skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a story about that, actually:

I was with a bunch of pre-med students from california that were doing a free clinic down there, and a few of them had parents from the area, and spoke spanish.

We were on a bus tour back from tikal, driven by a couple of Mayan tour guides from Lake atitlan, and they started telling ghost stores in spanish while one of the pre-med students was translating for everyone else.

They told this story of a backpacker who had brought a ouija board with them to their town and how they had accidentally opened up some kind of portal and let spirits loose that cursed the town or something like that, and then eventually some old woman in the town discovered that it had been the ouija board that was the source of it, so the town all went to the backpacker's hostel and burned him.

Or at least that was how it was translated and then after everyone in the car was like "WHAAAA" they clarified that "lo" meant "it" and not "him" and that they had burned the ouija board-- gender in spanish can be a little confusing.
> Spatial expansion doesn't move anything, so it can't propagate information.

It certainly moves matter-energy in different regions of space with respect to one another.
IMO, this almost-but-not-quite-100% attitude is still the right frame of mind. The remaining percentage represents exfiltration by means of hacking the device through its various vulnerabilities. Sometimes that exfiltration takes the form of encryption keys, and sometimes its the user data that the attacker was after in the first place.
These are good points. Not sure why Trump would care about the first one, but could see how enough businesspeople were leaning on him to get the second point done. This seems like the most likely explanation to me as well (opening China to further foreign investment by accelerating the country's slowdown in growth).
(Replying to myself)

I found this graphic: https://fingfx.thomsonreuters.com/gfx/mkt/12/4001/3971/U.S.%...

linked from this article: https://wkzo.com/news/articles/2019/jul/30/us-seen-ramping-u...

Funny thing is, given the recent trend in treasury yields, these banks are making good money on their holdings.
I believe this was discussed in the documentary "Pandora's Promise."
As Schneier says, it's better than the "nerd harder" attitude exhibited previously.

However, I take issue with this part:

> After all, we are not talking about protecting the Nation's nuclear launch codes. Nor are we necessarily talking about the customized encryption used by large business enterprises to protect their operations. We are talking about consumer products and services such as messaging, smart phones, e-mail, and voice and data applications.

I think he is intending to argue that the quality of the encryption should be tiered, that "consumer" comm crypto should be weaker than business operations crypto should be weaker than gov't crypto. If so, I think this is a bad policy.

I just got through a security audit by one of our customers at work. One of the points that their security team made was that they want us to do more to protect the mobile devices used at our company. Even though said mobile devices do not, and will never have, access to the customer's sensitive data, the customer argued that a mobile device being breached gives an attacker a foothold, and allows said attacker to move closer to getting access to their data.

I think the same principle applies to this notion of lower-tier crypto for the peasants. Lower-security systems interact with higher security ones, and if those lower security systems are breached because their security was artificially lowered, they become threats to the higher security systems with which they interact.

I don't doubt that if crypto for Not-Government were kept artificially weak, that China or Russia would leverage that to their advantage, moreso than they already are. I think it would also make things easier for not just state actors, but lower-tier criminals, as well. If Barr wants to have an easier time catching bad guys, he should probably not make it easier for bad guys to do bad things.
Would it make sense to mix some TiO2 or other whiteners into the asphalt and concrete to increase their albedo?

Edit: Looks like LA is doing something like that https://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/climate-weather/blogs/how-...
Sounds like his brother doesn’t expect anything, but rather, understands hustle.

To say he makes 200k driving around all day is like saying senior developers make 200k playing with computers all day.
How does this work? By "our products" you mean products your company produces, right? Are you sending the products to the distributor at a price that is too low to make a profit? Why does it matter to you whether they products are bought directly from you on Amazon or through one of your distributors and resold on Amazon by a third party?
That quote comes from the headline of this fairly in-depth essay: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/08/14/magazine/slav...

In the context of 19th-century history, I don't think calling out American capitalism as being particularly brutal is that controversial. Considering one of our most lionized presidents – one of the 4 immortalized on Mount Rushmore – is arguably most famous for sweeping economic reforms and regulations. And this was decades after slavery.

> And we could have capitalism without having slavery

But we didn't, and this is ostensibly one of the themes of this project. That slavery is inextricable from America's founding economic success, so it's inaccurate to view something so foundational as simply an unfortunate misstep.
Singapore has some really cool ones tackling problems in Quantum Mechanics, Computing, Space Tech and Biotech.

An example is Atomionics http://www.atomionics.com/ (Disclaimer: a friend's company).

