skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I imagine that a lot of people responding to this do not realize how abstract modern pure mathematics is.

The number theory that makes up the basis of cryptography was established in the 1700s. For example, Euler's theorem is the basis of RSA and was proven in 1763. The theorem is a small generalization of Fermat's little theorem which was known (but not proven) in 1640. These theorems are really just simple facts about groups and other cryptosystems, such as elliptic curve cryptosystems, are essentially the same facts except the multiplicative group of integers is replaced with an elliptic curve group.

These concepts could be taught to advanced high school students with no formal pure mathematical training. The "hot" areas in modern mathematics require not only an additional 4 years of undergraduate mathematics but usually ~2 years of a PhD program to begin to understand the current papers.

This is extremely different from other fields such as theoretical computer science which seems to have applications almost immediately. Even professional mathematicians likely do not research in hopes of applications hundreds of years later.

I will not claim that modern mathematics cannot possibly have applications. I will, however, claim that pure mathematics is an extremely poor way to allocate funds if you are simply looking for a return on investment in terms of "useful theorems proved per dollar". Mathematics research should be justified by stating that people trained in pure mathematics can be useful in industry, other applied fields or to teach mathematics.
Anyone have suggestions for kindles? A lot of the "screens" I've seen on amazon have pretty terrible reviews.

It's the one major source of nighttime blue light that I consume. I've largely given up using my phone / laptop in the dark, as I decided I'm an adult and can just leave the lights on.

Reading in bed is one of my favorite things, and it bothers my partner to leave the lights on.
"why he does not maintain a F-Droid repository for people who do not trust google"

Are you paying him to do that? No? Well, there you go. It's more work, for what appears to be very little benefit.
Small Company(Startup) or Large Company(Facebook)?
Docker provides a lot more future-proof reproducibility than other deployment strategies, though. It's not 100% guaranteed, but whether a given docker image is forwards-compatible doesn't matter as long as the reproducibility of creating the Docker image doesn't change substantially.

In other words, as long as I can get (or make) an ubuntu:xenial docker image and apply the same (or similar) transformations to it to make the end result, it doesn't matter nearly as much whether specifically this Docker instance works across all versions of Docker forever.
Even if the US military itself doesn't, the US has allies who don't seem to care as much about innocent people being hurt: https://www.hrw.org/news/2016/12/08/yemen-us-made-bombs-used...

That doesn't even touch on the fact that the US involves itself in many conflicts where the enemy combatants are pretty much "innocent" relative to the US, and continually approves arms sales to despotic dictators installed via US-backed regime change. A lot of the unethical actions of the US are outsourced
What kind of “guaranteed job” are you talking about? As a teacher, I could be let go without cause for my first three years and, subsequently, after two poor performance reviews. Tenure merely requires the district to attempt to coach the teacher before firing them. I’ve seen teachers forced out of the classroom simply because they don’t mesh with the personality of management.

Whatever horror stories about rubber rooms come out of NYC are not indicative of the reality on the ground most places.
Nice, thanks for the link! :)

Also:

> That is the number one problem in programming - the time [thinking] is not spent, and people flounder around.

That's a summary worthy to be framed if I ever heard one.
You conveniently left out the fact that Telegram has a history of actual backdoors http://habrahabr.ru/post/206900/
AFAIK, Signal has an open source client, and an open source server. If you want federation, you can go ahead and build it, and find users, and you can start from a reasonably well working base. Moxie isn't going to build it, because he doesn't think federation works; to convince him, you'll need to show him it works, not just tell him. Is there an example of a federated chat service which has end to end encryption that just works?

Peer to peer chat is interesting, but it means that IPs of communicating users are more widely exposed -- now anybody in the network path between two users can see they're communicating with each other, not just that they're both communicating with Signal. I may not want to share my IP with some (or most) people I communicate with. Additionally, there's a lot of hard work around actually getting a peer to peer connection on today's internet, for a large fraction of connections, you're going to have to proxy packets for them anyway.
In some ways, I think the FDA is a victim of its own success. If I'm not mistaken, it was created in part because of the 100+ deaths around Elixir sulfanilamide. But since the FDA has helped prevent things like that from recurring, we underestimate the potential dangers of under-regulating.

