skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Contemporary economy has surprising amount of internal inefficiency causing most of the value to be wasted.

This is the point “Efficiency Cult Capitalists” seem to miss. They think market forces will drive conpanies to be more efficient, but they don’t reliably do so except in the very long term (larger timescales than a typical human career length.)

As a startup your costs are high relative to your income and so you have an incentive to use labor efficiently (VC incentive warping aside.) The only way you can grow profits is by using labor to grow production or marketing.

But one you have an established share of the market, the equation reversed and you have lots of revenues and relatively smaller costs. In addition you have a new production-neutral way to create value: you can use labor to build a moat that will prevent competitors from springing up in your wake.

This decreases labor efficiency, because you’re doing more labor and not increasing production at all. But it creates value by stalling depreciation on your previous capital expensitures.

It’s not clear to me what incentives decide how much companies invest in production vs moat building. In the case of software companies I’ve seen it seems to be that moat maintenance is typically at least half of the labor. I have no idea how that gets established. I would be interested if anyone has ideas on how that balance gets struck.

Of course inefficiency is opportunity. And so high rollers can use a bunch of cash to crash over someone’s moat, and then compete with them on efficiency. However, the market incentive here is that once you are over the moat you just split the market. Both companies save the cost of actually investing resources in efficiency, the moat buster gets a return for their effort.

However, I do think there is another opportunity: if you can get over the moat, and then instead of trying to own the market yourself (at which point you are competing on level terms with the incumbent) if you can create a private market (like Lyft, AdWords, etc) then you invite a thousand smaller companies to compete on efficiency... this allows you to marshal a larger volume of management resources than a CEO could direct, which gives you an advantage against the incumbent. You will shrink the overall profit pool (due to increased efficiency) and you have to share that pool with your contractors, BUT you have a shot at taking the entire market, so that could be worth more than the cabal spoils you’d get coordinating with the incumbent.
MIT Distributed Systems Reading Group
I got this guy and this allows me to read / play games in my bathtub

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/Original-Portable-Light-Weig...
Sorry about that. I’m indeed going to switch to a verification email system. In the meanwhile, if you wish, you can send your email address to hello@dataprism.co and I’ll add you manually.
What is Nav Coin? A privacy focused cryptocurrency with a centralization problem
my fiance says the same. Her main issue is the landscape difference; she plays a lot of games.
I guess there is quite a paradox, that non-native English speakers know some grammar concepts better than the native ones. I also think that it's an extreme example and somewhat I refuse to believe that college students do not know the difference.

I also was told that non-native speakers can better distinguish between 'well' and 'good', and the usual suspects 'you', 'your', 'you're'. The latter is so basic that I am bewildered when native speakers cannot understand the difference.
Serious question not addressed in the article: Why don't they move out of California?
Tethr: Android Tethering Provisioning Check Bypass (CVE-2017-0554)
In my experience, linux locking up for minutes at a time while in a swapping situation happens if the disk is encrypted or not, and is a function of a crappy swapping algorythm.
So the main constraint on the battery is throughput, not storage capacity?
I'm trying to view the recent FCC Net Neutrality reversal in a positive light; will it finally force us to abandon traditional ISPs? Building a mesh seems like the proper solution to ISPs that won't treat our packets with respect. Given the correct cost/performance ratio I think we could see a mass of tiny devices scattered around the neighborhood/town/city/state/country with backhauls in as many places as possible.

If they are cheap enough and self configuring then we could just plug them in to any available electrical outlet and go. Put a couple in your house and put a couple in your parent's/sister's/cousin's house. Talk to your neighbors and have them plug a couple in. Head to the local taco place and have them plug a couple in. It shouldn't be hard to get everyone on board: "Plug this in and get free {libre|beer} Internet access!"
And on German news sites: http://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/service/strompreise-steigen...

Strom wird zu Jahresbeginn noch teurer

Die Strompreise sind hoch wie nie - und es geht noch weiter: Das Verbraucherportal Verivox rechnet für das kommende Jahr mit einem Preissprung. Obwohl die Versorger Nachlass geben könnten.
Hadn't heard about that one before, here are more details:

https://software.intel.com/en-us/blogs/2016/06/09/intel-rele...
> If you made your house/apartment a Faraday cage

Might put a crimp on your cell phone reception ...
I tried to get a Pinebook from those Pine64 guys but never heard back from them. Not sure I'd recommend them since they didn't even send a confirmation email or anything of the sort.
as an aside, i think dan luu's writings are some of the best on interweb: articulate, methodical, concise.
Two reasons, profitability and they are locked into the hashing algorithm. They can realistically only switch to BCH.
Most people. Here in Palo Alto, for example, my choice is Comcast or AT&T, but AT&T offers only dsl and, having tried it, the fastest I could get was 768kbs even though I’m less than a mile from the CO.

