skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fascinating to see how these comment threads debate the relative facility of different diets, and even armchair evolutionary biology... while conveniently avoiding the critical topic: the choices we continue to make are defacing the planet, destabilizing ecologies, and exterminating other species at a scale that is hard to imagine. We’re all ok with this?

So, why is it so hard, when confronted with facts about the consequences of your decisions, to really think about the meaning of your actions (much less to resolve to change your habits)?

Not to put too fine a point on it, but for all of you who ate a burger for dinner tonight, were you thinking about the devastation you’re a part of? (And of course the list of destructive-yet-normalized ways of living is long; try picking one relevant to you).
> Interesting- why are those good things? Or are they bad (sounds like you're saying I don't/shouldn't like them?)?

Although I keep all my savings in fiat at the moment, I can still understand the value of crypto, and the position of libertarians.

Should the government have the power to seize all your assets and savings?

Some will say yes, because they believe the government will always be just. Others don't trust the government to always do the right thing, and so believe it shouldn't have those powers to begin with. This is an especially common belief among the technically apt crowd, who watched whistleblowers like Snowden be punished for exposing mass surveillance. That eroded a lot of trust in the institutions of the United States. Citizens of other states may have even less trust in their institutions.

Some don't agree with what they consider to be reckless and needless levels of spending - especially when that money is wasted by a public sector that tends to be inefficient, corrupt, bureaucratic, and incompetent - that will have to be repaid through either perpetually increasing taxes or inflation. Even Alan Greenspan recently cited inflation as his top concern. Again, the situation is probably much worse in many other countries, where politicians pilfer public coffers, assign contracts to friends, or generally poorly allocate your money (whether through taxes or inflation).

If you believe the government cannot be tyrannical, aren't bothered by high taxes or inflation, aren't concerned by waste or corruption, then I could understand why you don't see the value of a currency outside of the jurisdiction of your government.

Of course, there are downsides as well, like facilitating criminal activity that does hurt regular people, or facilitating tax evasion for necessary spending and services. That can't be ignored either.

And of course governments are going to do everything they can to stop this- what makes it interesting is the wide-spread effort to make it generally difficult to do so.
That other half has the option to replace their phones if they happen to be so pissed off with Apple.
In the meantime, it's illegal in my country for Airbnbs to operate as short-term rentals in residential areas and yet up until Covid my tiny apartment building was 20% Airbnbs despite numerous complaints to multiple parties. So OP has a point.
Indeed, it looks quite interesting
It's clichéd question, but in my opinion it's a very good one and would still be useful if it wasn't so overused. The reason why is because there's one big reason why manhole covers are round and maybe 3-4 subsidiary and less important reasons why. A person who can 1/ identify that there's more than one reason, name them all and 2/ sort and rank the reasons correctly in order of importance reveals a person's clarity of thought and reasoning process.
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Well yes. I remember hearing that there are now meta-networks, networks that optimize other networks by mechanisms you described.
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You're right, I had an incorrect definition of "cost".
I can’t dive too deeply in this subject but there are many ways to convert crypto into legitimate income. I hinted at one simple way (selling art) but it wouldn’t stand up under scrutiny. However someone motivated enough would easily escape this conundrum.
Fire is used for agriculture by modern people. Burning your farm at the end of the season was banned in Oregon in 2014 (with some exceptions), but is still practiced most places in the world.
Neither do I. I always ask up-front to try to suss out if a "technical interview" is going to consist of this kind of BS and I preemptively prune my candidate company set aggressively.

If I do end up in this situation it's already a pretty big turn-off, so if the spirit moves me I take it as an opportunity to collect data before ending it. I like to respond with something like "Tell me more about this question. What are you trying to gauge?"

I'm looking, minimally, for some indication that they've actually thought about what they need for the role and how they're attempting to elicit a signal with regards to it.

Nine times out of ten, they have no clue. What they actually want is a gesture of submission. It's a hazing ritual, and in part, pushing back this way is also a way to indirectly tell them to fuck off with their petty ego trip.
From TFA

> The first bars all city bureaus from acquiring or using the controversial technology with minimal exceptions for personal verification.

> The second blocks private entities from using the software that scans faces to identify them in all public accommodations.

Firstly the city isn't allowed to use facial recognition save for identifying its own personnel. Second private entities ie everyone else including individuals and corporate personages aren't allowed to use it in all "public accommodations"

Here is a legal definition of public accommodations

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/42/12181

7E is (E) a bakery, grocery store, clothing store, hardware store, shopping center, or other sales or rental establishment;

Here is a "private entity"

> (6) Private entity

The term “private entity” means any entity other than a public entity (as defined in section 12131(1) of this title).

I originally just read the article but reading the full text of the law doesn't change my perception now that I have read it.

It absolutely would forbid walmart from streaming their cams to facial recognition software and while in theory citizen journalism could be negatively effected it seems trivially arguable that any usage that serves the interest of citizen journalism is already covered by the first amendment.

