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MBS were the engine that kept a housing mania going. But as you said, they didn’t make people over leverage their own houses.

Arguably the originator banks deserve a lot more blame for that, since they actually were the ones willingly handing out bad loans and/or encouraging bad consumer practices.
I feel the same, and it was the right move imho because if they didn't disqualified the winners, another header could have been "Facebook, Kaggle rewarding unauthorized use of people data"
Well, I asked a simple question on Matrix and Tox and you asked me to compare all the other chat applications under the roof. My requirements are simple: Lightweight client for both desktop and mobile; audio, video and screensharing; P2P; privacy focused and not controlled by single entity, does not limit features and does not force other communities onto the users by default.

Most of the chat apps I listed previously do not meet one or the other requirement. Matrix is the one that I found very good. Unfortunately I was not able to get the voice and video feature working. Hence I looked at Tox which also ticks all the boxes but the clients are not as good as Matrix.
Have you tried the Dreamcast version?
Replying to myself because this reminds me of something in another country, decades ago.

This other country had a tax rule that was intended to help news media, and one of the ministries had to decide what "news media" meant, in effect set terms for who benefited.

This went well for a decade or more. Then, someone in that ministry wrote a memo that said (abbreviated and modernised): "Last week, <name> published a% clickbait, b% celebrity blahblah and other rubbish, and only c% factual news. We need to consider whether it is a news medium as required for the tax rule."

I have a feeling that the Austrialian companies that want a part of Googles/Facebook's income do not want any sort of just or equal tax rule, and also do absolutely not want to be restricted to publishing mostly news.
A similar concept (not focusing on specific wires, but using as much power as possible) is called a "power virus" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_virus). An example is cpuburn (https://web.archive.org/web/20040717190106/http://users.ev1....), available as a Debian package (https://packages.debian.org/jessie/cpuburn).
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And flatpak is actually sandboxed for security. So what's your point?

The only news the author of this hype website told us is that

1) there was a vulnerability,

2) lots of application have broad privileges and

3) apps have bundled dependencies.

--

1) Bugs happen. Deal with it.

2) Flatpak actually tells you which privileges an app is going to use. What do you suggest as a solution? Is it technical problem or social problem? What is the state of art? I'd say the state of Art is Android in that it asks for permissions individually as they're required. Still, this problem is not fundamental issue in Flatpak. It certainly doesn't deserve "Flatkill" logo and domain.

3) Is Flatpak actually an exception to the rule?

- Making Python app? Use pyenv, pipenv, venv or ${popular_venv_of_the_year} and bundle all your dependencies!

- Making .NET app? Use NuGet and bundle all your DLLs!

- Making Java app? Use Maven, Gradle, SBT and bundle all your JARs!

- Making Rust app? Use Cargo and glue everything together.

- Etc. Etc.

So yeah, for every programming language we're encouraged to treat our dependencies as unique, fix their versions to prevent possible breakages and take the responsibility for monitoring security issues. Developers just like it. I don't like it but it's everywhere.

And as other posters said, Flatpak actually have runtimes which carry core dependencies like libc that get updated independently of the app.

So what is the novelty here deserving the flatkill domain? Where is that juicy security vulnerability?
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They'll probably run the entire gamut of mobile apps, with desktop apps more of the afterthought. I have a feeling this is more about… 'Mac Pro-ing the iPhone'?

Seems like it's about encouraging the development of way more ambitious ARM-based stuff that will tend to eclipse the x86 and 'desktop' things, on the basis that Apple is far bigger in the mobile space than they are in desktops. Maybe there's the prospect of super-powerful computers in a sort of cluster form… a dense block of iPhones, rather than a massively multi-core PC? That's sheerly hypothetical, but given the characteristics of ARM stuff it seems reasonable.
Accounting and planning people, who use Excel today, were never APL users.

APL was popular in the operations research community, and those people are now mostly R users (but they left APL to SAS, Stata, S/S+ and a few others through the years, before adopting R)
Even then physics has some real limits. If 14nm is ~1,000 atoms wide you could at most double chip density 20 times. But that’s really optimistic, physical limitations rather than design or manufacturing ones are likely well before then. Such as what’s the resistance of a wire 1 atom wide?
You're right in some particulars, both gambling and insurance let customers enter transactions with an uncertain payoff that favors the house, and both are relatively aggressive legally when customers try to get an edge.

But the purpose of healthy gambling is to have fun, and the purpose of insurance is to pay a small amount in most future states of the world to avoid very bad outcomes in some future states of the world. These are both reasonable things to spend money on, but they're very different objectives.
I also performed analysis of this algorithm as part of a work engagement, and came to similar conclusions to you (that it's not nearly as ASIC resistent as the authors claim).

