skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The report, State-Sponsored Trolling: How Governments Are Deploying Disinformation as Part of Broader Digital Harassment Campaigns, contains in-depth illustrative examples of state-sponsored trolling in seven countries: the United States, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Ecuador, the Philippines, Turkey, and Venezuela. It includes policies that governments and businesses can implement to rein in the digital abuse of individuals, advocates and journalists critical of governments.

http://www.iftf.org/fileadmin/user_upload/images/DigIntel/IF...
What well-known and perfectly adequate open source competition did your compiler have in the 70's and 80's?

We're talking about a mail client here. A $120 mail client whose website mentions not a single advantage over the leading open source solution in its market.
>Fewer than 1/3 are under 20

Because there are restrictions on what hours minors can work and what equipment they can operate.

Guess what job they do the most of? Cashier.

Guess what job these kiosks replace? Cashier.

You still need humans to do the cooking, to troubleshoot system issues, you'll always need a proper cashier for times when systems go down or you have a disabled patron (blind for example), you'll need people cleaning the facility and parking lot, taking the trash out, restocking things.

This is a chicken little issue "ermagerd, a kiosk is going to replace a cashier, we're all gonna starve to death when our jobs are replaced!!!".

This is something we WANT. Widespread adoption of kiosks gives John Q Public a wake up that automation can replace jobs, it gives minimum wage workers yet another nudge that saying "do you want fries with that" isn't a career.

They're replacing cashiers, the most pointless and un-fulfilling job on the planet. It'll be ok.
Isn't that mostly Hollywood illusion? That the Americans are the Good Guys, paragons of morality and protectors of all that is alive, while everyone in "backward countries" treats their own as cannon fodder?
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I guess lack of knowledge and infrastructure. Cryptocurrency requires computers and internet connection whenever you want to make a deal, participants should know how to operate those things.

Otherwise, despite its shortcomings, it would be kind of a god-sent in this kind of situation. However, I'm sure the government would try to prevent wide adoption.
If it's anything like my grandma told me about what her mom said about how it was back in germany, people will just buy everything they need for a month the moment they get their paycheck. All money that is left over is then used to fire the oven or cover the walls where repairs are needed or even fed to the livestock. The money was essentially worthless within a week, after that it was less useful than the materials it was made of so people used it for that.

(Oh and another fun one was always when my grandma tells of the month where the money wans't enough for a month they had to live of their own potatoes exclusively for 2 weeks cutting into their income)
2. Agreed. Out of curiosity, would you consider it sensible to directly tax the production of a robot?

3. The larger the trend, the easier to forecast. Historically, empires fail slowly and then enter a rapid final decline. Martin Armstrong may be of interest, as he has built an extensive database and system that has analyzed the set.

4. Georgia the country, although the US state is one that is doing better than others[1] in the nation. Residence is sticky since it's expensive to relocate, so the incentive to move must be particularly high. There are certainly perceptions that persist with a lag since a practical perspective depends heavily upon direct experience, e.g. NYC is not the same place depicted in movies from the 1980s. The magnitude of resources available to be redistributed within a highly dynamic system can be significant. It is almost impossible to pinpoint the exact breaking point but the trend can be much more easily observed.

Turkey is an interesting place - domestic production includes almost everything except higher technology, yet the economy is precarious due capital fearing the government.

Romania is on my travel list :)

[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/san-francisco-bay-area-resid...
Our accuracy rate is currently around 99.6% so we're doing pretty well but of course I don't think it can ever be 100% either.

The biggest thing we've come across so far is geo-sensitive handling of requests. Some sites will redirect you to HTTPS or not based on where you are making the request from! This of course means you might see HTTPS and we see HTTP.

I think it's still fair to include those sites in this case because they aren't serving all traffic securely.
An iPhone was the touchscreen they used in their study?
Hardly comparable to in car screens.
I have just read some recent reports and complaints filed by people at http://www.whycall.me/631-318-6350.html about these IRS scams. I think people should have been really aware of such scams, because they have been around harassing us for years. We also need to keep spreading the words to everyone about this.
They flee.

If you earn in the local currency you're toast.
Life expectancy went up during communist rule. See https://www.google.co.uk/publicdata/explore?ds=d5bncppjof8f9...
There are plenty of capitalist states and policies that have resulted in huge amounts of loss of life.
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Migraines run in my family and a lot of my friends have them (so this is a large anecdote, not research). From that experience, I think "likely" is a bit of a strong term for these triggers. The common factors are pretty clear in this thread: Strong sensory stimuli (visual/auditory, sometimes smell), stress and poor lifestyle habits (little sleep, little exercise, etc). These things are "likely" triggers - most people report one or more of these. The word you're looking for is "possible".

