skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> We know how to produce massive amount of energy, all day long.

Are you hinting at nuclear power? If so, I (somewhat) agree with you.

The environmentalists that I used to hang out with believed with a burning passion that nuclear power was an absolute evil. I understand that perspective, though I disagree with it.

If one takes the position that The Main Future Threat is related to and rooted in human released greenhouse gases, then nuclear power is right back on the table, front and center, even given its challenges, risks and long-term side effects.

About those, though: my understanding is that it has been possible, for some time now, to produce nuclear power plants that are exceptionally safe and cost effective. And with substantial research dollars, the plethora of possible 'next gen' fission reactor technologies would yield all kinds of fruit to, for example, mitigate or remove the long term side effects.

Given all of that, I think solar+battery (along with hydro, wind and their up and coming friends) is now the way to go, given how much costs have come down.

Going all into nuclear power probably made sense a couple of decades ago.
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Remote: maybe

Willing to relocate: nope

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> I guess that depends on the application. So long as you can guarantee that it happens within a given time frame that might very well be good enough.

I think the right answer is that you need to develop some type of threat models, review them periodically, and then decide what's right. Just because you can't think of a problem with the approach now doesn't mean it won't happen later, or be a component of a larger attack. The "given time frame" above may be more than enough for certain attacks you can identify in initial threat modeling.

From the long-term operational perspective, it may also be preferable for the application owner to have immediate invalidation. This might be inconvenient to the development team just trying to get their work done now, but is it a good idea to ignore this requirement? For various reasons, dev teams tend to push on only for there to be problems later.
Yes this could work, and even if the API terms do not allow it (ie Google Photos API do not allow you to download the pictures for storage) you can use the Data Export feature that most websites have and use this export to upload back your data elsewhere.
Some places do exactly this.

I think the idea was that, with any kind of profiling, it would be easy for drug gangs to figure out who to use as mules. And with any judgement, they can pressurise the guy making the call. But a lottery machine everyone can see is harder to defeat.
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The thing is, in mathematical fields, the reader is looking for a way to check what you are saying with what they know in terms of the math involved. In pure math for instance you should be able to follow the proof, or it might be possible to construct a counterexample, or at least to think about counterexamples. If the reader can't even get that far then maybe your paper is in trouble.

In physics you still need some exposition that leads to being able to work out the math. Ultimately it should lead to something that is either fits with known theory or contradicts it, and in the case of a contradiction then it might be experimentally confirmed or denied. You've got an uphill struggle otherwise.
It would be nice, but many countries struggle to even get funding approved to help other people who are starving. Nationalism is a huge barrier.
Israel's war record also has to give Iran pause - Israel does not fuck around. The 6 day war embarrassed a ton of leaders in that part of the world.
I wish official APIs were available for everything I want to do.
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Eh just because people don’t have scientific evidence of the truth of their religion (or politics) doesn’t mean they “blindly believe.” People ha e their religion and political beliefs for cultural and personal reasons based on their life experiences.
True. Especially when I build something that solves one of my own problems. I think it's great and maybe others would like it too.

Then I discover that amongst all of humanity, I have problems which are absolutely unique and shared by no one else, anywhere.
> I would think they have a dataset that they're validating them on if they're calling it "AI".

Where did they get that dataset from? Did they ask a bunch of people a bunch of questions and then hired private investigators to verify the answers (and then hire extra investigators to cross-verify answers given by the previous bunch)? Because beyond something like this, there's no known way to create such a dataset.
My daughter is in a youth choir, whose director insists on communicating with parents via their Facebook page, which is of course not publicly viewable. I have told her that I will not join Facebook solely to be able to read communications from her. I offered her my phone number and email address, and so now for important things she will send an email as well. But she was absolutely incredulous that someone was not on Facebook in this day and age, and was not interested in joining.
No, because I (and I expect others) want an iPad that works as an iPad in every way and doesn't have a permanently attached keyboard, but has these features for when you want them.
This article is plagiarized on my Hackernoon article :

https://hackernoon.com/brave-browser-is-taking-the-web-by-st...
> It was the fourth time in three years that Saudi Arabia had failed to notify Jakarta before executing an Indonesian migrant worker.

Holy shit.

If Saudi Arabia doesn't host the holy city of Mecca, I think Indonesia should already declare a war on them.
The alternative to JWTs isn't rolling your own signing scheme. Use PASETO instead. https://paseto.io

But the issue being discussed in this article is about how JWTs are being used, not JWTs themselves.

> don't do security if you don't understand your primitives..

The security industry needs to do more to provide tools that do security for people who don't understand their primitives.
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> macOS is way too slow compared to what Windows feels like on the same Mac hardware.

