skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's really a shame that "IoT" locks are destroying the reputation of electronic locks.

A well constructed electronic lock can be considerably more secure against non-destructive attack than any mechanical lock. Yet IoT locks continually have gross vulnerabilities that allow undetectable bypass-- and issue that even moderately good mechanicals locks don't really have (even picking usually leaves evidence).
Shadow banking system. US dollars are now used to fund overseas banks through the Eurodollar system, and it has a virtually unlimited capacity to siphon up excess dollars without any noticeable inflation in the US. Mainly because those dollars can fund development in countries with cheap labor that actually lowers the price of our consumer goods (since we don’t make them here anyway).

Just to drive the point home, observe that goods and services which can’t be produced elsewhere have experienced massive inflation: healthcare, housing, education.
There were 4 alternatives. Nuclear weapons were one.

2. Invade. The Japanese had 900,000 troops in Kyushu, plus militia forces. Japanese estimates were for 20 million deaths. Look up the battle for Okinawa some time.

3. Let the Soviets invade. Same deaths, just not US soldiers. Plus Stalin didn't like to give up territory the Soviets conquered.

4. Continue the blockade, with or without conventional bombing. Likely, the Japanese government would have surrendered or collapsed by mid-1946. Again, millions of deaths due to starvation. And civil war.
Rent too. 60% of NY renters didn’t pay in May or June.
There is a thing with the media where they seem to take every trend as "the new normal" and extrapolate out to infinity anything that shows even remote signs of being embraced. It's usually not the case.

Sure, there may be some lasting changes that arise from Covid-19, but it's probably not going to be as drastic as is being implied.

Every time something new arises, the media is quick to declare "This is it! This is how things are now and always will be forever!" while ignoring the fact that a change just happened which would seem to imply that another change will probably happen again at some time in the future.
That's a bit cynical. While I'm not saying that doesn't happen, I would say that smaller businesses typically accept cash-only to avoid the fees of accepting card payments. And this is not only the 1-2% transaction fee charged by (e.g.) Visa/Mastercard, these fees also include things like

* Fees for the rental and maintenance of payment card terminals.

* Gateway fees.

* Cost of fraud prevention services.

* Fees or premiums to insure against ‘forward delivery risk’

All of this erodes the already thin margins that small businesses typically operate at.

And then you have cash: no fees, instant payment, private.
SSNs aren’t unique, and were never intended to be.
How is it different from https://xkcd.com/1958/?
If he was born into some other family he wouldn't be bill gates but he would still be a very successful if far less notable businessman. To become world famous does take a degree of luck not just merit. People who only have merit are boring.
This is a general debate either for or against more government. It’s why the libertarian movement is closely related to open source, free speech, encryption and bitcoin.
A moderate-length string of quoted words (>5?) used to return zero or near zero results and a suggestion to try without quotes- imo ideal
I am the original author of both fish and Crush, and I honestly don't know in what way fish interacts with the OS in a way that Crush by virtue of it's design never could.

I know that Crush currently doesn't interact very well with external commands, but I don't see where that is an inherent restriction in the design rather than a missing feature.
Eurodollars. The single most important factor that nobody ever talks about is that much of the printed money actually flows out of the country.
I don't get how it works either, but yes, 100%.
Much illicit trade is empowered by encryption and bitcoin. I would bet at least 25% of bitcoin transactions are nefarious.
This sentiment is expressed in the second sentence of the linked article.
>Happens in US too, of course. It’s always the shady places that are cash only and everyone else is digital.

The US is a big place. Maybe where you are it's like that, but that's not at all accurate where I am.

It's either mom and pop places, or places that have been around for decades that "charmingly" never added support for cards. Both of which are probably less shady than average.

Although the pandemic has forced some of those places to start accepting cards now.
I had no idea Rhapsody OS existed! I really want to give the Mac OS Server 1.0 a spin on a PPC machine!
Lukashenko announced many times that Belarus is an "IT-country". And now without Internet access (TCP/UDP are almost completely filtered on DPI, even SMS from abroad stopped working several hours ago) those words are just a bad joke to me :(
>Where did he [attack encryption]?

