skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Basically the idea is whether one’s accumulation of wealth is actually tied to their positive impact on society: does wealth accrue in a morally correct manner?

In Capital, Piketty argues no. For cases like bezos (or Gates, Musk, etc) it’s at least the case that they did give something to our society. However those people benefitted from countless other inventions before them whose inventors did not benefit from to the same tune as the super wealthy. For every computer billionaire there are hundreds of researchers who worked on transistors, internet protocols, and so on, in order to make something like Amazon possible. SpaceX benefits incredibly from NASA research. Etc.

And those are the ones where we can at least contend they did something. On the other hand you have people like Lillaine Bettancourt, the daughter and heiress of the L’Oreal fortune. Piketty writes:

> Between 1990 and 2010, the fortune of Bill Gates—the founder of Microsoft, the world leader in operating systems, and the very incarnation of entrepreneurial wealth and number one in the Forbes rankings for more than ten years—increased from $4 billion to $50 billion. At the same time, the fortune of Liliane Bettencourt—the heiress of L’Oréal, the world leader in cosmetics, founded by her father Eugène Schueller, who in 1907 invented a range of hair dyes that were destined to do well in a way reminiscent of César Birotteau’s success with perfume a century earlier—increased from $2 billion to $25 billion, again according to Forbes.

> In other words, Liliane Bettencourt, who never worked a day in her life, saw her fortune grow exactly as fast as that of Bill Gates, the high-tech pioneer, whose wealth has incidentally continued to grow just as rapidly since he stopped working.

In other words wealth does not accumulate in line with what you’ve done for humanity. It’s not a “tremendous deal” without bounds.

We’re told that rich people got rich because they deserve it, and that’s just a pernicious self-aggrandizing lie we’ve inherited from Calvin and others. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosperity_theology)

I definitely think accumulation is an incentive and some people do greater things than others, but I think our system is distorted in that it considers some to have done so so so much more when that’s not really the case.
I'm not a car guy by any means. I'm seriously considering replacing my car with an electric bike just because I'm so cheap and cars are generally a pain in the ass to own.

I'm also sensitive to loud noises and I hate it when someone rev's their engine or blasts the full bass stereo in my neighborhood. So, I get what you're saying.

However, back in the day I had a Mercury Cougar and I loved the sound of that thing. The growl it made without even pressing the gas was oddly satisfying. I can understand the appeal of loud bikes and cars even though I don't appreciate when they overdo it.
I started with Actual but moved to YNAB.

1) Imports from our credit cards automatically or from a CSV/Quicken/etc. file

2) Supports entering transactions manually when you can't or don't want to link to a bank

3) Supports reconciliation of the actual account balance with the in-app balance

4) Supports budgeting, but if you just want to track categories then just assign the amounts you spend to each budget at the end of the month and the system will be happy.
Not OSINT, but the BBC and the guardian going over some of the evidence:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/18/al-ahli-arab-h...

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-67144061
Video game ants have never looked better, thanks to Unreal Engine 5
I wouldn't say that Dulce/Dilsk/Dillisk is 'lesser known' at all! And along the west coast of Ireland, it's also commonly eaten, and works great as a flavour enhancer in stews.
I personally did not care for the angry tone. I think he covers a lot of very important topics, but I am perfectly capable of getting angry on my own.
This is a great use case to make home dirs separately mounted encrypted FSs.

Or, a tool that encrypts the user's primary homedir for "service mode."
> IMHO is people disseminating hypotheses that are already disproven by the evidence that we do already have, such as the GBU-39/B suggestion

Yes, this is the problem, and you see it in many of the comments here. There is plenty of compelling technical evidence, but people come in with a cursory read of the topic and listen to some "expert" who says "oh it whistled like a bomb". And given how incredibly badly some people want to pin it on Israel, incredibly moronic* analyses keep getting shared.

* like the people claiming that Iron Dome intercepted a rocket 6 seconds after launch. It's a terminal intercepter! that literally can't happen!
Presumably there’s a configuration directive to change icon?
Contributing to Wikipedia has become really not fun. Or maybe it never was. I tried writing an article about Playwright - perhaps the most common test automation tool these days. It first got rejected and now just has been sitting in review state for 3 months.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Playwright_(software)

It is highly demotivating to try to write a quality article for Wikipedia because someone can just reject your days of work in seconds and then leave it in draft forever.
This is the problem with propaganda. People outsource news verifications to Media outlets.

And it's not hidden that the West and Israel control most of it. So when they say we have proof verified by our journalists ... It's equivalent to have proofs verified by the attorney of one side presented to a judge as TRUTH!!

You need to see the proofs of both sides and judge for yourself. Israel has a track record of lying, and so does Biden.

