skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's difficult to separate political fact from fiction. But nearest I can tell, the "insolvency crisis" of Social Security (where it's said to be trillions of dollars in the red) is generally a fiction; we can wish the President and Congress hadn't raided the trust fund in the 80s, but it seems generally accepted that a few tweaks would immediately fix it.

Considering how easily we fund a war here, a tax cut there, Social Security could be made self-sustaining again fairly easily. We could remove the cap on taxed income while either NOT removing the cap on benefits to high earners (or give them increasing benefits but not in relationship to how much additional tax they're paying). We could adjust the retirement age (say, indexed for lifespan changes to provide some midpoint/average number of 'working years'). That's all without even changing the tax rate, which of course is always another option.

Ultimately, just by basic logic alone, there's no reason we can't fund X amount of benefits with Y amount of receipts by setting the numbers properly -- UNLESS AND UNTIL we have a massive greying crisis like Japan has.

https://www.quora.com/Has-the-U-S-Congress-really-borrowed-t...

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/social-security-fun-facts/

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/lets-debunk-this-social-securit...
It says that your body's normal antioxidants prevent damage. This is only a problem for people who have low levels of alpha tocopherol, e.g. from malnourishment or aging.
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I agree that public sector unions becoming politically active is problematic, but it's problematic is same way that wealthy individuals throwing money into politics is. Wouldn't this better handled through campaign finance law rather than an outright crippling of public sector unions? Teachers shouldn't be allowed to buy politicians, but they I do think they should allowed organize and petition to better their working conditions. If you deprive labor of a voice then only money speaks.
The epic Turbo Pascal Runtime Error 200 is similar. Turbo Pascal for DOS runtime sleeps by running a no-op loop some number of times. It figures out this number during startup, and it immediately crashes with division by zero if your computer is faster than a typical PC from the late nineties. http://wiki-errors.com/runtime-error-200-%E2%80%93-the-pasca...
That’s not remotely true. Even a full social security payout wouldn’t come close to the public employee union pension plans - in California it probably wouldn’t be 1/4 of it.

In CA, teacher can retire making ~100k/yr, and get 105% of that as a pension for life. Do you really think one of the most polioactive lobbying groups in the state would let that disappear?

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/andrewbiggs/2015/08/28/californ...
Teachers are certainly not underfunded as a budget item. They're 1) well paid[0], and 2) there's no evidence that paying them more results in better outcomes.[1] That's mostly because teachers have almost no effect whatsoever: even the very best only improve student outcomes by a small amount, and the effect fades after a few years.[2]

On the other hand there's evidence that teacher collective bargaining wastes hundreds of billions annually.[3]

Just because they're not conspicuously wealthy does not mean that they're blameless or virtuous or unsuccessful as a special interest group.

[0] https://www.city-journal.org/html/no-teachers-are-not-underp...

[1] http://econweb.ucsd.edu/~kamurali/papers/Working%20Papers/Do...

[2] http://slatestarcodex.com/2016/05/19/teachers-much-more-than...

[3] https://www.nber.org/papers/w24782
Why you should join the GitLab security team
BBC News was my captive portal go-to site. Sad to lose the non-redirecting http version.
Tribune Media Terminates Merger Agreement with Sinclair; Files Lawsuit
Increasing the payroll tax (from 12.8 to 14.4%) and removing the wage ceiling (but not the benefit ceiling) so that high earners who have accounted for most of the wage growth recently contribute a fairer share
Patent Reveals Plans for Using Apple Pay's Secure Element in a Future E-Passport
Did you have any problems getting hired at your next job because you made waves at your last?

Does the company you're currently working for have a union?
https://www.the74million.org/article/fact-check-just-how-man...
Its not that one teacher is sitting fat. Its that all teachers both current and retired are receiving paychecks which are not sustainable in the long term.

Consider a scenario where there are two retired teachers for every working teacher. To the working teacher they are underpaid. To the voters they are overpaid. The problem lies in the middle. If you stopped paying retired teachers you could triple the salaries of working teachers. Both parties would be satisfied with this arrangement.

