Ask yourself if you are proud of what you have done in exchange for the meager raises you have earned. Is that the best way you could have spent your time? Really? Think about what you've done when you want to watch something on television or in the theater, or even in a book, and you get annoyed by ads which you know were put there solely to "capture value from users." think about how enjoyable it is for you to be a user who is having a penny's worth of value extracted, and ask yourself if 20 minutes of your life per hour of television time is worth that penny you provided someone.
The movie is great fun but its accurate ASME I BPVC code compliant pressure safety valves really are limited to a single 2-second scene I am afraid.
Imagine if a Linux user said this.

The bar is so vastly different for windows and Linux users and by and large I try to keep my mouth shut because I dual boot and I know DAMN WELL which OS needs more handholding and has required fuck-it-start-over handling. God forbid you ever try to login to Win11 with low disk space, you're totally FUBAR and there are countless reports online of this EXACT FKING SCENARIO. Imagine for one second if Linux became COMPLETELY BROKEN if you ran out of disk space, it would be A JOKE.

If manufacturer would consistently publish to LVFS, I would NEVER TOUCH WINDOWS AGAIN. And I play Halo every single day of my life. Sorry gaming on Linux is less of a complete pain in the ass than using windows. You paying attn MSFT? Your stock price is 80% of my life, so I sure hope so.

"Everything is constantly changing"?! Are you FUCKING kidding me? What has changed in Linux is the past 15 years other than Wayland, which, I've been running for 4+ years and know what is BS and what isn't (DM me and I'll screen share stream my desktop at arbitrary scale factors at 240hz). I can run Gnome2, I can run kde3 for gods sake. Meanwhile there's crapware discussed here weekly just trying to get a basic Start Menu back in Win11, or constant complaints about ads, or regressions or ON and ON; do y'all have ANY self respect?

Stockholm syndrome, laziness, take your pick, it's exhausting.
"Hate speech" isn't well-defined, which is the core of the problem with any policy trying to censor "hate speech".
It looks like it can crack people skulls too.
I mean that it's pretty sad that we went from cheating being basically the worst thing you could do in a game to.... no one caring about cheating, griefing your teammates, being toxic or being disruptive, instead we only care about things like hate speech or profanity. It's not like people don't bully, harass and demean others with "acceptable" words and "acceptable" in-game actions....
If your threat model involves people sniffing TPM signals in transit, you’re in a different league to me. In most cases I assume physical security (security guards, epoxy the motherboard, etc) become the mitigating factors. I’m just trying to avoid evil maids.
> The React site would be functional and performant in 6 weeks, and ship in 10. If it didn't, I would step down and recruit a replacement.

I lost at lot of faith in the author's judgment at this point. I know this thing worked out and it was the right decision to port things over to React (and correct the bad decision to count on the Angular team to deliver SSR on their timelines). But you need to be able to explain things to the business without this sort of nonsense. I would be really concerned if I heard a manager saying something like that. It's not an argument, it's just a "trust me" that raises the stakes and pressure around the project.
This has been the HN playbook for a while now. In order to shut down a conversation, just accuse the other side of jealousy. Particularly before Musk fell out of the general graces of the user base, it was incredibly common to see comments like this in regard to any criticism.
https://archive.is/oq9Jg
In fact it’s incredibly ironic considering the same people being addressed here, I.e. executives are major contributors to the exploitation of workers in the developing world. It’s the general population that has to learn about then address these issues and nothing would change if executives were left to their devices.
>There is way less harm from calling someone mean words/slurs/whatever than from ruining their gameplay by cheating

Is this just your personal opinion? I'm assuming you're not a member of a group of people that gets called slurs in meatspace with that opinion.
You being unable to understand something in a certain way that others do does not make that thing into what you can understand.

Edit: I am being rate limited, so here is my response to the reply below:

Think of it this way: economies are not simplistic analogies to villagers being given free money.

