skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One implies the other. How can they sell access to your eyeballs without surveilling you to study your likes/dislikes/habits/etc?
Weekly Robotics #72
> This completely misses the political angle.

The political angle that your comment does play to is the reason why many people find the "income inequality" argument rings hollow.

The piss-poor are too caught up trying to survive to have much of a political agenda.

Often the people on the picket lines are in the income classes of the "doctors" in your example.

Sure they don't have near the influence of a robber baron, but they're worlds ahead of a lowly immigrant landscaper.
But how many places do you feel challenged at? I've been unchallenged in my work for the majority of my career. The only time I remember mental challenge was in my first year. Now the challenge is unrealistic deadlines, or oh we've been outsourced again.

Finding a job that is challenging and mentally stimulating is very difficult. I know a number of people who echo this sentiment.
It would be interesting to see examples of the alternatives. That is, marketplaces that failed due to scammers, marketplaces that succeeded by heavily curating to block scammers, and marketplaces that failed due to excessive curation while trying to stop scammers.

I wonder if scamming is actually a symptom of a successful marketplace. Scammers presumably have to think through their opportunity costs and would want to focus on marketplaces with many buyers and sellers and high transaction volume.
The interesting part of this article is mostly up front and not reflected in its title.

The author traces a thread of populism (of the 150-year-old-kind) through reform to technocraticism (a sort of platonism) to counter-reaction from the the same group against some failures of technocracy, which (my implication) leads straight to the strength of the current GOP reaction against expertise and support for the atomization of power.

If this thesis is believable (and I am not yet convinced -- this is the first time I've seen this argument) is really puts paid to the nonsensical abstractions of "left" and "right" and does provide a philosophical model of (some) understanding the politics of the last 40 years.

(I say this without claiming anybody is good, bad, saintly or evil, so please do not read this comment as being partisan on any side.)
I think that you're not getting your point across very well. What are you trying to tell us? Are you having a problem with people paying for smutt or with people donating for it?
Startrex Psychoanalysis Extratests
I guess you're talking about _defer_?
https://gist.github.com/adisbladis/6e6241e1f0cc1b3ed8c183198...
Same and diagramming seems like something that a tablet touch interface should be good at. I just use the omnigraffle app though so it’s unlikely I’d bother with a webapp tool.
> As the article explains the owner is drawing his HR from the Egyptian immigrant community.

> As such I think the “secret” of success in this tale is the unique funnel he has developed to find motivated, highly responsible, and respectful labor.

To be fair, importing cheap labor on visas with restrictive terms is a play from big tech's playbook.
Oh, wow. I remember reading this in high school, but had no clue it was Tolstoy.
There's an ascending signature counter that's intended to prevent cloned devices (replay attacks are prevented seperately with server generated challenge). One way around it is clone (backup key) having very high initial signature counter set, so first use invalidates original (on loss). But yeah it's a UX problem that hopefully will find a better/non-hacky solution than "register multiple keys for each site".
I enjoyed this quite a bit. I had read Nikolai's comment back when it was linked in a few discussions and felt familiar with the techniques, but it's really nice to have a detailed catalog with explanations and links :D.

nit re:

Although designed to help speed up the parsing of
XML documents, it turns out they’re also useful for
optimizing web-related features.

HTML is syntactically very close to XML in a bunch of ways (cf XHTML's attempt to unify them IIRC?), so it seems almost exactly like the intended use of the instructions based on this description.
There are nice plots [1] to see the tranfer+decompression speedup depening on the network bandwidth.

This is for html web compression, but the results are similar for other datasets. For internet transfer more compression is better than more decompression speed.

You can make your own experiments incl. the plots with turbobench [2]

[1] https://sites.google.com/site/powturbo/home/web-compression
[2] https://github.com/powturbo/TurboBench
That's US$650 for 100g. ~$32 for one Nigiri, so more like $50-$80 at a restaurant per piece, and only the belly meat fetches such high prices. Who on earth eats this?

