skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems pretty unreasonable to say voters are at fault for every issue they don't become a single-issue voter against.
>Wrong. SPA does not suffer from any MITM attacks.

Care to elaborate? Not even fwknop documentation claims to be secure from all mitm attacks:

>Automatic resolution of external IP address via cipherdyne.org/cgi-bin/myip (this is useful when the fwknop client is run from behind a NAT device). Because the external IP address is encrypted within each SPA packet in this mode, Man-in-the-Middle (MITM) attacks where an inline device intercepts an SPA packet and only forwards it from a different IP in an effort to gain access are thwarted.

If I'm MITM'ing you from the same Starbucks or am otherwise behind the same NAT as you, I don't care if you've got the IP encrypted in the packet when I forward it on.

>Not the same amount of work, so no, wrong. If I had a dollar for every billion dollar unicorn that that didn't have a corporate VPN, I'd have a lot of dollars.

There's not enough billion dollar unicorns out there to actually have a lot of dollars, even if 100% of them lacked corporate VPNs :D

Regardless, you don't even need a full on corporate VPN. You can throw up a tiny VM for your VPN in the same private subnet as your servers, only listen on 22 on the private IPs for the servers. You can do this in less than an hour with Wireguard. Super easy.
Crypto directly undermines the concept of national currencies (the real US product is the dollar, right?). Crypto would enable people to literally 'vote with their wallet' by exiting from a currency they don't like into another. National currencies are defended with weapons, so until someone uses crypto to buy nuclear weapons, governments will forever undermine and neutralize crypto.
As a law abiding person (in the UK if that matters), in what use case would bitcoin help me?

I don't have any particular hate for it, I would use it if
it benefitted me, but I can't see any situation on the horizon where that would be the case.
It's not popularizing it. It's a channel by ADHDers for ADHDers.

Everyone has _most_ of the same experiences, yes, but frequency, intensity, and duration are markedly different for those of us with ADHD. When it's such that all major facets of your life are negatively impacted by it you have a problem.

I remember watching the ADHD Tax video and it was like lightbulbs going off in my head. That channel helped a lot when I was first figuring it out.
> California revenues are about $425 billion.

California State General Fund + Special Funds revenue for FY 2030-2021 were estimated in the most recent budget revise at $182.278 billion. Not sure where you got $425 billion from.

> Medi-Cal covers 1 in 3 residents. $100 Billion per year program (or about 23% of the revenues

This is misleading, because only $38 billion of the $113 billion annual Medi-Cal costs comes from State revenue; $47 billion from state + local revenue and $66 billion comes from federal funds.

> $25 Billion a year for government employees' pensions and retiree health (note that this is not current govt employees! BTW, that's gonna continue growing without bounds).

Current pension + retiree health be benefits are paid out of contributions from when employers were working and investment returne thereon by the retirement system, not current revenue (current contributions come from current revenue, in part, but are part of program cost.) The only part that's really separate for retirement is state payments to pay down existing unfunded liabilities.)

> the roads are worse than third-world those in third-world countries here).

No, they aren't. They aren't even worse than Mexico.

> BTW, folks like Zuckerberg (the 1%) contribute roughly 50% of the revenues!

The top 1% household income threshold is ~$475k, Zuckerberg’s income is around 30,000× that.

The people who are around the top 1% are, by income ratio, far closer to beggars on the street than they are to Zuckerberg.
Looks like someone took this tweet literally https://twitter.com/davecheney/status/1296033304756404225
But why do you disagree? What does your comment bring to the discussion?

Edit: removed italics tag.
If you'd like to be very visible in a different way, you could always waste resources:

1. Endlessh: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19465967

2. Tarbit: https://github.com/nhh/tarbit
It’s funny: I don’t know where people get the idea that people are paid based on the value they produce. People are paid based on the amount they command in the labor market, and labor markets are local (and if they produce less value than they command, there’s no hire). It works like nearly every other economic transaction. Engineers cost more in the valley because there is far more competition to hire them, not because they are unilaterally better or more qualified. (Not to say there isn’t a lot of great talent in the valley, but I’m sure there’s lots of talent outside the valley as well.)