Our incomes have grown a lot over the past century yet things get cheaper. It is never a simple equation. If it were that easy that a bit of deductive reasoning could explain it then it would be pretty obvious, but the fact that we are arguing about it at all means that it isn't, and thinking that it is, because you cannot grasp the complexity, is not going help anything. If the utmost minds in the field are saying that it is really complicated and that they don't even know exactly how it works, then why do you think you have it figured out?
A bunch of sensors don't just give very high readings at once by chance. There is a reason. If it had just been one sensor that would be another matter (and perhaps it needs to be replaced...)

It doesn't make sense as a prank in that it was only a few sensors and not persistent, it's not like they drew a dick with the results or set them to over 9000.
I agree, their value is greatly exaggerated beyond their clique who are also in onto the scheme. They do bring a lot and are a key player to their value extracting system, more than the actual worker who gets the job done. When things go south they have golden parachutes. Whatever they risk is taken care of.
Same here, the RSPS communities paved the way for lots of us.
Before 9/11 we were told to fear the U.S.S.R., right up until the day they fell apart. Then there was global warming, crime, terrorists, immigrants, trans people, and who knows what next.

They always want to keep us afraid, it seems. It doesn't help that people in general are not good at qualifying risk.
give their money to africa then! I’d vastly prefer that over vacation homes and private jets! I whole heartedly support the immediate seizure of this specific asset class with all proceeds going to the people of africa!
Why? If your only feedback is "stuff randomly breaks" and unable to provide more on-point technical specifics, maybe you're not qualified enough. No shame in that. If I tell my mechanic "something randomly breaks on my car" he'll also know I'm clueless, and that's alright, not everyone's a car mechanic.
Raymond Chen made a great point in his book “The Old New Thing”. If a hacky program suddenly doesn’t work when you upgrade to a new version of Windows, the user isn’t going to blame the program. They’re going to blame the OS because that’s what changed.
Global ranked matchmaking is a cursed concept in videogames. I don't think it can be made non-toxic, TBH. You take basically everyone playing the game, for whatever reason they enjoy playing it (at any given time), and you chuck them all into a blender where the only metric is on average how good they are at winning the objective. On top of this, you're basically never going to be matched with the same people again, and no-one can really choose who they're matched with (blizzard has the concept but for some reason limits how many people you can avoid matching! And there's no 'match with this person again'). So you completely obliterate any idea of community or community norms around playing the game or acting, and chuck people wanting a serious game with lots of teamwork in with people who just want to fool around and not even play the objective, as well as people who just want to piss others off and will see basically no concequences for it. Even if you remove the really obviously bad actors who yell slurs and abuse at everyone it's not a recipe for people having a good time, because there's so many other ways you can get pissed off by someone else, and they might not even be in the wrong, they just want to play a different version of the game to you.
Maybe in a family the guess mode is more common while at work the ask mode is more common.
Not if there are people doing the scanning manually (with their eyes), which is I think the GP's point?
I agree, and to solve this problem I say we nationalize and socialize healthcare to provide it to all citizens free of cost just as they do in many African and other countries. This will remove the need to have any healthcare CEOs entirely.
https://archive.is/nq2cI
She had a remote position over the past few years, but landed a new job in February at a nonprofit, which came with a catch: The job required her to make the hike to its Silver Spring, Maryland,

----------------------------------------------

Rachel, who was granted a pseudonym to speak freely about her employer's policy,

----------------------------------------------

Let's hope the first sentence is obfuscated too, otherwise, the pseudonym probably isn't going to help.
Everyone knows about Chernobyl. Most likely what they didn't know was where they are. I saw too many videos of soldiers asking locals for directions in the first days of war.
I guess that's fine if we're willing to go back to a hunter gatherer lifestyle. Are you?
>I mmaped a `/dev/uio` from Python this morning.

You might want to go and have a look at the implementation of 'mmap' in CPython. Here's a clue: it's in the name 'CPython'.
This is almost word for word an argument I see every time Worldcoin is mentioned and it’s interesting how uniform of a talking point it is
Your distinction is again meaningless. You say it’s a different market, I could say you should compare the class of worker.

Are health care CEOs unusually paid compared to CEOs? (They are not). As I said ultimately your selection in criteria is arbitrary.

