jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
A very similar system is already in use in the UK and other parts of Europe. It's called "chip & pin". You plug your card in to a card reader and check the LCD display and type in your PIN to authorise a transaction.

In a shop, the card reader is owned by the shop and is similar to point-of-sale card readers used in the USA. However, most banks now provide customers with a small reader (that looks like a calculator) for logging on to online banking, or authorising payments made via internet banking.

For example, to authorise a payment you: put your card into the reader, type in the account number you want to pay, type in the amount, and type in your pin. You then get an cryptographic authorisation code to type into online banking.

Crucially, the scheme works using cryptography, and the cryptography is performed within the chip on the bank card - it is not possible to read the PIN off the card.

(edit: and, in contrast to the scheme described in the parent post, stealing a card doesn't help much if you don't know the PIN, and the card will disable itself if the wrong PIN is used too many times)
It reads like it was going to end up being thinly veiled racism in itself. How ironic.
In my area, Uber is $7-10 to go within a mile or two. A 17 minute trip to the office is $28 one way, or $56 round trip.

If I use Uber 5 times to get to the office, that’s basically more than a lease payment on an entry sedan and the insurance payment. If I add in a couple other convenience trips such as for groceries, that covers gas too.

If I use Uber to get to the office 8 or 9 times, I can straight up buy a sedan.

You let me know which part of the math is hyperbole.
Sure - but isn’t transparent reporting always a problem everywhere? At least it would solve some of the incentive misalignment.
Nice work. I'll definitely be using this!
I don't think this is entirely accurate! It's true that Darius's chariots lost to Alexander's phalanges at Arbela, but that's not because Persia was especially unsuitable to chariot battles. Where Persia was unusual was in continuing to use chariots 600 years after everyone else had moved to spear formations! Alexander and Darius III weren't born until centuries into the Iron Age—in the usual chronology, after the Iron Age and in Classical Antiquity. So, if there's a terrain factor in play here, it must have been that the Persian Empire must have been unusually well suited for chariots!

It's true that there's debate about to what extent Mycenaean Greece used battle chariots in the Bronze Age, when chariots dominated the battlefield throughout Egypt and Asia Minor, and I didn't know that. We don't have the extensive written record there that we have from China, Hatti, Egypt, and the like, but we do have archaeological finds. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_of_Mycenaean_Greece#C... claims that they were used to some extent, but https://www.ancientworldmagazine.com/videos/mycenaean-chario... says that in northern Greece they weren't used at all!

However, contrary to what I was saying above, it turns out that there's ample evidence of chariot use for battlefield transport—like a tiny armored personnel carrier rather than a tank—from at least Mycenaean Greece until the Celts got genocided by Caesar.

Thanks for the information!
It seems that rocket propulsion does not count as “powered flight”
A good friend of mine was really into Carrion Fields [0], back in the 90s early 00s. Amazingly, it is still around! I also played for a while, mostly doable even on the slow internet connection we had at the time (good ol' 14/28k at best). It was amazing how big and popular some of these were, before Everquest/Ultima/WoW made such ideas really mainstream.

Anyway, I did enjoy playing it, though big multiplayer games weren't quite my thing, it was fun to have a friend to play with. He had lots of online buddies through the MUD. For me, it got me further into coding as I worked on modifying a MUD of my own, but I can't remember the codebase I started with.

[0] https://www.carrionfields.net/
that's an important observation. the students are secondary, at best, to the culture war being waged by activist adults.

also the victims of teacher unions that are keeping schools closed, despite the lack of scientific evidence supporting that position.
Are any particularly tuned to playing together in small groups or pairs?

My love of MUD/MUSE/MOOws largely around such experiences.
A interesting subject under this is reversible programming languages, there is for example Janus [0], which given some input program can generate the inverse, it can also generate C++ code with both directions.

[0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janus_(time-reversible_compu...
Thanks for your concerns. We will actively check out all cryptos! It would be ideal to leverage the technology that has been built through bitcoin and something we will look towards.
There's a working one in the Axel Springer building in Berlin. Great fun :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcGUCs879mQ
No such thing as a free lunch.

Telegram hasn't done a very good job of eliminating the possibility of profit. The secret chat feature is actually a marginal use case. By default messages are readable by the back end. In fact, group chats are also reasable by the back end always, and any conversation which can be accessed from multiple devices. And last I heard, the official windows desktop app does not have secret chats.

