skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It looks like you can request that Equifax mail you a claim form. They require a name and email, and for some reason the mailing address is an optional field.

It doesn’t seem they do any validation to see if you’re affected. Why would they? Pretty much everyone who might check, is affected. If every American requested a mailed form, the postage costs could exceed $150M

The fun part is, there doesn’t seem to be a limit to the number of times you can request this mailed form. Further, the email address field also accepts formats such as fuckequifax+01@gmail.com, so it would seem you can request the form multiple times, using a single email account.

This seems ripe for some scripted shenanigans and I intend to play around after work.
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There's a newer study from 2017, where the average is 232.800€, but the median is 70.800€ net. I'm not sure what net/gross is supposed to mean in this context.

The big difference between the two suggest an unequal distribution of wealth.
That’s hardly surprising for anyone having been there.
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If they do raise the cap on contributions people should have the option of either paying more in to social security or paying more into an uncapped IRA or 401(k).
> You can not have both smooth service and complete privacy if the data is restricted, as the system will not get to learn you.

Sure you can, as long as you control the system. There is nothing preventing us from realizing the old dream of having AIs dedicated to working for us, the users, not some corporation.

It just so happens that the the current favorite business model of big tech is serving us ads, but does this business model serve us? I don't think so.
I'm assuming my down votes are for the link being off-topic. Just wanted to apologize if I annoyed some people with it. I thought it would be fun to share it since Velcro doesn't come up very often in online discussions.
There are people who for ideological reasons blame all of Venezuela's woes on external factors. Then again, there are some for ideological reasons who claim external factors haven't made things worse than the terrible leadership has made it. Not sure of the ratio of blame that should go to internal leadership versus external factors but it does seem like poor leadership has made it easier for external forces to worsen the situation.
So because Norway is a bastion of liberal policies, they get a free pass when it comes to climate change?

This is why I know it has nothing to do with science or actually solving the problem.
> I think anything below 20% in taxes simply means a country's public functions will suffer.

Honestly, the biggest difference between nations isn't so much in income/payroll taxes, but in the VAT. The US simply doesn't have one at the federal level, and state sales taxes are typically in the neighbourhood of 6% (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sales_taxes_in_the_United_Stat...).
Cable lacing is also nice if you have custom PSU cables for your PC, so you can make your cable runs perfect.
American here. I have no problem paying taxes. I just hate to see my tax dollars mismanaged. Baltimore MD has been in the news lately, largely as people have focused on a certain public official's tweets. Baltimore receives a huge amount of taxpayer dollars, federal, state, and local. Its per pupil school spending is by far the highest in the state. The percentage of public secondary school students who demonstrate proficiency in mathematics is less than 1%. 2 of its last 3 city mayors have resigned due to corruption charges. I consider this mismanagement.
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I'm being hyper-pedantic here. Wouldn't the relevant kind of pwning happen to you rather than to the site? I'm thinking something like a MITM at your local coffee shop's wifi or an evil employee at your work. If someone took over the machine serving example.com, HTTPS wouldn't have stopped it or helped alert anyone to it.
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How does capitalism decide who gets extraction rights for natural resources?
ZOMG everyone hates the sig pile. Like, if your signature and disclaimer boilerplate is longer than most of your emails, your company is DOING IT WRONG.

I find restating context, even briefly, is nearly always worthwhile. You never want to make folks scroll down to see the rest of the chain if you can avoid it.
Perl went full lisp. Never go full lisp.
Farouk al-Kasim is the Iraqi who is said to have played a big role in this outcome. I believe his story has been on HN before: https://www.ft.com/content/99680a04-92a0-11de-b63b-00144feab...
Oil isn't going anywhere soon, this is the least evil thing you can do and we should do so with all oil money.
I use Monkeybrains in SF. Decent service.
If you're in the north east of the UK and you know PHP drop me an email (address in my profile). I know a company that's recruiting.
1. By "internally" I meant primarily for the purpose of Wikipedia itself, as opposed to closed. I admit the choice of term was poor or misleading.

2. I don't want more controversial topics, I just meant that I can see how Wikipedia would want to track or flag topics that are especially controversial. Controversiality (if that's even a thing) is just an example. I just meant I could see how Wikipedia would want to flag topics based on some quantitative criterion.

3. That's a big topic and I'd rather not delve into it. Some might be on such a list if I made one, but others would not, and still others that aren't on the list would be there. I think my underlying concern is that there shouldn't be a list at all. If it's important enough to be on Wikipedia, it is important.

