skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ideally, yes, but there are so. many. things. that could go wrong:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3_0x6oaDmI

From silent malware changing votes on voter's machines, to an authoritarians manipulating the servers, to inability to verify what is actually run on the servers, to hacking of air-gapped servers like Stuxnet did, etc. etc.

Perhaps a smart contract on a publicly verifiable blockchain could alleviate the black box concerns. Privacy issues remain. Most democracies see it as absolutely vital for the population not to disclose who they voted for, so whatever smart contract we come up with, it has to be blockchain analysis-proof.
Everything in existence is a physical phenomenon. That doesn't mean physicists have authority on everything.

You might as well consider every philosopher an authority on everything because every problem ever solved was solved by thinking and that's what philosophers do. While in reality philosophers are only authorities on (the history of?) philosophy.
$1.4 billion in expected losses from the hack. That's quite the loss.
I agree with you that there is room for nuance. I do not think the government should be all consuming.

Most of the topics listed in the blog post fall under social safety net.

"...a lack of government commitment to provide equal access to the basic services families need to thrive. These services include access to quality education, affordable housing/healthcare/food, physical safety, accurate news and information, a social safety net, and a livable environment.

We believe that a new generation of technology startups are emerging who will start to address these needs"

They explicitly state they are looking for startups to address social safety net needs. That is what I am criticizing.
Landed safely after about 25 mins. Didn't feel like I could before since I had to wait for my eyes to re-adjust to the dark.
A TV he finds on site, I think.
"If we all worked 3-hour days" is an imaginary situation that doesn't reflect the fact that a ton of people are immediately going to attempt to outbid each other by working more, though.

Hand waving it away with some sort of "but all the prices would reduce" assumes some sort of co-operative prisoner's dilemma situation.

I would immediately defect, take two jobs, and have twice as much as anyone else. Most people I know would.
From what I've heard, redundancy and scalability in a single machine (like, you can hot-swap CPUs on a running machine and have lots of redundant RAM, etc.) and being able to run an OS with backwards compatibility all the way to the fscking 1960s or whatever.

That OS is… something: https://medium.com/@bellmar/hello-world-on-z-os-a0ef31c1e87f
AT&T Now Accepts BitPay
Really enjoying all the comments which basically equate "poor people need the rich to tell them to stop buying iPhones".

Can't think of anything more American.
This is very common thinking - people seem to equate the first discussion of a concept with "discovery" with "the important stuff".

If that line of thought were consistent, it would credit Babbage, or maybe Turing, as the last computer scientist to do something useful.
> But option one doesn't extract revenue from foreign companies. Which is why people are suspicious of your motives when you jump to option two.

I don't think we need to cater to paranoid Americans.

> Option one also has the advantage that it can produce more coherent results, because the legislature doesn't have to operate under the pretext that it isn't making a change to the law when it really is.

It's perfectly reasonable for a legislature to assume it isn't changing the law when the law isn't being changed and it's not the legislature that is acting.
I don't see how "I would have to accrue unexpected and emergency debt to manage this expense" is any different from "I can't afford this expense"
I don't feel like any of these ideas are going to be viable businesses...
Tesla Plunges as Analyst Delivery Warning Adds to Week of Losses
The real problem with bulldozer was by that point they were so far behind nobody in my circle bothered mentioning them at all.
https://www.torproject.org/

http://uj3wazyk5u4hnvtk.onion/
Interesting, I'm rather glad to hear the Vufine isn't suitable for reddit/youtube/other bullshit! Makes me more likely to buy one :)

One more quick question, what do you use to power the RPi and the display? USB power bank?
I think the solution to income inequality will come from the blockchain and AI.
Fuji was a major player in the rangefinder (mirrorless) medium format film cameras market (G645, G690W, etc), so this is a good return to form for them!
PSA for people. Tesla net income in millions:

Q1 2019: -$702

2018: -$976

2017: -$1,961

2016: -$675

2015: -$889

2014: -$294

2013: -$74

2012: -$396

2011: -$254

2010: -$154

2009: -$56

2008: -$82

2007: -$78
I see generic ads as a signal that a company strongly backs its product. I see targeted ads a way for companies hocking cheap products to squeeze value out of their impressions.

