skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Maybe they simply don't want to pay IDA Pro licenses $3k a pop

What prevents three-letter agencies from using software without paying for it? Tendering a bid usually requires surrendering source code. One's odds of finding out about unauthorized use is slim. And even if you do, legal discovery can be blocked on national security grounds.
Help me understand what exactly, in broad strokes, a single-payer system adopted in the US in 2019 would do to correct those structural problems?

(I asked roughly the same question upthread a few minutes earlier, so if you answer there, I'll see that answer and consider it an answer to this question too. Thanks!)
Be honest with them, and MUCH more important: Be kind, when discussing this. Something along the lines of 'Hey, I realized that something seems to be off since a while, is there anything I can help or change, because I really want you to be happy and productive' works best for me.

Pretty much everyone wants to be recognized, happy and productive in their lives, and this usually extends in their jobs, so most likely, that person needs help, to recognize or solve the situation.

Sometimes, they just dread for whatever reason the task they have ahead of them, and need someone to talk to. Sometimes it is some time to solve a challenge in their live outside of work - then it might be your job to shield that person to some extent, while also making sure this does not take a toll on your remaining team. Sometimes it is a social problem in your team. Sometimes the assignments for that person dont match what they can and want to do. And of course, sometimes the team, the job, or the company is just no fit, and it is perfectly fine to help there as well.

But again, above all: When talking about this, when trying to help, keep in mind that you are the manager, which always implies a power imbalance, no matter what. Such can easily be perceived as a threat instead of help, and if it is perceived like that, you will make the situation just worse.
So be kind, listen, try to coach and help, even if your inner self is annoyed with this. It rarely helps to play the testosterone driven top-down approach, unless, of course, you tried the other ways before with no success.
Tesla said in October 2016 that cars with the current "HW2" generation hardware would be capable of FSD, and that they would be upgraded to that in mid-2017.

https://www.techrepublic.com/article/tesla-to-release-fully-...

If they don't have FSD by mid-2019, that's two years off that target. Deadlines slip, companies overpromise, this is a hard problem, all that jazz, but by early 2020, people who leased Teslas that they were told would have FSD are going to be deciding what their next move is. If part of the calculation is "FSD still ain't here yet, but Tesla is promising a free upgrade to HW4 which they say will really lay the foundation for FSD this time Elon pinky-swears," I would submit that it's gonna matter.
Not really, most of my knowledge is from the '90s and in Italian - when I was studying international relations and European institutions were in heavy flux. Policymakers back then floated all sorts of ideas, it was a very "creative" time in retrospect.

Since then, most of the attention has been on tribulations resulting from the common currency, 2008, and migrations, so there is a general unwillingness to rock more boats.
How our kubernetes journey saved us $1M dollars
Here in the UK, I believe that sexual health clinics keep a separate clinic-local file on you, which is never linked to your main file unless you consent. Any correspondence or samples that go out of the clinic are labelled only with your clinic ID, not your name.
Unlike the Scarecrow, we also use our brains!

We’ve made extraordinary progress, but, ultimately, we’re still training systems in extremely simplistic ways to solve (conceptually) simplistic tasks. Localizing objects (into a set of categories no less) is only a fraction of what your brain does when looking around. Moreover, we still struggle with this. One of the Tesla accidents was due to a segmentation error (two simimilary colored and textured objects were merged).
I love it, Its a shame I can't use it on all my projects but I love it, very very lovely paradigm I couldn't recommend it more. I use it with ngrx that is a redux pattern for Angular.
Google Drive Has a Serious Spam Problem, but Google Says a Fix Is Coming
I guess I could have expanded more in the original text but obviously didn't see the need for it, not putting in anything I considered a value judgement made me blind to others perhaps reading it as one.

however the reaction I got to what I considered a relatively simple observation has put me out of sorts.
Not sure what you mean by optimize, but MLB teams often play several games against each other in a row.

But that’s slightly different because it could be seen to change the dynamic form performance over a season to fewer best out of N events.
They've got LOIs for 76 aircraft @ $200M/plane from 5 airlines:

https://www.flightglobal.com/news/articles/analysis-jal-inve...

There's certainly both technical & market risk, because an LOI != cash in the bank. But that's why investors are willing to invest. If Boom delivers on its technical promises to spec, that $15.2B in revenue lined up before the first prototype flies.
Christmas often feels this way as well. The musical canon was was locked in with the childhood of baby boomers.
Assuming this to be the reply to my question:

I probably was a bit imprecise but what I want to know is if there is a way to apply this to data that are possibly in a superposition and overlapping meaning that you only see the sum of the events. For example if one wants to analyze a changing electric or magnetic field.

