skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem for MoviePass has been that a membership scheme is something the cinema chains can and do run themselves. In fact when I first heard of MP around 2017 the Odeon chain in the UK had something similar that a colleague used at least once a week.
This situation is a consequence of squandering the company's goodwill. All the big social media companies spent years arrogantly declaring that they --- not the people, not governments, but people in quirky SFBA meeting rooms --- get to decide what you people see, what they don't see, what's true, what's false, what's offensive, what's anodyne, what's legitimate activism and what's dastardly propaganda.

As it turns out, this "we know best" stance ticks off a lot of people, some of whom run states.
Ransomware hackers are targeting managed service providers for local governments
"Even as their ad was inducing guilt in viewers for spreading trash, Keep America Beautiful’s members were fighting legislation that could have done much to address the problem."

https://theintercept.com/2019/07/20/plastics-industry-plasti...
There’s a big difference between a local currency in a small region, or even a distributed crypto like bitcoin, and someone like Facebook. When Facebook starts pushing in a direction towards being an independent state-like power, you have to remember they have a “population” of 2.1 billion (daily active isers)

Facebook if it were a country would literally be bigger than China. Their political power is fast approaching that of a nation state, they can already impact elections, have shitloads of money, etc.

When they do anything that smells even remotely like moving towards sovereignty, yeah you bet countries are gonna take notice.
"I'm 54. Have been in sw dev for 40 years.....Last year I applied for 300 positions,..."

Being somewhat older than you, but bored, I think about taking up the oar again. My problem doubles down on yours in that my background is all in products with an expensive hardware component or workstation software, neither appears to be a growth industry.

Aside from the inevitable well-meaning advice to become some sort of 'project manager', etc. I wonder if it makes any sense to hit the .gov job markets at all.

Has anyone done that at an advanced age?
You don't give any context for what "a load" is to you? 1 garbage bag? A pickup truck? a regular garbage truck?
Hahaha, I remember watching that movie when it came out.
It's actually really sad that GALILEO builders didn't build in integrity-checking into the signal for civilians to be able to rely on it safely.
Apparently I had ublock origin disabled for some reason, it's back on now.
Identity is a big confound in the relearning experiments involving foreign adoptees. There are quite a few studies looking at Korean children adopted by French or North American families. These children seem to completely lose their first language (no neural response in fMRI), even though some were adopted as late as 9 years old. However, when they enroll in introductory Korean classes in college, they seem to pick up the phonology more quickly than their classmates.

The confound is that it's not clear if they are "reactivating" some long forgotten part of their brains that maintained Korean phonology, or if they are simply more apt learners due to identifying as Korean. In other words, one of the challenges in learning to pronounce a new language is the ability to overcome "sounding funny" to your peers/yourself, but these Korean adoptees may not have that holding them back since they feel that they are reacquiring a lost part of their identity.
Democracy is not there one day and gone the next, it is eroded over time.
> It's profitable only because the players aren't paid.

No.

The NFL minimum salary is under $500k and by your own admission these players aren't that good.

Even a generous $200k/yr and a generous 100 player roster only adds up to $20 million, and there are teams with over $50 million in profits.
Instead of this editorialized garbage, why not link directly to the paper?

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-49660-6

Or at least to better newscopy

https://www.dw.com/en/genetically-modified-mosquitoes-breed-...
USD 900 for an ER visit is a horror story too. Where does someone without savings get that kind of money from? At least it seems difficult for many: https://money.cnn.com/2018/05/22/pf/emergency-expenses-house...

I don't live in the US and I'm not American so perhaps I'm missing some information.
That’s really not important. Redirecting anyone to malicious sites should be an immediate red line.
What year is that press release from? Is this a game that is out now, did it come out 5 years ago? Is it 2-3 years out from now?
This is an example where age saved you from a bad experience. They wanted you naive and be able to shape you the way thet wanted to and pay you next to nothing.
It's worse yet, as someone who started with the very first RTS (Dune) all the way to League of Legends, in most games your teammates have zero concept of late-game or playing defense. If they're not destroying from the start it's time to give up. The game is very good if played properly. No one is good enough at lower skill levels that better teamwork can't allow a come back from behind. Which is an amazing feeling.

For me, the test of a good game is if it's fun even if you're losing, which is the case with LoL but not as much with most traditional RTS.
> I don't want ten unregulated facebooks who all leak my data, I want one facebook that plays by reasonable rules.

At this point you should be wondering if it should be run by the government.
I thought the same. Even more so after reading the comments here.

"K8s is so hard! All the tutorials are too basic! I had to redo my cluster multiple times!"
It's slowly becoming the accepted norm worldwide. In the Netherlands the (very recent) advice is to start with eggs and peanuts (in the form of pure peanut butter) from four months on.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOR38552MJA
They say:
> “no private entity can claim monetary power, which is inherent to the sovereignty of nations”

They mean, "When the establishment rigs the economy by diluting the national currency, then the establishment must not let their citizens escape the damage".