I’m not sure if your comment was sarcastic or not, but this is an extremely common misunderstanding. It often comes up when people discuss CEO salaries (“do they really work YYY times harder than entry level staff?”, as if people are paid based on how hard they work).
I've been playing with some ML lately. I'm sure some of this is because I only have a high level understanding of what I'm doing, but it really feels like throwing things at the problem and see what sticks and is fast. Add features, remove features, try different network architectures, different activation functions, etc. I think the best understood thing might be overfitting, which is oddly reassuring.
I think there are lots of other issues that are comorbid with ADHD that would make those episodes inaccessible (e.g. APD), but I'm certainly not only slightly ADHD.
Good. Considering how much damage he did to the right to free speech (and less importantly the legitimacy of the supreme court), he deserves to not be remembered for anything else.
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"Every step, conversation and question must be pertinent to the day-to-day of the role"

While I agree with the author's 'golden rule', I believe the complex data structure questions are just a way to filter interviewing candidates in a highly competitive job market. It's akin to the highly competitive Indian Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) where hundreds of thousands of students solve complex problems in Math, Physics, and Chemistry to get into premiere institutions with few thousand seats, most of whom do not pursue a career in sciences.
France recorded 80 covid deaths yesterday, Sep 11. Sweden recorded fewer than that in the past month. Those are facts (that I have "the grounds for"), not scenarios I "imagined." Sure, you need to adjust for population. Then, before long, France will pass Sweden in total mortality rate.

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/france/
it’s trivial to accept huge amounts of money across state and international borders once you create a cryptocurrency wallet.

Still illegal in all jurisdictions though, and at any point in the future people with guns may come to seize your assets based on the very complete and pseudo-anonymous list of transactions, because creating money and taxing transactions is a right that governments jealously guard and will not easily give up.

I find currencies-as-code fascinating partly because of this strange mix of utopian thought and sincere attempts to overthrow global systems of governance (many of which are corrupt and self-serving) with code. People have been proclaiming they would upend the financial system and governments since 2008, but overthrowing systems of government requires physical acts of defiance and real loss, not just switching currency.

I disagree that cryptocurrencies are currently disrupting centuries of customs, simply because most transactions on them are fake and volume/value is far lower than claimed[0], but also because if they do become popular enough to matter for real transactions (not speculation on price), states can easily impose regulation, audits and taxes on them by taking them over and changing the rules. Developers or exchanges would easily be suborned for example, since the code makes the rules and the majority wins, the rules can be changed.

There are also good reasons that state currencies require auditing, rollback, identity verification and trusted third parties overseeing transactions - because without those you end up with a wild-west where bad actors can steal your money with impunity. For these reasons cryptocurrencies in their current form will never be very attractive to most people or corporations.

0: https://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffkauflin/2019/07/02/the-anat...
The combined average sales tax is 8.6% in California (https://taxfoundation.org/state/california/) and 7% in Florida (https://taxfoundation.org/state/florida/). Both states exempt groceries. That's not much of a difference even if we zero in on sales taxes, but in any event it's entirely possible for California to have a relatively high tax burden on the lower classes while also having a relatively high progressive taxation scheme. Indeed, precisely because Florida has no income tax is also precisely why it's taxation scheme is less progressive than in California and possibly even regressive.

Further more, California has a state earned income credit, the highest in the nation: https://www.irs.gov/credits-deductions/individuals/earned-in...

The real issue in California is cost of housing, but that has almost nothing to do with taxation rates, per se. (Not trying to open a discussion about Prop 13 and property taxes....)

FWIW, I originally chose not to paste this citation regarding relative progressive schemes: https://taxfoundation.org/which-states-have-most-progressive... The methodology seemed highly suspicious to me. For example, if a state had a 100% taxation bracket at $1 trillion of income, then if I understand it correctly it would be the most progressive but quite obviously for a meaningless reason.
Making the view releases button do something that isnt propping for a gitlab login, might entice people to make it past your homepage. Heck, add a "try it" button that redirects to the Book.
I also don’t believe that a blogging platform like Substack would do anything to actively antagonize a superstar blogger like Scott, who obviously has a significant following of blog-readers independent of them.
You said it yourself. You can’t fix climate change on your own. Neither by personal conservation or political stumping. It will take a majority of us to solve climate change.

Like any movement for societal change, you have to accept you can’t do it alone. But you must still do your part. Do it by leading by example, voting, and campaigning for change. Don’t give up! Focus on what you can control.
There is no need for interpretations. This is a fact that developers and publishers generally make more money on iOS.
Squirrels. Sorry, I'm not from around here.
I've been playing around with mopdiy and it's excellent
Port knocking adds a huge, almost incalculable cost increase to attackers. I'm going to remember that one, thanks!
I don't get why we talk about forest management as if it's the main culprit for what's going on right now.

Don't y'all remember between 2012 and 2017 the west coast went through a MASSIVE DROUGHT? Are Californians really this forgetful?

The constant dry heat waves killing off large swaths of our forests is the thing that is now providing the tinder for our massive fires. Other states like Washington, Oregon, and Idaho are experiencing the same thing. It's not just California.

I've been here a long time and I don't ever remember experiencing smoke smothering our cities for weeks on end until these past few years.

