skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My argument is not that the banks shouldn't collect interest; my argument is that they should accept risk.

>You'd think a surefire bailout would decrease resistance to debtor relief. But investors want timely payments; they fear federal relief programs might slow cash flow from an otherwise "bulletproof asset class." This creates twisted incentives, especially for SLABS players involved in loan servicing: They often have a stake in borrowers defaulting rather than paying smaller amounts over a longer period of time.

It's perverse policy — bankers are pampered because student debtors are hounded and pounded. To help borrowers, the government should facilitate bankruptcy reform and expand federal relief programs. But we have deeper problems: Lenders, servicers, collectors and investors prosper while students suffer because schools increasingly rely on private tuition rather than public funding.

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/how-wall-street-pr...
Bitcoin enthusiasts in 2009: Bitcoin is for making currency transactions

Bitcoin enthusiasts in 2017: Bitcoin is for storing value

Ethereum enthusiasts in 2015: Ethereum is for making trustless currency transactions

Ethereum enthusiasts in 2020: Ethereum is for storing cats
What's with the glut of anti-alexa articles recently? Am I just in the minority of security conscious people who think Alexa is pretty benign?
How are you so certain LN will ever be implemented? I'm more confident Vitalik could get PoS working before LN ever gets here. LN is vaporware and was supposed to be here long ago, yet here we are.
He's received eight-figure compensation packages every year since 2010, were those not sufficient?
The top long term capital gains rate is the same in both the AMT and the "regular" tax: 20%
No rationalization about value can ever hide the obvious and deep-rooted lord / serf dynamic.
You can't sell soap to a pig.
I think it should be other way: in many countries surveillance is prohibited. The developers who collect those data should be treated the same way. And their software should be treated as a spyware.

UPD: For example, we often hear news about hackers from some Eastern European country that were obtaining personal information in large quantities. Their actions are very similar to what the developers of this keyboard did.
You can short Tether on Kraken.
"And even if Hitler was removed, there was the remaining SS to contend with. "

They all went home immediately after Hitler's death. By 1944 almost nobody wanted to fight anymore.
The only reason those people are able to contemplate such decisions is because of the thousands of workers supporting the enterprise.
> False positives can be tuned out.

oh-you.jpg

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McMartin_preschool_trial
> There is no WANT or DESIRES from the programs, there is no self-awareness where the programs ask themselves if what they are doing is right or wrong. They are doing exactly what they were programmed to do.

It's unclear - are you talking about the current state of the art, or what you think is in-principle possible?
Since you're someone that ponders philosophical problems, at least a little bit, then I ask you to consider this. Whether you come up with an answer or not is irrelevant, and I myself have no point other than to get you to question consciousness BEFORE we've built the thing ourselves, which is a very real potential in the coming decades, and something we should consider and take care to avoid pitfalls beforehand.

Here is my problem:

I am defining consciousness here as a feeling of existence. It does not necessarily entail strong self-awareness to the extent that humans have.

You have this kind of consciousness. Correct?

If you have consciousness, then we can assume I have consciousness as well. That is something I hope we can agree on, unless I am one of your philosophical zombies, in which case you are a solipsist and a true hardcore Empiricist, which is completely fine, but in that case we can unfortunately move no further.

Assuming I have consciousness, I ask you, does the average intelligent primate have consciousness?

Assuming so, does the average dolphin have consciousness?

Assuming so, does the average sheep have consciousness?

Assuming so, does the average rat have consciousness?

Assuming so, does the average lizard have consciousness? Do we lose consciousness here?

Does the average insect have consciousness?

Does a tree?

Does my houseplant?

Does a microbe?

Does my computer?

Does my thermostat?

Does a home?

Does a lake?

Does the universe?

Is there a line somewhere here that separates the conscious from the unconscious?

If there is, can we prove it, or is it as elusive as Bigfoot?

If we can't prove it, and the burden of proof lies on the thing being posited, then I have one final question: Why believe in the line at all?
They specifically say that they are not impact investing but seeking strong returns.
Deploying to AWS Elastic Beanstalk
It’s pretty unusual not be be able to use your hands at all during breast feeding.
Yes, I'm assuming that if I 'write zeros' over the SSD when parting with the device that I have destroyed the keys.
>> my mother was a mechanic, my uncle a cryptographer, another uncle was some type of police on base, my cousin is a drone pilot

They have been fortunate. Obviously, in some conflicts, some people in all of those roles end up in postings where they are in hazardous areas. (Also: IIRC drone pilots stationed far from conflict still experience combat-induced PTSD.)

The other feature of the armed services is that in general, once you enlist you don't always get to choose your posting. It's great that some people get to choose plum jobs away from war zones, but (most?) others don't (and this can change for anyone in the military, at any time). A defining feature of a military is orders, and following them.

