skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This may be a silly question, but whats the current point of creating more efficient methods of encryption when 20-30 years down the road we'll have things like quantum computing with 10^N processing?

Wouldn't that then essentially make modern encryption methods obsolete?

I'd like to hear a more educated viewpoint on this, because most of the sources I've read gloss over everything and make it seem like magic and this seems like a good thread to ask.

Edit: Thanks for the responses, I think I get it a bit better now :D
Certainly. The front page was sometimes an issue, but it never got to be a big problem. The comments, though... Those were something special. Pg's in particular. C.f. today vs https://web.archive.org/web/20080506031933/http://news.ycomb...

I remember precisely when the time period ended, because it was so disappointing: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2604359

What was it about the early comments that were so good?

The commenters were happy, for one. Most of life was pretty dull, and it felt like HN was where people came to life. There was less drama; people were less likely to type out a comment due to anger or frustration.

They were also stronger. People felt like they could influence the world, so they didn't spend a lot of time talking about how to do that, or how the world should be. There was more discussion about intellectual pursuits, or just interesting observations about the world.

The comment threads nowadays are pushy. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10748834 This is the opposite of how it felt in the early days, I think. People were more inquisitive, so they were less aggressive.

There is certainly a component of rose-tinted glasses here, though. Most of my feelings are because I was still pretty young. It was almost a decade ago.
> A Google Login isn't as drastic as it used to be.

To be fair, it's been possible to create a Google account without Gmail for a long time now. I remember creating one ~7 years ago, back when I ran my own mail server.
If this happens during a high tide... what happens when a storm comes? I'm not talking about 10+ feet from a hurricane... just a moderate gale should produce a couple feet on top of high tide, and wouldn't that just be the end of things?

I remember having the same general thought when I was in Miami beach...
Personal responsibility has a great deal to do with it, I think the low income is largely incidental. If the parents have learned through generational poverty to reject the importance of education, critical thinking, mental stimulation, learning and creativity then I doubt these parents would have become financially successful or have a brain running on all cylinders.

One way to increase brain growth is mental stimulation and learning, and children are very dependent on their parents to provide such. When it comes to genetics, unless you're taking about inherited mental disabilities or developmental delays can certainly account for some lack of brain growth. Otherwise it's largely environmental.

If a family embraces the negative values of generational poverty chooses to imprint their children with the same intellectually repressive values/lifestyle upon their children, then the children would not be exposed to any brain-building activities or stimulation. What do you think the brain development differences would be between a kid who watches TV vs. one that's given a 1k piece jigsaw puzzle instead?

Luckily there are some parents in low income brackets that heavily invest in their children's learning and character development because they want them to have a better life. Some kids find mentors and support outside the home. Poverty doesn't doom any child, but it can make learning how to make better choices in life far more difficult if they don't have anyone who can teach or motivate them. Difficult, but not impossible.

I'm another child of poverty, grew up in a ghetto. All things were equal with the exception that my family placed a high value on education and they were highly involved and active in my learning.
You designed... what?
Your first sentence is phrased too extreme :)

People who agree about objectives can still have (non-moral) policy arguments. That may be due to a misunderstanding or a lack of knowledge by some of the parties, or simply because society (and hence the economy as part of it) is an extremely complex dynamic system that we only understand in broad strokes. That's when the good kind of economics happens. (Unfortunately, most economics that you see in public is the bad kind perpetuated by "think tanks".)
What You Believe Affects What You Achieve
Skimmers found at California Safeway supermarket checkout machines
The response is not positive, to say the least.
Spotify has used Greco-Roman Pantheon names in its technology stack. I don't know all of the exact details for Apollo in this context but I assume similarities to existing tech is coincidental.
I think it's pretty fucked up you didn't read TFA.

"I don't have an existing Google account and I don't want to sign up for Gmail, Google+, or any other Google services. What should I do?

It is easy to create a Google account for any existing email address without tying it to any Google services. It will only be used for identification and login. You can sign up for this "slimmed down" Google account here. You can also create this type of Google account via the existing migration flow on firebase.com."
I don't know when the change was made, but conditional moves are fast and efficient on the last several generations of AMD and Intel processors. Usually, you are trading 1 or 2 extra cycles of latency against the chance of a ~15 cycle mispredicted branch penalty. If your branch cannot be predicted correctly ~85% of the time, this can be a significant win.
Bikes have the highest practical value of 100% computer-free objects, so this looks like a reasonable solution.
Sure cars are mostly idle / under-utilized, but when they are needed, what's the replacement? I don't really understand how a driverless world is going to solve the problem of X million people who have to drive to work every day at roughly the same time, and then get back home at night. For huge swaths of the country public transportation is unfeasible (basically outside of cities), and cars seem to fit the bill there nicely.

