skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I believe they're referring to the premise that US prisons are overwhelmingly filled with innocent, non-violent offenders, with the majority specifically consisting of black and hispanic men.

The US has a real negative mark there and deserves the flack that it gets for it.

However, while China seems to be racing toward some terrifying authoritarian nightmare with its Xi dictatorship and bringing back camps, the US incarceration rate has been declining for a decade. It has been rolled back to 1995-1996 levels and is on an aggressive downward slope.

Most likely with the continued legalization / de-criminalization of marijuana, the US will see its incarceration rate continue to plunge for the next 10-20 years. The prison explosion began around 1978-1979. In another ten years we should have the incarceration rate back down to late 1980s levels. That would still be 2x higher than the late 1970s levels, and a lot more work would still need to be done. For reference, peak incarceration was around 2007, and was about 5x what the rate was in the late 1970s (per capita).

Both political parties have widespread agreement that the failed US policies of mass-incarceration have to be reversed / ended.
For starters you don't have to worry about AP isolation & inconsistent router configurations. It also drastically simplifies the user enrolment/validation process and makes the UX of that far more consistent. It also might mean it's a lot more difficult to take over a Nest remotely if it's pinned to only communicate with Nest servers. Finally, the C&C protocols can evolve in the current model more easily as it's all server-side; the mobile & web apps just need to communicate via simple REST APIs. This drastically simplifies the maintenance of these codebases & speeds up how quickly they can address any security vulnerabilities.

These choices Nest has made simplifies the SW stack, UX & provides for better security at the cost of mandating a physical fallback rather than a LAN fallback. You may see things differently but that doesn't mean these aren't valid engineering tradeoffs.
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Don't wanna comment on the general US army and partnering businesses - this happens in all countries and all levels and that's that. Think we can fairly assess that warfare is huge economic influence and by this point in human history I don't really think we have to discuss it's advantages and/or disadvantages anymore.

For the mines, well they were part of warfare for some 600-800 years before Ottawa Treaty banning them in 1999, conveniently a treaty that wasn't signed by US. IEDs would've came no matter what and saying that's anything to do with the subject or army research is like saying that Molotov cocktails were supposed to be used to fire up the BBQ.

Valley isn't really known to be supporting war nor armies and there's been some backlashes for the companies involved with military equipment and/or technology development.

Uber has already killed a civilian and that was with their so-called technology development on US soil so I guess that goes with their general agenda. And albeit this is a grim way to put it, the fact is that for a company which is known to be shady at best a collaboration with one of the most prominent modern day civilian bombing military forces, well, I could see that go wrong. Of course now days US army keeps better track of their drones and where those missiles hit with better technology, so there's hopefully better direction on these technological advances. And thankfully if Uber's civilian casualties rise the same rate that the number of civilian casualties by drone strikes it'll take at least a decade before they reach significant numbers. Let's hope it's not gonna be the case and they're just doing publicity stunt to save the ship to which I say - let it sink.

For a country which has never been invaded nor attacked directly on land by another nation (besides conflicts prior to 1900s) while at the same time currently being active on multiple war zones around the world (some of the conflicts which it's started itself), well, the word defense gets a new meaning I guess.
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kWh I'd wager, it's used interchangeably here.
The Panchatantra:The ancient 'viral memes' still with us
Nope, still 404.
I would really like to hear from more people who've used NixOS in anger. We used the Nix package manager (for packinging our application and managing dependencies) in our organization for a while, and it seemed to create a lot of pain, so I'm wondering if we were using it poorly or if the Nix ecosystem just needs to mature.
> Why don't these products use LAN or other local, non-cloud options?

For the equivalent effort to implement, most customer's revealed preferences are for new/better features rather than robust local intelligence.

This kind of event just doesn't happen very often.
Use a keypad controlled, reprogrammable door lock. No internet required, codes easily rotated.

https://www.homedepot.com/b/Hardware-Door-Hardware-Door-Lock...
Still 404s for me.
As others have pointed out negative thinking is a bitch as it always finds ways to reaffirm itself.

