skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think we have some data already on the probability of accidents - I believe I read that a SpaceX rocket failed to land properly after something like 50 successes...but it was a "soft" landing in the water?

NASA lost 2 shuttles out of about 135 flights...

So if I was going to make a ballpark estimate without further information, I'd say 98% of the time you should get there safely...and that's better than the coronavirus!

People will often tell you how irrational it is that we demand such safety from commercial airlines, so isn't 98% really good enough?
so what if its not a grey goo but a grey ecosystem?

Small machines all designed to do small different jobs. then you'd get currents of grey good just supplying power because you have currents of grey goo proving "food" to them because you'd have currents of grey goo disassembling everything around them to provide food and materials to currents of grey goo that make the different sorts of grey goo needed to perform all the previous steps.

I feel that "grey goo" gets used as a descriptor for one thing... when i reality it would be lots of different sorts of things.

having said that, I think we're a loooong way form having to be worried about that as well.
From that link above, "there are eight and 436 putative Asians and Caucasians, respectively (imputed from the first two principal components" so its comparing a sample size of 8 Asians with a sample size of 436 Caucasians. I'd say the jury is still out on whether there is a racial difference in ACE2 expression, but good call out either way.
> Last I checked, it scored 55/100.

39.

> Who is Google(and their designers) to tell the world how to design things?*

Indeed. They deserve giant middle fingers from all sides for this shit. I can't remember the last time I saw anything from design.google that wasn't a shitshow of bad practices and simultaneously pompous.

A flat site with a few links loads 400KB _after_ compression of javascript? Fuck all the way off, google.
You can blame most of it on SEO. Minimally, it's about making sure what you've created is accurately represented. Maximally, it's about tricking people into thinking you're what they want when you aren't. The way that happens is through worse search results.
I don't think we could pump out the well rounded developers like 4 years of undergrad can, but I don't see how we couldn't pump out SQL technicians, front-end developers, or otherwise specialized workers that could alleviate the supposed shortage of developers.

I also helped a person go from zero knowledge of programming to pumping out android games in a month of self study. So I know that smart, motivated people can get pretty far pretty fast. In regards to your point, I don't think this person knows UML or ever learned big O notation, but this person was able to gain the skills required to do what they wanted, plus some pro-programmer friends and stackoverflow to fill in the "semi-arcane knowledge" when required.
I am waiting for the day when you can learn math kinesthetically like skateboarding or some other full-body activity. The video I linked below embodies what I'm thinking. This could easily be turned into a VR game where the user "is" the math. https://youtu.be/ovLbCvq7FNA?t=849
Did you watch the Seven Worlds, One Planet episode on Asia?

For anyone who is wondering how to source sustainable palm oil, there are some links to investigate oneself
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/1Wbwgx6HCMbF8SrnST...
This is great tool to see what everyone is reading but I would refrain from choosing books solely on the ranking shown here because its always better to choose your own books, movies, music, battles,etc,. rather than aggregators or recommendation systems dictating what is good. I am not saying that this tool is doing the same but as a user we all need to be aware of the bias that naturally comes with these kind of services [0].

In rather harsh words of Arthur Schopenhauer

“The art of not reading is a very important one. It consists in not taking an interest in whatever may be engaging the attention of the general public at any particular time. When some political or ecclesiastical pamphlet, or novel, or poem is making a great commotion, you should remember that he who writes for fools always finds a large public. A precondition for reading good books is not reading bad ones: for life is short.”

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17939766
We recently made the decision as a SaaS company to switch from a subscription management platform I won't name to Stripe. The process has not been without a couple bumps along the way, but frankly working with Stripe is similar to that scene from Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers when Gandalf tells Theoden to "Breathe the free air again, my friend."

Please continue to do what you're doing in this space. Payments are such a complex beast and it's refreshing to work with a company that works so hard to abstract that complexity.
Why isn't your LB terminate TLS?
Nicky Case does incredible work. She should be a poster child for Patreon, through which I believe she makes most of her living. https://www.patreon.com/ncase
> This is how the hybrid car was born.

