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> Rogan generally lets his guests just talk about what they want to talk about without questioning them.

I actually love that: Rogan gives you the rare chance to observe his guests in a somewhat relaxed environment, at least more relaxed than the endless battlefields of Twitter, and slightly less fake than magazine interviews. If anything, I wish he would insert fewer of his own opinion.

I feel that questioning and defending opinions works much better in text form, anyway. I keep looking for good, honest debates on video, but usually it's just people trying to pwn each other with eloquence, with no time for fact-checks.
How many non-Einsteins from Africa and Asia would want to move to Western countries if given a chance? a few hundred million? A billion? How does a say Germany or France support a couple hundred more million people all at once?

I think open borders is inherently a call for decreasing standards of living for the populations of those countries where most of the migration would be directed to. I just can't picture a scenario where hundreds of millions of people move to my country within a short span of time and not completely destroy the infrastructure under the weight of sheer numbers.
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I am so relieved to find this specific thread.
Maybe they couple it with other services like the mortgage insurance or a life insurance or they request that your salary be credited to a checking account at their bank.

Assuming they make money, could they then go sub zero?
maybe they can go for broke and develop a machine that develops structure to counteract mechanical strain, like bones, and muscles. after that perhaps a machine could request parts or even go to a repository and install or have installed, parts autonomously.
True. But the absolute complexity of a certain procedure is often not nearly as complex as the workflow that is implemented for it.
Fundamentally, Yang suggests a technocratic approach: pass a certain policy (UBI) that would likely fix lots of things if passed, and then observe it work and adjust as necessary.

Sanders doesn't AFAIK support a UBI, but on top of a slew of left-wing policies, his perspective is that you need a mass movement of people to build institutions that can challenge corporate power.
You don't realize that the entirety of the United States used to be occupied by people other than the people who live here now? I have a CDIB card, my ancestors walked the trail of tears. Many injustices were done -- but you know what? They also fought for the US in WWI, WWII, and Vietnam, and I carried on their traditions -- based in our allegiance to our country -- in OSW and OEF. There are reservations in every state in the US, owned by the native tribes who still remain. That does not change the fact that the US is not going to just cease to exist and go back to a tribal plains where we run buffalo off cliffs and forage to survive.

The world now is not the world of the 1700s and the 1800s. Making up stories about why we can pretend the world is the same and the rules are the same and pretending that things that actually happened did not happen is unhealthy. It accomplishes nothing.

I would suggest you would be a whole lot happier if you found another hobby.

The data I provided shows that Hawaii is a net taker of federal funds -- they receive 1.61 from the federal government for every dollar they send in taxes. Pretending the state of Hawaii does not exist when it is clearly a part of the US based on taxes paid and welfare received is simply an untenable position.

I'm done here.
New York has the second lowest purchasing-power adjusted median income. On the Census Bureau’s supplemental poverty measure (which accounts for cost of living), New York is the third poorest, with 17.9% of people living in poverty (versus 14.8% for West Virginia): https://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/publicatio....
How do we know this is from Microsoft? Is there a link to the survey from a Microsoft property?

Edit: found a blog page: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/calling-all-net-deskto...
CircleCI invented many of their own problems. No API to trigger workflow runs and the only trigger “API” is pushing to a git branch. A horrible job-centric UI when all you really care about are workflows. Workflows that don’t let you express conditionality and assume all errors are fatal. A broken data model that confuses the same workflow on different branches with different workflows (no good way to figure out how long your PR workflow takes on average because each PR is it’s own workflow, for some reason). No good state management or data passing options. Hopefully they will sort those things out, but it feels like they went out of their way to build a thing with a crazy data model and triggers that are tightly coupled to github.
The main pic in the article strangely looks like a nuclear power plant.
Well.... now that I've gone to read the code again, you're absolutely right that I was too hasty in calling it the "byte-by-byte" state. It's more like the "slice-by-slice" state. libmpeg2 goes header-by-header, so, it can process each individual slice without waiting for the next picture start code, but it does buffer up a whole slice before starting any work.

If you just give it a single byte (or any number of bytes that doesn't include some subsequent start code, including a sequence_end_code for the end of the whole video), it just copies it to an internal buffer and then asks for more until it sees the beginning of the next slice or some other header. That's why NEEDBITS and DUMPBITS don't have to bail out in the middle -- by the time you get there, you know they have a whole slice to play with. So, yes, libmpeg2 does go start-code (or sequence_end_code) by start-code -- but not a picture start code.

ffmpeg/libavcodec is a wrapper around like 75+ different decoders, so I'm not too surprised if they have to go with a least-common-denominator interface.

