skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Imagine making a turn and your engine dying mid-way…

Present vehicle excepted maybe, but automobiles have come a long way if this seems like an unimaginable event. Random engine loss was just a “to be expected” event when I learned to drive. The decision of “stay in gear and maintain steering assist” or “clutch in and coast further” was just reflex eventually.

So, “Well done automotive industry!” But also, keep working at it.
Hrmmm perhaps I'll just have to develop something with single packet encrypted port knocking perhaps. ~$36 a month is out of mine price range for something that is like 100k bytes a month (say having an Echo skill that can control Home Assistant)...
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As much as I'd rather not plug my own talk, it's probably going to give you more information than I could ever get in a reply here.

https://thread.engineering/scaling-django-codebases-pycon-uk...
Most of the energy of getting a rocket to orbit is in achieving orbital velocity, not orbital altitude :/. Unless you accelerate your satellite really really fast, it'll just fall back to the earth.
There are two ways to defeat fingerprinting:
1) Be common: have your data match what others are sending
2) Be unique on every page request: scramble your data

Browsers in category (2) are not trackable, even though they appear to be fingerprintable. Each page request is a different fingerprint.

What is unclear from the article is whether the studies mentioned (EFF, INRIA) considered that and tested that. Does anyone know? Because privacy does not require non-unique fingerprints, it just requires untrackability.
Australia got rid of 1c and 2c coins in 1991. No one missed them. I wish we'd do the same for 5c now. Not that I ever use cash anymore anyway.
I read that as "nobody has spent $100 million trying to make that more efficient and open sourced it/made it available to smaller companies."

Someone who is NOT in the business of SoC design may have wanted to open source something like this just to commoditize their SoCs. But if you're in that business already, then why help reduce the barrier to entry?
Ask HN: Utility of a C multi-tls generic adapter lib?
Backends:

- OpenSSL and forks (LibreSSL, BoringSSL, s2n)

- mbedTLS (was PolarSSL)

- GUARD TLS Toolkit (was MatrixSSL)

- GnuTLS+Nettle

- Mesalink

- Network Security Services (NSS)

- WolfSSL

- Apple Security Framework

- Microsoft SChannel

Are any of the above (besides OpenSSL) obviously poorly-maintained, obsolete, buggy, fragile or unusable?

The initial concept would be compile-time backend switching so app maintainers only need to code against one interface for high-level operations while able to drop down into per-backend lib details, guarded by #ifdefs. Configuration would be pulled from the appropriate library.
No, it wouldn't, but "assuming it can be built" is a pretty tall order.

We don't really know how to reliably manufacture materials that can sustain the loads required for something like this.
I don't see how this is not literally the same thing any HDL synthesis program does. How?
> Keychain is supposed to be a secure storage solution, so I can't imagine they want users to be able to view that data

This seems at odds with the fact that macOS comes with a built-in app called "Keychain Access" that allows you to view the contents of the keychain (including iCloud keychain).
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Tether claims to be 1:1 backed, i.e. each USDT issued is backed by a USD in their reserve. I don't believe that is actually true in Tether's case, but yes, I was referring to 1USD in reserve per 1USD-stable-token as the viable stable/pegged token case.
Kids taking Juul hits every 10-15 minutes are not driving and are not drinking alcohol, so there is your public health benefit already, mostly in the former.

If you're gonna be opposed to some fidget spinner infatuation on "think about the kids" public health concerns, start at what actually kills kids.
They forgot « put your feet in ice », it works super well.
Yes, and they will have to "suffer" so that the scum owners of backpage who actively promoted child sex trafficking can no longer make millions selling children.

If platforms keep child sex traffickers off their sites they won't get touched. If they don't they will get shut down.

It really isn't that hard.
The problem you described doesn't ask a question. What are they asking you to do: implement the described data structure (not enough information), or untangle their department hierarchy?

