skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Their system is explicitly for people that don’t trust Google.

With certificate spoofing, the risk is that I might accidentally click through permissions on a malicious, already installed and privileged app.

With LineageOS the risk is that I will, with 100% certainty, run code that I have deemed malicious (== any service-facing client-side Google blob).

Maybe you haven’t decided those binaries are malicious, but that doesn’t change my opinion, and what I do with my phone isn’t your business.

I don’t see why certificate spoofing is controversial at all (especially amongst the “free as in freedom” crowd).
But it is possible to negotiate a license with a clawback clause in the event of invalidation.
Yes, I understand that it was mentioned, my question was whether it was mentioned as a requirement.

If the listing just said "LINQ-to-SQL knowledge a plus" but then gave you a test that actually required foreknowledge of it, then that's kinda shitty.
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Sometimes a house of cards is exactly what you need to prove that it is a good idea. Then you can look for weaknesses and fortify the structure.

You just can't blame the wind when it comes and knocks down the house.

Also, I think half of startups and companies is a little bit high. I can't imagine that the majority of large companies are cool with this kind of risk.
There's an interesting issue here. Because Twitter makes no real effort to block bots currently, it's still reasonably possible to detect bots with at least a fair degree of accuracy. That's because they have no major reason to do anything beyond fool the lowest common denominator.

But as you add checks, particularly convenient and handy little instant checks like this, you incentivize the bots to become more intelligent. And it's not exactly difficult to fake being a human when you're limited to 140 characters in a mostly unidirectional shout box. So the net result is that you just end up with bots more able to tolerate inspection, and thus more likely to fool even more people.

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As for Twitter themselves, in spite of their rhetoric they are going to love bots. It helps maintain an extremely healthy critical mass, results in that all so addictive rapid feedback of social media, and also inflates their numbers for advertisers. So long as they put on a song and dance about cracking down on bots, they can sell maximally inflated usage and activity numbers with plausible deniability if they turn out incorrect.
because that's how it was built [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethereum#Ether_supply_increase...
Don't all parties of free trade agreements actually agree to the agreement? Isn't that why it's called an agreement? Are there any examples of non-state parties making this decision elsewhere and enforcing it everywhere?
I've spent far more time than I should have digging through their site... basically it looks like they've built a sort of labview/mindstorms type app? They have a library of "blocks" and they're trying to sell the "you don't need to be a programmer to build programs" feature. It actually looks quite fun - I don't get why they had to present it so absurdly
Sure. Am just not certain he ever tried abolition of family, having only a cursory knowledge of Maoism. Given that he was disciple of Stalin (who assumed power long after USSR ceded on these attempts), suspected he did not.
Not criticizing the OP personally, merely the described behaviors/
That is configurable - right-click taskbar > Taskbar Settings > Show taskbar buttons on > Taskbar where window is open
Heh.

It's good you brought up cars, as they're a perfect example of conflicting needs. Cars are now computers on wheels, and while I'd love to drive a car I personally modded at firmware level, I would also be against allowing such cars on public roads. One, hackers make mistakes, and two, malicious actors would trick regular people into modding their cars to further their malicious goals. Both reasons create public hazard. Which is obvious in case of cars, but less obvious with computers connected to the Internet.

At this point I fear we might need to fork computing entirely - let the regular users live in "hell" of propertiary, locked down services they don't actually own, while ourselves, we get the "heaven" of free software... that's pretty much not allowed to interact with regular users. I don't see how to keep the two worlds as one, because all features meant for hackers can also be used by malicious actors to pwn people.

Consider e.g. dev console in a web browser. All is cool, because regular users don't know what F12 does and wouldn't even think of pressing it. But then Facebook and others have to put Self-XSS measures into place, because a malicious actor can tell a regular user what F12 does, and how it "can" let them see who viewed their Facebook profile...

I hate the idea of split world. It means I won't be able to e.g. automate my banking or pizza delivery, because those things will have to go through "dumb" computing, to avoid self-pwnage risks. It means that eventually I won't be able to even get a general-purpose computer, because the nature of niche markets is that they generally don't get served with good stuff at accessible prices - they either get served at exorbitant prices, or don't get served at all.

So I don't want that split world. I want an alternative to fight for. But as I previously wrote, I can't see any.
Depends on whom you're communicating to. The signals those startups are putting out are very important ones indicating legitimacy to potential investors.

Maybe some founders are confusing what's important to signal to investors with what's important to signal to customers?
The most apparent reason is that ETH does not have a set supply cap, whereas BTC is 21,000,000.
> Governments don't do anything without signoff in triplicate.

Once a broad strategy and objective for a sensitive covert operation is signed off from the top, yes, they often do things with considerably less bureaucratic oversight and control than the same government would apply to less sensitive operations.

