skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Marshall Field's Company
I completely agree that the richest should contribute to society, especially as someone in the middle class. However, let's pretend I was born into the wealthiest class. If I inherit a business, that business provides jobs (ie. wages) for people, and is a functioning part of the economic system. Does that mean I am not contributing?

Regardless of how rich I am, I still need to eat and live and put clothes on my back. Are these not contributions?

Or are you suggesting that the wealthiest are parasites simply because they should contribute more to society than someone less financially well off?
A Python internals adventure (2014)
>Sorry, but "running but not vulnerable" is not nearly good enough nowadays.

What does that mean practically? What you said applies to every networked device and tech. All routers, all computers, all OSs, all voip phones, etc, etc are 'one vulnerability away'. from total compromise.
32 = with 5 finger chording or gestures you can get every symbol, should be enough for everybody
Au contraire, whataboutism is not always a logical fallacy. It can be simultaneously true that a) Israel is a human rights violator and b) BDS focuses on Israel to the exclusion of other human rights violators because of the anti-Semitic beliefs of their members.

Edit: a different explanation - it's true that "what about other human rights violators" is a logical fallacy in the context of Israeli human rights violations. But, our topic is immigration bans, and Israeli belief in BDS anti-Semitism and the corresponding ban on individuals entering the country is not necessary fallacious just because this point is irrelevant to the topic of Israeli human rights violations.
Solved it for 50% of the cost:

https://www.amigaforever.com/emulator/

can I have my $1M now.

of course the $250 computer to run the emulator will have to come out of the school systems half.
People who love this genre hang out at https://www.reddit.com/r/rational They call it "rational fiction".

There is quite some overlap with fan fiction, because people like to "fix" non-rational fiction. Eliezer Yudkowsky and his take on Harry Potter is the prime example. I can also recommend Alexander Wales who also made original fiction.

Probably the oldest related work is A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain.

Another name mentioned often in this genre is Brandon Sanderson and especially his Mistborn series, but I have not read it personally.
WHO report concludes CBD “exhibits no effects indicative of any abuse”[pdf]
When you’re unarmed you have no option to use a weapon to defend an innocent life. When you’re armed and have the option, you need to determine whether the risk of using a weapon is worth the potential risk of unintended side effects causing unintended damage.

These are two very different situations. If you fail to understand the difference then I hope you never go out into public armed, and maybe you should consider never owning anything primarily used as a weapon at all.
If by production you mean GDP, it's not as simple as that. Increasing production is not the only meaningful way to improve peoples lives.

GDP is a very rough indicator for a society's standard of living and well being. GDP is really bad at measuring things like health, household productivity, technology changes, education, leisure, environment, etc - all which may not show up in GDP.
If we're unlucky, the 'black swan event' will be something along the likes of Pluto's Kiss. Imagine a Morris worm equivalent, but which bricks the computers it infects after destroying the filesystem.

Even if everyone has backups of everything, offline, it'll be years before all the destroyed computers can actually be replaced. This isn't a scenario I want to happen for real.
You'd like Ramez Naam's 'infinite resource' if you like this quote.
hmm...have they checked out ROS? I feel like this can be built on top of ROS as a package rather than an independent framework.

http://www.ros.org/
You're talking past me. It's an important flaw. It should be fixed where possible. It should be mitigated where not possible.

It's not remotely The Worst Vulnerability Ever and any attempt to hyperbolize in that direction is hurting the efforts of the people actually trying to protect you.
IIRC Israel has been willing to negotiate about those areas for a permanent peace.

So far I think Egypt is the only neighbouring country that isn't formally at war with them anymore.

Given those circumstances I kind of understand why they wont give away anything gor now.
Inside the secret chocolate garden built to avert a cocoa crisis
Writeup here: https://www.healthline.com/health-news/report-on-marijuana-i...
I don't see Binance on here either.
The biggest issue with any sort of basic income is that landlords and grocery store owners will just ever-increase their prices.

How do we combat that?
That's a good point - the wealthiest are wealthy because they rely on the economy to continue functioning.
A pretty easy litmus test of whether a country is worth visiting: would you be comfortable standing on a corner in a major city with a sign critical of the dominant religion?
on a similar note, I'd like to have better job listing aggregators. Something that better understands me.

Currently, when I search for fresher jobs, I always end up getting jobs for 5-6 year experience, or those way away from cities I entered, or those from completely irrelevant fields.

NLP and Deep Learning should be able to do this.
> Why not let the market decide ? Supersonic flight wasn’t cost effective.

