skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's harder to optimize a system if there are a lot of dimensions.

For example, tax report transparency is bad if you have inequality and also lack an efficient anti-hate-crime enforcement system, because then people will lynch/rob rich folks.

So even just getting closer to the optimum takes time and a lot of resources.

> I just don't think these concepts are as simple as levers, and I think anything is possible.

Exactly. It's a complex dynamic system with path dependence. Trajectory is everything.

> But with enough education, knowledge, and a sprinkle of genetic engineering, maybe?

Maybe :) Though the problem is that without a great society powerful tools will be used to entrench the interests of those that lead the existing not-so-great society.

And it's very hard to align the interests of the leaders with the commoners.
All the Diacord API libraries are community built and maintained.
Well, he sounds pretty crazy. Believes a lot of super-nutty stuff, anyway. (My mother believed a lot of super-nutty New Age stuff, but I wouldn't say she was crazy at all.)

I felt lied to after I read Communion, when I found out later that he didn't actually remember that stuff, the alien abduction or whatever - it came out of guided hypnotherapy sessions. You know, like that fictional child abuse scandal etc. Yet it's written as an absolutely true story, like he's writing about stuff he can remember. You trust him, and...he sold a lot of copies. I felt deceived. I see him as a con-man.
Not internet related protocols. Human related protocols.
I would say that regular drills are useful to develop reflexes and awareness in the guardian. See e.g. fire drills in office buildings to make sure everyone knows where the emergency exit is and knows to leave the building without panicking. Just make sure it’s obvious quickly enough that it’s a drill.
I disagree, I think there's an important difference between a monopoly and a company that happens to have no competition at the moment. I think that active anti-competitive actions are one of the defining characteristics of a monopoly, and so far we haven't seen that behavior from hex-rays.

They had a significant barrier to entry protecting them, in that making a decompiler (the hex rays decompiler is the expensive part of "Ida") is hard, and the market is (was?) small.

Consider the difference between Standard Oil and Adobe. Photoshop was the only game in town not because Adobe lost money on it to drive out rivals but because it's hard to make software that does what Photoshop does.
It’s not the Apple way to make concessions to security through hardware means. The hardware must remain a perfect uninterrupted glass slab, and any protections would likely be made in software.

Edit: downvoter is welcome to point me to any model of Apple hardware that has a hardware radio switch or a hardware cover for the camera lens? The secure enclave is maybe the one exception to the above rule, but is highly software-supported.
You seem to be entrenched in the position that the only possible reason why someone would want to study population level differences is to justify some sort of racist or otherwise evil agenda. There are plenty of reasons to do so, and more broadly I take issue with the notion that there needs to be any justification for expanding our understanding of the universe.

Take for example the disparity in prison populations between women and men. If we believe that there are no differences in behavior or tendencies between the sexes (and a large number of people do), then it would be fair to conclude that our justice system is exhibiting blatant sexism against men. Around 80-90% of prisoners are men. This is very far from equality of outcome; one sex is around an order of magnitude more likely to be a prisoner.

But there is a strong body of evidence to suggest that even absent any discrimination differences such as these will likely exist. Men exhibit higher levels of aggression and risk tolerance. These patterns exhibit themselves relatively uniformly throughout all societies regardless of development levels, cultural trends, etc. If we did not perform this kind of population level analysis then society may have tried to balance our prison population with bad policy that tries to engineer an equality of outcome when there is no reason to expect equality of outcome.

Is the above "flirting with some idea of totalitarian elitism"? Are we "ranking the value of human beings" by concluding that men are more likely to get incarcerated even in non-discriminatory systems? I think it'd be ridiculous to say yes. And if using population level analysis to justify a 10 to one disparity in prisoners is justified, then it's also justified to use population level analysis to reach the conclusion that, say, a 5 to 1 disparity in tech jobs can be reached without discrimination.

