skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They are paying huge fines, 27 billion set aside, which is providing a large shareholder "haircut."

Punishing those responsible individuals is the only way to change future behavior of individuals that will eventually hold such positions.

Also, you're completely ignoring how many people these corporations employ that had nothing to do with this. What do you propose for those laid off after a "haircut?"

Individual bad actors or a cohort of bad actors often are what make these companies bad in the first place so punishment for them along with financial penalty in the form of fines is pretty close hitting everyone who should get hit as is.
The worlds oldest profession. Prostitution. Not hard to notice since about 90% of "influencers" are young (mostly white) women.
There's no way of knowing if a human driver could have reacted properly in this specific scenario. However if you live in an area where deer frequently cross the road, you'll know that collisions with deer occur regularly; that would indicate that it's easy to hit things that cross your path, even when you should be able to see them.
I get a little sick to my stomach just hearing the word "Descent."
There is no way this is not a derivative work of the engine of Diablo, assets or not it is blatant copyright infringement. That said I don't think Blizzard is going to make any attempts at enforcing it considering similar projects for other old Blizzard games.
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Why would the US care? Is the US abiding by international treaties nowadays?

Edit: removed chest poking.
Meanwhile, The U.S. Cybercommand hasn't done so well.
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I believe that small changes like this can make ciphers more secure in practice but are usually best avoided. The are several factors involved.

* Modern ciphers are carefully designed and random changes to the algorithm may weaken the cipher, by say shrinking the effective key space or leaking internal state information due to timing attacks. Without careful cryptographic analysis by experts, motivated to study the new changes over a period of months or years, it may be hard to anticipate the overall effect of the changes. This in an argument in favor of adopting the existing studied systems and implementations.

* Some types of changes can be safely made and may be worthwhile. For example, superencipherment by encrypting the output of one cipher with a different independent system and an independent second key is almost certainly going to make breaking the system harder. This, however, reduces the performance of the encryption and requires careful implementation for perhaps no gain over simply choosing stronger parameters (for example, rounds and key length) with a single system. Examples of superencipherment that have been successful include the system used by soviet agents known as the VIC cipher. Apparently, this cipher resisted attempts at decryption. (The VIC cipher combined two simpler ciphers a franctionated substitution followed by an interrupted columnar transposition. There was a nice explanation of this cipher in Scientific American that I read in the mid 1960's, but I can't find that reference. See [1].)

* Widely used encryption systems, say AES, have an inherent advantage because they are widely used. Multiple, widely vetted, implementations and use patterns have been studied and any breaks in the systems are likewise reported widely.

* Superencryption, when done correctly, does mitigate the risk of an unexpected development in cryptanalysis of one of the underlying systems. One of the involved ciphers could be broken, as we've seen over and over again in the history of cryptanalysis, in which case the second cipher would continue to provide protection.

* A random secret change to a cipher, say modifying a magic constant like Salsa20's nothing up my sleeve constant (search for "nothing up my sleeve" in [2]), is likely to make any script-kiddie hacker code used by random bad guys fail to break your personalized cipher. The problem then becomes, keeping your random change private. Once the cipher is used to communicate with others, the secret is no longer secret and is likely to get out. This is the basis for simply assuming that your adversary already knows your encryption algorithm.

* Finally, if your adversary is a state actor and the stakes are high enough, your random secret changes to some cipher probably won't stop them. See Schneier's blog [3].

[1] http://www.quadibloc.com/crypto/pp1324.htm

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salsa20

[3] https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2015/08/mickens_on_se...
"Square’s tablet has 16 gigabytes of flash memory but hardly any internal storage"

I am very confused by that sentence.
That arcana felt liberating coming from a Timex 2068.

Different times, I know.
Ironically (in context of this thread) the one time I've had this happen was my Diablo II CD way back in the day, I don't know if it was damaged or if the disk just got stressed from heat but it shattered and ruined the drive in my mother's computer.

I have no love for optical media anymore.
Lives on the line? On average, existing cars kill more than 100 people each day on American roads. The current system of human-driving cars has killed one million Americans over the past couple of generations, mostly from human error. To save lives we need to push forward on self-driving tech.
> good deal on a new catamaran

You mean free?

Notice how that channel hardly ever goes as in depth on major maintenance requirements as the other sailing channels do? It's all fun and adventure. Not to say that's wrong -- I enjoy watching that channel.

There are soooo many sailing channels right now (I can think of at least 40 somewhat popular ones) and the vast majority of them are filming low quality content and sticking their hands out.

Side note: If you want to gauge which channels aren't getting heavy sponsorship dollars, it's the ones that _almost always_ anchor vs tie up at the marina.
No. The Outer Space Treaty forbids WMDs in orbit, but conventional weapons are fine. If the US decided to annex the Moon or put nukes into orbit, that'd be a violation.

