skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In 2001 I worked on a project for some of the federal agencies that used remote biometrics for authentication in addition to password use. I'm not sure if it was safe from replay attacks, but still. It wasn't that the feds didn't know how to make things secure, it's just that the workers in the civilian side of the government didn't really understand the threats and didn't prioritize security.

Edit: Not to say everywhere in the non-civilian side of the government is secure. It isn't. Just that there are pockets of it that are better hardened that we could just wholesale copy.
Honestly I am concerned for my friends I see dumping their savings into crypto because people are confusing them with technology they don't understand. It's a massive fraud and people are going to get hurt. That's my concern, if there was a crypto asset I believed in I'd invest but none of them match my world view. I do want a new economy, but I don't think crypto is the way to do it. For me book keeping is secondary to the cultural change necessary to have a better economical system.
>> Drones (as used so far, in the remote suicide version) solve a key problem many states have: lack of effective tactical ISR. The US and major powers do not have this problem

That describes Azerbaijan and Armenia's war precisely.

> work autonomously

The TB2 [0] is not capable of autonomous engagement. It's remotely operated for weapons release. And half its key components rely on foreign technology (regardless of what Turkey claims).

The Israeli Harop platform [1] does have autonomous engagement, but intended for the S/DEAD role and is in a different class of technical sophistication and price.

Calling Russian export military equipment "sophisticated" is a bit of a stretch, considering modern delivered models are circa-1995 designs, only recently realized.

Maybe 30 years ago, but they haven't been able to even afford to modernize their own forces, and basically lost 20 years of progress to post-Soviet upheaval and kleptocracy.

We'll see what happens when drones go up against a military keeping pace with the times.

[0] https://baykardefence.com/uav-15.html

[1] https://www.iai.co.il/p/harop
I'm confused. Are you saying the text you quoted is literally the text of the tweet I linked to? That is not the case on my internet.

Edit: The text I quoted is from the tweet at the end of the thread that starts with the text you quoted. For me, the text I quoted is what's initially displayed (also a few more words I didn't include as they didn't seem relevant).
Gini Coefficient: An Introduction
And what is the moral wisdom in contemplating this scenario if you've already rejected the means as unworthy?
Davey Scatino
Get her a Gizmo pal watch.

You can call her. The watch auto-answers, so she can't ignore it. She can call 5 pre-programmed numbers.

And you can see her location in an app.
I mean, have you ever punched somebody in the face? I'll admit the thought occurred to me as well but in practice, I think most people have a strong aversion to violence, not to mention the potential criminal liability.
>Codes of conduct deal with these self-absorbed members

Do they? It seems to me that a Code of Conduct just gives these sorts of people an entirely new set of rules to litigate/bikeshed. If the Code of Conduct prohibits personal attacks, for example, the sorts of people who will harangue mods for admonishing them to be nice will, instead, harangue the mods about how their statement wasn't actually a personal attack.

>It is sad that we need to make rules like "do not be a jerk"

I don't think the problem is in the rules or lack thereof. I think the problem is there in the (lack of) enforcement. Many internet communities are allergic to anything that smacks of "censorship", and thus find themselves at a loss whenever someone comes along and willfully violates community norms. We should remember that "well kept gardens die by pacifism" [1], and no matter how detailed and elaborate the rules, someone needs to be willing to actually enforce them. A Code of Conduct (or some other formalized set of rules) can help here insofar as it allows the moderator to point to something outside their own thoughts as a justification for why they're taking action against a transgressive community member.

However, it's possible to go too far. Wikipedia is a great example of what happens when rules become too elaborate. There are many trolls on Wikipedia who are around simply because they've mastered the arcana of the various rules and procedures Wikipedia has built up in its efforts to create an "objective" standard of community behavior. Whenever they're brought up for discipline, they can point to some previous case where superficially similar behavior was excused.

