skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ultimately, it's inflation. Despite bogus numbers that make it look low (driven by cheap foreign-made consumer goods) the cost of the things people can't avoid paying for (housing, health care) keeps shooting up. People can't continue to work for low wages and keep paying the bills.

Megacorps like Amazon can whine as much as they want that they're "running out" of employees, but the solution is obvious: just raise wages. Once big employers like Amazon start feeling this squeeze enough, they'll start passing the costs on to consumers, and eventually even those Chinese imports will start becoming more expensive. Once that happens, it becomes impossible to pretend that inflation is not real.
The hospital costs for uninsured low level drug dealers who have a lead allergy must be astronomical.
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Seems the API is named almost exactly what you would expect, Windows.Devices.WifiDirect:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/uwp/api/Windows.Devices.WiF...
I used to work on a government project where we were tasked with building lie detectors based off the concepts of blink (micro expressions) (and really Paul Ekman [1], where the concepts in blink came from)

After a few years at it, I came away thinking the whole thing was bullshit. Unfortunately, countless tax dollars were wasted.

[1] https://www.paulekman.com/blog/signs-of-lying/
Low wage jobs typically have high turnover rates. It is why unions are established, so that people can see these jobs as lifelong careers and places where you need to be committed with a membership.

Plus unions increase quality of the trade.
You said a lot of words and strawman arguments without actually addressing any of the events in the article.

Mohammed Mossadegh of Iran, Jacobo Árbenz of Guatemala, several leaders of Laos, Juan Bosch of the Dominican Republic, Joao Goulart of Brazil, and Juan Torres of Bolivia were all democratically elected leaders who got overthrown by CIA-backed coups. And that's not even the complete list.

EDIT: and several of those coups happened immediately after the victim countries attempted to nationalize their natural resources, such as oil and minerals, such that US and British companies could not extract them anymore. After the coups, the right-wing dictators which were installed often allowed those companies back in to continue their extraction. These are just historic facts, and the US government has declassified and acknowledged much of it.

Read OP's article. It's well-cited. I shouldn't have to summarize it for you in the comments.
ITT: many propositions and counter-propositions constrained by presumptions that next-level civilization and its modes of being and interacting with the universe are "necessarily" much like our own.

One example: "upload" and "simulation" do not have any predetermined relationship to the material behavior of a species engaged in it. The mapping between agency in any presented reality and the species-consensual one is arbitrary and the distinction between simulation and reality might just as well be framed as a question of sensorium cum UX.

Very very little can be extrapolated upward from our own limitations and constitution either as individuals or societies or species.

An even deeper example: fundamentals like the relationship to time may be radically different. It may not just scale, it may be fractal; and the notion of what constitutes agency and the locus of selfhood and identity, and hence self-interest, may be distributed emergent and predicated on an interplay between ant-and-colony at multiple levels, each of which is fully "conscious" and intentional in the sense we understand those things, at different time scales.

What does a third grader know of amortization?

We are not even out of the womb as a species.
> Every space program has issues with astronauts not following orders simply because the astronauts internalize the idea of "what are they going to do? Come get me?"

From the script to Casino:

> Every couple of weeks I used to send Marino back to the bosses with a piece of what I made.

> Not a big piece, but fuck them, what did they know? They were fifteen hundred miles away... and I don't know anybody who can see that far.

On the other hand...

> Between Earth and Mars that's 8-15 minutes one way. It is highly impractical to control a territory when communication takes so long, they will effectively become independent.

This is totally wrong. Between Earth and Earth, empires have exerted effective territorial control while communication one way took weeks. A 15 minute delay in communication is meaningless. The problem is the difficulty of traveling, not of communicating.
I think only exchanges can redeem USDT from the Tether treasury or company or weather is called.
It's not that easy. A startup tried to build a smart gun with aim assist, but couldn't keep it calibrated for more than a couple shots and eventually went under.
Also, note, GEA-2 doesn't seem to have the same kind of key weakening. I have no idea about the relative prevalence and configurability of those algorithms in the wild, though.
Depends where you live and how good your local water treatment plant is.
> I will eat my hat if this happens in that timeframe.

Login.gov (a product of USDS and 18F @ GSA) is positioned to meet these identity provider needs.

https://www.login.gov/help/get-started/authentication-option... (2FA support for all users + PIV/CAC support for Fed Gov workers)

https://developers.login.gov/ (developer resources)

Skepticism is warranted as 6 USC 1523: Federal cybersecurity requirements [1] has required a lot of what the EO is calling for for almost half a decade, but the tooling exists and 82 agency applications/systems (as of October 2020) are already leveraging this identity provider. Appropriations ($$$) for this identity integration work seems the challenge, as implementation is straightforward.

