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Property Rights aren't an inherent part of nature just because humans like to be greedy.

Property Rights exist, at best, as part of a human narrative that we have some interest in designating a legal owner for a piece of dirt. Without humans, the dirt is not owned. With humans, we say we own the dirt (but there is no actual, objective ownership).

>People like yourself, who don't see a value in others property

I don't think GP made that point, rather that until Humans come along, no ownership, ie, public ownership, is the default. The land is owned by nobody until someone buys it.

This can be shown with an example; Mars. Who, at this current moment, owns mars? All the dirt on mars must, by your argument, be owned by someone.
Being able to sabotage elections and force a rerun might be an accomplishment for somebody.

For example a foreign entity could use this to cause confusion and undermine people's trust in elections.
From what I've read, I feel like you have the ability to weld considerable power to change your circumstances. You are the most senior engineer at a technical startup. If you leave it could kill the company. At the same time the management might not have the wisdom to see that.

What is making you feel burnt out? Long hours? Management? Long commutes?

How can you mitigate the feeling of burnout in the short term to give you some room to think and plan your next move? Could you take a holiday. Could you work less hours? Could you bring in healthier boundaries with your manager and colleagues.

If you can alleviate the stress in the short-term, it could make it easier to find another job/opportunity.

If you see no way of doing this, then quit. Your health is your most important asset.

Believe in yourself that you can find something and the future is bright. :) You make your own luck and fortune favors the brave.
This probably means you're confused about what voting is for. Voting does not produce better results. What it does is give the voters confidence in the decision process. This confidence is damaged by difficult to understand technology. The boring paper ballot with an X on it is understandable to almost every citizen and so the legitimacy of results from that process is clearer.

Democracy is a good idea not because it results in good government, you have only to look around and see the hopeless incompetents elected around the world, but because it averts violent regime change. Why march on the capital with pitchforks when we can just vote for somebody else?
It seems that the logic is: "We know this will go bad, are we capable of taking PR hit when (not if) this goes bad". Many companies failed that risk assessment. IBM concluded - "Yes, let's make a run for the money. We are likely doomed for failure, but this will not damage us.". I hope I'm just overly cynical...
"Tragedy of the Commons" is caused by the very existence of the modern state.

No, you have it backwards. The "tragedy" was a fiction invented to justify the Acts of Enclosure in the UK, wherein public land (commons) was fenced off for sole use by the local lords.

Here's a good explanation: http://www.monbiot.com/1994/01/01/the-tragedy-of-enclosure/

In a truly private system, one in which all land was owned, every parcel of land would have some advocate who cared very deeply about the environmental quality of their land.

OK, here are two counterpoints:

First, if land is held in common, everybody has a share of ownership, including people who actually live there and therefore really do care deeply about the environmental quality.

Second, just look at the recent stories about Toys'R'Us. It was purchased in a leveraged buyout in 2005 -- meaning the buyers paid relatively little and the company was saddled with a massive debt. By your argument, wouldn't those new owners care deeply about the long-term health of the company? Instead they extracted as much cash as possible and left behind a bankrupt shell. I think the analogy to private land is pretty clear.
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It depends on your field, for engineering (structural, fluid dynamics, ...) it's key. For deep learning, it's useless ;).
There are many other parallels that can be drawn between the 1930s and the 2010s. Ray Dalio's theory about long term debt cycles explains this in a non-ad-hoc way - every 50-75 years an economy's debt becomes too high and must be deleveraged. In a globalized economy this will happen to many countries at the same time and lead to tensions between debtor and creditor countries.
I figured that "Apache Kafka-esque" was pretty appropriate here... Walmart is high volume, distributed, and its workers require a Zookeeper <rimshot>.
You may employ non-trivial optimizations to a program which are not available in the Rust compiler and then output to, say, Rust. Or C.

Also, you can easier combine different parts of a program, creating algebraic structures not available in Rust. Rust does not support higher-order functions nicely, OCaml does, for one example.
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Corporations have incentives to maximize short-term profits at the sacrifice of environmental resources and common decency (dump the chemical waste in the river and pay your employees the lowest possible wage).

This obviously means the company will quickly run out of resources and employees but depending on the severity of the deployed sacrifice, this can take decades, a time span that corporations have shown on several occasions to not care about.
Life is full of risk. If people stopped doing things because they were risky.... well then nothing would happen. Computers wouldn't exist.....ahhhhh
>As I understand it, the conservative attitude is that environmental concerns are either overplayed

As someone who left a part of the country that votes Republican to Dem 9:1, this is the mindset of most rural voters (where I'm from at least).

