skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, no, we don't invade them - we subsidize a coup in their country. It's much cheaper that way, when their own troops are performing occupation duties, paid for by the taxes of the people they occupy.

And if those people revolt, then there's a "legitimate government" asking us to help them in a "police action" - not a war, God forbid! And then we train their troops and give them munitions. And if all that fails, then we send our troops to protect the "legitimate government".
It changed, there are still farm families.
An academic philosopher once handed me a (pre-1970s) hardbound book called Observation and Interpretation. I don't remember the author or the book's content (anyone know??), but the title suggests a powerful distinction and a tool for thinking about these questions.

Observations ('sense data' and personally-acquired life experience) are what we can (conceivably at least) fully agree on. 'Sam has hair'. 'Don't kick boulders.' Those upon which we can agree are the foundations of (that terribly-abused word) 'truth'.

We need to careful about using the word 'perception' as a stand-in for 'interpretation'. When we talk, we agree to pretend that we understand what each of us is saying. But when the words from my reality-tunnel cross the threshold of your reality-tunnel, your ears will likely hear my sounds, but then your brain interprets them. Danger, Will Robinson!
That's a rather extreme viewpoint, I would counter with the view that actual theft is theft and taxation paying to apprehend criminals, recover stolen property and discourage crime is actually the only thing between us and rampant theft.
I might suggest to add options to configure the referrer and user-agent strings, and an option to specify whether or not to use robots.txt. Another possible option would be to refuse to access the local network.
As someone whose business is based in Colombia and has lived here for two years, this article and the comments section are totally out of touch.

In Colombia, the ride-sharing app market is competitive. I personally prefer EasyTaxi and Beat over Uber here.

The former works with the existing taxi system, and the latter is similar to Uber, except that the cars aren't universally 30 years old and also it's legal.

It's as if the world outside of Silicon Valley startups just doesn't exist in the minds of ~~Uber PR~~ Bloomberg and Hacker News commenters.

Maybe it's a broader part of American media messaging to imply that the world will suffer badly if a US corporation were to fall. But in an ideal, healthy economy companies should be exiting markets regularly.
I have a couple of Seagate IronWolf drives that are rated at 1 URE per 10^15 bits read and, sure, depending on the capacity you want (basically 8 TB and smaller desktop drives are super cheap), they do cost up to 40% more than their Barracuda cousins, but we're still well within the realm of cheap SATA storage.
Pretty much any CPU released in the past decade should be capable of decoding 1080P video as well as a GPU (though yes, will use slightly more power). The only exceptions I can think of are early generation Atom processors, which were terribly slow.
> Beautiful ideals were painted for our boys who were sent out to die... They were just told it was to be a "glorious adventure.

Told by whom? Oh that's right, the news media. People really need to go look into why the NYTimes, WashingtonPost, Pulitzer's properties, Hearst's properties, etc were created and how their yellow journalism played into wars even to this day.

Also keep in mind, the biggest ( proportionally ) benefactor of war isn't defense contractors, it's the news industry.

https://www.mediaite.com/news/tucker-carlson-scores-highest-...

People forgot that WashingtonPost went bankrupt in the first half of the 1900s and the news industry was in danger of collapse. What saved the industry? War.

Keep in mind that the news industry, especially the NYTimes ( a company created by a banker ) editorial board, attacked Butler as a "hoaxer" ( aka conspiracy peddler ). How times change, but the propaganda remains the same.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_Plot

> Very strange how WWI makes almost no sense from today's perspective.

WW1 makes total sense. By WW1, the entire world had been conquered by European powers and America. Every piece of land on earth was under European/American control or influence. So european powers had no one left to fight but themselves.

> Every country was damaged either directly by the conflict, or indirectly through its protracted (and still ongoing) resolution.

Europe was in ruins and more importantly fractured. Go read TS Eliot's The Waste Land. It's partly about his angst of over a broken europe and the collapse of western civilization and the ultimate pointlessness of that war.

