skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Isn't this what Slack is trying to do for the workplace? A messaging system that provides reference history?
The set of readers is of cardinality one in the scenario described.
Did you read the article? Or even the title? How is userland involved in any of this?
Nationalize construction industry. Give workers salaries and remove profit incentive. No more waste, no more bidding contracts, no more graft.
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I echo most of your frustrations with Bench. I've had more luck with Wave and their tooling is more interesting IMO. But their non-bookkeeping offer is piss poor.
> This argument has merit, but if we DID amend out #2 and make guns illegal, over time firearm proliferation would decrease.

Hmm, then wouldn't some people just make their own firearms, just as you are describing with encryption, right?
Just because you don't like the reality the consciousness is subjective rather than objective does not make consciousness objective.

Many people much smarter than you and I have been exploring this problem since forever, with both ancient thought experiments and modern science. They've not found what you assume is there.
The definition of fraud is: "an intentional misrepresentation of material existing fact made by one person to another with knowledge of its falsity and for the purpose of inducing the other person to act, and upon which the other person relies with resulting injury or damage."

It seems that the airline (1) had full knowledge that these reservations were being made for a specific purpose, and (2) they had advised him to make this sort of reservation with full knowledge of its purpose, and (3) if they, at some point expressed a desire that the previously-allowed/recommended behavior should change, and it did subsequently change, and (4) they did not terminate the contract at any time when this "fraud" was actually occurring". I don't know all the details of the case, but based on this information I'm hard-pressed to accept the conclusion that it's fraud.

Or to put it differently: if I sign a contract with you that allows me to break the contract if (and only if) you commit fraud, and then I knowingly assist you in committing behavior that (unbeknownst to you) I will later claim is fraud, and then use this alleged fraud as an excuse to break the contract -- this is not a pattern of behavior that anyone should be cheering for.
> After hearing about that, I never attach anything work related to my personal equipment. There is too much liability.

Wait, didn't you just softly admit to some (any?) wrongdoing?
On my commute, if I try to "take a lane..." I'll end up as bug splatter on the grill of a 2 ton car. The only safe way to ride to work is either using the bikepaths (which don't typically follow roads so take 3x as long, or ride on the sidewalk.
Just because a sensor can see you doesn't mean the decision maker will take the appropriate action.
https://www.amazon.com/Disciplined-Entrepreneurship-Steps-Su...

Give this a read. Literally a step by step to get a successful company off the ground.
In this case is that he bet that the company's stocks would go down when his bomb went off.

He's not the last person who will realize that the market can be manipulated by sabotage. It seems important that the penalties for trying that outweigh the potential benefits.
Maybe this is a revelation to some people, but maybe I only want people who have good hygiene and do the basic things required to maintain an attractive appearance to _touch my fucking food_.

Self-maintenance is absolutely part of your job, I don't care what industry you're in.

Downvote if you're a hypocrite.
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Many of the mid tier chain restaurants have terminals that allow you to pay at the table.
Crap restaurants certainly exist everywhere. But it's hard to argue that service is overall dramatically worse in Europe. There is generally less fawning & begging, which some people prefer.
It's too bad the squashfs idea was dropped. Having to download and unpack the archive somewhere seems like an extra step that should be unnecessary vs just loading the module and having the tree appear in /sys for you to point your compiler directly at.

Also a bummer that it looks like you have to be running the kernel to get access to this— perhaps the archive could be marked off in the binary somehow so that there's a way to access it for non-running kernels (eg, the dkms use case of wanting to build the module for that kernel you just installed ahead of booting it for the first time).

Overall binary size is a legit concern, but if this is going to be in an optionally-loaded module anyway, it seems weird to make that call just based on memory usage. I imagine most distro kernel builds will just disable this, since they already ship the headers in separate packages.
Not in the sense that the term of art "canonical", as in canonicalization, is used. UTF-8 is not canonical: different byte sequences can map to identical meanings, as covered in the post.
Yes, I was referring to ObjectHash of course, since it's in the sub-thread about ObjectHash.

"I don't expect people to use it" just seems like the sort of awful excuse you'd usually be jumping on people for. It's like someone built a github project with a bunch of crypto red flags to check whether their new "Search github for projects with crypto red flags" idea works.

Don't get me wrong, it's clever, and I like clever. But I have learned in cryptography to only accept clever when it is clearly in the service of a specific pre-identified goal, and not just for its own sake. Isn't that normally a philosophy you'd subscribe to? What's the _pre-identified goal_ for this thing?

