skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Newspapers in the US have extremely strong protections against defamation lawsuits. This is especially true when the falsehoods in question are targeted against politicians they disapprove of, but even spreading partisan lies about kids that lead to the kids in question receiving a torrent of death threats and a large number of people plotting to make them unemployable for the rest of their lives is not sufficient grounds for a defamation lawsuit. The anti-big-tech folks, for the most part at least, seem to have absolutely no problem with this.
"What a bizarre statement"

"Inflation, and the ability of the state to force it upon its citizenry by forbidding the use private money - has come to be viewed as inherent to the sovereignty of nations"

So it isn't a bizarre statment then since you're pretty much agreeing with it. Maybe you only think it's bizarre because you don't like that nations accept that they have and want this power?
Uber says drivers aren’t essential to its business – but if they aren’t, who is?
That seems to be a distinction without a difference. Stallman did argue that Giuffre, a child victim of both Epstein and Minsky, was "willing".

Further, the articles presents much more damning, direct evidence. Ex:

> A deep dive into [Stallman's] writings shows this isn’t the first time Stallman has expressed such questionable views, however. He has written dozens of posts on his personal website in favor of legalizing pedophilia and child pornography for more than 15 years.

The gist of the headline is accurate: Stallman defended Epstein's behavior and went further to argue against laws protecting children from sexual abuse.
Wellbutrin helped me hugely with the craving aspect of relapsing: it's also used as a stop smoking aid and I was lucky enough to have a doctor who decided to try it. I found that once the craving was taken away it took about 6 months for the other pieces to fall into place for me to start to feel comfortable out in social situations while sober, but the amount of personal growth I made over that period of time was huge. I feel like I've finally waken up and started living my life. I was an opponent of pharmaceuticals for a long time but that one worked for me without the side effects you usually hear about with antidepressants. I thought I had tried just about everything to stop drinking and I was close to resigning myself to the kind of life I was living, but this has given me hope. I don't know if it's for everyone but it's working for me.
The title is very misleading. "Strengthened" had nothing to do with the genetically modified genes. They released non-local mosquitoes that had been genetically modified, and because those mosquitoes bred with local mosquitoes (same species, just from a different location), the local mosquitoes now have a wider gene pool.

The wider gene pool is what the article is referring to as being "strengthened", not any observable difference.
Oh yeah, but they were so obviously anti-science!
Pray tell what is the community for if not to raise children?
Curryfinger seems to work by querying Shodan and other scanners. Those scanners seem to work by just connecting to an IP address's port 443 and look at the certificate. If you always require correct SNI (the domain you host) then that scanning stops working (you literally disappear from Shodan for example). The fix (to scanners) would be to try and resolve every domain name you know of or scan every IP with every domain name you know, that's unfeasible. Only replying to correct SNI is not a defense mechanism by itself, but it does make it more difficult for attackers.
My Brother's Passing, God, and the Origins of Life
Functional societies are founded on trust, shared beliefs, and shared goals. You can reject the consensus reality la-la land, as a great number of people have in the last decade, but you're just trading in for a non-consensus reality la-la land.

We don't really do objective reality well beyond the scope of our own immediate shit. We're like the six blind men and the elephant. We each have our own little fact about the elephant, but no one is able to see the elephant as a whole, and trying to paint a complete picture out of the disparate bits of information can yield outcomes very different from objective reality.
Dealing with the consequences of messing with sovereign nation states might not be a great idea: Move fast and die of pollonium poisoning...
Sounds like an easy lawsuit if they directly asked about your age and then implied it was relevant to their hiring decision.
I think the most important thing is to figure out why you need a cofounder. Too often people just bring others on board to give them confidence that they are no longer in it by themselves even though their co-founder doesn't bring nearly the same to the table
I still wont buy them as the entire brand is tainted by this customer hostile crap.
>>Providing for security is also inherent to sovereignty of nations, but private security firms flourish.

