skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This isn't the best article, but there's a point that I think is useful:

> What the ordinary person might interpret as a con game or sheer lunacy, the heavily credentialed investor, with his TED Talk understanding of things, will reliably regard as brilliant eccentricity.

When people hear about typical con games, like the Pigeon Drop [1], their reaction is often, "Thank goodness I'm so smart I'll never fall for a con!" But that's incorrect. Maybe I wouldn't fall for that con, but that just means the con wasn't for me.

Things like Theranos and WeWork fooled people who were plenty smart. But they are, like everybody, trying to model the world using 3 pounds of meat. It's not enough. We take shortcuts. And all of those shortcuts have flaws.

One of our industry's collective flaws is a belief in the genius, that revolutionary smart guy who's just so smartily smart that they see things the ordinaries don't, and will therefore be very successful. But that leaves us vulnerable to people who perform the tropes of genius. Hands up everybody who's had to work with an "architect" like that.

Another is of course the genius entrepreneur, who has a grand vision to transform the world. As we can see, investors just love that. They've been trained to love it by all the "genius entrepreneur" stories that are generated by finding somebody successful and then filling in the narrative mad-lib with events from their lives. And of course, finding that "genius" entrepreneur lets investors see themselves as geniuses of a different kind. It lets investors justify their belief they deserve to be super rich.

Let's hope things like Uber and Theranos and WeWork put enough holes in that myth that we'll stop being vulnerable to people who put on the genius outfit and do the genius performance. Because personally, I've been tired of it for years.

[1] https://abc7news.com/news/vallejo-man-loses-$10000-in-pigeon...
Win32, WinForms and WPF desktop applications are all able to follow the OS theme. With Metro there's been a departure to a visually incompatible paradigm. This is to say that the lack of UI consistency is a political problem, not a technical side effect of keeping old UI technologies running.
Opening a Wyze Cam to find out why there is a pink blob
My position is that I have a right to privacy, so I don't need an argument. You need an argument for infringing on my right to privacy.
Based on current services, in China you can go twice as far in half the time:

San Francisco - Los Angeles: 620 km, train time 9:00 hr
Beijing - Shanghai: 1,320 km, train time 4:30 hr

Prices in China are slightly higher:

San Fran - LA: $53 lowest; $65 average
Beijing - Shanghai: $80 (553 CNY)

Averaged for $/km CHina would be 20-35% cheaper.

https://www.wanderu.com/en-us/train/us-ca/los-angeles/us-ca/...

https://www.chinahighlights.com/china-trains/beijing-shangha...
Exits are the number one ingredient for a startup ecosystem. If there’s no market for exits, there’s no investment.

Silicon Valley has the best environment in the world-outside-of-China for exits. Large tech companies are frequent acquirers. Large companies in Malaysia, or Japan, or almost anywhere else, acquire rarely.
So I suppose if Apple cared about not being hostile to developers they'd have the option of buying that company and giving the product away for free.
I'd be interested to hear your reasoning for why you think sales tax is so bad. Personally I see it as one of the more reasonable ways of taxing people, as for every product sold the government/society had a part in making the sale of the product possible.
Imagine saying: two people should never be able to whisper to each other. To whisper something to someone prevents the police from having the ability to know if you’re possibly planning to do something dangerous. Something that is dangerous like planning another 911. Or planning to kidnap a child. These are very real possible crimes that affect real people. We must give investigators the tools they need to keep us safe therefore whispering privately should not be permitted.
Ask HN: Why is there no standard encryption file format?
When encrypting strings or files, application developers have to make choices about what cipher/mode to use, where to store the IV and how to represent all of that in the database or on disk. This is annoying at best, but also leads to errors.

I've searched for RFCs but I couldn't find any standard, and not even a defacto standard. Why does this not exist? Am I missing something?

If we had such a format, libraries could define a simple "encrypt()" function that would pick today's suggested cipher spec (e.g. AES128/GCM), but could provide backwards compatibility for the corresponding "decrypt()" function -- similar to hash mechanisms supporting the crypt syntax ($2y$...) such as PHP's password_hash().

