skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
However, it is fruitful to point out that not all markets are created equal. Even if an exchange of money takes place in return for goods and services, the market that exists is not necessarily a free market. Sometimes this is true even in the most idealized of cases.

For example, healthcare isn’t composed of one market, but several between different operators operating under different market forces and regulatory rules. As it’s too complicated to go into each, I’ll go into one that’s most apparent; the market between patients and healthcare providers (not insurance companies!).

Assuming the most idealized of cases that exist without external constraints and regulations, this market would never be a free market. Because the buyer will never be in the position to make the decision to not buy the good. Even a rational free agent would not be in a position to disagree from making a purchase. The value each sentient lifeform places on their life is for all intents and purposes infinity in the healthcare context. No sane suicidal individual or hero would sign up for a purposeless, slow and painful death. This removes the essential mechanism that free markets have to regulate themselves; the freedom to not participate.

In most markets, if a good or service is too expensive then the business selling them will go bankrupt or remain small due to a lack of buyers. This creates an incentive for a cheaper mousetrap to exist. But healthcare isn’t like that. Your choice is severely limited. At best, you can choose between providers (though for serious, and sadly incredibly routine, issues the immediacy of needing treatment trumps this) and at worst you’re unconscious and unable to make any decisions yourself. So the element of choice isn’t present making it axiomatically not a free market.

Please note that I am not going into ancillary factors like the difficulties patients face in making informed decisions, the viral component that exists for certain classes of disease (you choosing not to do X in the case of a serious enough pathogen could lead to a sick household or an epidemic. See: the return of measles), the difficulty of rationing care (Americans spend more partly because they see their doctors less by design and are discouraged from accessing preventative care), and overall incentive misalignment between doctors, pharmaceutical manufacturers, hospital staff, insurers, HMOs etc that creates runaway effects.

We treat all markets in the same way, but they aren’t all the same. The market for healthcare is different from consumer electronics and the market for plastic surgery (a procedure where I must note there is an option to say no). Reductively put, you can choose not to buy a MacBook Pro. But you can’t choose not to treat sepsis. So why does our literature usually assume that both are the same?
In Singapore, a poster child of modern capitalism, the vast majority of residents live in government-built apartment buildings. In many cases the tenants own their apartment and can resell at market rate after a certain period, but the land (if not the apartment itself) is generally on a 50-year or 99-year lease from the government.

Government regulation isn't binary. Conservatives and liberals in America are blinded by their own prejudices, most of which are shared prejudices :(
Oy, does that mean Authy is vulnerable to this?

https://authy.com/phones/reset/?proceed=true
GNU icecat is a nice firefox fork with all the call home bits disabled at build time.
I had that thought originally too - however the keywords here are "statutory obligation" (basically, legal reasons.) So if the FBI asked them to retain the data, they can do so as long as the FBI needs it.

And the matter of anonymisation is a great question - "irrevocable" anonymisation certainly has a different meaning back in 2011, when swapping a name for a guid would do the job. Nowadays, it would require at least deleting all relationships as well, since social network analysis is much more advanced these days (especially at FB, of all places.) It wouldn't be impossible to derive the identity of an anonymous account/record based on the undeleted data associated with it. And since FB's "ghost profiles" are something we know exist, I think it's safe to assume those relationships are being maintained somehow.
Why does the hash of INF have the digits of Pi in Python?
Sounds like a reason to invest in immortality research to me!
For the most part I do. Americans disparage Muslim practices like this as backward, yet women here get arrested for breastfeeding in public. American puritanical attitudes differ from Muslim attitudes by degree, not kind. I’m generalizing of course. I’m talking about cultures, not every individual.
> which christian values?

"""And one of them, a lawyer, asked [Jesus] a question to test him. “Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law?” And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment. And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. On these two commandments depend all the Law and the Prophets."""

Most people have a hard enough time with those. But, you might say, what about the details? What about white lies and second donuts? That was also covered by Jesus:

"""Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you tithe mint and dill and cumin, and have neglected the weightier matters of the law: justice and mercy and faithfulness. These you ought to have done, without neglecting the others."""

The details might seem inconsistent and controversial, but the basic morality isn't all that convoluted or up for discussion. People just don't like thinking about how everyone is bad at the fundamental stuff.

