skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The people describing racism, sexism, ableism, etc, and their impacts are not primarily the ones "using group membership". The problem starts and rests with the those systems, and is driven by the people who benefit from and act to sustain those systems.

If you want people to be truly equal, you need to work to end those systems. And that requires starting with an honest account of what's happening.

As a straight white dude, I definitely understand the urge to try to sweep the problems under the rug. It's much more comfortable to think that things are fine. But as MLK explained, we won't solve these problems without a "dynamic tension" that comes from making the problems very clear.

We didn't have slavery or Jim Crow or the Nadir because of people trying to fight race-based oppression. We had those things because race-based oppression is materially and mentally beneficial to a lot of the people on the oppressor end of those systems. And we won't end them by pretending that speaking clearly about racism is somehow the real racism.
> Private media can be biased. Either explicitly (lying to peoples faces), or implicitly (self-censorship on stuff related to the owner). Surprisingly, in several countries - such as Britain or Czech Republic - state-owned media are the one sticking to higher values.

If you can show evidence of this, I’d be interested. I’m pretty sure that /all/ media can be biased, and is. The BBC is no different or better than Fox News. They both share the news from their perspective.
If this helps put your mind at rest, I have had a couple of them for twenty-two years without any problems. They have allowed me to continue an active lifestyle.
The government does actually have security policies / norms, see NIST 800-171 as an example.
It is not, no. The problem we're talking about allows you to exfiltrate plaintext from messages you don't have the keys for, which you can do because PGP makes the ciphertext of messages malleable. This Age discussion pertains to entire messages that attackers construct from scratch under their own keys.
If your definition of scam excludes those with at least one successful investor (of time, money, etc), then virtually all Ponzi schemes aren't scams. The early investors win, the later ones lose.

It seems with Lambda school there do in fact exist successful candidates. But for a school advertising for everyone, and advertising a particular way of financing education, a majority are left holding the bag with a substandard education. And the school isn't even keeping its skin in the game by securitizing the loans and selling them off at 50%.

You decide if that's scam worthy.
Online dating platforms is by far the most commonly cited method when asked "How did you meet?" to LGBT couples.
The MitM problem is not with sending the public key. They can just email it. The MitM problem is with intercepting the instructions from person A, having the MitM person generate them, and provide the pair to person B while impersonating A.
I agree completely with switching the language for various distribution utilities to more modern languages as needed. I'm rather arguing against removing vanilla language environments that have attained the status of being ubiquitous, e.g., to save space or militate against the usage of "old" languages.
I don't feel like it's a lost battle at all. Folks are fanning out and learning that all of this is harder than it looks, with the exception of enterprise, where it's harder than it looks squared.

I suspect folks will become attracted to the simplicity and performance of buildpacks. They make whole classes of headache vanish.

I guess on this one I'm optimistic.
Do you really think that will stop dumbass techies?
I think it's a good call.
Complaining about identity politics is a big way white men practice identity politics, Charles. When there's a problem, refusing to let people talk about the problem becomes part of the problem.
If you're looking for an alternative to your known goods on occasion (not at home, store stopped stocking it or even just not necessarily knowing that peanut butter can be made from just peanuts), it's easy to get stuck looking for options.

It's easy to be dismissive of the problem and say "just get X", buy you need to know that exists, but you can make the argument for cookies, chips, sauces, dips, soaps...
> The leakage is caused by an inherent, nonlinear property of microphone’s hardware.

Interesting, what are related theories I can learn about it deeply?
Prolog Based Executable English
Prolog = Logic + different Control for each app

Executable English -- Logic + Built in control
https://www.executable-english.com
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There was an indictment: https://www.justice.gov/file/1080281/download

I don’t know if there was further evidence not made public to protect sources and methods.
Also backed my Pioneer and Daniel. Nothing but good things to say. Inside Pioneer is one of the more helpful communities on the Internet I’d say.
Trump's next health care move: Giving Silicon Valley your medical data
Why is Poland also listed as an exception?
> and you have the modern Boer—the most formidable antagonist who ever crossed the path of Imperial Britain.

Most formidable? I may be biased but I think the american colonists the british empire lost to during the independence war was more formidable. Not to mention the afghans who put up a far tougher fight in their wars against the british empire.
Cryptography engineers virtually never use one-time pads, because the ergonomics are impossible and the security benefits over a modern (as in, past the 1970s) cipher are marginal. Ironically, similar to encrypted email, a reason not to attempt one-time pads is that you will inevitably screw them up (and there is, like with PGP, a history of operational screwups to point to here).

If your point is that the risk calculation isn't literally binary, that's true. But it's pretty close to discrete.

