skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Under what law is speculative participation in predictive markets a crime if it results in violence?
That makes sense, thanks. I'd love to see support for RFC-7929 at some point too.

https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7929

It has the advantage of not relying on the Certificate Authority system, and not requiring a full web stack (which some email clients and servers wouldn't want to open themselves up to). DNSSEC also allows Authenticated Denial of Existence, so that unavailability of a server isn't treated as meaning the user doesn't have a key in the directory.

For reference, this technology is also already supported by GnuPG and Posteo.de:

https://posteo.de/en/blog/new-posteo-public-key-directory
Thanks, great site! My username is TKems
Postquantum Cryptography in IEEE Computer Society's S&P Mag Wins APEX Award
Not actually.

Remember that architectural registers (such as RAX or EAX) are "fake" and remapped to the real, physical, microcode registers. Code like "xor eax, eax" is translated into "physical-register #51 = 0" with regards to uops, and doesn't even use any execution units on modern Skylake or Zen processors!

Hyperthreads only need to contain one more remapping of physical registers to architectural registers.
Actually many franchises do work in this model. They are licensing deals and buying clubs wrapped up together.
Cool, just signed up as kstenerud. Never knew something like this existed!
I'm not sure if I'm more worried about the privacy implications, or that of a future where a Visa/MC duopoly collects a tax on all retail.
The most insidious tactic on the ground is GPS spoofing, using malicious software to broadcast phony signals and fool the receiver on, say, an aircraft into thinking it’s somewhere, or somewhen, that it isn’t. Such methods “would certainly work against Ubers, Waymo’s self-driving cars, delivery drones from Amazon,” and more, says Todd Humphreys, an aerospace engineering professor at the University of Texas at Austin.

Happy to see the article discuss the problem of GPS jamming and spoofing. That could become an increasing threat, especially against self-driving cars.

Recent HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17539465
This needs to be posted again: https://xkcd.com/927/
[EDIT] Haha never mind. Attack of dyslexia...
If that's also true for brand-new users, the username is the same!
can we remove captcha while we're at it? its the same sort of lazy bs flash is -- yes, it does serve a purpose, but at the expense of your users
Same happened to me with the USB-C key. Meanwhile, my three year old USB-A key that has lived on my keyring continuously shows some obvious wear, but no signs of damage.
I don't think so.

If you want a number in 1..3, and the generator provides numbers from 1..4, and you want a cap n, then you could model it as a generator that provides numbers in 1..4^n. There's never a way to split that space into three equal parts.

You always end up with unwanted extra possibilities that you still need to handle somehow.
Why do you think U.S. government healthcare spending would decrease if it had to cover more people?
I'm in Canada, so i'm guessing its a different organization here v's there.
Honest question: couldn't using something like this expose me to legal liability?

Facebook was just forced to remove filters that might target job-seekers who belong to protected classes (like genders).
I suggest you try asking on Workplace.StackExchange, too, since the people there have more experience answering this kind of question.
The adblocker suggestion is particularly interesting and I don't think is getting enough press. I would bet that a lot of smaller federal agencies wouldn't be as timely with IT updates as they should be. As it happens one of those malicious payloads could indeed be a Flash applet, so the overall push away from Flash should help, but there are many other ways in. Unfortunately I think it's local agencies that would need this extra layer of defense most, having seen how neighbouring municipalities maintain their systems (or don't).
I've read a few of these articles from Cake now and I like how it looks but I find using CTRL+F doesn't work correctly. On this article it doesn't seem to pick up anything past the second post unless you go to that post, click on it, and then type in your search.
Build an 80’s Chatbot with an NPM Package
I don't know the story, but 4.3BSD, which went into NeXTStep, was not open source. It wasn't until 4.4BSD that BSD was available without a paid Unix license.

