skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The government's monopoly of force and the stability of its currency are not strongly correlated. A country like Somalia had a stable currency despite the fact that its notional government barely exerted any power beyond the walls of its offices, and a country like Zimbabwe has seen its currency lose any value despite the government lacking any reasonable prospect of invasion and the military/security forces preventing any reasonable prospect of internal rebellion.

If anything, a powerful standing army is more likely to result in failure of fiat currency (hyperinflation)--hyperinflation is fundamentally caused by a government pursuing really bad economic policies to the detriment of the economy, and the failing economy will tend to precipitate an internal (potentially violent) rebellion if there is space to do so.
“The 2020s could be one of humanity's last chances to avert devastating impacts”
No, it's a method to preserve purchaser privacy.

* You purchase some goods.

* Store triggers an 'ATM' withdrawal of a multiple of $20 that is greater than the cost of your purchase.

* You actually buy your goods with cash behind the scenes.

* The teller hands you your change from the cash transaction.

Same as having an ATM next to the checkout counter but the customer doesn't have to do the awkward step.
Ford Motor chairman cancels visit to Saudi investor conference
A series where people used technical surveillance using devices like these (IOTINT? IDK what the term of art is yet), OSINT from online things like FB, various forms of legal process (civil, LE, NS, and extralegal), etc. to go after "terrorists" down to criminals of various crimes down to "enemies of the Party" down to "people who slightly antagonize employees of the Agency" to "for the lulz" would be interesting.

More like Homeland than The Wire, though. Or, uh, Black Mirror.
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Certificates already support IP addresses. They just need to be public (i.e. not RFC1918 space) and for legacy browser compatibility the IP needs to be in the commonName and subjectAltName.
How Humans Will Work in 2030
Can someone at artillry.co explain if artillry itself reached ramen profitability?
Apple is donating 1,000 watches for a new study to track binge eating
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Dev environments and various software conflicts, obviously. ie. You’re a noob dev and you need python 2.x.x but your mac os install has a different version and you’re too noob to understand what’s happening and the reinstall fails because xyz. Huge barrier to noobs. Programming is really quite trivial, fighting through external bugs like this is not.
Sometimes I go to a fast food restaurant and discover that while I don't want fries, it's cheaper to buy the whole combo meal than it is to just buy a burger and drink a la carte.

If I buy the combo and throw away the fries, nobody's going to argue that I've cheated Wendy's and owe them for the difference in price.

But I'd agree they're still free to refuse me service in the future on grounds of wasting food.
None of those represent engineering achievements handled by aerospace engineers, however.
Related to #1, I'd also suggest stop using the phrase "should be" in respect to "earning" / "paid", at least if the goal is to reduce anxiety or plan on how to accept or change the number. If it's just complaining, though, "should" language is pretty natural and fine...

The amount you get paid is a fact. It's comparable to other facts, but the comparisons themselves are also just facts. Maybe they and other facts will help you make a case for raising it (or to your manager, a case for lowering it), but if those arguments are couched in "should" language they are probably less likely to succeed.
Mozilla: https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2018/10/15/removing-old-ve...
And most product managers would confirm that most companies do not need a good machine learning pipeline.
I'm a backer of Star Citizen and I've gotten my value out of backing it just from the community and all of the content that keeps coming out on the game. It's been $50 for me for hundreds of hours of entertainment so far, much better value than two tickets to the movies.

I do believe that there has been a bunch of mismanagement, which is a shame, but I still look forward to playing it sometime within the next 5-10 years. No game has ever been as ambitious as the scope of what Star Citizen aims to do.
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What's up with this usage of the word "talent"? Tech is in such acute need of humble pie I don't even know where to begin. I'm becoming disillusioned. Why is a programmer etc. a "talent", but a carpenter just an employee, hire or whatever?

But maybe it's actually an appropriate term, now when our interview processes so clearly have ceased to be job interviews, and have become auditions - because nothing less satisfies our own grandiose self-importance.

> "On the other hand, how many companies desperately need product talents to figure out what is valuable to produce?"

These middle-management positions are so unmeasurable that I think they may be greatest source of bullshit jobs in tech. So if it's true that their success is largely unmeasureable, I wonder how you've come to that conclusion?
How about selling a ticket and then telling me I can't get on the flight because it's overbooked. Is that fraud too?
Absolutely true. Though I'd argue at this point that the only way the United States would face a war that could be fought conventionally internally, it would be by a foe that's using the resource of the United States Army, as I don't believe there'd be another other viable option. We're a little far away from when every man had equivalent firepower to a member of the United States forces in their closet.

