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I turned the "showdead" feature ON and now I see many posts with the [dead] marker. Some of them are interesting and I'm tempted to click "vouch" on some of them. If I do this too often, won't it hurt the reputation of my account somehow? I mean, am I allowed/supposed to do this frequently or this "vouching" feature is for emergency only?
Libra Foundation is a foundation established by Facebook with members like Mastercard, PayPal, Stripe, Visa, Booking, Vodafone or Uber, among others. Calling it a non-profit is a technicality. It is a currency controlled by for-profit organizations. It doesn't have anything to do with actual non-profits.
Man, $15k/mo sounds crushing. What if you have a wife? $360k/y for a couple, this is crazy.
I really like how critical HN can be sometimes. It makes you reflect on what you're writing very carefully.

There's also a bunch of subject matter experts lurking here. There's nothing better than when you have lay people discussing say, nuclear reactors and an actual nuclear physicist or engineer chimes in.

As far as content, I really read it more for the weird little obscure articles that are terribly interesting, more than I do for keeping up on tech. However, it is interesting to skim the comments of a submission for a particular technology stack: it really helps give insight into where that particular tech is going and how it's actually used in the real world.

There's also a lot of deeply personal, candid stories on here that I enjoy reading. HN is a forum run by a startup accelerator after all, so there's no shortage of people who have tried and failed repeatedly here. It's a wealth of knowledge and experience I'm very thankful to have.
I can't believe this guy works for redhat.

> you are no safer inside a chroot than relying on system permissions to keep a user in check

But how may systems lock down every executable in /bin and /usr/bin?

Chroot is about denying an attacker a hackers toolkit when they get access.

It's not just about hacking the current system, but the network.

No gcc? No netcat or ssh or netstat? Or even bash? The first thing hackers look for is what tools are available on the system, and denying them any is a form of security. This had been known for decades.
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It's almost like there aren't actually vast numbers of motivated terrorists trying to kill us.
This is a straw man. A government can try to stop theft and violent crime without building regulatory moats around incumbent companies.

Though in many places governments aren't great at preventing theft and violence. That's why even in developed countries, many companies hire private security, citizens learn self-defense, and some people carry pepper spray, knives, or even firearms.
Note that an airplane with a single engine out, even during the initial accent, typically does not crash into a city. The Hudson river landing occurred because all engine power was lost, not because of OEI (one engine inoperative).
Curry wurst is definitely a cultural thing. Most kids growing up in Germany eats curry wurst, and continues to eat them in adulthood.

This paper (0) is a good write-up on how the card systems works in Germany.

(0) - https://refubium.fu-berlin.de/bitstream/handle/fub188/22957/...

edit:updated the link
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As someone who uses AWS console every day at job, I must say I find it pretty usable. I especially like the part that whatever buttons I learned stays in the place, so I don't have to waste time figuring out what the hell I have to press this time.

So if AWS's attitude lead to its console, I think they're doing great.
A depressingly accurate description for most AAA publishers these days.

Not that this is really new, but thanks to MTX it's been pretty much-raining money for them, massively rewarding them for these anti-consumer methods.

By now stuff that used to be reserved to F2P skinnerware, has slowly been creeping its way into full-priced games as "extra" monetization.

Add Google Stadia, with every big name in gaming following the trail, and people won't even be owning the hardware the game is running on anymore. It's all quite dystopian..
Don’t take it too literally. My point was that AWS doesn’t show agility and rapid innovation on existing products, so when it tries to tell you how to do that, maybe take it with a grain of salt.
How's that? There are ways to post content anonymously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20220048
Yes, but Facebook will have enormous power in this deal as they own the platform.

Distrusting them is the only logical conclusion given their track record and power.

Libra isn't a decentralized crypto currency, it's a new fiat currency minted by a private corporation with a very questionable track record and an uncomfortable amount of concentrated power. It's also seated in a country with a very weak track record enforcing rules on giant corporation misbehaving.

Users choosing to use something they collectively create and control is very different than this type of centralized power moves. They are in essence trying to bring billions (trillions?) of dollars worth of the worlds savings into US jurisdiction (and likely invested in the US economy via bonds and stocks)

Good decision on the part of Germany and France IMO. I hope more countries follow their example and protect their sovereignty.
There's a key difference here in that Libra is a permissioned ledger in a fundamentally different way. One could argue that PoS-based blockchains fall under that as well, since you need to acquire tokens to stake to become a validator and the tokens need to come from somewhere. But if we take Ethereum as an example, they have been under permissionless PoW for years, the tokens are traded on public markets and the capital that needs to be locked up i order to become a validator node is ~6,000 USD with today's ETH price.

In the case of Libra, a validator needs to be brought into the Libra foundation, subject to approval of current members and a membership fee of 10 million USD.