While we're here, another red flag. Mentioning Certificate Transparency as a model for some other X Transparency. Certificate Transparency isn't a model for anything. People have been saying to themselves almost from the dawn of CT "Oooh, this is clever, I should do the same for X" and it's always a bad idea. Someone might need a Merkle Tree. I'd argue they shouldn't use ObjectHash anyway. But the chance they need all the other paraphernalia from CT? Basically non-existent.
I saw this once, dont' know if it's what you're looking for https://mailinabox.email/
Sucks for the server who has to pay tax on the imputed tip income you pocketed.
I’d like to petition for the usage of all prime numbers to be restricted as well. Far too dangerous and capable of harm in my opinion. We need to secure ourselves against these threats!
The question is whether he was advised to do so by the representatives of the airline.
Regardless of whether it is cost effective to do so or not, each and every one of the beneficiaries from such corruption should be investigated and prosecuted to the fullest extent possible under the law, no matter how expensive it gets, to set a precedent so others might think twice in the future.
Long Bets has the famous Buffet/hedge fund wager, as well as the Ted Danson Red Sox World Series/USMT World Cup wager. Both now settled! But otherwise, it's looked a bit moribund lately to me.

Here's a more active prediction site in this vein associated with Philip Tetlock of Superforecasting fame:

https://www.gjopen.com/
I think of users when queries are slow and async, it creates burden to their dept to manage the state of running operations. Technically that's not my business but I think about it anyway.
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Smart pointers are strangely absent from this comment, which is rather weird as handling raw pointers ceased to make sense and became a pungent code smell with the inception of C++11.
The only sane and productive model of consciousness I've encountered (and I've been around a bunch through growing up in the Transcendental Meditation movement) has been the one described in Hofstadter's works, such as Godel, Escher, Bach.

He talks about consciousness as an epiphenomenon, where the pattern itself is what makes something conscious, rather than some magical property that some matter has and other matter doesn't. With mathematical precision, he describes how consciousness relates to the ability to self-reference and how this relates to fundamental paradoxes in various fields such as the Halting Problem, Godel's Incompleteness Theorems, Russel's Paradox, and the works of Escher and Bach.

This line of thinking brings up some very interesting moral questions: What is it about life that makes us want to value it? Why do we have the notion of "higher" and "lower" life forms and value some species more highly than others? If we created a sufficiently advanced AI, that gave all the appearances of having feelings, a sense of self preservation, an identity, and desires, would it be immoral to unplug it or control its freedoms? What if it felt and understood even more than a human? Would its needs supersede our own?

Anyway, I highly recommend that book, GEB. It has made most other philosophizing about consciousness seem flat to me.
That’s a smart point. Yes they could probably do that.
I'm really happy for them.

I used to like Gusto a lot. It worked fairly well when we were a few people, but as we grew, things started breaking, especially as our setup started becoming more and more complicated. For instance, we have offices in 5 states and two countries. Gusto doesn't support outside of US folks, so we had to maintain two systems.

One of the most frustrating things was the 2 day payroll. They turned it on for us, and the capped it at something like $60k even when we have millions of dollars in the bank account they have direct access to. Every two weeks, when the payroll supposed to be run, we had to contact support to request and exception which required a screenshot of our bank account balance. EVERY TWO WEEKS.

There is a lot of small things like this that forced us to talk to their support almost on daily basis. In some cases we waited for an answer for months.

As such, we recently switched to Rippling and are very happy with the decision. I'm glad that Gusto is working for so many people. I really enjoyed it while it did work for us.
If you're a person who travels, count the amount of visible staff at an average German restaurant

The last German restaurant I went, I was in a party of five. Four of us got our orders somewhat promptly while the fifth waited nearly half an hour… for a frankfurter. Between that and the trains I got this sense that German efficiency was overrated.
Perhaps I'm unusual in this regard, but in the context of software I'd interpret 'plans' as shorthand for 'pricing plans'. I certainly can't recall having regularly seen 'plan' substituted for 'roadmap' with regards software development.
This! They can have the table back quicker too, if we can avoid the asking for the bill dance, then waiting for the waiter to come back and take payment or whatever. More efficient for the establishment and introverts win too.
Gusto uses a Rails monolith.

https://engineering.gusto.com describes some of their experiences with it.
Is a dog conscious? Dogs sense and categorize; dogs feel emotions; dogs form conclusions about their reality; dogs sleep and die just like we do.

What do you mean by "consciousness", if it includes humans but excludes dogs? And if it includes dogs, does it include insects? Plants?

We need to be reasonably specific when discussing these things.
You better believe I would start streaming random data all over the internet just to be an asshole
I never pay any tips except in restaurants. I always set tip to 0 in Prime Now etc. I makes me feel good that I can spend the saved money on myself.
> All email in the company was saved indefinitely due to the archiving server

Not at all. Many companies actually do the opposite. A previous company I worked for had a 30 day email deletion policy, though we could setup special folders for 13 month retention on emails.

