skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
SA's economy is -AFAIK- mostly / completely dependent on natural ressources.

Given that SPOF, one can't help but think of the IRA's threat to Margaret Thatcher :
"[...] we only have to be lucky once – you will have to be lucky always."
In this context that's implying that rms has done things such as looking for child pornography online, which is something we don't know and can't prove. Defending the right to do something != doing something
> Bitcoin has no Facebook-sized entity

That is exactly the point. That would be a threat as they see it (just from reading the statement even). That's why bitcoin which is not a private entity, is not seen as a threat at this time.
> The world isn't better off if half of the information is on bing and half of the information is on google

The premise here is incorrect. The idea is all information would be available on both Google and Bing, and searchers are free to query their engine of choice.
That's like the best Ad for libra? I think we should investigate whethere these politicians are being secretly paid by zuck
I have no reason to believe this is true. Side channel attacks on QKD have been very effective, which is a strong indication that the ability to trust your hardware is essential to the functioning of these systems. You’re proposing a model where one cannot trust their hardware, and I see no evidence that modern QKD systems have been hardened against that attack.

PS I’ve worked a lot on cryptographic backdoors in the non-QKD setting but I don’t work on QKD.
Stallman isn't being called a pedophile. He's being called somebody who defends rape and child trafficking, because that's literally what the words he's written attempt to justify.

If you want proof, go read the email thread where he lays out in plain words how he thinks that the 17 year old was actually consenting to being trafficked.
It used to be made about plenty of white people too. If you're Italian-American, good luck being hired by a boss who favors Jews. But the progressive revolution has entirely skipped over the struggles of non-Jewish whites merely because of their skin color.
I see this in discussions about 9/11 all the time, where someone will express incredulity that it would be possible for a bunch of "goat farmers" to execute such a plan. But if you actually look at those terrorists, many were educated and from well-to-do families.
The so-called "rebels" represent a large part of the Yemen population, and they ruled over their country for many month, so of course some of them are educated and have access to technical ressources.

From memory, here's what happened in Yemen:

1. The Arab revolt of 2011 led to the fall of the long time dictator, Saleh.

2. In 2012, a conference in Ryad, organized by the powerful neighbor Saudi Arabia, appointed a new president Hadi. He was supposed to rule 1 year, until a democratic vote elects a new president.

3. In 2015, a large part of the population was fed up with the lack of change, especially with Hadi extending its reign. The Houthis, a religious minority from the North of Yemen, overtook the capital. Hadi resigned.

4. Six month later, Hadi went to Saudi Arabia. He claimed he was still president. SA and United Emirates invaded Yemen. Supporters of Saleh joined with Houthis against the invading troops and Hadi's supporters.

5. Yemen has fallen into occupation and civil war. People suffer from hunger and lack of medicine. Saudi bombings destroyed hospitals, factories, historic sites… According to the Guardian, at least 40% of Saudi bombings had purely civilians targets. Houthis have requested help from Iran, so the war is regional.
France & Germany could block or ban Bitcoin if they wanted to, just like China. The fact they don't imply they tolerate Bitcoin. They tolerate it because it isn't controlled by a private entity.
No, you're absolutely right. Only an anecdote, but I once posted an answer at the same time as him; his was somewhat wrong or at least misleading, but got an immediate upvote anyways. I commented, pointing out the problem, and he fixed it -- which is fine! -- and ended up with more upvotes and the green checkmark. Meanwhile my answer that had said the correct thing from the beginning sat at 0.

In the grand scheme of things it's a non-issue, but it was quite frustrating at the time. And it is clearly an example driven by him as a famous personality rather than technical chops.
> “a developer with operational tendencies”

Hmmm, I like the ring to that, might put it on my linkedin profile.

On the article itself, can't say I disagree.
The Toyota Jihad model does appear to be a popular truck in certain quarters.

I've been surprised for years that infrastructure wasn't more effectively attacked. It seems to me that a ton of mayhem could erupt just from a guy with a Barrett 50 cal.
The two are not exclusive.
CPU limits are essential for keeping runaway pods from taking over whole node. Except pathological cases it works very well with lowered cfs_period_us
Wouldn't this be as simple as cross validating the almanac and noticing that the new satellite is not in the majority vote result?

You can even mark a safe set of ephemeris and almanac or just download it from internet, like many kinds of GPS software do.

You would have to spoof a whole constellation to break such measure. And it could be strengthened by discarding signal from satellites that are too close, preventing the equivalent of Sybil attack. So if you see doubled SATs, you can mark one or both of them as invalid.

Then you can also check ionosphere map and validate that signal distortion roughly matches the satellite reported location.

You can also limit the attack by hard capping relative orbital velocity and instantly rejecting that satellite which is unexpectedly too fast.
(You would have to again spoof a whole constellation, and if you're target has correct ephemeris data it's all for nothing.)

