skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's also a huge problem with the article's followup question about GPS. It shows the author has no idea what he's talking about.

These chips are just passive RFID. This actually has been shown to be incredibly insecure; these chips have so little compute (necessarily), that all they can really do is broadcast a number. Walk by someone with a reader, and now you have everything you need to compromise security.

Given that you have to keep the implant super small to be easily injectable, how the hell could you put a GPS on that? You'd need not only the hardware for the GPS, but also a power supply of some kind. GPS is one of the most draining features on your phone. RFID and bluetooth are still the main technologies for consumer asset tracking because they're such a lower power drain.

This article is FUD. I would have a problem having an implant put in too, but it contains no more functionality than an employer issued badge. It's basically just a badge you can't put down. Now, that inserts all sorts of issues, yes, but it's not same as having a GPS or something that I can't put down. My phone is far, far more alarming from a privacy perspective than these are.
I really liked the writing, as usual with what Carmack publishes on Facebook.

Markdown-Gist for Facebook averse people: https://gist.github.com/filleokus/3e7824e656ed614f5d27d492c1...
What it does likely mean is that there will be a reason to fire everyone. So management can use whatever excuse they'd like to get rid of someone just because of office politics. It's a bit harder now since they generally have to do bogus performance reviews etc.
Nobody puts java in a container
Minor bug report:

Edit your profile.

Upload a non-image file.

Enjoy the backtrace.

(Only discovered because uploading an image seems to be mandatory..)
You missed a fourth requirement.

- free of government influence

That's where the real power of cryptocurrency comes in. No longer are you tied to the decisions of your government with regard to your money. Venezuela, etc. Governments can't just print money for wars if the populace keeps all their money in cryptocurrency, which is borderless.
Maybe in the US. In most of Europe there’s a minimal fee associated with getting a plastic bag with your shopping now.
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they don't enable tracking of any sort.

I wouldn't say that. They enable tracking much like a credit/debit card; they provide an unique ID that can be logged by the reading device when you use it.
Detecting proximity to a reader is tracking of a sort.
What are you talking about? You can literally just go to Tesla's job posting website [1] and see that they have an entire department dedicated to marketing and spend plenty of money on it.

Just because you don't see banner ads for Tesla on the subway doesn't mean they spend zero dollars on marketing.

1: https://www.tesla.com/careers/search#/?department=8
Recreational ancestry DNA testing may reveal more about health than you want
We ship most of our "recycling" to Asia and smugly pat ourselves on the back that we are saving the world. It would not surprise me that the original source of a significant portion of the plastics in the oceans are domestic recycling programs.
On that note though, while you up the convienence, you also lower the security. Passive RFID can only broadcast a number; there's no compute to adhere to any sort of security protocol that is resistant to replay attacks. Meaning anyone with a reader that passes close enough to you will have the keys to your house.
Ride-Sharing Services Aren't a Problem, They're a Solution
I don't understand why these articles always mention the ability of a company to monitor what websites you're on as a new thing, considering that's essentially been built in to the average network setup since the 80s; ditto with working at home if you used a company laptop or VPNed in
> Where we find evidence that these or other apps did misuse data, we will ban them and notify people via this website

The website in question is Facebook. My bet is this didn't even go through a PR. Rather as this slowly unfolds I really doubt if Facebook even has a PR team.
PoW is not a solution and they are not even discussing the problem.

Author is mixing Byzantine Generals' problem to completely different set of trust and consensus problems.
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No, contrary to what you're saying, virtually all the work done in retail cryptography over the last several years has been in secure messaging. Don't send secrets over email; use a cryptographically secure messaging application, like Signal or Wire.
Microsoft's blog post on this includes links to the government's evidence [1].

This include emails from Lundgren that sure make this look like a pretty straightforward case of making and importing counterfeit goods intended to make the buyers think they are getting the real thing, and doing this for profit.

There's also discussion of ways to ship to try to avoid Customs, and when a shipment does get delayed by Customs Lundgren gives his partner specific lies to tell the Customs agents if questioned.

[1] https://blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issues/2018/04/27/the-fac...
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Obviously these do enable tracking because they can be detected at different locations, just like your phone can be tracked as it travels along a store if can be distinguished by its Bluetooth or Wi-Fi MAC address.

And just because the reader in a door lock only responds to a nearby tag doesn’t mean they aren’t detectable from further away if the antennas are bigger.
Someone analysed the Thames in London and found it had 18 tonnes a year of plastic waste in it.

The Yangtze (which is longer to be fair) has 1.5 million tonnes of year of plastic waste.

Probably 1000x the waste per-river-km.

GPs point is entirely correct; plastic waste isn't a huge problem (unsightly perhaps) in Western world, it's the developing world which is causing nearly all of this problem. Be far better to focus resources on there, it would literally have a 1000x+ better RoI than the west.
Disclosure: im a "blue collar" automotive repair tech.

