skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Public transportation is _really_ bad in some places. Where I live, sometimes you can be two hours later than the schedule would suggest relying on public transit. I suppose you can then go to work 3 hours early to compensate. But it sure doesn't make it easier.

And I live in a reasonably sized city, it can be even worse in other places, like no bus route at all.

Our society is not set up for poor people, let alone homeless people. _everything_ is harder when you are poor, and an order of magnitude more so when you are homeless.
My understanding was you couldn’t even have extensions on iOS, except for ad blocker style things which are explicitly limited by API to prevent blocker from knowing what it was blocking due to tracking concerns.

I may be wrong about safari on Mac iOS.
Watsi (YC non profit) ia tackling this in fairly extreme conditions:

https://blog.watsi.org/engineering-challenges/
That time was like 10yrs ago...
It's a messy thing,but you gotta start somewhere.
I've only ever heard the term 'echo-chamber' as a pejorative against people who hold anti-establishment views, ie 'Hillary lost because middle America is stuck in right wing / alt-right echo chambers.' It's appears to be a derivation of the 'conspiracy theorists are mentally ill argument' or 'Yes, people hold these views, but its not their fault, choose one (mental illness/echo chamber).
Im in the UK where Prime free delivery option is next day. And they 3/4 of the time to deliver the next day. the 1/4 rolls over to a 2 days delivery.

I live too far outside London to use Prime Same Day and Prime Now options. (I.e same day and 2 hours delivery). I would be interested in how often they meet those much tighter delivery times?
> Nobody (serious) is saying that.

People are saying that seriously a lot on HN.
In the USA, highway building and maintenance is paid out of the highway trust fund, which is filled from the federal fuel tax. That fund doesn’t receive enough money to maintain highway quality.

This being the USA, the average citizen doesn’t accept the fact that “we would like to have better roads” may mean “we need to raise the fuel tax”, so, instead, they pay, on average, $515 per year in extra car repairs, so that they can keep their payments on fuel taxes at a low $97 (according to https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/06/25/why-d...)
If you get funding from investors most of them will want their money back plus returns. That’s why they invest after all. The exit is how the investors get their money back
Die Renten sind sicher! Jokes aside the thing is if you have to provide yourself for retirement there went something wrong with the core of the "Sozialstaat" and getting something on your plate to eat would be the last of your worries. As demographics shift and our society gets older and older the democratic power shifts as well so trust me when old people have the most voting count in the country your "Rente" will be save. They would rather bleed the young than lose power.
You can't stop caring about security just because you can't upgrade everything. You could instead just keep a secure and insecure network if you're concerned about backwards compatibility and still want security.
Gujus(Indian Gujarat people) are not just in USA but even within India they are mostly money lenders and resellers. Most Gujus do not stay in Gujarat, they are business people(buying and selling only no production)
Also Humanitarian Operations are governed by Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team [0] - they have their custom styling [1].

[0] https://www.hotosm.org/
[1] https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Humanitarian_map_style
> For example, there are no "exclusivity agreements"--those have been illegal under federal law since 1994.

As you know, there's a big difference between "this is illegal" and "this doesn't happen, because the laws prohibiting it are enforced effectively". Unfortunately, exclusivity agreements do not belong to the latter category. The New York Times, for example, has provided fairly extensive coverage over the last five years of how exclusivity agreements (despite being illegal in New York) have eliminated the possibility of choice in broadband ISPs for many New Yorkers, despite the fact that they may live in buildings that are otherwise already wired for alternative ISPs.
Except it's a completely different scenario, micro optimization vs generic approach is most likely always faster, but the goal is not there, you're using lib / tools that no one uses, that's it s no language independent ect .. not well supported.

tbh I'm curious about how you did it because grpc / protobuf is highly optimized since it's the main target at Google.
From the article:
"[ASKfm] asks for access to a user’s location that “won’t be shared with anyone.” But the app sends that location data to two data firms, AreaMetrics and Huq. When reached, the app maker said it believes its location collection practices “fit industry standards, and are therefore acceptable for our users.”

Surely this is legally actionable activity, right?
Amazon has been shipping counterfeit products when you buy "directly" from them for more than five years, now.

They don't care at all. The market is failing to punish them. We need a government to step in and fuck them up.
I do too, but also, just wait; he may get bored.
Thank you for your opinion! :)

You make it sound like there is a hard barrier between these two options but like most things in reality it is a continuum. You can have mainstream R&D be publicly funded all the way and not necessarily restrict private companies from competing.

I personally believe that there is a good chance that a centralized publicly funded and nonprofit pharmaceutical organization could outperform most for profits on various important metrics. At least something that should be investigated and not dismissed outright.

