skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm genuinely skeptical of most drug use, recreational or medical (over time, any habit can start to lose its initial magic, and you start to perform it out of boredom. Then again, I'm greatly bored of e.g. coffee enthusiasts, so maybe it's something about overesteemed obsessions in general) but I'm not sure about the "enemies". Could you name them? This seems less like a cabal plotting and more like systemic/cultural issues writ large.
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s/dies/does/

And it’ll make more sense to you.
And if you are a foreigner the SIM linked to your passport, which is linked to your fingerprints that they take upon immigration.
Functioning civil society is the target; America cannot be defeated by conventional warfare. Covert, alternative warfare is waged instead - this is why you have entire neighbourhoods destroyed by opioids. America is filled with lost battlefields in this regard. Who stands to benefit from the destruction of civil American society?

Its enemies. And if you're asking me who would be Americas' enemies, well .. the list is too long to consider.
It depends. The best gun is the one you're most familiar with shooting. If the one you'll spend the most time shooting is an AR-15, then it's that one.

It's also irrelevant. Home protection isn't the only reason you'd have a gun in a rural setting. They're also quite excellent for keeping groundhogs and coyotes off of one's property, and for recreational purposes.

This mindset of people who know nothing about guns (e.g. not knowing what an assault rifle is) claiming "You should only be allowed to have what I think you need" is the exact problem at the heart of this discussion.
Holy cow! (about multiple things you just wrote).
Seems to work just fine on Debian as well.

http://cockpit-project.org/running.html
Letting google, twitter and facebook to decide .. internet will be "amped" quite fast to very controlled sandbox.
This is neat - remember using QuickBasic back in the day. Fun times.

I really wish Visual Basic would be open sourced from Microsoft, so the community would revive it. I still have fond memories programming with VB and the productivity it allowed - it had it's issues (oh, man...) but also made programming accessible.
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The alternative is a package manager like yarn or paket where even your transitive dependencies are pinned in a lockfile. I don't see how someone can look at a version spec made of only top level dependencies and call themselves immutable.
Deferring until next tick is one way to get around call stack problems. If you create a really big series of callbacks which will call other callbacks which call other callbacks... you can run out of call stack.

The other issue is let's say you have some code like...

var f = 1
doSomeOperation(function done(){
console.log(f)
})
f = 5

If doSomeOperation calls done() sometimes syncronously and sometimes asynchronously, it will sometimes log 1 and sometimes log 5. If doSomeOperation always works one way it's more consistent. It's not a perf thing it's just consistency.
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This is similar to the "advice" you see in sports criticism that boils down to "Just recruit good players and have those players play consistently well! Easy!"

The part that's actually difficult is in the omitted details, privileges, and luck involved in getting the author to where they are now.
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The second amendment wasn't passed for home defense, nor should our basis of law be "what people unfamiliar with guns think others should use for home defense."
How often are you people making international transfers? The typical person surely does this only a few times in their life.
Yes, you are correct. Rusts safety does not rule out deadlocks. Guaranteeing data-race-freeness is however already enough to reject intuitive doubly-linked lists. Thanks for bringing that up, which I don't think is pedantic.
"I don't want to value things of little substanance simply because they feel elite."

You realize that you're posting this on a forum run by Ycombinator, right?
not sure if you've seen this clojure lib http://funcool.github.io/cats/latest/
I used Wave along with a group of friends when it first came out often. I also setup WIAB which was almost usable but never was as 'smooth' as the google hosted Wave.

what was smooth you ask? I never had issues, I even played people in some of the games they had to great enjoyment (was never able to get this on my WIAB)

I joined Apache Wave with great excitement when it first was accepted and yet disappointed in my inability to contribute. I am not a software engineer but I tried multiple times with different IDs and the response was (paraphrasing) go check this site and pick something to work on.

as the years went on multiple attempts were made to retire Apache Wave with last minute efforts by multiple people trying to keep it going. I knew this day would come and it is still sad to see.

I am not sure if there was a better 'onboarding' for noobs available if I would have done much but I think many open source projects may fair better if their barrier to entry for them were clearer
you can configure unattended-updates with apt-get. I guess you can do the same with docker if you use some sort of CI service + auto deploy script, but it's way more work + way more opportunities for failure
Hopefully they're properly defending against XSS and not going to pull a Filet-o-Firewall

[https://github.com/filetofirewall/fof
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/361684]
I like to keep difficult one for myself.
How about replacing the core utilities?

https://github.com/uutils/coreutils
We've updated the link from https://geneticliteracyproject.org/2018/02/23/backup-pollina....
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Observation of vote counts is only a 1 to 1 relationship. You can't know if the whole election at scale is safe based on watching one person count votes. Perhaps it might feel safe to some, but that doesn't mean it is.

