skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem isn't about how difficult it may be to open an account. The problem is that banks become gatekeepers for the ability to exchange legal tender for goods and services.

I could write an entire essay on the problems this causes if cashless business becomes wideapread. But a few highlights include:

* A positive feedback loop will form due to less cash being accepted => less cash circulating => less reason for businesses to accept cash

* Banks able to de-platform individuals and lock them out from access to life necessities

* Governments likewise able to de-platform individuals as a neat new way to oppress dissidents and undesirables

* The telco backbone of a nation becomes a one stop shop for a decapitating attack. Telco is also one of the first utilities to fail during natural disasters

* Impossible to purchase goods/services without it being logged, surveilled, and used to manipulate you with individualised advertising

* Once cash circulation drops below a critical point, opening or operating a business will not be possible without accepting card payments. That's your plumber, the kid who walks your dog, anyone offering any goods/services. Banks are now in control of who can receive money in addition to who can spend it.

* Ditto for p2p transactions

Anything that threatens the universal acceptability of legal tender should be viewed as a national security threat.
These kind of sentiments really scare and provokes me. Telling anyone that they shouldn't alleviate kids fever and/or pain is absolutely revolting to me.
And most open source projects run a fairly transparent dev process - almost by necessity. Doing something like that as an individual dev might be possible, but hard and likely impossible to do structurally (no guarantee to get it in, no guarantee for the project to be picked next year(s), no guarantee for nobody else to find it first, and upon discovery, risk that your scam becomes apparent).

But as a team, the only way to really pull this off involves inserting such vulnerabilities intentionally and out of sight, which means a closed dev process. Even if you orchestrate via some other medium - assuming you're using a VCS, the vulnerability will be publicly traceable to a core contributor - and if you do that regularly, you'll at the become known as a project that's a security nightmare; that might kill the project in the long run. And you might even raise suspicions purely base on the frequency and nature of vulnerabilities.

All in all: abusing this sounds like a fairly risky fraud.
That not what "traditional" means. Traditional dance or traditional costumes don't become modern no matter how "effective" they are.

"Traditional" simply means TCM hasn't changed much over the years.
I'm not OP, but from my point of view, the United States has been one of the most likely nations in the world to use its weaponry on others (by my count, it's currently involved in 7 military operations [1]), and has been involved in dozens more over the last few decades. It has formulated dubious reasons, and in some cases outright fabrications, in order to justify some of these military actions, and in doing so, has destroyed countless lives, a number of those innocent ones. That's not ethical.

The reality of the world is that yes, there are actors out there who will do others harm if they can, and one of the duties of a nation is to protect its citizens. I am not opposed to a true defense force, to protect against invasion. But once that military power is projected outwards in order to fulfill political and economic goals unrelated to national defense, then a line has been crossed and that behaviour can hardly be considered ethical any more.

I should note that I don't consider my nation, Australia, to be ethical on these matters either based on past behaviours (sometimes being involved in these very same conflicts).

[1] Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Somalia, Libya, Niger, Yemen
I believe only in behavioural "biometrics" which combines knowledge and inference together with zero knowledge proof to locally authenticate users on their personal and probably secure devices. Any other attempts in using biometrics are futile.
Because of the convenience, and because Apple and Google have managed to convince users that it is safe enough for them.

Most people only encounter biometrics on their smartphone, where it prevents unwanted access by others, and acts as a master-password. Most people feel that they are never going to be the target of anyone capable of bypassing the biometric security of their device, and are more then happy to make their fingerprint or face the key to their castle.

They also don't really have any alternative. Entering passwords is a chore on those devices, and the PIN or swipe pattern is way too easy to observe by a would-be adversary (which often includes family members or others near to the owner who want to explore (saucy) photos taken and texts sent).
There is a whole chain of people involved before software gets designed, or built, or deployed. If you’re making software for healthcare institutions then that should include people with medical expertise.
Not a surprise. Overbilling Medicare is a huge Nono.

Having a nice audit trail of who gave that Tylenol and when makes life a lot easier.
The USA has a long history of using Russia as the bogyman for its own internal/national agenda. A good question to always ask is: "cui bono".

Regarding the many allegations that have been made against Russia over the years, there is a good chance that many of those have been falsified or even been made up. Particularly noteworthy is when these allegations against Russia were starting to excessively grow in number and severity. It was when Russia started to actively/openly oppose and counter the USA's plans in the Middle East, particularly in Syria. It was around the same time when American financial "advisers" and "businessmen", who have been at least instrumental in the "privatization" of Russia's state properties after the collapse of the USSR, were losing their influence (and profits) in Russia. This happened (in part) because many Russian oligarchs were given a choice by the Russian state (/Putin) to either cut their ties with their American associates and be left mostly untouched, or face persecution. Not long after this, the allegations against Russia started to snowball, with several of these American "businessmen" apparently playing key roles in them (but mostly hidden from public view).

