skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You toss a coin 8 times and are told you get 8 heads, you wanted tails, the person reporting this to you wanted heads on each occasion. By occam's razor is 8 heads a simpler explanation than you were lied to?

One toss, you couldn't really detect much smell. But 8? Does it stink?

Any one of these things, camera footage x2, cell mate, suicide watch removal, plea deal, guards asleep x2, association with the current president, Bill Clinton, actual royalty, just for starters... and we can keep going with these coincidences.

Any one, fine, happens. Any three, ok, weird, but not totally outside expectation. But we're kind of beyond that. It just stinks. If it's all just a massive coincidence that all these independent things "just happened" that needs support because it seems the assumption that all those events are independent is shaky, at best. Shaky by occam's razor heuristic.

0.9^8 is less than 50%

So it should be looked at closely on principle. With or without support from occam's razor.
Of all my work, scrypt definitely produces the most extreme reactions. But I think there's a significant difference between hating a thing and hating a person.
You heard it here first, folks. The invisible hand of the market solves racism!
I think fake news is fine. For the average person, life is way too boring and predictable. There needs to be more instability, more opportunities, less continuity. Fake news does that, it makes the system and the narrative of society uncontrollable and this is exactly what people need. We just need more different mediums through which to spread news. The alternative is an information dictatorship.

Before, we were led by false centralized narratives filtered by an elite. Now at least we have the potential to find the real truth because it's all out there. It doesn't destroy critical thinking, it's the opposite, it makes critical thinking indispensable because each individual must do the work themselves.

I think the problem is not fake news, the problem is that people got used to believing all the BS from authorities; they were trained to, so now they are easily fooled. Eventually, exposure to fake news will untrain us and force us to actually think for ourselves.

IMO the discussion around fake news serves the interests of the elite. They don't want people to think for themselves.
Ask HN: How do you prioritize, and not obsess over mastering everything?
I keep seeing Show HN projects popping up, software being created and open sourced, people working on exciting problems, and yet I have accomplished nothing in the past years.

I see an awesome database/framework being developed, and I wish I were a software engineer like the ones working on it, mastering C++, doing Rust and distributed systems.

I see an exciting Machine learning paper and I wish I had time to work on machine learning research, doing all those trasnsformers, solving NLP, and innovating video-to-video GANs like NVIDIA.

I see a great product, and I wish I were a React guru, with the necessary front end skills to be able to launch my own product.

I keep reading about functional programming, and I wonder: when am I going to work on functional programming an feel the joy those Clojure and Elixir programmers are talking about?

I am fully aware we have limited time and energy, but I can't get over the fact that I will be missing out If I don't master all those things. Now this is giving me anxiety and I end up doing nothing. It has been like this for more than five years, I want just to stop, focus on one or few things, and be happy about it.

Were you in this situation and overcame it? Any advice/resources/books would be very helpful.
I'm running 19.07 since the first release candidate on Ubiquiti gear, no issues so far, with uptimes of weeks.
Oh, there's a few more levels of proprietary nonsense you didn't even mention. There's the chipset initialization, which is proprietary to either Intel or AMD (depending on which vendor you're using). But that doesn't even come straight from the CPU manufacturer; it's baked into the firmware provided by your motherboard vendor, which typically includes a bunch of middleware from a third party BIOS manufacturer like AMI. And all of it is all completely proprietary, and highly specific to the particular motherboard you're using, even though most of the hardware is all identical across boards and manufacturers.
Ask HN: What are your most favourite editor shortcuts?
Name the editor, shortcut and what it does.
You can see the graffiti yourself at http://ancientgraffiti.org . Cursory inspection revealed zero referring to people relieving themselves in the street, though I don't doubt those exist. Isolated names are very frequent.

Some of these are pretty interesting:

> IV Non(as) Iul(ias) paenulam, palliolum [?posita ad Fau]stilla(m) Pr[o---] L usur[a] [deduxit?] XIIIS (?) [aeri]s a(sses) VIII

> Four days before the Nones of July, a traveler's cloak and a small cloak (were deposited with Fau)stilla (for collateral). Fo(r) fifty (denarii?) she [is charging] 13.5 (coppe)r a(sses) (per month, as interest). 8.

