skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Looking at everything as a global stat, also doesn't make any sense. If I spend a 100 USD on dinner, that is all earned/spent by me on my experience in my time-space bubble. Farmer in Africa on an orphan in Gaza wouldn't be directly impacted by that.
"95601890" is just an arbitrary number, the same as any other.

Additional metadata, such as "it's a driver's license number", "it relates to person X" gives it context and makes it information. 4037 is a bank pin code for millions of people, but as long as you don't combine it with a person it's just a 4 digit number. When you combine it it becomes information protected in many countries.
What are you talking about? Russia has more cosmonauts [1] than any other nation!

[1]: https://twitter.com/ValBodin/status/1381474024119803907?s=19
I think that a crucial point about XOR-based systems is that both Bob and Alice can produce the "other half" of their random-looking file which produces a legitimate non-random file (e.g. a video of their holiday), while claiming that the other party maliciously used the "first half" as the random-looking input against which they XORed their forbidden file.

Unless an omniscient observer knows the publication date of all the "halves" in the system, it is impossible to say which of Bob or Alice are telling the truth.

Of course, both parties are inherently slightly suspicious for using such a system in the first place, but if it existed as part of a free public hosting service, and lots of people used it for legitimate purposes, it might only be as incriminating as using BitTorrent.
C+AI makes products that can work offline though (yes it has the words Azure and cloud, no they aren't required):

https://blogs.microsoft.com/ai/with-azure-percept-microsoft-...
I have users who have intentionally switched their speech engine from the latest version of Dragon to Talon, for both dictation and commands. Talon is cross platform and directly targets accessibility use cases (far more than just speech input).
More than a couple. It's the most unstable and unreliable program I use on a regular basis.
That seems quite common, I looked at a few PDF products a couple of years ago and they all wanted to license server installations individually whereas for workstations they are happy to offer a redistribution license.
Sure, I didn't suggest that they were unimpeachable but the "alternative" sources so often touted by self-proclaimed Facebook experts are orders of magnitude worse.
Years ago, deep in the fine-print of the Skype ToU, was buried a clause in which anything you discussed via Skype granted to MS a worldwide, royalty-free, sublicensable, etc. license to anything mentioned. Is that still there? (Haven't used Skype in many a long year, myself.) I always wondered why that clause didn't render Skype unusable for any business or prospective business conversation.
> Compare this to the government of a state, which does not have the right to violate its own law.

States [of the USA] selectively comply with federal law all the time - an obvious example is Colorado legalising marijuana.

You seem to think it's reasonable that there is some oversight body for federal law, so why not an oversight body for international law? Why would you consider it 'good' that there's no consequence for Brazil, up to the point of all-out war?
That is also ridiculous as it starts subshell/subprocess.
In the United States CO2 emissions per capita have been on a downward trend since the 1970s.

https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/USA/united-states/carb...

To the extent that long term thinking is a luxury, the U.S. is doing well because it can afford that luxury. An effective solution might be to make everyone else at least as wealthy so that they can afford to do the same.
The law doesn't have exceptions for "a part of of happens to look like something legal"
It sounds amazing and reminds me of the Space Museum in Huntsville, AL. It has a Saturn V motor.
That 'Now is your problem, not mine anymore' was a common way to do things in that time. Is not an US-centric problem only. Belgium, France, UK, Germany, Italy, Holland, Switzerland and Sweden dumped their radioactive garbage in barrels in the Atlantic Ocean between 1940's and 1982 at just 200km of the Spanish Coast. Greenpeace saved the day that time but it seems that everybody forgot that and we live in groundhog day again.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean_disposal_of_radioactive_...
Considering at that point, we had all taken a closer look at the facts, any incorrect fact is less understandable.
Apples to Oranges.
Why don’t you save your energy for more productive endeavors.
Do you know how banking works?

Banks keep injecting new fiat money into the economy via loans and thus dilute everyone's salaries (buying power) by inflating asset prices artificially and thus make them increasingly out of reach for salary earners.

Loans are also used to facilitate thousands of different financial schemes to inflate stock prices, distort the markets and drive honest people into corporate servitude and ensure that they will never be able to afford a house or any passive-income asset.

At a global scale, it converts salary earners into slaves and asset owners to into masters. Intelligence and skill are entirely factored out of the equation, success is all a socially-oriented scheme of who is who and who knows who; not much different from Stalin's USSR.

The banking sector is the main reason why there is growing wealth inequality and why jobs are getting increasingly useless. It atrophies people's useful skills and replaces them with useless bureaucratic skills as they are forced into the highly inefficient, monopolistic corporate sector and are shielded from essential competitive pressure.

For many smart, ambitious, passionate, hard-working people, it has turned their lives into an absolute Kafkaesque hell.