Not that the FDA couldn't be more efficient (possibly considerably more so), but it's clear that most products that go into production work, and that can't be discounted.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elixir_sulfanilamide
Having been peripherally involved with a small handful of that aging crop and their experiences with "security" I'm not sure you're being entirely fair by lumping all their ills together because they over-consumed. I'm not sure you noticed life around you but we're all but force-fed raw, unadulterated consumerism. Be that as it may, sure, careless spending seems like it would definitely be a contributing factor - credit where credit is due.

Unless one is a ff rich elder (or at least well above moderately wealthy) the suction of any wealth is aggressive and unrelenting, especially if any services are required. Not until someone is totally insolvent do the "real" safety nets (what's left of them) begin to kick in. If you can't afford your ever escalating healthcare costs then you will likely not get the care you need until your assets total $0.00 and you're living ss check to ss check.

There has been and continues to be a sickly draw on any wealth and an unrelenting hacking away of the security of society as a whole. We are surrounded by vultures that eat the living in what seems like an "I've got mine and now I want yours." agenda that does nothing for society, rich or poor and continues practically unabated.

Bankruptcy seems like a perfectly good, viable and reliable option when considering the stacked deck.
Discord RPG
Free speech, as the Amendment is written, DOES cover hate speech in the US.

It does not cover speech that specifically calls for violence.

It is not a human right to alwaysbbe unoffended.
(Pioneer founder here.)

Nat Friedman and I launched AI Grant last year (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14851806). The idea was to give out money to promising AI researchers around the world. To date, we've funded 50 researchers, from high school students in Hawaii to aspiring researchers in Africa. We’ve been inspired by the fellows we’ve funded all over the word. I’m following it with a new project called Pioneer.

Pioneer funds ambitious people around the world working on interesting projects. Unlike YC, this is focused on small projects, not companies. A project could be anything -- open source work, research in physics or biology, or creating art.

If one does start a company, Pioneer gets 3% of equity in it in return for the network, community and guidance it provides. But it's by no means a requirement or a goal. We're merely hoping the small fraction of companies help us fund this experiment in perpetuity.

I think the largest gift we'll give our Pioneers isn't money. It'll be non-intuitive things like a network of friends (other Pioneers), a forcing function to get that thing done and mentorship from inspiring individuals.

Unlike other grant programs, we’re trying to do most of the screening in software. Becoming a Pioneer requires winning the Pioneer Tournament -- a (hopefully) fun and interactive application process. More on that on the site.

I'm passionate about this work because I'm the beneficiary of a similar system. I wrote about my story here, if you're curious: https://pioneer.app/blog/hello.

I read HN daily. And I've lost a lot of sleep about how this comments section will react to Pioneer :)

I'm hoping you'll find this at least a worthwhile experiment to run. Do let me know what ideas or feedback you have!

P.S. This effort is unrelated to YC. If you have any complaints about it, shoot me, not them!

P.P.S. Nat remains a close friend to Pioneer but his focus is on GitHub. AI Grant will continue to run as a non-profit. More details on that soon.
Not sad. There is no cybersecurity without physical security. I only hope that people remain this vigilant as cameras become even more ubiquitous and invisible.
Isn’t that basically a matter of paying for it in some form?
Are you going to pay for him to do that?
Depending on the content you are trying to do, different formats help. For me, the few times I get around to writing a blog post, I'm also writing some code to play with. In that, org has been amazingly fun. http://taeric.github.io/Sudoku.html is an example. All of the code and blog material is in one source and I don't have to worry about changing excerpts to put on the page. Literally change the code and rerun.
I'm going to have to disagree with you on that. I don't think I've ever used discord and gone "wow, that took a while". To be fair, they are completely different.
A new space probe will study the sun’s corona and the solar wind
Just a guess, but by using UDP transport for the encapsulated data and configuring the module on the proxy to accept UDP on a wide range of ports, you can pick any port you want (not just the destination port of the TCP stream in the encapsulated packet). And if you are using ECMP with a known hashing algorithm you can then use that UDP port to explicitly spread packets across the RX queues on the proxy servers (gaining better performance).
Take the money and run...
Unfortunately, we haven't figured out how to make teaching career-worthy without collective bargaining. Perhaps the best case study for non-union teaching is the workforce of adjunct teachers at universities. Talk to some adjuncts about their "careers." Disclosure: I was an adjunct for one semester at a big ten university, many years ago.
Externally applied nitrogen has the benefit that the wheat plant doesn't need to divert sugars to the symbiotes for nitrogen production, and can instead spend it on making heads of grain.