Anyway, Christian philosophy is pretty coherent even if the people aren't. And it's not clear that your expectations of consistency are required for there to be social benefits to Christian belief in particular or religious belief more generally.
There's one thing I've never understood about this "guessing" technique to find the plain text of a known hash value. Wouldn't the sticker also need to know exactly what hashing function had been used as well as how many times applied (i.e. what the "stretching" factor was)?

Because without that knowledge what would the attacker run their guesses through? And wouldn't that information be hard to get unless you had the full source code along with all relevant configuration?
It's the "small business" tier which they migrated some of their users to, after shutting down the "consumer" version of Crashplan.

I'm pretty sure they ran the numbers and figured that a small number of jokers backing up images of live VMs were using up an enormous amount of disk space. That's likely thousands of dollars of cost for a couple of dollars in revenue per month. I can see how they need to get rid of these people.

Having said that, not notifying their customers beforehand is beyond negligent.
You measure productivity by the time it takes to complete a task. That is both objective and measurable.

How do you define a principled solution versus a hack? All that matters is whether the result achieves the desired business goals without regression, and that is what tests are for. That being said I would gladly pick the 10 minute solution that passes all the tests.

So much of development is bullshit posturing for developers to justify their existence with unnecessary tasks to make things easier for themselves.
It's not about the security, it's about preventing side-channel leaks of the plain password (e.g. incorrectly sanitized logs or buffer overflows). Having a data breach of your site-specific hash is much better than leaking the user's password that an attacker could use on any website.
My brain went the other direction, but my intuition still went to a correct answer. A rope wrapped around the Equator, with the exact length required to be around it, would rest on the ground and be tight. Adding an extra yard would make it loose. Assuming it was frictionless and completely inelastic, anyone could pull it and amass a yard length of length of the rope at their location, and that yard could be distributed to any point along the Equator, which would be noticeable.
> I always find the believability lacking in sci-fi that suggest a civilisation capable of faster than light travel could possibly be interested in trading commodities or manual labour of another.

I think the Stargate universe solved this well; the civilizations capable of building FTL drives (including the one that built stargates themselves) didn't need to trade much with anyone (one of them did use slave labor from other worlds, but for somewhat plot-justifiable reasons). Humanity used increasing amount of FTL tech over the series, but those were either stargates, borrowed, stolen or donated tech, not something humans built themselves - and thus humanity did interplanetary trade.

> the only thing we posses of possible interest, would be our (and our planet's / ecosystem's) uniqueness

That's the core point in David Brin's Uplift saga - ecosystems were the most interesting things a species would own (or rather, lease).
Court Throws Out Lawsuit Against Tor for Providing Anonymous Routing
Or possibly a chemical attack using vaporized plutonium
I procrastinate because the task has no real personal value to me.
Maintainable ETLs: Tips for Making Your Pipelines Easier to Support and Extend
> Often wondered why deathism is so popular and I have come to conclusion it is a protective mechanism against disappointment. People really don’t want to age, but they don’t think anything can be done so they come up with all sorts of reasons it is good.

One reason—not one I necessarily endorse, but a possibility—might be a conviction that people really aren't very good, deep down. Perhaps its cousin conviction that I'm not really all that good deep down.

Put another way, it may be rooted not in a protective mechanism about disappointment as much as a persuasion about human nature.
I agree with you and for a long time I recommended apple to others. But now I don’t feel comfortable doing that anymore because “it just works” no longer holds true.
Your ideology and bias is showing. You're fighting a straw man that has nothing to do with what I said.
Teacher earns six figures teaching Dungeons and Dragons classes online
It's a two year old CPU, but it has active cooling.
if you just rent a windows server used as remote desktop PC, there is no need ICP. In another words, if there is no ICP bind on the server you have, port 80 will be blocked, 3389 ( windows remote desktop ) is still open, and you could login in the windows server by windows remote desktop, and open any browser to browse website like a PC locating in China.
Maybe. They exist because they line up with lots of people's intuition about economics though.
Authy backups are encrypted with a password (at least, if you set them to), so you can't gain access with just the phone number.

However I believe their "OneTouch" system (e.g. Twitch & Namecheap) is linked to phone numbers only, so that could be breached via SMS.

