skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm in the space and it's actually pretty rare to see a real 3rd party host-based firewall. Most AV products that have firewall really just offer a different control surface for the built-in windows firewall or iptables.
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In Europe VAT is a line item on every invoice. And apparently in the US you have to do some mental gymnastics to manually add sales tax to the listed price to figure out how much to pay in the first place.

Of course most people have no idea how much VAT they pay for Amazon purchases in a year, but that's mostly a product of them not knowing how much they spend on Amazon in a year. If they know the latter, the former is trivial to figure out.
I'd want gatekeepers to gatekeep based on proof not based on feelings. American aviation is said to have its regulations written in blood, but the industry has a very methodical process for adding rules. Each crash has inspectors get involved attempting to get to a set of root causes which inform new safety regulations. It's an evidence based process. They don't just depend on the baseless ranting of some person's blog.
If folks are making the argument that risky speculative investments can be used as currency for day-to-day purchases, that’s an argument I’d hear out, but I feel like it would be a difficult argument to make.

And for the record, the argument I’m perceiving from you (“crypto is a speculative investment, invest carefully, enjoy it if you win”) is the closest to reality of all of these arguments IMO. But I do also believe that highly speculative things like this make for bad day-to-day currencies, and have not yet been convinced otherwise.
You don't give despicable people credit for doing the right thing because they happened to the right thing only because it benefited them.
This is arguably one of the biggest strengths of Matrix: there are a zillion clients for almost every imaginable platform, and lots and lots of libraries so integrations are a breeze. You don't need to violate the ToS (discord), get API keys/permission and agree to conditions (Slack), and so on, in order to do your own implementation.

Governments (including military), health care, and large enterprise have been moving to Matrix. It's enough of a threat that Slack had to get off their asses and actually "innovate" some cross-slack messaging.

Threading and more integrated A/V is what's missing, and both are supposedly in the works, but they seem to be perpetually "coming soon"...
Installing a Robust Dev Culture for the Micro-App Environment
The exact amount doesn't matter for this, all that matters is that you vote against taxes. It is sufficient that you suspect you may owe some amount and realize that you are required to figure it out. If it's hard to figure out, that serves the purpose of those who want you to associate negative emotions with taxes so that you'll vote against taxes.
> If a good is taxed at its true, global, long-term rate of externality, then the externality, the damage being done, is precisely being paid for. There is now no longer a net externality.

Why is there no longer an externality?

Let’s pick a concrete example: taxation of petrol in the UK. The externality still exists (say people in Indonesia living on the coast[1]), and more than enough fuel duty is paid to the UK Exchequer to cover the externality (from article: “Britain has had one of the highest levels of fuel duty in the rich world in recent decades, note Mr Lonergan and Ms Sawers, but drivers’ take-up of electric vehicles has been unremarkable.”).

You could make a colour of money[2] argument that there is no explicit externality tax. Or perhaps the victims of sea rise need to tax British petrol users? And I have a feeling your argument somehow ignores surpluses or market inefficiencies?

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/jun/29/risk-fro...

[2] https://bam.kalzumeus.com/archive/accounting-for-saas-and-sw...
I use it for quick edits or when I need to use macros. Although many Vim evangelists claim it‘s the best editor for coding, I have made the experience that VS Code is better. Vim is an extensible text editor, not an IDE. Sure, you can tweak it by adding all sorts of plugins like CoC for autocompletion, syntax highlighters etc. However, the tweaking often takes a lot of time, with the result rarely being better than an IDE.
Taxes and regulations are the recipe to lose elections, too easily used to swing "undecided" voters.

Incentives are giveaways, which even the most devout Big-R voters will jump on, because money is money.
It generally doesn't need e2e encryption, because it's strictly public or strictly inside-the-firewall.

If it had federation capabilities, or people wanted to use private groups, it would need e2e. I hope that's on their drawing board.
Nah, that was gcc.
> So we are really only calculating cosine from 0 to pi.

You could go further and only to 0 to pi/2 as it is mirrored and flipped for pi/2 to pi.

Or you could go even further and do only 0 to pi/4 and use a simple trig identity and your presumably parallely-developed sin function for the cos of pi/4 to pi.

> One of the implementations is nearly 3x faster than math.h

Is this true even for -O3?
> I recon safari counts for something? I guess they forked a while back from whatever chrome is using.

Safari used WebKit, and Chrome initially did as well. In 2013 Chrome forked WebKit to make Blink: https://blog.chromium.org/2013/04/blink-rendering-engine-for...
These "experts" have an agenda or their words are being taken out of context.

Somehow AES isn't broken despite there being hundreds (thousands?) of implementations across many platforms. TLS and HTTPS isn't broken despite devices from many vendors and running different operating systems being compatible with it.
TurboTax is one of the few pieces of tax software meant for offline use, thus letting you keep your personal information from entering the permanent records of surveillance valley.