All of these messages are the normal use case on telegram. And the text is being indexed by the back end for easy searching capabilities. So essentially telegram has built a search engine for the conversations of tens of millions of people who are slightly more paranoid and want a secure messenger. Not only that, many of the tens of millions have shared their entire address book with names and phone numbers because the official clients required them to.

If they're trying to avoid having valuable information that someone would pay money for, they're not doing a very good job.
How did the new agent perform for other cases? Was he/she more attentive than the first agent?
When I was a student, me and a classmate went to a McDonalds for lunch. He buys some sort of jam filled hot pierog in a cardboard envelope which has "CAUTION HOT CONTENTS" inscribed over it.

He says, "see, that's how safety nuts try to undo natural seletion". Takes a good, contrarian bite, badly burning his chin, lips and tongue.
I use this very same feature of openwrt to load balance between my two ISPs. Here in argentina neither of the two ISP are reliable, but cheap enought if you really use then and you need reliability.
I recommend multiwan3 as the op suggest, other pkgs didnt work for me.
Some modern routers have two radios for 2.5 and 5ghz, but even with one radio openwrt allows you to set it up as client and ap.
I find other features of openwrt quite amazing like dnsmasq. It is a really powerful firmware.
But we are all easily manipulated, which is the danger. The link in your post supports this conclusion.
This constant demand for balance is why people who don't think Covid is real are given so much time in the news.

Just because a story is one sided doesn't mean it is propaganda. It's very clear from this story that the situation in the Caucasus is very complex and that there are no straightforward solutions.
HTML and css are easy

All of the constituent parts are easy. It's when you tie it all together that it starts to get complex. There is no doubt there are many more moving parts in a modern web app compared to desktop. I did a few VB projects and I needed know two things, VB6 and a database.

Of course we can't go back, enterprises are rightly presenting their systems directly to the customer, you can't do that with a desktop app. None the less it does feel more complex than it needs to be.
Call me naïve but I find it nothing short of hilarious to suggest that Silicon Valley is full of alt-righters and closet Nazis. I've never been to SV, but I can't of anywhere in the world (that isn't a college campus) whose name is more synonymous with hyper-woke, progressive "SJW" politics, or at least that's the party line even if there's a silent faction of dissenters.

What next, will someone have to write a rebuttal titled "the Atlantic Ocean isn't full of camels"?
> Literally everyone, including Robinhood, was forced to only allow people to sell GME.

Not literally. I was able to buy w/Schwab when it was restricted by RH. I tested this specifically to see if I should change brokers.
> very interesting to watch

And potentially nothing more than that. House committee hearings are usually little more than a show for the media. Politicians turn up to get their sound bites, the media gets a couple of photos of public figures looking uncomfortable while being questioned, then everybody goes home and nothing else happens.
"These don't do anything on their own. You need to couple them with a spectrum analyser - another $1k+."

Yes, I knew that you'd have to hook them up to an RF / frequency analyzer of some sort. Each of these probes is really just a small antenna with specific characteristics, is it not?

"Generally if you put one of these near a switching power supply it'll go crazy"

Hmm... interesting information... the physicist in me says that perhaps there's a relationship here between electrical power and all sorts of frequencies at the same time... but that would be only a hypothesis without testing it... is it the electrical line that generates these conditions, or the conversion of power... some power supplies up the voltage, then convert it down (sort of like the way PWM supplies more power to a PC's fan by sending more pulses per unit time)... so maybe this is where all of the electrical noise (aka, many frequencies at the same time) are... I woudn't know, but I would think there are some experiments to be done in this area...

Anyway, super interesting!
Actually a bit odd that the robot doesn’t have a 100% success rate given enough time and unlimited tries.
> Produce should first be sourced locally then globally when they really need it.

global (aka long-distance) trade started around 3000 BC.
it got a boom in 1815 due to mechanisation.

if you want to find out more, this is a good place to start:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade
excuse me for butting into dead conversation, but your team used ml to inapplicable case. (at least they aсquired experiense).

up next recommendations wont work without advanced image recognition and topics gathering - basically titles/tags for most videos are garbage and clickbait, and most of youtube work by watching buzzed videos: some well known (by a big amout of watchers) "influencers" push video of some topic (thing/brand) then it get traction from other content creators - they produce videos about it and watchers tend to stick to buzzed topics. it's like news about news.

if your team used ml to recommend up next on your own video hosting your result simply means your videos are equally not on topic Or non-interesting for your service auditory; or they are garbage.
Unionization could very plausibly weaken the US tech sector. It's happened before (US Steel, the US passenger rail service, high-volume manufacturing, the Big Three auto makers).
> Also, hadoop is so painfully slow to develop in it's practically a full employment act for software engineers.