Notably there was (and still somewhat is, but less so [1]) very low data dependency between the generated instructions, which enables ahead-of-time preprocessing on a CPU to get effective execution on a bunch of independent compute units / datapaths (on an FPGA/ASIC), saturating all of them during a significant amount of time.

[1] - https://github.com/tevador/RandomX/pull/118
Show HN: Eli – The ultimate SaaS boilerplate for technical founders
Nowadays, building a subscriptions based SaaS app requires plenty of features such as user authentication, billing management, email verification, trial expiration reminders, etc. These take away the required time to actually focus on building your product. A boilerplate will save weeks and even probably months of dev time since most of us here mostly work on side projects after returning home from a full time job.

I found some implementations for my tech stack online. One was Divjoy and the other was usegravity. I noticed that usegravity had most of the features I was looking for but at a starting price of $500, I felt I should go ahead and build my own. Divjoy is also a pretty solid boilerplate but lacked majority of the features I was looking to have.

I believe that a community driven approach is the best case here. If we have a solid starting base that everyone can contribute to, it will help free the time for more important work to be done and hopefully even bring more cool products to market. One can imagine a variant of the boilerplate using Mailgun, while another using Sendgrid for email deliverability for example, or one using a Node.js backend with another using Flask.

I've started the work and it's about 70% completed. The remaining 30% is in relation to security, email template design and webhooks for stripe and of-course, unit and integration tests.

I'm looking to the community to contribute to bringing this project to life or if you have any feature requests at all or general questions at that.

I'm using this to gauge interest and collect early testers of the project. If you are eager for me to release the project as soon as possible, please help me gauge interest here:

https://www.producthunt.com/upcoming/eli

I will be sending the live demo to all subscribers in due time and I'm willing to hear all of your feedback
This is solving half of the problem though, failing experiments still clutter the code.
For some people. Others don't consider advertising to be evil.
I think that's not a fair reading of his comment.

Is it not legitimate to want accurate sources of data? This does not mean slightly inaccurate data is unusable, simply that it is slightly inaccurate and this to some degree impugns its legitimacy (as it should).
It's rare. To me, it's not just a synonym for "handsome", but rather implies a certain kind of elegant good looks. The male characters in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure are the first example that springs to mind.
True, but IDCAC is more focused on cookies.
> Two miners at two ends of the earth may both produce a valid block at a given time

Er, no, I mean you can't have more than one (distinct) live blockchain standard; eg if you have Bitcoin and Litecoin, one of them must be using less than 50% of the available hashing capacity (because otherwise it would add up to >100%), and therefore not be secure[0].

Good point about some power use having beneficial side effects (heating) in addition to the actual work though.

0: because if it ever actually needed the security - was more valuable to attack than the majority chain - then the miners on the majority chain would have a economic incentive to attack the minority chain and gain more from attacking than they lost from undefended attacks on the majority chain.

Obviously it's possible to have two blockchains in practice, just like it's possible to have two internets in practice, but there's a constant pressure to drain applications from the minority (quasi-)singleton into the majority singleton until the minority goes defunct from lack of use.
You can buy life insurance for other people if there’s an insurable interest.

You actually used to be able to purchase life insurance on any other people, although you’re correct on why that’s a bad idea. The darkest examples would be companies in high risk work buying life insurance for workers, which reduces the incentives to provide adequate safety equipment.
> Once she ran out what she could do under her own name and started using fake ones

How do you know this? This may be a pre-emptive strategy

Also, as mentioned in other comments: She didn't use fake identities, she booked on the behalf of family and friends.
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The N9 clock app was a work of art though, super easy to use. I'm still sad that Meego didn't take off. It was the most intuitive, polished mobile OS I've ever used.
By now, shouldn't everyone have everyone's personal data already? Hackers just want to mine bitcoins.
But that Creative Commons licence was issued from the copyright holder of those videos, not the people in them. The people in those videos may not even have agreed to appear in the video if they were in a public place (the relevant legal term, at least here in the UK, is "reasonable expectation of privacy"). So if Kaggle requires people in the videos to consent taking part then that consent cannot be inferred from that licence.