What are you smoking?
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How hard is it to ask them to switch me to something more backend? Is it impossible unless I know Another one of their languages?
Some things I noticed missing from something like http://element.eleme.io/:

- clicking an input with placeholder text brings the cursor to the front of the input text and doesn't erase the existing text. This is very bad UX.

- no example of a full form with validation errors

- no file upload input

- no HTML5 number input

- no multi-select clearable/filterable selectboxes... select2 style selects are pretty standard these days

- no date/time picker, another essential form component

Not trying to be critical, I'm sure these will come with time. But this is far from a production usable framework in its current state.
Not all Christianity is Calvinistic/Puritanical, so no. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sola_gratia
The hidden cost of QUIC and TOU (2016)
Never-Ending Man: Hayao Miyazaki [video]
The article exaggerates these issues. Also there are easy solutions available for those concerns.

It's trivial to store a token version on your user object and invalidate any token that has the wrong version.
I think they are two different things:

> The RBI said Microsoft agreed to disclose information on 3,036 occasions between 2014 and 2016 in response to more than 4,000 government requests or legal demand requests for data of Indian customers in the US.

> according to Microsoft, it had received “zero demands from the US law enforcement for commercial enterprise content located outside the United States” in 2016 and 2017.

In the first sentence, I think the requests were from the RBI and not US intelligence.
How about a limit on how long you have exclusive rights on a house you built, and did not sell? Okay, how about the exclusive rights on your blog that attracted a million subscribers? Should a government agency regulate what you post there?

I'm afraid this is a slippery slope leading to things far more dangerous than we have now.
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Really cool website!

One thing that seem to be missing is the signing bonus.

It's different from the yearly bonus since it's a one time event, but it can be significant.

Averaging it per year would only make sense if a person leaves the company and divides the signing bonus by the number of years worked
It’s essentially the same in internal levels just different title. For instance at Microsoft most managers are Principal level. And google most are atleast l5. (with some exceptions). But instead of being called principal engineer they are called principal engineering manager.
I said "companies of a certain size". Don't make this into a socialism vs capitalism issue. Yes, companies benefit society. But I believe trillion dollar companies are a negative for society. They get way too powerful.
I guess it depends on your use case. I'm interested in having my own gallery I can share, rather than a Flickr page. I prefer "my photo gallery site" to "my pictures on Flickr", so for me the custom domain and branding is important. I don't particularly care about the community aspects beyond viewing the photos of some of my friends, so that piece of Flickr holds little interest to me. Of course when I set it up I was also very disillusioned about Yahoo and wanted to get away from that and into something that felt more sustainable.
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The bloom filter allows you to largely distribute the work of the server, and serves as a reasonable proxy during a failure off the server. More importantly though, there's no reason it need be a centralized server. Invalidated tokens could be broadcast to a wide number of servers that each maintain the invalidated token list (it's a great case for a CRDT, since it is append only with a TTL). Normally it'd be a pretty compact list, and if it isn't, you probably want to take a more defensive posture anyway.

...and beyond that, if an attacker can take out your invalidation server, which needn't be directly accessible to the public, you've already had a pretty serious security breech. I think the least of your problems would be the invalidation server.
Needs a [video] tag.

Also: the non-click-baity title is "Is it too late to create the future?" (The answer, by Betteridge's law of headlines [1], is of course "no".)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...
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>Well, you could charge for it. But of course you wouldn't be able to compete with free - you'd have to have competitors who needed to charge too.

Are you sure about that? Twitter's annual revenue is 2.4 billion dollars, and they have 300 million users. $0.55/month per user is all it would take to match their current revenue.

Sure, when a service is getting up off the ground, you can't beat free, but for one that's established, like Facebook or Twitter, the subscription fees can be made miniscule.

As long as the advertising model is used, a set of perverse incentives exist that encourage social platforms to treat advertisers as more important than users, to inflate their user numbers, to lie about views, to tolerate fake accounts and harassment, and to close their APIs.

A $1 premium ad-free option with 50% adoption would increase twitter's revenue and remove the perverse incentives.
They pass the test if the witches can do the 7 wonders.
Sounds like Tim Berners-Lee needs to take a break from Twitter and Facebook.
I've considered this. You could create the dataset by looking at interviews with people caught smuggling, before they were caught. Or similar for any criminal activity.
How do you explain Stuxnet?
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> how do you (did?) resolve that kind of work-place conflict?

Figure out a domain they operate exceedingly well in, determine the minimum amount of information they need and firewall them from everything else. A side effect of such disagreeability is not being involved in the sort of open-ended discussions which delineate upper from middle management.
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I don't think it's "a meddling tactic" as much as a test platform to experiment with finding hot-button issues. They're likely tabulating who's linking to their stories and what's getting traction.

They're not "hiding" the fact that they're Russian either. It makes me wonder about the analogous current-day misinformation campaigns that the US runs in other countries. Do they look like this?

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/01/podcasts/the-daily/usarea...
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