Maybe I have guessed their solution in a few minutes...
Is the fast food worker responsible for thinking about American dietary health? Is the logger responsible for thinking about ecological health? Is the coal miner responsible for thinking about clean air?

In some ways the fast food worker is even more directly responsible for the end-product. Burgers require regional labor; software can be made by somebody in Australia or China.
I've used Linux off and on about as long as you and permanently since 2008 or so, I've never really had all these hardware problems I keep reading about over the years. I've had WiFi cards not work with certain distros, which changing to a different one has always fixed. I had issues with multiple displays years ago but that was with an actual CRT monitor hooked up to my laptop. I've had some minor issues getting obscure old gamepads to work on modern distros more recently but other than that everything's always worked pretty well whatever machines I've installed it on. Hell even my old TV tuner card that I could barely manage to make work with the software that came with it originally on xp on my old ass desktop from 1999, works well on Linux without hassle(not that I've used that thing for years now).

I agree back in the day, many features were lacking when it came to the desktop, but that hasn't been the case for years. Using the windows 7 computers at my work or the few times I've tried windows 10 feels like a massive step backwards from what I'm used to on my Linux computers. Everything always just works. Whatever hardware I plug in, even stuff I could never get working in windows, like my rp350 guitar pedal or my midi controller, just work. Music and audio recording on linux is just awesome, I could go on all day about how amazing Jack2 is compared to anything I ever used on windows.

I've only used Macs post os9 a few times, but I've never really liked them. They always felt limited and closed down. But, I don't know a lot about it so I can't say too much there.
There is actually a pure free market solution to this problem.

Microsoft should sell their stake in Facebook and publicly announce they are distancing themselves from FB. The dominos will just start falling automatically, one by one. For sure, it will start some serious soul searching among the companies whose primary business is data exploitation.

But of course, this will not happen, because Microsoft desperately needs Facebook to be strong so that its AI team can actually challenge Google's dominance in AI (Tensorflow).

https://internetofbusiness.com/microsoft-and-facebook-team-u...

So we keep hearing these weird platitudes by folks who probably are never going to be affected in any big way by this so called "cannibalization of the fabric of this country".
Part of the beauty of the movie is that at the end the mother appears to have been aware of, and amused by, the ruse all along. One wonders if the same is true of the OP's real-life story.
Oh yeah? Next you'll be telling me video game studios make up a tiny fraction of the workforce!
Germany: Asgaard Security Group

France: Wagram Protection, Secopex, and many others.

PMCs are everywhere.
Elections are only a small part of democracy. Things like free speech and privacy are also very important components of a functioning democracy.
Pulmonary Lipid-Laden Macrophages and Vaping
Runs the commercial side of the company (sales/marketing/operations). No direct control over product development.
Do they really not have this capability? You can buy a decent drone off the shelf for a thousand bucks, how hard is it to strap an IED on the back?
And going online without an ad blocker is simply irresponsible.
It's a pretty obvious term. Obvious in the way that it includes Libra (where Facebook is a private entity), and excludes something like Bitcoin which is not directly controlled by any such entity.
Urg, duplicated for some reason, sorry
Using natural language models for question correction
Companies will do anything to earn a profit. Asking them to self-regulate is orthogonal to the goal of maximizing profits.
yea, yes. Indeed, the more kids the better. 25, 30, or even 35 kids to a single teacher is far better than 1-on-1.
It's like homeopathic drugs... sometimes just the barest infinitesimal trace of a medicine is better than than a full dose.

Ha
Head replacement? For $50k that sounds like a bargain!
Hope scientists had a plan B and plan C in place.
asyncio is still bound by the GIL. It's not like Go's continuations which can parallelize on the CPU. There still can only be one TCP payload from your Python process at one time. The author wanted to spam the network and use all his bandwidth. Python multiprocessing would have worked for this though (probably faster than the solution using shell commands, but obv this is network-bound much more than CPU bound so who cares).
Let's get real for a minute: France and Germany do not want Facebook, of all businesses, to monitor most private monetary transactions. Yesterday a social network, then a press/media entity, now a "central" bank with no traditional jurisdiction but its own private virtuality? It's preposterous, particularly considering the track record of this company.

The statement you quoted is just typical gov/political PR, common rhetoric.

However, it's everything but a bizzare statement, fundamentally. Ask yourself: how does the USA treat the US Dollar, would they be willing to just let it wane or die, be "invaded" by a foreign and private currency, as if it were not "inherent to its sovereignty"? Would the Fed be OK to just vanish and let the BCE or some private Asian conglomerate run the monetary show from San Francisco to Berlin passing by tokyo in terms of monetary policy? You in fact support the opposite view, inflation has indeed become many a government's tool.

