skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
which is why investing in a bank's savings account is the natural way to "save". It's very safe, and still guarentees some level of profit that is not too far off from inflation.

Negative interest rates pulls that out under the rug, and forces people to take on extra risk than they currently do.
I'm not disputing that. I'm arguing that China's history hasn't been some "straight line" since 4000 B.C. It's been a very rocky road.
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There are other problems, and they have nothing to do with the federal government. Well, I suppose all reservations could be dissolved.
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If you spend $ to reduce your carbon output for example, the money circulates among other people, who average about the same usage of fossil fuels as the general population because after a few exchanges they are the general population. So if you are increasing your spending in the long run, you are increasing resource usage by that amount, no matter how virtuous the things you are spending it on.

This is a second order result, and doesn't necessarily follow. For example, higher quality goods generally last longer, which reduces waste. Higher profit margins also lead to more room for sustainability in supply chains. Apple is a good example of this.

Richer people also generally have less children, which reduces the environmental impact further.

All in all I'd say that second-level effects are guessing at this point.
Golang for building microservices.
Pool your money with others, invest in real estate and share the profits.
Seems to be predicated upon a number of questionable assumptions-- including that

- a Model 3 is cheaper to insure than a Camry (thus far, the opposite is true-- and it seems optimistic to attain for a car that costs so much more, has higher performance, and higher repair costs)

- the Model 3 will be cheaper to maintain by a massive factor (we'll see; there is maintenance avoided by having an electric car but also Tesla's part costs and availability has been poor)

- resale value will hold up exceptionally well for the Tesla

Basically, the most optimistic values have been taken for the Tesla in every field and the most pessimistic values have been taken for the Camry, and the Tesla manages a slight win.
What are some of the identifying characteristics?
Are you asking why they can't solve the challenges imposed upon them by the US government?

Isn't that like asking a gay person why they didn't just legalize gay marriage on their own?
A step back from that, you can grow trees into furniture and bridges. So I suppose you could grow trees into the shape of houses, or house frames.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=tree+grown+into+a+chair&t=fpas&ia=...

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=living+tree+bridge&t=fpas&ia=about
I feel like you missed the point of the analogy by taking it too literally.
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> It's not like Germans are squirrels piling up acorns for the winter.

It's exactly like that. They save not because "omg saving is so cool", they save for rainy days. Germans value predictability and security over short term consumption, though that is changing slowly.
It's not hard to believe that constitutional issues could prevent the Cherokee from getting their own representative. That doesn't mean it's not worth it for them to push the issue, though. Even if they do not, ultimately, succeed in getting a representative, maybe they can get other concessions. They do have a treaty, after all.
Because it's like having subtle adult jokes in Disney movies, the adults get it and the children are oblivious and unharmed by them. Anyone offended by the use of porn star names wouldn't (or at least shouldn't) know what it's referencing.
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> I am guessing that this wasn't conscious and intentional.

I'd assume the exact opposite. We know for a fact that e.g. lawmakers have requested IDs listing classified by frequency of ownership / use, so they would allow and reject IDs based on which group used them most.

This sort of strategy is perfectly in line with what Atwater explained in his infamous '81 interview: abstracted impact and plausible deniability (as long as the emails where you explain why you're doing this don't get leaked, and even then it might go through regardless).
And the problem with the

> rise of the conspiracy theory

narrative is that history is full of really bad conspiracy theories. Stuff like George W. Bush personally riding in on a pegasus and finding the nukes but just as he was going to take them a thousand demons appeared and spirited the nukes away, conclusively proving Hussein's covenant with the devil.
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Not so much if you're using it as an actual currency
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With all due respect to FB's engineering , how can a company be so vile in blatantly not monitoring data that was used for obviously not so ethical means. I deleted my FB account and that to me has been the most amazing decision personally i have made.

But things are getting scary , there is a Public Interest petition in court in India where there is a case pending on linking Identity cards with FB (https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/internet/linking-o...). This is even more scary!.
FB is a shady organization by any figment of imagination (so are the other free biggies as well) and can go to any lengths for personal profiteering.
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Please keep ideological tit-for-tats somewhere other than this site.

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correct, this was my intention.
Reading you, makes evident that you not are in lower class.

Needing loans, and keep on debt for a very long time, to study on a university, isn't "easy access to career altering knowledge".

Add an injust healthcare system, that can bankrupt anyone in the lower class.
China's hackers are ransacking databases for your health data
I don't know which option is scariest.

