skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From Ian Grigg's latest blog post:

> Such a chama was Satoshi Nakamoto. It’s apparent from what is now publicly known that the famous team worked in both excessive secrecy but very high trust. This handful of professionals from the Internet security field contributed jointly and separately to code, keys, design, vision, business, documentation, communications and opsec. As a common enterprise with a shared goal, enveloped in a dangerous environment, the Satoshi Nakamotii, various, faced more or less the same challenges that the members of any chama would face in Kibera: work in secret, protect the assets or be robbed and destroyed. Stay close to the vision, stay the long path, and in perhaps the ultimate irony, don’t allow personalities to be swayed by success.

> You don’t have to believe me that Satoshi Nakamoto was a chama — and the surviving members may also be bemused and disagreeable. I care little for their bemusement or your disbelief, as being bemused and disagreeable is just evidence of a twitter handle or a reddit post and most people out there are incapable of dealing with that simple scientific logic: absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

For reference, the same author posted in May 2016:

"SATOSHI IS DEAD - LONG LIVE SATOSHI - TEAM LEADER COMES OUT"

http://financialcryptography.com/mt/archives/001593.html
Does anyone else miss enscript -2G?
A different way to record Travel Journals
Lies and deceit in the Blockchain and AI industries
But if you focus such an intense point focus of light in tissue, could you cause damage? Would a high enough intensity red light be absorbed by blood and damage those cells?

If not damage, could you use this to do targeted stimulation of neurons in the brain?
What is the meaning of "purely intra-state effect" given Wickard v. Filburn? How could there be a contract with only intra-state effects?
You won't get access to kernel memory space (I think).
Yes, you are correct that "a majority of the push for more environmentally safe products [is] a result of the market demand", but as we read in the parent article, environmentally safe products are not making a significant difference. This is a bit of an assumption, because the article only speaks of straws, and I'm extrapolating that to _all_ consumer goods. The article then goes on to highlight what _would_ make a significant difference: fishing net cleanup.

What I'm saying is that the significant mess made by commercial fishing should be cleaned up by commercial fishing - or prevented in the first place by regulating the practice.

If we look a little further down the line at consumer behaviour again, I will make the anecdotal assumption that the vast majority of consumers does not care in the least about the packaging of their products (or the number of plastic straw it comes with), as they are too busy budgeting their lives.
That's not what's being tabled up for discussion - land forcefully taken during apartheid already has an existing process and that land is mostly urban.

What's being discussed is forcible taking of white owned land 'just because' - there is no subtle point. That is the entire discussion.
....or any other class of workers engaged in foreign or interstate commerce."

Not a lawyer, but doesn't a FB engineer writing FB App code from CA affect foreign and intrastate commerce?
And increasingly type definitions too.
"Fast reactors have always had this potential problem"

- Not really. Check out the dramatic experiments at EBR-II (fast reactor) demonstrating unprotected loss of coolant at full power. It shut itself down. Without damage. And started back up later that day, and operated that year, as a research reactor, with better uptime (capacity factor) than the fleet at the time.
This is potentially a big step forward for the cloud, this is also the missing component to push Serverless.

Currently if you want to use containers and Serverless you'll need to spin up 200+MB of linux bistro + tons of dependancies that have nothing to do with what you originally planned, that's to say running a container with a virtual machine on it.

This kernel would allow to replace Unix for a much more lightweight (1MB) and efficient kernel to run programs on it with an hypervisor.

This is promising.
> It is highly recommended you commit the generated package lock to source control

Fixed the Javascript way, layers of workarounds.

And if you indeed need to update a dependency, you need to regenerate the lock.

But the main difference is that when that happens, the onus to verify all packages transitive unpinned dependencies still result in a working combination (of which there is no guarantee) is on the receiving developer, not on the package maintainer.
It's really not, as people by themselves don't pose much of a military threat. What you really want to do is break all the stuff that lets those people actually threaten you.

Granted, much of that stuff is arranged in the form of compounds that contain people, or is stored on such compounds.

There are a few steps to "deciding who is innocent", but the big steps are Step 1: the President decides that the military can start making spot decisions like "that guy just shot me" within a specific set of circumstances. Step 2: "that guy just shot me! I'm shooting back!"

Better military technology improves step #2. It also improves subtler cases like "can I shoot this guy" / "does he have a weapon?" / "yes he totally does [false]" / "ok shoot him" -- by allowing the supervisor in this case to confirm what he's being told, before he gives the go-ahead.

