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I don't buy it. What is Mr. Blair doing is an equivalent of screaming "FIRE" in a theater, and then "exposing" those stupid enough to run even if there is no fire.

It reminds me of two Czech cinematographers who made a "documentary" - Cesky sen - where the premise was that they made fake advertising for a new fake supermarket chain with things like large TVs for 5$ and so on, and then they "exposed the consumerism" of people "stupid enough to believe it" to come in droves for the mock opening.

I find this type of moralizing elitist and wrong. Garbage in, garbage out is true for humans too. If you deliberately feed people misinformation, then you have no right to complain (or feel morally superior) about bad decisions they make.
I think I read it in reference to university lecturers.
Tesla should be rename Autopilot to Auto-cruise Lane guidance.

However this would have ended more dramatically if the driver had a car from another brand (except a Waymo, in which case he wouldn't be at the driver's seat)
The grandparent comment is still correct though.
You don't pay - what do you expect?

Use Threema, Signal or Telegram; likely a more sustainable experience.
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> Is this a joke? The world since WW2 is the most peaceful it has ever been in human history.

Not a joke, if you care to look outside the West.
Your experience does not the reality maketh. Statiscally, immigration fraud through this route is uncommon.
Talk about "Open Kimono Negotiations"! (And yes, I know that China != Japan)
This seems similar to .Net Code Contracts. Although I've never used either so couldn't say for sure.
With respect to Uluru it's also worth mentioning that the Aboriginal people consider it to be sacred and don't particularly appreciate many of the tourists who elect to climb over it. From wikipedia

"The local Aṉangu do not climb Uluru because of its great spiritual significance. They request that visitors do not climb the rock, partly due to the path crossing a sacred traditional Dreamtime track, and also due to a sense of responsibility for the safety of visitors. The visitors guide says 'the climb is not prohibited, but we prefer that, as a guest on Aṉangu land, you will choose to respect our law and culture by not climbing'"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uluru
Let's not forget how those trustful Debian maintainers packaged openssl 0.9.8...
title: "Where is your distributed ledger technology now?"

Just being rational and before reading the article, you can deduct there is some kind of bias.

"Any claim made for blockchain could be made for databases"

We can deduct here that author has no deep understanding of the technology.

"that's something we can confidently tell you for nothing: no, it isn't"

Author is dismissive and angry (didn't adopt early?)
can I import a cloudformation template and get an auto-generated visualization?
> But that doesn't mean we shouldn't take defensive measure.

It just means that defensive measures will not be successful.
Yes, it is. But to be fair to the DLT people, distributed ledgers could be useful without proof of work. They simply need a different, domain-specific consensus mechanism.

Git is basically a distributed ledger without the proof of work inefficiency.
Wow... Top of HN - just disgusting. And whatever I say will be censored anyway just because I don't make new accounts. Dang, you should be ashamed of yourself. You're totally political, but just hiding behind the so-called site policy.
Are you sure it runs on servers? I thought it runs in the cloud
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I don't know about you but I hated it. Takes ages to open up and is buggy. I have a S8 so you can't say that hardware is a problem. Just low quality Android app.

I still use it because has good prices when calling abroad.
Zoom is bad. It hangs frequently for me... it's so frustrating.
Additionally, packages from the Debian repos always install reliably, which is much more than can be said for the likes of Ruby packages.
But in terms of the appropriateness of calling the feature “autopilot,” it seems that Tesla’s feature is as deserving of the name as an airplane’s autopilot (the driver/pilot still has to remain alert and focused on what’s happening).
Competitive intelligence has been integral part of big companies for decades.
I see you have dealt with some of them recently :D

I mean to be honest, it is a great thing for me. As my specialty is to cleanup and replace that kind of systems, ala 18f/USDS. I have an easy job finding for my whole life.

But hell it makes it hard to talk with the "vocal" people out there.
Would this apply if the reporter had destroyed the data prior to the government request? What about in the case where such a destruction were a condition set by the terrorist in order to proceed with the interview?
He writes stuff that is so over the top that it's obvious satire. Like The Onion article about Congress demanding a retracting stadium style roof. If you fall for an Onion article, you have noone to blame but your own gullibility and ignorance.

https://politics.theonion.com/congress-threatens-to-leave-d-...

From their About Us page:

"DISCLAIMER: America’s Last Line of Defense is a satirical publication that uses the imagination of liberals to expose the extreme bigotry and hate and subsequent blind gullibility that festers in right-wing nutjobs. We present fiction as fact and our sources don’t actually exist. Names that represent actual people and places are purely coincidental and all images should be considered altered and do not in any way depict reality.