I cant understand why anyone would put up with a lot of this, but I can guess its probably some smug "white collar" manager who thinks production or revenue are down because people who didnt go to $college are inherently lazier than he is. Putting the screws on the workers is always the easiest way to compensate for bad decisions in the leadership change.

I worked in an old shop once that did an oil and air service for $59.99. We got a ton of business from a local rental car place because their service pool was under provisioned after their managers expanded the fleet. Now typically when working on simple stuff like a packaged deal, I inspect other stuff. Your brakes/brake lines and any leaks i might spot that seem dangerous. Those get logged in your invoice with a $0.00 fee. Typically the rental place would send the vehicle back for the additional service and a nice thank you box of donuts for the crew.

Management started seeing these 0.00 fees and assumed we were giving away free service because they didnt take the time to train on the computer system we all have to use. So they dismantled the service deal and started charging individually for everything, driving the cost up to close to $100. they also eliminated the inspection line items. We lost the rental place, and we had to spend 20 minutes hand writing issues we noticed on greasy post-its, which makes the shop look cheap.

I eventually quit the place when they started putting cameras in the garage bays "for safety" and changed our normal punch clock system to a fingerprint system...not because i dont like biometrics, but because they dont work when your hands are coated in 30 cars worth of grease and fluid. When the timeclocks broke down, we were always accused of sabotage.
I would recommend reading A Distant Mirror, the book referenced at the start.
My favorite comment from this story, one which I'll remember the next time I run a low fantasy or Bronze Age game:

"You know the creepy basement at your cousin's house that's full of furniture covered in sheets, weird barrels, and bad smells? You know how the lightswitch is way on the other side of the room so you've got to walk through, in pitch darkness, to try and find it? And you know how you always had one eye on the stairs just in case you had to run away from whatever horrible monster might live down there?

Well medieval life is like that all the time, except there is no lightswitch, and there are no stairs."
The memristor revisited [pdf]
This has nothing to do with sending. On the receiving side you can't receive newer packets when a missed packet exists with an earlier sequence ID.

Ex:

4 -> 5 -> X -> 7 -> 8 -> 9

Until the client gets 6 then 7,8,9 will be held(and getting stale) until you roundtrip 6. At that point 9 may even be useless since it would be too stale and you've just added extra latency that you don't want or need.

Look up how dead-reckoning is done in realtime games, this is one of many other cases where having timely data works better over UDP than TCP.
Anne Applebaum's "Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944-1956" documents the process of imposing authoritarianism. Particularly important is the combination of surveillance and the threat of violence. You can't have a thug with a baton on every street corner, but with enough information, you can credibly extend the threat of violence far beyond the number of thugs available. The number of nodes in a tree grows much faster than its depth.

How should we compare this kind of upstream oppression--heading off free expression, movement, association before they happen--with more localized forms of assault? More concretely, what should we make of the software developers, designers, salespeople, and managers who collaborate in building these kinds of systems?
Such understanding would likely extend to an individual's privacy, so people and institutions that subvert privacy (even with the consent of the surveilled) are unlikely to be induced to empathy by a profusion of data.
yes, but cleaning bathrooms doesn't make you want to kill yourself.
But musk fans only complain about it when it makes elon and the gang look bad...
If you use Rust's equivalent of `-march=native` you get faster code that can target modern hardware. We would have to get another factor-of-two speedup for the maintainance burden of using inline assembly to be worthwhile.

https://gist.github.com/Vurich/5cb83c773e90fc7a463ccb58e1dad...
Eh...no?

Addictions in general tend to breed other, more problematic crime. Nobody feels bad for a junkie who blows all their own money and privately ODs in the street. People get really freaked out when a junkie is robbing people in the street to pay for his fix.
What does dopamine mean?
paranoia.
I believe they use the Chromium Embedded Framework.

It has been discussed on Quora [1] by some Spotify Devs.

[1] https://www.quora.com/How-is-JavaScript-used-within-the-Spot...
There is also a "mechanical hound" that chases Montag in Fahrenheit 451 and a similar killer cyborg guard dog creature in Snow Crash.

Let's get some good fiction with optimistic views of robot animals, mmkay writers? ;)
Yes, it adds a new custom types AWS::Serverless::* [1] and new Globals section [2] and it is really pleasant to work with for basic, not complicated API. It is transformed into CF template via samtranslator [3] (recently open-sourced) so it inherits a lot from CloudFormation but also that's why I encountered differences between SAM and CF types.

[1]: https://awslabs.github.io/serverless-application-model/inter...

[2]: https://awslabs.github.io/serverless-application-model/globa...