On the note of "ranking the value of human beings", plenty of people in my workplace would agree with your statements. But then they'd turn around and engage in the very practice you describe. For instance, at our recruiting events we give each candidate a star if they're black, Hispanic, or female. If they're an Asian male they get an "ND" which stands for "negative diversity". Whether a resume has two, one, zero starts, or an "ND" is used when determining which to include in our candidate search. We're ranking the value of human beings explicitly, on the basis of our own political ideology.
Here's how work supposedly looks like in a French factory

https://www.cnbc.com/id/100474481
It would take an impressive lack of charity and comprehension to actually interpret anything in my posts above as an "insult" to you. If I insult you, you won't have to read between the lines.

HN norms apply to posts and posters on HN. They do not apply to TFA, and certainly not to uncertain references in TFA. Even so, I started this thread by scrupulously allowing that the original allegation about the calendar bone might have been phrased in terms of "humanity" rather than "man", since after all TFA had no link to that allegation. In subsequent replies in this thread, I have only commented on the inherent sexism of a general theme of writing in English, and have at no point addressed that to anyone writing here. I have not in this thread "looked for offense", "created imaginary enemies", "argued in bad faith", "felt insulted and discriminated", "invented issues", or done any of the other silly things you've accused.

ISTM it is at least possible that existing idiom might have harmful effects on portions of the population. If those who suffer those harms aren't allowed to complain for reasons of decorum, how are their lives ever to improve? More importantly, how are we to know that we're harming them? Wouldn't we want to know that, so we could stop?

And isn't it wonderful that all my posts in a 20-hour-old thread on a 2-day-old flagged article have just been downvoted. Sockpuppet accounts for downvoting are discouraged on HN as well. [EDIT: removed opinion]
“You will turn your team three times on the way from startup to scale.” (2013)
Yeah, IDA is simultaneously the worst piece of software I have used from a usability standpoint but also the best reverse engineering tool out there. The author basically does whatever he likes because most reverse engineers use it :(
Are the frequent apple.com requests the phone checking to see if it has a working internet connection?

And if so are those responsible for the http (as opposed to https) traffic because they want to see if you're on a captive portal?
Attention seeking headline, made up the article to fit.
What the Functor
Be relieved that the parts of the plane which are actually critical to flight receive far more maintenance attention than the passenger amenities.
It is pretty cool that they created their own language, but I was not sure if they really needed to do that. I guess it was worth it back then. Looking at their website in 2002[0] it is pretty impressive indeed.
[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20020209001700/https://www.nytim...
If these attacks wouldn't have been prevented by DNSSEC, why do you want AWS to support it?
in particular tools that are designed to reverse engineer things :)
The 2x field of view will still be smaller than most anticipate so its likely still not suitable for anything outside of commercial applications.

I was fortunate enough to try the v1 of hololens when a Microsoft representative bought it into my work, the tech was amazing but the FOV was far less than I anticipated. From what I can recall it was akin to looking through a tissue-box sized area roughly 1 foot from your face.
I'm really happy with my Alienware 15 r4. The hardware has been great.

But I don't run Linux, so I can't speak to any hardware/driver support issues.
How often do we lament people using the wrong tools for the job?

I think it’s probably healthier to cheer the people doing it right than to keep shaming everyone else.
Unofficial motherboard mods for X220 and X230 are called X320 and X330, respectively.
OllyDbg never really stepped out of the 32-bit world; the author's progress reports of the x64 version end in 2014: http://www.ollydbg.de/odbg64.html

I'd like to know if someone is using x64dbg, however, which looks similar in appearance: https://x64dbg.com/
That depends pretty much on which version one is talking about.
Providers need a method to query the data center a particular storage URI is at so you can fire up compute within that data center to crunch it. Lat/long is nice too so you can at least move the data to a nearby data center for compute, or if you need to do cross data center message passing.
Both Photoshop and IDA Pro treat their customers pretty poorly, but they work well so everyone uses it. Hence why people are excited to see competitors in the space.
If I remember correctly, Be (the creators of BeOS) was chosen because it would be the first word of the second letter in the phone book.
use AWS and IAM roles like civilized folk
Building a high available Anycast infrastructure in under 5 minutes
> "Come visit. I'll bake you a chicken, and i only need about 6 ingredients to change your mind. (salt, pepper, chicken, butter, thyme, dijon mustard optional)."