So you can see Bitcoin (permissionless PoW) and Ethereum 2.0 (permissionless PoS) as anonymous, permissionless cooperatives where everyone is playing on the same field, whereas Libra consists of a small consortium of large corporates who can set the rules as they wish.
Physically ppl ban guns and drugs.

Digital services ppl ban child porn and gambling.

Sucks you are downvoted because you are right
Aren't Kickstarter salaries quite high already?

https://www.glassdoor.com/Salary/Kickstarter-Salaries-E49199...
Mostly from my CSAs and food coop. I wrote about them in my blog. http://joshuaspodek.com/where-to-buy-the-best-food-around-ne...

I bring bags with me.
Question - is it really that hard to achieve this? Seems like something you could throw in a VM and call it a day. Especially with the way things are scaling vs 20 year old games. Presumably you can run the entire world's worth of 20 year games off a crappy VM
And let’s not discount that these girls didn’t sign up to be child prostitutes.
Of course they'd take responsibility. That's awfully convenient. But it's not their doing.
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we used to bot the hell out of battle net so we could do private leagues or private lobbies with ban lists for people who left early or trolled or were abusive. It was a better random player experience than they currently have in dota2 and league of legends
Well, that would be their value add. I've been working remotely for over 5 years and anecdotally I'd say there are quite a few characteristics you could evaluate to get a feel of how good someone would be for remote. Some of them I'd say would be asking for how they've worked before, what their daily schedules are like, how they've handled communication, how often they respond to the screening process and such before getting into actual work knowledge.
Yep. The animations should be shorter IMO.
That doesn't sound like a full reserve though as its not 100% cash. It says right there that its partially invested in risky assets. Whether they're low risk is just an opinion.

But even assuming it was a full reserve, I don't think its fundamentally different enough to be allowed to skirt the existing laws.
Perhaps also worth mentioning, some of the Russian Separatist forces in Donbass have adopted a flag that looks strikingly similar to CSA flag. It could be that they did this because they see themselves as rebels and therefore a famous rebel flag was fitting for them. When asked about it, they claim the similarity is coincidental.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Novorossiya#Similarity...
Maybe university administrators will miss China’s money. Hopefully they’ll stop looking the other way on plagiarism for the sake of keeping all-cash, full-price tuition money flowing.

EDIT: downvotes, really? I saw this firsthand in college, and much ink has been spilled on the matter in the press. It hurts not only the students who cheat, but students from China who don't cheat but get tarnished by the stereotype.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/foreign-students-seen-cheating-...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10298512 Maybe that will answer your question. But just exercise common judgment, think of a possible reason as to why a particular thing was flagged [dead] to begin with, and then determine if it's unfair.
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With FlightRadar24 historical data you already know exactly where regular flights will be, so you just wait there. The only thing left is that the pilot will try to dodge you, but then you have automatic drone control versus human (with low visibility).

I agree with you that this is a high touch attack, a kind of "drone 9/11", versus other low hanging fruits like dropping drones on peoples head.
There should also be questions about personal wellness and business ethics.
Learning that there will be a C&C remaster and a WC3 remaster made my day
Libra at launch is going to be extremely centralized, with decentralization being merely a possibility for future "growth".
The problem of tires is wear. Everything that's not on your tire anymore is microplastics now.
During a bid to offer, I was asked to give a good review of one of the prospects by my N+2. I gave the honest bad review this bidder deserve and left immediately after. No other engineer has wanted to replace me. Later the call to offer got cancelled, my ex-N+2 let go.

I understood that if I refuse to do something, there is a substantial possibility that nobody else will do it. If I accept contributing to something malevolent, it makes me complicit.

What we know is rare.
I taught our dog to play hide and seek. For the seeking part, I make him sit in the kitchen and wait while I hide with his toy. Then I yell his name and he has to come find me. For the hiding part, he will take his toy and hide it somewhere like under a couch cushion or under a bedsheet. Then he comes and finds me to go looking for it. If I get too close to finding it then he jumps in and snatches it.
I'm trying to understand the intent of this feature. Is it an invitation to help HN to decide who is posting good content and who is not, and we are supposed to vouch frequently. Or, it is only for some corner cases and we should not touch it too often.
It has control as Germany is part of the Eurozone, the ECB is subjected to the EU treaty, operating under its guidelines, and is accountable to the European Parliament, in which the people of Germany have a say. Maybe it is not as accountable as we wish it were, but it is far from what Facebook would be.
Stallman has been a pedophile apologist and rape victim blamer for many years.
My point was that population demographics, which are related to growth rates, impact the efficiency of an economy, or at least the fraction that can be directed towards external ends and not health care for unproductive segments of society.
I suppose the QA teams always have a very acute awareness of the flaws compared to the users. From the perspective of someone who played the game, I thought it was amazing.

Props on the game - it is one of my all time favourites.
My CSAs drop the produce off at my pick-up point in milk crates they bring back the next week.