Of course retired teachers would hate this and rightfully so. They were promised a pension and now you're denying it to them.

It calls into question the structure of compensation. Throw their money into a 401k rather than giving them 80-100% pay for the rest of their lives.
May be. Nexus 5 which is almost 5 years old now, is 4.95" / 1080 x 1920. It runs various mobile Linuxes, and I was thinking to replace it with Librem 5, but going to bigger size and lower resolution is a question.
If the New York Times wants to clean up Twitter they can start with their own staff. They just hired one of the more toxic Twitter personalities to their editorial board:

https://twitter.com/nickmon1112/status/1025437806775226368
>His intent was to tamp down widespread rumors that Twitter was “shadow banning” — who comes up with these creepy terms? — some conservative users.

Slurring her political opponents as 'creepy'...does she think people are buying that dirty rhetorical trick in 2018?
Windows CE has a 32-bit uptime counter (GetTickCount()) that wraps after ~49 days, but on startup it sets the value so that it wraps around in three minutes, increasing the likelihood that overflow bugs will be sussed out during development. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3231781
Also Alt + page up/down to adjust brightness without affecting colorshift.
Agreed. Even better if they had code snippets that highlights what makes the language cool (instead of the usual "Hello World").
You can use the nsenter(1) command to enter the namespace of another process.
i love this! great work.
This is silly to discuss who is 'worth it' as a target. The nets are cast wide and good malware will simply seek the vulnerable. Think of the hard drive encrypting ransomware. If they add illicit webcam pictures into the "PAY ME NOW" screen that's a massive advantage. Attempting to block sensors is simply least-privilege security stance applied to physical devices.
http://example.com
Every time I read “The Great Firewall” it puts a smile on my face - such a great name on multiple levels :-)

Does the Chinese government refer to it like that as well?
> The HTTPS infrastructure is downgradeable and relies on DNS and a multitude of certificates. And not all the ciphers are safe. Yes it can be done securely-ish

There's no reliance on DNS. We know what the right way to do HTTPS is, and an app that doesn't have to maintain compatibility with ancient browsers can use a strictly secure profile (no old ciphers, no downgrades etc.). HTTPS is older and more complex than the Signal protocol, but it's also extremely widely deployed and gets a huge amount of attention from security researchers. I think actual attacks on the protocol are less likely with HTTPS than with Signal.

> unless you're layering another level of encryption over HTTPS it isn't fully secure.

Nonsense. Two layers of valid encryption are no more secure than one, and two layers of flawed encryption will almost certainly still be flawed.

> 2. As for the rest of it: Cool man, that sounds like you want a normal chat app that is more usable and less secure. I use Messenger too for things that don't matter.

It's not that my chats don't matter. It's that I don't think autodeletion or one-device-only represent a meaningful security improvement.
there's a reason why julia doesn't have a strong static type system.

In julia, you can write a custom type, and immediately have access to all of the builtin libraries.

For example, I wrote a drop-in replacement for floating points, and immediately had complex numbers, matrix math, gaussian elimination, fourier transform, etc... And could rapidly compare the numerical performance of that with fp.

For a more exotic example, I wrote a galois field GF256 type and was immediately able to reed-solomon encoding and decoding using the matrix multiplication and matrix solving libraries.

For an even more exotic example, I wrote a "lexical GF256" type (basically passing strings) and had the system generate optimized C code for reed-solomon decoding, using the builtin julia matrix solver without having to manually do matrix solving for every possible (n,k) reed-solomon system.

It was also relatively easy to write a verilog generator (~3 days of work), so you could pass bit-arrays representing wires, run you unit and property tests on the binary representation, then redispatch the function passing lexical types and get verilog code out the other end, then transpile the verilog to C using verilator, dynamically load the verilog into the julia runtime, and then unit and property tests on the transpiled verilog.

