skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The upper echelons are awash in cash. The ratcheting down of taxes on corporations and profits, frees up that capital for investment. There is more capital than sane investments, at this point.
Agreed on NFC but they support 4096 bit RSA in the current generation hardware:

https://www.yubico.com/product/yubikey-4-series/#tab-specs

It suffers the usual PGP-world usability problems so I ended up not using it very much but it was definitely working and takes noticeably longer to generate the key than a 2048-bit key does.
i never saw any green jobs by the millions that obama promised during his campaign. Whats ur point?
There's an extreme bit of ranting about Brooks here (not a fan at all but it's a bit much.) A better source is the blogpost he quotes[0]. Unless the topic is Brooks specifically.

[0] http://justthesocialfacts.blogspot.com/2018/04/all-lonely-pe...
Please don’t use code formatting for quotes. It makes the text unreadable on mobile devices.
I’d like to see Safari support... does anyone know if it’ll have it (perhaps thru a sharing extension?)
> In verge's case, both are identical, at 2 hours.

Naive question - is verge adjustment window defined in block time (as opposed to "human" time)? because

> Bitcoin allows a 2 hour drift, but has an adjustment window of 2 weeks.

The adjustment window is technically 2016 blocks, which is about two weeks in human time, but can in theory vary greatly if mining capacity fluctuates.
Seems like Honda or Toyota or Ford or someone who actually knows how to make cars needs to buy them and fix this.

Tesla’s electric car plumbing seems to be fantastic but they can’t make a good car on top of it (at volume, price, quality, and on time). Selling their tech to someone who knows how to do that would be an amazing combination.

I suppose they could go straight licensing too.

But I think it’s clear they can’t continue as is, they’re doomed that way.
In the same vein there's Mithril. It's 8kb but includes a router and a fetch polyfill!

I love these little JS frameworks :)

https://mithril.js.org/
There's a fascinating video on this, which features the current world record holder, Alex Barron — who holds the records for most balls juggled (11) and most balls flashed (14).

See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RDfNn7crqE
I can't recommend David Brin's "The Transparent Society" hard enough on this topic [https://books.google.com/books?id=wg4XBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA336&dq=0...].

It's a bit dated, but the basic premise---the pattern of technology getting smaller, cheaper, and easier applies to surveillance technology also---tends to continue to be an accurate depiction.
It is, however, inappropriate to use facial recognition technology which is fundamentally terrible to primarily frame innocent people as known criminals. An encounter with a police officer, especially after 'the computer says you're a criminal', is dangerous. And facial recognition software is profoundly bad at its task. So this amounts to nothing but putting a bunch of innocent people in the crosshairs just so cops can feel like futuristic cyberwarriors.
It's always to learn about new things in areas you already thought you'd covered. I'll definitely look this up.

Another common issue I've encountered is with representing reorderable items. I've usually just amortized a partial renumbering that works well enough but always wondered if there's a better way. Would storing balanced trees and using a recursive CTE work as well and be a bit simpler?
Wow kudos to the author! Very nice resource
This also seems backwards to me? If you can get RCE or privilege escalation on a server, isn't that much worse? Or is it the difference in purpose between targets/adversaries? E.g., a server side vulnerability maybe you get to dump a companies records but something like no-click jailbreak + a high value individual => all their personal information?

Or else, why do buyers want clients?
> but the average disbursement for DAFs is about 15% per year.

What makes that number suspect is double-counting: a donation from one DAF to another is counted as a disbursement, heavily skewing the numbers. The economist looked into this: https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2017/03/23/a...

> But it is notable that the biggest recipient of DAFs’ gifts is none other than Fidelity [Charitable]. The third-biggest is the American Endowment Foundation, another DAF supplier.

It's essentially wash but runs up the apparent DAF donation count
Fascinating observations about Cells and DNA !!!!

> This sort of organizational grouping is found at all of the levels of abstraction in life. Even your DNA is not really a unified whole, it's a bunch of genes that have glommed together in a cooperative effort to reproduce themselves, but it's not an organized or homogeneous effort. That's why you have freeloaders (which are called "junk DNA") and defectors (cancer) who put their own interests above those of the group. What happens at the cellular and molecular level is really not so different from what happens in human societies. The presence of brains changes the dynamic, but not in any fundamental way. At the end of the day, it's all just self-replicating information looking for an ecological niche and a reproductive edge. The idea that human individuals are somehow special in this process is mostly a prejudice brought on by our particular point of view, namely, the fact that our thoughts reside in brains that are strongly bound to bodies. The ability to see beyond onesself can be both powerful and humbling.

Ant Colony Is Likened to Human Body : a 1985 Research study https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1985/07/05/a...