I think the correct answer is "IT Security should be a peer of IT, not a subdepartment."
No, I think this is more a question for physics than for complexity theory -- complexity theory basically just takes the computational model and the resources you care about as inputs, then uses math to study how much of the resources are inherently required to solve a given problem.

Absent an ultimate theory of fundamental physics, we're unlikely to have a full answer to your question -- e.g., to be able definitively to rule out the possibility of "hypercomputers" solving NP-hard problems in polynomial time. What we can do is

(1) to explain the failure (often, the forehead-bangingly obvious, don't-point-to-the-exponential-elephant-in-the-room failure) of all EXISTING proposals along these lines, and

(2) to point to deep discoveries in fundamental physics -- most notably, the Bekenstein bound https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bekenstein_bound -- which seem to constrain any future quantum theory of gravity to have a form that would rule out these sorts of hypercomputers (for example, by limiting the amount of energy that can be pumped into a finite region, without causing the region to collapse to a black hole, and by likewise ruling out computer components that are smaller than 1 Planck length across or that do more than 1 step per Planck time).

I've often speculated that ultimately, the hardness of NP-complete problems in the physical world might come to be seen as analogous to the impossibility of faster-than-light signalling or perpetual motion machines---i.e., something that we simply take as primitive and then use to explain other phenomena in physics. But while the hardness of NP-complete problems sometimes gets used in that way already, I also think we have a lot more work to do before the situations are truly parallel. (For starters, we could prove P!=NP. :-) )
> Most soda machines are charging $0.60 or $0.65 these days. Rounding to either $0.50 or $0.75 would be annoying.

The soda machines I see charge $1.25. Where are you?
Okay, well if there were two incidents I think you were exactly the type of person that needed judicial restraint.

A couple of additional thoughts... 1) I do wish for your career and employment success going forward - society is better if you and your wife are successful in life, and 2) there is something "hinky" about your writing style and the way you describe your sexual & criminal indiscretions and employment difficulties. If you went around flashing 30 year old women, your behavior was still wrong and the type of behavior that indicates possible escalation to even more criminal and violent behavior. Not sure from your post whether or not you realize the age of woman does not matter.

I have to wonder if that sense of strangeness is also apparent in your face to face demeanor. The type of strangeness that, in conjunction with a negative criminal background check, would eliminate a candidate for me. I've been threatened with physical violence and followed from time to time. I do not want to associate with people that cause me to seriously consider concealed carry.
That only works if you can survive the overspend, because it's being used to actively destroy you at the moment.
Robinson Helicopter in SoCal basically does that today for safety QA reasons. They start with billets though and CNC every little part in a mile-long factory.
If you could build a proper space elevator, a payload could be lifted to the geostationary point and then released. At that point it's already at orbital velocity, and can use much less fuel (compared to an Earth launched rocket) to get back down to low earth orbit.

But again, this is still a materials science problem.
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And that eerie looking fog low in the forest in the morning was pretty cool.
Exactly. And the really cool thing is "Why?"

Because there are essentially two things that kill you. Either you die of something you get, or you die because your body wears out (as others have pointed out, we know body systems wear and become less effective with aging).

Therefore, if mortality stops increasing with respect to age at a certain point, but we know the body is accumulating additional wear that makes it less resilient, there must also be a corresponding decrease in mortality risk with respect to random things killing you.

So essentially, if you're 100 already... you might have a statistically smaller risk to die from heart disease, cancer, etc than someone who is only 92.
Hmmm. Can't get in your interviewer's head, but here's my guess: this might be one of those questions where the bulk of the discussion is supposed to be about weighing tradeoffs of different choices for the data model.