Nevertheless, the points you mentioned are something I did not think about at first, interesting once again.
They sold a couple to the navy who then said "Yeah we'll take 50"

I wonder if Boom could get a boost by convincing it that the Boom jet can be useful. Certainly not for troop transport, but maybe it can be used to move field commanders around quickly in times of crisis.
A jet like this, with a smaller capacity, could potentially serve more numerous lower-demand point-to-point routes like the 787 does, versus the hub and spoke served by 747s and A380s.

Assuming the 55 seat $5k+ demand is there.
I agree with your points but I think we should take both directions. Speed for some , comfort for others.
When I was a road warrior at Hewlett Packard, one of my coworkers bought me an aeropress. Kinda changed my life to be honest. Being able to make legitimately great coffee no matter where I am is fantastic.

Up until that point, I had a lot of weeks where I'd be traveling 20-30 hours a week, and drinking garbage coffee. Great coffee makes working so much easier, and an aeropress isn't much larger than a soda can. I basically pack the aeropress, a few filters, and a canister of freshly ground coffee beans. I'm able to make coffee that rivals any good coffee shop, and it takes up nearly no space in my luggage.
> "I'd like to see true innovation, using high-speed blimps or massive ocean-going ground effect airplanes, hovercraft, or something."

No need for anything exotic like that, just build more and better trains. Trains also have a huge benefit of being easy to run off renewable energy (electric trains powered by the grid).

Even crappy trains like Amtrak operates are leagues more comfortable than air travel.
What’s secure about the current situation?
I used the git wrapper for a few days until I hit a day-ending `git gc`. That's when I knew git was terrible.
This provision was put into place to preserve the power of the landowning class against what were then referred to as “the mob”, meaning everyone else. It did its job quite well, but it is intentionally anti-democratic and does need to be fixed.
My hometown on hacker news

Glasgow was second city of the British empire back then, so I wouldn't be surprised if the plague arrived by boat.
Good point as well. Sometimes a SQL injection will go right through this kind of Transparent Database Encryption.
There's always fractional aircraft ownership. I see ads for it all the time, but I don't know if it's a viable business model.
On the principle that you can solve every problem in computer science by adding a layer of indirection, we solved all the problems listed in that Dan Abramov article by adding a few layers of indirection.

You didn’t write a fetch ever, you subscribed to a data feed from the data feed repository.

To prevent redundant fetches, the data feed was served by a cache, which then filled cache entries by doing the fetch.

Doing a POST invalidated the whole cache.

Which triggered fetches of everything, but only once/API.
The fetch return pushed out to all the subscribers.
The subscription was driven by the JSX, so only visible items had active subscriptions. Essentially, you wrapped your UI with the fetcher component, during your JSX display tree into a data dependency tree.

Optimizing the cache invalidation was a problem we ignored for later, because the fetch overhead wasn’t too bad, and we went from doing 40 fetches/page without the cache layer to 10, so the back end never noticed.
How would you compare xmpp to matrix? Are they both similarly secure, distributed, and open source?
For example, how many billionaires have stepped up to fix Flint's water? Elon Musk did offer to send people water filters for their homes, but that doesn't address the root causes or the damage (property and health) already done.

https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-flint-water-plan/
Haha. You will never be convinced the. There’s been ample examples of austerity and cutbacks and government audits at all levels of government in all countries. This libertarian ideal of wasteful spending and government mismanagement is kind of a dumb one. Things are actually pretty well done unless the politicians are corrupt. But if corrupt politicians are the problem then the solution is to fix the corrupt politicians.

Every large organization (public or private) has waste the same way every large computer system has waste. Management is complex and there’s simply no way to optimize all resources in real-time. In software we may lament some of the bloat but we generally accept it as a necessary evil. In places where performance is extra valuable we profile and optimize the path. Well the same thing happens in government and corporations. Government of Ontario spends a good chunk of money on grants to health care system researchers to incrementally make things better and the system is doing really well considering how underfunded parts of it are.
I would not imagine even the legal requirement would reduce the safeguarding requirements nor allow an increase to the necessary retention period.
The author explains that it's a psychoacoustic model and then demonstrates how various artifacts in various waveforms are the result of compromises within this model. As an aside, I don't understand why people take the position that lossy transcodes are indistinguishable from one another when, right out of the gate, it's well-understand that compromises are being made in the highs, well within the range of human hearing. In fact, CDs can only replicate frequencies below 22kHz and even that's within the hearable range of many (mostly younger) people.

