skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’ll have to check that out. I’m stuck in the odd position of being tired of Apple’s “you can play in our sandbox”’approach, but I’m loathe to move to Android and give google what remnants of privacy I’ve managed to retain.
Concepts were merged into the C++20 draft, at least.
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> "Very few children of billionaires become notable people themselves"

First, billionaires represent an extremely small minority of the human population. And second, notable people also represent a small minority of the human population.

So it seems reasonable that there are few notable children of billionaires, and this alone doesn't imply that billionaire offspring are less likely to be notable than the person. It only suggests that being the offspring of billionaires doesn't radically skew the probability of being notable.
But like the Chinese must use plug-ins.
That's good... good to see some sensible requirements in place. Hopefully they can be enforced too.

Other areas/cities would do well to take a look at this example.
> Its authors will receive a one-time retention of 20% (2 million) of the initial MTN supply.

Need to say anything else? Sounds really shady to me.. Anyway, the Sidechain Project which is in development by the Blockstream team is supposed to do that, but above the bitcoin protocol itself, not in a 'new coin'.
I think that this is probably a logical extension of the underlying logic.

Sales taxes are inherently harder on people with less money than people with more money. That's demonstrable just based on simple math.

Any argument for sales taxes over income taxes that doesn't recognize that fundamental mathematical truth is not being intellectually honest (or doesn't know the topic very well).
not to mention you can't restore a backup of 11 on 10.x...
But obscuring may take away time from securing and it adds complexity to the system but systems with less complexity are easier to secure. So you at least have to be careful.
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You don't make money building good or bad software.
You make money with mainteinance contracts.

That's what my CS 101 professor told us our fist day at the university.
Heresy! you might think.
But it is true.

Making software is a one-off cost for the customer.
Maintenance is recurring income for you.

Custom software is Capex (Capital expenditure: investment).
Mainteinance is Opex (operational, aka expenses).
All Capex you spend will be in your books for several years (usually 3-5).
Opex is fort the year only.

A lot of customers will happily like to pay high mainteinance fees if you can convert those fees to development of new features (in case there is little or no debugging/improvement to do).
I had a similar question, given that I'm happily processing jobs in Elixir that are enqueued by a Ruby app via Sidekiq. After taking a look at the README's, it looks like what this gets you is dumb clients, with the logic around retries, etc built into the server, rather than forcing the client to handle these details. That's great for polyglot systems—the dumber the client the better, in my book. As another commenter posted, I'll be interested to see more about what tradeoffs it makes in distribution.

If your current system is already something like SNS/SQS or an actual message queue with acks, then this probably isn't aimed at you.
There's no swapping on iOS. The delay is probably caused by iOS lazily waking up some hardware. The same happens when you use haptic feedbacks:

>Calling the generator’s prepare() method puts the Taptic Engine in a prepared state. To preserve power, the Taptic Engine stays in this state for only a short period of time (on the order of seconds), or until you next trigger feedback.

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/uikit/uifeedbackge...
Never under estimate the power of SaaS. You providing the service already up and running, maintaining it, will provide value for people wanting to use it.

Some will take the time to install/host their own. But many would be happy to subscribe and pay for something that just works.

Plus the time they would spend setting it up and maintaining it for most it would be a better value to pay monthly/annually for it.

Services can easily grow to eclipse your full time income.

Go for it.
> unless you want to replace all meals

But that's a key point of Soylent marketing - a sole source of nutrition is something that comes up in every discussion of Soylent on HN.
It's always a race to the bottom. Smaller countries (e.g. Ireland, Luxembourg, Malta, Cyprus) need a less broader tax base to cover their outgoings and thus will always be able to offer a low tax base. As a (larger) country, you can decide not to participate, but you'd be pricing yourself out of the market.

Imo, it's smarter to tax shareholders more, and corporations less. Corporations are generally productive and having the statutory seat of a multinational company in your country leads to an increase of tax revenue, because 1) people will have jobs, 2) those people will pay income tax, sales tax, will spend at (mainly local) businesses whose shareholders will be taxed, etc.

Dividend and capital gain taxes are generally also harder to avoid for the wealthy. At best you can defer them, so you'll always have to pay some tax if you want to spend $1-2-5m a year. Corporate taxes and income taxes are (very) easy to avoid.

I wonder how much it would cost to completely eliminate corporate taxes but increase dividend and capital gain taxes to say, 35-40%. Now, that said, I don't think this will ever happen. People in power love their tax breaks too much.
That growing corn and then turning it into ethanol to burn in your cars is unlikely to be sustainable or more energy-efficient than extracting fossil fuels.