Regarding long-shots, I think you fall victim to the survivorship bias here. Even if some good things came out of it, the question is at what cost? If many tries fail you really need some big wins to cover those costs. Thus, it’s really something that you should look into on an empirical level before making strong judgements.
Show HN: Deck of 100 mental model cards for thinking independently
The hypothesis makes no such claim; it's compatible with you being smarter than 99.999% of the world's men.
Totally agree. I buy a lot from Amazon. But not when, for example, my survival might depend on it. Then I buy from REI.
Indeed, but that’s not obvious unless you dig through his projects. It’s easy to make that clear.
I like the L1 screen idea. It's quickly reversible, after all. Besides, in the long run, if we're going to because a Kardashev type I civilization, we're going to need some kind of planetary energy management. Why not start now?
That feels like it's in about the right ballpark based on my own tests. You can make it go a bit faster if you're using nightly Rust and compile with SIMD optimizations:

RUSTFLAGS="-C target-cpu=native" cargo build --release --features 'simd-accel avx-accel pcre2'

In particular, this enables SIMD optimizations in the crate ripgrep uses for decoding UTF-8, which is required to run on all files in order to use PCRE2 in Unicode mode.

(Eventually, I'm hoping the SIMD optimizations in the encoding_rs crate move to using runtime detection like the regex crate instead of requiring compile time flags.)

Or alternatively, disable Unicode with `--no-pcre2-unicode` and no transcoding will be done. :-)
Commie filmmaker Moore avoids taxes…
Well, the timing wasn't 100% random since the newly supported Expect-CT header was HPKP's "replacement", but I do think three years is a ridiculously small turnaround time between initially adding support for the feature and killing it with low adoption as a stated reason.

I'd also say the footgun aspects of HPKP are a weak excuse to kill it, given that nothing really new about them has been discovered that wasn't acknowledged as a consideration in the original spec. If anything, I think it would've made more sense to improve the UX for both end users and admins/devs to reduce the likelihood of deployment mistakes (better documentation and tooling) and the potential for damage when mistakes did happen (e.g. make HPKP error screens skippable like any other TLS errors).
I’m of the opinion that identification should be the individual’s choice, ie supplying credentials.

When organizations gain the ability to identify without consent, the door is opened for some very malicious practices.
Maybe small town America has to go?

Not saying it should. But it may be a valid question.
Let me contrast two European business experiences from the past year.

One, very recently, from Paris. Terms of a deal agreed on. But the investor wanted to wet sign over a 2-hour lunch. At the end, he couriered the signed document to his lawyer, to scan and e-mail. The lawyer, unfortunately, didn't notice it come in before leaving early for the week-end. (He promised he would have it out first thing on Monday, at which point he e-mailed it to the wrong person.) Everybody's English is good, but broken, and miscommunications over e-mail and voice occasionally occur. When complaints came up, the reactions were in the form of "calm down" or "be realistic" or a counter-complaint.

Second, a few months ago, from Stockholm. Perfect American English. Documents moved over the weekend. Fast, no-frills dealmaking with a common sense of commercial values. When complaints arose, a discussion emerged around how we could work better together.

As a New Yorker, I love doing business in Sweden over almost anywhere else in Europe. From recent discussions–and statistics–it appears I'm not alone. Culture matters hugely.
German OpenStreetMap is not a third party who is only bound by the copyright license though - it's a contributors' community with various explicit and implicit expectations. See e.g. https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Code_of_conduct
If we assume Danish wages are similar to Swedish, the $60k bracket should be the most common, actually.

I don't really trust these fantastic Silicon Valley wage statistics. There seems to be bad coverage over a wide range of companies, and it mostly seems to be self-reported in a non-organized way.

BLS collects a wider range of statistics than PayScale or what not the HR departments are spamming with good reviews and salaries.

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/silicon-valley-salaries...

To even base an article on those numbers is borderline fraud.

For "San Francisco-Redwood City-South San Francisco, CA Metropolitan Division" BLS reports $106k mean wage for programmers.

https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes151131.htm

Swedish Engineering union reports mean wage:

69 543 USD/y in Stockholm

91 400 USD/y including payroll tax.

So the difference is 1.1k USD more a month for the median Bay-area programmer compared to Stockholm in employer cost. It's not really raining VC money over the SF area programmers compared to e.g. Stockholm, where there is more or less none VC money.
Some discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17938903
Oh, it's far more terrifying that the natural result of being good at feeding people things that you can determine that they will respond well to is that you will progressively feed them more extreme content, because tragedy of the commons is much scarier than mustache twirling villains.
I haven't done all the math for this (I've deeply investigated the pattern for 2x+1) but it seems like this would be an obvious and intuitive result of primes. You are still generating primes from primes. Yes, you find more primes, but the computation is still dependent on primes. I'm still of the opinion that there is no complete pattern to the primes.