Just quickly looking at CashApp Tax, it appears it is an Android app that likely will want network access to function. If that meets your requirements, good for you. But it doesn't meet mine. I'd also rather use the same software year to year so that information is carried forward, rather than being subject to whichever way the startup winds blow.
1090ez, or any of a dozen free-file options? State returns are cheap if not free almost everywhere.

The vast majority of the people who qualify for free tax filing have nothing to audit. The government makes enough money off their deductions, not to mention what they generate having to spend >50% of their income to stay afloat, to overlook a few unreported tips or sneaker sales.
> Nonetheless, it served as strong evidence as to how even really smart people can get caught up in cult-like communities.

I see it differently. It seems like strong evidence as to how smart the average googler really is. If you start with the assumption these people are smart then you can reach your conclusion, but if you discard that assumption you just have a group of gullible employees.
Most criminals aren't thinking about any of that at all. Either they're so goal focused, any possible punishments don't even cross their mind, or they think they're clever enough to not have to worry about it.
Everyone who had overseas bank accounts in 2002 Argentina did just fine. Bitcoin on a foreign exchange or in a self-custody wallet would also be just fine. Getting a foreign bank account is too expensive for your average Argentinian because you have to show up in person to set it up, but a self-custody wallet can be had on any minimal smart phone.
Democrats hold their own accountable for more than Republicans, even if it isn’t enough (it isn’t). The GOP couldn’t even kick Roy Moore to the curb.
All antiviruses should be declared security threat regardless of vendor. Just hope FTC stays clear of jetbrains
I assume that GPT-3 is just exhibiting rote memory. For small numbers, it has accurate answers memorized from the training set, but for larger numbers, it just "remembers" whatever is close... hence the ability to estimate.

My take is not that GPT-3 can run code, but rather that GPT-3 has memorized what code looks like and what the output looks like.
For those who don't like the UI design, there's significant work happening to freshening it up. See the discussion (and mockups) below.

https://chat.zulip.org/#narrow/stream/101-design/topic/UI.20...

Congrats to this team for the product they deliver and service they provide.
Any article that uses Norway as a positive example needs to also mention that that country is a large exporter of oil. How much of the incentives of e-cars come from oil profit?
I love the new Apple TV remote, but definitely do not buy Roku if you don't want to be spied on.
If you are audited by the IRS and they find that you overpaid, they will issue a refund. It's not a one-way street.
I could probably do my taxes with a 1040-EZ most years, but I still pay a local CPA $300 to do it for me. I'm just happier without $300 but with taxes done.
cough libc.so..
Considering the form of both halves is the same, are compilers smart enough to vectorize this code?
Hi. Author here.

It's not all historical stuff by any means; in fact, I tried to skew it towards stuff from the recent or modern era and things that are still in maintenance, still being worked on, or actively sold.

And, yes, I did consider VMS, but the article was getting too long already and while BLISS does qualify, it's also relatively obscure. Maybe I made the wrong call there: it's in current use, on sale, and about to become generally available on x86-64. Ah, well.
Well, I assumed that the only reason anybody was complying with an EDR was because there was a law mandating they do so. Otherwise, why aren't they just dropping these requests in the trash?
Writing a C Compiler is a book
I don't agree with your point.

Leaving in debug code, especially for an entire part of the launch that doesn't exist anymore by bringing in reused and untested code, seems like the real problem. I'm pretty sure integer overflow in this case would be undefined behavior, so you don't know what the compiler would do, especially since things were a lot more wild on the hardware side in 1996. Your point sounds like arguing that preferring Objective-C would prevent all those pesky `NullPointerException`s in Java since it allows sending messages to nil (null), but that's success by coincidence.

If you read the ESA's report [1], there were a lot of things which failed before you even get to the language. This software failure is the only one in the entire Ariane series of rockets. Considering that this is 1996, the list of languages to pick from was pretty slim, e.g. this predates C++ initial standardization (1998), `enum class` and other modern C++ features.

Even using just Ada 83 (of which 95, 2005, 2012, and 2022 succeeded and improved), I would argue that its forward looking features of preventing mixed mode arithmetic having properly typed checked enums and other features (like being strong typed) probably prevented a significant number of failures should other available languages at the time been used.

[1]: http://sunnyday.mit.edu/nasa-class/Ariane5-report.html
I highly doubt the assertion that spending money on buying and maintaining voting machines will ever exceed the cost savings from not paying people to count paper ballots.
Colleges, rightly have a minimum GPA to graduate. You can average grades on a 4.0 scale but not written feedback. Employers may use GPA as a metric when hiring. Written feedback can supplement but not replace grades.
How much time do people actually spend on this training? I am dead certain that the bulk of the time is spent on actually learning the material and not on gaming the test. This is because there are only so many tricks you can learn, and you can learn them all in a week.