In general an MPEG-2 TS or PS packet is just a fixed size packet and doesn't have to be aligned with any ES syntax element. Typically the PES packets (the much larger packets encapsulated in PS/TS packets) do contain exactly one video picture (i.e. the data_alignment_indicator is set on every video PES packet), but even this isn't formally required. Note that the PES packet header also includes an optional length field that would do what you want (but it's optional, in part to accommodate encoders that don't want to buffer the whole image before starting to encode pixels).

You might be interested in our TS/PES demuxing code that wraps libmpeg2/liba52 and tries to maintain a/v sync in the presence of arbitrary corruption -- it's more than half the size of your entire decoder!

https://github.com/StanfordSNR/puffer/blob/master/src/atsc/d...
How do you learn cloud computing without paying money?
That seems really cool! I wish I wasn't still on the wait list so I could try it out.
Thanks for the information. Does GPU passthrough to Windows allow high-end gaming from Linux (running a windows VM)? What specs would I need to look for in a motherboard to support that?
> change the purpose of life

We are not sophisticated enough to get roads fixed and keep the water supply clean. Long way to go. Don't fall for people who tell you it can happen faster, until they have fixed the roads and cleaned the water in one town.
I encourage it.
The full link https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/learn/modules/principles-cl...
> The European Central Bank charges banks negative interest to hold their money for them, which is a reserve requirement.

The ECB requires the reserve be deposited with them? There is no "vault cash" provision like the US?
Options differ based on location - at my local airport Car2Go is notably more cost effective than Uber, about half the price. (You do have to shuttle to/from the parking, but I've taken it dozens of times without issue.) Limos (or limo company sedans, if you're solo) are also surprisingly affordable - they operate on a flat rate to/from the airport, which is only $10 more than a typical taxi ride from my house.
But I think this is not as cut and clear with an enterprise gmail account. Who really competes with Google? Amazon on the other hand competes with every retailer out there.
Easy, just don't write JS. For most sites, there's hardly any need for it. On HN, for example JavaScript is only 150 lines[1].

[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/hn.js
I don't believe consumers secretly yearn for largely text based pages, and that's part of the reason why web development has become so complicated. The fact is, 'you' may believe that a simple HTML page will suit > '90%' of consumers, but until you can prove that objectively, then you'll find that there's a whole industry dedicated to determining what really does suit consumers better.

And it's a multi billion dollar market now.

This is merely my opinion, so take it for what it's worth, but I think it's a reasonable answer to the question in the thread title. Also, why is there so much confusion over tools? Probably because there is so much confusion about what people do and do not like in a webpage / web application.

There's more art to software development than many practitioners would like to admit.
> even if they were to cease operations today

I would be surprised if a 5 trillion fine would not achieve that goal...
This entire MoviePass Saga has been a fantastic disaster. From the beginning, the "too good to be true" business model has proven to be just that. They should really just close their doors and cut their losses, rather than engaging in these shady, dishonest actions.
It was cloud build, it's now azure pipelines.
How can you test SLURM applications on a single machine?
From my experience, US taxi companies are terrible with responding to calls. Their time estimates are so inaccurate that they are useless.
They swapped it post-acquisition.
(Google and Github started working together more, MS acquired them, that stopped :P)
I focused on climate change because that is the topic that has the most intensity on HN at the moment. This is a matter of triage. It's incredibly costly in time and energy to write detailed answers like this. We can't do that about everything. If we tried, it would peg us at 100% and starve the rest of the site.

No, HN does not "have an automatic mechanism to reduce the visibility on stories relating to Russia's physical and digital attacks on American democracy". Those issues have received tons of discussion on Hacker News, just like climate change has, just not as recently. If you're talking about something I actually said as opposed to simply making things up, I'd like to see a link—whatever I did say, I wouldn't have put it that way.

That doesn't mean we don't have automated penalties, a.k.a. write software to do things on the site. We rely on software because it would be impossible to do this job without it. There's a lot of software; it does a lot of things. One thing it does is downweight classic flamewar topics. That includes nationalistic flamewars (edit: and partisan flamewars), which there were a lot of about Russia in the last couple years, though the storm of that has shifted to China in recent months. If you're alluding to something I actually said, I imagine that's what it related to.

If you're shocked that some submissions are downweighted by HN software, you may need to realize that this site is curated and has never pretended otherwise. Some submissions are even killed by software outright. The downweights I mentioned are mild and have plenty of opportunity to get overridden, whether by software or by moderators; in fact we do that all the time when we see a substantive story being affected by them. That's one reason why all the topics you're complaining about being suppressed have actually received major, regular discussions on Hacker News.
Yes, yes, it does
Eventually, this could make legitimate SIM swaps unusable. The point of SIM swaps was to retain a phone number when swapping carriers or SIM chips. If a number becomes untrusted after a SIM swap, you may be better off getting a new number.
The TV license reminds me of the Church Tax that some countries have. This would not fly in the US at all..
> fusion engine

Project Pluto / SLAM was to be fission powered. The payload was thermonuclear though, as with typical ballistic missiles.
Wait what? How do machines running K8s exec processes when they are near their physical memory limit? Swap does more than just provide a place for pages to get evicted to, it also increases the virtual address space.
i.e. basically everyone
I'm not saying he's right, but I think Yang's policy towards that is to give everyone $100 for them to donate to the politician/party they wish to "drown out corporate lobbying".