For example: how do you store the explicit blocks? More specifically, how do you articulate that head of IT is blocked from this subtree, but the CEO isn't? Some options:

- store the block as pairwise (individual, subtree)

- same idea, but instead of blocks you store explicit /allowances/ (and allow a tree node to have a flag set of "ignore the tree-based permission system here, and just lock everyone out who doesn't have an explicit permission")

- instead of blocking individuals, you could add an abstraction layer, e.g. user_groups, and assign permissions to /groups/.. You could also add an abstraction layer on top of the treenodes themselves (object_permission_groups?). Different tradeoffs with these options.

Again, hard to know exactly where your interviewer was trying to steer the conversation. But that'd be my guess!
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We could fund this exact project through academic means. We choose to allot funds through the military.
As someone who smoked cigarettes and then quit by switching to vaping and weaning myself off, I can give anecdotal firsthand testimony that quitting vaping was much easier than quitting cigarettes. It's hard to say if some new vapers would have been smokers or not, and I agree that really none of it should be legal. But while any nicotine is legal, my personal experience gives me the opinion that vaping is a product which does indeed provide harm reduction.
America does that all the time with it's poor people.
I forget where I saw this, but it struck me as very good advice: Don't document your code, code your documentation.
>That's a large part of how we got to this point, to my eyes. When we truly give up, well, then you'll get to see what "too much" really feels like.

That's true. The other side saw globalism, liberalism, feminism and multiculturalism as a threat to the world they wanted, and they got angry, and fought against it, and arguably are winning. The world is shifting towards an embrace of right-wing, racialist and authoritarian populism in part because the people who could and should stand against it have become disillusioned and cynical and have decided to drop out.

They've somehow convinced themselves that effort and political action doesn't work, despite the world around them being the result of effort and political action having worked against them.
I'd just first like to say that I love reading your work. I'm always delighted when I see an update on Shtetl-Optimized and I admire how you are both simultaneously rigorous and funny in your papers and posts. Your PnP survey stands out in my mind as a truly fun and insightful read in particular.

Two questions:

1. Any meaningful updates you'd make to the PnP survey today?

2. As a total aside, I'm curious for your thoughts on blockchains. Not specifically proof of work as a BFT system per se, but more broadly curious to what degree you think "trustless" transactions and data processing might or might not be transformative.

Apologies in advance if you've recently provided thoughts on either of these topics and I've sadly missed them!
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My estate is 3 years old. Google has no mention. Apple is incorrect. Openstreetmap is accurate since the day each road was opened up.
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Unfortunately the point you bring up is likely valid. It will probably get tossed due to lack of standing.
It is a good example of game theory and how to use it to your advantage. Excellent
I don't believe in this kind of moral relativism - my intent was not to relativise but to explain. You can believe you're moral and be immoral. I don't believe in vitriol only because it is ineffectual - I don't care if some regressive's feelings are hurt. I think power needs to be wrested from the conservative class - that means more progressives in law schools, in b schools, on judiciaries, in office, on boards.
I'm not able to accept this without decent evidence. There's some pretty clear psychopharmacology related to burning tobacco that is absent for ecigs. Specifically one of the byproducts of burning tobacco is a compound related to early anti-depressants - a mono amine oxidase inhibitor. The effect of this compound seems to be to potentiate the addictiveness of nicotine. That is move its addictiveness from O(n) similar to caffeine to greater than heroin (citations available). This is why the buzz you don't really get a buzz from ecigs that you get from cigarettes, and also why people who are using ecigs to give up smoking should initially start with a very high nicotine concentration (i.e. as high as they can tolerate) to saturate their system, so a relapse to cigarettes does not give any satisfaction. Additionally at low doses typical of ecig use, nicotine seems to be about as harmful as caffeine. It's the byproducts of combustion that seem to be the real problem.
It’s also something that an OTA update could cause. And the existence of OTA updates could actually make it more likely if the initial quality is not held to account because ‘it can be patched later’
Let's say the amortized cost of a GPS tracker is, conservatively/high-end with a lifetime data plan for updates every hour: $100. Let's say the cost of mean average deployment is $10. Then the break-even point for hive theft is reached if losses are well over 7.33 (bar) %. (110/1500)

If losses are high, beekeepers will deploy them. If losses are low, deploying GPS would be more of a fear-based, emotional decision than a rational one.
In a similar vein, I've sometimes wondered why roads aren't a lighter color.

