skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think this is very well-known, at least among people who haven't worked on telephony implementations (? I have no idea where this is commonly used). Never in my life has someone asked me for my DID instead of my phone number.

It's fairly plausible that the people working on this specification were unaware of this pre-existing acronym (which ranked after Defense In Depth, when I searched it), and just said "Oh, we're making Distributed IDentifiers. Let's call them DIDs! That's easy to remember."

When used in verbal conversation, is it generally spelled out like CPU (dee eye dee), or said as a word like RAM (did)?
Just a reminder that asbestos occurs naturally in many CA state forests. Was recently offroading in McCloud, CA and it was all over the road - definitely didn't want to kick up dust:

https://www.fs.usda.gov/detail/r5/landmanagement/resourceman...

http://www.conservation.ca.gov/cgs/minerals/hazardous_minera...
The most important lesson I took from living in new england was to never argue food with anyone from Boston, Chicago or New York. Pizza and the regional opinions surrounding it, are more part of their identity than language or religion.

Baseball and politics are the safe topics. An article about pizza and subways ... say far away.
Last time I broke the rules I was banned. Then when I emailed asking about it I was told, "I've unkilled some of your recent comments that don't break the suite guidelines. Users can vouch for others, which also unkills them."

He would not go into detail about how one user can vouch for another. Take this comment as me vouching for you :)
I think whatever basis you have for that intuition is off. You're saying it's more efficient and sustainable for everyone to drive to the store in their own personal gasoline-powered vehicle, taking time out of their own busy days, than to have a little bit of cardboard wrapped around the paper towels and dropped off by a shared delivery truck dedicated to the task and taking an optimal route?
There's an article "On Conspiracy Theories and Election Hacking [Updated]" that kind of looks at what went on. Voting security advocates have been raising alarm bells but those with the power to examine the systems have mostly not wanted to do so.

https://www.theroot.com/evidence-shows-hackers-changed-votes...

There doesn't seem that much enthusiasm for investigating. The first hard evidence that "Russian government coordinated a spear-phishing attack on computers at an American voting machine company and compromised at least one email account" was leaked in June 2017 by Reality Leigh Winner who was prosecuted for leaking that and is now in prison in Georgia.
Cartography wouldn't be able to use all these cheap tricks if the poles were habitable territory.

Can you imagine the distortion on a map of a small town located at the pole if Mercator was used?
That, I don't know. But we do know that he got preoccupied with the Vietnam War, and paranoid about those who opposed it. Also, he was quite the racist. And toward the end, he had more or less gone off the rails.

So anyway, I'm guessing that it was early in his first term.
Glad this was sorted out. Even gladder that someone posted the link to download all my emails. I thought I had to log in via a client like Thunderbird and manually download everything, but the mbox archive was awesome, and I could import that in minutes into Thunderbird.
It has nothing to do with sanity.

With rare exception, law in the US is "More Fair" the more money you have. So yes, reading the body of law from that perspective should provide significant clarity as to why the ruling was done that way.
You are correct, mostly. Stock value comparison to something else than just the nominal valuation is better than writing articles about the $1 trillion dollar valuation that was not first in any meaningful sense.

Where you go wrong is saying that no one is confused. Articles writer themselves are often confused or write in confusing way.
It's not just the fines. Even assume you negotiate the regulator (or regulators!) down to something reasonable, your international law firm with relationships with the various regulators is going to price out at well over $500 US/hour. For a simple complaint to the regulator, you're probably staring at $15k or more of legal.

In Pinterest's case where an Instapaper complaint could have triggered a general review of their business practices, I'd roughly estimate the costs of talking to the regulator at a half million dollars. Start with their counsel ordering sales & marketing leadership to grab engineers to create and review a consent log for every outbound sales and marketing contact in their system.
Let me try another tack: I want you to examine your own beliefs. Let me guess, and tell me if I'm wrong. Doubtless I'm not 100% right about all this stuff, but think about these points honestly. This is based on my conversations with other climate change deniers.

-You believe that climate change is part of some global conspiracy to create a world government, or redistribute resources to countries where brown skinned people live.

-You believe that God promised Noah that He would never again flood the Earth, so rising seas can't happen.

-You believe that people who protest against industry actions are just rabble rousers who are trying to take power for themselves.

-You believe that the real motivation for talking about climate change is to destroy our traditional way of life.

