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I Tried to List All Linux Networking Commands and Scripts
Listen, I just want to know what machinery someone makes that could possibly last centuries. This was engineering curiosity. Hundreds of billions were spent to develop nuclear reactors & spacecraft, and you're lucky if you make it 50 years on any of that, under ideal operating conditions. None of that text answers that.

> Halliburton and Bechtel do amazing things, but they also >do a bunch of things I personally think are significantly less amazing, like grab serious asset and business from the post iraq war teardown, where the US forces basically said "fuck you" to european companies and awarded contracts directly to the beltway.

Wait, you think it's less than amazing that Halliburton & Bechtel profited from the war and didn't give a chance to the Europeans to also profit off the war? This is a new one.
Apologies for the paywall. This is a letter to the FT from John Chen, CEO of Blackberry. I can't post it in whole, but the gist is:

The inevitable implications of a data-driven economy are right in front of us and we now stand before a moral, ethical and public policy crossroads. Recent events, where mass privacy breaches have occurred, have raised public awareness of the pitfalls of big data and the elevation of profit over privacy by some corporate actors. As a consequence, public authorities are demanding more comprehensive answers from Big Tech, and a healthy policy discussion has finally begun.

and:

The onus is on businesses to protect the data they manage, not exploit it. Every person should own their data. It should be yours, and yours only.
Farm work, restaurant work, construction work, warehouse work cannot be "shipped off to China", yet we have our own population which has been undercut by unregulated cheap labor. We do need a number of foreign workers, but we need to regulate it so as to not flood our labor market and undercut our workers and have it where two grown adults working full time jobs can't afford to live a lower middle class lifestyle (as was possible couple of decades ago).
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Bill Gates in past has supported horrible centralized mechanisms like Common Core. People like Bill Gates do not fully understand countries like India and their knowledge solely comes from "Intellectual Yet Idiots"[1].

[1] https://medium.com/incerto/the-intellectual-yet-idiot-13211e...
You believe the GDPR was created primarily to hamper outside competition? That's a very cynical viewpoint to take, do you have any evidence?
Precisely. In this world view, A Java programmer would also be confused with Scala, which is a JVM language.

(Or I guess you could write Scala in a non-functional, Java-y way, but that would defeat the purpose of using Scala...).
Because billionaires can hop on their jets to go legally microdose psychedelics but for the rest of us to explore our own minds is criminal.
89% percent chance to kill homeless person or 90% chance to kill pregnant woman?

> I don't see how attributes of the person would ever trump the probability of harm.

Maybe they shouldn't, maybe they should. How do we know? What are the terminal values? Society effectiveness? Or equality of all humans? Or minimizing public outcry in cases when autonomous car killed someone?

> The cases where probability is roughly equal for multiple actions will be incredibly rare.

With millions of autonomous cars on streets rare outcomes would happen all the time.
As an H1B holder in tech without a masters degree, I'm conflicted. On one hand this may help industries other than tech to get more foreign applicants. But it does nothing to gauge talent or prefer talented people. Getting into a US college and continuing my higher education was always a dream for me but it never came to fruition because of my family background. If this process is left to market to decide - by way of say a bidding process by employers - I'm confident I'll be able to get in the top and beat out visa stuffing companies. But it'd be absolute chaos competing with them and advanced degree holders. Reduces the chance of people like me quite a bit.

Getting a masters degree in the US is not that hard for someone with money and does not indicate talent at all in any way. I see this as just a way for upper middle class and rich people in India and China to migrate here and not based on talent.
Citibank sends me Credit Card fraud alerts and when I click on those links I end up on links that are not from citibank domain but some third party service. I am then expected to enter my bank login on that site. I always thought this was fishing until the bank support confirmed to me that it is legit.
> philosophers don't understand Godel's theorem

Philosophy was the disciplinary home of formal logic until the latter part of the 20th century (meaning, research in formal logic largely took place in philosophy), and Anglophone philosophy departments are still full of people who are extremely competent at formal logic. I mean, look at the figures discussed in TFA: Boolos, Jeffrey, Hintikka, Quine, Smullyan, and Nagel were all philosophers. Are you really insinuating that Quine didn't know what he was talking about when discussing logic?
Because screw copyright, thats why.
From the few I just asked; no.
What is e-verify?
Wait, what - Rolls Royce?! The same company that makes the some of the most expensive and unreliable cars on the market? Boeing, Boeing, what were you thinking?
Please don't take HN threads on flamewar tangents. There's plenty of opportunity to make substantive critiques on HN. This is not that.
If there's nothing to be grasped in "Gödel's Wonder", why do you think the man himself, who, we can reasonably conjecture, understood his theorems more than anybody else, spent the remainder of his life "grasping" at what his theorems meant? I find it much more reasonable to conclude that there was, and is, in fact something significant to be grasped, and thinkpieces like this simply want to declare that there's nothing to be grasped.
Actually we can trust the security researcher or hacker! Not the SBI bank you donot know when the impose fines and min balance fine
https://www.e-verify.gov

