skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I started the practice some years back and I am now addicted to it. The way I do it I learned from "The Nature Cure: A Doctor's Guide to the Science of Natural Medicine" by Andreas Michalsen (a good book!):

You shower regularly, as always. You do not replace your usual shower with a cold shower, you add it to it. At the end, before you leave, if you can you turn the shower head to a slow constant stream, and the temperature to "cold". It does not have to be the coldest setting! Especially at the beginning, try a "mild level of cold".

Now, you begin with one of your feet. Let the water run over one foot for a while to cool it down. Do the other foot. You _slowly_ work you way up your legs, cooling them down, and after the legs, you do the hands and then arms. Don't splash them, really let the water run over the body part for a long time. Usually at this point, your body is cooled down enough to include the back, belly, breast, shoulders, and, finally, if you have the nerve, head.

The secret that got me was: It is definitely not about shocking your body, it is not about using the coldest water you can get, and taking time to do it properly. You also don't have to go all the way, every day. Some days, I skip the head, sometimes I even skip the whole torso. There is no competition here, no need to complete the exercise every single time.

Michalsen claims that it's not for all body types either. Try it for some days. For me, it felt refreshing from the very first session.
Beyond the question of whether it’s your marketing, is it also a problem of the size of your addressable market? How novel is your solution compared to the ways (Ie. how well) existing solutions work?

I’ve been in projects before where things grew very easily due to no effort simply because people wanted that product. And then in other projects where the solution is elegant but people were already satisfied with existing solutions. And so the few who wanted it simply meant the product was niche.

Zapier is one that comes to mind where I could see the solution, before its successes, could have gone either way. Either people were happy with their existing workflows and ignore what Zapier could do, or it would change their lives. If your product is defining a new segment, this could be the problem.
> runit optional alternative /sbin/init

Yay, runit. Also openrc. I can't wait to upgrade my VM to this release and switch to runit.
I’m my career, UI rewrites have been By far the most successful.

It may just be anecdotal, but my assumption has been that most of the edge cases are more easily identified because UIs are by nature going to have most of their business logic visible to the human eye.
> […] There will not be a backdoor to allow this.

https://twitter.com/alexstamos/status/1268061796339814400

Eh, am I supposed to trust you just like that? If history taught is anything, it's that there will be.
There is a very new web standard for registering your site as a sharing target. It only works on Chrome and I assume Apple won't be rushing to implement it.

https://web.dev/web-share-target/
It depends what your definition of 'black' is: https://www.theatlantic.com/notes/2015/08/toni-morrison-wasn...
> Question to Americans: if the police really are acting this badly, why aren't y'all exercising your second amendment rights to defend yourselves?

Because that is a fever dream. The reality is that if you use a firearm on the police you get killed on the spot or it turns into a siege and you are killed some time later.
Everyone should be using uBlock Origin. There is no reason to see ads anywhere on the internet.
Alternatively one can load the data into Google BigQuery and start running queries without indexing the data. It's not free though, however can save a lot of time. BigQuery supports import of JSON and CSV files from Google Cloud Storage and it can even infer the schema.
This is some great news. Connecting on and off-chain protocols is key for blockchain to become more adopted.
0. The requirements were known in advance of starting the design.
Well, I think that you can't predict if the driver of the other car will brake (or accelerate).

And even if: are its breaks strong enough to prevent it from crossing your way? (Or the other way round: What is likely its maximum acceleration?)

Please note that all of the above can happen even without any adversarial intentions.
which opposites are you talking about?

I cannot find any in the parents comment.
Wow, that explanation, live, and seeing it play out is incredible. That narration and video work given the situation is incredibly commendable.
>the only thing that makes something factual is when enough people share the same opinion about it.

You've got it wrong. Religion is a perfect example.

What makes something factual is overwhelming evidence and expert consensus. It's not a 100% foolproof system but it's as close as we humans are ever going to get.

Ideas presented by people without good evidence are not entitled to serious consideration. Especially when those ideas contradict all existing evidence.