The most basic lie is one stated at the beginning of the war [1]. And the worst part is that lying to 100M+ people is irreversible. It doesn't matter if you back off later. A 5yo child was killed in the US because of that FALSE claim.

[1] https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/10/12/white-house-walks-...
The terrible diarrhea I had yesterday was worse the than the terrible diarrhea I had today... not exactly a high bar ;)
Hospitals are all non-profit so they can reap tax benefits. In order to avoid profit but still maintain growth, they shovel all their profits into network expansion. New hospitals, clinics, outpatient centers, wellness centers, all that in order to avoid lowering costs for patients.

This is why it seems each locale is packed with care all from one central hospital. They have to keep growing to maintain "non-profit" status.
I came across a huge article on some magazine marked for deletion the other day. The amount of work that had gone into the article was extensive, and it made me sad. While my little article about a small pile of sand in the middle of nowhere has ironically been translated into nine languages:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qeqertaq_Avannarleq
Incredible that even the least viewed 2021 articles are still really well done! One has a photo. They have 5 and 6 citations respectively. They both have multiple sections.

As someone who was already impressed by Wikipedia, wow! Talk about toiling in obscurity
Been a feature of SQL Server since I believe SQL Server 2008 - temporal tables. They are used (incorrectly) at my place of work quite a bit. If auditing data (who changed what and when) is important - there are two choices: 1) system versioning or 2) add a "version" column or something similar which increments with each change. There are tradeoffs for both.

"Temporal tables (also known as system-versioned temporal tables) are a database feature that brings built-in support for providing information about data stored in the table at any point in time, rather than only the data that is correct at the current moment in time."

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/relational-databases/t...
https://archive.ph/J2Gx2
I thought the DOJ was pretty stern on blocking this deal as it would be anticompetitive to users and would result in the outcome others have described here in the comments.

No?
The same would be true if we taxed the money and the government spent it. Right?
Better idea: just install the Postgres extension that enables ISO SQL Temporal Tables, just like what MSSQL and MariaDB have had for 8 years now: https://pgxn.org/dist/temporal_tables/
It's like reading in Minecraft.
Thank you, Jadi. I just started your course and installed Debian on VMware, but the network of Debian suddenly disabled and disappeared. I couldn't bring it back; I used NAT, Bridge, and all the other ways to connect to the internet, but it didn't work! Is it usual in Debian? If that is so, which Linux do you recommend?
Do you not link to your credit card/bank (respect if you don't want to, of course) - I use YNAB and only check it once a week or so and mostly just edit the names of new merchants and double-check categories of the new transactions.
I don't think the eink will make it look like the world is flashing, because I'm guessing the text is fixed in one place, moving with you when you turn your head.

which is also not great for entirely different reasons
Last I saw him (I don't bother anymore) he can have a few good off-the-cuff moments with guests typical of the usual late-show talking heads, but you just can't make talking to celebrities/actors that interesting on it's own. Unfortunately, that's the show.

CR had more going for it. Writers on a comedy network also have more balls. Maybe Colbert himself changed but I think he just molded into his role, which was inevitable.
You should resent your masters, the people who can afford to spend huge sums of money to suppress minimum wage increases, or benefits for gig workers, or greater public oversight. These people are making every other person's life worse, except for those who can also isolate themselves in a wealth bubble.

The policies of wealth and unbridled capitalism in the USA have stifled wage growth, increased homelessness, and driven down life expectancy. You should be mad about this. You gain nothing by trying to hold a moral high ground.
I haven't watched anything this morning, but last night when I was watching the news/reading the AP coverage the reporters statements were "Both sides have claimed the opposition is responsible, and we have been unable to independently verify these claims, so we just don't know right now".

Other than "Biden has said his people believe Isreal" what "mountain of evidence" conclusively points one way, and why haven't the independent journalist sources changed their statements yet? All I've seen is that it isn't "consistent with an Israeli airstrike", which proves one thing it is not but not what it is.

*edited for typo
With a large 4K monitor, I just tolerate the ads.
If you ask it to play a song, you'll get a Spotify login prompt running in a remote Chromium instance. The Spotify login is interesting... you can try to log in with google, then click the Privacy link at the bottom, scroll to the footer and click the Google link, then search for an online visual studio code and open up some files on the VM that they're running...
This phenomenon is not limited to hospitals.
Why vote down the cease-fire then in the UN?
Not only that:

It uses some custom language (SOM), built the AST/bytecode interpreters for that on top of other systems (GraalVM and RPython) which prohibits some optimizations and may use some intermediate format (Graal IR).

And then compares results using a limited set of benchmarks (Are We Fast Yet).

Interesting, but all in all it's not saying much (imho).

As so often: devil is in the details.
We have dilsk in the Republic too, but it's more of a thing along the Atlantis coasts, not so much the east coast.
The article is a bit misleading in that it uses revenue. Typical margins in a health-system is slim. 3-6%. So, actual 1-2% charity care of revenue is quite significant.