> It's the only war in living memory considered near universally "good" by those in the US.

It's considered good because propaganda tells us it's good. Propaganda tells us its good because we came out on top. But I don't see how a war with nukes and upwards of 120 million dead could be considered good. That's more dead than the worst pandemic in recent history - spanish flu which killed upwards of 100 million. I doubt anyone would say the spanish flu was "good".

> I'm doubtful our current reverence for WWII will stand the test of time.

Reverence of ww2 will be determined by who is in power. History, as all other propaganda, is written by those in power.
It’s a tech company guys
http://archive.md/jWyRy
You might also look into getting it on godbolt.org...

PS: There's a typo in the Design Goals list - "Compliled (no JIT delays)"
I don't think decisive action was possible after WWI -- everybody still remembered the meatgrinder and what a web of defensive treaties led to.
You’re talking about basically a form letter that he probably signs approximately a zillion of. I even have one.
Check out the images in this story https://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2020-01-11/australian-bushfir... for some before and after fire photos
Great question, I just went digging.

I found three big factors. First, the "labor force" has no age cap, so there are lots more women alive than men. Second, lots of adult men are in the military or prison, so equal numbers of jobs would mean higher male labor force participation. Third, "nonfarm payrolls" doesn't just mean nonfarm, and excludes more employed men than women. But there's one big issue with nonprofit labor I couldn't sort out.

(Details in the child post.)
This is great; it's a Princeton research project from Arvind Narayanan's (@random_walker) group, in which their team made 10 attempts to SIM-swap each of 5 different carriers, including T-Mobile, AT&T, and Verizon (all three of which were, weirdly, less secure in some ways than the 2 MVNOs they tested).

Most notably: AT&T and Verizon both use call logs to authenticate SIM swaps from people who don't know the account PIN; requestors are asked to list recently made outbound calls, or in some cases inbound calls. A targeted attacker can trick a customer into making a known call (or, obviously, can simply call the customer to make inbound call records), and then authenticate with them.

AT&T uses billing statement data as a factor. But the research team was able to "spoof" billing statement data by purchasing prepaid refill cards and applying them to a target's account.

The report also identified a bunch of online services for which SMS was used not just as a second factor but, through account recovery, as a sole factor, meaning you're substantially worse off with SMS authentication than you are without it at those services. The reality is probably worse than the report highlights, since a lot of account recovery processes are informal and ad-hoc, and can be socially engineered into relying on SMS.
The cost is pretty comparable to the Ampere eMAG AArch64 system in the OP, which costs about $3k. It's an unfortunate fact of low volume production, though.
You can watch the Dutch version on the VPRO's YouTube channel:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGsw_l0tT10
Some parts of that example seem pretty silly. URLs for example: he describes how just about anything can be passed in as a URL, and requests attempts to call __str__ or __unicode__ on it and then parse it. Considering (essentially?) all types in Python have __str__, this is a perfectly reasonable place to use the Any type. The issue isn't with the expressiveness of the typing system, but with the absurd flexibility of input handling by requests.
Worth noting that this is just for US and for prepaid SIMs, from their paper
“We examined the types of authentication mechanisms in
place for such requests at 5 U.S. prepaid carriers—–AT&T,
T-Mobile, Tracfone, US Mobile, and Verizon Wireless”.

It doesn’t mean that for the rest of the world SMS 2FA is completely secure, it’s just a lot more difficult (or impractical/impossible) to do a SIM swap so easily.
As mentioned in another comment below, SS7 vulnerabilities are another attack vector, globally available and without requiring a SIM swap.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22012255
This is really a criticism that Google called their system 2FA but actually was using it as a sole factor. That's bad security and bad naming. Had they actually used it as a second factor, then you would have seen a security benefit.
This comment is downvoted, but shouldn't be: "Epstein didn't kill himself" clearly is off-topic for the thread, and the resulting "discussion" ate the whole thread. 'zamalek is absolutely right.
People are, quite sensibly, prejudiced against someone convicted of sex crimes involving the exploitation of young women traveling with young women. The prejudice is against him, not the women. The incident and the reactions of the staff involved has been documented in greater detail elsewhere, you can just google it up.
And the Unison programming language:

https://www.unisonweb.org
Once again, we must sadly admit that Google is a place where bad things occasionally happen, just like at every other company big and small.
> but it's not like Google couldn't find a great legal chief who also wasn't a terrible person.