Compartmentalization isn't just a thing for non-governmental criminal/terrorist/rebel groups (in fact, many of those, particularly in the latter two categories, were taught it by their government sponsors.)

And governments where the executive isn't subject to effective legislative and judicial oversight frequently are fairly slapdash with controls even outside of covert operations on issues where the leadership is more focussed on the perception of progress than specific documented accountability.
We do in the US? Really? Salaried workers in tech routinely have 24-hour shifts without notice or compensation, especially when tied up in equity. I'd say if anything, worker rights have gotten further eroded with the loss of union power, add to that pay in most fields hasn't kept up with inflation, there's no paternity leave, more jobs being created are pushing education, retirement, healthcare, etc onto the worker, further eroding their wages just to keep their current job. Add to that the number of jobs being lost to automation, and workers really are not in a great spot, especially going forward, there's no way the current employment force can outstrip what a robot can do. It makes little sense to hire anything but contract employees at a certain point. Pretty soon you'll see micro-contracts to repair the bots, with a race to the bottom on price. I think that there's a massive market correction due to the employee-employer relationship.
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It's level 2 of Internet Startup Sock-Puppetry. You enable innovation, hyper-connectivity, distribution, and maybe you even empower interoperation of the iOT phase-space for individuals, companies and dogs. Throw in a coffee machine and a third-hand ping-pong table and some beanbag chairs. Don't forget the fancy conference room with lots of big-screen displays showing fancy graphs.

Oh dear, I forgot to include the cloud. And machine learning (in the cloud).

"This conference room table raised our valuation by $800K."

I'm happy I no longer live in Silly Valley.
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There are lots of talented Yahoo employees who read HN, and cringe at what teams on the other side of campus are doing.
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>And when your entire company works from home, as mine did, you develop a culture of acting like there is no better choice, and the benefits of your personal flexibility at home outweigh any problems at work... causing people to not fight very hard to fix problems, and to stay in those jobs longer than they should because of how comfortable the working situation is.

On the flip side, when your entire company works from offices, you develop a culture of acting like there is no better choice, and the resistance to change outweighs its obsoletence, causing people to not fight very hard to evolve the workplace, and to accept offices longer than they should.
Software matters in the world: work on fixing the big bugs
Oh boy, this doesn't sound like a biased model at all
I guess you are working on purely symbolic thinking? I think the approach works best when it’s just not equations being manipulated, but visualized instantiations of specific (and concrete) examples.
It's meaningless to speculate on these short-term price movements.

There's a possibility that the pricing is being determined by macroeconomic forces, but then it seems like you'd see price movement in traditional commodities as well (like gold) and we're not seeing that. In all likelihood this is the combination of some set of factors -- the CME group's involvement or more people looking to enter the market, etc., and Bitcoin's preeminence in the cryptocurrency space.

There's the movement of Bitcoin Cash, which is going up at an even faster clip (now) after stagnated for a while after the post-fork excitement. This is not obviously connected to any of the CME-based news.

Most likely is that each coin is acting somewhat independently. As much as you can say that Ethereum is stagnating, it's not stagnating any more than Bitcoin was a year or so ago.

Only time will tell if the current pricing changes are reflecting some deeper reality, but I'd hesitate before attributing anything like that until we have more information.
I'm honestly confused by this comment. If I'm reading it correctly, you have those two backwards. Computers have been able to figure out routes since the mid-90s (see MapQuest, Google Maps, Waze, etc). It's exactly the "following" that is the responsibility of self-driving cars.
Or bazaar, rather.
> Starling Bank be attending $conference 2017

Arrrr!?
Very classic one is x.ai or Amy or whatever they call it now. They overhyped their capability of building a smart assistant for reading and replying to emails and ended up being an average service that sort of works.

Earlier, they kept telling me that I have jumped their queue and will soon get access. Now they ask me to upgrade the plan to keep using it. Complete BS!
ATTN: Self-Storage Operators. What if tenants could pay via voice, text or web?
If you read the report that is linked above, you can see the relative speeds, headings and impact geometry.

The McCain crossed in front of the cargo vessel and was hit in the aft section by the cargo vessel that had a constant speed and heading.

You don't stop or turn a cargo vessel as quickly as the McCain can maneuver. You also need to take into account that you don't shove a ship sideways through the water easily - it can't slide as easily as a car can. The majority of the cargo vessel's kinetic energy will go into plastic deformation. It's not a sudden impact, more a crushing and deforming.