NeXT tried to get away with a closed-source fork of GCC for Objective C, but eventually backed down under legal threat.
Not exactly the same thing but this is a similar idea of using data and algorithms to ignore the disadvantaged.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/04/books/review/automating-i...
How did I know before clicking that the Senator would be Ron Wyden?
It's more interesting to think about the thing that we know in spite “We weren’t there. We didn’t observe it.” For example:

How were the continents a long time ago. Like Pangaea and before. Yes, we have good understanding of the continents before Pangaea.

How did bird evolve? [spoiler alert] They are small dinosaurs!

How is the center of the Sun? [I'm not sure that this falls in the original meaning of “We weren’t there. We didn’t observe it.”, but it is included in the literal meaning.] In some books of 100 years ago you can find weird explanations about the origin of the energy of the Sun.

Why the time of and orbit of Pluto is 3/2 of the time of the orbit of Neptune? Was this also true in the origin of the Solar system?

Where does the Moon comes from? [Weird story, hope you already know it.]

Most of this things were discovered in the last 100 years. I'm missing a few that were discovered before and are so mixed in the popular culture that it is impossible to imagine that thy were unknown before.

We still don't know how the first life form appeared, and I think we are cueless for now. We don't even know if they[we?] used ADN, ARN or something else. [ARN looks nice]. Did they get the energy "eating" organic molecules, from some H2, or something else? Protein-first or membrane-first?

We will never observe a leap from organic molecules to organic life, because (probably) there is no leap and because it (probably) takes too much time. The plan is to understand a few key steps, reduce the huge leap to a dozen of small steps, perhaps with substeps. Hopefully try to simulate the substeps in the laboratory, experimentally or by computer, and be sure that the path is correct enough. I hope that one century is enough, but perhaps I'm too optimistic.

The answer to “We weren’t there. We didn’t observe it.” is: We don't know ... for now, but it never stopped us in past to know a few amazing thing, so we are optimistic.
Thanks! I pass them by people who were there at the time as much as I can because sometimes it seems too insane to be real. Did we really think that? Andy Hertzfeld wasn't at NeXT, but he helped me tell the story better.

Dunno if you saw this one from Wayne Goodrich, who was there and continued to Apple:

https://www.cake.co/conversations/jNZlq6j/the-man-who-produc...
I did something similar for search until I found Recoll. It has similar functions to what you describe(caching, fuzzy search) with a slick work flow that shows google scholar like context previews with an optional remote access to your library through a webui. It also searches compressed archives and generally simplifies searching many unorganized files.

http://www.lesbonscomptes.com/recoll/
So from what I understand, there is a tradeoff to whether or not you memorize something.

When you have a piece of knowledge memorized, it has the capability to be activated in parallel with other known knowledge. These parallel activations result in a new / novel idea to your neural network. If these activations haven't been had before, they may be a breakthrough in science, technology, or otherwise.

So in one aspect, if you do not memorize, you can not associate and create new things.

Luckily, with phone numbers and locations it might not be important or valuable to have them memorized. But that's hard to say. Many scientific breakthroughs and discoveries were made by people who had cross-discipline knowledge and associated two things that no one thought were valuable together. Potentially, even googleable factoids could potentially contribute to a scientific breakthrough.
I've been developing such a thing, mainly for git-send-email and CardDAV sync: https://github.com/emersion/hydroxide
Tips to evaluate Autonomous Vehicle startups?
I am an engineering & product manager, evaluating autonomous vehicle companies/startups to join. While I know how to evaluate consumer hardware, software, and products, autonomous is a little bit of a dark art for me right now with every company saying that they have a great approach.

I met a few of the startups, and they want me to come for a full round of interview. Before I do that, I want to form an opinion on what to look for to evaluate whether the company will succeed or not.

I am wondering if the community has any tips, questions or research to make a decision.
I remember sometime during the 90s, pay-first became more or less standard in the northeastern US, but it was confusing at first.
Who is this "ruling class"?

My experience is that people in democracies get the politicians they deserve.