Plus, Entrepreneur First here are generally putting in good ones. List of companies here - https://www.joinef.com/companies/location/singapore/
Amazon's Rekognition software can now spot fear
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What works for us:

* specs (rudimentary ok)

* design review (saves rework)

* including test methodology and results in the merge request (saves rework)

* code review before accepting merge request
As Apple fans like to say, being first isn’t always important is it? The Apple 2 may have been first, but the Commodore 64 was both more affordable, and more widely adopted.

Apple computers weren’t Personal Computers because precious few people owned them at Home, they were time share systems you got to use at school labs or the office.

What impact did Commodore have? An entire generation of engineers who went on to work on graphics software and hardware you use today were hacking C64s and Amigas as kids.

Do you think Linus Torvalds got started on Commodore hardware or Apple? You can directly trace a lot of the modern hacker ethos of the internet to the kids who grew up in the 80s on non-Apple hardware.

If you want to credit long lasting inventions that are part of software and hardware today, you can look at Alan Kay, and thank him for Smalltalk (which Brad Cox based Objective-C on)

Or you can look at Kerrigan/Richie/Pike.

Much of what makes modern PCs and smartphones what they are is invisible. There would be no iPhone without them no matter how important and revolutionary you think capacitive touch interfaces are, they stand at the top of a deep deep pyramid of inventions and innovations that did not come from Apple, and annoyingly, often isn’t credited by the historical retelling and hagiography.
from the point of view of someone in the shadow, and subsequently not in the shadow, the speed of light is still the limit. If the light source is 1LY away, it will take 1LY for me to notice that I am no longer in shadow, regardless of how fast the shadow moves. There's no way of measuring the shadow movement that isn't limited by the speed of light.
Personally I would like to see a broader and less American perspective on slavery. While chattel slavery in the American antebellum South went away, slavery in general certainly didn't, and it also didn't begin in 1619. To illustrate that latter point, in 1619 slavery was a general practice in Africa, and many of the first slaves imported by Europeans were already enslaved in Africa as a byproduct of endemic warfare. Even today many industries' profitability depends on slavery in the undeveloped world -- it's just no longer visible to Americans.

Certainly this isn't meant to diminish this piece. American slavery became particularly incendiary because it developed a racial component that long outlasted its abolition and continues to have ripple effects today not just in America but elsewhere due to the wide export of American culture. But I also don't want to be so quick as to equate slavery in general with one particular (and, indeed, relatively small-scale) instance that did end when we have other larger instances still active today -- instances that we even depend on and make use of.
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Capitalism did not create slavery. It inherited it.
They will also catch political trends, which I suspect is the whole point.
I allow my kids to plea their case anytime they disagree. They get one shot so i usually remind them of that and they usually disappear for a bit thinking their case through before coming back. Now i keep an open mind and hear there side on why whatever i just decided was unfair or why i was wrong.

If its a good case (or they argued it well) i change my mind. IF not then the answer is final. Period. There is never a second go. Now this seems harsh but you can't negotiate with terrorists. Once a decision is made the sooner they learn its whats happening the sooner they quit that trying to wear you down thing.
Ill try.. danish morgages are based on bonds, just like government bonds, but realestate instaed. So the issuer just takes a small cut, dosent matter for them if rates are 10% or negatve 1%, (they take about 0,6%).

Now who buys the bonds then and “loose” money? Mostly institions, pensionfunds, corporations and normal investors. They take on theese investors, because they have to.. rates in banks are even lower (even more negativ), and deposits are only insured for about 100.000euro. These bonds, while negative, are more secure, and less negative.
I'm not sure whether to feel vindicated to see someone else echoing my own internal thoughts, or to feel nauseous about reliving those years. I was fortunate enough to have been at a company that was making money, but I still remember growing from 500 employees to 4000 or so in 2 years...and then dropping back down to 1500 two years later. We bought a small software company for the talent, and 3 months later was told to layoff the entire team.

Many great colleagues left tech at that point to become Realtors, landscapers, accountants. This is not to say that we are destined to relive exactly the same fate, but it's good to remember that rapid change is always a possibility.
Particle size also matters. Even if your split sand didn't cross the threshold from "sand" to "silt", the coarser sand is still better for construction, IIRC.
>We are not consumers, we are people.

I often base my vote, when all the candidates in a given election have similar policies, on how they refer to people.

