skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Not really sure how else they can make sure people don't just borrow 10 books and never come back

People can already do this if they want. Nothing stops you from checking out the max number of books and never coming back.

Most libraries have discovered that late fees discourage people from returning books when they forget, lose them, etc. The longer the book is out the higher the fee. The higher the fee the more likely that person will decide library membership is a lost cause and decide to never return (or use someone else's membership).

Eliminating late fees increases the overall rate of books returned vs stolen.
If you express your vectors as scalar multiples of unit vectors, it works, right?
Being a ‘doer’ is also not a fixed trait. IMO it varies on what a thing happens to be. Motivation and drive also vary over time in complex ways.
We do. But it's so much easier to not pump carbon up, than to use tons of energy to put carbon back in the ground. Even if you'd use carbon free energy, for a long time coming that energy can offset existing fossil energy...
Is there an easy way for the lay-tech-person to get a window into this world?

It feels like the internet and mobile were a lot easier to follow. But with AI/ML, most of it seems to be stuffed in black boxes that I have no way to follow.
How does is a set of dedicated pins vs routing everything through the USB bus better?
I don't see why that's true at all, cryptocurrencies are public ledgers with mostly KYC'd on/off ramps.

Explain how bitcoin has become the go-to tool for ransomware gangs.

Moreover, the intent of cryptocurrency creators and substantial number of cryptocurrency users is to be immune to regulation. You can read the number of posters here who view bitcoin as answer to the power of the Fed. Maybe crypto can be so controlled by regulators that it won't anything, in which case there's no idealistic argument for its existence. Or maybe crypto could make it's users immune to consequences, in which case there are good arguments to follow China's lead and make the system point-blank illegal.
Everything that has a fixed quantity will always increase in price (assuming the Fed continues inflating the currency 1-5% /yr)

Land, collectibles, natural resources, Bitcoin: as long as they are priced in USD and USD is constantly devalued year after year - prices will rise.
Multi device yes.
The unlimited member functionality and seemless sync without having the phone turned on are the biggest pros. Also, in e2e the contents aren't revealed in notifications.
You're not wrong. But Facebook's attempt to discredit Frances Haugen is poor.

From the congressional hearing today, she did not answer questions beyond her expertise [1], and she had over a decade of relevant experience in Engagement Based Ranking algorithms [2], which was largely the focus of the hearing.

[1] https://youtu.be/GoSPmqqKams?t=4160

[2] https://youtu.be/GoSPmqqKams?t=3482
Saying it doesn't change the fact that PoS systems are protecting nearly $200B right now, and growing faster than PoW systems.
The books are destroyed; no what.

Late fees: pay small fee, borrow books.

No late fees: pay for replacement, borrow books.

I think the best system would be something like a $200 fully refundable deposit, plus late fees (deducted from your deposit account). Account must not drop below $180 due to accrued late fees, or use of library is suspended.

If you don't return books for an excessively long period, like six months, their value is automatically deducted from your deposit on top of accrued late fees; then you may keep the books.
I'd say both weird and coincidental :-). I'm the author of that StackOverflow question and have nothing to do with that paper. As far as I understand arXiv (I'm not familiar with it), the paper was submitted to arXiv before the StackOverflow answer that inspired my question, and published by arXiv after my StackOverflow question: https://arxiv.org/list/cs.DS/recent
What's the threat model here? If you install malware that runs as your user, it can see and edit any of your files regardless of whether or not the OS knows decryption keys for them. If you require a password to cold boot the device, then stealing someone's powered-off laptop doesn't get the data. (That's without any special hardware.)

So the scenarios that remain are: fingerprint to unlock device to boot (need to do some crypto before the OS, unless you want the fingerprint to just flat-out give up the key to anything sniffing the SPI bus), or somehow resisting data modification without requiring the user to type a password. I feel like Bitlocker tries to do the latter, but I don't know what attacks they are trying to protect against. (It's on by default on new laptops, but you can just sniff the key over SPI when the OS is booting, so what security does it actually provide?)
What was the point of posting this? Surely it wasn't to convince anyone they don't have a brain.
If you are relying on Turbotax, you are making a big mistake. I think they have stopped improving it much and now just "milk the cow" mode. I can think of 10 thousand improvements but each year they are same old same old. So I went to a very competent CPA just to double check if TT was maxing out. It turned out that I was losing significantly in TT. For example, TT did not identified wrong cost basis that often comes from the brokers like Fidelity. CPA noticed them in a second. TT also failed to make sure I was saving on taxes paid to state by various channels. If you are giving IRS more than $10K in taxes, it is worth finding and hiring a CPA who often charges less than $500.
Fines alone can tend to cost more to enforce than they produce in revenue. Means-tested waivers would only make that worse.
Sometimes advocating for problem awareness is useful in itself, especially when the loudest and most influential voices are incessently proclaiming "no fire!" in the burning theatre.

