skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Or we could just spend those 400+ billion dollars a year on making life on Earth more sustainable so we buy us plenty of time for space exploration and other long-term pursuits without having to engage of the panicked "get off of earth" escapism that plagues much of the space enthusiasts (like Elon Musk).

We either stabilize life on Earth or we won't have enough time to make humanity inter-planetary anyway. Space adventures are just so low-priority right now (meanwhile important science can be done with unmanned vehicles).
2. The IMAP/SMTP bridge being proprietary and paid-only is really the biggest grievance I have with Protonmail. It's so mind-bogglingly unacceptable. I could forgive your servers not speaking IMAP/SMTP if the bridge wasn't like this. You should fix this and you should fix it yesterday.

3. People can reverse engineer it today and do the same thing. People have done this. You should just open it up already.
99% of people do not care what the USB spec says is allowed, if the thing works they will buy and use it.

See: every phone charger that outputs more than 500mA over a USB-A port. Doesn't comply with the spec, nobody cares, everyone does it.

Even the post says the only reason C-A adapters aren't allowed in the spec is that they can be chained with a C-C cable to make an A-A cable. They work fine if you don't do stupid things with them.
Yeh. Ireland is easy for all of these things compared to say, Hungary.
1. It fully subscribes to the Stanford Orthodox RISC propaganda. (E.g. "RISC is the best, CISC sux ") and this leads to some rather questionable ISA choices, e.g. No condition codes, poor vector instruction implementations, excessive architectural registers, bad code density, too many ISA extensions, lack of exceptions on many things, etc.

The other general point I really dislike is their focus on ISA as if that matters so much compared to uArch.
There are a ton of peer reviewed papers on Keto diets available on PubMed. Here's a collection and summary as a spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Ucfpvs2CmKFnae9a8zTZ...
>Given the most condemning data we have is "multiple reports" over 2 decades, that sounds like a pretty good baseline for 'extremely safe.'

The most condemning data we as armchair sleuths have is that the NTSB who did have all the data on incident rates opened an investigation in 1999. They concluded that the boats weren't safe. They recommended that they be retrofitted with reserve buoyancy, that electric bill pumps be installed (so that bilge pumps keep working when the engine is swamped), and that the canopies be removed or replaced with coast guard approved canopies that allow for easy escape.

>Also, can you please provide evidence of even just a single duck boat with windows? I just tried pretty hard to find even a single one, and failed. But yeah, velcro or drop sheets are of course part of the system. And again those are designed to be able to be rapidly removed.

https://www.gannett-cdn.com/presto/2018/07/22/PSPR/90431ecf-...

Those were on the Missouri boat that sank. They can be electronically raised and lowered by the captain [1]. They don't look like they are easy to remove without the captain raising them. From watching video taken inside, they don't appear to be held on by something easy to remove like velcro.

According to eye witness reports they weren't able to easily escape through the windows.

"Keller said her daughter made it clear that the canopy was on and the windows were sealed."
"They were all closed," Keller said her daughter told her. "The windows were closed and the top was on."
"It was so hard to get out of the boat, Mom. It was so hard to get out of the boat."[2]

You also have designs like this: https://media4.s-nbcnews.com/j/newscms/2018_29/2504521/18072...

Where the window openings are too narrow to allow for quick escape. Especially considering how low in the water they ride and how quickly they sink.

1. https://www.kansascity.com/news/local/article215235950.html
2. https://www.kansascity.com/news/state/missouri/article215257...
Charlie's Diary: Why I Hate Star Trek (2009)
Jobs only come into existence once they are being done, so presumably the people who are doing them them are living somewhere.
If we develop the technology to live on Mars, then we may be more ready to deal with Earth getting messed up. Otherwise, the deterioration of Earth might happen too suddenly for us to develop technology to deal with.