> (the training that costs money, but is fundamentally necessary if you want to get into a good school

This is objectively false. Source: I went to multiple good schools and met a boatload of people who also got in without said training.

Also, that test-taking training is an overhyped and overpriced collection of cheap common sense strategies. You can learn how to do well on a multiple choice test in 20 seconds. You always pick the most likely answer. Strategies specific to things like the SATs boil down to memorizing vocab and doing a hundred practice tests. You can do this for a hundred bucks by buying a couple test prep books over Amazon. The part of the test-taking training that costs thousands of dollars is where they get a teacher with a fancy degree to babysit unmotivated children into actually doing the work.

> Moreover standardized tests in the US explicitly encourage that behaviour by being ridiculously time constrained, to the extent that if you do not get training in how to quickly answer questions, no amount of understanding the material matters.

There is actual academic research studying this, and shockingly understanding correlates strongly with being able to quickly answer questions. It's unfortunate that we can't assess millions of children by having them take time-unconstrained oral exams or projects, but the effect of training is grossly overstated. Show me any intervention (other than actually learning the material) that boosts your SAT score by more than ~30 points.
I'd switch too but that bloated right click menu gives me scares.
The article covers that it was Ethereum that was stolen. On the surface it appears none of the Axie Infinity based tokens were touched.
> The majority of cryptocurrency is not used for criminal activity. According to an excerpt from Chainalysis’ 2021 report, in 2019, criminal activity represented 2.1% of all cryptocurrency transaction volume (roughly $21.4 billion worth of transfers). In 2020, the criminal share of all cryptocurrency activity fell to just 0.34% ($10.0 billion in transaction volume).

https://www.forbes.com/sites/haileylennon/2021/01/19/the-fal...
The UI is nicer than any of the matrix clients that I've seen. If you don't need federation, Zulip is just nicer to use for nontech people.
It also overlooks the fact that elasticity is not constant, it changes as the price changes. Tax high enough, and demand will become elastic, if for no other reason than the tax becomes unaffordable.

If you believe that human society cannot afford to continue relying on fossil fuels, because they are an existential threat to civilisation, then it follows that the tax on those fuels also needs to become unaffordable.

Taxing fuels and other carbon emissions at a high enough rate to actually stop people using them is politically never going to happen.
Isn't using oil profits to fund a transition to renewable the ideal use for those funds?
> Police are "letting criminals run rampant" because they throw tantrums the moment money or accountability is discussed. Just watch how they behave the moment a city even whispers "pension" despite the fact that police pensions are crushing city budgets across the nation.

What? I see no-one throwing 'tantrums' in the articles you linked. I see some people trying to keep the pensions they have earned. Do you expect ordinary Americans to jump to take a pension cut after working all their lives?

And this in the hope that magically that money will go to the right places and reduce crime?
There are microeconomic concepts I learned in college that make decarbonization nearly impossible. First the FREE RIDER principle. Since CO2 (and methane) affects temperature globally, every nation (and individual) is incentivized to free ride off the decarbonization expenses of others. Second, the PRISONER'S DILEMMA. Most political systems have two main parties competing for power. Although both parties broadly agree that climate change is bad, policies that kick the can down the road are electorally advantageous (less taxes now always beats a better future). Thus the NASH EQUILIBRIUM is for political parties to always promise to undo any costly changes the other party is proposing.
That's pretty funny, good luck with that big attack vector on them
> apparently in the US you have to do some mental gymnastics to manually add sales tax to the listed price to figure out how much to pay in the first place

FWIW, usually in the US it's just a line item on the receipt or checkout screen.
The marine biologist whose photography pastime became a profession
Does anyone know what AmEx is doing wrt Russia?
Well, yeah, but OP claims doing REST client with react is something hard.
Sounds like a good opportunity to mentor not knowing everything and how to find that 100% certainty.
I wonder if this is a backdoor into having the IRS mail you your completed form to sign and send back, like many other countries do. Just file a 1040-EZ every year with only your personal details and everything else zeroed out, and then look over what comes back in 6 months. :D
To be clear, the property we want is, broadly speaking, "hard to tamper with (at scale) without getting caught". Ideally we would also catch tampering at small scale, but that's darn close to incompatible with denying vote buying. (A possible resolution is, of course, "well, what's wrong with vote buying between informed consenting adults?" But the unfortunate history shows that our electoral systems must compensate for underinformed coerced voters, and their regulations are written in blood.)

Existing voting systems do have a countermeasure, if not a fantastic one: creating a trail of physical artifacts that can be manually audited to verify vote totals, and a roll of accepted votes to compare the count of said physical artifacts against. It's not fantastic because the error rates on those physical artifacts are stupendous, but tampering with votes at scale can then require (a) physical access, which humans are well-equipped to reason about, and (b) generating and destroying big piles of said physical artifact, which is expensive and expensive to hide. The gold standard of tampering with physical elections that we know of is basically denying observers the chance to audit, which is rightly considered suspicious.

