skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A society claiming the unwealthy tolerate their outcomes because of its exceptional fairness has to prove that unwealth arises from a person deciding to abuse their own chance at wealth by more than the fair treatment society entitles them to (because those ending up wealthy were ostensibly assumed to be given no unfair advantage).

If fair treatment from society (for the purpose of
equal opportunity to wealth) results in unequal but 'consistently fair' wealth outcomes, then the explanation for the unwealthy individual's outcome must be disavowal of wealth "after being given the same chance everyone else had" Which implies that, since fair treatment failed to ensure the goal of wealth was as reasonable for them as anyone else, then the sole remaining factor is supposed individual disavowal - which tautologically represents an intolerable situation after all..
cubic meter.
NHS numbers are typically more secret than NI numbers (though they needn't be necessarily) and many people don't know their NHS number at all
I don't know Java well, but at least in .NET it's possible to set a flag that disable execution of dynamically emitted code.

Obvs, you should do this on every box that accepts connections from the outside world.

Obvs, it's no easier to get people to do this in practice than it is to get people to quit using string formatting to get parameters into their SQL queries.
I must admit that I am addicted to silence myself, sometimes. I deliberetly put earplugs into my ears in order to focus more whenever I got hard work to do or just am tired and overwhelmed.
The scheme was designed in 1935 as a way of identifying people enrolled in the then-new Social Security program (hence the name), and was gradually made a de facto national ID number over the intervening decades as the increasing scale of national population and economic activity prompted a desire for greater legibility to facilitate management and taxation.

Greater legibility, management, and taxation are values not shared by a very sizable section of the US citizenry. Without digressing into a pointless and stupid flamewar over Humean oughts around these points of fact, we can acknowledge that every attempt thus far to implement a national ID scheme has been, and no doubt any future such attempt will be, energetically and, thus far at least, very effectively countered by those who so strongly prefer that no national ID scheme exist. Unfortunately, the US federal bureaucracy being what it is, we will have a national ID scheme whether well-designed as such or otherwise, and the wide adoption of Social Security and (generally) 1:1 mapping between SSNs and citizens made it the obvious candidate for a de facto national ID. Businesses followed government in adopting it as such.

Now, instead of a proper, admitted national identification scheme which would at least have a chance of being marginally secure, we have a motley collection of the world's most hilariously shitty zero-factor authentication methods, making a wide variety of frauds so trivially simple to perform that we've had to spin them off into a new category of their own, "identity theft", which we regard as just one of those unfortunate things that happens sometimes, like cancer. Even after the Equifax breach, it'll
probably still be cheaper to continue looking at the problem this way than to roll back the eight decades of technical debt that have gone into creating it. So it goes.
Kepler conjecture
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jMhoGUiIkk
It's nobody's business what stories I read.
BTW, if it is indeed true that one prefers a modality of senses in order to experience the world, then that sense becoming more fatigued than the others would make perfect sense...

also https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isolation_tank
Yes, I.F. is the one and the same.
That number just shows why “tax the rich more” isn’t the way to pay for services everyone uses like healthcare. Top 5% isn’t just Bill Gates and Warren Buffet. Bay Area engineers will hit that living alone. So will a couple where e.g. one person is a nurse and another is in IT. It’s a very expansive group.

Total spending at all levels of government in the US is almost $7 trillion. So even if you tax the top 5% at 75%, you’re covering 17% of total expenditures. European countries don’t build their welfare states by heavily taxing the rich. In say Germany, an entry level office worker will pay 30%+ of their income in taxes and mandatory insurance.
I don't, except among family members. Any payee I don't strongly trust and who won't accept an electronic payment gets a bank check instead - I'd rather pay a few dollars to have one of those made, than save them and risk having my entire account cleaned out through lack of diligence or scruple on the receiving end.
I think my point would be that, by discussing the minute semantic / philosophical points of the concept of "identity", you're still letting them frame the discussion that way. It's a word that they choose to describe something which it isn't. First is to just not go along with it, not to dig in and try to beat them on their own territory (if you succeed, you won nothing).

For the same reason I won't go into discussions about the finer moral points when stealing is wrong or not, if the topic is copyright. Especially not get carried into far-fetched analogies such that it is okay if a starving family steals the blueprint for a 3D printed load of bread or whatever.

In that sense, the term "intellectual property" is actually similarly problematic as "identity theft". While it evokes the connotation of "property", intellectual_property is actually just a legal term that stands on its own and derives nothing from the common concept of "property" except where explicitly defined as such.