Edit: I have to revise what I said about the impact, according to the report, sailors close to the impact likened it to an explosion.
We plan to make an enterprise quality platform with deeper interactions for monitoring, cloud building (through CloudFormation and Terraform etc). We also plan to open the platform so that people can build on top of it. The other aspect is to use Behavioral AI that we encounter in Games and turn it into a Virtual Cloud engineer. Hence we need a robust Game Engine to build on top of.
well, i think "for a FOSS shop" is important context in that comment (simply asking "why use azure" is different). aws and gcp run plenty of bits that aren't "FOSS" in any respect, just like azure.
You're suggesting a hardware switch capable of turning a general-purpose computer into a completely locked down computer, with a trusted chain all the way from physical switch to the code doing "computing mode" transition?

Sounds interesting, though I fear that at that point, companies won't even bother providing the "general-purpose" mode anymore.
Many people disagree about what blockchain technology is. To me, it' about the characteristics, rather than how they're implemented. I see three characteristics: decentralized, immutable, assets [1].

Under this framing, the "linked list of hashes" is one partial way to achieve immutability. And "every node has this list" is one partial way to get to decentralization is achieved. But that's only part of it. Eg you need to address: what if a node acts badly? And you want a means to create & issue assets.

> every node has a copy AND the list is append only leads me to something that doesn't scale well.

Correct. That's why there is work to scale better, e.g. via sharding by BigchainDB and by others.

[1] https://blog.bigchaindb.com/three-blockchain-benefits-ae3a2a...
Doesn't your link infringe copyright?

'Sci-Hub is a website with over 62 million academic papers and articles available for direct download.[2] It bypasses publisher paywalls by allowing access through educational institution proxies.'
How does your work compare to https://openreview.net/pdf?id=S18Su--CW, it seems you only evaluate your model against non-iterative adversaries rather than iterative and stronger ones like PGD.
Are those snips supposed to be syntax-highlighted? Because they are black on grey as I see them, just FYI.
Indeed. Flexible hours should also be added in allowing people to decide with a fair degree of freedom the hours they want to work remotely and the hours they’d be better off at work. My commute times are worst during peak office hours i.e. 8-10am to and 5-7 pm from work. I would just choose to work from 7-10 from home, commute to work and drive back at about 3. That seems fairly balanced to me.
The problem is that malicious psychology has become so prevalent, that any sort of marketing formula that isn't direct honesty is parsed as manipulation. (And for good reason -- the vast majority of the time, it is.)

I don't care that your product is going to make me the reborn Buddha, because if you lead with that there's an overwhelming likelihood that your product doesn't stand on its merits and there is no underlying value. Blame the other marketers for spoiling the game if you want, but I think marketing is fundamentally a business mistake in that it makes you an adversary of your customers, not a partner. It's based on attacking customers with weaponized psychology. That's the premise of the modern field, and there's no escaping that.

If you had a product that I actually needed and provided value, you could just tell me what it was. It should be straightforward how that addresses my needs -- or it likely doesn't.
> That still doesn't mean you have to massacre people to evenly distribute property and wealth.

The point of Communism isn't to evenly distribute property and wealth. It's to eliminate property ownership completely, and prevent further accumulation of wealth by individuals. The commune part of Communism.

> I just don't think mass killings is a key component of Communism as a system.

It's not an end goal, but an unavoidable instrument if you want to rob people of their property or destroy their families. Historically, there was not much voluntary cooperation.
Sorry, I should have been more specific. After some googling...SaaS + WordPress sounds interesting to me. So, I want to explore how SaaS startups can leverage this framework. Since wp is open source and startups have to operate on a shoe-string budget, it would be interesting to know how one can build a SaaS with WordPress. Are there any real-world, existing examples for this. Thanks.
That's more than a little unfair without knowing the context or wording of his statement. The same paragraph you clipped that from says:

"The company has yet to develop a chip past the benchmark testing phase but has said it will begin selling products broadly next year."

If the comment came in the context of a conversation around why they need more cash and what he's going to do with it, it makes perfect sense to talk about adding headcount.
I'm not following. Companies do pay for this. Via salary...
The main problem with Avalonia is that it's still in alpha. It looks like a good solution, though, so definitely something to keep an eye on if you're looking for a solution that doesn't require running a web server and render for the UI.
If you know your Bible, Aeneid, Illiad, and Odyssey, you are off to a good start.

I had a professor whose approach welded historical narratives into the works we were reading. In the absence of a good Medieval or English Literature Professor, I'd recommend something like The Connell Guide [1] or the Oxford guide [2]. If you're looking for an all in one with very good marginalia and footnotes, I found the latest Norton Anthology series to be very good (and usually considered the academic definitive). You'd need to find the volume that has Paradise Lost in it, however.

[1]: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Connell-Guide-Miltons-Paradise-Adva...

