skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We need more of this across the board, not just in SEC. Whistleblowers in corporations and in federal agencies throughout. And the justice department should pay handsome fees for taking the risk - one can just retire off of it.

Kind of like Bug bounties but for corruption/illegal behavior.

No one would trust anyone for partnering with corruption schemes and it would just die out.
It has, but mostly from immigrants or poor families. Middle class families are still barely having one child or none at all.
Hey, did you go to umich?
Counterpoint: major world problems like climate change are a direct result of having too many people, and more specifically having too many people living unsustainable lifestyles. Worse, a large percentage of the world's population is now moving out of sustainable living into unsustainable living as a result of globalization (as people gain more wealth, they tend to want things like more meat and driving a car).

The net result is that a decreasing population is a good thing for the planet, but a bad thing for economics.
We can't know for sure. Past account histories count for a lot—if people would simply look at them, I think most accusations of this sort would vaporize. It's not plausible that $secret-enemy planted $hn-user in 2013 to comment about syntactic whitespace and Google Fiber or whatever, so they'd be more credible seven years later when promoting $political-agenda.

Beyond that, we look at relationships between accounts, patterns of site access...I'm not sure what else to tell you. The private data confirms what the public data already shows. There are exceptions, but they don't determine the discourse on the site. What determines that is people simply having different views.

Mostly I just wish people would realize that the spectrum of genuine disagreement is much broader than it seems like it should be, would be, or could be. The world is just a bigger place than we feel like it is.
Bhuvemsh
Yeah just the base firstnamelastname@fastmail.com i got when first registering with fastmail.

I use this one for two or three vital services, like banking and receiving government messages.

Meaning i have some backup should i forget to renew the .email domain...
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Confucious says: There are only three hard problems in civilization: accounting, dynastic change, naming things and identifying hard problems.
Sounds more like something China would do.
> It is true that highly knowledgeable people know that Musk is an idiot conman

Musk may be many, many things - perhaps even a conman - but he is in no way an “idiot” in any sane definition of that word.
I always liked the wonderful game “sopwith” which I believe has been rewritten/updated over the years
Ah classic boomers strike again! Who will take care of them when they are old? Who will pay into social security?

We don't need more babies on the planet. Countries with baby deficit can just get more skilled immigrants to keep the tax base and economic system functioning.
It was time to kill the penny years ago. Australia got rid of one and two cent coins in 1992 and nobody missed them.
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Pros

- free open source
- group management can be delegated
- works fine with mac, linux & windows browsers
- maintenance free self hosted on k8s for 2 years
- lack of mobile apps has not been issue
- UX is ok, no complaints
- requires little end-user support

Cons

- only password field is encrypted
- no warning that Notes are not encrypted
- promises ‘Secure files & notes (Coming soon)’
for more than year
- password generator has no complexity options
- requires browser plugin
- user passwords have no minimum entropy requirements
- no helm chart, used our own

Experience based on free version with ~75 users. Plan to switch to paid version when Secure files & notes become available.

Noticed that former lead developer https://github.com/markstory now works on Sentry. Sentry has same list of Pros as above: it ’just works’ without maintenance or support, running self hosted on k8s for free.
I do not disagree with your opinions about tuition or universities that were 100% online prior to the pandemic, but the original rule and subsequent retraction little to do with either point. None of these rules (directly) concern tuition money and it would be nearly impossible at the moment for a foreign student to work through the U.S. visa program to study at remote schools that do not have a history of issuing student visas.

By the far the largest group of students effected by the policy are foreign nationals that did not return to their home countries in the spring and would be subject to immediate deportation in the fall depending on their school's form of instruction. This was a purely vindictive and xenophobic move by the administration. I was extremely happy to hear of this policy reversal. It (at least temporarily) removes some pointless stress on millions of students who already have more things to worry about than they should.
I'm curious why such opinion is unpopular. ENV is too global and easily exposed in accident. I think people just don't want to think to leave 12factor (including me).
You jest, but the economic effects of all of this are severe. A total regression in the real-estate market (because stagnant demographics means the existing housing stock will roughly suffice or even exceed demand) will have severe effects.

Basically the end to growing demand, and thus essentially an end to growth-orientated capitalism.
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/866482406160609280

>>> (Question from Twitter): Update on the coast to coast autopilot demo?

>> Elon: Still on for end of year. Just software limited. Any Tesla car with HW2 (all cars built since Oct last year) will be able to do this.

May, 2017. Elon bragging that "coast-to-coast" autonomous driving will be available by end of 2017. Straight up vaporware, a lie, no where close to done. We still have "Full Self Driving" cars crashing into the sides of trucks in 2020.
That would be very expensive and time cinsuming for a government entity to run. Let these companies figure out how to make money while playing by the rules
As Matt Levine likes to say, everything is Securities Fraud. Didn't disclose a risk factor in your SEC filings that your computer systems are potentially hackable? Well, a discovered vulnerability is Securities Fraud!

