skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This typically doesn't happen. Companies don't pass the increases in taxes 100% to the consumer. By that argument all taxes would be immoral since they directly increase the prices consumers pay.

Now we can argue as to how much said tax is passed onto the consumer and whether or not the additional tax revenue towards various social services offsets the hit. Which is an important distinction to make when choosing what to tax, since some consumers (namely the poorer ones) have less in the way of dealing with modest price increases.

It also could be argued that companies are stealing money from nations they reside in by taking advantage of tax havens or various loopholes to reduce their tax burden. At that point companies starve the various social services and results in consumers being unfairly affected.
macOS has the same convention. Conventional toolboxes are mostly not-Windows and not-Microsoft toolboxes, indicating that even if it's a convention, it'a apparently not a windows-native convention.
Almost - it's that, or the value they can create on their own, whichever is greater, as valued by that person.
Zoom's intention was not to introduce a security vulnerability. That's why I'm calling it a bug.
Are any papers available yet?

Is the bot going for game-theory-optimal play, or trying to exploit weaknesses in other players?
Agreed, the only thing that a showstopper for me is
the money and talent, It is still a struggle to find talented people who want to work for a startup.
California's tax code contributes to housing illiquidity in the SF Bay Area.

A dev who bought a home eight years ago has a substantially different net income after housing and taxes from a similar dev who would be moving to the area.

So there's some merit to the idea that SV/SF have a fixed number of developers for whom salaries in the $150k-250k range are excellent, and another pool of "new arrivals" for whom that salary is decent/good, but results in a substantially lower quality of life. Further raising salaries distorts the real estate market even more.

Since SV/SF/California seems uninterested in the political moves necessary to improve the housing supply (sensibly, as these market changes would negatively impact the voters who have bought into the current system) the natural result is to move to other geographic markets for talent.
We're really focused on advancing the fundamental AI aspect. We're not here to kill poker. The popular poker sites have quite sophisticated anti-bot measures, but it's true that this is an arms race.
If they can speak for all Millennials, so can I... No we didn't.
Socks Should Always Match
Google admits workers listen to private audio recordings from Google home
Google and Nvidia Break MLPerf Records
What the Measles Epidemic Says About America
Which is why Google has offices in Kings cross London very central for rail terminuses
You say transfer like it's coming from the employee. Adam Smith would say the wealth is being created by the resources that the company brings along with the labor that the employee brings.
How does the fact you worked at those companies relate to #4?

Edit: I misread the parent and my question doesn't make a lot of sense. Please ignore it :)
This was 2005. We had dedicated servers in our own cage. I can't remember if we already had replicas. It seems plausible. But actually spinning up a new one would have required more work and convincing than I wanted to do.
> In 2013 I was working in nuclear power plant automation ... the job required reading a lot of assembly code.

Does anyone else find this terrifying? Nuclear power plant automation should be done in the safest of the safe languages. I would be alarmed at the thought of stuff like this being written in C, never mind in assembly!
- They will tax the crap out of anything that moves because of impossibly high, undischargeable pension obligations, and techies will be an attractive target.
Thanks for that pointer, I had only used wondershaper as provided in the Ubuntu package, which is version 1.1a, and horribly broken. I recently had a system that was downloading around 1TB of archive data, and killing the network for other use, so I set up wondershaper on that VM. It did indeed limit it, but I couldn't get it to limit it to anything other than the 768kbps it seemed built to do. I really needed more like 50-100Mbps. I'll have to try version 1.4 on github.
This sort of comment isn't looked highly upon on HN as it doesn't really add to the discussion. It's what the upvote button is for.
> could similarly use your existing sudo ticket

Not with most default sudo configurations. Your sudo ticket exists outside your control as a regular user and, by default, is bound to your tty. An attacker controlling another terminal can't convince sudo to execute commands with your ticket.

> manipulate the memory of your terminal emulator

On some distros this might work but you can absolutely flip a switch to disallow processes running as the same user to access each-other's memory. On secure systems this causes devs a lot of annoyance since they cant attach a debugger.
See also fibridge[0][1]

[0] http://iobio.io/2019/06/12/introducing-fibridge/

[1] https://github.com/anderspitman/fibridge-proxy-rs
The weather is worse, there is less of a gravity effect. Tech workers attract more tech workers because of the liquidity of the employment market.
I live in Europe, you need to put the laptop into a plastic box, with all the cables, etc. It's easy to identify it. I put also personal belongings
The paper is here: https://science.sciencemag.org/content/early/2019/07/10/scie...

It's going for game-theory-optimal play. It doesn't adapt to its opponents' observed weaknesses. But I think it's cool to show that you don't need to adapt to opponent weaknesses to win at poker at the highest levels. You just need to not have any weaknesses yourself.
Thanks.

