skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> not with an explicit military goal in mind

Um, the Houthis are under a multi-year campaign of strikes by Saudi Arabia. It's an actual war. This was definitely a military strike. It also levels the playing field. If you are a "tribal" with no money, you can go against vastly wealthy countries hellbent on your destruction who are actively slaughtering your people.

It's a hell of a lot better approach than the other low cost tribal defense, which is biological weapons.
Here is another option if you don't have much to store - https://cloudbuddy.cloud
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To understand just how trivial it is to escape a chroot with root, just run "nsenter -m -t $$" and your out.
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> not familiar with the specific mindsets and the history of this decision

I think Monsieur Macron has put this onto the agenda when Libra was announced. I'm not disagreeing with the decision and have similar concerns as you, but I'm still uncertain whether the state should even have the ability to block these and other things in general. Most of all, I miss a British voice here (as, sadly, not very much longer an EU member), and see this as a preview for where things are going with France getting more weight as the UK is leaving.
Even beyond how effective the election manipulation was or wasn't, no one is asking whether the vague 'regulations' (by the US gov?) will do anything useful at all.

I suspect not but this all sounds reactionary "something must be done" where the utility of the something is always downplayed.
>Keeping it from going up and giving disproportionate gains to money holders past is part of the job. There's nothing ironic about it, this is the job of central banks, and there's nothing shady about it.

There is something incredibly shady about it, because inflationary monetary policy is inherently a regressionary redistribution of purchasing power and wealth due to Cantillon effects whereby those relatively closer to the printing press (governments, banks, and asset holders in roughly that order) gain a higher purchasing power than those at the very end of the chain which has traditionally been wage-earners and average workers.

There is no need to print money in a growing economy, it's purely ideology from the Keynesian economic establishment where they've somehow convinced the general public that it is crucial to have a steady inflation in an economy because otherwise people won't spend money or invest (which is a priori false, as time preference is a thing in both humans and firms). For thousands of years gold has been used as a monetary backing (which is deflationary by definition), and some of the highest recorded levels of economic growth in history has generally been slightly deflationary (the United States during the 1800s is a prime example).
That’s a very typical German mindset. You implicitly assume that nothing good can come out of Libra so it should be banned from the beginning. The pragmatic approach is to wait and see what happens. Most likely, it won’t be as successful as you assume it will be. Also, there are plenty of other forms of private money out there that you don’t seem to have a problem with (e.g. credit cards), as well as foreign currencies. Why do you think using Russian rubles for payments should be perfectly legal but using Libra for payments is completely evil? It does not make much sense to me.
Utilize SNI and serve up a fake cert when someone scans you without a matching hostname. Censys is scraping you by IP, so it'll just see the fake cert.

You can do this in nginx by making the fake cert the first server block.
A correct observation, unfortunately.

Offline newspapers exist too. They are made of trees, need to be delivered by a minimum wage paperboy (who remembers the game Paperboy?), they lag a few hours to a day behind, and the fact you read that newspaper and pay for it electronically gives away something about you... But what it doesn't track is which articles you read.

This is also a disadvantage of digital TV versus analog.
For context, they've raised 12.8B, as per TechCrunch[0].

[0]: https://www.crunchbase.com/search/funding_rounds/field/organ...

Some good commentary: https://twitter.com/profgalloway/status/1172714140781223936
Very much the same thing with the Sri Lanka attacks.

I think the American public/media likes to paint everyone from the non-West as extremely backwards, when in reality I feel like everywhere in the non-West has "West"-like pockets of extreme affluence and then just huge amounts of inequality and rural poverty.
The phrase "paranoid hogwash" comes to mind. Lead levels are doubtless temporarily elevated in Paris, particularly near the Church. But, humans lived in much higher lead conditions for much longer periods of time than this event. Temporary, modest elevation isn't going to appreciably hurt anyone, including children.

" the tests found lead levels up to 2.5 times the French standard for buildings hosting children"

FWIIW the value of the French limit is 6.5 micrograms per square foot. That limit in America is actually 40 micrograms per square foot, meaning the "contamination" being discussed here is ... well below acceptable US limits. It's not an ideal situation, but I'm pretty sure Munchausen by Proxy syndrome is going to hurt more kids than those temporarily elevated and ruthlessly mitigated (even according to this story) lead levels.

FWIIW the Times assertions that French authorities didn't disclose or failed to inform people is complete nonsense as well; you can find that via reading the story itself, or a simple google search:

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/notre-dame-p...

https://www.thelocal.fr/20190509/french-health-officials-war...

