skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
His phrasing is pretty strong, but I guess there's a difference between "ISAs are scams" and "shady bootcamps can use ISAs as scams".

In particular, harsh ISAs are almost completely dominated by student loans, charging like a loan if you have a bad job and much worse if you have a good one. Say a bootcamp with $15k tuition offers an ISA at 20% of income above $10k for 4 years, capped at $85k income. That's unusually bad, but not a blatant scam.

If the bootcamp gets you a good job at or above cap, you pay $60k over 4 years. Much higher than tuition, but on some level who cares - you're still way ahead overall.

If the bootcamp doesn't help you at all, and you keep a prior $35k wage job, you'll wind up paying $20k total at $415/month. A 7%, four year student loan for the full tuition would only have cost ~$350/month.

So you only really "win" if you're unemployed or down near minimum wage. (Or drop out, perhaps? I don't know what happens to ISAs in that case.)

I think most ISAs are better than that, especially wrt salary floor. But paying a double-digits percentage of income even if the program hasn't helped you get a better job isn't necessarily much 'safer' than taking a loan directly. It could still be better with poor credit or high prior debt, but ISAs aren't generally promoted on that basis.
Because it's evidence is pretty straightforward: you can take wikipedia's list of important inventions and plot their frequency on a chart.

Of course, there are debates around which inventions count as significant. And there is recency bias.

Never underestimate the power in something easy to communicate.
The definition of slavery changed over time. Be sure that salaried worker in a few centuries will be considered a mild form of slavery similar to indentured servitude, debt bondage or coloni's restriction of freedom under the Roman Empire.

"Were they forced to work?
Yes and no.
What happened if they decided not to work?
Weeeeell... if they were rich, nothing. If they were poor, they would have died."
I don't think the author is hiding that they are citing anecdotes to illuminate a greater truth that has nothing to do with the Bible specifically.

Probably a sort of flamebait title for a site like HN though, to say nothing of being a bit flamebaity once you get to the underlying point too. But under that, if we can manage to find it, there's a topic worth discussing.
Aircraft is a serious industry with serious people. Drones are available in toy stores. With the exception of JANET, every airline in America properly identifies its aircraft both visually and with radio beacon ID. They're two different arenas.

It's harder for the an airspace violator to disable a radio ID beacon on his drone than to just run a Sharpie over a printed identifier.

You'll never stop the hardcore jerks. But you can dissuade the casual jerk from misbehaving. The same way locking your car won't stop a real car thief, but will keep rando handle jigglers from rummaging through your ride.
Revealed: What Are the Charges for Google Ads
Read It with the Google Assistant: Listen to Web Pages
Two minutes hate is not something new, the difference is just how accesible creating and disseminating such sentiments have become.
netadmin-general-box@mydomain.net.

then let the email filters do their thing.

Cogent's behavior is obnoxious but, really, if you have a direct allocation from ARIN you should probably have a mailbox / phone number set up to handle lots of spam -- you're gonna get way more than just Cogent.
I cannot vote to remove my boss though.
It's been reverse engineered and some minimal firmware for the VideoCore part was made: https://github.com/christinaa/rpi-open-firmware
Good news! The latest Firefox 72 blocks third-party fingerprinting by default.

https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2020/01/07/firefox-72-fing...
The holy kindle is produced by Huawei.
That's obviously true, but in the most unhelpful way possible, where you introduce a complex additional topic without explaining how it doesn't validate the previous commenter's misapprehension about how "state" works in this context.
changelog.com opensourced their whole website

https://github.com/thechangelog/changelog.com
> This is interesting, it sounds like your wife went to an underground/unlisted type of women's shelter?