Is encrypted email sufficient for the LARPing use cases that almost all encrypted emails represent? Sure. But when we discuss secure messaging as a generality, we have to consider the cases where security actually matters, and in those cases encrypted email is not fit for purpose.
I haven't looked very far, but if there isn't a decent plugin for it yet, it likely isn't incredibly hard to make.

Here [0] is a link to a view I created that links to a markdown plugin (which should still work) as well as to information about TW's plugin architecture. If you're interested in learning even more about TW's internal architecture, check out their developer documentation here [1].

[0]: https://tiddlywiki.com/#%24%3A%2Fconfig%2FPageControlButtons...

[1]: https://tiddlywiki.com/dev
Hey 'tptacek and 'lvh. You definitely make valid points. But your arguments here on HN could perhaps be reduced if you adequately framed the problem:

RFC 822/2822/5322 e-mail, on top of RFC 5321 SMTP and RFC 3501 IMAP, can't be secure. (And more RFCs I'm probably forgetting).

To most people in the target audience (LARPers, technologist, and others), "email" isn't necessarily that. It's whatever Google/Outlook/... does for them. It isn't a concete set of protocols. But a _type_ of messaging. A particular set of ergonomics.

When framing it from that perspective, people (programmers?) will go "well duh". Then we can move on from the unproductive discussion about semantics and move on to defining new standards, clarifying threat models, and building a real replacement people and companies will adopt. It'll take a lot of coordination and cooperation that can't happen until we've convinced enough people what the real problem is. And as long as we're using vague, subjective terms like "email", I don't think we can.
Canon, Android.
It will be really interesting to see the mods and community that form around the wavestate considering the high degree of hackability raspberry pi presumably brings.
Hey, CEO of Lambda School here.

We’ve been working on this for over a year, and it finally closed today. We’ve been intensely focused on incentive alignment since the early days of Lambda School, and finally got to design an incentive-aligned ISA financing mechanism from scratch. Glad to have it out there.
The top 10% starts at $1.1 million. $2 million and up is top 6%.

https://dqydj.com/net-worth-percentile-calculator-united-sta...
You can use the CNAME trick to canonicalize all ACME challenge requests into a subdomain you reserved for this purpose and then give the tokens access to that subdomain.

Let's Encrypt is obeying normal DNS mechanics, so when they ask for a TXT record for _acme-challenge.cat-photos.example.com and get a CNAME as a response, they'll ask for the TXT record for the name in the CNAME answer instead. If that's cat-photos.cert-issuer.example.com then a token valid only for the sub-domain cert-issuer.example.com can write that TXT record.

You sort out the CNAME once, probably when creating cat-photos.example.com or setting it up to get a certificate, and then afterwards the API token is enough for automation.
> It would be a loss if due to a critical need to protect privacy we end up inadvertently harming a group of people that are already at a disadvantage. I once knew a hearing-disabled person and the hardship it brought them affected nearly every interaction with them I had. For me that trade-off is not worth it.

We already do this by making so many things practically require internet access but then also not making things easily accessible to eg screen readers or text mode browsers
How An AT&T Lawyer Helped Monopolize Cheerleading and Induce Drug Shortages
Speaking from experience, if you exclusively deal with integers internally and then apply the appropriate formatting when outputting to the user (which you need to deal with regardless of internal representation), it makes dealing with monetary data so much easier. Integers are generally better supported, faster, and more convenient for most languages, databases, and serialization formats.
If neither you nor universities think that getting a job is more important than becoming a "good engineer" (whatever that means), then who is left to fill this void but the bootcamps you disagree with?
My smart car rental was a breeze – until I got trapped in the woods
There's already a highly successful model in most modern countries where the government fund all education and recovers some of the cost the higher progressive tax brackets, leaving the rest as a public good as an educated populace is a good thing.

