skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Import fact to remember: it's not about melting.

Ice is less dense than water... but only just. If an ice sheet collapses into the sea, it doesn't need to melt. The ice will displace seawater perfectly effectively just by floating. Most of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet sits on rock that is well under sea level – in places, a kilometre under sea level. It doesn't need to melt: it just needs for the seawater to get underneath it, allowing it to slide off into the sea and break up. Seawater is, obviously, salty and warmer than ice.

The resultant sea-level rise will only take on the order of 12 days to stabilise world wide.

I looked at the figures for this and it was a factor in my decision to sell my house on the outskirts of London and move to Czechia, which is above the level of any possible sea-level rise. Its lowest points are ~120m above mean sea level.

I couldn't afford Austria or Switzerland, and most of the other high-and-dry countries don't have the employment prospects (or beer as good) as the Czech Republic.
The issue isn’t the number of people who are inheriting massive sums of wealth or what not - the issue is what people with lots of wealth end up doing (solely improving their own lives) and how that wealth could be used otherwise. (improving the lives of all)
I wouldn't call it cynicism, just being realistic. It is perfectly normal that a company, from the size to Amazon to sole proprietorship, tend to maximize profit - and one of the main ways is to minimize costs. I'm yet to see a single one that doesn't care about costs and survives.

Now, there are different people, with varying morals. When they advance to major positions in a company, they make various decisions. Unfortunately, our culture rewards the actions and attitude of people like Gates who deliberately made many grey-area decisions that we might call "egoistic" or just plain "evil" if they were aimed at individuals, or like Bezos, who treats human beings in his warehouses like cattle. So I'm sorry, we are not the ones being cynical here.
Because SHA256 is fast to compute. This means that an attacker can quickly try many passwords, either from a dictionary of common passwords or simply brute forcing a short password.

Also, if you use SHA256 bare without salt you are vulnerable to precomputed dictionaries. There is a fascinating way to make these dictionaries shorter called Rainbow Tables.

Better key derivation functions take a lot of time and memory to make it costly for the attacker to a lot of guesses at the password and they have built in salt. Examples would be SCrypt or Argon2.
Oh yeah, the exchanges are great on throughput.

The two-(business!-)day lag for finality really hurts their latency figures though.
Resorting to a bunch of straw-man attacks making lying and vicious, calculated claims to make me look like I've attacked the poor as "not working hard" is a really bad look for you. It's the look of someone who failed at making a cogent argument so they resort to a sob story about me attacking the poor.

All I'm saying is it isn't equitable for one person (who could have not worked a day in their life) to be handed health care on a silver platter while I work the better part of a week to pay for it for my family. Do you not understand many on public health care don't have to work for the better part of a week to receive benefits, and never have? I'm not talking about old people who spent 40 years paying into the system.
> it seems it provides sequential consistency when using atomics and acquire/release semantics when not.

(author of the said paper here) This is wrong. I suggest reading the paper closely. If not, the morning paper has a good summary [1,2].

[1] https://blog.acolyer.org/2018/08/09/bounding-data-races-in-s...

[2] https://blog.acolyer.org/2018/08/10/bounding-data-races-in-s...
I also am having difficulty finding documentation for this, but I know it’s true. Many condo and apartment complexes around Google campuses have “preferred employer rates” that slash the rent for Googlers.
Health insurance is not pro. At a big four I am paying ~$50/month for great health insurance, freelancing it was 650 from Covered California and involved repeated heated calls to every party involved.
> No, it isn't legal to maliciously add an infinite-loop to a library that you know is used by other companies.

Could you cite an source for this? Because I got a impression that it "isn't legal" which mean it is not illegal based on your comment. I would assuming you are referring to USA Computer Fraud and Abuse Act?
>So we need to incentivise productive uses of capital, and tax unproductive uses.

I would agree that this would probably improve the situation, yes, as long as the concentration of wealth isn't leveraged to drive wages down.

>What's important is that capital is mostly used to benefit society, and capitalism has proved incredibly good at doing that efficiently.

However productive the economy becomes, if its fruits are not shared more widely than they are today, it won't benefit society as a whole in the long run. In the last 40 years overall productivity has boomed, but the wealthy have grabbed a wildly disproportionate share of the resulting economic growth simply because their disproportionate share of capital gives them the leverage to do so.
> We must get our power generation efficient and clean as possible.

The thing is that, even if, it is not going to happen soon. And Energy for Bitcoin is out of proportion if you compare it with anything you have mentioned. Bitcoin wants to replace something with less efficient way. Bitcoin is backward thinking.
The problem with cynical takes like this is they absolve Google of any responsibility. Are they profit seeking? Yes. Does every for-profit company engage in 4D chess with its employees convincing them that unions are bad? No. This is a specific mea culpa of Google, not a flaw inherent in every company and we shouldn’t absolve them of fault because they’re “profit-seeking.”