My food coop loads the bulk bins from giant bags.

Grocery stores don't have much appeal to me.
Well, if one believes their 'taking of responsibility', of course you believe they have the flight range, which means you assigned 'their' drones a flight range, which is then picked up to 'explain' it.

If you apply a more realistic standard (no actual evidence including footage, no way to guide it, no facilities in Yemen to even test it), it's obvious this is an operation by a state, and only Iran can fit the bill.
Yes, it's mentioned in the first reply to the linked tweet.

https://twitter.com/taylordotbiz/status/1172260257613123608

Last week another member of the organizing committee,
@ClarissaRedwine
was also fired, and today a third prominent member of the union was told there is no place for him at the company. I stand firm in solidarity with my friends and colleagues.
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the last time I heard something about asgaard was years ago but as far as I know they're almost exclusively in personal security.

It's true that on the fringes there are private intelligence companies but the way the US has used PMC's, which at some point outnumbered american soldiers in the middle east, is a privatization of war not really thinkable in europe.
No, that’s not high, especially compared to FAANG.
"...is supposed to be more efficient and better-looking..." Not sure how it can be better looking—all luxury cars already hide their wipers below the hood line already. Seems overly complex with many more failure points. Wipers are the one thing you don't want to fail when you need them.
We've been over this, Jeff.

https://twitter.com/codinghorror/status/1172279395035308032

https://twitter.com/codinghorror/status/1172349293216186368
Let’s not forget what’s possible 20 or 200 years ago. You can poison water supplies, you can stab people on the street, you can crate rail guns shooting out nails, you can drive giant semis into crowds of people, you can bomb or otherwise derail trains, etc etc. The ways to inflict carnage are great. But it doesn’t happen all the time, because most people aren’t seeking out murder on a repeated basis.

Yes we should find ways to defend against new kinds of attacks on common infrastructure that causes asymmetric levels of worry, but so recognize humanity has always had the potential to do damage.
Is like to see how this wears in practice. Guide rails in a road setting seem like they will get gummed up fairly quickly and degrade performance unless the entire system is somehow sealed.

It’s great to see a push for innovation beyond powertrain and head unit, though.
Well it's a patent application.

So I'm presuming it's not been seen or tested in the wild.

Seems a bit hyperbolic to call it a game changer at this point.
Indeedy. My country has 7% inflation. And that calculation is done by the very state that is responsible for inflation so their word on this only means so much. Any other currency or store of value that solves this is more than welcome.
1. No. I have a facebook account but I haven't posted in years

2. No. I don't think its available yet. Its not really meant to be a speculative investment since it's backed by a basket of stable currencies. Although it may be like a closed-end mutual fund where the investment could trade below or above net asset value. But I wouldn't recommend speculating on some price increase even if it takes off

3. No, I'm just interest in cryptocurrencies read the white paper [0]. I suggest you do the same. It's pretty interesting. I do have a fair bit of free time though

[0] https://libra.org/en-US/white-paper/#introducing-libra
You're right, thank you. This is a mistake. This will be corrected as quickly as possible.

ETA: This has been corrected. Thank you.
I think PHP is still good. It definitely seems lower in priority for most companies remote or local than it used to be by far but it isn't going away or anything.
Niche languages depend on a lot of factors. And debatable on what is still niche but I think Elixir, Scala, Go and Rust are a group to look at. My personal choice has been Elixir and that has worked out great. Lots of remote jobs too with it. A fellow made a post recently about how to find remote jobs in it https://blog.lelonek.me/how-to-find-an-elixir-job-db4c836890
> I think I'm even more impressed that someone could touch a rat without jumping backward, scared out of their mind like a child. Maybe that's just me :).

I think rats get a bad rep (well, sure, wild ones are disease carriers!). About ten years ago, a housemate of mine had a pet rat (and another friend of mine still has rats, but I’ve never lived with him) and I learned first hand that rats are wonderful creatures: very intelligent, interesting, curious and mischievous. This rat used to collect things and bring them back to his cage (usually crumpled up paper we’d scatter around the room for him, but the funniest was when he stole my housemate’s keys). They’re also incredibly cute.. except for that horrible tail ;-)

If I didn’t have a cat, I would consider a pet rat.
In praise of John Ruskin
At least in America the motorist is unassailable. The most you can ask of an American motorist is that one of their three cars is a Prius. Never mind the tire dust, the brake dust, the sprawl, forty thousand dead pedestrians, ecological collapse, lead poisoning, leaking gas station tanks, and climate change. Give them paper straws and carry on.
> The most likely explanation however is that since they are weaker, they'll be progressively selected out and disappear.

Somewhere else I read the modified ones passing on their weakness is considered a feature and not a bug.