I'd recommend using a standalone 2FA app which can be backed up to your own cloud storage. (e.g. Google Drive/Dropbox)
I am sorry these characters are downvoting you rather than actually engaging with your arguments. Please know that someone else sees it happening and thinks it's... uh... par for the course given the post histories of at least one person here.
Designing custom silicon is an insanely huge job. The cost and time to make the device would've been far higher. Existing SoCs are pretty appropriate for this, tho it is perhaps a shame they couldn't use perhaps a more powerful Tegra or something.
> android developers could just submit their app in both places

Except for US entities barred by the same government decree. Users of many popular online services from ride sharing to social media would be forced to use the mobile web interface.
What makes Star Wars a fantasy series and not sci-fi is that it doesn't even try to be sci-fi. It's a fantasy story reskinned with robots and spaceships. Not being sci-fi doesn't have much to do with being set in the past vs. the future (BSG spoiler alert: for example, Battlestar: Galactica is a proper sci-fi and happens to be set in the past).
Who else would you put in that league?
There's this new device that floods the vestibular system with white noise vibration, which seems to reduce VR sickness. https://uploadvr.com/ototech-vibrating-headband-vr-sickness/
Can you (or anyone, really) show that there were, or were not, any lives saved? That there were people killed is quite easy to show, but showing that there were crashes prevented... that does not even seem provable.
The latter rings true for me; I get a lot more done when I have a pile of stuff to do once I'm finished with the task at hand. If the task at hand is the only one left on my plate, I procrastinate, because what will I focus on after?
Trump Administration Could Blacklist Chinese Surveillance Technology Firm
My wife is a Mongolian Chinese from Xinjiang, and she doesn't have a last name like other Mongolians follow single name convention. That brings lots of mess to our life in Japan.

Firstly I should note that her Chinese passport records her first name as the last name, which I think is a widely adopted way; however, whenever I purchase a boarding pass for her, I need to inquire the company how to fill a required first name field in the form. Most commonly, they let me use a placeholder "MS" in the first name field. Still, even following their instructions, we face minor trouble at ticket counter sometimes. That is fine because the airline offers us compensation such as free first-class seat conversion. So boarding pass is a frequency-wise problem for us.

In severity-wise, the social security system in Japan frightened me. Oh dear. Very soon after I started my career, their representative called me that they would input whitespace (I guess it's in multibyte) as her last name, and told me that they could not guarantee it won't cause any trouble. Imagine you work for 30-40 years and the government's mother-AI sentences that you are not eligible for the national pension as your residential profile doesn't match with the whitespace! Not quite surreal to think about it if the AI learned the less diverse culture in Japan. But I digress. Currently, my wife and I consider registering the legal FBN to use my family name to prevent upcoming troubles.

Software developers, please have a moment to think of the NULL name when your product owner tries to set the first name as required.
Brave browser also does machine learning locally.

It's definitely a value add for Apple users and something Tim Cook relishes throwing in Zuckerberg's face.

Other companies don't seem to care so much. I think a good compromise is having more data in the cloud that can only be decrypted by the user.
It's a reminder that crypto is fundamentally dangerous due to its lack of regulation and compliance requirements, its fundamental irreversibility and lack of authority/censorship. It's a lesson we should all take to heart about what makes for a functional financial system and what doesn't. It's also a lesson about the security of phones.

IMO its great to learn about what goes well but super valuable to learn when people face-plant.
Or: Procrastination is an emotion regulation problem.
It seems patently absurd to think that a P2P network of handsets is somehow going to replace The Datacenter, on any timescale.

Have you noticed that each and every piece of the web has its antiparticle?

The original web was the browser with links and simple graphical presentation, some server scripts and SQL databases. Then we've had single page applications in which links lead nowhere, nosql, serverless. This is like extreme serverless or webless.

If you can think of another basic web element, you can invent some new anti-paradigm that will be loved, hated and discussed endlessly over here.
Cool story. Call me when you come back to reality.
It's not about head motion, but about unnatural motion. Looking forward but running with a joystick, or strafing to the left while looking straight ahead? I get super sick instantly. Exploring a room and looking around where my movements in real life map 1:1 with VR? Zero issues.
>In that light, Huawei equipment that the Chinese government tries to make as immune to the 5 Eyes as possible may actually be preferable.

Unless you're contributing to or benefitting from that 5 eyes intel.

Our governments aren't as averse to these things as you and I are.
> There has been attempts at creating micropayment services on top, these all have failed to gain traction.

I'd argue that Bitcoin's lightning network is gaining traction, and it accomplishes a lot of what you are asking for.
> There are about 100 other parameters whose relative balance determine game theoretical solutions to the problem.

Name three.

