skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Social engineering has the "advantage" that the compromise may go undetected longer than with cruder methods such as torture.
Walled gardens are the future of gadget design. 98% of the mass market just wants to consume, without getting exposed to crud and malware. For them a walled garden is ideal; openness invariably leads to Bonzi Buddy and Comet Cursor.
I'm not OP, but I'll respond to some of these. I'm loath to call myself a hipster, but I think that's part of being a hipster in and of itself, so yeah.

- doesn't it seem a bit ironic that in your desire to distinguish yourself, you identify with an external cultural movement?

No, not really. I don't identify with a movement; I do however have certain tastes and behaviors (as do some of my friends), which other people have labeled as "hipster". The thing is, my tastes and preferences are genuine. I don't like like obscure underground hip-hop because I want to be perceived as hipster, I like it because it's fucking awesome.

- Seems like if you really wanted to be different, you would focus on just being "you" and ignore what other people are doing.

I do do that. But its not a simple process of just deciding to be "me" one day because I don't know what that "me" actually is. Personal growth is a process of transformation, and sometimes you try new things and realize you don't care much for them, and other times they become a part of who you really are.

- Additionally, sophistication and coolness are subjective. Who are you trying to appear sophisticated and cool to?

Eh, sure, but its more complicated than that. I want this guy to think I'm cool:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/82/Kerouac_...

Not these guys:

http://www.trbimg.com/img-57e58c72/turbine/la-et-mn-capsule-...

- I've found that I'm much happier being "me" and not caring what other people think.

Sure, I agree. But "me" just happens to be things which most people associate with hipsterdom.

- Ironically, people find this attitude pretty cool.

I don't think it's ironic - being yourself is cool, and I'm happy for you.
I think the title and abstract of this are not very clear.

I gave it a fast skim to figure out what general class of thing it actually is.

This should be compared with "proof of idle" (https://www.cs.virginia.edu/~shelat/14s-pet/2014/02/11/proof...).

It is an online scheme for resisting sybil attacks in a P2P network where nodes have cryptographic identities which works by periodically forcing all users to do proof of work within a limited time window. Peers that don't respond fast enough are banned from the system (have to create a new identity to join, which is computationally expensive).

The idea is that this get some of the benefits of POW for sybil resistance without spending as much energy.

It doesn't, however, produce a large amount of cumulative work building up over a history. So it's not the sort of thing you'd want to use to protect the history of a ledger directly.
From what I've seen, they have been more than capable to support the industry and take credit for it's successes and simultaneously demonize tech workers as unempathetic racists, sexists, and gentrifiers. A specific examples being Alexandra Pelosi's documentary San Francisco 2.0. Bill Maher has also made similar anti "tech bro" statements from time to time. While he's not the perfect centrist, he was pretty much behind the Obama administration 100%, and I would definitely consider him to be part of the Democratic establishment.
I was expecting the site to just have YES at the top in big letters with some explanation below. Things are certainly feeling bubbly lately.
How about comparing it to fiat currency?
There are FAA limits on how big a battery can be if you want to take it on a plane. Your best bet is probably an external battery.
try in settings->Accessibility->Reduce transparency.
this will also make the OS more responsive (minimizing, switching windows....)
Absolutely not, it has been posted several times in the past the comparison with the world money and bitcoin power waste was simply outrageous compared to the world monetary base.
Aluminium, nichel and gold have other real uses other than minting coins.
Microsoft crippled their DWM and cut out (as in, remove the code) all the Aero effects (blur). Compare how Windows 7 looks and how Windows 8 and 10 look, and you will see. It was done, partly, for batter life reasons.

So… it seems, in addition to Apple and me, Microsoft has also figured out the secret to having a battery life–conscious window manager.
"OS X v10.6 and later automatically optimize the performance of screen-sized windows, allowing your application to take complete advantage of the window server environment on OS X. For example, critical operating system dialogs may be displayed over your content when necessary."

https://developer.apple.com/library/content/documentation/Gr...
>> Maybe I'm not the mainstream...
What I don't understand is with such capabilities, why weren't Michelle carters texts flagged? Or the heather Mack texts/fb messages. Or the texts revolving around the death of Tim piazza at penn state? If the capability to save these people was there, why wasn't it exercised?
> We have a lot of means of gathering and analzying information that we didn't have before, and those could be used to accomplish this. I'm also not advocating for a fully planned economy either...