They think pollution and grime are "city problems" because city people are just "dirty sons of bitches". These are people who, once their car breaks down, they just put it into the woods/a creek and forget about it. Old tires? Do the same. Loads of plastic garbage? Slow burn it outside since they don't want to pay the monthly garbage fee. These people think they're clean, but they never stop talking about how it's getting dirtier these days because "those city people are buying up houses here and bringing their shit with em", and not that their waste has just accumulated. In my chunk of rural America, the only reason it's not a total wasteland is because the population density is so low. For how many people live in cities, they're pretty clean. If they were to adopt more rural lifestyles, waste would be everywhere.
They are not all that well typed. You can't have constrained types, for example (available with type classes in Haskell).

I spent long time with VHDL, which is Ada with third leg. It is not nice language to work with.
The people, 'the commons'
There's nothing common sense about this. It's just stupid. But do few Americans understand economics that I can see the majority falling for it. People will happily vote to cut their own throats in order to punish some out group.

For future reference the giant trade deficit has benefited the USA enormously and increased quality of of life of most Americans. The incredible thing here is not that we import so much from China but that the hyper-productive Chinese exporters and manufactures have been so willing to surrender real goods and labor for the green pieces of paper we call currency which the government can create at the push of the button. This was the trade of the century.

I suspect that this will ultimately only help China and hurt America. China will be forced to develop their own internal markets and diversify their exports more -- which they've been doing already. You'll also just see more action from other low wage exporters like Vietnam. In the end Americans will just as price increases. Tariffs won't bring back jobs, reduce the extreme inequality that's killing the country nor are they real investment.
You asked for citation, here it is: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0020019087...

Garbage collection can be faster than stack allocation when your live set is much smaller than memory.
I've implemented the whole course in Nim in my tensor library: https://github.com/mratsim/Arraymancer/tree/master/src/tenso...

All BLAS libraries currently only care about float32 and float64, I wanted very fast routines for integer matrix multiplication and use this as a fallback for integers while
using OpenBLAS/MKL/CLBlast (OpenCL)/CuBLAS (CUDA) for floats.

Thanks to this I achieved 10x speed compared to Julia and 22x speed compared to Numpy on a 1500x1500 int64 matrix multiplication on CPU: https://github.com/mratsim/Arraymancer#micro-benchmark-int64...
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China Cracks Down on “Funeral Stippers”
We've actually had members of parliament in the Netherlands proudly show of the selfies they took in the ballot booth with their ballot on Twitter, encouraging people to take selfies (nicknamed 'stemfies'; a portmanteau of vote ('stem') and selfie) to show that (and how!) you voted on social media.

The election council and a lot of privacy-conscious citizens weren't amused to say the least, but a subsequent ruling by a judge turned out that it isn't strictly speaking illegal, because the law doesn't explicitly prohibit photography in the ballot booth. So until parliament enacts a law that forbids it (like Germany), we are stuck with this rather dubious phenomenon.

At least we've banned voting computers for a good while — the ones we had ran closed source software and the votes cast couldn't be verified by the voters or the election council — so there's that.
Americans overestimate social mobility in their country
Unfortunately they were an UK phenomenon.

I could see Amigas and Ataris everywhere, back in Portugal, while Archimedes were only known to me thanks to Computer Shopper UK edition, Alternative Platforms sections.
We recently decided to follow that path, but for us additional users will not have any significant increase in cost.
It's sad that a lot of blame comes to the low skilled programmers in India. It may be true, but it's sad.
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If you follow some links, you can find the whole collection (15000 images!):

Documentation project overview: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/542493

Archive contents: https://catalog.archives.gov/search?q=*:*&f.parentNaId=54249...

Link to the original PopSci article: https://www.popsci.com/america-before-epa-photos

Traveling outside the US (been moving around for almost 5 years now) has opened my eyes to the value of some of the consumer/environmental/etc protection/safety agencies/laws in the US that I didn't appreciate before.

Some examples not necessarily related to the EPA:

- Auto emissions regulations (or lack thereof)

- Waste disposal (e.g. burning trash on the side of the road or dumping trash in public places)

- Worksite safety (ever see a worker on a commercial build site wearing flip-flops two stories up on a rickety wood scaffold held together by twine, welding with no protective gear?)

- Building codes, both for safety and accessibility

- Marketing spam (depending on location, I'll get a handful of marketing sms a day - I have a newfound appreciation for CAN-SPAM[1])

You can argue that certain regulations go too far or maybe they don't go far enough, and those are important question to ask.

However, and this photo-documentary project underlines this, I've personally come to the conclusion that the importance of environmental regulations can't be understated. It affects the lives of literally everyone, in a "the air I breathe" and "the water I drink" and "the food I eat" and "the space I occupy" kind of way.