Use of "Consumers" loses my vote instantly. "Taxpayers" is a yellow flag - if used in specific situations that involves concern over major public funds going to private businesses (like building a stadium for a pro sports team) I'll let it slide but otherwise it only raises suspicion in me. But if a politician consistently uses "citizen", I'll give them a little mental gold star.
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Why should the number of bankruptcies matter if the person is still rich? It shows that they are using it as a tool, which might inform us we need to consider how bankruptcies work, but that doesn't make someone incompetent. If you want to see someone who is incompetent with money, look at lottery winners who within 5 years end up worse than before they won.
Walmart is a good comparison. Amazon is in the volume game just like them.
What an awful title, people should stop using logical fallacies to label their argument.
> Encryption is mathematically proven to be 100% secure

Well... no. We're pretty sure that factoring large primes is intractable, but nobody has actually proven it. And we know it's not that hard for a quantum computer. Modern cryptography is certainly not 100% secure for all time.
I remember C. Why did that stop? Are planes required to fly higher now, or did they get quieter?
I want this on a shirt.
In Denmark the required downpayment is 5%, up from 0 a few years ago.
I think its a Growth-Mindset company rather than Dividend-Focused mindset... I agree that its not a startup any more.
The post quotes McCarthy:

"one of the myths concerning LISP that people think up or invent for themselves becomes apparent, and that is that LISP is somehow a realization of the lambda calculus, or that was the intention. The truth is that I didn't understand the lambda calculus, really" - John McCarthy

So there are a two issues here, 1) whether or not it was McCarthy's intention to realize the Lambda Calculus in LISP, and 2) whether or not LISP is such a realization. Or at least some kind of close realization.

The answer to 1 is clearly no. This doesn't imply an answer to 2 one way or another.

If 2 isn't true, what explains the widespread belief? Is it really just that he, McCarthy, borrowed some notation?
I think the main issue is what happens with those who have a banned-but-repaired MBP and what happens with those who have an unaffected-but-looks-like-a-banned-model MBP. Those two groups already total over 400,000 units.
The reason why this is happening, because it drives traffic back to the seller's website outlets.

I learned this from power tools. Dewalt, Grizzly , etc. have learned to price their tools HIGHER on Amazon, so the customer returns to Dewalt, Grizzly, etc. owner's website for a cheaper price.

It's disruptive pricing to force Amazon to seem more expensive. If someone BUYS at that price - WIN WIN no matter what, if the consumer doesn't come back.

Regardless, its brilliant if you ask me.
It actually is.. any morgage below infation, is free money..
So we need backdoors to catch a subset of consumers who commit crime. Is there not a subset of corporations that also commit crimes? Are those crimes not important enough for us to investigate using the same tools?
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Apparently Adam has pledged $1B in charitable donations over the next 10 years, otherwise he loses voting power. Is this normal?

>To evidence their commitment to charitable causes and to ensure this commitment is meaningful, if Adam and Rebekah have not contributed at least $1 billion to charitable causes as of the ten-year anniversary of the closing date of this offering, holders of all of the Company's high-vote stock will only be entitled to ten votes per share instead of twenty votes per share.```
Subpoena individuals and do investigative work. Identified individuals can choose to comply and reveal their digital artifacts that are specifically identified as being part of a crime or be held in contempt of the court order. If they don't use locks or use easily bypassable biometrics then the court order already allows latitude for that.

Just give up on being able to image and examine people's encrypted artifacts, and just give up on trying to tap a firehose of data from the providers now that they have an interest in encrypting what they store.

The state had a good 30 years of unprotected digital artifacts being available, and now it is just going back to the heuristic analysis of the days before, a level of accepted intrusion that government is built around.
Embezzlement isn't a word mentioned in the complaint, and not paragraph 6, embezzlement has a specific meaning in federal criminal law. Why are you being so familiar in one area, and using hyperbole in another? Perhaps I misunderstand:

Do you think embezzlement is a charge something the SEC will refer to the DOJ as well, or are we still unproductively debating semantics. If not semantics, which particular action do you consider embezzlement? The moving $2,000,000 upon notice of a potential charge? The actions in Paragraph 6 of selling something to an using the revenue to pay employees, debts and personal things? You make it seem like its just an accounting nuance, as if he should have paid himself a greater salary from company coffers to then pay for personal things.
In Denmark the rents are not free market so they can't just rise with house prices.
The Great British Class Survey has a very good definition of various classes imo:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_British_Class_Survey
Wills Vegan Shoes is good, but not inexpensive.
I often wonder how many people are still using the peanut butter to beef ratio or the bare peanut butter price curve as indicators.
500 employees to 1,500 in 4 years is still extremely solid growth.

Markets have corrections, if your company is providing something of value I'm sure things will be okay.
I have a vague idea that maybe some people need "framework" for socializing. Making it clearer task like framework for developing applications. I still don't know how that "framework" should look like.

