skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> In the case of prison labor, you essentially have slaves

s/essentially/literally/

The US laws still allow for slaves by name as long as they're in prison

> Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.
Yes, and Arathorn works on element, does he not?
They give you the paper at the vaccination center or when getting your test result.
POW is not a flaw its a feature.

Just like how GPUs are intensive in terms of consuming electricity.
Researchers shed light on the evolution of extremist groups
The Japanese court documents are absolutely beautifully designed
> current circumstances

As Milton said, "Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program."

Officials have already hinted that masks, lockdowns, etc. will be implemented (at least seasonally) forever.
The lockdown effect: A counterfactual for Sweden
I'm sure you'd enjoy What is Mathematics? by Robbin and Courant. Take a look at it, hope it's kind of what you're looking for.
Yes. There is no reason for people to keep being tested all the time for Covid if/when that is no longer a risk.
Once/if the risk has passed this will all stop because there is neither a justification nor value for governments to continue.

It's a little paranoid to claim that governments are continuously trying to create totalitarian states. Or that, in any case, they can do what they want, they can't. We already see that with all the debates on these passes and safety measures put in place. They are a hard sell to the public and everyone's watching. There is already huge pressure not to have them for a day longer than absolutely necessary and politically governments will have to stop as soon as possible.
The author's wiki page says she "was an American journalist and radio broadcaster. She was the first American journalist to be expelled from Nazi Germany in 1934 and was one of the few women news commentators on radio during the 1930s. Thompson is regarded by some as the "First Lady of American Journalism" and was recognized by Time magazine in 1939 as equal in influence to Eleanor Roosevelt."

"While working in Munich, Thompson met and interviewed Adolf Hitler for the first time in 1931. This would be the basis for her subsequent book, I Saw Hitler, in which she wrote about the dangers of him winning power in Germany. Thompson described Hitler in the following terms: "He is formless, almost faceless, a man whose countenance is a caricature, a man whose framework seems cartilaginous, without bones. He is inconsequent and voluble, ill poised and insecure. He is the very prototype of the little man." ...The Nazis considered both the book and her articles offensive and, in August 1934, Thompson was expelled from Germany."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy_Thompson
> More than anything else I've ever done, coding is an exploration

The fundamentals of exploration is the ability to traverse different types of obstacles. In programming those obstacles are traversed by being creative with algorithms. Therefore companies test you if you can be creative with algorithms.

Of course if you have never done that then you don't see it as exploration but instead tedious nonsense. So at least in my eyes anyone who sees these things as just tedious nonsense are self filtered out, why would you want to hire people who have never tried to be explorative in this field? Them not applying in the first place is great!
Why not, as in, why was the SSH standard, finished in 2006, not prepared for the way we'd prefer to authenticate in 2021? Because of time's arrow, locally stuff happens in order.

I was actually impressed that the OpenSSH team figured out a way to make this work at all without adding an entirely new mechanism to SSH which would then have taken ages to propagate out into the world and doubtless been the source of weird problems with poorly made proprietary SSH servers for many years after that. If you go back far enough in HN there's a comment where I supposed that couldn't be done.
https://replit.com - apparently Perl is available in the bash environment
In this particular case I don't think the market is all that complex. People were valuing bitcoin on the assumption that other people would keep buying it at higher prices before they sell.

People didn't cut nearly half a trillion dollars from the value of bitcoin on the word of a person known for blurting out impulsive and weird things. He didn't reveal any deep new insights into this thing. What Musk said just spooked the herd, that's all.
It is irresponsible to use bitcoin as a form of payment.
I guess you never traveled internationally or to countries which have mandatory vaccinations. Polio, Yellow Fever etc.
You present the document given either when you got your vaccine shot, or when you did your pcr test ( both actually includes a signed datamatrix that you can scan with the app )
UK government to pay older farmers to retire
It lost 33% of its price in the last week. If you think the price is gonna go back up good for you, buy now and I hope it goes well for you. But pretending that isn't a plummet for any sort of investment or stock is just denying reality.
how did you make your own? gpt3?
Hi! I'm a JEE aspirant - is there any way I could contact you to have a bit of a chat? Of course, only if you're kind enough to accept - I'll understand if you don't, however :)
I had been looking for a light wallet (even though I didn't know the term or that they existed back then) since before the bankruptcy. If they'd been more widespread, we'd have lost a lot fewer coins!