It would also seem to be a very hard line to draw in regards to "preventing external threats". An argument could be made that that's exact what's happening right now, and that it's aggressive posture and presence around the world is solely in self defense, so really, the industry of war probably can't ever stop, and neither can the income tax.
The new Black Ops game has a 50GB day 1 patch.
Not currently, but I am planning on it when time allows. You can use the email in my profile if you'd like more info.
> Imagine that 20% of founders were getting straight up scammed by fake angels and VCs--would you suggest the founders need some way to report that anonymously?

I'd suggest that they should report it publicly, dammit, and name and shame the perpetrator, with their own name attached and the allegation backed by the weight of any reputation they may have. All of which they would probably do. The near-total impotence of men - and by implication, male-dominated industries - to do anything at all about sexual harassment of women comes from the fact that this is for some reason seen as an unthinkable response when it comes to sexual misconduct directed at women.

These survey results point to 4 women being sexually assaulted and 15 founders either being asked to prostitute themselves for investment or something worse. Yet we have not a single name of a responsible party, nor a single account of their actions. We men are repeatedly told that it is our job to prevent harassment of women, and that we have the power to do so. How? What possible power can we have to do anything about perpetrators if their victims universally refuse to tell us who they are or what they have done? The blame for society's failure to protect future victims lies on the victims who stay silent, not on men; it is impossible for us to respond to incidents that everyone involved refuses to tell us about.
It's not a Solaris specific feature; FreeBSD has it as well:

https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ctf&apropos=0&sekt...

Linux is the one lagging behind, as usual.

How is embedding source code an "ASLR bypass"?
> The current implementation only works in Chrome. Before you assume we’re kool aid drinking Google evangelists, or simply just lazy, there is good reason for this — likely due in part to Google’s work on Project Stream, they have introduced “low delay” mode for MSE that sets up a push model for video frames rather than the traditional buffered pull model. This is also good for any kind of low latency video stream, not just game streaming. When in low delay mode, Chrome begins to break the rules of MSE and no longer requires buffered playback. It also starts to ignore certain timing information and keyframe requirements.

> ...

> This is not to say that one couldn’t get a decent working implementation in Firefox, but Chrome’s low delay mode works in the ideal way without having to complicate the implementation or diverge too heavily from the way Parsec’s native applications behave. And while we love Firefox, the harsh reality is that 82% of Parsec users are using Chrome, with only 5% using Firefox, which made us more comfortable starting with a Chrome only implementation. For Firefox users, you can always use the Parsec native applications, which will probably perform better anyway .

I think this is quite sad to see. It’s not really game streaming tech in a web browser, it’s game streaming tech in Google Chrome.

What happens if Google decides they don’t want to play with other streaming services? They’re only a quick auto update of locking Parsec services out.
Fluff article. He could've spent a moment reviewing TSLA's financial statements for facts instead of talking about conspiracies.
I'll accept that deal, as long as I can sue the airline when they overbook and can't give me a seat. No takers? Okay then…
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Which of catcalling, harassment, sexual demands for career advancement, or rape do you consider acceptable expressions of sexual interest?
Thank you, this is the first time I've seen a "literate programming" text presented on the web. It's really well done, and makes up for some of the drawbacks of on-paper LP: being able to expand the definitions of sections (modules?) in-place, and being able to follow function definitions, are both very useful.

I had some plans to present some other such written-in-TeX-literate-programs in HTML; could you perhaps share somewhere your "big hack" that you used here (the translator, the javascript)? Totally ok if you don't want to :) Thanks,
Paula Deen
This is the blog/site, where editor got Tesla Roadster through affiliate points. So, take it into account when you read articles about otherwise fantastic Tesla cars.
> I doubt UA would follow through considering it is illegal to submit known false debts.

Ahh yes, the "known false debts act of 1789". 
 The fact is corporations have throngs of willing stooges who are happy to perjure themselves in trial and assert that the debts weren't false at all. Who's a judge and jury going to believe? The scammer who cheated the poor impoverished airline out of its money, or the well-dressed stooge with front-row access to United's records?

Lying to the courts to get what you want is in practice a fully sanctioned strategy for corporations who desire to intimidate their customers by "making an example" of their least favorite customers by throwing criminal charges against them.

