skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is why we should all become more knowledgeable about nuclear weapons. Right now there is no political pressure to make things more safe because the electorate is largely uneducated.

I recommend this podcast:

http://www.armscontrolwonk.com/podcast/

Which has really pulled back the curtain on nuclear thinking. There's also a private members slack if you support them on Patreon, which is endlessly useful. And really, if you're going to support a podcast on Patreon, I can't think of a better case than the ACW Podcast:

https://www.patreon.com/acwpodcast
Can it be made resistant to pest bugs like the clothesmoth or carpet beetle? That would be nice(and in some respects, already possible if you use only synthetic fabrics).
> it's just a logical progression of categories of objects getting more specific as they branch out.

That's the benefit of it. On a type abstraction level it's perfect to write Organism > Animal > Dog. That's the benefit of inheritance. The drawbacks are more subtle though and manifest like mad stacktraces that are very brittle to change (what happens when I change what I return from this method? Who are the downstream and upstream users? What does this stacktrace mean? When it becomes difficult to reason about is when you have all these kinds of abstractions executing at the same time - which easily happens.

at Dog.CreateName
at Animal.CreateName
at Dog.SetNewName
at Animal.ResetName
at Animal.Create
at Organism.Create...
The argument for a seed investor to invest in a SAFE note with no discount and no cap is that the Series A round will be priced by a VC or superangel, and the seed investor will not otherwise have the opportunity to invest at that later point. That is, the seed investor is trading the opportunity to participate in an investment at all for control over the exact terms. But since neither the entrepreneur nor the seed investor have any idea what a pre-revenue company is worth, they're often fine delaying the valuation question.
Accidentally launching a missile is pretty hard and I'm confident that we have enough safeguards against that. I'm not so sure we have enough safeguards against terrorists stealing nuclear weapons (or the essential components for making one). You only need somebody with motive and motivation, and a mistake by pair of truck drivers. It's fairly hard to make a reliable system out of that failure mode.
I wonder if that means we are not native to this planet but rather one with a longer day.
We're I designing it I'd look at a bus like pci-e since that will provide more Ethan enough bandwidth and many other that arm (or x86) chips that are likely to be doing the decision making based on the data from the chips will already support it. That flexibility along with already being a k own quantity in spinning boards would be a HUGE plus.
Ask HN: iOS and Android devs, do you prefer dependencies that build from source?
I'm trying to decide which is the lesser of two evils, to distribute a iOS/Android library with prebuilt library artifacts or to impose a ~10 minute-long build on first build. I can make strong arguments either way.

From a security-minded perspective, building from source seems to always be the better option, but even still I suspect people don't like the inconvenience of a long initial build when they want to try something out.

I suppose there are also alternatives. For example, I might only include the source in the project repo but then use Travis to build artifacts for releases so that most people receive artifacts from github/maven/cocoapods.

However, I can really only speculate which is best. If you have experience with this, I would love to hear about it.
That's giving them the benefit of the doubt, to say the least.
a terrorist state already has nukes.
Absolutely. It's crazy to me that "pre-med" is a psuedo degree. 4 years of your life to take a handful of relevant classes.
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Lets look at a neighbor that is on friendlier terms with the US: Romania.

This would be ridiculously low salary there.

In the past (over 10 years ago), when dealing with Russian contractors rates were much higher (think $20 US an HOUR as a floor, so 40k a year).

However this is pre Ukranine issues. The market for programers there may have dried up over night as everyone is dealing with sanctions and money moving issues.
React + React Router + Browserify here, but nothing even close to 100k lines of code.

Do you write about doing this in vanilla js? Would like to keep a collection of "Just React please" docs that I can point people to.
Cloud hosted Pi-hole is also free. You pay for the hosting.

With the cloud hosting you also get a fixed ip address which you can use from all the places, while most people have dynamic ip addresses at home (which you need to track and change in all devices). Furthermore initial cost of a pi and accessories are equal to 10-20 months of hosting.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nuclear_close_calls

http://www.ucsusa.org/nuclear-weapons/hair-trigger-alert/clo...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/20/usaf-atomic-bo...

It's such a complex network of systems and people and policies; all of which is constantly in flux. All of which has to yield a perfect result, every time. You can argue about robust systems, but the reality is that these systems are far from robust.

Look at what happened when the USSR collapsed for god's sake! We're still cleaning that up.
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Title should read "Remastering the one Beatles live album finally made it great"
In theory sure, but point me to the long-term practice of making it actually work. In practice, nuclear weapons have been subject to obvious and critical fuck-ups.
That would probably raise a flag to the IRS. I suspect the purpose for using Paypal, and a contributing factor for the freeze, could be tax issues
This is really neat and I had thought about doing this when I acquired a new Android device that I don't have root on.
Alternatively, a program was made to host a DNS process on the phone in userland that downloads blacklists as well as uses external well known nameservers. Then use build in VPN client to redirect all DNS queries through to the daemon. DNS66 has been doing a fine job since I started using it last week. https://github.com/julian-klode/dns66
Why not just use Firefox with uBlock? Or do you use a lot of free apps with ads that don't offer a pay for no ads option?
Any other Worm readers here?