I'm assuming the researchers do not have the intent of confusing a crystal lattice structure with an actual mathematical lattice, because while they possibly may share similar influences in their models, one is math, the other is physics.

#keepmathpure
Well, I feel extremely foolish, having seen that site before.
Carpeting Sahara with wind and solar farms could make it rain
>if you’re worth a damn in your field you most definitely can define the terms of your employment or find a company that will let you

But this thread is about those average employees, and even exceptional employees in most fields have little to no power to set terms.
They are just shouting more in their echochamber as sad as it is everyone who uses openstreetmaps has already a pretty clear stance about it. Nothing gained just in convinced your users good job.
> Amazon had to build their own technology infrastructure. The financial genius of turning this infrastructure into an external product (AWS) has been well-covered

Wasn't the story about AWS wildly discredited? As in AWS was built not from sractch as a product and was NOT using any infrastructure that was used to run Amazon, and only later adopted by Amazon itself.

Why people still keep repeating that story?
Deep Sky West: Remote Imaging for the Rest of Us
"Accepting returns" means that I have to deal with a counterfeit product. Requesting the return, shipping it off, and ordering a new one (aka real one) are a series of pains that I'd rather skip.

Product QA, tracking inventory provenance, and punishing bad actors would be a major improvement.
Print Is Dead? Not Here
You should read the paper authors' paper directly; a preprint version if available on arXiv.[1]

The authors don't provide a complexity analysis of their algorithm; in lieu of attempting to derive that analysis myself, I'm deeply skeptical that their algorithm can find arbitrarily large prime numbers in sub-exponential time; let alone the polynomial time needed for breaking classical public-key cryptography. The absence of such a complexity analysis is conspicuous because such an analysis would be groundbreaking.

However, I don't need to lean on the conspicuous absence of a proof of polynomial time complexity for their algorithm because their algorithm has explicit limitations. It's an approximation method (albeit with high accuracy) that can only find primes located in dyadic intervals having many Braggs peaks and a relatively small left endpoint. In the paper they represent this interval with (M, M + L); in general a dyadic interval is an interval of the form (k/2n, k+1/2n) which may be either open or closed.

In other words the algorithm has costly limitations, no proof of polynomial time complexity and the authors don't even study its behavior for a left endpoint greater than 10^6. RSA semiprime numbers have 600 digits - this result isn't even in the same galaxy. Considering the explicit limitations in the authors' paper and the lack of interesting analysis indicating otherwise, it's likely that the problem of finding a suitable dyadic interval containing a large semiprime number's factors will just reduce to the problem of finding its factors anyway.

For what it's worth, this is all distinct from a more conceptual problem that undermines any use this result could have for cryptanalysis. Take a look at the prime counting function.[2] Per the prime counting function, there are approximately 2.53274 × 10^305 primes and 2.27654 × 10^613 primes less than 2^1024 and 2^2048, respectively. It's physically impossible to construct a lookup table consisting of all products of all pairs of primes in either set because there isn't enough matter in the universe to contain the information. But even if there was, you would never feasibly pick out the correct semiprime number corresponding to a given RSA private key by doing lookups in this way.

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1. https://arxiv.org/pdf/1802.10498.pdf

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime-counting_function
people need to surround themselves with those who hold their opinions more lightly and who avoid moralizing. When people acknowledge that their opinions are simply their personal preferences...

Well, that sure sounds like 'moralizing' to me, and I don't think you realize it. If you don't care much about anything, well ok. But that's no virtue. It sounds close to the relativism that talks of "true for me" and "true for you".

For example, I think we have no right to kill and eat animals, much less subject them to horrific lives. (So I'm vegan) This to me isn't a 'personal preference' or 'opinion'. It is a major moral and ethical issue, much like, say, slavery was/is. People disgusted by slavery didn't say it was 'simply their personal preference' not to own slaves, that it was merely their 'opinion' that slavery was wrong. That would have been ludicrous. We'd still have slavery if people had talked like that.

And no doubt you had pro-slavery people in the 19th C giving the same lofty advice: "People need to surround themselves with those who hold their opinions more lightly and who avoid moralizing. When people acknowledge that their opinions are simply their personal preferences rather than moral truths, genuine discussion becomes possible..."
Cluster headaches are sporadic and their cause is unknown. A person can have one once and never again. Best not to read into anecdotes.
They seem to be published here: https://guardianapp.com/ios-app-location-report-sep2018.html
But where will we put the odd little thrift shops and antique stores that only open a few hours on the weekend and don't seem to be economically viable despite lasting for years? They're fun to browse with a friend who appreciates your sense of humor.
At no cost only considers the monetary value of the actual shipping. That does not consider the time (and usually gas) of me taking a trip to ship it back.
That doens’t change that from a consumers viewpoint, they were a failure though?
KDAB already earns their money selling Qt expertise and advocacy, which they contribute back to Qt community.