In other words, if you believe this crap you’re a real dumbass."
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18534392

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18549785
Why? Amazon auctions never really took off. He got in the news ( see this post). He got what he wanted.

A lot of arbitrage/sales still happens on eBay, it's not hard when the sellers are looking at #1 to earn money on #2
It’s paywalled, so I can’t see what what kind of messages they were, e.g. sms, whatsapp etc. Even though it seems stupid for someone in his position to send ordinary texts, he may not know that. Think of trump using his own phone to tweet.
Or they used any of a number of more traditional methods to surveil him. Hidden cameras, spies, etc
So what you’re implying is that Tesla uses the misguided notion that many people have about the capabilities of an airplane autopilot to promote a feature that doesn’t behave as people expect?
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There's been a whole bunch of fake news and it all started way before 2016. I'd consider the whole premise of the Iraq War to be fake news, for example. The only reason they don't start there is that the same media now talking about fake news, helped to propagate them years earlier.

What made their fake news worse, is that it was propagated by supposedly trustworthy sources, in a serious tone. This guy seems like such a clown that you'd only "believe" him, if you're already predisposed to think these things anyway.
No, that's implementation defined behaviour.
The Cooley-Tukey algorithm is nicely understood as a "4 step FFT". Both the decimation in time and decimation in frequency algorithms, and the "bit reversals" they use, are really just special cases of the more general (and simpler) thing.

Say you have an array of size N, where N = P*Q. You can treat your 1D array as a 2D array in row major form. Then the 4 steps are:

do vertical FFTs of the columns
"twiddle" the data
do horizontal FFTs of the rows
transpose the array

The twiddle step is really just multiplying each element in the array by a complex number. See:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooley%E2%80%93Tukey_FFT_algorithm#General_factorizations

This breaks the N-size larger FFT into smaller P and Q sized FFTs. If P or Q is factorable, then you can recursively apply the algorithm to perform each of the smaller FFTs. Eventually, you'll reach a base case where you need a different algorithm. For instance, if you get to a factor of 2 or 3, you'll just do the simple DFT. If you get a large prime, there are other approaches.

If N is a power of 2, then you can always choose one of P or Q to be 2. These are the decimation in time or decimation in frequency algorithms that most people are taught. I think restricting it to this special case, and jumbling it all up with the "butterfly" diagrams commonly shown really obscures an elegant and easily understood algorithm. If you save all the transposes, and the transposes in the recursions until the end, it ends up being the bit (or digit) reversal you're familiar with. The reason bit reversal seems magical is because it hides the fact that it was really just a bunch of transposes.
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I'm sure much of the software running on the printer is older than I am, no matter how new the printer itself is.
Best line in the post:

Software must be made understandable. The essence of FOSS for me can be reduced to one fundamental computing right:
the right to refuse to run, on my machines, code that I do not have the option to understand. That is it.
If (there are trackers for supply chains already)
then { blockchain is surely better because it is immutable and can have multiple validators }

and there are trackers for supply chain already run on centralized databases that can be tampered.
I used to notice something similar about Japanese cars and trunk space when renting: It seemed that for a given external size, a Japanese car would always have considerably more trunk space than an US car.

Recently, I started including carplay as a must have feature when renting, and since Toyotas are lagging in that respect, I started looking at US cars again, and I must say that the Chevy Cruze has about as big a trunk for its size as anything I've seen.
"Man, if only we worked for a large software conglomerate... then we wouldn't have to use Cisco phones or communicate through Excel documents!"
"I'll give you a hint: it doesn't"

It surprises me how much anger and claims of authority people that don't like blockchain show. Just be modest and open to potential uses of a technology. Are you a coder? Have you ever used Javascript? If yes then it's creator is a big proponent of blockchains. Take a moment to think about this. Numerous other examples too.
Cryptocurrency and proof of work/stake and automated conteacts make no sense in the context of the supply chain.

A distributed database ("ledger") might make sense in the context of supply chains.

The competing technology is to have a central clearinghouse for the relevant data. Or to just not track the data at all.
Stupid things, n. — things that are not necessarily stupid but I do not agree with them.
Researchers have significantly increased the scope of the Rowhammer threat
What do you think is easier: making several companies run on their servers a federated databases or using a worldwide publicly available one?
And then the discussion ends as they discover Windows just shat all over itself as it tends to do, and Node.js has nothing to do with it.
An aircraft's autopilot does not absolve the pilot of keeping an eye on the instruments, the flight situation, the windows (if applicable). He has to be ready at any moment to disengage the autopilot or take the controls when the autopilot self-disengages.

