skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The question is, how much of the status quo your describe is because we're not in a self contained system, and actually outsource a lot of the problems to developing countries? If the system you describe was constrained to just the United States, and no goods or capital could enter or leave, would we expect a similar system? Because scaled up, that's the world in X decades. Unless we decide, and rely on, various insurrections, rebellions and regime changes to change the system in some countries such that there's always a third world economy to take advantage of. Even if that's the reality of the future (which I think is morally repugnant to rely on), there's no guarantee that cheap external labor won't be extremely constrained in the future, even if it's not entirely gone. (Unless we specifically cause it to be so through political maneuvering and war, but I like to think that's crackpot territory...).
Filter Linux's list to "scores > 8" to take the sampling bias into account - the only way to observe an AMT vulnerability in the first place is to gain remote super-root on a widely-deployed core system that may be a PITA to patch. That takes linux down to 27 for 2017. Of those, only about ten are for the kernel itself rather than for binary drivers for nvidia, broadcom, qualcomm, or htc hardware. About half of the total are marked "android"; given that my understanding is that the android kernel has significant changes I wouldn't be surprised if those are android-only exploits. The intersection leaves a grand total of 6 vulnerabilities that are in the actual linux kernel and comparable in severity to the two AMT compromises we've seen.

> I don't see the tech press not recommended OSX anymore !

I certainly don't rec apple. Never have, though previously for non-security reasons, and unless they do a lot of changing, never will.
> I couldn't find actual version control repositories for ncurses

https://github.com/ThomasDickey/ncurses-snapshots

This repo is generated by exporting from RCS(!):

http://invisible-island.net/personal/git-exports.html

There's also an unofficial git repo, which is more useful IMO:

http://ncurses.scripts.mit.edu/?p=ncurses.git;a=summary
That's assuming you can turn off those notifications. Some notifications can't be turned off. Or if there is a way then it's not immediately clear to me, the end user.
>It came to a point (for HN and RSS readers) where I would check articles every hour. It culminated with me mindlessly clicking article links, reading the title, scrolling through it (not reading), just familiarizing myself with single words passing through my hyper short attention-span, and getting a "feel" for what the article looked like. It was quite a scary when I did this one time for 30 minutes not remembering anything I have "read" whatsoever.

Not specifically about phones, but I have my router only allow access to sites like that for certain hours in the day. I can always log into the router to turn it off, but adding that extra bit of friction is usually enough to get me to check it later during the designated times.
Apparently, there is no level to avoid being imprisoned, but if you are suitably wealthy, you will be held at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel and Detainment Facility.
On the contrary. They’re pouring money into developing their own “digital currencies,” as they call them. Just don’t call them “cryptocurrencies.”

Blockchain is to (some) cryptocurrencies as security paper is to paper money. Nobody calls your Passport "paper money", even if it is made of security paper just like your $10 bill.

Settlements could be executed almost instantaneously on a bank-by-bank basis rather than having to be netted at the end of each working day by the respective central bank

Guess the author isn't aware about how bank transfers happen around the world. Many places aren't locked in banking pre-history like the US. EU, Brazil, India, all have "almost instantaneously on a bank-by-bank basis" transfers.

But perhaps the biggest area of interest for commercial banks is in the field of customer and counterparty identification and verification.

This is where blockchain actually matters. All the currency stuff is BS.
Middle class people can take advantage of those investment returns as well. A more interesting question to me is “Why aren’t they?”. A typical middle class person can still achieve significant upward mobility for their children, and yet they often choose not to. Is part of the problem with student debt not just that many parents of the last generation or two wasted their money rather than saving it to put their children through college? I’ve known a few people whose parents wouldn’t even attempt to take out Plus loans for them. The lack of upwards mobility seems to be based more on some sort of social disease than just economics at this point.
I wonder if Boeing's execs arrived at their strategy by the appeal of being contrarian to Airbus' bet. Perhaps they felt they had no choice: with the jumbo market fractured they might never be able to profit from it, so why not develop the alternative and hope for the best? No doubt they had data and information from their contacts at the airlines and could sense the brightness of the point-to-point future, but having no future in splitting the jumbo market with Airbus must have been a big factor too.
More like you can patent math when it is applied via a computer. So you would not be violating the patent by evaluating the S-box with pen and paper.

It makes no particular sense, but the theory behind math patents being out of bounds is that math is a fact. Software patents, including crypto patents, do not "feel" like facts to most judges, even if they technically are (see: Curry-Howard Correspondence).
Making my consulting company sustainable for the long term. 2017 was about getting up on our feet, 2018 is about figuring out how to keep work coming our way. I'm particularly looking forward to it because it finally feels like I'm doing work I'm uniquely able to do.
We're already in this situation and the data do not entirely agree with your anecdotes. Social mobility is quantifiably dropping. And that's a problem.