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> ABCDEFGḤỊKOPQRTVX

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> ABCDEFGHLIMPKONQRXTVS

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> ABCDEFGHI (gap) KL (gap) MNOPQRSTVX

This one is an exact mirror of the modern alphabet (except Y and Z); I'm not sure why there are gaps.

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Some are timeless:

> Victor cum Attine hic fuit

> Victor was with Attine here.

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> Hic ego puellas multas futui

> I fucked a lot of girls here.

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> Fututa sum hic

> I [a woman] was fucked here.

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> Antiochus hic mansit cum sua cithera

> Antiochus stayed here with his cythera [not sure what this means]
Interesting perspective, but it sounds far-fetched and contrived. HAL's malfunctioning was clearly posited as an AI alignment issue, at least in the novel.
> If you want to appeal to the authority of leading AI researchers, at least cite one actual leading AI researcher, or you come off as someone who has read too much tabloid.

I've given up on the term AI in popular media. When it's mentioned there is often interesting research or product development going on, but the term "AI" generally obfuscates it.

I almost want to give a pass to companies that use the term: these companies want to maximize profit, and if a nebulous marketing term helps them do so, it makes sense that they would.

What is more frustrating is that the press has totally bought into it. The point of a free press is to be critical, investigate, and poke holes in the marketing veneer. Sadly, the press seems to have adopted the term whole-heatedly without much thought, which in turn has added pressure to companies to market products as "AI".

Even worse, most tech journalists are actually smart and can spot the BS, they just choose not to.
BTC Futures CME Manipulate the Price of Bitcoin
>> I should have bought a $45 1TB hard drive.

He should be careful about hard drives too. Reminds me of this: https://www.jitbit.com/alexblog/198-chinese-magical-hard-dri...
I'd love to have a RISC-V tablet one day, but think ARM will be an intermediate step, which will, through gained experience and already built infrastructure, ease the second switch of ISA.
Oh wow.

I loved Crypto 1, and was one of the small % that finished it and did all the extra credit on its first run in ... 2012 IIRC.

Been looking forward to part 2 ever since but I will admit having given up waiting!

It's been invaluable.
The actions need to really be understood in context.

If people were joking around and using hyperbole to exaggerate the extent of what they saw as problems, and did this often-- as some engineering cultures do-- a slap on the wrist is justified. That kind of banter creates noise that obscures real concerns about lack of safety.

If they were genuinely concerned and are smacked for creating documentation of it, that is super bad.
Something that won't crush my balls when I sit down. If skirt-like or kilt-like, it would also be a lot cooler than pants in the summer, if it was acceptable in an office.
> I 100% agree about Sam Harris in particular. I really do enjoy listening to his podcast, but anytime I hear him discuss AI I want to shut him off. He's a neuroscientist/philosopher, not a programmer.

Computers are getting better, sure but they are improving at a slower and slower rate. Moore's law has been dead for years now. Maybe the singularity is indeed coming, but what if instead of the typical 20-50 year predictions, it's instead 2000 years away. What if the 20th century's exponential curve was really just a blip in the long term, and we're headed into centuries of slow linear growth.

The likelihood of this happening is low, but far above zero. I'm amazed no one is talking about it.
Iran admits shooting down Ukrainian airliner 'unintentionally'
Bottle doesn't have "blueprints" but I've used it for something like that in the past. IIRC you can "mount" another bottle app object into a URL path [1].

[1] https://bottlepy.org/docs/dev/api.html#bottle.Bottle.mount
I get your point, but I would guess that PG would not think of those people as losers or as haters.

For example, I know an Elon hater (not a critic, a hater). And I tried to understand it, but after asking questions it’s clear that the answers made no sense and they were trying to post-hoc rationalise their emotions. Sure, Elon has done bad things, but overall I’d say he is a net positive for the world. That is not to say we should condone everything he’s done or give him a free pass, but it is to say that the negatives do not cancel out the positives. He is not all bad, and he does not deserve haters (this is not the same as being beyond criticism).