Calling out forest management like it's some sort of magic bullet is kind of like telling individuals to stop using straws to clean up ocean waste.

Sure, it might help a little but it doesn't really solve the root cause systemic issue: Climate Change.
Perhaps GP was referring to microkernel design as being the future of OS development?
Hm, there's an argument I haven't seen before- what costs are those? At first I thought you meant transaction costs- but it seems like you also mean the cost of accountants? Why aren't accountants required if a company uses crypto instead of, say, USD? I've tried to think of examples but can't figure it out- mind explaining a bit more about what you mean? Sorry if I'm missing something obvious.
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Monero is anonymous, though, and any real transaction would probably be done in such an anonymous currency.

Obviously, ospec can still blow your cover. But Monero and other assets are certainly a game changer in this space.

The recent $4.5M ransom was evidence that this isn't really theoretical: https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSKCN24W25W

(Bitcoin can be converted to Monero, and the bitcoin can be mixed, so it's still quite hard to do what you're suggesting: to track down the perpetrators of large-scale crimes such as this. The flipside is that criminals' opsec tends to be very poor; good police work is usually enough to capture them.)
Labor markets aren't local when everyone can work from home. That's why this kind of move is absurd. Talent outside the Valley might be willing to take lower pay, based on lower cost of living, but just like everything else the price of their labor shouldn't be based on the cost to produce it.
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It was never “security by obscurity is bad”

It was “do not rely on security by obscurity”
This comment really hits home with me. I took a job similar to the one outlined, albeit in a political party and not government. It is taking an emotional toll on me. Very difficult to get any work done and expectations to perform are sky high. Difficult to do that though if you aren‘t allowed to....
I mean - come and get me / us / everyone? Create a new wallet and fund it anonymously. There is no one to target! Statists can keep dreaming but the level of control they have over crypto is extremely weak compared to licensed banking institutions. You cannot deny this fact.
Couldn't the remaining waste be efficiently used to generate energy in a waste incinerator? They are still high-energy oil products after all, and no longer mixed in with all kinds of wet biomass.
Most people don’t want to carry two phones.
You should definitely have examples. Create “companies” and run them through your AI. Different industries, etc. just asking someone to preorder with no real examples or context is rough.

Bonus points: use your AI product to build the marketing for itself :)
Is it possible to run it outside of Roblox?

It seems silly to be concerned about parse time given that Luau uses a multi-pass optimizing compiler to generate bytecode.

Edit: see also teal[0] (newish) and typedlua[1] (dead?)

[0] https://github.com/teal-language/tl

[1] https://github.com/andremm/typedlua
Aren't concert tickets "Goods and Services Outside of the App:"? Thinking about it more, aren't most person-to-person experiences outside the app?
You are immediately going from 0 to 100. A new currency begins with marginal uses and then expands. Give it some time before bitcoin buys nuclear weapons!
In other words you are asking to suck managers dick irrespective of your skill set and work ethic.
That's kind of besides the point. Could this info be e.g. passed to US authorities if requested? Is it being used for nefarious purposes? We don't know.

At least in EU (and thus all apps made in EU) you can ask for personal info to be deleted. The list of apps downloaded is certainly sensitive info that reveals many preferences. Can you ask apple to delete this info?
If brexit tanks the value of the pound, then BTC can protect your wealth (along with equities, bonds, gold, etc.).
I saw in a recent documentary that significant amounts of this trash are now shipped to Africa and just about dumped everywhere.
It’s a matter of degree. Eating “a lot” of meat is worse than a little flying. But I personally think giving up meat is much less of a personal sacrifice than giving up international travel.
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A historical note. The earliest bit-serial processors (EDVAC, EDSAC) were motivated by their serial memory. They stored data as ultrasonic pulses sent through tubes of mercury. Since you get the bits out of memory serially, it is easiest to do arithmetic serially too.

The Datapoint 2200 desktop computer (whose architecture became the Intel 8008) used a serial processor for similar reasons. Except this time the processor was built from TTL chips instead of tubes and the memory was Intel shift-register memory chips. (Shift register memory could be built cheaper than RAM memory, but with the disadvantage that you had to wait for the bit you wanted to circulate through the shift register.)
Endlessh and tarbit do this
People have used crypto to sidestep laws for 13 years. The laws don’t matter.
In my experience at non-FAANG organizations managers are people who don't have the capability to code and they barely managed to survive so far.
That is indeed an interesting observation. I am not a network engineer so take all of the below with a handful of salt :)

Can't you drop all incoming traffic on "protected" IPs other than that coming through known-trusted networks like CDN's one? Your networking equipment still needs to be able to handle that load as well, which is not a given.

I guess DDoS attacker could fake the IP packet headers to appear as if they are coming from Cloudflare (in your case), though even then there'd be some obscurity in figuring what subnet you are allowing through.

