skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah right because there's a lot of skills from assembling engines that can easily be transferred over to wiping geriatric bums.

Go and spend a few months doing all those jobs, then come back and re-read your post.
> working in France or at least in a French company is still the best way to climb the hierarchy fast when you're coming from X/Central Paris/ Mines de Paris/Telecom/etc...

For those in those French "Ivy league" it makes sense to stay in a non-meritocracy / credentials based company then, but for all other engineering schools, it's a better deal to get a 6 figures salary job in the US, where it's much closer to a meritocracy than in traditional French companies.

In US tech you certainly see some Harvard, Stanford, mit graduates, but also a lot of non ivy league colleges with jobs such as software engineer, program manager, management, etc. One extreme example is Satya Nadella who got his MS from University of Wisconsin. Even if is undergrad degree was prestigious is India, it doesn't have the ivy League "power" similar to a X/Centrale/Mines in France or Harvard in the US in traditional jobs.
I think we must have read two different speeches, because the one I read was Moxie stating that the invention of Signal was an inevitability, not him taking credit for it. But then it kind of sounds like you have an axe to grind on this topic?
Side note, I ran away from Free, it was not working at all, phone calls cutting all the time, Internet not reliable at all, I went to Sosh for mobile phone and "Orange" for home Internet, I NEVER (not a single one) had 1 small cut. I heavily use both, it's awesome.
We don't need people on the moon. Robots are better.
1 lecture at arguably undergrad level vs. 30 lectures (2 semesters) of grad level qm
It's self sufficiency after purchase not before.

They don't mind buying things they can't make, as long as they can repair or do without them afterward.

They won't buy things that need constant connection to the outside - like grid electricity.

They will buy a generator as long as they can take it completely apart and put it back together. But if they can't do that they won't.

LED's seem unexpected to me, but I suspect they are OK with them because the lights are not for them they are for the outside world. As far as they are concerned they don't need them (so can do without).

Note: Things (such as buying a generator) vary by community.
My impression is the two terms are not exactly the same, with some vague differences in connotations, but a great deal of overlap, and often used interchangeably.

By the way, this is general problem in philosophy, as compared with other fields. Many standard terms are inexact in their meanings, and used differently by different philosophers. So for instance, some philosophers use the term ontology to mean the same thing as metaphysics, and others make a strong distinction between the two. Heidegger even switched his meanings between his early and later career.

Indeed, there isn't even a standard definition for the term philosophy itself.
This is my favourite that I stumbled upon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBaN0NkyLj8
If consumerism makes people happy than let it be so. I'm not proposing to stop that, rather I am saying that in my judgement it is unfortunate that capitalism, thanks to the powerful hand of advertising has convinced many people that they need things that they don't really need at all; in fact, this is a large part of for example the entertainment business. Stupidly large amounts are spent on advertising. We produce for the sake of production, for the sake of handing our product (labour) over to other people. I think it's horrible.

A lot of the reason why children want toys is thanks to advertising, either direct (TV, internet, and nowadays Youtube) or indirect (seeing their friends playing with one). Whether it's most of the reason or not, I don't know. But I know that there would be fewer wants if the people wanting didn't know that it existed. Both direct and indirect advertising do not present the object in an objective light, intentionally or not. The idea that children wouldn't be happy without the newest toys and consoles is dubious at best.

>if I want something I can get it if I do enough work.

It's a good thing that you don't want the product of your labour, because nobody is going to hand that to you, regardless of how hard you work. Can the sweatshop workers get themselves out of their predicament by doing enough work? How about the programmer? How many people have worked under this puerile delusion that they will be rewarded if they work hard enough?

I say to abolish the reward and the giver of the reward. It is not enough to say that people should be rewarded. There should be no concept of reward to start with. You get what you work for, and it isn't appropriated. That's not a reward any more than getting the wood from a tree is a reward.
There are lots of different sects with different rules. Also, there are lots of them that have generators creating electricity but they unplug it if the church elders come for a visit.
>surely having a washing machine is a bigger change to your life than having a chainsaw

The relative effect of these devices varies by location. This assessment might be true in Southern CA, but if you're heating your domicile using wood in Northern Ontario that chainsaw is looking pretty good!
They're good farmers, self-finance and produce a lot of skilled trade stuff.

The big secret to small time farming is that if you don't have to pay for lots of shit like tractors, etc, you can make money the old fashioned way. Not having car payments, cable tv, etc helps too.