Try creating a private army and see. The state giveth and the state taketh
What3Words is a horrible idea.

It's primary use is as a rent extraction device for its owners, if they can gain sufficient market share.

It is utterly useless without their app, uses a non-universal language (English vs math) and provides zero information about geography. The 3-word identification strings provide not the slightest clue whether two identified points are corners of the same building or literally on opposite sides of the planet (vs LatLong making it obvious that e.g., 42.36N 71.31W is relatively near 41.92N 71.48W).

It provides zero value to anyone trying to actually navigate, without using their app, and if you are going to navigate with an app, why not use any implementation of OpenStreetMap, or even the nearly ubiquitous Google or Apple maps? Hell, we're even better off with old paper postal maps than this scheme.

A slight about of temporary convenience for innumerate people is no good reason to implement a rent-extractive proprietary system.
Hm, at least college exams required some serious effort. And learning that comes handy when you are faced with big challenges at work. (Eg to design, understand, debug a big complex system.) What they don't teach is team/project work.

Though if there were more emphasis on hard math/CS/programming/ITsec problem solving, that'd probably translate well to industry setting.
There are rumors that the unemployment rate is now skewed by counting people with 3 jobs as “3 jobs”. They simply divide the total number of jobs by the total number of people to get the unemployment rate. This would explain the unusual growth in restaurant and hospitality jobs. I don’t know if this is true or not but any metric that becomes a target ceases to be a good metric.
So, if "they" decide to do something with their currency, "you" would like to be able to opt out. So you position your interests outside theirs (correct me if I'm wrong). Fair enough, it's certainly your right.

But in that light, what France and Germany are doing makes sense too. At the end of the day, they too have the right to protect their collective interests, correct?

Or would you have them do something that goes against their interests so you would be able to protect your assets?
For both of my startups that I run together with co-founders, they found me through Co-Founders Lab. I didn’t pay anything either.

Back in November I handed in my notice at my last consulting gig, and I’ve just been working on my startups since.
What a bizarre statement. Providing for security is also inherent to sovereignty of nations, but private security firms flourish.

Not in France or Germany.

Just because US privataises it's military doesn't mean that this is universally accepted as a good idea.
Rent bunk beds in a communal home for $1,200
It already is a huge improvement. So when it goes full 64 bit and all the memory is accessible, it'll give a second bump to that experience of improvement.
This page has some malicious ads on it that keep redirecting me to phishing sites (only on mobile Firefox apparently)
If at first you don't succeed, you might want to watch Jurassic Park again
Unless a full economy develops under Libra, people will want to convert their Libra to Euros. So you ban the exchanges from operating in your country and force banks to reject any transfers from them. Make using Libra hard enough that most potential users are discouraged, and with low adoption the currency becomes useless.

> Interestingly though, this is exactly what a free country should not do I guess.

I think a free country should be able to put restrictions in place to avoid foreign profit-driven corporations to interfere and manipulate their economy.
But high currency allows huge discounts on purchases. If there is a race to the bottom those with high currency will own the world and can finance it through debt.
Only in this forum you will find someone arguing that contributing to open source is better for society than being a good parent.
Don't forget those with a severe hatred of flying. When things became a ridiculous hassle in 2001 I used a simple logic: I don't like this, so I'm cutting it (air travel) out of my life. I've made exceptions of course, but yeah I would pay for something like this.
I love types and I’m stoked about them coming back into style. For awhile, it was a major trend to avoid static types. I think most people’s problem ended up not being with types themselves- but poor type systems. For myself, I am particularly impressed with what TypeScript has done with its types, really amazing how expressive/flexible/and inspective it is. Anyways, just happy with the trend of embracing types and hopes it continues.
Life finds a way, and more so when populations are huge and genomes are diverse. Not exactly a surprising result.

