skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for the great content and information.

Just a minor nitpick: your identity can't be authenticated. You, as an individual, can be identified, but the only thing that can be authenticated is the piece of plastic (ensuring it is not counterfeit).

I wrote down an analogy for the different lingo some months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13635820
It's using a freetype lib
He's only expelled from the school and publicly "known" as a rapist, no big deal. But you're right, it's not criminal liability, which is why back when this was still a new thing advocates wanted it to be more than "just" expulsion - https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/dc-politics/scarlet-let...

Which brings us back to - why are colleges making determinations about rape? Like Professor Johnson says from that article:

“If the student is guilty, that’s not anywhere near sufficient punishment,” Johnson said. “But if the student is innocent, this is a life-altering thing. If they’re going to put it on a student’s permanent record, they need to do a lot more than they do now to be sure they get it right.”

The actual criminal justice system is already horrifyingly cruel on sex offenders, even after they've served their time, and after they've registered on the "informative, not punitive" sex offender registries. Scott Greenfield covers the trampling of civil liberties under the guise of "protecting the children" here - https://blog.simplejustice.us/?s=sex+offender. The punishments range from where to live, to whether you're allowed to use the Internet, and those are the legal ones - how well do you think a sex offender reintegrates into society when no one wants to employ them or associate with them?

I don't see any reasons to doubt that, if left unchecked, the college system won't devolve into such a cruel and horrifying state. It's only natural - rapists are almost universally hated, so it's no big deal if we trample on their civil liberties a bit(or a lot).
"Fairness alone does not guarantee a society where the outcome for the unwealthy is tolerable"

I'd be really interested in an example of where this is the case. Personally, I can't conceive of a situation where, in a perfectly fair system, the man with the most money is utterly intolerable. Such a system naturally creates the inference that the man did something as an individual to acquire that wealth (and not necessarily in a zero sum manner).

As pointed out in the article, the issue with rising inequality is not that the wealthy are getting wealthier necessarily, only that it comes at the expense of people who work just as hard or harder, but still struggle to get by from day to day. Since the perception is that more work leads to more reward in a fair system, the perception is also that this situation is unfair.

Economic equality, however, is not necessary for such a situation to be fair. Flipped around, if the manual labourer who toils hard every day were paid more than the non-executive board member the situation would be perceived as fair, despite the fact that the two individuals would receive different compensation.

I really can't see the difference between "fair" and "unequal" being a matter of "semantic quibbling".
This has been fixed in v0.22. Can you try again?
There was actually a bug. It was fixed in v0.22. Can you try again?
Brilliant. This achieves some key user-centred aims; content is easily navigated, and given prominence above any other feature. I wonder if the addition of aria-roles might add some useful context for screen readers?

In an age when personal assistants are gaining populating, maybe sparse text-centred interfaces are set to gain more popularity?
Exactly. This is telling us more what is being eaten and it isn't fresh produce.
You would be surprised how difficult that problem is.
The assumption there is because the rich have something the poor must have less. In a monetary economy where bitcoins are mined by running a computer that is of course nonsense.

Its perfectly possible to leave the rich with monetary wealth that they can show off to their friends about while the poor have material sufficiency - which is what they care about because they are more interested in their communities than coin collecting.

The problem is the assumption that there is a one to one relationship between money and stuff. There isn't.
Still got and use my 12C, and 48gx, unfortunately sold my 28 to buy the latter. When you look at the quality of what HP used to produce versus now, it's very sad.
> To take another grand theory, Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg has exclaimed his desire to liberate humanity from phoniness, to end the dishonesty of secrets. “The days of you having a different image for your work friends or co-workers and for the other people you know are probably coming to an end pretty quickly,” he has said. “Having two identities for yourself is an example of a lack of integrity.”

Wow, did he really say that? It would be a pretty dumb thing to say. Society rests on secrets.

If you want do have just one personality what is going to happen is not less phoniness, but more: people will extend their "work" personality to the rest of their life, not the other way around. They will have personal relationships that ressemble the ones they have with their coworkers, and that will be quite horrible.
It's pretty hard to argue that Amazon's relationship with the city is not toxic.
One that may interest HN is called mathstodon.
The article goes a bit off the rails at the end, with all the focus on using a changeable identifier ("And if this new identifier were easy enough to change (unlike SSNs), breaches, leaks, and other unintended exposures would be less consequential.")

There's no reason not to keep SSN as an identifier. Just the same as I wouldn't change my name if I suffered identity theft. Instead there needs to be authentication (eg via a method such as a token, 2FA or whatever) - and it's that which needs to be resettable.

