skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IPv6 adoption has been on an exponential growth curve for a long time, with an inflection point where it really started taking off around 2013. Google has some very solid stats to back this up https://www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6/statistics.html

There are absolutely motivations and incentives for the advancement of IPv6, the most obvious of which is the exhaustion of IPv4 address space. The Notice the inflection point of IPv6 adoption in 2013 - this occurs in tandem with the real exhaustion of the IPv4 space. As IPv4 address space becomes increasingly expensive the financial incentives will grow stronger - recent block sales have the price approaching $18 PER IP: http://ipv4marketgroup.com/ipv4-pricing/

Cellular providers have particularly incentives to adopt IPv6, given that by just about any account there are more mobile devices in use globally than the entire IPv4 address space. Odds are good that if you’re using a major cellular provider, you’re actually accessing the internet over IPv6 directly. T-Mobile is apparently already in the process of decommissioning IPv4 entirely.

Work on IPv6 began nearly in tandem with work on NAT, which lasted as a stopgap longer than most expected.

Recognizing major risks to a global system and developing a complete solution a few years in advance of necessary adoption with the only miss being the estimate of how long the stopgap solution would remain viable doesn’t sound like a miss to me. The IETF engineers deserve a little more credit.
I add those “creative ideas” to a todo list. It is better to keep them short, after a while when I look back and see the idea, if it sounds meaningful I continue otherwise I delete it.

Keeping them short and simple avoids procrastiantion
You should contribute to humanity in whatever method or quantity you're able, and not sweat it too much. That doesn't mean you shouldn't try hard. It just means you shouldn't get too stressed out about it.

Some people are fortunate enough to make huge contributions, other people make small contributions, and both are totally fine. You're doing great if you're contributing positively at all.

We're all humans trying to make the world better. Even the ones that make it worse aren't to be blamed, they were simply unlucky genetically or environmentally.

It has always been on the shoulders of the most fortunate to do the most important work. It's not any different today, except that a growing percentage of society is so fortunate.

At the end of the day, we're all one human family and it's totally unimportant who did what to get us to the promise land. All humans can take rightful pride and ownership over the results of our collective effort.
One of the biggest regressions in modern browsers is how they all automatically download to the Downloads folder. I really miss the dialogue you used to get where you’d get asked where you’d want to save the file (im aware you still get that if you right click and go “save as” but that’s not always possible with some sites).
I created a userChrome.css file (including the aforementioned snippets + the namespace line on top) and put it into the folder that Firefox tells me is my profile folder - still see the tabs on top though (Mac OS Mojave - FF - Quantum) - any ideas what could be the issue? I did restart firefox.
Sounds like for privacy your ISP is shuffling the prefixes every day. They could also be doing this to upsell static IPs too, maybe a bit of both.
Adding to this, another well known trade-off of E2EE is not being able to have server-side indexed full text search. For example sometimes it’s necessary to look for some link you shared months ago, and keeping histories local and searching through it is just inefficient on space and speed.
May I ask why you want to work on energy? If it’s because of climate change, it may surprise you that the #1 thing you can do to reduce total CO2 is to educate women and girls, and family planning:

https://www.drawdown.org/solutions

Update: Yes I know these aren’t the same, but they’re related.
XMPP: OMEMO, XEP-313, XEP-280, done. Cross-device e2e encrypted, synchronized messages.
Local storage is not in-app encrypted though, but that needs to be taken care of on the system level anyway in my opinion.
I made a habit of using automatically disappearing messages in chat using Signal (after a day or week). You have to manually save important messages, but typically this is not an issue.

The only downside is that the Signal servers may store automatically disappearing messages until all devices have received it, so you can't rely on messages being removed in due time.

It would be nice to have an e2e encrypted p2p messaging platform to overcome this issue.
What's really interesting, is the utter lack of evidence - yet absolute abundance of theories and opinions as to what The Enemies are doing to The Americans.

Given the fever pitch that is the current tone of American politics regarding "all the bad things our enemies are doing to us", could this entire case be explained as mass hysteria?

Until there is real evidence that The Americans are getting targeted by Their Enemies in this high technology game, I think the only sane thing to do is conclude that there is some collective madness going on here, especially among the "intelligence community", which never seems to pass an opportunity to extend its powers at every incursion, imagined or otherwise - and which also, by the way, seems to be weathering inspection 'by their own people' in ways that would seem more appropriate for kindergarten.

America today seems all too willing to find reasons for its aggressive domination, militarily, culturally, and economically, of 'lesser nations' - are these "attacks" just another case of Americans, whining about not being able to play with their toys?
> It's a short life, so I want to be careful with this decision, to avoid any future regrets. Because I can't decide on this, I end up not getting anything done. Time continues to march on, while I'm still stuck with not knowing what to do.