We need to stop normalizing this very dangerous notion that people can have their own "facts".
iXsystems Announces TrueNAS Scale as a Linux-Based Offering
If you’re so smart, why aren’t you rich? Turns out it’s just chance
Ask HN: How do you use Zettelkasten for mathematics and CS?
Given the recent HN trend of Zettelkasten, I thought I’d ask how do you actually apply the methodology when writing down notes from hard sciences.

I’m not that interested in implementation details (which is what is discussed on HN most of the time), but rather:

1. what do consider one page

2. what do you link

3. what metadata do you add

I also have some problems with general note-taking (in Analysis): one of the problems I have is that I’m not sure whether it’d be better to rewrite the definitions, theorems, and proofs verbatim and add some personal notes to them, or whether to just have the personal notes and not copy the facts from the book.
I'm not sure what your point is? Do you believe that all encryption is broken? If not, to the FBI, the tapped data should be indistinguishable from random bytes, from the definition of ciphertext. And that serves its purpose perfectly well. Whether or not the FBI has access to the ciphertext is immaterial.
Reverse engineer/packet sniff the implementation and perform some sort of cryptanalysis to see if the implementation works according to the published protocol. It's pretty standard.

That's sort of what happened with the ECB mode stuff that kicked this whole thing off in the first palace. See section 4 from the below for more info.

https://citizenlab.ca/2020/04/move-fast-roll-your-own-crypto...
Yes It does make it a little better.
The best answer for every how-do-I-make-the-product-better question is always "Talk to the users."
This is the most disingenuous take I've seen on here yet. Why don't you post the video of the incident instead [1]? This is someone that nearly ran over a large crowd of people, no shit the crowd is going to be angry after seeing what looked like someone trying to murder them. It seems you're the one trying to twist the truth here.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKQaPowMQmU
"Secure by default is no longer a staple"

It never was. It never was.

Security was built over time, with a lot of lessons learned in between.

Browsers didn't magically start supporting SSL overnight. MSN Messenger never had any encryption, for example.

One of the first protocols to support some form of encryption was SILC, but who uses it?
It's good as a Canadian plan, but atrocious elsewhere in the world.
Rogers used Ericsson before and they were no cheaper than Telus that was heavy huawei. Geography and population density and lack of competition are what make Canadian wireless more expensive than other countries.

Either way I would rather pay more and not rely on China.

Also I'm holding a grudge against huawei due to Nortel being hacked.
CAFED00D was used as the magic number for the pack200 compressed class file format.
Without seeing your product it's very hard to give any advise.

Maybe you've not done marketing correct, maybe your product has steep learning curve. Maybe too many alternatives exist at lower price point.

There are lots of maybes, so send me an email I'll take a look zerocorebeta@gmail.com and offer some feedback.
"Do you have a reading comprehension disability" is plainly an attack.

"Pointing out the truth" can certainly be an attack or flamebait. It depends on which truth and how it's used. One middle schooler "pointing out" the acne on another's face can be quite an attack. The hardest substance (truth) makes the sharpest weapon. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23381247 on the "it's just facts" defense, the most beloved of trolls.

For example, let's assume that your comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23396054 was factual and that George Floyd was intoxicated when he was killed. Bringing that up in this context, as if it somehow mitigates anything about his killing, is certainly flamebait, true or not.

Re "I see - only the hive mind is allowed" - that's also a common response. Everyone always feels like the mods are against them, secretly siding with the opposition: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu... We oppose your favorite sports team too, and conspire with the highway patrol to make sure it's always you who gets the speeding ticket.
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Right, but there is always something to go on there, who made the purchases, where was the card stolen etc.
> and, more importantly, is part of the same intelligence alliance

that's exactly why you shouldn't use American network equipment. The Canadian government cannot spy on Canadian citizens due to legal restriction. So instead it tells the CIA to spy on you and then share what they learnt through the intelligence alliance.
How I would put voice control in everything
> No stupid app to download. No account to create. No bullshit fees. No marketing emails. I just tell them what I want and then go get it. It's refreshing.