On top of that: "It'll merely spare consumers from a trillion plus dollars" -- seems a bit of an exaggeration, does it not? Transportation will still be needed, and it's going to have to be paid for somehow or another. If it's not directly towards paying for a car it's in taxes for infrastructure, or it's to companies who have to invest the capital and make a profit on it. It changes how the money is spent, I guess, and the hope is that it's more efficiently spent, but I suspect that the costs will just shift around and not necessarily save "trillions of dollars every decade".
So, honest question: is that a lot?

The workers are asking for the top band to increase by 5.3%, from 114 pesos to 120. They are currently making 163% of the minimum national wage of 70 pesos. I don't have any feel for how livable that is in Ciudad Júarez.
Companies like Infosys, Tata Consultancy Services, and Wipro who provide our country with tens of thousands of the world's greatest minds to maintain enterprise applications for about $70,000 a year.
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Congressional Leaders Agree to Lift 40-Year Ban on Oil Exports
Not only did you ignore what the guy said, but you don't even seem to understand the points you are trying to make. The reason why the dollar is a reserve currency, and why so many oil contracts are made out in USD is because both parties have a reasonable expectation that it will retain its relative value over a reasonable time period. This means that it is a reserve currency because no one group can manipulate its value. If it was subject to as much political machination as you seem to imply, then no one would want to use it.
Brazilian Judge Shuts Down WhatsApp
California rules (summarized):

A manufacturer may conduct testing of autonomous vehicles on public roads
in California if:

(a) The manufacturer is conducting the testing.

(b) The vehicle is operated by an autonomous vehicle test driver who is an employee ...

(c) The manufacturer can cover $5M in damages via insurance, bond, etc.

(d) Manufacturer’s Testing Permit from DMV.

Current California permit holders:

Volkswagen Group of America
Mercedes Benz
Google
Delphi Automotive
Tesla Motors
Bosch
Nissan
Cruise Automation
BMW
Honda
Ford
What I understand when people say the PC is dying is not that people will not touch a desktop or laptop at all in the foreseeable future but rather that the growth in sales will be much sharpernwith phones and tabletsbthan with desktop and laptop devices. They're not making broad, futuristic predictions. They're just trying to make sense of the market. The fact that Apple released a whole line of iPads kindnof shows this. That is just my opinio though.
SymbOS: preemptive multitasking OS that can play mp3s, video on 8-bit Z80 PCs
disclaimer: i'm an engineer at socrata

the Obama administration has pushed for more cities to start publishing this data. While it's pretty light on standardization of formats between cities, it's still a step in the right direction. in the next year we're going to start seeing more cities publishing use of force data [1].

One neat example is Indiana's page here
https://data.indy.gov/view/eg2v-uzn3 , though anonymized, you can still draw your own conclusions about things like race, sex, and age and how that plays into how willing the officer is to use force, and how far the force is taken

[1] https://www.socrata.com/socrata-and-white-house-partner-on-p...
Using hyperbole in a discussion about politics will almost always get you in trouble. To be safe from this, you basically have to talk about your political views with all the detached clinical nuance of a biologist "sacrificing" lab mice to biopsy them. (That was hyperbole too, and I fully expect to get in trouble for it.)

My personal ideal for "well-done political debate" is comes from economists: they can quickly distinguish between facts, speculation about facts, and value judgements, and then engage with the first two while steering clear of the third. (It does make for some silly interviews, though: journalists basically only care about people's value-judgements, and economists will redirect every attempt at getting theirs into a discussion about some fact or another.)
node child process module supports IPC bidirectional communication between parent and child processes.
Interesting perspective. If that's the current common view, then in a way I feel really outdated. I clearly haven't been paying attention and honestly haven't been aware that 'down-voting' has changed in meaning over the past 10 years or so.

Thanks for pointing that out. It's good to learn new things.

Although I feel kind of aged at the moment, it also makes me feel good knowing that I can now suppress people much more liberally and not [care if their content was meant to be constructive or not]. Who knew?

edit from: give a shit
I don't care who causes a thing like that. If it's the app I'll get rid of it, if it was the phone, id return it. That is way too intrusive.
One of the key points that is not covered as widely is that the workers were also demanding the right to unionize. This is a general right in Mexico but a lot of employers use a loophole where it's possible to have a "planted" union that's friendly to the company as the default union, I believe this allows the company to prevent the creation of another union.
>Not raising the interest paid out on short term bonds so that institutions are incentivized to keep even more money in bonds rather than putting them to work in the economy.

There's plenty of money around. Oceans of it. The problem is a lack of demand.
Scientists are perfectly capable of holding beliefs that they cannot prove.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_We_Believe_But_Cannot_Pro...