I realize it's popular to negotiate with landlords in NYC over lead levels, but this is paranoid horse shit, probably with some dumb political angle like "hey, let's put LED screens and solar panels up in place of Notre Dame's roof."
Libertarianism is not the same thing as liberalism (classical nor modern).
Ask HN: Is anybody using GraalVM EE in Production? What value your app gained?
With a range over 1000km?
It does however defeat this probe method.
You are clearly excluding mobile browsing stats.
I'm an average person on HN. I specifically don't use ad blockers. You might need to adjust some of your assumptions.
My understanding is that monthly premiums should be on the order of $600/mo for an excellent plan with a low deductable and copay. It's more if you have a family, of course.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/14/world/middleeast/saudi-ar... for the tech claim.

The "mercenaries" claim is wrong (at least in Yemen) though.
Well you can infer things about his character based on his support of pedophilia in general.

> I am skeptical of the claim that voluntarily pedophilia harms children. The arguments that it causes harm seem to be based on cases which aren't voluntary, which are then stretched by parents who are horrified by the idea that their little baby is maturing.

> There is little evidence to justify the widespread assumption that willing participation in pedophilia hurts children.

These are not the types of statements a non pedophile would make. People who are not pedophile's don't randomly argue that pedophilia is not harmful.
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Not sure what they were expecting, Libra is a direct threat to the power of nation states and their fiat currencies.
I've not yet read Stallman's own writing on this matter. However, even if he believes that the age of consent should be lower; or if he believes some of the girls involved in the Epstein affair were actually willing participants -

That is ABSOLUTELY NO REASON for his employer to consider terminating him.
I understand the struggle! I’m in san diego which also has a high market and it sounds like were around similar ages. At this point I cant justify renting anymore and am determined to buy when I spot the right opportunity. It is a buyers market right now with interest rates being low and I know it will be a worthy investment simply because of location. Wish you luck in what you end up doing!
What prevented that from being possible before?
Fair enough.

But this doesn't neglect the fact that they're at 70% GM. They're spending 750M/750M split between SGA and R&D, which means you could basically cut those both out significantly (assuming support/hosting costs are in the COGS) and the company stops growing (on a $1B+ revenue top line) but just starts printing cash. The ~$100M in capital leases is a rounding number then. Not to mention, since their data centers appear to be capital expenditures, it means they have the possibility of extracting even more ROI out of that in the long term.

PS - your article is from 2018 speaking about 2016 and 2017 numbers. Anything updated since? Dropbox has continually increase FCF YoY regardless...
Financial capital is so abundant that interest rates are headed to 0%. There is already too much money chasing too few investment opportunities which leads to severely mispriced valuations (e.g. WeWork) that are unsustainable and will simply cause more systemic instability down the road. Why exactly do we need more investment from China?
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This isn’t as insightful as you think. You’re tautologically describing the notion of sovereignty. Sovereignty is supreme power. Of course it abhors “competition.”
Pre-screening is nice, but not much of a value add. Sourcing candidates is the hard part, and this service can only present the candidates that have entered profiles. No outreach, no advertising at any level.

Perhaps C-levels are 20%, or maybe in the Bay Area, but the standard elsewhere is 15%.
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Why is there risk of an early death?
I'll call BS. Granted, this was a few years ago, but the W520 and W530 had quite a few issues with the Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller (APIC), and you had to boot them with `nox2apic`. Additionally, although they had both integrated and discrete graphics cards, only the discrete was routed to the video out (no mux). Switching wasn't good on Linux, so you basically had to force discrete only, which knackered the battery life.

All machines can have issues. By all means, shop around and buy the best machine for your use-case. But brand loyalty is misplaced.
There always is risk of an early death.
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At Greece we have a saying. The fish smells from the head. While engineers share some of the blame if their corp does something evil/unlawful putting them on the spotlight instead of the people actually making the decisions is disingenuous.
Uh, Doctor example isn't the best seeing as there is an entire industry in existence to handle the possibility that a doctor in the course of doing their job may end up causing harm, unintentional or not. I.e. malpractice insurance.

I find this push of responsibility to the engineers encouraging. Finally may come the legislative framework through which I can shoot down an employer's design knowing that in all odds anyone else with a license at stake won't cave to mere financial coercion.
Looks like a "growth hack" :|
Well, that's what the HSA is intended for =)
Not just for real estate. Anyone who can maintain a 16% return for the long run would be one of the best investors in the world.
This stuff is like spam but worse.

It's like if someone else could send your money to a Nigerian prince, so you can't just defend yourself, you need to defend everyone, even the people who believe the prince and think you're trying to stop then getting rich.
You still pay for it. The costs don't disappear into the ether (although it is definitely true that your exposure to extreme financial risk is substantially reduced).