I'd have to chalk it up to incompetence and mismanaged incentives. I reckon senior management didn't have a problem with what Cambridge Analytica did at all considering its the same thing the Obama campaign pioneered (data driven political profiling and targeted advertising) in 2012. Because of how warped company opinion must be on the concept of personal data, they probably didn't care.
The rooster video is worth watching for the ending.
Just refreshed my interview skills with interviewcake.com, Not 100% the only resource to use but it got me over the hurdle of starting.
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Here's a relevant news.yc discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15723393

Amazing.
That is a terrible example to lean on. Gay people did exactly that. They organized, persisted and got gay marriage legalized, with relatively very little help (out of the total population) and an immense amount of resistance. The extreme majority were against them for decades.

You can in fact get something legalized in precisely that manner as a tiny minority. You don't require a 50.1% vote to convince the Supreme Court to rule in your favor. The US is not a majority rule democracy. One person, one case, can change the country dramatically through the Supreme Court. Historically individual rights take precedence over whim-based mob rule in the US. If that were not true, gay marriage would probably still be illegal, as there remained a large amount of mob resistance to it when it was legalized.
If you're looking for a blog to help you with your productivity, I highly recommend https://quire.io/blog/
Sometimes the choice is to play losing games or have no friends.
Good description. It also provide a feed of CVEs:
https://open-source-security-software.net/cves.atom
How interesting! I thoroughly enjoy it. Oddly though, I always hated performing an instrument in front of someone else. I can only play for myself :D
Is Axios a reputable source?
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A BBC video on chicken hypnosis and, gulp, gator hypnosis:

https://youtu.be/ozUjZUIJ5lg
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> yet suprised at the number of things he must be ignorant about to think that this idea might be viable.

What exactly are those things, except a) knowing the difference of scale in energies involved, and b) stability of cyclones? A random person off the street won't know any better, and a random faculty member from a random university won't likely know better either.

It's not a dumb question to ask, and the answer requires somewhat specialist knowledge.
You've never served, have you? The military is highly influential, especially among family, in influencing political views. Not to mention social media which gives us all a pen as well as a sword, proverbially. Either way, if you complain about being oppressed by powers, all the aforementioned are a potential force of it so it's mostly moot to complain of the bias of one without mentioning the bias of the others.
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You could ask the same question about Windows Backup, I can't imagine anybody relying on it.
It may not be a lie, but it is argument ad hominem, so you can probably do better
Please don't take HN threads into generic ideological flamewar. The GP may have been tediously ideological but at least it wasn't generic.

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and perhaps the situation has come to the point where low risk investments aren't available anymore. The banks (or ECB) cannot offer risk free interest rates anymore because there just isn't enough such investments to satisfy the demand.

The lever that policy has is interest rates, and by lowering it even more, it forces savers to adjust their view on risk - if they can handle the lowered interest because their risk tolerance is so low that they cant buy bonds or anything, then they will need to suffer the low rates.

It's just that a lot of people are in the situation where they cannot take on any risk with their savings. Historiaclly, banks being risk free is just a gimmick (even if the gov't is insuring the deposit). Banks's risks are diversified, and minimized. But if the economy is doing poorly, they cannot magically produce the low risk returns.

I think the only way forward is actually gov't spending sprees - invest in long term projects, like 100 year long projects, and make these projects the backbone of fiscal policy (print money, if needed). Long term projects that can derive value for all of society, such as establishing bases on moon/mars, mining asteroids, etc.
Escaping to Canada increases the amount of McNamara's morons needed the same as a university exemption or bone spurs does.

The only difference between your methods is consequences for the person undertaking it, not those that have to replace them. You appear to want people avoiding being drafted to suffer. Pretty odd if you otherwise sympathise with them.
A funny story about that. When I was a kid, I had two different words in my head: one which was pronounced "muh-sheen", and another which I found in The Way Things Work, that was spelled 'm-a-c-h-i-n-e' and pronounced "match-ayn" (rhymes with chime). That's what I got from sounding out the word. I had two parallel concepts in my head growing up, one rather technically oriented that involved inclined planes and levers, the other being machines like toasters, or whatever was on This Old House, probably. This ended when one day, I read something else that used the word and realized, rather excitedly, that there was no such thing as a match-ayn.
Indeed, I need to clean the list a bit. These are projects I imported some times ago.

It is also possible to submit a project for review:
https://open-source-security-software.net/submit/
I released Base about a month ago and created a blog post with some details https://dev.to/gdotdesign/base-api-for-authentication-email-...

Let me know what you think! :)
https://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/108801/what-is-the-be...

I picked up a tidbit about optimal line widths in one of my courses and it's stuck with me. I think back to it whenever I see websites that don't constrain the width.
Please don't post generic ideological flamewar comments to HN; they're beyond tedious.

