skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Economists have not necessarily been blind to social needs - policy makers and politicians benefiting from a revolving door of oligarchs enabled by various institutions culturally stationed to manipulate a larger population into working under these few for smaller and smaller pieces of power. Milton Friedman made it quite clear that a free market doesn’t provide a social safety net in any way and that a population that doesn’t succeed in the market should need some basic way to survive or we’s face huge social unrest. While America had social security and Medicare early on, we’ve dismantled their efficacy with a toothless, captured government while private sector has gained in power enormously in the form of multinational corporations the Founding Fathers all distrusted (they were no fans of the British East India Company).

I think we’ll have one or two more larger scale revolutions before people around the globe learn that consolidated power of any sort whether it comes from religions, the public masses (populism), government, corporations, or perhaps even science is dangerous.
>If you've looked through any number of the NSA or CIA leaks (Vault 7, for example) you'll have seen a device that looks like a standard Ethernet magjackn+ USB connector that has a little tiny processor embedded inside of it (it leaches power from the USB power rails, IIRC) that can be used to exfiltrate packets and the like.

I don't see how that's related? PCs right now don't make use of the kind of cryptographic lockdown iPhones do. In the case of desktops that's likely because it's assumed physical security can be taken as more of a baseline, though in the case of notebooks it's probably more just inertia. The whole "right to repair" movement is precisely because this has been changing. I mean, what you wrote directly argues the case for locking down of hardware, encrypting everything along the busses between chips or having destructive tripwires or both, and so on.

>It's not impossible to get bugged when you send your PC in for repair. It's also probably unlikely considering that there's many other easier ways to grab your data.

The nature of security though is that it's worth being forward looking to what will come down the line in the future. Particularly if we're talking about legislating it and putting the force of law behind making one decision or another, which tends to then be quite difficult to change. Isn't it worth being cautious about?
I wouldn't support that myself.

This particular problem, payments, I think is an ok thing to solve on a global level though, since it's the same everywhere basically, and they are involving NGOs and non-profits so there is buy-in from orgs that don't make profit and have good context into the real problems in emerging economies.
Can you maybe substantiate this a little? I don't understand why a company recording the meetings of their employees, on company time and regarding company business, would be illegal.

(An individual doing so, on the other hand, might be problematic.)
It is possible for both to be true: For many children, if they have not had early childhood intervention, by 8 years old it is too late, but that for any individual child, they can still improve their lot later in childhood (or even, of course, well into adulthood).

As a similar example, it is extremely likely that a child who is overweight or obese by middle school will be overweight or obese their entire life, and many scientists and clinicians believe that it is much easier to prevent childhood obesity than try to correct the weight imbalance later on. That doesn't mean that some people who are overweight kids won't eventually lose the weight and keep it off.

Hanging on to the hope that people can change at any point in life does not mean we should ignore the fact that many of our personality and social "guiderails" are laid down pretty early.
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> raverbashing 35 minutes ago [-]

> It's becoming clearer with each day that Zuckerberg has no concept of morality or humanity
Lose your facebook account and you totally lose your ability to do business, get paid, or just participate in the economy. Facebook wants to be more powerful than governments. People that want that kind of power love to use it.
Obviously I would publish immediately in as many public forums as I can and wait for the sweet, sweet upvotes, stars, retweets, likes and karma to roll in.
This serial number protocol seems deeply insecure.

The server should be sending a ticket, an encryption of the serial number, to the client, and expecting that back. It should be salted by the client id.
that was years ago. I don't remember when. It also didn't last long.
That's not flamebait, it's the crux of the matter.

It comes across as a dry description of reality to me. Apparently some people can't read it without thinking it's some kind of knock against China.
This is happening way before the JIT phase, at the parsing phase.

And the reason it can't be as fast as a JSON parse is explained in the article: The grammar of JSON is much simpler. The literal parser in normal JS needs to deal with things like:

const data = { foo: /* something*/ 42, [barRef]: 1337 };

so needs to do more branching than a JSON parser. And yes, you can pre-scan the string to make sure it's not doing anything like that... but that probably already costs more than the tokenizer phase of a JSON parse, and it's overhead you still need to do that a JSON parse doesn't have to do.
Maybe his dad taught him a valuable lesson!
That is GNU Jami?
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That's a great question. I'm pretty sure enterprising locals will start up "exchange banks" that interface with larger "authorized resellers" that interface with the Libra Association to turn cash into Libra. So you would go to a local exchange and turn your cash into Libra.
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Just Tarex teams and Mossad by themselves would be a big threat. NSA has the visibility to de-anonymize even some people on Tor. Most mathematicians aren't exactly computer security geniuses. NSA might not even need to work that hard. Then, they have plenty of partners for grabbing whoever or whatever the target is.

https://theintercept.com/2014/10/10/core-secrets/
The Kochs do not wish to "dismantle government". What does that even mean? As an anarchist I can tell you that they do not fall in my camp and frequently use large governing bodies to their advantage.

