skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While the first two might be true for all of us, you def are not useless and I hope you have someone to talk to out there as that sounds like a dark place to be in right now. I highly recommend https://www.7cups.com/anonymous-chat/ or drop me an email at bwbbwb@gmail.com if you want to chat. We all fail, we are all not as smart as we think :), but none of us our useless.
> A lot of this would be solved by knowing how much people make, what they spend it on and where the money came from.

> If you want democracy, let people vote on who is a scumbag, investigate those people's financial history and if it's confirmed, ex-communicate them from society.

I may be reading your point too narrowly but it sounds like you are advocating for a judicial system.
corporations are not people. They don't "learn lessons". They respond to incentives. If this breach didn't cost them dearly, but they still reaped any reward from having had the breach (e.g., saved money on security, and opt to pay the fine instead when they are breached), they will do it again in the future.

A fine is meant to deter as well as punish. If the fine is too small, it won't deter. And certainly if less than the profits earned, it can't punish, nor deter.
Maybe the network can be used to construct the hash function after it has learned the shape of the data.
Given his temperament and amphetamine habit, I have long thought of him as mathematics' wierd convoluted relation of Hunter S. Thompson.
We're seeing a small cottage industry of state-machine verification techniques presenting themselves over the past year. K-framework has its accessibility proofs (ranging over the state space of possible program paths), Manticore has its symbolic state analysis, and a few others do roughly the same thing. None of these frameworks are focusing on improvement of the language or supplementing its features - they're just trying to make up for how easy it is to write bug-ridden EVM contracts! Good on them, but it points to how fundamentally flawed the EVM is by design.
I'm not sure that applies in the free market.

It seems less scofflaw companies aren't offered the chance to serve the same markets because criminal companies are let off too lightly.
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He's in New Hampshire. It sounds legit for a place like Concord or Manchester.

I have that too, and I didn't even try for it. I'm in unincorporated land just north of Indialantic, FL.

I had to check for pubs, because I don't use them. There are some within 5 minutes. In that distance I also get a beach on the Atlantic and a fishing dock on the brackish intercoastal waterway. It's 8 minutes to Walmart and 11 to a commercial airport. My workplace is only 3 minutes away.

Near me, 3-bedroom homes of about 1200 to 2000 square feet on 0.25 acre lots are going for $120,000 to $240,000. For 4-bedroom homes of about 3000 to 4000 square feet on 0.35 to 0.65 acre lots I think you'd pay $350,000 to $650,000. To get up over a million you'd need to be on the beach (sand and waves in your yard) or on the intercoastal waterway (with a dock for your yacht).

It can't be helped if you insist on going to the far-away restaurant and the far-away park. There is always something better, so you'll end up traveling the farthest that you tolerate.
Headers usually work exactly that way. Cookies and cors are oddball exceptions
Because fines like this are often more about sending a message to the entire industry than simply about reimbursing damage. It's saying, "make sure you take security seriously, or you're risking us taking X% of your revenue/value".

If you don't do it this way, you end up in a situation similar to speeding tickets: well-off people don't care at all (and are even probably more annoyed about having their drive interrupted than the actual fine), but it can mean a poor person has to skip meals to recover. If the goal is discouraging a certain type of behavior overall, it has to hurt violators comparably, no matter their wealth.
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What if you end the game on a cliffhanger and sell a sequel?
Not the parent, but because that's all I'm willing to pay for Hollywood's mostly recycled content.

Push the price to more than $30, and I'll just use my antenna and find other things to do. I cut the cable cord years ago, and I lived.

Only when when reasonably priced subscriptions like Prime, Netflix, and maybe HBO or Showtime, often rotated, could be had for $30 / month did I come back to Hollywood.

Exact same for music. I'm old enough to remember making $6 / hour at the grocery store and then taking my paycheck straight to BestBuy to purchase $17 CDs. But ever since I got my first DSL connection about 20 years ago, the music industry hasn't earned a cent off me.