That's my favorite way to make a good quality chicken shine by itself, with nothing masking it or covering it up. Cold butter and dijon mustard just works so well with chicken.

I am extremely hesitant to replace actual meat for anything where you only process it very lightly, roast and the like. But for curries or lasagna and similar dishes, bring on the seitan and anything else. I'm a big fan of using mushrooms, both for their structure and for their flavors.
First of all, shame on that website for breaking my back button.

Second, that website has to be a parody of DNSSEC. It's showing that none of the major tech companies use it, meanwhile the "good examples" of DNSSEC compliance are all vendors substantially involved in standardizing or selling DNS services.
We didn't luck out, global CO2 output is still increasing, we have never output so much as in 2018.

All the green energy we've added so far is only in addition to burning fossil fuels, it hasn't replaced any yet.
I actually prefer the browser UX for client cert authentication; since it's presented by the browser it's harder to do nefarious things with JavaScript to confuse the user as to what site is requesting authentication.

Edit: for what it's worth, the executive agencies are all required to use PIV (essentially civilian CAC) to authenticate, and those PIVs are required to have significant physical controls including requiring a PIN for access. It's a pretty robust way of enforcing 2fa.
That is what trace points allow for, without having to touch the original source code.
I'm the author, AMA :-)
Enquire was used in gcc. https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Contributors.html says:

Steven Pemberton for his contribution of enquire which allowed GCC to determine various properties of the floating point unit and generate float.h in older versions of GCC.

"I wrote this originally for a piece of software (ABC, above) that had to run on any hardware, and require no particular knowledge from the person installing it. One day Richard Stallman passed by, and mentioned that they needed such a program for GCC. So I rewrote it and donated it. It produces the file float.h for the GCC compiler. The version here is a slightly more up to date version."

https://homepages.cwi.nl/~steven/
The ostensible difference is that they can advertise records that cryptographically lock out corrections, right? (I think this particular critique is mooted by the maximum TTLs mainstream caches will work on). This was Colm Maccarthaigh's scenario on Twitter last week.
You've confused employment with work.
https://blog.discordapp.com/how-discord-handles-two-and-half...
Not everyone lives in California.

Heat pumps aren’t sufficient in the northeast without a substantial ($50k+) investment in a ground loop. Many homes require significant retrofit to even use one.
That's interesting, I'm similar. I've just gotten my first smartphone. Weirdly I'm not that drawn to it. It feels a bit too passive for me compared to my laptop. And it's just too large and clunky. Used it twice for walks/maps so far. Which is the biggest draw for me. Many people around me are stuck in their phones. I do find reading on the laptop difficult, and thought the better screen on the smartphone might be easier. But my brain still doesn't like it compared to e-paper. Not drawn to any apps yet, and the thought of trying to key a message into it fills me with horror. Charging is a pain. Years back I'd have loved these modern incarnations, the tech is pretty great, even modern Android is usable and quite slick. Perhaps watching my partner pick up the phone every few minutes every night has been enough to put me off. I'll likely switch back to my old Nokia I think.
how big is your monitor ? When I am on my laptop I run everything full screen. When I am on my desktop I have two 20" monitors and I regularly have multiple windows open on each. I have found that splitting vertically on one monitor with the code I am actively working on and firefox for looking up things works really well for me.
The CDN providers are also used for collecting data. Would be nice with a graph that show both downloaded and uploaded (data sent).
ATC recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cn58iVuzBY
If I was a capitalistic billionaire, "Workism" is a religion that I would definitely encourage in my serfs.
I don't see any significant social barriers - it's just a matter of infrastructure. Drivers need to be able to depend on the availability of reliable chargers.
If you mean this question in the cynical sense, then basically anyone who will be selling DNSSEC services to large enterprises benefits. And those services will probably be expensive.
I wonder what the NSA does with the analytics on a page like this.
I know some folks give it to charities. Others eat it. But a lot gets wasted. Ultimately they're pests, so wanton waste doesn't apply.
Here's that point, in infographic form:

https://twitter.com/tqbf/status/1086061495811743747
And in both cases, you're carrying the full weight of two motors at all times. It's sort of like a Tesla carrying a gasoline can and a generator just for range anxiety. (In fact, that combination would weigh less than an ICE motor and fuel tank.)
I used to look at it as a great time to get lost in a book.
Show HN: Scalable Reward Distribution with Changing Stake Sizes
Ya especially if they can get it for less than the meat burger. Once that happens it will be huge.
Video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jl4fnY4BjEY

Transcript: https://homepages.cwi.nl/~steven/Talks/2018/07-31-balisage/t...
FWIW the article states this only applies for specific MITM cases, but yeah, this is kinda bullshit.

If you want to push back against this, find somebody near Kobe, Japan in the next few weeks who can go to this open session [1] and explain the problems, and provide some alternative solutions.

I agree with rocqua that the Registrar needs to have a more active role in securing DNS. I think we need new standards of control between domain owners, registrars, DNS TLDs, and certificate authorities.

I, as a domain owner, should be able to provide signed changes to the Registrar, and to entities further down the chain, so that just because someone gets access to my account on a service provider, they can not change anything without my private key. Delegation and revocation of other keys can also be handled for large organizations (we do that today with DNS).

[1] https://meetings.icann.org/en/kobe64
Route53/IAM doesn't have any way to restrict access to only _acme-challenge DNS labels.

Use RFC2136 like civilized folk, I guess. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Is there a link to your upcoming book?
Ask HN: How can Uber collect background location in “While Using”?
(new account since my main is tied to my actual name)

See note at the bottom of the relevant help page [1].

It says

> Note: There are special circumstances, such as preventing fraud and responding to safety incidents, where Uber may collect background location for any rider in the "While Using" setting. A notice would appear onscreen in such a case.

How is this possible? Does iOS allow this to happen even if I explicitly select “While Using” in privacy settings?

[1] https://help.uber.com/riders/article/how-uber-uses-rider-location-information-ios?nodeId=741744cb-125c-4efc-ab3f-4a977940ac87
Experience the Internet of 1986 thanks to BBS enthusiasts
As much as I want to support Discord, their goal from when they initially started as a company has shifted in an entirely new direction. I feel betrayed as a 2015 user.
Yup! They're one of the few animals that can see circularly-polarized light, and the quarter-wave retarders in their eyes are really damn good.

As of a few years ago, they had a much wider wavelength range (400-700 nm) than the best man-made ones, which were only achromatic over ~100 nm.
Given the audience I feel like the source code will be audited by the community in record time.
Thanks! It's been going well and I've especially enjoyed seeing people build tours using it!
Sorry, but nobody's twisting their arm to use those websites.

Making yourself out to be a victim doesn't make it so.
I am familiar with the concept. However, I would recommend hesitating to anyone who thinks any software from the organization, open source or no, is entirely harmless to the user...
> I think there's an important difference between a monopoly and a company that happens to have no competition at the moment. I think that active anti-competitive actions are one of the defining characteristics of a monopoly

You are of course free to think so, but be aware that does not align with the common use of the term monopoly.
The question will be are we making Margarine 2.0?
Join+the+I+Love+Free+Software+Day+2019
Isn't this essentially already happening with CRI-O and the OCI?
The Backfire Effect: Why Facts Don’t Always Change Minds
Here’s a StackOverflow answer [0] from years ago, that came up with a workaround that could mute the camera shutter sound. Pretty clever!

0: https://stackoverflow.com/a/23758876
Ask about their runway/burn rate, and how they plan to raise more money (i.e. what milestones they plan to reach and how that gets them through a new round). This should be an easy question. Not being able to answer it or dissembling is a big red flag.