Accomplish what? If you don't mean accomplish central control over the economy, then I fail to understand what you mean by "an efficient socialist economy".
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Blank page for me. Don't know if it is there but a nice chart is size of the Fed B/S vs S&P 500, since 2005. Suggests a large part of the valuation of stock is generated by QE, which the Fed intends to start withdrawing this year...
LOL http://isthissitegoingtocrash.com
Thanks for bringing this up - turns out that was a bug. I've fixed it now so they're the same.
You'd still get it cheap it just wouldn't be US grown
Seconding T460s as well. My company's dev team is mostly X1 Carbon, with some other T460s, and so far I'm having a great time with it. Maxed out specs (full mem, full SSD), running ArchLinux + Win10 dual boot. Arch has much better battery life than Win but it's good to cover all the bases when I need it for work. It's light, capable, good ports, and all. It's a real pleasure to use it every day. :)
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Without enough domestic farms and oil fields the US would be extremely vulnerable to foreign sanctions etc. in times of conflict. The subsidies are intended to keep some of these unprofitable operations running domestically.
Cloud providers will provide a console based access in the browser (not sure about AWS, but GCE and other smaller guys do, like DO, Linode, Vultr that i know of). Alternatives include
1. https://github.com/liftoff/GateOne, will need local install, pip should be fine.
The Jockey Club doesn't allow that. Thoroughbreds can be bred only from other Thoroughbreds to be registered in the Thoroughbred registry. Live-bred, too; no frozen sperm. This is strictly enforced; Thoroughbred breeding involves witnesses, videos, and. since 2001, DNA testing.
The sun has no infinite supply of energy.
> The information problem is exactly what I'm referring to

I'm not sure you understand the information problem I meant. The information problem I meant is that, heuristically speaking, the amount of information required to make correct economic decisions goes up exponentially with the size of the economy, while the bandwidth of information channels available to any central authority only goes up linearly with the size of the economy. So there is no possible way that any central authority can receive enough information to make correct economic decisions in an economy of any significant size.
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I'm not disagreeing with you, but it's also nothing like an innovation or the future of anything, it's just the best that can be managed for now. I think that probably encryption or block chain technology is likely to help create a chain of trust in the future for non-walled gardens.
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Aren't all consoles 'walled gardens'? If not, what is it about the Switch that makes it more of one?
It depends more on the industry. Software Engineers for Google and Facebook are probably more left leaning. Software engineers for a defense contractor are probably more right leaning.
I know it sounds odd, but the idea is that while it is a socialist program, it actually helps maintain a capitalist system by preventing that systems failures from leading to it's demise. A UBI paid for with a tax system similar to our current one wouldn't really harm the ultra rich much, it would be paid for by the middle class and wealthier people who still work for a living, rather than just sitting on a giant mountain of cash and collecting interest.

Edit: plus, if everyone views it as socialism, and then they eventually get it 20 years from now, maybe that will keep them from pursuing the real thing. Although I'm getting to be a bit of a paranoid conspiracy theorist with that line of reasoning.
> The Switch is the first gaming system that works anywhere and everywhere.

Uhhhhhhh, what happened to all of nintendos past handhelds, sonys psp, the countless older handhelds that never gained traction?
The fact that a single controller breaks up into 2 fully capable controllers still surprises me to this day.

You can play multiplayer from anywhere with a buddy next to you, also 2 controllers breaks into 4 thats great fun when you have guests over.

The Switch all in all feels very polished and thought out, very happy with mine.
I'm not sure what you're rebutting. The APA page doesn't support any claim that men or women are better at handling stress. It just says they handle it differently.

> Disclaimer: I have no idea how this facet affects one's capacity of performing in a tech role.

Yeah. On the other hand, the manifesto author suggests that "stress tolerance" is gender based, and may affect your capacity to succeed in tech: "differences may explain why we don't see equal representation of women in tech"

It seems clear to me that the manifesto author "raises into question the fundamental capability of every woman he works with".
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> How would you calculate Market overvaluation?

The market is a conversation, not a calculation. There is no equation for its "proper" valuation because there is no equation for an asset's "proper" price. We have markets because these calculations, the economic calculation problem [1], are hard.

Financial theory has a habit of magicking uncertainty into variables that look like constants but aren't. With option theory, it's the volatility curve. With CAPM [2], it's the risk-free rate curve and general market risk premia (also beta). In the discounted cash flow model [3], it's the discount rate and future payout curve.

These models sort of work a lot of the time, but not always and not as well as we'd like them to. Unfortunately for the precision-minded, the bridge between the quantitative models are people doing their people things.

Note that I'm not saying it's all voodoo. There are models. But understanding them takes appreciating their constraints, assumptions and strengths.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_calculation_problem

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_asset_pricing_model

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discounted_cash_flow
Hi,

I'd recommend a bog standard VPS from any provider you can get - AWS and Azure are flexible but they do require some time until you understand everything.

