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> This horrible precedent and pushes the blame for everything downstairs.

It’s already been set in other industries, the financial industry springs to mind.

Everybody in a bank is responsible for detecting and preventing money laundering. Failure to report money laundering if you suspect it is a criminal offence (this is true in the UK, I assume similar laws exist in the US). If your boss refuses to acknowledge your report, then you’re obligated to whistle blow.

There is no reason why a similar framework can’t exist elsewhere. A requirement that engineers report abuses of data, or corrupt behaviour, and an obligation to whistle blow of management refuse to acknowledge the issue.

These laws of-course place a heavy burden on C-suite execs, making it clear they can be held criminally liable for the misbehaviour of their organisation, even if they weren’t aware of. The simple act of not being aware of criminal behaviour is criminal.
Building My Dream Computer – Part 2
I'm fairly certain that PayPal is registered as a bank here in the EU, possibly in Luxembourg. It couldn't operate how it does here otherwise.
Any of the Goodwill stores in the South Bay.
True, but this has never felt like math magic to me. Usually you come up with a magical function for the PDF or similar, and then normalize it so that the CDF has the right integral. That last bit is just drudgery, not magic.

If you’re lucky, you can work with unnormalized distributions.
I think he is talking about the murders, rapes, and stabbings. Heck, NL had 2 US citizens stabbed by an Afghani living in DE.
I take it you’ve never worked in any of the Fortune 500, then.
Why can’t the Saudis likewise shut off Iran’s oil any time they want?
I would imagine machines doing the transactions. For example, a market for game characters where you buy and sell characters where the systems automatically keep tabs and handle the transactions without the friction of large bureaucratic institutions like banks.
Agreed, of course. And, thanks for bringing my sidenote back onto topic (:

The subject of the article is not too well-defined, which reflects our inability to come to terms with the associated Big Issues. So, yeah, it's difficult for me to imagine forward thinking regulation coming out of the current conversation--such as it is, in main editorial media and government.

In my personal life, having a productive conversation about the current and future impacts of data (non)privacy is next to impossible due to the inherent complexity of integrating the subject with pre-existing ideological frameworks. I do not think I'm brighter than them, just happen to have a long-standing interest. Based on observation, politicians seem no better equipped.
Still this is very much hypothetical. I don't see the point is worry about it now when it's odds of success are completely unpredictable and so far it's got nothing but critique and scepticism from the early adopter crowd.
To run with this, I assume your potential customers aren't looking explicitly for "VR training". They're probably looking for "training that takes less time and/or increases $success_metric" - can you take this angle? Do you have data that show something like "patients treated by EMS workers trained with $our_product have $improved_success_metrics"?

Or maybe it takes less time? Something like "Spend less time on training. Our VE training takes 50% of the time as traditional training while improving $test_outcome"?
Institutions and Intellectual Dark Matter
stefan_'s comment suggests that the the wire transfers were (a) from the company and (b) after the Sacklers were aware the company was facing bankrupcy. But the article makes neither of these claims.

Your comment does not help make that case for corporate accounting fraud, because none of that context suggests to any reasonable person that an immensely profitable company is facing imminent bankrupcy.

The Sacklers's aggressive sales tactics were awful and I get that people hate them and don't like seeing them "get away with it." But this article does not illustrate a crime.
I agree with you that the "senior" title is passed out too easily, but as someone who is 46 this has been the case throughout my entire career, I don't think it is a new problem.

In fact, the 6-8 years of experience you quote is far higher than I would have guessed if you asked me when the average company (incorrectly) starts handing out "senior" titles.
Pinkerton?
But if the food web collapses it won’t matter how much carbon dioxide was in the atmosphere. Both are necessary. Ignoring one for the other is foolish or crazy or both.
"Can be launched from a Camel"

That's a feature I wasn't expecting to hear about today.
I'm not an expert in Dropbox financials, I was just pointing out that the numbers are not necessarily as good as they seem and some care is needed to compare it with other companies. I have no idea how much the capital lease adjustment would represent. If your point is that from a valuation perspective it looks better than many other companies I agree. But I'm not sure it is so easy to "print cash". If they stop developing and marketing the product revenue will decline, they are not in a segment where you can milk a stagnant product for long.
Perhaps not physically, but having influence over 2 billion minds grants a lot of power should you want to use it. All political action starts with an idea.
The story of making the Starcraft 1 custom maps work on the remaster is pretty amazing:

http://0xeb.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/StarCraft_EUD_Emu...

Basically a lot of the maps were using a buffer overflow in the scripting to read and write all kinds of internal data structures in the game engine. If you're rewriting a game from scratch, how can you possibly make the new engine bug-compatible with the original to this extent? A single data structure's layout or a single variable's location changing will break everything.