Maybe with another ten or twenty years of experience and technique in genome sequencing and interpretation we will be able to engineer a reliable gene drive.
The URL really says it all :)
Ask HN: What's stopping OEMs from building an all-in-one device?
I mean a phone that can work as a PC as well.

There have been some failed attempts, most famously the Ubuntu phone, and a few Kickstarter projects, as well as Microsoft trying to do an OS to fit them all. But none of them have been much serious.

With the current technology, an Android phone could be built such that when connected through HDMI it launched a Linux desktop such as Debian (like Maru OS, but it is a hobbyist project). Apple could do the same with iOS/Mac.

Furthermore, if foldable phones were industry standard (not there yet, I know), the phone could double up as a tablet/laptop.

Probably there is no demand for such a device, and we can argue that it's better to have a device specifically designed for one purpose (communicating, working or gaming). However, I believe that the failed/current attempts were not serious enough, and if a big OEM wanted, an excellent all-in-one device could be shipped. I would be the first customer, waiting the whole night like some Apple customers do. Also, I'm kinda tired of taking care of 3-4 devices with their own update cycles, cables, and so on.
I only see parallelism at this level useful for JIT compilation. Interpreted languages, shaders, and similar. Those are good uses.

Not real valuable for building big projects that can build in parallel at the file level already.
The comment was only a few minutes old, so the downvotes may not have been representative of the HN population yet. It looks fine as of this moment. Reacting too fast on something being downvoted is often unnecessary, and distracts from the original point, so I often downvote such reactions.
Still important. Try to get rid of Cortana for instance. MS is forcing that crap down your throat.
Makes you wonder if nobody considered that an attack of civilian systems could be used strategically in warfare.
It does, but how badly, it depends? What are the worst kinds, what are relatively harmless if any?

Does our current handling thereof help or harm?

If those questions are not answered, we're flying blind.

Also there are some stupid things done like putting 18 y.o. boy in jail for sleeping with his 16 y.o. girlfriend, consensually.

Someone should do actual not politically correct and not victim culture motivated research.

It would be hard work, reaching out to the victims and running longitudinal observation.

If there is such research, I'd like to read it.
Is it not possible to have a recursive DNS resolver with DNS over HTTPS? I.e. are their more differences between DoH and DNS over TLS than just the port number?
"Clickbait" is generous. It's a flat-out lie bordering on libel.
Toxic work environments and constant overtime are to be avoided at all costs. But in the San Francisco/Silicon Valley area at least, companies are absolutely burying inexperienced hires in money, so I don't think the salary issue is as much of an issue anymore.

As to the rest of those preferences, it actually costs an older worker very little simply to cultivate an enthusiasm for new technologies, or their new companies' pet projects.

Where an inexperienced hire will do anything becuase they think everything will work, and an experienced hire might refuse to do things because they think it won't work, a true wise greybeard realizes most things don't work no matter what, but you might as will get onboard and take the ride. You never know what might end up succeeding.
"Remember, what Facebook is doing has never been done before. There are going to be mistakes."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19321420
Why should legit users need to check whether a packet is to a dns server or not?

And blocking https packets with mere confidence is impossible.
Some movies I’ve gone on to see multiple times

Other times I was sufficiently entertained and followed the plot well enough to not care
Canada has free “Interac E-transfers” that you can send to an email address or mobile phone number.
Facebook is an addictive social reinforcement casino first, communication platform second. Though I don't disagree with you. I think banning it is too far.
Because if they were truly investigated, our dire need for universal health care would become kite apparent and the party in power just can't have that can they?
Sort of.

Theranos did a shitty job being a normal lab and lied about it, a startup that wanted to fake it until they made it could first setup an excellent normal lab, and then with customer consent, run their new lab processes in parallel with the excellent normal lab tests.

I suppose I'm stretching the definition of faking it a little far there, but I think it sort of follows the ethos.
Very good point.