I just really don't understand this widespread need to believe "lossy" doesn't really mean "lossy." It's a psychoacoustic model and people are different, and further you can (as demonstrated by the article) even show where various encoding artifacts are feasibly audible to plenty of people. I just don't get it.
Their continued employment.
My grandma stopped installing apps for the same reason. Consumer behavior is changing.
If the purpose was to make a point about app stores being walled gardens, then it could have been made more effectively. Edit: and you're going to be buying at least one domain name anyway, if you have a Serious Business.

The magnitude of that cost savings is insignificant compared to the cost savings realized in dev time and operational complexity. (Because you're probably building a HTTP backend, right?)
Not sure your Github readme covers it all that well, either:

>What is a pipeline? A pipeline is a real application with at least one function (we call it Job). Every programming language can be used as long as gRPC is supported. We offer SDKs to support the development.

What is this and how would I use it? More importantly, why do I want to use it? Every application is "real", but it's not clear what the function takes as input and outputs, or how it's dispatched, or... well, anything.
I have a similar thought. WoT relies upon authentication. How does Crev do authentication? What methods are used for key revocation, etc? It didn't seem to me that they were tackling that directly but relying on a proper use of underlying technology. Possibly I'm wrong or possibly they haven't got that far, but I'd love to see a more explicit description of exactly what they've thought out so far.
EU’s New Cyber Security Act: A Breakdown
Enquist is one of my favorite authors, and Royal Physician's Visit among the many reasons why. That said, I have almost stopped recommending his work to others, as it seems to be hit-and-miss.

Nobody I know hates his work, but nobody takes to him quite the way I have. Royal Physician is fairly conventional in structure and tone, but Enquist's more personal work -- the work that feels like it comes from his deep interior life, like Downfall, and Captain Nemo's Library -- seem even harder for a lot of people to get into.
> In that case, how do we hold anyone personally responsible for anything considering that the reason a person does any action is a result of their genetics and the environment they grow in?

Every society struggles with this - how to stop people from acting in ways that are anti-social? Nobody has a universal solution, because universal solutions can't and don't exist - but thats why we have judges and justice systems.

Accountability is different than responsibility. Is it the fault of a pedophile that the psychological reason for their desires came through no fault of their own? No, but they are still held accountable for acting upon such desires, as its clearly an assault on the victim. Its a bit like arguing causality - it can go in a loop and you can never come out. The line most societies draw is when one person negatively effects another (assault, fraud, etc), or has a high likelihood to negatively effect another (driving dangerously, some would say drug use).

Note that being an alcoholic itself isn't illegal. Its a legal drug, you can have as much as you want as an adult in a free society. All the illegalities come in when your alcoholism negatively effects others.
This is a common misperception around the economics of taxation.

Look at it from the company perspective. There is a skill that is worth a lot of money to them which they want to acquire. If they are willing to pay $1mm more than their competitor for that skil, for that amount of money to actually go to recipient, it will now cost the company $7mm of profit.

That skill is no less valuable or essential to the company, it’s just effectively impossible to pay for it now. The extra money paid in taxes in order to acquire that skill comes off the balance sheet — and effectively is being taken away from the same pool of money that is being spent to hire workers at $50k/year.

The $50k/year worker can not do the job of the $10mm/year worker. 100 of them cannot do the job either (because so much key labor is not actually divisible).

It’s hurting the company balance sheet to effectively pay their most important employees, which hurts the company.

Likewise, the employee making $10mm+ per year is a visionary who, like an Elon Musk, is contributing to the economy in ways a lot more profound than a few extra cents in everyone’s welfare checks.

“No one needs more than a million dollars a year, just take everything above that to even things out” means you never have people willing to lay it all on the line to try to do something more as well.
If money is the main driver, look at the package they give you: that is pretty much what you get. And if you look at startups in general, most of the people end up with very little from their stock. Funders are in a slightly better position.

If money is not the main driver, ask yourself: what would make this experience negative for you? How likely is to be worse than... (you need something to compare to) ?

