skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The real innovation of Handshake is that is allows you to verify the public key associated with a name. This opens the door to enabling SSL/TLS without relying on Certificate Authorities, which is a vulnerability point in the security of the Internet today. The additional benefit is that the names are difficult to censor. Governments can still censor by IP of course, but the point is that it forces bad actors to censor at a deeper level (and there are other projects tackling solving that).
I think in general the government should mandate that companies take care of their goods from start to end including negative externalities. If you produce something in plastic packaging then you have to make sure it's recyclable in the markets where is sold or pay an environmental impact fee. Ditto if you sell oil that produces CO2. Buy equivalent carbon credits. If it means no body can afford your product anymore, you shouldn't be selling it anyway.
They could use rangefinding to limit the distance without dealing with precise timers.
It's a low power legacy frequency hopper with a bloated USB like network stack that isn't USB. That was the design from the very beginning.

It's unfixable.

My honest professional opinion is the people that wrote the spec had no idea what they were doing.
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SBC codec, that is default and mandatory suck ass. It was chosen because they didn't want to pay the patent licensing fees of something better.

SBC was made for voice and is acceptable for that. Better codecs like AptX and AAC exists in many devices now, but because of incompabilites SBC is often negotiated anyway.
I don't really agree with this laundry list of 'best practices for every engineer to be a good cog'.

I've seen whole chunks of big commercial operating systems that are basically written by one anti-social guy. And our lore is full of examples of individual contributors who weren't team players; often, they were one-man armies.

Tto my mind, _those_ are the 10x devs. They are the devs that your startup should hire...

... because otherwise if you hire the cogs that match this article's list, you are going to need 10x or 100x as many devs, and they'll probably only manage to make a mediocre shopping cart and nothing else works. But, look on the bright side, it'll be CIed up the whatsit and use all the latest cloud stuff and untested frameworks, so all is good on the resumes ;)
As far as the UX nightmare, I'd attribute that aspect to the same problem EFI has: there are too many implementations, and most of them suck.
what makes a 100x engineer?

e.g. if you mentor 10x10x engineers are you automatically becoming a 100x engineer?

what about CTOs? I mean CTOs that have 100 100x engineers? Are the (Kilo|Mega)-Engineers?

I think I'm a 15x engineer, is it ok to put it on the resume?

But well.. I mean that, again, depends who you ask. If you ask a 100x engineer about 10x engineer, they will tell you that 10x engineer is just a 1x engineer (assuming there is a chamber and no exposure to the 0.01x engineers)

On the other hand, my grandma might qualify as a 0.01x engineer (she's good with her smartphone)
I think it's tough when it's an annual thing. One comment in this thread is, "Do you have Oreo?" "Don't know, let me check", but in Settings/About/Version it would show "7.0".
Then I would need to Google what number Oreo is.

I use macOS and only started having that problem after they went to annual releases (or maybe I started making desktop maintenance less of a priority?) even though it does show both Mojave and 10.14 in the About.

Although, I do wish there was more whimsy in tech.
The author kinda lost me halfway through. Was mobile or other non-web API interaction ever addressed in any meaningful way? Specifically, how much it sucks to to allow 3rd parties (or even 1st-party non-web-browser clients) access to your API if authentication is done via session cookies? Cuz that's a pretty significant thing to just gloss over.
It wasn't multiplayer (that I can remember) but I recall playing Uplink [1] on a 350mhz K6-2. You can still buy it on Steam.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uplink_(video_game)
This is really a classy move.

It's like a compact puzzle or "steganographic joke" - intelligent, elegant, satirical and even humorous in a way.

Constructing these interlocking phrases, one "public" and the other a "private" message for those "in the know"; getting the right number of characters and dots; even using his own name as part of the message.

I don't know anything about this billionaire, but I appreciate the effort that went into this form of protest, it's a work of art.
Asserting their power projection over the DMZ, whether it is legitimate is irrelevant.

