skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've read some of his stuff on this issue, and noticed his experiment design was atrocious, and he has 0 peer-reviewed research. So, I'm taking anything he says with a grain of salt. (I've been doing user research for over 15 years, in a different context, but still I've read tons of HCI/UX work, so I'm not just talking out of my ass here)
> see e.g. Stuxnet taking out Iran's nuclear program using a previously unknown method of generating SHA-1 collisions, that looked kind of like how the academic community knew to generate collisions but with a different fingerprint)

To my knowledge, it was Flame that did this not Stuxnet, and it was an attack on MD-5, not SHA-1 [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flame_(malware)
This is like learning to juggle. You only learn by not doing it too much. Just five to ten minutes a day, no more, and then do that every day.
Judging by the lack of format customization and Gregorian-only support, I doubt i18n was the delay. ;)
I think cortical.io has had success with Numenta.

I also read Hawkin's book and loved it. I'm still hoping that they'll get something going.
I have used both extensively and love them for dev and non production environments.

Perhaps I have some old biases, but I have gotten caught up in noisy neighbor hell more times than I can count. Being impacted by DDOS attacks on your neighbors is no fun.

Add in privacy/security compliance where they attempt to leverage their facilities SOC2 reports rather than operate their own business to this standard and it just doesn't work for me or my customers.

EDIT: FWIW, my concerns tend to come from a place much further along in the game that might not be relevant to you right now. If you're still proving your business model and this is the fastest way to get there then by all means.
I gave up on ProtonMail. The lack of a calendar means you often need to go back to using Google Calendar or Outlook.com Calendar, kind of negating the privacy benefits if you're a heavy calendar user.

Secondly, its been years and you still can't store more than a single email address for a contact. This is so incredibly ridiculous that I have an extremely hard time understanding how they get away with charging what they do.

Lastly, the mobile app drives me nuts. I just can't get used to using it. You delete a message and a notification pop down drops from the top covering the next email so that you can't select it until the pop down notification goes away. This is deal breaking for me as if I have to go through 20 emails I have to sit and wait over and over and over again for this notification to go away. Yes, a message was deleted, I'm the one that deleted it, I don't need a notification telling me I did so. Infuriating to use.
> "I don't want to lose access to my email" (remember that availability is a part of security!).

Arent there many (difficult to judge how many) cases of people losing access to their Google account, and therefore about everything they had online (photos, email, videos, etc...). That is also scary enough, especially when it happens randomly with no clear reason why and the support of Google seems to be limited to sending info via forms in the hope of a future human interaction.
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Making the Leap of Faith – or so I thought
> That's the thing though: do people really enjoy passively consuming entertainment?

Our survey (size: 1, population: me) says "Yes".

> we end up with dysfunctional government.

Assuming you mean the US, you have a dysfunctional government because it was designed that way and has been gamed quite successfully by the GOP for the last 8-12 years (cf Voting Rights act, gerrymandering, SCOTUS stuffing, etc.)
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Thanks! Learning is certainly an application we've considered. We have found significant interest in structured editing paradigms from those newer to coding and those who find the code-as-text paradigm frustrating/limiting. But we certainly aren't setting out to change the minds of people proficient and happy with text editing.

We wrote up some thoughts on the economics of structured editing on our blog: https://blog.isomorf.io/the-economics-of-semantic-coding-7e8....

For those interested in this field, there is an emerging subreddit: r/nosyntax
Let me make something abundantly clear here.

There's absolutely ZERO discrediting of Susan being done in my comment that TK is responsible for his own downfall. I'm being completely misunderstood here.

My desire is simply to ascribe blame and responsibility where I believe it lies - at TK's feet.

If TK had not behaved as he had, and a. cast a blind eye to the offenses against Susan, and b. engendered a culture where others continue to deny and sweep offenses under the carpet, none of this would have happened.

Susan would not have been the victim of such awful treatment. It is so good to see her get out of there, and thrive after all that's happened!

YES it's good that she blew the whistle, but it's STILL HIS FAULT and HE is his own undoing.
"Without any warrant": what do you mean?
IIRC, you can do search with some homeomorphic encryption schemes, in theory.

In practice, yea, no search.
Of Course AI is a threat to the human species
> "Google employees with privileged access to Gmail are conspiring to be after me, personally"

I thought employees do not have access to user data. Can anyone comment on this?
Holy cow the site takes forever to load, the demo takes forever to load. I hope that's not representative of actual use, but I wasn't patient enough to wait and find out.
Is Ripple for Real?
Wow, this is certainly surprising. I wonder if there are any useful applications?
Or you could simply take the route that most monetized sites with RSS did, and only include the first few paragraphs of your content in the feed.

