skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Loss of trust in PSTN, generally. I'd suggested this a few days ago in a similar discussion, bolstered by a recently-discovered quote from an industry engineer:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21494300

[S]ince mid-2015, a consortium of engineers from phone carriers and others in the telecom industry have worked on a way to [stop call-spoofing], worried that spam phone calls could eventually endanger the whole system. “We’re getting to the point where nobody trusts the phone network,” says Jim McEachern, principal technologist at the Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions (ATIS.) “When they stop trusting the phone network, they stop using it.”

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/05/how-to-stop-spam-rob...

At the point at which individuals and businesses in sufficient numbers find the downsides of participating in the PSTN exceed the benefits, they'll start defecting to other systems. Likely small and closed networks initially.

It took decades for the telephone to become established as the principle means of business communication, and as it was, numerous other alternatives existed in parallel: postal mail, telegraph, telex (for what we'd now call b2b communications), fax, and early email systems.

Email seems to be dying along with telephony, and for much the same reasons.

It's occurred to me that much the value in social networks is in trying to corner a sufficiently large directory (that is, user base) to be able to credibly take on telephony. What seems to happen is that as these networks grow in size, they too fall prey to the hygiene factors already affecting telephone and email comms: spam and annoyance messages, with concommitant trust issues in the network as a whole.

Whether a technical solution to the trust and identity problem can emerge (and preserve privacy and protect against the surveillance state, surveillance capitalism, and surveillance by other actors (organised crime, racist or facist oppressors, stalkers, etc), remains to be seen. I'm starting to think that's a hard, possibly an impossible, problem. An essay of Herbert Simon's I've recently turned up is exceptionally discouraging owing to a critical error Simon made in it (claiming Nazi Germany committed it atrocities without the benefit of mechanical data processing -- it in fact had ample assistance willingly provided by IBM).

More generally, I'm suspecting that progress in information technology and communications capabilities reduce trust relationships, with some fairly strong historical evidence.

(Overall risks may be reduced, but the mechanisms by which this occurs replaces actual trust with validation, verification, and surveillance mechanisms).
I’d say the total frustration is an interaction between changes in your own state and the way others react to those changes.
Downvote away; but really “kill” your business!!?
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I could forsee an outgoing pension tax. If you live in an income tax state, then you get a state tax credit for the amount, otherwise NJ collects the NJ state tax rate on pensions coming out of the state of NJ.
Ah yes, let's turn this into a good old "your language sucks" thread
PayPal has also deplatformed gun dealers.

No firearms, firearm parts, or ammunition. [1]

[1] https://www.paypal.com/us/smarthelp/article/What-is-PayPal%E...
Thanks. So to fully understand this - if I use seal wrapping with an HSM all secrets in Vault will be wrapped by the HSM and not only the masterkey/autounseal?

And even though the rest is then in software (Vault) I still have the same FIPS level as the HSM?
Don't forget insurance minimums, accessibility issues, the general ability to block someone forever ultimately denying them a mode of transit....
Full text, readable away from FB: https://outline.com/https://www.facebook.com/notes/taylor-sw...

PSA: I just prepend https://outline.com/ to the URL of a FB post to get the actual text (as FB domains are resolved to 0.0.0.0 in my house).
Oyo ventured into Nepal quite recently. From my viewpoint I see rooms often can be charged by the hour on some of their signage, not just daily rates. That's the type of visitor they are looking to attract.
I don't see where I personally attacked you. I just asked you a question.
I'm not sure how this helps. Clearly I can always run my own lightning node, but the person I'm paying has to accept the off network payment from me. That's fine for some kinds of transactions (like my employer paying my salary). But how am I supposed to convince a retailer to accept my off network payment? Similarly, if I want some random person to send me money, how do I convince them to run a lightning node and to let me connect to it? I mean, we can't even set up VOIP connections without a middleman these days because of firewall issues.