But step #1 is the biggie. As soon as the President says that the military can go to a place and kill people, it gets very dangerous for the people there. Apart from turning the entire planet into a panopticon, I don't think technology can change this much.
Why do you think so? I don't even remember the last time that I used lazyness myself. Not to mention that there are other pure functional languages (such as Idris) that are strict.
You could say that for this one as well, but its still pretty impressive https://rave.dj/sVAYFGYFUxM2nw
> "kinetic energy" is such a euphemism for killing people.

corrected, thank you. I agree with you more than you think. Please vote.
"Do you know whose handwriting it is?"
So the jobs have to remain inside of the economy that created them to create the demand I think is what you're saying.

Supply-side economics seems kind of flawed then.

How does it account for automation taking jobs?
When the gov is in charge of things, there are too many vested personal interests that would argue certain unprofitable programs need more funding anyway etc... The only way these things can be assessed with certainty is when a private company is giving out the loans and they have real skin in the game.
It actually sounds like a really bad USENET implementation to me.
I don’t know about France, but Germany is failing 2 huge projects right now: Stuttgart 21 and BER airport. There was also Elbphilharmonie. And Transrapid that even didn’t start. And China is building and building and building. I don’t know how good it is in China, but the infrastructure in Germany from seventies isn’t that good anymore. Not talking about scientific projects, because there are close to none.
One of my greatest regrets in life is not being able to take pictures inside Christiania. It has some of the greatest blow ups (graffiti) I've ever seen. 10 years ago it was absolutely mindblowing wildstyles.

It's hard to wrap your head around just how sketchy the place is though, even with the open-air drug-dealing going on. Honestly it reminded me of Times Square in the early 80s with the sex replaced with more drugs. There is a large, almost exclusively muslim criminal element there and Christiania's residents depend on their money.
How “systems thinking” can level up your work – and your life
It also frequently gets resolved by a case making it to the Supreme Court.

State laws are not supposed to conflict with federal law.
There are many things; family, friends (go somewhere to meet up, less chance ending up sitting behind a computer if your friends are like mine anyway), read books, sports, electronics (soldering things and testing takes forever and it's fun), cooking, ...

Even computer stuff can force you to disengage; like gaming (especially on a console; it doesn't do mail or anything else productive :). But also, I like, as a hobby to work on small programming languages, type systems, proofs etc. Those things will never make it to production and will never make money, which is the point. I find them a lot of fun and during those it is very hard to get me to do anything work related as they all suck me in and keep me there until I sleep.
I've wasted a lot of time in the past year searching the net for individual instruments with a "Creative Commons" license. This is brilliant.
Even with 100k in debt you're talking 7k interest. Get a job in sewer maintenance instead of museum curation and you'll have no problem paying that off.
Taxation in Russia
Do you know the one thing all great mega-powers of the past have in common? They no longer exist. Ceasing to strive to be the best and greatest at everything is not 'growing up', it's resting on your laurels. There's much more than just bragging rights to being 'first, bigger, best'. Technology is what dictates and drives society. If Germany or Japan (or Italy or ...) had developed nuclear weapons before the US, the world would be quite a different place today. If North Korea had not developed nuclear deterrence, Kim would now likely rest alongside Gadaffi and Hussein.

And while it's now easy to say in hindsight 'Well, [insert new form of bigger, better, badder] is not particle physics.' This is true, but at time nobody knew where particle physics would take us. The idea of bomb the size of a small table that could destroy entire cities is something that would have seemed impossible before the US worked to to become 'bigger, better, badder' in what was at one time mostly theoretical particle research.

The worst part of this all is that while we don't know the future, we do have a very good idea of where it's headed. Space is likely where the nest greatest achievements and breakthroughs will come from. But predicting how or where is going to be all but impossible, which is why working to be the king of all pursuits is critical. China is headed straight in this direction. They have not matched our technical skills yet, but at the time when we were conquering the world through technology and taking the baby steps into the computer age -- China was a backwoods nation where people were literally starving to death by the tens of millions. That they're now the second most powerful nation in the world, pushing forward technology and development at an unprecedented rate, is way more than enough reason to believe that one should not underestimate their resolve and ability.
Reading, calligraphy, martial arts mainly. These days, spending a lot of time with our young son (less than a year old).
That being said, I have been thinking about Yishan-style CEOs for a while now.
Thanks for the ideas there ex.
not sure how to share privately, but I think the url was: sexchaterotic dot tumblr - I had three of them, one is still active, so it could be a different url. My open set of notes and emails only go back so far.

Since the ban of the other one I've been too paranoid to post anything there for the fear of it being destroyed with no way to do anything about it.

I did manage to export a tumblr site into a wordpress at one point, and now control whether the content stays or gets removed and have backups. Wish I could of exported that other one, it was pretty custom.
And if we went back to living in caves, I'd take up eating animals again. I used to hunt, and I have no particular qualms in taking it up again if it was necessary, which is more than I could say for a lot of people. I always found it incredibly hypocritical when non-vegetarians used to criticise me for hunting.