The thesis is correct that a health-system CEO shouldn’t make $17m/yr. It’s a non-profit largely funded by tax payers and maintains its market share by government regulations. Just the charity care component is a bit misleading.
Admitting that I don't work in this space...is there any sign the that major companies selling these "security train-wreck du jour" products might start to see their sales suffer as a result?
> I feel a lack of confidence because I surround myself with people who are smarter and better at things than me a lot of the time.

It's not feasible in a number of organizations, but things like this are why it's important for developers to interact with the users of the software that they create. You learn so much more about what works and doesn't work for the users. You learn their vocabulary and assumptions about using apps which is often quite different from "power users" like we tend to be.
This is true: the services companies like Amazon provide are worth more than 60,000 lifetimes of money could provide without them.

The question is: how many other people, with the wealth Jeff Bezos had when he was younger, would be able to create something like Amazon? The reason he did and not someone else, how much of that was a combination of opportunity and luck?

Capitalism is a fine system, but extremes like this are a problem. And the fact that once companies get big enough, they can start to become inefficient and worse (in price + quality), because they get benefits like lobbying and owning the entire production process which potential competitors don’t.
Wealth inequality is bad.

But arguments like the one in the link are pointless - Bezos could have 10x the money he does and it has nothing to do with humanitarian efforts. The government spends way more, countries spend way more and problems don't get fixed.

I'd like to see that 9 billion for all cancer treatments graphed against the trillions americans spend on healthcare cumalatively. Or if we really wanted to be snide about it, the total americans spent on pointless wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Billionaires shouldn't exist because market forces and taxes should eventually chip away at that wealth. But people make it seem like all the world's problems will be solved if billionaires just suddenly lost their wealth.
> ""These results are frightening," said Hassan Khan, associate professor in the school of computer science at the University of Guelph. "It's looking through information, searching for data on users' devices, copying data off the device.... it's as bad as it gets.""

"It's as bad as it gets", he says, uploading his photos with GPS location data to iCloud, sync'ing his browser history to Microsoft, using keylogger-as-a-service Grammarly to write his article, having his online shopping history emailed to his GMail full of itemised shopping details and delivery addresses, leaving Google services to gather his GPS location in realtime on his trip home for live traffic data updates. "Those are personal photos!" he uploads to Facebook alongside an innocent group picture taken earlier, which Facebook does face recognition on and matches the people in the photo against the contacts list it stole from his phone. His drive home picked up on numberplate recognition cameras, and on neighbour's Ring doorbells. His phone scans the surrounding wifi SSIDs and reports them back to HQ. He enters the front door - "I had the weirdest experience just now", says his partner, "I got an advert on my laptop for something I was talking about with a friend, do you think Alexa or Facebook listen in to our conversations?". "I've been told that can't happen" he says, sitting down at his computer, which prompts him again to login with a Microsoft cloud account, then freezes momentarily as "Microsoft Compatibility Telemetry" takes all the available CPU. "Millions of personal details leaked from 23andMe" he saw in the news headlines[1]. An email arrives from a shop he walked past earlier which picked up his phone's bluetooth ID. His Kindle idles on the table, sending details of every book, every page turn, every passage highlighted, every note made. His car uploading the latest route and tracking data back to the manufacturer. His cloud password vault slowly leaking[2].

"The worst thing in the world would be if someone found out we were naked under our clothes" they both said in unison. "That's as bad as it gets". "Or if someone knew we went on holiday", she said. "Or had a bank account", he said.

----

Each of these companies told Marketplace in separate email statements that they are committed to protecting customers' privacy.". Yes, tech companies say that too. This article is a reminder that if we don't red-team, smoke-test, trial run, our business policies and regulations, we end up with words about how great they are while they aren't functioning or aren't existing.

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/7/23907330/23andme-leak-hac...

[2] https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=lastpass+hacked+again&ia=we...
That's what NYT, BBC and others reported and a lot of people still believe those outlets. They even sent push alerts blaming Israel for killing hundreds of civilians at the hospital.
Don't expect anything different from a zionist country and zionist media, bunch of assassins desguised as 'victims'
very cool. thanks so much for sharing...
They're kids for the most part. I worked for Geek Squad when I was under 20 and saw this kind of stuff all of the time from similar-aged coworkers. I hear you that you expect better but when you hire people who were (or still are) teens and pay people just above minimum wage you can't really expect to get professionals.
One additional one I would add is: don't be an ass. I have seen a fair share of people in this role belittle QA, Devs, and interns because they're not able to follow along or understand how to use DevOps tooling.

I like to think of the role as hospitality; you don't particularly have to like the guest but try to create a good working atmosphere.