Along with that I'd like to point out nutritional advice is always an option, but in practice it is so personal that it's best taken with a healthy amount of skepticism.
Great point! People want to get out of money as soon as they get it. The money velocity essentially approaches infinity as its value drops faster.

In this case, I think a new money supply is needed or no one will want to sell anything, as they’d be stuck with a much more depreciatimg asset.

I have a simple definition of money that I haven’t seen anywhere else:

Money is the most liquid asset in an economy.

What would that be in Venezuela at the moment? Rice?
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An equivalent product to the iPod, the Creative NOMAD Jukebox, was also released around 2000-2001.

The iPhone launched around June 2007, iirc. The T-Mobile G1 launched around September of 2008. The iPhone did not receive an App Store until v2 of the device a year later. Android launched with all core functionality.

I think it's safe to safe that if they had waited until the product was fully baked -- they would've launched at about the exact same time.

I don't really care what Bill Gates's opinion of Steve Jobs is, his opinions don't hold much weight with me.

As to burnt-out engineers "writing their own ticket" ... well, if they're tired of working at a place like Apple -- I seriously doubt they'd enjoy working for a place that wants to be just like them and hires people with a history of working there in an attempt to emulate them.
Good long article on Venezuela and the history of oil

https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/07/16/how-venezuela-struck-it...
It is worth remembering that the UK was the only EU nation to try diluting/blocking wide-reaching legislation to combat tax havens:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jun/18/uk-reject-eu-p...

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/nov/26/british-gov...

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/paradise-pape...

https://medium.com/the-jist/uk-vs-eu-tax-evasion-investigati...

Whatever the UK does to look like it is addressing the issue of tax avoidance, it's exactly that; pure theatrics.

The UK, my own country (or at least its wealthiest citizens) is a huge beneficiary of offshore schemes and complication tax arrangements.
The Z80 is a science fiction luxury space ship when compared to the 8080.
If I have read through the closed PRs, then obviously I have looked at the open PRs too: Makefile trivialities, homework solutions, and duplicates. Not a whole lot there.
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Trigger - less sleep, tension.

Drink 1.5 L of water as soon as you wake up before anything else (including bath etc) and always drink water when in sitting position.
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OK, if this is correct, then I wouldn't call this a self-driving car, or basically it was L1.

Not interesting, and frankly, takes away from the dramatic results of recent self-driving cars.
It's also refreshing that unlike most proposals, it doesn't have to be done everywhere, forever, on a crazy global scale.
I agree that linear thinking has its faults but I wonder if certain things can’t “add up” to opportunities for breakthroughs. Ie exascale computing, quantum scale Boltzmann machines, and faster communication between cpu cores. I’m wondering what new technologies will be possible after modeling at the scales possible by exascale.
There are no indications that MSG actually is bad for you (including by inducing headaches) in the amounts that it is normally used. Even 2g (this is a lot) is no problem when consumed with food. If you know otherwise, I'd love to read your sources.
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I'd remove pleading as well. Why should we gamify trial outcomes by forcing the accused to place a bet against what a judge or jury will decide when it should be based on the evidence?

If evidence to convict is not sufficient or present, why do we require a conviction?
Geninuely curious, where in India this is pretty common?
Irrelevant?? That is the most relevant question that a developer could ask in this situation.

No, it isn't. The most relevant question is "can somebody be using the current API". It doesn't matter if your current API matches the documentation, what matters is whether your current API is out there for others to build on.

Don't try to use a crystal ball or other form of divination to predict what your downstream users have been doing with the code; you will always lose. Instead, suck it up, acknowledge the mistake, and signal the breaking change by bumping the major version.

Maybe next time your developers will spend more time validating their public contract, so they won't have to endure the embarrassment of a major version bump.
> In this case, I think a new money supply is needed or no one will want to sell anything, as they’d be stuck with a much more depreciatimg asset.

Yes indeed, that's exactly how they solved this issue in Brazil: https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2010/10/04/130329523/how-...
If you're lucky enough to be in a position where it's possible, hold other currencies in foreign accounts.