Only recently did Spotify at $10 / month bring me back as a customer. I guarantee you if I start finding songs I want to play are premium priced or missing, or they start raising prices like Netflix, well I guess the music companies won't be getting my $10 anymore either.

The $100 / month for commercial TV that Cox, Comcast, and friends have enjoyed, same as the $17 / CD that the music industry once took for granted, isn't going to work with the next generation like it did with the Boomers. We don't have as much disposable income, and there are too many other options out there.
It's a registry edit, but SharpKeys is a small GUI for editing that part of the registry: https://github.com/randyrants/sharpkeys
I hate to be a downer, but nobody even knew about this space until it was mentioned here. I've been a ham for almost 10 years and this is the first I've heard of it.

The Internet and ham radio don't mix. The rules of the modern Internet are "encrypt everything and trust nothing." The laws of ham radio are literally "you must not encrypt anything". It wasn't meant to be, unless you want to change the laws in every ITU member state. By the time that's done, we will all be accessing the Hypernet with IPv20 from our personal space stations.

Selling off this IP space to Amazon so that some people can get grants is going to make way better use of this resource than than the ham community ever did.

(I like all the people on the nanog list trying to derail it. "Some of the board members don't have ham licenses!" Not actually a requirement to manage a ham radio organization. Only a requirement to transmit a signal. "There is an antique router configuration out there that creates a peering arrangement between the University of California and Amazon that's not authorized!" Guess what guys, they'll probably shut down the arrangement. They're not going to say "welp, there is no way to fix this, here's your money back Amazon!" The thought that that's a possible outcome is making me laugh. I am sure Amazon can find a transit provider if they need one.)
Big brands have the ad budget to advertise. That drives awareness. If they have offline stores, those can be thought of as both destinations AND interactive billboards which drive further brand awareness and demand for branded searches.

Many of the top search queries are navigational searches for brands.

And so if tons of people are searching for your brand then if there is a potentially related query that contains the brand term & some other stuff then they'll likely return at least a result or two from the core brand just in case it was what you were looking for.
Almost like the “war on drugs” doesn’t have much to do with drugs ...
> He asked me if I came into recitation, I said yes. He asked me if I participated in recitation and I said yes.

Non native English speaker here. What does "came in to recitation" mean. Recitation is the act of repeating something. What was the Recitation about and how can you go in to recitation. Could you please explain ?
Exactly! Medical training in the US is unnecessarily long. The med students don't need 4 years of undergrad studies on top of another 4 years of med school. In my home country, 5 years of med school and 2 years of residency is sufficient to train a competent generic physicians (not brain surgeon). Physicians from my country, when they came over to the US to be trained in the residency programs here, found that the medical exams and residency training to be not that difficult (it is extremely difficult to get into one because they are foreigners, but once they get in, almost every one of them become multi-millionaires by their 40s).

My gf externed at a hospital just outside of LA in California. The attending physician there earn ~300K/year for a total of 14 days of work per month. She met two physicians (both from my country again), who work at two hospitals near that area as attendings; they go to one hospital for one week; then work at another the week after; and the cycle repeats. Each of them makes easily >$500K/year (one of them said so to my gf).

Despite majority of Americans are led to believe by doctors, born and trained in the US, that they are the most hardworking folks out there doing 70-hours/week shifts, it is simply an exaggeration. Sure there are some outlier residency programs that made its first or second year residents work maybe 60-hours/week, but 70 to 80-hours? I know so many former and current residents in a the biggest metro area in the US (and another one who just finished her residency at JHU), and asked them about their working hours. NONE of them had to work that much. The average for first year residents is ~50 hours. Then it drops off to normal 40-hours/week starting second year and third years.
In 1968, the year before the moon landing, US cities were literally burning. Martin Luther King was murdered, and so was Bobby Kennedy. In Vietnam, there was the battle of Khe San