It's the same with the development of nuclear weapons. There is a near-zero probability that North Korea will engage in a first strike with nuclear weapons, but a very rational way of self-preservation.

The North Korean regime is reprehensible but their actions are rational, from a self-preservation perspective.
lots of ebikes around nowadays. I only get annoyed at them when they pass me going up the harder hills. And that's because I'm jealous of them, not actually annoyed!

our bike club members assure me that an ebike isn't all easy sailing. I believe them! With how heavy the ebikes can be, you can't just be sailing along on the battery, not putting in any effort, and expect to go very far.
When a $2.1M Drug Could Cure Your Child’s Fatal Disease
The most obvious option would be turning it into lactic acid right in the end of the kidneys. Any option you choose, people doing that would better drink a lot of water.

Anyway, I'm not sure breaking glucose is that useful. Won't it just make people hungry?
It would be interesting if someone did a study of why we are so fascinated by the idea of a 10x engineer.

Maybe people want to be productive, because they want to be valued so highly that all their weaknesses will be overlooked.
ReCaptcha and Analytics both fingerprint.
That's not true. If I'm reading a generic newspaper website, I don't want to see ads relating to the article or the newspaper. I'm more than happy to see ads for sneakers and watches.
I have a Toyota. My second now. No issues with my iPhone and streaming.
Well, it's an option, but I would probably just go with the iframe approach as it seems like less hassle + cleaner!
"Cheapbugs" but it appears it is abandoned.
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In my new car it works most of the time, but sometimes when I press the "Siri" button on my steering wheel, Siri will respond through the car's speakers. Then I'll ask her to play a song or navigate somewhere, and the audio starts playing out of my phone's speaker.

Fixing it requires going through the whole pairing and unpairing procedure. So same here, I just end up plugging it into the USB AUX.
O'course.
i'm basically agreeing:

> If I remember correctly, the bluetooth headset profile (if you require microphone input) is pretty low bandwidth (think gsm quality), which would explain low quality in that case.

the headset profile is a bit nicer than GSM (higher rates, more advanced codec), though nothing you'd want to listen to music through.

> Newer Bluetooth variants support higher quality audio without a microphone (A2DP), and that's what you are likely using today unless you are in a call.

A2DP has been around for awhile. as some other comments mention, there are multiple codecs that can be used. the minimum one is SBC (also used by HSP, at lower rates), which... isn't great.

once you're using aptX/AAC, perceived quality is far more likely to be dominated by the electrical and acoustic aspects of your headphones.
How Self-Driving Cars Can Work Today
Is there similar thing just for the Deep Fakes?
The Physics of Black Holes – With Chris Impey
A lot of this is stuff Americans have done to themselves. They all want a huge house in the suburbs with two huge gas-guzzling SUVs in the garage, so that necessitates both parents working to pay for all this largesse.

If Americans lived in dense cities with small living quarters and took public transit to work, they wouldn't need to spend so much money on housing and transportation, and they wouldn't feel the need to women to work full-time to keep up this lavish and unsustainable lifestyle.
Third-party and/or untrusted javascript is obviously a massive security and privacy hole if you don't put it in an iframe.
I guess we have to disagree here. I prefer we solve the problem with the solutions we can implement right now instead of continuing to increase our emissions hoping for some deus ex machina that fixes the damage we caused. Fusion for example is not a current solution. It's still in the research stage. With adequate funding we might be able to rush to a demo reactor in a decade or two. But by then the damage is done. If we can't prevent the permafrost from releasing its carbon or the Greenland ice sheet from disappearing it is very unlikely that we'll be able to geoengineer our way out of it.
No, require companies that offer IP based calls to take the same steps any other phone company is required to undertake.

There is no requirement for a company to let anyone make a call without have some identity confirmation.