(Though, usually that's for a shareholder lawsuit instead of an SEC enforcement action)
Because i would give the government too much control and it would probably suck?
The DB implementation of PA is the ultimate turn-key avenue if its indistinguishable in the markets from ML.

The could just call it artificial light, prepivot the marketing and open up a new field in the mind of the customers if its just a friendly game of spin the data among nerds.
It’s almost as if we should redistribute profits from the robots universally to provide some level of basic income.
Because the company that paid for this ad couldn't get a patent for a 5,000-year-old design.
> The truth is that most "toxic culture" issues are systemic, so dumping blame on individuals for following systemic incentives doesn't make any sense.

Aside from tying healthcare to employment in the USA, what systemic issues are there?

> Nobody is forced to prioritize their career, but a lot of people don't exactly have a choice to pursue leisure either. Lot's of people working paycheck to paycheck with no savings. How can you start a family in this country under those conditions?

Yet birthrates decrease with income - lower income households have higher birthrates [0]. This suggests that a lower fertility rate is indeed a choice, rather than economic necessity.

[0] - US statistics, but this is broadly the same across the world https://www.statista.com/statistics/241530/birth-rate-by-fam...
You need insider to break the one. Hong Kong is your insider now that it is officially just another China city. Do not think China as one hegemony. Fight it as one, but not fight as one!
What have you seen or read so far this century to make you think "longevity therapy" is anything but techno drivel? If anything, the global explosion of obesity and the metabolic conditions associated with it (diabetes, high blood pressure, etc) will counteract any miracle longevity therapy even if it comes along.
I personally do value velocity not in number of lines, but in terms of unblocking users and other team members.

So:

1) user wants X done. Focus on that. Help the user X done. First iteration you have something crappy, doesn’t look great, too simple. That’s okay. Did it get X done. Cool. If you shipped some pretty UI but users don’t actually use it since it doesn’t solve the problem. That’s not productivity.

2) now that there are users using the tool, watch them use it. Ask questions, look at th me dashboard. Optimize their flow to do X. Make the UI delightful. We know with good certainty that this is a decent solution. Make it fast. Add tests. Harden it up so someone else doesn’t break it accidentally.

So if someone added two lines of using some existing node module that solves the user’s problem, those are very productive two lines.
"multitude", as in single-digit number of total accidents? Doesn't seem that high actually...
IIRC these characters are also used in the reference implementation from the proposal authors, of course.
It's generally easy to find two time points for a volatile asset with a wide price disparity. You could also get rich playing roulette, but to do so reliably would require some mechanism for predicting future values.
How would it give "too much control" to the government and why is it better that that control be in private hands?
Rammed earth is my favorite conceptually, especially if your property has the source raw materials on the property. You're not externalizing the impact of your build, and it deteriorates right back where it came from.
> to infect etcd with Google technologies, as is their way. Etcd's simple HTTP API was replaced by a "gRPC"

etcd needed a gatekeeper like Linus Torvalds [1]

[1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/6/1/1567
zika is still a thing.
> now if we could just get the robots to pay social security

It's called “taxing capital” and we can (logically; whether we have the political will is a different question.)
yes, but that generally doesn't stop someone from feeling annoyed.

While I do like cheering for annoyed people to fork projects it's not always practical for a number of reason like:

- The project is large and really requires multiple people to maintain.

- It's written in a programming language that the person is not familiar with, or interested in (they might even dislike it).

- License issues.

- Their work might prevent them from working on open source projects due to intellectual property concerns.
Even worse if non-technical marketing folks get their hands on prototype tools and use it to embellish the product with non-existing features in sales pitches without devs even knowing about it until after the sale. I've been there, and it is terrible. Also a vicious cycle as frustrated sales reps (by 'slow' dev progress in their perception) started inventing more and more of this stuff. A marketing + sales completely out of touch, chasing for bonuses. Brrr.
Is there any way to find out how much the remote operator is actively involved in the driving? Like for example how often do they generally intervene?
Useful advice for every expert, author, athlete, celebrity: almost all of their advice outside their area of specialization can be ignored().

() Feynman excepted.
Exactly: deletions is what came to my mind instantly and if you hadn’t raised the issue then I would have.
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Was the US the only one reporting on the situation in Cambodia at the time? Surely Chomsky had the means to compare the US-centric version against other accounts and verify the atrocities going on.
Of course it was a proxy war, and of course US bombing was brutal, not only to Cambodia but also to Vietnam.

> The US bombing of Cambodia was without a doubt a defining factor in this event.