Once you can see what the monetary system is doing, you cannot enjoy any work. You cannot enjoy well paid intellectual office work because you know that your job is useless and you're making your money on the back of financial exploitation. You also cannot enjoy real useful, meaningful work because you get paid less and you know you're being taken advantage of by those who do the useless work. You can either be a crooked winner or an honest loser.

The only meaningful job I could find was in blockchain space, but because financing is all driven by fiat monetary policy (driven by banks and governments who have no idea what the problems are), the industry is a complete centralized brainfuck.

The reality for many people is beyond what even Franz Kafka could have imagined.
I'd say you can now find a job that best aligns with what makes you happy. The money a job pays you is no longer the most important aspect but merely a secondary one. Want to work 20 hours a week, you probably can. Want to help the world, you probably can at a non-profit. Want to learn a new technical skill set, you probably can at a job where you take a lower level. And so on and so on. You can now trade off salary from a company for whatever you want.
I haven't used fax for at least 15 years. Might be 20, anyway so long ago that I can't remember when it was.
Siri is especially bad when compared to Google Assistant or Amazon Alexa, both of which are light years ahead.

Usual Apple reliance on their fans buying their devices no matter how bad the software is.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26778780
Back End Developers Are UX Designers Too
>This is a good thing.

It's a good thing as it stands today, it is not a good thing for the future of humanity IMO because just one bad actor can ruin it for everyone. I'm not sure how we get from here to ideal situation - my guess would be it cannot happen until we start populating the stars, because there will continue to be resource contention until that point.

And/or the internal drive most humans have to want/need more disappears (which seems unlikely).
Tumblr used to have this.
>anyone's who lifetime earnings are going to be $1M could see that as a life changing amount.

I would define life changing as being able to have kids if you couldn't before, moving to a radically different environment than before, or being able to stop working if you were working before.

So probably it needs to double what you were expected to make without it.
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> I'm only saying you should avoid using modern things needlessly.

I agree with that idea.

However, I don't think it applies in this case. The point of using modern bash syntax is that it fixed the brittleness and pitfalls of posix sh. This is significant. This is what I need in production. This is why our style guides insist on modern bash syntax for bash scripting.

I'd say the rest of your suggestions apply to shell scripts no matter what syntax is used.
You don’t think much about $200,000; it’s not life-changing.

I think the start of this shows just how out of touch this human is before they became a millionaire.
Why would it be illegal to publish that particular executable? Was it harmful?
In case this was interpreted as “what about-ism”, my point is rather that “he was a bad guy” is rarely a significant factor in foreign military intervention in the west. It is usually just a rationalization.
Not everything is about CO₂
Smart people don't play the lottery.
Why can't someone make TLS self-configuring??

I want to just run a server somewhere (my laptop, kubernetes, some virtual machine) and have any domain which points to that VM auto-create a TLS certificate.

I challenge anyone to propose a way to register and set up "mydomain.com" (https serving some static files) with opensource software without having to type "mydomain" at least 3 times!
@dang Why was this one flagged as the dupe when it was submitter earlier than the prioritized submission?
Try Richard Scarry, his books are illustrious with a high re-read value.
>You can replace someone's POTS line with VOIP and they'll likely never notice (and this is underway). They'll notice if you take your fax machine.

The question is if fax on VoIP is still fax in that sense. At least the wikipedia article on fax mentions transmission through audio-frequency tones [1]. However if you count fax over VoIP as fax, I guess you should also count phone on VoIP as "landline".

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fax
I know that "One World Government" is a conspiracy theory, but if such a government were democratic - it might actually be a good thing as it could tackle these global issues - not to mention, prevent war.
15 years ago, the office I worked in received daily menus via fax from local delis and restaurants with their specials, in case we wanted to get lunch. I have no idea if this is still a common practice but it seemed to be at the time.

This even had the slight benefit over sending email to a random address because a fax can just be posted on a common board in the office space, rather than someone having to take the step of printing the email first.
The Guardian claims to be, and is, a left-leaning media outlet that holds widely left-of-centre mainstream views.

I would put the opposite question, which non-mainstream media outlets would you consider to be nuanced and well-researched?
For anyone that is not aware, this article is from an organization that has had a really weird stance to the pandemic.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/oct/11/the-re...

The strangest thing they've done IMO is pretending to have a statement signed by medical scientists when, in reality, there was no checking of who signed it and their credentials (or even their existence)
> You seem to think it's reasonable that there is some oversight body for federal law, so why not an oversight body for international law?

Because such a body would require a world government, no such government exists, and its existence would be a bad thing.
I was under the impression that a personal narrative should have some sort of value to a reader to merit publication.
I've long wished for a short film that would depict a world without big banks.
That's one of the options they had for moon flight, and arguably the critical part that closed their chance to get there first.

But a lot of other options, doable earlier, would have been possible if there was less perfectionism applied to automated flight - that's the argument I've heard.