I'm sure it's possible to do this in haskell, but I imagine it would be harder.
> Truly secure systems don’t require trust.

Security is something which only makes sense in relation to an attacker model. Only after you specified that, then we can discuss if something is secure or not.

Signal is not secure if the NSA is after you. Signal is secure if your Chinese competitor is after your business data. Signal is secure if you are a journalist in Turkey.
Daniel, this is incredible! I was actually going to shoot you an email about when AI grant's next phase is going to be for my Modular Neural Networks project.

I think one of the largest problems a lot of creative, insanely formidable people face are a barrier to entry to a network like this. That is one thing I've always admired about YC, Startup school. Pioneer's value in this would be insane.

I'm looking forward to the results, and hopefully climbing up the leaderboard myself over the next few months ;)
Ah, should have researched the platform- it appears to be a haven for such activity first and foremost.

https://twitter.com/getongab/status/1027551223845736449
https://twitter.com/getongab/status/1027550622860623872
I'm sorry, but my mom made $125,000 pre tax as a teacher every year in NY and retired with a very similar pension payable to her and her husband until death.

I am their son. I am college educated, I make $50,000 per year on average and I've been laid off 3 times over my 6 years of post college employment. I have never been offered a 401k, which is a particularly ineffective retirement tool anyway.

How are teachers underfunded again? Maybe in certain underfunded neighborhoods, but not all. And their employment is pretty secure.
I used discord for the first time two days ago and I missed exactly this.

As a comparison point, I think it is Skype that friends you to a test bot who replies things to you. This would have saved me some awkwardness when joining the group.
I use one of these every day, found two things, one from Philips in 2011 with some PDF documents, making claims the light is safe:
http://www.p4c.philips.com/cgi-bin/cpindex.pl?ctn=HF3332/60&...

2011 was a while ago, this Stack Exchange post from 2013 seems to indicate there is a possibility for macular degeneration with use of these devices, particularly if you are already at risk for the condition:
https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/13891/can-blue-...

Some googling seems to indicate there were rumors of these lights potentially causing issues, and it sounds like the Chemist article may be presenting a scientific basis for that speculation.

Turned off my light for now.
A couple of naive (and admittedly political) questions I didn't see addressed in the article...

Is there any way to find out how much of the R&D money for the medicine came from public funding? I can understand if the information is simply not available because it comes from a larger pool of R&D monies.

> Erenumab is now expected to be considered by English and Scottish health agencies to assess whether it is appropriate for NHS use.

Curious whether it has to be approved by the EU first before its use by NHS is allowed (or if its assessment is even worth it until EU approval occurs). Also curious whether "appropriate for NHS use" means at no cost to migraine sufferers.
Frighteningly, it's possible to hack into a computer and turn on the camera without triggering the green light:

https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/117937/how-to-use-...

https://jscholarship.library.jhu.edu/handle/1774.2/36569

And some news articles about these methods:

https://www.cultofmac.com/258855/alarming-study-shows-macs-c...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2013/12/18...
Note that the lens of the eye yellows as you get older which significantly reduces the amount of blue light that reaches the retina. So much so that there is an idea floating around that older people don't get enough blue light to properly make the circadian stuff work and that teenagers get too much.
I use an app called Camera Guard on my Mac.
My idea would be that they would not rely entirely on Social Security, they would be funding a 401K alongside some sort of reasonable match from the state instead, much like the deal people in the private sector get.
Windows 10 to get disposable sandboxes for dodgy apps
It's one of the jobs of the T1/T2 chips in newer Macs.

"as well as keeping tabs on the microphone and FaceTime HD camera to keep them safe from hacking"[1]

[1]https://blog.macsales.com/43360-imac-pros-t2-chip-what-it-is...
I use Night Shift. I'm able to fall asleep minutes after closing my laptop and laying down. For me it's more about comfort than sleep. The blue light is much too bright late at night. My computer no longer hurts my eyes when I stay up late working on cool things.
I have, quite a bit. Luckily a lot of the intel chipsets can be mitigated with me_cleaner. Additionally, they don't have raw network access since they have to go through my network (and firewalls, transparent and edge) before getting access to anything that's not mine.