What's more, if that consent is not legally required (there's a heavy "if" in this sentence, IANAL so I do pretend to know whether it's required e.g. under GDPR, but let's assume for a moment that it's not) then Kaggle are still perfectly at rights to ask for that permission to qualify for their competition. After all, it's their competition, and it's totally reasonable for them to set an ethical criteria that's even higher than legally required.
Agreed. I think it will be especially interesting to watch things in the EU as the link tax seems to me to be partially aimed at stopping the rephrasing and linking back to a paywalled article by another free website, and the copyright directive seems to be aimed at stopping a single user with access from posting the entire article in some comment which I see happen a bunch on reddit and sometimes here.
It amazes and upsets me to see so much knowledge in non-STEM areas, because it’s being completely ignored. Seriously, does anybody have even the slightest expectation that your CEO has studied and mastered leadership theory at the depth that is expected for introductory level of practice in mathematics? No. We accept the idea of their wisdom deriving “Straight from the gut” and that such judgement is valued at thousands of times as much as their formally-educated workers. Even in academia it seems, non-stem phds and professorships are granted on the basis of emotion-level reasoning about political belief and activism rather than candid rational inquiry.
Just stop these social/tech giants from including anything more than a headline and a link from their platforms. If they don't want to include that either, even better.
I don’t know it seems fine to me tbh but maybe it’s a matter of taste.

It seems pretty simple to me: everything before the colon is defining the argument name. If you have one label, it means the argument label is the same as the name of the parameter used inside the function. If you have two labels, then the first one is the argument label and the second one is the variable name.

You could also think of it that you’re always specifying the argument label and the variable name, and in the case where they’re identical you have a bit of shorthand to save some typing.

Maybe it seems weird to some people if it’s not familiar, but I got used to it pretty quickly after starting to use Swift, and it felt like a natural extension of the type system and optional handling in terms of the language giving me tools to cross-check things and bake sanity checks into the source code itself.
> I believe trauma instills scientific-type knowledge that is factually false but locally adaptive. False beliefs need more protection to be maintained than true beliefs, so the belief both calcifies, making it unresponsive to new information, and lays a bunch of emotional landmines around itself to punish you for getting too close to it. This cascades into punishing you for learning at all, because you might learn something that corrects your false-but-useful model.

This sounds pretty deep. I immediately remembered other people who I suspect had such false-but-useful beliefs. How to identify areas of false beliefs in yourself?
Browser only allow consenting between no cookies, first party cookies and all cookies.

The EU laws are more concerned about the intent of the cookies. Are they functional cookies or tracking cookies designed to reduce user privacy.
Is this some sort of joke I'm not getting or are there actual bookies that take bets on real-world events, and if so how do they determine the odds (in sports from what I understand the odds are determined by the amount gambled on either side, but I can't imagine there is a big enough market for bets on flight delays to make that work)?
If that had been the joke it would have actually worked.

> First, you work all month, and then you give half of the money to those who didn't. It's called RENT.
>> but telling someone they „should” do something if you don’t plan to help is a bit offensive.

I disagree with this very strongly.
How is sharing good ideas offensive?

Even if some people already knew about this, not everyone did and sharing these ideas could only help society.

That would be like telling Elon Musk to shut up when he came up with the idea for the Hyperloop but didn't implement himself... Elon just didn't have the time.

I'm no Elon but I also don't have the time because I'm working on a DEX which I think is a better use of my skills. The fact that I'm no Elon gives me even more incentive to share my ideas.

I don't have many followers, so if I implement my idea, nobody will use it (no matter how good it is); I won't be able to generate enough hype. On the other hand, if some rich person from HN sees my idea and implements it, then it will be more likely to succeed (just because of network effects). I can contribute more to society by giving my idea to someone else than implementing it myself.

You severely underestimate the power of network effects and capital.

I don't have much capital so even the best ideas in my own hands are essentially worthless. If I implement it, even if it's very good and the best of its kind, I guarantee almost 100% that nobody will be interested in it. Nobody will accept that it's the best of its kind. The media ignore it, companies will not encourage their employees to discus it with each other, etc...
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> a lot of sites deliberately make it hard to opt out

Amusingly I've just followed a link on HN to The Economist [https://www.economist.com] - their popup offers a link to "manage your cookies" where you can untick huge numbers of them or click "Opt Out All". Great - did that, however on returning to the page found the popup still covers part of the page :-)

However, we must remember Hanlon's Razor.
Twitter is probably the worst medium for developing a balanced, well-educated view of anything. Americans don't need more fast-paced social media, they need quality education and journalism that covers all sides of these issues.

But of course that's not going to happen. For modern people with attention span of a goldfish it's too much of an effort to read long texts - thus they'll just keep watching the news, or reading short, one-sided tweets full of hate.
That’s what I mean; we’re reaching the end of the road for the transistor itself.