(Incidentally, Soyuz capsules already carry firearms into space, in case of bears/wolves/etc. at the landing site.)
I think abandonware is always illegal, it's just that nobody cares enough to enforce the copyright. Betting on this when you have blizzard with their trigger happy lawyers seems risky, IMHO.
...what, exactly, do you see in PoE that resembles Diablo 1? I can't think of much beyond the camera view angle.
Could you please resist this kind of chest poking (“you”) here?

Edit: Thanks. There's a point here but it's obscured by generic inflammation. Less of that and more substance will help these conversations be more informative.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
YouTuber with 30k subs, 50k on twitter. Programming content. My sponsored offers from random marketing firms are almost always $100-$250 / video. Not sure how it scales up to larger channels.
That's an amazing video, thanks for linking it.

Especially the "fight" between GGX Gang and The Engineer to combat them.
This is a rambling bunch of "Get Off My Lawnism". NYC is still the most immigrant-heavy city in the country. We still have all the museums, zoos, parks. In fact, more than ever. We're still overflowing with artists and musicians. We've lost some things, we've gained others. Yes, cost of living is rising rapidly and it's displacing some communities. The median level of coffee quality has vastly increased and homicide rate has plummeted. We also have LCD screens telling you when the train is coming. And it's more prevalent than ever for families to really want to raise their kids here and we're as choked with tourists as ever.

This place is never the same from one generation to the next and that will never change.
It's probably his mobile app called Class Timetable

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14542045
Not only we don't know if there is/was a "creator", we don't even know the "rules". Using your Go analogy, we are watching the game and assume the moves are random.
It started under Reagan didn't it?

"Let's just put some lasers up there"
Soviet 'Star Wars'
Agreed, which is my bad. Though spiritual successor is kind of squishy idea it's probably obvious they were not considering diablo 3 as being in the running.
Square is a payment processor and all payment processors are presented with an opportunity to use existing blockchains as the rails for a cheaper money transmission system. Blockchain networks have the capability to be cheaper than the offerings of the SWIFT system, ACH and VISA networks, for the payment processor.

Given the state of the technology today, taking advantage of these cost savings in the most network-aligned way requires massive liquidity. Square creating a liquidity solution helps them and grants their customers something they want.
Overload is a pitch perfect modern Descent sequel. If you liked Descent, you'll love it.
You can also use Yizzy[0]. It’s just a GUI on top of youtube-dL but it’s very easy if you don’t like command line. It’s only MacOS compatible by default but should work anywhere if you change the python path. Like youtube-dl it also allows you to download whole playlists by just pasting the link.

0 - https://github.com/biko-the-bird/Yizzy
I still own a .ly domain, under "Libyan Spider," though the public-facing brand name is now "Register.ly."

I also used to own a .so domain, but prices went wildly up at some point during the Somalian Civil War and it wasn't clear I was giving my money to good people, so I let it lapse.
Google prefers to automate everything. Having human supervision would affect the bottomline so is out of the question.
I still have Descent dreams. If they’re good it’s just an exciting time, but if it’s an anxiety dream then it’s the equivalent of “the brakes on my car don’t work” anxiety dreams in 3D. I may have played those games a biiiit too much.
Odd feeling when your state has the same restrictions as countries on the OFAC list.
People have a tendency to misundertand everything I do, so I'd rather not get into specifics, but in summary:

- Intellectual discussions

- Fan made instrumentals and remixes (especially for Rammstein)

- Found footage, old shows, and other nostalgic material from VHS tapes. (wouldn't surprise me if they get flagged for having Folgers commercials from 1993)

- Random funny videos with swearing or vulgar language

Not a whole lot of things that are likely to be relevant to most people, but I've a culture of my own and I'd like to preserve that. To forever lose something I enjoy means losing a bit of myself and not being able to share that with others.
Why not? If they're determined enough, they'll get it. I learned a lot back in the day by spending many hours with the book PC Intern and some other book on x86 Assembler.

Granted, I had a little experience with assembler on a C=64, but, I learned _that_ in a similar way.
I don't understand why no other video platform has broken into YouTube's market share, after the last couple years' constant stream of PR disasters which mostly have to do with the scale of the platform
No. This would move parts of the military that already do space stuff (primarily Air Force) into their own branch. The OST doesn't ban all military things in space (GPS constellation for example, is totally legal). The OST does ban nuclear weapons and 'boots on the ground' when it comes to certain extraterrestrial environs. But again, despite the name this isn't a Space Marine type organization that is being proposed. Just a reorg of existing capabilities.
I think Chinese leadership have a different set of incentives than Americans do. American businesses are about minimizing production costs in order to sell as much as possible in the US market. While the Chinese government seems to prefer expanding the market for their domestic good by raising the stands of living in developing countries.