The problem with modem baseband cpu and their insecurity is they are the connection and you literally can't watch or mitigate them.
Chrome’s Service Workers Break HTTP/2 Priorities
But those receptors signal something unpleasant - a terrible taste, pain. Looking at blue doesn't cause pain or unpleasantness.
I used to support the EFF. Defending pedophiles, as they did in the case of Francis Rawls, is not something I can support however.
> The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau should start creating laws

The CFPB can’t make laws (that's Congress’ job) and neither the current administration (including the current CFPB leadership) nor the current Congress even support the general mission of the CFPB.
Yup. I don't know how else to explain it. Trust me, I'm very sensitive to color temperature changes. I have 4 pair of eyeglasses I rotate through every day. Only 2 of them have the latest anti-blue coating. You simply cannot see it. I don't know what product it is, but a good example description from Zeiss:

https://www.zeiss.com/vision-care/en_us/products/coating-col...
shrug I would just try to represent it w/more precision. Maybe then you wouldn't even need the complexity of a floating point number.

If you're lucky, your compiler can generate 64/128-bit math for your target if there's no native registers/ALU that wide. If not, it's not exactly rocket surgery to do this yourself. Or in dire cases, use an arbitrary precision library.
> 1) Whatever causes the higher overall rates in Utah (altitude and/or other variables) that interacts in a non-linear way with whatever is causing the national increase.

Any proponent of this hypothesis will face quite the uphill battle explaining why suicide rates are growing nowhere near as fast in Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, Idaho, New Mexico, Arizona, or Nevada.

> 2) Whatever factor that is driving the national increase is more influential in Utah for whatever reason. (e.g. maybe social networks are more harmful to more-judgmental Mormon communities)

Certainly possible. There are plenty of judgmental religious clusters in the US, but it's the state with all the Mormons that seems to be the outlier, which would need explanation.

> 3) There is some recent change in Mormon culture that has driven a change in teen suicide rates.

There certainly is a lot of recent changes in mormon culture as well as mormon teachings as of late, and ramping up quite dramatically for a good 20 years now. Before prop 8, there was almost no focus on homosexuality, now it is a regular topic. There have been some major policy changes, such as disallowing baptism of children of gay parents.

There has been a huge growth in focus on pornography and modesty over the last two decades. For example, you can find plenty of strapless and sleeveless dresses in the BYU homecoming archives, but none recently. You can read conference archives from 20 years ago and find few, if any, references to pornography or modesty...whereas every conference now will focus a large amount of time on the subjects.

> 4) Mormon culture has caused a change in suicide rates despite not changing.

It demonstrably has changed, so this one is out.

> Do you have any support that would make (3) or (4) sound more reasonable? Or do you have another hypothesis?

It's a combination of 2 and 3. For example, pornography is drastically more available now than 20 years ago, but that wouldn't be much of a problem if not coupled with the shame and judgment of mormon teachings combined with the drastic growth in focus on the subject. Same goes for everything related to sexuality: modesty and social media, homosexuality and the various legal/policy actions that the church has taken, etc. The combination of of social change, technological change, mormon shame/guilt/judgment, mormon obsession with perfection and social image, and recent mormon heel-digging behavior is precisely what I would think is the most plausible hypothesis.
Still not secure. I describe the risks here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10906999
> People could already be giving out their credentials, but somehow it’s not happening,

It is, people often get scammed into giving access to their accounts. Having more locked-down APIs is a way to move off from this.
Am I ready to quit my day job?
"We expect a fraction of Pioneers to start companies. In exchange for the investment and benefits below, Pioneer will retain 3% of any company you found over the next eight years. Pioneer will also have the option of investing an additional $20,000 for 5% in any of those companies. These conditions apply if you already have an incorporated company."

yeah, as an outsider looking for entry into startup - it just doesn't seem right! i get the fact that you guys have to fund the company some way! but it just seems too costly. i would be short selling myself.
I think it is easier to write fast, complicated code in Julia than in C, C++, or Fortran.
Not just the syntax, but because of great support for generic code by default and metaprogramming making it relatively simple to write code to generate the code you actually want for any given scenario.
Interactive benchmarking and profiling are a boon too.