We need something else, I have no idea what, but we’re clearly running out of improvements possible on transistor based CPUs
It's a nice dream, I'm not opposed to it in principle.

However the systems I've seen from vendors pushing (for instance) "no code" data permissions rules on top of an identity database, have quickly shown their rough edges and the need for custom building blocks backed by code (or worse, XML pretending not to be code!). Maybe it's getting better than this now.
I don't think my workflow will be too interrupted

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We are in the Zeitgeist of "...all over the news and suspect attempts to steer public opinion"... One of the reasons is newspapers fighting for survival (and therefore prioritizing "what people like to hear" to boost ad-clicks over "what people should know"). There are also other reasons like newspaper editors favoring one political party other the other - and therefore they publish mostly negative news about one party and mostly positive news about the other one...
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I don't see what's so much better about paying a hobo to sign some papers compared to using a fake ID. End result is identical.
So your decision rule is based solely on the word length if both words are similarly 'clear'? I can see how this rule can backfire in some cases...
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I feel like driving from Milwaukee to Pasadena 100 miles per day is the most Donald Knuth thing ever. IE, a huge task completed in the slowest and most deliberate way possible.
NOAA has a supercomputing center in Boulder, CO that has produced some analysis of this, but if memory serves they also have to deal with some low intensity radiation from the Flatirons formation they're up by. Get enough computers with enough RAM and all bit flip sources start counting.
> To be perfectly honest, it surprises me the extent to which ML naysaying seems to be popular on HN.

Maybe because there is a larger fraction of people who know or see how the sausages are made.

There are cool things, but is not magical nor transformative. At least not yet.
Exactly. I genuinely don't think US police are individually that much worse than they are in other industrial nations (though obviously they have abusable tools available that many other regimes don't). But the US does an extraordinarily large amount of policing. On average, a US resident is far, far more likely to be confronted by police in routine circumstances where they would be ignored in the rest of the world.

Which at the end of the day is what BLM is about, not so much the individual abuses. All that extra policing isn't distributed fairly. There are some communities in the US where the police are the kind of hands-off/come-only-when-called benefactors people expect, and there are some communities where they act more like a street gang controlling their territory, stopping and confronting anyone who seems likely to challenge their authority.
> No one is drawing the line on race

Ever seen some racists pushing their views the last 5 years in the most reactionary fashion? Of course you are drawing the line on race, believe it or not. Ever noticed the talk about white privilege by some latte-slurping pseudo academics saturating any discussion on racism without necessary experience? Some people obviously did.

You can argue that there is an established academic jargon, but I would dispute its accuracy and perspective as well.
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As someone who previously competed on Kaggle, this seems a reasonable decision. In previous contests it was pretty clear if you wanted to do something that used third party data you should get pre-clearance for it from Kaggle/contest organizers.

The disqualified competitors here seem to have assumed that CC-BY meant you can do whatever you want with data, when actually that's far from true. CC-BY is solely about copyright and doesn't address other rights (e.g. model release, gdpr, etc.)
The UK Met Office runs WOW (Weather Observations Website) which allows users from all over the world to submit their own observations: https://wow.metoffice.gov.uk/
> It’s virtually impossible to fight the case and it’s literally free money with zero consequence to the police.

This is a problem that could be easily greatly improved with legislation (and without requiring the more radical and controversial step of abolishing civil forfeiture entirely) - each state could legislate that civil forfeiture proceeds are to be paid into the general state budget not kept by the local police forces. This would remove much of the incentive for overuse of civil forfeiture.
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So the police arrested her. Why wouldn't the police seize insurance companies assets when flights were not delayed? They do exactly same with people, right?
As an occasional user of MuseScore (which I like a lot), I'd be weary of them going down the DAW path. They really should focus on music notation.

There are already more DAWs than needed, some free, some inexpensive, and most of them pretty good.

It's unlikely a MuseScore DAW will bring anything new to the scene, whereas on the music notation front they occupy a unique and very strong position (their competitors being either outrageously expensive or not good).

My two cents.
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Sure, but trading with insider information is illegal in most regulated financial markets.
Why is calling things slaves bad, though? I'd say calling (and treating) humans as slaves is bad.
I don't doubt it's criminal the way she did it, but I'm not so sure it would have been criminal had she done similar things to securities on the stock market. I mean, isn't this exactly what those people do?
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I think this is the main takeaway. Kaggle, corporate sponsored hack-a-thons, etc. are all very cheap ways for companies to get a lot of work that is typically very expensive done for very cheap. Who benefits from these situations except for companies? Even if you get a job out of your kaggle contributions, what value was created for a company by kaggle in comparison to the value that was created for you?
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