(We could develop the technology without going to Mars, but it might be harder to fund tech for "what if Earth's atmosphere becomes unbreathable" to completion long before that's an issue.)
While this does happen for certain things, and certain segments, it's definitely not true for specialty areas like machine learning. ML / AI specialists command higher salaries because of simple supply and demand.

In my personal experience, I have never seen a company hire someone on an H1B that wasn't seen as the best person for the job. Immigration status was simply a non issue at the sponsoring companies I've worked at. On the other hand, I've worked at places that rejected out of hand anyone that did need sponsorship because the company simply didn't have scale to hire immigration lawyers.
Mach kernel is open source for much longer time than that term itself exists. Original "GNU system" (what is known today as GNU/Hurd) was supposed to use Mach as kernel.

In late 80's there were multiple projects that attemped to build unix-like system on top of Mach (what essentially is academic project) out of these NeXT/OS X is the only one still really relevant. Another such project was OSF/1, which also took the way of running essentially all of real unix kernel space as one big Mach thread with code derived from BSD, this became DEC/Compaq/HP(E) Tru64 and all other systems build on this OSF/1 base never really worked with sufficient performance. (And for Tru64 on it's original Alpha platform Mach is slightly weird choice as the CPU essentially comes with it's own "microkernel" in microcode/firmware).
1. We do support IMAP and SMTP, via the bridge.

2. We don't believe such compulsion would be legal and would fight it in court.

3. Yes, this is a security promise not a verifiable guarantee. As I said though, our incentives for this are correct. We would love more than anything for all email to be encrypted already. Signal and Wire require trust-on-first-use. There's always some small degree of trust, and the smaller the better. Given the reality of unencrypted email, this is the best we (and anyone else) can do. Whether you are comfortable with it is up to you and your threat model.
Other than your DOB and sex, can you just provide a fake name/email and go from there? Only people I want to share my genetic info with is my family, and they know how to contact me.
In a tourist trap place I used to live, all the crime was committed by hispanics. Non-hispanic names barely made it onto the newspaper's crime blotter. This started getting really weird after a while, once you realized most of the local population was not, in fact, hispanic.

very glad I left, never have regretted it.
Spread Sheets for Valuing Companies – NYU Stern
I've often thought there could be hardware fanfiction for car companies / car models. Mostly in the context of a video game, but I could imagine a pure stories / wiki site like the SCP stories but faux-realistic car hardware documentation.

For example the parody of the Ford motor company would be a fictional American car company who got their start making church organs before making cars. Since they did the minimal work to adapt their electronics to the new application, switches in schematics are referred to by organ key notes and their electronic ignition is based on a drum sequencer. (Lampooning the way that, even as late as the 1980s models, if not still, you can see vestiges of their positive-ground origins in the weird way Ford chooses to connect things like e.g. the horn switch.)
Wait until you will have to wait for your insurance to run a viability test of an experimental cancer drug for your dying loved one, and seeing to denied due to a low probably of success. But by then it will be too late wont it. Given its ties to Google they have the data already anyway...I am sure a search is part of the HR process.
It's very tough to explain to someone who hasn't worked on large multidisciplinary projects with mandates to push some sort of boundaries like in exploration, science, and technology. This isn't some theoretical discussion by futurists, there is ample evidence that these kinds of ventures have systemic effects that touch literally every person, socioeconomic class, and daily activity. Academia and private industry have pathological problems with compartmentalization that have a real impact on the exchange of ideas and progress - entire companies like Toyota have risen to the "top of the world" based solely on their ability to open up communication between line workers, robotics engineers, and designers under a common vision. To Toyota that vision is their emphasis on quality control, for NASA and Apollo it was the mandate to beat the Soviet Union to space and to the Moon. Just the act of bringing so many different engineering, scientists, and other people together to work on a single problem like going to the moon allows them to tackle issues that were intractable to each of them individually. Many problems, especially as technology develops, require a solution that is novel across several different fields.