The regression of recent years is disturbing, but the US managed to put humans on the moon in times when it was much more divided and unabashedly racist than today. I haven't said anything about greed in general, but remember that the largesse of those times was leaving out large untouchable chunks of the population.
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This coverage leaves out that the expedition and recovery were financed by one of the successful sons of Middlesboro, Kentucky, who put the refurbished plane in a museum airstrip in that town as a trophy. Disclaimer: family hails from near there and Middlesboro needs all the promotion it can muster.
It's like saying that "assembly is fundamentally flawed" because people came up with haskell.
maybe he can, but I know that google cloud's loadbalancer doesn't let you.
You don't think we'll learn anything useful by having an ISS-ish human settlement on the moon?
I can see the case for a central server w.r.t. matching conversation pairs.

My objection is this: Signal (and others) seem to only support smartphone clients well. There's a genuine use-case for a more advanced user who wants to control every aspect of the platform he is using, including exactly when and what packets are being sent to whom. More importantly, the user may not want to process data on a von Neumann machine designed & administered by Apple/Google/Samsung. It would be nice if there were a supported command line interface, where the plaintext & encryption aspect of the protocol were handled separately from the ciphertext network traffic.
> The level of moon landing denial varies by each and every person.

My two personal favourites being the people who believe we didn't go to the moon and get all our technology from aliens, and the truly amazing Krishna version;

>"The Vedic account of our planetary system is already researched, concluded, and perfect. The Vedas state that the moon is 800,000 miles farther from the earth than the sun. Therefore, even if we accept the modern calculation of 93 million miles as the distance from the earth to the sun, how could the “astronauts” have traveled to the moon–a distance of almost 94 million miles–in only 91 hours (the alleged elapsed time of the Apollo 11 moon trip)? This would require an average speed of more than one million miles per hour for the spacecraft, a patently impossible feat by even the space scientists’ calculations.

>Another important reason why the manned moon landing must be a hoax is that, according to the Vedas, each planet has its particular standard of living and atmosphere, and no one can transfer from one planet to another without becoming properly qualified. This means that if someone wants to go to Mars, for instance, he has to give up his present gross material body and acquire another one suitable for life on that particular planet. Vedic knowledge teaches that the living being doesn’t die with the death of the body, but that he is an eternal spirit soul. As Lord Krishna says in the Bhagavad-gita, “As the embodied soul continually passes, in this body, from boyhood to youth to old age, the soul similarly passes into another body at death” (Bhagavad-gita, 2.13). At the time of death the human being transfers to another material body according to the desires he cultivated and the work he performed during his lifetime. Therefore, since the moon has a particular standard of life and atmosphere, if one wants to travel there he has to adapt his material body to the conditions of that planet."

https://krishna.org/man-on-the-moon-a-colossal-hoax-that-cos...
Equifax offered free credit protection to mitigate damages.
Cool! I have to try it.
I just went to download a movie - legally. I have streaming access, but apparently I can't download it for offline viewing (not even within Netflix's DRM'd app).

To me, that's unreasonable, especially since the movie in question is >14 years old - at the time of the founders it would be in the public domain by now!

That being said, Netflix currently has enough content I find it useful - a lot of older shows I never caught on the air like Frasier or Star Trek. But longer term I may ditch it and stick to Prime Video.
> “We essentially ‘trick’ the neurons in the back of the brain to spread around the message that they have received signals from the eyes. Then participants have the sensation that bright arcs or objects suddenly appear in front of their eyes.”

Incredible. Also, the article mentions using a coil to stimulate the receiver's brain. Is this some form of trans-cranial magnetic stimulation?

By the way, in case anyone wants to listen to a decent critical theory lecture on neuralink-esque technologies, here's one by slavoj zizek https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38alQSKtVbA
Yeah if you have tons of free time and want to watch the same DVDs over and over.