A specific example: if a particular dev runs to you every time a build fails and tries to blame the environment: force them to check their own work first. If there's another branch that builds, ask if it's related to one of the changes in this branch. Ask if the code builds locally. Ask them what they've tried so far to debug the issue. These questions will help out anyone who does not know how to actually troubleshoot build failures and discourage anyone who is simply trying to pawn off their work.
As soon as the story broke, it was clear to me that whoever did it, it was an accident. So in that sense, it doesn't really matter. It's an unfortunate casualty of war, in which innocent people suffer even when it's not intended.

One thing that I respect about the initial Israeli response was that they weren't quick to assign blame. In a press conference soon after the event, the military spokesperson said that they are aware something happened and are looking into it and will update when they know.

To me, that's a more honest approach than just assigning blame. There's fog of war, a lot of things happening simultaneously, and it takes time to gather information. I trust people more when they acknowledge that they don't know everything and sometimes make mistakes than when they immediately have all the answers.

> The story would look the same no matter who did it.

Maybe, but I think the US government would distance themselves from the story if it was an Israeli attack. Biden told a reporter that his conclusion that it was not Israeli is based on data from his Defense Department. Is he trustworthy? I guess this is subjective, to me he's more credible than Hamas but I'm biased.
I said it elsewhere, but I'll rephrase: The fundamental problem is not about the misattribution of fault to the wrong "side."

The problem is that this is how a lot of people are thinking about things, and that every single event becomes attached to this framework and used to justify or further entrench events. And there are powerful actors who profit directly from this continued perspective. Hamas, obviously, but Netanyahu as well. Any attempt to produce an objective or neutral narrative is undermined by them, deliberately. It's not surprising that media gets caught up in this game.

My observation was that responsible news organizations in general attempted to report the tragedy first, and attribute cause as probably conjectures after. At least the ones (Guardian, mostly) I was looking at. I'm sure they faulted the IDF, but that wasn't the emphasis. I have screenshots of the initial event, and the IDF as cause is not mentioned. But the tragedy as they first saw it, was.

Reality is always more complex than two battling "teams" or "sides" and this mentality to reduce it this way betrays a barbaric emotional immaturity that is preventing the cessation of hostilities.

It doesn't matter to the dead people whose rocket it was. They're dead, and the conflict persists so more will die.
Ridiculous. The ONLY way to build wealth in a capitalist system is to provide value to other people. Case in point: Bezos and every other billionaire in the US.

You are missing the point. The only way Bezos can take a cent from you is if you willingly give him the money. In contrast, in a socialist system, the government takes money from you regardless of whether you want to give it or not. Spoiler: no one wants to give it. Governments are 91283128391823918293819381x more evil than billionaires.
Ethanol demand destruction should be expected with rapid EV uptake [1]. Which is good. We're farming 40 million+ acres in the US [2] for a fuel additive that is not congruent with climate goals [3] [4].

[1] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2211467X2...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36232594

[3] https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/us-corn-based-e...
> In 2008, the EU and the US economies were roughly the same size. But since the global financial crisis, their economic fortunes have dramatically diverged. As Jeremy Shapiro and Jana Puglierin of the European Council on Foreign Relations point out: “In 2008 the EU’s economy was somewhat larger than America’s: $16.2tn versus $14.7tn. By 2022, the US economy had grown to $25tn, whereas the EU and the UK together had only reached $19.8tn. America’s economy is now nearly one-third bigger. It is more than 50 per cent larger than the EU without the UK.”

> The aggregate figures are shocking. Underpinning them is a picture of a Europe that has fallen behind — sector by sector.

https://www.ft.com/content/80ace07f-3acb-40cb-9960-8bb4a44fd...

Because of the magic of compound interest, the EU will continue to fall behind at an increasing pace, as well as their quality of life. EU is already very poor if you travel around outside the tourist cities.

American capitalism is the greatest wealth engine ever created, and I pray it continues to exist. It is currently the only hope the world has for increased standards of living.
I don't know who bombed the hospital in this case. But in the past Hamas showed very clearly they don't value the lives of their people at all and they used women and children as living shield on numerous occasions.
From the specs:
"256x256 per eye resolution"
Not sure I'd call that high resolution...
Wtf is the point here?
SIDE looks impressive I wonder how it works and finds these resources.

I think the evaluation is flawed these subjective numbers would mean nothing if I did the survey. Looking at some Wikipedia pages in the SIDE demo (linked in comments here), it is clear that they in some cases fail to identify what claims are made in the article, and that the subjective choice of references are too binary.

I double check references on wikipedia in subjects where I have basic understanding, it is usually easy to find better references but it takes so much time. So very impressive.
WTF. 4 month review backlog? Why is there even a review system at all? This isn't a legal journal, this is Wikipedia. Your article looks great. Playwright is a very notable piece of software, extensively used.

I hate when things get mature and enshittify.