On a more serious note, won't the high price only encourage fisheries to violate their quotas and drive Bluefin to extinction?
"Almost 50" means you're in your 40s. And you probably started interviewing in your mid-40s, at the latest, if you've already interviewed 4 times.

The gist of your comment might be correct, but I think we shouldn't perpetuate the mindset that mid-40s or even 50s is "so old."

In almost all knowledge-worker professions, age and experience is acknowledged as an asset. I think software companies are just starting to realize that, as the "move fast and break things" companies are now weighed down under technical debt and imposing hiring freezes on recent grads and junior engineers.

I feel like I'm in my prime in terms of experience and productivity, and though I may not want to work 70+ hour weeks or chug beers at the office anymore, I'm a considerably better engineer than I was 20 years ago. I think many of us intuitively know that, and we shouldn't let ourselves become victim to self-defeating SV groupthink.
As if anyone can just go and try Google brain or self driving cars. Unless he has suitable background, he won't be allowed to do the really interesting projects.
This topic comes up pretty often, and I think most people agree algorithm interview questions aren’t effective and screen for the wrong things. The question though is, what is a better way to interview? I don’t think I’ve seen any consensus, let alone anything backed by data yet.
Then why would he bring up women's suffrage specifically other than 'groups who in aggregrate don't vote the way I think they should, should have the ability to vote taken away'?

Like, he specifically brings up the 20s as a positive example.
Of course he misses the political angle, if he discussed it, soon enough people would clamour for the revolution.

There is William Hinton's book Fanshen, a personal account of the author of the Chinese revolution in a rural village. One of the early chapters describes the struggle for power, and how money is converted into power. It's recommended reading, you don't have to agree with his political opinion, but it does give the backstory.
Would say no as their is no economic transfer on Reddit... Yet anyway.
Okay, I think I see the source of the confusion.

What you're describing is a Tor hidden service. Hidden services are separate from the Tor relay network itself, which is what I thought you were referring to as "Tor onions".

Hidden services are optimized for confidentiality over performance. Using them for bulk data storage would place a lot of load on the relay network, and it's not clear what security problem this arrangement would solve.
This exactly. But I also think that what happens is once people get inside Google or FB, there's a second level of filtering to actually get put on good projects. Most of the engineers they have just need to do what theyre told. A few get picked to help write the next generation computing platform, distributed deep learning, etc.
> I've read it - notice, by the way, that it was also the conclusion of the original benchmark

Unclear. The article's conclusions about spinlocks are completely unfounded by the article's code and benchmarks. You could say the article luckily got it right. That's Linus's ultimate contention; the code is garbage and leads to an undefined conclusion. That what's undefined is the right conclusion is lucky, today, and could be garbage tomorrow.
This guide focuses on what WebAuthn looks like for the server. What does it look like for the user?

As far as I can imagine, it boils down to relying on the possession of a certain piece of hardware instead of knowing a certain password. That is, I have to carry around some kind of USB device and plug it into every computer I want to use. The device holds all my secret keys and does all the magic behind the scenes. But if I lose my device, then I can't log in. And if someone steals my device, then they can log in.

Maybe you can make it more convenient by using my phone instead of a specialized USB device, since everybody is always carrying around their phone everywhere they go anyway, right? But I just want to know that I understand the entire landscape first, from the point of view of the user, at a broad level. What are the user's options? What exactly does the user do? Is this only for smart users? If I made a web app for the general public, and my only method of authentication was WebAuthn, would the average user easily figure out what to do, or would they give up and walk away?

Some have mentioned "software-based" tokens, but then how are those kept safe? With a master password? Then we're back to passwords.
CA has income tax and the sales tax is just as high.
Discovering a favorite gas station chain in each region of the US is one of those hobbies it always feels weird to talk about, but there's no doubt that Racetrac is the king of Texas
I agree this kind of thinking is good, but disagree that it should be concentrated in a role with a title like UX Designer.