4. Again, I wouldn't have a list of "importance." I would have a discussion of which topics should be flagged, and why--what the criteria are for deciding something should be flagged--and flag based on those criteria. My sense is it should be based on something objective and quantifiable.
It'd be hard to guess, but because we have a lot of younger workers on the front-end of our customers today, I'd guess early 30s.
What I find interesting is that my opinions on Edward Snowden have drastically changed over time.

When the leaks first came out, I regarded him as a hero, for exposing what the US Government was doing. At this time my view of the world was extremely America centric, where all other countries were pretty powerless and the US was the only one doing such deeds. I think this view was fairly naive.

In the last decade my thinking has changed. After seeing that Russia, China, many EU countries, Iran, and Israel have similar programs and are also weaponizing the internet, I've come to think of Edward Snowden as a traitor. It is not just the US doing these things, everyone is. He exposed the US's tools and has weakened the US's security position immensely. Countries like China and Russia are gaining in this new battlefield, and what advantage the US had has was lost with Snowden. It is now more like if he leaked the schematics of US weapons to Russia during the cold war. I find it telling as well that he fled to Russia.

I find many people have had a similar turn of opinion with Julian Assange. Perhaps it is because Geo Politics has simply gotten more confusing -- it does seem that America is no longer the 'World Police'

But on the other hand, he did wake up Americans to the concept of security. Once the cat was out of the bag that everyone was being spied on, and that governments have the power to breach systems, it seems that people have come to care more about these matters. I would say this a good thing

He is definitely a very interesting topic
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Brain drain is very real in the european south. The UK is the sink where all this drain ends up thats why you don't hear about it.
America should seriously consider nationalizing its resources and using that money to either fund programs to reverse the trend of its declining life expectancy or at the very least reduce the deficit (and perhaps, one day, bootstrap a sovereign wealth fund of its own)
> I'm also confused, how does someone coming up to talk to you forces you to write anything down?? (seriously I don't get that part :) )

Because the most important thing in corporate environment is paper trail. If someone comes to you in person and convinces you to do something you still need an email exchange with summary of what you've agreed on, otherwise someday someone will blame you for a bad decision, and you won't have anything material to defend yourself with.
Investigations from NATO sources simply cannot be trusted. They are not independent. The only supporters of the bomb scenario left, in Italy, are ultra-right-wing people who refuse to accept the fact that Italian autorities of the time lied.

It was even admitted by the Italian then-PM (later President) Francesco Cossiga, almost 30 years later, that he was told right away it had been a French jet. This was confirmed later by multiple sources, among them a retired US seaman who was stationed on the Saratoga and feared for his life (a lot of key witnesses have died in suspicious circumstances, including suicide). And the secret-war scenario is the only one that can explain a Lybian MIG crashing in the same area on the same day, which was kept hidden for weeks by Italian authorities.

The historical truth has basically been ascertained, it will simply never be admitted by the involved parties because it is still inconvenient (Lybia still being "in play" between France and Italy).
Alberta has one - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alberta_Heritage_Savings_Trust...
I was unfortunately unable to attend, but I really appreciate how many talks were recorded for YouTube. Really great to see all the cool stuff people are working on.
There is no universe where I'd route my customer messaging through an app that doesn't have a published privacy policy, company name, and links to founders' LinkedIn profiles.

For most of us, our customers' names and email addresses are at the very least business secrets, but they might also be sensitive PII.

It also wouldn't hurt to tell us what hosting you use. If you're storing these things in, say, Russia, then most of us wouldn't be interested. Some would refuse to use the service if you're in the US and they're in the EU.

Why not give us zero-knowledge storage with end-to-end encryption? But while we're thinking about that, why wouldn't we just encrypt and store our emails in our own databases?

This seems like a service that saves a decent dev team about an hour of work building an outgoing email log.
Go to Rhawnhurst. People won't stop saying it. Oddly enough, it's rare to hear in Mayfair or Tacony.
Think hard about it, would you rather your government do something like this, or get a cheque every year like in Alaska (or right before an election in Alberta)?
Cheap t-shirts are from Bangladesh. China does skilled manufacturing.
They 're in the EEA and have interest in the growth of european economy in general (presumably to sell them their oil & gas? hehe)
> Because it allows them to maximise the returns?

That's also the major difference between a sovereign wealth fund, designed to provide income to the state, and an economic development fund.