Military careers can be rewarding for some people. But just as it's wrong to say college is for everyone, it's not correct to suggest that one can embark on a military career without adding additional personal safety risk.
That's not really a good analogy for a CEO's job, though.

A CEO's job would be someone who makes a small number of very broad, directional choices (should the home be Victorian, or Brutalist?) then hires and manages a team of people to hire and manage teams of people to hire and manage teams of people to build a house.

Given that the only decision they made was "Victorian vs Brutalist" and then hiring some decent managers, should they still receive that much compensation just for (in this case!) happening to have made the right choice?
Invalid TLS certificates?
I haven't run the update myself yet, but I see that the description says that the update includes SDKs for High Sierra, not High Sierra itself.
This story is meant to make the American public more willing to support an attack on NK. Americans are generally happy to support strikes that we view as high tech and not targeting/harming civilians directly.

But in reality any strikes with RF weapons will be accompanied by significant conventional strikes.

I think there is still zero chance that there will be any sort of war between the US and NK. NK holds all the cards and has played them quite effectively. The only question is how much longer our president will continue to bluster embarrassingly before he realizes his actual strategic reality.

One other possibility is that the US would be willing to undertake a strike on NK even if there was a decent chance of NK launching a successful attack on Seoul. In that scenario, the goal of the PR is to help Americans feel that every "high tech" thing possible was done to stop NK and that the casualties were sad but ultimately worthwhile.

US bluster over NK reveals both the failure of power projection toward China and China's full knowledge that the US has more to lose from failed negotiations than China does. China will let this play out slowly and let our leaders act foolish as long as they wish.

It's funny how even in spite of the widespread mockery of our president, there is much less mockery of the foolishness underlying US "tough talk" aimed at NK. I think we believe that the tough talk is aimed at NK and not at the American people.
Great, now you could simply buy Echo for someone on your Christmas list, hack it, and give it to them. And you could always blame it on "hackers".
The quickest in terms of tick-to-trade (MD received to trade) are certainly all hardware, but having better connectivity changes the game by a lot. Latency arb trades generally aren't that great, the most competitive in terms of PnL don't depend on (but usually utilize) tick-to-trade style speed.
My entire argument is predicated on:

A) current technology has drastically reduced the headcount required to get the important things done

B) we papering over that with make-work. defense is mostly make-work for engineers/managers/clerks/tradesmen. farming is propped up with direct and indirect subsidies. US healthcare and higher ed are packed to the gills with admin staff. cranking out more professionals is just going to put more stress on the make-work systems.

C) Fueling growth to bridge the gap between supply and demand is an ecological time-bomb.
Somebody turned cryptoPunks (https://www.larvalabs.com/cryptopunks) into cryptoKitties and made bank, genius.
would you accept $50 bonus and $1 to each of your 450 covorkers if you were set to receive $500 bonus instead?
Fortunately, our current education system is already set up to allow this. With a few AP credits, you can easily major in a STEM field and spend a year+ worth of time on courses outside of CS.
I'm sure psychology might work great as a double major like you mention but as a pure major it is probably not beneficial to most in the job market.
Teach (as I do now, ESL in a parish program, but maybe more), tutor, travel.
"Windows 10 is no more secure than Windows 7"

Two paragraphs later.

"what do you call it when Microsoft fixes security holes in Windows 10 that it doesn’t patch in Windows 7? I call it really, really stupid."

So Windows 7 has security holes that Windows 10 doesn't, but Windows 10 is no more secure than Windows 7. Right.
I'm all for taxing the rich and compensating workers fairly.

But:

- Had the company declined, the CEO would have gotten all the blame and been crucified. Can't give blame if you can't also give credit.

- The CEO negotiated this deal, the employees did not.

- A good portion of this $500M is from the value of his stock, which is part of his compensation. I don't know the percentage of this payout that comes from stock (WSJ paywall...), but we certainly can't take stock AWAY from him to reduce his payout.

- Employees who have cashed in their options will also make money from this deal. Other stockholders will make money too.

Again -- I am NOT condoning our American trend of over-paid CEOs. More money in the working class is good for the economy. But this event specifically is not ridiculous.
I'd love to know what the average raise % for rank and file employees was over that time period of success.
> You'd be surprised how crazy CPS is if you aren't wealthy and white. They don't actually seem to even need any "evidence" really.

For example (white, but not wealthy): https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2015/04/13/parent...

> Montgomery County police and county Children's Protective Services are jointly investigating the Meitivs of Silver Spring for allowing their children to walk repeatedly around the neighborhood alone. The parents say they know where their children are but are allowing them independence.

