skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But unlike the Maya, the Teotihuacanos had no form of writing

So I spotted this and wondered how such a complex society gets by without writing. But it according to this[1] at least it seems they did have some form of writing through hieroglyphs.

Even still, I wonder if we can learn anything from societies with simplified forms of written communication and how they organised. Things that could help us organise better now and reduce the information overload that occurs within large orgs or projects (email, requirements docs etc).

For example, maybe we could use Standardised hieroglyphs to describe a users interaction with an application. It would enforce simplification and assist with compiling from requirements through opinionated frameworks. Plus it would be prettier than your standard Jira ticket :P

1. http://www.mesoweb.com/bearc/caa/AA01.pdf
One of the services that you can use to implement pseudo-AI is also called that.

See https://aws.amazon.com/documentation/mturk/
Another tricky one by Stephen: https://www.puzzlescript.net/play.html?p=bf3272fd7b73c43acb4...
I'm not sure I understand the concern with integrity of OAuth 2.0 payloads. Sending the request over HTTPS already ensures that the request is not tampered with, and also guards against replay attacks.
They did make a few changes, such as in window hooks. Compare http://www.os2museum.com/files/docs/win10sdk/windows-1.03-sd... and http://www.os2museum.com/files/docs/win20sdk/windows-2.0-sdk... for example.
Actually, this makes me wonder if they never bothered with Windows 2.x and went directly to OS/2 Presentation Manager in 1987.
Shakl, a utility to create styled components in React Native
It is great to see this pop-up again. Such a great toolset, deliberately limited, in such a way that anyone can create a game in an hour or so, but powerful enough that the games aren't all the same. You can put some genuinely interesting mechanics into it.

Stephen (the author) knows puzzle games. It is interesting to see his games, and the sophistication he has generated with this simple rule set. Terry Cavanagh (of Super Hexagon and VVVVVV fame) has also done some clever stuff with it.

For someone new to game design, it's a great start. And from there you can graduate to Pico-8!

Previous discussions in 2013 [0] and 2015 [1].

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[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6501034
[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9376940
Fractional reserve banking is independent of the currency. You can implement a bitcoin fractional banking system if you have trusted party available (the bank) and as long as you consider bitcoins to be homogeneous. Although it'll be funny (and borderline eco-terrorism) to use bitcoins if there exists a trusted party (like CME for bitcoin futures, bitcoin wallets, bitcoin exchanges, your ISP, your hardware manufacturer).

Limited bitcoins doesn't make it any less vulnerable to being marketed (yes, there is a lot of marketing $ behind it) as a get rich quick scheme. In fact, the growth of fiat value of bitcoin is the biggest reason people see it as an investment vehicle. Bitcoin system might be helpful in countries with oppressive governments and no trustworthy party, but I don't see largest orders of bitcoins coming from North Korea.
Also there's the factor that every line on the space shuttle is a potential bug, and bugs might be deadly. There's a huge incentive to reduce the code to its absolute minimum.
At least the pumps did work. Before I only saw two small 10cm waterhoses going out. Yesterday I saw a double size 30cm hose pumping water out in full speed. These 30cm made the difference I believe.
There is no "capitalism".

Society cannot be characterized by a coherent set of ideological principles. It is the behavior of human beings, which is highly plural and inconsistent when formalized.

There is no ideology to "leave in tact". By destroying the government you do not "uncover" some latent capitalism, you take the ways everyone is behaving -- have them repeat that behaviour -- but now without a government.

You'd find that to be a catastrophe.
Chez is also in this performance league
So... duct tape then? :)

Philips 40-43" has a foot stand!
> If Koreans really want to work less, then some company would reduce the work week to 40 hours and ...

... another big company that deals with them will call them on 5 pm Friday, request an extra shipment by 10 am next Monday, get angry ("What do you mean? Weekend? Do I look like your friend?") and cancel the deal. The company goes bankrupt.