Mr. Lundgren can bear witness to this, as can I.
A better system is needed to allow for verified accounts, without requiring the kind of info that would allow hackers and bad actors to access your real email, address, phone number, etc. Dual authentication is a start but for now, it requires putting even more info out there (I didn't share a phone number on any site until I had to for authentication purposes).
The search box in the UI is populated with your last dozen-or-so searches. You can access that data about yourself, so presumably if someone has the ability to "view as" you, they can see it.
And those disenfranchised due to criminal conviction.
mainly because while we all go through the same basic CS-math foundations in HS...most never learn how to apply them...
Sorry man your site lost me at the token based app store...
Interesting, thanks.

I had only followed general-consumption reports here, and hadn't seen that the attack involved obtaining a token that allowed the attacker to authenticate as the user, and I didn't realize that the API included support for pulling search history data. Given that, I understand much better why this was a disaster from the beginning, and why people are so mistrustful of the rolling "and also this..." disclosures.
Decentralized Identity: Own and control your identity [pdf]
Man regulations.gov is a terrible site. The only document I could find that contained "vehicle safety score" was:

https://www.regulations.gov/document?D=NHTSA-2015-0119-0001
What's hilarious is that there are no rose-colored glasses necessary. Privateer's on GOG. Just go play Privateer. It's still fun and it doesn't cost $30, $150, or $125 million.
Well, understanding what source code means and how it works is definitely a big part of it. Because for many people, they learn via looking at other people's work, and where programming is concerned, that often feels overwhelming.

Which probably comes down to one thing really:

When you look at an existing codebase, you have no idea about the logic behind any of its design decisions. You think it's all a confusing mess or that a smarter person would 'just get it', without realising that most of the complexity comes down to:

1. Bug fixes that cropped up along the way. Usually extreme edge cases.

2. Code being refactored piece by piece, since throwing out the whole codebase and starting over is often not economically viable.

3. Backwards compatibility in general

4. Multiple people working on it, often without much of a style guide (or a non enforced one)

5. Or one or more people having no idea what they're doing, getting help from other people who have no idea what they're doing, and using code from donkeys years ago also by people who may or may not have known what they were doing that sort of fixes the issue if you hammer at it a bit.

There's often a huge jump between 'what the average tutorial teaches you' and the source for a major project/commercial product, and for some guy going from say, learning basic PHP to reading the Magento source code, it can just feel completely overwhelming.

Relatedly, the whole jump from 'intermediate' to 'expert' is probably one of the hardest parts too. As people said before, there are loads of tutorials for absolute beginners, a fair few for experts, and a lot less for people in between.
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That’s been one of my red flags too, the lack of significant progress on fundamental parts of the game, such as the flight model and even just the combat AI. Nevermind the parts that will require real groundbreaking work, such as the game-wide economy, AI, and shipmate AI. Nevermind the balancing work. That they’re even thinking about how ice cubes are modeled really seems to indicate that work is expanding to fill the time.
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The effects we've observed so far of the wide-spread social media with regards to our social and political systems seems akin to a 5-yr old walking in on his parents having sex; old enough to be traumatized, but not old enough to successfully deal with it.

Jury's still out on the long-term consequences of this exposure. Suffice to say, it doesn't look particularly healthy.
Instead of inventing bitcoin because evil banks maybe people should do some consumer rights stuff? I have become painfully aware that using an ATM in America costs money... Whose idea was that anyway. Why is Mastercard making billions? A percentage based fee instead of a flat fee. As if it matters if you use your CC to buy a carton of milk or a car.

Hocus pocus Capitol Hillus make usury illegal spell. I really don't want to use cash anymore.
Ray Kurzweil says anyone who looks critically at the expanding hegemony of the digital is a benighted fool?
CTF is just a specially compressed format and specification of embedding the source code into the binary; it's a complement to DWARF format, not the format itself. The documentation you cite even says it's similar, meaning that it's not DWARF.
Now just wait until you have a social credit score system, like China is rolling out!
There is no debt, though. You can't charge people extra for not showing up at a flight. A non-flying passenger demonstrably makes a resource available: they can sell the seat to someone else. Even if they don't, it's less weight: less fuel burned.

The idea that the passenger should have paid more to get off at that intermediate airport is purely a fabricated entitlement.

If they underlying hypothesis behind this entitlement is that "all people should pay the same for the same flight", it is pure hypocrisy, because the airline industry is responsible for, and profits from the whole situation that people in adjacent seats may have paid wildly different prices.