What happens when the unstoppable force of 21st century silicon valley tech-topia meets the immovable object of western financial regulations? We are finding out. Big, shouty, trying to do an end run round the regulators isn't a great opening gambit.
Looks awesome - the interpreter seems really handy for learning C, too.

It'll be a neat milestone once it's complete enough to interpret Cython. :)
IANAL, and may be wrong about how US patent law works but AIUI:

- A patent isn't infringed unless an independent claim is infringed

- Claim #7 (the one with the equations) is a dependent claim (dependent on claim #1, which is independent)

The key questions seem to be:

- whether claim #1 is being infringed, and

- whether the patent is valid
The halting problem shows that it is impossible to verify a program is bug free. Therefore anyone could say that some feature X that harms the user is actually just a bug and you would be hard pressed to beat reasonable doubt

Edit: I love downvotes without rebuttal.
Electric is the only way to get down to those operating costs. So your electric RV would need to supercharge by itself on the trip. $0.20/mile is 2.5kwh/mi at $0.08/kWh... seems possible.
> When I spoke about dell/lenovo I only have experience with Windows.

As far as I see, even with Dell, the modern hardware is too commonly untested and poorly developed or integrated with the OS, even with Windows: in my company I don't know anybody who uses built-in trackpads, as it's a common knowledge that they "don't work" but everybody carries the mouse around. I've tried to use the trackpad only to see it broken between different Windows versions (so very like Linux). The same story with the docks -- they seem to worked badly even on Windows.

The Dell puts their brand on the final product, but they just integrate whatever they can get at the moment. And even if you integrate Intel devices, they can remain in the software support limbo (happened to me with the Intel WiFi cards which remained unsupported and not working on Windows 10, even if Microsoft forced the upgrade as "everything works").

It's a sad state of the hardware - software integration. And knowing the Apple's problem with the keyboards, it seems that the only portable devices currently fully working "as they should" are the phones and tablets.
The law definition in the United States, you mean.

In Poland, it requires use of force or coercion on part of the person doing the sexual act.
Without it, say drugging and then letting someone else do it, it's "just" assault. (The other person is committing sexual assault.)

What Epstein did is called pimping and also punishable by law.
Potentially also abduction or assault.
Forcing a minor to commence a sexual act is a separate category of pimping (pimping a minor) that's yet more harshly punished.

Sex with minor is also punishable by law separately. (With some exceptions and discretion by the judge.) Now there is a strong association with sexual assault, though circumstances can leave it as just sex with minor. Depends on prosecutor and judge.

So it is likely Epstein would be convicted of multiple crimes and potentially recidivism (repeat offense) and organized crime, while Minsky would be convicted for sex with minor, not any kind of assault.

Note that repeat offense means Epstein would not be offered bail nor allowed a reduced sentence.
Of course it's not new. The FDA will not make recommendations if a treatment is not tested thoroughly.
My employer can blow me
From my observations multi-threading the linker would be more useful, since for small changes in bigger projects the linking step usually takes a lot longer than compiling a couple units.
Well, that's the one downside to becoming the "best" in a field. There's fewer and fewer at your caliber. Thus, your name technically has more meaning. That goes outside blue collar too.
There was a thread the other day with outright anger that we should be doing anything to curb Malaria, including these kind of tests.
You can all go fuck yourselves
Red Alert 2 was great. I loved the campy live-action cut-scenes.
Isn't this restraint of trade by two businesses, France and Germany, against a third business, Facebook?
Microsoft may launch 15” Surface Laptop
Chuck Norris isn't really one of the greats either. But the mythology of him makes him out to be.
Life, uh, finds a way

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dMjQ3hA9mEA
Rats are too good at the game given a chance. Given proper hiding places (like your barn), you'll never find them.
Russia's world-first floating nuclear plant arrives in port
Check out https://www.reddit.com/r/SubSimulatorGPT2Meta/top/

In my personal experience I get fooled by the bots far too often, it's actually really scary, I can imagine it being used nefariously to push a specific political agenda, spam places, do SEO fraud etc. etc.
It would be too expensive to use for a commute, so I doubt it would let too many people move outside the city.
Well, it's hard to get a DNS response when you aren't talking to a DNS server...