You don't know much about Korean work culture, do you.
From a technical PoV, it feels like it is easier to argue after the fact "look, you sent this message, you signed it", v.s. "trust us, all comms were over TLS, we promise our logs are accurate and your token was not leaked".
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I'm also disgusted by the "it's natural" platitude some persons spout.

But that doesn't mean it's a good idea to drink the latest clinically unproven science experiment like, for example, Coke Zero. Nobody has a clue what those small molecules actually do besides the obvious.
Maybe for you. I write React and a web API (using Swagger in Ruby or TypeScript/NodeJS) significantly faster than I do any server-side framework I've ever used. React components are an easier way to frame HTML--here, let me not remember how Bootstrap elements are created and just invoke <Button>--and JSX is the most fluid and flexible templating system I've ever used.

Dealing with stateful and rickety jQuery is why I stopped doing web stuff in the first place. Having React and a halfway decent dev environment in ES6/ES2017 and now TypeScript brought me back.
Wouldn't this be a reasonable reason if you consider that they might use additional equipment to terminate HTTPS connection in an early layer of their network?
If new developers start at Y-way, we can assume they'll add more advantages to Y-way like improved tooling etc..., so maybe Y-way will eventually surpass the X-way.

In tech, it's not what one particular developer thinks but the consensus among the contributors which decides which one out of X or Y will end up having more benefits.
They (quasi-implicitly) say that a design goal of their system is "message level security", and stress the desire for "non-repudiation", which is not provided by TLS per se.
Few countries have the workplace mobility required for such an experiment to work: There are countries where the social expectation is that you start in a company as an intern or apprentice and leave it to retire some 45 years later.
> now a solid-walled submarine?

It's not a solid-walled submarine. http://www.times-standard.com/general-news/20180706/wing-inf...
"think of all the tax docs you receive annually. You need to create all those tax docs yourself - including the ones you don't include with your return"

I find this inconceivable - it sounds absurd, because (a) not all income is reported on those forms anyway, even US based, and (b) fabricating them yourself eliminates their purpose as a means to prevent tax evasion.

What's the IRS going to do, say "well, you tried to file a tax return with 10K euros of income, but we didn't get a W-2, so you're in deep trouble now"? Are they going to add to that 10K or subtract from it?

If you are a US adult who has filed tax returns for a few years, I would expect you to have some experience paying taxes on income that wasn't independently reported. Surely you don't fabricate the documents that are normally sent by the income source, when they aren't present. I just don't believe that is a thing that is done.

I feel like my leg is being pulled here.
Harvard admissions is just the tip of the iceberg.
Balkanization of the USA is evident. Which multi ethnic societies in history have done well?

Is this a globalist agenda pushed by elite ruling class? Can they disintegrate our tribal tendencies and replace them with global values?
Can somebody help explain this to me? Can I buy AirPods (looks like they are $159?) and then use them with android? or do I need an iphone? Which Iphone do I need? Is there one without a contract that has this software? Will I eventually be forced to upgrade the phone or it will stop working? Does the software allow me to adjust for the frequency that I need help in? How much do I need to spend?
That's why I don't see it coming in law anytime soon. It's the same reason why Google removed all the AI on the search part. Everywhere where you need to explain why an answer was chosen, AI is a poor solution because of its poor debugging.
It's quite common for companies to MITM https requests (and install their personal certificate on all company owned machines so the browser raises no errors).

Some countries do so as well, for example Kazakhstan and China.
I wonder why such strict standards are needed, given that it is open source.
Can you provide some examples? It's hard to discuss this in general terms.

I think people just like to share their experiences because there's rarely a "one size fits all" answer to most problems. One of the ways in which we grow and develop our ideas is by discussing them with our peers. It also seems likely that people who disagree with a post are more likely to comment and write a rebuttal.
I think the 'for flavor' is the problem, though. There's no reason that a drink needs to have a flavour; it's an acquired desire.
Don't expose it to the web page, but treat it as a native UI control.
This[0] paper argues that "OAuth 2.0 is intrinsically vulnerable to App impersonation attack due to its provision of multiple authorization flows and token types."