Basic matter of thinking in terms of conversion losses. It probably helps to know that currently every calorie produced by Western agriculture costs about ten calories worth of fossil fuels, but still.

EDIT: I realised just now that I took Michael Pollan's word on that 10:1 number without checking it, mea culpa. Quick search on the web gives me this though: http://people.uwplatt.edu/~dalecki/newperspectives.pdf and that graph on the sixth page (or "page 184") does look pretty damning on ethanol as a fuel (I'm making no statements on its qualities as an oxidizer).
Indeed. It will be interesting to see how it handles fail over in the case of an outage.
Many players are already moving in the opposite direction. It doesn't mean that remote is not possible, but that remote is more challenging than colocation.

Consider: agile frameworks at their core focus on improving communication, but remote increases the barriers to communication. For humans, online social contact doesn't provide the same benefits as as f2f. It makes depression worse, not better. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4183915/

I know someone at Amazon who gets flown halfway around the world over 4 times a year. They're not remote, but a frugal company like amazon decides it's important enough for them to visit headquarters regularly.
It's funny to look at the history. When Singapore separated from Malaysia, many people thought that Singapore wouldn't be able to survive as an independent nation island state, with no natural resources. Today Singapore has the last laugh; they're the regional economic superpower.
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It’s worth noting that running sshd above port 1024 on most systems adds the risk that non-root users can bind their own process to its port if they can crash it or wait for it to crash, and if you break into the ephemeral range, you’re risking non malicious conflicts as well.
Arabic text has much higher entropy than English. The last two letters in the Arabic word he used (H M) is also the common suffix for "them". That's not strictly equivalent to simply "Morning!" in English.

Maybe the translation algorithm confused "Yisbah-hum" (good morning) with "Yitbah-hum" (Kill them)?
Also for me.

When I delve into the digitized copies of these researches, I am always fascinated by the little treasures I find out.

And by being old enough to have experimented with some of them it saddens me the amount of left turns we have taken, for some to still be happy with a plain phosphor terminal experience.
Herb Sutter's metaclasses proposal is what I'm most looking forward to which would go a long way towards addressing C++'s template craziness.
Going back to what I said, if you actually fully understand the concept, you wouldn't misplace your trust in the obscure layer. If you don't understand the basic concepts its game over, you have already failed.

Most attackers usually just go for the lowest of the low hanging fruit. Obscuring systems from them is not a bad thing.
> This thread is confusing State granted monopoly with Market granted monopoly. Economists usually talks about the former.

Can you really tease those apart in our mixed economy? Look at ISP monopolies, or the bizarre state of the "deregulated" electricity market and what remains of the long-distance telephone market. Or take pharma, where tremendous resources are needed to comply with regulation. Or the -- tremendous scare quotes required -- "marketplace" for health care. In a mixed economy, monopoly exists because of state and market.
Why can't there be cycles in the Merkle graph

That would be cool. You just have a partial order between children and parents, like in git.
But here's the point: Do you want people to spend their 10 minutes picking good passwords or setting up public key auth or should the spend them switching their server to port 24? Security BY obscurity is bad as the article states and unless you have infinite resources everything is a trade-off.
Can you provide a bit more details about the limits you're encountering? Connections? As in the sheer quantity? Or speed to connect? Are you hitting linux open files limits? I have a tough time understanding how Redis would be the bottleneck among a bunch of Ruby workers.
true, I completely forgot about that. Twitter is out then, maybe Reddit API as someone else suggested :) I'll look into it.
A lot of them do, it's very common for Israeli's to be fluent in Arabic. But not all of them obviously.

And in this case, considering what someone with evil intent and a bulldozer can do, I can understand arrest first, figure out what's going on second.

It's not like arresting someone after the fact - in that situation you can take some time. Here it's before the fact, and seconds count.
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There's deeplearningbook.org, which starts with the basic maths and then goes into considerable detail on cutting edge work.
"And the machinery to gather them"

That machinery can be sent gradually and ahead-of-time.

"Just because the raw material is there doesn't rocket fuel make"

No, but it means that such fuel is at least possible.

"I'd be hard pressed to say that oxygen is plentiful on Mars"

The current understanding is that there's millions of cubic meters of water ice on or near the Martian surface (with even more suspected further beneath the surface). Sounds pretty plentiful to me.
But is it worth the extra effort? Something I've noticed many people ignore is the cost to standardization these kinds of "security" upgrades place. When training a junior/new/contract IT person all these little gotchas need to be mentioned and will slow down workflows regardless. Pile on enough of these tweaks and the infrastructure starts to become less manageable.
Because you don't see any situation where you are unnecessarily harassed and could face arrest or death from a poor interaction with the police.
>A healthy economy is more like a jungle, innumerable smaller competitors ... that leads to fascinating innovation.