People talk about a "rigged economy". Where I found in economics it really happens is 3% inflation that comes from constantly printing money. Low income and the middle class often don't get 3%+ yearly pay increases. When they accept a job, the economy is rigged against them by 3% inflation based loss in their pay level, every year (over and over). When people stay at jobs 10 years, 3% year-over-year devistates people.

1801 to 1899 had ~0% inflation when it was on the gold standard with sound money. 3% yearly inflation came after moving off of the gold standard and with printing money.

Printing money hurts workers.
That's amazing. We used Dell Lattitides for years at my work with docks, with no problems. Now we have a bunch of Dell XPS 15 machines, with the new USB-C docks, and very few problems. No trackpad problems on Windows 10 at all. The only problems we have are related to software vendors who haven't updated their crap to scale properly on a high resolution monitor. A couple of times, a bad driver update, easily fixed by rolling it back.
I should've added "with the exception of magic-links", which effectively bypass VFS's resolution. Yes, if you get a file descriptor from a foreign namespace then you can make use of it for various escapes. Unfortunately there really aren't many protections against this type of thing.

Though, /proc/self/exe alone won't give you resolution access to the host. It takes a bit more work and more bugs.
The use of drones in this way by rebels makes me rethink the media image of a rebel. They are educated, lawyers, doctors, engineers.
Handwritten notes allow you to use different modalities to interpret information, which promotes deeper understanding.
You know they are hoping they get looked at last since they already had to endure the anti-trust lawsuits before.
What other times in history have private corporations taken on government entities and succeeded? Have any of these attempts been on this scale and against an entity of this power (i.e. proposing a new monetary policy against the US Federal Reserve)?
Your age was not the real reason.
Haha yeah, but actually there is value in their offer because there's no deposit and no commitment.

The "year-long lease" is such a scammy practice in competitve rental markets. It forces me to promise to pay rent even if I lose my job or need to move suddenly. If I don't pay, then the courts are expedited for the landlord to swiftly collect from me and ruin my history.

With a month-to-month lease, I only need to pledge one month's rent, not 12.
People here are quick to point out you can jam remote piloted drones, but you could also use AI to control then locally. That's much easier than the self driving car problem.

I think drones are the future of warfare, which means you are limited not by the number of soldiers you can field, but by your manufacturing and resource base ( and how well you can protect it.) To be fair, that's been at least partially true since the second World War, but now it will be the dominating factor.

However, it shouldn't change the balance between major powers, because conflict with major powers will almost certainly end in nuclear annihilation.

Even if it starts without nukes, the loser may soon see it as their only option. So I hope this means war between major powers is no longer possible. You wouldn't know it the way China and the US posture though. Or more ominously India and Pakistan.
^^^ this is what libertarianism does to the brain. It’s worse than early onset dementia.
>at least in the EU your phone number is tied to your passport

Not true. It depends on the country, in the UK you can buy SIM cards from wending machines that work straight out of the package and it's not he only country that does not require ID for SIM cards.

Anyway, even if your identity is tied to your Facebook account, what stops you from creating an American or a Filipino Facebook account? Phone number? You can buy a phone number online. You can also buy a verified Facebook account too.

Let's say that Facebook somehow starts operating as strict as a governmental body and checks everything, what stops you from buying Libra from an American or a Mexican? I haven't checked the details but this Libra thing doesn sound like Steam game money but like cryptocurrency, so they probably cannot do whatever they want just like that.
Despite this failure, I still think the species should be targeted for extinction. What are our options?
You think Blackwater would fly in Germany or France?
Yea but that would kill Facebook by a 1000 lashes overtime.
Non-WSJ link: https://www.cnbc.com/2019/09/14/saudi-arabia-is-shutting-dow...
No. Windows does not control the BIOS. The BIOS activates when the machine is powered on, before the operating system becomes active. This is at the hardware maker level, and outside the control of Windows.
>But I don't think the reason for disagreeing is because we on HN want to feel superior to everyone else (maybe some people do, but I don't think most people here actually think that way..).