[1] https://www.fcc.gov/general/can-spam
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I am only a stranger on the internet, but if I were you I'd leave the toxic environment you're in.

You're 28 years old, burned out and have 6-8 months saved up. I'm 30+ now and live a happy life, but I was severely burnt out between the years 23-26.

It took me those years to get back to my normal self after crashing. I feel like those years are lost for me. I felt numb and didn't care about
anything. All because of bad management and me being a constant overachiever. Life is not about working until there's nothing left of you - get out and try not to worry too much. The change will probably be scary but you'll find a new path.
Tiny brain: We should punish Zuckerberg for speeding! That'll show him!

Normal brain: Wait a minute. Increasing fines for the 1% can solve at most 1% of the speeding problem. Okay, the 1% number is polemical, but any solution to the problem of speeding must fall mostly on poorer people, because they are the majority.

Glowing brain: Why do we talk about speeding as a crime? Any economist would tell you that the optimal amount of speeding is nonzero, so it should be solved with a Pigovian tax equal to the negative externality. Since a rich speeding person does as much potential damage as a poor speeding person, the fine shouldn't depend on how rich you are. If you want a safety net, build a safety net, don't muck around with speeding fines.

Galactic brain: Is speeding that much of an externality though? If you go fast and cause a crash, you bear about half of the cost. If you don't cause a crash, no one bears the cost. It's not like pollution where the polluter bears a millionth of the cost. So it seems like selfish decision making, with average human level of loss aversion, should already deal with the problem of speeding. Why isn't that happening?

Buddha brain: People know the cost of a crash. Speeding happens because people misjudge the risk of a crash. So perceived risk, not cost, is the right variable to tweak if you want to fix speeding. Make enforcement of fines much more fast and certain, and you can solve speeding while lowering fines. The whole article about billionaires was a distraction from a distraction from a distraction.
Very well said.

Besides that I think that enterprises in some cases "dilute" ethics of individual beings.
No fantasy that takes an ideology and tries to implement it without any nuance and compromise with reality is feasible, period.

Libertarianism and anti-statism are usually quite more nuanced than their typical strawmen, and many libertarians are OK with small state which would be in charge of law enforcement. However, such small state still has no reason to own any land (except for government buildings) or designate any land as "public".
>Those risk factors have been considered by people who are qualified to design road systems.

Yes and no.

Those people usually have no role in applying the speed limits.

The max speed limits for a given type of road are given by some non-technical norms, i.e. - as an example - the Law may say that for a highway the max legal limit is 130 km/h, for a state route 90 km/h, etc.

People designing the road need to conform to those Law requirements, and - as a matter of fact - those requirements are normally exceeded (i.e. roads are usually designed in such a way that they could have from a purely technical standpoint higher speed limits).

The issue is particularly relevant where in single stretches of road there is something (a series of curves, a depression, etc.) that imposes (technically) a lower than Law mandated maximum speed for the type of road.

In these cases, if (technically) the max speed is - say - 120 Km/h (instead of 130 km/h) other factors (outside the powers or influence of the designer) will result in a much lower speed limit posted, let's say 90 Km/h.

This is done - usually - in good faith and to enhance security, but often - later - that specific stretch of road becomes a good way to make cash, as noone will suddenly reduce speed from the (allowed and legal till then) 130 km/h to 90 km/h and will go through the curves at 100-120 km/h (still within the technical limits, i.e. "safe enough" but far above the posted limit) thus being subject to fines.
> They can make a fuss about blocking City financial services all they like, but it's their own big businesses using those services and they have no credible alternative based within the EU27, and those businesses weren't just spending all that money on those financial services out of charity.

I think this is extremely complacent. Financial services aren't an immovable object like a steel press or a coal mine, they're a bunch of people in an office. A lot of financial companies already have all sorts of European presences (either for tax reasons or through acquisitions), and they're already gearing up to move to Europe. E.g. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2018/01/11/payment-tran...

So much of the UK argument seems to be "once we're out of the EU, the rules that apply to countries that are not in the EU won't apply to us because we're special". This is not convincing.

The whole thing reminds me of Greece: "it would be a disaster for our country if the EU followed its pre-agreed rules, so they won't". This was not a convincing reason to bend the rules.
I think the feedback loop is industry, who will continue to come up with new processes, materials, chemicals etc, which will improve our lives in some way, at some cost to the environment. The EPA can't stand still, it needs to keep pace with the industries it oversees.