I guess that, like me, a lot of us didn't want to store their BTC with MtGOX, it was just that back then the alternative was to use a significant portion of your hard disk to store the blockchain if you wanted to use your BTC.
I don't get it why we can't store something in centralised database, provided it's encrypted via key that only user has (NFC or on QR code itself). Present one key for events, another one for airlines.
But in 15 years you could use that money to buy 0.5 pizzas!
Random Terminal Theme
Not when you read the whole sentence. They're comparing working for the purpose of rehabilitation (in which case eating the food you grow is possible), to working in order to generate the prison a profit.
Yes, like VR this will be used extensively by the porn industry.
I've caught the exceptional by being a commited teacher. You notice that they are ahead of the pack, by different signs: some make great questions in class, others barely say a word but utterly ace the exams, others are incredibile driven and tell you about their interests, others aren't, but when challenged they respond with interesting solutions.

Of course, that may not be a scalable way to find them. But if you had all the teachers in line with that "pay attention to the exceptional" objective, you'd probably find more than the current[0] "grind students forward into formal education" approach.

[0] I say this being fully aware that may not be the particular case in a region/group, but it certainly seems like the broadly taken "strategy" by most of the education system where I live
“I remember working on Excel 5. Our original feature list was huge and would have gone way over schedule. Oh my! we thought. Those are all super important features! How can we live without a macro editing wizard?

As it turns out, we had no choice, and we cut what we thought was “to the bone” to make the schedule. Everybody felt unhappy about the cuts. To assuage our feelings, we simply told ourselves that we weren’t cutting the features, we were simply deferring them to Excel 6, since they were less important.

As Excel 5 was nearing completion, I started working on the Excel 6 spec with a colleague, Eric Michelman. We sat down to go through the list of “Excel 6” features that had been cut from the Excel 5 schedule. We were absolutely shocked to see that the list of cut features was the shoddiest list of features you could imagine. Not one of those features was worth doing. I don’t think a single one of them was ever done, even in the next three releases. The process of culling features to fit a schedule was the best thing we could have done.”

— Joel Spolsky, Painless Software Schedules, https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/03/29/painless-software-...
You have forgot sanitising the screenshot before sharing with us.
Would love to see such a website. Yubikey has for most platforms step for step instructions. But I really miss real documentaion, what does happen in the background. What standards do exist, why, etc.
From Apple's support page [1] (Secure Enclave section near the bottom):

> The chip in your device includes an advanced security architecture called the Secure Enclave, which was developed to protect your passcode and fingerprint data. Touch ID doesn't store any images of your fingerprint, and instead relies only on a mathematical representation. It isn't possible for someone to reverse engineer your actual fingerprint image from this stored data.

It's pretty easy to make use of Touch ID for `sudo` authentication, for instance [2].

[1]: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204587

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26302139
It'll probably stop shortly after France achieves a high enough level of vaccination to (more or less) stop community spread.

Based on the UK, Israel and the US, 60% looks like it gets you pretty close to that.
What do you mean? Why can't we receive signals from more than "100 hundred light year" away?
I have very little knowledge of this, but as a product would it not be much cheaper to have something like a wii bar fixed to the top and bottom of a screen, with a small camera at the extremities of each bar (one for each of the four corners)?

You could then use the camera perspectives to create a 3d image of the person you're conversing with and map the colour data correctly to that 3d image (Photogrammetry)

You could also likely use the information from the four cameras to map the orientation of the 3d image of the person you're speaking with to give you that sense of depth as you shift your position. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jd3-eiid-Uw

If you had a speaker and mic in each corner you could also capture / emit subtle differences in audio to further enhance it.
Why? Honest question
I love it, other coins (and their speculation) can f off, I'll keep my Monero because I can actually pay for stuff with it, it's fast and has low fees.

I like my cryptocurrencies usable, I couldn't care less about what price they're currently at.
If I do FizzBuzz people can invent an API function rest_of_division() if needed, or can_be_divided_by(). FizzBuzz (or something more complex) for me is a coding check, not an API/syntax knowledge test.
Artemis v2.1 Bellerophon
The A64FX has much smaller cores though using the similar design to the N1. Apple's HP Core are nearly double the die size ( Hence why it is faster, it is a trade off between transistor budget )
Fundamentals are important for software engineering, just like they are important for any type of engineering! I certainly would be more comfortable driving across a bridge designed by engineers who understand material properties and so on. Understanding the fundamentals allows them to select an appropriate design based on the requirements and budget.

That said, there is a lot of programming work where you don't need an advanced degree to be effective. But I still think fundamentals are an important part of application design - being able to select the appropriate system design for a problem.
Being creative with algorithms is different from carrying algorithms in your head..
https://pinboard.in/ is one, but it's paid.
People sick with corona going to events will clearly cause statistical deaths, it's not ambiguous.
The Sum Of All Fears was partly about this. In that case it was atomic weapons being in reach of wealthy individuals, but the same principle applies. The barrier to entry is just getting lower every year.