[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/07/social-...
> But is that empirical evidence talking about peoples' overall position, or their position with respect to one particular exchange?

It's about overall position, but the outcome of every particular exchange is a change to overall position; now, if the asymmetry in exchanges were essentially random, this wouldn't matter, but when you have a system with distinguishable classes, and there is a clear relationship between class role and which side of the asymmetry of exchange you tend to fall on across exchanges—say “capital” having the greater gain and “labor” the lesser—then you can end up with a situation where the pattern of exchange, each seemingly mutually beneficial but asymmetrically so, ends up producing more disutility from increasing inequality on one side than utility from absolute gain.
You are crazy if you think amazon isn't trying to get into advertising.

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/12/26/amazon-digital-advertising-p...

"Two media buyers said Amazon showed some willingness to share more user data than Google and Facebook have traditionally — if the advertising budget was big enough."

Pretty much the only way Amazon will have significant success here (IE not just stay #3 or worse) is if it is more willing to share data than Google or Facebook.
Scrolling on the Amiga
I find myself (mis)using my smartphone a lot more when I‘m down or exhausted. It’s a refuge, and it’s not a good one, just like your random drug. Browsing around past midnight leaves me feeling empty and my sleep quality suffers a lot. Fight with my wife? Go browsing. Kids are little devils and I can’t escape physically? Yep, check the feeds.

If I‘m feeling well (which is the case most of the time, thankfully), I can go the whole day without opening FB, or even the mail client.

Apart from the social isolation that smartphones bring with them, I‘m also worried about:

- How the constant suckling at the dopamine teat messes up our grasp of what is important and what isn‘t

- and how past-sundown-browsing can destroy your mood [1]. Those screens are comparatively dim for a light source, but they are also the only ones you point directly at your retina for hours on time. And I BET they will find even more dire consequences of unbalanced blue light exposure (vs full spectrum, ie including infrared light which has a restorative effect on retinal cells).

[1]: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5299389/
Rent for the Poor Really Is Too High
Well, Krugman has been very wrong about very important issues, several times. To the point that questioning his bias and ulterior motives is mandatory.

https://www.quora.com/What-things-has-Paul-Krugman-been-very...

There's nothing in his article. No content. He basically quotes a couple other articles, a personal unsubstantiated anecdote, a "let's talk", and the headline is "Bitcoin is evil".

Article is noise.
- "Innovate or die"

Thanks for this post, pretty amazing to read through these.
[12.2Hz for males, 12.8Hz for females, evidently.](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/9306739/)

Using two LRADs emitting ultrasound to cause a difference tone, and some sort of laser range finder to observe oscillation and adjust a phase locked loop, it should be possible to resonate the bodies of people in a crowd at will.

as heinous as it'd be to implement this, I kinda want to try it. but that's how we've gotten into this pickle, in the first place.
Dan Rather, Brian Williams, Brian Ross, Rolling Stone UVA story, CNN re: recent Trump misinformation. "Crucified" is strong, but there are consequences.

"On the Media" is a great program for analysing some of this behavior. Also, NYTimes Op-ed called it out recently. Frank Bruni, I think.
If a philanthropist wants to aim a lot of money at biomedical research, there's many good ways to do it, but I think the most high-impact, lowest-risk would be to fund clinical trials for non-patentable interventions. There are plenty of drugs and therapies that are well-known to work, but which can't be used (or can only be used through much-more-expensive variants) in clinical settings, due to the lack of anyone willing to fund the studies to formally prove their effectiveness to the FDA.

A notable example is recent efforts to fund a study on the use of corticosteroids and vitamin C to stabilize patients with sepsis [1]- this would be a huge impact on mortality for patients with all sorts of diseases, since sepsis is a common consequence of lowered immune system functioning or post-surgical infections, but since neither corticosteroids or vitamin C are patentable, there's no commercial incentive to fund trials. Another example is the use of MDMA as a psychiatric drug- any highschool dropout can tell you that it works as a powerful mood-elevating chemical with relatively rare and benign side effects (at least by the standards of psychopharmaceuticals,) but clinical trials were only recently begun after decades of agitating from psychiatrists.

The most potent benefits from philanthropic funding tend to be in areas that can't be reached by conventional for-profit commercial work. There's still much more low-hanging fruit out there.
Check the securityrating of any domain
I wonder if your feelings are related to the Bouba/Kiki effect.
> I couldn't find actual version control repositories for [...] nethack

https://github.com/NetHack/NetHack
Personal attacks are not allowed here. Please read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. You'll notice there's also a guideline explicitly asking users not to do the "did you read the article" trope.
The first three are from countries where Eads doing well is a political thing: Britain Germany and France own chunks of airbus and have a lot invested in it doing well. The former flag carriers are only nominally independent from the state.
Each bank/financial institution will probably have its own blockchain for its own purposes. But if they need to make a transaction to another bank's blockchain, they can use the Interledger protocol [1] to do so.

