skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You obviously should never use a hardware module as your only source of entropy. What loeg is pointing out is that if you need a hardware RNG (in addition to your seedfile, RTC, environmental noise, etc), a modern CPU fills that particular role in the SRNG system without any additional hardware.
> running on a VM vs a real host, running on a different distribution than the one you developed in

Except that, in those cases, you can connect to the server and spin up a shell and actually get an idea, from the file system, from logs or from any of the many ways you have to inspect a system. All that you'll need to provide to your unikernel.
Testing the PineLoader Multi-Bootloader
Go get your ID situation fixed.

edit: To get an EBT card in NYC you can do it all online if you have a valid (ie, not expired, ID card.) If you do not have a valid (ie, expired, ID card), then you have to go to the DMV so they can take your picture and you sign a few forms. The forms are available in 22 languages. At the same time they may work to get you a new, valid, ID card.

How is this unreasonable?
There are clearly other ways to solve this that don't involve depriving people of food stamps. Most every other developed country has figured out some solution.

First of all, in most countries an expired proof of citizenship is accepted for many purposes because it's assumed that people didn't go out of their way to coincidentally lose their citizenship or permanent residence when the ID expired. If it proves residence or driving qualifications, then there are certainly other reasons why it should expire.

Suppose we have an administration, decentralized or otherwise, that stores the records of the people concerned. They can then be contacted and details can be verified.

This informal verification already occurs on many levels, particularly in the US due to the lack of consistent ID. Try flying on a flight without photo ID, entering the US as a US citizen without proof of citizenship, etc. You will be permitted to do so with a bit of extra hassle while you're identified to a reasonable degree of confidence.
Yeah the useful thing is namespaces, I agree it would be good to not tie it to any given platform. I remember the cargo (rust) folks discussed including some way to have a namespace. I don't remember the details but I was disappointed they decided not to go that route.
Why is setting up a honeypot lazy? If they had been good at it it would have worked flawlessly.

Just disqualify anyone who copy/pastes answers from the known shared workspace.
I would much rather have national coordination about some sort of ID, with strong privacy stipulations attached to it. I would like a national ID that cannot be used by local police, cannot be used by national investigative agencies, cannot be sold, cannot be vacuumed up by tech companies.

That'd be much preferable to me than leaving it to the states to preserve the privacy of the people they register, because they don't really.
As I understand it, a significant part of the legal process has to do with interpreting language, meaning, and the spirit of agreements, rather than enforcing technical definitions.
Native apps can take advantage of OS APIs that are much richer than those via the browser (or Electron) pass-through APIs.

For example, I've made a Mac app that lets you customize your Spaces (virtual desktops), assign names to them, jump to specific ones, track your time spent across them, and trigger custom events when you move to specific ones. None of this would be possible via a web app or electron app. Project homepage https://www.currentkey.com, app link: https://apps.apple.com/app/apple-store/id1456226992?pt=11998...

And as long as there is differentiated hardware between platforms, there will be opportunities for innovative native apps. For example, though I personally don't love the Touch Bar, there are interesting native app projects around that like Pock: https://github.com/pigigaldi/Pock
I am constantly annoyed by the web apps, not only because they consume so much resources, but because of the noticeable UI lag that drives me crazy. For example, I have been entertaining the idea recently of building a native Todo app for macOS because of how slow Todoist has become in the past few years.
How is it racist to criticize the Chinese Communist Party? And that includes rightly blaming them for botching everything involving the pandemic. The Chinese people deserve better leadership.
Nvidia GTC 2020 Keynote Part 2: Nvidia RTX – A New Era for Computer Graphics
You can still suffer from the same, every day normal forgetting of things on ADHD medication. It doesn't instantly make you superhuman. You still need systems to remember things effectively, ADHD or not.
Go is ten years old - older than Swift, as old as Dart.

I don’t think any of them - maybe Swift - are terribly young at this point.

I also think it’s not quite right to call Swift object-oriented, at least not any more so than Go.
In Oct 2020 a passport or state-issued Enhanced ID [0] will be required to board a domestic flight in USA. It's about as close as they could get since no one wants a "national ID card".

[0] https://www.dhs.gov/enhanced-drivers-licenses-what-are-they
How do you do sudo ls on iOS?
The point is you signed up for 400k got 300k at best assuming you’re at a 200k base.

You could have joined FB and probably gotten a 100k signing bonus on top of what you had in RSUs and you’d still have a job.

These companies were masquerading and pretending they can compete with FAANG, they can’t.
RSS is dead, but API-drive API access to data on a monthly subscription is all over many industries. Why not just sell access to an RSS feed on a subscription?
NIST Scientists Create New Recipe for Single-Atom Transistors – NIST
Predictive text systems change what we write
> Nowadays people won't share content simply because they don't trust the internet to share content to it.