Am I close?
You know those drop ceilings in offices? Some older tiles used in those ceilings contain asbestos.
I think NYC has more scientists (not just NYU and Columbia but Weill Cornell, Mt Sinai, Rockefeller etc), and may even have more NIH funding than MA (could be wrong on this though)

One reason is that there are just a ton of experienced entrepreneurs in Boston and few in NYC. One VC said that in NYC you could shoot a shotgun and not hit an experienced entrepreneur but in Boston you could shoot a water pistol and hit a dozen. Not sure why that's the case tho, maybe bostons legacy as a tech hub, more early stage VC, and more entrepreneurial culture at MIT / Harvard

There is a huge concentration of academics, VCs, startups and big pharma outposts within walking distance of each other in Kendall square. In NYC it's harder to get around, and even in the Bay Area you have several biotech clusters in Berkeley, mission bay, SSF, and the valley
Obamacare has bit of legacy with Nixoncare, which flopped because Henry Kaiser got to him and Ted Kennedy's Senate didn't want to give him a topper to LBJ's Great Society. Wonder what that alt-future would look like today.

I tell younger people we're living in Reagan's world. Fear is saying that in another 20 years might actually be... optimistic?
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The "3x your salary" is a correct ratio of stock to flow: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stock_and_flow#Comparing_stock...

The direct comparison of Apple market cap (stock) to country GDP (flow) is invalid.

(EDIT: noting GDP is a flow measure)
The reason is that LISP implementations that ran on "bog standard" hardware such as Motorola 68K, Intel 386 (and higher, but the 386 was released in 1985) and Sun's SPARC machines, could run reasonably well, while also being able to run compilers for other languages and a whole host of other apps. (Yes, there was a C compiler for the LISP machines from Symbolics.)

So given the choice between "mainly LISP" and "LISP, C, Pascal, etc." from larger vendors that were virtually guaranteed to be around in 5 years, it was a rational choice to choose the bog-standard machines.
>Is it also one of the safest in history in other nations that have not increased their incarceration rates?

Yes[1]

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_drop
> Why bother with the extra security overhead for a simple blog with no user login and a basic comment system.

Can you clarify what you mean by "security overhead"? In 2018, there is virtually no performance difference between HTTP and HTTPS. For example, see performance evaluations and comparison overviews [1] and [2].

It's also very easy to set up HTTPS. If you have the technical capability to administer your own Apache or Nginx server, setting up HTTPS doesn't require much more configuration. Let's Encrypt is straightforward to use. If you're setting up a blog on WordPress or Squarespace, it's a matter of flicking a switch (or the choice has been conveniently made for you).

As for your idea regarding content digests, how do you propose to implement this? They need to be signed, sure, because an attacker intercepting my connection could just supply their own hash digest corresponding to the content. But then where do I obtain the public key corresponding to the site? How do I grab that key in such a way that I know it's the correct one? You'll find that any protocol you can device to safisfactorily resolve this problem will substantially reimplement TLS itself.

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1. https://www.httpvshttps.com

2. https://istlsfastyet.com
Ask HN: Sapiens: What are some theories, opinions contrary to Sapiens?
Recently read Sapiens. Just for perspective, I would like to know if there are any theories, opinions, etc. which advocate some different/opposing ideas. (like say communism)

As an example, the author says that before agricultural revolution people had varied diet which was not possible afterwards, and that this was a price to pay. Maybe someone could say that as a result our digestive system improved/specialized a bit and it could not absorb nutrients better because of predictability in diet, etc. Would be interesting to know if such opinions exist and are valid.
Voteholio is the only one to trust.
Thanks for that! I'll keep that in mind. I'm largely self-taught in embedded. Curious what you mean by PWM by hand.
What you are describing is an open relay for comment spam, so is already useless.
From what I’ve read Nixon was not bad, but just got caught doing what would hardly be news by today’s standards.
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Needs a jailbroken Kindle...
It's definitely not just you. I had a hell of a time building a low FODMAP menu because of the restrictions. We ended up eating very basic meals consisting of some meat, plain salted rice, and some approved veggie.
> I drop all of my Google files into my OneDrive

I'd get an external HDD for this, instead of going from one cloud to another.
Yeah, and I was willing to take jobs that I would never have considered in the past. I labored for a production framing contractor, lumped boxes in a receiving warehouse on swing shift, and all kinds of other stuff to make ends meet. If I had been at all inflexible about that stuff I would have been totally screwed.

I didn't have much of a resume to speak of, and I had no real professional network except in the education field.