For the other 99% of the population, you just can't deal with it. Venezuela is literally a failed state right now. Even well-off people literally cannot afford to buy bread and rice, never mind "luxuries" like medicine.

Just to put the 1 million bolivar coffee in perspective - the current monthly minimum wage is just over 5 million bolivars.
You could ask people into image processing what they think about that. I imagine imagemagick IRC channel for example . Even negative feedbacks can be useful.

I think it will take you a lot of time to find customers for that so you should start something else (but related) in parallel. Why not a player for webcams with your algorithm builtin?
I dont see how it can end peacefully as the government enforces more and more controls as the situation worsens, creating a negative feedback loop.

At the same time a starving population has probably very little motivation to revolt.
What did you do to get the network working specifically? I was hoping that adding the legacy network adapter would do it, but it prompted and subsequently failed to install an ethernet driver after I did.
Trustless p2p back in the 90s
The government of Venezuela has no reason to replace a currency they control with one they don't. Switching to cryptocurrencies will definitely not solve the many systemic issues in Venezuela so the government would still end up with a broken economy and on top of that they wouldn't control the currency anymore. That doesn't make sense. Switching to bitcoin won't make the Brent price go up.

The people could individually decide to switch to cryptocurrencies (or dollars, euros, bottle caps etc...) and get others to accept it but then you have the problem of purchasing this currency in the first place and it still doesn't solve the underlying issue of the broken Venezuelan economy. You could be a bitcoin billionaire in Caracas right now, if the shop doesn't sell toilet paper then it doesn't sell toilet paper. On the other hand if you have bolivar bills...

It's not the bolivar that's broken, it's the Venezuelan economy. This ridiculous inflation is a symptom.
AFAIK some Venezuelans are. But the country's infrastructure is not exactly in the greatest of shapes to support actually using it.
> If you plot those values on the matrix of conventional US politics, there appears to be a contradiction: The tech elite want an activist government, but they don’t want the government actively restricting them.

Fringes aside, I think that sums up everybody. The difference is that most regulation doesn’t directly impact the average Joe.
they have adopted dollars already. seems good enough.
Good luck. Don't forget pedestrians and cyclists.
The government pays state employees in bolivar, not bitcoin. Probably because the government doesn't have any bitcoin to pay workers with.
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most people say this because it doesn't affect them

https://migraine.com/blog/msg-untangling-this-hidden-migrain...
What aspect of waves as they exist in our universe is infinite?
No voicemail and no picking up for random numbers. Works well for me
i'm curious how common crypto I over there
It would fail for the same reason the economy has already failed. The government does not respect the private property rights of individuals or businesses. As such any attempt to generate wealth ends when someone in power decides to take it.

When governments fail to protect the private property rights of their citizens, be it physical property, financial investments and savings, to the income they earn, poverty will result for the majority.
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I haven't seen anyone mention a Formula 1 steering wheel. Many many many functions, operable at 200+ MPH. No touchscreen. Just lots of knobs and buttons. But they do impose a very high cognitive load in operation.

https://www.google.com/search?q=formula+1+steering+wheel
It makes me angry to see how such rampant government ineptness can completely destroy a once-thriving economy in a decade. Worse still is Maduro’s continued insistence that it’s a conspiracy against Venezuela rather than idiotic policy which is to blame.
They are suffering from meta inflation.
This does not seem to be the case. Check out this guy that worked on the project:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10333126

The had auto-breaking, car detection and lane merging the least.
I can’t find the opinion piece from WaPo I posted here a few months ago, but basically the author had said that in hyperinflation, it’s not that things get more expensive, but that money breaks down.

He used an example of buying a can of tuna as soon as you get paid. If you wait you won’t be able to afford that tuna with the same paycheck again and even if you don’t want the tuna now you may need it later, or it could be more useful for bartering than cash.

Basically you get rid of your cash in favor of tangible goods ASAP at every opportunity.
Very cool, it was fun to play with. Thanks for also including the Altair info, that was a blast from the past.
Discussion from yesterday https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17590637 (22 comments)
Statements like this always bring me back to Goedel's incompleteness theorem...
Yes, the loyalty card should be named "loyalty and tracking card", and we don't know how the discount is divided over both.
I don't think that was the original intent, just what it came to be after it was clear that Microsoft wasn't going to aggressively dismantle the open* nature of Windows as a platform. Based on Microsoft's language around the Windows App Store and UWP at the time, and just being Microsoft, that was a reasonable concern.

