skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Very different kind of trust. To serve a warrant at my home, agents of the government have to be physically present, and they have to give me a copy of the warrant printed on a sheet of paper. The physics of that situation provides auditability. If the warrant was not genuine, the people who served it would go to prison.

Cryptographic back doors are totally different. It is not possible to build a back door that has auditability built into its basic physics the way warrants do. That the thing that William Barr doesn't understand. His mindset is something like, "If we can send a man to the moon, surely we can make a way for law enforcement to break encryption that doesn't threaten people's rights." Well, no, we can't. Sending a man to the moon is merely difficult. A back door that only "the good guys" can use is actually impossible.
As long as the "thing" in question is perfectly legal, it makes much more sense to pressure government to create better regulations, not denigrate law-abiding businesses because they aren't voluntarily adhering to our individual versions of fairness or morality.
> It's equally clear that most of what we associate with consciousness, such as thinking, awareness of the body and the moment and time and decision making and ... doesn't exist either. Because time and time again studies prove that when a decision is made (this is well studied in traffic for instance) there are no conscious reasons. Reasons only happen afterwards.

Since a person can tell what they experience and what they do not, the distinction between conscious experience and unconscious processing must have a base in physical reality (brain activity). With sufficiently advanced technology, one could analyze the brain processes and see which processes are associated with the reported conscious experience.

The fact that not all brain activity is associated with conscious experience in no way implies that conscious experience does not exist.
Does it still work after the recent API changes that killed Tweetbot and other apps? I had this set up a few years ago and miss it but assumed it was done for alongside the others.
A price increase of 4% on an already-premium-priced burger isn't going to drive away all your customers. Nobody stops going to a burger place because a burger went from $13 to $13.52.
I do like using JWT.
But its point is to offer flexibility. If you fix the entire header i.e. use a single signature method, you might just as well concat that signature directly.

In other words if you stop utilizing JWT, you won’t have JWT specific problems.
I can think of a few ways to make this a real pain for law enforcement. Sure I use my crypto to encrypt a tunnel then you use yours to encrypt a tunnel etc.... Make an onion out of the cryptosystem and law enforcement has got to get piles of warrants to cut through the various layers.

It's stupid, sort of like a fourth ammensment onion router
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20520181
It's true that income disparity is natural, and I would argue that it's good up to a point. We don't need everyone to earn the same and have the same standard of living. Work harder, make more! We just need to ratchet down the greed and manage the gap a hell of a lot better. I suspect an income ratio at or under 8:1 is sustainable, not 300:1 like we have now... especially since many of 300:1 mega-corps are subsidized through massive tax breaks.

This doesn't have to be Russian oligarchs in charge of your bread rations. We just need worker co-ops, aka democracy in the workplace. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mondragon_Corporation for a working example of an alternative.

Say you're an experienced developer. Maybe it would be OK if you only made twice as much as the lowest paid individual at your company? Maybe it would be OK if the CEO only made three times as much as you?
>When reporters discover the people behind pseudonymous lobbying fronts, they don't report only the pseudonyms to protect the real identities involved

Apples and oranges are different, yes. A private individual communicating independently is a much different thing than a lobbying front.

>Isn't this just Reddit's weird norms leaking into the real world?

It could be that online culture might know a thing or two about the downsides of exposing people's identities, especially when done by journalists with large audiences.

>Or is it just the case that, as one friend said on Slack, "doxxing is when someone you don't like posts information about someone you do like"?

Do some people have double standards about doxing? Sure. Double standards are pretty common in general.
This maybe? http://pdfkit.org/docs/vector.html#svg_paths
Are We Making Artificial Intelligence Inefficient Molding It to Human Thinking?
> The Tech Industry Is Building a Vast Digital Underclass

It'd change this title to "capitalism is building a vast digital underclass". Decisions are carried out by algorithms, but made by people. All "the tech industry" is doing is optimizing capitalism with new methodologies, but at the end of the day it's the same incentives that build the systems in the first place.

This has been studied and known for a while: economists have speculated that capitalism would invariable result in a vast underclass with concentration of capital in a small portion of the population.

Let's not blame this or focus exclusively on the tech industry: the current wave of hate towards tech isn't but the realization that tech companies are businesses too, and so will do what they need to do to grow the business as much as possible and extract capital for the gain of their investors.
I agree, teens dont use facebook. But in College, everything changes. Its the easiest platform to coordinate events across hundreds of people you might not even know. Theres just a bunch of cases that no other platform covers, like finding clubs and events, promoting your party, or even selling donuts to fundraise. It does everything on one platform that everyone has. We don't like facebook, but there is simply no alternative.
Bernardo Kastrup has written some compelling books arguing that idealism is more rational and skeptical than materialism. The best introduction is probably Why Materialism Is Baloney. A more academic version, consisting mostly of peer-reviewed papers, is The Idea of the World.
> VW, BMW and Mercedes) apparently still think that building the best engines/transmissions and being the best at putting them all together

That stopped being true at least 10 years ago. In 2019 I would bet on a Renault engine every time (so does Mercedes btw :P)
I believe this is an opening for a proof that this world is really a simulation.