The billboards on highway 80/101 in SF are usually rented by big brands with large corporate backing, but their products are usually solid, whereas AdSense ads usually show me what I assume must be dropshipped goods with little quality control (but usually have some sort of novelty value).
This is in some ways good for piracy. During the 2000s the MAFIAA was heavily invested in their war on sharing sites and protocols because of how popular they were, but now with streaming taking a substantial chunk of that casual pirate audience theres less profit incentive in pushing a lot of prosecution.
There are lots of applications. For instance, I would love to have an app that gives me contextual information about the people I am talking with. Specifically about the things that he/she already told me, as their name. I don't see anything inmoral un this.
I hate the rental model, it's extortion. It made sense when you had to return a disk to a store for others to rent, but putting an expiration date on a digital file is absurd. At least with redbox you can rip the DVD.
The glass roof is not a bad idea. It would be very French to do that. Like the I. M. Pei pyramid at the Louvre. If it's done, it will be done competently. So many people are watching.
It would take me a while to get used to carrying my urine and feces around...
Performance might not be a concern for you, but it is your users who should be deciding.
I'm more interested in the comment about the next financial crisis. When is it due?
headline: 40% would struggle to cover $400

debunker: actually the data says 12%

data: 12% can't cover $400, 28% would have to borrow the money or sell something to cover $400.

original author: yeah, I added 12 and 28 to get 40 and said "struggle"

Newspapers definitely use narratives to sell papers (or get clicks these days). This is a thing that I don't deny. It has always been a thing.

But it wasn't quite the strong debunking that I expected
How do we know that they wouldn't be doing all of those things and more in the absence of pushback?
> Medium format was expensive, unwieldy and slow

?! There are plenty of very pocketable, no fiddling required cameras that take 120/220 film from the 50s onwards. I have a few that I still regularly take on hikes and trips around town (although for shorter trips I can deal with the slightly bigger footprint of a TLR), and let me take pictures with a detail and tonal range most digital cameras can only dream of (particularly smartphones), all about the same size and weight as my Anker battery pack.

Yes there are also crazy bulky Mamiyas/Hasselblads etc but those were always targeted to studio use.
"This whole "taxes are theft!" nonsense is becoming tiresome"

I mean it IS theft though right? If anyone other than the government did it you consider it theft right?
Sorry, but this thread does not "strongly debunk" the headline by any means. This is pure nitpicking, or trying to center on what does "struggling" to cover a cost really mean.

The data is still sound, whether you think having to borrow or sell something to pay an expense is still not being able to pay that expense or not.
"Struggle to pay" is not the same as "couldn't pay" It may be pedantic, but that's also the premise of the argument referenced in the tweet. So this article got the headline correct, but others ... not so much.
Except that reforms that go the other way seem to be subject to majority votes in the council of ministers. [0]

[0] https://torrentfreak.com/eu-ministers-approve-copyright-dire...
His point about the misleading headline is good. But the poverty stat still stands. Needing to borrow to come up with $400 is slightly better than not having $400, but, like... not by a lot?
The article is talking about academic research while most of the examples you quote seem recent(ish) industry implementations of these security models. I'd say that corroborates rather then disputes the authors thesis..
KYC: know your customer.

AML: anti money-laundering.

Basics:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Know_your_customer

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Money_laundering
It has a really high price for just a crank and a good design. I think that I could wait for the day games are launched, perhaps they will be long enough and entertaining. I still dont have much expectations.
By that same logic, you shouldn't trust the creators of the monolithic black box either. So you can't trust anyone, except yourself and the OS only you have access to.

In general, do you not find carrying this level of paranoia on a daily basis is simply oppressive to your own well being?
Agreed. Piracy seems to have filtered into being an enthusiast thing ... or at least that perception has held off the more rabid prosecution of it, mostly.
AFAIK, bands don't make a lot of money from selling albums anyway. Most of their income comes from ticket sales and tour merch.
For me it's either watching something on a 13" laptop, where 720p quality is sufficient and torrenting is just too much hassle, or having a "serious" cinematic experience on a 75" 4k HDR panel, where you want to have the best available quality (i.e. 4k BR rip with minimal compression). So Netflix just isn't very attractive, especially if it does not have some of the movies I want to watch.
> If you don't believe macroeconomics

I'll bite that bullet. I don't believe macroeconomics. Microeconomics is pretty solid; that's the part of the field that's actually grounded in reality. Macroeconomics is like SETI; in the absence of the ability to carry out much in the way of meaningful experiments, it's mostly people just taking what we emotionally want to believe, and garnishing it with equations until it tastes like science.
Open access article: https://dash.harvard.edu/bitstream/handle/1/11879202/3785139...
the difference is that the former requires credit. Some people are so poor they don't even have that.

I'd say that both count as "struggle", though
This 10000%. I founded a YC company that's focused on Public Sector, and we see the greenfield opportunity in this space every day.

Only 5% of a given public sector IT's budget is cloud software (most of their software is legacy/on-prem) vs. 50%+ for similar large commercial enterprise.

As governments digitize more and more, they will prefer native "gov first" products. So while it's still early days in these parts of the market, the early winners will be a great position as we move along the tech adoption curve.