Tampering with electronic votes at scale does not have these cost properties. We can magnify costs without giving voters the ability to prove their votes to a third party (I am aware there are probabilistic constructions), but all such constructions (a) are much harder for the average voter to reason about than monitoring physical access (humans are quite optimized for monitoring physical access), yet (b) requires voters to actually audit their own votes and report non-inclusion en masse. You can see why this is a non-starter.
I would not. I would phish you running a script that adds my public key to your authorized_keys and would ssh from your client in the background creating a gateway port back to you. At that point I can get your ssh keys and just about anything else. If systems in your org allow ssh multiplexing default is enabled then I can also piggy-back your sessions bypassing MFA/2FA.

I say you but I mean most people. I'm certain that you specifically would not fall for it but about 10% [1] of technical people will.

[1] - stats based on past career and testing of a large technical population.
Also, please learn how to properly quote your opponent in an online debate.
I never said anything along the lines of "digital colonist who is doing it wrong".
That is your (wrong) assumption about what I wrote.
I asked if what's described in the original post can't somehow be considered a form of digital colonialism.
It's a rather important point for me, because when I discuss a systemic problem I'm strongly convinced we should avoid to call out individual behaviors, Twitter-storm style.
Lots of companies have reached out to him asking him to apply. I suspect he will get a better opportunity with better pay. :)
Previously:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17226169 (9 comments)
Was born in 1973 and grew up in the Redwoods of Northern California, near what would eventually become Silicon Valley.

In that place and time, the 80's were mostly a very fun and exciting bunch of years to be a child, with the crazy hippie 60's/70's mentality of the adults crossing over into a new "cleaner" era of exploding fresh technology and intelligent comic vision.

Records became cassettes. Being able to record our own sounds and listen to music on mobile devices for the very first time was totally amazing. The first personal computers arrived, which were equally incredible, although quite mysterious and complex.

Atari 2600 and the video game revolution hit, with all of us hooking up our new joystick machines to parents big Zenith televisions, while dumping quarters into arcades.

The arrival of the VCR was a breakthrough in being able to watch movies at home, GOOD movies such as Star Wars, Breakfast Club, Blade Runner, Dark Crystal and countless other great films from the time, many of which we saw in theater.

Really cool new music was coming out regularly, from bands like Depeche Mode and Oingo Boingo. MTV arrived and was extremely bizarre and brilliant, at first.

The environment was less toxic and people were far less paranoid in general. We spent endless sunny days riding bikes, swimming in rivers, climbing trees, building forts, go-carts, and causing silly mischief, without any threat of watching cameras. We could make prank phone calls in the middle of the night without any worry about "Caller ID." ;)

We were afraid of the "nuclear war" propaganda constantly pouring out of the 3 mainstream TV channels (PBS was relaxing) and some young friends committed suicide. Yet, the Space Shuttle launches were inspiring and we felt that America was genuinely dedicated to freedom, democracy, and justice. This illusion was eventually crushed, for me.

The 80's officially died in a wave of hip-hop, rap, awful "butt rock," bad films, and a sudden appreciation for general stupidity. The inspiring momentum of what felt like a positive movement seemed to fall apart suddenly with corporate consolidation of media, commercialization of everything, and a darker, harsher, lifeless cultural attitude.

Been missing that bright 80's era, ever since.
That sounds like an incentive to vote against complexity, not against taxes. Paying a larger amount doesn't make the calculation any harder to figure out, nor does paying a lesser amount make it easier.
capitalism cannot differentiate between efficiency and exploitation
I would 1) rename it to "how I work with you" and 2) reframe it like that

Make it "you-focused" toward colleagues. A lot of the pushback this is receiving here is because it's "me-focused" about OP.
sure. this only works if you spend that money to offset the consequence - i.e. direct carbon capture. then it really is no longer external.
> (or loss of fees when you didn't supply quite enough for the script to fully execute).

Are they planning to address this in any of the updates on their timeline? This turned me off from ETH completely, just feels like a house-always-wins situation skimming money from users.
> there is no webkit browser on Windows

WebKit does build on Windows, and it's possible to use bare WebKit: https://schepp.dev/posts/running-webkit-on-windows/
False equivalence. Email and websites have immense self-evident utility, thus they do not need to be defended. Web3 doesn't actually solve any of the problems it claims to, so the proselytizers are always fighting hard to downplay all the problems it creates.
The only interesting thing Chrome added was process per tab, which isn't particularly interesting. Firefox had at least 25% market share in 2010.
Not the worst use, for sure, but instead of incrementally improving the climate situation Norway is making it worse until suddenly much better, when everything is converted.