Or that we are missing some physical laws. I wonder if it's not kind of all the same ultimately. What difference do you make between a simulation and a physics system knowing that there is logical reasons why my screen lights up the way it does when I'm playing a video game for example. There is a logical explanation on how my avatar has spawned, it's because some code is executed.

What is a simulation exactly? Something where things appears out of.. what? out of nothing logical? Why not I guess.
The US's economy is projected to grow 2.1% in 2019 - reducing that by 0.6% would wipe out a major portion of that. And I am inclined to believe that number - 52 planes / month for 12 months at $100m is $62.4 billion directly, and the US economy is ~$20T - 0.6% of that is $120 billion. (so with knock-on effects, I find 0.6% a very reasonable estimate for the cancellation of a year's production. Probably not so reasonable for the 5 months left in 2019, though)
Pierce the corporate veil and go after the management. When there are consequences for their beancounting at the expense of human lives, maybe they'll think twice about profit over people.
> You moved the post from a discussion about fair salaries to one about everybody sharing the same house and eating only beans and rice.

Only because it was not defined what was meant by "fair". I'm not going to agree to some premise only to be hoist up by it later. Maybe I don't agree people deserve a "fair" salary by your standards, maybe I do by other standards.

> Do you agree that "delivery drivers" should get a fair salary that allows them to have a decent life?

What's a decent life? Is there something indecent about having beans, rice, and a roof? Isn't it better than what many people have had, historically? It's not what I want, I doubt it's what they want, but is it _unfair_? Why?

> More equal societies have higher economic output.

No. Societies which have higher economic output are more capable of artificially subsidizing "equality" by redistributing income. You cannot take poverty, spread it around, and make richness. You can take richness and spread it around and help abate poverty, but only to a certain extent.
Last night I was looking for some movie to watch. Ladyhawke came to mind, as part of my list of those I've never seen, but of which I have a fervent desire to enjoy. (mostly pre-1995 movies.) It meets all the requirements: fantasy and adventure movies, beautiful and talented female lead, awesome Rutger.
You're gonna need to provide citations for your claims. The data I've seen all indicates otherwise.
I used to just be repulsed by talk like this, but I've started to find it interesting. Its useful to tease out what is meant here.

Experts - when we think of them, we think of professionals with experience, people who've done research on the subjects, and in general just people who are better informed than the public.

What I think the people who say things like "enough with the experts", I find it to be entirely within a political/media context - many of whom are paid lobbyists, industry representatives, people with a lot of paper qualifications with their own agenda, etc. AKA, bullshit artists. A call against them is a call against systemic corruption, since they are a primary tool the powerful use to keep the public's consent.

The other side of that is a blanket callout against all experts obviously is just anti-intellectualism. This pessimistic worldview is that well since we can't tell which experts are telling the truth, I'm going to go with what I believe, and not listen to anything to the contrary. This is quite easy to criticize - however I think that those that criticize it aren't always taking into account that they do it as well, even if less often or on a less global scale.
At least when I implemented it, it was the full message, as a complete valid json object. The signature would get added as another field, and then the object reserialized.
You don't... you could create one like...

{"body":"base64-json","tag":"hash"}

It seems to me that trying to do what you're saying is a flawed approach.
The irony seems to be suckless.org itself seems to suck. I couldn't find the list of software. Can't be bothered reading walls of text that seem to tell you nothing useful
At the very least they are going to have to rebrand it - 737 Ultimate Edition perhaps? :)
No idea, but it is obviously rude, but also in the current “lack of engineering talent” climate a very bad business practice. I have worked for a couple of FAANG and other large companies, and been rejected by many more. But they have always responded after the interview process began.
Safety is never actually first. First, you need an economically viable product. Otherwise, there is no reason for it or any if the processes behind it to exist.
Amazon eyes NYC's Industry City for new logistics facility: report
Again, at what level of luxury? I know people making six figures that are utterly convinced they're not able to afford to have children. I know people making a third of that who have five kids and seem happy enough, though as harried and as cash-strapped as you'd expect.
It's just an example with extreme numbers to show how the math works. Gradual phase-ins over many years are how it's done in practice.
This all-too-European argument can be used by those wishing to ignore their own role in sweatshops, child labor and other inhumane working conditions. I'm sure everything you purchase is artisanally crafted within the EU?