I've defined such a format before for an open source project I worked on years ago [1], so I don't think it would be hard to define a standard like this. Am I overlooking something here?

[1] scroll down to "crypto file format" - https://syncany.readthedocs.io/en/latest/security.html#encrypting-new-files
Just don’t let it go near infants apparently. Holy hell! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Necrotizing_enterocolitis
I looked just before the T4 landed at Amazon a monthish ago, GCP has had them almost a year now.

You're right though, what I meant was a machine I could do a hypervisor with, which is any VM on Google Cloud. Need baremetal on AWS, and that type does not have GPU options.
The hours lost are worth it in the long run though if a competitor is going to cut your bill by 20-25% per month. If there is a valid competitor that is (almost never in the US).
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It would help if you comment on topic like is the article wrong, I would like to know that.
I've seen quite a few legacy Windows app needing to be run as administrator, compatibility mode, or both. Just because you can do something doesn't mean you should. It's glaringly irresponsible that applications should be given read/write access to the C:\Windows folder because that was acceptable in the 90s.

Now when I get an exe that needs to run in compatibility mode I don't even bother with it. I'm not compromising my computer because a developer has abandoned their software.
Electricity is also much easier to transport over long distances, using high voltage DC lines, than it is to transport oil or gas via pipeline or truck.
> Is there a theoretical limit on how much energy a rechargeable battery of, say, 1 kg mass can hold

A sufficiently high energy density will collapse into a black hole, so a theoretical limit on ordinary energy storage definitely exists. But it might still be possible to use black holes since they radiate energy as Hawking radiation:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_hole_starship
This Tejava must be amazing stuff!
> What I have shown is a mutating getter. It's not supposed to be novel or original

A mutating getter doesn't violate the laws of non-contradiction, because a getter is not a proposition. In fact, if you use a getter at all, you're outside non-contradiction. The rest of your post is ridiculous, but feel free to keep equivocating this with quantum physics or cubits or whatever, instead of acknowledging that rather than breaking the law of non-contradiction, your real assertion is "my language can mutate global variables behind the scenes". Much less impressive, right?

Also, you keep avoiding to mention what your "problem space" is. I suspect this is because your "problem space" is rather pedestrian and doesn't require anything you claim it does.

Not upset, by the way. That's chicanery on your part. Usually done by people who know they are losing the argument ;)
Jaws is a much better board game than we had any right to expect
I worked at a large telco until 2015, and they had a written policy where it was their goal to get a fax line added to every home.
Wasn't this the premise of a Gene Wolf novel?
As I’ve said before: pagers are great: batteries last months. Easy to pass around and know when you’re the one on-call.

Limited teaching required to understand their use.

Can take a beating.

Work well in disaster scenarios because its network is far less fragile than the cellular network’s.

They don’t leak your location.

Their signal penetrates extremely well.

They make sure the person on-call doesn’t go too far from where they’re supposed to be on-call when they’re required to be within x km of base.
well, I think this whole thing is going a bit out of proportion.
what do we have so far?

- a guy is doing something highly unlikely(not impossible, just unlikely)

- lots of speculation

- the whole internet seems to be out to get him.

In 2009 German speed skater Claudia Pechstein was banned for 2 years from the sport based on irregular levels of reticulocytes in her blood. Nobody could prove that she was doping, however this was the first case of a ban based on circumstantial evidence alone; no forbidden substances were ever found during her repeated tests.
Later it turend out that she had a rare genetic disorder called Hereditary spherocytosis. While the court-stuff is still ongoing, science papers have been written, and the IOC has refined the test. still she lost 2 years at the top of her game.

I must admit that figuring out this riddle is rather tantalizing, I have been nerd-sniped by good riddles in the past, however my Cpt. Picard-sense is tingeling. let's keep the pitchforks at bay, shall we?
Um, no. Why would you think that?
I mean, they are all obsolete. Just because people still haven't upgraded doesn't mean they're not obsolete.