[1]: https://www.greaterwrong.com/posts/tscc3e5eujrsEeFN4/well-ke...
True. So we work for three years, eh?

More seriously, you're correct that population pressure is one of the main problems that could derail a techno-utopian scenario. Fortunately, population seems to be leveling off.

I like to joke that the Amish are the "meek" who will "inherit the earth", as they are fantastic farmers and still have large families. But there's an element of truth to the joke: if most folks stop increasing their own population, but a few (like the Amish) don't, then in the fullness of time they would eventually, uh, overrun the rest of us regardless of any particular technological change.
Great idea. Multiple teams of mine have experienced this exact pain point with webhook retries, monitoring, caching, idempotent commands, etc. If you consider adding Elixir and/or Rust to your library roadmap, please let me know.
Yeah I just started picking up Lisp with SICP during the lockdown. AFAIK this is the first time it's hit the front of HN or any other pages I follow
Bitcoin just went up $3.30 in less than an hour (2013)
Before the industrial revolution 25% of deaths were homicide.
Blue Origin seeks chief engineer for New Glenn's first stage
Show HN: Firebase Extension for full-text search
I think this game is Flower. Played it years ago, but also the first result for "game where you play as the wind" on Google. :)
Except the part you are including a company to "prove" your point when NixOS is a FOSS project and they give their part back to the community.
I interpret these puns as lighthearted feedback to the point that the title is unclear and jargony. Apparently a transformer is some machine learning thing, I'm sure it is an appropriate name for a journal publication where everybody who sees it will be in the field, but to an outsider it is not really obvious what this title is about.
due to the timing of things, I prepaid for ten twelfths of their residence. I didn't seek recompense as I knew I would be consuming one channel. I am unaware if the tenants use a tv
Most of who are terrible?
Vegetables Don’t Exist (2019)
Five of the six years that I was homeless in California were drought years. I didn't really understand or appreciate that until that last year when the rains came and I did things like took out a loan to spend three nights in a hotel because my "safe from the storm" campsite was under multiple feet of water and the worst rains were yet to come.

I clearly and obviously benefited significantly from having the good fortune to be homeless mostly during drought years in California. So I sometimes wonder how many silver linings get overlooked while we wring our hands about some obviously bad thing.

Some pine trees cannot reproduce without fire. So if you stamp out forest fires entirely, you kill the forest in the long run.

In reality, we never succeed in completely stamping out forest fires. So what happens is that successfully keeping it to a minimum results in a build up of dead wood and some of the worst fires in the US have followed years of good and successful forest management that was celebrated as a "win" at the time.

Big storms, like typhoons, have been credited with carrying various species to islands where they become distinct species thanks to isolation. The distance crossed with the help of the storm is not one they can fly or navigate intentionally.

I am an environmental studies major and I've lived without a car for over a decade and I've lived without an air conditioner for years. I'm concerned about climate change and I do my best to walk the walk.

But I wonder at times about how things get discussed as if "X is good and Y is bad". I wonder if that's really the best and most useful way to have such discussions.
> My take is myopia can be effectively treated with an inexpensive and non-invasive device

Like what?

>while LASIK comes with significant risk of causing different kinds of visual impairments that cannot be treated

The numbers behind LASIK (and PRK) are pretty solid such that one can make an objective claim that it is a low risk endeavor unless you have some specific conditions.

Here is one study:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7727822/
Im not a FB fan, But they didn't really kill the oculus brand... its now the most popular VR headset on SteamVR.

https://www.tweaktown.com/news/78089/oculus-quest-2-is-now-t...

"According to Valve's data, Quest 2 owners comprise 22.91% of all SteamVR users, while another 21.58% use a Rift S headset. Oculus also owns another 13.49%, with the original Rift, and Quest headsets added. All told, Oculus is responsible for 57.98% of all VR headsets used on Valve's platform."
Indeed, soviet russia had the freedom of speech in its constitution.
Milken's prosecution didnt really hurt his career much either. Hes still a billionaire (and if I remember right, his brother did very well too).