I guess CDN providers could provide a secret-key-seeded time-based (like TOTP) source network, and your firewall would let packets in by that.

The benefit of this is that it is cheaper than doing full packet encryption, and probably much easier to implement in hardware/software.
I would expect that the for same government that destroyed indigenous families and culture to buy the rights to an indigenous symbol doesn't sit right with indigenous people.
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So I wanted to build a dapp with privacy features on a public blockchain
Check out the MacRumors Buyer's Guide [1]. It has the number of days between releases for most products.

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I don't doubt your claim but how does this compare to 2016?

E: I quacked for myself.

This seems to show trade volumes in terms of BTC and trades/min have indeed plummeted since late 2016.

https://data.bitcoinity.org/markets/volume/5y?c=e&t=b

https://data.bitcoinity.org/markets/tradespm/5y?c=e&t=a

You can draw your own conclusions as to what that means but the specific claim that trading volume has decreased does seem to be true.
The part of northern California I grew up in has been experiencing weather that I never experienced in over 30 years growing up there & going back to visit.
It has been far hotter and more humid, so I'd say this isn't just down to overgrown forests.
If you are naive enough to believe that the Chinese government sensors foreign internet companies so that they can protect their citizens from “terrorism”, I have a bridge to sell you.....

Let’s be real, the Chinese government only wants to allow internet companies that will allow them to monitor all communication and traffic between Chinese citizens so that they can stamp out any dissent. But dissent and disagreement is not terrorism. It’s both creepy and Orwellian.
I think the more modern version of this arrangement would be for Alexander to work at/start a think tank, which has the advantage of being tax-exempt for the patron.

Or for a less formal, more distributed solution, there is of course Patreon.
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Just read the whole article before commenting. Obviously, he knew.
It's like we have a new Colonial Era, where tech from various powers wants to loot the data of people around the world. This time it is different though, because unlike gold, you can duplicate data for free. So, in the end if everyone has everyone's data, is that valuable at all?
I wondered how long until "remote work" became the new "talent scarcity," an excuse to pay less.

Programmers like us are not commodities, though, or we'd be worth as much in one location as another, given we can work remotely. And we could be traded (like pro athletes). We are service agents more like cleaners or restaurant waitstaff.
If you create a piece of art, then sell it for an anonymous currency, can anyone prove you didn’t buy it from yourself?
This is more what I meant. It just seems like Redox is taking the lessons we've learned over years of development, and being willing to break compatibility in order to implement them.

That being said, I don't know much about OS/kernel development.
> I recall the message in the catchy jingle as "recycle, reduce, reuse"

If it's the one I remember, resolving the words of the next line was surprisingly ambiguous, with the two popular options being "...and close the loop" or "...and don't pollute"
Labor markets are still local until we have widespread remote working. That’s not the case yet. I’m sure companies remote compensation will become competitive in the all remote market as it evolves, whatever it turns out to look like.

I think the word “absurd” is an inappropriate description, which is just the company behaving rationally.

> just like everything else the price of their labor shouldn't be based on the cost to produce it

This is another misunderstanding. Nothings price is fundamentally based on the cost to produce it — that only happens for commodities in competitive markets. The cost of labor is based on supply & demand. And that’s different today in different places.
If they reduce price to $10/m they'll need 5x customers to reach same revenue, as there are some variable costs, to reach same profit they'll need even more customers. Most of these new customers wouldn't be power users so they'll have a diverse set of expectations / requirements from the software.

Not sure about the no. $50 but it may be a conscious and valid choice.
What motivates you to lie about something that is both trivial and easily falsifiable? A quick glance at coinmarketcap shows BTC daily volume in 2016 peaked around 360 million USD. Today the 24h volume is at 70 billion.
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There isn't anyone at the entire company with a manager title. It doesn't exist. Well, that's not quite true - we have a "discipline manager" who works with HR but he doesn't actually manage anyone. Team leads are equivalent to what I read managers are in other companies.
Transactions on the wallet and exchanges can be tied to identifiers like IP, browser fingerprint, email accounts, bank accounts etc with a little dragnet surveillance of the type the NSA already participates in. Your opsec is not as good as you think it is, and how good was it several years or even 10 years ago? By the time you know you're being targeted, it's too late to up your game. This is how they caught Dread Pirate Roberts, and this is how they'd catch you.

If the government was interested in your illegal transactions, they would find you, and they would take everything you own in recompense if they wished. Your 'anonymous' wallet will not save you if cryptocurrencies actually become important.

If you want to stop that, you need to consider what a revolution entails - civil disobedience and breaking unjust laws en masse and standing up to the state in the real world, not just in code.