I think there is a fair amount of logistics to work out here. I may be wrong, and that would be great, but at the moment I'm not quite seeing how this is going to work in practice.
Someone mentioned yt, I'll go ahead and mention the imo clunky but standard in a lot of plasma/fluid physics, which is visit[0]. Not really a fan personally but a lot of people I know like it.

Tbh, for 2D data, I've written scripts that sort of just make a bunch of pngs from matplotlib and string them together using ffmpeg into a movie. For 3D data, I used to use mayavi and ffmpeg to make movies, but that too is pretty clunky. Mayavi feels closest to matplotlib which is why I like it, yt feels like there is way too much boilerplate to just get a plot (for example, I have to specify units for my data before a plot a flat array, I mean wtf).

[0] https://wci.llnl.gov/simulation/computer-codes/visit/
Considering the staggering breadth of AWS, it is amazing how fast and completely Terraform supports AWS.

Only a couple times have I actually encountered unsupport features (1. global WAF 2. non-canned S3 bucket policy)
He says that eigenvalues of A are the lambda_i(A), so it's pretty obvious that lambda_i(M_j) is the i-th eigen value of M_j.

What might not be obvious is the ordering of the eigenvalues, which must be the same for the formula to make sense.
Hmmm. This is pretty basic. (Edit: to the author: condensing down your examples, then including information on Enumerator would be a good improvement.)

A related public service announcement though: for a long time — too long — I knew about Enumerable, but not about Enumerator.

https://ruby-doc.org/core-2.6/Enumerator.html

Use it when you want to return something Enumerable without yourself having to implement Enumerable.
If that's the default situation (a likely scenario for most people), you'd need something other than a single code word.

In practice, most people can conduct a reasonable verification through a series of challenge/response interactions based on shared knowledge, should they need to do so. Mentioning something done, said, or shared in private recently would suffice in many instances.

For more robust tradecraft, should you need it, a set of one-time codes (passwords or passphrases) might substitute.

When the former head of InterPol was arrested in China, he managed to alert his wife through the use of a duress signal, an image of a knife:

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/wife-missing-interpol-pre...

Not subtle, but effective.

Spoiler:

In the film Capricorn One (1978), one of the astronauts alerted his wife by referring to a holiday they'd recently taken together, by mis-stating the destination as Disneyland, rather than Hollywood -- the land of make believe -- as it had actually been, which led to the revealing of the hoax mission.
I find this an artificial metric. Normally code just gets split organically as you notice that you can reuse this bit here or that bit there. Some functions won't split and that's OK. (Reference to the 2k-plus-line main interpreter loop in Python.)

Actual reuse is the primary drive for this. Trying to adhere to some other concept instead is dangerous. I've lost countless hours trying to make code "properly object-oriented", or "isolated", or "pythonic" until I realized it's all a delusion.
Forbidden in germany. There is literally a law, which basically says: everyone needs to have and is allowed to have a banking account.
This is the configuration I would prefer as well. But for my question I already had an intermediate CA in mind and where to store its key. The rootca is offline
VTK seems the standard, but it seems like you have to literally write a program to viz stuff. Is this true?

Like everyone else I'm super busy but I've been planning on just learning it even though the times I've looked, it's a true blue 90's C++ inheritance obsessed nightmare.
Another:

https://youtu.be/AVfvhEJ9XD0
You're dismissing scrolling as if it doesn't do anything but when I scroll I can see the code at a point in time as opposed to a point in space.
Wow! Great answer, thank you! Just curious, are you an optometrist?

I always used Warby Parker and never visited optometrists to buy glasses -- maybe I should :)
How does a 0-conf transaction work? I mean, without confirmations the transaction is not on the blockchain. It basically doesn't exist. Is it just a promise that I will pay a bitcoin in the future?
Doesn't vim have an org extension?
Security things in Linux v5.3
The myths are promoted as means to raise hope in the "little man" and to attract new blood (workers) to the specific industries, thinking they can also become as big as the stars of that industry, starting with very little.