#skitterasaservice
Hmm, that sounds like it could be useful for other things, but for ad blocking, running a blocker on the device seems to work fine...
"On a self driving car, a 1000W machine for 3d lidar data crunching isn't really feasible."

How-so? That's 1.34 horsepower. Even assuming catastrophic losses in converting fuel to electrical power, say 90%, that's only 13.4 horsepower to generate 1000W.
> Paypal no longer allows users to make credit card payments without an account

> Paypals documentation[2] states this is still possible, but I haven't seen it work on any paypal shop for around a year, so either it's broken and they don't care or maybe no one reads the docs?

From the last time I had to evaluate PayPal as an option, I seem to recall that they only allow people to make payments without an account a certain number of times. So if you have already made a payment through PayPal without a registered account a few times, you will be forced to create an account for any future payments. You've probably made enough payments that you've gone over the limit. I can't remember what the limit is, but I remember being surprised at how low it was.
AFAIK CIA was targeting a system dll that Notepad++ uses
An update for anyone who cares...I tweeted this link and tagged Paypal, they reached out saying they are sorry to hear and submitted my case for a review. I replied via DM how can they review ny case without asking any new information or telling me what the issue is, got no reply back. Just got an email saying "Appeal Denied" Paypal account closed for security reasons.

Which security reasons I have absolutely no idea. There's no contact info on the email, just says it's a do not reply address.
It selected for things like higher THC:CBD (which is a bad outcome for users), smaller plants, autoflowering plants, shorter growing times, feminized seeds (all easier to grow illegally).
"This is why we should all become more knowledgeable about [ANYTHING]. Right now there is no political pressure to make things more [ANYTHING] because the electorate is largely uneducated."

We can't get people on the same page with their health insurance... nuclear disarmament might be a big ask in that context.
20k a year sounds about right. I am in former ost block EU country, median pay would be ~10k, monthly rent ~300$.

I might know a few people around here that might make more than 100k as programmers but, they are either project leads with a lot of responsibility, or they own the business and have a few large US clients.

Of course, all of my US colleagues earn much more.
> Your typical user is much more at risk with end-to-end encryption

Not all e2ee products are created equal. I think your description is accurate for the PGP ecosystem, because for example it's hard to be sure you've got the right key from the key servers, and anyone who can use email can contact you. In fact most crypto folks I know believe email is an unsecurable platform.

However good e2ee systems provide strong Authentication of the data's origin, which is often more valuable than the encryption. In SpiderOak's Semaphor for example, a team admin approves new team members before they can communicate with other people on the team. It's explicitly a tool intended for safe internal communication with a specific in group, such as an enterprise team.
http://www.nytimes.com/books/01/02/04/abim/pw-potter.html

Argument from incredulity does nothing for me.
Lots of good advice from a long-time programmer (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rob_Pike). I have bookmarked these notes before, because his simple but effective tips resonate with me. From the article:

> Algorithms, or details of algorithms, can often be encoded compactly, efficiently and expressively as data rather than, say, as lots of if statements.

I have read elsewhere about moving your code complexity to your data. But I can't find that other article. It's hard to find mention at all of this strategy. But I have found it to be true. Moving details from PHP into the database results in shorter code overall. The first example that comes to mind is replacing a bunch of if-statements with one or more columns in the database, like for some kind of categorization.
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Changing the DNS server on Android is really not ideal and in some networks outgoing DNS requests are blocked or redirected to the local resolver.

I know it's a lot more work but setting up Shadowsocks and Unbound with similar DNS blacklists is a much better solution. This also comes with all the benefits of using a VPN (technically, an obfuscated socks5 proxy using the android VPN interface). If you manage the network, pfSense and pfBlockerNG are also great and easy to set up.
> My answer would be people who simply don't have that kind of money.

CRISPR is cheap.
Study: High Achieving Students More Likely to Smoke Marijuana and Drink Alcohol
> Your post is a joke.

Please edit that kind of name-calling out of your comments here. I realize it started upthread, but this crosses into incivility and tarnishes your otherwise fine comment.
what is the regulation that mandates proprietary baseband?
Haven’t heard of Solus before. I will check it out.
Sex drive and libido is a function of hormones in your body, and nitrogen retention. My guess is that your Estradiol is fairly high and your testosterone levels are below average resulting in a diminished sex drive.