Ars Technica still does this, and it strikes a good balance between letting the user see what content is available in the tool of their choice (and whether they'd be interested in reading more), and the site/publisher having control over how the complete articles are presented.

Of course, this requires the site to actually have more than a paragraph worth of actual content for any given article.
Right, Snowden weakened US national security. He clued in the public to important secrets related to our intel operations, and ticked off public backlash against our intelligence agencies.

Now, Snowden sits comfortably in a country who is actively hacking us. I’d bet my life that high school students from St. Petersburg have more reverse engineering skills than all US undergrads, at least those who are now interested in supporting US intelligence operations.

Why HN praises Snowden, who committed treason against this country, is beyond me.

It seems that Snowden is part of an effort to divide and wreck the culture of this nation. Russians, on the other hand, are fairly unified in their fight against us. I keep encountering smart folks in this country who could help US national security but won’t on moral principles. Such a mentality was catalyzed by his actions.
While there’s definitely some truth to your point, I also know the vast majority of folks who own a truck that I know use it to pull a trailer regularly (as in multiple times a month). Renting would be an unrealistic hassle for them.
> The clear distinction between private and public is (in my estimation) more of an idealisation of free market economic systems than reality.

Let's look at mall cops vs real cops. A real cop has the authority to blow your head off, a mall cop not as much.

A clear distinction between private and public should be something to hope for. Otherwise you end up with prisons being run by for-profit companies, and leaders of industry writing the laws. That isn't a free market, that's corporatism.

People falsely believe that they can give the government more power, and in turn, the power will be used to regulate industry. Almost like raising a big dog to provide protection. But what ends up happening is, industry comes by with a big ole steak and wins over the dogs loyalty. And now agencies that were supposed to protect us are the ones selling us out.

If private and public initiatives aren't distinctly split, you'll end up with leaders of industry taking over the public sector and distorting the market for everyone else.
> Of course, you can just clone the git repo.

Cloning a repo is more intensive on Github's infrastructure then grabbing a zip file or tarball and pushing it into an object store with heavy caching in front of it. There was an open source project that was using excessive resources within Github's infrastructure by using git clone to update itself over a large audience.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11245652

https://github.com/CocoaPods/CocoaPods/issues/4989#issuecomm...
Actually ProtonMail does do this. They can't read your email so they can't know if you're actually abusing it via their terms of service. Thus if you file complaints against users ProtonMail will actually suspend the account without evidence until you clear your name.

It's abused fairly regularly in fact.
The less confusing distinction would be between "slow (absorbed) calories" and "fast (absorbed) calories". That's what "glycemic index" and all that is all about. Most fibers are especially about this: they slow the absorbtion of sugars and other stuff, so they don't cause a spike in blood sugar concentration.

You can even have basically pure carbs that are absorbed slowly and have a good glycemic profile (they are glucose polymers that take longer to break up into the glucose monomers they are made of). One of these is the modified starch that you can also get "naturally" by reheating some types of pasta, others are pretty weird chemical inventions that are not proven safe yet I think...

You could eat just "pure slow carbs" and throw in some vitamin pills, essential fats, essential amino acids and antioxidants (they would all amount to like a small fist of pills a day I think) and be quite healthy I guess. Not sure why would anyone want to leave such a tasteless life though :)

EDIT+: actually, scratch that, your liver might actually fail long term if you don't pass something more akin to "real food" through your gut at least occasionally, for probably complex reasons that amount to "the liver is a damn complex chemical plant that is expected to actually run continuously on all pathways, not to be left abandoned" ...I'm really looking forward for 10+ years results for the people living on that soylent thing only btw.
I bet its because advocates for exact language equality don't look at the code. They can see the url in the browser. But they look no deeper. Probably just as well as you demonstrate.
123G (saves you one “return”, which is an annoying key.)
Nice writeup. I'll keep this in mind for when PostgreSQL + SQLAlchemy would be overkill.
I respectfully suggest that, if he left it at that, there is something wrong with your teacher.

Further, I'll suggest that there is something wrong with that take on altruism, simply because that's not how altruism feels.
> “According to our understanding of the Standard Model [of particle physics], the Big Bang should have created exactly the same amount of matter and antimatter, but [for the most part] only matter remains,” says BASE Spokesperson Stefan Ulmer. This is strange because when matter and antimatter meet, they annihilate one another. Scientists want to know how matter came to dominate our universe.