Secrets of a Superorganism https://askabiologist.asu.edu/explore/secrets-superorganism
Facebook CEO speaks to select members of European Parliament
I taught an undergraduate class on this topic once and was pleased to find that, in the early 1990s, existing textbooks and papers and articles in things like Scientific American had a ton of imagination about non-liquid-water, non-carbon, etc.
To add to your argument, there is a relevant probability that batteries in 10 years will be based on different chemistry. I don't think Tesla is in basic battery research, so there is a chance that whoever who comes up with a better mouse trap makes Tesla's battery knowledge obsolete quickly.
If you're checking your phone when you're bored than it seems like you are getting bored still.

Maybe you'd be better off reading a book, or coming up with a creative solution to some big problem, but thinking back to pre-smartphone decades, that's not really what people were doing.

There's a significant difference between people who have replaced their previous time-waster go-tos with phones and people who are truly addicted, and the public discussion has done an absolutely shitty job of distinguishing these things.

The poster above said "when I'm at home," which doesn't exactly specify if it's diversion or addiction, but seems more like the former to me.
You don't get the full extent of the damage. You are making the assumption that the government and police departments are the only ones that will do mass-surveillance.

You could not be more wrong. Everyone will do mass-surveillance. Everyone. The police is worst, because they will legally use violence against (true AND false) matches, with limited to no recourse for their victims. But the cats' out of the bag. Legal or not, mass surveillance is not going to happen ...

It is happening.

They will even sell that information on. "Alexa, which bar has the most blonds going into it ?" coming up soon. Or worse: "Alexa, can you tell me who is my daughter's boyfriend with face recognition ?" "That'll be $0.45, buy ? $1 extra if you want to know if they have sex. Included for free with Prime ! Order that instead ?".

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/the-surprisi...
'A colleague once tried to put a flatworm in his mouth, Justine recounted. The man still describes it as “one of the worst experiences of his life.”'

...why would you do this?
Simply put, Tesla has high expectations built into their current price. These expectations exist because they are several years ahead of their competitors in key components and they have lines of business available to them that are not available to GM or Ford.

TSLA is the most (or amongst the most) shorted stock on the market, so a lot of people have a lot of money riding on being able to convince people that they can never meet those expectations. So we hear a lot about Tesla having trouble ramping up to 20,000 units/month, but we don't hear very much about GM having trouble selling 2000 units per month.
Contemplation of brain cloning and consciousness creates a feeling of paradox, then no-cloning theorem comes to mind. Right?
Is this related to epigenetics? If so, how?

I mean, I would think that it's not so much external factors influencing your genes directly, per se. But certain genes being called into play and others not.

Or is - likely? - a combo of both? That is internal genetic variance, as well as the ability to be influences by external factors. It would seem, the latter would be the ideal, the most flexible / advantageous.
It seems like that tax benefit is really reducing taxes on the donation itself, rather than enriching the donor (as implied)? Am I understanding that right?
Just reply to HN threads. After a while, you'll have plenty of material you can remix into blog posts. You may also have some opinions that you need to express.

Also: if you want to be more original, pick more original topics. Write about newer products, current tech-relevant events (any event is tech-relevant if you can see the relevance). Go to meetups and write about them. Do something (it'll be unique enough just because you're doing it) then write about that experience.
As a South African, this is certainly something I'd root for. However, I think these days bureaucracy and societal factors also need to be accounted for in the feasibility equation.

In that regard, renewable energy for SA is still quite a ways away. The government is too busy trying to garner votes and focusing on land appropriation.
The state power utility is overstaffed, corrupt, "underfunded" (read: lost way too much money to incompetence and corruption) and the infrastructure is arguably hanging on a thread. Then the recent political scandals with the (hopefully permanently) former president Zuma and his Gupta business overlords come in to play which the country still has to recover from.

To top it all off, the majority of the country is simply not educated enough yet to care. The middle class and community leaders can alleviate this however.

Overall, it's still a ways off. Especially considering how the more modern Western countries aren't yet very far into renewables themselves.
I definitely feel like we're missing positive opportunities for mass surveillance. Things like being able to recognize someone in cardiac arrest, or who is at risk for a stroke. Someday mass surveillance will help as much as it hurts society.
You might be interested in skipping Redux and just using a state pattern like this http://meiosis.js.org
> This sounds good, but we’ve seen As happen for Saas companies with ARR between $200k and $9m with plenty of companies failing all along that range.

Is that intended to say failing or falling?
As someone who has sold on Amazon, its not as simple as you make it sound.

Amazon takes my product, which I identify, and puts it in a bin at whatever warehouse. Another seller, sends in the same product, but theirs is counterfeit. Without opening the package, how is Amazon to know which one of us is selling the counterfeit and which one is real?

Now, my inventory is mixed in with amazon's and this counterfeiter, that product gets shipped out with my name because the customer chose my price of the list of sellers, but Amazon takes whichever one is closer, not the one I sent them. This is done to help ensure cheapest/fastest possible shipping. I take the blame even though someone else sent bad product.