The matter at hand here is some believe the income inequality is a problem. What ratio is acceptable to you?
Agreed. I take taxis now in many places because they're now better than uber, but pre-uber they were not. What I used to like best about taking uber was sticking it to the taxi industry. They were a textbook "disruptor". I'm glad there's a credible threat to taxis that means they had to improve and look over their shoulder. In the markets I travel frequently, uber sucks now though, and I've gone back to taxis, which also suck, just less, and are way better than the pre-uber days.
My favorite example of putting security ahead of usability:

"Unexpected item in bagging area. Please remove item from bagging area."
"Item removed from bagging area. Please wait: an attendant will be with you shortly."

This one sets me off because I worked in the self-checkout division.

The simplest way for stores to improve customer satisfaction and increase usage of self-checkout was to disable the bagging scale and accept that there would always be a certain level of "shrink," or grocery item theft.
I like emojis, I wish they were allowed in HN comments ;]
Slurs are unintelligent, low-hanging attempts at an insult, and a sign of a weak mind. Worst of all, they're completely lacking in imagination.

I get called gay/fag in games often (I'm queer and got a slight gay lisp), but it's not really bothering me. I'm much more bothered by disruptive gaming than bad coms. I can ignore bad coms by muting them.

Honestly, people need to toughen up; letting the lowest hanging fruit (ie slurs) get to them are equally weak-minded as people trying to wield them for offence. I mean, it just gaming shit talking at the end of the day? They'll probably forget about each other by the time the next match ends.

Disrupting/throwing/sabotaging a game is just... Defeating the purpose of a game, no? If they're not going to play, why be there? Better they go do a crossword puzzle, or something.
The more you get the more you can sacrifice.
> Performance issues in Windows do not stem from anywhere near the kernel.

I remember Windows uses a O(N^2) scheduler so the system slows down when it has a few thousand processes. Would that count as a performance issue in the kernel?
I'm happy to see Jagex is still around to this day. They used to make a lot of free games that you could play in the browser. Pre-runescape, I wasted many hours playing games like vertigo and flea circus. It makes me happy to see the company is still alive and well, though it probably has been through many changes.
Windows LTSC (no ads / bloatware) + SimpleClassicTheme + RetroBar is about as perfect as it gets.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=1_7pqwf-gZM&feature=sharea
If the account is for accessing employer's system then sessions have to be kept short, and users have to re-login every day. Otherwise employees who have left the company would continue to access the system.

The reason Google never expires your session is because they want to track your activity and connect your activity to your account. This is not a good system to copy.
You need to get more money, then youll be able to avoid those taxes, seems to be the point.

Paradise Papers leak reveals secrets of the world elite's hidden wealth https://amp.theguardian.com/news/2017/nov/05/paradise-papers...
The answer is is probably higher base pay along with longer maturity dates for options, or at least a wider spread of maturity dates.
> Their motivation however was different: they wanted to better protect the device secret. Many devices store their secret in a fuse bank, and changing it is often impossible. Leaking it is especially bad, because it can render the entire device forever unusable: no one wants an HSM with a leaked secret, or a remote IoT device that can be impersonated.

A computer I cannot choose what software I run and what state I expose to the software, and allow the software to impersonate the original software, is a SafetyNet locked-down device controlled by the owner of the TPM keys and programs running on it.
> Irrelevant and ultimately arbitrary distinction.

This is a good point. America and Africa are the same because they’re both on earth. Few people have the good sense to dilute a point to absolutely meaningless terms, all of that muckety-muck about “relevance” and “the topic at hand” distracts from the truly important work: handwaving in such a way to shut down discussion at light speed
I don't own an Xbox, but do they not have a mute button on the player level? On PlayStation if someone has no inner monologue, annoys me, or whatever, I just mute them or don't friend them so they can't hear me. Problem solved. I sure don't need an authoritarian telling me what I can or cannot say to MY peers, and resent anyone who gets between me and my friends' communication. Of course they have to worry about liability, but a better solution would simply be to age gate the kids so they can't chat and let the adults grow up or use the mute button. And for the record, in my experience it's been the children that do most of the smack talk and use racial or ethnic slurs as a natural part of growing up. I believe that's what the book Antifragile is all about.