Except that identity_theft is, afaik, not a legal term. I believe it stems from the idea of the loss of an interconnected number of (mostly electronic) credentials, an adversary could use to, in a sense "become you", and wreck one's life. This then became a serious fear, that was (in the public) not quite blamed on terrible security practices of powerful entities, but on the ever-growing interconnectedness and electronicification of all aspects of our life. In fact literally about the fear that the large amount of data about us in these computer databases, would some day mistaken to be us and identify, regardless of its truth in the real world. But identify_theft has always been painted as a sort of "curse of the modern age", our penance for living in an ever automated society, kind of typical Hollywood morality story.

Except these credit companies seem to be just focusing on the "wreck your life" part, twisting the definition around, that suddenly a security failure with their authentication/credential system gets to be blamed on the general societal menace of identity_theft, mainly because their error has the capability to wreck one's life.

I'm pretty sure Baudrillard or some other person in critical theory / semiotics has written some interesting stuff about this. Now that is a philosophical discussion on this topic that I would actually find worthwhile.
main() is __cdecl__ or __stdcall__ on the major platforms.

That calling convention on x86 specifies that the return value is red from the EAX register. So, when your main() function exits, the return value is red from EAX, it's that simple.

The compilers may add boilerplate code around the main, in fact main() is rarely the real main() function, but that doesn't change the spec.
Amazon is hiring at a pretty good clip, to the point that they really do have trouble finding enough qualified applicants to fill their interviews.

Amazon would rather pay a higher salary for someone with experience than train someone.
split.io is several times that.

IDK about this product, but split.io has more features and better UI than you could get from a handful of engineers working part-time.
So you're refusing to have a basic update installed? Let me guess, you're going to complain and say Windows is insecure because you got WannaCry'd because you didn't update your system and blame it on MS instead?

(you = whoever "doesn't care" about updates)
FWIW paper checks are not nearly as popular in the US as they once were. Especially hand written. They are ironically useful as a "secure" form of receiving payment because ACH is such a big gaping security hole. Receiving paper isolates you from handing out an account number.
I've never thought of "equality" as having identical sized piles of money, and I don't know anyone else who does, nor have I read anyone proposing such a thing, after a very modest amount of study in economics and inequality the US.

The main goal in my mind is equal opportunity, not equal wealth. Equal opportunity may require a minimum amount of wealth, but need not limit the maximum nor require that people have similar amounts.
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You are describing a completely different platform from the one I visit and post to every day. For one, it's not barren; it's quite active. One of the distinguishing features of mastodon compared to other decentralized platforms is that people use it. In fact one of the complaints about the federated feed is that it updates so fast it's hard to keep up with.

As for the people there, the people I talk to are interested in games, philosophy, linux, vaporwave, memes, and meta talk about mastodon and decentralized platforms. There are a lot of trans and and furries and people interested in politics. The vast majority have been unfailingly nice. The granular privacy options allow one to mute those who are overbearing.

And the biggest difference between it and /b/ is that conversations tend to be two-way a lot more. People aren't purposely posting to try and anger you. In fact, here's a post I see on my feed right now:

>someone should write a paper on mastodon as a model of a therapeutic community

If what you're saying is you just don't like platforms that have lots of people you disagree with politically, that's one thing. But the behavior and subject matter and culture are significantly different from /b/ and in no way a wasteland.
Well, I was "taxed" on my Chinese income, but never paid a dime. Foreign tax credits and foreign income exclusions mean most of us pay nothing (well, we pay Chinese taxes, just not US taxes).
Until one or two years ago it was illegal in Japan and Sweden to dance in public after midnight.

People living in those countries routinely broke the law without consequences, but those countries still managed to function pretty well as a society.
No, it's literally special-cased in the C standard.
In China there are a heap of last-mile delivery providers, but only two clear winners with national coverage: http://ele.me/ and http://waimai.meituan.com/ ... statistics of recent but nebulous origin claim Ele.me (Alibaba-backed) has 55% (42% + 13% after acquiring Baidu Waimai last month) and Meituan (Tencent backed) has 41% of the national market. (I would regard these figures suspiciously.)

Overall the finished meal delivery concept has proven very popular with Chinese consumers, probably because of growing working hours, smaller families/living situations and worsening traffic.

The government recently announced rules for the delivery sector's employees including no right to enter private premises, requirement to be punctual, requirement to be quiet and respectful, etc.