This is a shitty situation all around, but how does Amazon fight back? They do eventually go back after the counterfeiters, but its a slow and complicated process because its super simple to set up as a seller on Amazon.

But, this is also not a new issue. Ebay still has this issue and I would say its far more mature than Amazon at the "3rd party seller" crap and Ebay cant fix it either. Its a shitty hard situation to deal with.
Don't think so. The biggest problem facing us is because we're so sparsed out, it's become a lot harder for our people to marry from each other, and anyone who marries from outside (non-mandaean) is no longer considered Mandaean. A lot of Mandaeans in Europe have to marry from outside so our numbers have been decreasing - I think one solution would be for our religion to start accepting people from outside to become Mandaean (this is hard, our religion is immutable and doesn't accept such change) or the other solution for all of us to be together in one region (before most mandaeans were in either Iraq or Iran)
I’m not an expert, but from my experience with addicts, intolerance pushes those suffering with addiction further underground, making it more difficult to engage the population in ways that could lead to meaningfully addressing the root problem instead of simply hiding it from view.

I understand, at least abstractly, the desire to paint the addict with the brush of moral failure, but as with the practical process of an individual getting sober, admitting the problem is the first step in overcoming it.

Until we accept this charge on a societal level—not just choosing whether or not to “condone” their suffering—nothing will meaningfully change.

And with overdoses killing more people than car accidents and guns in the United States, maybe the greater moral failure is ours?
the first joking thought was that French cuisine will get a new dish ... after reading the article i see that it is only half a joke as there has already been a tasting attempts. So there is only a technical issue of finding a good way of cooking them - like for some other foods which are unpleasant/toxic in uncooked state. May be these worms is what going to save our future overpopulated Earth from hunger?
Second this... had the same problem; FB started giving me notifications for the most pointless things just so I'd put my eyes back on the phone.

Using that meant I gradually checked the phone on "my terms" and overtime reduced it rather significantly.
> What happens with false positives? What's the recourse?

The same recourse when you're false-positived by a witness, I'd assume: get a lawyer. Personally, I'd probably place my trust in facial recognition (possibly not this system specifically, though) over human eye-witness testimony, based on my understanding of human psychology and its vulnerability to incentives.

It's not as dire as it's sometimes painted. MD attempted to apply mass-ticketing with intersection cameras, and it was found to violate the state Constitution because the use of a car in committing a crime didn't imply the owner was behind the wheel at the time.

If the technology is unreliable, we call it out as unreliable. What society is going to need is people well-versed in the ways the tech can fail to be good, not a doom-sayer's disregard of the ways the technology can help.
I think the other article referenced ( https://blog.ycombinator.com/process-and-leverage-in-fundrai... ) provides better guidance, specifically :

> Because most venture returns are driven by a tiny number of companies, investors know that they need to invest in those companies in order to make money.

The trick, then, is convincing investors that your company will be one of those outliers.

The missing part in this article about "when", imho, is that _when_ might have a lot to do with the timing of a startup's outlier story and how well it matches with a particular VC's fund size.
Another point that I don't see that is often discussed. I think future of cars are autonomous cars that you pay monthly subscription fees to drive you around. Yes, autonomous cars still have some way to go. But since we are talking about the 10-year timeline here - it's not unreasonable to assume that fully autonomous cars will be ready by 10 years time.

If anyone, where to ask who are the top 10 autonomous carmakers, is, Tesla wouldn't be even on the top 10, because what they are selling is driver assist and ALL serious autonomous car project has LiDAR, except for Tesla. Elon is kinda hell-bent on LiDAR not needed, side of the argument.

At top of the autonomous car companies, Waymo is very far ahead of the rest of the crowd and most car companies have some kind of series side project and working on their own solutions.

There is a common consensus among (most) car manufacturers is that autonomous cars will kill the personal car industry - or at least severally constrain it. I actually think this to be true. Most car companies will find a way to adapt to this changing industry by deploying their own solution or partnering with the market leader (like Waymo). Car companies that are already struggling financially, like Tesla, will be severely affected when this change comes along.

Tesl's biggest selling point is their battery (EV), and there is nothing magical going on that other manufacturer cannot replicate a similar performance. The reason jumping on EV bandwagon right away (almost all of them have projects that are 2-3 years away if not more), is because the demand is minuscule compared to the overall market share.

There are more that one way that Tesla future doesn't look that good. They need a lot of things to go right for them to survive in the next 10 years.
It's quite easy to make anyone look bad by questioning.