If i’m not mistaken, I believe that most shelters attempt to keep a cloak over their actual identity and purpose. They’re often vaguely named and are placed in non-obscure locations. Nonetheless, whether it’s listed or not, I’m glad their partner was able to get the help they needed.
The US had a fine track record until they started pushing anti-union propaganda, started having union corruption and corresponding aggressive police crackdowns, and the government abandoned the working class. Now Michigan is a right to work state and free trade has killed thousands of domestic manufacturing jobs.
Well I agree. It looks like the author had a point to make and didn't care at all whether the evidence he presented actually led to that point or not.
Font licensing is ill, please help heal it. For a better web
Not really. Learning new things really makes me happy. Some people spend their entire life trying to solve a problem or find a cure for a disease. It's all about finding something that you enjoy. That could be spend time with friends or family but that doesn't mean it's the same for everyone.
This is just (paid) peering and leased fiber, no?

How much of it is dark fiber vs. lit?
What rules, is pointer aliasing enough?

The backends are getting so complicated now that I'm not sure low level languages can make that much difference assuming they generate clean IR.
Incorrect, particular sets of ciphers are themselves doing just fine. There is no hint of well studied symmetric-key algorithms (like AES, which is in fact now over 20 years old) with long known sufficient key lengths "failing" (in terms of cold ciphertext being cracked) in 40 years, or 400 years for that matter. Even with a fully scalable general quantum computer, the best known improvement is Grover's Algorithm, which results in roughly a quadratic improvement (so a 128-bit key cracked in 2^64 iterations, 256-bit in 2^128, etc). This obviously is trivially defeated by doubling the key length, and AES-256 has been available from the beginning and has been becoming more standard for a while as well.

Now, there are various kinds of hot attacks, such as side channel leaks, that always present a serious challenge in many threat scenarios. And it's certainly possible to have bad implementations of a solid algorithm. But for AES implementations are very mature, and side channel attacks do not apply to data at rest. So in the context of "will my encrypted ciphertext with all my deepest secrets [sitting on a drive/in the cloud/wherever] be crackable in 40 years" no, symmetric-key crypto with 256-bit keys is dependable at this point.

A false sense of defeatism is itself plenty dangerous to security.
I've seen fx recently and it looks very interesting. jql is obviously not as feature-rich, but you can achieve interactivity with fzf!

echo '' | fzf --print-query --preview-window wrap --preview 'cat test.json | jql {q}'
The people who buy and read the bible would potentially have to pay a much higher price, perhaps higher than they could justify

I don’t see the issue. Since evangelicals overwhelmingly support Trump, they should be willing to pay the price for his trade war.
> true in some sense.

In the sense that the diets & health of ordinary people were much worse under early agriculture. This appears to have been true for a long time, maybe until a few centuries ago.

People ran away if they could. Early agricultural societies seem more and more like attempts by warlords to enslave both animals and humans for their benefit. Capturing livestock & farmers seems to have been the main goal of warfare.

> also an incredibly good deal, in that it now supports 7000 million human lives

Sure, 21st century life is (for almost all of us) much better. It's not so clear that 19th C life was so (except for a few highly-developed places).
Interesting. My friends that watch the most sports seem to be the most overweight. I expected this to be the opposite, but maybe this is normal. Probably just anecdotal.
Exactly. It's rent-seeking by existing aviation companies that don't want to share with drone startups.

The FAA has spent the last two decades making sure the US is in last place when it comes to commercialized drones, and this is a continuation of those efforts.
My example is intentionally simplified, and doesn't consider either a high or low personal tax rate. It also doesn't consider tax avoidance because, frankly, legislation that enables tax avoidance is equivalent to lowering effective taxes.

Statutory vs Effective tax rates are what actually count in terms of the long term choices companies make and the outcomes for the rest of us. In my example, imagine that there are absolutely no tax dodges whatsoever. The statutory rate is the effective rate.

If it were impossible to pay accountants to dodge taxes, i.e. the middle class income tax bracket, then my example holds.

Note for the casual reader: please be aware that there is a HUGE difference between statutory and effective tax rates.
Politicians and Corporations hope you don't catch on.

https://www.npr.org/2017/08/07/541797699/fact-check-does-the...
UAW dues apparently run $70 per month - https://www.labornotes.org/blogs/2013/12/uaw-dues-increase-b...