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If you're 2 or 3 times as productive for a couple of days then you can easily afford to take a day off. How much downtime do you need before you're able to repeat the pattern?
> If you need "professional grade" support for this stuff, then you are probably in the wrong line of work.

Given that approximately 99% of itsec is consultants I'm not sure where you get that from. Not everybody knows every subfield and tool, sometimes you pay people for their real world experience with one they gained from other clients. And of course licensing, prices, and support matter in the real world.
> With all the complexes Russians tend to have

Adding nationalistic flamebait to ideological flamebait is not the way to make HN threads better. Please don't.

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Algolia's engine relies on an optimised Damerau-Levenshtein + prefix matching algorithm.
The first thing you should do is question why you're SSHing into a production server in 2019. But after that, usually you can do it by IP address or instance ID.
I hate Facebook yet can understand the difference. Just because some of us want fair representation of a situation doesn't make us shills.
Jellyfin is an open source alternative for Plex
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Wasn’t this idea originally proposed by a scientist?
This is apt for this discussion.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five-second_rule
> "Hey, maybe we should stop lying and honestly confront the problems here."

Hardly anyone ever does this until they have to, on either a personal or business level, and those that do are seldom rewarded in this life.

This is why external accountability is so important.
> Consider an identity function declared to only accept fixnums and returns fixnums. If you call this function with a string a type error will be signaled if run time type checks are enabled.

This would be the case that I referred to in the second paragraph of my last comment. I would agree if we were talking about explicit type checks, but a portable Common Lisp program cannot consider implicit added by the compiler to be part of the programs semantics, because a compliant implementation is not required to add any type checks. SBCL just adds them as a debugging aid, but if you rely on type errors being signaled, you have to check them explicitly with `CHECK-TYPE` or something equivalent.

> Think of soundness as a guarantee that if the program type checks

This would be where our view is different. You consider soundness to be a guarantee given by the compiler, while I consider it a property of the program itself (which can sometimes be checked by the compiler, and sometimes by the programmer). Common Lisp does not give any guarantee of type safety. SBCL simply tries to be helpful and catch most real world type errors, but ultimately it is the programmer who must ensure the soundness of the program.
Well, the fires in Amazonia are fake news, in the sense that unlike what social media tells you, it's not out of control but done purposefully by Brazil, it's not record but just like last year and the year before, and the whole "20% oxygen" meme is bullshit. :).
Are there standard libraries or agencies or something for aggregating the latest data and then based on your satellite's planned trajectory, ensuring that you aren't getting too close to another satellite?

I am guessing that space is pretty big even in low earth orbit and so probabilities are small even with thousands of objects. But even so, if you are spending millions of dollars, you would want to have some idea rather than just keeping your fingers crossed.
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Just remember to remove any baobabs you see, these can get nasty real quick.
That whole page is worth reading, unsurprisingly given the source :)
OK, we've changed to that from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTt1AVRQyx0.
Not pull an image, build an image from scratch.
It's not just for school children, it's good advice for everyone all the time. I know plenty of ineffective adults who are constantly on guard defending their image, behaving in pretentious ways, and focused altogether too much on sending social signals (hell I'm probably doing it right now by posting this comment, trying to send a social signal of intelligence). We try to remind each other of wisdom with catch phrases like "think outside the box". I think "ask all the dumb questions" might be a good catch phrase too.

As for Jimmy Carter I agree and I have to wonder: why is it that intelligence seems to be strongly inversely coorelated with effectiveness as a president? Jimmy Carter was wildly intelligent and a really nice guy, but couldn't get anything done. Donald Trump is less intelligent and often abrasive, yet he seems to be getting heaps of accomplishments under his belt (not all good ones, but largely so). Is it quantity vs quality? Or paralysis of analysis? There is no definitive answer as these are judgement calls, but I think this is fertile ground for aspiring entrepreneurs to try and grok.
Thanks for the clarification and additional commentary below; great to learn something new.
I don't think gatekeeping contributors and gatekeeping contributions are the same thing.
I was thinking more about the issue of fallout. A president ought to know at least a little bit about nuclear fallout. He does have the nuclear football.
The organizers said that call for papers had already closed. I.e this was late in the planning stage. (conf is 4 Oct) The speaker wasn't offering to help for the next conference.

I hope other conference organizers take note and work to improve diversity while also actively avoiding speakers who pull stunts like this.
> The military is highly influential, especially among family, in influencing political views

That's something very different vs the media. If you break it down to "they can influence somebody", then well, kindergarten teachers have influence over elections.