It also raises real political risks: it takes government competence over the long term to not use such a fund as an easy source of money for patronage-type "investments."
Duck Duck Go isn't that much worse than Google for search.Do we really need to be spied upon to get a decent user experience? I doubt it.
Like I said, this would be a good experiment. You can rely on it for at least a decade and that's further ahead than most people think.

But that's also assuming the fund doesn't grow. Which it will. And it UBI works then there is absolutely no reason to think this fund won't get bigger.

But saying we can't try because this can only fund 15 years is kind of an obtuse statement. Indefinite finding requires infinite funding. If that's your requisite good luck funding anything.
A national ID card is a single point of failure. If I need to verify my ID for something important, I'll usually be asked for two forms of ID documents which may be subject to additional verification.
Reminds me of that quote:

’I’m sorry this letter is so long, I didn’t have time to make it shorter.’
My circle of friends has a similar word, but it's an all-purpose verb. The word is "blomp".

"Blomp some sour cream on that for me"

"I'm gonna blomp over to the store"

"...and then my kid blomped me right in the head with his toy"
Plastic pollution isn't valid argument against use of plastics in developed world. When you throw out your bag, it doesn't end in ocean, it ends in a dump, is incinerated or recycled. Plastics which end in ocean are virtually all from developing countries without functioning waste management.[0]

[0] https://www.dw.com/en/almost-all-plastic-in-the-ocean-comes-...
That's a pretty small difference, in such numbers, I think. If everyone had exactly the same job, and saved 10% for retirement their whole working lives, and got promoted occasionally, then you'd get about that much skew.
That was a great feature. The Command & Conquer series by Westwood allowed something similar, since either disc (GDI/NOD or Allies/Soviets) contained the full installer and executable. This allowed both players in a head to head network game to run from the CDs.

You could even both play half the game in single player and then swap discs, but I'm not sure that really was the intention.
Past HN discussions of posts in this series:

- Neural Networks: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19320217

- RNNs: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20524543

- CNNs: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19981736 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20064900
One doesn't have that awareness when one is traveling. Many a time I've been helped by a well designed ad, posted on a wall or in the street, in a language I don't know but with an arrow and clear pictures of food and coffee.
When and why are database joins expensive?
Yeah, for "free wifi", the incentive is definitely to not connect you. You don't consume bandwidth, so the handful of people who do connect won't complain about shitty speeds.

For paid wifi, on the other hand, wouldn't they want to ensure you can connect? Most airlines charge for wifi. Yet I find myself typing "example.com" on almost every single flight.
If Venezuela had a fund of 20k per citizen they would definitely not be in the same state as today...
What kind of freak stores records spine-in?
This was just for fun (tm).

I know HFT guys pull of tricks like these, but no, this is either not difficult to pull off on an FPGA nor is there any NDA. Easy if you send UDP with checksums off or raw ethernet frames. Receiving party will of course need to ignore the last 4 bytes needed to make the CRC computation correct.

Would be interesting if anyone managed to do this with TCP. If it's even possible to get both TCP and ethernet frame FEC match in real time and ideally somehow even mask the data from the recipient. Probably not possible, but... who knows.
I hope that it is, because before reaching this comment thread I even thought "I hope it is to fund Blue Origin"

We wasted 50 years not going after space like we should have been. Let's get at it.
That is a real worry in all areas where chemicals are used to selectively kill something undesired. It isn't just microbes, weed killers have the same problems. There is a real worry that in "a few years" (how long is not defined) antibiotics will cease to be useful and deaths will skyrocket from things we currently considered minor infections.

There is some hope though: having a resistant trait is only useful if it helps you survive. Most resistant traits are "costly" to keep around. Thus if we stop using some treatment - completely stop - in 100 years it will likely become useful again as those "microbs" without resistance out compete those with it.
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Vacation went over budget
I would even make a more general statement: in most countries excess money is usually spent quickly (and usually inefficiently) on the scare-of-the-day.

Developed countries are not immune to this. For example, in late 1990s and early 2000 US budget deficits were falling, then budget went into growing surpluses. But those surpluses were quickly spent on tax breaks and war on terror and US went back into large deficits. Politics :(
It could be a major source of pride. Having lived on Hawaii for a few years... there is not a lot going on. Tourism is by far the biggest employer and focus of development, with agriculture far behind. Hosting such an important scientific endeavor is a major achievement.

I appreciate and empathize with the Hawaiians who see this project as a focal point of resisting so many offenses. It's also sad that such a great project (peering into the origins of the universe!) can't find a home there.
Which is exactly why UBI is generally suggested to give below the poverty line. Enough to survive but not enough to be comfortable. Enough to get you through downturns but not enough where you'll abandon a well paying job.
Do you think it's real/truth of what he says about building Blue Origin? i.e., like Mark got to build FB from his Dorm room because heavy lifting of Internet and Infra are setup, some kid in the future can launch space program because Blue origin is doing the heavy lifting of putting the foundation.