N.B. Currently used Soyuz spacecraft (not the carrier rocket) is derived from the moon program capsule.
I'm replying to myself to address some of the skeptical comments about my scenario because I didn't make it clear what I was trying to communicate.

I was trying to emphasize the people sharing the legitimate data and not the person who generated it from illegal data.

For example, the SHA256("Hamlet was a prince in Denmark.")=="4461565240549538f8888f5ac829800a79763479f28418dec7a13087a3e0d2a8".

Let's say the first 16 hex digits ("4461565240549538") is an "illegal number" ... e.g. somebody's credit-card or whatever.

Yes, the intent of starting with "4461565240549538" and using brute force to eventually find some a plausible sounding sentence that creates a hash with that 16-digit number can be prosecuted. Likewise, you can't just XOR a Blu-Ray mp4 file with digits of pi and claim "it's just a random number" to be immune from copyright laws.

I'm talking about the people downstream that do something like this by sharing on reddit, Twitter, etc:

- I ran across some Shakespeare trivia: "Hamlet was a prince in Denmark." I don't want anybody to hash it. I just thought that was interesting to know.

- Streisand Effect[1] the above tweet or forum post

- now everyone debates : How can the sentence "Hamlet was a prince in Denmark." -- be illegal?!? It's a factoid about a play that you can't remove from everyone's brain! We're now past the point of the criminal who brute forced the illegal data to publish it. I'm talking about the non-criminals sharing it. That's the information hack: Shift the illegal data into the realm of the legal data.

Maybe that hack hasn't been fully tested in courts but it seemed to work if we look at the DeCSS code repackaged as an interesting prime number. Neither Chris Caldwell and Phil Carmody have been put in jail.

It can also be especially effective if the would-be criminal who generated interesting hashes or prime numbers did it anonymously such as Satoshi Nakamoto's generation of the bitcoin genesis block. There's now no obvious person to prosecute.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect
Why should is be illegal for consenting adults to agree to use software to manage an agreement? No one is forcing you to use DRM.

Ethereum is also DRM.
Besides that bash has its problems with array variables. Unless I switch to one of the "real" scripting languages, I use zsh too and start my scripts with

if [[ -n "$BASH" ]] ; then
echo $0: use zsh, not bash
exit 1
fi

Earlier on I used the more compact

[[ -n "$BASH" ]] && { echo $0: use zsh, not bash; exit 1 }

But bash chokes on that with a syntax error
I agree, not that different from Google either.
I think in the near future, working at Facebook will probably have same stigma as working for Philipp Morris or similar...
Intel: Advances in silicon photonics can break the I/O “power wall”
Author's case eliminates the "self-hosted nginx on a VPS" part. While there is no big difference (just a personal preference) if Hugo, Jekyll or other tool is being used to generate HTML from Markdown.
> I personally find Jot [1] more elegant though, where every bit sequence is a valid program

In BLC every bit sequence is a valid program prefix, meaning it's either a complete program on its own, or we can stick another arbitrary bit on the end to get another valid program prefix.

This isn't quite as elegant as having every bit sequence be a valid program. However, I find the idea of self-delimiting programs even more elegant; which AFAIK doesn't apply to either Jot or BLC. Self-delimiting programs are like program prefixes, with an extra constraint that no program is a prefix of another. This way we can feed a parser one bit at a time (e.g. generated by tossing a coin), and if it ever forms a valid program then we can stop reading/generating bits, since there's no other program possible from that prefix. This is useful in algorithmic information theory (e.g. Kolmogorov complexity).
There’s also the TRS-80 Model 100, launched in 1983
We use stuff, yes, but now we overuse stuff. There is a difference between using and overusing. If it is difficult to calculate how to find the sweet spot of consumption without destruction at huge scale. At a smaller scale, it is easier, everyone of us knows that if you are living in a forest, you should use the wood in an intelligent manner. And not cut big chunks of the forest for having the luxury to overheat and over-shelter.
The economic system that solves it is the one that does not use Usury or in other modern words Interest. Lending with interest should be prohibited.
Old joke:

Q: Are there any other kinds of days there?
A: Don't know. I haven't been there long enough
Q: How long is that
A: All my life.
It's actually kinda scary to see Microsoft stretching its tentacles like this. Only this year they bought Bethesda, Nuance and there are rumours about them buying Discord and other gaming studios.

Microsoft's influence is growing deeply...
I used to believe this but I’m not so sure it’s true. Gambling is addictive and I think that things which are addictive can overcome reason.

I know a lot of smart developers who buy loot boxes in games, for example.
Also COBOL is still around and most people don't need to learn it anymore.
It isn't illegal to boycott Israel, it is illegal for some states to contract labor from people that boycott Israel. Still not good, but an important distinction.