In terms of Asian regional providers, Food Panda has pretty good traction in a few countries and there are a number of smaller startups in most Southeast Asian markets, though none we are aware of with fundamentally unique models. Uber Eats and Deliveroo are trying to get in to some markets like Hong Kong.
Software can ve very far from mathematics. Your argument applies to algorithms, but personally I don't think that React falls under the category of algorithms (it may use algorithms, though).
You actually don't have to prove anything, you just state that you paid taxes and how much you paid (if taking a foreign tax credit). As for rebate, that is something else, meaning those taxes were already withheld by the IRS for some reason.
Did you read the comment you just replied to?!
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And in most countries, you can just take the Foreign Tax credit and still owe zero given that their rates are higher than the US's.
Agree that some sites are producing some really high-quality work leveraging the modern web. The problem, for me, is that many sites think of everything as _content_ that must be flashy (but hopefully not Flash-y). If I click to read an article about the devastation in Barbuda, I don't necessarily need the full production of related content to be thrown in my face along with the text that I really want to read.
DEP and ASLR provide significant mitigation of the threat posed by this capability in statically-compiled languages, so it is definitely an issue that should be considered, along with others. Having said that, it is unlikely that there is any merely technical solution for the problem, which arises from the whole system being predicated on a falsehood - the assumed confidentiality of SSNs.
http://www.npr.org ?

It's not text only but it's considerably more minimal than most news websites, loads almost instantly, doesn't have auto play content, and is considered a reputable source.

The BBC used to be similar but their international website is awful now (slow to load, more adverts, and less emphasis on actual news).
In that kind of world, deep surveillance and maybe mind control seem like the only option.

Or an alternative(maybe): all technologies will be inside highly regulated environments.building a 3d printer from scratch is really hard.
> The conventions around whitespace and code formatting are not universal

How is it not though? For every mainstream language it's standard convention to indent conditions and functions.

> But, if your language cares which of the visually indistinguishable but otherwise incompatible kinds of non-printing characters you're formatting your code with, then it can still fail while visually communicating the correct information to the reader.

This a complete non-issue to me. The pros of significant whitespace vastly overshadow any possible benefit of letting people choose tabs vs spaces and the latter issue is easily solved with IDEs anyway. I don't see people having any issues with this using Python either.

Personally, I think even naming conventions should be enforced by the language as well so people can stop wasting time debating insignificant details and in code reviews.
I agree with you. Switching to another id system will mean we use that instead of SSN and have the same potential issues. I think the biggest problem here is our approach to credit and credit fraud. We need mandatory CC2 online, mandatory 2FA (not SMS!), chip and PIN, our credit should be frozen by default with out of band approval for new credit and credit granted without approval is the lender's responsibility. Steps like these would remove most of our exposure to credit fraud.
Might as well drop in the danish one here: http://ttv.tv2.dk/
After having worked more than a decade in Data Mining, individuality is highly overrated.
Yes with populations of 9,400 and 247,600 respectively. They seem to invalidate the rest of the city from city status.
It's much easier to technically enforce that this doesn't get used with private sites than tell people not to use SSNs
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Doesn't matter. You're licenses to all of Facebook's software gets revoked for any patent claim against Facebook.
> It's like saying human society needs people on welfare, thieves, and robbers to function

Malicious agents may actually play a critical game-theoretical role in promoting in-group coöperation [1]. Sort of like how teams can be made stronger with an enemy "them" to be defeated by a now-defined "us".

(That said, I agree that any parasite that preys on humans should be eradicated.)

[1] http://deim.urv.cat/~alexandre.arenas/publicacions/pdf/joker...
SSN is the only reliable way to disambiguate duplicate names. Differentiating all the John Smiths by mailing address is too intractable, especially when you have JS Jr. and JS III living together. It is used to construct a primary key for the database.
And what happens when people inevitably lose their private key? How will they regain access to their SSN?
I think there is a happy medium. For my tastes, I think the text-only cnn is too bare. I don't need pictures but I could use a one or two sentence summary of the stories to give me more of an idea whether I want to read the whole thing or not.
Partly that, partly the headlights but also the performance of batteries changes with temperature. In fact, the heater is used to condition the environment for the battery pack, so if I didn't use the heating in winter the range might be even less.
That was a good article. I've come across Temple Grandin before. She seems to have a positive opinion of CAS with the important proviso that induction is done right.

If such efforts at reducing suffering become the industry standard, with the standards backed by legislation requiring pain free death, it would be a very, very big deal.

Even for humans, many people fear the pain associated with death more than the death itself.
I was actually kind of excited until I started reading the sample code and that it deletes code that has bugs. Of course this coming from the guy who went on a reddit rant about how not having 100% coverage is usually irresponsible.
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Although there is no program-visible "token" data type, the specification describes tokens and uses that word. Since the reader is available to programs, programs can be written to test hypotheses about the implementation's treatment of tokens; tokens can be composed as character strings, passed into read-from-string and the results of the operation can reveal something about the tokenizing black box, without yielding the tokens themselves.