Anyway, the hater I know is pretty privileged, and as Paul speculated really quite talented in some ways. I would also say they have underachieved in their own eyes. And that may be where the hate stems from.

Why did they underachieve? Perhaps lack of commitment and discipline, from my best knowledge. Interestingly, earlier in life they were also a fanboy of some things that may have harmed their career, by influencing their choices in a negative way. That also ties in with Paul’s essay.

I think it’s this type of person PG is labelling as haters and losers. Not people who have had traumatic experiences or very difficult lives.

I agree “loser” isn’t a mature or good choice of term, and ironically I think this is a sign of an emotional reaction from PG - but I empathise with that emotional reaction.

If you want to make the world better and are positive and optimistic, haters can drive you nuts. It’s like - “ok, I get it, you aren’t on the same page or you don’t like me - but please at the very least just ignore me rather than constantly criticise everything single thing I do without rationale. I’m just trying to help the world a bit, whilst you are doing nothing. I’m not asking you to be like me and devote your life to something - just to leave me alone.”

As a good example, consider Greta Thunberg. Regardless of your opinion of her, she is out there every day campaigning for a proper response to climate change. In doing so, she’s devoting her life to helping (even saving) all of us, trying to ensure that when your grandkids grow up they’re not living in some godawful scenario. And then her reward is so much hatred and vitriol from people who aren’t in prison living a terrible life with psychological scars - but rather from perfectly comfortable middle class haters. I can imagine sometimes she must sit down at the end of a hard day and think “what the hell is the point trying to help these people? Why do I even bother?”

(Defending PG here, but I’m not a fanboy. Used to love a lot of his writing, now dislike it more than I like it when I learnt more about the reality of startups and VC. Have really disliked a lot of his recent writing but as a very positive optimistic person I really don’t like the hater culture so this resonated with me).
One thing I've noticed is confirmation bias causes people to look for any evidence to support their initial gut feeling. It gets worse the more this is tied to identity. I had gear head friends in the 1980's who loved carburetors, thought mechanical fuel injection was wonderful and exotic. And HATED electronic fuel injection. Same guys hated the Prius when it showed up. And now they hate electric cars. They make bargaining arguments why X is bad.

I think the best thing to do with someones vision is try and prove it instead of tear it down. In business the only real show stoppers are, doesn't work, doesn't pencil out[1], no customers/potential customers have no money.

[1] On the other hand see Uber. Maybe you can win with two out of three even.
Repeated assertion is no substitute for evidence. Good Soviet technique that one.

The Tribune refusing to come to the conclusion that such is a fact is a conspiracy? Something stranger? Could be, I guess. A less likely than an alternate interpretation of the evidence I've seen here. But i don't care at all about it. Zero.

It still has absolutely no baring at all on the discussion of rights erosion.
Software commodities are eating interesting data science work
Thanks for replying with the potential book title! I'll take a look at it!
Doesn't have to be SO. It can be a trusted friend who knows in advance that you may voice call them in a password recovery scenario (voice calls not via text).

Edit: regarding the "lack of availability" at the point of wanting to reset the password: the urgency of resetting passwords should be considered a lesser inconvenience than the risk of having lost control of your account through insecure 2FA.

(I am simply supporting my original brain storming thought through ... I am not married to this idea in any way or form. Just a thought.)
Good luck trying to use VOIP numbers with US banks these days
Right, but unlike PG I don't think irrationality is an exclusivity of “losers”. Every human being is deeply irrational, everyone in their fashion and I don't buy the negative correlation between “success” and irrationality.
Tortoise with species-saving sex drive returns to Galápagos
> This is mostly because of public intoxication laws

Public intoxication laws are totalitarian bullshit.
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People recommend Authy. As far as I can tell they rely on cloud sync/backup like any other app in that space.