That being said. You never really make it. There is no magical "release". You will always have to cope with, all sorts of things that you did not really ask for - that's just part of life. Everyone goes through life like that, even the people on Magazine covers and Instagram.

Life is hard and challenging and all the better for it. With challenge comes growth. You may have to make some hard decisions but being sick and tired of it all is a good place to be. It forces you to think of ways to change.
If your neighbor loses his job it's a recession. If you lose your job it's a depression.
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Add to that - I do not see any mention of the source of timing or "timestamp server" as the Nakamoto paper refers to it. The details of why it is important are in my blog post here https://grisha.org/blog/2018/01/23/explaining-proof-of-work/ (which was once at the top of HN).
Ok, wink, because the blockchain I’ll play along and pretend there aren’t at least 12 people that could crash the entire thing one way or another if they wanted to.
> They weren't bugs for the thousands of years when gold was used.

Growth rates during the Dutch Golden Age were about 0.2% a year, with very brief peaks of up to 1%.
I wrote the article he is responding to. My reply is here: http://slatestarcodex.com/2018/05/16/basic-income-not-basic-...
Bitcoin to use 0.5% of world’s electricity by end of 2018
Thats the mining pool though. You can join those pools from anywhere.
Directly from the article, it seems that they are well aware that it's not going to be the most popular idea.

> When reached for comment on The Selfish Ledger, an X spokesperson provided the following statement to The Verge:

>> “We understand if this is disturbing -- it is designed to be. This is a thought-experiment by the Design team from years ago that uses a technique known as ‘speculative design’ to explore uncomfortable ideas and concepts in order to provoke discussion and debate. It’s not related to any current or future products.”
Their Nest cams got hacked and they ended up on suspicious websites doing suspicious things, oh wait, someone covered that already.
The video merely connects two hosts (IIRC). If you want what you expect from a normal client-server VPN acting as a gateway to a private network, you'll need to enable IP forwarding on the "server" and ensure routes are correctly configured on the "client".
Afghanistan. Iraq. Central America. Indonesia. Korea. Vietnam. We can do this for a while and that's just the overt military interventions not counting colonization by American business and capitalist ideology.
very elaborate file names.
I might, but I surely won't be one if the service isn't available at all.
If we're going down, we might as well have fun doing it no?
Whoa. This is awesome.
because if you want slaac to work without nat, the smalles ipv6 subnet you can have is a /64. so if your provider gives you just a single static /64, all you can allocate is a single subnet.
I fully expect that if we even had a way to calculate how much power is wasted in order to support that kind of jurassic infrastructure for every bank, Bitcoin would still come out on top by an order of magnitude at the very least.

If Bitcoin is around .01% as estimated, that would mean banks account for 1% of world energy usage. I’d bet against it being anything like that high.

High-frequency trading might waste a lot of energy, but that’s another silly arms race with dubious social value, exactly like Bitcoin.
> Pay for movie theater ticket, get served 30+ minutes of ads.