This is very deceptive, and probably gets people into trouble more often than not, changing their long term orbits based on fantasies built on selective factology about what is enough for success.
All of the gold that has ever been mined by humanity over the last few thousand years would fit in a cube about 21 meters per edge. So I think that actually it would make a big difference to grab something this size made out of gold.

https://www.gold.org/about-gold/gold-supply/gold-mining/how-...
While, as explained in the article, the method was developed to help scientists and not primarily to improve aesthetic qualities, I find most of the images very pleasing.

The one thing that is disturbing though is images with visible "horizon" (for lack of a better word). I find the images that look like they were taken on land but don't have a sky where one would expect it somewhat uncanny.
The experiments released to the general public should be stable. Unstable experiments are released in their canary builds.
Can you go into more detail? I don’t see how that would work. In this algorithm, you need the eigenvalues of all of the minors. So if I’m adding rows/columns to the matrix, yes I have one of the minors from my last solution, but I have to compute N more. And I also need the eigenvalues of the new full matrix.

I think this result has some intriguing opportunities, and have been toying with them since yesterday’s post, but I don’t see something so straightforward.
I love javascript, honestly. Unfortunately, I'm not sure it works for HPC scale data without serious sampling to reduce the data you read in. The HPC scale data also means I need the ability to render things without X because downloading either the simulation data or X forwarding is just too slow that it makes it a grind.
This may be interesting for you - a vault terraform provider using envelope encryption To get secrets from terraform into vault

https://medium.com/faun/provisioning-vault-encrypted-secrets...
> That's only true if you ignore all packages on PyPi.

Presumably any packages worth maintaining will have far more dependent projects, so it's still far less overall effort.

> It's extremely hard to keep compatibility with Python 2

So don't? I don't think most of the people dragging their feet on the upgrade need or even want new features. A stable python 2 branch with bug fixes and security patches would suffice for most and be ideal for many. Over time the bug fixes should trend to zero and there probably aren't a heap of security issues in python projects anyway.
I think it is en EU-wide regulation.

https://ec.europa.eu/info/business-economy-euro/banking-and-...
May I suggest your guys to take a look this interview "Will violence kill Hong Kong's pro-democracy movement? | Conflict Zone" over YouTube?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9nNeO0yWyk
Not sure if I would call concrete welcoming.
I totally agree with you and I also believe money(currency) should exist in it's own layer, beyond the control of corporations and governments.
Will it boost FPS in 3d games?
Merging the digital and real world: the potential of the AR Cloud
Well crap, I’d better start rating my leisure time as more relaxing.
funny, I thought "yep, I remember the De Agostini collectible stuff in Italy, I wonder if this Orbis thing is the same".
And apparently Orbis publishing is now a subsidiary of De Agostini.
Or just display not load intensive data- like conversations with ingame characters.
Thanks for all the work on yt.

Did you consider replacing the rainbow color map images on your front page?
There aren't a lot of alternatives to the current trend of shipping shit fast and furious.
Disadvantages and advantages of pie charts are discussed sensibly further down in the article
Any decent OS should monitor beginn of user interaction with a programm and prevent focus stealing in the loading time frame..
Read It If Your Files Are a Mess: How to Properly Name Files and Folders
Good lord, what have you done to your browser?
Which further highlights how many "problems" that tech people in the US have tried to solve (transit->uber, various health care start-ups, etc) are essentially due to the failure of the US state to function properly or even focus on the right thing.
Could it be a competence barrier to protect incompetence?
I have experienced so many similar experiences, normally with middle managers who are terrified they will get caught out for not knowing what they are doing.
I noticed they always stick with brands like Microsoft or SAP are deeply suspicious of open source.
Oh and they dont drown, they get promoted.
Could this be an opportunity for a startup to identify this risk "as a service"
> For one, writing a new function isn't just for vanity--it changes the actual machine code generated (unless an optimizer is smart enough to fix it). I don't like changing the actual operation just to make a program more readable.