These mandates are powerful. The mandate to defend the nation led to radar and telecommunications, transistors, and many other technologies in use by almost everyone. The mandate to make it to the moon led to a revolution in material science that is now part of every car and phone, it allowed us to map the world and put it in half the world's pocket, and even created a whole new field, systems engineering, that is dedicated to the science of managing gigantic projects spanning thousands of engineers, scientists, manufacturers, and so on. The Human Genome Project, another massive multibillion dollar venture unlocked the human genome to the world for the first time and is directly responsible for much of the biotech boom in the last few decades.

As for "many people don't know that we went to the moon", I'm not so sure that's actually true. Carl Sagan wrote in the Pale Blue Dot in the 90s:

A scientific colleague tells me about a recent trip to the New Guinea highlands where she visited a stone age culture hardly contacted by Western civilization. They were ignorant of wristwatches, soft drinks, and frozen food. But they knew about Apollo 11. They knew that humans had walked on the Moon. They knew the names of Armstrong and Aldrin and Collins. They wanted to know who was visiting the Moon these days.

You're underestimating the biological human desire for exploration - it is a basic evolutionary survival mechanism.
Once again, massive hypothetical. Is there any proof this is even remotely the case? Has Switzerland's government suddenly decided centuries of consumer privacy go out the window and are asking to do such a thing or even implying they would? Yes, it's possible, but, once again, there's absolutely no indication that this is even remotely going to happen. At a certain point, hypotheticals like this just plain aren't helpful.

You claim they're "a scam". That has certain implications, including willful misuse of data/money. Can you prove they're actually "a scam", or is all of this just posturing because they aren't running their company in the exact way you would want them to?
That's a good theory, and there's precedent for it. Apple already sold their OS to Mac clone makers, and NeXT (earlier) and Be (later) did indeed gave up hardware.
I would suggest posting on 1 or more of the sub-reddits. In the past, I've seen exchanges ( GDAX, Bitstamp etc) respond to threads if it lands on the front page.

It looks like https://www.reddit.com/r/CoinBase/ is being moderated by Coinbase employees, so posting there may or may not work...

Try the others like https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoMarkets/ and/or https://www.reddit.com/r/cryptocurrency/
Here is an overview from the people who created it:

https://www.internetsociety.org/internet/history-internet/br...

An internet timeline, 1957 -- 2017:

https://www.zakon.org/robert/internet/timeline/

The recent article linked here reviews some of the important early papers about
the Internet and alternatives:

http://named-data.net/publications/main/

A History of the ARPANET: The First Decade, Report no. 4799,
Bolt Beranek and Newman Inc.

http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a115440.pdf

The Wikipedia article on Arpanet has many many links to its technical and political history.

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

The Arpanet was the immediate predecessor of the Internet,
and was built and operated by many of the same people. Arpanet did not use the TCP protocol, but experience with Arpanet very much informed the design of TCP.
That's not true. Python has C libraries, some might need to be built from source, and there's good reason to not allow root access on a lot of systems (and ability to install headers/dev packages, gcc, etc). System package management is hard and coordinating with (ubiqitous, not specific to Python) language package managers magnifies it. Unless you had some other solution in mind that I've missed...
We'll probably do this soon, HKP is older and more broadly supported at the moment so it got built first.
Any experienced python people have thoughts on this?
> I can't speak for the US, but most European banks I've seen require 2FA for almost any non-read-only action. You need either an app, or a tiny machine that authenticates against your (chip) debit card.

I have multiple US bank accounts and none of them have anything approaching that, it's kind of pathetic.
There's also multi-planar rear-projection screens by Lightspace[1], they essentially have a stack of liquid crystal diffusers (20 or so) that can switch between transparent or diffusing state.