It's worth noting too that the tech adoption curve still exists in government, even if it's backwards skewed. And when the early majority hits, given the scale and size, it's going to create some very large and successful companies.
This feels a bit like damning with faint praise; the most likely cause of an emergency debt is a trip to the hospital, and the average deductible of a US employee on private health insurance is $1500 (closer to $3000 for family coverage).

(We don't need to bother considering people who don't have jobs and thus don't have insurance; the failure mode for them, as before, is "resign yourself to lifelong financial ruin and dodging debt collectors".)

So the question then is: what percentage of households can cover a $1500 emergency bill, rather than a mere $400 bill? And, at the rate of growth since 2013, how many decades will it take for that number to creep up to 50% (and don't forget to adjust for inflation).
>Headline strongly debunked here:

Actually not debunked at all.

Headline says "would struggle to cover a $400 emergency" and is perfectly accurate.

The guy doing the "debunking" (sic) looked at the table quoted in the study, isolated the percentage that could not pay the $400 at all (as opposed to the larger set that would struggle to pay it), and then "triumphantly" declared that the headline is moot because those are only ~ 12%.

But the headline was never about how many couldn't pay $400 at all at all. It was about how would struggle to pay it.

The funny thing is he himself quotes the full breakdown, that along with the 12% that won't be able to pay at all, includes people who would need to "borrow from a friend" to pay it (another 12%), "sell something" (8%), using a payday loan (2%) and so on.
A billion is a million millions in Britain, but a thousand millions in the US. His numbers are right, just a different scale
They are dissimilar enough to make a port of a large app very difficult.
What a dishonest title/article. Taken directly from the report itself:

"The findings show many signs of growth and improvement
along with remaining pockets of distress and fragility. They also reveal new insights into how households approach their financial lives and decisions.

In many ways, the latest findings underscore the overall economic recovery and expansion over the five years of the survey."
Back in my college days I was able to live on minimum wage, including paying tuition. I knew several other people doing the same thing and even supporting a family on their income. Their housing expenses where a lot lower than you would believe possible: they lived in a tiny apartment in the bad part of time: they had a warm place (hot in summer: no AC), a dry roof, a kitchen and bathroom. We all had a cheap car, with enough money set aside to fix it as required.

Of course we were the minority. Most people live exactly at their means (including whatever they can borrow). I understand, I like more space as well: I like my toys as much as everybody. I just believed my future was better if I didn't get myself into debt now.
https://twitter.com/p_millerd/status/1118071182534660096

Response #1 and #3 equal ~80%. I'd count those as being able to cover it.

Many people use credit cards and pay it off in full on time (including me).
If you felt the need to write this footnote,

>1. To be clear, we do not seek to replace the government and its policymakers but seek to fund startups that create solutions that provide Americans the foundations for economic growth

Why did you give this project such a provocative name? It's borderline trolling.
This is like saying because Daz 3D exists, we don't need pixar any more. If you've ever seen or tried to do just what you did, you soon realize that the tools alone won't help; to make good quality art you still need to master a lot of time-intensive skills and have to go beyond entry level stuff.

That time requirement will slow the artist down if he has to do it for free, or may even prohibit them. The idea of renumerating the artist is to enable them to produce higher quality work more often; if he has to spend a lot of time begging on Patreon, and half of his projects now are porn because it's the only way he can get cash for his passion projects, we all suffer.

Sorry, I know I get strident on this topic, and hope I come across as civil, but tools are not that important. You could make a TV show for free at your local cable company, remember public access?
Some specific innovations off the top of my head that are pretty firmly outside traditional academic research, and seem more revolutionary than evolutionary:

- Linux's read-copy-update synchronization mechanism. It has been described in papers, but you're better off following mailing list posts or LWN writeups.

- Rust's borrow checker and lifetime system. It's built on existing well-known ideas (e.g. affine types) and there's since been some academic work on formalizing it, but the specific system Rust uses has no direct precedent, is pretty novel, and was developed outside academia. (Note that Rust came out of Mozilla Research, which is far, far smaller than Bell Labs but also an organization that intentionally works on revolutionary and not evolutionary improvements.)

- libdill and Trio's structured concurrency, a solid theoretical framework for handling async/await-shaped problems without turning your execution into concurrent spaghetti. The techniques are not unprecedented, but https://vorpus.org/blog/notes-on-structured-concurrency-or-g... is a better framing of it.
Is it possible a family member will need care within the next 5 years? If not could you benefit from a bulky but inexpensive energy storage - thermal mass with the charge coming from an antifreeze-filled solar water panel to the mass, then another circuit coupling the radiant floor heating ? Or electric where you're charging cheap but heavy lead acid cells (with thorough ventilation + at least one backup ventilation system) during the lowest usage times + PV and reselling back to the utility during peak usage?