That's what I've seen in Spain, Argentina, Turkey, Italy, my own country Denmark, Hungary and it's also what I see in the USA.

Living in a democracy is a responsibility. It's hard work. If you stand on the sidelines and complain without ever running yourself, you get to live with a ruling class.
They're not a charity. If that's what they need to build a sustainable business, I'm happy to pay them, if they deliver.
Its not atypical for Google to do this, for instance Google Hangouts is actually a licensed software deal and not something in-house (albeit not the greatest example).
That's a very vague statement which doesn't explain why it's a phenomenon frequently occurring with republican accounts. Besides it's very easy to create rules and only enforce them selectively, then just dismiss criticism with "we're just enforcing the law": as we've seen with over-policing in black communities and excessive probation in sentencing. Why not be more specific? They also said:

> “We are aware that some accounts are not automatically populating in our search box and shipping a change to address this.”

So is it a problem with Twitter or not? What code are they "shipping" to fix this? What type of "behaviour" gets you shadow-banned? How is it enforced (by humans at Twitter, manually reporting by users, machine learning, etc)?
When you have to put "assassination market" in quotes because you know that's not what it is. By pure coincidence the journalist finds a "new market" where a whole _single person_ is betting on whether DJT will survive 2018. Truely groundbreaking, shocking.

Besides being absolutely nothing new; The realer versions of this have existed on the deep web for over 5 years where people could bet with BTC (assmkedzgorodn7o).
To echo what others have said, cashless systems -- especially in fast food chains -- are a quick way to discriminate against a whole population of the underbanked. I was in Dos Toros (burrito chain mentioned early in the article) about a month ago, and the woman in line ahead of me didn't have a card. She got so embarrassed at the register despite having ample cash to pay for her meal. I paid for her with my card, she paid me in cash, and all was fine, but no one walked away from that experience feeling good about it. It was such a unnecessary emotional stress on the woman. I feel weird returning to Dos Toros knowing this policy is creating these experiences for customers.
Why is it weird? Knowing how to build relationships with and inspire people that matter and bulldoze your way over people when needed may not be moral but it can be effective. I am not arguing whether he was a saint.

"If you expect the world to be fair with you because you are fair with them, it is like expecting a lion not to eat you because you did not eat the lion"
American Express provided something similar to this with the first iteration of the Amex Blue card, though the implementation details were probably different since that was back in the early 2000s. They gave each cardholder a card reader that plugged into your PC, along with other handy stuff like software that could generate one-time use card numbers linked to your account. It was all pretty whizzy, though Amex dropped it like a hot rock when it failed to get much traction.
You're presenting an either/or scenario where none was proposed by the poster you were responding to.

The thread began begging the wealthiest countries on the planet to contribute a significant amount of that wealth toward space exploration.

No one here is making the argument that we should spend no money on space exploration. People are simply arguing against spending significantly more on it when we have more pressing issues to contend with.
It's funny, for a long time Avie had a calculator on his NeXT screen to show Microsoft stock and the cost of coming to NeXT. But Apple stock did okay later, so it wasn't the disaster it once looked to be.
> crucial app like Gmail ignored older browsers;

Google started telling me some months ago that my browser is unsupported and random stuff has stopped working every few weeks since. I'm running circa 2015 Safari.
For a few seconds I thought you were all talking about back when Intel introduced thermal management causing AMD to get a reputation for burning up[1] if the heat sink wasn't properly installed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xf0VuRG7MN4 (AMD results start at about one minute mark)
I'm sorry, but Google implementing unspecc'd features and then using these features such that it causes a 5x slowdown in (actually) faster browsers...

I guess you were happy with IE back in the day too? You just find such anti-competitive behaviours acceptable?

Or are you just wealthy enough to buy a 5x bigger PC (consume 5x the power...) to just watch youtube with the same experience as a superior webbrowser would offer?