Man, you aren’t kidding. I’m a spoiled Seattleite who can walk to two IMAX theaters attached to a non-profit science center, Paul Allen’s Cinerama, and an indie theater. I had the experience of going to a big name multiplex theater in another city recently, and I just had to shake my head at how awful the experience was for how
much it cost.
Google needs less of so called product-"leadership" (like PMs and management) who are usually drivers of the aforementioned politics. The engineers need to have control to actually let engineering and metrics drive these decisions.
My company did something very similar when we had a customer make a large order shipped overseas, which turned out to be with a stolen credit card. They didn't realize that since our hardware requires a service plan to even operate, we could just put a note in our system that these were stolen and inform everyone that tried to use them that they had purchased stolen goods and that they should return it (and report stolen goods on eBay).
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RPI suing Amazon over Alexa technology
In most configurations, it’s trivial to use the os native VPN client, with some minor caveats. This creates a tunnel device and does what 99% of end-users working remotely need.
Yeah as I’ve researched smart home stuff I’ve become more and more impressed with HomeKit. The HomeKit devices talk to iOS devices over the LAN and then an Apple TV acts as the “bridge” that lets you control your house over the internet. It sucks you have to buy an Apple TV to do it but I’m more comfortable having my thermostats, light switches, etc. all connect to the internet through a single (and reliably updated) device vs. relying on individual manufactures to secure their devices.
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What the frack? It shows up on my phone. I'm on mobile but Will fix it when I'm back in front of my desktop. It's just a stupid 8 second clip of a napkin dispenser, but now I am determined to share it with all you fine folk.
Read the article. Let me know where in western public schools they ask people to denounce their family on threat of starvation.
The world's banking system is at around 500 Billion transactions per year https://www.worldpaymentsreport.com/reports/noncash while bitcoin has a mere 200 thousand per day https://blockchain.info/charts/n-transactions
Even if the banking system (not sure why you include commuters, but then we should also include bitcoin lambos) were to consume the same amount of power it would still handle 2.5 million times (edit: >6000 times) as many transactions.
> Yeah, the burden is on the buyer not to purchase stolen goods.

1 party has 100% of the information, 1 party has 0% of the information, and the burden is on the party with 0% information. That's absurd.

> The manufacturer is certainly under no obligation to support them.

Not support and bricking are two different things.

> In many states even unknowing possession of stolen goods is a crime

Generally the state has to prove the defendant took receipt of the items for an unlawful purpose. Ohio is an exception, but I'm not sure if there is another one.

> so many of the "users" here are in fact getting off lightly.

You use "many" incorrectly here: Very, very few are. Because very, very few jurisdictions make it a crime to unknowingly receive stolen property and even fewer would actually press charges even if allowed.

Your post is nonsense.
I imagine this standardized in a supply chain blockchain
But my SSH already uses Public Keys and ChaCha20/Poly1305 so that's really the last protocol I worry about sending through hostile territory
Well, having an indoor cat means keeping an indoor cat happy which is a larger problem (for the caretaker) but indicative of the meta supremacy in house cat behavior.

In all seriousness I would rather take the time to care
for a house cat than to deal with the possibility of
roadkill/injury, disease, pests or other accidents of
nature. If the cat is a problem for you then don't own
one?
This post is like the corporate version of the masterbatory Ikea scene in Fight Club.
Worthwhile as the various Unix-in-Windows efforts are, I still haven't particularly enjoyed the day-to-day experience of using any of them. It's been death by a thousand cuts that accumulate.
A surprisingly common mistake nowadays. I've spotted a couple of times in a major Dutch newspaper over the past few years.

Perhaps it's easier to use Joule instead of kWh.
Is support for this in the Linux kernel yet? The lack of acceptance there is a major reason why I haven't tried this out yet.
Not me, and not people I know. You do a crime, pay your debts, welcome back to society, rights and all. I also think that the second amendment can be regulated with laws just like all the rest.

No one ever screams that driver's licenses infringe on our freedom of assembly...
Could just be "I have a distraction-free remote work environment". Probably don't need to say "I live alone. So, so alone." :-)
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To the extent that employers might prejudice against bame kids, do you think raising the cost for employers to try them out helps that situation?
Seems totally acceptable to me. The comparison with the FTDI incident is not really applicable here because those were not stolen parts, just replica/clone parts.
This price is great compared to the dual socket Talos 2 I just received. I'm hopeful this will bring more developers to the table.
Physical locks are trivially exploitable. I don't really see this as increasing the attack surface greatly when physical locks are so weak.
Can Humans Live Well Without Pillaging the Planet?
As of a little over a week ago my nests (camera, thermostat) were connecting to AWS systems, not Google Cloud. Am traveling so can't tell if this has changed since then.
I would advise a very prudent approach to this type of question. The two companies did not use an "AI" (in the sense of a noun, an artificially intelligent entity) nor did an "AI" cause deaths of humans. They have utilized amalgamation of many artificially intelligent techniques (e.g. neural network). If the sole focus is on the dangers and the risk of using AI because of a few deaths (and, in the case of Tesla, the vehicle was not at fault. A very injudicious person has decided to walk across a highway where no stoplights or boardwalks could've legally protected the person), then please reconsider your focus to more intelligent and insightful question, instead of provocation.
>but what about the 24 hour ATM