Simply making use of SSN alone illegal in certain industries would be a reasonable approach: it would stop current problems whilst not insensing the "mark of the beast" brigade.
> "Yes to make it simple to intuitively see how rich people paying more gives more voting power to everyone else IF they choose to spend it that way. If you want to think about US presidential elections, you'd need to increase the total number of people by 3,000,000. Based on my math, this would just further amplify the effect I was trying to illustrate with my numbers."

I respect that you had good intentions, but I think the approach was flawed.

In your example, $1000 vs. $400 ($4 * 100), what does it take for the rich person to gain the lead again? They can either spend more or split the money. For example, if they split the $1000 with a family member who was voting for the same party/candidate, that's all it would take to gain the lead.

Also, consider the difference in fundraising potential between the rich and the poor. For example, in the 2016 US Presidential Election, Bernie Sanders ran what I believe to be the most successful citizen-led fundraising campaign in US political history, raising approximately $228 million:

https://www.opensecrets.org/pres16/candidate?id=N00000528

In contrast, in the same election, just the top 23 super PAC donors alone spent a total of $468 million:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/politics/superpac-do...

So the most successful crowdfunded campaign in history was outspent by just 23 people.

I don't know if you were a Bernie supporter or not, but I hope you'd agree that he was a candidate that people were strongly behind. However, due to the income inequality in the US, the difference in spending power is massive. It's not a matter of the general public wanting something badly enough, $228 million is a clear message that the want was there.

The only caveat with all this is that not all the super PAC money would've been spent for a single party. However, the majority would've been spent supporting corporate-friendly candidates.
Have a unique public identifier for everyone.

An identifier is not a verifier. Just because I know my neighbors id number doesn't mean I can e.g open a bank account in his name.

The act of validating that you are the person with the given ID requires some form of id validation (drivers license, passport, digital id).

I can't even understand how you even keep a reliable customer database that works through name and address changes without having a single immutable identifier for everyone. I can understand how people started using SSN if that is the only number there is.

Here I just record bob the customer as 123467890 and he can change name, address etc all he wants without telling me. I can still send him his bill because I can lookup both a name and address for any id at any point in time by just asking the tax- (and id-) authority for the details for that national id number.

If my customer db is leaked it's considered "bad" but it's not disastrous. All those addresses/names/ids were mostly public anyway (there could be protected identities etc so one shouldn't assume all is public)
Yes. If you steal the ID card or passport of a person who looks like you, you can do most things in life in their name. Take out a loan, travel the world, get married, etc.

The major benefits compared to SSN authentication still are:

* It's a physical object, you have to be physically present to steal each one instead of getting a hundred million at a time.

* Most people would quickly notice that their card is gone, report it, and get it revoked. You only have between a few hours to a week to use it, not the next 50 years.
Hmac libraries expect the message to be a string. It protects you against length extension attacks (& co). This was a bug in how they converted a map(string -> string) to a single string to sign. Hmac or not, you'd still need that, and if your bug is in there, no hmac will protect you.
Text-only independent news: http://levelnews.org
Found at https://mathstodon.xyz/
Analytics is loaded asynchronously so it doesn't block rendering or interactivity.

Yeah it'd be nice if they used server-side analytics instead, but cost/benefit.
How many people using 'jpeg' productively to create every day applications do you think understand the DCT?
With a Hurricane Approaching Florida, Airline Algorithms Show No Sympathy
I'm too young to remember, but it seems the UK calculator of choice was the Sinclair http://www.vintagecalculators.com/html/sinclair1.html
This is actually self hostable. Just get the newest source from github and build yourself a docker container :)

Or you can get it hosted if you don't want to worry about changelogs and the like.
Governments in most rich countries today are vastly larger than a century ago. American in particular was basically an extreme libertarian system until relatively recent times. These countries were already rich, or well on their way to becoming so, when their governments bloated up. Rich societies cause big governments, not the other way around.

Additionally, things like education and infrastructure are a tiny fraction of government spending (although they tend to keep growing despite not getting any better.) Almost no one disagrees that the government should fund those things. That's not where the vast majority of your high taxes are going.
Last time I tried Eul it was very rough around the edges, and the fact it’s not using system controls for things like text entry means it’s probably going to take quite a while before it’s mature enough for regular use.
i repect you as a hacker repotere i hope you go very far in life
Yes if you forge a drivers license or passport with my name and id number, and you put your own photo on it (or happen to look like me) you could probably do something bad like get a phone contract or request a credit card in my name.

However, most of those scenarios have the added security that the CC or some necessary confirmation letter to sign is sent to the registered address of that id. So you'd also have to stalk my mailbox to actually get the credit card. This actually happens - so people use locked mail boxes to protect against this.