[1]http://lightspace3d.com
Food supply is in fact a national security issue.
His "attack" is literally a brute force of 32 bits of state. It would not scale to PCG with 128 bits of internal state.
Fine, replace NetHack with Quake 3. :)
The H-1B issue is a complicated one. On the one hand, we want the US to have the best talent, and on the other you want American workers to have a better shot at American jobs, and not to have wages suppressed by cheaper foreign labor. H-1Bs are supposed to fill talent gaps, but seem to be overwhelmingly used to pay lower-than-market wages to foreign workers when you could easily hire an American - if you were offering more money. Despite the law stating that they must be offered above average wages for their jobs, studies show they are paid less on average. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H-1B_visa#Wage_depression
> SMTP and IMAP would require transmitting the password to the server for decryption

Why? There's nothing in the SMTP or IMAP specification that I'm aware of that requires that the email be in a decrypted form when stored in a mailbox. When a client fetches the email via IMAP, it can then be decrypted on the client side.

On the SMTP side, I could do the following over telnet

EHLO test
AUTH PLAIN XXXX
EHLO test
MAIL FROM: <my@address>
RCPT TO: <your@address>
DATA
<encrypted ascii armor text>
CRLF.CRLF

On the IMAP side I can log in and run

. SELECT Inbox
. FETCH 1 (BODY[])

which should retrieve that ascii armor text. Then I can decrypt it locally.
Based on my experience working on and building tech/human rights related NGO startups from scratch. One of the problems is also that there is shift in philanthropy, in particular towards slightly safer, less controversial (but still worthy) issues.

For example, very few tech donors will touch some of the hard human rights related issues, as they feel it will court controversy or affect their businesses. In the current political climate, it is more important than ever that the future tech version of George Soros emerges. E.g someone who is willing to fund movements and organisations that are willing to fight for the spread of the liberal human rights focused international order.

Another issue that the nonprofit sector really lacks the dynamism of the startup space. There are a significant amount of bloated large NGOs that no longer fulfil their mission effectively and/or at a proper cost model. The effect is tricky as these end up hoovering up funding, even though many are often de facto zombies when it comes to their mission. If they were commercial businesses, many of these would already have been allowed to die, however their large scale and name recognition allows them to access traditional, safe funders.

This effectively blocks out newer, smaller leaner ideas, organisations etc. The concepts of mergers, acquihires takeovers are fairly alien to the nonprofit space. Also many nonprofit startups are trapped by things such as the outlay, funding and costs of applying are very very high (esp compared to the returns in many cases) and many traditional funders have strange stipulations whereby they won't fund organisations unless they are 3-5 years old...Imagine a VC in the Valley saying that!
>Chrome has banned WebUSB from claiming Security Keys

Since when? Is this extension now broken?

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/smart-card-connect...
If we buy, do we get future updates?
> If you look, not at the words on the platform, but at her campaign, it seemed very clear to me that she didn't care about working class people in flyover country

Interesting. What about her campaign gave you that impression?
Would you mind talking a little bit more about the scenario and bottleneck? If you're concerned about anonymity you can just email me directly. I'm working on a research project to examine real world scenarios when the fastest cryptographic PRNGs are legitimately insufficient; your case might be useful.
If it's purely a matter of cost, surely you'd just outsource it all to Bangalore? An Indian developer in India is a hell of a lot cheaper than an Indian developer in the US.
Indeed. It was seeing the moons of Jupiter from a New York City apartment window* that rekindled my dormant childhood interest in astronomy.

I felt like Galileo. I had no idea what to expect when I pointed the binoculars at Jupiter. I thought they were stars at first.
Never seen it used like that but it's (somewhat) correct usage

lousy

1. very poor or bad; disgusting.
"the service is usually lousy"

2. infested with lice; teeming with (something regarded as bad or undesirable).
"the town is lousy with tourists"
>>Not if your the person buying. Bitcoin guarantees 1 way movement of 'currency', it makes no guarantees on your product or service. This is why charge-backs exist.

In the article I linked, it explains that part of the reason high charge-back industries have a high rate of charge back is that the payment processors they're stuck with don't conduct the fraud prevention validations that more established credit card processors conduct.

So the result is that credit card scammers have an easier time conducting scams, which honest buyers end up paying for with higher prices.