Other than that, I agree few (no?) other countries have quite the same level of murder-by-cop (with or without swatting calls) as the US does. This seems to be at least in part due to the US police forces having ensuring that police are never liable for anything, and having got legislation to ensure that any "fear" of harm to themselves warrants immediate lethal force.
I have been playing with neural nets since the 80s, and J since around 2010 or so. This was the first I had heard of ELM, and having a J implementation, I dove in. My interest is mainly academic, since I do not work in the ML community, but I have been self-studying AI/ML for decades. I would be curious to how J performs against a Julia or Python implementation of the same algorithm, since it is interpreted, but very fast. I personally like the way J makes me think and work. I leave the JQT open on my desktop at work and at home for more than just a calculator, but less than a full-blown programming tool, although it is.
Yup, maybe 6-12 moths is wonderful comparing to what you have to deal with, but still not enough for me to get into flow. I consider myself average programmer, so in your environment I'd feel like in hell ;)
We used this when building an app to determine 'meaningful' discrepencies between prelimary radiology reports (done by Residents) and final reports (done by attending radiologists). It's a fun algorithm to implement that isn't as simple as it seems. I think there's lots of uses for it.
Heroin has killed people I know. I still don’t think separating and caging families is moral.
About time. Anyone who blocks this needs a giant bright spotlight of negative publicity on them.
> The author believes there's a problem, or they wouldn't have written an article about it.

From the bottom of the article: "I am writing these blog posts to get attention to our newest game, Queen's Wish: The Conqueror. You can also follow me on Twitter."
Skype just needs to require identity confirmation if you want to make phone calls. That isn't a challenging requirement.
That $187 billion figure is worthy of skepticism. Remember, the entire earthquake and tsunami is estimated to have caused US $235 billion of damage. That nearly all of this is going to reactor cleanup is suspicious. Especially when the 3 Mile Island meltdown and subsequent cleanup only cost $1 billion. It seems likely to me that this $187 billion figure includes damage caused by the tsunami, and is not specific to the nuclear meltdown.
Cool. I was about to hack a CronJob to take some backups with pg_dump, but I'm going to give this a try.
Here’s the second sentence on that page:
> This card is constructed with stainless steel on the front and carbon in the back.
If you look at the responses of individuals directly associated with the atomic project itself (I'm reading a biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer, presently), you'll be well aware that the concerns many addressed were not merely of the immediate impacts of the weapon, but of future developments, which would include a tremendous reduction in costs for delivering destruction on an absolutely unprecedented scale.

Costs matter. See the Jevons Paradox. And, as I've said before, scale matters (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13542735#13548498) (and more: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=dredmorbius%20"scale%20matters...).

It matters more than very nearly anything else.
You want a case for your iCreditCard? That's what a wallet is, but it's not compatible with wallets.
The real skill is being able to NOT read into the email anything but what is there....eg: not making assumptions that the writer is talking down to you.

IMO that is a harder skill to learn than writing the email!
Only application I've used this for so far is a technique for defining and recognizing gestures. They're called "flash gestures" (or that's what the page where I read about them called them) where you find the closest of 8 directions to the gesture direction and encode each gesture as a sequence of digits 1-8 corresponding to these closest directions, then use the Levenshtein distance algorithm to find the closest matching pattern.

EDIT: Found the reference I used to implement this.

https://books.google.com/books?id=_1rSBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA85&lpg=P...
The cynic in me is 100% sure they calculated the impact of these changes to their ability to track users and found the impact negligible. Still, it probably does make tracking more difficult for other advertisers, so there's that.
Oh. Wow. That is insane. Photo for reference:

https://fm.cnbc.com/applications/cnbc.com/resources/img/edit...
Please forgive me father, for indulging in the sins of Onan.
Also in that vein, Caves of Qud is worth a try.
This might the conventional wisdom, but the reality is that in a single thread, hiding data behind all sorts of obstacles is a huge detriment. If you can already get to it, you might as well be organized so you can get to it easily. 'object oriented programming' (whatever it means exactly) is good for creating interfaces to data. The GUI might need an interface to its data, but the state of whatever is being processed and manipulated is less likely to need a special interface and almost definitely not whatever a component meant to display data provides.

