skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"At Our Own Peril: DoD Risk and Risk Assessment in a Post-Primacy World argues....that the most transformative characteristic of the contemporary environment is the sudden onslaught of threats emerging from the dark underside of hyperconnectivity.2 It is difficult to exaggerate the degree to which hyperconnectivity enables—according to the study’s authors, researchers, and the defense-focused communities of interest and practice it consulted with—the following:

Hostile or disruptive virtual mobilization worldwide;

The collapse of privacy, secrecy, and operational security;

Penetration, disruption, exploitation, and destruction of data storage and transmission, as well as the use of data and data-enabled systems;

and finally,
The unfettered manipulation of perceptions, material outcomes, and consequential strategic decisions through the strategic employment of various forms of information."
"People ask me 'Where do you get your ideas from, Ms. Le Guin?' From forgetting Dostoyevsky and reading road signs backwards, naturally. Where else?"
Instead of going to the Moon, why not just create a self-sustaining vehicle that can allow humans to survive sustainably in any terrain, desert, forests, mountains, land, sea, lake or water. On soil, above or underwater.

And make it a race prize competition similar to Google Lunar X Prize Race.
Just to second this point, I am often courted by potential startup employers and I am usually pretty skeptical for exactly this reason.
Makes me wonder what Michael Moorcock (notable Tolkien critic) thought about Earthsea...
I'm sure you must be speaking from a country where everyone is employed. The ground reality is how businesses like these create tons of indirect employment feeding their hunger. This is often overseen as we can't imagine in someone else's shoes.
Honestly, shipping to Europe is prohibitive (at least for me) right now. I'd happily pay for a super HD pdf to print at my local print shop !
Vitalik is enough of a force that if PoS becomes a priority it will happen.

Gas prices? A standard transaction that will confirm in < 1min costs 4Gwei ($0.042) right now[1].

ETH isn't accepted in as many places because people are building DApps and ERC20 tokens, which are what you transact with on these services. But in order to get these tokens, you need ETH. That being said, ETH is getting wider and wider transactional attention. Coinmarketcap even lists all other alts wrt to ETH now (in addition to BTC). Most big exchanges now have many ETH/ALT pairs.

1. https://www.ethgasstation.info/
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http://www.skytopia.com/project/fractal/2mandelbulb.html

This is the closest reference I could google.

The article I am talking about had the author explain the various steps he went through, starting with rotating a 2d fractal, and move up the process to finally get the math equations to generate a truly 3d fractal.
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In software engineering, many companies prioritise "getting your work done" (which is admittedly a subjective, hard-to-quantify metric) and consider any metric that contradicts it to be suspect.

A person who believes this would say that if according to policy my best employee should work 9am-5pm, but he prefers to work from 7am-3pm and is my best employee, it is the policy not the employee that needs changing.

Personally, I always try to get to the bottom of this stuff during job interviews - nobody wins if the employee assumes there will be flex-time and the company doesn't allow it!
I don't disagree. In fact I work on software for cars, so my career depends on personal transport staying relevant. However, that doesn't adress the question of whether automated cars will increase or decrease traffic.

The original claim was that automated cars will reduce traffic by being more efficient (somehow) and people sharing them for trips. I pointed out that we have the sharing aspect of the issue largely figured out already. The point I did not make, but implied, is that automating cars, buses, trains, boats and aeroplanes will not by itself have much impact on traffic. Instead only a significant shift to more shared (instead of individual) use of these transport modes would. I feel that the image of the trafficless automated transport utopia that is so often conjured on HN, reddit etc. is a massive red herring. Because the benefits people claim stem from automation actually stem from public transport.

Whether the shift to shared transport will happen or not and if it happens how big the shift will be, are completely open questions as far as I can see. I believe that, trips for commuting have lots of scope for being bundled into shared/public transport. Meanwhile the bulk of other trips will continue to be made largely with personal transport. (And I make no claim as to whether those vehicle are owned by the end user or by a fleet operator, that's an entirely different debate.) Not coincidentally, this is exactly what happens in many big european cities that have both good public transport and the road infrastructure to allow for lots of cars to travel at the same time. Many people over here commute daily by public transport, bycicle, rideshare etc., but they also have at least one car for those other trips.
That "graveyard" is more of a military base (which it is), where they reassemble planes from spares (when they can), preserve others for parts, and scrap the rest. Most of the money is made from the first two activities, and the facility is highly profitable.