There's a whole book with responses from real scientists regarding this.
super pedantic but the coloquial usage of "working class" is not "middle class", but lower-earning wage brackets.

Even more OT but there's a pretty interesting study about how something like 80% of Americans think they're middle class when they're much poorer (or richer, sometimes) than the median household income.

Which gets you to the slightly absurd WSJ inforgraphic that showed a "Middle Class family" with $150k of income...
Yep, it's down.
Why do you object to this decision?

If I'm building a service that needs an account system with 2FA, detection of automated attacks, and some decent amount of internal security, I am surely not going to build it myself. It is just like rolling my own crypto in all the wrong ways.

There are a couple of providers that will do this for me, for free: Google, Facebook, Twitter, Amazon, and GitHub come to mind. Each has some tradeoffs of public perception, losing audience members who refuse to have an X account, etc., but it's mostly a tossup. For a technical service like this I might have gone with GitHub, but if they're owned by Google, having only Google logins seems like the right choice. (Among other things, you already have a Google account in a sense when using Firebase, it's just run by a separate team at Google.)

Sandstorm, a project that encourages you to self-host all your web services, came to the same conclusion:

https://github.com/sandstorm-io/sandstorm/issues/150#issueco...

Is there a better third-party alternative here, or a way to do this securely and easily yourself that I'm missing?
It's PayPal, not Pay-Pal
This was the first episode I watched, for some reason. Crazy spooky, but also really good. Got me hooked, for sure.
I don't see an issue with having more available options, especially in the fast moving JS world.

I think it's more important to consider the support behind a technology vital to your stack so you can expect to regularly integrate improvements, security fixes, etc.
> If you invite the economists, you will end up concluding that, in order to stop cancer, you'll need to stop the Demand for [whatever it is that] cancer [-ous cells like].

I think we're on to something...
It's like Black Mirror's Fifteen Million Merits[0].

If you want a great show about stuff in this space, check out Black Mirror.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifteen_Million_Merits
We're in this industry too, and I believe the HR/talent management/recruitment space is potentially huge and still nascent.

But after going to your web site and clicking "start hiring now", I'm afraid that I too don't get it. Unless I'm overlooking it, the site is entirely content free as to how/what your product actually does.
I'd expect virtually every product you purchase at a large store - computers, furniture, toys, food - to have a pretty similar labor situation behind it.

The shrimp we eat are farmed by slaves, FFS.
The most effective way is to work in another country, if they'll let you in. But often it's only a solution for people who are brave and lucky.
>but that's just irresponsible

It's not like it's unsupervised. Is it any more dangerous than taking a learner human diver out in a car?
It's funny how we've let success become something for rich people.

But hey, as long as I self-sacrifice to make sure that the wealthy can create more jobs, the good karma will eventually come back to me, right?
> You also cannot ignore that when the social safety net exceeds the value of working wages, particularly for women, there's a strong incentive to not work. Given the unavailability or high cost of health insurance, Medicaid makes that a no brainier for any woman with one or more children.

Which is why basic income, single-payer health insurance, and free college are such compelling ideas.
How can I cite thoughts in people's heads? Their opinions on why they switched? Apple did a series of commercials about switching to Macs and cited the problems in Windows. The FOSS community has been promoting GNU/Linux as an alternative to Windows for a long time now. This is common sense stuff that I shouldn't have to find a news media source on, because the news media doesn't cover that sort of stuff.

Most business software is written for Windows, some businesses develop their own custom apps or use Excel and MS-Office. So it isn't easy to migrate from Windows to GNU/Linux for them. I know this from experience as I worked at places like that. It is stuff that the news media won't report on, the business lock-in and when you Google Windows business lock in you get Windows apps for Business results so you can't find anything about the lock-in.

But back on topic ReactOS doesn't run the business apps a lot of companies rely on, so it isn't a good alternative to Windows yet for them.

ReactOS is for hobbyists right now because it is still in the alpha stage and not ready for Prime Time yet.

Edit: Typo
All I'm suggesting is that since CFAA has a history of been construed to be applicable in extremely broad-terms by prosecution and (although I have not done a close reading of the entire act it contains provisions such as the following in it's definition of CYBER THREAT INDICATOR):

> (D) a method of causing a user with legitimate access to an information system or information that is stored on, processed by, or transiting an information system to unwittingly enable the defeat of a security control or exploitation of a security vulnerability;

That OP's second concern:

> and I don't want my geolocation, etc. perpetually in the hands of anyone with a security clearance.