That experiment/art project with E. Coli on a penicillin gradient a few years back was terrifying.
MIT Press ‘Introduction to Algorithms’ by Cormen et al. is an excellent book to learn although it is perhaps not an easy and accessible introduction; it’s academical and extensive. It would require time and effort. Maybe other options are better, like a Coursera course, if you want to get a superficial taste of the topic instead of a more in-depth exploration.
You could have said that at the end of 2020, when BTC was ATH at 20K.

'I hope you didn't buy BTC at >$20K'.

If you are so sure about this, you should have shown your short or put positions on BTC. Then people might consider what you wrote.

People that are pro-BTC usually have some money invested in cryptocurrencies.
> It's utterly wild how there are people in the comments saying "maybe slave labor is actually good for the slaves."

There are many countries that treat their prisoners as prisoners, not as slaves. Maybe prison work can be good in those countries? Just not in yours.

There are many articles on how Norway is one of the best countries in rehabilitating prisoners, and in Norwegian prisons prisoners do work. I'd guess that prisoners work in all the countries that are among the world top in rehabilitation.
AWS App Runner: From Code to a Scalable, Secure Web Application in Minutes
The Right Way Fallacy
That would be pretty dope!
And neither of those two proposals have figured out how to solve the mess of the conflict resolution.
James Kunstler: How bad architecture wrecked cities (2007) [video]
It would be interesting to figure out how much $USD has been paid for all the coins currently held, rather than looking at just market cap.

Shame it can't be calculated.
Maybe slave labor is good 'cause convicts don't know about jobs is a pretty impressively fucked "hypothesis"
I sympathize with a lot of this, and we'd probably agree at the practical level.

As a matter of principle though... the principle is violated inevitably. A prison guard "profits" (or rather, makes a living by) imprisonment. Any company supplying a prison profits. Community service is forced labour, etc.

That said, I totally agree on incentives. It's dangerous, especially private prisons.

The pay rate does bother me... I can see why real pay isn't done, but just paying pennies per hour does not sit well. Maybe a 3rd party should get the money, and this could take on a restorative rather than punitive aspect. There might even be a case for demonetize prison labour, supply the food directly to food banks instead of for market.

The phrase, "debt to society" is used often. Debts are not redeemed by suffering, generally.
Eat the food you cook?
Because

- People would have to know which QR to show
- Organizers could get more access to data by telling users "not that QR, the other one" ?
Because lobbying is illegal, right?
Yes I do want the events that I attend to not be attended by self-centered people who think "their rights" (to an enclosed space during a pandemic) trump the collective safety of the place.

So no, what I do find disturbing is that some people prefer to spread deadly diseases because they can't be bothered with the collective
Design isn't just aesthetics... Design is interaction, is taking care of how responsive this or that action can be, it's much more about HCI than on how things look like.

You are focusing too much on the visual aspects of design, you can't say that Google is consistently far better than Apple in overall design, you might prefer Google's aesthetics but design as a whole I can't really agree with you.
A managed database thats automatically scales horizontally and is priced on-demand.

I want it for my next project, because I don't want to pay for what I don't use, but also don't want to provision or maintain additional instances manually.
It seems fairly obvious to me that the vast majority of civilisations will wire head themselves and disappear into virtual worlds of their own making. It takes a very rare soul to forsake eternal bliss and an eternal world of your own creation.

Most civilisations will have just enough of a life support to keep the machines running. They might be spurred into action each time a sun burns out, but other than that why bother with the outside world?
You paint a compelling picture here. But if we extend this picture to a galactic timescale and space, then even a minuscule chance of surviving distributed technology would mean a galaxy full of intelligent life. So if we can imagine even a small chance of humanity surviving itself, then we’re no longer dealing with a Great Filter, but a Small (and in the aggregate, Ineffective) Filter.

We don’t really have to imagine ourselves, since enough science fiction novels have already been written where humanity nearly extinguishes itself (sometimes multiple times) but then finally gets its act together. There would have to be something more fundamental than technological power being too cheap and widespread for a late Great Filter to get to 100% effectiveness. The only thing I can think of is that every super-intelligence checks out of our universe for some reason — that the ultimate end of technology is always effectively (if not literally) suicide. But this goes against the very nature of technology — to reshape existence to fuel the battle against entropy. Perhaps every Singularity sees that this battle can’t be won, and decides to call it quits? Maybe. But it seems more likely it would fight until heat-death itself.

In fact, there’s a great short story about that too.

If there’s hope in our imagination, I think it’s likely there’s hope in our reality too.
Well, of course masks and lockdowns will be mandated if needed in the future.