I mean that seems like a great philanthropic vision, but Jeff Bezos known for serious business would do that with so much money without any foreseeing revenue - just for an improved society?
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A lot of these improvements are based on personalization. A common problem for me would be searching for Django related stuff - Duck Duck Go would return a lot of things based on the film, while Google knew that I was interested in the web framework.
Take a look at what the American government budget is spent on: https://www.nationalpriorities.org/budget-basics/federal-bud... (scroll down to "Total Federal Spending 2015"). The three largest parts of the spending pie, constituting over two thirds of government spending, are "Social Security, Unemployment and Labor", "Medicare and Health", and "Military". Less than 20% goes to education/infrastructure. Many conservative Americans oppose welfare and socialised medicine, and similarly many liberal Americans oppose high military spending (which makes up over half of "Discretionary Spending"), so it's easy to see why they think their taxes are being wasted. There are countries like Singapore that have extremely good infrastructure and schooling with government spending under 20% of GDP, because they spend only on infrastructure, not welfare, so high spending isn't a prerequisite for good infrastructure.
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I've always thought that if it was possible to not paint the telescopes white (and I realize it isn't), it would be a lot less of an issue. If they were painted brown they'd basically be invisible to most of the island. Instead, on a clear day, you can see them from almost anywhere on the Northern half of the island.

The result is that if you're someone whose already angry about natives having lost control of the islands, foreign tourists, etc. then the fact that you also have these foreign looking domes looming over the highest point in the island perpetually at the corner of your field of view is likely to provide a constant low-level irritant.

I suspect that, more than the somewhat tenuous claims of the summit having a history as a sacred site, are why the telescopes have become a focus for protest.
Facebook funds AI mind-reading experiment, and ethics
Not Apple, but I'm pretty happy with the Amazon firestick. It only listens when you press the button on the remote. Seems acceptable if that's all Amazon is logging.
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A fundamental difference is that for Americans, natural resources are owned by the individual property owner rather than the state. If you find oil on your land in the US, it is yours and you decide what to do with it. In most other countries if there is oil on your land, the government has the exclusive right to oil (or other sub-surface minerals).
An interesting effect of that would be that algorithms and result would get tuned more and more towards other users, those who give away their data.

The same as to why drugs or so many other things are tuned towards men (large body of research and easy to grab for tests) vs women (less historical interest, tricky to research, especially anything that can affect the reproductive functions)
I use http://4chan.org/

The homepage is fairly innocuous, it’s always http, and if it loads I also know the WiFi doesn’t have some crappy web filtering software running on it.
That's not an order of a magnitude.

Even then, so, Venezuela produces 1/5th per capita the oil of Norway. Why doesn't there exist a fund with $37k/person in Venezuela?
The term "millennial" seems to have become a media code word for "young person whose behavior I want to write a disapproval or shock piece about". The "study" (if you can call it that) says "1/3 of young singles say their financial situation has held them back from pursuing love". It doesn't define "young singles" but, I'd guess that means "under 30", so since millennials are now as old as 40, at least half of them are probably don't qualify.

Anyway, this is a fluff piece based on an equally dubious "study" that's just thinly veiled marketing.
My understanding is that companies have stopped doing shareware or demos because they sell less copies when shareware/demo is available. With a demo, only people that really like the game will buy it. Without a demo, anybody that wants to even try it needs to buy it.
All of the amenities that people like in America come from their local governments - police, roads, emergency services, courts, you name it. The surprising thing is that the local governments usually levy only a small fraction of the tax burden. Most of an American's tax goes to the federal government, where nobody knows what happens to it. It's stirred around, and a lot of it comes back to the local governments in the form of strings-attached funding that is used as an end-run around the individual state's rights to govern themselves. When the strings-attached money circles back to the local governments, they swear fealty to the federal government (which is what they're being paid to do) and then re-brand it as local services. That's why the average American sees a tiny fraction of their tax going to the local entity that does all the work, and a big fraction of their tax going to the federal system that only interacts with them when they haven't sent enough money.
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While your point about per-capita production is well-taken, I don't think the original comment was intending to score ideological points. It simply said the Venezuelan crisis was avoidable and happened due to mis-management, not that Chavismo is an inherently evil ideology...
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