It's comical how bad Hadoop is compared even to the CM Lisp described in Daniel Hillis' PhD dissertation. How do you devolve all the way from that down to "It's like map/reduce. You get one map and one reduce!"
> If you provide an unseen tweet to the chain, you get TWITCOIN

If will take mostly an hour, if not minutes, for someone to hook into Twitter API and mimic the browser extension's requests to mine TWITCOIN by constantly feeding new tweets. Scale this to many developers out there and you've just invented Proof-of-well, ...bandwidth? ...API access? ...processing power (aka Work)? that gives you coin in return.

No one will use the extension, and because of the nature of it, it will be totally open to Sybil attacks anyway.
> Any mistake [master artists] can make is an incredible deliberate choice.

yeah really, my experience as an artist[1] is about 50% "I am gonna deliberately draw this lady with exaggerated proportions" and about 50% more like "aww shit I got really into some parts of this piece and only just now realized how much I fucked up these underlying proportions, and I really like some of the bits I already did too much to throw it away, how can I make it work".

Digital tools make it easier to deal with the second case, "lemme just grab this head and move it down a bit" is infinitely easier in Photoshop than on canvas.

1: I've paid my bills with art since ~2000, and I've worked under people who were definitely masters of their craft, and I have seen the exact same "shit I fucked this up how can I make this work, okay this looks kinda cool now and it reads as a stylistic decision instead of a mistake" behavior in their drawings.
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You're probably right, at this point the Joel Test should really be the bare minimum if a company is serious about a good software development experience, whereas being asynchronous is a bit extra, and a huge shift for most businesses.
So some of you in your campus offices with cafeterias and laundry, you are not being pimped as well?
Interesting. We both evidently did the same calculation when Dropbox started enforcing its limits, but ended up with different answers. For me, the time, hassle and money to run my own instance of syncthing or whatever exceeded the hundred bucks or so a year Dropbox wanted to do it for me. Wonder where our weightings differed.
My miracle year was when I was 18 or 19 and I wrote my first large piece of software by myself. I'm approaching my late 20s now and I haven't had as much sustained fun ever since. Being a wage slave sucks.
"No exploit has been crafted yet to demonstrate this, but it will certainly happen in the feature". But will it be considered a future? ;)
Two things are bothering me immensely:

1. Each time something increasingly worse about the NSA surveillance gets revealed, or confirmed, Sens. Wyden and Udall release a statement saying something like: "This is only the tip of the iceberg: if Americans only knew how bad it was, they'd be very angry." They're on the Senate Intelligence Committee, and so are in a position to know at least more than their colleagues, and much more than their employers (the American people). This is extremely disconcerting. What we know and now see confirmed officially about the surveillance is pretty stunning. Exactly how bad is this? Is all of congress tapped? All the governors? Snowden hinted at this. What the fuck is going on in my country?

2. So, if it's so bad, why won't the honorable Sens. Udall and Wyden take a stand and reveal the wrongdoings on the Senate floor? As I understand the law, they cannot be charged for anything revealed on the Senate floor. And even if there were a way to charge them, I'd like to think it would be political suicide for any president to try.

These two gentleman swore an oath to the U.S. constitution. Why won't they uphold it? They are in a unique position to do so. The fact that they keep making these ominous statements is starting to seem more like a cover-your-ass strategy than an honest attempt to stop the illegal activities.
If I ever reach the level of an IBM Fellow or similar as a software engineer, I won't care about whether you'll call me a "software scientist" or "man with long beard" or "that guy". I promise.

> The engineer becomes a kind of nomadic hermit (“Principal Engineer”)

"hermit" implies some level of isolation. Is that really the case of distinguished/principal/fellow engineers? Is there any evidence or data available?
Good point, very odd way to prove / address it, using what is mostly a low level detail. I believe in the "quality happens only when someone is responsible for it" idea, however it's not really a matter of automake/autoconf, or at least this is an old thing to look at, and a detail. A more modern result of the idea that central authority is not needed in software projects is the bloatware created by the idea that software can be created like this >>> "Let's merge this Pull Request, tests passes". There are three flaws in this apparently non-brainer action:

1) "Let's merge": adding features without stress in taking software self-contained and small.

2) "This Pull Request": the idea that there is no need for a central design.

3) "If test passes": the idea that you can really provide quality code just with tests and without manual code quality inspection and writing code in a clean and defensive way to start with.

