skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure, I have health insurance and work Corporate IT for a Fortune 500. I'm lower middle class. Lets run through the numbers here.

I pay $140/month for insurance, have a $1500 deductible, $500 ER visit, and $3000 maximum out of pocket.

A hospital trip for me could cost $5000, which would absolutely devastate me even though I have no debt, and have some savings. This is standard for friends who work at other companies with similar jobs, too, including in other states.

The middle class does not have healthcare, they have essentially 'Catastrophic' coverage and an illusion that they are covered for anything else.
Attack the facts or logic, not the source. Ad homs are just excuses to convince people already on your side to shut off their brains and bury their heads in the sand.
> Does that hold in a turn base system? Whether they played at the start of the minute or its end, they all knew the results of the last turn when they started bidding.

Not quite. In a turn based board game, sure, because literally nothing relevant happens outside the context of the game. In real life, plenty happens outside the context of a hypothetical Chicago turn. Most relevantly, New York happens.

(Actually, it’s New Jersey. Land is very expensive in NY, and data centers are fairly large, so “New York” finance mostly happens in Secaucus, NJ.)
> "I see with WP is that it doesn't do mauch to encourage most people "developing" on it to ever consider other tools; they just learn to fit more and more jobs in to the same ecosystem, whether it's a good fit or not."

Spot on. I do a fair amount of WP work. I'm a member of a number of WP groups on FB. I see this all the time. For most people WP is a hammer and everything is a nail.

Unfortunately, that's the Kool Aid served by Matt M all the way down. WP isn't an OSS application. It's a cult.

To the majority of the cult members there's nothing else. They know nothing other than WP. Truth be told, most of them don't even know WP.
We can probably rule this out since the paper doesn’t conclude that North Korea is #1 and Bless Dear Leader
The BIOS was originally supposed to be a nice hardware abstraction layer to be used everywhere - akin to system calls now. If the BIOS was rudimentary it was only because of the limits of the machine - not the intent of the designer.
https://blogs.oracle.com/bonwick/zfs-end-to-end-data-integri...

working with the said technology and understanding it goes a long way.
It would works amazingly when the goals of self-interest and greed are aligned with what's in the best interest of everyone... And we all know how often that turns out to be true
async/await works best when all of your async code uses it, so it’s kind of silly to pass a callback into an async function like this example from the article that inspired catchify:

async function asyncTask(cb) {

async functions return a promise that rejects if an error is thrown (either directly or by a promise that is awaited on), so there’s no need to handle every error if you’re ok with it just propagating.
Yes, this is why TypeScript and Flow never got off the ground, and why PHP, Python and Ruby are all definitely not adding static type checking.
In the first few lines, "after finishing work on the pit" refers to the potato storage pit
The going theory at the time was that they only bugged some percent of them in the hopes that someone would publish an analysis exactly like this and then everyone else would plug them in freely.
‘This Is Unbelievable’: A Hedge Fund Star Dims, and Investors Flee
very useful app to keep track of things in our busy life. easy to use.
Pathtraced Depth of Field and Bokeh
The Google campus in Berlin is under construction still. So right now the presence is naturally quite small.
I visited a Hyderabad office that used English with each other, not just with me, because half were locals who knew Telugu and half were recent arrivals who knew Hindi.
Dangerous fool
> no EU tech companies have hit Google/Facebook/Amazon/Microsoft scale.

SAP and Accenture are up there. I get your point though.
Not disingenuous at all - all the rendering code is _native_, no subtle hidden meanings. No webviews, no custom drawing, all existing platform components - that's as 'native' as you can get.
I wouldn't exactly call the Skype app a success. Easily the worst communication app on my phone by far.

To be fair, a lot of that is in the product vision and design and not entirely React Native's fault.
I don't understand this, although I've read something similar many times before; it seems incoherent. All value comes ultimately from labor, I would agree, but if I'm using tools to do work, a portion of the value of my work is attributable to the work done by the creators of the tools I'm using. Not me. It makes a big difference if I have a computer, or not; if I have a backhoe or a shovel. So this idea that capitalist profit is theft from workers has never made any sense to me. If the capital was stolen, then the proposition is tautological, but otherwise you are begging the question of what was actually stolen. I don't see a political or moral revelation in the claim that my employer is necessarily stealing from me. How can the assumption someone else is stealing labor justify you or me stealing labor?

P.S. If profit is illegitimate, then is interest also? I tend to assume that there's no moral or political difference between stocks and bonds, but for all I know other people may think differently.

