jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Are you familiar with the one time pad (OTP)?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-time_pad

As long as the key is securely shared between the two parties, this scheme provides perfect secrecy, and the proof of this is trivial (check the link).

The main issue (and the reason OTP is very rarely used) is the key distribution. Quantum communication can solve this however by providing a channel which can be proven (to an arbitrarily high probability) to have not been eavesdropped or intercepted. Sadly, this doesn't scale at all, but it does give us a perfectly secure scheme to build up from.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_key_distribution
No, he messed with real user data and then attempted to report it. Even if the FB employee had followed up correctly with him, he's still have broken the rule.
I just wrote a full post on this:

https://battlepenguin.com/philosophy/the-fracturing-of-the-h...
After the last 4 years the idea that there will be consequences for anything Trump does is laughable. He'll take up painting veterans or some other hobby and rehabilitate his image soon enough.
I don't think that's true. Trump's base is rural and suburban, white, non-college educated [1]. While income isn't listed here, that does not align with typical wealth distributions.

[1] https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2018/08/09/an-examinati...
I wonder why there wasn’t more security given this protest was known, and literally all of congress was in session.
> Really, just avoid any sequential, numeric IDs and you will be good, IMO.

Sequential ids make better as database indexes. Do you propose using both a uuid for external purposes and a sequential id as the primary key?

Or something like uuid v6? http://gh.peabody.io/uuidv6/ (which isn't widely supported)
There probably is, and it probably wasn't. There's a big difference between an office of someone who regularly meets with visitors and a room that is likely limited to a handful of people under controlled circumstances. It's likely there's a whole secured area of the building dedicated to operations (telecomm, engineering, etc).
I make a judgement call - either I end the interview immediately or skip most of the rest of the interview, let them think they made it all the way through the interview and say that we will get back to them with a decision later. When I end it immediately they usually take it badly but these are times that I just can’t justify wasting any more time on them. The bad reactions run the normal gamut of bad human reactions: angry, sad, indifferent, humor, etc.
Perhaps a Marsatic ;D
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Fairness-Doctrine
Fairness doctrine, U.S. communications policy formulated by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) that required licensed radio and television broadcasters to present fair and balanced coverage of controversial issues of interest to their communities, including by devoting equal airtime to opposing points of view.

Repealed in the 1996 telecom deregulation bill that cleared the way for the internet also took away the responsibility of the media to provide truth in the news.

Instead of charging for use of spectrum, it was given to TV and radio networks but they were required to provide responsible and truthful news.

Maybe that was a good idea ? Perhaps, the old timers knew a thing or two about how to keep an informed public so that democracy would work.

Go ahead and down vote me like usual. But I am not wrong.
AFAIK fonts are not copyrightable in most countries, what is copyrightable is the font file itself (of course) as well as the code (if any) for vector fonts that produces them. However using the font isn't copyrightable. The design might be under design patent and the name trademarked, but not the font itself and these really cover the entire font designs, not their applications. Someone printing a paper with the font isn't infringing on any copyright.

At least that is my understanding of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intellectual_property_protecti...
My biggest complaint with Tasker is that it has no concept of default settings. I've tried Tasker on multiple occasions, and every time I come away with two frustrations: a) it's way too complex to navigate and configure, and b) I always end with my phone in some weird configuration state that I don't want it in, because Tasker doesn't let me set default values.
This is way too much analysis for a simple conclusion: some jobs are satisfying, and some are not, and various factors are important in evaluating whether one's job is great, acceptable, or unacceptable.

The important thing to take out of the job satisfaction discussion is that if you enjoy doing the work (and that includes the social aspects, such as communicating with people you rely on and those who rely on you) and you are learning, you are probably doing fine. A four-legged coffee table, or eight-legged spider, metaphor isn't really necessary.

Stability, in my opinion, is overrated. The risk of losing one's career is rarely worth taking, but job volatility is, as long as it's fairly compensated, fine. I'd much rather have the job-vol of startups or finance than the long-term risk of career ruin involved in late-stage academia.
I agree with the author that the stigma is that you only work at McDonalds if you are a loser. At least in major cities. I grew up in the country as well and perhaps the teachings are a tad different there. I was taught that any income is better than no income. And McDonalds is some income. Now all you see are a bunch of people attempting to become the next Facebook, google or Color. Too many people think that if they work at McDonalds or any other fast food joint that they are stuck there instead of realizing that they are actually contributing more than just slaving away.
I submitted this right before :)
The website in the OP is mine, so far all people who are interested in the uncropped lists, you can get it at http://www.the-interweb.com/bdump/misc/salaries.xlsx