They give bus tours of the facility from the adjacent fantastic PIMA Air & Space museum; I highly recommend visiting both when you can.
Stripe will end Bitcoin support because customers aren’t interested
>I'm an overly pedantic reviewer because I feel the review is one of the few places where I can counteract the accumulation of technical debt.

Pedantic is the wrong approach to technical debt though. Almost every aspect of technical debt is about trade-offs.

If what you're doing appears pedantic it should come accompanied by an explanation of why the trade off the developer took is not ideal.

>I also ask a lot of pretty dumb questions during a review because I want to make sure that my understanding of the requirements matches the understanding the other engineer had.

Your code should really come accompanied by tests which you can read and use to understand what the precise interpretation of those requirements was.
Wannabes fake it til they make it. Succeed first time with the Credible Startup
> Through these sacrifices I have managed to make an absolutely ridiculous income

Beware of attribution error. Were these "sacrifices" necessary to gain the income? I strongly disagree that healthy lifestyle and productivity/income are mutually exclusive.
How about developing EU country with wages 25-35K? Doing project exclusively for German/British/American markets, where one would have to pay developers locally at least twice... and no, the life is not that much cheaper over here.
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Amazing! This is pretty much the method I described in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15877533 last time we discussed amateur bookbinding, except I also did the slits across the spine and the dental floss. Other than that, even the homemade bookbinding press looks very similar :)
I think the biggest problem is radio communication !?
This is pretty much how the "boneyard" in Tucson, Arizona operates.
original announcement already has a discussion, please check before submitting: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16216329
Yeah, except the effect only lasts past the next good night's sleep for 5% of patients.

And I can't speak for about anyone else, but having experienced moderate depression, I'd rather be depressed than chronically sleep deprived.
I guess if your time is free or you enjoy all the labor that goes into research, assembly and maintenance, sure, this is cheaper.
Cloud outage could cost up to $19bn in just six days
And then consider the alternate ending: his heart condition lead him to die halfway through the mission, and without a pilot everyone else onboard died.
Well, so far it's only a landing page ;)
Isn't this answering the opposite question of what the OP asked? He does not want his managers to know he's pursuing another job.

Then again, maybe Poe's law applies.
Weird, I'd expect that since they've achieved a 100% success rate, they could get at least 50% in real life scenarios. Also this could be played in stores to get the phones of customers to search for certain phrases.
Even though I knew it was the author I read this article in the comedians voice :)
https://comments.network/ (my own) (;

Feel free to reach out and ask anything, but mine was a short test (which worked quite well, but discontinued for other reasons).
http://www.revolutionsf.com/article.php?id=953
This deserves to be on top. Cities and metropolitan regions are what is driving innovation and the economy.
That only works to prevent congestion if some people decide not to drive on a road when the toll is too high. In that case, why drive there in the first place if your AI car can tell you in advance how much it will cost.
This will be really interesting when people start attacking the visual networks of autonomous cars. That giant poster at the side of the road that looks like an ad for toothpaste, but that all autonmous cars seem to slow down for...

Maybe the happy path of current autonomous cars isn't that they are tested in Arizona or Californa with traction and sunshine- but that they aren't being attacked by adversarial input. (I do remember that guy that painted a line on the ground that trapped cars though).

What will it mean if we suddenly realize that convolutional neural network object recognition is too easily fooled to be a secure part of autonomous vehicles? Would that push the state of the art backwards a long way, or would it not matter because there are other alternatives?
> But trains don't work at all well for serving smaller volumes of people moving in stochastic patterns at arbitrary times of day. Neither do buses.

Have you ever been to Switzerland?
Some Google engineers work on the sort of problems, and at the sort of scale, where algorithms and the science that drives them actually makes a difference. I don't think it's unreasonable for Google to ask computer science questions in interviews where that's the case.
Very nice! I downloaded the web (png) version for my brother's little guest house outside US. I'd love to be able to

1. Change/remove various texts on the poster (e.g., even if we have no rules, it still adds 'House Rules').

2. Download a bigger png file for a little charge to print locally (to avoid international shipping charges).

But this is nice as it is!
It's not a good thing for the rider. You can only ride where and when the state decides you can ride, and have to organize your life around it. Your residence or your destination is likely some distance from a stop, so you have the problem of getting to or from it, possibly in bad weather. You're herded like cattle into cramped, uncomfortable seats, with minimal provision for anything you may be carrying. What's good about that?
OK, I'll give an example. My team leader in a previous job used to regularly turn up at 11am (officially we were supposed to be in by 9.30, but it was academia and no one complained too much). I was usually in before 9.15 - like the majority of the staff.