Ultimately, we make things that serve other people. All of us need to pay attention to how our work impacts the users we serve. Experts can help with that, but the Lone Design Ranger isn't nearly as powerful as a cross-functional, user-focused team.

I would also suggest that at least in tech, smaller firms aren't the problem here. As you say yourself, the small, neighborhood grocery store can get this stuff right just by paying attention. I think the big problems come at scale, where managerialism and over-focused metrics can easily disempower people and get them focused on the wrong thing.
Ask HN: What companies are similar to Stripe in philosophy?
I'm quite enamoured by Stripe's stated mission of increasing the internet's GDP by building economic infrastructure for businesses as well by its thoughtful co-founder. Are there any comparable companies you know of?
But it isn't working well as they are all starving for talent. When your problem is that you can't find enough people and your pipeline is designed to be a strong filter, you are just exasperating the problem and need to rework your pipeline.

That is you see a lot of talk about this because "the system" isn't working. Some companies are trying new things, but you have to find them among all the ones who don't spend the time to try to find a better way.
If you actually look at the way Forth works you'll see that every stack manipulation wastes code space and real-time. Since there is only one data stack there are a lot of stack manipulations going on. Forth programmers are aware of this and do their best to minimize them, which tends to make their incredibly cryptic code even more cryptic.

If the definition of a low level language is one that bedevils the programmer with minutiae, the Forth is the lowest of the low. I don't understand the fascination others have for it, and don't understand how anyone can like it after actually programming with it. It's horrible.
https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/health/a3093/the-sc... suggests that the one-inch punch is enabled by simultaneously releasing energy from multiple muscles, all contributing to the movement of the fist. What do fascia have to do with that?
How does my comment qualify but not the submitted article?
Yes, it was rhetorical in an attempt to get the point across. I try to refrain from naming qualia when first explaining it. I've read Nagel's paper, but I haven't thought about it for some time so thanks for reminding me.
US Customs Have Been Ordered to Detain/Report All Iranians Entering the Country
That's vastly inaccurate. It is correct for household prices, but for energy intensive industry the difference is much smaller, something around 2 cents.
I should have added, similar in what it takes to get them started?
You don’t argue with propaganda. Completely missing from this article are all the reasons we can’t say shit about china: our own human rights record is terrible and everyone knows it.
Is there a tl;dr or any context whatsoever?

There's absolutely no introduction or conclusion to this article that tells me what the author is trying to explain, or what angle he's taking or why.

Also this is "part II" of a 3-part article... I'm curious if there's a reason I'm missing as to why this is being submitted instead of parts I or III?

I'm just 100% lost here... :S If anyone could help explain the context for this submission, it would be much appreciated.
Oh. Right. Silly me.
The blade containment is part of the engine itself, which is made by CFM. CFM has had some issues with the generation before LEAP and blade failure, but the last I looked at the reports it appears the blades were contained on the accident flights, its just the cowling caused issues.

Example of one of the incidents:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southwest_Airlines_Flight_1380

Boeing would be responsible for the cowling design, and has been directed to update the cowling design based on the new models created based on this incident. The failure is not really as much a failing on Boeing's part to design it correctly in the first place, but a lack of data indicating certain unforeseen blade trajectories are possible on failure. Now that these are a known thing, they will be incorporated in design updates throughout the industry.

Final report:
https://ntsb.gov/investigations/AccidentReports/Reports/AAR1...
Someone who appreciates the subtle, carefully crafted humor of the early Simpsons wouldn't be interested in Anime. I can engage in silly media elitism too.

My point is, you don't make something as successful as Harry Potter or the Simpsons without making some smart decisions and appealing to at least a few very intelligent people.
I believe James Joyce considered this the finest short story ever written.
>Firefox already ships with that functionality
>and you can enable it.