The first sheet inside the Excel file is probably the most interesting one, showing software/computer/engineer salaries for nearly 3500 jobs.
It's really nothing sophisticated. It's just stepping back once in a while and looking at what's not working, trying again while changing something small and noting what does work. Surely, you already do this at some level.
Having a damn near indestructible rear window on a pickup would be nice. I can't count the number of times I've not thrown something into the bed of my truck from a distance for fear of it bouncing into the window.
If they argued for some counterbalancing arrangement with the money raised they were probably on the left if they just said "well, I guess we just have to stick with what we currently do, it's not like government intervention would be desirable here" then they were probably not actually on the left.
Really weird if you read that post and that was your only take-away.
It’s a fair enough position but I think you’re also being pedantic here.
I try to separate these matters from the creation and judge everything on its own merits.
If you notice, on the second test, he was hitting much weaker and the glass still shattered.
That's what you get from buying the newest, shiniest ad without the customer caring about the product itself.

This approach has been glorified and happily adapted by everyone in the past decade just for the purpose of getting external validation on social networks.

We are just witnessing late stages of that.
What kind of specs would someone need to reproduce this on a Linux system, say?

Are there any FOSS projects that are doing this?
They don't sell the A1 in the US, and that version is actually the S1 and cost £27k for the base version when launched here in the UK. It's a bit of a one-off they sold hardly any of them.

Again, there are fast A3s but the vast majority sold aren't that quick.
You can fix your time machine problem by changing its priority.

http://osxdaily.com/2016/04/17/speed-up-time-machine-by-remo...
Flawlessly. The center of mass is low, so really no problems. The physics is on your side, that's the fun. Whenever you push the throttle, it will always want to keep you straight (not tilted). And I've just understood how difficult it is to explain the experience by text haha
Gamestop went from 90 to 140 overnight in late/early trading - when retail on reddit are locked out.

This isn't a reddit, or even retail, pump and dump.
One I have not seen explored anywhere else:

http://cantrip.org/slow.pdf
Some people are privileged enough to be able to get jobs where they don’t need collective bargaining to get decently fair compensation and decent working conditions.
Room for surfboards?
This implementation is flawed. Each shard gets a unique substitution cipher making this nothing more than a cryptogram generator. Input "aaaaabbbbbcccccdddddeeeee" with any number of shards/threshold to see.

Taking the message bytes (starting at byte 23), you can run a frequency analysis and recover any sufficiently long english message from a single shard.

I have not come across a good library that implements SSS over finite fields that was easy-to-use, reliable, or robust. Any suggestions would be welcome.
I've always felt that's why this kind of reporting is pointless. I don't care what some guy I don't know, who doesn't post his credentials, says about a technology that's very complex. I'd rather wait for Wendell Wilson to do a video and I'll watch it on Level1Techs channel on YouTube.

This whole model seems pointless and strange to me. We no longer need "tech journalists" when you can have literal tech experts creating videos that cover all this stuff in far greater depth.

I'd love to see the metrics on this article versus the best tech expert YouTubers.
The port design is intriguing. My concern is your main competition, at least from me, is against Lenovo. Their thinkpads don't offer the modularity of IO ports, but instead simply offer "one of everything", with user-replacable SSD, HDD, and RAM modules, which is enough for most users. Swappable screens might be enough of a selling point, but, I'm holding out for the actual final specs. It doesn't look like it can fit a dedicated video card, so it's no competition for the Legion line, but it might stand up to the Thinkpad line.
It depends, if your company has the money to hire a dedicated backend programmer then Firebase wouldn't be needed.

But if you're trying to solo develop or working on an extremely small team Firebase can do a ton of the heavy lifting. I can put a server up ,but I find backend programming to be very boring
This is a truck designed for people who don't need a truck but would like to appear as though they do. It's like a fake status symbol of being working class for someone who buys 40k plus vehicles but wants to downplay their wealth. Basically for the Range Rover crowd except they put a bed on it to show how serious they are about its truckness.

Can't really see anyone who relies on their truck for actual work wanting something like this and the product page is clearly geared towards more outdoor recreational types (Eg. Pics of the camping top extension and towing a weird looking camper or futuristic dirt bike). Compare to Ford and Chevy marketing.
maybe once the reality of the armor sinks in people will re-evaluate the esthetics of it.
I have no doubt whatsoever than the political establishment of any country would be extremely happy if all this social media rigamarole would just go away. Like it or not, with all its problems, Facebook has become _the_ de-facto political-organising platform for the masses. Its virality and communication channels help grassroot causes immensely, annoying political professionals who are used to control the conversation with traditional methods.