[0] Application Impersonation: Problems of OAuth and API
Design in Online Social Networks

http://cosn.acm.org/2014/files/cosn018s-huA.pdf
I wrote a bunch about myself, then deleted it coz this is about you.

Get your foot in the door. It is extremely hard at the start. But it can happen. Take a challenge and don't be a reckless self-promoted, but let others know your achievements. That should put wind in your sails now you're on the sea.

Don't have a fixed target. Another poster mentioned Singapore, which is an excellent launching-ground for a lot of people from multiple nationalities. Include Australia, even KL, Asia is full of English speaking places.
Asp.net core integeration testing
The rules of the game are pattern matched onto the state of the game. A single rule defines a pattern, and a modification. "If the player is adjacent to a crate and has movement in the direction of the crate, add movement to the crate."
At this rate every company should just start claiming their workers are human-lookalike cyborgs since being a plain-old honest company who doesn't lie about using human workers doesn't get the same boost as one using human workers but claiming the "AI" treatment.
Firefox's ability to transparently sync tabs between all your devices is useful but it's not up to speed with Safari's -- sometimes it takes MINUTES for it to sync.

I'd argue with you about what a "real" browser is all day but really, it boils down to -- I am not interested if the latest standards are implemented. Those latest standards are made by regular humans, and they do dumb crap all the time. So "newest" =/= "best".

I quite like Safari's Reading mode and Reading list (especially having in mind that it can cache offline things you put in the reading list; you can read all of those without internet).

I will concede however that it's definitely very behind in terms of addons. That's a weak point. And Firefox gets better and quicker constantly.

TL;DR: I use both Safari and Firefox heavily and I love both. But Safari is little better in terms of information management.
It looks like they're going in to rescue the kids based on the current conditions. I'm guessing this submarine solution could potentially be a back-up in case something goes wrong. I doubt it's a PR stunt - Elon doesn't care about PR (remember his April fools tweet).
And people from that country have those certificates installed? Voluntarily?
Are you the SJW bot?
Why would WASM reduce code size? WASM is quite low-level. JS has the advantage of a runtime already being present.
'Today is D-Day': Rescuers begin mission to extract Thai cave boys
Just browse Twitter with Javascript turned off. It asks you if you want to visit the "legacy" site.
Taiwanese debate over McDonald's and KFC fried chicken
> AI is nonsense. Dijkstra was right.

Define AI first.

One of the first few lines on Wikipedia about AI:
The scope of AI is disputed: as machines become increasingly capable, tasks considered as requiring "intelligence" are often removed from the definition, a phenomenon known as the AI effect, leading to the quip, "AI is whatever hasn't been done yet."
This is utterly crazy. They should also probably check what time the official leave his office in the evening. I bet that he or she must have left the office well before office hours on numerous occasions. Will he get reprimand for this as well?
Using TLS makes it acceptable to send cleartext passwords. I don't know why, seems lazy.

So, I understand why Mastercard doesn't rely on that.
You're aware that you are not answering the question, and this is just whataboutism, yes?
Ask HN: How do you send email in your early stage startup?
Say you are launching your startup idea, trying to get some early users. You have account-related emails (registration, forgot password), and marketing emails.

Do you run smtp off of your EC2/DO/GCP machine? Or do you use Amazon SES, Mailgun, Mailjet, MailChimp, SendGrid and blah so you get the benefits of DKIM and volume handling?

Budget: I am not sure what's a good budget, but I see $20 budget to start with. Obviously if there's spike, I hope a "free-tier" buffer would cover.
A drone carrier platform that carries "thousands" of smart drone missiles would be too large and heavy for practical operations, or the missiles would be too small to have a useful range. The basic laws of physics still apply.
What are some examples of companies claiming to use AI but instead actually using human workers?
I understand and agree with the overall stirrings of your comment, but it's not necessarily relevant in this case. Taleb is about making choices in uncertainty where it's a reiteration of Biblical, Aquinas, Augustine of Hippo, Berkeley, Kant, Ricoeur, Geertz, and Eliade philosophy. It's no question that given an uncertain circumstance, one should stick to a framework that works independent of circumstance, a categorical imperative framework.