I wonder whether there are any similar landmines in Warcraft 3?
Between the Trinity study, FIRECalc, and a healthy discussion about bond tents - plenty of folks are taking volatility seriously.

For every blogger trying to “retire” on $300k there’s another person targeting a 3.5% SWR with a well balanced portfolio, quietly waiting out the boring middle. The former gets more press but I suspect the latter will survive the next downturn just fine.
Libra is a joke. I am glad they blocked it in all honesty
Oh of course, but that added advantage can be minimized as the lag increases between the time you issue commands and the time you see results. You wouldn't want to eliminate that advantage though--all things being equal, you want the person who is more actively engaged to have a small edge. You just want the impact to be largely outweighed by broader tactical decisions.
Trump may be secretly transferring unspecified nuclear technology to Saudis. (Jared goes there often) There is a meeting about this next week. The cover story for this is that Saudi would like to diversify their energy production. Some people fear this includes weapons technology.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/inside-the-secret-campaign-to-...
I don't think that regions uninhabitable by mammals because of mosquitoes do exist.
Female mosquitoes do require warm blood extraced by animals to depose eggs so if no animal live in a region also mosquitoes would not be able to reproduce there.
You're generally not wrong, but the things you mentioned make assumptions about having a data connection (not typically the case for receivers of interest - power grid, military trying to operate without RF signature, etc), and there is also an engineering aspect to it: with a big power/data/computational/financial budget most problems can already be solved. Solutions that are practical for you phone or a budget receiver are lacking. Losely organized to your points:

It depends on how the attack is carried out - there are data attacks and timing attacks (the article is generally terrible and has no info). In a data attack the navigation message is altered. Like you suggest this is easy to validate. Note though that most phones (and all new Android phones afaik - don't know about Apple) use assisted GPS, so they download navigation data anyways and a data attack would generally be ineffective. Timing attacks use authentic nav messages, but simulate signal arrival in an altered order, or replay previously recorded signals.

Whole constellation spoofing is not difficult anymore, especially for state actors whole can carry out full-sky attacks. You have no real way beyond correlation/signal strength (which can be attenuated by an attacker) to tell how far away a signal source is, and if you only have a single (stationary) antenna you cannot tell the geometry either (i.e. if signals are coming from multiple sources as expected, or a single antenna).

Multipath is a huge problem, especially in receivers which have linearly polarized antennas like smartphones. Usually when a receiver tracks GPS signals it looks for the signal arriving first (because later signals would be multipath reflections). It is an expensive operation to track multiple occurences of signals, high end receivers do though.

Ionospheric delay can fluctuate, so I don't think this would be very reliable. Also you seem to have a hidden assumtion that you should know the true geometric range to the satellite, which is true for timing receivers.

Wrt velocity, you're not wrong, but it would take a "dumb" attacker to simulate something unrealistic.
This, parti ularly for template heavy C++.

Older versions of Stan on GCC 4.8 would take 60+ seconds to compile a single C++ file.
Tesla has applied for a patent for a new electromagnetic windshield-wiper system
Actually 'my boss told me to build it' is an excuse. if you dont build it, you breach contract. you get fired or possibly sued for damages or breach of contract (as a contractor or external consultant).

The job market isn't exactly great for recently fired engineers either. Nobody is above the law, and it is more than likely that some unlucky 'git-blamed' junior is going to face such a case some day instead of the boss who ordered it. But i hope in that case a judge will take the migitating circumstances into account.
I think you should make all major publishers responsible for the content they present, and we actually do for news papers in Denmark. It's illegal for them to lie, and their editorial staff is held responsible. It's a little more complicated than that one line of course, and it's governened by an independent free speech party.

The manipulation that goes on on facebook and similar platforms would be illegal in our news papers, and it's exactly because we have a history of mass manipulation damaging society that we have those laws.

They've just not caught up to the modern platforms yet.
I would posit that the vast majority of working programmers have always-on internet while working. So an offline-capable bug tracker is not actually that much of draw.
No it doesn't. Lead levels are hardly elevated whatsoever, zero children are actually in any real danger. This is about selling newspapers, not about saving lives, and it's disgusting.
I read about Varlink while taking a look at podman, which uses it as a remote interface [1].

I don't think it does anything _much_ different than protobuf or JSON-RPC but simply IMO tries to create a common interface to interact with software or daemons. Protobuf is by itself just a protocol and encoding format, while Varlink wants to create a generic network-independent RPC interface you can easily access from your shell.

I'm not sure I understand what's the underlying transport protocol (HTTP? custom one?) but having JSON as encoding format is pretty nice, any shell script could talk with it and it's eas(ier) to inspect.

It looks like a generalised version of DBus, without requiring a central daemon. I think it looks pretty cool.

EDIT: also it seems to natively handle subscriptions/polling for changes.