I'm not saying that'll work (or that it won't) but for the sake of it, that's his policy.

He also wishes to implement preferential voting.
I also see this as a play for cloud marketshare, but if Github can nail the “simple yet good enough” UI standard for this CI service, it’ll win out hands-down over Azure, which would evolve to become the more niche product that does more for SME, enterprise and larger teams, perhaps. Win/win, especially if they’ve a migration strategy between the services. I just hope the free Azure DevOps plan (for open source) doesn’t go away now that this exists. The more cloud companies can do to lower the barrier of entry, the better. :)
Are you hiring? :joy:
Semi-related: I recently watched the documentary Dinosaur 13 [1] about the much larger T. Rex found in South Dakota and the legal battles surrounding it. Very good (but very much one-sided). The movie has a scene that describes how land ownership in the western US creates a very confusing situation in regards to ownership of fossils.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinosaur_13
I wish I could remember the source of the statement: "To search someone's vehicle, a police officer needs a warrant signed by a judge or permission from a dog."
Its impossible to conclude anything without the quantitative info, except that either:
-journalists arent doing their jobs by tracking down the only relevant detail
-the information is being suppressed
> N-gate, a satirical Web site with the slogan “We can’t both be right” (a NAND gate is a kind of logic gate that only outputs “false” if all of its inputs read “true”), offers a weekly summary of Hacker News discussions, dubbed “webshit weekly.”

I always find these critics a little funny. It's like the classic Beatles joke about record burners: They're still buying the record. If you're writing weekly newsletter about how Hacker News sucks, you're still reading Hacker News every week.

Seems like every internet community has some form of built in hatred of itself as a gestalt. Redditors bemoan how much the "hivemind" sucks. There's endless Facebook posts about how Facebook is so terrible.
IRA cryptogram mystery from 1926 solved
Ask HN: Do any US banks exist with strong privacy policies?
After reading about the vast network of data sharing that the banking industry engages in[1][2], I'm trying to find a banking solution that keeps my data private. I'm also looking for my business.

I'm having a hard time: every startup-friendly bank I've looked into includes a clause in their privacy policy along the lines of "we share your data with third parties for business reasons," which might as well mean "we have no privacy policy". Even if they only share info with a few vendors, how am I to know what they do with my data?

Obviously they all comply with regulations, but do any banks have strict privacy policies?

On a similar note, is there any way opt out of sending data to companies like Equifax? Suppose I don't care about getting bank loans (this is the case for my business).

[1] https://www.fastcompany.com/90157501/how-widely-do-companies-share-user-data-heres-a-chilling-glimpse

[2] http://rebecca-ricks.com/paypal-data/
I think he's saying that as far as Facebook goes, they for sure knew in 2012, so they can't plead ignorance or convergent evolution.
Some folks on HN don't like Krugamn, and no one is perfect, but I think he has decent explanations and takes on many things. The idea of budget deficit versus surplus is an interesting topic over the last ten years or so:

> I would summarize the Keynesian view in terms of four points:

> 1. Economies sometimes produce much less than they could, and employ many fewer workers than they should, because there just isn’t enough spending. Such episodes can happen for a variety of reasons; the question is how to respond.

> 2. There are normally forces that tend to push the economy back toward full employment. But they work slowly; a hands-off policy toward depressed economies means accepting a long, unnecessary period of pain.

> 3. It is often possible to drastically shorten this period of pain and greatly reduce the human and financial losses by “printing money”, using the central bank’s power of currency creation to push interest rates down.

> 4. Sometimes, however, monetary policy loses its effectiveness, especially when rates are close to zero. In that case temporary deficit spending can provide a useful boost. And conversely, fiscal austerity in a depressed economy imposes large economic losses.

* https://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/09/15/keynesianism-ex...

On austerity, there's a good book that goes over its origins and history:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austerity:_The_History_of_a_Da...

Good videos of talks and videos by the author, Mark Blyth, if you do a search.
I said I was a free speech absolutist, not a corporate rights absolutist. When corporations have monopolistic control over the means by which we communicate then they must either use that power responsibly or we must use regulation to force them to do so.
> but those days are gone

Maybe for high end phones.

It's still a very common feature on low-mid end phones. My motorola g4 which I got just a couple years ago has it.
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We're talking about the fingerprint reader, which makes sense to require the phone to be unlocked to replace to prevent someone from doing it without your knowledge.