One possibility from my point of view is that people look at profit as something extra, hence illegitimate, but the way I would look at it is that it is a deferred payment for work done, equivalent to interest. If you store seeds, then it is right and fair and necessary that in a well functioning society, you be paid for preserving them as well as producing them. Society can't function if people are paid only for producing things and not for preserving them, or if they are paid for preserving things before they do it. That's the most reduced scenario I can make up about why interest/profits seem legitimate to me.
In the U.K. the terms “Heat Wave” and “Drought” are unfamiliar
Are you a “careful” driver?
I believe rm -rf /* will work without --no-preserve-root
It is supposed to be slow and inefficient. When millions come together and decide that something is correct or incorrect, it should be hard to change. It might even take a thousand years figuratively speaking.
Don't auto-update production like that? If a change will affect all users,manually review it and as another commenter said,gpg signatures. Have every prod commiter use mfa too.
How does it not flood?
Not sure why this is of interest to this crowd. Must be a slow day, these are dangerous to build. Unfortunately no background on the persons engineering experience or mental health...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/mysteriou...
Put 5k in an HSA. If you're lower middle, you should be able to achieve this in a year (remember it's pretax).

If you can't make it work, you are either wasting money somewhere significant (e.g. housing costing more than 25% of your income), or you aren't lower middle class for the area you live.
The workers' effort of dismantling the fan promoted the mass line consciousness and building of a vigorous cadre feeling in the whole army.
Before clicking the link I took a moment to think about how I’d design such a device for nefarious purposes, hoping that the author ought to be able to defeat whatever a mere hobbyist could come up with.

It would appear I’d make a better spy than the author would make a security analyst.

Penn Jilette has given interviews on what mindset is needed to trick people. One basic rule is that people will gravely underestimate the lengths he is willing to go to in order to trick the audience.

I’m not saying this is a spying device. I am merely pointing out that the author shed no light on whether it is.

For your entertainment: https://youtu.be/WvXKSSmItls
> With the exception of Russia and Georgia, it's said that no two nations that have McDonald's have ever gone to war.

Well, I went to do a research on that. It's called "The Golden Arches Theory"[1], it was meant to be tone-in-cheek, but to rationalize on the idea that two countries who develop a middle-class and economic stability to make a McDonald's viable no longer have an interest on going into war to each other.

Of course, there are many exceptions, both before, immediately and long after that "theory" was written:

- The 1989 United States invasion of Panama

- In 1999, India and Pakistan fought a war over Kashmir, known as the Kargil War. Both countries had (and continue to have) McDonald's restaurants.

- The 2006 war between Israel and Lebanon, following hostilities ongoing since 1973, with South Lebanon occupied until May 2000. (McDonald's franchises were established in Israel and Lebanon in 1993 and 1998, respectively.) However, the Lebanese Armed Forces were not a party to the fighting, the Israel Defense Forces action being taken instead against the paramilitary group Hezbollah.

- The 2008 South Ossetia war between Russia and Georgia.

- The 2014 Crimean crisis between Russia and Ukraine.

And even more amazing, there's an improved version of the theory:[2]

"The Dell Theory of Conflict Prevention stipulates: No two countries that are both part of a major global supply chain, like Dell's, will ever fight a war against each other as long as they are both part of the same global supply chain."

That is that, as long as corporations have major supply chain operations in countries other than that corporation's home country, those countries will never engage in armed conflicts. This is because of the economic interdependence between nations that arises when a large corporation (such as Dell) has supply chain operations in multiple global locations and when developing nations (in which supply chain operations commonly take place) are reluctant to give up their newfound wealth.

But I doubt that updated version wouldn't fall short to prevent the exceptions listed above.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lexus_and_the_Olive_Tree#G...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_World_Is_Flat#Dell_theory_...
This Ex-Googler Sells Her Home to Build a Podcast Mega-Platform
Was brought to mind after reading the "Analysis of a usb fan..." submission
This is where I get stuck actually. I try to digest some information, but then I start worrying that I'm taking unreasonably long, that my client is definitely going to ask for a justification for why something that should have only taken 1 hour ended up taking 3 hours (because it could take him 1 hour or even less), and I won't have a good answer.
You're absolutely right that it would be almost impossible to detect a malicious device in one of those components. But a few things come to mind:

1. If you're that paranoid, don't plug stuff in to your USB ports EVER.

2. If you're going to put a malicious device in this thing, connecting it to VConn isn't a good idea - since you'd have to be hoping that whatever you've plugged into is insecure at a hardware level in quite a specific way that there's no evidence of.