So sometimes I would need to ask him something, and he wasn't around - that would hold me up.
Sometimes other people would need to ask him something. He wasn't around, so they asked me instead - usually when I was trying to get in the zone.

I am all for giving staff flexibility but it should not come at an expense to productivity.
> Should I try again after some time?

I’d propose a different change: actually participate.
Think of Hacker News as a way to highlight stuff you find interesting. That means the vast majority of items you submit to HN will have been created by people other than yourself. Don’t worry about trying to get attention, let alone the most possible attention, for your own stuff.
Tor is an extreme example, but VPNs are now commonplace. From the top of my head, we have a double-digit percentage of purchases coming from the UK done that way. Zero fraud.
Ask HN: What drawbacks of using 2fa codes as main auth method?
Online services with security in mind are using password+2fa to authenticate users. What are drawbacks if I'll run online service without conventional passwords and use only time-based one-time passwords for authentication? Suppose user will be able to restore access via second channel (sms, reserve codes, etc) if passgen app is lost, so main question is: how this approach is secure/reliable?
Anecdotally speaking, it matters for guys, too.
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Yeah I was myself surprised when recently I needed RSS feeds of a few parameters and was pleasantly surprised to see them still inplemented even with API’s on most of the sites.
As a US citizen, if I thought one state had lower wages than another state. I would just move to the state where the wages are better. Why can't a citizen of the EU do the same?

Yes, I chose to leave a small town with no real opportunities after graduating.
Does the linked page not say this? :)
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Yes, except that there is also a threshold applied (sigma).
> The question was not whether the goal is reachable. The question was whether the goal is actually a good idea. And in order to evaluate that, you have to consider the consequences of the hypothetical case that it is reachable.

So: yes, it would be ideal if we could predict all traffic collisions and all home fires. And indeed if that were true, insurance wouldn't exist. But that's not a very enlightening scenario.

> If a hypothetical insurance company managed to achieve the ideal goal with regards to fire insurance, in that they made the insurance as individual as (logically) possible, that would by definition mean that they would charge a premium only from exactly those people whose houses would in fact burn down lateron, and then pay them back when it does indeed burn down. Not insuring yourself gets you exactly the same end result that you would get in that hypothetical world: If your house does not burn down, you don't pay anything and you don't get anything back, and if your house does burn down, you pay/save massive insurance premiums that you later get paid back/have in your savings account.

Indeed, but that's because the insurance company can accurately predict what will cause house fires. And people could use that prediction: if taking up welding means my insurance premium goes from 0 to 300k because I'm definitely going to burn my house down if I take up welding, I can use that information to make an informed decision about whether to take up welding.

> So, if you think that that is a goal to strive for, why not realize it for yourself now?

How? Where can I get a quote, now, on whether a given hobby/lifestyle change is going to lead to me burning down my house?
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When I said ASCII I actually meant alphanumerical, sorry. Basically I couldn't find any information about it on search engines so I was wandering if a had a name that I could use to google it.
90-140K

And even that is at least 50% higher than the pre-tax wages of a good developer in Sweden.
The post is good enough to get me interested in the language, but it seriously lacks a "current limitations / issues" section to be really great.
I don't like the fact that the browser combines the search bar and the address bar.

It means that when I enter a URL character by character, the search engine will know where I am going next even thought I didn't need the assistance of a search engine in the first place.

A "privacy first" browser can do better in this regard.
Only 5 times now? I seem to recall it being 100x slower not too long ago.
Not sure I follow the logic.

"[Google] stuck in me-too mode and have been for years. They simply don’t have innovation in their DNA any more. And it’s because their eyes are fixed on their competitors, not their customers."

[...]

"I just witnessed history in the making. (...) I have not seen a land rush this massive since the early days of the Web, and it just might be even bigger.

So what is Grab? Well, the simple and unsatisfying answer is: They’re the Uber of Southeast Asia."
wtf, hahaha
"’s not uncommon for people in Southeast Asia to get jobs as drivers and make 3 to 5 times their previous income."

Not unlike how Uber drivers did.

At first.
One can, but there is significant language and cultural barrier, one is paying awfully high social contributions while the person's family stays in a different country. Plus many in developed countries are prejudiced against employees from developing countries ("you have to agree for less, to put your foot in the door and learn our superior ways of doing things" kind of stuff).
Why is your network so slow compared with the rest (from your own performance comparison)?

https://blog.ssdnodes.com/blog/comparison-vultr-vs-digital-o...
False Hopes and Invisible Enemies
I agree with your points, there is another part to this though: production code has to be easy to understand. If a developers has a habit of writing code that is more complex than it needs to be, it would definitely raise some red flags for me during an interview.
This fatalist attitude is just as bad as the overly naive attitude that I'm sure left many employees of this company feeling screwed.

