skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
LessWrong calls it the "non-central fallacy". [1]

"Martin Luther King Jr was a criminal! Taxation is theft! Capital punishment is murder! Abortion is murder!", etc are examples of that sort of misrepresentation.

[1] https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/yCWPkLi8wJvewPbEp/the-noncen...
Artificial as opposed to natural, doesn't mean it would not be as real as ours.
Although I understand reading the sources of all software we're running would take way too much time to be reasonable, running a quick docker inspect / docker history on all images we use is, in addition to be interesting, probably a big first layer of protection.

Having a tool doing this for us - i.e a sort of docker anti-malware, that would inspect images and containers for us, without necessarily go through all the security stuff the official tool checks - would also be very handy.
Unrelated but There are so many things called Polly that it gets confusing
I don't think the parent's point is that she's "not really a librarian" but that she's not just a librarian. In the sense that Usain Bolt isn't just a runner. An extremely prominent person in any field is (perhaps counter-intuitively) never going to represent the majority of that field.

In that sense I suppose this phenomenon is called "understatement."
Take WordPress press for example. If you've never before setup a LAMP stack to run WordPress, you probably be running a WordPress container. And if you don't regular check the log files and monitor system resources, then you're asking for these problems.

I wouldn't run a server with a pirated version of Windows and I wouldn't run a dodgy container from an untrustworthy source. Yet people do. I wouldn't blame MS for a pirated Windows that came with malware like I wouldn't blame containers for this either. It's all about Trust.
On my phone, it just says application error
This article mentions the Koch Brothers, as if they are allied with Donald Trump. They are not. Donald Trump actually hates the Koch brothers (or at least his base does), and there is deep hatred for them on the comments section of Breitbart. Steve Bannon ha basically accused the Koch’s of treason.

One way of viewing Trump’s actions might be in terms of “crisis theory”, or the idea in the 70’s to destroy the welfare system by overpopulating its sign-ups, thus forcing the creation of something new.

He pouring gasoline on the economy to ignite and bring about its ruin. If you’re poor right now, you can probably live in some very creative ways. The wealthy are not very good at dealing with large declines in income, as evidenced by the German billionaire who killed him self in 2009 after his net worth dropped from $8 billion to $5 billion: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-merckle-newsmaker-sb-idUS...

The opposite goal of this is the elites of the world who want to run a steady, slow-mo bubble ala Japan of the last 25 years. It definitely would be stable and work, but it would preserve the status quo and not really offer anything new to the working class.
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Such a modest proposal. Much less provocative than Jonathon Swift's. So the question is, why do so many of the responses not bother to read the fucking article, not just the headline? She isn't saying that she hates men: she's telling men that they really ought to shape up, and support women, not put them down.
If you only need such a tool, other comments on this submission linked ways to use bittorrent with docker, and µTP [0] seems to be reasonably good at punching through the good old style of NAT, where ports are sequential and on the same IP, with something that can coordinate accessible to both. It also enables gentle use of your bandwidth, in the sense of playing reasonably well even if you don't have fq-codel or similar in use on the router. With somewhat nice networks it can be pretty gentle on other users of the networks, without wasting any part of it. Do consider QoS though, it is preferable to send other, important traffic first, as µTP is good at backing off in these cases. The latency in backing off is just a little high to be stealthy towards concurrent TCP connections. Packet loss is rare, but lag spikes are still a nuisance.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micro_Transport_Protocol
It does seem to be getting pretty paranoid here. Another ny times post got flagged this morning after receiving 25 points in an hour for god knows what reason (i thought it was an interesting read): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17302371
That completely ignores their conflict of interests between being last mile ISP and content provider. By accumulating media weight, they are likely to start using their last mile grip to choke Internet video competition (for example using usage caps with their own stuff excluded). So why does the judge think it's OK?
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-06-12/u-s-infla...

> A separate Labor Department report on Tuesday illustrated how higher prices are pinching wallets: average hourly wages, adjusted for inflation, were unchanged in May from a year earlier, even as nominal pay accelerated to a 2.7 percent annual gain from 2.6 percent in April. For production and nonsupervisory workers, real average hourly earnings fell 0.1 percent from a year earlier.

The article I linked is an impartial example but it is not better.

The simple truth is the underlying numbers haven't really improved since the GOP took the reigns. We are in a sideways holding pattern of 0% real wage growth and 2% of the working-age population has stopped looking for work since 2000[1].