Your situation reminds me this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buridan%27s_ass

Start small! Make any move, even not ideal one. Just leave your comfort bubble and try each idea.
Cubans told us (who were to stupid to know after hearing it ourselves) a year ago https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.4375193

Lol, fake news going strong. It's mass hysteria as we're knew straight away but still we continue rehashing and rehashing the fairy tales.

Not sure what the USA wants here... Boring incompentance I suspect.
It needs to go into the "chrome" subdirectory of your profile directory. Usually this doesn't exist so you'll have to create it yourself.
What I find interesting is that this article is very recent, however the calculations on Crypto are not up to date. MtProto has had some big changes some time ago already:

- SHA-256 is used instead of SHA-1;

- Padding bytes are involved in the computation of msg_key;

- msg_key depends not only on the message to be encrypted, but on a portion of auth_key as well;

- 12..1024 padding bytes are used instead of 0..15 padding bytes in v.1.0.

See https://core.telegram.org/mtproto/description
Local history in plain text/SQLite is not that bad. I have 15 years of chat history including small traffic chat rooms, and it takes ~400MB.
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That is no problem in Firefox to my understanding. Set in the options to always ask where to save the file.
You can disable auto download in settings of Chrome, Firefox and many other browsers. You get the Save dialog then.

On the other hand, I like that all stuff goes to Downloads and you can handle it with your favourite file manager that is much better than zhe default save dialog.
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You mean like Huff's "How To Lie With Statistics"?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Lie_with_Statistics
Why do you think Hedge Funds are useless or evil?
Sounds like the Hazel app : https://www.noodlesoft.com/
They already do this with fonts.
Why am I reading this shit? Why do I pay attention to anything from The New York Times.

I seriously wish they’d just implode, go bankrupt and disappear.
I have no need to specify it for every download. I can move them when it's done and I won't lose where my download had gone to that way. Definitely not a regression.
> I think this is what will cause USB-C to fail. It’s taking a simple problem (allow reversible, higher-bandwidth connections) and making it complex.

Actually, it's still simple. For devices and hosts using USB 2.0, the only real change with the USB-C connector is a single extra resistor. For devices and hosts using USB 3.x, they only have to detect which of two pins has the resistor on the other side to select which of the two high-bandwidth channels should be used. And there are two main types of cable: USB 2.0 cables and full-featured cables, like the old non-USB-C USB 2.0 and USB 3.x cables.

The extra complexity only appears when you want the extra features which are new to USB-C: higher voltage and/or current, alternate modes, using both high-bandwidth channels at the same time (USB 3.2), and so on.
Thanks for the blog reference!
Both AI and energy are extremely fashionable, and already being worked by plenty of smart people. Do you think you can have an impact there?

You could alternatively pick something that is not quite so fashionable. Eg the food system, which will require very serious attention, and perhaps have at least as much environmental impact as energy. There seem to be many areas in need of improvement, including distribution, waste handling, economics/politics/equality, arresting/reducing land use, innovating more sustainable tastes, innovating production; synthetic meat, dairy, juices, pulps, hydro-/aero-ponics, self-contained fish farms, etc.
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Am still looking for the kinix alternative
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Our local species of cicada has been measured at 150 decibels - bloody loud. So I imagine if the bedroom walls were bugged next to one's pillow, hearing damage is plausible.

It's consistent with a "blaring, grinding" noise and the cricket's internal proximity sensor that caused the sound to disappear when the occupant moved away from the vicinity of the wall. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-09-15/us-investigates-myste...
No need to speculate. https://godbolt.org/z/AC2NKY . Results significantly vary between compilers.
In almost all cases there is at least one jump generated due to the way comparison with 3 values less than 32 is done. If the number is less than or equal to 32 compiler does a lookup in bitmask indicating which values to skip.
Often Clang and MSVC generated a second jump.
Semaphore (https://semaphoreci.com) recently introduced pay-per-use model with autoscaling, so you don’t have to pay a large sum just to run a few parallel jobs (disclaimer: cofounder here, open for questions).
> So can you? Reliably?

I just tried this. I'm used to looking at what I'm writing when I write, so I can't seem to do this with my eyes open.

If I close my eyes and prime myself to write one individual word, that means approximately the same thing, such as "是" and "am", I can do it. If I try to write two words with different meanings, such as ball and "椅" I cannot. My right hand starts to work and then just stops, and I have the feeling of confusion arise.

> Btw, havent you made a tactical error? English is left to right, so kind of optimsed for righties. Chinese is top to bottom so more ambidextrous? Perhaps phase 2 could use Hebrew for the left hand? English for the right?