This is actually an argument I wish would come up more often in cases where prominent people are fired or lose opportunities due to misconduct. Critics invariably react as if there aren't hundreds or thousands of qualified people for the position who didn't conduct themselves inappropriately, but I would argue that there almost always were.

There are hundreds of talented directors who could direct your children's movie and never tweeted about molesting children in a movie theater.
A lack of privacy from the press is the cost of fame, a lack of privacy from the IRS sounds rather reasonable as an equivalent for wealth.

Honestly, the way the IRS mostly catches tax frauds is by checking self-reported income against wage expenses reported by employers, in theory we really don't need to be personally involved with tax calculations and a lot of countries (like Sweden) just tell you what they think is right and ask if they messed anything up... the only reason we don't do that in the US is because Intuit has a huge boatload of money.

As an aside, nearly all financial transactions are carefully reviewed these days under the excuse of anti-terrorism or child safety in an effort to try and detect money laundering (which, in an open system, is super hard - but becomes solvable in a closed system)... and I'm alright with that.
San José seeks solution to reduce discrimination against housing voucher tenants
And yet my bank (Chase) only supports email and sms 2fa with no option for OTP/TOTP. Is this just a institution dragging their feet or are there more regulatory reasons why they won't allow more secure authentication?
Ah, I see, thanks!

I was still posting and didn't see any sign that my account is banned, maybe it would be a good feature for HN (or not being able to log in).
I had a professor that declared all physics older than him "classical", but he made that definition in jest
The FBI took evidence into custody. Beyond that, I wouldn't trust RedState's analysis without independent confirmation items are missing.
I appreciate people commenting and trying to offer advice, but I think you missed the point of my post. Imagine this: Someone offers a group of 100 people a huge prize (that they all desperately want) to gain 100 pounds as quickly as possible. If we checked back in on these people in 3 months, I guarantee that some of them would have added 100 pounds, but some of them wouldn't be even close. What would you say to the people who weren't able to gain weight? Would you tell them about how it is just simple thermodynamics and lecture them on physics? I'm guessing you wouldn't. We all understand that it will be harder and easier for different people. Losing weight is the exact same.
I think accepting that is, in its own way a redefinition of truth for many.

It used to be that the truth was constrained by the information that gatekeepers in positions of power or media let us see, and all it took to be reasonably informed was to watch or listen to a reputable media outlet for half an hour in the evening, and ignore whatever they believed the bad outlet to be.

This masked the complexities of reality for most of the population.

The internet has exposed the turbulence beneath the surface of publicly accessible knowledge. Thanks to social media, the subjects of journalism can now respond to it, or head it off with nearly the same amount of reach as journalists themselves. The sane can be said of anybody with a half-formed opinion on anything.

Many journalists have seemingly gotten so busy responding to the gnats and the niggles, and the affronts to their authority that they didn't realize they'd been caught in the undertow (see Twitter and facebook's community's influence on what is/isn't covered).

This has become increasingly visible in their work, even as their platforms are being chipped away thanks to competition in an increasingly fragmented landscape with incentives aligned towards catering to increasingly niche constituencies.

As a result, the adversarial nature of our information landscape has been laid bare to a swaths of the public.

Does realigning our expectations as to where, how, and if we'll find the truth redefine it? Not literally. But from a cultural perspective it does.