*That is, open for anyone to develop and release software for without going through a third party.
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I have a 10 year old Canon 40D and I can take better looking photos with it than my iPhone X. However, the latter is far more convenient.

The main difference would be the selection of lenses, but even with similar DOF/FOV, the 40D still produces better images IMHO.
I assume you are talking about Thunderbird? I used it professionally for two years before deciding it was much, much worse than the alternative (Outlook webmail + a gross CLI tool for other misc email). It's slow, it uses a lot of disk space for bad reasons and just generally operating on a lot of email is a massive pain.

Compared to that, I'd have difficulty believing there are many email clients out there that are actually worse. Even emacs as an email client was better (and it still wasn't great as you can imagine).
> 1M% or 200k% inflation is pretty much the same

To the average person and in the short run, yes. More broadly, given Caracas' hard currency antics, it is a measure on the reallocation of assets from the broader economy to Maduro's cronies. (State products, e.g. food and petrol, are purchased with local currency. Cronies buy hard currency at a fixed price and resell it at the inflated price. This mechanism moves real wealth into their hands.)
> I think that sums up everybody.

I think that sums up everybody that doesn't understand how effective governments work. Regulations are an intrinsic part of them and the libertarians know that. That's why they're against them. It's a lot easier to create tax loopholes when you don't have thousands of regulations to worry about.
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USDT is stable and much easier to move across the border into the country than USD itself
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Here is what someone on the project had to say about it:

>Our vision system relied (heavily, not exclusively) on sensing prominent horizontal features symmetric about a common centerline. (Cars and trucks, especially at the time, have a lot of horizontal lines: bumpers, window top/bottom, valence, etc.)

Thread here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10328687
On the contrary, these people have nothing to lose - it's either death by starvation or death by a bullet.
Yes, other altcoins like Nano with 0 fees are increasingly being adopted, hope they help with the problem.
>Who prints these days?

People who care about photography.

Who watches their photos on a 4K display and pixel-peeps that they're 20% less that its full resolution? (4K is about 8MP -- but you need to go to 2MP (square root of 8MP) to have half the visual resolution. 5-6MP to 8MP is much closer that it looks on paper, as the change is not linear (pixels cover an area, not a line).
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It seems to me that something can only have existence for us if it can have a transitive causal influence upon us, and surely both particles and waves exist in that same sense.
You understand the problem with hyperinflation perfectly.

Back in Germany in 1923, workers did their best to buy stuff for their earnings in the first hour. Anyone who held cash lost, and lost fast.
Good point. I can't find it right now, but I seem to recall some experiments with a mouse/rat in a ball controlling a robot based on stimuli (LEDs or video).

There's also this: https://www.technologyreview.com/s/401756/rat-brained-robot/ Maybe someday horse neurons will control our cars!
Pretty much every socialist-communist-attempting country went through this. China is the only kind-of successful one, but at the cost of rivers of blood, political prisoners. It's Venezuela's turn to show the whole world how socialism fails.
I think your argument is orthogonal to this issue and therefore moot. If you can explain why that is not the case, please do so, I would like to understand it.
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A few, for those willing to type them in from university, magazines and hobby club listings.

I guess sendmail and p̵i̵n̵e̵̵ mutt are good enough™.
It gets harder when you are:

* Out of the lab

* On roads that aren't level

* When the obstacles move

* etc
Both Chavez and Maduro still receive praise from the far left opposition leader in the UK - while the government are pretty damn incompetent too, so the opposition actually has a chance of getting into power.

https://twitter.com/jeremycorbyn/status/309065744954580992
I don't get the dual argument about zero, for which the impossibility of a completely empty region of spacetime is given as an example. That may be so, but a region empty of countable things like atoms seems physically conceivable. I am writing from a room containing zero elephants.
> Why don't they just adopt bitcoin

It's easier to barter or use hard currency. When you're at 1 million percent inflation, you don't want to have to rely on having electricity and network access to buy food. Moreover, pitching people on a new currency in the midst of a currency collapse is an uphill battle.
Your first statement is exactly what I've arrived at. It's just not avoidable in general.

I have to clarify that I'm not fixated on C#. Sure, you could create a helper assembly in .NET that is a mess of essentially of disembodied functions for computing every slightly more complex function that happens to be in your program. But this breaks OOD.

In C/C++ you can't do quite the same. The best you could do there is break OOD and try to hide these global functions by using private headers (which are ugly in their own ways).