If there's an outbreak of a serious contagious disease then measures deemed necessary when that happens will be implemented. It's nothing sinister, just common sense and that has been the case for centuries.
i think technically you are correct but in case of a U2F key i am not authenticating the machine directly but check if the person in front of the screen is in possession of the token. that is different then assuring the device they are on is legit.
Isn't PoS really good news for Ethereum, especially in light of Elons energy concerns? Ethereum has tanked 25% as well.
I am not being pedantic. I am simply bringing up two points:

- There are those who are OK with high carbon emissions for various things that are a proven net-negative to the society or the planet - examples being, as I mentioned, social media, user tracking and advertising server farms, plus anything directly related to that. If these things are not a net-negative, then at the very least they could operate at the fraction of their current emissions, were they built with externalities in mind. To be OK with that but not with Bitcoin where it objectively provides some value by directly helping human lives (it is a store of value and a way to transfer money for people whose home currency is unstable or restricted by hostile governments, for instance), is hypocritical.

- Literally all legislation surrounding cryptocurrency (well, anything else too, really) by necessity has to be based on someone's opinions. Whose, is my question. Because that will shape what's allowed and what's not allowed to a great extent. Badly chosen opinion-givers lead to clusterf*cks like Disney, Sony and a few other giants effectively being in charge of worldwide copyright durations, which causes untold damage to the cultural commons.
Like the original author states, than can't be done without a trusted 3rd party ( say a token with a service telling you whether the pass is valid at current date)
The Drake Equation’s always been an exercise in multiplying a bunch of wild-ass guesses together and ignoring the error bars. At least this article pushes it out to ignoring the error bars on the error bars.
> Smart people get a golden opportunity to buy cheap while dumb people panic sell.

Except it's so volatile that you don't know when it's cheap. It's not cheap now; it's some 40-50% above cheap, so let's see how many 'smart' people there really are. I'll wait a bit for actual cheap ETH.
This right here. We often talk about "Communication skills". This isn't separable from "being able to describe a problem or solution using standard terminology".

It's no less important to know what common things are called, than it is to know how common things work.

There is no brighter red flag to a than people who just "gets things done" or "solve problems in unorthodox ways", so a candidate who describes themselves as a problem solver that might not know all the "words" for it is to me a big red flag. This isn't gatekeeping or saying everyone needs a CS degree to be a decent developer. Terminology is a trivial addition to the skillset and ignoring it just means one doesn't care about communication.
I guess I should be less surprised that the US has the highest incarceration rate in the world with incentives like that.
One has to wonder, where those countries get all that trash from. Would it perhaps be from first world countries like the US that don't deal with theirs responsibly and just export it there? Why yes, yes it would[1].

[1] https://boingboing.net/2021/05/18/the-us-exports-its-plastic...
How is SE today less complex than 10 years ago? It seems to me that even as tools today are more powerful and basic compute and storage are cheaper, non-functional requirements have only ballooned.

e.g. Lotus 1-2-3 was probably far easier to develop than Google Sheets presently.
I'd also not expect it from anyone. But that's typically how new tech gets introduced. Some lead developer tries out something new in their free time and introduces it into a new product. Others don't spend free time on it, so the company pays for teaching everyone on the team. The tech needs to have a real advantage to justify that overhead.
"LSD, your example there, is generally considered non (or relatively non) habit-forming"

It's literally impossible to acquire an LSD habit. After 3 or 4 days of continuous LSD use, no amount of LSD will have much effect on you. You need to lay off it for a few weeks to re-sensitise.
One of the defining traits of Iron Maiden is their use of double and triple guitar harmonies. You could say they popularized the concept and many newer bands were inspired by it. My favorite Maiden song section is the solo/post-solo part in Brave New World (live at Rock in Rio 2001). I think the success of Iron Maiden comes from the combination of theory, performance, lyrical content, image, live ambiance and a very charismatic frontman.

A better example of a band with music theory as the cornerstone of their music is Tool. I keep discovering new things in songs like Schism even after listening to them hundreds of times.
> How hard would it be to boot a signed kernel with a system ready to give you all the access you want or need?

Depends on the config. From trivial (old BIOS, no protection) to ~impossible (locked uefi doing secure boot).

> once i could copy your encrypted key i could likely use it right away with TPM

You cannot copy the key once it's moved into the TPM chip.

> Don't you look out for someone snooping on your typing when you enter passphrases?

No. I'm not secure from targeted snooping anyway, but I'm not typing any non-local passwords usable by people reviewing old camera footage - in most cases access is being 2fa.
That'd be placing people under duress to undergo a medical procedure, which is a violation of the Nuremberg Code.

Leftists are going for internal passport systems and repeating the mistakes of the Nazis. How much more would a reasonable person need to see before becoming concerned about the direction of the world lately?
> The pay rate does bother me... I can see why real pay isn't done

Is there a reason other than "because they can get away with it"?
They could have added a new optional mechanism. I'm asking about github's servers specifically, not the long tail rest of the world.

Also, wait, if github isn't doing custom things on their end, how are they enforcing this rule that you need to tap once per connection?