I think it makes a lot of sense to ask for a standard for companies to build their products against, such that they become naturally unable to abuse the ties between their distinct products, to avoid vender lock-in following a diverged software stack. Standards are n i c e
Where are you seeing that there were more denials than submitted?

On the first table, it shows the total submitted is 398,718. The number approved is 345,262, which leaves at most 53,456 denied (398,718 - 345,262 = 53,456).
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Which is why it's so surprising that it took so long for Albertsons to get on the Apple Pay bandwagon, which costs less per transaction than traditional swipes or chip+PIN.
That's a great quote and the argument sounds convincing but worth remembering that, in terms of sales numbers, NeXT was a wart on the arse of other manufacturers selling workstation computers, like Sun Microsystems, which suggests they weren't doing an amazing job of mating "those problems with these solutions" on the software front.

The software was fantastic, and thankfully Apple acquired NeXT, but let's be honest: if NeXT hadn't been acquired (by somebody) their days were numbered.
There is no need to activate a virtualenv to use it. Just call $VIRTUALENV/bin/python directly. Activating is just a convenience for doing interactive work.
instead of cloud-to-butt, now we need edge-to-butt plugin :p
1dL = 0.1L
I heard from reports that the tour employees pointed to them and said they wouldn't be needed.

Then when water started coming on board, reports said, some people stood up (possibly to get the life jackets) but the employees told everyone to stay sitting.
Maintaining the privacy of your own personal data is a really fragile model for resisting a dystopian society.

I mean, it doesn't take very long before it's worth collecting a sample without your permission.
I asked myself the same question some weeks ago, and I did a bit of basic research. I didn't keep the sources, but I found there are 2 types of sequencing : "draft" and "full". From what I found, prices are quickly dropping over the past years, and the "draft" sequencing is becoming more complete.

Most likely, 23andMe does a "draft" sequencing.

Also I also read the value of $1000 for a draft sequencing.

I wonder, given there are about 3 millions deaths each year in USA, why isn't there some kind of government sponsored research to collect death people's genomes?

Every year, there would be 3 millions more genomes in database. People already dead don't need to have data protection or insurances risk, and there would be a full health historic and cause of death available for each genomes.
Cool - my username is "seandss" - much appreciated, thank you!
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Thanks Mike!
Thanks! I'm wrs.
If paying them for your own data is your cup of tea, then you might be interested in this bridge I have for sale.
At the same time he had people talented enough to make these calls too.

He apparently worked with / found people who did these things without Steve knowing and it helped. If you had a bunch of yes men (or if that is what Steve had chosen) things would be different. Indirectly or directly he had people around him making these calls and it worked.

Not trying to dispute your statement at all, just add to it. Perhaps it illustrates how hiring knowledgeable, talented, passionate people is more about them doing the things you don't know they're going to do than say a resume or such... (I say that of course because I'm looking for a job and in that mindset). There is a video making the rounds on LinkedIn where Steve talks about hiring talented people and getting out of their way to some extent. Even apparently when he doesn't realize it (i'm sure he eventually figured some of it out).
It takes all sorts, but I prefer the headers. Each project’s copy only gets upgraded explicitly, the debug info is always there, single stepping always works, there’s never a problem with ABI/compiler option mismatches (and you get the unoptimised version in your unoptimised build), anybody that gets the repo automatically gets all the dependencies too.
Resistant protocols: How decentralization evolves
The Tuff Shed Work-Around
It may be the media's fault, but it seems like every time I heard her say something, it was about abortion, or LGBTQ issues, or race. It wasn't about the economy or jobs or even unions. So I concluded that the social issues were what she cared about, and the economy and workers were not.
Shrimpy Adds Social Portfolios for Crypto
Show HN: Name[at]yourname.com email addresses for Gmail accounts
There is no RISC-V-based computer commercially available.
The perils of federated protocols
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edge_computing:

Edge computing is a method of optimizing cloud computing systems "by taking the control of computing applications, data, and services away from some central nodes (the "core") to the other logical extreme (the "edge") of the Internet" which makes contact with the physical world.[1] In this architecture, data comes in from the physical world via various sensors, and actions are taken to change physical state via various forms of output and actuators; by performing analytics and knowledge generation at the edge, communications bandwidth between systems under control and the central data center is reduced. Edge Computing takes advantage of proximity to the physical items of interest also exploiting relationships those items may have to each other.
Doug Leone, the head of Sequoia, said during a Stanford keynote "if your first two engineers aren't A+, you're screwed, you will never recover."