> come ready for battle every day

On one hand, yes, it’s important to remember that you are only an employee at a company and to not get too doe-eyed about it. On the other hand, we shouldn’t have to come ready to fight misinformation from our own employer. Also, most people do find meaning and purpose from working, if they are working in the right career for them. It is an oversimplification to say the relationship between employer and employee is adversarial.
I think you’d need to either grant permissions (eg allow-ffi) or find a privilege escalation bug in V8 or Deno’s Rust bindings. The latter is less likely for sure. But being realistic, most people using Deno are granting some privileges, because most use cases at minimum do some I/O.

I’m academically interested if there are other such exploits, too. But I’d expect if they’re found they’ll be patched before they’re disclosed (or they’ll be exploited in the wild).
I misunderstood your comment on first read, and looking at other replies others did as well.

> Market is a fine fit for every healthcare need that doesn't start with a trip to the ER which is the overwhelming majority of healthcare dispensed in the US.

I think most people are interpreting this as “market is a fine fit for every healthcare need [except for those that start in the ER] which is the overwhelming majority...”

I.e. that you’re advocating the market for the majority of healthcare rather than the majority.

I think your actual recommendation is the opposite. Maybe this would be clearer if you just laid it out like, “Most healthcare is non emergency, cost is a primary concern which insurance makes worse, markets are good at solving cost issues.”

Responding to your actual argument, however, I see many people claim that insurance companies are taking a “fat cut”, but I see very little evidence of higher than expected ROI/ROE in Aetna / United / etc. (ref: United’s net margin is ~5%, ~15B in net income on 300B of revenue). ROE is ~20% which doesn’t seem ridiculous for an insurance business.

The bigger problem seems to be personnel spending in healthcare (admin, support staff, billing), and generally a systemic culture that’s not even knowledgeable about what prices they charge, let alone price conscious in the services they deliver.
"Ship it out of country" in what sense?

It burns the energy, providing no real value except that the coin 'exists' on the ledger. You can't use the coin for any real purpose.

Crypto finds where energy is cheapest and then ensures that it isn't cheap anymore.
Of all things to point your laser at, why an airplane?
> what's even more amazing is the quality of the finished output of the system, unmatched to this day.

If you are referring to the output of TeX, according to Joris van der Hoeven it is matched and surpassed by TeXmacs
Indeed, it's common nowadays to label things (ideas, people, etc.) in order to frame them in a way that's convenient to the labeler and helps him advance his agenda. I think given the global situation, some people become more sensitive to this kind of tactic (which is often used), while others have shown just how susceptible they are to it.

The author of the software didn't attack anything. He just pushed some code into a place he had legitimate control of.

Some irresponsible (see what I did?) developers downloaded and executed this code without checking, and as a result their stuff broke.
Hatred? It's just a fact. If you were smart enough, born in the right time period when computers were taking off, born in the right country that wasn't torn by war and poverty, and also born in a reasonably wealthy family to afford computers, only then did you become successful in tech.

Notice how all of those variables are outside the individual's control. I never chose to be born in the shithole that is Greece that was ravaged by the debt crisis, yet it affected me as an individual significantly. Sure I may have had the ability to fight my way through, but I know many who didn't. Furthermore, Bill Gates and Bill Joy never chose to be born into the year they were born just as computers were taking off, they just did. And they used their smarts to make billions.

The sad truth still remains that the strongest predictor of an individual's success is their economic and family background. No one has proven otherwise.
> They are also gerontocracies and will screw over young people to favour the old.

This probably says as much about the wider society that you live in as it does about the unions.
I think it's because Unions have been replaced by other mode of employee empowerment: stock options.

Think from the point of the Employee:

1- Union Provides rights; but the employee feels that most of the basic rights are either already provided, or if not, should be provided by legislation not by union action now, so better vote in your favorite politician rather than fiddle with a union.

2- Union provide benefits; but employee might feel the benefit provided by stock options supersede any benefit provided by union (stonks over pensions, basically)

3- Union provided job security; but people don't care that now. For themselves, the idea of one long term job with benefits is no longer relevant, better to work a few years, encash stocks and move with a higher signup bonus and a pay increase higher than any company raise.
For their fellow employees, you might NOT want to have job stability for the dick working next to you. If they are fired, all the better for your job, your stock not affected by their poor performance.If an entire department needs to be removed because their work is obsolete (say, ICE specific dept being useless in the new EV world for example) you might not want the dead weight.

