skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The product we built (1984) was for team collaboration & business apps, and we placed a strong bet on crypto for end to end encryption rather than just the illusion of security via access control. It hadn’t been done before. Crypto based products in that era were classified as munitions. They didn’t know what to do with our request; initially they suggested granting us 20 bits for symmetric keys. We got them up to 32. Within a couple years they went to 40. But we used 64 in our US products and wanted to deliver that level globally.

The principled thing to do would be to have never tried to ship our product outside the US, knowing the export regime.

But we had customers who wanted to communicate and collaborate with teams globally. Their alternative was to send everything in the clear, and I wanted to deliver a secure comms system for my global customers.

Ultimately I felt that they were better off with something to protect them - even a compromise - rather than nothing. The bet was that we could get rid of the compromise over time. (Thankfully, the hack was only necessary for a few short years.)

While “working the issue” in DC, I personally came to the viewpoint that most of the policy makers were not inherently evil or stupid; they truly didn’t fully grasp the myriad implications of this new technology. The issues are complex, the pressures great, and it is difficult for them to know how to balance equities. And so, right or wrong, I felt my best bet to change the system was to use methods that I suppose Bruce Lee would call “fighting without fighting”, as opposed to purely principled extremism.
> Socialize what part of healthcare? Canada generally doesn’t have socialized healthcare providers, only socialized insurance. So providers could still engage in these sorts of billing practices in the Canadian system.

The NHS is going to tell them to get bent, that they're paying the agreed upon price for the act and don't care about the rest of their bullshit, and if they're not happy with it they can close their office.

> Conversely, whatever rules prevent such billing practices in Canada could be applied in the US without socializing anything.

It's not "whatever rules". The NHS can negotiate prices and is interested in balancing keeping costs down with having providers.

Not only is this not a thing which can be "ruled", Congress (the GOP) has literally willed away the one lever the US Government has to do this: the Secretary of Health and Human Services is legally forbidden from negotiating prices on Part D prescription drugs.

And even then that'd only be for Medicare itself (though HR3 intends to not only reverse this but makes this negotiation a binding MSRP): the VA can and does negotiate drug prices, but that doesn't benefit people who are not under VA.

In a single payer system, the single payer in question has both incentive and leverage.
Status definitely played a part. Because the methods for determining creditworthiness were less sophisticated at the time, the bar to clear was high, and being approved for the card signaled status, wealth, and trustworthiness.

In addition to some of the card’s unique features mentioned by other posters, being able flaunt a status symbol to friends, customers, and business associates played no small part in the success of the card.

Electronic Value Exchange (https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9781849961387) is a great book on the history of card payments. Well researched and very thorough. I’m told its commonly recommended internally at Stripe.
Yeah, I imagine the test is “do you need those things badly enough to dedicate a large portion of a team’s capacity”?
Nobody in tech trains managers. The only difference AFAICT, is that google spreads those underprepared managers across more people. The only place I hear stories of managers with 50 directs is from Google.
Co-Workers Punish Star Employees: The Problem with Being a Top Performer
This article doesn't have any images or actual content. It is a shell to embed a 6 minute audio piece of people talking about what they heard people say about it. Also, can we please stop using "literally" for emphasis in news articles? I know it's a generational thing in conversations, but it sounds dumb in written form.

Here is video of the actual explosion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=45&v=KFXlrn6-ypg
The first time we met, you had just announced Initialized and had hired two people to work for you. I asked one question about it hoping to see if you guys were hiring more and send a resume, and you said something along the lines of: “Yes, one of the perks of raising money is you get to hire your friends”.
How does one define a 'political prisoner'?

For example, if drug laws were pushed to target certain demographics who generally voted a certain way, even though there is two orders of correlation removed, could they still be considered a political prisoner? What about the act where a non-political law (ignoring for the moment how to decide such a label is justified) is passed and enforced, but the enforcement is based on political grounds. In that case, the people in prison are there for breaking the non-political law, but at the same time I think that they should be counted as political prisoners.

>Is there a actual reason you define the country with the largest prison population as necessarily authoritarian?

If we assume that lawbreaking is spread throughout the entire population, the places with higher prisoner populations are places with some combination of more laws and more enforcement of laws. Would those two factors not be justified as ranking a country are more authoritarian than a country which has less of those two factors?
Ram Dass just made me feel really bad about my hobby of Tree Shaping.

https://images.app.goo.gl/J5wzRAKuMjjZ8Lsv5
This is another data race.

Campaigns are highly regulated for a reason and I hope some movement to protect voters against data attacks and manipulation will go above and beyond what your average adword target would be protected for.
> Where is Daenerys?

