skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A unikernel firewall for QubesOS (2016)
EdTech Unicorn Byju's Raises US$200M from General Atlantic
How does this benefit the public in the foreseeable future? Why should the public fund it? Why not stick to private funding? Look at SpaceX, there are plenty of rich people and them aside, people interested in this subject should contribute.

I know this is an unpopular view here but I just don't get why the public has to fund this using tax dollars. We all have views on what tax money should be spent on but can we not agree that the public should benefit from it with some guarantee of success.even if they succeed there is no guarantee it will benefit anyone. scifi aside, known physics does not permit anything to travel to our solar system faster than a few million years. Maybe aliens left some useful information in a format humans can somehow decode, is this very very small chance of succeess worth considering the pursuit beneficial to the public?

There are many very urgent things that need funding. Even wild ideals like universal basic income or a CO2 cleaning factory can be useful to the public in the foreseeable future. I get that this will not neccesarily take away from other projects,but heck, I would rather see it go to pay off 0.0001% of national debt than this. People can donate,billionaires exist.
Public debt should really be called something other than debt since it behaves very differently from private debt, especially for nations with sovereign currencies.
Nice. And appreciated!
That’s a neat demo. Am I right to think it’s exceptionally difficult — without local exec access on a machine — to induce a machine to open an ssh connection to an arbitrary host?
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It is simple, just print your own money and have it be the reserve currency of the world.

Once you do that, you can get away with near infinite debt like the US Government.
> 1-Since travel is still occuring out of mainland China, your faith in the virus being limited to the nation of China seems misplaced.

I never said it was limited to the nation of China, I said it wasn't widespread outside of China and a cruise ship, which remains true despite significant travel still occurring.

Humans are also terrible at intuitively assessing risk, and the current panic is a great example of this.
For what it's worth, the finding in TFA doesn't seem to have held up: "Clinical studies show no effects of soy protein or isoflavones on reproductive hormones in men: results of a meta-analysis"[1].

[1] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S001502820...
Moderate is typically a reasonable severity for, in the article's words, "possible arbitrary code execution". Lots of bugs might allow arbitrary code execution - too many to address them all at the same severity as a vulnerability known for sure to allow it.
>This would cause inflation, increasing interest rates, exacerbating the problem and spiraling out of control.

So you would think from Econ 101, but that empirically has not been the case. We're in uncharted waters at this point.
Airlines get about 40-60 passenger miles per gallon. Not sure if that answers your question.
Japan is efficient, however their culture has many issues, including extreme working hours.
China wants food. Brazil pays the price
None of the things I'm quoting there date from that epoch of Scheme, except possibly RPG's Lisp₁/Lisp₂ essay. The first Scheme compiler was Steele's RABBIT, published in 1978; though it compiled Scheme to MacLISP, it certainly had the freedom to represent lists as it saw fit. The first native-code Scheme compiler was probably Rees' T, in I think 1982, described by Paul Graham as "one of the best Lisp implementations" in http://www.paulgraham.com/thist.html while R7RS-small is from 2013.

Certainly Scheme is not the same language today as it was in 1976 (or 1986 or 1996), but no language in the Lisp family is the same now as then. SBCL or CLISP isn't going to be able to run unmodified SHRDLU or MACSYMA either.

(Note that Shivers, in the post Paul is quoting there, clearly considers the Scheme that Rees implemented in T to be "a Lisp" as well, just like Common Lisp, MacLISP, Franz Lisp, NIL, Emacs Lisp, Zetalisp, and InterLISP, all of which are mentioned.)
I consider customers like fans. They're usually happy to give you money and they appreciate you. You also can't run a business (or have a job) without them.

So it's similar to how artists treat their fans - hang out with them, be friends with them, take selfies, thank them and ask their opinions.

That said, there's a limit. 80% of your trouble comes from 20% of your leads/customers. Some are tire kickers, some are bullies who get off on demanding more and often negotiate for the sake of negotiating. Find a way to cut those off quickly and focus on serving the other 80% better.
Printing money to pay off debt will not affect the value of the dollar, making the payment less valuable than the debt? If so, wouldn't this affect future ability to sell bonds at a valuable price?
Initially I was wondering why his prosthesis has ARM processor...
Discussed four and a half years ago, albeit the Tweet mentions having a new source of data: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10004678

The top-rated comment mentioning having an "IdentitiesOnly yes" setting in your ~/.ssh/config is still relevant if you want to have multiple SSH keys and ensure that only specific hosts get specific keys.

EDIT: Also link is to a retweet, the source tweet is https://twitter.com/FiloSottile/status/1229093553269362689
When U.S. publishers altered his spelling, he demanded: “Do they Americanize the Christmas Carol, or Jane Austen?”

Do they really?
Owe the bank $100,000?

The bank owns you.