The effects of the outgoing administration's economic policy last ~1 year after they leave office since the government doesn't really turn on a dime. The trends, honestly, are the same as they were under Obama and the GOP has done nothing but claim "Well we did it! Everything is fine now" despite the fact nothing of any real substance has changed since they took control of all 3 branches of government.

[1] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LNS12300060
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They pretty much are fungible with natural diamonds. High quality synthetics can't be told by eye from equivalent quality naturals.

If they're < 1ct., it doesn't pay to have them analyzed.

"Real" diamonds have always been considered scarce, but only because of marketing. De Beers, AlRosa, etc. have very large reserves of natural diamonds. Over time, they will become genuinely scarce, as the industry agrees that economically recoverable deposits of natural gems will decline after about 2020.
And the most important, unspoken one that King would disclose to us if he were a bit more honest with himself:

* Learn to ignore your inner critic.

The way you write Six Pages a Day No Matter What, as King does, is by not caring all that much whether they are six awesome pages or six mediocre pages. If you've got talent and you exercise it faithfully enough, then sometimes your Six Pages will, indeed, be awesome, and nobody will even remember the rest.

None of the other points he lists in his books and advice columns matter anywhere near as much as that one. Unfortunately, what that means is that what works for King will not necessarily work for everyone else.
Thank you for taking the time to write this.
Apple, are you paying attention?
What about it do you think is slanted? It's data-driven and presents both good ("The overall unemployment rate is the lowest it’s been in decades; the African-American unemployment rate is the lowest in recorded history") and bad ("Americans are deeply indebted, many are stuck with part-time jobs, and wage gains have been so disappointing, their weakness has challenged fundamental premises of mainstream economics") about the economy and Trump's contribution to it.
A look into the future – and a bit of OTRS history
Quite illegal, last I checked.
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Good point! The first time I used firebug, probably 3 years before I used Chrome, it blew my mind and immediately made clear how much faster it was going to make styling pages, debugging errors, and just testing JavaScript expressions.
+1 for mission statement, use case.

The point about inconsistent formatting is that by aligning a team(s) on how a message is formatted groups can avoid the introduction of multiple message formats between distributed services.

It's true the body field does introduce inconsistency and that's left for the application developers to resolve. The envelope fields are intended to be used in queuing and routing situations.

I disagree with "The destination doesn't need to be in the message". What about the use case where a message is forwarded or moves through proxy services?

+1 for metadata being larger than the payload :-D - Can't debate that. The only required fields are 'to', 'from' and 'body' and the short form of UMF can be used. Still, we've encountered situations where that metadata is still larger than the payload. But that doesn't completely invalidate the presence of the envelope in a distributed application.

Thanks, I really appreciate the time you took to offer feedback!
Arguably, it is this stereotype that needs to change. She seems to identify with being a librarian, and librarians these days work intensely with digital systems cataloging, digitizing, restoring, and providing access to all kinds of informational media.
What makes this a better approach than having something like React run in a ServiceWorker?

www.sparational.com seems to have gone down since I started writing this comment, but when I clicked on the link, it seemed to have quite a considerable wait until anything appeared on the screen.
Sounds like accelerationism, which is a Marxist theory of destroying capitalism by helping it reach excesses that cause a systemic collapse. Perhaps the far right and the far left and not so different in matters of eschatology.
British strategy in a certain eventuality (1940) [pdf]
Yes, that is a human comment (unfortunately, training NNs for comments is a bit cost/time prohibitive)
How to turn $200,000 into $500,000 within a week
Because then you’d find out the Bolt is a compliance car and they’re unable to scale their EV production in any appreciable manner in the short term.
http://dilbert.com/strip/1992-09-21
> There is essentially no evidence that the president’s tax cuts (his sole piece of major economic legislation) did anything to significantly improve America’s macroeconomic performance.

This is probably true. But there's also no evidence to support that it hurt either. It's quite disingenuous and misleading to make such claims when there hasn't even been a single year of tax filings since the new tax policies have taken effect. Policies, especially tax policies, have long lag effects.

Also, there are so many variables and other factors to consider that it is impossible to think so 1-dimensionally.
I definitely tried to (last year was such a shitty year!) but there wasn't a lot of traction for that. Maybe if I had brought in therapist bills and said "Reimburse me"
Well, they're reporting on the recent release of a notable paper written by an academic who has a reputation for "uncovering fraud in financial markets," at least that's what the article says. Presumably that paper was released today or this week or something.