Whether or not FB (or any other social platform) is a net negative on the world, helping fake-news stuff and empowering nazis, it is an actual fact that large chunks of the political discourse in open societies now lives there. Because the platform is relatively open, it often tips the balance of power away from established interests and into the hands of the otherwise-disenfranchised.

Does Zuck need to clean up his act? Sure. Is privacy-oriented EU legislation right, to clamp-down on the current wild-west? Totally. But beware of people using these excuses to provoke denial-of-service attacks on services that help more direct democracy, because they are using our good intentions to pave a shiny new road to a hell they can thoroughly control.
I wish it had 2 USB-C ports:
- one for a displayport panel.
- one for my mouse and keyboard.

Then I would not need to look for shmol AMD rembrandt APUs boards with such connectors for a "modular" laptop: 1 clever backpack + 1 displayport panel + 1 battery pack + 1 AMD rembrandt APU board (and its casing) + mouse + keyboard.
Ofc, running my custom linux distro with the klugde required by the steam client (bash/dbus/etc) and some games.
International news organizations don’t really have a dog in the American Left\Roght divide, and yes, they all pretty much agree that the Modern GOP is terrifying and batshit insane.
One issue is if smart people are more trouble than they're worth. I've seen too many 'smart people' drop in and do a bunch of fancy stuff that no one understands before leaving again because they're 'smarter' than everyone else. I'm still not sure if they were smart or just thought they were.
> was much more a part of a client-patron relationship

This is, AFAICT, taking a tiny minority of literate/skilled/highly trusted slaves and treating them as the norm. The slaves who were basically worked to death in the Roman mines were not meaningfully "clients" of their masters. They were very much seen as mere instruments, or chattels, even without a race-based justification. It's interesting that the most refined and perhaps benign forms of slavery could shade into patron/client (and the Romans would've known this - the freedman was literally a client of their former master) arrangements, but that was not the wnole institution.
Well, there will be a period of adjustment as they find their equilibrium.
> I don't think that's necessarily absurd.

> The sword in question would just have to be converted to work with the game itself, or you get a representation of it.

“just” is doing a lot of work in that sentence. For that to happen, you need all of the following to be done:

1. The second game's developers need to license the rights to use the first game's assets, which may not be possible at any price short of taking a controlling interest in the first game's owner.

2. The developers need to convert the assets into a format used by their engine: converting images, animations, sounds to the format they use (e.g. the major game engines don't even agree on which direction is up); things like 3-D meshes need to be imported and adjusted to the right size; sounds need to be normalized to match the rest of the game's assets.

3. Any custom behaviors (which are often why you care about this thing in the first place) need to be implemented and tested.

4. The item needs to be balanced so it's not too weak (the “owner” won't like that) or too powerful (everyone else won't like pay-to-win).

5. Game B needs to know that you hold that item in game A, and yank it if you sell it.

All of that costs real money, which means that the developers of game B are going to need to charge you even though you already paid a premium for it in game A. The part that NFTs can do is by far the easiest part and can be done far more cheaply in any scenario where step #1 has happened. If you do the easiest one (cosmetic only), it's still more expensive in terms of artist time than almost anyone is going to want to pay.

In all cases, the big question is opportunity cost: if game B's developers are going to spend a million dollars implementing something, do they spend it chasing items which game A's made the profit on hoping they can convince whatever fraction of the people who own game A but were unlikely to buy game B to change their minds, or do they build something they can sell to as many people as possible without having to share the profits?
You can write a forkbomb in any language -- that's besides the point.

Some languages are easier to write broken code in than others.
I share your disappointment over the regression in native support for new titles, but "no one" is an exaggeration that does not do justice to the developers that still put in the effort to release native builds:

https://store.steampowered.com/search/?sort_by=Released_DESC...
saving you a click: corporate takeover because, as corporations are "people" in a legal sense (although only when it benefits them to be so), they have a right to free expression.

therefore laws which inhibit corporations from pumping money into politics violate the First Amendment, although scanning every email you ever write does not violate the Fourth Amendment. (spoiler alert: yes, it does.)
Your summary is laughably, trollishly incorrect.

>His study, he said, analyzed First Amendment challenges from businesses to an array of economic regulations.

Actual summary that's based on the actual article and not whatever tripe you think you read:

Based on an analysis of challenges to various laws on 1A grounds, more challenges are being made by corps fighting economic law (as if money were speech), than by the everyperson.

I'm not sure the conclusion bears out, though. The (patently insane) idea of money==speech is relatively new. Are there really that many first amendment abrogations happening on a daily basis for normal people?