What about "old-fashioned New Deal liberal" and "fire-breathing right-wingers" could possibly be more oversimplified?

Not only are we comparing apples to oranges (liberal to right-wing; "liberal" and "left" are independent tokens) but we are calling Kochs fierce right-wingers despite many of their beliefs and actions standing in stark contrast against right-wing politics. Both parties have good and bad characteristics, both have characteristics that do not square snuggly into either of the round holes presented.

That is deceitful, lazy journalism. The journalist wanted to set up a dramatic angle which showed two "completely incompatible" people coming into agreement about something which their presented oversimplified world views should not allow.

By choosing drama and oversimplification in lieu of accurate reporting, the journalist demonstrates that they are not qualified to have the kind of mature political dialogue one would assume The Boston Globe would like to display.
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Does that resolve the problem, or just add another variable to the analysis?
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I also suspect that some of these "oversights" aren't mistakes at all, but rather intentional obfuscation of facts.

Take note of how often you hear/read something like "incomes haven't risen in 30 years, but prices have gone up over 50% over that period". [Almost?] Inevitably, the income will be real income [inflation adjusted] and the prices nominal prices.
So... if this work this would essentially concentrate a lot of world market capital power in the hands of 100 multinational companies? Wouldn't this take away power from governments (especially small countries), which are the manifestation of the sovereignty and power of individual peoples'?

This sounds like a an extremely bad version of what the TPP aimed to achieve.
How's the bandwidth?
It can easily be both. In such a case the flamebait is the higher-order bit.

Preserving the container here matters more than rightness or wrongness. Indeed, nothing will burn this place down faster than flaming rightness.
I was a skeptic, but Asad Memon's "UrduScript", although it could just as easily be called "HindiScript" due to its usage of the Roman alphabet, made me realize that this would have been a game changer in my freshman year or anyone from the Indian subcontinent just starting to program. For Hindi/Urdu speakers, the "why (kyun?)" section here - https://asadmemon.com/urduscript/ - is a fun read. Although I have always studied in an English medium school, I distinctly remember being confused by the simple term "invoke". It was just not a part of my regular vocabulary, and I felt it was something more complicated than what it seemed. Turns out if I had something like UrduScript I would have been more confident in my early days. Having said that, I think such languages are most useful as a teaching aid rather than a serious production language.
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If you gave people the chance to learn you would find plenty of candidates. If you look for developers with elm experience you run into supply issues.
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It's probably too late by the time the child was born. Those stupid violin lessons or summer programs are not really a sign of competence. They are just a status symbol of rich families that can afford to let their children enroll in private school and an expensive ivy league college.

If you were to ask me then honestly it's only too late when you're 16 years old. At that point you should already know what type of college degree you want and you should have at least some experience in whatever you're going to spend 4-5 years of your life studying. But this has more to do with "finding yourself" than economic opportunity. If all you want to be is a corporate drone with a paycheck then you just need to look at the average salaries and the dropout rate to make sure you don't fail at something you're not passionate about.
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Actually in China they do track people and then round them up by forcing them to install apps on their phones (https://www.ibtimes.com/china-forces-muslims-install-anti-te...) which is not that far from putting an RFID chip under their skin. If RFID chips were cheaper than install a phone app I’m sure they’d do that instead.
On the other hand, python gives us 'x is not y' which is equivalent to 'not(x is y)' and not 'x is (not y)'. Which can surprise even native English speakers
Oh my. What else should Facebook do for you not to trust their word?

Do you think Zuckerberg just magically became a trustworthy person?
I was skeptical and checked some images. Wow.

No number pad on laptops was bad enough (but understandable). Now no super, home, or end keys. Caps lock (probably the only key I never use) seems to have been replaced by a search button. An external keyboard is now an absolute requirement for power users I guess.

Oddly enough, there does seem to be some sort of Google branded key on the left side of the Pixelbook keyboard. Not on any of the others I checked though.
>I realize immigration policies are complicated and obviously political, but the US seems to be going about it in a pretty stupid manner.