I'm not arguing that the paper is or isn't actually worthy of having this NYT article written about it, but what is your suspicion regarding the timing, exactly?
No, having worked on crypto I feel confident saying that the smart people, especially those who do understand crypto, know, and state, that it cannot be done.

All solution fundamentally boil down to someone has the keys required to decrypt all your content. This is ignoring the other technical costs (now your service has to record all ephemeral keys as well).

It doesn’t matter /who/ has that decryption key, the requirement is that access to the key is guarded only by policy.

You also resort to “with a warrant” but a NSL is effectively a warrant, and I’m fairly sure the DPRC has “warrants”. Who gets to request those keys? The position of the us government is that they have the right to access data from people in other countries, so can they provide a warrant to access that data? Can Germany ask for the data for someone in the US? What if someone travelled through another country - can that country now access those keys?

Note these all questions regarding /legitimate/ access, I’m completely ignoring police officers looking up people they stopped and stealing nudes, of people stealing the information and using that information to steal money, stalking, etc

I am sick and tired of people who say “modern cryptography is amazing, so it must be able to fulfill my unicorn dreams”. Either stop claiming nonsense or provide a prove that it is possible by designing a system that does what you say must be possible.
List of console.* methods in Chrome DevTools: https://developers.google.com/web/tools/chrome-devtools/cons...
Very likely true. I know that stockpile maintenance is at least a tangential concern for all of them, even if it's just to have something available in reserve. Budget allocations are complex beasties, especially in DoE which pursues a variety of missions. The vast majority of work on the ORNL computers is not weapons-related, however.
>If you evaluate it in an environment where only the functions you choose are defined, the security risk is nil.

Oh. So all you have to do is write perfectly secure code and run it in a perfectly secure environment, and nothing bad can possibly happen.

Well shit, why didn't anyone else ever think of that?
I am amazed that you completely throw out the window the wisdom in preventive measures and simply wait for the crimes to physically happen then respond to them. It's a no-brainer that most of the extreme and mass violent crimes have been facilitated and coordinated digitally.
You don't need Tor to do this. Tor is slow and frustrating.

I use a heavily-modified Firefox instance over a VPN with uBlock Origin, Privacy Badger, Disconnect, No Coin, Script Safe, Token Tracker Stripper, Neat URL and too many about:config edits to mention.

I do recommend disabling http/s referrer, CSS visited links, and others as can be learned online.

In addition, I pass all of this through a remote computer with a Raspberry Pi/Pi-hole instance. This has worked well for me for a couple of years. As I have no real social media accounts, I'm not building any meaningful profiles. Accounts like HN or Slashdot don't get any real info. I also don't add any apps to my iPhone. The apps that ship with the device are all I need. I can pass all of my phone's traffic through the VPN/Pi-hole instance and keep relatively safe. Being with T-Mobile means I get unlimited data so I don't need to connect to potentially hostile Wi-Fi.

I rather enjoy the "cold war" between the corporations and the security-minded. There are so great add-ons to uBlock and other add-ons that completely bypass the complaint scripts of using adblock.

Another quick way to get past fake paywalls or complaining pages is to use Startpage's proxy or even Google's cached link. I've set up so many people to use this set up and they are thrilled.

I am thinking of setting up remote desktops that can be accessed by friends and family that are VPN'd, Pi-holed, and with other security features that hide their real IPs, etc.
Even in the 20th century, heads of organized crime and terrorist groups generally weren't the ones actually smashing the windows of businesses that didn't pay protection money or blowing themselves up in crowded markets. If lower level criminals were guided by phone call, then law enforcement could get call records after the fact but not the actual contents of the past calls. If all communication was face-to-face, they wouldn't get even that. It seems about the same to me today. Phone service providers still have call records. PGP encryption on email bodies doesn't keep recipients secret. Apple can supply analogous iMessage metadata in response to a warrant.

Perhaps law enforcement is angry at the passing of a brief golden age where most Americans carried a cell phone and that phone's security was almost always terrible. I'd put that era roughly between 2000, when American cell phone ownership rates rose past 50%, and 2009, when Apple introduced iOS full disk encryption and began regularly improving other data-at-rest protections.
Not all trackers are client-side
> "Donna Tartt, one of the best American novelists to emerge in the last 50 years, has published just three novels since 1992. Jonathan Franzen, the only American novelist who is her equal."

Pynchon. DeLillo. McCarthy. Roth...

Edit: Morrison. Updike. Mailer...
I have a portable browser just for Twitter/Facebook etc.