Supersonic flight was mostly killed by US political decisions, not by economics.
Building Real-Time Analytics Dashboards with Postgres and Citus
Deco: Delimiter Collision Free Format
Sure, this is a case where change could have only happened if everybody else joined in at the same time. If you're the only browser to correctly implement the syntax requirements of XML for XHTML:

* all existing sites are broken because they're not XHTML but HTML

* any "working" XHTML page might break because the author didn't test in your browser

* any CMS-based website might break randomly because a content writer used broken markup or used the WYSIWYG editor in a non-compliant browser

* any CMS-based website might break randomly because the developers forgot about some edge case that results in bad markup

Not to mention that even if you somehow manage to radicalise every other browser vendor to the point where they implement XHTML with yellow pages of death (and also remove HTML support to force authors to migrate) you still only have well-formedness guarantees but the markup itself might still be nonsense or semantically invalid.

But pointing and laughing is frankly disingenuous. Though the problem is inherently unsolvable (just ask any programmer using a typed language whether they trust code just because it compiles without errors) not having certain checks at the infrastructure level doesn't prevent developers from writing correct and maintainable code if they chose to and understand how.

The reason the web was so full of shitty code for most of its existence is that "real developers" didn't take it seriously and refused to learn the technologies. So the majority of code was written by people who either didn't care to understand what they were doing or had no programming experience (because "real programmers" deemed it unworthy of their expertise).

And finally, the reason WHATWG's HTML revision was so well-received was primarily that it also defined appropriate error handling for real-world situations. The W3C spec on the other hand ignored the possibility of errors, leaving these decisions up to the vendors (who had a vested interest in making sure all sites "work").
That’s actually a bit of a loaded argument... we assert that all arbitrage profit must be at least counterbalanced by various kinds of risk (including liquidity risk, counterparts risk, & cetera) because we're assuming that we're operating in an efficient market. We should actually reason the opposite way around: analytically evaluate all sources of risk, compare it to the expected profit, and if the latter is no greater than the former, deduce that we are in an efficient market.
One of the upsides of BTC is that it is supposed to be costless and frictionless to sell across the globe, yet 1k+ arbs exist across exchanges. So much for that argument. Maybe segwit2 will help, or another altcoin will actually remove friction.
The fad of "microservices" is a disaster start-to-finish.

Don't be fooled into believing that microservices are popular based on technical merit. As the parent noted, this will just make things harder by trying to micro-ize a startup. Microservices are a thing primarily for their political convenience and dynamic, and they're just dressed up as a technical thing.

[Sideline: most of our technical fads are this way. Err on the side of "letting developers feel important and special while requiring as little effort as possible". Cloud servers are this way because it makes Unix greybeards transparent, and the brogrammer won't have to feel inadequate next to him/her, OR worry about esoteric command-line incantations. Document databases are this way for the same reasons, but replace esoteric command-line incantations with esoteric SQL aggregates (or any useful schema development at all, actually) and greybeards with DBAs. Rinse and repeat for every major development fad.]

Microservices are popular due to Conway's Law [0]. They give an out to people who would rather avoid the difficulties of interfacing, deliberating, and collaborating with other people in their organization. They don't have to decide on a common language, they don't have to decide on a common style, they don't have to do anything; they can go run amok, treating the company codebase as their personal playground, under cover of "super cool new-wavy best practices". "Google is doing it. You want to be like Google, right?"

There are potential good designs that would qualify as "microservice architectures", but I've seen them only rarely. What I see more often is what I like to call "brittle-services": dozens of tiny, fragile, interdependent units that are virtually impossible to debug, instrument, or reason about cohesively.

At $DAY_JOB, we have tons of these; if one service starts to slack off, there is a giant waterfall -- ahem -- of failures that cascades across everything else. The software has been structured this way for purely political reasons, even though no one would be willing to admit it.

Like everything else important, good software design boils down to designers with substantial experience, good judgment, and the authority and respect to see their designs faithfully implemented. Unfortunately for the hoi polloi, it can't be generalized into a formula or paradigm like "use microservices", but it seems in any field, there are many posers eager to try.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_law
Exactly. There are news outlets that will hold themselves to a standard and issue corrections and there are news outlets that care more about clicks than truth. These are not equivalent.
Five maps that quantify exactly how rammed London is
> BDS focuses on Israel to the exclusion of other human rights violators because of the anti-Semitic beliefs of their members.

Ad hominem / Appeal to motive?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeal_to_motive
I'm not sure why Alexa doesn't support that. Funnily I tried the same when we moved states and it didn't work. For a few weeks I appended location to my intent, "Alexa, whats the weather in X?"