What the author speaks of sounds a lot like I2P.

Years ago I played around with I2P. I2P was pretty interesting, it was a traffic obfuscator like Tor that had the express goal of not connecting to anyone else who wasn't also on I2P. (Of course people can and did run outproxies where you could connect to the web through them).

If you made a site available on I2P you had to keep the local I2P router running. You could register your node with a I2P hosts maintainer if you wanted and that was as far as DNS went (it was pass around the hosts text-file style).

The couple sites I found were a lot like the web in the early 90's as far as style and content. Before I stopped messing around with it, someone had created a Twitter clone and made it available. At that point it was very slow. This was probably 2011.

Overall, there's nothing preventing people from trading lists of URLs, and nothing preventing anyone from putting these in local a searchable database. It's completely possible to do this without Google. Google made it much easier and spoiled us, but there was a world before Google and there can be one afterward.
I've been bouncing an idea around for a while, on how could I use git as a back-end for a filesharing/chat/collaboration suite -- I think it would work to have a git hook, pre-commit, that replaces all binary files / blacklisted file extensions, with a text file whose contents are the magnet address to download the large binary file over torrent - so the file name, permissions etc don't change, but a small text file is committed instead of the binary.

So, as a consumer of the repo, I would clone the repo, and then have a post-checkout hook check the blacklisted file extensions and grab their contents: the magnet link, all that's left is to find peers, download the file and replace the text file with a hardlink to the binary. Maybe this is all too laggy, asynchronous, and mismatched, but I think git+magnet could be a cool combination.

I found this repo [1] that generates the magnet link for you, I would just need to find away to use the repo to make all the contributors peers to each other, so we can download the binaries from whoever is nearest / highest bandwidth from us.

[1] https://github.com/casey/intermodal
> Why would you not want the most rudimentary election security?

Why would I want a solution with negative trade offs for a problem I'm not convinced exists? Even if I believed it was a problem, I wouldn't just accept a solution that was "rudimentary" without considering the trade offs and alternative solutions.
The role social media plays during a pandemic like Covid-19
I'm 1-on-1 interviewing my 59 Algorithms students this semester. 20 minute interviews, and I have 2.5 TAs to help offset the workload. Starts on Wednesday, I'm absolutely dreading it. This would never scale to my 180 Intro students that I'll be getting this fall.
We have those. They're called Passports. But the rub is that some states and local municipalities will not accept a US Passport as ID. Which makes no sense what-so-ever.
Yeah, the 'decentralized' part of blockchain seems to slip people's minds a lot.

A centralized ledger database is the right solution sometimes.
I'm an atom user, and it chokes for the very same reason.

However I also use vim for tweaking server side stuff, and use less by default whenever I want to read something (logs is an obvious one)...

This is both for speed but also UX, i believe vim style navigation (which less basically gives you), is great for reading and searching - what I cannot stand though is doing more than small edits in vim, for development (and i mean code is flying around like crazy stage of development, not read for 1 hour and make tweaks), then I am fastest with the kind of flexibility atom provides.

I know it can be tempting to have one tool for everything when it seems like the tools are supposed to be doing the same thing, but in my mind lean text editors tend not to compete with the big fat slow electron style editors - so just use them both, for their respective strengths.
Only in HN is the notion that the "geniuses" of this generation are working for the FAANGs, sure, some may be, but I am willing to bet 99% of them are not.
Nobody is saying it would be easy, or that there wouldn't be edge cases where people would get screwed. I argue that the current situation where it's an edge case to find people who aren't screwed is worse.

I further argue that your whole issue, and many like it, are caused because you didn't have a national ID, granted at birth or naturalization, which all State ID programs are required to recognize.

I actually think that we need a constitutional amendment for a national ID system. Add lots of "the government shall not" language to it for CR/CL, and require States to recognize it as a source of truth by itself that you are you.
>Do you have research, or an evidence base, for this?

Economics by Paul Samuelson: https://archive.org/details/economics00paul/page/603

Do you have research that indicates the opposite is likely to be true? I'd be really interested in seeing what that is based upon.

>It certainly was not.

It's not unusual among for economists to do this subconsciously due to the incentive structure of the profession.
Some random points, hard to say in detail:

Browsers tend to not automatically open new tabs though, but only if you explicitly do something to cause it.

Maybe many people do not use multiple tabs within one site/app, and that doesn't translate (There's probably some research out there on how people use browsers in practice)

Your app might look and feel too different from a browser or other tabbed environment. Does it clearly communicate where a new tab is opened, that you can't go back on it, ...?
This made me smile. AWS is now the new Microsoft in the sense that "nobody got fired for picking AWS" or like the gold plated cables at Big Box Store to the less informed. MoAr BeTtAR.
Reduces the risk, but doesn't prevent it.
Tree data structure – When was the last time you use this?
Between God and Science in the Surreal Silicon Valley of ‘Devs’
> Further, it’s a demonstration of fairly comprehensive understanding of the coursework (you’d have to grasp >80% to have the program work at all), which I have trouble seeing how to do that in say, chemistry.