I suppose so, but I wasn't motivated enough to relearn how to write English with my right hand just for this experiment. As far as learning to write Chinese with my right hand, I figured it wouldn't really add much to the effort, since most of my time was trying to remember the damn characters versus actually writing them.

I guess I'll just have to live with two ink stained patches regularly appearing on the outsides of both of my hands :)
Ask HN: Remote Workers: Where do you work?
A cafe? A home office? A co-working space? Your own private office? Your couch?

I've been working at home/cafes for awhile and I haven't been very productive. I recently found a nice little private office near my apartment and I'm thinking about renting it. On the one hand, having a dedicated workspace sounds perfect for being productive. On the other hand, I can work from anywhere - why do I want to go back to working in the same office everyday?

Have you experimented with different workspaces? What were your conclusions?
Why don't you think energy needs to be worked on?

I wouldn't argue except you said energy is something you want to work on. Better low-carbon energy is one of the most important needs on the planet right now. Solar is coming along well but fully decarbonizing needs solutions that are a long way from production, like much better storage, advanced nuclear, etc.
Here is the mysterious recording https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANykud9iE1A and here is the perfectly matching cricket sound https://entnemdept.ifas.ufl.edu/walker/buzz/492a.htm This whole story is reminiscent of the n-ray debacle 100 years ago https://www.wired.com/2014/09/fantastically-wrong-n-rays/ Lots of scientists and officials are so sure that "it was something" that they now can't admit that it was "absolutely nothing".
Is your “partner” of the oposite sex?
On the exact day when my daughter started first grade this year, Google Photos (which I use pretty often) notified me that it had made a new video montage. It started with a title slide saying "Look how fast they grow", and then showed photos and videos of her (not a single mistake with one of my other kids or any of her friends) growing up from ages 0 to 6, ending with the photo I had just taken of her in front of school. It was really nicely made, but it also freaked me out quite a bit how they not only detect "today is first day of school" and act on that, but also "this photo is of Kid Y, not Kid X" at all ages growing up.
To summarize: there is a theoretical concern about the MTProto protocol used by Telegram.

Mentioning "nation states" is laughable and it seems everybody should be reminded that not only advertisers have access to "metadata" generated by their mobile devices.

To make the life less convenient but more "secure", one could enable "secure chats", set an explicit password and don't allow access to the Contacts on iOS.
Signal requires phone number just like Telegram does. Does it mean it is susceptible to the same attack that Telegram is?
Switching to Notion from Evernote has pretty much changed my life. I tried mind maps before but the scattered nature of how I dump ideas I think requires a little more of a structured framework for me to play in. With notion the key features that really help me is having nested pages, and being able to group select things and drag them into a nested page. From there I can keep nesting if I want. The general ease of being able to organize and group things, and also create overview pages that link to several other deep dive pages, allows me to move further with ideas than I ever did with evernote. With evernote, it felt more like a scattered dump, even if I grouped things into notebooks. There was no spacial distinction or grouping of concepts, just a bunch of small random thoughts thrown together in a loosely defined notebook. And once things got out of hand it felt pretty much impossible to wrangle it back together. Evernote for me was great if I knew there was a specific piece of information I had saved, that I needed to look up through search. But it never felt like I could map out and grow and abstract idea as I slowly created it overtime.
It's hard to really explain over text the workflows I can create with notion to organize my thoughts, I'd definitely recommend watching youtube videos of different workspace layouts ppl have come up with like this one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_mh91IRLL8

The general point being that this tool has helped me in my goal of shifting from simply aggregating lots of thoughts and ideas, towards having the structure to make that next step and actually do something with them.
I agree with your points, but I wouldn't group the importance of sleep with diet fads.

There's an overwhelming amount of non-contradictory scientific evidence on the importance of sleep.
Healthcare is a rather complicated field if you are not already working in healthcare. Also, healthcare is highly regulated.

It really depends on what you did before but green renewable energy sounds interesting to me (who to some extent works in healthcare :-).
Ok, I'll try with pi and e. I'll be right back.
Yes. But you don't get message history.
One thing that changed my life is z, a utility to navigate easily to arbitrary directories based on frecency. Makes dir structure a bit less relevant; with z the distance between any two dirs is effectively constant.

https://github.com/rupa/z

By project, by tool? What do you do with pdfs and reference stuff, surely not Dewey Decimal?

~/proj ---> all my current projects and stuff i've pulled down from GitHub so I can examine it. usually 20 or so. subdirs for employer, etc

~/Dropbox/personal ---> scanned documents, receipts, etc

~/Dropbox/work ---> subdirs per client/employer

~/Dropbox/ebooks ---> organized into subdirs by topic

~/Dropbox/pdfs ---> web pages i've "printed" to pdf for archiving/reference. organized into subdirs by topic

~/Desktop/old ---> the "junk drawer" i occasionally clean out. doesn't get too big

~/Music ---> mostly just iTunes doing its thing

I also have a truckload of media (games, movies, music) stored on external hard drives since there's not much room for it on the internal SSD.
I've started using Wire recently, and while it has some minor warts, call quality has always been excellent. In addition I really love being able to use it on my computer without having to check whether my phone has connectivity or not. I hate having to babysit my phone all the time and Wire is just wonderful for that, kind of brings me back to MSN days.