Moreover, physical observation doesn't scale. Only a handful of people can observe due to the physical limitations of meatspace. A simple attack could be to "DDoS" the count observations by crowding them out with your agents.
Which enemies are we talking about here? Are they domestic or foreign? What is their goal? I see where you're going with this argument, there are certainly historical precedents, but you haven't said enough to make it plausible.
Nope. Not in any of the several products I've put in production with Elm. There have been times when I've needed more things than Elm provides — one time I needed a library for parsing a streaming JSON response — but the JS interop through ports works just fine.
I thought the problem wasn’t toslink (the physical optical layer) but rather s/pdif (the software layer) which is constrained by its support for the rca physical layer?

IIRC, toslink 1.0 (circa ‘82 or ‘83) had a limit of 2 or 3 mbps while modern toslink is well over 100mbps (constrained more by distance than speed).
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What's to stop you from selling your hashed voter ID to a vote buyer, before the tally is published?

He verifies that your hash corresponds to the vote he purchased, and pays you the money (or doesn't beat you up, fire you, etc. I'm using "sell" in the generic coercion sense)
These threads about China are full of passive-agressive comments, many of which are so delusional it's sad. Yes, China might be a threat. I'm not American but I'm in Europe and if the US empire falls I'll be in trouble too. But people need to man up and face the reality. Yes, China is growing strong, but there's nothing wrong with it. 1,350 Million people now live lives that don't feel like literal hell. That's a good thing in my book, and I can't wait for latin america and more asian countries to take off too. People living healthy happy secure lives is ok, even if it makes some of us over here feel a bit uncomfortable. Not to mention that their rising wages will finally stop the financial stagnation of the west, especially Europe, which is suffering with high unemployemnt due to the competition with the Chinese.
> is a lie

I dislike this (sadly, growingly) cavalier use of the word "lie"
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Docker's killer feature is the packaging mechanism. A Docker image is like a virtual machine image and contains an executable environment, sometimes sans kernel since the host's kernel is used. It always includes a userland, but usually stripped down to support the bare minimum (busybox-ish).

A "container" is simply a process that has some extra annotations on it, which various systems understand to represent some type of "namespacing" or information about the domain in which the process is allowed to operate. In Docker, these are implemented via the Linux cgroups mechanisms, which offers these and various types of annotations, including annotations that the kernel understands to constrain resource usage, etc.

I don't know the details of the kernels well enough to discuss this next part in detail, but Linux containers implemented via cgroups are generally considered a "weak" security barrier, i.e., there are ways in which the isolation leaks out. illumos calls containers "zones" and is understood to have a stronger security/process isolation barrier, and I believe the same is true for FreeBSD jails, etc.

"Containers" are a very old idea. Docker is an attempt to dumb them down for the masses by pretending that they're actually virtual machines and making it easy to "push" or "pull" the zip files^W^WDocker images. This assumption has caused many terrible container-based deployments.

Most of the people running around tooting the horn of Docker and Kubernetes no doubt maintain these misconceptions and very superficial comprehensions of what's happening under the covers, and that's why they believe it's so magical and simple.

Engineers who are trying to solve actual problems in a consistent, repeatable, and reliable manner will avoid any unnecessary complications -- including Kubernetes and/or Docker -- unless they are truly warranted by the unique circumstances in play, rather than seeking them out because they need a new flashy bullet point on their resume.
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Just some examples, to kick off your thinking about this subject:

North Korea runs one of the largest methamphetamine production industries in the world, and has spread the drug throughout the Asian region, including Australia, as a means of debasing its enemies. This has had a real and lasting effect on the economy of many of its perceived enemies.

Israel runs the most sophisticated border infiltration units in the world, and regularly uses it to run drugs into its enemies in the region. It is recognised as one of the biggest producers of recreational drugs in the region. Egyptian kids are high on Israeli MDMA.

The USA has convinced the western world of the need for pharmaceutical dependency, and therefore sits on top of the largest pharmaceutical export machinery around.

Do you really think that pharmaceuticals are immune to weaponisation - both covert and overt? Every single technology known to mankind has been weaponised, since the dawn of time - its no different for drugs.
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/02/22/california-agriculture-sees-...
You register with public jabber servers and send thousands of messages to crawled and constructed destination addresses:

https://yaxim.org/blog/2017/12/22/spam-reduction-on-yax-dot-...

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/xsender-the-s...

https://github.com/ge0rg/jabber-spam-fighting-manifesto
You can't develop an industry from nothing without protection. This is how happened in the USA, protecting nascent industries from others (the UK mainly). It seems that the Chinese are very aware of this historic truth.