I'm also not sure why you chose to make this a partisan issue. Both major political parties are bought and paid for by large corporations, and framing corporate gaming of the system as a leftist-only issue is incredibly dishonest.
So Oscar Wilde never met a genuinely kind and decent person?
I never understood how a potential restriction of commercial speak would look like. Which of these consists of commercial speech and which should be protected?

1. MSNBC or Fox News hosts opining on TV

2. An unpaid op-ed in a for profit publication

3. A paid op-ed in a for profit publication

4. Someone handing out political leaflets in the street for free

5. Someone handing out political leaflets in the street for money or some other benefit

6. The movie Juno (could be both pro and anti abortion, depending on who you ask)

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josh_Billings

The article mentions, by photo, two others of a trio of 19th century American humorists - Mark Twain and Petroleum V. Nasby. All three are pen names ...
The Spectrum's print edition is exceptional; That being said though, any moderate technologist can read the Spectrum. The Spectrum is not a collection of whitepapers, but a series of articles on broad topics and even investigative reporting that I wish were more mainstream (e.g. Dec. 2009 article on what its like to run an electrical generating station in Gaza). Pretty much any Wired reacher can handle it if they can stand not having a liquor ad on every other page.
When I complain about the state of something in the US, I sometimes get told, "This is the best country on the planet!" My answer is always, "It got that way by people like me always making it better."

Just because something is the best is no reason to stop improving it.
I'll second that question but also point out that it probably would make even less sense to charge for the service.
No, it seems like Chiebukuro (the Japanese version of Yahoo Answers) is not ending.

At least, on their front page they do not hint at any such intention: https://chiebukuro.yahoo.co.jp/
Despite using 2FA and listing my number on my profile - albeit restricted to "just me", I don't appear in the data. It's not as simple as they just having a record of it somewhere.
It allows you to input non-numbers (e.g. with paste). My recommendation would be to strip out any non-numeric characters after the user clicks the button
" Watching from Europe, where roughly nobody is diagnosed with it nor prescribed drugs to treat it"

And here is yet another victim to the 'Europe is a homogenous country-like entity' fallacy. Where in Europe are you talking about, and what age category? Because I can tell you that in the Netherlands this is very much wrong.
I wouldn't say founders selling is a red flag. Often the overwhelming majority of their net worth (plus a decent chunk of their future professional earnings) is tied up in their company. At some point they need diversification far more than they need to maximize returns on company stock.

Early investors are another matter, of course. They usually have other ways of diversifying so that's not a plausible motive for sales in most cases.
I used to joke that when a solution was known to exist the problem was "trivial"; when a solution was not known to exist it was "nontrivial". A problem that's bloody well impossible is "decidedly nontrivial".
My point is it outperforms the top-end F150, just like Elon promised it would, while also beating a Porsche 911 in a drag race. Just like Elon promised it would.

I haven’t done enough research on F-150 but I would guess it outperforms a more expensive F-150 at each of the 3 price points offered.

And that’s before accounting for maintenance and fuel savings.
Why have descriptive variable names if you can just use random greek letters

Because math is abstract. The variables and constants don’t mean anything in most cases and are only given different symbols to distinguish one from another. Descriptive variable names or even descriptive subscripts get OLD very quickly when you’re working through a page of calculations to solve a problem.

The beauty of math, if you’re using it to solve some real world problem, is that you can forget about what the symbols mean and focus on solving the equations, evaluating the integral or derivative, or whatever other calculation you’re doing.

Once you’ve completed all of the calculations and gotten your answer simplified as much as possible, then you can go back to the problem you were trying to solve and interpret your result in context. Since you’ve done all of your calculations purely symbolically, you can see the relationships between the quantities you’re working with. In many cases, some quantities you thought were important actually cancel out and don’t appear in your final answer at all. This tells you something fundamental about the independence of your quantities. Perhaps the most famous case of this comes from physics: the acceleration of an object in free fall is independent of its mass. You would not see this so clearly if you substituted numerical quantities as soon as possible.
Ha, it was my experience with HPC that lead me to convince our CCIE network admin that CAM tables even could overload on a vlan of that size (we were using layer 3 switching to route tons of other vlans and this particular vlan was very active in traversing those boundaries and was also using multicast and lots of other weird things). We were seeing an issue when where computers on the same switch would lose their ability to see each other, even if they could see other machines on a different switch and everything about it smelled like the cam table was not accepting new entries. I finally convinced him to clear it out on one affected port and it worked.
The prisoner’s dilemma isn’t a good fit here.

The problem is, it assumes the prisoners can’t talk to each other and don’t have an ongoing relationship beyond the one transaction.

In fact, in general, social issues — from the personal level in up to global level - rarely, if ever, restrict he flow of information like that.”