My point was about those that want to use Qt as free beer, don't contribute anything back and even feel entitled to complain on Qt Creator and Qt bug reports.
> I remember reading a paper a few years ago where they showed that just the color skin used for your DAW had an effect on the music you produced.

I'd love a link for this.
Things I don't need to worry about/additional perks:

- No healthcare costs. Scraped elbow? Free. Brain surgery? Free.

- No saving up for college for my kids.

- 30 days of vacation + ~13 public holidays.

- No student loans (kinda-sorta, most people borrow money to not have to work during college), tuition is free in all universities and colleges.

- Goverment-paid pension savings

- On top of my salary, my employer also pays for

- all insurances

- 31,42% payroll tax (which I never see and is paid on top of my negotiated salary)

- 10-15% of my salary is put in another pension savings account. Again, this is ON TOP of my salary.

- private health insurance to fast track me to a specialist.
I’m actually thinking of moving to Spain from Sweden (born and raised in Gothenburg) because the real estate market here is absolutely ridiculous and our personal debts a ticking bomb, and a trip to Spain last year exposed me to the vibrant tech startup culture fueled by growing demand from Latin America.

Would you say that I’m being foolish? Maybe we could take this discussion privately.
Or, get a router that supports OpenWRT (which a lot do, Netgear are pretty good about third party firmware) and you can have WPA3 now, for free.
The security of WiFi is much less of a concern for my home network today than it was during WEP time. Today everything I care to protect already runs over SSL and all the sensitive resources (documents file server, for example) are protected with authentication. This the only actual attack vector for me is WiFi or internet connection which I already share through public WiFi.

Same applies to WiFi in the coffee shops (do you remember the time when FB didn’t use HTTPS?) and other places. Thus the WPA3 upgrade brings much smaller benefits compared to WPA2 upgrade.
Ask HN: Privacy resources for layfolk?
For the average person I meet,I have a hard time getting them to grasp why they even need privacy. Some even argue you don't need privacy,they have been brainwashed into believing the benefits of convenience and security outweigh what's lost.

I sound like an absolute tinfoil hat wearing paranoid madman when I speak about things anyone can read about on a tech-news site or research paper.

What resources do you know of that can help me break it down for the average joe? Where does one even start?

Can you also point me to any resources for the same audience that can help them improve privacy?

I wish there was one site with all these resources.
My wife is on nextdoor. I hear all the local news.
It has to stay. Farms, mines, and factories (usually in small towns, anyway) aren't going to run themselves and cannot all be outsourced.
CCN is a really cool concept. I read this paper in my computer networks class in grad school. It was definitely the most interesting/memorable thing we covered.

While CCN itself hasn’t gained much traction in the real world, the IPFS project is having some success with advancing a similar idea in building a content-addressable web.
Token-Curating the Truth
Slime Flux
What harm do you see in Amazon delivering to customers' houses or cars? Surely it's more secure than leaving it out on the porch.
> developers telling managers that they disagree with some requirement or similar in a way that was not possible in Spain

As a rule, I've found cultures where teammates express disagreement to be commercially superior to those where they do not. This applies to national as well as to company cultures. It extends past feedback into being open to re-evaluating one's own assumptions. It also facilitates departing one's sense of self from the set of opinions and ideas one happens to hold at a given time.
I don't get the downvotes; that is essentially what the parent post said. Counterpoint would be that "WPA2 is fine" - but still, for HN I don't understand how a reactionist non-technical comment is at the top of an article about new crypto specs.
Let me guess:

1. It’s still a loud, shaky and smelly diesel bus.

2. Cabin length only fits people under 6 feet and average shoulder width.

3. Even with curtains on, you can still hear and smell your neighbours snore, vidya, movie, etc.
America's Top 500 Fastest Growing Companies (2018)
> This is not 1950 anymore.

There seems to be a lot of confusion over his podcast appearance and people are focusing too much on the cannabis debate. It's not about that.

Consider for a moment this hypothetical scenario instead: How professional would it look for Musk if Rogan had instead offered some kind of binge-drinking shots challenge (maybe with some legal sleeping pills too), and Musk immediately accepted despite Rogan asking if shareholders might get upset?

Even aside of that, how professional did that entire interview look across the whole two and a half hours? Was it focused, and representative of someone who works very hard average up to 70-120 hours per week?

Would it be something that would have been appropriate for a non-exec worker representing a Tesla's interests (for example), or is it okay simply because Musk has the hero worship?

Now, I assume this is all okay for a large number of people so consider this last question: where to next for Tesla - is Musk the genius everyone claims him to be (which he doesn't seem to refute in any way, not even by deferring to other geniuses around him), and will he be the saviour once more? How long will those around him (exec level and otherwise) continue to put up with these antics?
Idk, wait for people to win them through merit like everyone else?