As cool as it is, I'm not clear that it actually helps efficiency in industrial agriculture. Partly depends on how efficient the symbiotes are vs. how expensive synthetic fertilizer production is.
Nit in case you didn't know: Huning (or Hu Ning[1]) is his given name, and Wang is his surname.

[1] really it would make more sense to write Chinese names in English in a way that reflects that they are three separate characters, e.g. Wang Hu Ning, but for whatever reason that isn't done.
Because public employee unions are the only reliably effective voting bloc in California. Democrats know full well that public employee compensation is a Ponzi schema in the state but won't bite the hand that feeds them.
I don't have a camera on my computer, but my headset has a microphone with a hardware switch to turn it on or off -- I leave it off unless I'm using it.
Colour perception is not that simple. The visual cortex compensates. It's the same sort of compensation that means that you see the same colours for objects under artificial lighting and in sunlight, even though spectral analysis will show them not to be.
> Being able to live your life always refusing to step outside your own culture is in itself kind of a form of privilege.

Isn't that exactly what the sexist bro culture she outlined is? Some coworkers were unable or unwilling to drop the parts of their personality that doesn't lend well to collaboration.

I like dirty, offensive jokes and I like to tease people - not to upset them it's just my sense of humor. My friends get that and are okay with it.

BUT I realize in an office environment these things don't help me be more effective, and they certainly don't help my colleagues be more effective, so I leave that part of myself at home. Same way I don't go on endlessly about my hobbies and passions outside of work during work hours. It's just not germane to getting shit done.
Guess it's a great thing you're not the FCC, then.

I'd be cool with the Black Panthers being the next slot.

If you're not, you don't understand, nor support, freedom of speech, or freedom of expression.
How does the amount of blue light we see from our computers and mobile devices compare to the blue light seen from the rest of the world quantitatively? While I agree that f.lux helps in the night, I'd guess that the impact caused by f.lux to prevent the effect mentioned in the article is pretty minimal. (Obviously, I have no citations or references; just a wild guess.)
People don't just use discord for gaming chat.
Domo might (Utah)... there are billboards about them hiring, and it says... Domo loves LGBTQ and everybody else too! ..it's dumb/cheesy, but whatevs.

I'm straight, but personally I think if I were lgbt, I'd want a company that gives equal opportunity and benefits on merit not sexual orientation, gender, race, etc... and lets me be..I'm also an introvert, I wouldn't want everyone being all in my business and gossiping about things.
Which as far as I can tell is what Marlinspike meant by harm reduction.

It's not preventing anyone from hijacking your encrypted session and serving you a bad app, I'm not sure how it could. ("How do you secure your connection given that your security has already been silently compromised?" isn't a question I really understand.) But it helps ensure that people are at least requesting the genuine app, and if they get it then they'll get signature verification for future versions.
You can go further by reducing white point in accessibility settings. The colour filters there also go beyond night shift.
Def'ly a great relief for my eye strain - using it during the day too and keeping on by default.
One annoyance is that Chrome needs to let the address bar be darkened as well as it stands out like a neon tube when Dark Reader is on.
In a way they are screwed. The pension system like social security is a pyramid scheme.

But didn’t the private sector basically contribute the value of the pension to the 401K using some type of present value calculation?
Previous HN discussion:

Original Paper: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14912382

Original Critique: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15147377
http://archive.is/z9KD6
Oh, Backblaze B2 DOES charge for transactions, but it is not intended to make Backblaze a profit, only to recoup the cost of the transactions. You can see a complete list of what each and every API call costs here:

https://www.backblaze.com/b2/b2-transactions-price.html
Yes, because $dayjob uses zoom.us which has frustrating defaults.
> more of it

not all of it
" People who are into more secure communication do not randomly click on anything."

That's not the sole market of people who would try Signal, though.
RIP EmuParadise, a haven for retro gamers for almost two decades
A method for opening ANY electric safe on the market
Medicare will pay for medical care - drugs too through Medicare Part D. It won't pay for long term care. Think nursing home. If you can't pay for that then the best option is Medicaid. Medicaid is means tested so generally the people in that situation spend everything they have, declare bankruptcy and then go on Medicaid.
Given the fact that they don't work a full year, their expected SS benefits would be a fraction of their teacher pension.
Plenty of companies have succeeded going against Steam.

You have game developers like Blizzard, EA, and Epic who all have their own Steam-like platforms on PC where they distribute their titles. Arguably these platforms are more popular than Steam, if only because of the popularity of the titles they own.

You have popular games that distribute outside of these platforms, like League of Legends and Guild Wars.