I can't find anything like that, can you point us to the docs/examples?

OTOH, I see that someone right now posted a reply to https://github.com/w3c/webauthn/issues/1175#issuecomment-570... trying to downplay the issue of purely software tokens

Funnily, https://github.com/herrjemand/awesome-webauthn#software-auth... is not about software tokens but about webauthning with an Android phone or a Wear OS.
You use some method of authentication, of course. How do you keep someone who has your unlocked password manager from using it? You just make sure nobody is ever in that situation.

The big win is that, with WebAuthn, you don't need to also hide your authentication from site operators, your OS, key loggers, phishers, etc etc.
This is from the same developer as CodeKit. His documentation, sales copy and release notes are always hilarious.

Check out the "reviews" on http://codekitapp.com , Especially this gem:

>Your app is lame, your face is lame, your friends are lame, and your continued existence deeply offends us.

>Hacker News, Where Self-Esteem Goes To Die

:-)
I don't really have a process. About half the books I read I get just from browsing a book store. I love stores that have little notes from the employees recommending certain books. The others I just hear about from friends or online.

Once I've read a book by an author and liked it I'll normally try 1-2 more. So that's a main discovery path for me. However I try not to read the same author back-to-back as I like to have variety.

I think the key is don't keep a list, just buy the book. In my house I have a stack of 5-10 'queued' books at any time so when I finish one I can immediately start another.
I can see why he is a bit pissed. Having google try and blame your lifes work on their product failure.
Curse you HN, here goes another unplanned multi-hour diversion.
Very much so. Besides adaptation like Human Echolocation (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_echolocation), there is also active research for devices to help. Look at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensory_substitution#Tactile%E... for example, and there are videos of the various devices in use by blind people, eg. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7s1VAVcM8s8
Either I'm an idiot or this is a bug: https://imgur.com/KjGvAlz
I mean sure, general libertarian "musings" about government=inefficient, whatever.

The actual point he is arguing is unrealistic though, what wealth tax could possibly lead to anyone being taxed 50% of all net-value!?

This family that's scrimping and saving for their 2M slice, either made that money in one fiscal year and so could arguably just be happy with any profit, or as indicated in the thesis didn't.

So sure, don't take half of everything someone has every year. Doesn't really last.
Bad UX can certainly create an emotional response.
SoloKeys person here ;) You can implement software authenticators (listening on local USB port), I imagine some password manager people will do so eventually, or have a direct way to hook into requests. Krypton did this for U2F.

Hardware keys are for if you want hardware security, obviously they can't be free unless you want someone with a different business model to subsidise them.
I'm positioning SaaSHub as a "software marketplace"; however, I've been told it isn't a marketplace if there aren't financial transactions happening through it.

What do you think, could there be a marketplace without facilitating direct fin transactions?
For me, authentication, though I see it works on that site. Maybe I made a mistake somewhere.
Has anyone interacted with NFX and Gigi Levy-Weiss?
Especially with respect to seed/pre-A investing?

I have seen plenty of NFX ads on reddit and twitter, but I guess it just a PR push.

We are B2C, web-based, with some starting revenue, growing. But with out any "stars/reputation" on the team. So that's our main weakness.
You are right. I am sorry for using such forceful language. I do not know you or your motives and will edit my posts. My only request is that you take a minute as well to consider why I perceived your comments the way I did, and you ask yourself some tough questions about your own assumptions.
I have a PhD in physics, and left academia for industry (20 years ago).

One of the reasons was that physics today (or at least at that time) was dealing with exotic stuff, away from everyday life. It was not the time of Planck or Curie where within 30 years physics was boiling hot, with key discoveries almost everyday. Just look at the picture from the Solvay confrence where you see names of people you read about in a high school book.