Come on. This comment was either disingenuous or wildly uneducated about macroeconomics and political theory, either way totally fails to account for/relate to the European political/philosophical framework. Your world view is absurdly narrow, hyper-centered on the peculiar American case: few countries have privatized their citizens' State hence sovereignty to such an unfettered extent.
mrb's comment that "we will block Libra and we will not block Bitcoin* as some sort of tacit approval is bullshit.

Bitcoin is tolerated because it's not centralized, and no one (obvious) entity is controlling it. If the EU governments could, they totally would ban Bitcoin.

Libra, on the other hand, is a power grab by someone they can regulate, so they will.
I hope you are screening based on actual skills and not just what they look and sound like.
No, the 2020 slogan appears to be "keeping" things great.
Don't want to open up a whole other can of worms but this is very clearly the role of a union in quite a number of industries. Such a body would offer both legal and financial support in a situation where an engineer was being asked to do something they felt was illegal or sketchy.
Proven to Be the Sum of 3 Cubes
The barrier is getting so low, that a dispersed group, 1000 miles from a target could all 3D print the same drone, powered by an efficient commercially available RC engine, using a GPS guided computer (cell phone) with the capabilities to switch to visual terrain guidance and inertial navigation (making them immune to RF jamming), could all be launched at the same time, and deliver their payloads on the same target at exactly the same millisecond. All the software is available on GitHub today. The model airplane community has proven flights of 1888 miles, with 3 quarts of fuel, flying at 50mph. So 1000 miles plus a payload equivalent to the weight of 1 quart of kerosene has been demonstrated to be possible. The technology is proven.

How many people in a 1000 mile diameter from a sensitive target could be motivated enough to build such a device and launch them simultaneously? Depending upon the fanaticism, I could imagine 10,000 of these drone, all swarming in from every direction, from every altitude, overwhelming any defense. How does a society defend themselves from such an attack? With such a swarm, the final 500 yards from a target is covered in 30 seconds. I don’t know of anything that can stop 10,000 RF shielded drones in 30 seconds. That dystopia is our future.
I'm almost 50 and when I look at the retirement saving calculator from my employer (through ADP), they tell me to expect to pay $15k / month for healthcare expenses when I'm 85. That can't be possible, can it?
I see a lot of criticism that this is self-serving by Microsoft, that they’re advocating for regulation that will hurt their competitors like Google and Amazon much harder than themselves.

I say... *that’s great.” Privacy advocates can get one of the world’s most powerful companies as an ally, just by a common self interest. I don’t mind that this is self serving from Microsoft, I hope they are successful. Other allies could be the media companies hurt by Facebook, advertisers bidding up each other on Google, etc. there should be a selfish coalition of privacy defenders just to protect their own businesses.
Germany is obviously somewhat keen on letting single entities get control of everything, as the EU is in many ways an extension primarily of Germany, and the closest entity I'm aware of that could be said to be doing just that.

I'd also like to mention that certain entities operating outside of the state are precisely the sort of thing that can prevent the sort of tyranny that Germany enacted during the 20th century. Sometimes, and often, the entity capable of "regulating" is the tyranny. Imagine if Germany had had the capability to prevent payments to Jews, or track which households were spending more on food than they should and were likely harboring enemies of the state. I'm not saying Facebook needs to be the entity that does it, but monetary systems operating outside of the state could be argued to be one of the strongest weapons against tyranny.

I actually think this highlights one of the fundamental differences between Western liberalism and German schools of thought. Germany tends to fall back on the central authority, whereas liberalism thinks that the central authority is the single most corruptible attack vector.
the East India company comes to mind
Also posting such a link to HN is simply irresponsible.
I always use dental insurance and always get a price before a procedure, and I have six kids.
And if you start paying for an online newspaper, you will still be tracked. Actually, by subscribing you just made tracking you much easier.
How the U.S. military churns out more greenhouse gas than entire countries
Sometimes it is not clear cut.

Getting the same result in different ways can legal or not:

Obvious example:

Saving a x amount of money from taxes using a legal loophole is legal.

An exact equal company trying to save the exact same amount of money by lying to is doing something illegal.

Far less obvious example:

Around here (and possibly elsewhere, I don't know) if you make a drink from wine and spirits you have to pour the spirit first because increasing the strength of wine is illegal, but decreasing the strengt of spirits are OK.
If there is no free tier to try, I think it is not a good example of a ShowNH, because we can't try it and give feedback.

Also, all-caps in the title will get this flagged. (Even if only a part is in all-caps.)
>>It’s a difference against zero.