Similar to how the US handled Japan and South Korea instead of Latin America and the middle east.
> Rather, it's a result of the depth of the value we provide

The market's notion of value is weighted by wealth and therefore so far from the everyday or philosophical notions of value that it hardly deserves the term. Example: finding a reason to deny someone's health insurance claim is "valuable", feeding a starving poor person is not.
> What is stopping a state actor from using their backdoors in internet infrastructure to destroy the Bitcoin network

Laws. In the Western world, something is legal unless explicitly forbidden by laws.

Countries which don't care very much about freedom explicitly banned Bitcoin more or less (China, Russia, India, Indonesia, Venezuela, ...)
Loved the article.

Then one can follow up with some MS-DOS classics.

https://www.amazon.com/Peter-Nortons-Assembly-Language-Book/...

https://www.amazon.com/Advanced-S-DOS-Programming-Microsoft-...

https://www.amazon.com/Peter-Norton-Programmers-Bible-progra...

https://www.amazon.de/PC-Intern-Programming-Encyclopedia-Dev...
How are they going to handle this? Will they be holding coins a la an exchange or will they host multiple full nodes and post txes to the chain?
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It's impossible to read this piece without the context of Harpers doesn't pay their interns.
I suppose it being luck all the way down would reduce envy in some people, but I expect it will make it much worse for others.
Any wireless mouse needs a receiver; just use a Bluetooth mouse. Not too tricky.
"Better" in what sense?
That's going to be impossible with the last-mile problem. We already have mass transit if you don't care about the last mile.
My guess is that this is a power play - create a new sub-agency of the DoD, move some projects from existing agencies (railguns and DEWs from the Navy perhaps), classify everything, and throw together some patriotically-themed video brochures for Congressional committees.
I guess he won't go down in history like the leaded gasoline and freon guy. But I guess it's more like Nazi Germany where if it wasn't him, someone else would have.
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Ok, you go volunteer on a test track then. While you’re at it, you should volunteer for medical testing, do you know how many people die each year from various diseases?! Maybe the needed progress will come soon, or maybe not, but since your only justification is the magnitude of the present problem I’m sure that you won’t object.

Gooood luck!
It's stationary (orange) vs. moving (green). Tesla ignores stationary objects detected by radar and the video makes it painfully obvious why.
duckduckgo?
Yes, agreed. However, this full-time is very extreme.
well, as an Albanian neighbor of mine says: "We, Balkan people, see flags and react like morons". It describes Balkan people to the point.

PS As a greek citizen, i couldnt care less about the name of our neighbors, as long as we live together in peace (and we do live in peace with them)
There is no sense in which OO of the add-backtracking-to-smalltalk variety is the dominant paradigm.

That's like saying functional programming is the dominant paradigm, because Javascript has functions.

Pointing to prior art is a good and useful thing for a comment to do.
Just another thought, but perhaps YC can explore more options for building startups in secondary markets where the cost of living is more manageable. I know the shop is famously SV-centric, but certain companies may have a better chance at success in markets like Salt Lake City, Austin, Des Moines, Nashville, etc.

Maybe an HQ2 process for YC.
We're asking a lot from this kind of software (for good reasons), but humans commit hundreds of leaps of faith of various severity on the roads daily -- failure to yield, failure to maintain a safe following distance, assuming other drivers immediately adjacent to you, like in lanes that are significantly slower than yours, will keep driving safely and carefully. Urban, peak-hour traffic on most US freeways is an exercise in collective insanity, riding people's bumpers at 55+ mph (and often significantly higher), leaving little room to stop for incidents [1][2][3][4] or debris.

But only a small subset of these situations result in significant accidents, because unimpaired humans, largely, have some intuition for self-preservation. On the other hand, we're expecting an algorithm coded by humans to perform better than a complicated bioelectric system we barely understand.

Waymo's self-driving program has opted to thoroughly understanding its environment, which is why their cars drive in a manner that bears no resemblance to how humans actually drive. We as a society have to eventually reconcile the implications of the disconnect.

[1] Unsafe lane change in traffic with different lane speeds: https://gfycat.com/CleanGleefulArawana

[2] Tailgating causes crash, swerve, multi-vehicle accident: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0rj2sZ1KA4

[3] Inattention to incident causes further accidents: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZL6OKwQGew

[4] Inattention in slowing traffic causes accident: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ff7wbSwTuEk
I think Google Spanner wasn't available yet that time. They chose GCP for the container support / Kubernetes.