SSH cannot usually be done over the web, at least I wouldn't trust anyone with my SSH keys... PuTTY SSH client can be run without installing it.
This will of course be a matter of personal preferences, but yes, I concur with the sentiment: Apple made its MacBook line worse, not better:

- They confine better specs to the touchbar models, which I would tolerate (not love) if it had the decency of starting after the ESC key. As it is, it's an abomination which must die, die, die.

- They give you USB-C ports (yay) at the expense of leaving you with zero USB-A ports (nay).

- They supply you with a low spec charging cable, indistinguishable from a high spec one

- They took away MagSafe which I love and has saved my laptop

- They took away the SD slot (but left the headphones jack? While arguing in favor of its removal on the iPhone? A bit inconsistent?)

- They massively bumped prices, making it considerably less appealing from a price/specs ratio perspective

- ...and they max out at 16GB just as you criticized the Lenovo.
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Now I have to take over a running corporate site and get up to speed quickly. There are so many resources (books, online courses) of dubious quality that all seem aimed at beginners. I'm looking for recommendations for learning resources that will quickly teach me the fundamentals, the workflows, the deployment processes, and so on - aimed at veterans, not beginners.
I have a Switch and enjoy it a lot - but "future of gadget design" seems like an overstatement.

The docked mode works great (though the performance at 1080p is a bit sluggish in some games), the split-multiplayer mode in games like Mario Kart is friggin genius. I love that the Switch has brought back local multiplayer.

But its actual portability is kind of marginal. Unlike the DS/3DS, it doesn't fold up in a way that facilitates putting it in a bag. The scratchability of the screen means you really don't want to carry it bare in a bag bouncing around with your keys, and the protruding thumbsticks on the controllers make it something of a pain to fit into your default backpack/bag compartments.

It really demands a dedicated carrying case, which is something I thought we got past in the 90s in the Game Boy era.

Overall still really enjoying the Switch, but I carry it around a lot less than I used to carry around a Nintendo DS.
"Louche" is a known word. "Louchest" is something that author made up.
Keep this battery trickle-charging in your car?

$699 412Wh / 116,000mAh / 11 pounds

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I mean, Plan A to achieve the same goals with regards to electric cars and solar without gov't subsidies was a cap-and-trade or carbon tax, but since the articles author's group helped shoot that possibility down, we're left with less market oriented, less elegant approaches, like direct gov't subsidies on companies that develop the necessary tech.

I'd certainly be happy to go with the more free market oriented approaches, but that doesn't seem likely to be possible in the US in the near future.
> The way I see it though is the markets are a big voting machine.. and they're making predictions about the future and incorporating future expectations

This is likely true because of "wisdom of crowds" (aka regression to mean of randomly-sampled human estimates).

> With the current US administration still pondering over tax plans and infrastructure stimulus packages that are promised, market may be underpriced???

The president doesn't control taxes or spending, and he can't do anything about infrastructure on his own. All he can do is use political capital to push Congress in a certain direction. So far, he's been totally unable to do that.

In terms of the national economy, the US is the same as it was under Obama -- House totally under Republican control, Senate mostly under Republican control, Janet Yellen running the Fed, no major shocks.

There's little unity among Republican Congresspeople, and even less when you include Democrats. Tax reform may be a bipartisan issue, but it's likely going to be limited to simplifying the tax code (lowering taxes while closing corporate loopholes). If all the trickle-down dinosaurs believe that higher corporate taxes will harm the economy (which it almost surely won't), then the stock market should -- if anything -- go down.

This could mean that it's underpriced, but not for the reasons you seem to suggest.
Yea point taken! Will improve search!
When the yield curve begins to dip, a flight to quality will begin into crypto's.
Everything you suggested software engineers needs to know was covered in two courses in mt university- one called data structures, the other called algorithms.

And those didn't really need any requirements apart from basic math.

There is absolutely no reason for a software engineer to learn abstract algebra, infinitesimal math or any of the other dozen courses that you'll never ever use.

And even then, throughout my 10 years now, I can count on one hand the number of times I actually needed to use these things.
Oh, I missed the "s" part and looked up the specs of the regular T460.
Nah, I still think it's about different goals.

But assuming you're right, I'd like to know - what mathematical wheels am I reinventing in my dayjob of building UIs that let people click up some stuff that later gets put in business-specific XMLs?
Cheap meat is more likely to take a hit if we cut farm subsidies; feed crops are the biggest beneficiary (mostly corn).