For the better? I don't know. I doubt it. Esp. in the US, too many of us weren't prepared to operate in such an environment and we're culturally already predisposed to conspiratorial thinking (rich coming from me). But it's where we're at right now.
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>The market for a $1,095 mattress wouldn't be caught dead shopping at CostCo, even if it's the exact same mattress.

That's quite an assumption you're making there. I buy a lot of what I need from CostCo, I also spent over $1k on a mattress and have spent further thousands on high quality bedding.

It's erroneous to conflate CostCo with cheap. They're a members only buying club which tends to buy high quality stock in huge quantities, taking advantage of the economies of scale on offer to them.

Plus Zuckerberg shops there. https://www.cnbc.com/2020/01/03/photo-facebook-billionaire-m...
I don't mean to fat shame, apologies if it comes off as such. My own weight fluctuates a lot, as I go through periods of something akin to depression. When I'm overweight, I know what needs to be done, yet for whatever reason, don't do it.

That said, we are not adding noise. We are giving the physics level truth. It's like being told an answer, and being told to show the proof, in my opinion. The answer is to eat less calories, but working the problem isn't so simple. There are a ton of variables into how or why someone can't follow this regime, some valid, some probably not.

Starvation mode is vastly overstated.

I wonder why people in starving nations don't have this magical starvation mode, or glandular problems, or microbiomes that make them fat. Are we exceptional?
It's probably a sign that whatever reason the taxi driver used to get you to lock the door, it isn't really the actual issue. Nobody would leave the doors closer to themselves open if they had legitimate concerns.
Math for the summary above:

From the BLS stats in question (https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.nr0.htm), the total "civilian noninstitutional population" (i.e. labor force) is 260 million. Of the 244 million who are ages 20+ and broken out by gender, there are 117.4M men and 126.0M women.

Why the difference?

- Disabled people are still included for the labor force cohort unless they're hospitalized/institutionalized, so the gender-gap impact is relatively low.

- Active-duty military service covers 1.3M adults, 90% male.

- Incarceration covers 2.3M adults, 90% male.

- The "labor force" has no upper age boundary, so the 20+ cohort has about 6 million more women. (1.5M people are in nursing homes and not counted, but the gender split is fairly even.)

That's 6 million more women total, and 3M more men than women excluded from the pool, against a laborforce gap of ~9 million. Looks pretty complete for the denominator. But the raw number of total nonfarm payrolls listed is 76.2 million per gender. That would be 66.9% male LFPR, and 62.3% female LFPR, which we know isn't right.

The BLS report instead has a male 20+ LFPR of 84M (71.5%) and female 20+ of 74.5M (59.2%), which is that 12% gap. What gives?

- Farm labor is part of the LFPR. That data is extremely messy, but there are ~3M farm workers who appear to be ~75% male.

- "Proprietors", or unincorporated self-employed people, aren't counted. That's 9.5M people, roughly 68% male.

- Multiple jobs count as multiple payrolls, but one employment. This adds 6-7M non-employment payrolls per gender to help explain why the employment counts don't match payrolls, and up to 0.5M more female payrolls than male. (Although I can't tell what percentage are nonfarm payrolls.)

That correction gets us to 70.7% male LFPR and 60.7% female LFPR, which is much closer to correct. Correct for the 16-19 numbers at it gets even closer. Looks good!

...except that apparently nonprofit jobs aren't included in nonfarm payrolls either. And that's 12M people, ~73% female. Which completely blows out the stats, so badly that I can't find any way to fix it. All I can say is either seasonal adjustment, or major differences in raw population counts between the methods (e.g. response rate gaps). Does anyone else know what's up?
Why would a billionaire being surrounded by young woman be a red flag? Being a billionaire is enough to explain their presence without any hint of coercion.
Why? It's not "secure" but it's more secure than nothing.