[1] https://interledger.org/
In 28 days later the zombies all starve to death after six months or so. The hard part is just surviving that long without getting infected. Most zombies in fiction are implied to be supernatural though. So a scientific explanation is unnecessary.
Bitcoin Cash has enough space in it's blocks to cover all of Bitcoin's and Bitcoin Cash' transactions.... for now.

Your $3 Bitcoin transaction might get cancelled before it gets written to the blockchain...
>People will dishonestly refer to it as a 'Muslim Ban' despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary

I stand by this statement, as 'Muslim ban' is semantically false; Muslims are not banned from the US. If you can disprove this let me know.
While it's regularly said that 'we're the richest we've ever been', how justifiable a comment is that? At the most basic level we surely would consider wealth to be the ability to comfortably afford housing, food, healthcare, some solid entertainment, and have plenty saved away for a comfortable retirement or in cases of emergencies. Yet we live in a nation where 69% [1] of people have less than $1k saved, and 85% have less than $10k. About 1 out of 8 people are on food stamps. Education is completely unaffordable for most people without taking on very substantial levels of debt. One of the few things able to compete against education costs are healthcare costs which are growing similarly unreasonable for most people.

How has the average life experience between the quintiles changed? I think this is something that cannot be so easily quantified, even more so when there's subjectivity involved in the quantification. So for instance it's easy to consider ourselves rich when we do things like look at prices 'back in the day.' A quick search for prices in the 50s gives me $21 [2] for a toaster in 1951. That'd be about $200 today. So, at a glance, it makes it seem like we must be fabulously wealthy for anybody to be able to afford for $10 or $20 what would have been a fairly meaningful purchase back then. But then we get into weird things when we start looking at relative pricing. Another datum [3] there is that you could get a 1958 Chevrolet Corvette for $3631 in 1958 dollars. But wait... that's only about 180 toasters...? In toaster relative prices that'd be like getting a nice Porsche today for $1800 - $3600!

Of course the relative prices of things change over time, and this is something that inflation completely misses. I'd be curious to know exactly how, which is why I think examining a representative lifestyle in the different quintiles over time would be most informative. How much of the representative income was spent on what things? How distant were their remaining consumer desires away from their means? How much were they able to save? What would be the expected economic impact of some sort of emergency? Inflation alone is far too imprecise a measurement to answer these questions or, equivalently, to justify the grand statements it's used to make.

[1] - https://www.fool.com/investing/2016/09/25/how-much-does-the-...

[2] - http://www.thepeoplehistory.com/50selectrical.html

[3] - http://www.thepeoplehistory.com/1950s.html
A post on an ex-leader of the United States regarding technology should not be flagged.
Technique to allow AI to learn words in the flow of dialogue developed
earlier this you I was on a skype conference from home with a colleague called Alex and a client.

At one point the conversation triggered alexa and i had to apologise and quickly pull the plug
I lived in multiple countries when I was young. When I first took my IQ test in my home country, I scored abnormally high. I can't deny this helped me a lot with my confidence growing up.

Then I moved away from my home country and lived abroad for a while.

Then I moved back. By then I had lost a lot of my language skills for my own native tongue since I've been speaking the other language for a while, as in I could understand and speak fluently, but my language skills were still stuck at the level of my younger self, since that was when I had left the country.

A bit after I returned to my home country I took another IQ test because the school made us. I scored low. It wasn't like I scored under average, but it was so significantly lower than my original score that I had an existential crisis.

Thankfully I didn't lose all my confidence because I kept doing well in math and other subjects, but I can say it really had a traumatic effect on me. Most people won't understand because nobody goes through such a drastic IQ change in their lives unless they were in an accident or something.

Well guess what, I took another test later on in my life after getting my language ability back to normal, and was happy to find that my IQ has recovered.

My theory is that a lot of these IQ tests involve language skills. One good example is those logical expression tests where you have to parse through all the cryptic logical expressions and come to a conclusion.

But I don't think it's just language skills. There are many other factors that go into IQ tests that make it an extremely unreliable measure for intelligence. After all, none of us--including whoever invented the IQ test--understands even 1% of how human intelligence work.