Also surprised they didn't mention the use of tapes by the police: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-20556330
It's regressive because poor people spend a greater proportion of their income (like, all of it) on retail purchases, so they pay the rate (13% currently) on all their income. Where middle and upper class people who sit on money, invest it, whatever pay a much lower effective rate.
> Seems hard to have any prominent integration without having libra related infrastructure on fb servers, and all infra with ”libra” on it is likely to get seized in a raid.

> But sure, if libra is just an altcoin on unrelated hardware then fb won’t be affected.

A company as large as fb has the means to segregate application hardware. Hell, even smaller companies do this for liability reasons. If fb didn't it would be pretty lazy and ill conceived.
Since you are here: this app https://ooni.torproject.org/post/ooni-mobile-app/ is pretty good! and is a good test to know how the country you live in is dealing with censorship (it detects 'middleboxes' in your network, too).

Note that the app data is used as evidence of any censorship events that you come across, so data is collected and published (this is the main aim of this app)
Curious if I choose to publish pictures of myself as a child when I was naked. For example bathtub pictures my parents might have taken, etc. Would I have committed a crime? Who exactly is the victim? I frankly wouldn’t have a problem with it. How does it harm me? I’d even be willing to release naked pictures of my children (suitable anonymized, faces blurred it heads cropped, etc.) Why do I care what a stranger is doing with an image of my kid? Go to town if it’s your thing. Just don’t actually harm real children and you’re fine.
I'm sort of surprised that the US was more interested in biological weapons here than the Soviet's but, on reflection, that probably has more to do with post Eisenhower US strategy. The later attitude was that weapons that take over a day to kill wouldn't be useful in a nuclear war that would be over in hours but of course nobody was thinking in those terms in 1945. But the Russians had a different view and kept anthrax warheads on their ICBMs pointed at US cities through the Cold War. I'm not sure which attitude is scarier.
What is "Cable TV"? :)
That's not the latest snapshot.

https://lists.zx2c4.com/pipermail/wireguard/2019-September/0...
You can probably learn enough online and on your own and avoid the tuition, but still have some ability to communicate with developers.
It is not pusillanimity. If you are the lone society that tries to cooperate and spread peace you will be eaten out. It is rational and logical behaviour to survive.
You can't say tech giant without mentioning Amazon or Microsoft.
>For people who like listening to music on Bandcamp. The site forces users to press play on the next track after the current one finishes on these pages - they don't allow continuous streaming.

Is this only the case for single track pages? If I'm on an album page it will go to the next track without any input.
> something that's highly improbable for this person to do

I don't think that's the case.
I do know people who work from home who deal with just having satellite but it's not an ideal situation.
Faxes are better than email because you know it didn’t get filtered out from the inbox for some reason.

My employer reports that 99% of the emails it gets are blocked. And many employers are tightening up further to prevent malware attacks.

If I need to send a purchase order, it’s nice to know it was received and have an automatic copy of it without having to think to print a confirmation.
The optometrist at my local Vogue Optical is actually only affiliated by location. She was happy to give me my PD as she doesn't sell glasses anyway. I'm sure most people walk out of her office into the Vogue Optical show floor and buy their glasses there.
For a similar approach during the 'golden age' of polar exploration, read the fascinating "Farthest North" by Fritjof Nansen.

My review of it including Gutenberg links for their free edition:
http://paperstack.com/post/2018/10/24/a-review-of-farthest-n...
Parts of the article are intensely horrifying. I almost wish there was a warning.
> no commercials

No, but instead a pretty bad attempts at suggesting content because you happen once to watch xyz out of no reason.

> more shows

If you live in country that happens to have license agreements done well - there's still lot of content I am unable to see on Netflix in Poland because someone holds license rights for the show or movie. I'd like to see older movies, tv series - things I grow up with but instead I'm being constantly flooded with new stuff that I'm not fond of (not mention that damn autoplay preview in "header" part of Netflix in both site and applications; I really wish there would be a way to disable that "feature").
What Mac-only apps that you use do you consider high quality?