Some of this stuff seems a tad disingenuous. Like preventing debugging. The debugger APIs on Mac already pop up a password prompt, limiting the usability in malware (and actual use, like trying to debug over ssh). Meanwhile, a culture of producing separate binaries for debug and for end users (debug builds lacking optimization, allowing additional permissions) is in my experience a great way to fail to reproduce legit customer-facing bugs during development and have greater difficulty diagnosing them when they occur on a real live user machine.
People very much care about having to juggle a bunch of accounts and not being able to share things with their friends because they're using a different platform.
The record keeping can be done via data diodes. As for the updates, they can be done by trained hospital staff, doesn't even have to be medical. Remote updates give the manufacturer remote killing abilities. Don't think that such power concentration is a good idea. For governments you kinda need it, but outside of them there is no need.
The ARPAnet was theoretically designed to withstand a nuclear attack. The commercial Internet was not; there are a lot of paths that exist but are not used by policy.
> Foreign businesses providing entirely digital services in France aren't actually receiving any kind of service back from the French government. In other words, this specific tax is just a mechanism for collecting money arbitrarily in exchange for nothing.

You've just ignored all the above posts without addressing them. The other posts make it clear without any counter argument from you that government provides a safe and stable addressable market to do business (and literally the currency).
No, software written in C is and will continue to be replaced by software written in modern memory safe languages; the trend is strong and growing, to the point where we tend to look askance at (1) new software written in C and (2) popular software written in C that doesn't need to be written in C.

The opposite is the case for network connectivity: the trend is demonstrably and decisively towards increased connectivity, and "air-gapping" is not taken seriously in the industry. There is no indication of that changing.

The comparison you're making is invalid. I'm not trying to score points; I'm observing that the litany of "this should be air-gapped" complaints isn't productive, because things are not going to be air-gapped.

(My full-time job is assessing software security and my background is in C software vulnerability research, so it's less likely that I'd be "surprised" by a new C package than that I'd warn my clients to avoid it, and flunk it in vendorsec assessments.)
So the WSJ has implemented an online cancel option, and then done extra work to make it available selectively depending on your address?

Somehow that doesn't really surprise me, but it does disgust me. And reminds me not to enter into any kind of customer relationship with them.
Well I'm not in marketing, and I attribute tons of our growth to good marketing - but I was responsible for the development and deployment of our tech stack. Basically rewrote a legacy platform I inherited (.NET 1.0 WebForms yall on a single Windows server with SQL 2003) from scratch. (2 devs and me as lead). Added a headless CMS (they were literally FTPing .ASPX pages up every night to update the home page). Deployed the whole thing with containers on azure and increase site speed and reliability by a few orders of magnitude.

And now I'm switching it all to shopify plus with no regrets. I learned a hell of a lot coding my own ecommerce platform, and would love to work for a company like Shopify.
I’m not sure that applies to the Shopify argument here, but maybe you didn’t intend it to.
> tendentially

Is this a word? You don't mean tangentially? I'm having a crisis right now.
Don't use system python. Use a virtualenv and install your own python. I would expect system python to only install what is needed.
Its like people don't remember the days of the failwhale.
Reversible computation with flux solitons (2014)
The bot handles each hand independently. How the players play in one hand does not affect how the bot plays in future hands at all.

That said, it did train by playing against itself (before the experiment against the humans began).
It's not revolutionary, but even with the stated two days of work in the original comment, you probably are spending a couple years worth of dollars compared to just using Shopify ignoring the time to find said developer, maintain the relationship if something goes wrong, etc. if you are just trying to get an idea off the ground.
I've used the Racket FFI for some important tasks, and it's very easy to use. However, it's not as fully baked as the Python one (I've found bugs due to GC interactions) and it's weirdly slow (a few too many levels of wrapping). That said, I still use Racket extensively and enjoy it.
tmux is NOT part of the OpenBSD project, it is independently developed.
As much as I don't like interns, I am sure that they wouldn't even touch a system of the scale like Twitter's in my opinion. /s
I have to try the bay leaves.
Thanks for these pointers.
Well, you can always email patches.
Website down for maintenance?
This question is addressed in the book "The Innovators" -- https://www.amazon.com/Innovators-Hackers-Geniuses-Created-R... -- and it's posed something like this: was the internet invented by DARPA researchers who wanted a nuclear-proof communication system which could dynamically route around broken/gone segments of the internet, or by a groups of academic-based hackers at universities around the country?

The answer is... both. Yes, DARPA wanted a self-repairing communications network but the computer hackers at MIT, Harvard, Utah, and the Bay Area would have likely produced something very similar without government being involved. One interesting legacy from the DARPA funding is the RFC nomenclature: the students designing TCP/IP couldn't "specify" anything without risking their funding, so a public "Request For Comment" was a way to publish how they were implementing things -- and how others would need to do it also if they wanted to be compatible.
But in reality, a share of the tariff is paid by the supplier and a share is paid by the consumer.