My vacation house offers the same choice: Comcast of AT&T but, like the cheese shop, I can’t actually choose AT&T, only Comcast. And that’s in town.
Lamé's Theorem – the very first application of Fibonacci numbers
Erlang uses a {H|T} pattern matching convention in lieu of language keywords. For what it is worth (limit x | x -> 0), I think Erlang is an exceptionally elegant piece of engineering as engineering. But it's not the 90% use case. Then again, neither is Lisp, ML, or Rust. The 90% use case these days is Javascript. Which I would hesitate to associate with the phrase "elegant piece of engineering" without an "in" prefix.

Python and Javascript may have pairs. They just live at the bottom of a Turing Tarpit.
>"That is, is visa overstay travel fraud enough to justify spending $1 billion on a system"

Not sure how this applies specifically to visa-overstays? A visa overstay need not check your facial identification. It just needs to check that your document + visa overstayed the alloted time period or whatever rule it's comprised of.

Sounds like a business rule a code-monkey could implement within a couple programming hours.
Having done 2nd grade in the Philippines and the rest of my education in the USA, I would say that their schooling is much more difficult and they are pushed harder. In addition the school days were longer and the culture there really promoted the importance of academic success. Here in the USA it's almost frowned upon to some degree-- if you're smart, you're a nerd.

And yes, at least in my area (Southeast USA) people do not know punctuation rules. Most of them write okay, but comma splices, apostrophes, semicolons, etc. would trip them up.
that's what I get for not reading
Rust's safety was partly inspired from such spending on Cyclone, a safe version of C. The NSF and other organizations fund tons of work on clean-slate languages, type systems, formal methods, etc. The academic incentives usually lead to quickly thrown together prototypes that arent production ready. Even the good ones rarely get used by programmers in general. Ocaml was one of the exceptions. What gets adoption is normally a language/platform with a knock-off of their efforts pushed by a big company or used in a "killer app." Bandwagons in other words.

The consistently-low adoption of clean-slate tech along with lock-in effecta means the opposite is true: massive investment should go into making most common tech more correct, secure, and recoverable as simple as possible for users. If clean-slate, it should stay close as possible to what people already know with clean integrations. We can also continue to invest in ground-breaking stuff for niches that use them (eg SPARK Ada for aerospace) and/or new bandwagons that might build on them (eg Rust ecosystem).
Lots of factors

- Have always lived in california and

- have all their friends
there

- family lives there

- are afraid of moving and starting completely new

- are introverts and would look at being lonely for several years before they would have some friends

- would mean they would have a long distance relationship
with their gf/bf if she can't
move/doesn't want

It's a bit easier
if you're in your 20s, but harder later
I had an answer typed up, but it felt like picking on them rather than explaining the issue. Text is hard.

After submitting changes that started 10 indents past the previous line, and had little to no rhyme or reason for subsequent indentation, we asked them to reformat and resubmit. When it became clear that they could not, we reviewed the code itself separately from the indentation and reformatted it ourselves.

Multiple co-workers sat next to them to try to explain how to line things up vertically, but they were unable to do so without said help.

This was over the course of about two weeks in which we were instructed to try to bring them onboard some of our projects. Both our and their projects at the time were frontend web projects.

I have not looked at any of their code outside what was submitted to our side, but I do know they are praised for the quality of their work by management.
Fairfax handles Facebook with kid gloves over fake news
How to use Kotlin's 'it also let apply run'
if it's well specified but hard to convert into an executable it's time you invest in selling a transpiler into your specific domain - however, if the problem is creating the algorithm and not whatever language you're using then we're telling the same thing
1.4B password breach compilation wordlist
Bitcoin is not a win until you sell it at a profit (which you may have done...I’m just saying.)
What's something that happened in your career that changed your way of thinking?
There is one valid rule for testing for bad passwords: IS IT KNOWN?

The combination of characters, length, or rotation mean nothing if a password is on a known list. It should be absolutely mandatory for all password-authenticated service providers to test against such lists when accounts and passwords are registered.

You should be talking to your bank, other financial institution(s), ISP or broadband providers, online services (Facebook, Google, Twitter, etc.), governmental offices, and asking them, pointedly, whether they are doing this, and if not, why not.

You should be contacting your legislative representation at city, regional, state, and national levels and requesting that such procedures be adopted into statutes and regulations.

And yes, there are space-efficient ways of checking for matches, look up Bloom Filters:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloom_filter

I have been fighting this particular fight, inside and outside tech and service companies, for the past two decades. I've mostly lost. I'm getting tired of losing.

Note that the link is to the project page and not directly to the full list, though that's reachable from the page.
I'd add that both teaching well and learning well are difficult skills: https://jakeseliger.com/2011/01/24/why-dont-students-like-sc...