We don't have any evidence that matter DOES dominate the universe. Distant galaxies could easily be composed of antimatter. Since the Big Bang should have created equal amounts of both, you would expect that in the vast majority of cases they would annihilate one another, leading to a universe overwhelmingly dominated by (wait for it) empty space.

We have tons of evidence that matter dominates our neck of the woods. Regions where one form is dominant over the other may be in the minority, but you would have to enter such a region to find stars, planets, and galaxies. The fact that we're here means that this must be an area where one type is everywhere and the other is almost completely absent. But as best we can tell, the fact that we're all made of matter rather than antimatter is the result of a very old coin flip. The probability that all of the galaxies we can see landed on the matter side of the coin is infinitesimal.
Yes. Though now I'm curious if a fund manager is allowed to continue collecting their management fee from the sanctioned investors' funds...
Sorry about that! We are experiencing significantly higher load than we are used to, but working on a fix presently.
Qubes has a nice fat attack surface known as the hypervisor. I'm skeptical when people point to this as the panacea of computing security.
Usually for whom? I would have assumed it meant "experiment" or possibly "solution".
AWS is totally for newbies, so long as you aren't afraid of performing sysadmin work.

You don't need to have some zany serverless infrastructure. The overhead in setting it up isn't worth the trouble.
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In what way? Do you want your router to expose a DNSoTLS endpoint to your router's clients or do you want your router to use DNSoTLS to fetch its results?

Both are technically possible but probably a lot of work if it must run on off the shelf router because the firmware choices are pretty limited. It might be easier to run your own DNS server off a Pi (or something) and have your router point your clients there.
For more info on this strategy, see this study of Walmart's squeeze of Vlasic (pickles).

https://www.fastcompany.com/47593/wal-mart-you-dont-know
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It’s not what you think. It’s more about disclosing business-related data or metadata (e.g. customer names, last time a customer logged in) than technical information (e.g. internal service names, minor debug information).
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I guess you dont know about Monero then?
DNSCrypt finally wins
Unfortunately, it is, in at least as far as a few different PIs all confirmed this number independently.
Yes, my apologies
Heya, it's a pretty cool idea, looks neat at first sight, although there is some polishing to do. The pricing section is a little unprofessional although the overall experience is good
This attack actually happened years ago at a company called Hushmail. Law enforcement had the encrypted email provider serve malicious code to the target which leaked the secret key.
What I mean by physical part being the harder here is that it's much slower and more expensive to iterate on.

You can make a lot of changes to software within a single day, for free (sans programmer time), and deploy them to all your customers. With physical items, you usually need to fab a new version for each significant change to test it, which is a time-consuming and expensive process. This is not something electronics-specific, this applies just as much to a new brick design.

This is a qualitative difference that makes physical product design an expensive process - you need to get all the things right before you start shipping; you can't just patch things after you deploy. But, as the article correctly points out, ultimately the manufacturing of a correctly designed batch of a physical item is cheap. Which means it's hard to make profit, especially if you spent all that money iterating in your lab, and then someone just reverse-engineers your final design and starts pumping out copies.

In case of IoT - common processing and communication chips are cheap and easy to get. Electrical engineering is hard and expensive, product design is hard and expensive, and - compared to that - software is cheap, because all IoT companies are doing is bog standard cloud-based CRUD.

(If they make the software part needlessly complicated for themselves, that's another problem, but it's endemic to this industry anyway.)
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To support your point, blue (the color) is "azul" is Spanish, but blue (the feeling) is "triste". As a native Spanish speaker, I was lost for a few seconds with your example.
I agree that having a fixed number of cards between reshuffles would be the fairest solution.
Right, I was going by their knowledge base article titled ‘IMAP, SMTP, and POP3 setup’ where they say:

At this time Protonmail does not support IMAP/SMTP or POP3 due to the technology ProtonMail utilizes within web browsers to encrypt and decrypt your messages. We apologize for the inconvenience and are working on creative solutions to allow IMAP/SMTP use.

https://protonmail.com/support/knowledge-base/imap-smtp-and-...
May be ProtonMail is owned by CIA. Who knows.
The exciting possibility isn't switching Python/Lisp/Java syntax (most people will pick one and stick with it), but being able to add language features and see your program immediately get more concise.

For example, Javascript added `bar${foo}`, but my code still has lots of 'bar' + foo. It'd be sweet to just click a checkbox and see my code get smaller on screen, without changing the underlying source code.