And if I remember my classic macroeconomics class correctly, that share depends precisely on the elasticity of demand (slope of the demand curve).
Racket also has contracts that can enforce conditions in an alternative way to types: https://docs.racket-lang.org/reference/contracts.html

EDIT: I mean in addition to Typed Racket
I'm wondering how long until poker games will require a captcha on every round
‘Robot Umpires’ Debut in Independent Atlantic League
...except that a "grandfather" was taken to be 50 years, since what matters is not the length of an individual life, but the time between generations (and the transmission of extelligence). James Burke used it as well in his Connections 2, noting that when his grandfather would tell him about his grandfather telling him about how things were when he was a lad, we were already back to the heart of the industrial revolution.
The voting around this chain is really disappointing for a community that at least claims to be more well-versed in technical and math areas. Statistical claims that parrots Tesla's marketing is upvoted, a request for citation is heavily downvoted, and a flawed statistical presentation is upvoted while critiques are downvoted.
Smoot–Hawley Tariff Act
I have seen fixed limit AI, and here is now no limit AI. Is there a pot limit AI?
> First, how does the machine get updates?

Like every non-networked digital camera I've ever owned: put some fwupdate.bin file on a SD-card, plug it in and run some procedure on the device.

If a DVD are used, the techs can locally burn an .iso image onto a blank as an alternative to getting it in the mail.

Logs can also be gathered from the machine on removable media.

Medical records can be available via some non-airgapped laptop. Maybe something can be integrated into the machine, but the control of actual dangerous parameters for therapy or anaesthesia should be air-gapped. Manual entry only.

Operators can still be duped into entering malicious values manually, but at least there is a fighting chance for some oversight.
>Why would anyone advertise to french customers if there is no functioning french economy

Political propaganda/advertising is a great investment in times of choas/crisis.

>How would french consumers pay for satellite access without a functioning economy?

Use crypto currency or foreign currencies.
Oh no! How will we participate in the Two Minutes Hate!?

Get this to the top of the page! Everybody! TWITTER IS DOWN!!!!!!!
It's not spyware but it's user-hostile, insecure, undocumented, uninstallable-by-the-usual-process software.

Most of the insecure software that I run has enough grace to not silently leave behind a web server to automatically re-install itself after I dumped it in the trash can.
Thank you! Yes, your understanding is correct and your explanation is lovely. Much appreciated.

A thing to clarify is that you're not really deploying code in 50ms. It's more that all the code you write is in production, behind a feature flag. But, you cant change unflagged code and you also cant change the old code, you can only set a flag that some users see the new code.
There's also a %tage of sales where the 'build vs buy' argument makes sense in the other direction. Obviously, most sellers of physical goods have better reason to focus on growing revenue and promotional activity, not cutting costs. That break-even point (I think) is some where around $250K/yr revenue, but that calculation depends on margins and the relevant industry matters (from a future planning perspective).
I've found that Typed Racket is still fairly hard to use. For example, type classes aren't there, and type polymorphism interacts poorly with general-purpose functions like "equal?". I would guess that ML or Haskell code translates fairly naturally, but there aren't the guide-rails those languages have to keep you in the subset of the language that type-checks well.
However:
1) Software (&c.) is not the dominant industry, so rising salaries in software does not have an outsized effect on the real estate market.

2) The NYC housing market, unhealthy as it is, is healthier than the SF Bay Area's. NYC is somewhat less geographically constrained and, importantly, has excellent public transit infrastructure for long-distance commutes from lower-cost outer suburbs.
3) Come on man, you can't just go around opening parentheses and then not closing them.
Does something like this exist for Java eclipse?
https://www.dictionary.com/browse/tendential
The second story had me in tears. Especially given that I'm building a similarly scary query right now (thankfully not against live).
A credit-card theft ring is scanning for unsecured buckets in Amazon's cloud
Reddit goes down pretty frequently. It's been that way for years.
We talk about this a bit in the paper. Based on the feedback from the pros, the bot seems to "donk bet" (call and then bet on the next round) much more than human pros do. It also randomizes between multiple bet sizes, including very large bet sizes, while humans stick to just one or two sizes depending on the situation.
What's the name of the bot? Please say its Poker McPokerface
Have you seen cppyy?

https://cppyy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
I don't see how doas would mitigate this thing at all. It doesn't really matter how the window with root shell was originally elevated (sudo, su, doas etc).
Slightly worse versions are already out in the wild. Bot using the published technique will be live in a couple of months tops.
I agree but Chicago has a bit of a commute issue still. I'm assuming most execs and more senior employees would want to live in the north shore area like new trier and new trier->loop is a bit more of a commute than los altos->mountain view.

Also I think people unfamiliar with Chicago don't understand the nature of its crime issues (namely that it's just as safe as other big cities as long as you avoid the worst areas).