If they want people not to game the system, they have to remove the game from the system. But that game largely benefits them, so they don't. You can't have it both ways: create a game-like system, and not have people some people play it some of the time.
Recent search history is accessible in the UI when you click on the search box. Assuming someone could see "what FB looks like from your perspective", they'd be able to access the last dozen-or-so searches.
> The only real way to avoid sharing PII is to stay off the internet entirely

That doesn't always work either. A lot of PII shared completely offline finds its way to the internet, and third party hacks make it accessible.
"Catastrophic climate change" is no longer my primary concern here. I don't think we're going to avoid that. My big concern now is Peak Oil. If major producers like Saudi Arabia and Iran peak and start petering out, then demand will quickly outstrip supply, before widespread electric vehicles are viable in the market.

What happens to the world if the price of gasoline spikes 50-100% in a mere year or two?
Midges in Northern Europe still seem to be thriving.
I had the same experience. When I was learning 20+ years ago, I absorbed books. I would go cover to cover and get a vision of what was possible plus whatever details I retained. Then I could go back to the book for reference as needed when I went to do things.

The amount of information available now is overwhelming and, increasingly, not collected into paper books. As much has I love my e-reader for fiction, I don't absorb technical content on it as well.

However, I don't have a problem picking up new things now without a physical book. There are basic concepts of programming that don't have to be relearned for new languages and frameworks. I don't have to learn about loops again. I just need a quick example of the syntax in a new language.

Perhaps immersive experiences are best early on as you say.
They also launched and owned Discover up until 1993, so they even had in-house payment processing.
> we must rely on victims in order to bring justice and awareness

Victims aren't the only possible witnesses, reporting should be encouraged by anyone who observes (or learns indirectly of) inappropriate behavior.

> Not sure how YC would go about proactively screening away bad actors

The same way any organization screens away bad actors: required training courses, background checks, clear, written codes of conduct with careful monitoring.

> The research does show that offenders tend to be repeat actors.

Which strongly suggests that a single report should be enough to trigger an investigation.
What most of us forget is that we can manufacture gasoline and diesel fuel in carbon neutral ways. (From algae or other plant-based materials.) It's just currently much more expensive than pumping oil from the ground.

So, we don't need massive adoption of electric cars to solve the problem. We can also figure out how to manufacture conventional fuels in environmentally friendly ways.
It's fascinating to watch these patterns repeat themselves over and over. It's almost like we're all investing in an algorithm and everything's playing out according to its specifications.

- Sincerely, a guy who's been buying bitcoin since 2013
Seems a little dramatic to say Paula Deen’s life is “destroyed”.
People don't. Real name is often enough, with a bit of disambiguation from location. And people can do amazing things from the background of photos.
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I dunno. I don't have any sort of inside info (of course), but it just seems weird to me that the US designed aircraft in the late 1950s (XB-70 Valkyrie) that could cruise at Mach 3+, but now our stealth capabilities are so good (or drones so effective in replacing reconnaissance aircraft) that those high-speed capabilities are no longer required.

I can only offer speculation. The subject of mysterious military aircraft is of course a rumor mill and field of conspiracy theories like no other. :-)

https://nationalinterest.org/blog/the-buzz/rumors-secret-war...
You're putting words in my mouth, I was talking about showing interest, you're talking about "5 hours a night". I repeat the question: how old are your kids?
You're right, he's more publicly active than I'd thought.

Now to find a good video of him fighting it out over his 'multiple drafts' theory of mind.
> Though I'd argue at this point that the only way the United States would face a war that could be fought conventionally internally, it would be by a foe that's using the resource of the United States Army, as I don't believe there'd be another other viable option

That's true because of the income tax derived funds lavished on the US Army (and other branches.)

Were that to stop—which abandoning the income tax without a similar scale replacement would likely require—other options would rapidly open up.
Sure, but in the context of criminal law, public urination and murder would be in the same category, offenses that can get you arrested, no?

There is an unsavory political/propaganda purpose to putting catcalling and rape in the same category. The eliding of crimes of vastly differing degrees of severity is another warping of law enforcement and the judiciary which totalitarian states have used to oppress individuals. To do the constant work against this, we need to be careful about distinctions.
Well put. No matter where you stand, you're always at the beginning of the next x years and the end of the past x years at the same time. 'Technological development' didn't begin with computers and won't end there. Ethics should matter at every point.
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