:D how many hours of an ATM running do you think it takes to get to 300kW or 1 single bitcoin transaction?

I’m going to guess that a single ATM might not hit 300kW in a year.

Your sense is scale is way wrong.
Why is that sad?
I've found UDP over OpenVPN to work fairly well even on bad networks. Well-supported on iOS too with the OpenVPN Connect app.
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> the CEO has two children with disabilities

Interesting video with Nadella discussing this:

https://www.facebook.com/bloombergbusiness/videos/1547448801...
They don't need to understand in order to vote.
The "main" control pad doesn't seem like necessarily the most important thing: the most important thing is that on the back of the controller, there's a whole row of ports that you can use to plug in standard assitive devices into (buttons, pedals, sticks, whatever) to act as controller inputs. The idea is that it should be as flexible as possible to adapt to everyone's needs. I'm sure you would be able to find a solution for the games you want to play.
> "De Vries concludes that as the BTC network currently consumes about 2.55 GW of electricity and moves towards consuming 7.67 GW in the future (for reference, Ireland consumes 3.1 GW and Austria 8.2 GW)"

Okay can we all agree that's far too much power to use on a decentralised currency system? It's going to use twice as much power as a first world country. The current proof-of-work system badly needs replacing.
It looks like the passive voice is not something that is well understood by you.
Possession of stolen goods[1] is a crime USA-wide, and in many other countries. The rationale behind is ability to prosecute fences[2] - people who act as intermediaries and a layer of security between thieves and end-users, providing the thieves with option for easy cash-out.

Edit:
As a counter-point, at least in Poland, while obtaining stolen goods is an offense ("paserstwo"[3]), the buyer of any good or service that has a "legal defect" - including having been stolen, IIRC - has a valid legal case to demand recourse from the seller. The goods are nonetheless subject to forfeiture.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Possession_of_stolen_goods

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fence_(criminal)

[3] https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paserstwo
In a market system, why is this a problem? How much energy and resources are used in all manner of activities which somebody could consider wasteful?

In any event, it seems to me that bitcoin is becoming a proxy for Arthur C Clarke's "megawatt-hour" currency which he predicted would emerge by 2016 [0]. Tying a currency to a fundamental quantity (the Joule) seems like a reasonable way to overcome the deficiencies of fiat currencies.

[0] http://www.kurzweilai.net/arthur-c-clarke-offers-his-vision-...
As a quick summary for people who look into the comments because it says German in the title:

Zyxel had several thousand phone calls on a publicly accessible server. A ZDnet reader tipped of ZDnet, and they verified the story and published it after the server was no longer accessible.

(The last bit is quite unclear in the automated translation, but unambiguous in German:

> Kurz vor 13 Uhr hat die Firma den Zugriff auf die Daten gestoppt.
If you're comfortable using a totally (physical) keyless solution, try a hotel-style mag strip-based access card, or an NFC alternative like a ProxCard.

AFAIK, most code-based locks include a physical lock cylinder as a backup.
Even without that it's still not fair because of ASICs not being widely available to consumers. It's not as fair as simply selling tokens/coins which grows linearly with how much money you have, which is what you'd be spending on electricity and hardware anyway, you're just taking the shortcut of not using them and is one of the more popular arguments for PoS.
No, it's a warehousing system to keep children watched and fed while their parents work.
A French army unit was dedicated to the protection of artworks during WWI
It is interesting that none of their examples of why make is considered harmful involved writing an idiomatic make file.