PS - read Den of Thieves again - there is an imo strong parallel between what was going on with junk bonds in the 80s and what is happening now with VC money. When Milken was indicted, he couldn't keep all the balls in the air anymore and the whole thing fell apart. I'm very interested to see what parallel will play out this time and when.
Tome of identify only holds 20 charges
This is definitely a valid concern. My plan for building migrations on top of this is to have older migrations automatically be deleted as they become unused. Preferably you wouldn't actually keep using the old schemas but rather keep them as you roll out changes to your application servers. Migrations could then be deleted (in reverse order) based on some condition, for example time since the schema was created or time since last query.
Wait a second, didn't the Fastly breakage happen the day after WWDC? What are the chances that the one client was Apple and their config was for this service :)
The Battle for One World Payments
>House prices tend towards the level where a mortgage payment roughly equals a rent payment (since they’re substitutable).

No these two are not direct financial substitutions. You are ignoring a down payment (or mortgage insurance), property taxes, maintenance, and the general risk that comes with home ownership. Monthly mortgage payments should be a decent amount cheaper then rent payments on an equivalent property.
Toddlers also can't shit in a toilet or eat tidily, but they learn to...
Unfortunately, the future is now.
This is a very naive viewpoint IMO. The fed doesn't just pick the rates they want. The fed definitely does not "want" rate at rock bottom where they are now in a perfect world.

The market dictates to the fed the range of rates which are feasible and the the fed chooses from within that range. They don't know exactly what the allowable range is and if they get it wrong the markets react strongly.

And the record is very clear on this point. For example the Powell pivot when Powell told everyone that he was going to taper and the market told him that that was off the table. He quickly conceded.
Speaking of relaxing games, have you played Little Orpheus? I made aware of it when won an Apple Design award and I assumed that Apple simply gave itself an award for publicity as it is part of the Apple Arcade.

I decided to give it a try and wow! That game is something else. There's nothing special about the gameplay itself, it's even not that good but the concept of narrating your actions or having a dialog about the story and telling the story is extremely pleasing experience. Normally I would listen to podcast or open a YouTube video in the background as I play casual games. This is much better because your senses don't fight for attention priority.

Then I remember, in Half Life there were parts when an outside voice would talk about something relative(g-man or someone asking you do something etc.).
Every game should have a narrator or some kind of background voice taking you deeper into the story.

Maybe that's part of the lure of game streamers?
There's nothing wrong with somebody expressing confusion over the overly jargony title.
Bitcoin Crash (2013)
I see your motte-and-bailey and I raise you a straw man.

I don't think there is much to read into “trans women are trans women, and are in some ways different from cis women” from this author. I certainly don't read “we should be allowed to discriminate against trans women because they are different.” out of it and thus I'd consider the interpretation to be a strawman: its easier to attack the author for it but I don't think its what she meant.

I think this gets at her point in the last paragraph, "the assumption of good faith is dead." If we interpret what the author said as the latter statement we are assuming it was said in bad faith.
For your 1 year old, it's not a problem if that $1000 is invested in say an S&P fund

In the 1970's when the US had stagflation, S&P inflation adjusted returns from ~1968 to 1982. If you bought in 1968 you wouldn't really show gains until the early 1990s.

https://www.macrotrends.net/2324/sp-500-historical-chart-dat...
Have you read the Rowling essay? She advocates many discriminatory positions in it. Among them, she doesn't think trans women should be allowed in women's bathrooms, or other "single sex spaces." I don't think everyone who agrees with that statement is transphobic, but it's become a bit of a shibboleth amongst people who are, as it's often posed against the statement "trans women are women."
How? Facebook invests billions of dollars into advancing the tech behind Oculus, reducing the form factor and making it economically viable, and the conclusion is that FB killed the Oculus brand and tarnished VR?