Though even that only makes the attack more expensive, because again, they can just replace the whole phone. Doing that undetected is harder because you have to connect the rogue phone to the original one as soon as they give the rogue phone what you need to unlock the original, which is a sophisticated attack. Though manufacturing custom malicious hardware already implies a pretty sophisticated attack.
As has happened disappointingly in the past - there aren't any actual laws offering safe harbor for ethical hacking, companies just tend not to prosecute responsible disclosure... if your disclosure required you to break interstate commerce laws, run afoul of the CFAA[1] or even just violate a TOS - or even if they can convincingly argue that discovering your disclosure might have - then you can be prosecuted.

Now, people who prosecute white hacks that practice responsible disclosure are technically known as "asshole"s but the end result is that there are a ton of laws even innocent computer usage breaks so your liability for any damage to end users usually doesn't need to be considered, there's enough book to throw at people already.

[1] Essentially if you touch a computer or computing device it's quite likely you've somehow violated the CFAA, it's _stuuupid_. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Fraud_and_Abuse_Act
What’s the difference between statistics and machine learning?
> And one that doesn't seem like it will end up with a monopoly the way AirBnB did.

I think you are confusing "monopoly" and "barrier to entry". "Monopoly" would imply some state where every person using your system makes it harder on your competitors. If, however, your system needs to reach a minimum level to be useful, but doesn't have a feedback loop above that--you have a "barrier to entry"-a fixed cost that must be paid on entry to the space, but doesn't automatically get bigger when your competitor adds customers.

AirBnB doesn't really have a monopoly but they do have a barrier to entry--they perpetuate mostly by continuing to turn a blind eye to the violations of law. If someone stood up a site and used VC money to reimburse listers in New York and San Francisco, AirBnB would lose most of their revenue and you'd have an Uber/Lyft duality. The barrier to entry is that they are already in the space and there doesn't seem to be enough money floating in the space once laws start getting actually enforced for VC's to be willing to throw money into the ring.

Uber and Lyft also have a barrier to entry--a network of drivers. I can pop open the Uber application and know that there is probably a driver within 5-10 minutes of me. Nobody other than Uber or Lyft has that coverage so I'm not going to use another service. Could someone else build that network? Yes, they could--that's a fixed cost that must be surmounted, but once on the other side of that cost adding more drivers or riders doesn't really have an effect that makes it harder on your competitors.
I think it's been about a 16 months since they exited.

I overpaid my last bill by a cent in hopes they would waste their time and money to cut me a cheque, but they did not.

Their Amazon card was pretty decent: no foreign exchange fee and no annual fee. It was my "daily driver" for non-CAD$ transactions like domain names, hosting, Paypal, Aliexpress.

Such a pain for me when they got rid of it.
They cannot shadow ban you if you don't have an account!
An example could be that a user is allowed to run aria2c via sudo in the /etc/sudoers file (perhaps with certain restrictions described there). If that user's account is compromised, the attacker could then potentially use the technique mentioned here to escalate to root or to the user as whom /etc/sudoers permits aria2c to be run, at least if the sudoers file didn't forbid the invocation that accomplish the escalation.

One angle you could think about is "if I'm a system administrator writing an /etc/sudoers file and I want to allow users to do certain tasks, am I then inadvertently allowing them to do other completely unrelated tasks, perhaps in an entirely nonintuitive way"?

Edit: a very nice example is https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20648960, downthread.
There's literally an ad on the (NYC) Subway I saw just this morning implying making eye contact is something that is to be avoided at all costs.
If the economic incentive was there, we would have fixed roads and clean water supply, it's a solved problem, it's just not scaled across all of society because it costs $$$.

The argument being made is that the drivers of loss of jobs are progress, and the jobs being created as a result of this are not going equitably towards the people displaced.

The purpose of life argument isn't saying that you will have clean water and fixed roads when AI automates you out of the job, it's the opposite - you won't have a fixed road or clean water because you don't matter. The money ain't near you or your run-down, economically irrelevant, town.
The irony of your amazon links at the bottom of the rant is delicious. Given the pessimism of your comment (not saying its wrong), Im surprised you didn't factor in how much the rich will invest in sex robots. Imagine if Bezos invested the same amount he's going to lose in the divorce settlement into human-like robotics. Brothels are illegal in much of the western world, but the first person to put $1bn into the sexbot industry will clean up, no laws against fucking a toaster!
Yes, I can confirm it happened. A relative of mine was quite happy when this happened. Myself, I migrated off their cards years ago.

That said, I don’t think it will lead to bailout. Debt forgiveness is a rare but standard practice in trying to rebuild credit scores, is my understanding, and a way of getting some return rather than the zilch you’d get from a personal bankruptcy. It’s just that bankruptcy doesn’t affect student loans in the US, so folks are absolutely stuck there...
Use a WSJ link from Bitly into Outline and it works again...