In this case I am sure that the concern is almost always on the intent of individuals rather than the consequences. I'm sure you can find your own examples of this, it would be more difficult for me to guess which examples you would agree have had negative consequences but good intent. Regardless, consequences can be deduced with good analysis: for instance physics has done such a tremendous analysis from deductive reasoning on the universe that I am able to communicate to you right now.

In regards to Taleb using only inductive reasoning over deductive reasoning: I hope not. Inductive reasoning is even controversial among logicians to be a reasoning at all, it's a weak logical intuition. Deduction is much more powerful, even Taleb argues for his non-novel idea of a categorical imperative, in the same way religions (and all the philosophers I listed) have, given that no circumstantial framework always works because circumstances change, we are forced to find a framework that is irrelevant to dynamic environment. The reasoning to choose a categorical framework at all is deductive.

Taleb shouldn't be seen as a tool to justify cowering from rational analysis but instead the justification for favoring morality and epistemology over utilitarianism.
Your naive faith in software developers is touching, but this is entirely speculative. Until someone actually does it we don't know how much it will cost or how long it will take. Meanwhile we need to make plans based on technologies that are actually available, or at least have a clear development path.
In case of countries, you don't need the certificate installed for MITM to work. You just need it if you want to get rid of the warning on every single https website. Unless you tunnel your traffic, it's visible.

In case of large corps, you get assigned a laptop / desktop setup by the company. You probably authenticate to the AD and don't even get the privileges to add/remove certificates.
In your libertarian model society, poor people can choose for themselves... between working 10 hours a day to earn less than minimum wage, with no time left for learning new skills or searching for a better job, or not working and starving.

If you want give people the power to choose for themselves, they should be able to take a break. They should be able to take risks, without equating losing (or quitting) a job with financial doom. Otherwise the "choice" poor people have is only on paper, in the same way the old joke plays: in America people have the freedom to criticize the American government, and in Soviet Union people had the exact same freedom - to criticize the American government.

What you derisively call "breadcrumbs" is the foundation of modern welfare society, a recognition of its duty to each individual in the society.

(I'm not saying South Korea is a model society: clearly it isn't, when it has to tell business owners to stop overworking people. But we're moving in the right direction.)
no. You don't know where the TLS terminates.
Some classics made in this tool: Heroes of Sokoban 1, 2, and 3, by Jonah Ostroff.

https://www.puzzlescript.net/play.html?p=6860122
https://www.puzzlescript.net/play.html?p=6910207
https://www.puzzlescript.net/play.html?p=7072276
Those people aren’t part of the lifestyle or culture. I wish they were.
I've been wondering, for a while, if regulatory capture is a natural outcome of two-party systems.

The central genius, IMHO, of the US Constitution is the built-in trilemma (separation of powers, court vs legislature vs executive), which has proven more durable. (Present circumstances notwithstanding, ahem.)

What would a trilemma for regulations look like? Give "the market", in the form of consumer advocates, a seat at the table?

I still have no idea.

I've asked everyone I can think of. Famed muckraker Greg Palast's, who has direct experience trying to thwart regulatory capture, answer was "more transparency, more participation".

Which I find very unsatisfactory. Having done the whole agitator, whistleblower routine, it really isn't sustainable for outsiders to serve as the counterbalance. It occurs to me each of the three parties needs some kind of veto power.
I am flabbergasted that Qantas has the #2 slot for Melbourne-Sydney! No wonder players like Compass and OzJet tried to shoulder into that market (with little success) 10 or 20 years ago. I know of a couple of friends who live in one city and literally commute to the other every day/week for work, but I didn't realise how many people must to it daily to make this such a cash cow route.
How it feels to ride 5000 miles, and code throughout the trip
>...perhaps it works well within the realm of puzzle-specific scripting, but...