[2]: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Oxford-Student-Texts-Milton-Paradis...
Not all investment income is derived from rent-seeking. If you invest in a business that engages in rent-seeking, than of course, your investment is also rent-seeking. If you invest in a business that makes money by creating wealth, then that is not rent-seeking.
in my experience hyper-v doesn't handle graphical stuff very well, so a desktop linux experience much worse than vmware workstation or virtualbox.
Depends. I have a phone with LineageOS installed, and it only passes SafetyNet Basic Integrity. That's a nogo for Netflix or Android pay.
Overpopulation is frequently the cause of steep popuation decline (90+%) in ecology due to input resource depletion and the building of toxins that are the end products of that species metabolism.

Pollution and resource scarcity are the obvious limits that can send population numbers off a cliff.
Making city centers affordable would just require once again turning occupying / owning land into a tax liability rather than a rentier asset that grants you an effective right to tax others.
The Bay area has a huge homeless population with shanty towns all over the place (just hidden).
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The vast majority of time spent by office employees is socializing and non-productive ritual work.

Do you have any links or sources to back this up?
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Exactly.

The tech-stack perfectly slices responsibilities. That is what really motivated me to do it. Seemed like peanut butter and jelly.

Also, performance. Anything beats electron.
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One solid way would be to offer the service as browser addon. With that you can avoid any blockage, because the user itself is doing it.
It looks like steering was controlled by one person. Unfortunately it lacks further detail. I saved the link to read later. Thank you.
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The dam would still allow some water into the Mediterranean, which is why it's "only" a drop of 100m-200m in mean sea level in the Mediterranean.
Sounds awesome! We are in the process of revamping our sheets internally and would love to do something similar. Anything you could share on the subject?
Yes, and the communists were going to turn over the power to the people. Any year now.

Edit: downvoted. I want to make myself clear - how will ETH switch over to proof of stake, when people have so much invested in mining hardware? It won't be pretty. Another fork or two perhaps?
what do gcp and azure need to be considered alternatives?
> Scientific reasoning is not a vote, or a talent show.

Sure it is. It evolved from "natural philosophers" showing off their work to each other. People have always been able to convince themselves of things, but scientific rigor is about convincing other people (i.e., being objective).
I never said that we not better make sure that it stays that way.

If I see someone mentioning the "current, miserable state of the world" I have to object and correct their skewed view (which is not of the present but of a wrongly remembered or romanticized past that serves as incorrect baseline for the comparison!).
Well the geniuses at Yahoo also broke their own site--if you go to Yahoo Finance and try use their own download link it takes you to the same message. So they must not actually care about the ads.
I don't think any economist would consider Ethereum's growth to be "inflationary" -- the rate of marginal increase of money supply tends to zero, just like Bitcoin's.

To be considered "inflationary", it would have to increase the block reward exponentially over time, rather than just keeping it constant -- linear growth is insufficient.

And all that is assuming a non-existent fixed relationship between inflation/deflation and monetary base. Note that I say "monetary base" and not "money supply" because the two are related but not equivalent. No mainstream (Keynsian) economist would really consider "monetary base" to be a critical economic indicator, and even monetarists would quibble. Only Austrians would consider it important, but they use the terms "inflation" and "deflation" to refer to money supply, so they would not consider Bitcoin deflationary either.
Hmm, they are local. I think I'll apply. :-D
It would seem since there is already more supply, increasing inland supply even more won't increase its desirability..

Are you saying coastal property is only desirable because it is rare?
Found my new theme, thanks HN !

Spoke too fast, I can't download it for VS Code and I don't have git on my work computer :-(
That was part of why the comments was funny.
> That is definitely not what I have read¹. What era are you thinking of?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pax_Romana

From the article: "As the world becomes more interconnected, the powerful have ever more incentives to avoid the catastrophic economic consequences of going to war too. Conflict isn’t good for your economy in a world of dense trade networks and digital flows."

The exact same argument was put forward just before WWI. Then all hell erupted.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Illusion

In historical terms the decline is insignificant in duration. It just marks the point from the end of the Cold War, when there remained one sole global superpower (and most of the wars in the last 20+ years, from the Gulf, to Yugoslavia, Iraq, Afghanistan, etc are wars where it fought or helped fuel). The article mistakes a decline in war during the end of the Cold War (when a global player emerged) for some long term trend.

Obviously there are more and more signs that this is not to be so -- with other players emerging like China, tension rising in different areas, even neo-fascists coming back into play in various countries governments.
Woah, really cool. My understanding is that Posit, the successor to unum versions 1 and 2, is the future and is much easier to implement in hardware [0].

[0]: https://posithub.org/about
Hmm that's an interesting observation. I wonder if the average age at remote companies is higher and if a growing number of remote companies could counter act ageism in tech?
It is still a few months away. What would you prefer seeing in respect to GCP?