We are perfectly capable of eating a plant-based diet, we can derive any missing vitamins (e.g. B12) from supplements and fortified foods. Most of us have the choice to forgo eating animals.
They still haven't separated the USB/Ethernet Bus :/
Yeah, but I'd like to use software that isn't written in PHP or Ruby (for a variety of reasons, some valid, and some not).
If the protocol was better documented, there might be more choice.
If anyone is looking for a good project, alternate Wasserstein distance/EMD solvers would be a good place to start.

AFAIK everyone (eg, pyemd, gensim, textacy) uses wrappers around the EMD solver from http://ofirpele.droppages.com/, which is a zip file from some time in 2008. The limits on performance mean it can't practically be used in things like interactive nearest neighbor calculations (FAISS, nmslib, annoy etc)
What bothers me in the Article, the official documentation and almost all guides for wireguard is that they ignore ipv6 completely.
They either result in a leaking vpn or bad working one where all ipv6 connections fail.
I don't see the relevance. We do live in society and do have technology. Without those things, we wouldn't have hospitals, cardboard, or Hacker News either, but what does that mean?

There's a sort of meme which is like a lecture on how dangerous the world 'really' is, often to justify or advocate a lack of compassion. It's portrayed as 'realism' but I find it surreal: We don't live in a state of nature and we have no desire to. Why are we talking about it? Why don't we aim for more, as our ancestors who built this society did?
Haha been there while working for Startup based in Copenhagen, that place is bonkers. Go if you have a chance!
Either the techbro journalists dont understand that, or they do and know their readers wont understand or care.

Most Mastodon articles fail to even explain that its a server software anyone can run and talk about mastodon.social like that is the whole thing.
Since you clearly like math, suppose there are 20 million students applying to college every year. One million of them are very bright (2-sigma intelligence). Suppose that every Ivy League accepts around two thousand students every year. Can the sum of Ivy Leagues fit all of the smart people?

Bonus question: What if we change our constraints to only account for 3-sigma people? Does our conclusion change?
I'm surprised they shipped anything. The hype was at perpetual motion machine level.
Problem is that by not eating meat you are still killing animals indirectly. You just can`t avoid it. How many pesticides, herbicides, fungicides and other *cides are thrown at your GMO soy crops? How many smaller animals are killed by cultivating that land for the crops? And who are we to say that little mouse is worth less than a cow?

People usually favor bigger animals in their animal empathy pyramid. On top are smart or endangered animals and pets that we do not usually eat. Then come bigger animals that we grow to like because we can see their nuanced expressions because of their size. And then on the bottom are insects, pests and "gross" animals.

But who am I to egotistically judge from a human point of view that a dog's life is more important than pig`s. Or that 1 cow deserves to live more than million of flies.

Life is rough. Animals and people die in many different ways, not just for food. My view now is that that fact is inevitable, but that does not mean that you can be a jerk and disrespect life and do as you please. Eat animals, but respect them. Eat them, but in as humane way as possible. Don`t support industrial farming and production of animals. Don`t throw food. Don`t be mindless about it. Care for the environment. Don`t kill without purpose, even the smallest animals.
Don't worry. The Google abstention is an eyewash. Weaponized AI is here to stay.
You can take photographs throughout Christiana, just not in the small area called 'Pusher Street' for the reason mentioned in the article.

> There is a large, almost exclusively muslim criminal element there and Christiania's residents depend on their money

Source? I have never heard Muslim and Christiania mentioned in the same breath before. I live in Copenhagen, near to Christiania.
Some testing notes on WireGuard – JRS Systems: the blog
That does look a lot better, however:

a) its not supported by the stable release

b) There are no claims about downgrade resistance. The manual specifies the new transport protocol is used if both clients support it and both have changed their configs to enable experimental mode. Can an attacker still force them to connect with legacy mode?

c) Users have to ensure every single config on every client has the correct setting.

d) It still doesn't have the identity hiding features of Wireguard. (Someone observing your network traffic can see which servers you are talking to from the transmitted signatures)
Same here. I'm also a contractor and have seen scores of different work environments. Maybe hundreds. I also specialize in making tech teams happier and more productive, so how people feel about their work is something I've been tracking and learning about for a while.

"Stress" is a weird word. I've seen people with jobs I thought were skate that were totally stressed-out. I've also seen people with jobs I'd never take who thrive.

Maybe discomfort is a better word. From what I've seen, all jobs involve some amount of discomfort. The critical factor is whether or not you feel in control over it.

I was on a short gig with a client a few years back where I was hired by the QA department. They were having problems with quality, but it really was about trust, attitude, stress (discomfort), and interpersonal relationships.