No need for fancy securitization or business models!
Oh yeah that's a huge flaw in implementation (that probably every main e-mail vendor is guilty of). If it's prevalent enough, then the article is warranted, but the title and the conclusion are still gross simplifications -- it's not like the piping is inherently flawed, it's just that we prefer clear viewing windows to interact with messages, and where these two trains cross is where privacy meets your eyeball and also meets oxygen. Really, all decryption should happen on-device; but we cannot afford to abandon indecipherable messages on a daily or hourly basis in favor of universal privacy. It's somewhat reminiscent of the LOSE_POINTS_TO_LAG flag in quake and setting it to false. Maybe a better title would be Encrypted Email quickly becomes Unencrypted
Faster Python in Docker via disabling some Docker security settings
He was very much in favor of modeless design, which emacs is much closer to than vi is. My argument was that emacs still has modes, operationally. You can make it a debugger, a mail reader, or a text editor by invoking code that puts it in that "mode." So the discussion quickly becomes what is meant by 'mode' and how are operational modes different than semantic modes which are different than presentation modes. If you haven't guessed it was pretty memorable for me, it helped me see some insights into the difference between design and engineering.
That whole stuffing 240v into a BabyBel cheese and Co-op mincemeat pies thing was quite amusing, I guess the festive season can be "slow news" days even for video bloggers. That said, back in the early 90's when I was a field engineer, a mate and myself used apply 240v to foodstuffs in the company workshop "just to see what happened" when things were a bit slow. The resulting smells were somewhat odd.
I'm under the impression the Japanese government received some withering criticism for their bureaucratic mismanaged response to the Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami; I expected they would have revisited their emergency response procedures after that, but I guess not?
- On an Ubuntu host, the benchmark execution time in Docker was about twice the native time; this difference could be negated by modifying the security settings of the container
- The difference was much smaller when running well-optimised code — rather than code with (unnecessary) for-loops
- On a Windows host, Python code actually ran faster inside Docker, and the container security settings did not appear to affect execution speed as much
You can collect and sell UK user data, so they don't need to change anything, they can just sell UK user data without worrying about gdpr
* write data apps in _open_ English
* specify apps without procedural programming
* automatically generate and run complex SQL
* Human level English explanations of results
Live online at https://www.executable-english.com
This looks amazing!!! I am also working on a statically-typed language that aims to be fully inferred and have no type annotations, I will definitely be gleaning Ikko's design and your blog for insights.
> ... and possibly saving sensitive personal in- formation [32, 55, 38, 26].

They left 4 related articles in the publication please read the actual paper before criticizing it.

> and widely disproven

I personally never heard of it. Any evidence?
Nobody is going to adopt a new email standard that lacks the problems SMTP has. People will instead build new secure messengers that come closer and closer to the ergonomics of email, and that's what people who see a future for "secure email" should be looking towards, not some doomed effort to get the Internet to migrate to a new email protocol.
Having a couple measurements that are the same multiple of a couple measurements of another object, but a radically different shape, doesn't make a thing a scale model.
A trashed Italian manuscript got sewn into a sweet silk purse
Pioneer has been a great productivity hack for us.

As an early stage founder there’s no benchmark for how you’re doing relative to your peers. Matching up head-to-head weekly is a great way to assess your progress.

Knowing I’m going to be judged against the milestones I set for myself on Monday has definitely pushed me to work late on a Sunday night or two to make sure I complete everything I said I was going to do that week.
The news is absolutely timed by Lambda itself to counter the negative coverage, but it made HN because it's relevant and people are watching the play-by-play.
Timing is actually coincidental. It closed today, as SEC documents will show in the future.
This anecdote is particularly damning for Lambda School, like a hedge fund choosing not to update their investment return numbers year after year because they were so great in year 1:

> So where does that 86 percent figure come from? Lambda has reported graduate-outcome statistics at the Council on Integrity in Results Reporting (CIRR), a voluntary trade organization of coding boot camps whose purpose is to ensure that participating schools publish truthful information about student outcomes. Allred has often used this report to defend his company online. But where other boot camps have multiple reports spanning many student cohorts, Lambda has only reported statistics for its first 71 graduates — 86 percent of who, the school claims, found jobs. Sheree Speakman, the CEO of CIRR, told me that Lambda has not undergone the standard independent auditing for the sole report it has submitted, and that her communications to Lambda School regarding further reporting and auditing have gone unanswered.
Designing Learn JavaScript's course portal
Cancer is a fork bomb, most cells are luckily a bit nicer than that :)
Ecuador us one such country.
Some bootcamps may allow "from zero knowledge", but quality ones always have an assessment required to pass before admission.
Spoofed Number SMS Spam
I give up.

For the past two years now I've been getting 5 to 15 spam texts a month always from spoofed numbers. Often times including a hyperlink.

I get phone calls too. About twice as many. Also from spoofed numbers.

I installed the paid version of Robocall a few months ago

I frequently re register on the do not call registry.

I even spent a lot of time reporting the spam on the dnc website.

I want to learn how they are spoofing numbers and how they are making money.

Maybe if I understand how they're doing this I can feel a little less bothered by these incessant interruptions.
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So do you have a point to make that is responsive to the actual article, then?
You mean the enhanced interrogation for notable individuals? I hear it strengthens your lungs and keeps your skin hydrated, enhances your wakefulness, and provides abundant time for meditation.
it's very rare for me to have an LED bulb that last less than 2 years... but I have 4x 18-watts recessed led fixtures in the kitchen and one burnt out after about 2 years and they are no longer manufactured so I have to find one that look-a-like....
Nice! I added a comment with this link to my style.css file. I will use it next time I need to add/update a web font.
Well, certain countries block traffic to Signal and other encrypted apps.

As far as I know, in pretty much any country where you can send e-mail, you can also send an PGP encrypted e-mail.