Ask to meet the co-founders and see if you get along with them. If not, bail. If something about them seems odd, bail. Trust your instinct on this. You’ll end up spending a LOT of time with them, it’s not worth it if they’re jerks (even brilliant ones).
NSA releasing an open-source tool? My first thought is, better subject it to serious, in-depth security review before installing it locally. Even then, build it from source.
As someone who learned to program by reverse engineering, I also cannot wait to see this being released.

Nothing really beat the combination of SoftICE and IDA Pro, although some of the newer entrants like radare2 & good ol’ OllyDBG are pretty good, but nothing beats IDA Pro.

I hope the scripting language are real programming language like Lua or Python and some custom DSL.
The correct quote is "a foolish consistency." And the context of the quote has nothing to do with self-discipline. It is a call to boldly speak the truth today, and then boldly do the same tomorrow. If you contradict yourself, then so be it. The truth might not be found in only making logically consistent statements. "To be great is to be misunderstood."
Plug-in hybrids have not been a commercial success. If you take away the artificial carpool-lane eligibility, they almost vanish from individual purchase as a category (only taxi and commercial fleet demand would remain relevant).
Air gapped RE machines (recall you're probably looking at malware anyway). One way transfer of samples. Print reports and OCR. Done.
> Many of my developer friends insist that "Normal users don't care!". I am not so sure.

I am with you. I've spoken to a lot of non-technical users in my life. Their very typical and often response on the matter is "it is how it is, I cannot change it, of course it's annoying but I have no alternative" -- this is about ads, heavyweight sites and possible tracking/spying.

So IMO most non-technical people accept it as a fact of life but would rejoice if the Web became lightweight again.
I love how he just causally has an Iridium satphone.
But you can bet there will be plenty of people looking at it, and that group of people will also likely include security professionals looking to use it. I'm not sure I can honestly think of a stupider move in this area than to include nefarious code in an open source security auditing tool aimed at the highest and most complex levels of security auditing and used by professionals whose job it is to find and announce these things.

That doesn't mean assume nothing's wrong, but I'm pretty sure this thing will have some pretty talented people looking at it fairly early just for kicks, so of things to worry about, this isn't high on my list.
Apache NiFi was also released by the NSA & has seen commercial success in the enterprise.
The reason why ClearType works so well on low-rez LCDs is that pixels are made of 3 RGB subpixels with guaranteed shape, size and layout.

Based on the parts of the video where they mention display technology, clear type is probably out, they're projecting lasers, I don't think there're subpixels.
> What I see is that there is plenty more work we’re not even trying to do, because we’re busy with the work we’re doing. Just in climate change-mitigating forestry and mental health services, to pick two, there are a billion jobs each waiting to be done. Programming probably also has a billion jobs available. Even cooking, we could move to a personal chef based food system and that would create a billion jobs.

There's infinity of jobs waiting to be done. There isn't, and never was, a problem with lack of things for people to do. The problem was and is the lack of things to do for which someone else is willing to pay - which almost always requires that someone else to be able to turn the result they bought into more money for themselves. Mitigating climate change doesn't yield much money to anyone right now, so there aren't many people willing to pay to do it.
I live in West Africa, and yeah I think I'll take the difference between the two services that I've experienced for myself for what it is. Those "armies of volunteers" aren't exactly interested in the region either.
I found this stat - not sure how old it is:

Forrester Research did some research in why people return to web sites. There were 4 main reasons: good content (thank goodness this was number one!): 75%, usability: 66%, download speed: 58%, frequency of updating: 54%. All other reasons were noise compared with these 4.

https://homepages.cwi.nl/~steven/
The Fortnite Official server has exceeded 100,000 concurrent users, Discord itself is way past that 5M concurrent number, we're now using Rust in certain places to make Elixir go faster.

Would this have been avoided have you started with golang or the JVM ?