The corollary being that, if you are already a developed country, and you want to avoid competition, a good way to do it would be to force, other countries, to "open they markets".

A good book about the subject:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/187808.Kicking_Away_the_...
> a wife has no time nor tolerance for half ass home baked tech.

Lol, another experienced married man on hn! :)
This thread, and especially the cheap hand-waving at the end, reads like a parody of a conspiracy theory.
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What I meant by "automatic" was Ubuntu/Debian's unattended upgrade feature. I've used it for years without any problem, and it has relieved much of my maintenance burden.

Maybe I need to enable it in containers too? I have no idea how to use it on (containerized) Alpine Linux though.

Even without unattended upgrades, finding the list of `Dockerfile`s and `docker-compose.xml`s that might be affected by a new vulnerability sounds more complicated to me. Until now it hasn't been that difficult but I'm still a bit nervous if I somehow missed some vulnerable images.
But that's not how vote counting works.

Typically there's a member of each party represented in teh election present for the counting, and often they're open to observers from the outside.

This means that you'd have to collude with your political enemies to steal their votes....
It's shown in that screenshot in the "Overcoming your objection" section of the article, next to the fish tank graphic:

"If you've already reached your quota, this means that:
* Your Dropbox will stop syncing
* You won't be able to add any new files to your Dropbox
* You can't restore any files removed from your Dropbox"
>so it's perfectly possible to run windows workloads as well

afaik windows containers only support a subset of the full win32 api, so it's exactly the same as running actual windows. that said, simple asp.net sites should work fine
The loss of a source of meaning in life is a dangerous thing, especially if it isn't replaced by something else. That way lies nihilism, and, if the thesis of the article is to be believed, opiod addiction.
So the algorithm would need to be sophisticated enough to hire a law firm to represent it when it gets sued.
A lot of tools solve real and extant problems, but that doesn't mean they should always be used.
What a cop-out.
I guess we are going astray. One should not vote online because the possible malfunctions and hacks have consequences (grave) on others.

That was my point.

I really do not care about banks, in this context.
I've heard that, in Switzerland, you can buy Bitcoin at train station ticket machines.
Audible has something similar: they require that you use up all your credits before cancellation is even possible, so that is obstacle #1. Then they ask for reason and sub-reason, and give you either a $20 coupon if you say the reason is because it's too expensive, or a 3 months praise on your account if you say you can't catch up to one book a month.

Pretty clever. But having to choose 6 books immediately at the point of cancellation sucks
I think with programming there is so much value to just trying out different things because you're constantly learning that this effort isn't necessarily wasted. Some people probably learn by working on meaningful projects, others (like me, apparently) are just trying to get out of doing something they don't want to do.

Or maybe I'm just justifying being lazy!
But the representation isn't static. We can learn new symbol systems and adjust them all the time. Plus create rules of thumb to make re-processing easier.

and go back and/forth. Think of an elephant. now an Asian elephant walking by a river. your image probably was pretty abstract then got more vivid. Then re-adjusted to add the river. So you went from symbols to a more detailed model like a generative model, but you probably only have had a few examples of elephants to generate from.
Lol. You're right.
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Ask HN: Can a co-founder work remotely?
Together with a friend I am the co-founder of a legal tech startup. He is a lawyer and is responsible for daily business, taking care of our clients, etc. I am CTO and responsible for our software and also marketing. We have a monthly six-figure revenue, around 10 employees and are growing fast.

The thing is: While my co-founder is located in the same city as our business (and is working from our office daily) I live in a different city and work remotely almost all of the time. I only visit our office app. every two weeks for meetings, etc.

Since the company is growing fast my co-founder has started to complain that he has to take care of all the office stuff, human relations, etc. on his own. I get this but I am unsure if I really can/want to move to the city where our business is located.

I do a lot of programming where I don't need to be in the office but I also feel that as a co-founder I have to be "present". In your experience, can a co-founder work remotely? And do you think it makes a difference if the company is at an early stage or more mature (a thesis might be: founders have to be present at an early stage but as the company grows and gets more mature they don't have to be engaged directly all the time)?

Happy to hear your thoughts!
Voting Machines in 'Murica
>>a solution in search of a problem

Its their to enable - that's what technology is for.
And how would a paper system prevent that?
Wow, I had totally forgotten about QuickBASIC. It came slightly late for me -- I cut my teeth on line-numbered BASIC in ROM on TRS-80s, and by the time of QB I was firmly absorbed into the Borland world (mostly Turbo Pascal and Turbo C) -- but folks who came slightly later to programming that I knew loved it.