Yes :) We were quite amused to have had the idea a few years before it's popularization!
Thank you for quoting and linking to my comment here.
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The struggle is real. Small fees add up for smaller startups and that used to be their bread and butter--it was so much easier to get payments up and running. We eventually switched to paypal and never looked back.
I think a fairer comparison than LARP is martial arts training. As you say it mostly doesn't matter if you get on the head, but people think they are preparing for a situation where it will matter. And in most cases they are wrong.
It’s not that they can’t span multiple lines, but that they can’t contain more than a single expression.
All you have to do is put a column constraint on there. CREATE TABLE t ( intcol CHECK (typeof(intcol) = ‘integer’));
I think it's also worth noting that many of those states allow cash discounts.

https://www.ncsl.org/research/financial-services-and-commerc...
> Now-a-days converters are built intelligently & removing it

> just reduces performance by fucking up the O2 sensor

> readings unless you also dump a grand on a new ECU

You can also get a piggy-back ECU for the purpose of sending false sensor data - it's quite a bit cheaper.
Keybase might be worth a look. The only complaint I have is that there seems to be no way to self-host it (which is an option I'd like to have.) And the server source seems to be hidden from public which is not great for trust.

The network effect doesn't really concern me. For communication with strangers I'll have to fall back to email anyways since WhatsApp is virtually the only thing that has presence in my area.
Thank you! A lot still to do.
If that's what encrypted email was, I'd agree, but it is not; it is more akin to taking a children's martial arts class for a month and then physically resisting an armed mugger.
I work on this type of stuff thing at a major payments company and I can say this is _not_ true. For refunds, almost all of the interchange fee is returned. Sometimes even more than the original interchange fee is returned (don't ask why).

Caveat here is that the card networks' rules are ridiculously byzantine and making blanket statements is usually a bad idea.
The only way this thing could be honestly sustainable would be if it were hydrogen-powered.

That might also be a prerequisite for profitability. But the airframe would need to be quite different from current designs because hydrogen tankage needs a lot more room than kerosene fuel would. Extra space on an aircraft is fairly cheap to provide. What is difficult is more weight, including extra fuel needed to get enough range at higher speed. Hydrogen fuel fixes that by having 3x energy per kg.
The death of small businesses in big cities, explained
> PoE standard provides up to 15.4 W of DC power (minimum 44 V DC and 350 mA[2][3]) on each port.[4] Only 12.95 W is assured to be available at the powered device as some power dissipates in the cable.

84% efficiency sucks. It's a reasonable solution for some cases, because if you're running Ethernet to a camera already, hey, why not provide some power?

But for, let's say 300W of lighting that runs 12 hours a day, you're wasting about 15kWh of electricity per month. Residential wiring has internal losses under 1%.

I would rather not.
Oof! I'm sorry, but Neil Gaiman's writing is... unpleasant. Purposefully so. A lot of people seem to like this, but I'm definitely not one of them.
Can we get a clarification? Are they keeping the 2.9% and the 30 cents or what?
I think that's just part of the process of deciding how small an increment each integer represents (dollars, cents, centi-cents, milli-cents).
Even worse than that: https://thehill.com/changing-america/well-being/prevention-c...

An excerpt:

Iwata said he saw people eating lunch with their medical gloves on, and handling their smartphones while wearing protective suits, “so it was completely chaotic."
The current political climate around the Trump administration gets more and more insane. The one thing it demonstrates is that the American populace is not worthy of its pseudo-democracy but is lucky to have it. The question is how long will it last before it crumbles like any other civilization in history.

China says its offers stability by suppressing freedom while America dresses up inequality and instability as freedom. One is neither worst or better than the other unless you’re at the bottom of the totem pole in either country meaning some combination of female, impoverished, of color and or queer.

If you disagree than congratulations you’ve either never traveled and/or have completely subscribed to your nations propaganda and are too foolish to know or care.
Thanks for resurfacing my childhood disappointment; I had one of those sets, but no black light.
This only defends against off-the-shelf mikes, and adversaries will just get better mikes so not particularly useful in the security space.

It is illegal public and most commercial spaces as most organizations need to follow anti-discriminatory legislation. Spaces unusable by people with hearing aids, hearing dogs or just very good hearing is not going to happen.
Until someone in QA who keeps running that test flow manually says “Wait a minute, my time is valuable!” and scripts the checkout flow in Selenium...
Jesus how many people are gonna die today?
I love dogs and being able to bring a dog to the office is a huge appeal for signing up for a job, dogs only have 10-15 years of lifespan so I want to make sure the days count. But I can see how it can be annoying for people who require a non-disruptive environment to work.

Bring it up with your management that it bothers you, then the ball is in their court whether they wanna make change to the policy. If it doesn't work out then all I can say is you'll be better off to find a place where the environment fits what you're looking form, also they should disclose this policy and situation upon hiring someone.

I will get annoyed and leave if the office has a toddler policy because I don't like children at all, but I won't blame the owners of the company if that's what they want, it just so happened I landed at a place where my interest don't fit with the rest.
It's true that as things stand you're pretty much stuck with Keybase the company.