I drive on some recently paved roads and they were all paved black. Seems that if we mixed the asphalt with a small amount something light and unwanted (plastic bottles?), but light in color, we could put a dent in both the garbage problem and the heat absorption problem.

Doesn't have to be full white, as that would glare worse than dark black. But a few shades lighter could help some.
Sure, competition is good for the consumer.

But is it good for Apple to keep investing resources in something that will most likely never be as good as the competition?
Legitimacy is not the same as purpose
My concern is more about the young age of many of the new users and the perception that vaping is safe. While I don’t doubt that vaping is much safer than smoking, I am not sure if I want to see 13 year olds vaping given it appears to be just as addictive as smoking.
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There isn't much else left to link - iirc openssl, glibc, libevent, libpcre are all it needs.
We've had $1 coins for a hot minute. You can almost only ever find them at the bank, post offices, and some other government places (the Sound Transit ticket kiosks here in Seattle spit them out, I found out last week), but they exist.

We also have/had a 50c coin, but it's huge and I believe out of circulation these days.
Right, and your personal experience would probably be the same as other _pre-existing_ smokers trying to quit, and it would be providing harm reduction if it worked for you.

But doea the harm reduction to pre-existing smokers outweigh the increased uptake in youth populations?
There's no such thing as a "constitutionalist."

The premise that there is a single, correct and uncontroversial interpretation of the Constitution that is both aligned with the original intent of the Founding Fathers (who were hardly united in their politics) and always relevant to case law in the 21st century is absurd.

What people tend to mean when they say they want "strict constitutionalists" and not "activist judges" is that they want judges who interpret the Constitution according to modern conservative and likely Christian ideology. It's not that they don't want judges to interpret the law - because that's what judges are supposed to do, they just don't want liberal judges to interpret it.

Whether or not this will "ruin the country" is, of course, a matter of debate. But people who want "constitutionalists" on the Supreme Court also tend to want the country ruined for certain segments of the population who believe in and depend on progressive ideals.
Need only GPS trackers on a sample of the hives, no?
You think it's good for a company to keep investing money on mediocre side projects that will never be as good as the competition?
Most addictions “go away” in about 1-2 weeks. Even opiate addiction goes away after a max of a week, it’s the psychological effects that last unlike say benzodiazepine which has a recovery time measured in years.
Given the existing socioeconomic patterns of smoking [0], I think this is the most likely scenario. Given a Venn diagram of people who smoke (low socioeconomic status) and people who "Juul" (high socioeconomic status [1]), the overlap in users is likely quite small.

It doesn't seem like they're cannibalizing an existing market, as much as they are forging a new one.

[0]: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22092035
[1]: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/05/14/the-promise-of...
That's all very interesting, but...

> almost no chance

That's my point, really. It might not be a terribly interesting point, but you're conceding it, not refuting it.

Does genetics actually provide a useful estimate of the probability of someone reaching the age of 123 years? I mean: something a bookmaker could use? Is there any evidence that telomeres are practically relevant to the longevity of humans in particular, as opposed to organisms in general, some of which live very much longer than humans?

I humbly suggest that you turn down the pomposity a tiny bit. Read what you wrote there:

> There are a whole host of other reasons why what you wrote is nonsense, and I don't have the time or the space to address them all.