In fact, all of their examples of how bad make is involve the use of non-standard makefile generators, or non-standard extensions to make itself.

It is sort of like arguing that JavaScript is harmful, and then showing snippets of asm.js code to talk about how “tragic” the language syntax is.

Alternatively, I could argue that no one should use C because C++ template metaprogramming is too opaque, and, as further proof, my use of a non-standard preprocessor I implemented leads to 10,000’s of lines of deeply nested macro invocations.

(There are all sorts of problems with make, but I’m not convinced the authors actually understand them in enough detail to improve on it.)
A benefit unmentioned in this article is full IP roaming on both ends. That is good on its own but combined with the Android support has some very interesting possibilities.
Agree entirely.

Look at the Brinks CompuSafe hack in 2015. Anything which increases the attack surface of a device reduces the security. In that case, a USB port.

And that wasn't even made by the lowest bidding startup.
More fearmongering. I will simply wait to see what actually is being done and if and when that oversteps the bounds of what I consider reasonable I will definitely make my voice heard but until then this is all totally besides the point and time spent on fearmongering would probably be better spent on studying the law, determining its intent and then doing your best to comply with that intent. The very small chance that some mom & pop shop will be taken to the cleaners by the EU courts 'just because they can' strikes me as not grounded in reality, there is no precedent for anything like that.

And bringing up some unrelated (murder!) case has no effect at all than to point out that justice systems aren't perfect, they are not expected to be perfect and we have lots of evidence to that effect already. That's a totally different discussion.
The first 747 is at the Museum of Flight in Seattle and it is actually set up for inflight refueling. Quite the versatile platform! You can see this at the very back in the 3d tour (or in person, it's a great place):

http://www.museumofflight.org/aircraft/boeing-747-121
People who receive stolen goods have always been kinda screwed over - it's been part of our laws forever. Even if one isn't charged with a crime, one will lose the goods, and likely never recover their money.

The reasons for this are obvious - to make it as hard as possible to sell stolen goods. The effects encourage the innocent purchasers to have some level of caution when looking at buying goods.
I never learned to study in HS either, and then on top of the actual workload in college I suffered a brain injury shortly after HS graduation that ruined my short term memory function. That first year of college was a massive challenge in learning discipline and just learning!
"you must suffer now so that generations to come can worship me"
I am loving watching you idiots try to catch up with crypto now. For years I tried to post about Bitcoin here only to be ridiculed. Fuck you guys.
"Oopsie, my bad"
Yep. They actually made it MUCH easier to change your default audio source in Windows 10 (not sure which particular release this change came in).
Note that this is has not hit a stable version yet, and the wireguard developers even recommend not using wireguard: https://www.wireguard.com/#work-in-progress
Pagers parse every single page. They only alert you when it's to your address. /napkin is just that, if you designed the protocol this would be very doable. The receiver can passively listen quite cheaply energy wise. This is nothing like decoding a video stream.
> Kurz vor 13 Uhr hat die Firma den Zugriff auf die Daten gestoppt.

Translation: "The company [Zyxel] blocked access to the data right before 1pm."
China has these schools too, so it seems even if they’re equivalent to the west, they are not effective enough at indoctrination, so more remedial indoctrinstion is needed...

But honestly, do you think ours and their systems are equivalently indoctrinational?
Getting denied a bank account/job/housing rental/... for no clear reason and with no way to appeal is becoming increasingly common, and seems to have all the same negatives as the social credit program - if anything worse, since at least you can see your "social credit" score and have some idea of how to improve it.
I don't think that either Tesla's or Uber's self-driving systems are powered by what passes for AI today...did you mean "algorithms"?

Also, "singularity" is more of an article of faith than something we would realistically live in ;)
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