But they're going to some lengths to make sure it doesn't stay that way:

https://keybase.io/docs/client/client_architecture

I'm bullish on Keybase, even after the obnoxious Stellar Lumen airdrop fiasco. It seems like they're doing most things right.
If you have that kind of security profile that you need to lock down what ip addresses that can make a port 80 connection, and can't use the api of the dns provider because of security considerations, then how is giving a third party dns provider full control of DNS acceptable within the threat model?

Run your own DNS server and get a registrar lock. If that is not feasible, and consultants are too expensive, I would look into the more expensive dns providers that provide custom interface that fit the threat model of your system. If that is also too expensive then I would take a second look at the risk analysis and recalculate the cost of each risk.
I look forward to seeing this covered on Darknet diaries. Just found the podcast and it rocks!

Having used Citrix this really, really doesn't surprise me.
Another discussion on same topic: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22370346
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This is not a big deal, this gives UK freedom to make their own laws more suitable to UK rather than laws made in Brussels. In a twist to the headline we could also say tech companies around the world are in a better position to push their innovations in UK without the red tape of EU.
Other discussion on same topic: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22371486
Cute: https://github.com/Poolside-FM

Menubar: https://github.com/JoaoTMDias/poolside-fm-player
.1% is pretty pessimistic on vaccine mortality. There are circumstances where it would be preferable to the alternative, but I don't think there are any /that/ bad.
> we built an ML engine to automatically optimize the bitfields of card network requests.

Uh, what?
I'm a big fan/proponent of Hy (http://hylang.org), a Lisp built onto Python. Even going to the somewhat irresponsible extent of using it in production!
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No, I mean the disease (the flu) has a 0.1% chance of killing me. I wouldn't take the vaccine if the mortality risk was that high (unless I was protecting myself from a disease with a much worse mortality rate)

(I edited my previous post to clarify)
Card network requests are comprised of fairly complex ISO 8583 messages. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8583.) We now have enough data across Stripe to implement an ML engine to optimize these requests on a per-issuing bank basis. As mentioned in original comment, this helps collect a lot more "free" revenue for our users.
I've sat in many pitches where, ironically, the argument is that Citrix is more secure.
We use multiple desktop products where the modern cloud version was literally just a Citrix cluster per customer, running the same old app. It's absolutely endemic across enterprise products as a "cloud solution".
HN thread limit might cut this off but what if someone in that team starts experiencing problems and self-doubt? If everything in the team has always worked smoothly before they might not be able to handle it.

Additionally, elitist teams might scare off some people that could otherwise be great engineers if they just got a little entry help. Sure they can "get that elsewhere" but if every team behaved like that there's not only nowhere to enter, but there's also sort of an omnipresent assumption that you have to be good from the start in order to be able to achieve something in engineering.

I'm not saying your described team doesn't work but it's not exactly the kind of culture HR should be striving for in my opinion. (Albeit it's still far better than than a team that doesn't work at all or works against each other.)
> Let's turn it into a dystopic market of bullshit covered in distasteful advertising,

I mean absolutely no disrespect to you and I understand your feelings are probably coming straight out your heart. However I would like to point out that when you say that the world does not meet your expectation and that somehow is a problem with the world and not your own self is very arrogant.

> But we can't have it, because we are selfish and short-sighted monkeys.

These distasteful comments about fellow humans are nothing but the same arrogant thought process that has caused havoc around the world through ideologies like communism and colonialism. It reeks of Rudyard Kipling's disgusting poem "White man's burden". Without knowing you are claiming that you have the power to know what is good for world and you only need power to fix it. In this process you actually get depressed. You are describing the world as "Fuck all this."
(Goodcover dev here)

It could be, along with say family size. But the UX cost of asking such questions is real, especially on an insurance application form. People get worried why we want to know such things so early on.

Today we're able to provide a pretty good estimate with no personal details, nothing but a zip code in fact. We might work the zip code into temp housing default at some point, but it's not without issues. Changes to the property <> temp housing link built into our rating require solid data and regulatory approvals.
I know the fees are lower. I’m asking if it’s possible to submit a transaction via an online API as a debit rather than credit.
"Per se" is doing a lot of work there.

When 'tptacek first heard of efail, we were both in the office, he called me over and said "if there was a disastrous GPG bug that fails in way $X, what would it look like" and my first answer was "of course it's that MDCs don't actually work and the packet stream is malleable and something is going to consume unauthenticated plaintext". That's not because I'm some sort of genius: it's because to anyone who has studied the protocol and has a cryptographic background, those flaws are glaring.