Lock someone in a room with some reagents, and expect them to produce extracted/cleaned output products of a certain testable purity and mass after N time. Make the process of getting from the reagents to the final product really involved, requiring at least one of every kind of basic reaction/setup taught in the course. (NileRed's "aspirin to tylenol" sequence might be a good example challenge: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0Ejuew2riA)

You know this is "the practical approach", because this is essentially how gangs qualify their chemists. "If you can really make [illegal drug], then make us some! Without doing anything that'll get the police called! In four hours!"
Companies leave the index when they fall below a certain market cap. Companies enter the index when they are above a certain market cap. That is literally the definition of buying high and selling low.
Depends on how much attention you pay to usernames of posters and commentors, and how much Doreen's posts and comments have resonated with you.
Paying more than 30% of one's income for housing-related expenses -- not just rent and utilities, or PITI plus utilities plus maintenance -- has become almost universal.

It is a form of sharecropping.

And then we must pay the dumb taxes on top of it. Sales taxes, wage taxes.

Taxing land value fully would bring the purchase price of a home down to the depreciated value of the structure plus something for the lovely mature landscaping. Instead of a downpayment on the land and building, one would, in effect, be purchasing the building from its current owner, and taking over the stream of location-based payment to the community. No down payment on that. Mortgages would be smaller, and shorter, and the sum of the mortgage payment and one's land value tax would be a lot less than the current sum of one's housing-related costs plus the dumb taxes. If one wanted to move from one city to another, selling one's home would be easier because more people could afford it, and in one's new city, one could afford a similar home, because wages in the new city would support the higher tax on the higher land value there.

Today, moving from Peoria to NYC or Silicon Valley is a whole other ballgame.

Phase this in, removing the dumb taxes, one after another, and collecting an increasing share of the annual value of the land, and our children will have better opportunities to thrive.
This is an insidious predicament to be in, having once been through this myself. I take it you are also forced to make the decision to burn meds to be able to function while driving to and from pharmacies or face life altering withdrawals to conserve your 30 day supply while you are navigating this BS pharmacy refill circus act we find ourselves subjected to when filling a script we've been on for years, yet met with disdain or a watchful eye meant to keep tabs on a suspected criminal/drug seeker by an overworked and grossly understaffed pharmacy tech who acts as a gatekeeper to getting it filled and will give you a hard time if you are from out of town.

We aren't opioid addicts abusing the system and putting a strain on tax payers, we need this stuff to be a functional and contributing member of society because our brains don't produce enough dopamine for myriad reasons. Why subject us to this hell every 30 days, we need medical reform NOW!
I think this has changed. People used to be very particular about how their apps looked on different native platforms, like you say. But I don't think it's like that anymore. People are more agnostic now, when it comes to how user interfaces look, because they've seen it all. Especially on the web, where there's really no rules, and where each new site and web app looks different. I believe this also carries over to native apps, and I think there's much more leeway now, for a user interface to look different from the native style, as long as it adheres to any of the general well established abstract principles for how user interface elements ought to behave.
Very interesting system. I wonder if this could work with regular gig economy as it exists in the US.

Why aren't there more co-operative businesses here? What stops taxi drivers or gig workers from forming a co-op with decent benefits?
Since when has the purpose of invasion been genocide?
You might enjoy this [0] post on a bit of the history of Excel math libraries

[0] https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2006/06/16/my-first-billg-rev...
But, I am traiding my time for my user's CPU and RAM, and evidence suggests many users are willing to pay the CPU and RAM to get more apps with more features.
You might be interested by this: https://sponsor.ajay.app/
yes, being able to calculate the tip for your bar tab without needing to dig into a purse to find your "calculator" is a nicety. Being able to calculate the savings from the 20% sales price is also a useful trick. My favorite is just being able to round up the prices of items at the grocery store, and keep a running total in my head. I know I'm a nerd, but the concept calculating the tip by doubling the value after moving the decimal place one position to the right of the total flabbergasts me on how difficult it is for others to grasp. That's like 6th grade level math (at least it was when I learned it).
Keep putting moms at playgrounds in jail.
> You are getting downvoted but this is absolutely true.

I don't mind that, I expected it with this post. People value things based on what it costs them in blood, sweat and tears. For example, suppose the Olympic Committee started handing out the exact same gold medals to everyone who shows up at the games. What's the value of that medal going to be? Zilch. Nobody is going to train for 10 years to get one of those.