Which is still over three times the top rate at UNITE.

I don't know what an average US union's dues are though.
I don't feel like I have any options. I've felt burned out for about four years now. Our tech stack is very old and my my interest in programming is near zero at this point. I feel like I'm just waiting out the inevitable. I don't live in SV or an area with more than a handful of companies who would provide a desirable job.
Why is this grayed out?

Wrongthink?
Squeamish Osssifrage's answer to this Crypto Stack Exchange question does a predictably excellent job of putting these attacks in context.

https://crypto.stackexchange.com/questions/60640/does-shatte...
Wow, this is a very cynical interpretation of union leaders salaries. The previous posts implies that they are enriching themselves through members dues in a caricature manner.
The article cites/links-to a whitepaper from 1993 on the topic of EMI producing furniture. I haven't actually read the whitepaper myself, but there might be more information in there....
I mean, the ostensibly Communist country now has a higher Gini coefficient than us too [0], so the joke goes both ways.

[0]: https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/...
> If a modern person had grown up in ancient civilization, I guarantee they wouldn't be all that much more knowledgable than others of that time.

If I was dropped into Roman times, what I'd invent is a printing press. After inventing paper made from rags.
While it might be possible my guess is it would be much more difficult than C. AFAIK Rust is more or less a superset of C whereas Python and Ruby have numerous advanced features that aren't present in Rust and would likely require a bespoke Rust runtime to emulate the behaviour. Types is also a whole can of worms here.

I think in relation to Ruby, Python and other languages like them Rust's best application is leveraging the support for C FFIs to replace hot paths. While Rust has a significant learning curve it's probably much simpler, for say a ruby programmer, to pick it up and write safe performant code than C.
>the image is a reinterpretation of the image of radio waves from the first discovered pulsar. The original was illustrated by Cornell grad student Harold Craft in his 1970 PhD thesis and subsequently published in the Cambridge Encyclopeadia of Astronomy. [0]

[0] https://www.esri.com/arcgis-blog/products/arcgis-pro/mapping...

Pretty cool that the album was inspired by the visual representation of the first discovered pulsar!

Apologizes if your link already says that. I cannot open it due to work filters I think :/
But the governing org shouldn't be the one extracting that value. their job is govern and to some extent regulate. anything else is outside their domain.
50% of farms make no farm income. 40% rely on external income.

https://www.ers.usda.gov/media/10292/farm-household-income-i...
Changing getrandom was just idiotic and breaks god damn userspace. The man page was extremely clear in documentation in the first place.
I was hesitant to read the article because I initially thought it was going to be another fake outrage post like the “War on Christmas”.

I was pleasantly surprised.
It's not real-time, but Same Day ACH is here. The Fed charges about 5 cents for it, and it processes within roughly 4 business hours. The biggest problem with ACH as I see it is that there's not a widely implemented memo field that goes along with the transaction for invoice/customer numbers etc. This makes matching up incoming transactions a hassle, and so billers don't want to just give you their bank account number, they want you to sign up on their web site.

In the EU with SEPA, there's roughly the same functionality but with the memo, and that is the standard way to pay for things, without any third party billing platform being in the middle.
> rather than waiting on _other threads_.

Hmm, I think I see what you're trying to say, but maybe more precise language would be better here.

GPU cores have extremely efficient thread-barrier instructions. NVidia PTX has "barrier", while AMD has "S_BARRIER". Both of which allow the ~256 threads of a workgroup to efficiently wait for each other.

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The other aspect, is that "Waiting on Memory" (at least, waiting on L2 memory) is globally synchronized in both AMD and NVidia systems. Waiting for an L2 atomic operation to complete IS a synchronization event, because L2 cache has a total memory ordering on both AMD and NVidia platforms.