There's an interesting talk about this by Niantic Director of Engineering: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6ARungTOL4

Timestamp for the part about the launch: https://youtu.be/j6ARungTOL4?t=1249

TLDW: Niantic made a prediction on the server load, provisioned 5x of that, and only planned to Beta release in Australia & NZ, but everyone ended up sharing the APK worldwide. The first few weeks of traffic ended up being 50x the initial estimate. Niantic also found some scaling bugs in the game that were fixed in the first weeks. Pokemon Go reached the number of Twitter daily user within 2 days.

The next version of Pokemon Go could really benefit from Spanner if they haven't used it already.
Number 2 is the way to go in my opinion.

There is a large focus on how you make your money in the US. Most people judge and are judged by the amount of money they make, how they make it, and what they spend it on. Instead of calling it how it is, people work under the assumption that doing 'meaningful work' makes up for that obsession.

If you happen to find work the is personally fulfilling, then you are lucky. I would suggest that instead of chasing the work for fulfillment, find out what actually makes you fulfilled and then find a way to achieve that.

For me, I am most fulfilled by 1) creating stuff, and 2) being outdoors. While coding/programming falls under 1, I prefer making studio art (painting). So I do whatever work I need to do to afford to make art and spend as much free time outside as possible. Camping, hiking, etc.

If you are fulfilled by helping people, you can donate your time to a local shelter/habitat for humanity/kids group/etc. If its parenting, then focus on building a killer family life.

Ultimately, and this is the cynicism in me, life is meaningless - therefore we are free to create meaning how we see fit.

Trying to shoe-horn the 40 hour+ work week into personal fulfillment is a hallmark fantasy. How do you keep people coming back and creating profits for a company, 40+ hours a week? Try to sell them on the idea that they are 'making a difference' and 'changing the world' and will be 'fulfilled'. It's all smoke and mirrors.
Corrected, thanks!
So you are mentally ill. Yet you feel justified giving advice on the internet.
Cherry picking 2 data points is not the right way to interpret a trend. 2016 was a spike, but if you look at the trend over the past 20 years (in the data set you linked) it is clear temperature is trending upwards at an accelerating pace.
The Bitcoin network topology is the internet itself. Technically blocks can be announced over one-to-many broadcast situations like satellite and radio which eases doomsday scenarios.
Although this does nothing to solve the overall problem (which should not be understated!), you can personally not only delete specific videos in your view history but TURN OFF the logging of video views. See https://myactivity.google.com

If only we could get everyone to turn it off en masse.
I guess what I meant is compared to $US_TECHHUB, definitely met some extrodinarly talented people but it seems a bunch that stuck around got shafted in the race for the few jobs avalible, but the praries have their own sort of flattened beauty.

You got one thing right though, the long winters make for ample amounts of time to work. Hit the Humptys on Albert during the early morning with your laptop and a window booth, beats those -30C blues into oblivion :)
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It could be taught in preschools along with simple things like basic gun safety, swimming pool safety, and how to avoid perverts. Unfortunately all of these things are educational luxuries for the rare kid with parents that take the time to teach them to their kids. It seems like intelligent people could put together a laundry list of simple, easy-to-teach things along these lines that could be taught in schools for very little money.
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This new production is provide film for Kodak's new super8 cameras.
> You can build in the ability to reverse cryptocurrency transactions into wallets

But that just puts the risk back with the other party. We're just back to the credit card scenario like you mentioned.

The point is that crypto can't get rid of the issue of trust. At some level, there has to be some level of trust in order to perform a transaction.

No matter what we do, all we're doing is pushing the trust somewhere else.
Different times - in X86 Assembly:

https://github.com/linker3000/Historic-code-PC-Pascal-and-AS...
I feel like these higher profile cryptocurrency projects are just still following thru because they’ve been approved at the peak of its hype and fully funded back then.
Sounds more like advocating for renting.
I was born in 1983, I have seen various definitions of what counts as a Millenial, but I think that puts me on the edge of inside the cohort. We/they, whatever, are desperate for a way to define ourselves and find some meaning. Way to much of being told how special we are means a huge group of people are in entry level jobs or just barely starting to cross into the next level and we are trying to figure out how what we are doing is important and find meaning in it. We are special, so it must have meaning we just have to figure out where it is right? We will latch onto anything that seems remotely authentic, yet we can't help but try to change it to suit our needs, because we are special and must be catered too.
If desiring containers are what the OP's assertion is about
"Windows, Linux, and MacOS all have this problem because they don't run sandboxes by default.
OSes should be redesigned to make it nearly impossible to install a rootkit"

Isn't an OS problem, and requires no redesign (well no idea about Windows), it's just a choice of how to run their machine.

Perhaps if OP believes that all apps should be containerised, but this doesn't need an OS to be redesigned, it just means a new skin. I could easily see a "Dockbuntu" which, instead of distributing programs like Firefox and spotify, distribute links to docker containers running those programs, where the user can choose which directories to mount into the application's container (and whether they should be readonly, readwrite, etc)