That is, even for this "manual" id method, there is 2fa in the form of regular mail, made possible by the fact that you can't use my id and give them your street address. When you show my id - they immediately know what address belongs to that id.
Bbc news should still work well in lynx, or at least it did last time I checked.
That’s great to hear, and glad the team is working on it! Thanks!
Go fuck yourself.

The truth is the truth whether you like it or not.
And if Hell would freeze over every summer it'd be excellent : free airco if you just dig a hole in the ground.
The strange magic of Swindon’s seven-in-one roundabout
But that would not be able to happen if it wasn't for the EU. Then import taxes would compensate.
"Structure and function of ant (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) brains" - fascinating reading.

http://eebweb.arizona.edu/faculty/dornhaus/courses/read_ECOL...
I wrote an article about the background of the dep: https://medium.com/@watilde/dep-a-little-node-js-dependency-...
And the guy who helped set that up - and personally made it worse by making custom tax deals for several multinationals - is now the head of the EU commission !

This will get a lot worse before it gets better.
Yeah, I balked when they made the first cut with such a criterion, that doesn't make sense and probably isn't what Amazon intended.
>>As usual here, my impression is that it comes down to housing costs: we don't have rented accommodation that is small and cheap any more

You can, it's always a question of how much you want to sacrifice for it. A friend of mine is renting a room in a 5-bedroom house for 350/month, all bills and council tax included. I pay about 950/month for a 3-bedroom house with a double driveway and a garden. To me, the reduction of utility is not worth the 600/month saving, but it's absolutely not a problem to find a house to rent for 500-600/month, you just have to move further away from the city.

(unless, of course, you are talking about London - then this entire conversation falls apart)
Quite right. It's about equality of opportunity.

Many of the more egregious examples unequal wealth in current society typically stem from previous inequality of opportunity passed down through generations, so the pressure to correct the wealth imbalance and the inequality of opportunity gets mixed together.
Important thing here: each id number has an address. I.e if you call them and say you are Bob with id 123456789 then they know the street address. So they can send a confirmation letter that needs to be signed, to the address belonging to Bob with id 123456789.

This makes the phone scam a lot more involved because you can impersonate someone on the phone but the mail makes it kind of 2fa. The credit card you tried to open in Bob's name will always be sent to the real address of Bob.

The bank didn't need to store much here - names and addresses they can lookup directly from the id number.
When did the 'flagship instance' begin accepting new users again? I wonder how long it will last this time, and whether or not this HN post will affect that!

Of all the random strangers hosting the service, I waited until I could get onto the instance hosted by the actual project itself; the bus factor feels higher, and the account suspension process less arbitrary.

https://web.archive.org/web/20170406103653/https://mastodon.... (April 2017)

Due to exceptionally high traffic, registrations on this instance are closed until quality of service can be assured for existing users. Choose one of the various other public instances to sign up!

https://web.archive.org/web/20170806214711/https://mastodon.... (August 2017)

Given that this is most shared instance, to preserve the ideals of decentralization we have closed sign ups in favour of spreading new users through the various alternative instances — you get the same network wherever you sign up. Click below to find one:
My dad, who went to Uni in the '70s to do maths and physics, has a Sinclair scientific that looks very similar except has blue LED digits. I don't know the exact model.
Three different ways to do progressive JPEG encoding
Is that, that famous fake news factory?:-D
The most powerful politician in the EU - Jean-Claude Juncker - is personally responsible (not by himself, of course) for setting up these sorts of structures, and making sure they stay in place [1].

A quote from [1]:

"The president of the European commission, Jean-Claude Juncker, spent years in his previous role as Luxembourg’s prime minister secretly blocking EU efforts to tackle tax avoidance by multinational corporations, leaked documents reveal."

So:

> I think a lot of tax agencies simply don't have the muscle to push forward on this

No. They do. They're just prevented from doing so by the "socialists" (hah !) Europe "elected" (just pointing out that the leadership of the EU commission, the only organisation with real law-giving power in the EU aren't directly elected at all).

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/jan/01/jean-claude...
I have a couple of 12Cs -- one made the year I was born, and the other made 2011 -- and an 11C. I use my 12C for absolutely everything, and couldn't live without it. The one made the same year I was born (1983) is a sturdier, but the 2011-made one is also excellent.

I also had a 48GX but sold it -- I didn't use it, and I preferred the more compact Voyager series, even if the stack isn't displayed on screen. I agree that the build quality has dropped over time, but I'd still choose an RPN HP over anything else.
Says the guy whose page needs 40 requests (or more, that's just the first level of blocking) from I don't know how many domains in order to load a single blog post.
Notice the distinct lack of an '=' button --- HP's calculators have been almost exclusively RPN-based.

It's funny to watch other (newer) developers reactions when they ask to borrow the calculator that's usually on my desk (a 42S) and then give it back several minutes later, with a puzzled look on their faces.
> Personally, I can't conceive of a situation where, in a perfectly fair system, the man with the most money is utterly intolerable.