Sidenote: You can now login to your Social Security Administration account with Login.gov [2] (under "Other Sign In Options"). If you've applied for TSA Precheck or Global Entry, you've been using Login.gov for some time.

[1] https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim...

[2] https://secure.ssa.gov/RIL/SiView.action

(disclosure: no affiliation with any federal government agency or office, not a fed gov employee or contractor currently)
> It is interesting that they’re hiring based on job boards.

I remember reading how even cartels hire people through normal job listings. IIRC, there was some sordid article regarding this, where the cartels will list out jobs for "security" jobs, think regular security guard work, event security detailing, etc.

They'd then drive out the candidates to some remote and closed-off training site, push them hard, and just kill anyone that didn't make the cut.
Cold Coke on a hot day is positive. Coke 3x a day every day is negative.
That percentage is worth 4 billions of dollars, due to Coca Cola size so... it's accurate. Percentages might be misleading sometimes.
But in doing so, you bring that latent knowledge back into the minds of living people who can rethink the solutions in the face of the modern ecosystem and clean out the cruft that truly has no modern purpose.
"rhetoric to deceive"

He asks questions with many possible answers. He leads to one specific answer. He picks his favorite and dresses it up.

the difference would be, he knew for a fact that Bob murdered Alice. Saw it with his own eyes. He doesn't write books about how Bob couldn't possibly have killed Alice, it must have been Charlie.

He picks a favorite, says that's a good answer - rhetoric. I don't think he's leading people to an answer he believes to be wrong. He's not lying.
You must be the life of the party.
I might be missing something but it seems like all of your details are either things you would need to configure anyways in Svix (not all services should have the same retry/expiry) or things that are not solved by this service. This service takes HTTP as input and output, so you wouldn't need a worker per topic anyway, right? The workload is http-in, http-out, with a failure condition for retry.

If I already have a queue of http messages (which I need to have to protect from Svix downtime) configured with their policies for retry/expiry (which I need to configure since it's not the same for all) then what does this service do that is not basically a curl loop with an error check?
Of course you can "just" modify Function.prototype.toString as well. And so on.
Gee you talk about 1999 like it was more than 20 years ago. Oh wait … (damn I’m old)
They get some by way of their portion of most Americans' cable bills from BBC America.
What did you call that single NIC flipping bits event in Amazon?

Is the term 'cosmic-ray-induced error' outdated in FAANG?

>Studies by IBM in the 1990s suggest that computers typically experience about one cosmic-ray-induced error per 256 megabytes of RAM per month.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmic_ray#Effect_on_electroni...
Another similar issue is with data from situations that would be clearly unethical to intentionally create. Behaviour of plane crash survivors standard on mountainsides, castaways, feral children, etc
The wreck is actually from a 1986 crash that saw no fatalities.

https://www.facebook.com/199535516767620/posts/4006006656120...
> This statement that docs consider their patients dimwits is wrong. It may be true for some docs

I disagree. I feel this is true for over 50% of docs in my anecdotal experience. Of course in surveys 0% of docs will admit to this so we can't really prove it either way.

>You may be a researcher in the area but you are also a very pretentious one.

Yeah I dropped that bomb because people were calling me ignorant. I usually don't rely on my credentials or authority but the amount of "violence" and blood in the replies made it seem like it was necessary for people to even consider my points.

>Just like it's true that some researchers have a very myopic view of their own field.

Why don't you read all my responses in this thread. You will find I am promoting open consideration of SEVERAL hypothesis including my opponents, Meanwhile other people are promoting complete dismissal of the hypothesis that I introduced.

I would say by definition my view point is less myopic.
From [1], it seems like the European stocks are a compatibility issue (can't mount US munitions) and a funding issue (don't purchase and store enough for a sustained campaign).

> Building drones may well be more scalable and economically viable than smart bombs

That's the heart of the matter. Is it, or isn't it? And for what? The commentary usually glosses over this.

E.g. what's the difference between a JSOW-ER deploying CBU-103s / BLU-108s or a "drone"?

I think the more important future distinctions are going to be between attritable/simple vs expensive/capable platforms, temporary vs persistent platforms, and organic autonomy vs network-reliant. Where some combination of the qualities is optimal for any particular mission.

As an example: Is a mid-air refuelable X-61 without organic sensors but carrying smart munitions a cruise missile or a drone?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynetics_X-61_Gremlins
You didn't answer the question, and I don't think it's that thorny. I'll get back to your question after you provide a direct response to mine.