> Officers picked up the children about two blocks from home, Rafi said, telling them they would drop them off at home. Instead, the two sat in a patrol car for 2½ hours then were taken about 10 miles away to Children's Protective Services offices in Rockville, Md.
To be fair to the Hue bulbs, we've got a bunch of them in the office since we have stand-up lamps. There's a physical switch controlling the Hue bulbs on the wall next to the door and it's way easier to get all the lights switched off if you're the last one leaving for the night with that one switch. But then, we've just embraced the common switch rather than replacing them all with voice commands.
That is a wireframe but Blender can turn a wireframe into a mesh and vice versa as the video title states.
Assuring Ciphertext Integrity for Homomorphic Cryptosystems
When the next recession strikes, people will attempt to liquidate their Bitcoin to pay their bills and find out that no one really wants to buy them.
I'm not asking specifically about vectors, that's just a common example of a dependent type. To take another example from the documentation, can you express a type like

type digits = RegexString (Regex "^[0-9]+$")

where all values of type digits are strings containing only digits? Then

let s1 : digits = "1234"

would typecheck but

let s2 : digits = "abc"

would not? That would be very surprising given the F# type system.
Hence the ongoing efforts for value types ,some kind of reiffed generics and AOT compilation, or do you think Oracle would sponsor those changes out of charity?

However from where I am standing, it is still business as usual, regarding Java and .NET projects.
My friends who have visited or lived in Italy say the same thing. I kinda experience the same thing with Latin America.

It's relaxing to be in a place that isn't all about the rat race, but it can be irritating when you want to get up early and do stuff, or when you're dealing with the bureaucracy, or you're trying to plan anything. As with most things, it's a trade off.
How are articles of this quality still shared and passed around? I honestly couldn't tell you if this was written by a 25 year old or a 14 year old. The hyperbole, reciting already known security concerns/risks and the teen-like language used throughout... There's nothing of value here.
She likes holding him instead of fiddling with a remote. Overall the privacy issue is just not at the bottom but not anywhere near the top of our priorities.
Your response to NK is IMHO exactly what NK wants. They think that having nuclear weapons will get them a seat at the table. Which table I'm not sure. What they want from that point I suspect is more than just elimination of sanctions.
Aetna's CEO is an employee of Aetna. So in your tale he's part of the labor, not the person who wants a house built.
I wouldn't say either of those expand your knowledge in the same domain. Related, sure.
OK, thanks for the reply. I guess, if I would want to push invike more, I would have to find a niche for it.
Perhaps you should start charging for individual high school classes, in case people learn things out of curiosity rather than if it makes them a more valuable member of your workforce.
Keep in mind that rootstock currently is a federated sidechain, so it is decentralized only insofar as you consider federated cryptocurrency systems to be "decentralized" (and different folks disagree about this)
Apologies if I offended, I should have put "useless" in quotes. I meant degrees that society does not give as much value to as to what you paid to get them.
The article points out that on Saturday, someone basically bought a 256-bit number for $117,712.12. Are we all in the wrong line of work, or what?
I'd rather they bake many of the Android Go space improvements into the core Android platform, rather than fracturing the OS/apps.
Time lost to light switches in a year is measured in, what, 10s of minutes and maybe $20 in wasted electricity and bulb-life a year? If you have a pretty big house and are kinda bad at turning off the lights when you should?

Even a perfect solution that never screwed up and wasted my time would have to also be very cheap ($100-200 for whole house—yeah, right) and take no time to install/maintain for that to be worth it to me.
CVS alone had over 240k employee in 2016. [1]

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CVS_Pharmacy
Studies have a wide range for men and women across different cultures. But, using high estimates for both sexes you get less than 50% globally.

~25% to 60% of married people in the US cheet, but only 80% get married. Global data similar, but a significant number never get married which keeps things under 50%.
I think the real point is how parents can help their children win the game according to its current rules, not what post-secondary education finance policy is or should be.

Personally, I think the economy would benefit from appropriate government-financed post-secondary education for those students that show an aptitude for it. However, I suspect that a test-based system similar to that employed in Europe or elsewhere is politically untenable here ("I should have the freedom to choose to go $336k* into debt at an elite photography school!")

(*NB: I wish I was making that number up but there was someone that actually made this choice a number of years back.)
D seems not bad -- I just mean that Rust was the first "C++ killer" which actually could match C and C++ speeds. I also have a lot of respect for Walter Bright and Andrei Alexandrescu.

I'm sure I'd much prefer it over Go, for example.
> The newfound privacy conundrum presented by installing a device that can literally listen to everything you’re saying represents a chilling new development in the age of internet-connected things.

I say this every time these home assistants are discussed: this is not new. There are no new privacy implications whatsoever, unless you're one of those very few people who doesn't have a cell phone. The vast majority of us have had devices that can literally listen to everything we're saying for years now, many of us for decades. And to make it worse, we take them with us outside, they're not just in the home.