Inlining should, but does not always prevent this. Because compilers have all kind of limitations when they are no longer able to inline. From what I read I have got the feeling it got better in recent years, but I have not studied the issue.

That said for > 99% of the code written a function call has no measurable performance impact. Few of us write code in a hotspot of an operating system or a very tight loop of some number crunching application. A bit more than 1% might possibly write vectorized code, but still the huge majority never does.

Programming suffers much more from bugs than performance issues. And if there are performance issues, they are typically because of improper algorithms, wrong I/O patterns or high memory consumption, not because of a couple of additional function calls.
The traditional historian arguments against this really show the lack of rigor inherent in the social sciences, or alternatively, a self-interest bias of some sort. Complaining that “humans can’t be reduced to numbers” completely misses how probabilistic analysis works. Anyone with basic statistical knowledge wouldn’t dismiss this out of hand unless someone’s ox is getting gored. I agree that it is a complex system with many variables involved, but humans aren’t magical. Their social systems likely follow patterns like any other complex system.
But you would still need to know the eigenvalue λi(A) of the full matrix, no? How would you do it in this streaming setting?
they are pretty heavy tho... even with the folding it find them pretty awkward to take on transit
"Sorry, I don't go east of the river"

"Sorry, the meter is broken"

"Sorry, the card reader is broken, cash only"

"No, don't worry, this is really the fastest way"

Also your Uber driver doesn't know your race when he accepts your ride or not. Which is probably why I find it a lot easier to get an Uber than a taxi.
Apparently there are none. Judging by the Amazon reviews of Macrae, I’d pass. I found some other discussions of the question:

https://www.reddit.com/r/math/comments/36ipik/good_biography...

https://www.quora.com/What-is-a-good-biography-book-about-Jo...
I was initially disappointed by the shadows/refraction patterns of the surface waves are present in the images. Can we compensate for that?
But fundamentally the same result
> A chilling effect on free speech.

It will have a chilling effect on Pornhub for sure, but porn and commerce speech are already both separately and specifically quite limited in their free speech protections in the U.S. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_free_speech_ex... Put them together and it might be difficult to demonstrate that there was much expectation of free speech in this case in the first place.
Ask HN: What are some excellent codebases to read that are written in Scheme?
Yes. If gold ever completely loses value we are probably living in such a total collapse of civilization that all bets are off. Whereas I can easily imagine a scenario where the Bitcoin fad fizzles out and everyone's coins deflate massively in value.
Sea-Thru: A Method for Removing Water from Underwater Images [pdf]
It won't work, it's already done. There used to be support from major companies like Dell, and "core" blew all that support on a convoluted, over-engineered nightmare while choking the main network. The momentum is gone and it's never coming back.

I'll be deeply surprised if lightning is ever used at the retail level by more than a couple shady internet casinos and John Galt themed vape stores.
Article said they already ran it in beta and even experimented in stable!

>"The experiment/flag has been on in beta for ~5 months," said David Bienvenu, a Google Chrome engineer. "It was turned on for stable (e.g., M77, M78) via an experiment that was pushed to released Chrome Tuesday morning."

>"Prior to that, it had been on for about 1% of M77 and M78 users for a month with no reports of issues, unfortunately," he added.
I believe that the overhead power lines add more noise to the city scape than the billboards.
This is true and from what I understand it is available to any EU citizen. The technical term is "Jedermann-Konto" which means "account for everyone". The German Wikipedia article has a lot to say about this topic[1] but unfortunately I didn't find any information in English on it.

[1] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jedermann-Konto
> We could imagine resolving this tension if Terraform had two different convergence engines...The “create a new environment” engine, which always creates from scratch every resource it was given. This would excel at spinning up fresh environments as quickly as possible, since it would have to perform a minimum of introspection or logic and would just issue a series of “Create()” calls.