Right here.
"And when you have [posts] encrypted, there is no way to know what it is. I personally believe government should not allow those types of lies or fraud or child pornography [to be hidden with encryption like WhatsApp or Facebook Messenger]."

Unless you're alleging the stuff in the brackets isn't attributable to Gates and doesn't reflect his position on encryption.
If you've come to the conclusion that the Senate majority leader is deliberately setting out to kill Americans cause he's just evil like that, you've surely made an error somewhere in your reasoning.
I had the feeling that there may be reasons not to put a nuclear plant near the equator as you suggest. I had to check but if they were to do this it would be one of the only reactors in the world essentially right on the equator [1]. One of the reasons this might be a bad idea is that many winds and ocean currents are trans-equatorial, so a fall out event would spread radiation across an entire hemisphere. The high levels of water vapour and rain may also cause problems. There is also the frequency of earthquakes, which are high in that region [2].

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-03-15/mapping-n...

[2] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Map_of_earthquakes_1...
Kind of typical. Wouldn't want the government to provide any useful service directly to it's citizens without some corporate middleman. Still a very good step though.
The point of this article appears to be that the Gates foundation simultaneously promotes vaccination and helps pharmaceutical companies with their vaccine research. While that is technically a conflict of interest...it's not much of one. They do both of those things vaccines because vaccines save millions of lives per year.

It'd be like saying it's a conflict of interest to promote access to clean water, while also investing in companies that supply clean water. Sure. It's a conflict. It's also exactly what you would do if you just wanted people to have clean water.
It's going to be awesome to see chips that actually utilize the board space specifically for the functions the end-device is used for. I get general-purpose boards are the defacto to suit the masses and it's favoured by OEM's because they're easier to ship, but I think we're past the point we need that, adoption is no longer a problem.

I signed up for the Apple DTK, hoping they approve more people abroad..
Could some of us use it in leisure context earlier?
yea i guess i meant other than pandemics.
Sure, but then just argue:

Lie, fraud, child porn is real. Government should install 24-7 cameras in every private room of every citizen to curb all illegal activity.
You have a point. The main thing is they all go together. Tracing chains of causation is in economics is the hardest and least useful process of analysis.
He's a billionaire. The government defends his billions from being redistributed by angry dying people. He doesn't want potential revolutionaries to be able to communicate easily.
The original question was posed by a 5 year old. How many 5 year old videos game designers do you know?
Bitcoin Closes Above $11.5k for the first time since January 2018 – 60 months
Is this epic? Maybe...time will tell. People are excited about it though.
>I really want to see the Apple Silicon under some real world load running a current gen AAA video game in 4K ultra settings while streaming with OBS

AFAIK apple CPUs are on-par with high performance desktop class x86 CPUs, but only in integer performance. AAA gaming would probably perform badly since it has plenty of floating point operations.

edit: *in single thread performance
thank you for the explanation!
Analysis of hydrogen fuel cell and battery efficiency [pdf]
> Nearly all first world countries

And many poorer countries too -- pretty common here in Thailand to scan a QR code with someone's bank details in it to send them money, bank-to-bank, instantly.
What would be an alternative?
The issue is that the only practical reason to have a national id is to implement a “papers please” society.

The same can be said for databases that keep logs of facial recognition and license plate camera feeds.