Many teachers and professor also develop unfortunate carapaces; if a student wants real coaching and mentoring, it helps to think about those carapaces: https://jakeseliger.com/2010/10/02/how-to-get-your-professor...
please let the team know how it goes. PyPy windows needs more feedback and contributors
> The bigger issue is that Congress hasn't issued a specific mandate for this collection (by a private entity) and spending authority for the apparently ~$1B program. The article's concerns are for a more intrusive security state without congressional authority.

Posted about this 200 days ago.

"The first legislative mandate for an automated identity check on departing foreign visitors dates back to the 1996 Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act, and since 9/11 Congress has passed three laws requiring the Department of Homeland Security to set up a biometric exit system."

Doesn't address the citizen part but they'll sell it as "national security" and of course citizen data is immediately discarded 
.

https://www.fedscoop.com/cbp-will-implement-long-mandated-bi...

Edit: Apparently they responded to this report a few days ago: https://www.fedscoop.com/cbp-biometric-and-face-recognition-...
How useful is a currency where the transaction fee is $6 at the current price? This is much cheaper than last week when it was $25/transactions? Gone are the days of gambling on Satoshi Dice and buying things on Silk Road. Now we are to believe that Bitcoin is an inherent store of wealth?!?

Edit: The fees are above $20 now.
I've also heard that negative power prices are an indicator that excessive subsidies are present in the market. Is this true? I think I saw it here on HN in the comments a year or two ago when it happened in Texas.
Didn't quite get this. Where is the emulation of super itself?
Expected something like auto super = static_cast<base_type*>(this)...
America's trade wars are heating up as US firms sue for relief
Ask HN: Trump Tax Plan Effect on Sole Proprietors / 1099
Under the new tax plan, I was reading that there will be a 20% deduction on net income for "pass through entities". As freelancers/contractors who are paid for app development services, does that mean we get a big tax break? For instance, does a Sole Proprietor (pass through entity) who uses their SSN and is a 1099 contractor that nets 100K/year now only need to pay taxes on 80K?

Source: https://mic.com/articles/186972/the-gop-tax-bill-could-create-a-nation-of-freelancers
This attitude (let's not call it a quote) seems to often be offered up as evidence that there isn't much merit to such inter-generational kvetching. But if this attitude was contemporaneous with Socrates and Plato, then the Hellenic world was indeed in decline (Rome would conquer Greece in only a few hundred years and in Spengler's regime the whole Apollonian world had already entered its autumn period) and why should the recurrence not be because our own world has reached a homologous point in its development?
That is a very literal interpretation of post"mortem" to which I don't subscribe in this context. The Oxford Shorter English dictionary I have on this iPad also includes this definition: "An analysis or discussion conducted after the conclusion of a game, examination, or other event." (I won't get involved in a discussion of what a dictionary is or what its purpose is, sorry.)

I also like and use the term postmortem to mean what this author calls retrospectives, and use the term retrospective to mean a more general look back without being event-based.
What is this? A std library function?
EU News sites to Charge for incoming links - The extra EU copyright for news
'Teachers, chefs, nurses and other middle class workers living in cars...'

Shame they couldn't find any for the body of the article?
This happens nearly every spring in Washington state.

The mountain snow pack melts in the spring causing a dramatic rise in river water levels. There are several hydro dams in the state, and the flooding rivers mean that more electricity is produced than the entire state could possibly consume.
The surplus electricity is represented as a negative price on the energy market.
This negative price simply means the power utilities will pay another utility in Oregon or California to take the power off the Washington grid.

It's really just a curious phenomenon of energy markets, not exactly breaking news.

edit: consumers don't see the benefits of the negative prices because it's short-lived: usually lasting a few weeks in March. The consumer's rates are often based on an averaged total power cost over the year.
I don't think its ISA randomization if the EETimes article is accurate:

> Morpheus works its magic by constantly changing the location of the protective firmware with hardware that also constantly scrambles the location of stored passwords.

Constantly changing the location sounds like dynamic ASLR.

I looked at umich to see if there was anything more detailed but all I found was this press release which is pretty much the same article:

http://www.eecs.umich.edu/eecs/about/articles/2017/morpheus....
The original point was valid - that it is hard to read writing with many spelling and grammar errors.
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Quoting from the red docs:

So, in short, what is Parse? It is an embedded DSL (we
call them "dialects" in the Rebol world) for parsing
input series using grammar rules.
Did you read the entire thing?

> The people I once called sheep, aren't that. They just didn't have the means to roll the dice.

Source: later in blog.
If you don’t know what you don’t know it’s hard to be pithy. You claim that one device in particular you happened to own has a certain characteristic failure, yet offer no discussion of the n on the issue, distribution, nor anything else really except “well I felt this way”

Then you claim that thermal throttling is somehow unique to Apple yet every device these days does such thermal management, and such things we’ve even visible at the user code level (e.g. selection of vector instruction use).