Why do home assistants awake this privacy fear, but nobody cares about cell phones listening in on you? I seriously do not get it.
To add to that: Would the house ever be built at all if not for the person employing the labor to build it?

Great analogy for a company too. Whether it's a start up or growing a large company to be even larger. There is no automatic force that just makes a company grow, innovate, grab market share. Things don't just happen without the leadership and direction from the top.
Exactly, which is why this would be a special additional tax that is just for college graduates and just goes back to the colleges.
Agree, but a game like crypo kitties is probably the best and only tolerable use case for LN.
"The $foo is vulnerable to a physical attack that allows an attacker to gain a root shell..."

This is true for nearly any device, including your cell phone, your MacBook, etc, etc, ad nauseam.

And every time these devices come up there's so many comments on how they would never have one in their home, ostensibly because "it's always listening".

This is sickeningly naive in my opinion. Any device with a microphone is capable of the same thing. You shouldn't be trusting your phone any more than an Alexa device.
How Nature Makes Things: Relevant Bio-Inspired Approaches
I use archive.is for non-paywalled access:

http://archive.is/MsLTJ
Scheduling implies this is simply done on a clock, while this is more about real-time maximization of CPU resources with feedback based on measured load.
Wait... does hitting the mute button solve this invasion of privacy?
Example search and result "{device name} rom f2fs xda"

https://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2678142
This is something of a special case. Running Linkerd as a sidecar container — which is the pattern that's increasingly adopted in the Kubernetes world for service meshes and proxies — means you're going to run a large, memory-hungry JVM in every single container. Just guessing, but that's likely 300-500MB per container. It just doesn't mesh (heh) well with how Kubernetes is supposed to be run.

It's not surprising that Istio settled on Envoy, which is written in C++.
Whenever someone says voice control I think of the two Scots in an elevator skit from "Burnistoun" S1E1. It's a BBC Scotland show, but may be available through your favorite streaming services.

When I want to remotely control a light switch with my voice, I tell a kid to get up and flip it. It doesn't always work, but I at least know that they understand what I want. And it means that sometimes you have to be the one to flip the switch for someone else.
> Of course taxes are going to go up. Plan accordingly

They already did. The GOP tax bill specifically targeted our demographic as a way to finance tax cuts for the wealthy and businesses. The GOP doesn't even deny it.

Like it or not, we are the scapegoats for all the problems afflicting the poor. And it's not a stretch to believe the GOP is going to use popular support to extract every dime from us until we are homeless too.
I'm actually very surprised at how slow the LN dev is going. There is actually a working version of Raiden (full, not just µRaiden) on an ethereum testnet, I'm really not sure why LN on bitcoin is going so slowly.
I live in a studio with 8 lights, 2 over my desk, 4 over my living room, 2 over my bed (how I setup the place). The two light switches are wired to 4 and 4. Alexa + light control lets me group them into desk, living room, common area (desk + living room), bedroom, all lights. It's more convenient than light switches which give me absolutes of all on or too many on depending on what I'm doing. The alternative is to rewire the place, which I do not own.
Do you really think the employees making minimum wage are doing "all the work?" If that's true, this guy did literally nothing. Which I doubt. Anyway, it seems like he's done a decent job of trying to spread the wealth around (no idea if the claims are true, of course). FTA:

"He is one of the highest-profile leaders in managed care, known partly for sharing his personal health-care experiences after a severe ski accident years ago, and he is well-regarded by investors. He drew attention outside the industry for boosting the incomes of Aetna’s lowest-paid workers by as much as one-third a few years ago; he asked Aetna executives at the time to read economist Thomas Piketty’s book on wealth inequality."
Almost everyone I know willingly puts themselves under corporate surveillance (credit card?, cell phone?, license plates on car?, web browser?, cable tv?, netflix?, shopper rewards and discounts?).

If you were in my house Amazon wouldn't even know it was you talking.
Maybe you should have just turned off the light on your way out of the bathroom.
Comparisons like this inevitably break down at some point. I'm not at all convinced that the Aetna CEO does whatever the equivalent of sourcing materials does in their business. Architectural guidelines? Sure. "All details"? Almost definitely not.

Even taking your example at face value, I don't agree with it. The house wouldn't exist without either labourers or the planner. They are both vital. But in the Aetna situation, only one is rewarded.
Wow, $500 million bonus sounded ridiculous. But under the context that the company valuation went up by ~$59 billion, it doesn't sound too crazy at all.$500k bonus for increasing the value of company by ~50mil is stuff I've heard of before. But brain refused to compute it in terms of millions.

Can't say if he deserves it or not the the initial shock is definitely blunted in the context.