Edit, in case you got upset: Philosophy is important and well and good, but it is a game too often played by online trolls to ask questions, and never answer those posed to them. So when I ask a direct question and you throw back a counter, and then change the subject to the philosophy, I have to wonder if you really had any interest in debate in the first place.
I met the guy once - solid dude. He was with his family on a ferry ride here in Vancouver.

I loved his Strapping Young Lad days. He was off his meds when he wrote Alien. It's an absolute masterpiece.
To be fair, I haven't met anyone who drinks as much juice as soda drinkers drink soda
Many of the people that sell drugs aren't concerned with what they make. The money is under the table so it does not interfere with other welfare assistance they get. Additionally, many of these people are not able to work for someone else because they aren't used to structure. Think of the people you bought pot from when you were a kid, they were most likely a woman working some easy to replace job with a man who did absolutely or damn near nothing.
I tried fish for a short while too and quickly realized everything depends on bash/dash. I then switched to zsh which is mostly compatible. I installed Oh My Zsh and a fish-inspired theme with line autocompletion and coloring and never looked back. But I still use zsh for the interactive prompt only, still writiiing #!/bin/sh scripts for maximum compatibility between platforms.
I don't think I understand the question.

You think iteration, conditionals, addition are not needed in shell scripts? It would be a very unusual position indeed.

Or could it be that you are not familiar with the expression "business case"? (Sorry if this is off base! but the word "mercenary"in your post also kind of points this way).

"Business case" has very little to do with business as commercial enterprise...
The challenge with this EO and all aspirational security pronouncements is their focus on outcomes while avoiding implementation details, trade offs and resources.

It’s as if nobody asked WHY zero trust and MFA are not already pervasive in the Federal Government. Legacy systems are going to be incredibly difficult and expensive to rearchitect for ZTA. Despite HSPD-12 (CAC and PIV authentication and access) being over a decade old, some parts of government refuse to use a smart card plus password for MFA. I wonder why? It is not simply because “government doesn’t understand computers.” The core issue is leadership. There is no benefit for executives to point out the constraints, like usability, cost or talent, that ensure that good ideas in principle will be adopted incorrectly and incompletely.

That said, there is some stuff worth cheering. The CSRB is much overdue and the elevation in status of cybersecurity as a critical function is directionally correct.

Much of whether these aspirations will be possible hinges on legislative budget decisions and ultimately sweeping reform of the government hiring system.
Between a blog post and the privacy policy, I will go with the privacy policy. Especially when it's the worst one.
But a company won’t hire them because they don’t have 5 years experience with some piece of tech that takes 1-2 months to become fluent in
This is really to intercept over the air (so not necessarily for fully 'legal' intercept but also intelligence services).

If law enforcement needs to wiretap a specific phone/SIM they only need to request it to the operator. Over-the-air encryption is irrelevant.

Nowadays operators can duplicate all packets and send copies to law enforcement/security services in real time so that they can monitor 100% of a given phone's traffic from their offices.
Do we have to imagine? I'm sure many scientists in the field today were working in 1999. There's certainly enough data from the time to look at this in some level of detail, but Cherry picking an article and pointing out its flaws doesn't really prove much about the state of the field back then.

Maybe if the author mentioned that this article was highly regarded back then, there would be a point, but for all we know, the article was thought poorly of at the time and contemporary scientists just thought it slipped through the cracks.

It also doesn't talk about new controls in place today that would prevent a similarly poor article from being published, or even a system of "retracting" poor articles. I don't really trust that everything being published today is without flaw. After all, the other examples of bad science given are fairly recent.
I suppose what I'm saying is that in order for a country to have the resources the US has and the political motivation to pursue empire, they'd have to have been on the path to empire for the last 200 years and come from the same sociopolitical history that has fueled the United States. So it's pretty steep conjecture.

In other words, yes, if China had the resources of the US it would be a global empire... because in order to have the resources the US has, you need to be a global empire.

This is just a pet theory at this point, I'm not an actual historian.
"If we shouldn't and it's deemed too dangerous not to contain, then it shouldn't be made."

Was that ever a deterrent for the human scientists? Anyway, while I fully understand your point about the rights, I must repeat that there's no consensus about it, actually very far from that. We're still struggling with equal rights for members of the human race so please forgive my pessimism.
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The idea that Scandinavian countries have lower class mobility than the U.S. goes against almost every study and observation on the issue. Here is the World Economic Forum's findings [1], which places Scandinavian countries at the top across a host of factors including income, education, and health.

I'd also be careful about placing much emphasis on things like culture, not because countries are homogeneous culturally, but because often when people talk about how culture in Europe is so drastically different than culture in the U.S., they are referring to stereotypes that are mostly at the margins and don't often have much of an impact on socioeconomic factors. As humans, we have a tendency to focus on superficial differences and exaggerate those differences to explain away phenomenon.