Tying L2 cache to higher levels allows for memory coherence with the host CPU, or other GPUs even. That is to say: "dependencies" are often turned into memory-sync / memory-barrier events at the lowest level.

Synchronizing threads is one-and-the-same as waiting on memory. (Specifically: creating a load-and-store ordering that all cores can agree upon).

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I think what you're trying to say is that dependency chains must be short on GPUs, and that there are many parallel-threads of dependency chains to execute. In these circumstances, an algorithm can run efficiently.

If you have an algorithm that is an explicit dependency chain from beginning to end (ironically: Ethereum hashing satisfies this constraint. You work on the same hash for millions of iterations...), then that particular dependency chain cannot be cut or parallelized.

But Ethereum Hashing is still parallel, because there are trillions of guesses that can all work in parallel. So while its impossible to parallelize a singular ETH Hash... you can run many ETH Hashes in parallel with each other.
What you do or don’t love is not relevant. You’re free to provide me with no value at all if you choose. But I’m obviously not going to give you any of my money in that case.

If you want someone to give you money so that you can do things like experience the world, or eat, you have to provide something in return.

You don’t get something for nothing.
Has the definition of formerly changed? :)
Red Sox used replay room to steal signs in 2018 season
"Many bootcamp grads are unqualified" is sort of a weird complaint in a field where it's common (and I think accurate) to complain that many degree-holders with a decade of experience are unqualified.

It's not obvious to me that this is any special weakness of bootcamps, rather than just another consequence of the fact that programming doesn't have much standardized education or trustworthy credentialing.
Potentially. GitHub at least already started collision detection after Shattered was published.

https://github.blog/2017-03-20-sha-1-collision-detection-on-...
Software has eaten the world. There are tech workers in every sector. It's getting to the point that the phrase "tech company" isn't really meaningful.
And yet you can still fly under 1,200 feet Above Ground Level (where I am) without being controlled (Class G airspace). I (personally) feel like hobby and personal drones fall into this kind of "general use air space" usecase.
An alternative view is "Triumph of the West" by Roberts.

https://www.amazon.com/Triumph-West-J-M-Roberts/dp/031674989...
Most of those are NEVs with a 25MPH max speed to bypass safety regulations. $20K golf carts.
>I am skeptical of the Trump administration’s industrial policy approach. But I respect the that important policymakers have noticed we have lost the ability to make things.

As Julius Krein has written about extensively, this goes way beyond the nostalgia of wanting to "make things" again. When we started offshoring, it was under the assumption we would be moving UP the value chain to building more complex and advanced technology, but the reality is we are moving down. The 21st century "tech" job is an Uber driver. That is a terrible thing for America, and I fear that people continue to underestimate how massive a problem it is.
"There is no alternative ways to find out your public IP" seems rather untrue.
I think it will, at best, be a semantic argument in retrospect. The companies highlighted are all clearly defined as being bolstered by computing technology. But what about next generation, huge companies that are bolstered by computing and other technologies fused together? For example, if a company manages to create a brain-computer interface that gains global adoption and equivalent valuations to the existing tech giants, but the software layer is a mashup of, by that time, commoditized services from the existing tech giants who fail to enter this industry, does it count?
My experience in France is that every little shop will have a 5-8 EUR minimum for card payments.

Of course you could buy your croissants from the Carrefour, but who would want to do that???
Yeah, addressing the insecurity does take care, and I did not mean to suggest that one should not care about their insecurities. They are things to work on and make better, not things to just live with.

The biggest problem with something like "what do you care what other people think" is that we want to read it in an absolutest manner. But that's not how it should be read.

The question should be used as part of addressing the insecurity. Do you really need to care in this instance?

A healthy friendship means caring about what the other person thinks. I imagine marriage makes that even more important.

Caring about what some rando might think if he sees me crying? That's not important.