4- Union provided social benefit; but linked to example above, instead of the dead weight employees being forcefully kept employed by the company, and hindering your work, you would much rather the govt allow you to kick them out, allow you to increase efficiency and raise stock price, and then TAX you... and provide them social security benefit, while they train for new work or whatever.
You are still morally satisfied because the social benefit still takes care of them, but they are not hurting your work (and your stock price), so you don't feel irritated by them.

-And many other such benefits in a similar vein.

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TL;DR: employees want the benefits that unions negotiated with companies (job security, health care) to be replaced by govt provided options instead (universal medicare, social security) and they want to be left alone to succeed and earn those stock options.

Basically, Tax me once a year and then leave me alone to work.

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Caveat: I'm not American, (or from any developed country for that matter) This is just my personal understanding from observing habits and social comments and actions of silicon valley types. E&OE.
Using someone's code (for free) doesn't mean you can dictate terms to them.
I keep the MX record all time and just block port 25. Before using it again I just double check that the global IP is the same still or if the MX record needs to be updated.

> But at that point, why not run your own MTA all the time and then just have your firewall cut port 25 off?

You could do that as well for sure. Mainly I do it the way I do simply because the mail server I am running on my desktop that I linked to is run from the terminal and I routinely close terminals which I am not using.

But for example instead of running the server from your desktop you could use the same general idea and have it always running on a Raspberry Pi and block port 25 like you say.
If it’s his project, as far as I’m concerned he’s within his rights deciding to make it do something different to what it did before, even if that is malicious. There is precedent for this with Chrome addon devs selling their addons to malware companies on the quiet.

That said, it is an attack on his users and it’s a shitty thing to do. He’s likely ended his career as an open source developer, and likely a paid developer as well.
Personally I think he did it to prove a point. IIRC he made a post last year where he said he would no longer be developing software for companies to use for free. This gripe is that he does all this work for free and companies then use his code to make money and do not contribute back to the ecosystem.

IMO this was not the most graceful way to make the point, but at the end of the day it's his project, his code. If you want the expectation of it always working, then pay him. Don't bitch and moan that the old man giving out free bread on the steps isn't here this morning.
You're not a cofounder. You're a contractor.

Drop the project. Then go find an actual cofounder. Go out there and find an actual investor. When an investor gives you money for an enterprise, you will find that you will incorporate, the investor will send you a term sheet that gives them some portion of the company, you will have options that will vest over time for you and your cofounders. You can skip many of these if you are solo bootstrap founding, but otherwise, these are just so standard that the absence is a problem.

Listen, you're a software engineer. Go get a job. You'll make enough to keep you alive for 4 years in 1 year of work. So do the 1 year, then come back and do this the right way: talk to users, talk to VCs, get your pitch deck game strong, incorporate, get funding, then work. When you are funded, draw a salary.

Also, let me emphasize: this is not a "personal hell". This is , apparently, a few months wasted on a project. Walk away. Get a job. Make some money and come back. It'll give you some perspective.
I swear I'm not normally this person but I think if 'web of trust' means a database that is replicated in parts across many different computers and uses cryptographic signing to authenticate messages, you're describing the thing known to the bros and the gen-Zs as a blockchain
IMHO the whole point of 9/11 was to make Americans feel insecure and distrust their government
I am so sick of null hypothesis studies and random statistic slinging. It means nothing. Average obesity rates do not tell the whole story (even so an 8% increase is HUGE). You have to look at variance. If the U.S. has a much wider variance then there would be a greater amount of people with extreme obesity which would definitely affect health care outcomes.
> treat the relationship as adversarial and come ready for battle every day against the legal structure designed to exploit you for the benefit of distant shareholders

Exploit you with industry leading pay and perks?

Unions are designed to balance out monopolistic / low pay / highly geographical companies like large auto manufacturers or airlines. There is so much competitive hiring in tech, it’s one of the easiest careers to switch companies if you don’t like who you work for.

You’re not “free” under a union either, you’re just swapping one boss for another. Except now your new boss wants a cut of your paycheck, for you to be a nameless cog in the system who has to put in time instead of effort and for you to be willing to go without pay for a period of time if they tell you to, while putting up with the same (or worse) bullying and intimidation tactics if you disagree.