I'm glad it lives on!
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Could be, essentially there's a counter that counts seconds between "breaths" felt. Someone who forgets to breathe during sleep could certainly throw red flags on it's rather simplistic design.
I'm not sure where you live, but the Pi Zero isn't a myth. Just this week I bought two Pi Zero HW's and a standard Pi Zero. The standard Zero was just over €5 + shipping. I could only buy one zero, but I could have bought 50 or more of the HW's as they don't have the purchase restriction.

The Pi Zero is easily obtainable now Adafruit have it for $5+shipping in the US, Kiwi-electronics have it for €5+shipping in Europe and Pimoroni have it for £5+shipping in the UK. Hardly a myth.
What's to stop you from selling you paper vote to someone?
I got schooled. I guess I deserved it.
I think they're motivated by more practical concerns, as well -- which is cooperation between different ai agents.
Wouldn't that be France, between the French Revolution and Napoleon's regime?
> Great find! So, not exactly consistent with the NYT piece.

First, this is not a NYT article.

What do you think is inconsistent? The article tries to highlight the idea that ‘beheading’ was said rhetorically.
I sometimes miss that mentality.

I have seem a lot of fancy boys do some aweful things, knowing the worse they will get is a civil lawsuit.

Some of the biggest jerks had a law license.

I'm at the point, I don't even want a lawyer as a friend.
This article, especially the end, is actually more about the fundamental ills of American society, rather than just drugs.

It’s about the breakdown of the social glue in the face of relentless market pressure and individualism, and the diminish end of trust and solidarity, along with institutions like organized religion, unions,families, or even sports clubs.
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If brands like Google, Facebook, Microsoft et al were Chinese owned and controlled, the US would have done much of the same.

Only third and fourth tier players (like what the European countries have become now) let others control such key infrastructure.
This comment chain originated by asking why should banks run their business online, because they are also prone to malfunctions and hacks have consequences (grave) on others.
"My career choices were amazing, it was hard to pick between all the fantastic options. I made a decision to pick the better option and am happy with what I chose. You should do all these things too"
The author also has a very interesting theory that corporations are a form of artificial intelligence[1].

[1] http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2018/01/dude-you...
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Are voting-machine modems truly divorced from the Internet?
I didn't notice in the article that "they signed a lease/contract".

"He signed the check in a messy scrawl" but not a contract.

In the UK (and many other parts of the world) a contract is (almost) always signed before anyone moves in. Handing a checque means nothing is not bulletproof. One can claim that it was a payment for a selling an old computer (and then the courts will have to do the talking).
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No. It not economical to get the currency. It costs too much hardware and electricity to earn it. And the inflation from my nations's currency doesn't out weigh the advantages to just exchange it.

Plus there nothing physically backing up the cryptocurrency. Which means as soon as the public looses confidence it nothing more then. Also what happens if the internet goes down? There no way to access your wallet.
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That's a very non-charitable way of reading my statement, I believe you are very sure you're not reading it correctly.

But yes, I do "believe it should be a human right to have a home to live in". Not given freely, but having the opportunity for housing. It's even in Article 25 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
How to generate secure SSH keys
Interesting to see a physical lock company publishing crypto libraries and protocols.
Might depend on your social circle, some groups might use it more then others. I have seen them being used much more frequently (and way beyond ransomware scenarios). For instance Bitcoin debit cards (e.g Ten X) are quite common and for those that got in the market early, it's a cheap way of buying anything. In some countries it's not even a taxable event to spend it. Still not perfect in the sense of having to use Visa, and down the road transactions will be much more direct when more merchants will start directly accepting crypto currencies.
I agree, and they explicitly state this as one of their three goals (" is an important step forward for developing multi-agent AI systems, for building intermediating technology for machine-human interaction, and for advancing the progress on interpretable AI.")

However, I think this will be even more valuable in human-computer interactions (their second goal).

Consider: if you just had a fight with a lover, and then had a bad day at work, and Alexa recommends that you watch a Black Mirror, it might be awful timing. In fact, as humans, we know if someone walks in panting, and frowning, and slams their hands on the desk, we shouldn't crack a joke. I think there was some research out of Google X about how much more useful robots seemed if they gave out signs of what they were doing (appeared frustrated if they couldn't complete a task etc).
And I dislike people exaggerating with no basis in reality to force a point. What hurts the discussion more, me pointing it out or the statement?
It's funny you mention this, because it is an actual right in France. People have a right to housing. That's why the government provides (or should provide more) shelter to homeless people.

Do you believe that people do not have the right to have a shelter where to live, but only those who are rich enough to afford it ?
Education for everyone? And (basic) universal health care? What kind of utopial nonsense is that!
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