On Git, are you saying we should obviously do away with the term master? Or that we are arguing about unimportant nonsense when we should be talking about what measures would decrease racially motivated violence and the opportunity gap? I agree with the latter.
Playing the Open Source Game
But those numbers without context are just that - numbers. It's the context that makes it information. GPS coordinates by itself are the same, they're just numbers, but by attaching meaning to them you may make them dangerous or illegal to publish. And sometimes enough meaning is "don't let anyone know it" - the rest can be gathered from the context and other data.
> Since the certificate carries the bank's legitimate public key, when you use it to generate your shared secret only the bank will be able to decrypt it.

I appreciate it isn't central to the article's purpose, but this is wrong, and as background noise it contributes to a misunderstanding that causes other problems every time it occurs.

I will describe what's done in TLS 1.3 because that's clearer, but you should know this isn't how your TLS 1.2 server actually works in real use today either.

TLS encryption doesn't care about these certificates. (Elliptic curve) Diffie-Hellman is used to agree random keys, and the random keys encrypt everything. In TLS 1.3 nobody even says anything about certificates before that step happens - the certificates are sent encrypted.

So why have certificates at all? Because without them you're having a secure conversation... but you don't know who you are having a conversation with. So now we're definitely communicating securely with someone let's check it's who we expected. In TLS 1.3 the server (and optionally client) can send a certificate, claiming some identity, and then they sign the transcript (a record of everything said so far) with the corresponding private key, in effect saying "This is proof you are having this conversation with me".
One of the more grave flaws of utilitarianism is that I've yet to hear anyone define utility in a quantifiable way. People often substitute 'happiness', but how does one measure happiness in a way that it can be calculated? Is it an absolute scale or is it relative to your own baseline?

Happiness is also heavily subjective. People in the first world often feel like they're missing out if they don't feel like they have the latest and greatest iPhone, while someone in an extremely poor area would be happy to have running water.

Is the utility of a new phone really the same as giving someone running water, or do we take into account that the need for a new phone is a somewhat self-inflicted societal standard?

I like the concept of utilitarianism, but find that it's basis in statistics means that you can typically justify any position by tinkering with the parameters of how you measure utility.
Because that's not what she was designed for.

Siri is way more than a pure voice "assistant".
There are millions of variants
Have you tried speaking to it in German?

(joking aside, is that voice control developed in the US or in Germany?)
I had to use a fax machine a few years ago because the university I was attending (UC Merced) would only accept some documentation in person, or by fax (waiving the annoying-to-opt-out student medical insurance). Why you couldn't submit it through the student web portal is beyond me.

It was a bit of a hilarious experience plugging a VoIP box into a ~2010 Brother MFC printer/scanner.

It might be the only time I've ever sent a fax in my entire life (and I'm 28).
Don’t neglect the Model 100...

“The TRS-80 Model 100 is a portable computer introduced in 1983. It is one of the first notebook-style computers, featuring a keyboard and liquid crystal display, in a battery-powered package roughly the size and shape of a notepad or large book.”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRS-80_Model_100
i think that phase is referring to the deindustrialization/loss of industrial base in the countries of the former Ussr.
Whether you are a 1%er or an 80%er, there is some amount of money that wouldn't mean much to you but would mean a lot to somebody else. If it rubs you that wealthier people aren't more gracious with their wealth, please try to make a point of being gracious with your wealth. Figure out how to use $100 to change somebody else's life in a positive way. I think you'll find it is life changing for you after all. If $100 seems steep, try it with $20. Your life will get better quickly.
There was no barrier between USSR and Britain nations, the barrier was between USSR government and democratic world.
You'll never find them on HN and Reddit but there are tons of people in their 40s-60s who despite working 40hr/wk for the last 20yr have all manner of projects and hobbies they would simply spend their time on if they suddenly didn't have to work, no change of mind required.
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> Having experienced a trauma doesn't imply even remembering it

I've even seen the same thing happen in people who beat their depression.

A few friends of mine were depressed in the past 5 years and are doing well now. However, they are having a very hard time understanding and helping a currently depressed friend. They know this friend is depressed, they see the signs, they have talked about it, but because they themselves are not suffering from depression right now they are genuinely having a hard time understanding it. They find it incredibly difficult to not blame their friend for not calling back, "being lazy", etc.
Iran vows revenge for 'Israeli' attack on Natanz nuclear site
Tesla's main innovation and unique selling point was "attractive, high-end EVs", and later, "attractive, mass-market EVs". It was never "marginally more efficient mass production of cars".

Before SpaceX, there was little to no competition in reusable, cost-efficient rockets. Before Tesla, there was little to no competition in attractive, high-end EVs. That's why they're successful. There was, however, a lot of competition in car mass manufacturing. It was arrogant and misguided of Tesla and Musk to ignore industry knowledge in highly competitive areas.