skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting reading, but it kind of glosses over the important problems for me. For example:

Do all OS distributions have new enough openssh, is it ever built with missing support by default?

what extensions are necessary in the certs to be trusted for ssh
or the CA cert (is your average test CA cert going to be valid for ssh without tweaking)?

Do any (or all?) cloud server products regularly accept cert based configuration just as they accept public key lists?

How will this interact with other features like using a pkcs mechanism for a token key?

If revoking does work, that means the system will deny cert based auth when it has internet connectivity problems? If it wont isnt building more general pools of certs more dangerous than restricting systems to specific lists of public keys?

Also questions like what does an eaves dropper see in the clear and how does it differ from what they see with raw public key?

(I find it insane that ssh ultimately ends up with a weaker trust model than a pretty average website in a typical install due to less certainty and clarity about what a normal certificate based configuration should look like.)
I agree with all these solutions, and I don't mean to imply that this is an unsurpassable problem, only that our existing security measures for infrastructure are already falling behind as we increasingly rely on them, and these compounding vulnerabilities put pressure on regulators to slow down development.
But leaning on automated algorithms seems like the only way to realistically scale for day-to-day needs? I was going to posit that Google seems like the company most open to mixing human and automated processes. But that's not necessarily fair to Facebook, for which moderating user content and interactions is a much different problem space than search rankings; and of course, YouTube seems to have the same issues as FB does.
That flies in the face of the history of progress. Maltheus was wrong for the last 200 years of doom and gloom predictions. Why would you expect differently now?

In actual fact, the amount of resources (atoms, power) in the Earth are orders of magnitude beyond what humans need for thousands of years, even assuming exponential growth. And the carrying capacity of the Earth has grown as fast or faster than population, explicitly because more people means more innovation and more capital which means higher carrying capacity. What's more, the per capita quality of life grows linearly with population, meaning a quadratic increase in available resources overall. More people = more prosperity. It's not a zero-sum game.

Inoculate yourself against the Malthusian ideology of the Club of Rome. The world is not ending, as much as their anti-human agenda would want you to believe.
In the US, it's been my experience that cable IP addresses rarely change.
No, the halting problem is an abstract result that only applies to infinite systems.

You can test a system with a bigger system, but that is generally economically infeasible, since testing costs are exponential in system size.
What do you use besides ublock origin?
I don't think this can be considered a failure of regulation; that the regulation stopped short of an outright ban is much more of a failure of regulation in some ways.

The tail risks involved in nuclear power are just too high. It's not a question of laymen misunderstanding or thinking that radiation is magic or being scared by the specter of Chernobyl.

If there's anything that Fukushima should have taught us, it's that we underestimate the risk that bad things can happen with nuclear, and we overestimate our ability to engineer around those things.

I think it's increasingly likely that in the far future, when energy needs are no longer the bottleneck for progress, we'll look back on the idea of using nuclear fission as a power source as a laughably dangerous concept; on par with using x-rays for shoe sizing [1] or an atomic powered car [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoe-fitting_fluoroscope

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Nucleon
There's a good video on a Denmark to Sweden ferry that is fully electric: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rE_M1n-ClOA
Tech companies are being pushed to become judges on everything or face backlash.
^ uncalled for, stereotyping and shaming language.

There is no proof of violation of consent, in fact all 3 of them agree that almost the entirety of the acts happened consensually, except from an unproven allegation (which he denies) of "doing something" with the condom and another allegation of "finding him" having sex with her -- but not stopping him.

I think all opinions are welcome, except when they are false
The town where I live installed one. They cost 40% more than a regular cross walk and are a waste of money. I had driven over the thing for about a month before I realized that it was the '3D' crosswalk and not just a poorly painted crosswalk.
Corporations do everything inadvertently. They're not sentient, they're a pile of emergent behaviors driven by incentives.

You increase the punishment because they inadvertently did it. Then maybe you'll get an incentive structure that prevents it next time.
Yes. This is Rice's Thm.
I'm not qualified to judge the latter. But I can about the former.

That measures how well a particular developer takes, with some noise induced by the working environment (say there's construction noise during python week, not during java week, or more meetings one week than another, or the developer's has relationship troubles at home). Randomness happens.

Deducing a number that's more generally valid requires having n workers doing the same work and then doing statistical analysis. Happily that also takes care of the single-worker problem. Still, the cost of the experiment easily rises by a factor of twenty or a hundred, depending on how well the noise can be controlled and how much accuracy is needed.

Asking for improvements that would increase the cost of an experiment by many thousand per cent is a %$#@!%#@! $%#@!%@#$ thing to do. IMO.
Nobody knows what it is or where it's come from. Most of the sources are Norwegian, but it's spread all over Norway.