I highly doubt you'd find a credible study indicating that Scandinavians will forgo attaining a higher income and a better quality of life just so they can fit into a mold and satisfy some kind of cultural tendency, but if you do have any such studies for review I'd be very happy to see them.

[1] http://www3.weforum.org/docs/Global_Social_Mobility_Report.p...
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No. Not at all. Aircraft exist, we can fly in them, we can stick their wings into a wind tunnel and blow smoke over them and see how it moves. Let's keep contemplating better models of how it moves until we are happy we understand them as much as we want to.

Let's stop saying "if UFOs are really alien space ships then it would be totally awesome if they flew by electromagnetic gravity manipulation, therefore that probably exists". Like, if you want to build magnetic coils and experiment to see if they affect gravity, because it would be cool if they did, knock yourself out. If you're going to post "do your research like I did ;) ;)" and then can't turn up a single link with anything relating to your claims in several days and multiple comments, don't do that.

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> "As there is insufficient public evidence so it’s not even worth hypothesizing about"

Yes, exactly, like all other woo from homeopathy to Scientology to phrenology to magnetic therapy to Dr Feelgood's Cure-All, the reason they aren't worth it is because there isn't good evidence that they are worth it. Hypothesizing based on secret evidence which you don't have, seems even sillier. And worse, there doesn't seem to be much reason to think electricity should interact with gravity. Earth has 5 trillion trillion tons of matter, and curves spacetime 400,000km out beyond the moon. What do photons or electrons have to do with that?

> "I’m sorry but with that mindset we as a species would never make any new discoveries."

I suggest the entire history of Western science is that - sticking to evidence and repeatable demonstrable effects, and working out what's happening.
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[2006]. Full title of paper:

Cis-urocanic acid, a sunlight-induced immunosuppressive factor, activates immune suppression via the 5-HT2A receptor

The abstract starts like this:

Exposure to UV radiation induces skin cancer and suppresses the immune response. To induce immune suppression, the electromagnetic energy of UV radiation must be absorbed by an epidermal photoreceptor and converted into a biologically recognizable signal. Two photoreceptors have been recognized: DNA and trans-urocanic acid (UCA). Trans-UCA is normally found in the outermost layer of skin and isomerizes to the cis isomer upon exposure to UV radiation. Although UCA was identified as a UV photoreceptor years ago, and many have documented its ability to induce immune suppression, its exact mode of action remains elusive. Particularly vexing has been the identity of the molecular pathway by which cis-UCA mediates immune suppression. Here we provide evidence that cis-UCA binds to the serotonin [5-hydroxytryptamine (5-HT)] receptor with relatively high affinity (K d = 4.6 nM).
Eliezer Yudkowsky suggests using historical examples, when making points about politics – like French Revolution or earlier. I know you're talking about contemporary US politics, but people are people are people and it can't be that different to something from history.
Err, I say exactly the opposite myself. I hate treated water from a public water system. All those chemicals (and whatever comes off the piping) are far from tasty.
Did that really "cost" billions of dollars though? Isn't that just billions of _valuation_ that will not take long to recover?
Most of this article tracks quite well with my experiences! It's nice to see stuff like this written down.

> If the application’s code is in our control we can cache data in a memory store like Redis or Memcached to avoid querying the database.

On this point - what I've seen over and over again is caches being used as a band-aid for overall throughput limitations. Then the cache goes down (sometimes partially in the case of a clustered cache), the database gets slammed, and there's an outage soon after.

So caches help as an improvement on latency to some degree, but using them to avoid scaling your capacity can get you in a pickle depending on your usage patterns / hit distribution. You usually need some amount of capacity planning and consideration there.
"Do you want to sell sugar water or change the world?"

Still not clear where the smart money was.
I didn't downvote your comment. But I guess some people did, possibly because you did the thing about stating several facts where all were true but none were relevant. I'd swear I read that this phenomenon even has a proper name but cannot recall it right now.

(And for the record I know very well about the internals and technicalities about the words and names that I used: Node.js is the de-facto Javascript runtime for the backend, popular to the point that people commonly refer to it as "programming in Node"; Python and Ruby are just languages but their majority of users run their program with the default official interpreter, so through a metonymy we can refer to either even when actually talking of the other; and etc. For economy of the language and avoiding the pedantry, I grounded my comment on the most generally perceived notion about those technologies. You see, just to avoid unnecessarily long explanations like this one)
Huh yeah... you can see unhealthy people put away a 2 litre bottle of something like Coca-Cola without thinking twice, but that would seem like an obscene quantity of orange juice or something to almost anyone I think.