If you 'encapsulate' every tiny bit of information inside GUI components you end up with things like storing a string in a GUI label or storing a list in a list selection component. Then every time you want to access that information you have to extract it from the GUI, possibly keeping in mind the lifetime of the UI components.
I don't think that was the core assumption. Recall that lack of representation in government was one of the reasons for the revolution that created the US.
This sounds like a great problem to have. I wish more developers thought about them sooner, to build the right kind of fundament rather than doing something that works reasonably well for the happy path but grows incredibly ugly when you try patching the inevitable edge cases. Perhaps it's not always needed to actually deal with those right away, but they surely need to be considered early on, so that it's fairly straightforward to do when the time is right.
Quark https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quark_(dairy_product)

Add a sweet topping and you have a dessert.
If we're doing singleplayer, more recently there's https://store.steampowered.com/app/716490/EXAPUNKS/ and https://store.steampowered.com/app/504210/SHENZHEN_IO/ and http://www.zachtronics.com/tis-100/.

Oh, that reminds me that Exapunks actually did have some multiplayer elements, in that you can compete with other users to have the lowest instruction count/runtime in your solutions.
My parents use ebike to ride 30km with ease. It's a game changer.
I like your optimism, and I don't mean to patronise you, but I agree with your points if I keep the short term in mind. In the long run; however, I feel one would be disappointed in what the ad-industry will turn this privacy-sandbox into. Refusal to ack DNT and dark patterns in-use all throughout the interwebs stands testament to this.

Advertisement has, unfortunately, degraded into a plague spreading scareware, spyware, malware, scamware and what not. It gets worse with each passing day as more unsuspecting users discover internet for the first time. The surveillance appartus that the industry has built has made robots out of humans, mere instruments to be toyed with. Not all parts of the advertisement industry is worthy of our data but have access to it anyway, because they've got the money to burn that companies like Google and Facebook scramble over to gather.

These companies need to be forced to come up with alternative business models or ads that do not require extensive surveillance, or I am afraid given the unprecedented data they have amassed, they will attract, in the long term, all sorts of power-hungry designs and the outcome is going to be a disaster for everyone else but the power-grabbers. The result isn't going to be pretty. Sorry to go all Orwellian on you.
You gotta wonder how much all of this is due to sleep deprivation. None of these things make any sense evolutionarily, either PP depression or fathers losing their testosterone. So how much is due to things that are a product of modern society, rather than biology?
Oh, but they can. And they do: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mere-exposure_effect
The problem with "trivial" is that it's in the eye of the beyolder. And everything can seem "trivial" after you've studied it long enough ;-) For instance, I'd say the matrix implementation of Levenshtein is quite trivial...
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I think PayPal tried something like this awhile back that did not get much traction.

"PayPal Apps" Developer Guide (2010):
https://www.paypalobjects.com/webstatic/en_US/developer/docs...
The core Bluetooth spec is 2985 pages. Essentially no-one correctly implements it; it's arguable that the spec is sufficiently complex, vague and self-contradictory that it's impossible to correctly implement. Unless you're using two devices by the same manufacturer (Earpods with an iPhone, a PS4 with the PS4 controller) your odds of getting a consistent, reliable experience are vanishingly slim.
Indeed, those who develop browsers are on it!

https://github.com/tc39/proposal-realms
The names 'edit distance' and 'levenshtein distance' are a bit unfortunate.

When I was trying to match batches of OCR'd strings to known strings, I knew some algorithm like this had to exist, but I could not find it. My searches kept turning up Jaccard similarity and Hamming distance again and again.

(Once I found it and began working on an implementation, I started noticing my compiler would find miss-typed variable names and suggest the correctly-spelled variable for me.)
And so Joi Ito will continue to be in charge of "Ethics" at the MIT Media Lab?
Nordic countries are quite good if you want give away some personal freedoms. A reverse side of security is always loss of liberty in some way. Some people like it and some not. I don’t.
Well Sony WH1000 MX2/3 perform really well, so do Bose QCII and the Harman Kardon Esquire also provide high quality sound.