And when you look at the trade shipping any product, and what defects are considered acceptable... you write as if you have zero experience or visibility into any of these issues.

So what’s the relevance? Your argument is unconvincing because you haven’t made any effort to justify it.
It depends strongly on the school. I received almost a whole year of instruction on analyzing other people's arguments, spotting the use of logical fallacies, and constructing your own coherent arguments. We spent a lot of time reading both "news" and opinion articles from current events and analyzing how the author was trying to influence you / the quality of their arguments.

I still count it as one of the most influential classes I have ever taken, and it was 11th grade English at a public school.
And don't lick your fingers after handling leaded solder. Wash them first (with soap and warm water). Otherwise, I totally agree: it is easier to use and less frustrating, and the dangers are overrated (or: the dangers from lead-free fumes are underrated).

Me: I use leaded solder, I have a fan, I don't lick my fingers (while soldering).
> The people I once called sheep, aren't that. They just didn't have the means to roll the dice.

One thing I see often and often (I've done it too) is that when you quit your job to pursue your dream, everybody else working at a job is a sucker. They are too comfy in their life sucking job and one day they will get fired and realize that they wasted their time making someone else rich.

I was lucky that failure caught up with me really fast and I realized I am no better then others (so did the author).

But I've seen cases where the person believes in this so much that even after catastrophic failure they can't go back to a job because, well, of all the horrible things they said about being an employee.

I was in start up school this year and one of the common theme was about people who where at the brink of losing their home for an idea that was not even close to ready to launch. The instructor stress them to get a job.
This can easily be related to how lots of educators think that every kid should learn how to code, e.g. "It's the new literacy." Well, considering how illiterate most kids are at school it'd help to focus there as well.
>...I know their checkout people are paid much better then other places and it is clear why, they scan those things like a lightning.

I'm an industrial engineer. I love efficiency. I primarily shop at Aldi because the prices beat anywhere else and I love finding the little things they do to be efficient.

Only a couple employees at a time working, sharing all jobs as needed.

Conveyor belts long enough to hold approximately 1 cart of groceries. This lets everything get queued up for the checker.

Leaving the boxes with the product. One waste stream is manged by reuse then recycling by customers while also avoiding the cost of bags.

No local phone number publicly listed. Cuts calls out.

Barcode on most sites of product so they don't need to be in a specific orientation.

their POS is setup for speed. They can scan an item and type a quantity quickly. At other grocery stores I haven't seen this happen (probably partially because of the large number of similar but not identical items).

almost all produce is pre-weighed and price labeled, or by quantity.

By having only one of most products, they reduce waste from low-running products going bad.

*They don't stock every single thing you need. It's a bit annoying to not have Worcestershire sauce when you need it, but in my experience Aldi is nearby other shopping venues.

Also their pricing for spices cannot be beat. It's only about 18 basic spices carried, but I've never seen a cheaper price per unit.
Maybe I could have been more clear. I agree with you and was echoing your sentiment with a couple of questions to back up your point.
I am brazilian and our education system is notoriously bad, any international ranking can attest it. I've seen many brutal errors made by university students, but this particular example striked me as almost unbelievable. Thanks for the answer
Thanks a lot for sharing.
I'm impressed by your perseverance and so glad to see things have been working out for you lately.
Best of Luck!
A valuable read. It's slightly surprising to consider that not wanting a court intervention doesn't come from a lack of trust in the pursual of convictions.

I was more considering the CCC's perspective, though - they can demand the court as an authority, but their own political position would make that authority easily dismissable. What does a hacker group even consider as the "word of God", so to speak, if not their own community? Any kind of consensus-building about "what (actually) happened" will just seem steeped in CYA-dishonesty.
While you're here, have you donated[0][1] yet? :) You may or may not be aware, but FreeBSD runs your movies on Netflix, your games on PlayStation and Nitendo Switch, your files on FreeNAS and ZFS, your friends on WhatsApp and OpenBSD runs everything else on OpenSSH. ;)

So, you may or may not know that, but you need FreeBSD and OpenBSD and they also need you! Every cent counts and so does every contributor, that helps the foundations keep their non-profit status. Also, you CAN be the change, if you specify what you'd like your donation to be used for (like more secure defaults for the OS).

[0] https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/donate/

[1] https://www.openbsd.org/donations.html
Just want to chime in: Likewise with my kids. They've been writing paper after paper since middle school. Both have been taught a lot about good writing and critical thought. Other subjects are similarly rigorous. My kids study more in high school than I studied in college.

With that said, there's certainly a disparity in education quality depending on where you live, and how affluent you are. In addition, for kids who attend college, there's a disparity across departments and majors based on the high school background of the students. It is possible that for whatever reason, the author of that article ended up assigned to teaching a "fluff" course at their college.
once you transfer your btc by revealing your private key, can't someone else go ahead and claim those free alt-coins?