I would hope we are in a stage like in the late XIX century, where everything seemed to be known in physics, with some tiny things still needing an explanation : the Michelson Morley experiment, the uv catastrophe etc.
Here's another Lisp Machine demo showing some of these ideas in action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4-YnLpLgtk
> "Nothing about the OP's provided context suggests they have 'depression problems'..."

Really? "...(the rest was on dating/dealing with breakups/dealing with depression/gaming/...)..."

> "... are getting negative feedback, or are about to wash out from Google."

Those are the long-term consequences of his current state, as I stated quite clearly.
The goal is ridding world of American influence. There's nothing wrong with using the Gooogle products, your data is not being sold or abused in any way. It's a geopolitical effort first and foremost.
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This is blog spam. He even quotes himself. Please flag this blog spam.
I think it would be messy, but doable, to build a one application platform that is tailored to individual websites behind the scenes. It knows how to input the information, checks the boxes, and then collates the responses and makes applications easy to track. Actually kind of curious why this doesnt exist
Sure enough, as soon as I post it I find it.
> CA has income tax and the sales tax is just as high.

CA also has a property tax and capital gains tax.

Oh yes, and a business income tax, and a franchise tax... honestly curious if there is a tax that California doesn't have...
Not on mobile, but it did take a good 10-20 seconds to load.
> That’s what’s corrosive about wealth inequality. It’s why the marginal tax rate declines at very high incomes. It’s not about doctors vs landscapers because doctors don’t have political power relating to wealth.

Tax rates decrease at the very top of the income spectrum because our tax codes make a deliberate choice to preferentially tax investments and capital gains.

You’re assuming that choice is the result of “corrosive” factors, namely the wealthy having more political power. But that’s a loaded assumption. Most economists agree that preferential tax rates on capital gains is better for the economy. That’s why almost every tax code in the developed world has that feature. I don’t think you can just assume the only reason for that is the super wealthy having disproportionate political power.
Here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21963399

Which comment is trying to downplay the issue? What is the issue?
Thanks. Like you said, this is safer, even if a password remains somewhere in the chain, like a master password for your computer. An advantage is that websites are not storing passwords (hashed or otherwise, because it's hard to do well).
It is hard to forget how the Microsoft-led "Business Software Alliance" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BSA_(The_Software_Alliance) threatened companies who planned to introduce free software.

Personal story: When I was a teenager in the 90s I didn't understand why companies bought their inferior product - in terms of hardware requirement, because in the former Soviet block you likely had access to obsolete hardware, even in corporate offices - over the free alternatives.
Then, when I started my own business in 2002, one day the BSA suddenly visited on my office door with two policeman and asked for proof for the licence we use. We had Linux and BSD boxes, so we showed them the online MIT and Linux licences, but they wasn't happy, because it wasn't in Hungarian and wasn't officially issued on paper by a recognised organisation. So I we had a pre-court summoning, had pay for a lawyer and pay for an official translation that cost us a lot of cash we didn't have, some falling out hair and cold sweat, because if we the judge fines us, we didn't have the cash to pay and that means jail time. Luckily the local Linux User Group made some noise and the BSA dropped the case, but I can guess the majority of the businesses just force-fed the IT dept with Windows and Office for the safety. To put the cost into perspective comparison, in 2000, the National Minimum Wage in Hungary was $119: https://tradingeconomics.com/hungary/minimum-wages, and a Microsoft Office 2000 was $499: https://news.microsoft.com/1999/01/07/microsoft-announces-of... and the Microsoft Windows 98SE $199: https://www.theregister.co.uk/1999/01/13/ms_pricing_strategy... , so companies had all the interest to use the free Sun OpenOffice (née StarOffice) and X Window System, skip the need for more expensive Windows Servers and not to mention these were able to run on dated hardware.

I really wish the people who welcome Gates' generosity would think of the millions of institutions and governments who had to choose Microsoft to show off for Western countries and the companies who were extortioned by the Microsoft-funded BSA. For many of us, Microsoft was the East India Company of the modern world.