You're right of course that industry isn't all bad; we just need the right balance. As long as the EPA's budget isn't expanding out of control, they're probably not simply empire-building.
Hosting Malware Analysis Lab in the Cloud
Apologies if this has already covered in a different thread.

But I'm debating whether using cloud based VM hosting for a malware analysis lab, rather than purchasing a server using a Hypervisor solution to host all my VMs locally.

Has anyone had any experience performing dynamic analysis on a VM hosted in the cloud? Are you able to purchase multiple VMs and log using Remnux for example? Is it cost effective? Cheers
Looks good! I'm using HabitBull[0] for past few weeks, and it's not bad, but i like your approach, so i'm going to give Grow a try.

Few random notes after first minutes in the app:

- i made a typo in the habit name and couldn't find a way to edit it

- it would be useful to have an option to check the relevant days for each habit (eg. only mondays, exclude weekends, …)

[0] http://www.habitbull.com/, got a link from some HN comment i believe
I agree that the trading with China has benefitted the USA enormously, but, at least money wise, it has benefitted China even more. That's the definition of a trade deficit.

The goal of the tariffs is of course not to stop that trading. The goal is just to pick up some free money under the assumption that China will not dare to start a trade war.
The planet cannot sustain our current way of life, it's as simple as that.

Moderate changes here and there, while they may make you feel like your doing something, is merely a band aid on a mighty cut.
When I last used this, it only supported polling (15 minutes at a time iirc).
Don't worry about the language. You are very easy to understand and follow. Great work!!! Also I enjoyed seeing you in video. Best regards A random fan :-)
By what right should the officer be able to learn my net worth the moment he or she thinks I made a moving violation? Do you want possibly unscrupulous officers learning your net worth anywhere you travel?
I recommend reading SICP and using Clojure to implement the exercises. There're plenty of solutions out there should you get stuck or need inspiration. Not only are you going to learn a LISP-like language, you also study one of the best programming books plus get to know a compelling language.
For the love of everything, I can`t remember the name and can`t find/google it, of a private mail service also from Switzerland. It had simpler marketing and UX, maybe not even web clients and had some affiliate program and I think the name started with "m". Help?
Trade doesn't work according to common sense, it works according to what's possible. If something's complicated and profitable, trade lets those who understand it profit by it.

Sanctions hurt people on both sides. For example, is a company in California has phones made by a contract manufacturer in China, imports them, and reexports them all over the world at steep prices, who's hurt most if the volume of that trade is limited?
> Property Rights aren't an inherent part of nature just because humans like to be greedy.

Property rights are the first level of abstraction above the physical layer of "might is right". "Public" land is usually a higher level of abstraction, because it almost always still limits who is the public: even indigenous people usually mean "public" land as land of our tribe, not their tribe.
What do you mean "embedded in the core"?

All drivers are in-tree.
DST coming in, that probably means they are interested in internationalisation of the product, which would be interesting. There are many people who know about US-based company but can’t really invest because stock-trading options outside of the US are even worst.
Ask HN: Ready-to-implement specifications?
Do you have good examples of clearly laid out, easy to follow specs for would-be implementers to pick up as a fun project?

I know of the Z-Machine standards[0] and CHIP-8[1].

[0]http://inform-fiction.org/zmachine/standards/z1point1/index.html
[1]http://devernay.free.fr/hacks/chip8/C8TECH10.HTM
They are badly needed in Europe.
I don't think there should be a problem. I think you can cast to void * and back as much as you like, but you aren't supposed to ever access the object as something else than char or its original type.
Found it! Migadu.
Thanks for confirming it. I expected this to be true but assumed I would only be sure when someone releases a product or blogs about an impending one.

I also assume freed from generating the basic metric and the lightweight recording infrastructure will free up resources for more extensive metric and analysis. It would also allow for more innovative exploration.

If I understand correctly it also provides some very helpful building block like high performance stacktrace and timing. I think fast reliable timing (the JVM is widely fractured in it's timer performance) would be helpful even for regular users like me.
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> But this really comes back to what I see as the heart of English dysfunction - and it's English, since the Welsh and Scottish don't seem to share it. The politics are awful. Recruiting half your leadership from one elite boarding school just doesn't work

This is exactly it. To my mind it's the last retreat of the Empire, inwards and inwards. The idea of having a country operating on a fundamentally equitable basis is just not acceptable to these people. So the UK gets set up almost as a set of internal colonies run from Westminster.

> We used to make things.

We still do - with a lot fewer people. Manufacturing is still big economically, it's just a high-value-add industry that employs a smaller number of white collar workers and robots. It also has terrible press coverage because it's not in London, and the papers are unwilling to dispatch foreign correspondents to the Midlands to find it.