So what I really want is an editor that takes verbose languages and collapses common idioms into concise syntax.
Anyone remember HushMail? The end-to-end encrypted email service that didn't have the ability to decrypt your emails? They were eventually coerced to change their code and record passwords in order to gain access to an encrypted email account. ProtonMail is the same thing, give or take, just in Switzerland. They can be coerced just like anyone else.

People whose lives are dependent on secure communication still need to manage their own PGP keys. Once protonmail makes it possible to use your own email client with your own keys, then I'd say it's worth trusting.
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because the internet is free right now?
> Also, I think the true benefit of an optimized text editor isn't in raw time savings but in increased flow and just the joy of having a tool that feels like the extension of your mind, rather than something your mind works around.

I couldn't agree more. For me, that's working with a Logitech Anywhere MX mouse in Sublime Text. I imagine how I want the text on screen to be transformed and it just happens without conscious thought.
Better than gmail for certain. The false positive rate in gmail is outrageous.
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Genuinely curious, what part did I get wrong about altruism? How would you describe it?
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Wait, Yahoo uses Google Mail internally? o_o
> Why should I accept a performance penalty if I write in TypeScript, being so similar to JS? TypeScript is js with typing support

Indeed you shouldn't. TS set out to be "JS with types, that get checked then ditched". Has it morphed into something more? The above shouldn't be slow to generate. And as for code speed, not much code-gen should be happening in the first place once type info is erased from source as "TS turns into JS". I might not be fully up to speed on TS' latest developments however.
> the support of Google seems to be limited to sending info via forms in the hope of a future human interaction

People underestimate the power of a calm, deliberate letter sent by post with an elected representative or two copied.
Thought about it- the select (leftclick on the mouse) should be the most natural point to something gesture, so its indexfinger pointing and thumb-tip touching the midfinger-tip.
Also RFID is not bad for precise measurements.
Problem is haptics, selection safety (visual display in AR, and user-comfort. Any glovelike device (even if its just a fishing net of cables and sensor) will feel uncomfortable after a while)..

The good thing is there are really a lot of comfortable combos possible with just the fingertips touching one another.
I'm pretty sure they have very compelling reasons to believe that distant galaxies are NOT made of anti-matter.

Here is one I found in a quick search:

The boundary between any group of anti-matter galaxies and the region of space where matter is dominant should emit gamma rays, as the intergalactic wind pushes dust particles made of regular matter into one of the anti-matter galaxies. We don't see such gamma ray emissions in our observations of the cosmos.

Source: https://www.forbes.com/sites/briankoberlein/2016/12/27/could...
Glenn Greenwald: Why privacy matters (2014)
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Management incentives and profitability aren’t aligned to software quality...until they are (see: Equifax), and perceieved software quality is given priority over actual software quality. Also, if your product is a monopoly or relatively monopolistic, then software quality literally doesn’t matter because customers don’t have a choice...until they do (the very definition of disruption)
> Arent there many (difficult to judge how many) cases of people losing access to their Google account, and therefore about everything they had online (photos, email, videos, etc...). That is also scary enough, especially when it happens randomly with no clear reason why and the support of Google seems to be limited to sending info via forms in the hope of a future human interaction.

There are, but that's not incorporated into a threat model because it's not a security issue (at least not a first-order security problem).
I think you might be confusing CPU schedulers and IO schedulers. Linux never had switchable CPU schedulers.
Well, mostly disinterested in that it's really just a more precise measurement. The "breakthrough" in this case is a ridiculously precise measurement, which is very impressive, and is a huge step forward for particle physics as a science because it opens the door to measure even more stuff, but in this particular case it hasn't contributed anything "new" in terms of data.

There's a famous quote out there that goes something like 'the most exciting words in science aren't "Eureka", they're "that's odd"', and I feel that's highly applicable in this case. There's no "that's odd" event here, everything is exactly as expected, it all worked perfectly and produced exactly the result that was expected. That's great for affirming that all our theories are correct, and as I said this is a breakthrough in the quality of measurements we can achieve, but it's not a new mystery to explore, or an unexpected result that we can use to refine or develop new theories. Basically everything we didn't know before this experiment we still don't know, and we don't have any new data points except for having eliminated an area of uncertainty that new interesting data might have been hiding in.
You are correct in your assessment, but this statement holds true for any application. You must read the source before executing it -- and en suite you need to trust the hardware that's executing said code.

As it stands you don't send your password to proton -- they send you an encrypted private key that the password you type decrypts (at email creation time you generated that private key in your browser via openppg.js ) They most certainly could change their API to send the password to the server once it's typed in the UI. This isn't unheard of and there is large suspicion that law enforcement made hushmail modify their API for certain users of interest in order to decrypt their mail.