EDIT 2: the transport protocol is just read/writing raw JSON to the file descriptor/socket, see the strace snippet at the bottom of https://github.com/varlink/linux-varlink

1: https://github.com/containers/libpod/blob/master/cmd/podman/...
True. During the Libra hearing, one of the senators basically turned to his peers and said (paraphrasing) "Why are we worrying about this now? We have a million other issues of much greater importance to worry about."
Because Iran knows how to defend itself.
the point of early retirement is to have more time to do what your want, to live the life you want

calming down does not mean not living life to its fullest potential.
Seems like drones preference the attacker over the defender on a tactical scale (because they're cheap and numerous) but preference local warfare over global warfare on a strategic scale (because to get that cheapness you need to sacrifice range & performance). They favor insurgent groups over power projection. Supply lines for offensive warfare also get more challenging with drones, because you have this great weapon that doesn't require any people on the front lines to use, but it still requires a great deal of manpower on the back line to service and maintain.

I'd say the analogous technology is really the musket. On the battlefield it gave an advantage over knights, cavalry, and swordsmen, but it also gave that advantage to unskilled groups of militia rather than organized fiefdoms that could field large numbers of mounted knights and the support staff needed for them. The result was the Renaissance and birth of nationalism, as local, commercial organizations gained power over the feudal empires that had governed them.
> offensive warfare is now possible again

You mean defensive. Where American firepower at the hands of Saudis completely fucking up your country can be finally challenged with a response that might make them reconsider war. Where it was just a beat down like America is using to doing.

Who knows maybe this thing spirals out of control and destroys all of Saudi Arabia, when you are dealing with these sorts of political realities you reconsider things like destroying the entire country of Yemen because you don't like the politics of its majority or its rebel government.
Little Alchemy 2
They already are, through US sanctions.
Ah, I skimmed over that.

Looks like this site is going to be a hard pass for me. Questionable ethics touting companies like that.
There are so many tools to parallelize compilation, but comparatively little effort has gone into reducing the vast amounts of redundant work that compilers do. A staggeringly large percentage of compilation time is simply wasted duplicating work that was already done hundreds of times over.

Tools like ccache are really primitive compared to what is possible. Change one bit in a header file and you have to recompile your whole project, even if the output ends up being bit-identical.

Zapcc[1] is more advanced, but still far from ideal. What I really want is a compiler that can incrementally update the binary as I type code, and can start from a snapshot that I download from someone else so that nobody ever needs to do a full recompile. It would require a radically different compiler infrastructure, but I don't see any reason why it would be impossible.

[1] https://github.com/yrnkrn/zapcc
First, there are not many teams with over $50 million in profits, only the top 13 as of 2018. [0]

Second, you're assuming that even the top players would only make the minimum, which you have arbitrarily set at $200k, assuming that they would be paid less than the minimum NFL salary. The more accurate measure would be to pay them some percentage of the average NFL salary, which was $1.9 million in 2018. [1] So assuming the average college player salary would be 40% (to use your arbitrary number), that would be just under $800k per player. Even with a 53-player roster, that puts player salaries at over $40 million annually, which wipes out profits for all but the top 15 or 20 teams.

Third, I didn't say these players "aren't that good." The fact that only 2% of them make it to the NFL doesn't mean the other 98% aren't that good, it just means that the market won't bear paying for more players when they're fairly compensated.

[0] https://www.forbes.com/sites/chrissmith/2018/09/11/college-f...

[1] https://gazettereview.com/2017/03/average-nfl-player-salary/
I don't think that conclusion is one that follows naturally from the data.

And what the report misses out is that in many other countries patients are not put off from seeking care due to cost either...and they achieve better outcomes. They do this through a mix of private and public healthcare which is naturally intolerable to the NHS.

Btw, this should be plainly obvious if you actually look at what the data is...it is based on a population sample. If someone sick does not have access to care then that shows in the data. It is a great trick to change the question and say it is about access, it is not one that follows from the data.

As a lot of the Nuffield Trust get their staff from the NHS, I am not surprised that they self-importantly included that their work has led to the UK being a "standout nation".

The stuff about austerity is utter bullshit. Health spending per person has been growing after inflation at ~2%/year, and as a percentage of GDP health spending is up two points since 2010. Yes, attempts at cuts were made in 2017 (the rate of growth in spending was only ~1%) but that is because the govt had cut literally every other department to the bone first. A reasonable person would question whether that was worthwhile given that it involved large % cuts for the income of vulnerable people (in other departments, and in care budgets) rather than asking doctors to just accept an unchanged or small % drop in salary. Wasn't the recent negotiation for junior doctors a double-digit increase (which they wouldn't even accept and striked multiple times)? The willingness of Brits to not think rationally on this topic (and not realise how much lobbying goes into the maintenance of these views) is baffling.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20965319

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20958480

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20970299
(note, more than half of the code is in reading the hosts file and parsing resolv.conf, so DNS itself is about 200 lines)
Speeding up independent binary searches by interleaving them
Yeah, and people also need to cover the alternative. If you don't retire early and don't save a significant portion of your income, are you still going to be protected from massive medical bills?