[3]: https://github.com/awslabs/serverless-application-model/tree...
Prediction markets are already legal in the USA.

https://iemweb.biz.uiowa.edu/
https://www.predictit.org/
So your theory is that Tesla has hired a PR firm to launch a negative news campaign against themselves?
The future is bleak: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlO2gcs1YvM
> Also by the by your dating life will improve by 500% if you do nothing else than start monitoring your date's emotions better than however you're doing it now.

This is totally true. How do you think Mark Zuckerberg managed to marry Priscilla Chan? He got improved emotional monitoring algorithms in one of his 2011 firmware updates.
Much of the US is like that too.
My point exactly, google helped with the transition to HTTPS, but doesn't want to help the transition to encrypted email.
a human-driven auto accident that happens every day is a failure of Tesla?

I’m calling shenanigans.
The table is optimized for 16 strings, but there's a reference to "linear scanning an array of string tables" so I thought the total input was larger. Anyways the size of the set is important information.
> please explain. it literally has $0 advertising budget.

Advertising budget is what you use to bypass media coverage decisions, not how you drive “free media”.
None is that is due to ethical consumerism (the idea you can vote with your wallet on a principle and it will actually make a difference).

As far as I know, the last major time ethical consumerism made a difference was against South African apartheid. Which is a cause 10,000x more important than the hegemony of Disney. Smaller issues just don't get the traction.
>South Dakota test

What's this? Google just returns a bunch of results for the South Dakota DMV exam.
You should fear the absence of death, if people never died, the earth would be a pretty crowded place. (The dead greatly outnumber the living, with estimates ranging from 50-108 billion).

To go further, if nothing living ever died, the whole biosphere couldn't work at all.

Life exists because of death. Saying we like life, but not death, is like saying: "I love breathing in, but I hate breathing out."
That assumes they can trust the answer.
Why falling demand hasn't brought down college sticker prices
not only is this not a proof, but also implicitly sweeps many issues with the implementation of the current system under-the-rug, which is the more insidious part of this argument.

> Proof that Proof-of-Work is the only solution to Byzantine Generals' problem

this is an argument for PoW's validity as a solution, for starters. in no way is this a proof, let alone one of uniqueness.

> In case of Bitcoin mining farms, such an alternative would require a very expensive and complex production chain, requring either outcompeting other firms that use chip foundries or building single use datacenters in the most cost-effective locations on the plane

that is exactly what we have right now! SHA256 has become so optimised in these chips that the whole issue of "consensus" has been almost diluted to "consensus between a very small number of people".

it might appear as though i'm identifying a 51% attack, and whilst that is entirely un-addressed in this "proof", that's not what i mean.

bitcoin was created to decentralise money. there are so few actors in the mining business now as to negate the benefit of requiring trust in a small number of centralised entities. which, by the way, happen to be well-known, non-anonymous, and culpable when mistakes are made/crimes are committed.

sure, the majority of the resources must be used to create a "message", but it certainly does not necessarily represent the consensus.

bitcoin, in its current implementation, has failed. that largely stems from the fact that SHA256 PoW as a means of proof, has failed.
The author addressed "a container or VM image" in the followup, at http://blog.khinsen.net/posts/2017/11/22/stability-in-the-sc... :

> There are three main reasons why this is not a sufficient solution:

> 1. Freezing code is fine for archival reproducibility, as I mentioned in my original post. It is not sufficient for living code bases that people work on over decades. ...

(His example was his MMTK project which started in the 1.3 days. Twenty years later, it will take a lot of work to make the 2->3 transition.)

> 2. The technical solutions proposed all depend on yet more infrastructure whose longevity is uncertain. For how long will a Docker container image produced in 2017 remain usable? For how long will conda and its repositories be supported, and for how long will the binaries in these repositories function on current platforms?

> 3. None of today’s code freezing approaches comes with easy-to-use tooling and clear documentation that make it accessible to the average computational scientist. The technologies are today in a “good for early adopters” state. This means we cannot rely on them to preserve today’s research even though they may well take on this role in the future.

There are many issues related to reproducibility. I think it's acceptable for different people to focus on different pain points, and that one need not mention all of the possible pain points that others may have when talking about one's own concerns.
It’s known that remote image loading is bad. Why is this even enabled? I think they get a pass on this, it’s definitely a bit over blown.
Spent a very little time in the grocery industry.

Remember that back in our day the paper bags didn't have handles. Even today, paper bag handles suck (I'm looking at you, Whole Foods).

The reason consumers embraced plastic bags was the handles. Then manufacturers figured out how to make them super cheap.

Now there's an entire generation of people who have never heard the phrase, "Paper or plastic?"