I'm not sure how this is a response to what I wrote. I'm talking about the tolerability of outcomes for the UNwealthy, while you're talking about a rich person being intolerable?

The semantic quibbling I'm referring to is the idea that when someone like Bernie Sanders rails about "economic inequality", they are implicitly advocating economic equality (which is incorrect, as I've stated in my original comment), and bouncing off that to present "fairness" as the real thing at issue.
>If sanitary work stopped today, society would quickly disintegrate, whereas if investors stopped working today the world would be improved.

Society wouldn't disintegrate without sanitary workers. It would get grosser, with people forced to do their own plumbing and dump their own trash. And even if all sanitary workers united and went on permanent strike, they could be quickly replaced within a few months. As I said, there's no shortage of people able and willing to do that job.

If investors all quit we'd be fucked. Maybe not overnight, but eventually. No new investments. No new businesses. No new jobs. The economy stops growing. People can't buy cars or homes because there is no one to lend them money. Businesses can't get loans to invest in new more efficient processes, or new factories, or whatever. And no one can just come in and replace them, because it requires a lot of money and risk tolerance among other things.

>Isn't supply-and-demand nebulous ? It's humans who place values on goods and services, not some law of nature

Not some law of nature, but economics. The prices of things are not arbitrary, they are set based on how strongly people value that thing divided by the supply. If you have a huge supply of people who can do a job, then the wage isn't going to be very high.

And this is a good thing. It creates incentives for people to take the jobs that are most demanded. There is a big demand for programmers and a short supply. If a sanitary worker can switch to programming, the economy would be a bit more efficient. At the moment we need slightly more programmers and slightly fewer sanitary workers. If everyone did this it would eventually equalize and they would pay the same.
do you have examples in mind that are orthogonal to familiarity?
I can't believe wayback machine has this. I ran a text-only scraper for ~200 websites back in the early 2000s.

https://web.archive.org/web/20060803053549/http://inr.cjb.ne...

Most were RSS feeds, since those used to exist. The rest were hand-written parsers, which were highly temperamental.
How to eliminate our fears
> No one has yet to decide to just ignore the (very tiny) part of the full text that covers cannabis and no one is willing to step away from the rest of the text.

Uruguay has fully legalized - not just decriminalized - cannabis, and they're a signatory of the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, which I think you are referring to? (although it was adopted in 1961, not 1968)
Usually, the larger the company, the deeper processes go, shielding it from individual incompetence (so the company can hire for easy to measure attributes, like compensation, and protect itself from difficult metrics, like technical competence). Unfortunately, processes also prevent individual competence to have a noticeable impact on the company.

If I got the story right, this bug was present for the last 9 years and patched upstream a couple days before the leak. Some measures could have prevented its exploitation or reduced its impact, like throttling by IP, one-time session keys and so on - and should be in place for any serious application - but it's entirely possible they had fixed schedule for patches and mis-evaluated this flaw as non-critical.

A LOT of companies carry obsolete dependencies for a long time.
I am pretty old. The first computer I touched was an HP. They called it a calculator, my understanding is that this decision was based on the fears people had of computers back then.

Hmm... I don't recall if it was the A or B. But, here is a video that is more than you wanted to know:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JmTyrS-jfi0

If you're curious, I hated it. In retrospect, it was pretty awesome. At the time, I hated it. I basically hated computers up until the mid-90s. I didn't really like them for another ten years. Now, the relationship is like that of old adversaries that are too tired to fight any longer.
Introspected REST: An Alternative to REST and GraphQL
One possible solution is to show a longer timeline in the pictograms establishing what order to read them in. E.g show a child growing into an adult, approaching the site, and then falling down in agony and dying.

Regardless of how you read things you'd put those in the correct order since I'm fairly certain that the direction of time won't have reversed by then. It also avoids flipped meanings of glyphs like arrows.
I don’t want to disable my speakers just because someone thought these autoplay videos are a good idea.
At my last job, which involved a lot of number work, my boss would often pick up my HP-12C to quickly calculate something we were talking about. Every single time, he'd say, "Your calculator is broken," then put it back on my desk. It became a running joke of ours.
Wealth will help the rich win zero-sum games against the poor. The most important zero-sum games being political power and social status and desirable land.
>> The juries are basically put in the position of trying to determine a binary outcome from an event that is often too murky to allow this.

If the event is "too murky" then I would argue it shouldn't even be covered by the criminal law (or any law). Let's convict only in cases where it is possible to prove guilt beyond reasonable doubt, and leave those ambiguous, murky ones as something to settle between two adults (for lack of better term let's call them "alleged victim" and "alleged abuser").
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