> "ABOUT E-VERIFY"

> "E-Verify is a web-based system that allows enrolled employers to confirm the eligibility of their employees to work in the United States. E-Verify employers verify the identity and employment eligibility of newly hired employees by electronically matching information provided by employees on the Form I-9, Employment Eligibility Verification, against records available to the Social Security Administration (SSA) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS)."
E-Verify dot gov. [https://www.e-verify.gov]
Companies restate earnings all the time, years after traders already made a profit :)

It isnt a baseless claim to point out the infallability of a CEO or the broken incentive model to tout bad information or consciously lie
A built in whitelist ≠ a user created blacklist
You actually can and this is something I've set personally for all my cards/accounts
Cynical sure, but hardly unreasonable considering the obvious incentives of money and national pride.
According to Google, you are the first person on the internet to ever use this word.

I like it. I'm going to start using this.
Please don't post like this. It's tedious and always the same.

This is in the FAQ at https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html and there's more explanation here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10178989

https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19041410 and marked it off-topic.
Look at the after hours volume and price movement. It's definitely an earnings related move.

https://www.nasdaq.com/symbol/fb/after-hours
I meant by people like me :)
what are your thoughts on this course: https://www.coursera.org/learn/model-thinking
1. Based on personal experience, I don't really buy the many comments here that say the web is boring bc most people are boring vs some fun geeky outlier elite. I remember IT class 20 years ago and everybody - including the most mainstream jocks if one were to stereotype - had great fun making colorful html, watching sheep walk around the windows desktop, chatting on icq, etc. Even orkut several years later was zany.
2. It is ironic that in the age of google, many responses here are lists of cool urls - almost like mini directories. reminds me of the physical Guide To The Internet (or some similar name) book we had (and which was great).
3. It is a little ironic that the OP is a rant about an uncool internet that proceeds to plug a product, which is typical of the uncool internet. I dont mean to criticize, though, bc refering to a problem and proposing a solution is legitimate. But u have to smile.
4. FWIW strongly share the feeling that the web is less fun.
5. No data, but I have a gut feel that as powerful as the big cos may be, it is not an inevitable process - just a matter of going out there and building alternatives (not that they'd necessarily be as profitable or big as the googles and facebooks) - [in my country] we've switched from icq to msn to orkut to fb to ig+whatsapp. Who is to say there won't be another 5 switches over the next 20 years?
Are you aware that SSNs have absolutely nothing to do with copyright law? They aren't covered by that.
I agree. Push advertising is toxic (and not just on the web).
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> Why is this any worse than being a Nielsen family back in the day?

GP was specifically asking about "back in the day", the comparison should be about the volume of data between then and now
> the parent comment is as outright an original, authentic, relevant comment you will find here

The comment casts a lot of aspersions on academics but doesn't actually justify any of it.
It's really not a HN bubble. Facebook the site/app has peaked for the most part, both people I know who are currently in high school do not use it and have never made a "Facebook" page. Now Instagram is a completely different story of course.
It's truly an absurdity how many foreign people US universities have educated with the US immigration laws then making it a nightmare to stay, become a US citizen, and make a valuable contribution to the US economy that made those universities possible in the first place. All progress toward not shooting ourselves in the foot is definitely a good thing.
Monte-Carlo instead of Alpha Beta search for chess programs?
Obviously I'm not talking about people like Quine; if that's your definition of "philosopher", Gödel himself would be a philosopher.

You make good points, but altogether my issue is that, at the current moment, few anglophone philosophers have more than a casual grasp of Gödel's theorem. How do I know that? I was in graduate school for philosophy, then dropped out, partly because philosophers who seriously engage in, e.g. both moral philosophy and computability theory are far and few between.
Yeah, seems like Reddit is actually a precise example of the opposite case.
This seems to throw more shade on the problem for me. There is a profound sense that there is no mode of reasoning (nevermind just the mechanical deductivism) that can completely capture all expressible truths without reaching contradiction.

The nature of knowing what is true is to capture a slice of reality in a model, and a model by its essence must leave out details, considering only elements which are important to its function. It seems that all of language, including anything we create with it, is an incorrect but useful model of Truth. Different models describing different things are expected to produce contradictions, but this math thing was talking about itself and it couldn't even do THAT consistently, right?

If Godel's theorem seems to be blown out of proportion as a synecdoche for the hundreds of years of collective malaise about unattainable truth, it is at least appreciable (and relevant to this wider domain) that Godel devastated the world by showing how logic fails at proving the consistency of a simple mathematical system (correct me if I'm wrong—it's not just axiomatic systems, "there ain't no such animal" of a consistency proof).