Yes, it is literally named "PuzzleScript". Also, if you continued reading, you'd find it is succinctly explained.
Thats a different thing. Musk is talking about using rocket parts. Doesnt matter. Divers now going with conventional rescue effort.
There's some cliche about two wolves deciding how split the lamb...
I believe that intelligence is more than quantifiable. Von Neumann machines, no matter how complex, will never achieve intelligence. Again, to be completely clear, I’m not claiming machine intelligence is impossible, just that what we see presently isn’t it in any honest sense.
I don't know, I think the general preferences of a lot of people count for more. I mean, you only have two realistic choices for business: Qantas or Virgin. A friend of mine chose Virgin, for whatever reason, and he tells us their lounges are as nice if not more so than Qantas'... but still he wishes he'd chosen Qantas.

They've got just enough of an edge, plus the whole tie-in to the global Oneworld program. Our company's Chairman is a member of the CL, but AFAIK if I requested a Virgin flight that wouldn't be an issue.
Great recession
Can't they just also require that their implementation of OAuth2 also requires a signed payload?
Is that really a common problem? Can't say I've ever had much trouble remembering what's doing what.

If it really was an issue you could just tell one of the environments to throw a banner up the top of the screen or something in dev mode saying where it's from.
Maybe this is art, in which case, fair play. But otherwise it seems like a pointless purpose.
Oh look, changing the background color solves a specific problem. Just like the post you replied to mentioned.
Algorithmic trading is the epitome of a meritocracy. I'm highly skeptical of anyone offering a degree in algorithmic trading other than as a historical perspectives. It's an evolving field and extremely cutthroat. I would liken it to going to film school and trying to become Steven Spielberg.
Yeah that's pretty similar to what current/last gen hearing aids can do. My mother has been dependent on her pair since she was 7, but a few years ago she upgraded to a newer version. The hearing aid has a few different modes for isolating foreground and background noise toggled by a small button. There's a general amplification mode, conversation mode (isolates) and a crowd mode.

Now I'm very curious as to what current gen hearing aids are capable of.
Mentioned in the article: Edison Software, Spinvox, X.ai, Clara, Expensify, Facebook.
> This is why goliaths like regulations so much

My favourite irony about this phenomenon is how often people attack the anti-regulation libertarians for just want to help mega-corps become even bigger.
Fortunately, the institutional traders who use that Cloud9 will never use this Cloud9 and the retail traders who use this Cloud9 will never use that Cloud9.
The highest correlation will probably be volatility.
I'm a Malaysian. We just changed government after about 50 years. AMA
Here's a book recommendation if you're not sure how to manage these 100 people. You don't have to. Just facilitate them to identify what to work on, then to go and work on it.

Open Space Technology, Harrison Owen

https://www.amazon.com/Open-Space-Technology-Users-Guide/dp/...

A quick but insightful read.
I don't think it's about excitement. It's just that what happened was so unusual that it captured everyone's imagination. It reminds me of an incident that happened in India probably a decade ago when a child fell into a open borewell. It was broadcast live for 2 full days until the child was rescued. But that wasn't the end of it. From then on, many children have fallen into open borewells but have never received the same amount of coverage. I guess it has more to do with viewers getting accustomed to such stories that it becomes "just another news headline".

But that doesn't mean mankind is insensitive to suffering. It just so happens that none of us can do anything about it even if we wished to.

> meanwhile how many kids have died worldwide from hunger, disease, and warfare since June 23rd? Probably a bit more than 12. I guess that's not as exciting to read about though.

Food for thought: there are probably a few million stars dying everyday wiping out possible civilizations and life we may never know about. I guess at some point we need to stop looking at statistics and instead focus on fixing what is possible.
There is a difference between labeling training data and just using humans to do the work. Some things cannot be achieved yet even with lots of labeled training data but companies are pretending they have solved hard ML problems at a high level of performance when the technology and research aren't there yet.