Steve used to say that great engineers are 10x the average and there are a few who are 100x and crucial to hard projects. He did everything he could to find them.
There's a subtler, and potentially more important thing that can crop up with your scenario:

Library A realises that its interface could be improved, but it would not be backwards incompatible. In the best case scenario, with semver, there is a cost to this change. Users have to bump versions and rewrite code, maybe the maintainer of Library A has to keep 2 versions of a function to ease the pain for users. It may just be that B, C and D trust A less because the interface keeps changing. All this can mean an unconscious pressure to not change and improve interfaces, and adds pain when they do.

Doing it in a monorepo can mean that the developers of A can just go around and fix all the calls if they want to make the change, allowing for greater freedom to fix issues with interfaces between modules. And that is really important in large complex systems with interdependent pieces.
We need a mandate to solve the climate issue and create a sustainable economy on this planet. We humans have a biological human desire to remain alive and eat food. I would argue that that is a stronger innate, biological human desire needed for basic evolutionary survival then that for exploration.
Thank you, I'm just at the stage where I'm learning schematics and this looks like a fantastic tool!

Username: fluxsauce
Keep dreaming and pass the dreams on. Humanity needs to dream big in order to survive! Our curiosity has led us here and will guide us to the stars.
Isn't current drawn? Meaning that the device doesn't have to use 500mA but could draw up to that much if need? So it would not hurt the device.
Twitter is under no obligation to be transparent about underlying fundementals of, or report on, their internal platform integrity efforts.

Isn’t that the same argument we’ve talked about with “less desired” platform participants? Their platform, their rules. Free speech is not a requirement there.
I usually think of wannabe Mars-colonists as the unrealistic ones, but I can’t help but think of the umbrella notion of curing cancer as the more fantasty-driven idea.

Is cancer not just the accumulation of cellular damage? Sometimes it happens earlier than we’d like or is induced by external factors a la radiation, but ultimately cell replication wears at telomeres and degrades molecular regulation of cell growth. Sure, some specific cases are treatable, but if you live long enough, you’ll get cancer in one way or another - the upper bound. Does “curing cancer” not entail solving all problems associated with aging as well?

It sounds so good on the surface, but do we actually have a better idea what we’re talking when we say “curing cancer” than “solving artificial general intelligence”?
The carbs-obesity hypothesis
More speech? It sounds like Elon has a very specific idea of what sort of speech that is: pick up the phone and threaten the speaker's employer.
It's not rent seeking, it's a conflict of interest.

Like giving away needlessly complicated software and charging for support
How  to Keep Cities Cooler During Heat Waves
Because it creates incentives to assassination that might not otherwise exist?

Oh, sorry, I forgot. Markets solve all problems, right?
CRISPR plants now subject to tough GM laws in European Union
"Switzerland has extremely competent military and they are def. not in a position to manipulate the currency the way FED does and remain a viable financial center."

Well, actually, since you brought it up ...

The SNB has been buying euros, and other currencies (selling swiss francs) since 2011 in an effort to depress its value, which they believe is too high and hurts their exports.

Here is a decent summary of the events leading up to their interventions and the current scenario:

https://admiralmarkets.com/analytics/traders-blog/price-shoc...

In summary, the CHF is viewed by many market participants as a safe-haven, or reserve currency (especially in Europe) and the Swiss National Bank has been acting, unilaterally, for many years to manipulate the CHF downwards in value.