Isn’t google authenticator not using this on purpose? Central account and sync is googles thing and yet they deem it too insecure. Completely understandable

So how can using a central service that adds yet another attack vector be of value?

What I would love to have is a paper export.
Every time you add a new account to google authenticator you can print it as QR code for later reimport.

Yes many services already provide this for you via recovery codes but having it on a per service basis directly from authenticator is probably much easier to use and not less secure

Any reason this wouldn’t work?
My mom is on social security. She makes roughly $15k a year. She cannot legally drive.

She constantly tells me uber saved her life. Because her usual $20 vab ride to the pharmacy was now $4

This law is literally going to destroy the life of many seniors.
> Look at Apple fanboys. They seem to cause haters because of their uncritical boosting of anything Apple.

Apple haters have a point: Apple hardware is far more expensive than similar performance on other systems. So using a traditional objective metric such as performance per dollar, Apple is objectively worse.

However, most Apple Fanboys know they are paying a premium. They love Apple for other, less quantifiable reasons, such as design quality, beautiful integration, good marketing, and the vision of making a more human machine.

The metrics that Apple fanboys value are at complete odds with many traditional computer enthusiasts, who value specs and raw performance power.

Therefore, a "fanboy" of anything (whether that's Apple, Tesla, or the startup of the day), is not necessarily being uncritical, they are just using less commonly accepted metrics of value.
A 17-year-old NASA intern just discovered a brand new planet
> This crucially omits the part where Cambridge Analytica lied about the purposes of the data that was collected,

This line of complaint is absurdly disingenuous. The problems that Facebook has created are not solved with EULAs, and Facebook's responsibility on having created this whole mess is not brushed aside by claiming that third parties did not clicked on the right checkbox when downloading Facebook's data.

This is precisely the type of PR problem that Facebook creates for themselves: this insistent, desperate, cynical, and pathetically inneficient way they try to pin the blame on others for the problem Facebook single-handedly created. Force-feeding this nonsense through astroturfing campaigns doesn't change the problem and the responsibility that Facebook has.
We don't need quantum computers to be at microprocessor scale to make 2048-bit RSA factoring groundbreaking. If a quantum computer the size of a car can do it in 8 hours, it's sufficient.
If 1TB were really $30 I would have fitted my NAS with 5TB of those along with a 5TB 2.5" HDD as Redundancy.

Unfortunately NAND price is expected to rise to previous level soon.
smhasher results without the Rust version yet (which should be ~2x faster):

http://rurban.github.io/smhasher/doc/table.html

It's of course much faster as most of the other crypto hashes, but not faster than the hardware variants of SHA1-NI and SHA256-NI.
About 4x faster than blake2.

Faster than SipHash, not faster than SipHash13.

The tests fail on MomentChi2 dramatically, which describe how good the user-provided random seed is mixed in. I tried by mixing a seed for IV[0], as with all other hardened crypto hashes, and for all 8 IV's, which didn't help. So I'm not convinced that a seeded IV is properly mixed in. Which is outside the usage pattern of a crypto or digest hash (b3sum), but inside a normal usage.

Rust staticlib is still in work, which would parallize the hashing in chunks for big keys. For small keys it should be even a bit slower. b3sum is so much faster, because it uses many more tricks, such as mmap.
He says that Bottle lost and maybe it's true that flask is more popular, but I regard it as a superior framework because of its simplicity. I for one have completely replaced all my flask projects with bottle.
Zoroastrian here. Not religious at all but happy to answer any Qs you may have.
If this is a design decision for a library it means the package and distribution manager for the language is broken.
Can Africa Benefit from Brexit?
This worries me a lot :(
Somewhere between being merged in mainline and 2009.
Don’t know why you’re being downvoted when the parent is saying there’s no valid medical reasons that make weight loss difficult. Quite a few people making absurd comments like that in this thread.