(Both are widely deployed in the US, but don’t seem to be usable in cases involving crimes against individuals. I think they’re reserved for “terrorism”, victimless crimes, etc.)
Not saying "not true for all values of x", I'm claiming "not worth reading for all values of x", because it's way too soon to make predictions about what will stick and what won't. I could imagine that _something_ will stick, I just don't think the Economist or anyone else is going to be any good at predicting what.
Really depends how well it was written and how complex what it does is. Hard to give a number. Spaghetti code is slow to read. Well written code with well named functions is faster. Reading the code from the mood landings would be slow.
There are many arguments about suboptimal strategies and missed opportunities. They don't usually appear outside of military history discussions, though. Strategic bombing, for example.
Уходи! is of vocative case, roughly meaning "Go away!"
Uhhh that’s a completely different argument. A recession is a recession. Economists, bankers, and policy makers all but unanimously agree that a recession is defined by the NBER.

A recession need not be an endogenous crisis. I don’t know where that’s coming from, but there have been plenty of exogenous induced recessions. 9/11 being one of them. (I know you don’t like references, so I’ll leave that up to you)
> Not really true, [foreign born population] is around 23%

Yes, it is true: https://www.bfs.admin.ch/bfs/en/home/statistics/population/m...

The discrepancy between our numbers is most likely that about a third of the foreign born population of Switzerland is naturalized. The number you're citing is foreign NATIONALS. But naturalized immigrants still are foreign born.

> [Italians, Germans, and French] are not really immigrants

They were born in one country, and moved to another, which makes them immigrants. Whether they speak a national language is immaterial (and, in the case of Germans, the spoken language in Switzerland is not all that close to many German dialects).

Is an Asian Indian or a Kenyan in the US "not really an immigrant" if they speak fluent English?

> tax benefits Swiss banks can guarantuee to very rich people

Swiss banks used to be fairly powerful, but I can assure you that this power did not quite extend to setting tax rates for individuals. You're probably thinking of Lump-sum tax agreements, which do exist, but only for about 5000 people: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lump-sum_tax

> a tax heaven, that's the main drive for immigration

There are certainly a good number of wealthy immigrants for which this is true, but for the vast majority, I'd think that high wages are the main driver. This is true both for countries like Portugal, whose immigrants typically take low skilled jobs, and countries like Germany, where many immigrants are in high skilled professions.

> immigration in Switzerland is also due U.N. agencies being there

True, but not numerically all that significant on a national level.

> not the kind of immigrants that come to Europe on shitty boats

I can assure you that Switzerland still has more of those than billionaires coming for the tax benefits.
That's right. Thank you. We corrected it
The challenges of Hydrogen for airliners (Part 3: application space)
Something like that.

By default, HTTPS Everywhere uses a list of HTTPS-capable sites. It doesn't automatically HTTPS-ize the sites outside of that list or block HTTP connections. You have to click the "Encrypt All Sites Eligible" option for that, and only then will it throw an error if the site doesn't have an HTTPS version.

Tor Browser doesn't have this enabled by default, probably because hidden services don't require HTTPS and it would be a pain as a default.
Technically the Fed cannot own “impaired” debt; it can only buy US government securities or government-backed securities like Fannie Mae mortgages. They are starting to push the bounds of this constraint though, by (for example) making arrangements with the Treasury to hold corporate bonds where the Treasury has to take all the write-downs if the loans go bad.
this place really is no better than reddit, full if shitheads.
> We've had this since 2003.

As much fun as it is to come up with Canadian supremacy, _everyone_ except the Americans has had this for a long time.
I agree 100 %, shells should provide convenient, high level native access to all major RPC mechanisms.

There should simple be a grpc command that you use to instantiate a connection to a grpc server with, and that lets you do discovery, send commands, etc.

It's on my todo list for crush to do that for grpc and dbus.
I've even sold the set of screws for $10. People would rather buy from me than risk non-OEM ones.

Yep, all the proprietary parts work out well as long as you don't end up needing them yourself.
Twitter, George Soros, and Porn
Because multiple governments have found themselves with millions of dollars of fake/noncompliant masks, and last I checked, Costco doesn't have a mask testing facility.
This project has battery included as well though.