As is pointing out evidence, etiology, and some proposed goals and/or redress modalities which do not in fact appear to be working.

https://old.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/2fsr0g/hierarc...
Trees eventually decay and rot. The problem is fundamentally that we're taking carbon from outside the biosphere and putting it into the biosphere. The Earth has self-regulatory mechanisms to keep that balanced with increased rock weathering going against constant levels of volcanic CO2 emissions but that solves the issue on the order of 10,000 years and trees don't last nearly that long. Plus, growing forests only absorb enough carbon per square meter to offset about watt of coal power production.

Increasing the world's forest cover is worth doing for its own sake, on biodiversity grounds, but its at best a small part of the solution to global warming.
The internet went from decentralized to centralized.

There's no indication that we're ever massively heading in the opposite direction again.
Too wet
If someone wants to steal a book, why would they come back and pay the fine? The only people who would pay the fine are the ones who want to continue checking out books, so preventing them from doing so if they have a late book is incentive enough.

This is a pragmatic move by the libraries. The reality of fines is that they don't prevent bad actors from stealing books. All they accomplish is disincentivizing those who miss their due date (whether intentionally or not) from bringing the book back.

Chicago did a similar thing a couple years back and actually saw an increase in returns.

https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/2019/10/30/20940677/chicag...
Nobody cares about the environment at all. There's zero outrage on energy wasting consumer behavior, say ACs, giant TVs, high-end gaming PCs, dryers, and leaving chargers plugged in. Likewise, there's barely any outrage on eating meat or air travel.

Whilst I would agree that some types of crypto don't help in this regard as they add to the problem, it's truly very hypocritical to believe to be morally superior or to care about the environment, whilst hardly anybody does, crypto or not.
This enables Cloudfare’s DOH servers - this is probably a good idea for embedded stuff.

My ISP for example resolves all unknown hostnames to their advertisement server - so a mistyped hostname in MQTT bridge name will result in “connection refused” errors, which are super confusing and misleading.
I think the point of this is that if somebody steals your YubiKey, they also have to steal your finger to be able to use it.
It's written in C. You can see the code here:
https://sourceforge.net/p/opentaxsolver/SrcCodeRepo/HEAD/tre...
That question exists whether or not you charge late fees, so it isn't relevant to this discussion.
Oh so savings is dead money doing nothing? How about you make something that is worthwhile to invest in? How about we save up to produce capital goods instead of fueling consumption for no reason?

The main purpose of money is saving. That's hard to do since they steal it from you if you do that.

Keynesian economics has done so much damage to people and the world.
CNAME it to 127.0.0.1 and forget about it. Unless you plan to put them up for sale or something.
It does tend to name-drop: often famous names, but also just "Jeff".

And if you spice up the commentary sampling parameters, it gets even more inventive, making up names, and saying that "the rook is pinning Fischer against the king".
So we agree that 'the label "AI" (naked with no modifiers) has already been downgraded to "weak AI"' is just your opinion, correct?
It's good to see the package suggestions feature happen.

I believe I was the first to raise it as an issue/request on github, oh, 3-4 years ago? (based on how octave does it, which is truly excellent)

I remember it caused quite a vivid discussion, which very quickly (and frustratingly) veered off in a completely different tangent in the thread.

Good to see someone took it to heart after all :)
You're talking about backend network connections to facebook's datacenters as if that's the only thing that matters. I'm talking about overall network connection including the internet-facing part.

Facebook's infrastructure at their peering points loses all contact with their respective facebook datacenter(s).

Their response is to automatically withdraw routes to themselves. I suppose they assumed that all datacenters would never go down at the same time, so that client dns redundancy would lead to clients using other dns servers that could still contact facebook datacenters. It's unclear how those routes could be restored without on-site intervention. If they automatically detect when the datacenters are reachable again, that too requires on-site intervention since after withdrawing routes FB's ops tools can't do anything to the relevant peering points or datacenters.