Or "Smoking or non-smoking?" in a restaurant or airplane for that matter.
MySQL Performance: 1M *IO-Bound* QPS with 8.0 GA on Intel Optane SSD
Maybe it works better on other platforms, but on Linux it's a resource hog and feels like a slow electron app..
I wouldn't be too proud of yourselves. There is debate over the relative environmental impact of plastic, paper, and reusable shopping bags. If you jump to the conclusion that plastic bags are the worst, it's probably because you haven't researched enough.
you're right, i've edited that claim out. larger systems utilizing RFID can enable tracking; however, the implant itself isn't inherently privacy-averse.
Yep, and remember they also are HUGE into suing or threatening their own customers for benchmarking their products [1], or perhaps pointing out security problems [2]. Etc.

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15886333

2. http://www.businessinsider.com/oracle-cso-goes-against-bug-b...
Weird. With my 2014 Prius, I pull into a parking spot, brake, and hit the power button. It shifts into Park for me.

At least I think that's what I do. Now I'm doubting myself and will check later today. But I'm pretty sure.
If the NY Times allowed me to register an account, and then billed me in aggregate every month, then I would gladly pay 25 cents to $1 per article.

The problem that Lightning network hopefully solves is exactly the system that the media industry needs. And they are so hyper consolidated, it should be viable to create some type of system.

Alternatively, maybe Americans need less news and information.
Because the name is totally false. You aren't putting anything at stake and it ends up being traditional social trust. "Oh that guy he has a lot of ETH and is a trusted member, he wouldn't attack the network as its in his own best interest!"

Beyond that, it's simply a rich-get-richer scheme. Why are staked nodes rewarded? What is their sacrifice and what are they spending to get that reward? Nothing.
Hate to downplay anyone's efforts but these look like Boston dynamic's retirement home; they look painfully slow.
> If the switch away from ... a newer language and eco-system allows you to achieve massive scale with less technologies and less moving parts, then you absolutely have a professional obligation to do so.

Read this again. It make total sense.

Eventually, some path become running against the current, and then the better path is move to something else.

And what about that millons-of-lines of code? Is the same thing as "what about all the investment in money with that inneficient car that eat gasoline like is not a tomorrow, I push so much on it but the new tech is far more efficient?, and you tell me, let that in the past?"

Yes.

You put that millons-of-lines in the past and rebuild. If you have the correct mindset the change will pay off GREATLY...

P.D: I do this for work several times in my life, With very drastic/radical changes.

In fact, the MORE RADICAL the BEST. "Small" changes are not worth it. The $$$ is not there. But when you do a hard change is when the benefits get more evident...
That doesn't excuse the behavior of them turning around and dumping it in the ocean.
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Since you mentioned being a regex implementor, could you give me your opinion of the PCRE2 library? I had always assumed it to be a well polished mature library (simply because it's popular), but learnt this week that it doesn't support even basic Unicode properties like `\p{Alphabetic}`. According to the linked article, it wouldn't pass Level 1.2 Unicode support.

A lot of code points used in Indic languages are outside the `L` categories, and not having the Alphabetic property (and having both `\w` and the POSIX `:alpha:` match only within `L`) is a significant annoyance when parsing mixed-language text (in Julia, which uses PCRE2 as the backend for regex). Is PCRE2 particularly behind in Unicode property implementation, or is this par for the course in common regex engines today?
If sending emails and browsing Facebook is 'computing' then you're right.

If being able to create the 'end use software' on these devices, then again you're right.

If these devices are little more than portable web browsers, computing ?
I think this provides strong evidence that Q is Trump propaganda.
Why spend money on training and maintaining a human infantry at all??

If one of these things, maybe the more advanced biped version could be bought for $1M it would have to be cheaper and more reliable than a human. No salary, no pension, no health insurance, no time off, no training hours, just pure measurable, reliable killing. I guess there would be a huge crew of maintenance engineers though, but maybe automate the servicing too.
Most open source development is done by for profit companies. Not through altruism, because software just happens to be an input into more profitable businsss activities. If Google licenses Android to smart phone manufacturers, maybe it gets $5-10 once every two years. But by giving it away for free and creating an Android user, Google makes that much every month.
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It's right there in the beginning of the opinion:

The Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act (PASPA) makes it unlawful for a State or its subdivisions “to sponsor, operate, advertise, promote, license, or authorize by law or compact . . . a lottery, sweepstakes, or other betting, gambling, or wagering scheme based . . . on” competitive sporting events, 28 U. S. C. §3702(1), and for “a person to sponsor, operate, advertise, or promote” those same gambling schemes if done “pursuant to the law or compact of a governmental entity,” §3702(2). But PASPA does not make sports gambling itself a federal crime. Instead, it allows the Attorney General, as well as professional and amateur sports organizations, to bring civil actions to enjoin violations.

That is, rather than say sports gambling shall be declared illegal, they made it a civil offense for a state to pass a law legalizing sports gambling.