There is nothing wrong with having lots of sex and liking sex, it's a natural state our body desires and you can still get the work you want accomplished and have lots of sex.
Those were unviable embryos. And personally, I don't consider it unethical and am really glad that China is doing that research.
Regarding the Y-12 breaches, 'not James Bond-level' is a minor understatement. We're talking about an 82 year-old nun.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megan_Rice
Not only that, but designs thought to be "one-point safe" (a detonation starting at one point in the explosive lens will not cause a significant nuclear chain reaction) actually turned out to cause significant nuclear yield if detonated from one point. Same source.
This looks like a dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13824032, plus please don't do that with titles here.
BTW, I appreciate all the feedback, even people who disagreed with what I wrote: this will make my talk better. Thank you!
this has been going on as long as paypal has been around. i never allow anyone to send more then a $1k to my paypal, everything larger than that gets check or wire. First time i got a $5k wire, they locked me out and held my monies for 90 days.... doesnt really help a growing business to have money locked. this was in 2002.
Electrical car. You lose a lot of power like that. That translates into less range, and that's before you start redirecting air to cool it which will eat up even more range.
Drastically reduced JavaScript payload by converting app from Aurelia to Svelte
Please don't post any more uncivil/unsubstantive comments to HN.
I'm aware (excruciatingly aware...) of that. Our numbers are ~10X better despite a process disadvantage.

And as always, Nvidia is twiddling the numbers, they exclude the cost of memory access when calculating 1 top/w, whereas we include it.
The documentary film version is excellent as well.

http://www.commandandcontrolfilm.com
Probably 50¢/month total, 47.75¢ for the electricity[1], and 2-something cents monthly opportunity cost of $30 earning interest in a money market fund.

The throughput on a Raspberry Pi isn't great though, even compared to a typical low end VPS.

[1] http://m.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=5+watt+*+months+at+13+cen...
155mm artillery nukes like W48 were deployed. They fit in suitcases.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W48
Section 5 says "thanks to the transaction rate increasing faster than the network's energy consumption".

Is the transaction rate increasing? Two years ago people said it was 7 transactions per second. Now it's 3 per second. It may be that people were making unchecked exaggerations two years ago. But this doesn't look like any sort of increase. If the transaction rate is "quadrupling every 2 years"... why didn't it quadruple over 2 years?

An article entitled "Bitcoin Mining is Not Wasteful" on a Bitcoin blog kind of tells you what conclusion it's going to come to. For people who aren't personally invested in Bitcoin, of course Bitcoin mining is wasteful. It is literally made of wasted computation. The fact that it benefits an economy of Bitcoin speculators is of no interest.
One possible solution to the crazy person scenario is the use of counter gene drives. I think they discussed this in this podcast or elsewhere, but the idea is that if a species has a particular gene drive inserted, then you can create a new member of that species with a second gene drive that deletes the first and/or writes over the original CRISPR'd gene sequence.
It's a system of corruption and abuse. Profit and greed appears to be the motivation.

Americans no longer have Liberty or Due Process, unless you are wealthy.
Stay strong man. The technology to address these sorts of ailments feels like it's right around the corner, so don't give up on this now.
A real benefit would be file system support for Reed-Solomon error correction. Some archival tools support such a feature. You would spent 1%-10% of the disk space for error correction.
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The author and editor of the economist made a technical error in saying that.

Having a strawman argument about sulfur dioxide about that without pointing out why the rest of reality doesn't like sulfur dioxide is the essence of bad faith argumentation.

Everyone reading the strawman argument is worse off.

Instead -

"Sulfur dioxide isn't as much a global warming issue as just a serious pollutant and we care because X"
Takeover of employee LinkedIn account doesn’t violate hacking law (2012)
Is that actually true though? I don't think I can just pack up my bags as a US citizen tomorrow and move to the EU.
Yes, I also think of Java as "managed". But the common idea of "managed" seems to be more than only "garbage collected".
This is a bit of a capsule summary of better, longer pieces, and a bit hyperbolic. The policy brief is better and is still an easy read:
http://unctad.org/en/PublicationsLibrary/presspb2016d6_en.pd...

The thing that always scares me reading any of those "X% of workers losing their jobs to automation" stories is thinking about what proportion of the (100-X)% of workers have jobs that (to a lesser or greater extent) depend on the idea that the X% are employed and have surplus income to spend.
Technology is not advancing ever faster
Right, some leakage is inherent and what you provide may be good enough or even the best you can reasonably do. However, There's a long history (even in academic crypto) of what seems like insignificant leakage being important. So it's good to be overt about it.