But even without the catastrophic case of all datacenter connections going down, you don't need to be a facebook ops engineer to realize that there are problems that need to be carefully thought through when ops tools depends on the same (public) network routes and DNS entries that the DNS servers are capable of autonomously withdrawing.
drm likes uncacheable write-combining as an optimization… but that's disabled on arm64 https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-arm-kernel/patch/... because it can cause image corruption glitches (saw them myself, had to find and cherry-pick that commit into FreeBSD's drm back then)

Generally I don't think "normal" is necessary? In FreeBSD/aarch64 we interpret most ioremaps (all other than WC and WB) as "device": https://reviews.freebsd.org/D20789

and there doesn't seem to be a performance problem. Well, I haven't scientifically tested the performance but SuperTuxKart can do >100fps at 4K on an RX 480 :)
Reading the book is definitely recommended. A lot of people have an intuitive feeling of how things have gotten out of control but she places the developments in context [0]. She is quite clear that "breaking up" is not a solution as it will merely create a cluster of replicas. She is basically arguing for banning the business model underpinning surveillance capitalism. There are many reviews out there, find one from a source you trust. This Harvard Business Review podcast has a summary interview ~30 min [1]

I don't think the issue of controlling information flow (which is a political hot potato) has much to do with the legitimacy or not of this business model. E.g., Newspapers are obviously controlling flow, may have biases from sponsors, advertisers etc but they do not create user profiles by collecting all the private data they can get access to, they do not modify news shown based on profiles and (in any democracy) there is a wide variety of them and you can always choose which one to read.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/Age-Surveillance-Capitalism-Future-Fr...

[1] https://hbr.org/podcast/2019/06/surveillance-capitalism
You must have made 5~10k on this post alone. Kudos!
Short answer is that it doesn't. Form 8949 has zero support.
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Accountability could be even easier in cryptoassets in the form of smart contracts and public ledgers.

Imagine if the wallet addresses of every politician were public and we could all see every donation -and- large donations would be automatically rejected by a smart contract unless they are signed and identified by the keys of a public notary they have disclosed their identity to.

(There is already one public Notary in Washington that can certify identity with their registered RSA key as a form of seal)

Cryptoassets can allow us to write our financial laws into code so we don't have to rely on the honor system as much.
Same reason you don't go trying every door handle, darting into every open garage and door looking for something to steal.
Agreed, some real mindbenders there!
The cost to society at large for lost books is trivial, whereas the advantage of having these books distributed among low-income households is priceless. The New York Public Library has figured this out.

That's the whole point isn't it? That punishment doesn't work. Rich people can afford to shrug off the fine while the poor never return to the library again.
The idea that bitcoin should be the sole currency for a nation is silly and only promoted by shallow-thinking "to the moon" bulls.

Bitcoin (if successful) will serve as an international safe haven from reckless monetary policy. It counterbalances fiat, it doesn't replace it.
If this had OpenPGP support (though it may also be true of other modes) they'd also need to know your PIN code.
You were making a point regarding phone-operated sex trafficking. Your characterization of what the phone company should do was what I contended. While, I'm aware that this was made as a broader point regarding Facebook, amplifying a signal and amplifying a message isn't functionally different. Television is an example of where both are happening. Even Twitter and Tiktok engage in amplification every time there's some Tide-pod Challenge. I don't see why Facebook would have to be responsible for how people feel about themselves, what stunts bad actors pull.
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Correction, like all assets.

Real estate is a pyramid scheme. So are stocks. And even money itself. Anything of value is ultimately hoarded and concentrated in the hands of a few. It's not an issue unique to crypto.
I'm fairly sure plenty of folks don't even take those two weeks off. Plenty are still contactable. Plemty are actually contacted during vacation. Quite a few "come in just to sort out a few fires" or, even worse, are "encouraged to come in or don't come back".
I guess "buffering in a separate process" can be handy, esp. if you have strict performance requirements, but I guess using shared memory correctly can be tricky...?

(Without shared memory, I imagine you'll have one system call per log anyway - in which case it's not much different from calling one write() per line.)
You can keep it for personal chats. Also it has no contents revewled in notifications so apps with notification access cancan't steal it.
Ok, thanks! How do well does this key go together with workflows that use automation (e.g. daily rsyncs over the network that run in the background)?
Banning cars 100 years ago would, in retrospect, have clearly been the correct decision.
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Rephrased it even sounds better:

It's easier to educate the motivated than motivate the educated.
Yes, there's the difference between direct and second-hand knowledge.

At the same time, one must acknowledge that there is a history, whether living, oral, written, archaeological, geological, or whatevs, of the past. There is no record of what will happen in the future. It is the one remaining terra incognita.
Begin by defining a strawman argument.
> AI/ML still feels like a nothingburger to me.

And Crypto too.
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People really don't like to hear that Facebook might actually be positive in some very important respects.
You are still subject to a replacement fee (automatically charged) if you really don't return the book:

https://www.nypl.org/help/borrowing-materials/library-fines-...
If we can increase forest cover, yes.
But also, bury trees and plant new ones in their place.
cosmic ray sort

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> verifies inability to pay fine

This would probably end up costing them even more than just losing the books and buying new ones and in the process creating a new bureaucracy of injustices.
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Plastics can be made from starch which would capture CO2. However, bioplastics tend to degrade. Making plastic from oil as the vast majority are doesn't sequester CO2.
Diversity in tactics will be necessary, and trees will not be fast enough. We need this carbon gone by 2050, that is drastically short timelines.
Let's talk NFT and why they are problematic
I've used Erlang for years, and this is more the mentality with that language. Just do the explicit thing even if it's a bit more code.
> Well, except for abortion

The right frame anti-abortion as pro-life. Do you consider murder laws authoritarian? Pro- and anti-abortion arguments are both grounded in morality, but claiming one is more authoritarian than the other is showing willful ignorance as to what the right believes.