At another company, we were in the backup space and some enterprises had very restrictive backup and archive policies. One was to the point that our backup software was pretty much useless.

To limit liability, files that are not involved any ongoing legal issue such as a lawsuit are deleted as soon as possible without interrupting the business. Once there is a lawsuit, any relevant documents or emails can be deleted. This is all from the point of view for civil lawsuits. I assume gov't investigations are similar.
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He's actively trying to pass such a law, in case this isn't obvious.
You mention the bandwidth for streaming video, and I am wondering if the efficiencies of scale for running the game in a data center is wiped out by the need to then shoot the video over the internet and also run the client. Anybody know a good way to estimate that trade off?
That is a healthy skepticism! I definitely would not counsel people to do it with primitives in general: it just turns out that a PRF doesn't have a complicated API and HMAC is bulletproof. More or less the only design criterium that comes to mind that is critical is "don't do anything before you validate the MAC", and that design guideline is hard to break when you use the suggested approach.
As far as I'm aware, Uber drivers don't see whether you tipped or not until after they have rated you.

I suspect it is true since I never tip on Uber and I have a 4.96 out of 5 star rating.

They initially billed themselves as no tipping necessary. I refuse to subsidize driver wages on behalf of Uber. There is no way Uber is not benefitting from tipping by being able to keep wages lower as a result.
Just set tip to 0 every time.
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Any interesting work coming out of "Olah Team"? I tried googling but found nothing specific just Distill articles and your twitter feed...
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I'm not deaf, I only studied ASL in HS and it included some useful lessons on Capital-D Deaf Culture. So I'm not much more of an expert on the subject by any means, but I love language studies.

Efficiency is only one spectrum in play. Sign languages are languages distinct and evolutionarily unique from spoken languages. Early attempts such as "Signed English" attempted to minimize the distinction between the spoken language and signed language, but living languages evolve to fit their medium, and sign languages evolved some truly unique grammars and even their own words that don't always reflect relatives in nearby spoken languages.

Even though sign languages for the most part haven't adopted their own written languages that better reflect their grammar and uniqueness (and there's really interesting arguments on both sides whether they should), there's an increasing difference between a sign language and its "written language neighbor". One particularly fun example is that American Sign Language (ASL) is much closer to French Sign Language (FSL) on the language family tree than ASL is to British Sign Language (BSL). Despite what you might presume from the spoken language "neighborhoods" of the sign languages, an ASL signer is going to have an easier conversation with an FSL signer than a BSL signer.

Which leads to the fact that there are even native speakers whose first and primary language in their lives is a sign language, and with a culture to match (Capital-D Deaf Culture). Written English will always be a foreign language to them, even if it is a second language they have a lot of reason to study from early in life.

So it's a quality of life question as much as or more than just an efficiency question. (Just as with most language issues, really. We could probably find a more efficient use of language for English medical/scientific jargon than smashing lots of random bits of Latin and Greek together. But we have what we have for a lot of familiarity and cultural reasons.)
Further idea: to stop the device from buzzing you have to enter a code.
I agree. Just this morning I messed up and saved over a spreadsheet I didn't mean to...no way to get that 30 minutes of work back.

Probably 90% of my day is jumping between spreadsheets and queries building tools and updating reports. Spreadsheets are a "universal language" that most people understand, and allow the technically inclined business user to investigate problems without having to submit a help desk ticket and wait 4-48 hours for an answer.
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If you understand almost nothing in a book, then you probably won't get much out of it. If you can understand >=30%, maybe it's worth it.

- Before reading a book about calculus, know basic arithmetic operations and some algebra

- Before reading 'Dynamic Hedging', learn the basics of option pricing, e.g. by studying Hull (Options, Futures, and Other Derivatives)
Well, but most games are delivered digitally now (https://www.statista.com/statistics/190225/digital-and-physi...). I wonder how the bandwidth to deliver the full game compares to the bandwidth to stream video of the game if you're playing it 100% over the internet.
Barr's is really just the same reasoning used for the Patriot Act. Something really bad could happen unless everyone gives up X rights.
Not even remotely. It’s good legal sensibility to avoid opening yourself up to unnecessary liability and investigation.
> They cannot compel you to divulge a password, but they can mandate a thumb unlock

This is an excellent point. That is why do I not use biometrics on my personal devices. I honestly don't have anything to hide, but I also have no desire to give people the idea that it's going to be easy to fish through my personal stuff.
My company recently required the use of a specific 2FA app that I didn't use in order to validate credentials on our laptops when accessing our VPN. I don't personally like having to put an app on my phone however, using an app to validate identity and using an app too conduct business are two very different things. I'm still considering requesting a physical token though...
Pilot.com founder here. This is exactly the startup that we're working on! We have 500+ customers including 100+ YC companies and fully take care of bookkeeping + taxes. Feel free to drop me a note at jeff@pilot.com if I can help.
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Not sure why you are downvoted, about 10% of the article addresses it's headline and I frankly do not get the point either. The proposed solution is in the first numbered list and between that and the conclusion list is a bunch of prose on non-JSON payload.