But this observation doesn't fit with popular political thought, and people react negatively to it.
I've found that HN and other online communities have a disproportionate number of users who have no idea of rural life in America. As such they cannot fathom a poor, rural person without a birth certificate or a photo ID or the ability to get either.
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I suppose I should have made it explicit that this construction relies on the unpredictability of SINGLE-bit reads. I had actually considered some wording about that and the independence of each sample, but figured I'd sound pedantic.

Under the system you outlined, that single-bit unpredictability condition doesn't hold, so you're right that the construction totally breaks down. Given a starting bit of 0, you can predict the next bit with absolute certainty.

For something like your random source, it would be best to just skip every other bit and look at the result as a biased bit generator. In that case, the construction works: you would have (0, 1) and (1, 0) each happening with probability 2/9, while the matching sets (0, 0) and (1, 1) happen with a combined probability 5/9. That gives (0, 1) and (1, 0) as equally likely outputs, so just consistently take one of them, and you have an unbiased source.

But what you mention DOES have some relevance to bit generators, too. One of the Bernstein scenarios deals with a hypothetical backdoored RDRAND instruction on x86. The basic idea is that the instruction is designed with some understanding of the system the values will be used in, and doing a short brute-force to see which value would fix the first four bits to a desired pattern. With the "sample, check unmatched, take first" construction, that pattern would be SUPER easy to fix.
You are very dismissive of Facebook, yet I'm not sure what insight should be gleaned from this simplification. I'm open to understanding your point, but it sounds like your point is that Facebook is a website. And I'm not sure what insight that simplification allows me to unlock.

Beyond being a website, it's also a mobile app, marketplace, communication platform, hardware manufacturer, and cultural driver. (Not to mention that it's a research organization, crisis response tool, ally to law enforcement, etc.)

Would you similarly describe the US Constitution as a piece of paper? Such a simplistic reduction doesn't seem all that useful to me.
And in many cases features that would help your use case aren't enabled on that platform, or are in a release that's still a year or two from being supported on that platform... I'm looking at you, EKS.
AFAIR the name of the project sounds like "non-Jew" in Hebrew and Yiddish, in derogatory connotation.

Is it just by accident?
It's absolutely harmful to your creative and professional career, which are shallow metrics by which to gauge your success in life.
This page summarizes some, and it includes a link to a database of convictions.

https://www.heritage.org/election-integrity/heritage-explain...
My take on it is - just write for yourself. If, when you read it, it sounds like a good write up to you for whatever your own reasons are, that is all that's required. If no one else reads it, fine. But you might be surprised, a lot of other people may find it interesting as well :)
“The point of git is that there isn't a single authoritative state.“

I think you’re missing the point of the post you refer to.

For git, there _technically_ isn’t a single authoritave state, but for many, if not most, git use cases, there _sociologically_ is. Projects typically have one repo that is _the_repo_: the repo most merges are done to, that releases get built from, whose url you give when you tell people where the project lives, etc.

All other clones of that repo, sociologically, are just caching the main repo and changes you make.

Then, humans have to decide when to flush what part(s) of the write cache to the main server, and when that results in conflicts, humans have to resolve them.

That’s, I think, what “which manages to push all the coherency issues onto the user” means.
Neofeudalism: The End of Capitalism?
You are arguing against a point I didn't make. I'm not trying to rehash nonsense language arguments. I'm saying that many times the easy electron route is also correlated with programming that gives poor performance even outside of electron functions.
Do you have them upload the source code of their projects? If so, after the upload could you display the project’s file tree along with a last minute change their hypothetical client has requested and give them a minute or two to select the file(s) that would need a pull request in order to make the change? They don’t even need to make the change, just identify where the change would happen.

Someone who wrote the code themselves will know right away and someone who purchased a project won’t have enough time to sift through the code to figure out the answer.
Unlikely. Most AP teachers are rated on their AP pass rate. They have every incentive in the world to help you cheat.

That's why they don't let your teacher proctor your exam unless they have to.
I think it might be an allusion to the Jeff Hammerbacher quote "The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads".
You are either just trying to be argumentative or have a weak grasp on the english language
I suspect they would if they were positioned to and thought they would profit from it. Some people (in this very thread) consider Windows 10 to have a significant amount of spyware.
>In fact these days we are all that man or woman; you only need to resort to Wikipedia to realise how outdated the idea of knowing everything — or indeed anything — has become.

The word is polymath, like polyglot. We don't expect a polyglot to speak all languages.

Leonardo won't have known everything either.
For the blogs and writers you follow that use RSS, are they really choosing to forgo a meaningful monetization opportunity?

Unless a blog really has ~50,000+ daily uniques, or a lucractive audience niche, I suspect there’s not much opportunity to monetize even if they wanted to.