Unions are great in some context, but for white collar careers with competitive pay and hiring practices in place, I can’t see it working out well, especially now that you can work remotely at most companies and literally choose any modern, remote-friendly tech company / startup within a few time zones of you.
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Results are the only thing that matters, everything else is just day to day pleasantries.
Poland ran similar US Concentration Cam.. I mean transit base for the CIA. No way in hell anyone will want to own up to that. We got President on the record saying he only agreed on the condition of treating suspects under prisoners of war conventions .. but somehow forgot to get Americans to sign the agreement. Prime minister was even better, claiming he - the head of services - didnt know what was going on in there :/

https://www.rmf24.pl/tylko-w-rmf24/wywiady/kontrwywiad/news-...

"There is only one truth. There was cooperation. And that's it! We cooperated with the Americans in the interest of the state. The state rose to the occasion. Islamic terrorism is a scourge. The biggest plague "" Even if there were such things, Polish officers did not participate in it (...). Generally, I am against torture "
"There were definitely things I didn't know about"

Wiki has whole section missing in English translation https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sprawa_tajnych_wi%C4%99zie%C5%...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stare_Kiejkuty_(base)
Instead of houses, young people have houseplants (2018)
Linux Mint signs a partnership with Mozilla
if you design a protocol to somehow have "upgradable" hashes, clients still need to be patched to support them, and old clients still will not work. Its the same mistake TLS and IPSEC made, supposedly extensible, but not really because to actually get new features, clients all need to be upgraded, and old incompatible clients still exist, and will never work with whatever new features you want to employ.

You aren't really gaining anything, and you might as well just have new versions of the protocol, and save all the pointless ceremony, complexity and security holes.

There is no way (beyond maybe embedding some kind of executable code in the protocol itself, which seems like an insane idea) to have support from "day one" for algorithms and functionality that don't even exist yet.
Are you comparing utility of hospital with proof of waste?
Rather it would be more relevant in the case of vaccines, becaase the reason we didn't have them was not because we didn't have the science, but because drug companies didn't see them as profitable.

A better hybrid public/private system would be for the government to put out bounties for companies to run large studies on research that looks promising, to determine effectiveness and optimize formulations. In return for paying for the research, government would get the patents. Paying for drug development with a patent reward only encourages deceit and high prices.

Dean Baker has explored this extensively, and is posting steadily about it recently:

The basic idea of government-funded research should not be hard to grasp since the government already funds a large share of biomedical research. The National Institutes of Health gets over $40 billion a year in federal funding, with the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Agency (BARDA) and other government agencies getting several billion more. This puts the government’s total spending in the $45 to $50 billion range, compared to a bit over $90 billion from the industry. So the idea that the government would fund research really should not be that strange.

Most of the public funding does go to more basic research, but there are plenty of instances where the government has actually funded the development of new drugs and also done clinical testing. But under the current system, most of the later stage funding does come from the industry and is funded through patent monopoly pricing. Relying on open-source government-funded research for later-stage development and testing would be a major change.

To my view, the best way for the government to support the development of new drugs is through long-term contracts (10-12 years), which would be awarded through competitive bids for research in specific areas, like cancer or heart disease. The plan would be that the contracts would be relatively large, with the idea that the winners would be comparable to prime contractors for the military.

https://www.cepr.net/more-on-open-source-versus-patent-monop...

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Getting Ready for the Next Pandemic: Can We Get Patent Monopolies on the Table?: https://cepr.net/getting-ready-for-the-next-pandemic-can-we-...

Financing Drug Research: What are the Issues?: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1134983
MFN Clause: In a most favored nation (MFN) clause, if subsequent convertible securities are issued to future investors at better terms (e.g., a lower valuation cap), the better terms will automatically apply to the investor's SAFE. This clause falls away on conversion of the SAFE into company stock.
This seems crazy, crazy good for founders (and difficult for many other incubators to match).
I am amazed at how fast the regular household went from 1 breadwinner to at least 2 breadwinners. I lived through it.

And I am confused as to what it exactly brings to the average family.
Happy to hear our government must pay Novak's court costs. The manner he was detained was clumsy and disrespectful, and makes Australia look bad.

The politicians down here are about optics and spin. Political blame games are the national sport, not cricket.

The media loves a villain to target. Outrage is currency. Drummed up, spoon-fed.

If Novak tests negative multiple times, that's enough to confirm he is safe.

Omicron spreads extremely easily among vaccinated people, as we know. Vaccination status is therefore not a significant variable in transmission risk. The charade of Novak being a "risk", is misinformation.

On Australian breakfast TV yesterday, a presenter said "think about the ball boys and girls who are at risk from Novak". This misinformation spreads to anxious viewers, who are accepting of information when it's framed in a public health crisis context.

Novak had Covid before. In Australia the guidelines are to wait 6 months to get vaccinated after infection. But the main thing is, when someone doesn't want the vaccine, their decision should be respected if they're willing to comply with tests and masks and other measures.