Maybe people don't explicitly think that, but people who demand a Facebook ban must at least implicitly believe they're somehow superior to the billions of Facebook users, otherwise how could they justify the notion that they way they want those people to spend their time is better than the way those people have demonstrated they want to spend their time? If I were to say to a grown adult "I demand you stop smoking pot, it's bad for you!", I can't imagine a way I could do that without coming across as believing I knew better than them.
I think if you can’t establish communication with a smart coder despite poor spoken English skills you aren’t that smart. Not only is code itself a very succinct form of communication, the brevity of math applies to software communication as well. You just need a few concepts to convey very detailed specifications. That’s why we have idenpotency as a word. Exactly-once semantics. “Use a lambda”.
Think this is less about liberalism (it doesn't argue for government to be run like a business) and more about US-inspired thinking where businesses are better than governments.
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That sounds really awful. I wish you well and hope you keep your head up. You never know if it could turn around.
Unfortunately cryptocurrencies are all about buzz, buzz is valuation and adoption. Such as crypto showman Justin Sun, he will seize on any oppotunity to get as much eyeballs as possible.
>It is important to guard against these types

Don't doubt for a second that MS knows what it's doing when it adks for this. Facebook as well is doing the same, asking for more regulations. They're trying to capitalize on what is called Regulatory Capture, which will entrench their market power through government force.

Sometimes this is more obvious, such as the case in finance where industry leaders smoothly swap roles as both profiteers and technocrats, and sometimes it is less obvious, as is the case now with big tech.
That’s not what studies show. Studies show that most people can not lose weight by exercise alone:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3925973/

Scientifically it is possible, but that’s not backed up by how humans actually behave.
No I can't.

That was unconvincing to me.

It makes sense to me that in France a society (which by the way doesn't make iPhones, not sure how that applies here anyway) that has some sort of strange hang up about air conditioning would have people die of heat.
France/Germany is not Soviet Union. Defence industry is alive and well, and it's not a bad thing if regulated properly.
If it's in the BIOS, it doesn't matter what OS you use. The BIOS powers up first and is active before the operating system ever is.
I've always liked the idea of a consulting firm that specialized in hiring old people. I wonder if there's enough work to keep something like that fed if one were to specialize in 'obsolete' tech and market at a national level.

Heck, to the right client, that one i860 or C80 programmer might be worth gold. Either that, or just do a highly competent job at embedded programming generally.
I don’t think that’s unreasonable on its own, whether it is here or not.

For example, in a non computer scenario, wearing bicycle helmets is definitely better for you if you get into an accident as the odds of injury reduces. However, the false sense of security may also make the wearer more reckless while riding their bike and potentially lead to more accidents.

I think that’s the argument being made here. The false sense of security chroot may provide will lead to a person not hardening their systems as much if they weren’t using chroot at all, even if chroot itself does increases security.
Stories echo around the internet like a game of telephone to the point where you can't trust much of them at all. It's amazing how often authors on large publications like Yahoo blatantly copy and paste without attribution.
I'm pro innovation! I can not understand why entrepreneurs have such targets on their back these days on hackernews.
Nothing would prevent root from just modifying the process memory directly to change the chroot() location back to '/'.

Huh? The chroot root directory is stored in the kernel, in the task structure, not in process memory. For that matter, every process can modify its own memory, not just root.

It is in fact a bug, or at least a design flaw, that root can break out of chroot. For instance, the Unix filesystem, historically, at the VFS layer (or whatever Linux calls it), has a simple tree structure, Unix allows nested chroots, and chroot(2) doesn't chdir(2) you into the new root. If you chroot to a subdirectory of your root and don't chdir into it, Unix is too dumb to know you're "above" your current root.
How did anecdotal evidence of two individuals change your stance on advice based on proper, large scale research and international teams of subject matter experts? There is no claim being made that allergies can be prevented for sure, merely that early introduction to allergens significantly reduces the risk.
Give me a break. I have been leading a low pollution lifestyle for decades and many consumers do too. Nobody likes waste except the people that make money from producing it.

I am not throwing my hands up, I am saying it's time to attack the root of the problem instead of clipping the topiary into slightly better shape. Waiting for the market to just catch up is failing and discounts the influence of marketers and lobbyists, as well as discounting the possibility of collective action. Don't be a judas goat.
« The drug itself consists of peanut flour. »

....yep.
Is AI Startup Element AI Legit?
Even Mexico has SPEI payment network which costs $0.36 USD for any amount

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real-time_gross_settlement
I've been thinking about this lately. I feel like it will lead to an increase of nuclear powers. If you can't match a neighboring nation's robot output, and they aren't dealing with local attrition due to a negligible loss of combatants' lives (since most of it is machine loss and not human loss), your only reasonable form of resistance is MAD, and you can't have assurance if you are dependent on another nation's decision to use nukes in your defense.
So I guess that 5% someone will need to buy from the US? Sounds to me like someone is making things great again...
In the broad, pedantic sense... yes! This is literally homeopathy, with "like cures like". So are vaccines.

...but no, not in the common sense. :-)
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I don't like facebook either, I don't use it but I do like this idea. Libra is an innovation. A cryptocurrency backed by currencies (and credit markets) is very exciting.
Even following your reasoning, I repeat the same: states/federations like US, China, Russia, and EU could find a new way to compete and handle power, so we are talking about countries with a military and intelligence balance.
What about Microsoft surface book? I have colleagues who are in science/coding/tech and they really like them.
> ... no peg to anything they do.