One day complaining to my wife, and she asked Alexa how to change her location which Alexa provided a precise answer... goto Alexa app and update this setting. As others have pointed out the app is a requirement for Alexa anyway so I don't see why you are frustrated.
This seems to be the status quo when it comes to digital security in general. There isn't enough penalty for massive breaches, even stocks seem to rarely take a hit when a company has a huge security blunder.
> When an ancient king had land, and let poor people work the land in exchange for a part of their production, what would you call that? Sure sounds like, "the extraction of surplus value via property relations and wage labor" to me.

There is an extent to which it is true (well, the first part, not wage labor!), but it's a different set of property realtions than the ones which are the defining feature of capitalism.

> Same story if the lord has a mill and charges people to use it. Or a bridge and charges people to cross it. Technology was worse, so there weren't as many physical forms of capital, but it definitely existed.

Feudalism is also a system by which value is extracted by property relationships; a different set than capitalism, and (while some quantity of wage labor may exist within feudalism) not one where wage labor plays a central role.

Capitalism replaced the system of property relations underlying feudalism with a different set.

> Some people seem to have this need to see capitalism as this invention created by bad people.

Traditionally, that's not even how the socialist critics that first identified it viewed it; it wasn't “an invention created by bad people”, but the state resulting from a number of related changes to the model of property driven by a combination of opportunity created by physical and other social technologies and self-interested people seeking their own gain. (This isn't inherently bad, the same people saw socialism the same way, though they saw the class driving and benefiting the preservation of capitalism against further change as narrow and inherently narrowing with the continuance of capitalism.)

I'm not really sure, then, what people you are referring to, since neither capitalism's defenders nor it's main critics hold the view you are attacking.
Could you elaborate on why you think its apparent that AMT has 'terrible code quality'? Specifically, versus other high profile products that continue to have multiple security bugs being introduced every release cycle - Windows, iOS, Android, Linux, etc.
Not if you have bitcoins, right?
"This is quite possibly the worst and most widespread computing vulnerability that has ever existed."

The problem is to make that true, you have to carefully phrase the situation as "this has the potential to give rise to the worst, bad .... etc".

And that's the thing. Ignoring this ranks along attitudes like "that cement pool of mining tails right above town is quite sturdy", "we just need a little time to reduce our carbon emissions..." and "we shouldn't kill the IoT with too much regulation..." etc

If X isn't a problem right now!, then it seems like X is going to get about zero attention from a world swimming in things that are a problem right now.

And that too is going to give rise to further problems down the road, to say the least.
The Uber cargo cult is real.
A new economy that supposedly runs on a payment method that doesn't scale so have to resort to various degrees of centralization and trusted third-parties that don't deliver on the original promises of Bitcoin?

I guess I don't see what makes this a new economy and not just the same old economy with new commodity-based payment system.
Given all the withdrawal issues with cross-exchange arbitrage, would something like triangular arbitrage within a single exchange be better?
> quite a few publications

"Monolith First", Martin Fowler
Boycotting this tournament should be a no-brainer.
Dustin Moskovitz pours funds into high-risk research
I agree, and where AMT is in use the passwords presumably will be managed. So the attack surface doesn’t seem particularly large.
Pooping and surfing the web is one of my favorite activities.
At least on my twitter stream, there were people reselling tickets since they couldn't make it. Maybe another way to get one?
Zombies which don’t rapidly decay and fail make no rational sense, but that kind of zombie also makes for a lousy zombie tale. Zombies represent anxieties about life, death, disease, being eaten alive, etc.
And that link can be changed.
If you can tolerate ~1MB private keys, Classic McEliece is probably the best conservative and secure post-quantum option just now before others are analyzed more. It's old and proven.

>9 Advantages and limitations (2.B.6)

>The central advantage of this submission is security. See the design rationale.

>Regarding efficiency, the use of random-looking linear codes with no visible structure forces public-key sizes to be on the scale of a megabyte for quantitatively high security: the public key is a full (generator/parity-check) matrix. Key-generation software is also not very fast. Applications must continue using each public key for long enough to handle the costs of generating and distributing the key.

>There are, however, some compensating efficiency advantages. Encapsulation and decapsu-
lation are reasonably fast in software, and impressively fast in hardware, due to the simple nature of the objects (binary vectors) and operations (such as binary matrix-vector multiplications). Key generation is also quite fast in hardware. The hardware speeds of key generation and decoding are already demonstrated by our FPGA implementation. Encapsulation takes only a single pass over a public key, allowing large public keys to be streamed through small coprocessors and small devices.