That would be aliens.
You are correct. The SpaceX version of this exact same test was literally called „Demo-1“. Ironically Boeing called it „Boeing Orbital Flight Test“.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_Orbital_Flight_Test
Rivian Raises $1.3B in Additional Funding
Despite climate crisis, California continues to embrace exurban sprawl
Do we need to keep making personal judgements to keep the social ones going? Was it really a bunch of people idly judging that really lead to the formal ones to be defined?

IOW sure if objective judgement is needed towards some utility - making formal/societal ones - do it. The point like with every 'don't' is not to say don't judge no matter - point is don't generally judge unless it is fair/useful/targeted towards general betterment.
The reason this isn't a devastating rhetorical blow is that everyone from scientists to basement-dwelling bigots believes they have "legitimate facts" on their side. People believe all sorts of random things, and some of those things are genuinely harmful. I'm not saying I know where the line needs to be drawn, but there clearly is a line somewhere; "drink bleach to cure diseases" seems like a solid (and real!) example.
One interesting correlation with what you’re saying: in AI programming, there is the concept of a “loss function”, which is basically just a number that tells you how well your model is doing at a given task. For example, how well it’s predicting the next word in a sentence. The lower the loss, the better the quality.

Or that’s what everyone believes. Empirically that doesn’t seem true. Just because your loss goes down, quality doesn’t necessarily go up. It’s a statistical correlation, but it’s only a loose correlation at best.

So it’s kind of doubly related here: not only is the knowledge a statistical summary, which hides the details of what’s happening, but we also don’t know a better way to do it. No one knows how to measure quality other than to show some samples to a bunch of humans, or to use the incorrect loss function.

I suppose the point is that it’s very easy to accidentally hide such complexities using math. No one intentionally sat down and said “I’m going to come up with a very imprecise loss function that gives a misleading view of how well AI models are doing.” It just happened by default. And it seems like that might be related to your point of economists ignoring limitations, for example. The limitations are inherent in the statistical summary.
Similar experience. Running clears my mind, improves cognitive capabilities, mental stamina and overall performance.
Once I reached a "improved" state, then somehow I lose motivation to keep going until, I go back to state where I start feeling down or low on energy. This is going on for several years.

I wonder why brain dont get motivated/incentivized to keep it going(running or physical activity) when its in "improved" state and why it has to reach "feeling down" state to get motivated again. Is it just me or others have similar experience?
EAEU: Belarus critical of law on installing Russian software on gadgets
i laughed aggressively at this. i feel bad.
If they provide absolutely nothing of value why do you read them?
A Quick Glossary of Functional Programming
> In an environment with no judgement, nobody conforms, everybody does what they want.

And the problem with that is, when nobody conforms, no profit can be made. A large part of Silicon Valley is predicated on people conforming (Facebook/Instagram, Twitter,WeWork, Snapchat, Amazon, Microsoft).

Judgment has been carefully bred in us, otherwise neoliberal capitalism would be unable to function and so the fat cats wouldn't be able to get their salami.
Has anyone used machine learning to help identify and track stars in the data set they mention? I'd love to contribute to space exploration as a software engineer, and building systems to analyze the data seems like one promising approach.
It was the breakfast I was planning on eating. It wasn't a grand gesture by any stretch, but it was a lot more than anyone else had done for him that day.
195 for the A320 vs 189 for the 737-800 are the exit limits. It is what the plane is certified for, and is mostly a function of the size and number of doors. It has little to do with typical or comparable seating configurations. At similar density/comfort level a 737-800 seats more than an A320.

The 737 MAX 200 is a modified 737 MAX 8 with an extra pair of exit doors so that it can seat up to 200 passengers. It will be used by Ryanair. Assuming the 737 MAX does fly again of course.
I'm willing to entertain that thought, given a source.
You’re making this (single startup) v. (single S&P company). That’s not how it works. Prove yourself at being an adept generalist and you’ll, over time, create access to the most ambitious people and companies.
They'd only be enabled by others whether that be robots or mercenaries/servants. Monetary wealth is a human construct given form by belief. They're still subject to the physical laws of reality.
Am I missing something here?

This is how every hash table acts by default in almost every language I've used. If a key already exists in the hash, the value is overwritten. I think the only exception was in Java and you had to use a specific hash object to get the effect you are stating.
yes but we encrypt the data.

companies that use mechanical turk share your sensitive data with people working in third-world clickfarms.

we "digitally shred" your audio and image data before we get it annotated.

Basically we just productizing CAPTCHA and making it work on smartphones and Ethereum
For the record, I believe the added blood flow from aerobic exercise is the most important factor -- I have no citation though. Being in a car is certainly different from being directly in the environment, but it's still mentally demanding, akin to a video game perhaps. I don't think the brain is somehow specially stimulated by natural inputs, so isolation of the body from the natural environment via technology should not make that much of a difference.