Having a job isn't going to protect you from a lot of things.

What if you become disabled and find yourself no longer able to work? What's the cost of stress etc on your happiness life...

Not saying one is better than the other, just that saying "what if???" a bunch of times doesn't mean the other situation is any better.

I'm sorry if this sounds attacking in any manner, I think it's important to consider that there are risks in both sides, and that having a job isn't going to protect you from lots of things.
Why aren’t policy experts and the media asking what local/global benefit would emerge from a democratic China? Why, given its past history promoting democracy, isn’t the United States, advocating for regime change in China?
No, it was actually the CX-6057 Flying Egg
https://www.amazon.com/WayIn®-CX-6057-Flying-2-4GHz-Control/...
The "Developers hired through our service" section is super fishy. I googled the 2 devs presented and found their Linkedin. The guy hired "in Portugal by a Danish company" doesn't list any Denmark based company in his profile. The one hired "in Spain by a German company" seems to live in Eastern Europe and doesn't list any German company in his employment history.

Also, including Basecamp, Gitlab, Zapier, Trello, etc logos without having a formal relationship with them probably opens the door for legal actions.
Are you actually claiming they are using dead reckoning?

I don’t know much about drones but I have a pilots license and in my opinion it would be extremely hard to have forecast winds aloft accurate enough to reach a target hundreds of miles away with only time and vector information as the inputs.

They aren’t ballistic missles, going thousands of miles an hour, they’re going to be affected by wind.

They’ve got to be using GPS positioning too I would think. Why wouldn’t they?
So, another TopTal without the Top?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20965304
Interesting - will they only work with the latest patch (1.12 I think?) as custom maps did? There were some breaking changes that meant you couldn’t use older versions of maps.

I’m very excited for this - so much creativity flowed out of that map maker - it created (or rather, popularized) multi billion dollar genres in MOBAs and tower defense. Hope wintermaul wars gets popular - that was one of my favorites.
This oversimplified "regulation is good" idea is pushed by a lot of think tanks (e.g. Brookings, center for american progress, The Commonwealth Institute) set up by the Soros and Clintons. They have close links with the media, which is why these weirdly specific views get parroted a lot.

If you've ever read a story about the evils of low taxes (for instance), it's from them. They have been on a crusade for regulation since a lot of their fights with the environmental protection agency.

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Great comments. Lets keep this up!

(This comment is intended to show that simply pointing out that a group advocates for something doesn't make it wrong and dismissable because of that.)
The foundation and validators have various ways of making a return

The users do not.
Ahh, so you see, additional regulation is not required.
I do remember reading about cuts in FDA resources. As an excuse for why they'd missed so many violations.

Checking, I see that it was Reagan era cuts.[0] So the timeline that you cited begins in 1992, which was probably the minimum funding level.[1,2]

Also, Hatch-Waxman was approved in 1984, which increased the workload considerably. And then there was the first generic drug scandal in the late 80s. That's what I was thinking of.

0) https://academic.oup.com/shm/article-abstract/29/1/202/24722...

1) https://www.everycrsreport.com/reports/R44576.html#_Toc82198...

2) https://sci-hub.tw/https://doi.org/10.1093/shm/hkv106
Volatility does not matter much if you don't sell

The good news about investing is that nominal dividend returns tend to remain the same even when stocks fall a lot ,so your yield goes up and your payments don't fall much despite the market falling a lot. This means your income is still mostly preserved. In 2009 when the market crashed the dividend yield of the S%P500 got as high as 4% versus just 2% earlier.

That is what I tell ppl who are invested if they should sell. Ignore the swings. Focus on the long-term compounded returns and payments.
The real question is how many people within 1000 miles of a target are capable of building and testing a working drone and equipping it with some kind of explosive or other weaponised payload?

Currently that number is extremely low. It will remain low until 3D printing is a complete zero-effort solution - which is going to take a very long time.

The reality is that this kind of open source terrorism is an incredibly unlikely threat. Numerically there are almost no terrorists, and the terrorists that do exist have almost no engineering skills.

Weaponised engineer terrorists would be a scary thing, but they don't exist in non-trivial numbers. And unless something very bad happens, that's unlikely to change.

As for the drone scenario - it's not exactly stealthy. At 50mph there's roughly 20 hours of warning - plenty of time to put up drone catcher nets, or even launch a suicide drone swarm.

It's not that drone attacks aren't a threat, but they're going to need to be more robust than anything a DIY off-the-server design can produce for some time to come.
A little refresh on actual HN guidelines:

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