The only thing an autopilot, both the tesla's and the airplane's, is good for is reducing the cognitive load of the operator.
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This sounds like a feature.
All this stolen tech and trade war stuff is going to look quaint when the US and China engage in full scale military conflict 10 years from now.
I will repeat myself, but IMHO intent matters. Satire is fine if the goal is to expose a problem in a playful way or to take a certain argument to an extreme to expose hypocrisy.

Where it doesn't work is to show how people are stupid, while feeding them wrong (but plausible from their POV) information. Yes, people are sometimes stupid, but if you want to showcase that, I think there is plenty of material to work with, you don't have to make things up.

It's like when police makes up a crime by entraping somebody, who wouldn't do the crime otherwise. It is not helping society in any positive way.
Garbage in, garbage out.
Your totally excusing the lack of critical thinking on the person who's been fed garbage.
Npm should delete the top useless libraries and force the package maintainers to rewrite the code to be less dependant on them.

Or they should do what they appear to be incapable of which is to provide certification and verification of certain packages. If people really need a lib for inarray then npm should maintain and certify it.

It should not be difficult for npm to raise the funds needed to do that.
Good list, I’d add

- private networks, using bastion hosts to access when needed.

- very robust and regularly tested backups in case someone screws up the data.

- hardware tokens to access and authenticate any critical parts.
Or the 8-bit Z80-based 1980s computer that was huge outside of the US (when the US was mainly Commodore 64 focused) (1) and of Google Doodle fame (2)

1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZX_Spectrum

2 - https://www.google.com/doodles/st-georges-day-the-30th-anniv...
> The more I read about the js ecosystem, the more it seems the inmates are running the asylum

the issue is NPM. NPM is a bad package manager. A package manager that allows duplicates version of the same dependency is broken to begin with. People complain that fetching react-native results in hundreds of packages installed on their computers. How many freaking dupes? off course nobody is going to audit all that crap. Conflicts should be resolved upstream, which would lead to more stable packages to begin with.

NPM was developed by people who were clueless about package management and now are profiting directly from that shit-show, and even Node.js creator went on recording saying tying it to NPM was a mistake.
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A bit more must still be done. The browser-plugin must find the fields to fill with the data. It must also allow adding new entrys or changing existing entrys. Actually finding the correct username-field seems to be slightly more complex on a bad designed page, because it has no special type like the password-field.

Oh, do we know whether it's really just a simple passwordmanager, and not also some autofill-manager, session-restorer, or other security/comfort-snakeoil?
Asians have higher IQ than white people.

Now with infrastructure in place, no wonder, they'll make huge progress in AI and genome editing.

Any team at brain sports without huge proportion of Asian genetics is bound to lose (due to lesser IQ) as evident from this competition.
You do make a valid point - however, there are ways to ameliorate (or even eliminate) this risk introduced into the blockchain, by relying on external verification.

One way would be to have each "verified" transaction to be associated with an individual or entity who is providing the "verification", with legally enforceable dire penalties for "submitting" a transaction that is later found to be fraudulent.

So, if a transaction is found to be fraudulent, it can be traced back down to the first transaction in which a fraudulent transaction was submitted as "verified".
We have a simple system we use to determine the value of many things. Money. Whichever applicants are bringing in the highest salary should be picked. It’s kind of crazy that a genius with specialized skills is in the same process as the warm bodies the outsourcing firms are dumping in there.

Salaries should be paid a year in advance to the government, who then passes it to the workers, to ensure the high salary is real. Then, so the workers aren’t locked, slavelike, into a particular company, they should have the option to stay in the country for at least the amount of time they were working, looking for a new job. Starting with a year minimum. And their visa stays with them, not the company, subject to minimum salary requirements.
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A news article mis-representing a satirical[1] publication as "fake news". Expected better from BBC than going full meta-circular non-ironic, not-true news.

Particularly damning is the "The birth of the term" infobox, where authors complain >The term's meaning becomes fuzzy - it's also used to criticise opinion, spin and propaganda - while further adding to the fuzziness of term "fake news" by mis-using it for satirical website.

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[1] https://realorsatire.com/thelastlineofdefense-org/ and other.
Main problem for me is a headache the next morning. I once read this is caused by water shortage in the brain (caused by the alcohol).

Drinking water is a solution, but normally that goes into the stomach, going to the brain only indirectly. So in 'those cases' I go to bed with a little water that I keep moving round a little in my mouth for a long as am able to (because very soon I fall asleep). If I wake up in the night I do the same again. Next morning again.

I read this 'trick' a long time ago in a book about Indians drinking 'fire water'.