However, there are downsides. If you have something very wrong with you, and it is somewhat rare (i.e. the medicine is expensive) or not well understood...you are done. The NHS provides universal care but not universal treatment. You go to the doctor, they go shrug can't help you. That is it and there is no "second opinion" (unless you go privately but that doesn't work either in many cases...you are usually seeing the exact same doctor, just paying for it upfront).

It is important to recognise that there are trade-offs in every situation. The UK system is, despite the cult-like following, not particularly effective. In terms of outcomes, it is below average by most measurements. It is very cost-effective...but that isn't the only thing that matters.
You could move.
There was an equal amount of anger that anyone might suggest caution.
I think peanut allergies are often linked with other allergies. It comes down to anti-nutrients, namely lectins I think? Lectins are in all seeds, so even if you don't react to say beans or wheat, you might react in a way you don't recognize as reaction.
I was depressed for half my life until I accidentally discovered that leaving out all seeds would solve the depression.
Maybe but I'm just making the point that Facebook has plenty of ways to use most or all of what they announced regarding Libra to basically meet their stated goal of providing a wallet feature to users that would basically amount to them doing very similar/identical things as other companies already do and would be quite hard to ban for that same reason. The reason I bring up payment solutions is because that is literally the primary usecase for Libra. A wallet type feature with some sort of blockchain based euro or dollar tokens should be completely fine under existing laws. Several companies do that already in the EU.

France and Germany are being quite vague about what exactly they will block, what the scope is of that, or even how they imagine this would work. Also, Facebook itself has not been very clear about their actual intentions or those of the Libra legal entity that is supposedly governing all of this. Depending on how you read their announcements, Libra the coin might be considered as an experimental/optional part of an overall solution or vision that could also involve euro/dollar tokens (just like others trade on Stellar, Ripple, etc.).
We’re not wired for “enough”. Our evolutionary past never had abundance, so we we evolved to compete, so we compete. Don’t worry, though, our material abundance will soon come to an end as population increases. And then we’ll be well adapted to our level of material prosperity again.
It’s not meaningfully true at all. The problems I deal with as a DevOps engineer are much broader, more abstract, more interdependent, and the solutions much less established than those that I dealt with as an SE. Unless you’re an SE in some particularly complex domain with especially limited resources (which are essentially attributes of DevOps work—SE work applied to a difficult domain under tighter-than-usual constraints), DevOps is probably the more advanced role.
This isn't true. For example containers use pivot_root instead of chroot or MS_MOVE because there are specific security issues with keeping a reference to the parents mount table.

If you care about security there is no reason to use chroot on Linux, there are better approaches.
TweetJobs was posted in HN the other day - https://tweetjobs.dev

A good portion of the jobs are freelance/remote and pretty up to date.
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Man that sucks. The whole 'out of network' thing sounds like a perfect excuse. As though patients have a whole lot of control over which parties the insurance companies sign up with.
I see, so I'm doing it wrong you say?

But I never said I was using Amazon.

I'm using an internal cloud service at my company. It does not offer any managed services.

Also when I do use AWS for clients, I _sometimes_ use managed services¹, but most of those lock you in to Amazon. Some clients don't care, some do. They are paying, so I don't care either way.

In either case, I spend very little time babysitting infrastructure, just FYI, even when I use bare instances.

And in my opinion² if people aren't careful about managed services, then they won't have any OS knowledge anymore, and will just be left with product knowledge.

Sure, managed services make things easier, but they also make your sysadmin muscles weak.

1: Aurora DB for example. That one I like because there's no lock in. I can always move my tables to a standalone MySQL.

2: As someone who is 100% comfortable using bare Linux without having to use containers, managed services, control panels or even google searches to keep my stuff running, and have been doing so since the early 90s.
My thought exactly. This is too expensive an attack. But for Iran it makes sense (or at least follows the pattern of their recent behavior) and they also have the capability.
Someone in our profession can retire in their 30s or 40s with no children and absolutely still have budget for lots of travel.

Putting a few million into index funds or a dividend-bearing portfolio can yield a decent annual "salary" of six figures. That affords insurance, travel, mortgage, time to work on side projects or a start-up...
If you drive a car or cross street there is always risk of early death.

Other thing is if you spend a lot of money when you are young and you live long and then don't have money for medication so your quality of life is shit.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_India_Company#Regulating_...

The British empire was explicitly on board with the East India Company, and passed laws clarifying what they were allowed to do.
I gather there is some debate in the field as to whether this is a true effect or a consequence of bad measurements. I do find it fascinating and await better evidence before making my mind up either way.

I do, however, appreciate your splendid and witty statement and shall reward you with an upvote :-)
Yes, definitely fo the research for the specific model vs Linux compatibility.