While the risks posed by the merchants in these industries aren't mitigated by using irreversible cryptocurrency payments, the additional costs incurred by credit card scammers are.

Where cryptocurrency has a use is where the customer trusts a merchant in a high charge-back industry. They can enjoy high discounts for using cryptocurrency in this case.

>>That only get thinner due to limited (and loosable) deflationary currency and increasing fees due to extrodinary power consumption.

Trading volumes should have no relationship with the nominal money supply in cryptocurrency, since the units are highly divisible.

1 Ether == 1000 Finney == 1000000 Szabo == 1000000000000000000 Wei.

The choice of units is up to the user.

So no, in a mass adoption scenario, thin trading volumes won't get thinner. That would be totally absurd.

>>increasing fees due to extrodinary power consumption.

Power consumption follows fees, not the other way around. Power consumption is a function of mining revenues. The cost of the energy consumed approaches mining revenues. Since much of mining revenues consists of the block subsidy, as the portion of mining revenues consisting of subsidies decreases, as a result of greater fee revenue from a larger volume of transaction, power consumption per transaction decreases.

>>Brick and mortar banks still get hacked, if they havent solved it, unregulated crypto exchanges certainly wont.

Straw man. I didn't say hacks will stop. I said that exchanges are getting more secure, in contradiction to the claim made in the paper.

>>You've conflated privacy into this argument

I haven't conflated anything. I was illustrating a general principle using privacy as an example of the principle in action.
Naive question: Why does this url 302 redirect to medium.com and then medium.com forwards back to the same original url?

Is there some commercial advantage?

Why not just post the medium url

https://medium.com/p/f1076d625241

This 302 redirects to tech.instacart.com
No, in this case it is rent seeking, or at least presents the possibility that it is unethical rent seeking. If he was tutoring at a different school that would be okay. However tutoring at his own school where he has influence on the curriculum gives him the possibility of creating a curriculum where it is impossible to pass without also paying for tutoring from him. They of course banned the obvious case where he is the teacher; but the less obvious case where someone else is a teacher, and that teacher isn't allowed (in some way) to present the material clearly is allowed.

The subtleties of ethics are hard.

Edit, as the other poster pointed out, rent seeking is probably not the correct term. I stand corrected in that.
Take a look at Recoll, and its web extension:

http://www.lesbonscomptes.com/recoll/faqsandhowtos/IndexWebH...
I'm going to nitpick.

Instruction sets matter as long as caches are fixed size. The real benefit of x86 is that the instruction encoding is very dense, making the L1 cache more effective.

There is not an x86 emulator in software. Microcode is not, and has never been, considered software. x86 needs a complicated decoder, and some infrequently used instructions can turn into hundreds of uops, but that doesn't make it an emulator.

There are ARM cores that use instruction cracking and uop fusion. That doesn't mean it's an ARM emulator on top of a highly optimized microcode instruction set. It's an implementation detail.
Google “smuggling Native American reservation site:nytimes.com” for a quick intro.

Smuggling, drug trafficking, and other things are common problems. It’s vicious and tragic cycle often driven by poverty and neglect. Many of these root issues are compounded by awful healthcare and other policies.
Always wanted to make one of these. Nice job!
On the other hand, why would he financially invest in something that he didn't think would work; why would he put his reputation as a researcher on the line to back it?
I was in a similar situation months ago, and then I filed a complaint with the CFPB and my issue was dealt with the next day.

https://www.consumerfinance.gov/
Tru dat. Interpolation will probably be too difficult in 4-D space.
You must certainly know that emails provide a lot of valuable data (in aggregate) that can be sold for purposes such as advertising. Also, it's entirely possible for governments to require keeping plain texts for their own use (like law enforcement investigations) and force providers to keep hush about it like the United States does. Not that I know if Switzerland does something like that, in the case of Protonmail.

I must say, it's surprising to see a comment like yours here on HN. Where've you been?