Which event? US bombing was between 1970-1973. The genocide didn't start until after Khmer Rouge came to power in 1975, two years after US withdrawal as per Paris peace accords. On the other hand, China was the main sponsor of the regime throughout, not unlike their role to North Korea today.
They also actively involved with their "advisers" on the ground, from 1975 to 1979 when the genocide happened. So tell me what the defining factor was?

Talking about Sihanouk, he was hardly an innocent party so forgive me if I don't trust his effort to clear his conscience. He started cooperating with Khmer Rouge in 1973, giving them credibility given his enormous popularity. He became their head of state in 1975, albeit briefly. After Vietnam's army ousted Khmer Rouge, he again cooperated with Khmer Rouge at China's urging, knowing full well of their atrocity.

> You can blame China as well of course, but don't forget that the US government began aiding the Khmer Rouge at a later point in time again too.

As did all then-ASEAN's countries, all western countries, as well as China, when Khmer Rouge was no longer in power. They were against Vietnam's invasion, at the height of the cold war with the Soviet. Hypocrisy in the name of strategic goals.

Note that Vietnam wasn't an impartial party either. They invaded Cambodia with "volunteer soldiers", not because they cared about suffering Cambodia people but because they couldn't afford to have two enemies ready to wage wars at their border.
Why isn't space the biggest part of latency? can't they put a satellite link directly in google?
When that criticism is one describing a lacking support for someones issue then yes it is a problem. Its basically a way to coerce developers to give free support against bad reviews.
Why not use something like freepascal with SDL bindings?
Arch's package manager constantly loses information
What if governments force births?
I don't think that's right. We have a decade of experience with this, and while there are always corner cases, the HN rule and associated moderation practice works surprisingly well. It creates a relatively level playing field and lets the community consider a submission from first principles. That leads to much more diverse discussion than you get if the title is skewed and primes everybody.

If people start making tweets purely to put their spin on an article, HN users will probably notice and flag the post. I mean, who knows. People are welcome to try. We're not trying to stop anyone from expressing their view—but most of the time it's cheap and inflammatory when someone hijacks a title to do so.

Title dynamics are fascinating. It used to irritate me that people place so much importance on titles, but eventually I got it. One way of looking at it is, it's a power law: the first 1% of information in (let's call it) an article stream has 90% of the importance. Poof, now it makes sense why titles are so impactful. I suppose that many power laws seem paradoxical when not recognized as such.
I feel like the question you've suggested people ask themselves is a bit over-complicated. Maybe the right way to phrase the question is instead just:

Can somebody else guess these numbers?

It doesn't actually matter whether bad guys can guess your numbers because you use Python's non-cryptographic PRNG or because you mistakenly overwrote the genuinely random numbers you had with zeroes, or they've planted a physical device inside your computer stealing the random numbers used, it only matters that they can guess the numbers.
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Sure, if the provider of the gRPC service wishes to also offer an HTTP gateway, that's true.

But it's trivially true in the case where the provider does so wish (as it would be true of any protocol with a fully-functional HTTP gateway infront of it), and it's untrue in the case where the provider doesn't.

And the provider has to do extra work:

"[offering an HTTP gateway] required adding custom options to gRPC definitions in protobufs, and add an additional container running this reverse-proxy server." ( https://wecode.wepay.com/posts/migrating-apis-from-rest-to-g... )

This still seems like a massive regression in openness to me.
Why is that so difficult for people on HN to find? I have read that page once, built an understanding based on that - and then watched youtube videos with the exact operation of the Autopilot, and talked to owners of it - and my understanding did not change, it was exactly the same as the one I received on the Tesla's own page... Am I speaking better English than these people or what? Why can't they just read the website fully? Why are so many people on HN say that Tesla is trying to fool someone?
If they finally end up adding any kind of generics support, it feels much more natural, from my experience with languages that use [] and () for type parameters, [] are much better visually.
The author states pretty clearly why they are calling it meta-circular in the part you quoted; I don't understand the confusion.
this has to be a joke post. the safety net is provided to poor people, by the taxed salary of the high paid people. you are saying the high paid people want to work in canada, so they can pay for poor people?

my job pays 250k standard in the states. literally the same job, at the same company, is 160k canadian. it's even less in france.

yes, yes, you get insurance. so do i -about 8k/year taken out of my paycheck.
"Adaptive cruise control" sounds like the vechicle is just controlling speed based on the car in front. It does not sound like it implies any type of auto-steering.
Rust is my favourite. I wish I could try Haskell, Ocaml or Erlang professionally sometime. I was OK with Scala, and would like to check Kotlin too.
Trying to fix a very minor bug of a game of solitude of c heard from this site. It is somewhere it must be missng a range check causing a core dump (or whatever the name linux/macOS gave to the MVS thing). The problem is where is it. 2 days now.
The same is true for every great figure I can think of, from Gandhi to Einstein, except perhaps Mr Rogers.