I think you missed PT's point. The word "monopoly" has overshadowed his message. He wants people to pursue "blue ocean"[1] ideas to be innovative.

Instead of starting a company that makes another generic clone of aspirin, you pursue a drug that cures breast cancer. Or instead of building a business that broadcasts 150 characters (hey we offer you +10 more characters than Twitter), do something more innovative for society like building cheap flying cars.

I'd venture to guess that 99% actually agree with PT's underlying idea (innovation) but the distasteful word "monopoly" has completely drowned out the message. The term "blue ocean" is the same concept -- it just doesn't rile people up as much.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Ocean_Strategy
But an alarm clock sets a relative point in time that happens every day. Putting "3 days" into a calendar is fine, but for an alarm clock it makes no sense.
Useful to whom? Often times the police aren't really there to be helpful to minorities. You'd think Miami Police would know a bit of Spanish just out of sheer necessity but in reality very little do. I'm not surprised at all that more Israeli police don't speak any Arabic
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I don't have high hopes for historical accuracy but i'm excited to see The Current War which puts some of these topics to film:https://youtu.be/wMECv6yLOFM
I felt the same way when I switched from Windows Phone to iOS.

I’m still bummed they killed it. There are a few IOS apps I use that it was missing, but no dealbreakers.

I really wish someone would undercut the big three (on laptops and mobile) with an OS that was bulletproof, covered 90% of use cases well (and is ~10% as complex as the competition), and didn’t rely on ads/telemetry for revenue.

Screw platforms + ecosystems; just make it not suck.
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This is a project that I've been working on. I've always been interested in expediting the process of hiring/getting work and using video chat to do that. I basically provide a queueing system, a paywall ( which is a form of a screener ) and use video chat as immediate gratification. Thoughts? How can I improve this?
Odd, I have a 6s Plus and I haven't had any issues after upgrading. Sounds like it's hit and miss. I wonder if they changed the hardware during the production lifetime.
Went to NYC first, then Chicago.

It's different here, but I feel like I have more personal freedom to experiment and not get totally crushed financially when I fail. My biggest problem with NYC and the Bay Area is that you can't really pull yourself away from a job long enough to figure out whether any of your ideas will work or get any traction because all your money is going to rent. It's as if the system is priced just enough to keep you just barely hanging onto the treadmill.
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The legal way, and this is something that's been pointed out in every single Soylent thread, is to stop selling it as a sole source of nutrition

You can do that, but you then need to meet the regulatory hurdles.

Or you can market it for the way it's actually used by the vast majority of people - a meal replacement.
"Security through obscurity is bad" because most companies that employ it tend to think that's enough.

This is similar to "don't roll your own crypto", which doesn't actually apply to everyone, but it's meant to stop the majority from screwing up in case they decided to do just that.
It's a great system. The swiftness with which the singapore government installed electronic sensors _in every single car in singapore_ was also breathtaking. Bloomberg tried to do an ERP in NYC when he was mayor, but he couldn't get it through. I wish he had!
>I guess SF’s recent experience, where years of rent and owner move-in eviction increases ended the same year we built a record number of housing units, belies this.

Care to link me? I'm interested in this.

But mainly I agree with the article that increasing building is only a long-term solution, to fix the ridiculous prices of housing in the short-term different measures are needed - there's just no way to build enough housing in the short term.
The concept seems valid, but the obscurity term should apply to the implementer, not the attacker. i.e. if you as the system designer don't understand how it all works under the covers then it's definitely a problem, but if the attacker doesn't, then it's good practice, because it adds another hurdle to clear.
As someone who's fairly unfamiliar with farming - do weeds not tend to pop up in tilled soil? I figured weed seeds would still land and sprout. (Or do most weeds reproduce via underground roots?)

Does clover just crowd the weeds out, denying them sunlight? And why are weeds harmful to crops, while clover isn't?

Sorry for asking basic 101 questions, but I'm not sure I even know enough to Google around effectively, and don't want to take a random walk wikidive.
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Wow, the full text of that paragraph is even worse:

> Interestingly enough one of the largest sources of exaggerated Tesla history in the last few years was a cartoonist (Mr. Inman) who runs the website "The Oatmeal". A cartoonist (a guy with no engineering, legal or historian background) born in 1982 on the wrong side of the continent felt the liberty of making passionate statements about New York's electrical history based on crap he read on the internet. After a Forbes article by Alex Knapp about the myths of Tesla inspired by this Edison Tech Center article came out, the cartoonist attacks Knapp in the arrogant and cynical style typically demonstrated by the worst of US-born Millennials. Mr. Inman, like many comedians seems to be fundamentally unhappy and finds an outlet through humor. Oddly enough his behavior is similar to Tesla's in that he reacts in a nasty fashion if someone challenges his ideas, even when they mean well.
malicious local user is a slightly different threat model though with a number of other possible controls.
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That’s all true, however corporations exist at the behest of the government. They could make laws against that, against taking money outside. For an extreme example, South Korea had the death penalty for capital flight. Quite extreme, I’m not advocating it but it did work.