And you have other studio-unassociated storefronts, like Humble Bundle, Twitch, GoG. Yes, I'm aware GoG is owned by CD Projekt Red, but it's a generic storefront not just for their games, and they distribute their games elsewhere, so it resembles Steam more than it does Battle.net.

The PC gaming space is ridiculously diverse and there is room for competition. There's also a lot of value I can see arising here in the indie space; if Nitro becomes a "Netflix for Indie Games" type subscription, that's something relatively unique (Humble is close, but has a curation problem). Combine that with the huge curation and discovery problem Steam has, and possibly some strategic partnerships with Humble or CD Projekt Red, and it'd be a huge win for small developers and gamers alike.
This seems like this will trigger anti-trust proceedings.
This might be relevant: https://forum.justgetflux.com/topic/2446/blue-light-and-the-...
When I read articles such as this, where there are previous commitments that were not sufficiently backed by the committers, I cannot help but feel 1) Government services are ponzi schemes and 2) It seems only just to plunder the wealth of the those who made the commitments in order to hold them to their words.
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The permissions system that android apps use is entirely dependent on which API version you target. Last I understood, if you made a new app today and purposely chose to target an old API version, you could force it to use the "all or nothing", user hostile permissions query you described
In some states, they pay into both.
I disagree totally. A PhD should be about curiosity and asking the most interesting scientific questions you can think of, also known as 'basic research'. You have the rest of your career to have as much impact on society and commerce as you want.

Unfortunately, the social impact factor has been creeping in, in the form of more 'applied research' funding which is not fundamental and does not move scientific knowledge forward. The government has limited role in funding applied research, since industry is better positioned to understand what applied research is important and has a strong incentive to fund it.

Academia is imperfect, but the genius of the system is that letting scientists chase down interesting things does end up improving society dramatically in the long run.
What about a red light in a lamp? I use a red light to read at night. Doesn't bother my girlfriend (though she's not hugely bothered by light in general)

Combine that with an e ink non backlit kindle and you'll have no blue light.
It's in contrast to the conservative strategy "starve the beast".
I use flu.x app on my mac. Is something like this going to help if you end up on your laptop for the most part of your day.
The same happens with computer screens. Most offices are under-lit (or over-lit but only if ALL your UI has a dark background).

To get a feel for this, point your cell phone at your desk area and take a picture (without HDR enabled). If you can't take a picture without over– or under–exposing the screen or the wall, then your setup is putting strain on the eyes.
It doesn't make sense to do that. You grandfather in the existing pensions, and switch the incoming teachers to a 401K.
Because a "starve the beast" strategy, like in Kansas, is a product of conservatives. Though school funding in Kansas was fine, despite the hysteria created by the media. There can NEVER be enough money for schools, per the article:

"Some districts are predicting deficits and many districts are bracing for what’s to come by cutting programs, reducing staff or drawing down their reserves—even though per-pupil funding is at its highest level in three decades and voters recently extended a tax hike on the rich to help pay for schools."

Maybe CA should work on it's illegal immigration problem, which is probably a big drain on the schools. Funny to read about all the economic woes in CA despite it's supposed great economy. In reality it's a dump.
> The blog mentions that Julia is supposed to be a general purpose language, and not a language built specifically for scientific computing. Is that wrong?

No. Julia is a general purpose language that has so far been mainly focused on scientific and mathematical programming.

It's design is probably least friendly to the real-time programming domain (GC based) but it can apparently be used there as well:

http://www.juliarobotics.org/

I see an extremely bright future ahead for Julia!
Governments seem to be increasingly enamored with paying for shortfalls by issuing debt instruments such as bonds, then when the bonds come due issuing ever-larger bond packages to cover the previous bonds plus the new debt. When does this cycle break down? Is it when nobody is able to buy bonds any more? Especially at the federal level I really struggle to understand the bond market, particularly with such low returns. Who are these willing participants in poor returns with bonds?
I started using elixir/erlang, which basically doesn't have indexing, ever. It's been a joy.
True - they are less publicly tested but it is suggestive in its own way. If they could just NSL their way to access why bother with precedents? It is wild speculation but that is what lack of transparency has wrought.
Free divers have to be careful not to hold their breath so long as to pass out under water. I'd be interested in hearing from an expert but seems like the conscious mind passes out then the autonomic nervous system takes back over.
Proposition 13 affects this situation in two ways: it reduces tax revenue and it drives up the price of land, both of which cost money for the school system.