Of course, none of that proves or disproved any of the allegations made against Russia. But the timing of it all remains a peculiar coincidence at best. In the absence of hard and verifiable evidence regarding most of the allegations, it is possible that the majority of these allegations are nothing but bogyman stories, serving only the foul play withing US politics itself. I do not claim that it is, just that it is very well possible.
Why do you not help your kids when they are in pain?! This is truly shocking to me, it is definitely a cruel and inhumane sentiment.
High-fidelity adiabatic quantum computation using the intrinsic Hamiltonian of a spin system: Application to the experimental factorization of 291311

https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.08061
+1

It's a good initiative and needs a better selection / qualification process
Access to healthcare doesn't really explain the US, at least according to the same people talking about Japan and Spain:

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2017/09/some-parts-of-the-us-...

If you consider that Medicaid tends to be quite focused on outcomes (spending money where it's effective) and covers ~1/4 of the country, this isn't surprising.

Better diets and less drug use should both be rather cheap to impact at a policy level. I think much of the problem is that it's popular in the US to oppose the government having policies that would improve the quality of life of poor people.
When writing about Elon negatively start the core argument in the first line. Go straight to the core of the argument instead of wining about elon fan's e.t.c. The reason is simple, the people who write negatively about Elon have accomplished very little compared to Elon and so the reader will give as little time to judge your argument and if you waste your first few lines with BS then there is no chance of getting people to read the entire article.
Android is being ported to work on Fuchsia as well, just like it happened with ChromeOS.

https://android-review.googlesource.com/q/fuchsia
Personally, I'd call this writing "Safer and More Secure Drivers in High-Level Languages", because there are still unsafe operations going on (for DMA, etc.): https://github.com/ixy-languages/ixy.swift/search?q=Unsafe

While it's great that you get improved safety (and often nicer and easier to reason about code) by using something other than C, you can still have memory safety issues from cavalier or incorrect usage of unsafe APIs, since they undermine the guarantees the language provides with regards to correctness.

Also, unrelated: does anyone actually have the slides (you know, the presentation file with text in it, rather than the mp4 that CCC is offering me) for this presentation? It's really annoying to scrub through a video to find stuff on a slow internet connection :(
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I don’t see your issue with PHP. It’s a fairly good language to work with still.

The fact that it’s often used by morons doesn’t make the language terrible (though most morons are now migrating to node.js).
Can you please stop posting in the flamewar style, regardless of how wrong someone else is?

On HN the idea is: if you have a substantive point to make, make it thoughtfully; if you don't, please don't comment until you do.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Sometimes there are fixed arrays. E.g. an MD5 hash is 16 bytes, classic Mac OS file/creator types were 4 bytes, and so on.
In the 80s and 90s, walls everywhere in France were covered with posters advertising for minitel services (mostly sex/porn related, so called "minitel rose"). It was a really big industry...

3611 was the yellow pages, free for the first few minutes.

the numbers 3614, 3615 (up to 3619 IIRC) were actually defining the price. All 3615 servers cost the same; 3614 was cheaper, and 3616 more expensive. Some services were accessible through several prices, for instance 3614 AIRFRANCE and 3615 AIRFRANCE: you dialed the 3614 first, and if there was no line available, tried the more expensive (but otherwise identical) 3615...
I do that too: tracking time I spend at work. Peter Drucker recommends to keep a log for a while and then to review how you’ve spent your time.

Still, looking at this blog, it kind of feels weird, in the sense that through this approach we’re creating machines rather than humans. Perfect performance as life goal seems creepy
I was at a truck stop in Wyoming the other day. "Our internet is down." Breakfast was cash only. Scaling your truck was cash only. I see the word "satellite" on a lot of pumps, but my ignorant assumption is that buying fuel is still dependent on a working internet. Or cash.

I didn't fuel there, so I don't know if fueling was affected. But I have been to other truck stops where "our system is down" and I couldn't fuel (I don't carry that much cash, but some do). I had to call my company to get fueling authorized elsewhere.

There are other types of walking-around non-cash payment systems besides credit/debit cards. If you want to go nosing around:

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=trucking+fuel+card&t=lm&ia=web

Of those, my employer uses Comdata for fueling and other expenses: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comdata

Paying for "lumpers" (a third party loading/unloading service) is done (in our company) with a Comcheck, an actual paper check, that requires using the truck's communication terminal and making a phone call to get authorization. https://duckduckgo.com/?q=comcheck+comdata&t=lm&ia=web
LOL, I omitted the other situation, the one you describe of farms workers in rural areas, thinking nobody here would care and look what happened.
My apologies, where I come from, the UK, Kinder Egg is colloquially used in place of Kinder Surprise. It wasn't until a week ago, after decades of only knowing one type of Kinder Egg, that I came across Kinder Joy.
I've just seen on the Kinder Surprise Wikipedia page.. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinder_Surprise the very first line "Kinder Surprise, also known as Kinder Egg"
Oh sorry, I hadn't read the whole document. Thanks for the link, now I'll finish reading it!
It still happens in UK (some small businesses) but AFAIK [1] it's no longer legal.