Libra is still a problem. They start with a basket of USD + Yen + EURs to start. This appeases governments, just for the reason you mention "based on their currences".

...but Libra is designs that they can move away from them over time. It can move to revenue generating investments, like corporate bonds (like money markets do).

Libra can then wait until closer to countries defaulting on their national debt. The countries then start money printing at far higher rates. Their currencies drop in value (aka far higher inflation rates). Libra then shifts to corporate bonds and revenue generating assets.

This is good for citizens. It moves Libra from unsound money (USD + Yen + EURs) to sound money (asset backed & revenue generating assets). That makes Libra more powerful than bitcoin.

This becomes a strategic problem because it can cause a RUN on the national fiat currency, as Libra flees it. Libra then is infitely better than national's fiat currency, because Libra is asset backed. The US Dollar has about $0.03 worth of gold backing per $1.00 (after all of the money printing).
Yes - you have to be a member of the Chiemgauer e.V. association in order to use or accept the vouchers, which is why it's called "vereinsintern", i.e. "internal to the association". It's not a general-purpose currency.
Maybe it wasn't clear from my comment.

My point was not that the US/CIA don't "push people out of windows" but that they wouldn't do it because Snowden is such a public figure.
That is not true
...I guess he's looking for people out-of-the-norm and willing/able to stand up to their convictions?

I wouldn't put a picture, but when I had to write some CVs here, I caved in and put a photo. I used to think it was a fault of mine to be so far off the norm, and I tried really hard to fit in. It just didn't work out for me. Today, I think I know that this is what can make me valuable.

EDIT: ...but it is kind of a play of statistics vs. faith, and I think that one shouldn't fault someone, if they can't pull the faith together for it. A comment on my parent comment tells about someone applying in the US with a comical picture. That person was able to afford applying in such a way, but when you really need a job, because money or family, would you really take that risk/leap of faith? EDIT2: ...or that could also be signalling, that someone is high-risk taker, which could also be an attribute an employer is looking for.
Make no mistake, this is just MS calling for regulatory capture so they have few people to compete with their products. They are in it for their profits, not the good of mankind.
"If I have a low level, quasi hardware layer service that I need coded in C or C++? Fine, yes, experience matters. It matters a lot in those instances, and I'd be foolish to hire some kid to do that. But there is less and less of that kind of work. "

You know, that could be. Dunno why you got the downvote so here's an up.

Offshoring of manufacture probably has something to do with the dearth of work. Development was bound to follow mass production.
Wait until they find out they can't block Bitcoin.
A problem with tools like these is dealing with the C preprocessor. You can either parse preprocessed code (in which case you can't deal with the source file as written, for example to do rewrites or searches on it), or you hack on it to somehow accept "common" preprocessor idioms (but that's fragile and imperfect).
On the other hand, design changes like special attacks like Psionic Storm only triggering for one of the selected units reduced required battle APM in SC2 too. (In SC1, if you had a group of units selected and triggered one of those attacks, all selected units would cast on that location, so you had to select a single one, cast, individually select the next one, cast, ... if you didn't want to waste your charges)
Did Desmond Tutu participate in all conflicts in the world, or only the selected ones?

Because people can care about many things, and yet your favorite cause may not be among them.
Alright, how about a more useful example: I open a file in the users home directory and then drop my namespace to /var/void to prevent myself from opening any additional files?

This is a very common pattern, and killing off open FDs seems like a very wrong thing to do.
"Germany has zero interest in devaluation; in fact they've been accused of being far too strict in Euro monetary policy, with the 0-2% inflation target."

Germany has, and has had, an immense interest in keeping their currency artificially devalued and they have achieved this by entering into a fixed exchange currency union with countries like Italy and Portugal and Spain.

The PIIGS currency is, relatively, overvalued in comparison to the German currency because they have the same value.

So a first glance at German policy which is in place to protect their fragile banking system which is overexposed to PIIGS debtors looks to be currency strengthening - and perhaps it would be if they had their own currency. However the broad impact of German policy (their policy to be in a monetary union with PIIGS) is tremendously weakening of their currency, relative to the other members of the Euro group.
The neighbour cat spends ages in my garden in hunting postures staring at insects and occasionally chasing them. Then she'll lie down and enjoy the weather for a bit,continue her patrol and come back a couple of hours later and repeat.

And when I was a kid we had a cat that we eventually discovered liked sitting in the berry bushes in the garden and kill birds. We discovered it because she didn't eat them, but just left them there and we eventually found a whole pile.

She did on occasion hunt for food too, but mostly when the prey was out of the norm, like once when she caught a large rat - only the tail was left. Of course I don't know how much she ate out at night, though.