An experiment comparing treadmill running vs outside running (as mentioned in the article) would help determine to whether tasks like navigation and non-essential sensory stimuli like smelling the air contribute to BDNF levels. I'd be curious to see if there'd be a difference.
Like Garry, I wholeheartedly encourage every engineer to work at a startup for .00x% equity (unless you're employee #1, and you can ask for a whopping 1%). The founders and VCs will have hundreds or thousands times more upside than you (and they'll have preferential shares, etc), but at least you'll be In This Together (in that you're working "together" to try to help the founders+VCs join the Billionaire class -- a noble effort indeed!).
> Europe spent decades in economic doldrums

Is that so? By whose standards? Europe is doing fine across the board. There are fewer billionaires but at the same time we don't have medically induced bankruptcies.

> We don’t need to socialize insurance or healthcare services to have a workable system.

You probably do. Simply because disease is distributed randomly (or actually: worse than randomly), unlike wealth.

I could see the case for Blair being a reformer and pushing an agenda of liberalization, much less so for Merkel and Thatcher left the UK in much worse state than she found it even though somewhere in the middle of her rein things were marginally better.
Yea, that is one of the value propositions of using a middleman/marketplace (conversely, why many of Google’s forays in this area are horrible). Most OTAs are majority CS staff.
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Hey ffwff, amazing work and pace on Lilith so far! I'm honored to have inspired you :)
You've described the same system I just said I didn't want. But I'm uninformed for complaining that I want something different?

> Applications (at least on Linux) have no idea what device they are using. They just request a connection to an IP and it's the kernels job to route that request correctly.

This is a bad idea. I want to connect the application to the device I think it should use. It shouldn't be able to find anything I don't tell it about.
Yes. Take the SF Bay Area. It would be a lot harder to convince smart engineers from around the world to move here if they had to take a ship whenever they wanted to go visit their parents and relatives back home.

People certainly immigrated before the airplane, but in general those were individuals without many options at home. Skilled immigration really took off during the Jet Age.
Is there any western medias pro China? Or another questions, did you get any good words from those media about Trump?
Actually very good reply to my reply. But I think there is another reason PG is this way. He has a math and a programmers brain. As such he would be more likely not to wrap his writing in superfluous wording and he would be more direct in how he makes his point. I am sure many of us have ran into people like this (I know that I have).

> He's always interested in the shortest logical path from A to B. When language is optimized that way, it has a force that can sound like an implicit claim to authority.

Agree which is why someone should take that into account when they write (they don't have to of course they (and PG) can do what they want that makes them happy).

I make money writing. And I do really mean 'make money writing'. I am not an author or a professional writer (what people think that means) but I earn a really good living and I do so by writing. And for the purpose of my comment here it's not important what it is that I do to earn that money. But it's considerable let's say. One thing that I do is always take into account what tone or mood I am trying to achieve to get what it is I want when I write. I don't obviously put the same effort into HN comments as I would when I am writing to make money or if I was writing something that many people would read of any importance (that I might be broadly judged on). So I guess this is my judgement on what PG has written and the way he writes. Fwiw I was not an english major, didn't study philosophy or the classics, didn't do particularly well in English class, didn't know even what you first said about essays either. My point is to me (in order to earn a living) the audience is super important.
> One only needs to look at the transport sector in Germany or France and compare it to California's attempt to build high-speed rail

California is about the same size as Germany and less than half the population. Germany has several existing, historical train systems. California, less so. There's a lot going on in that case beyond just California having a lot of digital tech folks.
Another interpretation of this is that it is even more about issues, though. At the end of the day, you're targeting people based on their interest in / feelings on particular issues. Everyone wants to be so alarmist about all of this, but the reality is that this is democracy functioning as intended. Candidates are trying to fit even more tightly to what the voters want.
The Thatcher years in the UK really weren't anything that special when it came to GDP growth:

https://www.economicshelp.org/blog/2688/economics/data-on-ec...

What they did do was a huge move towards financial services and away from manufacturing - and we all know how well that turned out....
Is It Possible to Find Security Value in Logs?
I have a desk CO2 monitor , it averages between 800 to 1000 in my home office during the day. Anyone else monitor their own environment or know if their office does? Are people even interested in this type of monitoring?
To me it comes off as a bit contradictory to say "you shouldn't work at a startup for the money" when the title of your post and video prominently feature the "$200 million" figure.
Its not pessimism. People should just get to hear both sides, and know that VCs typically offer this advise because, first and foremost, it benefits the VCs.