The data on wikipedia[1] is from 2004, but I haven't heard of any major reforms since then. From greatest to least, subsidies went to: corn, cotton, wheat, rice, soybeans, dairy, peanuts, sugar, minor oilseeds, tobacco, wool and mohair, vegetable oil products, and honey. Anything else is in the remaining 2%.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agricultural_subsidy#United_St...

EDIT: Note that sugar and onward are individually <2% (smaller than the "anything else" bucket)
The media isn't even getting the real story, which is the reaction to all of this going on inside of Google.

This post is reputedly from a director there. In it, he states that the author of the memo has no soul. (Does that mean it's okay to kill the author?)

https://files.gab.ai/image/5986e3f03d1f1.jpeg

Here's a post from someone who plans to question future candidates about diversity, presumably to filter out people that don't think the way he does about it.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DGnKP0cXoAEAsxm.jpg

Does anyone know if these screenshots are legit?

Myself, I've never seen anything like this sort of commentary by company employees. Certainly everywhere I've ever worked it would get you instantly fired.
> As wide-ranging as these various entrepreneurial ventures may be, they all have one thing in common – not a single one of them would get funding in a competitive private capital market if it weren’t for massive (and I do mean massive) taxpayer-funded government subsidies.

Correct, but that's a problem of the current incentive structure in the market (some would say it's a problem of capitalism... I wouldn't go that far). The government isn't tied to those incentives, and so can (and should) use its money to promote initiatives that have large expected payback in the long run.
I have no horse in this race; Could you offer a more detailed rebuttal?
Tell us more about your solar power station that has no capital investment or operating cost.
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"NaN% more overvalued than just prior to the 2008 financial crisis,"

I think there might be a few coding errors still lurking in there.
Probably a better counter point would be for somebody to provide some examples where market distortion hasn't had a bad outcome.
Predicting a crash is easy but timing it with accuracy is extremely difficult. In fact you were two years too early and lost out on a lot of potential return.

There will always be a crash/correction. Easy. But when?
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market cap as a percent of gdp is a very bad indicator. In today's world a very large and increasing percentage of revenues is derived from outside the U.S.
Part of the art market's appeal is it's opacity, though - there's plenty of manipulation that would be outright illegal in regulated markets, and plenty of dirty money being washed through it - all contributing to the exploding valuations for fine art in recent decades. I wonder how much transparency and efficiency the art world actually wants, and what is the optimal amount to maximize art valuations.
They're gathering information on a wide scale for a reason. That's all I know. And its not because of 'terrorists'.
>Globalized capitalism has caused the largest reduction in poverty ever.

This is a non-sequitur that often gets touted, despite totally ignoring efforts of NGO's, improvements in technology and industrialization, as well as decolonization. Further, the majority of the world's most developed economies, e.g. China, Japan, and the US, all relied on heavy protectionism to at first foster the creation of local industry. Forcing open the economies of developing nations is a surefire way to keep them poor and totally dependent on foreign imports.
> You are basically limiting "produce" to mean produce basic subsistence items like food, clothing, and shelter.

I would also include the arts, entertainment, service work, craftsmanship, etc. But going on...

> Yes, of course the fraction of people that need to work to produce those things will decrease with automation--that's been happening for most of human history, and has been happening a lot faster since the Industrial Revolution. In the US in the late 19th century, IIRC, something like 19 out of 20 people worked on farms. Now it's about 1 in 20.

I feel like you're conflating labor specialization, which is what happened for most of human history where machine augmentations created more and more specific jobs (instead of "farmer" you had farm hands, farm maintenance technician, agricultural technician, etc.) all of which were new, different, and usually better jobs with more education and more pay.

Automation on the other hand eliminates jobs as it goes; instead of a new tractor that enables one worker to plow many fields, an automated tractor plows fields 24 hours a day, without breaks, food, or complaints. The guy who drove the tractor has been automated; he hasn't had his labor specialized, his labor no longer exists. So now he has to find a new job which is not nearly the same as training up for a job that he got specialized to.

As to this:

> The question is, which of the two possibilities above is the default outcome of mass automation...?

The default is certainly #2. My argument is that paying people to sit at home and watch soap operas is preferable to paying them to sit in jail cells. It's also often cheaper, and more humanitarian. But the first step to getting to that kind of place is decoupling work from life, because right now the idea that someone could live off of the excess production of our society is offensive to huge numbers of people, largely because of societal norms that we are in control of, and due to leftover Red Scare.
I live in the USVI, and we don't have any seasons other than hurricane season...

The reason I live here is because it has my favorite season year round, allowing me to do the hobbies I love year round. spearfishing, hiking, boating, etc. We get a lot of sun, which makes my mood much better than a dark or rainy place.

Having lived in New England, the winter was always kind of something you had to get through that I didn't enjoy.