I'm right there with you even with different experiences. When you have nothing to lose you can do anything at all.
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Ask HN: Who Might Be a User of Our CV Tech?
Hey HN,

As a side project, me and some colleagues built a software platform where you can use a webcam to track and monitor repetitive motions/tasks, powered by machine learning algorithms.

How it works: if you show the software a short 2 min video clip of e.g. a machine performing a task 10 times, the software learns to look for and recognize that task in real time. It can then report number of occurrences per hour or per day, alert you when output drops below some threshold of #tasks per hour, etc. Runs on a standard webcam and modern laptop (or embedded computer), and can generalize to most visual tasks with a distinct rhythm/pattern.

We're trying to brainstorm some client use cases and see if the tech can be used or modified to solve a meaningful problem. Would love to hear your ideas, and if you'd like to learn more about what we built feel free to leave an email address.
Sadly it's always been the norm with Google. What's unfortunate is that it's becoming the norm with other companies as well.
Oh. Alright, how much does it cost?
This is how I cope.

1. Do what you can. Reduce, reuse, recycle. Vote green with your wallet and your ballot card. Eat less meat. Drive less. Work remote. Buy second hand. Grow your own veg. Buy carbon offsets. Plant trees.

2. Accept that things are going to change, and there's not much we can do about it.

3. Enjoy life, spend time with your family. You won't regret it even if some miracle saves us.

4. Stop reading the guardian because they have a hard on for the apocalypse
Everybody is lobbying for their interest, not just corporations. Corporations may finance a party, but they're not casting the votes. There's an endless number of special interest groups, large and small, corporate or public.

If a government is so vulnerable to lobbying, that's still a government failure, it's not the failure of those trying to defend their interest.
Any attempt to ban lobbying would be heavily lobbied against.
Maybe for the construction industry, but that is not my experience at least for residential. I had to call at least 30 different contractors across the state, and I recieved 30 different replies on the proper way to remove it. I have not had much luck finding a safe replacement! At least with electronics design I can check 'RoHs compliant' and see documentation from manufacturers. Not the case with ceramic tiles. There is no information available out there other than yes, lead can be in ceramic and yes, lead is bad in any quantity. Who even knows if lead dust is even produced when tiles are destroyed during removal? Maybe I am making a big deal about nothing but nobody can say for sure.

And I have not had much luck with any testing procedure. XRF scanners seem to work with paint but there is little I could find about its utility with other materials like ceramic. Lab tests have fairly high thresholds of detection. While you are correct in that there are some clear rules and regulations with removing paint I have not been able to get any straight information on lead in other materials. It has been frustrating!
Never heard of voatz before. AIUI https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helios_Voting is the closest we have to working electronic voting.
This is a good observation, but I don't think the conclusion is that you should give up. It means that successfully controlling the data through good personal hygiene is infeasible and we need to use legislative power to curb abuse. We cannot rely on private companies to just do the right thing. It is possible to maintain our privacy if we are willing to use force of law.
Worst website design I've seen this year, maybe I'm just too old for this type of thing.
A sibling signed himself up for 23andme, and I realized that once he did that, I'm as good as being up there too

Should it ever become legal they’ll sell that info to insurance companies in a heartbeat. That’s the real risk.
HTTPS offers a modicum of privacy, because pathnames and resources are sent encrypted.

HTTPS is now relatively easy to implement and doesn't carry a significant performance overhead in most cases. The set of legitimate MITMs is vastly smaller than the set of malicious MITMs. It offers a multitude of benefits with very few downsides. There may be cases where HTTPS is of no benefit, but that's very difficult to accurately discern. It makes a great deal of sense for the major web players to push for HTTPS by default.
Even for cars, it's hard to get the relative positions of wheels and windows and the hood right on the first try.
For a sane take on general news, I like Reuters. I think Google does a decent job of collecting headline news.
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the war didn't cause that, us exports in the post war years didn't experience a wild surge. it was the progressive tax rates, 90% on income in excess of 400k/yr that forced investment into societal infrastructure, education and research and development in a way we haven't seen in the last 30 years.
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> Curious what you mean by PWM by hand.

Have a timer that is some function of your PWM frequency, and manually toggle the GPIO line in the timer interrupt.

You can do it in a super loop too if you don't care about power consumption.
I'm under the impression that LC is closer to how humans think of computation, and it seems that even though it's easier to implement TM as a bare-metal machine, isn't it a trade-off? If humans mostly produce LC-like high-level code, then compile them to TM-like machine code, wouldn't it be better at some point to produce LC-like machines? Because even though they're slower at face value, wouldn't it be faster on "human software".