> so it's mostly moot to complain of the bias of one without mentioning the bias of the others

As soon as the military starts a coup and takes power, you'll be absolutely right. Until then, they don't decide domestic elections.
Static sites are cool but annoying to customize. WordPress is cool but a server is annoying to maintain.

Solution: build on WordPress, use wget to pull a mirror, serve that as a static site. This is way more common than you may initially guess.
The line length just expands to fill the screen. Which means if you happen to have the "right" device/screen size, it will look good and be easy to read. But on many (probably most) screens the lines will be far too long to be easily readable.
I think most of the hype is about the current state of affairs, but the genuine concern is about the political policy of burning rainforest for crop lands. While it has short-term economic benefits for the people of Brazil, it has the _potential_ to impact others around the world significantly. The fact that it is done on purpose it what is at odds, not the scale of it in a given timeframe.
Most of my work is either in a browser (reading) or in a terminal. I ran Linux as my OS for years up until 2015, when I'd had enough of tweaking stuff to make it work (Flash, sound, video etc).

So I moved to a 2014/2015 MBP and installed macports as well (not brew, because I don't want crap in /usr).

So my GUI "Just Works TM", my wifi etc same, sound, etc. MS Office.

Macports gives me the standard GNU utils/bash/etc, I don't use much of the MacOS there. iTerm2 is a great terminal emulator and its tmux CC mode is awesome. I don't have to tweak to get stuff that works.

Yes I'm aware things have come a long way since 2014 on the Linux desktop, but I don't gain anything from using it. If I need a Linux environment, either AWS (or DO or Azure or GCP etc) or a VM locally will give me that, but in terms of userspace in a terminal, there's nothing I need that isn't in Macports.
I was trying to envision this myself, and at some point was wondering if maybe the comet had some translucent ice, then light could get through and gases could stay in? Still, if it's cold enough to maintain the ice, I don't see how a tree is going to have a good time with it.
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This breaks the site guidelines. Please don't do this on HN.

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Please don't take HN threads further into tedious gender flamewar. There is zero intellectual curiosity in it, so we neither need nor want it here.

We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20795013 and marked it off-topic.
What’s your source on it being the same as last year and the year before? From https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-49433767:

> The National Institute for Space Research (Inpe) says its satellite data shows an 85% increase on the same period in 2018.

> The official figures show more than 75,000 forest fires were recorded in Brazil in the first eight months of the year - the highest number since 2013. That compares with 40,000 in the same period in 2018.

> Roraima saw a 141% increase, Acre 138%, Rondônia 115% and Amazonas 81%. Mato Grosso do Sul, further south, saw a 114% increase.
Yeah, I just have a problem changing focus at work from "work" mode to "study" mode, In work mode, the pace is fast and I get gratification, and interruptions are acceptable. In study mode I don't see any immediate results, and interruptions and noise are much more difficult, also I feel like in work mode I have all the surrounding ready for that, IDE, task manager, commits, design documents, meetings, everything is tuned for fast pace. But in study mode nothing is practically tuned for that. So only at home where I have larger bulks of time, in more rare cases am I interrupted from work than I can really focus and study.

I really wondered if more people have this issue. and if anyone managed to resolve this.
Nationalistic flamebait will get you banned here. No more of this please.

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There are other blogs by Neil Kakkar that I really enjoyed, including the one on Human log. It's quite nice and practical. https://neilkakkar.com/the-human-log.html
Is there a global database or protocol or blockchain or something where satellite positional data is aggregated? Like if you are launching a satellite then you log into a website or something and enter the planned orbit. Or something.

Or is it just a bunch of random tracking efforts with duplication and incompletion?
Afaik they can just order cash from the ECB. Hence my question whether there is regulation that would block this.
I didn't downvote you, but my guess is that some of the downvotes were because of the boring sarcasm.

Sometimes sarcasm works, but it is a tricky thing to get right. As someone prone to sarcasm myself, I have learned the hard way that it rarely helps me get any point across.
The only thing that goes in circles is the marketing for processed foods. I'm sure they will continue to find new false narratives to sell their yellow-coloured grey goop and over-processed watery milk.
To add to this, the original area codes had either a 1 or a 0 as the middle digit; in the original assignment codes with 1 were issued to states which needed multiple codes, and 0 to states with single codes. Of course, as codes split, that became impossible to manage, and in the 1990s, new area codes appeared with 2-8 as the middle digit.
And paper encyclopedias.
That. They could’ve just supplied a default .profile / .bashrc. It’s these kinds of bells and whistles that causes most security bugs due to additional attack surface. Is it the root user fetching the news with wget/curl from a remote source?