Owe the bank $1,000,000,000,000?

You own the bank.
Have you tried the Guoyu Ribao, or Mandarin Daily News? Seems like you need extensive reading practice, and that might be a good way to start.

I've also heard excellent things about Outlier Linguistics' resources for Chinese characters, assuming you're still spending a lot of effort learning characters.
Do you own the customer relationship and data when you use them though?
I'm not sure I follow, induce what to open an ssh connection? If you mean the service in question (whoami.filippo.io) it is opening an ssh connection it just displays a message and closes instead of authenticating you and dropping you into a shell. If you mean launch an ssh session from a machine to something in general then yes you have to be able to execute programs on the machine as that's all an ssh client is - another program.
Interesting! I didn't think about volume. Is that why the Saturn V first stage also used kerosene?
If you go to Cambodia, the high street malls quote prices both in local currency and USD. As long as there is demand by external parties to transact between themselves using your fiat, you can print ad-infinitum.

Lucky you.
Wish there was an anchor link to the most relevant chart, but:

https://www.cbo.gov/publication/55342

I worry about the debt, too, in some fairly abstract way, but I don't know what realistically gets cut. Social Security? Good luck, because old people vote. Medicare? Good luck, old people vote. Defense spending? Good luck, you better believe that defense contractors vote, in perfect synchronized-by-lobbyists lockstep.
My Magic Trackpad's haptic feedback has died, so now my trackpad has no feedback.

Sometimes I'm absentmindedly staring at the screen trying to click the desk, because it feels almost the same as the trackpad now.

Tactile feedback is very important!
Looking forward to a readme that is properly filled out. Some documentation as well. Looks promising.
You can print an unknown but finite amount of money before hyperinflation sets in. It's not actually free money, just another finite resource that can be drawn - the credibility of the US government's promise to pay.

And like every other finite resource that doesn't come with an accurate accounting system, it is being overexploited, and will come back and bite us all eventually.
The easiest way would be to set a timer on the client side every N minutes. If the server hasn't received a heartbeat from the client in 3N or 2N minutes, assume that they're disconnected.

Also set a disconnect request whenever the app/site closes.
Raising seed capital in Singapore: A postmortem
well the music is going to stop playing sooner than later. 11 years since this bull market started...the clock is ticking. History tells us this wont go on forever.

The only question is how deep we will "correct" and will it develop into something bigger than a simple correction. At these levels even a 20% correction will drop SnP >600points. Interestingly a 50% correction will drop us right on top of the 2000-2006 market tops which would still be considered bullish long term, if it holds.
This is indistinguishable from something that would be hanging in an art museum, and anyone pretending otherwise only believes so because they know a priori that it is generated by ML.

Honestly I would consider buying something like this, though I'd never waste my money on something so pretentious from a human. This, however, is an achievement, and there's beauty in that.

Edit: in fact, if love to see two tests: a blind test with a series of humans, and a classifier trained to differentiate between machine and human generated art. I have no doubt that the humans would not score much better than chance - I bet only an artificial discriminator would be able to tell, and then only because of subtle differences in pixel distributions that humans won't perceive. Throw in a couple different GANs trained on different distributions and even a machine will have trouble telling the difference!
With all that money you also need to buy the stupidly largest army in the world so if anyone has a problem with your debt you can solve that problem militarily.
I would have put it closer to 2/3 or 3/4 in HK, versus almost 100% in China. I'm usually around Yuen Long, Mong Kok, TST, Central and Western. Has been a week since I was there though. Compared to mainland China and HK, there's way less mask usage elsewhere. For example in Vietnam I'd say it's more like 5-10%, at least in the south.
I completely can relate to your experiences (wrote a post about side projects [1]). Strongly agree with "Programming in a void is worthless". Learning a new language shouldn't be the purpose to start a new project, it should just be a tool to get a side project going. And the goal of the side project will make you force you to use it, so it's a great way to learn. It can sometimes be a struggle to learn how to achieve X or Y with that tool, I now tend to use the language I know (that I've learned with previous side project) to ship a new side projects faster.

[1] https://erickhun.com/posts/why-you-should-have-a-side-projec...
Under what scenario will interest rates go up that high? In general the trend in developed countries is them going lower, not higher.
It’s fun how people only seem to talk or care about the national debt when it’s an election year. Almost as if it’s all a ploy to convince voters big projects that help them can’t be paid for.

But sure enough the other 3 years of the cycle will be spent raising the defense budget and cutting taxes mostly for businesses and the 1%. Hmmm....
> I appreciate that Google tries new things, but I don't get why their success rate seems to fall far short of Amazon.

From the ground up, Amazon is focused on customers. Its mission statement is literally "to be Earth's most customer-centric company."

Compare with Google: “to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful."