I am a person who can't "just call and talk to him/her aimlessly" or "just ask friends to go out" as some relatives recommended me to do.
I can spend hours trying to crack the task of "socializing" as if it is some hard puzzle.
While I haven't been, this is something I find tricky to reconcile, but appreciate that I'm not the only one. My main interest would be the super large scale hardstyle festivals— which I feel might be easier to enjoy relatively sober and feels a bit less granola—but many friends I grew up with go to Shambhala. It seems like a fun time, beautiful scenery, art, music and so on. But it seems like as they've been abusing pot and shrooms etc—abusing pot mostly—they've gone deep down a rabbit hole of paranoid thinking, naturopathy, veganism, iridology, and other nonsense. I'm far from straight-laced—though maybe somewhat straight-edge—but it irks me when "practitioners" of these things claim to other vulnerable people that eating a fruit only diet will cure their colon cancer.
Because AG Barr is the expert on law enforcement capability, which is being weighed against security. Nobody including Barr himself denies that his proposal would weaken security.
For any interested gubmit workers, a lot of red tape has been cut here. You deal with the IRS' contracting officer directly to start, since they already went through the competitive bid process.
I agree, but there are two differences IMO:

* Ads have tracking and security implications. For clicking though to a site, that is far less the case (an individual site can't correlate my visits across multiple sites, whereas an ad network can).

* Going to the site at least gives an opportunity to present alternative monetisation strategies (direct payment or donations, or selling additional content/services - depending on the nature of the site). If you are just getting the information from the Google page, that disappears.
Most my friends went back to grad school and retrained for other professions, too, like attorneys and some optometrists.

I think what's a bigger risk these days is just how much tech talent if off-shored to other parts of the world, even at fast growing startups. Serious risk for engineers, likely in the Valley, where I don't know if you remember all of the billboards going from having ads on them, to pretty much being blank for several years.
> Stopped reading there. Not sure American capitalism is some evil brutal thing to oppose in the first place.

Maybe if you didn't stop reading you could have read the whole essay and formed an opinion based on that, rather that on one line of text?

I don't mean to sound unnecessarily mean, but stopping reading the very second you see something objectionable strikes me as very closed-minded.
If your explanation requires assuming that both very powerful politicians and their supports, constituting tens of millions of people, are all incompetent, then perhaps you need to consider an explanation that doesn't require such assumptions.
Valentina Lisitsa, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFMNhx2-VDE
"If you want to understand the brutality of American capitalism, you have to start on the plantation."

"Why doesn't the United States have universal health care? The answer begins with policies enacted after the Civil War."
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You'll notice in this graphic the sharp jump in holdings that corresponds to around October. This is when - for foreign buyers - the yield curve really inverted for practical purposes, leading to primary dealers filling up their books, which I detailed a bit in my initial post.
If we allow this we have now given control of all future politicians over to the party in power. If the admin. in power does not like what you are saying or that you are running against them, without encryption it would be trivial for them to leak to the world what type of pornography you like or the fact that you are a closeted homosexual etc. This becomes especially dangerous in countries where your sexual preferences can be a death sentence.

Imagine China's social credit score policy expanded in the US to factor in every text message you send or website you visit. It does not end well.
For the individual investor Buffetts advice was still right. Unless you have millions or billions to manage.
When I signed up last year I also got a free two week trial period where I could see the daily data. Looks like these days they even let you see what coverage they have of the daily data with a free account, but at very low resolution.

You highlight a region of the planet and they find you all the past imagery of that region. Though most of the daily results are a few strips that pass through the region, with some (or most) of the region missing. They haven't accomplished their ideal of "a picture of the entire earth once a day" but still one of the coolest companies out there.

https://www.planet.com/explorer
There are strategic bankruptcies..
So a pyramid building machine in the desert? Hmm... :)

If that ever happens, history does rhyme.
> they’ll figure out devices that does not

Just owning one of them could then become probable cause for a search of everything else you have, and then you'll be held in contempt and jailed until you hand over the password.

Or it could just be made illegal to own one at all. Anyone with a secure smartphone could probably be tracked just by traces it leaves when it connects to a cellular network.
Their ad attempting to explain the benefits of Linux being open source was spectacular. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7dTjpvakmA
> If that's the case, 99% will be booted off the platform and they will have to meet certain numbers of visitors and engagement every month, or lose their job..which is what unionizing means.

Youtube already does this to some degree in the form of changing their monetization requirements over time.

I'm all for giving more collective bargaining power to the creators. Youtube provides the infrastructure to connect creators to users, but I think over time we've seen them begin to take advantage of this in a way that is not fair to individual creators.
Why should I pay more just because a company thinks I can or would be willing to? I'm not willing to.
Whelp, I guess it's time to start breeding dragons...
It seems disingenuous to make themselves only 10x more powerful than other investors if they don't do what they say, rather than the accepted 20x.

Is such an ratio normal?
That’s not what I mean. When you have enough disinformation, democracy has no more effect than a video game — vote for the party that you think will lower taxes, they get in, taxes go up because that’s what they actually promised and you didn’t know.