If you wonder WHY people want to ban facial recognition realize it is notoriously inaccurate when applied to a large corpus of data especially with bad photos wherein missidentification can trivially lead to the total destruction of people's lives. Case in point.

https://projects.tampabay.com/projects/2020/investigations/p...
Wait what? The EFF, the Markup, open rights group, and probably others on the list absolutely provide open source software and/or datasets.
Those with insufficient pack instinct to stay in harness get new scenery (of their own, not the musher's choice) even without being lead dog:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24141469

"MYOB"
The dragnet already exists. Look up Tempora in the UK for one example - everything you do online is recorded and can be linked to transactions retrospectively, bank account, blockchain records, ISP records, email, there are so many vectors to find you that it would not be hard if you ever make significant money to come after you.

Though given you are posting your thoughts on defying the state and avoiding taxes in detail under your real name here and probably elsewhere, I'm not sure dragnet surveillance would be required.
Similar to the cars mentioned in this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23738395

usrusr's comment in that thread:
"And less obvious ones, like https://www.ellenator-gmbh.de/ which exists solely to exploit a legal loophole to get something that is arguably more dangerous than a car into the hands of people who are not licensed to drive a car."
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> We need a top down approach to limit damage to nature and make sustainability the "GDP" of tomorrow.

I'm ready to say that most us know, instinctively, what the solution needs to be. It's just that we are morally obliged not to even consider it, let alone propose it.

Thanos lacked ambition.
Rust is the new systems language with a good safety story (which implies some cognitive overhead, but that's fine for low level programming where you don't want a GC), gives C++-like performance by virtue of being close-to-the metal, and a zealot crowd around it with many kinds of political bullshit and ruby / Javascript hipsters learning it and thinking they have understood computer science because they understood difference between stack and heap.

Rust is a fringe language and it won't get a lot of traction, because of more-noise-than-signal more-politics-than-technical-talent surrounding it.
Trust me, they don't care that you're gone. If you aren't willing to pay $50 / month, you're not their target customer.
I don't get it. While I wasn't alive in the period immediately following the gold rush, I've been here over 40 years and I don't ever remember fires blanketing our entire state in smoke for extended periods of time until recently.

Did we just get lucky somehow between the Gold Rush and 2018?

I agree w/ you on global effort for climate change. Hopefully we can get started on a National level soon.
This is awesome. I've often thought of doing a bit serial CPU project. Yours looks great.
Rust, yeah, that's not really going to net you a job.

However, for a city of 6 million I'd expect a couple hundred C++ jobs.
Amazon’s Alexa for landlords is a privacy nightmare waiting to happen
Eh, I think its how others have expressed in this thread.

Security by obscurity is bad, not because it is bad to have well secured countermeasures, but because it encourages poor thinking with regards to methods you have in place, and additionally because it usually introduces extra, unintended attack vectors.

You suffer from your own 'obscurity' - whether its because you forgot you had to port knock, use a different port, or because you somehow managed to leave a new exploit in some obscured code due a bug in the obscured code, or because you managed to open yourself up to an RCE with the port knocking, or some other obscure scenario you did not intend to create from whatever obscurity you created.

I think this is different from Defense in Depth, which just says have more than one countermeasure in place, and to keep the counter measures 'separate', but well defined. Port knocking, but on a different box than your vpn box, on a different box than your ssh box.

We aren't told to use 'well-defined' passwords, like 1234, obviously. If the point of 'obscurity' is 'secrets', that's all well and good, but that's not security, that's a password. Have a password, by all means, but tunnel it over TLS and use well defined security paths versus creating unnecessary risks.
Good example, but doesn't help his point, which was:

> This has it completely backwards. Security through obscurity's goal is not to signal predators, it's the opposite. The goal is to obscure, to hide. The "signal" is there is nothing here

An attacker scanning the whole IPv4 space won't think "ah, there's no ssh on port 22, there's no ssh to attack". They will think "yep, they did at least the bare minimum to secure their server, let's move on to easier targets".

He proved the point he was trying to disprove.
When they do, it will be government controlled and come with those pesky things like taxes, inflation, tracking etc that people celebrate cryptocurrencies for avoiding.
Haha IMO we are all equally capable of thinking for ourselves, and therefore it is not necessary to have the patient recline in order to subjugate them and/or induce openness.
Given that all major C compilers are now written in C++, this is yet another prof where the world is going.

Using C++ doesn't mean one needs to use everything from it, and improving C while keeping its semantics will hardly lead to anything much different from what C++ already offers.
I want to tackle a misunderstanding I have seen from some posters in this thread about passwords/secrets/keys. Using a password should not be considered a form of "obscure defense".

If you are using a password there is a mathematical definition of how hard it is to crack, the number of bits of entropy contained in the password. If you use a password manager like KeePass it will tell you the number of bits in you password.

If it takes me 2^100 guesses for a 50% chance to discover your password then that is not obscurity, that is a valid defense mechanism. That the password itself is obscure is not a reason to call the strategy obscure.