Anyway, there is a popular distinction between lowercase-t truth and uppercase-T Truth. The uppercase form represents knowledge we can never understand (outside our Circumference), and the lowercase form represents what we understand now. Since our understanding constantly changes over time, I imagine truth being a function of time, t. As t approaches infinity, truth(t) approaches this limit of Truth.

I highly recommend this poem (analyzed by Nerdwriter) on the expressibility of truth as well: https://youtu.be/55kqNg88JqI
I found the wording of the comment particularly grating because it seemed to take this as an axiom, assuming that everyone else agreed that that's what the GDPR was. Hiding assumptions like that is a dishonest way to communicate.

It also doesn't make a huge amount of sense - the GDPR applies to companies operating inside the EU market, both foreign and domestic.
I hate carrying things in my pocket. I hate the distraction. I hate the lifestyle.
There is also this if you haven’t heard of it already:

https://github.com/ossu/computer-science/blob/dev/README.md
I'm responding to "information wants to be free". I don't think the quote is "only copyrighted information wants to be free"
They aren't even voting for Facebook with their dollars. FB/Insta is something they use for free and they are "way too smart" to be affected by advertising because they "see ads all the time and don't want to run out and buy the product"
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> it also says that the data wouldn't be used to "advertise to you or sell you anything" which is not the case with Smart Speakers

1. Google's entire business model is advertising through collecting more complete user data.

2. Why would they collect this data if not to further their advertisement business?

3. I've never heard of companies collecting data that wouldn't further their business pursuits.

This data is either "digital-oil" or "digital uranium" both still extremely valuable.
That's because Skype is soon becoming the defacto VoIP for Indian govt communication & guess what's the authentication? Yup Aadhaar!

More over Azure is the cloud storage provider for all govt data moving forward.

So not only Billgates would support Aadhaar, NSA & every party benefiting out of privacy abuse would.
Ooh that's interesting. I'm not surprised by how great their recommendations are; Facebook's AI research team is pretty top notch. I wonder what they're doing for recommendations.
I wrote this article to help people who have not done system designs. I am thinking to make it as a series. Feedbacks are most welcome:)
Yeah. Right now, nobody (credible) is accusing Apple of enabling this kind of exploit.

If Apple are still selling hardware in Australia in 12 months time, the suspicion will _have_ to be that they have enabled something similar enough to this to be considered untrustworthy... (And not just Apple, any manufacturer or software company doing business in Australia...)
Too bad it didn’t make late-night comedy news less mediocre.
Can the car communicate over local network and check the pedestrians' credit scores?
IMO it’s because of Windows revenue declining plus Azure “only” growing by 75% YoY instead of the >90% growth that’s been the norm. FWIW, Microsoft says the Windows declines are temporary because of chip shortages and will rebound when those are cleared up. We’ll see if that’s true.
>Driverless cars will not be programmed to target victims by race

Not on purpose, but "machine learning" will have the same outcome:

https://theoutline.com/post/7022/ai-trolley-problem-ethics

https://twitter.com/wef/status/1058675216027660288
Private correspondence is always like that.

If you send me a snailmail, I have all right to publish what you right to me (with a few exception, of course).

That's why we got all those email disclaimer nonsense.
There was a good Reply All podcast episode about this story in early December:
https://www.gimletmedia.com/reply-all/132-negative-mount-ple...

The inevitably was sadly clear to all but those who had the power to make it happen.
Hey, I lived in Madison for a time too!

As a politically moderate person, I agree that there are neighborhoods in that one blue city in Wisconsin that have an air of snobbery and resentment, but I'm not sure how Madison has made the state vulnerable.

I also agree tribalism is part of the issue, but not in the way you do. Whenever I brought up these issues of confirmation bias, the immediate discussion following would be "well whatabout..." or "us vs. them", with them being the hypothetical liberal boogeyman. Or in this case, the "blue bubble".

While it is true that Madison is liberal, the Willy-street hippies didn't strip the incoming Governor of his powers, gerrymander political lines, or push to evict Wisconsites from their land so Foxconn could build a plant.

Saying "both sides" are the problem does a disservice to Wisconsin by ignoring who has been controlling and responsible for the state for the past decade - who need to be held accountable.
ahh a pseudo-science article coming from The New Yorker. A comic strip from Dilbert would give more insightful information.
> Implication that students with US masters degree are high skilled is pretty lame because majority of these students are from fly by night universities that do not even need GRE for admission

Are you arguing that people with less education are on average more valuable?

If you don't believe that it matters, then why do you care? It would be a purely neutral move. I don't see anything wrong with that.

If you think that this is a negative move, then that means that you believe people will less education, on average, are more valuable than people with more.