So it looks you are doing blockwise encryption? Which means at least conceptually, not only do you leak when a file is updated, you leak what chunk? At least I'm assuming the journal isn't append only.
There's a great documentary on this called The End of Suburbia,[1][2] though the causes for such a collapse are very different in the documentary vs this article.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_End_of_Suburbia

[2] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3uvzcY2Xug
Psychology Says: Marine Le Pen Is the Coming French President
(SPOILER):

I think this is really poor journalism to write this as though it had already happened, then, at the end it turns out to be fiction.

Anyway, for those of us who are ignorant of UK law:

As for criminal prosecution, wouldn't this come down to a trial? Is there a right to a jury, like in the USA?

All it takes is one (generally) juror to decide that justice would not be served by a conviction to stop the criminal-law process.
I think the point of the comment was to praise them for how they manage to have equal amounts of both things, when those things are rarely seen together. Most people would assume from context (given that the comment is phrased with positive sentiment) that it was meant that the ratio was low and the implicit sum was high.
Let me see if I have this straight. In response to a story from a customer, you went through all of your records and then shared information about the case in public.

I'm glad your customer satisfaction scores are higher, but I'd rather not share any of my information with you. I'm not the op, but if I was, I would feel rather violated.
I think we can easily replace "were the first of their kind" with "were invented in times when there was a desperate need of a good protocol to do X, Y and Z" and you and the parent poster would be in a full agreement, don't you think?

I think his general point was -- even if there were some ugly corners of the technology, people were like "you know what, this is the N-th try and we really REALLY need this tech, let's move forward with it and fix the problem later". I think we all know how that usually ends, don't we?

It ends with a lot of legacy baggage and huge economic pressure to not change anything. So we come to our present dilemmas (outlined in the original post).
I have a feeling that this might be a big topic in the coming decades.
For one, Payouts are 7-days in arrear where as with Paypal it's instant. Second, Shopify just started with this processing thing and they are amateurs at it, support has been horrible and they also keep changing their rules and requirements since this is all new to them. The shopify payments team also does not get on the phone, just email, i try and stay away from companies that do that. The irony is paypal just did it to me...
>if the federal US government imposes a rule like "have scrubbers or you don't have access to our ports"

Or they just offload their cargo to a "clean" ship just outside our jurisdiction in international waters. This is how shipping companies have worked around the Jones Act for quite a while.
Yeah, sign me up to go see that $15.00 per hour doctor. /s

If salaries weren't in line with the amount of time and dedication it takes to be a dr, we would all be worse off.
It's the insanity defense for lacking human decency. Pretty hilarious, in a morbid kind of way.
RAID journaling.

https://lwn.net/Articles/665299/

Haven't tried it but it seems to already be merged, at least write-through. They now work on implementing writeback and this IIRC isn't merged yet.
>Shia's flag said "he will not divide us" it was a message of unity

Unity that excludes almost half of the US population. I'm glad that people reacted against the passive-aggresiveness of this message when the stream was hosted in a public space. I don't condone stealing on a private property but let's not fool ourselves here, the message of this art project is reinforcing the US vs THEM mentality that is currently tearing Americans apart rather than truly trying to unify people.
Or you can set it up on a free instance of GCE. The author doesn't get affiliate fees though.
I like optimistic people (no sarcasm). But I think you're overestimating the cooperative abilities of Homo Sapiens. Every bank, store and pet garage invents their mobile payments nowadays. This is very bad and leads to segmentation of efforts which shouldn't exist in the first place.

Also, I'd argue HTTP/2 is not such a huge improvement as many make it out to be, but I can't deny it's some improvement compared to 1.0/1.1 -- that's a fact.
The ASDS (drone ships) use diesel[1] for stationkeeping but they use tugs[2] to get from the port to the landing site & back.

I can't get engine details on the tugs[3], but wikipedia says[4] tugs often have locomotive diesel engines.

1 - https://www.thrustmaster.net/out-drive-propulsion-unit/porta...

2 - https://www.reddit.com/r/spacex/wiki/asds#wiki_ships

3 - https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/details/ships/shipid:43...

4 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tugboat#Tugboat_propulsion
Nci-ansible-ui – simple web interface for run ansible playbooks
At least in Sweden, the youth cards are usually completely blocked from online transactions.
"Detail", in pharma parlance, refers to making sales presentations to physicians. The people who do this were once called "detail men".[1] This has declined somewhat now that pharma can advertise prescription drugs directly to patients.

[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2006/04/the-dru...
Yes, most of your links (just like many of IBM's cloud related web services). If anything you, IBM and any potential customers, should be seriously concerned that they begin with http:// in the first place.
I have a better idea. Simplify the tax code so anyone can do theirs on an index card. There is absolutely no reason for the gargantuan tax code in a free society.
> why is it that doctors make such high salaries?

It could be relevant that, "The AMA has one of the largest political lobbying budgets of any organization in the United States."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Medical_Association#P...