I don’t understand why people are not capable of separating the good from the bad. Of course you can shit on FB regarding many things but this is objectively not one of those things.
what's an acceptable oil? olive? peanut? I was told to use olive oil (not even EVOO except for taste related) so that's what I get but it's impossible to know anything.
That would have been deeply silly and accomplished nothing.
I always think of building a system of this complexity as building a pyramid where each block is its own entire pyramid.
It completely depends on the severity of your myopia. If it's mild, yeah, it's pretty safe. If it's moderate or severe, then things start looking a lot more dicey.

The overall numbers give a biased perspective. With the way the risk/benefit ratio varies, people with milder cases are a lot more likely to get it. This is in addition to there being more of them in the first place.

The inexpensive and non-invasive device is corrective eyewear.
Flower?
https://thatgamecompany.com/flower/
Thanks! I personally love Rust, though the only reason we haven't done the libraries yet is that I feel not that many people use Rust in production web services just yet. I may be wrong though...
Not absolutely, but it can be a hell of a lot better than it is. We don't, for example need to have such a lot of disposable packaging, we don't need to farm the way we do etc
Sure, but the core team already knows about this, and already knows that it's bad. If they had signed a pledge to not tolerate bad things back in 2019 when CoCs were cool I'm not sure how that would change anything. More ways for people to play at rules lawyering?
> I wonder if there’s an opportunity to teach a “how to search” class in schools. You could have some fun open-Google exams!

I had something similar to that when I was in elementary school, including comparing results across search engines. Boolean searches plus Smart Selection of keywords would quickly lead you to good sources.

Sometime between when I graduated high school and 2016, most of those tricks stopped working reliably. Google, Bing, and DDG are the only games in town for the anglophone world and all three drown out the worthwhile results in reposted blog spam. Until you magically discover the shibboleth that directs you to actual information, you’re stuck in a hell of shitty how-to websites that have nearly-identical irrelevant information.

It’s less hassle and more accurate (though slower and possibly outdated) to directly ask a known local expert.
Just 2 comments.

Life has taught me that no matter how noble, pure, well-intended or just a cause is you will find exactly the same interpersonal dynamics that you will find in most organizations, including many despicable ones. Our extremely thin varnish of civilization is not strong enough to stop millions of years of evolution fine-tuning us to be hierarchical tribal apes living in small groups.Remember that every time you join a movement, you will have to deal with the same bullshit than in everywhere else.

The second one, quoting the author: ". I’ve navi­gated plenty of diffi­cult people—LA lawyers, SF venture capi­tal­ists, et al." I would say that the author must have experienced a very narrow window of human types if those are the examples he came up with. I just found it funny, no need to make a drama about it.
> And what is the moral wisdom in contemplating this scenario if you've already rejected the means as unworthy?

A fair question. I guess there are several answers:

(1) I was concerned that just because I mentioned being curious how that approach would play out, some readers would assume that I was advocating violence, and respond accordingly. I wanted to be very clear that that's not the case, because that would end all discussion.

(2) I was mostly just wondering aloud how that would play out, because I'd like to understand human behavior better. I.e., I was doing a thought experiment, and realized that I didn't have any good guess for what the actual aftermath would be. So I was hoping to get other people's thoughts on the matter.

EDIT: It seems I chose the wrong forum for the question, or made some other error. I'll delete the post, as it seems to not be contributing to meaningful discussion.
I can‘t find the link anymore, but in the prologue of (I think) a German norm for building playgrounds it said something along these lines that resonated a lot with me: „Kids have the right to hurt themselves and test their boundaries in a safe and limited way“

That‘s just so important for kids I think. US playgrounds all look sad to no end compared to the 15 meter high rope pyramids you see here in a lot of schools.

First time you see them, you tell yourself: No way I‘m going to let my kids play on that thingy.

But when you take a close look, all ways down you‘d bump into a rope, there‘s no direct free fall and there‘s usually thick rubber or sand below.