"Sir, do you know how fast you were driving. Were you aware that the speed limit is 55 mph? Do you know that hundreds of children die every year from drivers like yourself who value their own time over the lives of others?"
False title. Cougars almost never attack adult humans. They are known to target, and kill human children, where I live. The reporter misunderstood why the attack was said to be unusual. Or more likely someone else wrote the headline, and took ten seconds to do it. Yet this distortion of fact, multiplied by millions of readers, might result in a few children's deaths that could have been avoided by a headline that didn't go beyond what the author knew.
People have had to deal with desperate, impoverished lives throughout all of history, and usually managed to muddle through without committing suicide en masse or dying of drug addiction/overdose. People in the past most likely managed to deal with their poor circumstances because of social factors (i.e., they weren't lonely). Throw in an epidemic of loneliness and social isolation, as is common in modern urban/suburban life, and it's easy for even people in not-so-horrible circumstances to break under the strain.
I wonder if there are still some kind of seasons down there or if the tides have an impact.
None, because as stated, even after this current facebook backlash, usage of Facebook is still high...

https://www.androidheadlines.com/2018/05/facebook-usage-actu...
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>If you're allowed to have a camera, you should be allowed to look at it with whatever means you want.

You aren't allowed to look in to people houses with it or in to schools, up girls skirts, inside some banks etc.

You may have rights to own a camera -- I have the right to go around swinging my fists in to thin air but my right to swing fists stops where your head begins.
I feel we are already in a 1984 Style Surveillance state they are just better at hiding it then the book's government

So no I do not think it is "slippery slope" at all, we have already slide down the slope; arriving at the bottom. We long ago surpassed the level of government surveillance I believe is ethical, constitutional, or proper for government

if the government having a database filled with everyone Bio metric data they can then use technology to follow, trace, and monitory your every movement is not a "surveillance state" I shutter to think what it would take for you to classify such as system? a Brian implant that reads your every thought?
Yeah, I completely agree here.

How did we get to the point where we so easily separated leaders actions from their public image?

It's the logical equivalent of saying "I condemn what the Nazis did, but I respect Hitler's oratory ability to inspire a country", as if his abilities as a leader in no way influenced the Holocaust.

It's crazy to me how people logically isolate a leader's words and actions from the consequences of the institutions they lead in this case.
> instead of just scaling with larger blocks

Blocks will need to be ~5TB to match Visa transaction volume. Some lightning network advocates are concerned about the effect that a size increase necessary to support even a fraction of this volume would have on mining centralization.

Other concerns are listed here https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Block_size_limit_controversy and here https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Scalability_FAQ#General_Block_Siz...
This is such a fascinating and interesting question. I highly recommend reading the book 'Automating Inequality'[0] if you haven't already. My initial reaction to this question was 'I certainly would prefer groups of humans making collective decisions over an opaque, proprietary, algorithm'. But then I also think back to the latest internet firestorm of the woman calling the police on black barbecuers over charcoal (this happened a block from my house). Can we actually trust people en masse to make collaborative decisions that generally avoid bias? Definitely not.

I think your comment may have changed my mind about the utility, objectivity, and overall value of amber alerts...

[0] https://www.amazon.com/Automating-Inequality-High-Tech-Profi...
An anecdotal observation: there seem to be many ray tracing-related articles and ShowHNs that make the front page. For someone who isn't in the computer graphics space, what's the importance of improving existing ray tracers or the novelty in writing one's own? Is writing one a particularly challenging thing to do? Is improving existing ray tracers the equivalent of chip manufacturers increasing CPU performance in the chip world? Just trying to understand this a bit better.
Do you have a link to that post?
Agreed. At this point Elon is holding onto Tesla leadership for egotistical reasons. He's done a good job getting the company up and running but it's time to hand the reins over to someone who actually knows what they're doing when it comes to pumping out cars.
Winds 2.0: It’s Time to Revive RSS
You're writing this as though the HN mods were fine with Wikileaks ten years ago, when the majority of the leaks had to so with Bush, but started censoring it nine years ago, when the leaks started being about Obama.
I know the opinion will vary from person to person, but if this is a 1984 dystopia, then Orwell over-hyped the downsides to a 1984 dystopia.

(... I don't actually think it's a 1984 dystopia, mind ;) ).
Some of that money does get to the public.
Just out of curiosity, what was your use case that you deemed this a better option than react for?
That may be it. But interest rates are a big part of this.

Most people have to take a mortgage to buy a house. This means that the demand part of the "supply and demand" curve is set, not by the price of the house, but by the monthly payment for it. The interest rate affects the relationship between the two.

For example, I bought a house when interest rates were 9%. Two years later, interest rates dropped to 7%. In the same two years, the price of my house went up by 50%. If I bought the same house after those two years, my monthly payments would have been exactly the same.

But it's not just monthly payments. Down payment is the other thing that affects the demand curve. That's where "higher financialization" comes in - at least, if I understand the term correctly.
"Failing" was intentional. Both words would be true, but in this case I'm pointing out that the metrics do not guarantee the round.