A key thing is being mindful and purposeful about it instead of just letting whatever your current view of society is dictate your actions.
I agree. About a year ago I made the conscious decision to remove the vast majority of "news", particularly political news, from my life. On Reddit, I blocked all political-related subreddits, removed CNN et al from my bookmarks, unsubscribed from news-related podcasts, removed all news apps from my phone, and I only browse sites /subreddits that pertain to specific interests of mine (HN, subreddits about programming, technology, fitness, financial news about specific companies I am following, etc). I will open a "news site" very rarely when I catch wind of a significant event happening (impeachment, bombing Iran), but again this is very rare. When it comes time to vote, I'll spend some time doing active research on current topics so I can make informed decisions, and the active research helps significantly to avoid clickbait/ragebait that pops up when passively browsing the internet.

I can say without a doubt it has made a significant improvement to my general mood and demeanor. I no longer get sucked into a trap reading infuriating news about the government or inane comments on social media sites. Now when I do happen to come across a clickbait/ragebait headline, my brain seems to just ignore it and carry on with life. Sometimes my friends will bring up the latest "omg Trump, did you hear?" news while we hang out and it will devolve into a bitchfest where they get visibly angry as they talk about it, meanwhile I just sit back and say "I have no idea what you're talking about". Ignorance is bliss, and I say that completely unironically.

It is a little sad because I previously loved being "in the know" and always kept up with the news and wanted to be involved in politics. I miss that aspect a little bit, and I'm certainly wary of the greater effect if everyone in society just disengaged from public debate, but for the most part the improvements have far outweighed that negative.

If you find yourself spending more than even a couple minutes a day being angry/stressed at current events, I strongly recommend limiting, if not totally cutting out, that type of news. It really is great.
"Under the FMLA, most new parents can take up to 12 weeks of unpaid leave without the threat of job loss. That’s most parents, not all parents. Employees qualify for leave under the FMLA when they’ve worked 1,240 hours over 12 months at a company that employs more than 50 people. With part-time workers and small business employees left in the lurch, only about 60 percent of American workers are entitled to leave under the FMLA.

The FMLA does not require your employer to pay you while you’re home with your kid. So even if you’re legally entitled to take leave, you might not be able to afford it."

This is still very very poor.
In arbitrary spacetimes, redshift has to be computed along specific worldlines, ie you tend to treat photons as point particles. I guess in principle, you could solve the Einstein-Maxwell equations (or more likely, the Maxwell equations on a fixed background), but I wouldn't recommend it. There are special cases which are simpler to handle (eg if your spacetime is static and you use adapted coordinates, the time coordinate will be cyclic in the particle Lagrangian, the canonically conjugate energy will be conserved and redshift will be given by the quotient of the roots of the g_{00} components, which formally comes in via normalizing emitter and observer 4-velocities).

I'm not sure if you are objecting to approaches like the tetrad formalism in your final sentence

The final sentence was just a comment on the pedagogy of deriving cosmological redshift via infinitesimal Doppler shifts. There's nothing wrong with it (sections of the frame bundles and all that jazz if you want to get formal), but to me, this feels like putting things on their head: I consider the Doppler shift a special case of the generic relativistic shift, making it circular to then explain the generic case as a series of infinitesimal Doppler shifts integrated along a photon's worldline.
Not true, afaik unions make it easier to get the job initially if you have the right education/credentials
Governments impose negative externalities as well, and in a way that has just as little accountability (often on behalf of corporations).
https://bench.cr.yp.to/results-hash.html

Regardless, no competent designer is going to use SHA1.
There were other journalists such as Salimb from WaPo corroborating it. Absolutely hilarious you come in here parroting the empires talking points and thinking others are propagandized.
The more interesting twist is that China is editing the bibles they print:

> the Chinese government is cracking down on the 60 million Christians inside China, with party plans of “retranslating and annotating” the Bible to establish a “correct understanding” of the text.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jan/13/china-christia...
Can we have a bounty program for capturing and turning in transponderless drones? :]