>Furthermore, the ciphertexts are unusually small for post-quantum cryptography: under 256 bytes for our suggested high-security parameter sets. This allows ciphertexts to fit comfortably inside single network packets. The small ciphertext size can be much more important for total traffic than the large key size, depending on the ratio between how often keys are sent and how often ciphertexts are sent. System parameters can be adjusted for even smaller ciphertexts.
First edition Unix: Its creation and restoration (2010) [pdf]
For purely practical reasons, we should make efforts to disperse power within society away from severe concentrations. Not uniformly, not absolutely, but we should work to keep the trend from becoming too strong in the direction of concentrated power. Otherwise, the vast masses are liable to suffer and experience reduced capacity to alleviate that suffering. See: All of human history
Low credibility on this article. Mostly just an advertisement/personal opinion piece. Move along everybody. :-)
Computer History Museum in Mountain View:
http://www.computerhistory.org/
I spend countless hours drooling over https://jetpens.com Have bought way too many mechanical pencils, leads and erasers.
From the article at the bottom:

About a third of the customers queuing at La Maison du Bitcoin’s teller windows in Paris aren’t speculating on the value of the cryptocurrency. They’re sending digital money home to Africa.

“In many countries in Africa, there are far more cellphones than bank accounts,” said Manuel Valente, co-founder of La Maison. “For bitcoin, all you need is a phone.”

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-11-17/bitcoin-e...
My ISP has a data cap with overage charges; images are the heaviest part of a web page.

It is immoral that the content provider expects me to pay for their display of an ad; they should offer an ad-free version of their site, or an ad-enabled one if I opt-in.
Sadly it is not available everywhere. I was all ready to sign up but was told it was not available in my area (Northwest Montana).
With reviews like this no wonder the author changes phones biannually. Terrible marketing plug with data referring to another model being drowned in filler text. Not cool
If you offshore your profits and workers, avoid taxes, and the usual bag of tricks?

Yes, parasite, and what happens to parasites which are too successful?
This is a real problem that I try untangling myself for many months. I have zero phone addiction but my work requires that I sit by the computer and often use browser for documentation. Which makes limiting distractions a lot harder.

I did limit distractions a lot (compared to what I did before) HN being one of the few rare sites I visit. I am not at all happy with google addiction, that may be biggest problem that is less visible than HN or Reddit.
As others have noted, it was hardly flawless though arguably just par for the course troubled except for the baggage system. And that was for an airport basically built in the middle of nowhere.
TLS 1.3 middleboxes test
Great advice, I'm having so many issues with this as of the last 3-4 months it seems like. Stuff seems to just be allowing itself to give notifications both on Windows and Android.
"Significant" is relative.

What I suggest is available today: and for the cost in time of reading my message will resolve a third of your issues.

I don't know what you mean by "non obvious hidden tricks". People learn what control-C does because they read the manual; because someone shows them. Likewise with other keys and job control. Or the tab key. Or google. Very few things are obvious, and you can find what they are by putting them in a room with a potato and watching: If the potato can figure it out, then it was obvious.
The price of electricity is high in Germany for the same reason it's high in California, both states have taken a market based approach and decided to charge people for the resources they use.

This has lots of positive market based effects e.g. people can invest in energy efficiency and be rewarded in terms of monetary savings.
I'm looking forward to contributing more code to open source projects. I haven't prioritized it as much as I feel I should in years past, and many of those projects play an integral role in my life.
And how would you make a "unchangeable" rule companies can change the rules at a duly constituted meeting normally the AGM.
I agree with you, it's not there yet. It's the same problem over and over again with all these Make alternatives: close but if only xxx or if only not yyy.

I agree that the installation approach is a total copout, I would have hardlinked all the files from their installation destination to the build artifacts. (presuming state is intended to be thrown away on rebuild.)
Totally agree that the goal is to smash central banking. I also think that the cryptoanarchist community must h8 central banking. How could anyone blame them with where our economy has gone. That being said, i think central banking is a great tool, it is just the fed is too conservative.
His wealth came from siphoning off profits from his employees and charging exorbitant prices for his products. The monopoly microsoft held was used to strangle smaller companies out of the market. None of these actions were directly targeted at me but the world is much larger than you or I.
you can't expect people to sacrifice so much. the two issue is the people who decided to organize the event there
That won't help you find out if Amazon is storing the recordings in a datacenter somewhere.
JPMorgan recently launched Quorom, which is a smart contract payment network built on Ethereum. Blockchain as a functioning technology is still brand new and in its infancy, no kidding it doesn’t have widespread use yet. It’s not just an upgrade to an existing system, like dynamic webpages, it’s an entirely new industry. It’s not going to be a rapid overnight adoption by mainstream businesses.
"Friends" is very generic, so here's a generic answer.

https://www.travelocity.com/things-to-do/search?location=San...

https://wikitravel.org/en/San_Francisco#See

https://www.exploratorium.edu/

https://www.dnalounge.com/

https://myfamilytravels.com/content/61909-top-ten-geek-sight...