Anyway, all this first hand experience made me realize how stupid this whole IQ thing was. It really fucks with your mentality when it really is NOT an objective way to measure intelligence. (Remember, I now have my high IQ back, so it's not like I'm saying this because I'm salty that I scored low)
I'm sure there are many people out there who have very high intelligence in certain areas but got low IQs and just grew up with low confidence. This is absolutely unfair and if anything I think schools should ban IQ tests for this very reason. The IQ test is the very thing that contributes to all this inequality bullshit.
Would you please share references to your stated Cassandra superiority over Blockchain? Thanks.
Haha, no, you can't. Since when do humans learn from their mistakes?
Manipulating men by challenging their masculinity is one of the oldest tricks in the book. The British used it to divide India - the "martial races" were rustic, manly warriors, the "non-martial races" (read: the ones who opposed British imperialism) were effete, urbane bookworms. The Romans and Greeks likely built up stereotypes about archery as unmanly at least in part to encourage their citizens to volunteer for the brutal, thankless job of being infantrymen. One of the ways medieval christian Europe vilified Jewish men was to claim they were so feminine they menstruated monthly, and therefore were inhuman monsters (medieval christian europe was also really sexist, btw).

That environmentalism may accidentally be pressing those same buttons is quite unfortunate, but not unexpected to me. We see things like rolling coal as a deliberate attempt by some men to "combat" what they perceive as non-masculine green living, and there did seem to be an attempt to spin the fracking debate into a gendered issue. Ideally we'd have grown past this as a society, but I guess people are going to be people whatever the age.

I personally have always been pretty comfortable violating gender norms on these types of issues. The idea of not doing things I enjoyed just because it was supposed to be "for girls" always struck me as absurd. Or conversely, doing things I hated (getting dirty, playing football, drinking beer) just because that's what men do and you want to be manly don't you?
> - What do you hate about terminals?

Having to use the mouse to select/highlight/copy output I didn't know I was interested in until after it'd been outputted. Being able to export/open the currently visible history/output to an editor would be great.

> - What do you love about terminals?

Unless I'm suddenly interested in the output of a previously run command that can't be reproduced, I can interface with them without using the mouse at all.
They also said it would take 90 days to implement "extreme vetting". If it was just about trusting other governments, they wouldn't have promised that at all.

Why haven't they done it nearly a year later? Probably a good indicator not to blindly trust autocrats who run election campaigns on xenophobia.
All the transaction stuff is useless. Blockchain is actually really bad for that: it utilizes a centralized ledger.

Money today is completely decentralized. There is no central registry of where every single piece of money is, which has to be updated every time anyone makes a transaction. It flows and is converted to goods and vice versa in a completely decentralized and parallel way.

Remember: the ledger is completely centralized (there is a single, unique, monolithic ledger). Only processing of the ledger is distributed.

It is probably the worst possible way to design a currency.
Poor idiots collectively have the capability to project their stupidity onto national policy as well. Maybe we should reduce the size and scope of national policy to minimize the impact of idiots, rich or poor.
My parents had paid off their mortgage when they were my age. My father was self employed and my mother a housewife. I’m on a reasonably good salary but banks won’t loan us enough to buy an averaged sized family home even though we have a reasonable deposit. My partner would have to be on an equally sized salary but her teaching job pays very little.

Sure we have some nicer gadgets and personal comforts but the cost of accommodation and property has skyrocketed way out of proportion.
You're right; my post was a mistake. I regret that I didn't read the article too carefully before posting. Alarmingly, instead of getting ignored or downvoted, I got a bunch of upvotes. What gives?
It’s not like nobody’s tried before. The term ’software engineering’ precisely stems from the idea that software development should be more like other engineering disciplines.

That those attempts didn’t work out probably has less to do with developer hubris but with software engineering indeed being different from other engineering disciplines.

After all, we don’t think of medicine in terms of ‘medical engineering’ or ‘human bio-system maintenance’ either, simply because it’s something else.

Besides, certificates are rampant in the IT industry. Most of those however tend to say very little about the actual skills of the ones certified.
I want one sounding like EDI from massefect II and II or Orac from Blakes 7
> So, this is not a discussion about whether or not you can specify IP addresses in the SNI hostname field?

In fact, no. This is a discussion about whether textual representations of IP addresses can be used as inputs to tools that speak SNI, be used to specify a particular cert on the server side, and be conveniently extracted out of the sniffed network traffic comprising that handshake.

As it happens, the input conversion, the processing for usage in code written for spec implementation, the network stack conversions, and the sniffer capture reconversion back to a text representation for human viewing are all manipulative of the data.

But all of these manipulations are predictable and reversible, and if you want to call one of those data stages a "DNS FQDN", that's great but it isn't inherently correct, outside of the context of the spec which deigns to treat all final mapping tokens as DNS FQDNs, and to label them such -- but does not actually make them fully-qualified, nor the results of DNS queries.

We might have different opinions about the context of this discussion, but I would suggest that if you were to reread the thread from the beginning, there's really not much opportunity for confusion.

In any event, it's clear that this discursion is not advancing anyone's understanding of anything. Good luck in your future endeavours.
Poor abstract and conclusions IMHO. I learnt nothing from them except "it's complicated."
"objections they cost a lot of money"

The premise being that low cost is optimal.