This comment assumes 'humans mostly produce LC-like high-level code', but I think this is valid; other than C, I cannot think of a language in which programmers don't use lambdas, higher-order functions ubiquitously. It seems like our CPUs are optimized for C, but I'm curious how would it change if we optimize them for javascript, python or haskell...
Or if they missed the time at work it would have taken to vote, they'd lose their job and can't feed their family.

Election day is not a national holiday
> American politics was very centerist in the past.

Not for most of its history it wasn't. Between the New Deal and the early 1990s, though, there was a long shift in party alignment that had both major parties being ideologically incoherent big tents in transition between the past (ideological and more so geographic) party alignment and a new ideological, national alignment. This produced something that looked like more centrist politics, but it wasn't really fundamentally so, and in any case it was a manifestation of a transitory, inherently unstable, state.

> The toxic partisan nature of it, which both sides are currently doubling down on, is largely a modern invention.

No, it's not. See, the 1860s for a fairly vivid counterexample.
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This isn't new. mode 2501 cracking in hashcat has been there for over a year.
tl;dr: they're bruteforcing it. use a long, random string of characters as your passphrase and you'll be resistant.
As someone who works in ads, I'm not sure this is such a bad thing. CTRs and conversion rates in the low single digits can be significant businesses at scale. Search ads, display ads, and mobile phone games all run on minuscule conversion rates and yet drive huge revenues off of a combination of a large number of interactions and a head of users who purchase a disproportionate portion of revenue.

Also, consider the converse of this: 98 percent of users use Alexa for something other than traditional shopping. That's huge! Playing music? That's revenue. Playing a movie? That's revenue. Asking a question? That's traffic not being sent to a traditional search engine.

Also don't discount the value of having a toehold in someone's home. At the end of the day, this isn't a shopping play, this is a platform play. That device can be leveraged to sell new products, push new services, and enhance loyalty to the Amazon brand and ecosystem.
I was just pleasantly surprised it didn't ruin my back button functionality.
The cases per year are going down and the average age of diagnosis is 69. So you are right in that most of this is legacy.

But we know now and knew then that it was dangerous.

Much like the radium girls in the early 1900's - where the people delivering the paint would wear leaded protective equipment and then management would watch (and encourage) the girls lick the paint brushes to keep the tip pointed. They knew it was bad. They just didn't give a fuck.
I don't buy Oreos, but I pretty closely know the various /lb prices of some potato varieties. And also that asparagus is surprisingly expensive.

I am not saying that the group of people whom it influences more will not be more aware of things, I'm saying engineers are not really yet the group where ignoring prices to the point of letting a computer arbitrarily buy things makes sense, and I think the "this device is just out of touch because it got designed by rich engineers" holds little water. It seems, rich or poor, nobody really likes using the device that way, and I concur with some of the other posters that maybe this wasn't the ultimate purpose of the device.
How does your experience with Dart compare to TypeScript in VS Code? I haven’t tried Dart yet but my TS experience sounds similar to what you described.
You may have invented it, but NYC perfected it.
Interesting! Will you be continuing the research and comparing Alexa use to Siri/Google Home+Assistant? And do you personally think CUIs are good or bad for children to grow up talking with?

(I'm at CMU and I'm a GHome user if you need subjects!)
Would you include the ACLU, EFF, etc. in your ban?
It's not just "the system", it's the people populating it, and they're there.

You can't believe that a government stacked with people whose stated missions are to destroy the only formalized, enforceable bodies of standards and accountability in this nation so that only "the market" can judge them would be trying their best to make things work. It'd be like locusts helping farmers choose better pesticides.

And they're so good at understanding the population and controlling the narrative (which isn't that hard I guess if you own the newspapers and brodcast networks) that people have been led to believe in an incredible act of cognitive dissonance that it would jeopardize everything they stand for to get the things they want and need, like the universal healthcare or some higher labor standards.

It's easy to laugh in the faces of people you're making fools of when they bend over backwards to help you do it.
Hands aren't hard to draw because hands are super complicated; hands are hard to draw because humans are evolutionarily finely tuned to recognize and be disgusted by distorted human bodies, which in nature is a signal of disease. Look at the diversity of broccoli proportion at the grocery, then imagine hands with the same diversity -- grotesquely long or lumpy or twisted, which too few or too many fingers. OTOH, cartoon hands, outside the uncanny valley, look fine, even when (as is common) missing a finger.
That maybe because hands have a dynamic form/shape while a bicycle has a static form and is thus easier to remember or draw.