Employees have agency. Founders don't have some magical power over you with which to screw you. You choose to work for them in exchange for money, stock, whatever. If stock is a sizable part of your compensation, you probably should be asking a lot of questions about it. How many shares will I get?
How many shares do you have? How is the company doing? What are the future plans? When am I going to get liquidity? Do your own accounting. If they won't give you the information you require, don't join! If the company isn't hitting its benchmarks, leave! There are lots of other companies out there to join, including many publicly traded ones so you'll always have the full financials (and liquid stock).

If you do your homework and are serious about continually evaluating the company at which you work, you will not get screwed. Your time is the investment, and every 3-6 months you should re-evaluate whether the company is the best place to work. You don't owe the company anything! They need to keep proving to you, quarter after quarter, that what compensation they are giving you is worth you continuing to work there. Are you guaranteed to be successful? Of course not. Being an employee of a startup is risky, and you might make the "right" move that ends up not working out. Just from this article it seemed to me there were many clear warning signs this company wasn't all it was cracked up to be, and some employees didn't evaluate the company's trajectory properly and ended up getting screwed. It's a lesson learned but I'm sure many of them could have pointed out in retrospect where they went wrong.

And I'll also add that being a founder sucks, and being an employee is comparably much easier. First, getting companies off the ground is really really hard and founders have to do that themselves. As an employee you can look around and join a company that already is showing some traction, saving yourself a bunch of time and frustration. Additionally, as an employee you can and should leave if the company starts falling behind its benchmarks and you think there are better opportunities elsewhere. As a founder you can't really do this, you basically have to stick it out until the end.

So basically, being a founder isn't any better or worse than being an employee, they are different paths with different expectations, and each one of them has to be done with care to get the most out of it.
These things apply to bad public transport. In the same vein, I could say that driving a car requires your full attention for all the duration of travel; that your destination is likely some distance from a parking spot; that the time of travel is unpredictable as you can get into a traffic jam, or an accident, or stopped by police; and so on.

Good public transport is really good for both the rider and the city.
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If I understand the situation correctly, the important term here isn't "employees", but "shareholders".

It seems that management acted in it's own interest, disregarding the interest of company's shareholders. Is my understanding correct?

If so, doesn't US have laws against such behaviour?
Still too much, that's why you nearshore to Czechia, Poland, and Romania.
For me the important thing with food is not efficiency, it's quality and hygiene (in preparation, i.e. a clean kitchen).

What you describe is a food assembly line optimised for efficiency, but I think if you look around you'll see that the kind of food that comes out of such assembly lines is generally considered second rate and unhealthy.

The idea of having one place preparing one type of ingredient is especially troubling. What happens when that enterprise grows successful enough that it just doesn't care about the quality of its product anymore? It's just a monopoly problem, at local level, waiting to happen. In any case, eating the same mashed potatoes all the time, even if they're the best damn mashed potatoes possible (which is impossible, really, because if you ask ten different people what kind of mashed potatoes they like, you'll get ten different answers) you'll get bored of them pretty damn quickly and long for something new.

You mention street food; that's the antithesis of what you propose. The whole point of street food is variation. I've never been to Singapore but I literally can't imagine street food prepared centrally. It would be ... bland.
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Stripe abandons Bitcoin over price instability
Ask HN: Can I use one braintree account for several websites/SaaS products?
And Tigress is even more painful...
The web was just getting started, but there were lots of online services already, like Compuserve, AOL, Prodigy, etc. so I kind of think people were ordering stuff online before websites existed - although my memory is hazy. Also, there were things in other countries besides the US - Minitel for instance?
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Ukraine seems to be the new go to place in my experience
The study followed the people who took part in it for nine months and did a follow-up survey six months after the end of the experiment. However, the follow-up results were only obtained when the report was already finished.

Here is the complete report (in Swedish): http://ltblekinge.se/globalassets/forskning-och-utveckling/b...

They mention a smiliar study from the US, but here money was only one out of multiple factors:

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/229888823_Supported...
Prefer The Belgariad

That I did read to death.
The second example, `if answer == "y" or "yes":` isn't even about Python - it's about understanding basic boolean notation, that takes directly from math. First example is similar - but coming from any programming language, you already know that comparison is `==` operator, and whatever `is` is, it's probably something else.