So, yeah, I can serve up DOH on my own server with a custom endpoint, custom client configuration, and generate cover traffic. But that's not exactly easy. And http doesn't help: I can do that without http, something like https://github.com/yrutschle/sslh, or using SNI (which, as of TLS 1.3, is encrypted).

And merely saying something is impossible doesn't make it so. It doesn't even make it hard.
Then submit the article to HN if you want it to be discussed?
> Providing for security is also inherent to sovereignty of nations

No, it's not: providing security is a goal, several powers inherent to sovereignty might be applied toward that goal (conscription power, warmaking power, the power to impose punishment, and various other incidents of the monopoly on legitimate violence; even the monetary power is applied to that end), but the goal is distinct from the inherent powers of sovereignty.
Thinkpads are marvelous, and you should try one.

I have two at work that I use for testing. But for the kind of development I do, I need different tools. It's a shame, too, since I'm an old school IBM fan. I bring the ThinkPads to our testers in an IBM-branded backpack built for two laptops.
Love this quote:

>As Sarah Jamie Lewis, the director of the Canadian nonprofit Open Privacy, put it: “Can’t wait for a cryptocurrency with the ethics of Uber, the censorship resistance of Paypal, and the centralization of Visa, all tied together under the proven privacy of Facebook.”
Most people who go on about "the trades", I find, it's unlikely they ever personally worked them. Maybe their Father's. I doubt Marco Rubio has ever touched a hammer, let alone worked as a real laborer.

As for me, going to college was absolutley the thing that really changed my life course.

I grew up on a dairy farm in northern New York. Milked cows until I was 18 and then my dad sold the farm. So I joined the Navy. I did that for 6 years and then when I was about to get out in 2002, I can still remember an officer (you know, a guy with a degree) explaining to me that I was making this huge mistake getting out. Because I was successful in the Navy. Already an E6/FC1. My career was made.

So I asked him, if I'm successful on the inside, what makes you think I cant be successful on the outside? So I got a lot of reasons. It was a good pitch. He even talked to me about getting an associate's at the local college. I was almost there anyway, just a couple classes and I'd be done. At the end, he questioned if Bard, a private liberal arts school I was accepted to, was even accredited.

That's when I knew, not only did he not care, but he would seek to harm my potential future growth just for some metric.

Anyway, so I did go to Bard college. Graduated with a degree in economics, now I'm the CTO / CPO of a middle market company (7 or so years after graduating college).

Had I of stayed, I could have done other blue jobs on the outside someday. I know a guy who works on powerlines in Texas. Says he likes his job. Takes advil like its candy. It pays the bills.

My wife and I have saved a lot, even with two kids. Last year, after our company consummated its sale to a PE company, we've been able to buy our own house in Brooklyn.

If I became a truck driver like my dad did after the sale of the farm, I'm not sure I'd be in the same place today - but it's possible I suppose.

My brother is in the trades. Hes a master plumber and runs his own plumbing company. He's also been successful. His back is also totally shot.
It’s like I get to pay for an apartment with none of that useless extra square footage! /s
> the article itself takes a more nuanced approach

Let's see what the article says:

> Using chroot is no safer than not using a chroot.

Not very nuanced in my opinion.

Few people argue we should replace chroot calls with SELinux these days. The article is interesting from a historical perspective but clearly needs a "(2013)" context.
Right. Yep, confirmed. There are no parents on Earth who have skills enough to teach elementary children 1 on 1 as well as the average teacher can teach 20 kids at once.
There is a type of person who will always walk right up to the line of what is legal and peer across. Too often these types hold leadership roles in companies.

It is important to guard against these types, by ensuring our laws reflect our shared norms to those who will ignore norms unless compelled.