The VC typically has enough money to be set for life, several times over. They bet on many companies simultaneously to diversify their own risk. Most companies will fail, and the employees will go down with the ship, but the VC only needs a handful of bets to pay out. None of this is the case for the employee, who bets all in on one company.
I’m doing just the opposite. I’m comparing VC funds in the aggregate to stocks in the aggregate using VC funds returns as a proxy for startup returns.

I think that’s fair. By definition you can’t invest in bootstrapped “lifestyle companies” and they rarely have “outsized returns”.

There are a lot of “ambitious people” who have failed that you never hear about.
This may be particularly relevant as I chose the netherlands and it has a relaxed attitude toward substance abuse - so grabbing a better example country... The UK has a rate of 140/100,000 vs. the US's 655/100,000. That said, laws honestly don't differ extremely from country to country, most humans are in agreement about what is good and what is ill and in countries that have more extreme punishment (getting decades in prison for stealing bread) those punishments are viewed as unjust and enforcement of those penalties tends to be spotty since corruption will be more socially acceptable and people will have more moral allowance to ignore the unjust laws - a prison guard might just let someone otherwise blameless escape from jail for the penalty of stealing bread after a few days.

Honestly, while oftentimes human beings are terrible, humans are pretty decent otherwise... That all said, I think you'd find that laws really don't vary as much from country to country and that, outside of weird ones (like MJ illegality in the US) people will mostly adhere to laws out of convenience.
"Walk around your neighbourhood and take photographs. We'll pay you per photograph. Collect vehicle license plate data..."

Yeah, how about fucking off? What the shit is this about? People should mind their own business. It is like those apps that ask you to collect WiFi SSIDs while driving around to 'help creating better location services' aka violate people's privacy for profit by some company.
Hell the parents are the ones pushing for it.
I do really like your idea to make a Django base, it may be very useful for someone who just started to work with this platform, and I’ve found it’s really pretty how you’ve designed the page, because it looks simple, clear and organized.
APL is limiting itself to numeric arrays. It's no wonder if you only have one datatype that vectorization is easy. As soon as you have a more complicated datastructure like a hashmap or a tree it's almost impossible.
Looks to be {relatively} low as the average daily payout according to https://www.sebenz.ai/company/about is $5.85
There is also Fabled Lands (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabled_Lands) which was pretty cool because you could make choices that could take you to another entire book if you owned it.
Other smaller stuff too:

- Porche's Taycan EV is supposed to be the closest direct competition for Tesla cars, but its having production issues.
- Tesla just pushed a new software update that includes a lot of useful features (voice keyboard/commands, an official camping mode, saving camera clips on honk, etc)
- A lot of miscellaneous positive press is cropping up from the end of the year and end of the decade type reporting - Time for example put it as one of the "best gadgets of the decade".
- They recently released and presumably are testing a paid software update to boost M3LR off the line acceleration, which is an interesting situation to obtain revenue from already sold cars.
- Internally they're pushing to sell a lot to break sales numbers before EOY. Some places are reporting that they're even selling showroom floor models.
- They secured a US$1.4B loan from Chinese banks for GF3 acceleration, which was already ahead of schedule.
- They closed on the land for GF4 and are reportedly looking to start building Jan 2020.
- The recent news of possibly reinvigorating the EV tax credits in some way probably also helped.
- Solar is ramping up as well.
Facebook says group used computer-generated faces to push pro-Trump message
From a pure cold war mentality AI is absolutely terrifying to me. We're right in the uncanny valley where AI for weapons systems is starting to get to the point where it can feasibly make human soldiers in some positions obsolete. Why do we want fighter pilots when AI can vastly outperform a human? AI doesn't break a sweat in extremely long mission durations, AI doesn't need a massive heavy cockpit and canopy to fly the plane, AI doesn't pass out at high G loads and can take negative Gs and lateral Gs just fine. AI can push jets right to the brink of what the airframe is capable of.

We already have drones that have dramatically lowered the costs of waging war. We don't need to put boots on the ground in a lot of cases where drone strikes are feasible. What happens when it's not just a reaper and we can put tanks and guns on the ground while only putting actual soldiers inside of some small maintenance and supply base to support the machines that are actually on the front lines? Would the American people care even less than they already do about e.g. Iraq and Afghanistan?
This is a very easy problem to solve. Companies can do things when the truly believe those things are important. However, that means when you stack rank things that matter, your thing floats towards the top AND your leadership all believes in and values those things. That's the long way around saying - it has to be important, culturally, and the culture has to be strong.

Otherwise, it's just screaming into the wind.
Except that the horrible in question - giving puberty blockers and other transgender treatments to children - is already happening, and I think I remember a case in Canada where that was done despite the wishes of the parents.
Maybe Fabled Lands? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabled_Lands
I don't want to see this article here because it's letting their stupid PR stunt work.