BT headphones can and do sound nice.
A lot of bikes and less of a smell.
I noticed this when in dense cities bluetooth is much worse when phone is in my back pocket. Moving it to front pocket makes a big difference.
The thought was - without the individual at the trial with their own legal counsel - is it a fair trail anyway? If it's a military tribunal that rubber-stamps everything - does that improve the process any?

Perhaps it would have been better in the specific case to first revoke the person's citizenship?
I've been playing this lately.
https://www.codingame.com/multiplayer
My BT headphones will generally use AptX when connected to my macbook, but when it tries to use audio from them, i.e. bluejeans randomly opens, it'll drop to SBC and immediately all my music sounds like junk.
> There have been millennia old authoritarian regimes.

At the risk of moving goalposts, I probably should have specified "lasting long after the 1700's". Countries in relatively-modern times are generally more likely to move from authoritarian to democratic than the other way around. Once the proletariat has tasted actual freedom and self-determination, going back to being ruled under an iron fist ain't (usually) something done voluntarily.

Also, I specified large authoritarian regimes. Small nations can more easily be authoritarian (interference from large democratic nations aside) because it's easy to keep a small population under control. That gets much harder with a large population, and China's population certainly ain't getting any smaller. It's impressive (in a "wow that took a lot of effort" sense, not a "wow that's pretty cool" sense) that a nation as large as the PRC has been able to maintain such an iron fist on such a large population, but it's also pretty young, and time will tell if it'll actually buck the trend of China constantly fragmenting and reuniting over and over again. Speaking of which:

> Heck, China itself (pre communism) has lasted and prospered for 5-10 times the duration of most modern nation states, while authoritarian.

"China" has a history of constantly fragmenting and reuniting over and over again. It also has a history of expanding and contracting over and over again (though in fairness that had a lot to do with the Mongols and Huns). China's currently in the "large and unified" part of the cycle, but - if history is anything to go by, and I posit that it is - a contraction and/or fracture is inevitable. It probably would've happened already (i.e. during the series of nationwide protests that included the Tienanmen Square protesters that China "didn't" massacre), but China had enough propaganda and censorship tools up its sleeve to sweep all that under the rug (we'll see how long that survives here in the Information Age; China can beef up its Great Firewall all it wants, but people will continue to poke holes in it, making it harder and harder for China to assert its official narratives as the "truth").

> as far as the average Joe and Jane is concerned they never had it better

Sure, until the Communist Party decides Joe and Jane don't have enough social credit to be allowed to meaningfully participate in society, and then they're screwed.

> and they get richer in each generation that their parents

For now, and only because they've transitioned from "complete and utter poverty" to "almost at basic Western standards of living". China's growth is already slowing down (at least as far as numerous economists with way more knowledge than I've got have assessed), so this is decreasingly-guaranteed to hold true for future generations.
it's fine for people that can afford it, i suspect a large group of people in the US cannot afford gas prices to double/triple
I think a great setup for privacy are temporary containers. In fact, using the Temporary Containers Firefox addon and domain level isolation works virtually everywhere except on Google / Gmail / Youtube...

That's because when you try to log into one of those, it tries to simultaneously log you into the other domains/Google products linked to your account and per-domain sandboxing prevents that.

My setup against tracking is as follows:

- Temporary Containers: Prevent cookie-based tracking

- ClearURLs: Prevent URL-based tracking, which Google and Amazon use everywhere

- VPN: Prevent IP-based tracking, to some degree

- uBlock Origin: Block adds and some nasty JavaScript

I find it quite hard to prevent fingerprinting. The privacy.resistFingerprinting in Firefox breaks tons of things. So does blocking JavaScript. And uMatrix is a bit time consuming to use, and not suited for inexperienced users.

Any alternatives considering aside from Tor Browser?
I'm always very skeptical of audio quality claims. Did you happen to perform any blind test? They're very surprising.