I’m asking because outside of some big ones that I don’t use, like Final Cut Pro or Pro Tools - most of the Mac apps I’ve found are very low on features or “options” (flexibility). They all seem to try and follow Apple’s model of only serving the happy path and completely ignoring anyone who needs more than that - e.g. power users.

Even normal users get annoyed by this tendency, like recently when Apple removed the “mark all as read” option from Mail in iOS.
One also needs to look some of the experiments in terms of LSD. In the 60s an 70s, psychedelic drugs, especially LSD, were believed to have mind-changing power, both the counter-culture activists and the CIA establishment were experimenting with the drugs, the former group wants to use it as a tool to look beyond "The Matrix" and authority, and a gateway to a new spiritual world. While the establishment were trying to use it as a tool for psychological manipulation.

A good book that cover the history is Acid Dreams: The Complete Social History of LSD: the CIA, the Sixties, and Beyond by Martin A. Lee and Bruce Shlain. If you want to learn more about LSD and computer culture, read What the Dormouse Said by John Markoff.

The history was quite interesting. For example, Kary Mullis claimed his discovery of PCR was inspirited by LSD, Whitfield Diffie is said to be active in the anti-war movement and knew about LSD, Dan Ingalls jokingly implied some features in Smalltalk were inspirited by LSD when journalists asked. Later, the psychedelic subculture was appropriated, commercialized, mainstreamed, losing the original countercultural context and message ("The early years of the 1970s saw advertisers using psychedelic art to sell a limitless array of consumer goods. Hair products, cars, cigarettes, and even pantyhose became colorful acts of pseudo-rebellion"), slowly disintegrated it, also, and the drugs didn't show such great power as previously promised, finally government had banned drugs as well.

Later, the personal computing in the mid-70s was literally seen as the new LSD, but this time not by chemistry, but by networks, building the cyberspace, a civilization of mind.

Now we see the history repeats again, full cycle. The advertisers and companies use it to make big money and push for pseudo-rebellions. Technically, the potential of Internet as a force of liberation is correct, but too overrated. Politically, the establishment like the NSA and CIA are trying to use it as a tool for psychological manipulation, and calls for more regulations (especially the anti-Fake News measures, the intention is good, but its implementation can be dangerous if the system is abused).

I believe the next failed revolution will be biohacking and transhumanism.
The last time I saw Richard Stallman talk he had a pager.

I’m actually interested in getting one, it would be cool to get push notifications for things I normally get on my phone. I wish there was a watch that had pager service.
One can never be sure given that Wikipedia articles are open for anyone to edit (it's interesting to note that there's a tremendous amount of controversy over whether these atrocities indeed happened, and that Britannica did not even have a single article on it).

Regardless of the factual accuracy of any assertion, it's always important to point out when nefarious motives are behind it. Analogy: suppose every time a black person commits a crime the city newspaper publishes it and every time a white person does the same the newspaper does not cover it. Then the newspaper cannot be criticized on grounds of inaccuracy, for nothing it said is untrue. But obviously it can still be criticised for nefarious motives
Even though the US has moved to e-prescribing, there have been some arbitrary limits imposed that didn’t exist on paper. E.g. the instructions line was limited to 140 characters on one major hospital EHR.
Implementation matters and the same cipher may be good in one language and broken in another.

What happens when I cipher becomes exploitable? How would you re-encrypt with only a single en/decrypt functions? Which cipher was originally used?
Timothy Leary was in on it too:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32TU6yLwqrg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3i4ALdMSt0

Wiki section about their unethical experiments on people:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unethical_human_experimentatio...

Makes me think that where there's a well funded covert organization (CIA) operating in a climate of fear (cold war), the sociopaths and psychopaths therein can easily rise to the top. :(
Stories coming from incidents like these are consistently incorrect.