In lack of a more compelling alternatives, I do not see why this could not be a great learning experience for you.
(op here) The premise of the grandparent is an illusion that depends on the idea that somehow a medical provider (which one?) is a better caretaker for your medical history than you are. In the cases where that is actually true, power of attorney is the real solution -- not EMR records hosted offsite by 3rd party vendors in 3rd world countries on behalf of one or more hospitals. How absurd.

My medical history is mine; it's ultimately not yours. If you need my medical history, allow me to give you limited access to it.

Now, if your billing is opaque and you're playing shenanigans with the insurance companies about who owes what, then sure, you need my Passport, SSN, DNA, Real ID, and biometrics -- and you should probably hold my medical history hostage too -- to make sure that you can collect on the debt.
> I'm still struck by a few ideas. The first is that economic leveling needs to be done by force through the state. The second being that any new program needs to be funded by the wealthy - also by force of the state.

We can't count on noblesse oblige to do it, and involving the state is how we involve democracy in the process.

> I would think using incentives would be the better approach? For example, let corporations repatriate overseas cash with a lower penalty and use that money to fund green R&D

In some ways that may depend too much on noblesse oblige to work (i.e. that the corporations won't subvert the goals of the incentives to benefit themselves) and in other ways be too much like a command economy (government closely directing private industry).
What's interesting to me about this is that no major airline wants to go supersonic

JAL is already a Boom investor.
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Oh yes they are!

The CO2 warming we are seeing today come from CO2 that entered the atmosphere 10 years ago. So, the damage is happening RIGHT NOW.
Insufficient binocular vision isn't always the cause though. Not all human controllers are equally capable. There is a such thing as the best driver in the world and the worst driver in the world. For example, my father worked as a driver for UPS for 40 years. He drove literally millions of miles in every condition imaginable and never got into an accident. Not a single fender bender. My sister on the other hand has been driving for a decade and has been in dozens. They have the same sensory input but vastly different performance. I would definitely buy a driverless car that performs like my father. If I could build one like that, I would be a billionaire. Not so much with one that performs like my sister.
Why is that an absolute? Can't biofuel sources be refined into jet fuel?

I understand that subsidies currently create perverse incentives in that industry, but I struggle to see why bioengineered carbon-neutral jet fuel is fundamentally not viable. That thinking seems very closed-minded.
Why would they care enough to do so?
At AMZN, which has 1000s of separate repos, 1) was the general case, with 2) occurring whenever there was a critical security issue in some library that no one had updated for years. The resulting fire drill of beating transitive dependencies into submission could occupy days or weeks of dev time.
Here is a list of articles on the topic of social equality posted today:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18822577
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18826683
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18824440
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18823468
In my opinion, thinking of each state as a small nation unto itself is the best way to see the value of the senate in its current form.

I find this thought pattern to be helpful because the state has all the government powers not given to the federal government, and not found to be contrary to the constitution. The tenth amendment guarantees this - "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."

Each state, as a small nation, has its own interests that need preserving outside those of the United States at large, and it makes sense that the senate acts as a check on the interests of large, populous states over smaller ones when it comes to these.

Having lived in several states, I've found that differences in values and culture inform general opinion of the federal government. In my opinion, this article sounds like it was written by someone who views the United States federal government as one that should have a large role in the every day lives of citizens, and my feedback to them is that they should consider whether or not they would like it if a growing state with different values than their own suddenly had disproportionate representation federally.
OpenEMR. A lot of work is being done on modernizing even more the codebase. LibSodium encryption, U2F support, GeoIP Blocking, Integrated WAF, all 8 (!) HTTP Security Headers, etc. You can already deploy in a single click on AWS and GCP.

I’m going to embed Postfix with Dovecot for extremely secure and encrypted email notifications out of the box next week.
Wait so this is not about Jetson AGX Xavier but some unknown GPU computing unit?
>If your statement had been 'produces X amount', and not 'works X amount', then my answer definitely changes. Less consumption for the same amount of production is always better, because in aggregate it means more resources for consumption, and production goes up.

Yes, this is what I meant, and what you get from interpreting it charitably.

>Even the sun consumes - it consumes hydrogen, helium, lots of stuff.

Which is why I, anticipating that remark, added the bit about "economically-relevant, purchased" -- it does not consume in the sense meant in economic discussions. It does not purchase goods on the market that then deprive someone else of having them. The sun is not an actor in the economy that has to buy hydrogen to fuse together, so economically it's just like someone who throws off good things for free.
The law and personal morality, the same thing that stops almost all immoral actions in society.