Given that solar's cost trend has been going ever cheaper and nuclear's has done pretty much the opposite, solar will probably win out long term.
This is the right answer. HN likes to think of Bill Gates as a techophile because that’s where he started, but today he’s foremost a billionaire with more to lose than to gain.
What public health expertise do you believe Bill Gates personally contributed to the
The Global Polio Eradication Initiative? As far as I can tell, Bill Gates contributed $110 million USD
to The Global Polio Eradication Initiative in funding, but personally contributed no polio eradication expertise at all to that project.

There is no basis at all for claiming he’s a public health expert. He might be an effective philanthropist, but that’s a completely different topic.
Also worth noting for people that use distribution kernels, a distributions LTS kernel may or may not match the official one. Just something to be aware of.
Wolfram actually touches on this near the end of his fairly recent blog post discussing recent advancements he and his collaborators have made on this topic: https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2020/04/finally-we-may-h...
Sketching Realistic Graphs (2005)
The Rise of TikTok
Most merge commits in Linux are all but empty and all but useless. Here is one of mine: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/lin....
Russia is not involved in mass protests in any way - I personally know some people who are now on the streets of Minks and they really angry at Lukashenko.
BTW, Belarus also completely disabled international data roaming for all visitors, even in Iran they didn't do that.

Russia wants to "teach" Lukashenko some lessons, but "Maidan" is a curse word for Putin, probably he is having nightmares because we can have the same situation in Russia in 2024.
> will generate no nuclear waste

Very important point, especially when we're considering costs.

What are the lifetime costs associated with storing the spent fuel? In practice, the only way to get reactors built, is for the public to 100% subsidize the long term consequences.
You somehow imply that it's impossible to get rid of crime without getting rid of privacy which is an absurd claim.

Finally if you take a look at pure math - most of worlds suffering, evil and death is inflicted by world's governments. You'd put your trust in that over individuals?
What I Thought Will Kill My Startup vs. What Killed It
Would love a polygon aesthetic flight sim that sort of expanded on the feeling A-10 Cuba was going for but more planes and more weirdness.

Really cool bits in that game where you can break the tips of your wings off your grind your gears in and still keep flying, also had some really surreal multiplayer arenas like space and futuristic cities.
Commits aren't the valuable output of the development process.
Srslywtf? Why is this article talking as if Covid-19 is anywhere near over? If the graphs were focused on say New Zealand I could understand, but taking the world as a whole (and the US specifically) we're still in the thick of it.

I certainly do look forward to having beers and dinner out at a restaurant some time. That time is just well into 2021, iff we are lucky.
I'm pretty new to HN so I'd really find that post interesting – having them listed in one place would be useful.
People believe what they want to believe.

Just a basic search and 5 minutes in wikipedia about a topic will make you better than most people who sprout nonsence.

But you got to have a right mindset.

Human brain hates change. You have to force the bitch to take in new information and process it and prepare it for further info on the topic.
He’s deliberately withholding money. Money is cross-fungible with expected life-span. Therefore, the withholding of funds can be equated with loss of years; every lost ~78 years is a lost life. I used to do these analyses at UTMB Galveston when interning in the nosicomia division.
I'm not arguing with that at all! I'm saying that the fact that they aren't hasn't actually stopped anyone from using them that way.

When this assumption is violated, a psuedo-identifier is assigned. I have worked with multiple systems that work this way and it is the norm in finance and was the norm in higher education until relatively recently. State government information systems also use SSN as primary identifier surprisingly often, and in the system I've worked most closely with reused SSNs were resolved by just deleting the old record.

You could say that SSNs are the perfect storm - they aren't unique, but they're pretty close to unique, and this allows you to rely on SSNs as an identifier for long enough that when you run into a problem you're too dug in and so you find a workaround. For example, assign non-citizens "SSNs" with prefixes not used by SSA---this was the norm in higher ed, and many institutions "eliminated" the use of SSNs by just handling all students as international.