Google just isn't a customer-focused company. It seems many people who've tried to deal with their front-facing staff directly (AdWords, Pixel, Cloud, etc) have experienced this.

They don't need to be, because search/ads are a licence to print money.
I’ve been in companies where they stayed early it would be 1.5 years before I could meaningfully contribute. A big red flag.

And your comment about silo’d orgs was spot on in this case
Not uncharted, just takes some persistence to find a precedent. See John Law.
This study only finds that N95 are not more effective than surgical masks. It does not measure the effectiveness of surgical masks vs nothing. Did you actually read the study before posting a link to it?

It's worth also noting that this refers to healthcare workers. The considerations are totally different here, because the likelihood that they'll come into close contact with an infected person is pretty close to 100%. The likelihood that a member of the public will in most Asian countries with 20 or so cases and a few tens of million people is more like 0.00001% give or take a couple of orders of magnitude.
Language barriers, timezones (their night is our day; it is flipped). Most skilled Korean software engineers end up in the Valley. Remote development only goes so far.
Trax is built on top of Jax, which is built on top of Autograd, which is a PyTorch like thing
Its a chicken and egg problem. We need people using it and the software will catchup.

I a recent convert to Linux desktop, and it's not as far behind as I thought it would be.
I am not in the 1% and I had a substantially reduced tax bill from the tax cuts. The perception that they only benefit the 1% is propaganda. It’s also patently false.
I'm suspicious of statements like this because there never seems to be any money placed where all the talk is. There were lots of people saying the same thing a couple of years back, too. They seem to still be around and haven't lost their shirts.

Are you buying long term puts on the SnP? Is anybody?
My first year as a freelance AI engineer
Given cheap interest rates, constant inflation, increased regulation and cost to produce, it makes sense to borrow from the future to build now.
Many products from Google die because is a bottom up company: many ideas that make it into products come from Engineering directly, (guys who wants o solve challenging problems), to later find out that the business analysis was poor...and an internal performance system that advocates for launches
“Do we do our jobs and regulate Boeing, even if it means we can’t get cushy jobs there later?”

The dilemma is real.
On the other hand: There was so much hackery, bad engineering decisions, rush to market, cover-up and likely a lot more shenanigans that haven't yet come to light.

The whole engineering approach reeks of management mandating to "just fix it with gaffer tape", if it costs time or gets expensive.

Boeing's despicable behavior in the whole sordid affair also doesn't exactly help.

While I'm sure that there's a lot of scrutinity going into the recertification of the plane, such systems are so immensely complex that it begs the question: What else was missed?

I, for one, would be extremely reluctant to step into anything 737 after the NG. Even at the price to forego a direct connection.
WTF is JAMStack and why I am not a fan
... and the entire project was sorta clean room copy of FOSS projects, like BSD and WINE.

... and their new TMax OS is just BSD w/ WINE.

Oh god...
Human compost funerals 'better for environment'
Deeper and deeper in debt ... what a surprise. Makes you wonder who collects the interest. And ... maybe the chickens won't come home to roost.
Japan has a 99% conviction rate and indefinite uncharged detention happens often. Despite that people treat police amicably, and there is a trusting relationship.

That's to me a sign that there is a fundamental cultural difference in Japanese attitude, in the US stats aren't anywhere as close to as severe, yet relations/trust is much worse. Goes to show how much of a productivity and effectiveness loss lack of trust is, regardless of how justified.
The devil is in the details. I've been working on something similar (looks very different, but similar goals), and I am on my 4th re-write :)

I've worked on some very complex software projects, but creating a simple task/habit tracker that is actually useful has been more difficult than I expected.
Previous discussion:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18508243
> You know the fed can print money to pay off that debt right?

No they can't, and they won't, unless you want the fed to crash the dollar and make it worthless. The money supply is a very tricky thing in that you want enough liquidity so that the market continues working, but too much money supply would make the dollar as worthless as seashells.
You seem to be implying that the horrible state of IoT is not mostly the fault of the web integration layer.
if i understand the discussion correctly user space drivers could not help, right? and sadly, user space drivers in android are fairly limited.

https://developer.android.com/things/sdk/drivers
The Japanese release all the energy saved up not committing other petty crimes by being notorious umbrella thieves. Tokyo is the umbrella crime theft capital of the world.

The lockers prevent the "Oh I thought it was mine", excuse, and also places popular with foreigners, who more commonly have actual umbrellas instead of the cheap plastic ones, are more likely to have the lockers I've found.
Infrastructure, education, and food stamps.
Or taking lots of photos and selecting the one with the decisive moment in it? People create 'art' like that all the time.
It's art because I say it's art, it may not be someones else's idea of art.
The artist (even an AI) and the the viewer form a system and art is the result.
Would one of these be art in the middle of the forest? Or a Leonardo?
The US military is not the largest army in the world, China is, followed by India.