That matters because I think it's reasonable to blame a protocol when it is indisputably flawed (there is no debate about MDCs not being a MAC, there is no debate that authenticated encryption is important) and it turns out those flaws all but imply vulns.
A skill of knowing how to use React in a particular way to create simple views is something that will be redundant in a few years. These people will unfortunately be out of jobs. The mundane work of converting sketch files to react views will be automated soon
> Fraud and spam are crimes that ruin lives in their own ways.

I never denied that. I wanted to know what exactly is the fraud that the company is causing. Also, spamming is all about matter or perspective. All major consumer companies send billions of emails. I would love to know what this company was doing differently .
> Taken to the extreme, a sufficiently advanced AI compression system could theoretically end up storing representations of high-level features like faces in the compressed data

I think that's the major risk for straightforward "AI" compression. You'll end up with some high level description of the scene and the decompressed image will then be an "artist's impression" which contains details that may not have been in the original image. You'll take a photo of a cheque, compress it, decompress it, and you'll get a picture of a cheque, but it might not be the same cheque.
https://twitter.com/adropboxspace/status/1188895270152466432
I think Uranium has low bio-availability a high clearance rate and not particularly toxic. So likely not.

Uranium is also everywhere in ppm quantities.
...and performance (or lack thereof) --- AFAIK the baseline J2K was always implementable freely (similar to the situation with JPEG; arithmetic compression was specified but largely unimplemented due to patents, while baseline JPEG was supposed to be free), but the abysmal performance relative to JPEG for a minor increase in compression efficiency, along with the surprising amount of complexity in the spec, made it a poor choice.

There are lots of scanned ebooks on archive.org that use J2K compression, and the sluggishness when turning pages is extremely noticeable compared to others which use normal JPEG.
A slightly less extreme position would be "Don't use email for anything where encryption is required; email encryption should happen transparently; users should assume that their email (or at least its metadata) is or will be unencrypted".

I think that position is at least as defensible as the alternative being offered, which is effectively "Always use a messaging system where the apps and servers are controlled by a single entity that you have to trust will never release compromised apps or log your metadata (and you don't mind giving your phone number to)".

Anyway, transparently encrypted emails look something like [0], and the metadata problem could be largely (but not perfectly) solved if email providers offered a switchboard@recipient.tld address which Alice could send emails to (with the actual bob@recipient.tld hidden inside an encrypted email payload, so that the MTAs between sender.tld and recipient.tld couldn't read that the email was intended for Bob).

[0] https://autocrypt.org/
You can use a comma instead of `and` or `or`.

Which looks a bit better.
> they had reason to believe

I’m a little curious to know how the FBI comes across this information. Monitoring communications of criminals? Informants?
One important thing missing from BusyBox:glibc is the SSL certificates that's almost always needed if you are writing things like crawler etc.

As for Alpine, at least for packaging Python code, avoid as much as possible. It cannot reuse manylinux packages on PyPI and have to recompile C modules.
I built this project to make such automated monitoring easier:

https://ctadvisor.lolware.net
for example any movie you see in a cinema is encoded using JPEG 2000 – they don't use video codecs for digital cinema, but encode each frame separately, to avoid video compression artifacts.

They also use very expensive dedicated hardware to decode Motion JPEG2000 at movie framerate, because it's far more computationally intensive than regular JPEG or even the newer video codecs like H264/H265.
For the curious here's the link without the period at the end for convenience https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8583
Hearing aids, emergency telephones and phones used by medical and security personnel are already covered by laws in many places. Also messing with law enforcement devices, like police body cams. The people developing this could technically be liable right now if they tested the device in a public space. It will never get as far as the University library. The main use of this research will be in selling better mikes to the military and police.
"Yeah, got cut for brevity, but students definitely experience serious anxiety about even the five year horizon."

Lambda School is <5 years old. Pretty disingenuous man.
Maybe he doesn't make videos for you. Or anyone. But for himself.
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Also learn generic problem solving VS just pattern matching on how to do a specific thing. Frameworks, languages and patterns themselves will keep changing. Core problem solving skills and understanding will stay relevant always.
You're assuming here that the U.S. military is the genesis of human violence, but the era of American military hegemony has been the most peaceful in human history.

America has used the promise of force to uphold a status quo that most people can get on board with, one which doesn't really warrant revolt. The CCP probably will not accomplish anything like that, if we are ever so damned that they become the hegemon; in that case we might as well have just surrendered to the Nazis.
Feels like the end of an era.
>It always seems to me like the person wants to say something that appears comforting without actually meaning anything, and seems disingenuous.
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And most importantly, without admitting fault.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22371516
Just a price increase. Time for some competition for these people.
Hey Vincent! Great to see you here. Are you gonna go back on IH for office hours this year?

Also how much time did you spend on all of the research for this piece?