I’m still glad these people exist.
France has tried. They even give subsidies. But the fertility rate is only 1.85.

The groups that are still growing are those that oppress women. Islamic countries [1] and ultra-orthodox Jews, especially. Evangelical Christians used to be higher but have now dropped down to the below-replacement US rate.

Teen pregnancies are way down in the US. So are abortions; that's not it.

Nobody really understands why. There's lots of speculation. The decline of religion? Better birth control? Video games? Declining testosterone levels? Fewer people in agriculture?

[1] Fertility rate 2.9. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muslim_population_growth

[2] Fertility rate 6.2. https://geopoliticalfutures.com/israeli-population-increase-...

[3] https://www.patheos.com/blogs/anxiousbench/2018/06/faith-fer...
Political will quickly arises if there is loud public demand for it.
Yes it is... Especially when the autopilot causes the aircraft to enter a dangerous configuration.
if it ain't broke
What you are describing here really really sounds like you were just swapping. I believe windows calls it "pagefile" or something.

You got browsers, VS, a video and even a VM: all stuff that are famous for eating your RAM.

> Left for 5 minutes after which I could barely get a response from any app or Windows.

Most probably because inactive apps were swapped out, then when you came back everything had to be swapped in.

I don't know the specifics of tuning this on Windows, but on Linux you have the "swappiness" levels, and you probably have something similar in the NSA OS.
As a potentially interesting follow-on, the results of this experiment - letting users invite other users, or even invite themselves - was so successful that we've since adopted the pattern in other areas. For example, we've made it possible for lower-permission users to "Request to Install" an integration like Jira or GitHub.
"Current" means the features that exist right now. This is a correct English description of how it works. In what possible way is it deceiving? How would you even phrase it differently in a short sentence?
> Counterpoint: major world problems like climate change are a direct result of having too many people

Not exactly. The bottom 85% (in income terms) of the global population contribute very little to unsustainability. There are too many people in OECD countries, perhaps.
Something interesting happened when comparing the history of systems programming languages from the early 60s, throughout the 70 and 80's.

The resistance of C's design adopting anything that was already considered good practices in designing secure OSes outside Bell Labs, has a very familiar feeling.
The "population implosion" problem is only so because of the economic obligations that will be passed on. I'm actually surprised that the US/UK elite, with their grand history in funding Eugenics research, didn't fund studies that'd portend this uncertain fate - then again may be it's just not published.
About North Vietnam's support of the Khmer Rouge early on, it's worth viewing things in historical context. During the Cambodian coup of 1970, Vietnamese ethnic was massacred:

> Paranoia flourished and this set off a violent reaction against the nation's 400,000 ethnic Vietnamese.

> Lon Nol hoped to use the Vietnamese as hostages against PAVN/Viet Cong activities, and the military set about rounding them up into detention camps. That was when the killing began. In towns and villages all over Cambodia, soldiers and civilians sought out their Vietnamese neighbors in order to murder them. On 15 April, the bodies of 800 Vietnamese floated down the Mekong River and into South Vietnam. [1]

Under the circumstances, the North Vietnamese allied with the Khmer Rouge and the ousted Sihanouk to take back the government from Lon Nol. In the beginning there was no sign of a genocidal regime, and the Khmer Rouges were just "comrades" supported by the Cambodian prince trying to take back his government. It was not until later that ethnic and ideological hatred turned the Khmer Rouge against their Vietnamese allies.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambodian_Civil_War
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This first one has statistics on deaths, estimates ranging from 30,000 to 500,000 deaths.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Freedom_Deal#Cambodi...

"Another impact of the U.S. bombing and the Cambodian civil war was the destruction of homes and livelihood of many people. This was a large contributor to the refugee crisis in Cambodia with two million people—more than 25 percent of the population—displaced from rural areas into cities, especially Phnom Penh which grew from about 600,000 in 1970 to an estimated population of nearly 2 million by 1975. The Cambodian government estimated that more than 20 percent of property in the country had been destroyed during the war."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Menu#Civilian_casual...

The bombings along with the landmines made it impossible to farm in many areas, which caused famine that then lead to the migration mentioned above. That's what I have heard from Cambodians that lived in those places at the time.

Also, similar events played out in Laos but the story is not as well known. More bombs were dropped on Laos even, and apparently in 2016 Obama allocated money to clean up a remaining 90 million pieces of unexploded ordninance.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-laos-obama-uxo/u-s-gives-...

"From 1964 to 1973, U.S. warplanes dropped more than 270 million cluster munitions on the communist country, one-third of which did not explode, the Lao National Regulatory Authority for UXO says."
The word literally everyone uses in that scenario is "navigate". Aside from rally drivers, nobody in the history of ever has used co-pilot in that scenario..