What kind of impression do you think you're making?
Thank you. I was reading the whole article wondering what the order book looked like.
If you're going to pick something to say "Kids doing X don't drink a drive", vaping would probably be pretty low on that list.
> start at what actually kills kids

Sounds like you’re categorically ignoring whatever negative things don’t directly kill people... well-being encompasses a lot more than not dying.
Same. And maybe I'm(we're) out of touch, but some people act so shocked like I'm a crazy person or generous, I'm not sure which. Change is a hassle. It gets stuck in my keys, falls out everytime I change positions, etc etc. That said, I pay mostly by card these days so it's like like I'm giving away tons of change per year.
> Juul particularly is getting kids hooked that otherwise would have never touched tobacco

Do you have evidence of this? From what I've read (the report I saw last had data in 2016), e-cig use is way up but general tobacco use among youth hasn't significantly changed.
Can you expand on what you mean exactly?
An IP is pretty useless nowadays with so many sites behind cloudflare.
Why can't other companies start, which produce fireworks?
> why is TSLA not priced lower?

I am not a fan, but there's no denying that Musk is a marketing genius. What percentage of people can even name the CEO of another car company? Plus he's not just selling a car; he's selling the future. As we see with Theranos, people really love the tech-as-future-magic story.

So much of the "dumb money/smart money" distinction is decided after the fact. If he pulls it off, the people who stuck it out will think themselves geniuses. But a ratings agency downgrade is a pretty good sign as to what professional investors make of it.
>> "Most importantly, we have to change the culture of hardware design. Today, we don’t have open sharing … "

I'll have popcorn ready for the eventuality where IP blocks are widely available under GPL type of FOSS licenses and Intel|AMD|ARM|TI|... is eventually found to include one or more of those open sourced blocks with incompatible license in their chips.
> suggest a lack of understanding about what normal exchange activity can look like.

So you are suggesting that the experts who were cited in the article, whose field of expertise is this very thing, do not understand how markets work?

Meanwhile you don't seem to understand why it is remarkable that the market can absorb a huge order that should move the market because of its sheer size while much smaller order have a much larger impact. When a buy order of quantity 37.5 moves the price by 0.0002, but the following buy order of quantity 13,076.389, that is almost 350 times the size of the previous order, moves the market by half of that, something is very strange about the liquidity situation.
On the other hand, every time we fire a cruise missile, we're shooting off the equivalent of an NIH R01-scale research grant.
My expectation was that the car would start to have issues gradually. Eg, you can generally hear when an engine starts to misbehave. I got the Pacifica b/c it was a quiet, comfortable ride and accepted the higher cost of ownership. Now I wonder if their airbags will actually deploy in a crash.

Cars are now becoming a pile of soft-buttons, and I don’t see how that makes he experience better. There’s no physical lever to stop your car in an emergency in most new cars. Just a [P] toggle. Even the Chrysler has a really dumb knob for changing gears on the transmission (which people often confuse with a volume knob).

I may just buy a Chevy Tahoe next; it’s a much simpler car with sufficient luxury & tech.
I don't quite get the open source angle in the comments here.

If I managed to get my grubby hands on a moderately modern computer, I can use all manner of open source software and I can create wonderful new software.
The barrier of entry is fairly low in rich countries.

If AMD open sourced all the design aspects of their chips,
I would have to get a loan to build 100 million fab to have any practical manner to enjoy it?

I can see that if Intel/AMD/NVidia/Apple shared all aspects fo their chips cross pollination might bring great things, and academic research would be boosted and might end up giving back more to the community at large, but you are talking about very few entities across the world that can afford fabs.
The fatality rate was also several times higher. Cars have come a long way.
Euclid to Grizzly Peak is canon. You can see it clearly on the Strava heatmap.
This is one of the most useful articles I've ever read.

"Even in our sleep, our heart still has to beat, we still need to breathe, our adrenal system is still responding to dreams, we’re still under stress"

"Advocated for dividing stress into the positive “eustress,” and negative, “distress.” "

"Rather than bemoaning stress or avoiding it, or worse, feeling proud of having an abundance of it, perhaps the best advice now is that we ought be practicing methods for transforming it."

Wow!
My point is not that Apple should not invest in maps.

My point is about investing to produce mediocre results.