From a more fun side, how about a large hot tub or "endless" swimming pool? Could even try out the swimming pool and if you don't use it convert it to a battery.
I have an iPad Mini (iOS 9). Two modern webpages is definitely enough to put it over the top and reload each page when you switch between them. Sometimes even a single webpage will reload for no apparent reason.

It's generally true that memory issues seem to go away if you throw enough extra RAM at it.

Similarly, I recently upgraded from a GT120 (0.5GB) to an RX580 (8GB), and miraculously, my Mac no longer crashes when I switch spaces quickly.
> things... that provide a common cultural experience.

That's what the public domain is for, of course. It's too bad that this limits us to 1923-or-before material (in the U.S., and ignoring non-copyright-renewed stuff from later in the 20th c.) but that still covers centuries of shared culture - even millennia, in some cases!
My understanding is a team ported the ESS "Shark" code from AIX to the little Linux 2.x embedded controllers. It looked like Adaptec OEM hardware when I tore mine apart. I can see how that would go poorly versus the proper cabinet sized arrays. They are definitely good enough for home use but I agree not what you want any production workload on. I heard from a 3rd party support company there is some part that is prone to failure but I cannot recall what it was.
Wouldn't that drastically increase the sun exposure on the internal elements and artifacts in the church? Sun damage is noticeable in just a few years, let alone on a time scale of centuries...
Except that, in addition to the 41% who can pay in cash (or from their bank account), 39% would put it on their credit card and pay at the end of the month. https://twitter.com/p_millerd/status/1118071182534660096?s=2...

I expect that many of the people who can best afford an unexpected $400 expense would just put it on their credit card which they pay off every month. After all, might as well get the airline miles at least. Even if they could just write a check.

So the 40% is really misleading. It's more like 80%.
I don’t really worry about this kinda thing. A display has several GB/s of information displayed. Microphones don’t have nearly that much bandwidth. (This is why headphone cables don’t change much and Bluetooth audio is easy but video cables get updated every year with increasing display resolutions and wireless video is not as common).

For this to reliably work, they would effectively be compressing information out of the display signal.

In their paper they mentioned having to use size 175 font to distinguish between sets of letters typed on the screen. Which is cool, but pretty esoteric in my opinion.
that's a gross mischaracterization of the situation.

copyright doesn't mean "i get paid", it means "i get to withhold" (see all the out-of-print books, abandonware, etc).

GPL does not mean "you have to contribute back your changes" at all: "The GPL does not require you to release your modified version, or any part of it. You are free to make modifications and use them privately, without ever releasing them." https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.en.html#GPLRequireSourc...

one is about taking access away (for whatever goal), the other is about taking that option away (for the benefit of users).
This is at least partially survivor bias. Sometimes they miscalculated and buildings fell down.
Sure, but since Republicans are usually casted as party of greed, this is a good counterpoint how much Democrats really care about the less fortunate than themselves.
Why? That's exactly what credit cards are for. The couple of dollars in interest that you would pick up on a purchase of this scale is peanuts, even if it took you a while to pay it off.

Although I am not sure why you would pay cash for anything if you could use a card (for the same price) instead and get cash back or points.
How these guys are still in business and still collecting financial data on US citizens frankly baffles me.
Most amateur art in any field is low quality, and likely porn. Sturgeon's Law always applies.
You say you don’t like authoritarianism but what’s the difference between feudalism and a system where a tiny percentage of people control the vast majority of the wealth?

Freedom isn’t just freedom from government. I don’t see much difference to someone with no money between bending the knee to Washington and bending it to google or Facebook.
Allocating a bunch of small arrays is going to be wasteful (performance wise) anyway. That being said, I'm not sure if this is done frequently or not.
You might be thinking of a different korg product. The monologue is a pure analog budget monosynth. Which can totally do beat patterns using the onboard sequencer with a bit of clever motion sequencing.
Yes it did. But the alternative border would have been a unified Korea with the north’s leadership in charge. Whether that is worth the trade off depends on your politics I suppose.
18% is low. Most are closer to 21-24%
Greatest AI ever, we should award Facebook engineers and name them "Gods of programming". I created an account few months ago and Facebook algorithms banned it. I never used VPN, never created multiple accounts from the same IP and I used my personal Gmail address. I also never joined any groups or sent multiple friend request.
> It will come from naive entrepreneurs, naive in the sense that they don't quite appreciate the problem they are tackling, because if they do they would never take it on

... I'm not even sure where to begin.
What are the vectors you fear? If anything, an open OS makes vulnerabilities less of a commodity and more eyes = easier fixes.