skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems to me that income is in effect an abstraction of a person's social class. Therefore, I wonder if it might be more effective to look at the factors that actually separate different social classes.

For example:

What percentage of a population is self employed and/or employed in a role with significant autonomy?

What percentage of a population owns their own house? Of those who own a house, how much control over their house do they have (e.g. you cannot add an extension to a multi-unit house even if you own it and you likely cannot put in a workshop due to noise)? How do these measures change based on how desirable the location is (e.g. top tier cities, suburbs, etc.)?

How easy is it for a given population to acquire the means of production? E.g. if someone doesn't like the products that the corporations are making, how difficult would it be for them to try to make an alternative?

What level of political office could a member of a given population realistically run for?
Yubikeys for example can require a touch on the token to activate it. A dedicated attacker could still trick you into activating the token by waiting for you to do something where you'd need to activate it, but it significantly raises the bar.

They also entirely prevent various compromises:

* Theft or loss of the laptop does not mean loss of token.

* Even if the token gets lost, cracking it will be hard. A dedicated attacker might be able to do it, but a 6 digit pin with 3 tries is hard to guess. Decapping and convincing a yubikey to reveal the secret key is likely possible, but nontrivial.

* Attacks where the attacker can read files do not turn into a compromise of key material.

* Even a compromise that allows code execution would require a sophisticated attacker to pivot: You'd need to figure out how to make good use of the acces gained either in a fully automated fashion or be online when the victim has its token plugged in. You cannot collect the key and later figure out what to do. This pretty much rules out attacks such as the one we're discussing here.

So while they do not protect against a full persistent compromise, there are quite a few cases that they do protect against.
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Thank you for remark! I was thinking about this as a problem too. That needs to be addressed. I can imagine that some metadata would be public. Keeping it simple, basic stats of dataset, number of items in the category, names of categories. But the dataset would still not leak sensitive information about the exact data ( like the identities of people ) so they could not be misused or stolen.
Ah yes, the "designated decoy".
To be more specific, involuntary manslaughter. Which is broadly speaking an accident that occurred while committing a crime. Or due to some other negligence. We are still firmly in the territory of accident, regardless of the legal consequences.
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a few months ago, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20148771
It's about game balance and design.

If I was to play tennis against a professional, it wouldn't really be tennis, it would be a game of 'can I get anywhere near to returning their first shot'.

I'd have to play that 'mini-game' for a long time before I could play proper tennis with such a person ( where tactics of the rally come in ).

Obviously in reality the professional player would ease up - cos actually just hitting balls and watching me pick them up isn't fun for them either.

Some games are more naturally balanced that others - computer game designers often put huge effort in this area.

Really successful games like football ( soccer to some ) have great balance built in. That's why the FA cup has small teams occasionally beating big teams - to score a goal, you typically have to win a series of reasonably balanced encounters - even Messi can be tackled by me.
Hey, in Civ2 I wasn't bombing people with nuclear weapons! It just creates more waste!! No, basic rockets work just fine. And SDI to kill off enemy nukes.
Since I'm mostly in the terminal, I just pop up a Lua prompt and do the calculation there - any repl will do, honestly :)
Those speeds work just fine here in Germany, 120mph isn't even that fast. Some social conventions like drive in the right lane if you go slow and only overtake on the left lane is all it takes.

Our number of deadly car accidents per capita are one of the lowest world-wide: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_traffic-r...

Granted, they were probably driving on roads where it really was risky, but I'm always amazed the American speed limits are as low as they are, especially since there are so many long stretches of straight highway.
objectified has it already, but to reiterate: you can block outbound traffic initiated on a host without blocking outbound traffic that is a response to externally initiated traffic. This is, for example, what haproxy, iptables, and AWS security group outbound rules do.

I'm deliberately avoiding the term "connection" above because new UDP-first protocols require slightly different handling to determine who initiated what, but most routing/firewall software can deny-initiated-outbound for those protocols as well.
I can only see this working where someone would copy and paste the package name.