It's a massive problem for businesses with lots of small transactions, if you're selling a £2 coffee and the CC processor charges 30p + 5% per transaction. Previously nearly no-one would pay the extra, now you have to cover it; so you make the coffee £2.40 ... but the large retailer with a blanket 3% transaction cost (or whatever) can undercut you by quite a lot.

https://www.theguardian.com/money/2018/jun/17/credit-debit-c...
It boggles me that federal law doesn't already prohibit this. What's the point of designating something as legal tender if businesses can refuse to allow a customer to use it?
I believe Software are selected based on the usage. So if it is most used editor, they should sponsor it irrespective of the OS.
AWS Amplify+React

It's fast, serverless and for front-end devs.
> Our drivers in Rust, C#, go, and Swift are completely finished, tuned for performance, evaluated, and benchmarked. And all of them except for Swift are about 80-90% as fast as our user space C driver and 6-10 times faster than the kernel C driver.

Interesting. What is the reason for higher performance of user space C driver (and the other user space drivers for that matter) when compared to the kernel C driver? Will this hold for all driver types or is this a rather uncommon property of this particular kind of driver?
I've been using Habitica + Anki for a while now and I'm quiet sure that this is by far the best of what I picked up this year.

https://habitica.com/
https://apps.ankiweb.net/
> But outside of a short list of DLLs that are used by everything, files are mostly specific to a single program, and 90% of my programs are trivial to update by virtue of the fact that they aren't running.

Are we talking about the same thing? We're talking about Windows updates, not Chrome updates or something. Windows doesn't force you to reboot when programs update themselves. It forces you to reboot when it updates itself. Which generally involves updating system DLLs that are used all over the place.
Domaining, .Com only. Lots of ways and strategies, spend time learning before investing.
I'm Spanish and I thought it would be clear in context. Try to read my comment as an answer to the previous one.
Easier is to join a company which pays for development.
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This algorithm doesn't scale to crypto levels.
It could/should be argued that it already has a place in the Physiological level. It's still human survival, just extended (life expectancy) and improved upon (physiological QOL)
> A main driver of performance for network drivers is sending/receiving packets in batches from/to the NIC. Ixy can already achieve a high performance with relatively low batch sizes of 32-64 because it is a full user space driver. Other user space packet processing frameworks like netmap that rely on a kernel driver need larger batch sizes of 512 and above to amortize the larger overhead of communicating with the driver in the kernel.
I would really like to know the answer to the correlations question. It's essential for doing some of the things we do at our company.

Also, are we able to adjust the distribution of each variable?

EDIT: I think you can actually manually create correlations on sheet so it should be fine
Look, everyone is different and so is his/her path.

While we have some ideals, e.g. as portrayed by pop-culture, it does not mean that you would even enjoy living this ideal. Your life will be what you desire it to be, if you are able to make your own decisions.

As someone that flip-flopped between solitary and social phases in his life (and not only marginally), my only advice would be: whatever you feel like, just try to enjoy it the best you can.

Life is incredibly short and it is all yours and you will be the ultimate judge.

Regarding friendships: Especially at your age, friendships can be very intense and meaningful, and yet so frail and meaningless in retrospect. Again, all that matters is how you perceive and enjoy it, and that's the point: deep down, everyone just wants to enjoy themselves. Try to enjoy yourself, and while doing that, don't hesitate to bond with people that support this feeling and ideally have similar interests. And take an open look at what they offer on alternative views and interests.

And don't sweat it, if most bonds are very shallow and superficial, these will always be the majority (through all your life), and that's OK. And things might change incredibly fast anyway, especially in high school.
Stripe is 2.9% plus 30 cents, which I assume is a bad deal for the vendor if I'm buying a $0.60 bar of chocolate.
if a party was going to go to the trouble of getting access to your phone geo data, couldn’t they just as easily put a tail on you?
Often those kinds of diagrams you mention are hand made with for example Inkscape.
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They are likely to remove this in the next C standard (or may have already), because a declaration with a static size is “compatible” with a declaration with no static size, and thus you can get unsoundness.