Regarding being under surveillance for what they may consider to be their normal or otherwise professional activities is quite valid.
I can't seem to complete the stripe checkout either. I would love to make use of this service!
California DMV tries to stall self-driving cars
>$9+ trillion in new public debt added in eight years, to go with ~$11 trillion in additional government spending, boosting federal spending by nearly 1/2, to achieve the slowest average growth in non-recessionary times in US history, and the slowest employment recovery in US history.

While I agree with the general outlines of your point, this really doesn't make the case. It's impossible to know what would have happened in the absence of whatever policy you want to discuss. You can say "We spent X and as a result our recession was the longest ever." But you could also say "We spent X, and despite that our recession was the longest ever." It's impossible to prove one way or another.
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Yes, it is common sense stuff, but the point is that many switched not because of the famous MS anti-trust rulings as you implied in the original post.
You have to agree though, "uhm"s and "uh"s are very annoying to listen to from a speaker.
Nice to see this here. Warren Ellis's newsletter is an amazing, ongoing view into the life & brain of a working (fiction) writer => http://orbitaloperations.com/
The best we could do, in theory, would be to allow them to work in the U.S. This helps not only the workers but their families at home, though remittances. Unlikely to happen in this political climate, though.
I was unaware that Python 3 removed the distinction between int (which used to be C-style int) and long (which was arbitrary precision).

If it's really idiomatic Python 3 to always use arbitrary precision integers for everything, then it's not really Julia's fault that Python 3 makes it more difficult to use performant arithmetic.
You wrote "The person who produces unwanted goods and services must...switch production to what is desired," which presupposes that there is something else desired, i.e. there is no general glut.

For example, we Americans demand less oil today than we did 10 years ago. This contributes to the oil glut, which has turned many drill sites into malinvestments and caused layoffs in the petroleum industry. How can you say that that consumer demand is irrelevant here? Isn't it obvious that if there was a nationwide ad campaign to buy gas guzzlers and take them on road trips, it would increase oil prices and improve the state of the petroleum industry?

And if it can happen in the petroleum sector, why not at the scale of the entire economy?
Hey, just want to say that you should tell your colleagues...great work! Last year I assigned my class [1] an exercise in HTML scraping the officer-involved shooting incidents of the Dallas PD (which was, with HTML tables, already far and away the most transparent department in this regard). Then a few months ago, I saw that the Socrata portal for Dallas now has the same exact data but as a spreadsheet/CSV...including URLs to the PDF narratives (I don't expect the narratives actually exist in a more parsable format on the basis of them being narratives)...and hell, that is not even the most interesting police-related dataset on the Dallas portal.

Whatever your public-officials-facing evangelists are doing, they are doing it incredibly well, at a level that I would have never imagined when Socrata first popped up.

[1] http://www.compciv.org/homework/assignments/dallas-ois/

[1a] Another example of someone resorting to programming to collect this data (which is how I learned about its existence in the first place): https://github.com/dallasshooting/dallasshooting

[2] https://www.dallasopendata.com/Police/Dallas-Police-Public-D...
Well, patently false... I think individual actions are negligible. In order to have an effect, you need a concerted effort from many people. I realise there's a chicken-and-egg problem here, because such efforts start with individual actions and need to gain critical mass from there.

I did not mean to say that such causes are futile. However, care should be taken that moral appeals are targeted and realistic, or they risk defeating both themself and other appeals.
To address just one of your points, quantum computation is not a silver bullet. It does not work the way one might think it works. Not many researchers are saying that they will replace classical computers, and for good reason. For many, or even most, computational tasks there is no way to get a large quantum speedup. (And classical computers have had a lot more R&D put into them.) Although easy integer factoring will break quite a few popular crypto schemes, like RSA, the risks of quantum computers are heavily overplayed. For example, I don't believe there is any known quantum attack against AES, which is a good start in a post-quantum world. (I can't think of an asymmetric encryption scheme that I'm sure is resistant to quantum attacks off the top of my head, since I'm no expert, but I'm positive some do exist.)
I don't think anybody believed there would be a larger increase, particularly in light of the lack of inflation.
For a moment sounded like a April fool joke
what i hear is that facebook is denying accountability over whatsapp here in brazil, and our justice system/police needs to get some evidence from whatsapp. ( logs, conversation,etc ).
EFF Asks Washington State Court to Protect Internet Free Speech
No it was Speedball apparently.

There was a Mutant League series of games that had zombies and skeletons and other monsters in it, and they had Football and Hockey and they could rip the other players apart as well, so it was like Brutal Sports Football. They should make a modern version of those games, I'm sure they would sell well.
I specifically had it written into my condo agreement that Airbnb is illegal, even though it is illegal anyways. It's illegal in lots of places, but people still do it--having it written explicitly in the lease probably makes it more easily enforceable. This is just added protection that holds even if the laws are changed.