The paper mentions some websites that claim to use SMS 2FA, but actually use SMS as a single factor for password resey. While that's really bad I think the solution is to fix those broken implementations not to stop using SMS 2FA everywhere in favor of using nothing.
But the Internet is mostly pull not push. If you are under a deluge of noise, you have the power to control that. I think FOMO has led people to make poor decisions, driving people to Facebook and Twitter, and subsequently they find themselves overwhelmed with noise. It can be somewhat addictive too since it's cheap excitement and satisfaction; but that also erodes your willpower to do actual work. I recommend disconnecting.
I have a Casper and I tend to sweat a lot at night so I was looking for a more premium mattress with better ventilation. When I've spent the night with "friends" who have cheaper foam mattresses, I often wake up drenched in sweat.
> Building 2 actually has a name but who really knows it?

It helps that rooms are numbered with the building number up front (e.g., 2-351 is building 2 floor 3 room 51), so the number is much more informative than the name.

Also, it's only been the Simons building for 4-5 years or so; before that it was just building 2.
jwz isn't a fan of this site. Last I checked, if the referer was news.ycombinator.com, it redirected to a testicle in an egg cup.
Zero correlation. And everyone can learn calculus, but some people will have to put in a LOT more effort than others.
at least one of my banks cannot SMS me codes, I can't remmeber which, so I always forget, try it, and have to select another method.

I THINK it's chase, but I'm not sure.

They have my correct phone number, but for years now, the code just... never shows up.
It is a direct result of marketing by 3 Industries

Banks, Weddings, and Real Estate. Those 3 combined have made it the "American Dream" to buy a girl a fossilized carbon rock "worth" several times your monthly income, throw a big party at a cost exceeding most peoples yearly income, have 2.5 kids, and buy a home several times more than your yearly income

Anything less that massive debt and obtaining this "ideal" "American Dream" means your a loser
Just a clarification

> the person's wealth would decrease to a minimum at some point.

under the Warren plan (which is pretty representative) that minimum is $50M which is still a ton of money... and taxes do decrease your held assets, sometimes this decrease may be visible on the property itself (property taxes preventing you from affording a reno you think is necessary) more likely it's visible in the form of your debt (being a bit slower to pay down a mortgage because of the loss of revenue to taxes).

So I think you may want to re-examine your statement about having just as much property as you started with, also it might help to examine the corollary related to a reduction to a minimum - that statement is technically correct, but I'd consider it meaningless at scale.
Wealth accumulation and inequality poses problems right now, for example IMF says inequality Seriously Damages Growth...

Wealth accumulation also means other people does not have this money, with all the problems associated - including a lots of death by suicide.

Many free-marketeer are also against wealth accumulation (+ inheritance) as its gives unfair advantages on the market, ruin the meritocracy...

I don't see a tax that will have a little impact on the lifestyle of the wealthy as an threat to overall freedom and liberty...
I would agree that it qualifies. The problem is that none of the Allied countries in WW2 got involved for that reason. That a full-fledged genocide was going on, much less the true scope for it, became known only fairly late in the war.

And then you can look at events such as the Evian Conference before the war, where those same countries could have averted the worst of said genocide without firing a single bullet. But didn't, because they were hella racist themselves - as the famous quote from that conference went, "as we have no real racial problem, we are not desirous of importing one". Or you can look at the polls - one such in US in 1939 had 53% of the respondents saying that "Jews are different and should be restricted". I don't know if there are any stats on how many American soldiers in that war were KKK members, but it would be an interesting study.

WW2 was a war over state interests, which themselves boil down to economic and political power of the elites. It was retconned into this glorious crusade of the Free World against the Evil Empire, and it was spectacularly successful because the Evil Empire turned out to be even more evil than the war propaganda painted it; but we should never forget that it is a post hoc justification! WW1 actually had very similar propaganda (https://encyclopedia.1914-1918-online.net/article/otheringat...) - it just didn't hold up in retrospect, which is why our perception of it is so different today.
Was thinking of writing this years Advent of Code in Unison but changed my mind because of its very young age and switched to Zig instead. But I'll very much consider it for next year. I really think some of its ideas are, if anything else super cool and worth learning and thinking about.