Looking at the EU, the minimum wage doesn't seem all that great: 14 countries have a monthly minimum wage under 1000 Euros, of the remaining, all but one is under 2000, and only Luxembourg breaks that. 2000 Euros/month is equivalent to approximately $26750, though purchasing power would be different than a direct comparison.

Countries in the EU might provide more benefits (on top of the salary earned), but those will vary by country. As will benefits and tax rates in US states.

Some jobs are held by people working part time, students, moms, retirees seeking to stay active. If minimum wage gets too high, then there won't be jobs for these types of employees who aren't seeking a living wage, just some spare change etc.

The amount of ad hominem in your post is really astounding. "people like you," references to the US lacking civilization, assuming I'm a neo-liberal (whatever that means in your lexicon). This doesn't really contribute to the discussion, or provide a compelling argument to sway people with different opinions.

The minimum wage went from $15/hour to $16.30. $15/hour is a hair over $30K/year for a fulltime employee. While I wouldn't like to try and support a family on that, I wouldn't consider it a pittance. It's not like the Triangle Shirt Factory...
That you can apparently see where designers changed their mind when building a room, because items have sometimes been "painted over" with other items, is absolutely amazing. That is some kind of computer/game archeology that you have to be very lucky to be able to do.

I do wonder however if that's certain... in the example where bushes have been overlaid with flower titles, are we certain this does not change some property of the tiles in meaningful ways? In the same room, you can also see how the cave entry is painted over with the statue, and in this case that cave entrance is something that gets revealed later in the game.

In any case, a great series. This is exactly the type of content I come to HN for.
~95% of the country by area. Not by population.

I could buy a house in the middle of nowhere for pennies, but it doesn't matter since there are no jobs there.
I'm sure that the doxx site in TFA is "received as heroes" by some. As with many things, much depends on whose ox is getting gored.

Also, "semi-routinely break actual laws" is a huge bin. Reporters also get sued for libel. And sometimes lose.

Edit: And hey, once you're "break[ing] actual laws", you're a criminal. And by Krebs' standard, you're fair game.
Seems like a reasonable thing for a skilled labourer to do, and really not dissimilar from what unions are still doing at large scales.
And penalizing productivity through confiscatory taxation kills productivity and wealth creation. Why bother working 40 hours if the government steals 20 hours of your labor to give to someone else producing less? Might as well just work 10 hours and have less of your your labor stolen. What’s the incentive for working harder if harder work just means you get to pay more for someone else? Why risk capital starting a business if you are going to end up in the same place as the guy that risks nothing? Redistribution kills economies and it kills innovation.
The Bay Area and NYC are not the only expensive areas...
VideoLAN response to VLC “security issue”
I'm not sure of your point, because the parent comment mentioned animal fats and protein not being a primary food source for paleolithic humans and their ancestors (which is not what the fossil evidence shows AT ALL, we created spears and bows and arrows and various hunting strategies and tools that are well documented, for millions of years).

But with regards to your type 2 diabetes comment, type 2 diabetes is strongly associated with diet intake of excessive carbohydrates. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30289048
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK499830/

You don't need carbs in your dietary intake. Your body can synthesize carbs from fat, just as it can synthesize fat from carbs.
As a non owner of a vehicle or stock... I don’t see a reason why the average interested watcher should care. There’s significant speculation and huge financial forces putting unusually large efforts to push this stock up or down.

Personally I don’t think it matters or changes the likelihood that they’ll eventually succeed or not succeed.
Brilliant article. Four years have passed.

"Everything about today’s power grid, from this centralized control to the aging machinery performing transmission and distribution, is not suitable for clean energy."

Had the U.S. started on this 10 years ago, like China did, we'd be well on-the-way to ready. The author again calls for WW2-scale effort. The clock is ticking.
Maybe engineers would be more careful if they were held liable for the faulty designs they produce. This safety system wasn't designed by marketing. It was designed by engineers and deemed sufficient. Several people signed off on it. Boeing is working hard on rectifying every possible flaw and it is doing so under close scrunity. Blame shifting won't help us to get out of this mess and get those planes flying again. Now is the time to work out a solution with the regulators and get those planes delivered to the customers who eagerly await them.
It strikes me that local inequality (e.g. between people in the same country) could be increasing everywhere, while global inequality, which is dominated by national averages decreases. The problem is that we mostly notice the local one (happiness with the Jones's) rather than the global.
Sometimes things really are that simple though. Why can you (most of the time) leave your bike outside a store you stop at in Japan but not in America? Because it isn't part of Japanese culture to take what doesn't belong to you, but is normal for a number of Americans. Why can you get relatively wholesome food at a 7-11 in East Asian countries while you get junk and trash at ones in America? Because Japanese people prefer real food over getting chips and a crappy sandwich for lunch. Why are nice public facilities possible in those kinds of countries and not America? Because those people don't wreck, vandalize, and spray grafiti on them, while Americans do.
The book "Tripping over the truth" is a great history of the failure of the genetic mutation theory of cancer to cure cancer. It argues that it's a dead end and we should go back to exploring Otto Warburg's metabolic theories.
Facebook Says FTC Has Opened Formal Antitrust Investigation
I am okay with that ratio decreasing, but I don't see any way that that has any hope of being accomplished via policy changes any time soon.
Nationalize them.
> considering the potential for remote work