Some of us don't have that much time anymore (I did run Plex when I was younger, though). I'm either willing to pay about $$25-$30 / month for a few services like HBO and Prime without commercials*, and available in demand, with plenty of quality series to keep my 1 hour / day TV habit satiated, or I'll just take my ball and go home. Cable TV and $100 / month for 30% commercials is something I can and will live without.
Let's be honest, the average American barely knows what Equifax is.
> The laws of ham radio are literally "you must not encrypt anything"

Wait, really? Why is this the case?
Huh. My experience is the opposite. Somehow my Discover Weekly was mostly mariachi bands for a month. Finally told it I didn’t like enough of them that it got the hint. Now it’s overloaded with Scandinavian adult contemporary or something. It’s like all the other algorithms from one I’ve seen: listen to something accidentally that’s in a niche and it just loads up on recommendations from that niche.
would be great for VS Code to add OpenBSD support (I am using VSCode on Linux and Windows, but would like to move to OpenBSD since I no longer do dev work requiring phone emulators (which are unlikely to be on OpenBSD anytime soon)).

The article also gave me an idea to try SQLTools (I am having lots of trouble with using pgAdmin4... )
Around the time I learned vim I also got myself into the habit of using the opposite hand for Ctrl, the same way you would for Shift. It has pretty much eliminated any need to stretch for a key chord.
That's why I'm studying graph theory and prolog
Nice link. Browsing the related articles is interesting. I wasn't aware that the CIA was alleged to have trafficked opium during their secret and illegal war in Laos. Good to know.
You could use better apples as PB transport. I never buy apples at full price and rarely spend more than $1.29 a lb. for Gala, Fuji or Honeycrisp (they do go on sale now and again)...

Most of the apples I eat are for Almond butter or PB transport... I live for that meal.
> Just a matter of time for ransomware to replace data via APIs.

I asked about this in a cybersecurity meeting at an investment bank a few years ago - how much security is there around Bloomberg's data feed? All of the algorithms that make million & billion dollar decisions rely on that data so I asked if someone stepped in the middle and fed the algorithms bad data or even slightly delayed data would we even know it had happened? They looked at me like I was a crazy person. I'm actually kind of surprised it hasn't happened yet. Or maybe no one has noticed yet.
[I am replying to scottlamb and joshuamorton as well as to you in this.]

Forgive me; I am not speaking from a strong position of grokking Cap’n Proto or Protobuf (I’m casually familiar with them but have really only once used them, maybe three years ago), and I believe I erred in what I said.

For Cap’n Proto, I don’t believe I’m far off the mark: to pick a simple example, extensions may add fields anywhere, and I believe you’re not allowed to skip field numbers, so you can’t just establish a registry of used field numbers and pick and choose the extensions.

proto3 looks like it probably can’t handle this either.

On proto2, though, it looks like I was approximately wrong, and you could have finite extensibility, and maintain a registry of assigned IDs so that extensions can be compatible. I’m not sure how suitable that would be in practice—the examples I see only allot a hundred numbers for extensions, which seems rather tiny; I’d picture allowing at least a million.

Anything like Map<str, str or any or whatever> I’m going to disqualify from consideration because either you use structs in some places and thereby limit the places that extension can apply, or you use maps right through and then get no benefit over JSON.

So I think they’d still be mostly technically unsuitable, but maybe Protobuf v2 would work. And maybe I’m completely wrong still—you’re the expert! But really, unless you get a major advantage out of such a thing, an important consideration is social suitability. Protobufs and the likes are not widely-used, require more effort to work with, and require more involved library support than JSON, which is much more universally understood and handled. Just look at how I’ve been fumbling around with them!
code generated /= text. Most html web pages are still largely written _by hand_ in a text editor. The closest thing to this that exists now is OpenSCAD, a usability nightmare.
What the Apollo landing site and flag look like now
also applies on resume I suppose
Percentage of profits would be a terrible way to fine. Imagining how that could be messed with isn’t hard. Mysteriously there would be no profit and the follow few years worth of expenses would be pre-paid, spent or otherwise brought forward.
> Sounds like a perfect case for publicly funded infrastructure to me.