The only slightly JSON related content in there is a constructed scenario for 'in-band' signatures (the regex thing) which can just as well be achieved by a bit of string processing. Any JSON object will start with {, end with } and have some more information between it. Replacing the initial curly brace with '{"hmac": "foo",' gives you a valid JSON document. You can remove that easily before parsing and place no restrictions on the object's keys. You can handle edge cases like JSON literals or arrays by wrapping the whole thing in {"hmac": "foo", "payload": yourstring} if you feel like it.
I wonder what nextcloud will do. I really would prefer something not written in PHP. It often feels very fragile.
I think we're beginning to see the emergence of the videophile, like the audiophile, in which a small minority of consumers become obsessed with video quality and pursue it to the ends of the earth, all the while illogically neglecting obvious issues like "Gold plated TOSlink cables are completely moronic"[1][2] or "maybe I should be buying bluray DVDs instead of streaming video onto my smartphone."

I don't think the GP is really exemplary of this, but I've seen it cropping up more and more. For instance people who insist on running their low-quality anime rips through numerous interpolators and scalars to knock 720p/12fps source material up to 4K/60fps, or similarly insane endeavors.

[1] Technology Connections brought my attention to this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICcEOXVZ3F0

[2] https://www.amazon.com/s/?field-keywords=TOSlink+gold
They do not need to hide the backdoor's existences though

Just add a 'USGOV BACKDOOR' tab and password/encrypt it or whatever the fuck. It doesn't need to be a real control panel or anything other than trivial options (a grayed-out unchangeable toggle box that says 'Enable backdoor', for instance). I'm not the guy to provide you UI tips.

Let users understand it's there without relying on security-through-obscurity. Disallow any temptation to use StO and ensure users are fully informed of the government's firm and fatherly hand.

Yes, I know that the GUI/man page information are not 'the backdoor'. It is also not actually any functionality for the software you're using. It is function through abstracted symbols.

Protest via abstracted symbolism - visible and immutable vulnerability.
True, and this should frighten everyone. You'd be a suspected terrorist or criminal for using a VPN or tor or any foreign service that doesnt use the gov approved crypt. As long as you stayed out of the limelight and kept your head down you'd be fine. But if anyone looked into your activity, it would be easy to determine that you weren't using gov-crypt. This is inheritely authoritarian.
It wouldn't be a waste of time if it was just done right the first time. Generally these are queries running much more frequently than once a year, because that's how I get involved with them.

Sure, there is always outlier consequences, but more often then not, these messes are the result of non technical people diving into the world of databases through excel and access.
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Personally if I had to choose the tech equivalent of a "blue-collar" company I'd want to work at it'd be Costco.

Pay above average with good benefits, no uniforms (white collar equivalent of the uniform is in-your-face "culture"), no frills, no BS.
The California High Speed Rail was also corruption.
It's all over everywhere, because nobody is accountable for it, except the people over-charging, while simultaneously pointing out that they are taking all the liability when things go wrong (and someone actually tries to prosecute).
Shared secret keys may work, with one key shard in the hands of the user themselves. That way a court order may compel the user to give up the key shard, but no govt. agency or other authority can unilaterally access the device.
When I'm king this will count as false advertising. The biggest printed price must be the price you pay, by default, unless you specifically ask for something unusual.
Because a business report typically doesn't need to be run quickly, it needs to be accurate.
It’s not about self maintenance == attractive. It’s about that pretty 25 year old blond girl vs the overweight 55 year old Black Guy - I’m just trying to go to the opposite ends of what society finds attractive.
Oh please. You're propagating these falsehoods about autonomous vehicles that don't require much thinking to disprove.

1. The classification shouldn't happen from a single frame. In order to be misclassified as a shadow, the system would have to get the classification incorrect at various distances and you're probably moving too, so it would need to be across many frames.

2. This suggests that one sensor misclassifying will be sufficient for a deadly situation. But autonomous vehicles all use multiple sensors. They could even theoretically have multiple classification models running. One misclassification will not result in accidents.

3. Humans driving around effectively blindly is already an extremely dangerous situation.

4. This discussion is often limited to places where humans are distracted but overall trying to drive properly. In many parts of Asia (Korea, Taiwan, etc.) drivers very willingly disobey signals and are not at all deterred by the risk of hitting a pedestrian through their own impatience.

Humans are very dangerous behind the wheel. Hypothesizing about corner cases where autonomy might make a mistake is missing the forest for the trees.