That's the most important thing. There is not an incentive to move to smaller, cheap towns since there are not jobs there. Until remote work becomes more commonplace, people are de-facto stuck in expensive cities.
The service industry has been operating at a much larger scale for decades now with all of the same bad labor practices and no one cared. The service industry invented ways to pay below minimum wage (tip exemptions, age exemptions), push costs on to employees (buy your own uniform), and make their lives subject to the whims of business needs (randomly changing schedules, cut shifts, etc).

None of this is new.
You can deduct mileage and gas from your income taxes.
Love Gusto! Some other services I love in a similar realm include:
- Stripe
- Pilot
- OpenA401k (For me and my wife's solo 401k plans)
But he does appear to have posted personal information in an attempt to intimidate them. Even if you don’t want to call that doxxing, can we at least agree that’s not a very nice thing to do?
This has been recently discussed: https://mattstoller.substack.com/p/the-coming-boeing-bailout

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20353342
Are you implying that nobody anywhere was ever objectively certain of the presence of a lion before the past few decades?

And how does genetic testing objectively tell you that it’s a lion? Genetic testing tells you that its DNA is similar to something else you’ve previously identified as a lion, but if there’s no way to be sure if that identification then you’re just moving the problem.
Sure.

But the question still stands, hopefully someone who actually knows the answer comes along.
This is not inconsistent with global inequality shrinking. The worldwide Gini coefficient was 68 in 2003, 65 in 2013, and is projected to reach 61 in 2035. By contrast, your source lists the Gini coefficient of China at 50. (Higher numbers = more unequal).

What's happening is that the inequality within the world is moving from national boundaries to class/occupational ones. It used to be you had rich nations and poor nations. Now you have rich occupations and poor occupations. When a few million Chinese peasants become skilled electrical engineers and earn 20x more, inequality within China widens. If they displace engineers within the U.S., inequality within the U.S. widens as well. However, global inequality has fallen, because there is now a smoother distribution in income levels between "peasant" and "owner of Intel".
It is amazing indeed! At some point our memes, language and culture became more powerful than any natural mutations. Perhaps this was helped by these irrational/rogue features of our consciousness.
You are thinking about consciousness as it's contents. Drugs or brain damage change its contents, but don't change the presence of consciousness. Therefore that only proves that the contents are physical.

If you consider sleeping or fainting as loss of consciouness, I wouldn't be sure that's the case. Perhaps what happens then is that we lose the perception of the objects of consciousness and we are conscious of a blank state, and as we have no point of reference and nothing to know we mistakenly think that we were 'unconscious', while we were conscious of nothing.
I must live in a bubble. I’m staff and cash comp is ~210k, no stock as it’s privately owned company.
Julia will be general purpose when it has its own popular web framework. To be an all-round language it must not be second rate with text processing for the sake of being excellent with math.
> How the hell do financial applications not take security more seriously?

This is what taking security more seriously looks like.

The lazy company doesn't even bother to look for problems like this, never finds them, and then an attacker eventually gains access to the plaintext passwords and compromises their customers.

The shortsighted company finds the problem and fixes it silently, even though they should really notify users to change their passwords to mitigate the possibility that the plaintext passwords were already compromised.

The company that takes security more seriously does own up to it despite the PR hit.
Safety IS first. If it's not safe it won't fly no matter how cheap it is. This is clearly a case where engineers were proposing an inferior solution that allowed a lower price point. They mislead the whole company and let their colleagues down.
This is a good take, for sure. The problem comes in when people start to look at these gig-economy roles as though they're "jobs", when they're not - they're a new thing occupying a new niche, and while you can cobble them together to make job-like money, it's not at all the same thing, and it probably wouldn't work if you tried to make it like a job.
And if they've creatively made a way so that no one is responsible for sign off, that entire level of executives needs to go.
But it might get really boring and pointless if I only watch and can't get off the rails
That's not a digital underclass, that's a very analog meatspace underclass.
congrats! it works really good ;) thank you!