Also, many groups are loaded because they've sold land that's been swallowed up by suburban sprawl.
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See for yourself: https://electrek.co/2016/12/19/tesla-fire-powerpack-test-saf...
This is domain validation (DV). A DV HTTPS/TLS cert doesn't make any assertions about a certificate representing any particular legal entity. Authentication is to a domain: you have an encrypted channel to whatever that domain is. Some CAs used to do extra checks for suspect domains on DV certs but they're not required and they don't scale for automated systems.

openssl x509 -in domain-validated-example.com.crt -noout -text | grep Subject
OU=Domain Control Validated
CN=example.com
DNS:example.com

As opposed to EV which does. Authentication is to a legal entity, you have a encrypted channel to that legal entity:

openssl x509 -in extended-validated-example.com.crt -noout -text | grep Subject:
jurisdictionOfIncorporationCountryName=GB
businessCategory=Private Organization
serialNumber=09378892
C=GB
ST=City of London
L=London
O=example Limited
CN=example.com
DNS:example.com -

(Domains are also required to be reviewed by a human for EV)

Disclaimer: work for CertSimple, who only does EV certificates (which match a cert to a legal entity). Though I use DV for my personal site.
Thank you, I didn't know this. I thought they worked long-term
While applauding the stated mission of Open Whisper Systems to make cryptography usable by large numbers of people I think it is fair to hold Moxie & Co. to the same high standards to which they held PGP: https://moxie.org/blog/gpg-and-me/

The journalists who depend on it struggle with it
and often mess up (“I send you the private key to
communicate privately, right?”), the activists who
use it do so relatively sparingly (“wait, this thing
wants my finger print?”), and no other sane person
is willing to use it by default. Even the projects
that attempt to use it as a dependency struggle.

Breaking this up into constituent parts and trying to guess whether those standards are met seems to leave us somewhere in this territory:

1) Journalists communicating with WhatsApp struggle with it and mess up.

Given the confusion around under what circumstances one can communicate securely with WhatsApp ("Is it OK if I have two checkmarks? Is it OK because Facebook would never let a government have access to the RedPhone part?")

2) Activists who use WhatsApp do so relatively sparingly. I have no idea on this one. I hope they're using Signal and/or GPG with all their attendant bother, complexity and confusion though.

3) No other sane person is willing to use WhatsApp by default. Hmmm.. more confusing value judgements. Is someone that uses a communication method open to abuse by corporations and governments "sane"?

4) Dependency struggle. AFAICS no other projects can piggy-back off WhatsApp because it's proprietary and closed. So the user base can't scratch their own itches. OK, so what about Signal? Sounds like the dependency on Google Cloud Messages and Play Services can be hacked around with great difficulty.

I dunno. Fair play to Moxie and Perrin for what they've done, but so far GPG looks like a better bet for actual secure end-to-end communication, using an already existing, widespread distribution mechanism which is widespread and redundant: email.

Reports of GPG's death may have been grossly exaggerated.
That's why failing early and quickly is important. It frees up resources and allows for us tk recalibrate. If I had a dollar for every person Ive talked to that was "waiting for the chance to hit it big". People dont realize that success is a by-product of failure.
I've read The Story of Philosophy. That particular quote comes from Our Oriental Heritage. His writing is generally good, the major difficulty being that he wrote a lot
Google has been doing custom security hardware for 5 years in Chromebooks[0].

[0] https://chrome.googleblog.com/2011/07/chromebook-security-br...
We are talking about recent carriages here (10-20 years old)
Facebook is trialing three methods to combat fake news in Germany
Simple, robots with guns to prevent the humans from guns from takings your stuff.
http://www.scotlandsplaces.gov.uk/digital-volumes/historical...
To be clear, while this is true in the general case, there are specific moments where it does break down, due to the conservative nature of static analysis. This thread has some good examples, but in the interest of transparency, I'll provide another:

struct Foo {
s1: String, // some sort of String data
s2: &str, // a slice of said String
}

What Rust doesn't understand here is that the String's data is on the heap, and therefore, its address is stable. So if you try to construct this, Rust won't let you, because it thinks that the borrow of s1 by s2 would be invalidated by the move. This is fixed by https://crates.io/crates/owning-ref, but it'd be nice if it understood it by default.

In general, these cases are small, but they can be annoying when you run into them. As I said downthread, I very rarely run into them personally, but some others seem to constantly. YMMV.
My favorite: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBaN0NkyLj8
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Would you be comfortable with the only investigative journalism being carried out by the government?

Sure, the BBC (British) or ABC (Australia) model seems to work well - but there's been funding spats in the past.

It's not that hard to imagine a world where the Prime Minister thinks "These silly ivory-tower journalists are just using their rag to rail on me! Why the heck am I signing off on more funding. Cutbacks!".

That and there's many countries where I'd rather an independent journalistic service.
The key distinction between Shezhen and The Machine is that a group of people cannot buy Shezhen.

Something changes when you one something versus paying for its output. For example that's why car ownership and car rental have such different places in our lives.

If you could own your survival, would you prefer to keep renting it?
Thank you for this very well explained post with all details. I love stuff like this, 0 obfuscation, straight to the point.