Sure it‘s going to hurt and maybe break a bone in the very worst case if you miss, but that is just super rare.

But what it adds in developing courage, resilience and risk awareness is just priceless.

Then again, having your kids break a bone won‘t bankrupt your family for life over here…
Thank you for sharing this! I'm going to add it to my listening queue.
> The Biblical story has the shepherds […]

If you're going for 'historical accuracy', that'd be an argument, but that may not have been much of a consideration 2000 years ago.

> Christmas is definitely based on pagan traditions though, which you can see in the traditions of bringing a tree into the house and decorating it.

Some early mentions around 700 AD, but didn't really become a big thing until the 1500s and Protestantism it seems. That'd be fairly far removed from co-opting Pagan traditions, which were probably not practiced for a few hundred years at that point:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_tree#Religious_issue...

Though these are on the secular side of things, as most liturgies don't incorporate them. This was mainly for Europeans, AFAICT.

Not sure how many Christians in tropical countries are doing the tree thing. Though with globalization and mass media, Western practices may be more spreading more places in recent years/decades.
Hackathon Guide for Beginners
> "Aircraft carriers will be replaced with cheap drone swarm carriers" I would argue that Aircraft carriers are the size and cost due to large munitions and maintenance constraints.

Mostly the need to carry big heavy bombs and missiles to attack big targets, and big heavy radars to find those targets, and big fuel tanks to stay up long enough to get to them, which then requires catapults to get them airborne and arrestor wire landing strips to recover them.
As an aside: I'd _really like_ to purchase Beautiful Racket in dead-tree form. I much prefer having a book open on my work bench to follow along to, than a website. Monitors are tiring to look at for long periods.
maybe Flower?
Eh, not really more so than usual. We've probably had fewer the last 100 years due to better tech and science. Pandemics have always been a civilizational challenge, often caused by technology, greed and hubris. Making it in a lab (unlikely, but theoretically possible) and transporting it by air instead of doing both in the hull of a galley is just a new twist that enabled greater scale.
Blackrock is buying homes at above market rates.

If interest rates go up, home values crash.

So one of three things is true:

- Blackrock knows something you are not being told.

- Blackrock is stupid.

- Blackrock is being told to buy homes and that their losses will be covered.

Whatever else I think of them, I do not think Blackrock is stupid.
I had pretty uniformly positive experiences with him as both a student and a TA for one of his classes, but the very important bit of context there is I was a student who did well enough in his class to be asked to TA. In retrospect I can remember him being pretty awful to some of the other students.
Would you prefer "he wasnt sufficiently politically connected" and "his family never made friends in the right circles"
>A formal statement of rules allows a community to try to do away with this bias

I'm not sure I would state it as trying to do away with bias. Bias is inescapable. In fact, I'd go so far as to say that bias is a good thing, insofar as we want communities to be biased towards things that they prioritize and biased away from things that they don't. What a code of conduct does, in the best case, is allow a community to be explicit about its biases, allowing prospective contributors to see up-front exactly what kind of community they're joining.

Of course, there are plenty of cases communities implement codes of conduct poorly, usually in response to some crisis.
Good question.

With an audit, the auditors get a representation from management that they will provide the truth etc. The auditors would also get third party evidence eg. from the bank providing the audit client's account. For important things you would always get third party evidence from banks, custodians, etc or even just go and check to see if physical things exist!

With an attestation or limited/negative assurance engagement, there's no third party evidence. Instead, the auditors just rely on what they are given and whether it looks reasonable. The auditors would state in their "report" that only limited evidence was gathered and not enough to form the basis of an opinion.

Basically, limited / negative assurance is not really that useful in most circumstances.

Regarding fraud - auditors are not expected to find/uncover fraud under any type of engagement, which is a common misconception.

The biggest audit firms won't go any where near tether, and this alone, tells you quite a bit :)