3. There seem to be easier ways to hack visitors to singapore - like getting physical access to their laptop.
Gotcha. Yep my goto hacking/tinkering/learning distros are Slackware, Alpine, and (on the BSD side) OpenBSD. I also consider all of those suitable as server/container OSes for varying reasons.

I run Elementary OS as my daily driver these days; no fuss, no muss, just log in and get to work. About the only thing I do on a fresh install beyond changing the background is setting up my tools. Surprisingly git isn't installed from the outset, but it's just a sudo apt install away. Likewise, I enable ppa support, add the ppas for Waterfox and Oracle Java, and install the ubuntu-restricted-extras package for better media support. Beyond that, the built in apps and programs suit my needs almost perfectly, and the OS fades into the background unlike Windows 10 or other flashy "LOOK at ME not your WORK!!" type OSes/DEs.
>I don't buy this explanation because the setup would be hilariously insecure.

I work in the industry, I 100% buy this explanation. Security is not great on all sides, confusing UIs and opaque IDs pasted into web systems (or excel spreadsheets) with little/no feedback (or excessive feedback that then gets ignored) are standard.

Also, even when media isn't directly available to a user, they may well still have the ability to send a particular file by house number through a pre-approved workflow (e.g. publish to youtube)
The European version of ARIN allows IPv6-only networks.
/24 cost you about 3-6k$ each, depending on if you can spare a month to get a good price or need it announced tomorrow morning for your AS.
When Google talks about privacy, one can't help but laugh
I think the right and the left recognize that wealth inequality is the issue. The problem seems to be the degree to which we correct that inequality.

In the general sense, some want an extreme (do nothing) or another (full economic equality). I think that really frames the discussion difficulty.

What it seems like is starting to arise is a sort of moral justification for a change in society. Rand's objectivism was a staunch endorsement of a brutal form of capitalism that saw a large divide between the wealthy and the common man. You might argue that objectivism is the philosophical opposite of Marxism. Weinstein and his peers are seemly exploring the moral territory between the two and focusing on what is right, rather than what is pragmatic.

This might be a useful progression from what's being called late capitalism to another system which has most or all of the benefits of capitalism, without the difficult cyclical problems.
Geographic intellectual centres tend to be very strong natural monopolies.

Mind: my own theorising, though based on a considerable bit of research.

Monopolies, generally, tend to form around networks, most generally described as flows (material, energy, products, people, information), between nodes, with some cost function. That last isn't just the traditional capital and labour, but a larger set, generally: materials, energy, time, effluent, skill, technical knowledge, O&M, comms protocols (including language choice), access to finance, frictional losses (from hull drag to bribery), and yes, labour and capital.

I'd also add unintended consequenses, though that's a long aside.

Different locations may have favourable or unfavourable standing among various of these factors. Comparative advantage (and disadvantage).

Something like Kirchoff's law of circuit flow may apply, I'm looking into this. There's some prior art, I believe associated with Jules Dupuit.

Edward Glaser, Harvard, makes the interesting observation that cities are an exception to the Anna Karenina principle: major global cities tend to have their own individual focus of competence. This seems particularly the case for ephemeralised goods: television (centering on NYC again), cinema (Hollywood, though, via language frictions, also Bollywood), finance (NYC, though with regional centres in London, Frankfurt, and Tokyo). And of course the San Francisco Bay Area for software, thoughthere are a few other competing centres, notably again NYC.

Glaeser also notes that diverse cities with non-monolithic industries and corporate footprints, tend to maximise diversity -- hecontrasts NYC's garment industry with the company towns of Ford's Detroit and Carnegie's Pittsburgh.

(The bulk material, energy, effluent, and labour requirements of early-20th century auto and steel production are other aspects he fails to dwell on, to his loss.)

But there are also things ccities need to get right: a baseline. Size. Food and water supply. Waste removal, public health, and crime prevention. Transport and tradee. Comms. Quality of life. Fail in these, and aa city wwill decline (though economic failure seems the more apparent proximate cause).

For intellectual and creative activities, opportunity, freedom, removal of barriers & hassles, and lack of oppression, seem key. The mid-20th century transatlantic flow, in both directions, of European Jews west, and American Blacks east, is a particularly inteeresting case: a given location can simultaneously attract and repell.

There are other dynamics: Dutch Disease, Baumal's Cost Disease, Gresham's Law (particularly applicable to brain drain), probably Jevons and Leibig's law.

But getting to your assertion, simply opening borders is far from sufficient.
> "(ease of deployment, ease of extension, ease of configuration, auto-updates, plugins, etc.)"

But those are The Right __and__ The Wrong.