I was only there for a few weeks, but I never had a week with that client where they didn't complain about something. I wore jeans, which broke the dress code. Jeans were common all over the company, but for some reason this particular group cared about a dress code. I left an hour early because there was nothing to do and I didn't want to waste their time. They wanted me there until 5 every day.

It was seven or eight things like that over a few weeks. They were probably one of my top five worst clients ever. It was sad because when I worked with the dev teams there was this feeling of helplessness. It wasn't that things sucked. Things suck all the time. It was that they didn't feel like they had control over it. Instead it was just random sucky stuff showing up and everybody having to react. All the time.

It destroyed trust and made things miserable. People ended up in little cliques, controlling information flow and making sure somebody else got blamed for things. I pointed out that there were some severe environment issues that we needed to fix right away. Then I was corrected and told that they only wanted 1 or 2 tech topics from me, not advice on making a better work environment.

I was happy to leave.

That unpredictable, out-of-control, low-trust-environment is what destroys lives. (and team productivity). All of those adjectives are relative, however, and I've never seen a case where things couldn't get better. If people want things to get better.
The reason why the military will always be technologically behind is that the salaries they're willing to pay for talent is far less compared to what you can get in the Bay Area and/or New York if you decide to do quantitative finance. It's as simple as that, but there's far more than just the economics that are involved.

Even if in the world where the military does pay salaries on par with the Google farm, very few people will make the switch. The military would have to pay likely an unreasonable amount premium to get any appreciable amount of people because many have an aversion to the military industrial complex. And for good reason too I might add.

People want to work on things that will help change the world and improve the quality of lives of other people, not make it easier to kill. You can argue that working on B2B software contributes little to improving humanity, but at the very least, it isn't actively harming anyone.

And the examples of moonshot technologies that are being developed in fields like cancer treatment, curing aging, self driving vehicles, etc. which are being made possible due to innovations in places like Silicon Valley should show you that technology can and is being used to change the world for the better.

Technology at the end of the day is a force multiplier that I would hope is directed towards purposes not devoted to zero sum games like waging war.
"SipHash24 for hashtable keys"

Someone can correct me, but I would prefer Tabulation Hashing to SipHash, even though SipHash is by DJB. Tabulation Hashing offers optimal guarantees and performance, and it's much simpler.
tldr: Assume input that are real numbers with some distribution. Approximate distribution with ML and use it to predict where every element should go. Using prediction monotonous in value means no inversions but possible collisions. Fix that up into a sorted array.

The authors never proved that this will give O(n) in the presence of not-perfect estimation of the distribution, but their numerical experiments look promising.
The call to action to download the copyhackers book doesn't work for me. Any other way of getting it?
About time governments helped their citizens deal with cybersecurity
I often wonder whether it is possible to become a developed nation without some "inferiority complex" that drives you as a country. Would the US space program have been so great without the Soviets? I see from the story that villagers where moved from the location. This is something that would not be possible in South Africa, at the best it would take years and years of negotiation and cost billions. The inverse is true, South Africa needs to create more jobs and more tourism. But the laws here are the laws of a developed state (I doubt the countries followed the same modern laws during their developmental phase). I am not complaining, just an observation.
For sure. I'm aware that we kill animals either way.

But we kill less animals if we don't eat them. Especially if you're in the USA and eat corn fed beef or chicken.

I like your attitude though, in regards to respecting life, and I wish more people had it.
That only works for simple words. For example when I google for "Zufriedenheit" (satisfaction), I get a picture of a red boat.
Good points, At the same time, reducing the cost of killing people and destroying things (which is a military's legitimate job) makes it more likely those actions will be ordered by political leaders.

Let's say a technology could be developed that allowed your government (wherever you are) to kill any person with almost zero cost and no chance of detection. Would it be moral to aid in its development?

If it wasn't for WWII or the risk of falling behind competitors, should those scientists and engineers have developed the atomic bomb?
There's been talk of porting Glimmer to webassembly for a while now. No mention of that in the roadmap?
>It seems like a lot people here are confused as to what is an identifier and what is authentication. An identifier uniquely identifies someone (the uid), while authentication is the way to prove identity (the password).

The problem is how the average person working in the bureaucracy will see this, not how a smart programmer like you on hackernews would see it.

The world is full of average people doing average mistakes in average bureaucracies. Everything that can be abused, will be abused.
I'm afraid that phonetic alphabets are useless for English because pronunciation is not stable [1] and because it has a lot of local variants. I suspect that English will fossilise its current orthography and turn words into logograms composed of Latin letters, similar to Chinese.

[1]: https://www.vocabulary.com/lists/432678
Stop using “Action plans” to fire programmes