And a separate browser with just ad blocker and blocked 3rd party cookies.

Do I really need Tor?
Where do you host your review Raspberry Pi?
No laws are being circumvented if the police have a warrant. The problem (from a law enforcement perspective) is that technology now makes it easy for people to communicate and store data in a way that the police can’t monitor even with a warrant. This wasn’t an issue when the police could obtain warrants to monitor telephone lines and break into safes.
Even if the content of this book were bunk, I'd still conclude that this author is great. Good reading for anyone who wants to write an instruction manual for anything.
I'd take Philip K Dick over all of them put together.
Thank you, I was there in the beginning and I had seen the nastiness on both sides. I don't see where it was Eron who originally posted on 4chan but it does look like he did respond to the 4chan thread.

The author of that post says that Eron abused Zoe but has not provided any evidence, do you know of anything to back that up? All the evidence that Eron posted was never denied by Zoe afik.
I office out of wework in downtown Dallas. As far as co-working goes it's the best setup I've seen so far (out of maybe 6 that I've tried). I don't know much about their valuation but what you get is worth the money you spend. At the end of the day, that's all that really counts.
The constant-time operation implementation commits to libsecp256k1:

https://github.com/bitcoin-core/secp256k1/search?utf8=%E2%9C...
>> You don't need Tor to do this. Tor is slow and frustrating.
> I use a heavily-modified Firefox instance...

So do I and it is slow and frustrating too.
>> Their competition is literally every office building on the market...

Definitely false. The majority of office buildings on the market aren't interested in leasing me spaces of varying sizes for terms from 1 month to 5 years.
no, not really

Tether can already exist and be in circulation and people can be willing to buy it at a higher price from existing holders. In this event, Bitfinex/Tether needs to be willing to create more Tether, diluting the current supply to offset the greater demand and keep the peg.

To me, it isn't important that "each Tether is backed by USD [in their bank account]", but they may accomplish it that way for consistency anyway. Each Tether is still backed by a notional value and was exchanged for such.

Their willingness to do this could help arbitrageurs try to front run and sell their own Tether when a premium exists.
Is that all?

Do you need a modern web browser at that point?

Might as well just browse with Lynx instead of using a standard browser.

I think the average person is better served through Tor even if it’s slow.
Him too.
And people wonder why some of us talk about the unclean hands of the online ad/tracking/modeling/&c industry...
I've used mitmproxy + proxychains to do this. How is Polly different?
I should clarify that the idea that is wrong is that just exposing the hardware bits to the compiler and expecting the compiler to do better. There is certainly more scope for the compiler and the hardware to work together to make the results better, but exposing current hardware mechanisms is not the means to do to that. Of course, try getting architecture and compiler people actually talking to each other. :-)
I wonder if this "Great Lakes" rule has been held up in court. Chicago is definitely more than 100 miles from a border...
That's misleading Netflix has more than 10x the traffic Hulu gets. Hulu's under 3% of peak viewing traffic and relatively small by comparison to the others.
I found ScriptSafe a lot easier to use on Chrome, didn't realise Firefox had one too. What are your thoughts on ScriptSafe vs. NoScript + uMatrix?
I don’t think it’s slanted as much as it’s just a shallow analysis.

Obviously there are the surface indicators of truth (a statistic here, a fact there, a nice quote from somebody), but big picture, the issue is not “is this Trump guy a good tinkerer economist/engineer of the US stock market”, but how the bipartisan monopoly of power in Washington has stabbed the working class in the back at every turn.

The big clue that the author would
never understand this was his conflating of Koch and Trump. That would be like saying Shite and Sunni Muslims are the same. It’s an incredible cultural oversight.

A good example of btw of this “stab you in the back” elite is Madeline Albright, Bill Clinton’s Secretary of State. For all her work promoting freedom and women’s rights, the network marketing scam company Herbalife paid her $6 million to promote increased legalization of its products. It’s a scam company that preys on the poor.

http://mlmtheamericandreammadenightmare.blogspot.com/2018/04...
The US' military might is the only reason why all oil is traded in USD and the main reason why the USD holds value.
>several independent third parties to cooperate

Your foolishly conceived system does have any way to ensure that the several parties are not corrupt or evil. You would need to solve that problem first. Assuming it is solved does not work.

In the meantime, devices need to be designed to protect the human rights of users.
>pip install library needs root

Hmm, not really. It's actually advised against [1].

[1] - https://askubuntu.com/questions/802544/is-sudo-pip-install-s...