For example, adding Composer to the WP "stack" makes sense. But now you've eliminated 90% (?) of the WP "developers."

That is, in the Universe of WordPress Composer is more friction, not less (i.e., ease of use).

Long to short, for better or worse, WP is Justin Bieber. It will never be Radiohead.
No, I think you overestimate it. There's this belief that circulates that people's occupations or pursuits are determined by their circumstances; they're bricklayers or plumbers or whatever due to a combination of factors beyond their control, and given the right magical combination of UBI/education/retraining/pixie dust, they'll move to some other job.

Meanwhile, my father-in-law was a tradie since he was a kid and even in retirement, supposedly freed of any occupational needs or financial necessity, he still does it because he likes to. I don't see him writing a screenplay or orchestrating a symphony. It's not his bag.

I agree that re-education and first education are certainly two different things, and I even agree that we would get more people interested in the creative pursuits if they were inculcated in them at an early age, but I disagree that this is the entire solution or even a substantial part of it because not everyone has that inclination.
Stolen admin password used in Gentoo GitHub mirror attack
Extend existing systems that you already know (at any level, user, programmer) with Rust. But extend them in the smallest possible ways, and then iterate. You will hit a wall, but you will have a concrete position to work from. Nginx, SQLite, Redis, Postgres, etc.

Don't worry about the borrow checker, liberally apply .clone() every time it complains. Don't try and golf your initial designs. Lots of vec, .clone() and structs that own their contents.
Yes, it would very likely completely prevent the attack. So would TOTP, though. In this day and age, if you don't enable 2FA on all sites that support it, you're just irresponsible (especially if you're in a position as interesting as Gentoo maintainer).
Sad. He should’ve put the money in Vanguard.
For widespread and international software like this, it's actually a step backwards not to openly discuss how security can be potentially beaten.
That's true, but the office is still relatively small. Zurich, London and Dublin are the biggest European locations.
The EU says sorry for making Linux
> I consider it worse, since it's too easy for people to become content with it.

It's not just that.

For a given vulnerability, there is an amount of time before the good guys discover it and fix it, and an amount of time before the bad guys discover it and exploit it. Obscurity makes both times longer.

In the case where the good guys discover the vulnerability first, there is no real difference. In theory it gives the good guys a little longer to devise a fix, but the time required to develop a patch is typically much shorter than the time required for someone else to discover the vulnerability, so this isn't buying you much of anything.

In the case where the bad guys discover the vulnerability first, it lengthens the time before the good guys discover it and gives the bad guys more time to exploit it. That is a serious drawback.

Where obscurity has the potential to redeem itself is where it makes the vulnerability sufficiently hard to discover that no one ever discovers it, which eliminates the window in which the bad guys have it and the good guys don't.

What this means is that obscurity is net-negative for systems that need to defend against strong attackers, i.e. anything in widespread use or protecting a valuable target, because attackers will find the vulnerability regardless and then have more time to exploit it.

In theory there is a point at which it may help to defend something that hardly anybody wants to attack, but then you quickly run into the other end of that range where you're so uninteresting that nobody bothers to attack you even if finding your vulnerabilities is relatively easy.

The range where obscurity isn't net-negative is sufficiently narrow that the general advice should be don't bother.
Bitcoin and the Origin
http://www.aldaily.com/ is a great source for cultural, historical, art, and philosophical musings.
“Advances in open systems and fundamental tests of quantum mechanics”
Wilders funding [1] suggests that US conservative money (previously under the guise of anonymity) is manipulating the Dutch electorate perhaps in a similar way as some wealthy Russians manipulated the US electorate.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Party_for_Freedom#Financing
Novichok nerve agent strikes two new victims in the UK
I assume you are talking about [1]. Fun Fact! Dan Grossman who teaches that specific course below, did a bunch of work on Cyclone [2] that was a major inspiration along with ML, for Rust.

[1] https://courses.cs.washington.edu/courses/cse341/17au/

[2] https://cyclone.thelanguage.org/wiki/Papers/
Can companies just come out and say it? They’re all adopting open offices because they’re cheaper and the cogs are easy to move around.

Though it baffles me why Facebook, Google, etc., companies that can afford it, don’t switch to 2-4-6-8 person offices. Best option: not too isolated, not too bunched up together.
This is standard practice where I work due to SOX compliance. (No pushing directly to master, all PRs need at least one other person's approval). In practice it's not an issue, since PRs are good practice anyway.
You are a dear. Thank you!
there is no such thing as casual redis script writer

if you are technical enough to write scripts for redis, you are not casual
What’s a cornrower?
Human ancestors walked on two feet but their children still had a backup plan