So I believe in the postulate but the proof is rather strange in this post.
I've been saying this for so long. I realized at some point that the classes that had the greatest positive impact on my programming ability were always writing classes. Writing seems to engage the same part of the brain in a way that's just different enough to feel different. Even editing is a good lesson in refactoring. I'm always weary of any engineer who can't write.
The airlines aren't suing passengers though, they are suing Skiplagged. Whether or not you agree with the way that airlines charge for tickets, the ticket is a contract between the passenger and the airline and breaking that contract has consequences.

For the passenger, the contracts say that you are expected to use all legs of the tickets and if you do not then the rest of legs of the flights are voided. For the airlines, if they are unable to provide the flight they owe the passenger compensation.

There are no legal repercussions for the passenger not using all legs of the flights, but Skiplagged is clearly committing conspiracy to defraud and I would wager a fair sum of money that they will lose this case.

The issue with the Sandwich analogy is that there is no contract.
Don't try this at home, kids.
JavaScript is an awful language, no matter how much some people stress that you can build working things if you are just careful enough and all that. But that is only the beginning, the entire stack is more less broken. HTML and CSS got repurposed from document markup languages to GUI markup languages. We allowed this awful language to escape the browser and infiltrate our servers in form of Node.js. Microsoft also came up with the clever idea to develop desktop applications and apps with JavaScript, HTML and CSS.

And even the largest selling point of the entire stack - develop once, run everywhere - is far less true then many like to admit. In the past a substantial part of development time has been spent on getting the thing to run consistently across browsers but I fear we are far from the end of the road. Now we have more or less consistent behavior across browser for all the basic things but you still regularly run into unusable web application because you happen to have an unexpected screen aspect ratio, an unsupported video codec or missing WebGL support.

Unfortunately I have no good suggestion how to escape from that situation (quickly) but it seems pretty obvious to me that we have a lot of problems to solve.
The legal goal is almost funded too http://www.gofundme.com/skiplagged
Here's my friend's build thread. I'll start publishing info on my project in the next couple of months.

http://www.pirate4x4.com/forum/expedition-vehicles/955676-ma...
Molten salt thorium reactors are "continuous reprocessing" ones, which means they burn all the (active) waste they create for more energy.

Solid thorium reactors mix Th with the existing waste piles of Plutonium sitting in cooling pools and burn that up for us[1].

There's no waste materials to release from either of these reactors.

[1] http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/160131-thorium-nuclear-re...
It sounds as if wikileaks has evidence. If they do, they should show it, although I guess it makes sense for them to set the context first so it isn't so easily ignored.

There seem to be a lot of people here determined to argue that google is innocent based on innuendo.
If I were PayPal, I wouldn't primarily be focused on buying items, as it would be very expensive strategy. I'd try sending sellers email first, indicating that you are interested in purchasing their product and asking them if they support PayPal. Having thousands of sellers just visiting your site to see what this "PayPal" is about is a great way of getting your name out there at no cost.

Also, if I'm not mistaking, buyers have no right to force sellers to accept a payment method that the seller did not support. Of course you could try to persuade them after you've bought their product, but insisting goes way too far.
That's true for up to some level, but above that you arrive to some ether where rationality is useless or even dangerous.

You see a little girl running toward a minefield, you jump and save her, there is no reasoning. For many who believe in God (not my case) it is something you know is right, but has no reasoning behind.

But here it's just some moral principles that are above the law, above the country, and sometime even above oneself. That's what Snowden and Manning teach us (or me, at least)
"instead we see Youtube desperately trying to go Hollywood, offering lucrative contracts to production companies and celebrities to create branded content for the site"

Last time I've saw the TV it had feature films about wild life and a lot of youtube videos about pets but not one "celebrity" in sight.

The word "celebrity" makes me want to vomit.
Can we please ignore that and instead disrupt just that part of Hollywood and TV that doesn't make us vomit? And don't touch the other part with 5 meter pole.
Did you use any cross-platform frameworks for developing this?
The youtube infographic video doesn't work: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPKKQnijnsM
In the original script the machines used fusion for power and human brains for extra processing power but that was cut because people thought audiences would find it too confusing.
Most projects and companies don't have the funds to sponsor that level customer support. The modern Internet economy works so well because marginal cost (and price) is tiny. Customer support takes that a way.
The pre-order page explicitly states that the stylus is not included. Tricky marketing!
Humans could volunteer their brain power for some periods of time and both men and the machines could focus on rebuilding after the war and manufacturing enough processing power for the machines to live alongside mankind.