Furthermore most major corporations have had government involvement to attain their status, whether in the forum of subsidy, bailout or military procurement. Unfortunately most people aren’t aware of this “corporate welfare”.

Basically corporations which are unaccountable concentrations of public power, should not be allowed to dictate to the government, which is at least in theory accountable to the public. Unfortunately the trend has been in the opposite direction.
Same, I am a casual vim user and the IntelliJ plugin covers most of my needs.
I'm pretty sure there's an age-old comment in the source code like:

// TODO generate key instead of hard-coding it
You felt insulted because he has a different opinion to you? Or did he write something insulting in his reply?
You should also check the systems programming research that was happening on those days, NEWP already had UNSAFE blocks that required "root" blessing to be executed.

Or the IBM RISC research using PL/8.

And many other examples, lost in research papers from all those companies.
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If you scenario is correct (which i think it is), it will be a textbook example on the inability of non-democratic regimes to maintain economical growth in the long run.

I say textbook, because as opposed to nazis and USSR , it would have all happened without a war (hopefully).
Are you making money now that it's closed source?

Seeing, making money has nothing to do with it being open or closed source. Making money has to do with you wanting to make money and going out there and making it.

There are success stories of folks with opensource making lots of money. MongoDB just went public. You can also find counterexamples.

If you believe in open source and believe it's the best thing for your project, then you will do so without regards to profit or not.

If you believe in making money, won't matter if your project was closed or open, you will also focus on that.
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This is a pretty old book, being >20 years old. I wonder if anyone knows of a good book that takes into account searching via the internet.
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Are you making money now that it's closed source?

Making money has nothing to do with it being open or closed source. Making money has to do with you wanting to make money and going out there and making it.

There are success stories of folks with opensource making lots of money. MongoDB just went public. You can also find counterexamples.

If you believe in open source and believe it's the best thing for your project, then you will do so without regards to profit or not.

If you believe in making money, won't matter if your project was closed or open, you will also focus on that.
As an American who speaks to a lot of other Americans, this is definitely not the mentality that I'm seeing around me. Most people I know are becoming cynical about growing corporate control of our government and increasing income inequality. Pretty much everyone I know is worried about the monopolies.
Yes, absolutely. Corn is grown to excess for purposes of livestock feed and fuel due to various subsidies for ethanol production. At least here in the Midwest, almost none of the corn grown is for actual human consumption. Additionally, corn is an awful crop, it requires a ton of nitrogen and water to grow well. I'm very much for less of it being grown here.
Much better article on postmodernism in USA.

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/09/how-ame...
> that should be terrified of what's obviously coming next: Jack Ma, Pony Ma, Robin Li.

A ruler can not rule without people. It's more likely he will "convince" them to support him. (Or they might see which way the wind is blowing and not need convincing.) 2nd to the throne is still a very powerful position after all.

They should be fine. It's people who are opposed to him that are at risk.
You forget that before the internet, paper publishing was a thing and that actually cost money. Moreover most scientists are not tech savvy.
Very impressive. I was even able to open it on an (old) iPad, and draw with my finger.
The way I see it though, the limitations of CI implants are primarily driven by the internal electrode interface that limits the number of available frequencies to the person. This isn't something that any of the "big tech" companies are positioned to innovate in. I'd be more interested if Hewlett Packard got involved because they actually have a significant and successful micro/nanotech group.

Hearing aids though could be ripe for disruption by improved computational power and large supply chain leverage. So it will be a matter of whether or not Apple/Google/ back off once they meet the intractable reality of regulatory compliance in a limited market a la their infrastructure plans.

I think it's most likely that they will buy up those medical companies for expertise, then spin off the medical device manufacturing into a new separate company or otherwise sell it off but keep the key engineers to roll into other random consumer products that are less regulated and more profitable. This is what Google has more or less done with robotics after buying basically every major robotics research company in the US a few years back.
> So basically this guy is forking bitcoin

Nope. ~80% of miners, 90% of Bitcoin businesses, and at least half of the community are forking Bitcoin.

Jeff just happens to be the lead developer for the new client. The contention has been there for years and it's been fueled by the horrific sensorship on the main communication channels.

This is sad to see though. I don't know how he'll find time to juggle both of these projects.