One other potential issue is that a lot of the good software engineers in Chicago are working for reasonably high incomes at trading companies which maybe big tech doesn't want to compete with or has culture concerns

And municipal corruption. But other than all those it's great
TL;DR Do not run untrusted nor not-fully-understood software as a user which is allowed to do anything, or maybe ever.
Does it support Range requests?
This is fascinating stuff. So do I understand this right, Liberatus worked using computing the Nash equilibrium, while the new multiplayer version works using self-play like AlphaGo Zero? Did you run the multiplayer version against the two-player version? If yes, how did it go? Could you recommend a series of books / papers that can take me from zero to being able to reprogram this (I know programming and mathematics, but not much statistics)? And how much computing resources / time did it take to train your bot?
And in addition, from the guidelines:

> Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.
Google the first bit of that sentence. It's likely just some generic ToS they used. But yeah, still not good.

That said, I'm a happy user of Privacy.com It's great.
Google, Twitter, Reddit, Facebook, etc, all legally operate in Russia.
It is not a matter of quality. By definition public transport cannot connect all the dots on the map. It is simply impractical or rather impossible. The car gives us freedom of movement that nothing else can currently match. You personal anecdote of taking public transport doesn't invalidate other people use cases and needs, because what works for your situation doesn't necessary work for everyone. If I may use a CS analogy: public transport is like a collection of linked lists and a car is like one giant dictionary. Totally different use cases.
Fair enough. I will remember for next time.
The downvotes are because the pessimists are asking for data that doesn't exist (due to how new most EVs are in general), and ignoring data that does exist (that EVs don't spontaneously combust as frequently as internal combustion vehicles).

No one is parroting Tesla's marketing (I'm unsure where they even market "our cars don't catch fire" explicitly), and the only way to accurately make a determination will be to wait until the average vehicle age of the EV fleet arrives at parity to the existing internal combustion fleet (as you mention in your own comment [1]).

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20190711204039/https://news.ycom...
Interesting, I'll follow him from mastodon.social (yay for federation!)
A Technical Hiring Process Revisited
Thank you for the comment!!

I actually just checked in with Stripe because that sounded awesome! They say that the funds that customers put in via ACH are not able to be drawn upon for up to 5 days, until the transaction "succeeds".

We are slightly worried about using a credit card / line of credit as a buffer to that 5 day ACH, as it would be super risky as we could easily blow past a $100K credit line in the few days ACH would take to settle, leaving us high and dry.

If customers were to "pre-fill" accounts, that would allow for some really cheap funds, though :O Thank you so much for that tip!
There's also Boost.Python, which boasts "seamless interoperability between C++ and Python": https://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_70_0/libs/python/doc/html/i...

(In general, the Boost C++ libraries are well-renowned in the C++ world.)
Prometheus metrics exposition format supports user-defined timestamps [1]. There is an alternative time series database - VictoriaMetrics - which supports data ingestion in Influx line protocol, while providing Prometheus querying API with PromQL [2].

[1] https://godoc.org/github.com/prometheus/client_golang/promet...

[2] https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/
LIC is served by 5 subway lines, a commuter rail line with two stations in the area (and a third in progress to serve a new commuter rail connection to Manhattan), a ferry, and multiple bus lines, with various connections between them all. It is one of the best served neighborhoods as far as transit goes, even compared to Manhattan.
Yeah that is a really interesting insight. I presume that also makes optimization much simpler. The rules are fixed. Opponents are not.
What is the definition of "mainstream"?
I severely dislike public facial recognition systems, but wouldn't it basically be the same if a police officer mistook her for someone else based on a sketch or a composite? The scale is obviously different though.
Another possibility: US (or other) authorities are requiring some sort of monitoring software or hardware that where disruption of service is unavoidable during install
I think the ideal use case for Shopify is if you are an existing physical store (i.e. a popular restaurant or tourist attraction) and want to sell branded merchandise (i.e. T-shirts or keychains for Harry's Hotdog Shop) or an existing organization with existing awareness (popular open source software) and want to dabble in merchandising (i.e. sell some branded T-shirts and other schwag).
Ops engineers don't get paid enough to fix dev fuck ups enough as it is. No amount of beer is going to fix that.
Can you clarify what redefining problems would mean (with an eg)?
As Racket moves to Chez Scheme as its back-end, I believe it’s not JIT but natively compiled: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chez_Scheme

EDIT: it should also allow Racket to be ported to more backends because the move to Chez is meaning more of Racket is implemented in Racket.
This charity focuses on tree planting and this page has a breakdown on the costs a bit down the page: https://onetreeplanted.org/pages/about-us
U.S. government posts $8B deficit in June
Out of curiosity, would you say most French people think the same way? I ask because I'm American and we really hate taxes here.
I started avoiding the word 'own'