Passwords and keys are used to create an artifact that will unlock access to a whole bunch of information. Instead of protecting each piece of information individually, we can now focus our efforts on protecting the password instead.

With a password we have managed to make the process of protecting information simpler, less obscure.

Sorry to discuss something a bit off-topic from the article, but I figured I had seen the "passwords are obscure" argument so many times here and that this could be a valuable opportunity to teach something about security.
Hardware IOMMU's have certainly made microkernels a lot more viable than they used to be in the past. You can actually place meaningful protection boundaries around core hardware drivers; they're no longer part of your inherent trust base, as they would be in a system where IO transfers can involve arbitrary memory.
> I sincerely hope that those of us who have trusted Apple with our data will start to speak out before Google-backed lobbyists tranform iOS into a malware-ridden hellscape

Ive had iPhone for the past year, but before that I had many years of Android. I really don’t see my years on Android as hellscape. I never had any malware, I mostly used google play store but also sideloaded some “grey” software (a mobile hearthstone client before the game had a real mobile client). I think at some point I installed amazon App Store but not sure why.

I also can’t say that my recent Apple experience is smoother than my android experience. On my iPhone 11 Pro I’ve had multiple experiences where some app after a while started to crash on startup and clearing data didn’t help. They had to be explicitly removed then reinstalled. My previous phones (Samsung S8 was my last Android) didnt have this or really any issue.
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It doesn't seem to be for sale in EU :(
Indeed, and even if the replication isn't significant, it doesn't mean that the replication and the original study significantly differ from each other.

Overall, the condescending trash talking in this article led me to flag it.
The issue with that is that you would end up with the balkanisation of the app delivery method as we have with PCs. You would end up with hundreds of 'stores' which act as the exclusive distributor for that vendors products.

One workaround could be permitting additional stores, but insisting that anything available on the additional stores must also be submitted to the Apple store. If Apple rejects it, that's their right but the software can still be made available through the third sideloading.

Of course this would also need to be behind a big 'UNSAFE MODE' lock because it would be an obvious target for malware.
Can microplastics escape landfills, or is that an issue for trash that didn't get into a landfill?

> We can't just keep adding and adding to it, we can't cover the planet in landfills of plastic, we aren't putting the "oils" back to where they came from.

Why does it matter if it's the same spot?

More importantly there's only so much oil and putting it all in landfills would not cover the planet.
They produce a lot of toxic gases as the plastics often contain a variety of elements which when burned formed nasty compounds
Why would they create their own obscure solution? I imagine LUA is very easy to run sandboxed, but I can’t shake the feeling roblox would be better off integrating scripting with JS. It would come with powerful typing via typescript, a great tooling (along with a type checker), and a lot of resources available online.
Agreed. But if Tesla (the company) even remotely helped some people learn about Nikola Tesla, that's already something good, in my book.

NB: I've had this thought that naming a company Tesla, once you know the history of Nikola Tesla, his legend and legacy, is bold and it says something about E. Musk's self-esteem. :shrug:
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Is Rust a “times 5” language? Is it that good?

I can’t imagine any language being 5 times as productive as current mainstream projects.
I'm all for cheap stuff for beginners but what good is an fpga board without a lot of peripherals? I mean the whole point of dumping your design into an actual fpga is to see it doing something. If I were just learning to desing, doing so would be very much possible in the software tools itself, if I'm able to succesfully go upto bitstream generation without errors and meet timing, it means my design is going to work on a physical board too. I'm open to changing my opinion on this though.
Remember when playing an instrument was a thing? Not like a dude in a basement playing four triad chords on a midi keyboard, but actual people playing their instruments with mastery and finesse. It is a dying art...
Lets forget the hype and talk about the AI-vs-Human simulated dogfight
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Nobody is forced to pay 30% eternally to Apple. You make it sound as though people switching to Android isn't possible, yet I know many people who've done it.
Hum, I guess you make me realize a lot of gaps in my understanding of existing financial markets.

For example, what prevents a bank from transferring money to each other without declaring it? Or for accepting a deposit that they don't report on? And similar withdrawals?

Similarly, why isn't a crypto exchange obligated to do the same?
> Just about everything humans do is an exogenous intervention on markets, one way or another

Markets is simply the name for a particular collective of human interactions in response to pricing signals based on supply and demand, it is not a separate entity of its own. Taxes are exogenous in that they distort the equilibrous price points. That is not saying that it is always bad, because markets do fail.

> The notion of the "free market" is a toxic fiction.

Free market is a useful fiction for some economic modeling. No one has invoked the notion that real world markets has to/can be free, as mentioned, they do fail. But also interventions on them do fail catastrophically too.

This is important, because whether to intervene with markets or not is not as hard as the question of exactly in what manner to intervene. Our pet economic policy/intervention ideas might sound nice but rarely work exactly the way intended without side effects. Lack of a carbon tax is doesn't have to be due to a conspiracy of misanthropic apocalyptic evil but simply due to the difficulty of the multi-agent cooperation it requires based on the current incentive structures.
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