So your compiler should accept (though the semantics of static suggest this program would be wrong):

void foo(int a[static 3]);
void foo(int a[]);

According to the spec, this is fine, but when you come to define the function foo, should it respect the ‘static’ annotation? The spec doesn’t say, and doing static analysis of subsumption for the expressions after ‘static’ is much more complex to keep sound than C prefers in its specification.
Please don't try to infer the definition, the point of definitions is that there is one precise meaning instead of many interpretations.
Should government have a cashless infrastructure to avoid there being a base cost to all transactions paid to private (non-domestic) businesses?

The actual cost of a credit card transaction must be 1/1000th of what our business is charged.

As soon as CC charges became hidden Visa/MasterCard decided to say "screw you" to society and double their "tax". They need cutting out of retail.
Similar stories have been shown on HN before as well, and I find them fascinating because I just cannot imagine using the methods presented myself (e.g. any kind of managing/planning/checking large parts of one's life with a notebook of some kind). However this obviously does work for other people, to the point I sometimes have the impression there's two kinds of people: those who can use a system like this, and those who don't (and this doesn't have a fixed correlation on person's 'output'). I do get stuff done and know what you mean with focussed work etc, and I do have mental equivalents of todo-lists and habit-tracking and whatnot but if I write them down it just doesn't work and/or I loose interest. Especially todo-lists like you have with set items per day are a complete disaster. Both because I shift things around on the go in whatever way I feel like and because I often have new ideas which have to go on the list leading to more shifting, eventually making the process feel like a waste of time because 'manage todo-list' becomes a major entry on the todo-list.
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Most places are not running the latest version of Windows. And even if their SOE is Windows 10 I guarantee you that their VDI isn't. And since Putty doesn't need an installer it's easy for users to install themselves even when the machines are locked down.

So given that pretty much every government/company probably has some incidental security exposure to Putty it is a smart investment to make sure it's bug free.
In a way, that's true of the US too; and various (perhaps most?) european systems have most care provided privately - with whatever regulations apply.

The framing of "privatized" vs. government health care is, IMNSHO a holdover from the cold war when everything needed to be as ideologically distinct from USSR as possible. Now, it's just corrosive. This isn't a dichotomy; it's not even really a gradual scale - it's typically a whole host of choices of how to set up those regulations. Presuming in advance that privatization is a good (or bad) thing simply leads to worse outcomes.
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A problem with so many local customizations becomes apparent when it’s upgrade time. You must do several X the testing and there’s a higher risk of something breaking.
GCC has an extension __attribute__((nonnull)) which is probably better if you want to ensure that NULL is not passed as a function parameter. https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Common-Function-Attribute... According to this document it also allows the compiler to make extra optimizations: http://rachid.koucha.free.fr/tech_corner/nonnull_gcc_attribu...
> Anything that threatens the universal acceptability of legal tender should be viewed as a national security threat.

I agree, but it depends on your point of view, I guess. Cash will itself probably be portrayed as a "threat." After all, only drug dealers and people too lazy to lift themselves up to bankable condition need cash. Right?

No-cash is an example of a middleman, or system of middlemen, locking up something for themselves that was once "free."

Water, especially bottled water, can be an example. Gentically modified seeds that produce sterile plants, in addition to some other benefit (Roundup-Ready) is another.
US healthcare is absolutely not regulated on the same level as Swiss or Singaporean healthcare.
Do you store all values into a spreadsheet?
You have it backwards.

It isn't about promoting open source products. It's about defending against open source products that are already being used. Likely heavily used within the EU institution itself.
I very well know how much PHP is used.

However the possibilities and outcomes a learning developper has by choosing PHP are very well enclosed to the few things PHP gives instead of the myriads of things other tools offer. I won't even talk about the semantic.

On the other hand letting the dev learn JS or Python or even C++ in a pre-thought way will let much more different technologies and "tech-area" to their grasp instead of getting enclosed in the almighty web jobs.

You'll start hating PHP when you'll get friends who loose all interest in programming by choosing to earn their life satisfied of themselves for the few buks they earned.

I'm not satisfied of what PHP gives, neither what I can do with it.

Why would I learn PHP if I know Python and C & JS ? I don't see any except for the one you told me which is that it is used by plenty of software and that it is very popular. However, every main tech that is released today is released with a Python API or JS API.

So tell me, Why the hell would you tell somebody to enclose himself in this tool other than earning a few easy buks or working for another web company ?

So I can tell him to build some weird hook to use the main techs ? So I can tell him we did no investment on architecture other than money ?

I cannot think of PHP companies as something else than a no-innovation, no-research, no-interest & no change since 2000's.

Hell maybe upgrade the one framework used one more time that may do ?

Go Python you have access to Data science, web dev, all unix things and accessible, hell you can even try to make a little game with it.

Go JS, you also have access to myriad of stuff, I won't even have to say how much.

Now please tell me what I can do with PHP, I want to see newcomers read what options you have by learning PHP.

PLEASE.
would this be a good option for a consulting business, or services in IT ?