In general this helps al least for keeping away the headache (not the general slow feeling, not the waking up more often, etc).
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Might be an unpopular opinion, but I think H1B should slowly move to something like an EB1, where candidates can file a self-petition (but without immigration intent, and apply for a regular GC after a few years if they really want to immigrate). They can set some criteria for testing 'high skills'.

This way, a candidate can choose a company based on their interest and skill set match, rather than filtering by whether a company sponsors a H1B.

Sure, even EB1 is being gamed, but at the very least this is a fair chance to candidates.

- Eliminating the not-so-random 'lottery'

- Avoiding the body shops or the so-called fake consulting companies where students go for their OPT

- Eliminate the need to succumb to the whims of employers just to get a visa sponsorship

- Companies, big or small, need not worry about not hiring skillful employees, just because 'it is a looong and random process'

- Not entirely based on higher salaries. Sure, a high salary is a pseudo metric to indicate high skill, but what about early stage startups? This eliminates that unfair advantage
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why does The Onion not count as fake news?
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Python's stdlib module is coded in a rather messy way, but seems like it's actually one of the better implementations of tar-ish formats.
Well, even if you trust the source, you still need to be able to access the transaction records.

You don't really need a distributed ledger for that,a centralised database run by an industry clearinghouse could serve the purpose just fine.

But maybe there are cases where a distributed ledger is easier or cheaper to establish than such a clearinghouse.
I understand. I moved abroad instead of dealing with the consequences of unbridled capitalism and record inequality. Ireland has plenty of problems but on the whole you could do a lot worse. Assuming the rule of law stays intact(ish) it should do better than most places w.r.t. climate change. My homeland is burning up, sadly.

I do work remote. Will be about 12 minute's drive from Tullamore, which is 53 minute train ride from Dublin. Hospital and even a greenway for cycling not too far. The long term plan is to structure life to be low overhead and be able to work for ourselves, do some permaculture as well.

Considered other countries but Ireland has been pretty good to us (crap bike infra notwithstanding) and, well, life is a long and winding road. I'd never get a house cash an hour from the job centers of my former home (Northern California).
Sounds like the answer is giving the police a special button that can take control of the car and pull it over automatically
Or the Mexican-American war, of the incident in the Golf of Tonkin that was fake and lead to the Vietnam war... Fake news was acceptable as long as it came from the government
or mainstream media itself... it only became a problem when anybody could profit from it by shoving Google ads on the side...
People derive entertainment value from it. same reason why tabloids sell.
Fully agree, but that is not how it is positioned by Tesla, which I think creates most of the problem.
It was 10 years ago...

For people interested:
https://www.isotoma.com/blog/2008/05/14/debians-openssl-disa...
Highest IQ is found in Central Asia.

The regions closer to Central Asia have higher IQ.

This is the population which managed to move to North America and became what we call "Native Americans" well before Europeans.

Again, this is due to higher IQ because of which they managed to surive in such a harsh migration.

Some of them even moved towards South East where Chinese/Koreans/Japanese live.

No wonder Asians are doing good at AI which obviously demonstrates their high IQ.

Even when most of the Universities are descrimianting against Asians in the US.

US has not managed to contain Chinese Communist Party. They've failed to assassinate any leader in China. What does it say?

IQ explains all of this.

At some point in time, Italians were at war with Central Asians, so they managed to inherit high IQ from central Asia. This explains the architectural achievements of Italy.
It's not the dependencies that cause me concern. It's the dependencies of the dependencies.
Cool. Any idea what products will be available in Jakarta region? Will App Engine be available?
This goverment suffers from a lack of imagination regarding rural Ireland. You'd think all they care about is cars and cows if you asked FG. Giving folks a bigger motorway to congest with two hour commutes won't save it. Yet I know plenty of Dubs who feel trapped renting kips and are open to other lifestyles.
What is slacklining? and Changa?
This already exists - the O-1 visa. EB1 is a green card type, you are confusing visas with residency permits here.
I have no idea what you’re saying, sorry.
There was a bank in Russia that hired a dude better known under a moniker "Pchela" to enforce use of pgp, and infosec in general.

He devised a plan under which staff is trained, tested, and punished for incompliance.

Once the whole of banks ~1200 people staff got certified, they set a deadline for enforcement after which anybody caught will be fired on spot.

The day after the deadline they spotted ~60 people in the bank sending plaintext, or replying to an unsigned email. And among them, one director level employee.

They had to fire them all, including a directress who went on trying to suing them for years.
Is anyone interested in co-operation ?
So many people here seem to be missing the point by assigning blame to npm or node or whatever specifically.

This situation could happen with packages in any language.