So, if you get approximately like 30k free every year, how much time would it take you to buy your own flat and car?
Minor point, but you meant 'cost of living', I believe.
At least both of those are examples of people saving lives. To be analogous with the parent commenter's tragedy claim, if need to claim to be a hero for something like complimenting someone's socks.
Usually when other languages expect something of their users, its for good reason--there's some tangible benefit in exchange. When they don't, we call it a wart and count it against the language. This seems like a wart.
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It kills me a lot also. I'm planning to buy something this year / next year, I still don't know yet if it's gonna be in Paris or not. For the same price, in Paris I would get a 50m2, while in province (the rest of France), I would have a new 300m2 house with garden. It really kills me also. But you don't have to stop at this detail,
Not just North America. The "Out of Arabia" scenario for AMH expansion from the now-underwater Levant is quite compelling and revolutionary, but obviously difficult to prove.

[1] http://dienekes.blogspot.com/2014/09/an-archaeological-scena...

[2] https://www.academia.edu/8214444/Out_of_Arabia_and_the_Middl...
Id read those blog posts. Going to subscribe to avoid missing them.
I'm pretty sure you're correct and those numbers are total since 1950. However, the study does seem confusingly worded - in the footnote on page 1 it says:

"All estimates quoted are in constant 2010 dollars, unless otherwise noted, and refer to actual expenditures in the relevant fiscal year, rounded to the nearest billion"

At least to me that reads like "all estimates refer to expenditures from the relevant fiscal year only". However, they later quote the same numbers as being "total spending since 1950". Am I just missing an obvious interpretation for the footnote?
Reminds me of Jaggies Are Gone, a old Macintosh application which did this sort of thing by dumber means.

There's an neural net system which upscales old low-resolution anime stills.[1] It's been trained on hand-drawn cartoons, so it restores line art detail. That's very similar to this Google thing.

[1] http://waifu2x.udp.jp/
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Interesting, though it does beg the question of it also will encourage work for the sake of work. An example is provided that one could be hired to write hand-written messages on products. But one could also be tasked to do something robots could do because you just artificially made human labor cheaper than your robots.
No, "meatbag" is a pejorative (compare "dirtbag").

"Meat glacier" (ht: Schlock Mercenary) is also a pejorative; it implies very slow thinking.

The correct, non-judgmental terms are "carbon person" and "silicon person". (My silicon co-worker confirms this, "meatbag" gets a red underline, but "carbon person" does not.)
It's a tragedy because of how little we did with the accomplishment. Putting men on the moon could have ushered in a new age of exploration and we could be much farther along the path to being multi-planetary than we are today. It's tragic because it means our future is less bright.
Reading this I'm totally confused what he's talking about: On Android, Telegram is miles ahead of Hangouts & Allo in terms of UX, feature support and performance, while Google Drive feels like a completely wasted opportunity for a storage service by Google on their own platform. Hangouts even ships being disabled per default on their flagship Pixel phones. Instead of growing the amount of apps OEMs need to preinstall to get access to the Play Store, they reduce it, year by year. Even after all these years Android is still designed to be an OS where every company could offer Google-like services and integrate them like Google does.

I'd be surprised if the author actually used an Android device in the last years.
I first heard that applause story from Žižek (but it might not have originated with him?)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvgl0Oy5wx8#t=13m33s
In the area I grew up, inflated rubber tires and bicycles were not allowed, but wooden tires on scooters were fine. Reason being, inflated tires made it too easy to travel far from home, which was generally discouraged.

So many people I grew up with seemed to think that Amish were being hypocritical by paying for taxi drivers to drive them around. That's an over-simplistic view. To an Amish community, taxi fees are a tariff intended to encourage finding a job close to home - or if at all possible - in your backyard. The ideal Amish are taught to strive for and desire is to have a farm and provide for your family with your hands.

Here is a great documentary about an Amish couple that gave the rare opportunity to be filmed and interviewed. It's not about the Amish that I grew up with, however their flavor of Amishness is philosophically equivalent https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtNXvE_rLoE
What federated / decentralized protocols have been actual successes? For what protocols can I set up my own server in my house or in some cloud service, and have a comparable experience to using a major provider's service (modulo scalability and personal sysadmin effort)?

I'm worried that the only ones seem to be email and the web, both of which came into existence when the internet was small and academic and it was natural for universities to decentralize. And running email on your own is getting increasingly hard because of spam and IP reputation. (We seem to have more-or-less won the war on spam, but at the cost of making email much less decentralized than it used to be.)

There's a mention of BitTorrent elsewhere in these comments, and there might be an argument for Bitcoin. But even for IRC, people tend not to run their own servers (although they could); there are a very small number of IRC networks, run by random people.