This just doesn't make sense; introspection usually allows you apply changes more quickly. For example, it takes seconds to describe and update an existing AWS ELB; it takes minutes to delete and create a new one.

If you really want to forgo analysis and reuse of existing infrastructure, just do

terraform destroy
terraform apply

> Importantly, however, it by design will never issue a destructive operation, and will error out on changes that cannot be executed non-disruptively.

The notion of a "destructive operation" is not clear cut. Is it destructive to remove a file from S3? To update a file in S3? To delete a tag on an S3 bucket? To update a tag on an S3 bucket?

You can just manage this with permissions; that way you can specify exactly what is and isn't an allowable operation. In fact, this is best practice as it protects against bugs or misuse of the tool. Since Terraform already defaults to non-destructive, adding infrastructure-level permissions would cause it to work exactly as described.

A better example of customizable convergence would be the lifecycle management options Terraform already has, such as create_before_destroy which ensures the new resource exists before the old one is deleted.
>what explains popularity of Uber in London / Paris, which have excellent public transport

That's entirely consistent with parents point though.
The cop out for "protected classes" is one of the serious failures of the New Left in the US and past generation progressive attempts to wrangle with social issues. It's one of the reasons you have things like clamoring for representation in small dwindling influential places (the meme is "more trans women drone pilots") whilst ignoring systemic issues like how Flint, Michigan still doesn't have drinking water.

I've made this argument before and made Americans (obviously) mad, but this cop out of protected classes allows you to actually discriminate against said classes, you just have to prove there is no malice in your heart, more or less. That is, you did not because they are black or not men, but because of the sanctioned reasons, then it's okay.
The way to establish change is to do it gradually, with buy-in from all parties prior to introducing the change and to make small steps in the beginning. If you showed up with a huge chunk of code that has been refactored I'd probably not merge your change either. The test cases have been written by the same person that did the refactoring, there is a very good chance that any wrong assumptions you made about the code will be present in both.
Agile software development frequently focuses on delivering a set of minimal features, i.e. an MVP. Too often that approach results in software that's poorly designed and implemented, immediately needing a huge refactor in order to get anywhere near being maintainable.
Are you implying that you need to punish an entire industry because of the wrongdoings of some companies?

I guess we should close all the bankers accounts because of Lehman Brothers. Politicians also.
Appreciate the answers and tips (though I checked some of your suggestions already). In our case, it's third-party software partially generating C code with less-than-ideal test coverage and it's a huge time sink to fix. It's been a while, but as I recall, gcc 4.9 would compile ok, only the generated executable would crash, and would also generate double-frees with glibc and stuff (with one-shot command-line programs not app servers, so this isn't as scary as it sounds). This after heavy modifications on my part to get it even running. Note our own code, OTOH, has almost 100% coverage, and I'm considering replacing the old third-party libs/tools for the next release. However, this is a huge time sink when the code works just fine otherwise, and in any case needs to be maintained, so I'm looking for a canned gcc installation (maybe a Docker image or self-compiled gcc chain which I used to use a couple years ago, but stopped bootstrapping on eg newer Ubuntu hosts by now). As build servers so far, I'm using older distros (CentOS 6, Debian 8.6) with native gcc 4.7 or gcc 4.7 packages on newer distros with success, and also an old Mac OS box with gcc 4.7 installed from MacPorts at a time when it wasn't yet broken.

My intent wasn't to criticize gcc, but I think 7 years is not that long of a life-time for non-trivial software.
The coverage for even the best password managers miss a ton of key touchpoints where they'd be useful. I use mine very reluctantly. This attitude of 'password managers for everything!' doesn't make any sense to me when half the login prompts I encounter aren't supported
I obviously haven't worked it out myself, but I think you can memoize the results from the smaller minors to accelerate the computation of the big one. So you would need to decide for yourself the speed/memory tradeoff.
Somewhere along the way craftsmanship was traded for fast and cheap.
Action Plan Agains Paralysis by Analysis