You should see the EU then.
Vaccines actually work in a way that seems too good to be true. And yet they still work, imagine that!
In a consumer driven economy, with a savings rate of around 7%, most people are spending the vast majority of their income on consumption [competing with other consumers for some scarce goods], why would we think that median real income should increase significantly faster than inflation?
Not odd at all, it's easiest to get them involved cause these people all know each other, obviously.

I don't think most of the new 70+ members they add by next year should be in SV, or even in the US necessarily, and it would be dumb if they did that.

I don't think collusion is a huge risk:

1. Many of these companies are direct competitors (Visa, Mastercard, Paypal, Stripe, etc.), you would need the silence of ALL of them in order to get away with some manipulation (cause they can all independently validate) AND

2. They would have to somehow spoof the public Validator API they are planning (which allows us peons to validate the ledger), without anyone noticing.

That's quite a caper, I think there are easier ways to make money at that point that are way less risky.
An Wang, the founder of Wang Computers and the guy who essentially invented RAM (really core memory) came via this route: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Wang
So, what the bankless need is banking services. This seems like a fairly convoluted way of bringing them to people. Visa, et. al could just set up shop in these areas, but they haven't yet. I guess this comes down to:

1. Are there enterprising individuals that see value in operating local exchanges for Libra <-> local currency?

2. Do Facebook's users in these areas see enough value in obtaining Libra (including the overhead transaction costs of switching to/from Libra) to be worthwhile, for access to goods/services that would otherwise be unavailable via local currency?
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FWIW, Facebook for years also said that they care about our privacy.

Now, in court, they argue that there's no expectation of privacy on Facebook.

They are just now telling you what you want to hear but that's probat not what they will do.
I would also be interested in the cost of developer time lost by using the language itself and compensating for it’s almost entirely lacking standard libraries.
Imho, OOP is part of a greater puzzle.

There are domains where OOP fits perfectly, there are domains where functional programming fits perfectly, there are even domains where imperative programming fits perfectly.

We're constantly searching for the perfect fits-it-all solution which we haven't found yet. From my POV this is why there are some competing standards, which all have their merits but on a first glance exclude each other.
> Facebook CANNOT reverse lookup what non-FB Libra account maps to whatever person

Sure they can. They're already tracking non-members today. It's trivial to extend this to whatever Libra data they can get. Yes, it's not 100% certainty in most cases, but that doesn't make it less dangerous.
I don't need to trust his word, that's the beauty of doing it this way. I just need to trust Swiss law, market dynamics of competitors, and math.

FB isn't dumb, they know they're reputation is in the toilet right now.
You do know that non competes are not for protecting trade secrets right?

You wouldn't get a 2 year non compete for a FSTE 100 CEO in the UK to stand up in court.

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I used OS2 a lot, both version 2.1 and later Warp 3 back then. While it was really powerful (not to mention a lot more stable) compared to Windows 95, it was also heavier and slower. IBM advertised Warp 3 as something that could run in 4 MB or RAM; that was no different from Microsoft stating 20 years later that Vista could run in a half GB RAM. Yes, the system loads, but you sadly can't do much with it save for looking at the shiny icons and enjoying the sound of the hard drive constantly spinning.
Unfortunately back then RAM modules were so expensive that being forced to upgrade to 8 MB to have an usable system would make a difference, so although once upgraded the RAM OS/2 could become a huge step forward from windows, most people simply wouldn't spent that money.
Because of the huge productivity gains over the past 42 years. The profits from those gains all collect at the top.
Which explains my anger over this seemingly insignificant detail.

The fact is, our entire perception of people we have never met is shaped by propaganda. We cannot even have meaningful conversations about the actions of these people if we have to spend the most useful and engaging part of the time someone will give attention to a conversation just explaining the rules.
Jami is a completely separate project, their only relation is both being GNU-affiliated.
Where's your figure for polluting ten times more?

If this is all from (currently) dirty electric grids, then aren't you arguing against cleaning up the grid, because the grid is dirty? That doesn't seem to make much sense.
> he even named his dumb project along the lines of the Winkelvii's crypto currency exchange

I hadn't made this connection before (although I'm sure it has been made many times in the bitcoin and cryptocurrency space already). Just to spell it out: the Winklevi's cryptocurrency exchange is called Gemini, the first air sign in the zodiac and also the sign of twins. Libra is the second air sign and also the sign of scales, or measuring & balance.
I think of driving a motorcycle every day as being quite dangerous. In fact, I would have assumed occasional skydiving would be safer. Though of course it depends on how often one is skydiving.
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Nothing needs to be thrown in the garbage. My point is only that insurance costs money, and not everyone may see the need to pay it. So it shouldn't be built into the cost of everything. I myself currently uses an iPhone 6 and recently paid to have its battery replaced.
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What exactly is GNUnet? It says it is supposed to replace the old internet stack, but that it also runs on top of it? It looks like it is some kind of research project, so do I just not have enough background information to understand what they are saying?