This is a timeline of the news since Sept 5 (click "Vis flere"):

https://www.nrk.no/nyheter/mystisk-hundesykdom-1.14689833

Here are more sources:

https://www.vg.no/nyheter/innenriks/i/0nkmk6/bianca-7-fikk-s...

https://www.nrk.no/ostlandssendingen/atte-nye-tilfeller-av-s...

https://www.aftenposten.no/norge/i/dOPwpo/Dette-er-de-12-for...

https://www.aftenposten.no/norge/i/kJX3ov/Vet-ikke-om-vi-vil...

https://www.vg.no/nyheter/innenriks/i/K31n1y/spania-advarer-...

https://www.vg.no/nyheter/innenriks/i/P9moz7/skrev-oppgave-o...
For everyone who complains about Google having worse results, have you blocked or disabled Google's tracking? I haven't and haven't had any trouble finding things with Google and I wonder if the two are related in some way.
That was true a couple of decades ago. Notice that there aren't address bars on most browsers people use nowadays, and the change happened pretty much due to Google's interference.
Like all LCGs, the output of the Lehmer RNG is very predictable, but it would indeed suffice for the purpose given in the article.
The question has been answered, but to give you a sense on the liquidity restrictions I thought I'd give an example. This is pretty typical - Every year, at the start of the fiscal year, the investor can take out 25% of their capital. If they do so, then the next year they can withdraw 33% of their capital. If they take that redemption opportunity, they can withdraw 50% of their capital at the start of the next fiscal year. Finally, if they take that 50%, they are able to take the remainder of their capital a year later.
Leak of Microsoft Salaries Shows Fight for Higher Compensation
Tesla patents longer lasting battery with better performance and cheaper cost
Deterministic thinking: a problem in how we think, not just in how we act
For example, I'm visiting the Bay Area this morning and Caltrain (diesel locomotive) has acceleration much lower than BART (electric multiple unit). Acceleration here is determined by what's practical with the equipment, not the maximum forces people can currently handle.
> then hash structures do check membership and add items in O(1) time (since the time spent increasing the structure size is amortized fairly quickly).

Hashtables can never guarantee constant time operations. It is expected O(1) time, but it is completely possible that everything hashes to the same bucket and you get O(n) operations, no matter how much you rehash.
Alex is the way he's always been, and she got into the relationship knowing that. I think it's quite selfish of her to expect him to change for her.
Because governments should be accountable to the governed, and the media is part of the governed. Media is not a separate arm of the people, it is a more involved and interpreted part of the people.

This is why it’s so alarming when a politician calls media “the enemy” because they are, in effect, saying their own people are the enemy.
I don't think you can entirely discount the effects of 20 years of Cold War existential threat, accompanied by duck-and-cover videos and the like. People were terrified and fascinated by nuclear technology - this is the era of Godzilla, and of mutant superheroes. Yes, there was a utopian vibe as well, courtesy of a concerted propaganda campaign [1] - but when the eco-movement kicked off in the 70s, nuclear was right in the firing line. That didn't spring from nowhere - it was decades of accumulated fear finding an expression.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atoms_for_Peace
Another neophobe "analog is better" opinion.

They're wrong. Vinyl is back because it's hipster and other reasons, and it's in absolutely no way better.

In order for analog to be better either:

1) The (analog) filters on the hearing aids are bad. Not unique to digital.

2) You can hear more than 22KHz. I doubt it, mate. No offense but you're not young anymore, so very unlikely among an already rare population.

3) Math is wrong. Fourier analysis shows that digital doesn't "approximate" the frequencies of analog. It completely contains the exact same information.
There is also Skip32 cipher for 32-bit values. Interestingly enough, it was initially designed to cover the scenarios like yours.
No way, this title is perfect HackerNews clickbait. I was baited, and I was not disappointed by the article. Or at least the abstract, which was as far as I got. TLDR: They figured out how to use tooth enable to make genetic associations between fossils, and learn some other things. And it's a lot more reliable for old fossils than DNA!

Edit: Title at the time of writing my comment is "Early Pleistocene enamel proteome from Dmanisi resolves Stephanorhinus phylogeny" which is the actual title from the article
This is old. Cuomo is forcing Entergy to close Indian Point 2 and 3 in 2020/2021, which were the only financially viable plants mentioned in the article.