EDIT: another vector I saw mentioned in another comment: you pull in what appears to be a 'valid' dependency, and jeIlyfish is listed as a dependency of that package; looks legit so you proceed.
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This is subjective, and also wrong. It's wrong because I use dropdowns all the time that always extend the entire list downward. I just double checked gmail and feedly for my own sanity. It's subjective because there is an advantage to static positioning: it allows the mind to develop a map of where each item is in non-relativistic terms, so selecting a given value is always the same two clicks.
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Whether under Omaba or Trump, how many career gov't employees (as opposed to political appointees) led the charge in going after whistle blowers? The careerists have more to lose from whistle blowers, I would think: the elected/political appointees can declare (feign?) righteous indignation and make mouth-noises about cleaning up corruption brought to light -- after all they are gone in 4 to 8 years and on to some other revolving door position. The careerists, on the other hand, could see their life's work go up in smoke if a whistle blower points blame in the direction of their area of government, even if they are innocent in any malfeasance. I'm not saying this is certainly the case, only that the Chief Executive very rarely sets the agenda for prosecution.
A good chunk of my work is getting clients out of shit situations with "The cloud" because someone drank too much of the "Cloud means no more ops" Kool aid.

For most small to medium companies, the alternative to a managed AWS service is not "lets go buy some switches".

It's "let's use open source software on rented virtual machines". The "cloud" model is only useful if your staff have no idea how a database server works. If they do, it's going to make a heap of basic tasks harder (and more expensive) because you don't have access to the software itself.

I'm done discussing this with you. You can make all the same arguments everyone else does when trying to justify "the cloud", and you won't convince me, because your arguments are, as usual for this type of "discussion" comparing against the most extreme alternatives.

Right from the start you've declared literally no cost of being at the complete mercy of a single vendor for your entire infrastructure (and one with a history for dirty tactics to "win" a market)

If that approach works for you, good for you. I, and my clients once it's bitten them, aren't willing to do that.
In my opinion, the solution to being pestered by these watchmen is to complain in writing to the superior authority.

The complaint should include the date, time, location, a short description of who approached you and what happened and of your emotional state at the time.

Be aware that the superior authority will inform you of receiving your complaint and that no actions have been taken against the watchman in question, no matter what actually happened.
Is it possible for the states they traveled through to revoke their drivers licenses? I mean they've presented ample evidence that they've intentionally exceeded speed limits on average over the entire route.
Yaaawwn...Sorry pal, the failure to bring Epstein to justice ruins your favorite "West rule of law" bs. Betcha cant face that huh?

edit: wow way to anger the herd! totally hit a nerve with the Epstein failure critique, nice!

∎ China deep state > West deep state
As totalitarian as China? Come on. It's not even close.

I'll assume you're exaggerating for effect, but please don't do that.
Dude, nice program! People in the office here are excited about it.
Huge car/gear nerd here and I just cant get behind this at all. The problem with this is that while you may get drivers with great skill, preparation, network and just plain old luck to have a successful run, you can also have 2 knuckle dragging morons who just want to go fast in the name of fun and "adventure". And its not a question of "if" its a question of when something will go wrong as the record requires a faster and faster average speed. If you look at the GPS "proof", their top speed on this run was 193. At that speed, you are traveling roughly the distance of a football field every SECOND. A deer, slow moving vehicle, mechanical failure or miscalculation will cause things to go very wrong. Even cars built for autobahn travel will not survive a major crash at that speed. Other vehicles are not going to expect someone to approach them at that speed and are also likely to make a mistake as they sort this out. This is a bad idea anyway you slice it. If you want to traverse the country quickly, catch a flight...
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Regrettably some people use fonts in their terminals and IDEs which do not make the difference between uppercase I and lowercase l obvious.
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That argument works assuming you're the only one being watched. "Oh chris hasn't done anything bad even though he's hiding, we can just ignore him now". It's more like "99.8% of people don't hide, chrischen is one that does, monitor that guy".
> In what ways do you find that these habits serve you well now?

It doesn't help now, it helps you get better for the future.

This is something in photography: if you lengthen the feedback cycle, you are forced to build a stronger mental model of the behavior of the camera.

With film, you had to see whether the exposure was right well after the fact. With digital, you could see right away and take another shot after adjusting. With live view, you can fix exposure before taking the shot.

Which teaches you more? If you always have exposure preview, you blindly learn to adjust the exposure compensation knob until the exposure is good, and there's no learning forced upon you.

With film, when I would mess up exposure, I would find out a week later and feel intense regret: "Damn, in that situation I should have used positive exposure compensation."

This leads to me, having understood the system better and internalized it, being able to anticipate what exposure comp I need ahead of time.

Basically, if there's nothing (or less) lost as a result of a mistake, you won't learn as quickly.
That's the tricky thing about the environment - nothing we do individually has a detectable impact on the environment. And yet all of us doing it has a massive impact. So maybe the best is to just try to be a good person and not pollute unnecessarily
There is a lot of ego, especially on political debates, other articles have a much better quality.

I don't know a feasible solution, but I often think the prominent voices are more of a problem than the average contributor.