An example of the value of generic code is that forward mode AD is extremely easy, and almost always just works on whatever code you run it on.

Then, once that's done, multiple dispatch (and possible macros for a DSL) allows for a much cleaner user interface than Python offers for numeric code.

I have a lot more experience with R than Python, but seeing more of the scientist/mathematician/researchers side of things, I have to strongly disagree with the view that they should write slow code and contact a CS guy to write fast code in another language when they need it.
Do you honestly think that's practical for grad student's projects?
Recently, one of my friends wrote a simulation in R. Most of the work was done by hcubature -- a package written in C -- integrating a function written in R. Could just have easily been written in Python.
That function was slow, and the simulation ran for days.
Before an error caused it to crash, losing days of compute time. I -- a statistics grad student -- helped him rewrite it in Julia, and it finished in 2 hours.

That C/C++ code will still run slowly if they have to call your R/Python code is a problem. They also can't apply things like AD easily.
A common solution, used by Stan for example, is to create a whole new modeling language and have users interface through that. Learning a new language -- albeit relatively simple/domain specific -- which they then cannot debug interactively, is another pain point.
All this can be avoided by simply using Julia.
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I did as well, but I do not feel it would be unreasonable to go to school year-round with 2-3 week breaks each season instead. There would still be free time and opportunities for families to travel, but it would not need to occur in a single 2-3 month period like what we do now.
> on Linux WireGuard yields some 15-20% better performance (on both throughput and latency).

Assuming you're comparing to IPsec (and AES-NI accelerated AES-GCM on the P2s), and especially a routed IPsec (VTI) .vs the more normally found "policy-based" IPsec, then this isn't true, for at least 'throughput', and it's completely provable.

I've not tested latency.

Agreed with your statements on OpenVPN, and the advantages of setup for WireGuard .vs IPsec or OpenVPN.
I wish the article would have provided the formula for cividis... that is, how to transform a range of values from 0 to 1.0 into standard RGB values.
I just hope its not another store with a 30% commission. If they're charging developers 15% or less, I'll definitely get on board.

Valve need to up their game though. Their approach of 'anything goes' when it comes to allowing games on Steam is backfiring. They need to increase the fee to list from $100 to $2000. For legitimate devs that extra $1900 charge will more than pay for itself with the attention you will get launching a game into a de-cluttered store.
Users often flag stories for crappy threads completely independently of the content, quality, relevance, or importance of the article.
What does ostracizing the military even mean? Do they not have the behemoth of the DOD budget behind them? Is the US military not spending unprecedented amounts of money in AI research?
For maximum safety you should assume your adversary knows which character set your password comes from. Frankly, there are few reasons not to assume this.
and more. See elsewhere in-thread for results.
I've been taking high dose riboflavin (vitamin B2) at the recommendation of my neurologist for the last 4-5 months and it's been shockingly effective.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15257686
Only to the degree that the Republicans don't go hard right.
When I did research as an undergraduate, one of the MS students in the lab I was working in moved a powerful UV light used to cure glues from the corner of the room to the center and used it without putting a box over it as was standard procedure. Of course, he didn't look at the light himself, but he also didn't announce its use either. I saw the UV light as I was walking through the lab. It was basically a bright purple/blue light. Several hours later I was effectively blind due to pain, which continued for a few days. I basically had the equivalent of a bad sunburn on my eyes.

This was one of several reasons I quit that lab. Since then I've avoided academic labs that have UV lights or lasers because I don't trust that the students follow safety procedures at all.