And yes thyroid problems make it amazingly difficult to manage your weight.
My father died from alcohol back in November. He could only go a few hours before showing signs of withdrawal. During the last two days of his life. He tried to sober up but was fainting and falling a lot because his heart was so weak. My brother found him on the bathroom floor, the bathroom sink was still running. We guessed he was getting sick over the sink and stood up too quickly, blacked out, fell, hit the back of his head and died. The official death certificate said cause of death: blunt force trauma to the head. It listed the secondary cause as falling. And that was it. No mention of alcohol whatsoever. This study wouldn't include him. I wonder how much worse the problem really is.
He claimed. He was still married to her years later, so not that estranged.

Plenty of decent single men out there, she went for the married one with kids.

Not disputing the guy's behaviour seems appalling; so her due diligence on his character and his actual single status appears to have been poor.
Data and Reality [1978/1998]
Wow the comic is great I’ve just spent so long enjoying it. Thank you so much! How come you’ve stopped doing it?
The story of these men is always that they are going to leave their wife, which they obviously won't.
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The Vikings erected a runestone out of fear of a climate catastrophe
Yes, normally fire is a revitalizing driving force for an area. In this case, however, given the massive scale of the fires, plus the decades-long issues with extreme drought and heatwaves, any regrowth is going to struggle, with an uncertain future.

And that's just talking about the plants. Animals die in fires, but they usually are replenished. However, given the enormous area burned, there will be much less room to recover. Plus, they will still have to deal with tentative regrowth on the brink from drought and heat.

The sheer scale of the fire, and it's compounding issues, means that the situation is much more complicated and dire than normal.
> I'm not sure how you get there as a logical conclusion.

If fact-checking political advertising gives them too much power, and not doing so is something they themselves decided on, then they already have that power. If no one company should have that amount of power, they should have that power taken away from them.

The bigger next step is that any alternative to breaking them up would be against their freedom of speech. I'm having trouble coming up with an alternative that wouldn't, but there might be one.
One of the comments says that he did not expect Carmack would fall for that: I had that same feeling. This does, in fact, sound too good to be true which would be the reason I would not buy it. If it were true, as it is around 1/10th of the real price, this would be on every tech frontpage and everyone would be buying them, boxes at a time. If one of the smartest minds in tech falls for something that does not even require tech to research for the 'too good to be true' factor, how are total noobs protected? There really needs to be far better protection for this; sending it back is still work and annoyance.

Outside letting everything go via Amazon's warehouses and having items randomly inspected by qualified staff, I cannot really see a solution though. Apparently reviews do not work either; I bought crap as well that had top reviews and was just crap. I find Aliexpress more reliable, it least it was last time I ordered from it which is over a year ago; it is pretty clear what is crap and what is not. I have gotten very crappy products there but I paid 0.50$-few $ for them, so you know that it will be bad (and actually sometimes it is not! Like some tester phones I had for development; they were very cheap but they work reliable for years). On Amazon sometimes you pay a lot more and it has good reviews; turns out to be a $3 Aliexpress item with a fake brand. Sure I will send it back and get my money back, but still, seems a lot of sellers stay in existence even though that happens. Are other people (Carmack?) not sending this back and leaving a 1* review?

What is a good site to order storage in the EU? I now just go to shops and by them there; sure it costs more but I know what I get.
Putin and Gaddafi (before his death) have both been estimated to have 200 Billion in wealth.
> There is not enough funding or investment in longevity to consider it over-hyped. Compare it to, say, AI and VR. Or even meat substitutes.

You're very much mistaken.

The National Institute of Health gets $31B of government funds every year for research. The NSF gets $8B, NASA gets $20B, and DARPA gets around $3B. So healthcare research gets roughly 50% of the entire U.S. public research budget, and that's not including private investment.

It's difficult to pull accurate numbers, but meat substitutes, VR, and even super-hot AI get far less every year, it's nowhere near healthcare research.

Extending life has been a priority of the US government for many years, largely because it's politically popular. Everyone rich or poor wants to live longer.
The best book/pair of books about software that I have ever read.

Perhaps Effective C++ comes in second, but that's just b/c C++ is a nightmare.
what store for online-only services?
It's no longer possible to make a functional indie browser