> And official support for Christianity.

There is practically zero scientific evidence backing the transgender movement. Or the world-view that western civilization is systemically-racist. Or the left's views on sexual norms and marriage. Yet these and other woke ideologies are taught in public schools with support from the Biden administration and national teacher's unions. Wokeness is a terrible state religion, much worse than Christianity ever was.

> And, of course, the military, the biggest part of big government and big government power.

Wanting a strong military does is not the same as wanting authoritarian government that controls every aspect of our lives. You can have a minimal government with a large military, or an authoritarian government with a small military.

> And keeping the poors and minorities in their places.

The left wish they were the righteous ones helping the poor and minorities. I'd suggest reading the first essay in "Black Rednecks and White Liberals" by Thomas Sowell. He argues strongly that the "white saviours" that are liberals have made the plight of minorities far worse than had they never intervened. As Sowell often emphasizes, results matter more than good intentions.

> And conversely, the rich in their place.

Biden's spending spree and proposed tax increases will hurt the middle class the most. Socialism and communism are the great equalizers; they eventually make everyone poor except a few elite that are connected to the government.

> But yeah, they'd want to get rid of Social Security, Medicare, the Postal Service, the EPA, OSHA, and all that froo-fraw that gets in the way of true Americans.

I don't even know how to address this straw man argument.

> Darn those leftists with their college education and science and their book learnin' and their economic productivity!

Thomas Sowell calls you folks the "intelligenstia". I suggest you read "Intellectuals and Society". The arrogance of America's ruling oligarchy and intellectual elite will be a major contributor to our country's destruction or downfall.
Giving birth to a unicorn sounds painful.
If you care about your security you will not use biometrics as the only means to secure your data. In the USA at least some courts have ruled that force can be used to make you unlock devices protected by only biometrics. See, e.g. https://www.biometricupdate.com/201912/federal-state-court-r...
lol, delusional. We are doomed as a species. Just accept it
Motivation for a particular thing is also highly dependent on your material circumstances. I ski a lot more living by the mountains than I did when I lived two hours away. I ski a lot less than I did before I had kids.
I've seen this on my 4GB RAM netbook. This is basically what Chromebooks do when you've got too many tabs open, and it's much better than the system trying to thrash itself to death, which is what it does now.
> How did people communicate with their loved ones before Facebook?

Synchronously, without video, using an interrupting device. And after that, bifurcated across about a half-dozen messaging services.

Facebook is the first system I've seen that actually has 100% of my friends and family reachable using a common protocol supporting text, audio, and video messaging. If I were to leave, I'd lose touch with about half the people I correspond with regularly. It's a hard sell.
They went back as well.Nothing really matters to them.
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When Chicago did the same, they saw an increase in the rate of returns.

https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/2019/10/30/20940677/chicag...
It wasn't ever gone. It just wasn't hosted on FB.

The thing to remember about tech -- both when it's lionized as a revolution for the better or vilified as the source of evils making things worse -- is that most of the time what tech does is magnify existing human dynamics.

FB could do more to attenuate problems and better boost virtues, but it's not the source of the problems. Its absence won't solve them or prevent something equally bad (or worse) from filling any gap it might leave behind.
You may not, but some do. And the point is how to manage that population. Pretending they don't exist is generally not a good strategy. That's not to say that we shouldn't experiment with different options, and these types of programs are worth trying if only to gather some data.
Because previously people were worried about the library fines of a dead person and rushed those books back? No, now they don't have to worry about getting hassled about fines if they return the books.
Its pretty well known that fingerprints _by themselves_ are a pretty poor replacement for passwords. (a) They're public, in that it's pretty easy to get someone's fingerprint... just find something they touched recently. (b) If they're compromised its impossible to change them.

I don't think this gets around either of those points, but I am curious if this somehow makes it much more difficult to either compromise the fingerprint hash (fingerprint fingerprint?) or makes the resultant hash less useful once compromised.
I remember the joel spolsky hiring article. He wants: smart, gets things done

EDIT:
https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2006/10/25/the-guerrilla-guid...

on the other hand, here was the quote on choosing officers, which might be a different position altogther:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_von_Hammerstein-Equord#Cl...
I am with you on this. I truly hope the years of social media exuberance are beyond us and we return to our communities of friends in specialized microcosms.