Discrete graphics is always a source of pain in current laptops (ever since the dgpu designs stopped being directly connected to displays), avoid.
Good luck to you and hope we land the right deal soon-- it only takes one!
Won’t miss the money laundering they are doing by buying up all those vacant and creating a paper stream of rentals either
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He left out the interest payments on the principal he can leverage with $600K.

Say your bank allows 3:1 leverage then $600K will get you 1.8 million for 2.4 million total to spend. In some places that's enough to get an 'octoplex', 8 flats in one building. Each of those can be let at $1000 -> 12K * 8 -> 96K. Now you need to pay interest, the current rates are 1.7% or so, say 30K annually, or about 1/3rd of your total income on the property.

Of course there is still the maintenance, the cost for managing the property, the inevitable non-paying renters and evictions as well as flats that are empty between tenants. But that's more or less the basics of it.

Depending on local conditions this scheme may be more or less profitable.
The things to watch out for in a scheme like this is rising interest rates which will likely kill the market so you would not be able to sell. If you want to nail down the interest rate over a longer term then you'd have to expect a higher interest rate.
Insurace covers many procedures that are not FDA approved because they don't require special drugs or devices. Covering OIT with unapproved peanuts would probably be cheaper than OIT using this $4000/year peanut extract.
> Trump’s unilateral, preemptive trade war...

Is it preemptive? I've been hearing about their intellectual property theft issues for over 15 years.
This is not true in the US. There is a concept of abandonment for trademarks, but it's not that simple, and the concept does not apply to patents. There is a totally different thing called patent abandonment but it has nothing to do with going after infringers.

There is a statute of limitations on patent damages but you don't lose your patent for failing to enforce.

I'm not familiar with UK or European patent law but I expect it's similar in this regard.
> If we have a big privacy problem with Libra in the future, we might be able to find a way around it.

When major government policy proposals are brought into the public discourse, we argue endlessly about the edge cases, downstream effects and hypothetical scenarios that may in turn cause future problems. Universal healthcare is too expensive, the green new deal won't work, bring the troops home, etc. People argue forever around the hypotheticals of these ideas.

But when one of the most powerful and consistently nefarious companies in the world starts to build a system to cut out the global banking system, we're fine to say that we "might be able to" find a way around major problems facing the platform if they gain too much control.

The inconsistency in the level of scrutiny that we levy at companies compared to governments is shocking given the influence that the public has over government policy and operations compared to a private, multi-billion-dollar company.

"might be able to" isn't good enough when it comes to building systems that undermine the current financial system. All aspects of the system need to be spelled out in concrete terms, and safeguards must be put into place to ensure proper implementation and alignment of incentives. This must be regulated, without question.

Yes, big banks are greedy and corrupt and aren't looking out for the little guys. But neither is Facebook, and if there's an institution out there that is less fit than the banks to control the global financial system, it's Facebook.
I expected the article to be about geolocation.
I was agreeing with you...
> Germany is very, very keen on preventing powerful entities from acting outside of regulation and similarly, if not more, on preventing a single entity to get in control of everything. This is largely due to some foobar in the last century, which I'm sure everyone is aware of.

Maybe if they'd turn their minds towards what ruling parties have had a monopoly on government for decades as to not allow one club to get control of everything.

Germany is deconstructing itself by attacking irrelevant topics like this with excessive rigor while ignoring millenium problems in governance, such as unchecked mass migration.

What I want to say is: your idealistic POV does not reflect the realities of governance, just the realities of partisan opportunism. That's it.
A fee does government collects is tax, if it just mandates to be collected by a non-governmental org is not tax.

Government does not get involved in collecting this fee except for having a law that an organization(ARD ZDF Deutschlandradio Beitragservice = joint contribution service for ARD ZDF and DR) can collect fees from every household that uses any kind of broadcaster/receiver devices.

It does not pass through the German government so it is not a tax.

More info:
https://politics.stackexchange.com/questions/27856/why-is-th...
Concern about "unknown unknowns" tends to be characterized as unscientific.
"not very much longer an EU member"

I don't think there is much chance of Brexit this year, and a pretty good chance that it will never happen.

Mind you - always a chance that we'll simply get thrown out for being incompetent at running a country...
Air power wasn't usually available to smaller players in capacity large enough to be reckoned with.
I've seen coworkers die in their 30s, 40s and 50s from cancers and heart attacks. Can concur.
How do you pre-screen people to get if they will be a good fit for remote?
I’m not sure how accurate “in most countries, if something is on a street, it has a street address” is. Even in USA, if my car breaks down while I’m going cross-country, I’d be nice to have a fast way to share location.
Pretty sure the press release is from the end of 2018. The game is still in development and you can follow along with development updates on the subreddit. Can’t comment on the timeline but it’s making exciting progress and I can’t wait to play it when it’s released (I’m tangentially involved on the EA/publisher side).
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