So, Signal is not a universal solution.
At a given efficiency, LED heat and light output are directly related. Human vision is not linear at normal brightness levels. So, less bright bulbs last longer, use less energy, while putting significant amounts of light.

Also, I see many people getting extremely bright bulbs and putting a large fully opaque light shade over them. That’s rather counter productive.
Why real-life places still matter in the age of texting and Twitter
I have no answers as to why Andrew Yang did not poll more than 1-5% in Iowa/New Hampshire.
Most homeschooled children don't just meet with their own family all the time.

Say you have the typical dad-works-and-mom-stays-home setup. Mom's got to go to the grocery store? Kids go, too, and practice their arithmetic in real-world environments. They also interact with at least the cashier, and probably a number of other adults.

It's a nice day? They go to the park, and look at wildlife and plants. Along the way, they interact with a number of other people at the park. And so it goes. They interact with non-family-members all over the place.

But if that's not enough for socialization, well... when we got concerned about socialization, we grabbed the kids, dragged them into the bathroom, and beat them up for their lunch money. You know, so that they got socialized the way that public school kids did.
> And some people, like myself, would rather not have such somewhat intrusive operations become the new norm.

100% agree. People can do what they want to their own bodies, but I think it's a foolish idea. I can't offer you an easy solution, as there really isn't one. Sports are "gated areas" with committees overseeing entrance conditions. People agree to these rules to play. Not so for surgery; the only option would be to ban it which would be unconstitutional, impractical, and a staggering government overreach. However, you might be interested in reading more about positional arms races (the economic term for what you're describing). College is a good example: enough people try to set themselves apart by getting a degree that the degree becomes the expectation, becoming an additional cost that no longer provides any benefit. https://econpapers.repec.org/paper/wilwilehe/54.htm
It would be better to run a dc circuit throughout a house just for lights and do away with the rectifier circuits inside these led globes and It could be free of transients.
> On a more meta level, it feels like we’ve barely touched the margins of how humans learn best. That’s always struck me as odd.

It's very well studied. I'd start by reading a cognitive science textbook and go from there. I have Cognition by Reisberg[0], it was well-written and well-structured.

Alternatively, an entertaining and informative popular account is Make It Stick by Brown, Roediger and McDaniel[1].

I do agree that the research findings are greatly underapplied, though.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/Cognition-Exploring-Science-Mind-Seve...

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Make-Stick-Science-Successful-Learnin...
thought experiment: if this was our only way of compressing we could lose the ability to represent things "too far" from whatever the AI understands.
I'm bad at names, so I didn't know the name, but followed the Wikipedia link and saw he was the "modeless" advocate, and I learned about that from this awesome Bret Victor talk: https://vimeo.com/36579366. Someone has commented to forward to 38 minutes to hear it.

That Bret Victor talk still influences me today, so please watch it I think it'll help you if you haven't watched it already.
Python is as good at encouraging functional style as a massive arsenal of weapons of mass destruction is good at encouraging world peace.
The way I read it, they actually had all the employees try on jackets and ordered them for each employee, except they turned around and didn't order female jackets because they didn't meet a minimum order size.

That's quite a bit different than ordering a batch of jackets in some array of sizes and hoping most people can find one that fits. That's still a bit shitty, but not nearly as shitty as above.

I'll also note that having been through several rounds of custom clothing orders (for a sports team), getting the count for women's items waived is common, as long as the total order size meets minimums.

Of course none of the above is as shitty as the government agency my neighbor works at that asked the female employees to serve cocktails at a winter social.
Playing the Pioneer tournament is super fun and https://airsite.co probably wouldn't exist without it.
There is formal training so the priests understand the doctorines. Priests don't just start doing it with no training, look up a thing called a seminary (Catholic).

There are also degrees in theology for church of England priests for example.
> An earlier version of this review misidentified the university that the college of Peterhouse belongs to. It is part of Cambridge, not Oxford.

That's... pretty basic fact-checking.
> I mean, reading about how they test it[1] leads me to believe it is not simple.

They are unusually thorough in their testing. I see that as a good thing, not a sign it isn't (relatively) simple. In fact, I don't think any other database engine is tested as thoroughly. I can't even imagine how much effort it'd take to do so for Oracle or even PostgreSQL, except that it'd be prohibitive.
Fully agree with you. People who'd prefer no non-govt school are using scary words like "CDO" to manipulate the conversation instead of look at its merits. There's still a high probability for failure for any new model, but I'm excited to see innovation on the finance side, and people need to regard finance like engineering, as a tool that can be used for good or evil. This seems mostly good.

As far as Lambda's management/culture situation, I've heard it's turbulent, but that's also par for the course with most startups, especially in growth mode. This will always be hard because student outcomes can sometimes feel this turbulence, but it's not like the students think this is a sure thing.