No thanks. My paychecks, after state and fed taxes, fica, retirement, insurance, etc are down to literally half of my actual salary.

I don't want another few percent pilfered so I can subsidize my fellow Americans' NCIS and Dog the Bounty Hunter habits.
> ...demonstrating damages is difficult.

I still don't see how less than $5 per person who's data was compromised constitutes a reasonable settlement.
Or scrape websites that provide a proxy to the API (e.g. the cloudflare worker he described).
> Why can't video be like music? Spotify and Apple Music aggregate pretty much all the music in the world now

Compulsory licensing in general, and specifically for radio style plays makes a big difference in the rights landscape. Movies and TV don't have anything like that, so you have to get agreement with content owners to do anything.
Thanks for posting this. I'm the guy who did the interview. It took over a year, but I'm happy with how it came out. Hopefully it whets people's appetites to telnet to a BBS and play some TradeWars 2002!
In many schools/universities in the US, recitation is a kind of discussion class where a small number of students attend for more focused problem-solving/teaching
My info is only worth $4.50?
> It's saying, "make sure you take security seriously, or you're risking us taking X% of your revenue/value".

I would believe that if these companies didn't just keep doing what they were doing anyway. Losing a percentage of revenue or profit for one year does nothing to deter them! We need to reinstate the corporate death penalty. Equifax deserves to die for its negligence, IMO.
The gradient of social change in 1968 was pointing the opposite way than today however.
Year ago, Netflix has a "Not Interested" option.

If Netflix was recommending something that you didn't care about, you could use "Not Interested" to make it not show up in your list anymore.

Now, it just keeps recommending these same content over and over again. There's no way to say "I don't want to watch that". There's also no variety to the suggestions.

I agree that "decision fatigue" is a big deal for me.
Ever consider that part of what got us to the moon was the divided and bashfully racist setting (perhaps not the racism itself)?

Contrary to your comment, society - in general, was more uniform and ridged. There were faults, and obvious a repressed 20% or so that were not really even part of society (blacks, hippies, etc). But the norms, the suits, the ties, those who made up the vast bulk of society. They were all people from (or raised during) WWII which had a unifying effect. They were the people who got stuff done like going to the moon, not the 20% impacting social change. Both were necessary to achieve growth, one technological, one social.

Today, we have primarily been focusing on the social aspects of society. Corporations, taking the place of technological growth. Largely, because society doesn’t want the technological growth from the government, they want social welfare and “fairness”. Both of which, we honestly seem to have diminishing returns on at this point.
$4/movie when i could get a month of X service for $8-12/month is kind of too high. Pay per episode for the TV shows I want to watch is too high almost whatever the price (who would pay anything to watch the logan's run tv series??)

Maybe we can get a frequent renter's club. $20/month for 8 movies (two a week) and 20 episodes?
Let's be even more honest: if they did know what Equifax is, what they do, and how long they've been doing it, they would certainly hate them more than Facebook.
> PCs made a lot of fast progress until sometime in the 90s and then things stagnated.

Transistor densities increased 2 orders of magnitude (~100x) between 1995 and 2005. Integer operations were a little less, maybe 1.5 oom, over the same period. When you say that PCs stagnated over that period, in what context did you mean?
Boycott Medium and maybe eventually the pain will stop?
Pandora has almost no variety at all. Even a playlist like "90s Alternative" which should have thousands of potential top songs plays the same songs every time I listen

Google Play Music has been the best for me in terms of variety, but it's buggy as hell. It freezes up if it can't play an ad for some reason, won't automatically play when bluetooth is connected (like Pandora does), and other annoying things. (I ride a motorcycle so I can't mess with my phone if something goes wrong)
A “recitation” session is generally a regularly scheduled classroom session that is not led by the professor or lecturer but by a teaching assistant (TA). These are along the same lines as a “lab” sessions used alongside Chemistry or Physics lectures.