The governor's desire to prolong their relicensing process made it more cost effective for Entergy to just agree to close them in 4/5 years, which is a shame because nuclear plants are all about the sunk capital costs.
Correct title: Nuclear power and renewables don’t have to be enemies. New York just showed how (2016)
Riding your bike that way in Amsterdam (or really any place in Europe and I imagine most of the rest of the world) wouldn't turn one head, let alone invoke anger. That's definitely an American thing. I guess some people get off on the righteousness and they attempt to control other people in the most minuscule of ways. I think this is because they have little freedom and control over their own lives and feel helpless themselves. This part is not limited to America, but in America it's a big part of the culture. Someone else having fun while you're not? Be angry and try to stop them, often using laws. Someone else doing things you don't like? Same thing. Control coupled with a puritan mindset leads to these bizarre reactions.
Sorry, but, LOL:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARPA#Past_or_transitioned_pro... -> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARPANET

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CERN -> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Wide_Web

The internet was built with public money and only extended with private money.
Five Years of Home Office – A Recap
Every epidemic starts with only a few infected. This may turn out to be a tragic blip for those dogs and their owners, or may become something huge.
Yes. Shit happened in the world. There were actual conspiracies. That is not to say that everything that can't be disproven is true.

(You're suggesting guilty until proven innocence logic)
(You are welcome to worship the flying spaghetti monster until you can disprove its existence)
I don't think that's true. Even for .uk, Google returns 55.5 million hits for "jail" and only 600 thousand for "gaol". For .au it's similar, and .nz is a little more even, but still "jail" wins by a lot.

From https://www.spectator.co.uk/2014/04/why-did-we-ever-spell-ja..., "The Guardian long persisted with gaol too but changed to jail in the 1980s, like the other English papers."
If you eat so badly that you die at 40, then yes that's just as bad as slipping off a rock. Look at it this way, let's say a guy gets married and then starts eating so many big macs every day that he's headed to the grave in a few years. My guess would be that his wife would hate him for that even more than if he was a solo climber.
"None of that is what actually causes people to be angry. Eating junk food, drinking a beer, driving a sports car, doesn't evoke the same emotional reaction in people"

I'm sorry, I can't agree with this. There's plenty of anger and disdain for all those things. There's plenty of "fuck fatties", "fuck rich fat cats", and "fuck drunks" sentiment, and I don't go out of my way to engage in communities I know to be hateful or particularly negative. (Unless HN counts??)
He's different than them in that he's the best in the world in what he does, and also he doesn't put anyone else in danger (Everest climbers put the Sherpas who work for them in danger. They also provide them a great living). But in essence both Honnold and said climbers are just living their dreams; for some it's climbing El Capitan solo and for others it's climbing Everest with 20 Sherpas that help you get there. They're all looking for fame from others, Honnold doesn't shy away from media to say the least. I don't think it's all that different to be honest. Honnold isn't helping to make the world a better place by climbing rocks, I see no reason to treat him as a saint (nor as a villain) based on his sports activities.
> Julian Assange shows psychological torture symptoms, says UN expert

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2019/may/31/julian-assange...

It's not a conspiracy theory
I have the full set of books in this series, took me a couple months to track down.

There are no organizations left in the world like pre divesture AT&T - While I think divestiture was a net gain, it's clear that some things were not positive, and some stuff was irrevocably lost.
none of that matters, there's a conflict of interest with private prisons, and they shouldn't exist.

That there are things we also need to fix with public prisons is an orthogonal issue. private prisons are clearly a problem. The idea of commercializing the locking up of human beings is horrifying from a moral perspective.
That's odd, in my group the main take away was how toxic she is to their relationship. It came across as if she attached herself to him in a way that came across as very manipulative. Demonstrated well in the house buying scene I think.
IT: Chapter Two and the Gay Victim Trope
I think an assumption being made is that the surface area can't increase while the vehicle isn't moving. Maybe in the future it might be possible to have the solar panels fold out when parked to at least 2x the surface area. If we are rethinking the grid, I don't see why we can't rethink parking at the same time.
I used to be in the trades. I read hacker news when I started getting into programming and now I work full time as a software engineer. So.. yes non-tech folks read hacker news!
Could have been Steiger at some point - only Trevor Howard (just) above him in the list predeceased him.
From a UX perspective the first button shouldn’t read “0-9999 GB”, but “< 1 TB”.

Otherwise I don’t see a problem with a minimum of 500GB to keep things efficient.

On the other hand I believe there is a micro market waiting, paying 1-3 usd/month for 15GB.
US, UK & France situations are different. Widely. Each with their own issues. But every issue can be spun, let's say... elegantly. As you do. Amazingly.

I did not mention Russia. If that were a country, it could mean several other countries too.