Exactly. This is why it is accurate to say that windbreaker B is twice as effective.
Besides the $1k monthly premiums. Don’t forget to save up for the $10k deductible in case you actually get sick!
So is Academi. Their primary mission is protecting corporate interests in unstable countries / war zones. Asgaard used to do the same (I am not sure if they still exist).
Ironic that the German government wants to avoid irresponsible monetary policy through a private entity when it is literally printing money to stimulate growth through the ECB.
My government is so corrupt I'm happy to have multiple capitalist companies looking to provide alternatives.

It seems very "all eggs in one basket" to trust the government.
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It was ambitious, yes. It was also blatantly obvious at the point of inception of the idea itself that government would become a problem. They exist for the exact purpose (among other purposes) to prevent this exact idea from working (at least unregulated and without a proper banking license). All of the recent history and the laws made this obvious. It is truly astonishing that Facebook haven't thought about this before, or were naive enough to think that they could just do this because they were so big.
I would argue that Libra is competing directly with the US dollar.

It is a new form of currency for a user to obtain and use within the Libra ecosystem. I would imagine that the ideal world for Libra is for a user to onboard into the ecosystem and transact solely in that ecosystem. It would obviously require Libra to be ubiquitous for this to happen, but it may be the ultimate goal.

In this case, an American user would transact solely in Libra and not US dollar. I am not an economist, but I would imagine this is similar to Americans selling US dollars for foreign currencies, which I imagine weakens the dollar if done at a large enough scale.

Additionally, Libra is incorporated in Switzerland. I can only guess that this was done with foresight that the US might fight back against this new currency that competes against the dollar. With this incorporation location, it would be harder for the US to shut down this new monetary system.
I suggest you look at Toptal.
That is a very optimistic view about how easy it is for the average engineer (many of whom are not even in software) to land a new job. Especially one that doesn't require them to move or otherwise make significant changes.
What would the assets generate revenue based on? If it‘s fiat currencies you still have exposure, if it‘s Libra you run the risk of currency panic and it‘s not dissimilar to a fiat currency panic except there‘s nothing really available to stop precipitous economic effects.
It is at odds but why can't I feel both?

I believe people working directly on Libra have good intentions but Zuckerberg's previous actions are just making it almost impossible to achieve Libra's objectives.

At Facebook's scale, there are so many good things it can do. It's just that its leadership ruined things for the company.
Why were there over 400 tons of lead on the roof?! (honest question)
Thanks for your comment. I don't think it's that hard.

Take a middle/high-end smartphone phone. Install something like Maru OS (but preinstalled and with OEM support). That's it.

I agree with the cooling problems, but a desktop browser and Unix terminal would be enough, and these apps are not that demanding for the CPU.
Should I give you the list of EU private military companies? It is even more fun as the UK is still part of the EU, and the British have practically invented the concept, and still prevail on the market.
IMO it should really come down to every company has a limited number of ambitious things they should be able to get away with. If a company wants to branch out into new markets, that should be done through a spin-off.

Facebook is not a digital currency company, they are a Social Media company. If they want to produce a digital currency, Libra should be its own company and not piggyback off the success of the social media product. Social media needs chat, so WhatsApp and Messenger makes sense. Instagram is another social media company. But currency? Too far outside the core competency.

Same with Amazon... selling physical products is their core competency. Selling digital products is an offshoot of that. Allowing others to use your sales platform goes hand in hand too. But how in the world did they get to be a tech company hosting other people’s websites? How do they have a video rental business and also host a competing video rental business? AWS doesn’t make sense for Amazon the retail company.

In the trust-busting era none of this would have been allowed.
Let's be honest, just because something is ambitious doesn't mean it's good for the world. Facebook has tremendous impact on the world already, and events like the Cambridge Analytica scandal have demonstrated that Facebook can't manage its own empire.

After a company grows beyond its ability to maintain order within its own activities, it should always prune down toward its essential businesses and reform itself before the next stage of growth. Facebook is trying to do the opposite by extending to currency instead of resolving its existing problems.

I don't feel sorry for Zuckerberg.
"Commission per hire: 15% of annual salary"

So basically getting the same fee as a normal recruiter, without them doing any of the work.

Lower fees will attract more companies. For the standard recruiter fee, I rather just use a firm.
I'm one of these European users. An American shop only offering payments via Libra would end up the same fate as American shops that don't offer PayPal or another convenient payment method do right now. Why would I even remotely want this? These crypto threads make it out like it's the second coming, we have a more or less functioning financial system and even if it's broken I would not trust Facebook of all companies to offer up a better, global, alternative.

The forming of a financial underworld in the Eurozone is pretty doubtful in my mind. Sure, enforcement varies country by country but if this would get a big enough problem we also have international efforts in the EU to get rid of it. Worst case somebody gets a data dump in lieu of Swiss tax evasion dumps on CDs a few years in and the laws against it get even stricter.