The US isn’t even in the top 15 by percentage of government spending. Not even in the top 15 as a percentage of GDP.
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> Managers cannot, without any input from the engineers, assign tasks, because they have no idea what the task affects, the impacts, the risks, difficulties etc. Their so-called decisions that touch on the technical side are 99% based on the engineers' input.

Which makes it very easy for the engineers to BS the managers. If the manager doesn't understand technical details and gets all the information from the engineers, how does the manager tell who is actually getting the difficult work done so he can promote the right people?
I guess that explains another reason why promo/review systems and the "career ladder" are almost always dominated by corruption.
Impressive on the surface. but, with a general idea of how the art was created, I fail to gain emotion, resemblance, or some form of appreciation that I've felt from certain art before.

Still, I guess "art" is all subjective anyway & this is still great stuff.
Yakuza Zero as a counter-example. I think the problem with Spore is that it lacked depth, lacked the breadth of even contemporary RPGs or open-world games, and attempted to appeal to a mass audience by focusing on the wrong things. Minigame is just a concept. It's not good or bad.
I think the question is if it's possible to add <img src=ssh://> to a webpage and have something dumb happen.
Looking for remote (contract/part-time) using node/mongo/koa for rest apis and/or vue/svelte/react on front end.

You can read more about me at https://profullstack.com
That ship sailed over a decade ago.

Arguing that a buffer flow, etc. is only theoretical unless you can show an exploit is nonsense at this point.
> Just run another wire through the new pathway

That's likely a big part of the problem. Fishing a new wire is generally very difficult, and there are probably rules that say it has to be secured every X meters. Airplanes generally don't use much conduit, so I suspect they'd have to at least partially tear apart the plane to do this right.
The argument I've heard is that T-bills are accepted as basically cash-equivalent by all the serious financial players, so whatever inflationary effect that has has already happened. Replacing them with actual dollars would simplify the system and create more of a level playing field.
Amazon, no wonder. I’ve stopped ordering from Amazon for this reason
Most organised outbound tourism from China is canceled right now, though there are of course still independent travelers and probably smaller group travel too.

It's also worth noting that the fact that they're Chinese nationals doesn't really move the needle that much on how likely it is that they're infected. About 0.00005% of the mainland China resident population is confirmed to be infected, and the vast majority of those (over 80%) are in Hubei, which given the lockdown makes it very unlikely that you will meet them on an aircraft. Even if you allow for under-reporting the order of magnitude is probably about right.

Additionally there are another 50 million Chinese nationals living in other countries, who I would submit are more likely than those resident in China to be traveling right now, and are also far less likely to be infected. This is one reason why the racism seen recently in Australia and UK against Chinese-looking people wearing masks is so ridiculous.
I would prefer to stay somewhat solvent so that we can use actual money to stave off the inevitable crisis in the 2-20 years. We know these are coming, we know we need reserves of capital to fight them. Going into debt now (except maybe in initial expenditure that will realize gains in efficiency in the out-years) is folly.
I think this is basically a “shock value” interpretation of a more subtle statement. Obviously adding strictly-positive numbers does not result in a negative number under normal arithmetic. Check the numberphile video and you may be simultaneously irritated and disappointed.
> Humans are also terrible at intuitively assessing risk

Doesn't that also apply to you? Have you looked into when and where testing is performed? In the US, if you don't have a china travel history, they won't test you.

This has an incubation period that is still indeterminate, and in the US and other large countries, they are barely testing. So you literally don't have a way to be sure of what you're claiming--there's just no data, but somehow you are very confident in what you claim?

Have you read up on the Spanish Flu? Was that just a "panic"? So far, by every measure, this looks to be worse--more transmissible, harder to detect, with a higher mortality rate. The Spanish Flu killed between 1 and 5% of the world's population.
Creator of narwhal here! Thanks for the kind words. We are working on an all new version and hope to share something soon :)
Factor: An impressive stack-based language environment (2018)
Completely agree. Whatever mitigations are applied, this is still ultimately a plane built by suits and bean counters, not engineers.
Again: there are other countries where the virus has spread in the community, yet despite virtually no mask wearing the spread has been extremely limited and easily controlled.
The problem is that defunding Medicare / SocialSec on a large scale is effectively defaulting on government's debt obligations and has the same effects as defaulting on treasuries. Defense will probably go first, since it's technically discretionary spending, but it won't be anywhere near enough because SS and Medicare balloons fast and will put the squeeze on all other government spends.

Eventually something will give. No idea which part though.
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This was interesting to read. I had no idea that Korea was trying to move to their own platform, nor did I know it’s been in the works for a decade. Crazy!
It’s more of a security that tracks future national GDP; as long as you believe the US government will continue to exist and have the ability to tax a functioning US economy, treasuries have value.