Wiki is quoting stories someone heard, not actual testimonials. This is a road straight to fake news. We saw it in the Iraq wars constantly.

Anyway, the source country wiki version is always interesting to compare for some topics.

https://ja.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/731%E9%83%A8%E9%9A%8A
> What would you say if you knew 50% of European produce never saw soil, and was instead growing on top of some chemical "water"?

I'd say you're wrong by more than two orders of magnitude. Europe is not the Netherlands and produce is not lettuce.
> Contrast this with Windows, where browsing through system settings is like going back in time from Windows 10/8 to XP to 95 all the way to 3.11, if you click "Advanced" enough times.

Note why we know this. We know this because those legacy dialogs are useful and no one could be bothered to rewrite them with new GUI toolkits. Probably someone would write new dialogs if the old ones were forced to die. Probably the replacement would even be more convenient. Or probably not (on both counts).
If your goal is ideal world you must for a while be non-ideal to survive until you reach closer and closer to that ideal state. Which I would say we are doing currently.
I was thinking the same thing. Whats next, The Nanking Massacre? Stalin's collectivization in Ukraine?
So you just throw an error if you try and sort the empty list?

Anyway, I'm pretty sure what you've said here was addressed in the article. The version you've presented here is exactly the first alternative I showed, which isn't as good as a version written with ADTs because you can't represent an empty tree.
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It’s important to realize gasoline is measured in thermal energy which is much harder to convert to useful work than electricity. A reasonable comparison cuts gasoline’s energy density in half at a minimum while a more practical analysis includes the much higher weight of gasoline engines.
there are allegations that 731-style biological weapons were dropped by america during the korean war, carried by bugs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegations_of_biological_warf...

covered in part by this errol morris(!) documentary miniseries:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wormwood_(miniseries)
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The Rape of Nanking, and Imperial Japan's actions, not just of Unit 731, in the war are well recorded and cited fact.

Talking about it is "nefarious motives"? What nefarious motives are there to remind of a particularly dark period of Japanese history?

Pre-revolutionary China was disproportionately a victim of Japan's actions in the 1930s and 1940s. That should be remembered, not taken as cause to make ridiculous claims of psychological manipulation.
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Artificially limiting the supply of taxis seems like a silly thing to do in the first place. It's not surprising that it didn't work out well.
Put another way, “organic means a bug was able to crawl over your food without dying”.
They might be talking about the Bill Gates special.
It was interesting how people operating Unit 731 were dealt with after WW2 ended. Specifically, note how some were punished, but a small number of others went on to distinguished careers - sort of like the Nazi rocket men. The USA wanted the knowledge without the publicity associated with large tribunals / criminal trials.

If you can spare a few hours, find the podcast or visit YouTube for Jocko Podcast 133 "Face History so You Can Learn From It. The Horrors of Unit 731."

The section about Japanese research into developing a plague weapon made my blood boil. Even worse was experimentation into spreading disease with artillery shells coated with pathogens. The infection method was by detonating shells near prisoners whose legs and arms are exposed to the blast.

Those fascists were attempting to seize the Asia-Pacific region and enslave it. We are on the brink of another similar episode, this time, ironically, from the country where Unit 731 was located.
I don't see how that contradicts anything I've posted?
I'm really interested in learning more about the work you have done with HL7 v2/v3. I have never really thought of HL7v2 messages being document oriented. Does the data wrapper allow you to access PID 3(1) will give you the first external ID(full CX) and PID 3(1).1 will give you just the ID?
XMPP seems to have failed, sadly, for its primary purpose. No major vendor uses it for (federated) messaging, even those that used to. And that's where there's a clear benefit to users.

IOT vendors have a less clear use case and they've shown they're not particularly interested in openness or compatibility (or security). Why would this be any more likely to succeed for IOT than it did in messaging?

You're right that it has to start with sending a message, but there's no incentive for companies in this industry to ever take step 2 here.