But 18 months is a whole lot of generations of mosquitoes, shouldn't it have disappeared already by now?
> Tesla was also thinking about its Autopilot system when conceptualizing the patent for the wiper system. The argument is that traditional wiper systems aren't as robust as this new electromagnetic system; time and weather can lead to corrosion, making the traditional setup less effective over time. The resulting lack of visibility could hamper Autopilot and other autonomous-driving aids that use cameras to track lanes and objects around the car. Better visibility is better for the cameras and, of course, for the driver.

That makes no sense. Autopilot cameras are not in the passenger compartment and would be unaffected by wipers.
> We probably don't benefit from importing all of our 21st century products and services from the US

This amounts to "our country is bad at [thing], so let's restrict trade for [thing] to protect our industries."

Of course it sounds great until other countries counter by restricting the thing you are good at, and then everyone loses.
Commercially available drones are easily detectable ("a week project", as said before) and very fragile. I believe automatic anti-drone systems are now months from being deployed worldwide. It is not even necessary to be very powerful: something like airsoft gun gonna be enough.
" . . . he sold everything he owned, laid off more than sixty employees at the business he’d built, and moved east from Missouri to rebuild his life on the ocean."

Only an entrepreneur thinks that's OK.
Hard to take something like this seriously coming from Microsoft's president. Either he wants regulation to keep competition out or to hinder competitors or he'd regulate Microsoft himself if he really believed in regulation. He doesn't. This is just a ploy. Should these companies be regulated? Of course. But let's not believe they want it for the good of everyone else. They have selfish interests only. Period. Believing this drivel is foolish.
That's why it's specifically Lubra* that is being addressed.

* - Intentional typo, for a double entendre.
Any other stories from that time? I think a lot of people here would love to hear them.
So its basically community moderation and you should "Only rescue civil, substantive contributions to the site". In a sense, I think its something you only do as a special-type thing, but one vouch on a post won't rescue it (there need to be multiple vouches if I understand it correctly)...so vouch if you want to, but make sure you're doing it for the right reasons.
>But even then, the programmers working on ICEs can find a different job in a heartbeat.

Not even close.

As a former embedded software engineer for the automotive sector, moving to another industry was a very difficult task, as in automotive you pidgenhole yourself in some tech that's specific to this industry and is outdated or not used everywhere else.

Thank God I got out in time.
Humans aren't as regular as to allow this. The Mombasa attack failed because the pilot chose a different path that time, and that was an 'easy' attack (takeoff where the plane is slow, using military-grade AA missiles far quicker than any drone).
The most over the top guess will be 1kw over a drone sized target at 100m

Russia has an ICBM sized vacuum tube capable of 1gw+ of omnidirectional output in a short impulse. But get guess how inverse square law works with it. Even with such monster will only get you <1kw at a kilometre.

You can further imagine it being used with directional antenna, and so, but it will not change things much
> They are in essence trying to bring billions (trillions?) of dollars worth of the worlds savings into US jurisdiction (and likely invested in the US economy via bonds and stocks

That's not true:

> What are the actual assets that will be backing each Libra coin? The actual assets will be a collection of low-volatility assets, including bank deposits and government securities in currencies from stable and reputable central banks.[0]

[0] https://libra.org/en-US/about-currency-reserve/#the_reserve
In Clausewitzian warfare this is true but not in asymmetric warfare. As a simplistic analogy, there's no need to score a knockout punch if you can trick your opponent into falling on their face.
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Well it's a gradient, isn't it? Call it a 10% game, where 50% is the threshold of minimal gaming satisfaction.
Last Week in AWS is a fantastic mailing list to sign up for. Corey Quinn puts out great content week over week in a not-over-the-top yet cheeky style. One of the few useful things hitting my inbox weekly. If you're at all interested in keeping up with AWS I'd highly recommend.
I don't have a problem with DNS-over-TLS, I don't know enough about it... but I'm afraid I want DNS from Firefox's perspective to be plaintext, transparent and easy for me to check and even change. Like the filesystem is.

Not just for me, easy for Privacy International to audit when verifying apps tracking, easy for OpSec on my work laptop and easy for my firewall tooling to intercept and manage.

I want the OS's network stack to transparently proxy that plaintext request to an encrypted one: which may well be DoH or DNS over TLS, just like filesystem drivers proxy plaintext file requests over encrypted hard disks.

Whether this is by a plain text request over loopback, using the existing plain text DNS protocol or a more efficient OS api I'll happily leave evolution to resolve: but for now the plaintext protocol might be the fastest thing to proxy.
It is unrealistically limiting to think modern wars are fought only with armies. Most wars are quiet and fought with capital, thought, rhetoric, and policy. Armies only come into the picture if all else fails.
“Probability of success: zero.”
“An elf would have thought of something better.”
Facebook has the power of market to force you to use Libra.
Just like Apple had the power to introduce NFC payment terminals in US.

That's fundamentally anti free market.