(That said, the Common Lisp syntax isn't completely treated as a token stream by the reader, in the glossary sense of "token", since that word is defined only as the read syntax of numbers and symbols; thus string literals and other bit of notation aren't defined as tokens.)
Yes, it kind of is public, because you have to use it in many contexts.

But knowing a persons name and social security number allows you to do all kind of misuse, i. e. identity theft. I have not lived in Sweden for 30 years, but I assume many things still work similar as here in Finland. Closing other people's credit cards and mobile phone subscriptions typically works by knowing the social security number. Ordering online without credit card and paying the bill (or not) after delivery, too.
Something like 0.79% assessed value in my country on average. It's supposedly one of the lowest in the nation. The general cost of living is pretty low when compared to most places in the States and being so close to Yellowstone and other national and state parks is nice.
I live in Colorado and work at a software company. I have a crew of people here who relocated from Philly.

I've been hearing a ton about this because this crew has been steadily recruiting from there to Denver.

The comments they say when they are doing this:

Philly has worse crime by far. The weather (measured in number of sunny days) is obviously worse. Outdoor activities are limited. Yeah, you can get to pretty places, but it's a few hours drive for the beach or mountains. Culturally, it's not a place that jumps out on the radar. Denver wasn't either, but the weed legalization kind of helped highlight that this place is a tolerant, open-minded location to people who automatically thought of a redneck mountain town.
So that you can open 1024 pages before swapping to disk.

People asked for hundreds of open tabs, they got it.
The UK is also heavily resistant to any sort of national ID scheme, and so National Insurance numbers (our equiv of SSN) are also a sortof proxy ID for people in work etc. But the difference is we don't pretend they are secret. In other words: we use it as a primary key, but we don't assume its a shared secret.
I always wondered: would a direct hit from a coronal mass ejection wipe out all hard drives? It will be... interesting if we have to rewrite all software from scratch.
As an addendum, equal opportunity is necessary, but not sufficient for a just outcome (at least, according to what most reasonable people would agree to be just).

You could have a theoretical society where everybody is taxed 10% of their income and that income is given to a randomly selected person each year. This society has absolutely equal opportunity, but it's also pretty unjust, because why should that one person suddenly be rich?

Keep that in mind when discussing (more) equal outcomes vs. equal opportunity. Equal opportunity is insufficient.
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By the way, if anyone is interested in getting a feel of the difference between these types of systems but is more just generally interested and doesn't necessarily have anything they want/need to prove themselves this: http://www.cs.ru.nl/~freek/comparison/comparison.pdf is a good document to skim through/jump around.
I agree, there is strong factors to consider a location outside of the US. Despite the NYT analysis, I think this is going to end up in Boston. I don't buy the "there is no room for the location" argument. It is like they've never been to Boston. Sure you can't drop it in the downtown but there are lots of areas in need of redevelopment very near by. I also think that Boston has a huge advantage in terms of talent pool. Look at all the top schools in Boston, Amazon needs the talent more than the money.

Additionally, I think this is a game. They've already decided where, they just want leverage to get a better deal there. This isn't like the Giga factory where they just need manual labor so anywhere would work. I'll be interested to see where it ends up though.
I work at a software company between Boulder and Denver.

It's easy to recruit people here. You fly them out (at any time of year, even winter) and the weather is typically sunny and pleasant. (yes, in the winter, it's usually sunny, dry, and mild temps)

Good luck doing that in Detroit.
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This is great. Is there anything similar for Scala applications? I had wanted to do something similar to reverse an ETL pipeline of a codebase I do not have control of. The idea would be to send some data through the pipeline and watch it as it is stored in variables and transformed.
The two comments are not incompatible, they are just very different worldviews. One tells you what the standard says (that the termination status is unspecified if main does not return an int), the other tells you what usually happens (you get what happened to be in AX).

And as I've just tested, gcc doesn't return zero termination status if you reach the } at the end of main.
> After six years of work, he announced the proof in 1998

then

> plan to formalize his proof ... estimated it would take 20 years

so is it just me, or is the "work" of the normal proof only took 1/5th of the time it took for the automated/formalized proof?! that seems counter-productive imho...
Since the 1980s only 2 Politburo members have been purged. The first was Bo Xilai in 2002, Xi Jinping's main rival for the top job. The second was Sun Zhengcai, in July. He was being groomed as a successor to Xi Jinping. This purge prompted speculation that Xi would prefer no successor at all.

Source - https://www.economist.com/news/china/21725338-would-he-prefe...