This chart [1] compares several messaging apps' security standards; I'm not sure how accurate it is but maybe it can help you.

[1]: https://www.securemessagingapps.com/
Ditto.

Have you tried using a mouse (in right) and a graphics tablet (in left) at the same time? It can be very productive. Large sweeping movements with the mouse and fine detail with the left. Plus it impresses righties.
Crickets still sound more plausible than the status quo explanation that intelligence agencies in multiple countries would attack US (and Canadian!) diplomats with no apparent motivation, especially after being "caught" committing the supposed attacks. Most likely, though, the diplomats are experiencing a mass psychogenic illness.
singularity is mostly an exponential growth in capabilities, closed loop cascade from all technologies; of course people think they'll be able to augment humans to infinity but it's a large ignorance about humans, limits, balance and wisdom.

It's just tech pornography, unlimited blah, people will try and they will realize it's mostly a useless thrill.
I think Threema is more well known in Germany.
You can do abstract interpretion and calculate rounding precision at each line. The problem is that as soon as you have loops, you'll pretty much get that warning everywhere. Being sure that there is no cancellation is even harder, but possible in some cases. I'm sure there are better approaches, there's tons of research papers in that area.
Yes, another person's left hand is on the right hand side of the observer. I remember finding this labelling convention confusing as a child.

However it does makes sense given that we very readily 'map' our own bodies onto those of others. Is this the very reason why we become right-handed: are we are copying the majority? True or not, it would be even more confusing the other way around.
Everything important goes to ~/data/ and inside various folders like project/, so all I need to do for backup script is to sync that folder.

I don't put anything intentionally under Documents/ as various apps try to put stuff in there to taint the folder layout.

Temporary files downloaded just stay at Downloads/ folder unless I need to keep it for a long while and I move it under data/.

Random text notes go to Notes app tagged instead of in random text files scattered which can also embed images.

Also Desktop/ is entirely empty this way. Wallpaper is as clear as it gets.

Also stuff I no longer need access to frequently like finished project goes to local encrypted folder (macOS specific) which I can open at will with a password but otherwise stays encrypted as a single file for archival purpose.

I also put all dotfiles in ~/data/ansible/home/ which get symlinked individually to ~/, so that whenever I launch a new server, most recent version of dotfiles get deployed to servers as well. (dotfiles are written in portable way across macOS, Linux and FreeBSD)
I checked Threema because of this post (didn't know about it) and while searching, some people are complaining about it being under control of the Russian gov? Does anyone know anything about this?

https://www.newsbtc.com/2017/10/04/crypviser-secure-messagin...
So what you're saying is - when a free mapping solution that goes to extraordinary lengths to protect your privacy. offered by a company that makes it's profits on tangible hardware made a mistake, instead of using the built-in 'report problem' feature, you chose to remove that app, and use a service offered by a company that literally makes its money by collecting unimaginable amounts of data about you, your family, what you do, where you work, what you eat what you buy, and where you were going on that journey?

Am I the only person who finds this insane?
I'd like to throw my datacurator-filetree[1] in here, which is aimed at the datahoarders among us and it's what my system is roughly based on. I welcome help and contributions :)

[1] https://github.com/roboyoshi/datacurator-filetree
With Signal, if a the numbers registers a new account like in this attack scenario, 1. the attacker cannot access old/pending messages (as they are always encrypted), and 2. the person on the other side of the conversation gets a warning that the keys have changed, thus need new verification before continuing the conversation. So, Signal is more secure on that front.
Thanks for using Semaphore Mike. Have you tried the new 2.0?
- Having a sketchbook in your pocket at all times

- Voice recorder (possibly an app installed on your phone)

- Water resistant board for in-the-shower ideas
I think you are thinking that elections are a zero sum game, but the reality is that most people either don't vote, always vote for a party no matter what or vote for the candidate that they know. Politicians are all about influencing the swing vote - get people who never vote to vote for you or alternatively influence some small part of the electorate that does make positive decisions. Most people who don't want the stadium will either not vote or vote the way that they would have anyway, the calculation is that voters who are "fans" will vote positively for the people who stick up for their team. Stir in the "I'll vote for the person who's popular" block (which politicians are hoping that the free exposure in the stadium campaign will grant) and the negative effect of shutting out your opponent (because backing like this is strangely exclusive for some reason).