I would love to see a decentralized and federated team chat app along the lines of Slack or Discord, but I'm having trouble believing that such a thing would have a chance of success in a post-1995 internet.
I don't claim it's the best of the world but calling it expensive and dreadful if just not the reality. Compared to what I have experienced mostly in Europe I found it good and inexpensive.
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Litotes (Mercutio's "a scratch, a scratch, marry, 'tis enough") and hyperbole have been figurative techniques used for thousands of years.
Ha! I got the same one and just posted the same comment.
>People who become unable to participate in the market economy no longer matter to it

I don't think goods would continue to be produced if so few people (in this society in which almost all human labour has been eliminated) can pay for them. Forget market participation, the market almost ceases to exist as a whole.

And what are these beggars and North Koreans to do? All they can do is sit and watch products drop off the production line and wallowing in their needs. But actually, if the market is so small, no capitalist will be producing much of anything at all; the costs of production would not justify catering to such a small group of people.

I don't think it is good for things to be in this state of extreme automation in capitalism, because it would be the biggest failure of the capitalist system. The only reason I could see for ever wanting such a thing would be to accelerate the arrival of what comes next (according to Marx, socialism and Communism).
Seemingly not considered in the report is the incentives created for offshoring -- if you tax robots in the EU, that will just cause the companies to move the administrative robots to nearby countries with reduced robotic rights. Only those robots requiring decision speeds under 100ms or so would need to be kept in country, forming a sort of race to the regulatory bottom.
I missed that part; that's my bad.
Good job!
It's so nice that you tackled the problem in different technological approaches.
Keep up doing this kind of stuff!
I absolutely died! It was so funny.
> But one could also be tasked to do something robots could do because you just artificially made human labor cheaper than your robots

Exactly, that's my main point. It gives humans a fighting chance against the robots.
"The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don’t just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary."
--James D. Nicoll
I've always heard it pronounced incorrectly as "ek setra". And now I'm wondering if it's unusual to pronounce the last word with all three syllables, as I do...
> This is more than the Prime Minister and President make in France.

Plenty of people make more than they do though. These are not especially high-paying positions, they're not even the highest paying government positions.
Did we really do "little" with the technology and energy born of the space race?
This. These trains were originally not fitted with central locking, and being able to (accidentally?) open the door at 125mph is obviously unsafe.

There have been a few converted to more conventional power doors, but the original design is not such that this is easy; it's a pretty major rebuild and it's not clear they're going to be in service long enough to make it worthwhile.
So I guess nobody actually deserves a Medal of Honor then?
The "Texas triangle" is one example of some good city pairs, which are a lot more practically situated than the pie-in-the-sky NYC-LA route people always bring up as a reason HSR won't work in the U.S. due to distances (and this is not the only such set of routes, just a particularly high-volume set).

Houston-Dallas is a very high-volume city pair forming one leg of the triangle, of length around 250 miles. People do fly on this route, but most people don't, because between the airports' relatively inconvenient location (especially Houston's), security, delays, etc., it doesn't save you that much time. So most people just drive. But driving is just far enough, and stress/traffic-filled enough, that many people who drive that route regularly hate doing so (it takes 4-6 hours, depending on how good a day you're having, and much of that is with wall-to-wall traffic containing a heavy volume of trailer trucks in the mix). I've done it many times myself, and I'd love to take a train instead. For me personally, it wouldn't even have to be that fast: if the train could get me there reliably in 3 hours (i.e. average speed 85 mph, not even talking about Shinkansen speeds), I'd be very satisfied. Related things can be said about the other two legs of the triangle: San Antonio - Houston (200 miles) and the San Antonio - Austin - Dallas corridor (80+195 = 275 miles).

The topography here is also more friendly to rail than, for example, LA-SF, being mostly flat and open and with shorter distances. But unfortunately the state-level political geography is less friendly (at a local level rail is popular in all four of these cities, but the state is another matter).
the EV is a bit heavyweight for a startup, but that GIV looks promising!
Original WSJ article referred to in this post:

https://www.google.com/amp/www.wsj.com/amp/articles/exclusiv...
Thanks for the feedback, really appreciate it.

Great question.

For a flat, in Paris, for a 50m2, the price greatly vary between 300K (with a bunch of work to do) to 700K and more (I don't know very well the market, I can't give you much details). Right now, the loan interest are very interesting and I could buy immediately something (With a 25K contribution and pay for it for the next 20 / 30 years depending on the rate).

Since I don't own a car, I think you have for all prices. You can get a second hand for 10-25K, and a first hand for 18K - 30K (And more obviously)

Again, the 30K free at the end of the year are without all the "fun" part, with the strict bare minimum. I didn't included bars, friends, travels etc...), unfortunately I don't have 30K after all of that :P
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