> Based on some of the unverified insider information

But this specific change doesn't do any of that.
I agree that it's mostly a theoretical problem. But in the long term, if I imagine a world where we all cars are self driving, there would still be accidents from time to time, for things that can't be predicted: a rock falls on the road, an earthquake happens and destroys the road, etc.

This would be rare, but would still kill a few thousand people every year. Wouldn't it be natural then to tweak the algorithm to reduce the death toll? I can imagine the public demanding it, and the software engineers to start writing code that deals with the rare case where an accident is inevitable. It could start very simple (avoid large groups of people), but could get more advanced over time.
I don't have any first hand experience with app stores, but I read that 0.01% of android apps make enough money to recoup their development costs. I still find the figure stunning
These problems are always brought as a drawback to driverless cars but are completely irrelevant. How many "trolley" situations are there compared to the thousands of times where the choice is:

A. Human error causes cars to collide and kills people

B. The cars don't collide
How big was the bill?
I happen to have a son who is currently is high school. While it is true that he (and likely his peers) is not a heavy user of FB, he does use it to coordinate events, and he does use Instagram and WhatsApp a lot. "FB" is not just "FB the site". If you listen to their earnings calls, a lot of time is devoted to Instagram in particular at the moment.
> I know a scientific instrument can give a number for the later

For how a color looks to you, or just for the wavelength of light something emits?
What kind of video content is there?
This reads like propaganda for the Chinese state. Remember that they're a dictatorship where public servants aren't allowed to practice a religion and citizens are punished if they draw too much attention to negative views on the Party. It might be practical to cozy up to them in anticipation of them being the new superpower, but that doesn't make it moral to not try to stop it.
I think my MBP is pretty awesome and I love the Touch Bar.
Wow, have you looked up the price of that book now? I don't know what it originally sold at, but today it's $248 and up. You can get the PDF for free, but if you want a hardcopy to keep on your desk, it's not cheap.
Even despite the risk and probably inevitable leaks, I think a system like this is invaluable for epidemiological research. I'm not opting out. (Besides, the Red Cross has leaked a fair portion of my medical information anyway)
You really want a source? That's a completely obvious violation. Otherwise you'd see lots of apps by 3rd parties being used without going through App Store approval. Come on.
And what about the family of those two people?

I don't understand the insistence of bringing everything back to "what if it was your child." Pretty much everybody has family, and friends, and all that. I'm not sure how somebody being a child of somebody is supposed to be a rational argument for adjusting any of our thinking. As far as I can tell, it's basically the ultimate appeal to emotion.
> philosophers who seriously engage in, e.g. both moral philosophy and computability theory are far and few between

That's a quite a bit weaker of a claim than "philosophers don't understand Gödel's theorem". To back that up you need to point to some philosophers who (a) discuss Gödel's theorem in such a way that (b) they demonstrate their lack of understanding. As it is you're just claiming that one particular subfield of philosophy doesn't have much overlap with another. How is that an indictment of the field? There are few computer scientists working at the intersection of quantum computing and database theory. There are few physicists working at the intersection of biophysics and string theory. It's not a meaningful criticism unless there's reason to think that there is something in the intersection that practitioners are culpable for overlooking, and you haven't provided any such reason.
So a lot of people seem to be saying something along the lines of "Wisconsin spent 4+ billion and now they're getting nothing in return."

But WI didn't write a 4 billion dollar check or anything. It was a promise of tax credits. If it turns out that Foxconn basically doesn't do anything in WI, then they won't make any money there so they won't owe any taxes so they won't use any of the credits.

So the whole thing becomes a much ado about nothing sort of situation (aside, I suppose, from the big waste of time spent negotiating everything).

Is this basically right, or am I misunderstanding something?
> In my opinion, instead of focusing on regulation to hamper outside competition

The word that you are looking for is "unfair", not "outside". It's not like European companies don't have to follow that same regulation.

> the better option would be to spend more on funding innovation/growth efforts for local companies and startups so that they can better compete solely based on the merits of the technology or service itself.

WTF?

So, some company is externalizing the costs of their abusive behaviour on the public to gain a competetive advantage. The government puts regulation in place to make sure such unfair practices don't work anymore, so companies have to compete on the basis of the merit of their technology or service instead. And your suggestion is that they should instead pay subsidies to local companies only, because what they are doing is unfair to foreign companies?

Seriously, what am I missing that that makes any sense at all?
I think they mean the research data won't be used directly to target ads or try to make sales to you (standard guideline for market research), rather than the second order effect of allowing them to improve their overall ad targeting which then affects you.
Modern ML can fingerprint you based on your mouse movements. Good luck selling a browser without mousemove events.
Well, he's recently started talking about self-driving cars, so it's on the cards: https://dilbert.com/strip/2019-01-25
That is precisely the reason why.