I did not blame it on only manipulation, but on manipulation based on existing tensions & facts. That does not excuse the past 40 years of political morass of course. But that does not excuse populists lying and twisting this situation for their own interest - and certainly not the people's: see where the US & UK are today.

As for UK & France "masses", for the past 40 years, we have lived in _peace_ on our homeland, contrary to the few centuries before. Not by accident.

As for the rest, you can have it way harder than others and still consider populism, racism, mysoginism and cronyism supporters as "deplorables". They still are.

Tagging Trump as "has no manners and tweets random BS" is the least you could do. He's not bad only, he is a stain on US history. Not only does he lacks manners... I don't even know where to end if we go down this hole. The only thing he doesn't lack is ego. To the point it's embarrassing. Not only for him, but also for the future of the institutions and the nation that his role makes him supposed to protect. As well as the people that let him have his ways from the get go.
In the US, the Alice supreme court decision killed most of them. But the USPTO changed its own rules to keep going.

IBM and al are pushing for a law to restore them (the STRONGER patent act).

EPO ignore the law and the courts to keep granting them. And european courts gonna be replaced by puppy captive Unitary Patent Courts.
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2019/may/31/julian-assange...
I've noticed over the past year that a Google search for almost any medical term will bury the wikipedia article on the third or fourth page of search results. The first three pages are all sites with extremely watered-down content and little to none of the cross-referencing links that make wikipedia a good exploratory tool (and a natural fit to PageRank).

Google has obviously decided that anyone searching for a medical term should only be shown pages that are equivalent to what a doctor would tell a scared patient in the first three minutes after delivering a diagnosis. Sure, those WebMD pages are probably going to be a bit more accurate than the wikipedia article, but largely because they're saying much less and have fewer opportunities to be mistaken. It feels rather condescending and patronizing.
I don't know of a single person who _buys a car_ because the bus is too expensive. I think you're being a little unrealistic.
Yep, the Commonwealth series got solid 4s out of 5s from me, which is very good — I very rarely give a book a 5.
The risk is real, but as you say is smaller than other risks we don't even think about, like the people coal has killed with pollution and will still kill through climate change upheaval.
Ask HN: Remote workers and freelancers – how do you deal with loneliness?
I’ve been working remotely for about two years now, first with a distributed company and currently as a self-employed designer and developer. I’ve definitely experienced a big reduction in my already limited social interactions after switching away from a local job. I’d say it generally helps me to work alone as it’s much less distracting, however the loneliness of it has been more or less a constant issue.

Recently a friend and I have started working alongside each other since he has his own one-person business. This has helped massively in reducing the feeling of loneliness, and it’s nice to have someone to bounce ideas off of.

I’ve been mulling over this issue for the last few weeks and I decided to try building something simple to try to share this experience. The idea is to connect fellow remote workers in the same area so that they can keep each other company during work. I’d really appreciate your feedback on it. You can find it at https://www.remotyo.com/

For those of you who work remotely, what’s the experience been like? How do you feel about your level of social engagement as a remote worker? Have you experienced similar feelings of loneliness? How do you cope?
Billing 30 cents is unlikely to even cover their credit card handling fees, let alone the cost of actually providing the service.
Well you’re in luck. Go down to your local used car lot and pick up a used 2010 Prius. https://youtu.be/CchHIy7JgvA
It's weird to me how many advocates there are for nuclear power on HN. Years ago, I would've been one of them. Now? I don't think I can trust people with nuclear power.

People aren't capable of having a sufficiently long term view. People make short term decisions that are bad in the long term all the time. You see accident after accident caused by people making short term decisions that have a low probability of failure but where failure has disproportionately bad consequences. Just look at unsafe and drunk driving.

So the problems with fission power are:

1. We have no good way of disposing with the waste. This includes the waste produced in enriching Uranium (eg what to do with all the UrF6) as well as reactor waste.

2. As much as coal and other fossil fuels have negative health effects and probably cause deaths, there is only so much damage a single coal plant can do. A single nuclear plant on the other hand can make an area of thousands of miles uninhabitable for generations.

3. Storage and transportation of fissile material (ie reactor fuel) presents a bunch of environmental and security issues.

Renewable (specifically solar and wind) really are the solution here.
The article said it’s a foreign government, Israel, spying on lawmakers, not U.S. law enforcement. You are suggesting the StingRays are ours and not black hats?

I'm saying how is your device able to distinguish between the two? As in if they lock down the towers then they are effectively preventing you from connecting to StingRays as well.

And, hey, I agree with you, I'd love to see some regulation that forced the hands of the carriers. And maybe more people would care if they knew. But I'm skeptical in this day and age where everyone seems willing to give away everything about themselves in exchange for some convenience and entertainment.