Can anyone ELI5 what GNUnet is and why I should care about it?
I added more to my comment while you replied. The comment in question isn't flaming rightness at all.
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> This isn't a data play, it's very clearly a play at getting a bunch of people in developing markets that can only pay with cash right now the ability to pay online

Just like Facebook Zero was simply a play at getting a bunch of people in developing markets with no internet access a way to use the internet and not just a way to use Facebook as the internet?
I didn't say you were. :)

If anything its more damning.
THAT is the real conversation we need to be having.

My issue is everyone is talking about this being some secret data play or Facebook owning a currency instead.

I agree that there are concerning attributes when talking about a world where fiat currency has a true global alternative (if Libra works).
Oh, you keep saying in your comments that Facebook isn't dumb.

I agree.

Facebook's leadership is smart. They know what they are doing. They just hope that most of us would be dumb enough to believe them.
Damn they're growing fast. Last September I tried to setup it up but there was no service because the trees in Tompkins Square Park. Will have to give another looksie.
What's the liability involved in participation in such data collectives as hosts? From running a Tor exit node to un/wittingly seeding leaked restricted docs, someone who believes in digital freedom of speech and open access to information can unknowingly poke a beehive by trying to do their part.

What are the latest books, communities, or cross-jurisdictional resources that pragmatically outline the risks involved for individuals running a computer servers hosting other peoples' stuff? The EFF comes to mind, but I know they're a small team and there might be a more focused group.
Same here up until a certain point.

If I'm working on a difficult problem and I've spent hours/days/weeks getting nowhere, I view constant procrastination as a signal that I need to step back and do something else. Once I step back and do something unrelated (even washing the dishes or ironing), I usually have a breakthrough on the issue.

Procrastination also cripples me if I let it get out of control. Have you ever had a 2 hour work day between 7 hours of Reddit/HN?
You don't need to read their marketing materials to understand why they don't have full control. Read the whitepapers on the Libra site. (or read my top comment on this thread)
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10 minutes a day is all you really need to get started. There is basically no way one can reasonably convince themselves that they don’t have 10 minutes to spare per day.
The ZuckBuck has the potential to achieve massive adoption thanks to the hundredth monkey effect. It would be awesome if somebody like Brian Acton would tweet the #ZuckBuck hashtag. This is an awesome opportunity to brand this ridiculous proposal with possibly sticking language network effects.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hundredth_monkey_effect
Maybe if they were secretly recording but its common knowledge they are all recorded so people can refer back to them if necessary.
Cryptocurrency and blockchain technology have opened up permissionless innovation in an industry that has been so choked by regulation that previously only the largest, most well-connected players could get in the door: finance.

You can, right this second, create a smart contract that allows extremely sophisticated financial instruments and attract real users. The initial shoots of innovation are already happening, such as MakerDao's Collatorized Debt Positions (CDPs)[0] and Compound Finance for money market crypto instruments.[1]

Regulators and governments can stick their fingers in their ears, outlaw the technology, and drive everything offshore or underground. The point is that these technologies are permissionless and unstoppable. As long as the internet exists, you can't eliminate such technology and behavior.

Rather than knee-jerk outlaw progress in the industry by projects such as Libra, governments need to let the industry mature and eventually pass laws that protect consumers without stifling innovation. HN users especially need to embrace their so-called "hacker" roots and stop lobbying for the state to crush such innovative technology in its infancy.

Seriously - the outrage to blockchain and crypto on HN is entirely absurd. This is cool, interesting technology and entrepreneurs should be analyzing it for its disruptive potential rather than whining that there aren't enough licenses and bureaucrats involved.

[0] https://makerdao.com/en/

[1] https://compound.finance/
I agree that a real global currency controlled by a group of corporations instead of (in many cases anyways) elected governments is a concerning concept that we need to really analyze.

My issue is that experts right now are instead just dismissing Libra is a dumb idea that will simply never work. It isn't dumb and it definitely could, I wish they would consider that for a second and talk about whether it SHOULD work.
It's hard advice but especially at a small company with potentially no formal processes the best you can do is prepare for any outcome. As with all aspects of life, be kind, thoughtful, and reasonable, but do not always assume others will be the same to you.