Maybe not tracking the amount of contributios would help. More anonymous access to help against echo chambers and networks?
> The sellers in this discussion are multinational organizations with very well educated people working with access to tons of data.

And also likely with layers of bureaucracy, internal and external politics, complex business relationships, and other avenues for dysfunction.

> They've offered the very show we're talking about, GoT, for $15 per month

Sorry I'm not trying to be offensive here but you are losing track of the discussion. My entire argument is that many distribution companies evidently do not care enough about offering a la carte consumption alternative to make the effort to price it reasonably, although the situation is improving as companies get their act together and actually decide to act on the market data they have. (Game of Thrones for example is now $25-$30 per season on Amazon Streaming).

As such, the fact that anything might be available for a subscription at a reasonable market price is not relevant.
The worst thing is when people come and start haggling right at the very end, trying to force you to sell at a lower price.

I started to flat-out refuse to offer ANY discount. You should have thought about the price before coming, not try to put a psychological burden on me and force me to discount the product at the last moment.

But yes, in general selling is painful (here in Poland). I find the lack of standardized packaging and shipping prices especially annoying. I could sell lots more if somebody took care of supplying standard boxes with standardized shipping pricing.
Very few laws have an unlimited time you can be charged under the statute of limitation. Also most traffic tickets aren't even misdemeanors and it appears many places require those to be witnessed by a police officer of some sort so you'd have to prove both that they were speeding at a particular time and who was driving because you can't just charge the vehicle [0]. So in a strict sense the state has no hard evidence that they actually violated the speed limit other than their own word and no way to prove who was actually driving.

[0] https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-statute-of-limitations-for...
> Unfortunately for things like python the permission is granted to the Terminal app so once given, all programs running under the terminal inherit the permissions.

Would Python permissions even be enough though? All it takes is one legitimate Python application wanting your Photos (lets say some Python photo manager app you wrote) and now all Python libraries get access.

Unfortunately, I think Apple's direction may be correct. It feels hugely inconvenient, but an end goal of all processes being signed and explicitly allowed certain things seems useful.

At the very least, Python should perhaps never get access to anything beyond the devving folder. Then any real use of Python applications would have to be properly baked out into processes where the OS can manage permissions for. This goes for all languages, Python was just an example here.

This is all off the top of my head, so I could be way off base. But it seems logical to me in the moment.
I'd love to know in a year what percentage of users disable the WYSIWYG editor.

It blows me away that there are almost 2000 people working at Slack. The product feels like it is done and they should be able to downsize to a skeleton crew and slip into maintenance mode.
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It does, with really minimal conditions (keep the license text and copyrights intact).
I do not understand what the problem is. Zen seems to be a hard fork that uses the zig code and sub-licenses it. That may be unfortunate, but it seems perfectly legal.
Part of the problem is there is a switch for controlling location servers for "System Services" which doesn't actually shut off location access for ALL system services.
I would say don't give up your day job but you already have :/
Of course there are network effects for moderators. One major reason people volunteer to moderate Wikipedia is because it's in such ubiquitous use.

A fork of Wikipedia with no community is just a content mirror and, because of network effects, you'll have an incredibly hard time attracting anyone to help out with it when they can just go to Wikipedia.
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YouTube is part of the Google division of Alphabet as it makes money primarily from advertising.
I had a very different takeaway from Piketty's book. Namely, that inflation (primarily hyper inflation) has been the only force to reduce income inequality. For example, Jeff Bezos is much more affected than I am if the government decides to give everyone a $1B. Thus, governments looking to end income inequality shouldn't be afraid of high inflation.
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and interestingly enough, the inventor of the original Monopoly (Elizabeth Magie and "The Landlord's Game") created an alternative rule set called "Prosperity" that was intended to balance out the Matthew effect [1] but this was left out of Monopoly when it was allegedly poached from Magie's game.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_effect
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How did we end up here? Antimalware companies turning into spyware ones? And how is this even legal? Just the fact that they add privacy policy makes it legal?
Copy and pasting, even via word of mouth (rather than, say, a blog post or highly-google-ranked tutorial) is a surprisingly viral propagation vector.

And god help us if a malicious install command was posted, even if only for a few minutes before being edited, to a help or forum site like StackOverflow or Reddit.
It doesn't negate it, it's conspicuous consumption as an act of defiance against people advocating for more responsible living (i.e. it is juvenile rebellion).
I find it hilarious the author claims the car was superbly prepared and then talks about them having engine issues at altitude.