The IRS, of all organizations, uses SSN as a primary means of identifying individuals. They absolutely run into all kinds of problems with this that must be resolved by using other information as well but that doesn't stop them because it's just too convenient. Many such defects in use of SSNs are resolved by assigning an ITIN, which is just a pseudo-SSN with first digit '9' which is not in use by SSA. Even EINs have the same digit length as SSNs, suggesting that they're handled as SSNs by some systems.

Or consider this similar situation: name and DOB are not unique, but this doesn't stop them being near universally used as primary identifier in healthcare information systems. Actually healthcare widely used SSN before HIPPA mandated a change.
Exactly, private banks create money by issuing debt and if consumers are using the printed money to pay down debt then no inflation (just a transfer of debt from private balance sheets to the government).
Probably because hidden services don't need (or usually use) HTTPS, and they haven't bothered to find an easy way to automatically switch it on and off when alternating to the clearnet.
Til the part where Yahoo asked Tumblr to clean up its act in a gambit to make it actually profitable with advertising.
It's

people actively looking for work
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people actively looking for work + people with jobs
COVID will eventually pass even with unnecessary fatalities in its wake. E2e encryption and loss of rights will stay around much longer.
The first response of the Japanese army to Hiroshima was that it was just a big conventional bomb. The second was to deny that the US had more (the Japanese had an atomic project of their own and knew how hard it was). The third (after Nagasaki) was that they were changing their air defense strategy.
Just a bit, you can have multiple lines with -m, I do it frequently. You can also write single line messages in an editor, which I'm also frequently guilty of. They're orthogonal issues.

Yes, however, -m does encourage people to make single line messages.
Isn't he very vocal about the fact that rich should be taxed heavily?
Have you ever worked in a team context where you needed to share a cherry picked commit between branches? Or e.g. between develop and a patch release?
And I got downvoted for predicting this a few weeks ago.
You're just another dipshit on some spectrum.
> So one could say that the '-ize' ending may have a more Germanic feel to it. In a similar way "metre" versus "meter".

although one shouldn't, since West Germanic didn't have a z sound or a letter to spell it with - it had become r (hence was/were, where “was” originally had an s sound and were originally had a z sound).

Later, when Germanic languages developed z again, it has mostly been spelt with s as in “was”, since it comes from s.

In English no matter the origin of the word, z is spelt s in core vocabulary. Borrowings from Greek have z but they are mostly learned. If there were no zoos, z would feel entirely odd.
Eh, Snap managed to kneecap themselves with an extremely controversial UX redesign shortly after Instagram stories, and this was an app that had a notoriously bad UX to begin with.

Snap was also not doing well outside the US, but I haven't heard anything like that about TikTok.
I do too, but I also do not have a sizable fraction of _civilization_ running on top of my code.
We make tradeoffs, just like different all different nations, even amongst those in Europe do.

Check out the relative prosperity of the US States individually vs the world:

https://www.aei.org/carpe-diem/us-gdp-per-capita-by-state-vs...

There are plenty of issues, but all countries have them, the US just tends to get the biggest magnifying glass on theirs.
Nobody real monitors Twitter.
A brand new protocol.
>Are you familiar with how much child pornography has ballooned from social media?

What does that have to do with encryption?

Also, sidebar:

Illegal pornography is captured and then hidden in an invisible electronic state, using powerful machines called computers. It's then transported and distributed across vast distances using a network of these powerful machines called "The Internet".

Together they're responsible for a bazillion-fold increase of illegal porn. It's imperative that legislation be passed that sabotages the basic functions of computers and renders them ineffective at performing their primary task.
There's someone with roots in this country I am thinking of you fighting in the streets tonight
A family’s $35B fortune evaporates in a blink
Wow did I not read something similar last couple of days about on-device machine learning being better than in the cloud machine learning and how Apple got that right. That's where this may also be going then if we follow your train of thought.
> The best optimizations, the ones that make it faster than OpenJDK, are $$$$$.

But Twitter run free Graal and it's faster than OpenJDK (let's be more specific and say C2) for them.