I'm by no means an expert on game theory, but accepting the two axioms that are quite explicitly stated in the story, "dark forest" seems to follow quite naturally.
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What a great project. I have a very similar book (1800 Mechanical Movements, Devices, and Appliances) and have a blast flipping through it. It is great to see the illustrations come alive. Great great job!
I wonder what underpins these sorts of targets. Tesla has 177.29 million shares outstanding [1]. At $10/share the market cap would only be $1.77 billion. At first blush that seems like a large discount on Tesla's assets (real estate, facilities, parts on hand, cash/cash equivalents). At the same time Tesla is servicing $12.7 billion in debt [1].

What does $10/share represent? Why not $1 or $30? Genuinely curious about how this sort of calculation would be made and what the assumptions are.

[1]: https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/tsla/key-statistics/
The amount of "let's help women/minorities specifically" programs and scholarships are numerous, but this one caught my eye a few months ago.

> I'm going to give 40 women $9000 stipends to cover their living expenses while they take Lambda School's programming course.[0]

[0] http://foundersatwork.posthaven.com/women-learn-to-program-t...
This is a bad attempt to ridicule the issue. Obviously we're talking about data here that is processable by third parties. Nobody but you can get (reliable) data out of your brain, but pictures of you or information about you kept on recording can be used by third parties for everything ranging from policing to advertisement or anything else.

In Germany for example Google Streetview is mostly not available, because a significant percentage of people considered it unacceptable and have the right to opt out of it, and the company has to blur faces, houses, addresses and so on.
> to the much more threatening terror of the Dark Forest, to the sheer hopelessness of some species altering the very laws of physics as a weapon.

Yup. Reading the implication that the universe has only 3 dimensions because dimensionality reduction weapons were used in past wars triggered a small existential crisis in me.
Moreover, why wouldn't he be using his own company's "industry-leading comprehensive secure" wallet solution which he recommends in the article, for his $100K worth of Bitcoin?
> My mistake. /EOF

ftfy
Ok, think I understand now.

Wasn't trying to take away your rights, but rather the opposite. There's an old saying, "your rights end at the tip of my nose."
I don't know much about religion but to call something like Christianity "wishful" feels wrong...
I mean you have to forgo immediate gratification, marry one person and one person only and never even THINK about another partner, abstain from sexual acts deemed 'immoral' (of which there seems to be many), wish the betterment of all people including your worst enemies, take care of the poor, sick and needy, forego wealth and all things deemed "vain", and at the end of it all hope that you can stand in front of and answer to an ultimate Judge that can make you burn in hell forever...

If this religion was meant to be wishful, I think they could've done a better job. It seems much more wishful to say "nothing matters in the end so I can do whatever I want", don't you think?
Ask HN: Is the “The Art of Computer Programming” Worth the Investment?
Reading through and taking in "The Art of Computer Programming" seems to require massive amounts of time investment. In your opinion is the gems inside the text worth it?
NSView has been flippable since the NeXT days.
What was the wattage on the older models?
This is wonderful, but I am a little disappointed that it wasn't about mechanical watch movements.
I think it depends a lot on the individual congregation. Our previous church was terrible socially: everyone stuck to their own in-groups (which often overlapped with extended family), and there was little mingling outside of Sunday morning. Our current church, however, is incredibly vibrant: we've made many close friends there, and the church community goes out of its way for each other (such as doing extensive landscaping last week for two members fighting cancer). Both of these churches are effectively from the same denomination.
Valve Index is much more interesting high-end VR headset currently: https://www.valvesoftware.com/en/index/headset
Buried in the lede:

"Now that doesn’t mean you can’t espouse pro-life views at Google. You are still free to espouse pro-life views so long as activists don’t perceive those views to be hateful, incendiary, or inflammatory. Just remember that some of these activists also think that women can’t be expected to work at Google if it donates to groups that espouse pro-life views."

How about we all just quit trying to live our lives at work and just go there to work? Political and religious views are personal and we should just keep it that way. Although, I don't lay the blame on the employees. Corporations creating an environment where the lines between professional and personal lives are blurred beyond meaning create these problems. A career is something you do, your views are something you are. That being said, no one is being forced to work for Google either so if someone is that unhappy with the job, just get a different one.
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Thus the emotion of listlessness?
They're two separate sentences.

Many, maybe most people have smartphones.

The most expensive of those have these stats.
You can make a few simplifying guesses. 1. Google uses a lot of go so its likely they use bcrypt, so try that first.
2. Most people arent security experts so dont bother w/ stretching, just do one hash.

Those 2 assumptions right there get you what you want 90% of the time.