Almost guaranteed this thing had a hacked up EFI modification done by some tuner... those guys never really know what they're doing, AMG/Mercedes almost certainly won't share how that computer works since modifying it on a street car almost certainly is illegal and will cause the car to fail inspection.

In general it is always interesting most of these guys seem to be from NYC and born into privilege in a car dealership family. Alex Roy fit that model. It seems like you need to be born into that privilege to end up being a professional race car driver but you also have to have more talent and hard work. The cannonball stuff seems like some kind of 2nd tier automotive fame seeking. When I was into racing & stuff I'd meet tons of guys who all thought skill was more important than following the law.. but none of them were that successful in competition and all of them had plenty of accidents.

Even if you don't find any of this interesting Alex Roy's book is a great read.

Having once rode a motorcycle 1000 miles in well under 24 hours I get the appeal of this but not the super illegal speeds.

The increasing use of electronics and internet to escape detection is pretty interesting.
To be pedantic, a martini is comprised of gin, vermouth, and the water from the ice. If you try making one without ice (e.g. with a freezer) it's too strong
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OfferUp, at least in SoCal, is mostly stolen stuff.

You'll mostly see people selling lots of completely unrelated goods, all in "original packaging, never opened", at good prices. It's stuff stolen from people's front doors.
If you look at the pictures, you'll see they blocked off a portion of the rear lights with a plastic wrap that matches the car's color. This makes it pretty hard to recognize the make/model from behind.

The typical MB front (the grill) would still make it easily recognizable, but at the speeds they are driving I doubt many people had time to take a look at the front.
>Interest rates are set by FED, who can print arbitrary amount of money out of thin air

One interest rate is set by the Fed, which serves as a benchmark for other market rates.

But it's a simple question: if I can borrow money at 3%, why would I borrow your money at 7% so you can earn a return? And if someone wants to lend me money at 3%, why is that "artificial"?

>who can print arbitrary amount of money out of thin air

How else should money be created? Should we do pretend mining, like Bitcoin?
Alex Roy's book (which is excellent) has a bunch of details of his attempts and the eventual Roy/Maher success. Same as this one, it was basically two nights and one day. They had an IR camera in the car to see the heat from idling cop cruisers hanging out behind overpasses and such, and then for the daytime section there was a small airplane that flew ahead of them for a stretch and scouted out the route.
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My guess is interns will need to be in-person.
Yeah, but he also said that what they accomplished is awesome. The HN crown mostly (not all of us) frowns on this type of thing, even while still finding the news interesting.
I am super sick of this meme. No, not every data point Google has on you is matched to an account and used for ads. Get real, friend.

When Google DNS says they keep templogs for 24-48h and anonymized permanent logs for analytics, that's what happens.

I doubt I can convince you but the constant drumbeat of everything used for ads is just so annoying (and wrong)
A lot of this article reminded me of the techniques used by climate change deniers to sow doubt.

Take for example the following:
> Another correction concerns the tax reforms passed under Ronald Reagan in 1986. Apparent changes in top incomes around this reform account for about two-fifths of the total increase between 1962 and 2015 in the pre-tax incomes of the top 1% in Messrs Piketty and Saez’s estimates. Messrs Auten and Splinter say this is an illusion. Reagan’s tax reform created strong incentives for firms to operate as “pass-through” entities, where owners register profits as income on their tax returns, rather than sheltering this income inside corporations. Since these incentives did not exist before then, top-income shares before 1987 are liable to be understated.

In essence this just says that it's possible the rich used to be overwhelmingly rich even before the Reagan era reforms, hence inequality might not have increased that much over the past decades. This is hardly comforting for the average person.

Or take a look at the conclusive paragraph:
> While that long and bloody academic battle takes place it would be wise for policymakers to proceed cautiously. Proposals for much heavier taxes on high earners, or a tax on net wealth, or the far more radical plans outlined in Mr Piketty’s latest book, are responses to a problem that is only partially understood.

Doesn't it smack of "the science is not in yet" argument used by climate change deniers?
Taxation is violence. It is not the proper role of government to reduce income differences.
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Is there a better solution though? I agree that's a super real thing, but having no security at all (as is the case now, basically) is infinitely worse.

We would need to change some things, but I'd love to know if some random lib I'm using is trying to do things my application shouldn't. Or if something I installed, say Docker, is trying to access my photos or ssh keys.
Bezos is basically entirely invested in stocks (Amazon). His exposure to monetary inflation is roughly 0. If the government hands out 1bn to everyone that'll happen at the expense of cash / bond holders. Prices from Amazon services will just adjust accordingly to the inflation spike along with their profit margins.