The interesting thing is that I view all those (except the fees) as benefits.

App makes it always easy to access and I can casually browse for food when hungry.

Account means I can re-order a past thing with a tap and that all my payment information is saved.

Marketing emails mean coupons.
I am often impressed by the things that can be done with these old-school UNIX tools. I'm trying to learn a few of them, and the most difficult part are these very implicit syntax constructions. How is the naive observer to know that in bash `$(something)` is command substitution, but in a Makefile `$(something)` is just a normal variable? With `awk`, `sed` and friends it gets even worse of course.

Is the proper answer 'just learn it'? Are these tools one of these things (like musical instruments or painting) where the initial learning phase is tedious and frustrating, but the potential is basically limitless?
As someone from Germany it seems very strange how casually he talks about being shot at, as if this is a normal thing.
When the scope of your project doubles overnight
I know there's the southern strategy theory, but it's really just a Democrat talking point. The Democrats continued to dominate state and local politics as well as presidential elections until Ronald Reagan in 1980. Eisenhower carried half of the south in 1956 as a Republican. Kennedy did not win the whole south in 1960. Goldwater won 5 states of the 14 that make up the cultural south, a minority of both delegates and total states. Even Hoover (Republican in 1928) won much of the South: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1928_United_States_president...

This myth that 1964 was some magical year where southern politics flipped is completely made up. In 1976, Jimmy Carter completely swept the South.

Wallace, who split the Democrat vote in 1968 by running as an independent, went back to become a Democrat governor of Alabama. Vast majority of the south had Democrat leadership and congressional representation until the 90s, post Reagan. Clinton and Gore, both southern.

Georgia, had Democrats for governor until 2003: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_governors_of_Georgia

Florida, mostly Democrat governors until 1999: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_governors_of_Florida

Alabama blue until 1987: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_governors_of_Alabama

Mississippi blue until 1992: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_governors_of_Mississ...

I can go on and on... Republican party never opposed the CRA. Goldwater was an outsider, a libertarian leaning Republican.
"He lobbied for homosexuals to be able to serve openly in the military, opposed the Clinton administration's plan for health care reform, and supported abortion rights and the legalization of medicinal marijuana."

Goldwater opposed CRA on principle but the majority of the Republican party voted for it, with 136 for and 36 against (in fact, more Dems voted against than Repubs):

https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/88-1964/h182
Those are all very good points.

Since Allen was there and I was not he is in a far better position to know. But my impression was that the Smalltalk group had been reasonably happy with their 8086 based NoteTaker computer and expected their partners (HP, Tektronix, Apple and DEC) to use commercial processors instead of designing custom ones. Even if they were far slower than the Xerox Dorado.

About Squeak in a web browser, it was a completely different project than the current SqueakJS. Alan was frustrated that the IT people at schools wouldn't allow Squeak to be installed on their machines. So the native code VM was bundled into a plugin for the then popular web browsers and it became as easy to use Squeak as Flash. Except that the IT people allowed Flash but not Squeak so it ended up not helping. But in terms of performance it was better than Flash, Java (not Hotspot) or Javascript.
The infantile interface and oh-so-precious baby talk that accompanies Squeak (a modern vision of Smalltalk 80) put me off the several times that I started to use it.
> No, in order to have privacy you can choose applications which appeal to different user base and have different tradeoffs.

In other words, don't use Zoom.

> Please read the twitter thread mentioned below to understand their perspective.

Their perspective is they don't want to use end to end encryption so they can turn their users in.

Even for ordinary users, this yields no advantage to the user. For users who have reason to fear oppression by the authorities it's quite problematic, and in general everyone else should try to avoid using such things out of solidarity.
Coverage coast to coast along highways is the same distance but 1/10 the Canadians?
If they think you're a terrorist or want to pretend that you are, $20 won't keep them out of your calls. This is just a way to justify expanding surveillance and making a few bucks off it.
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> child porn rings (he isn't saying it explicitly

Well he didn't use the word "rings" but he did says CSAM (Child Sexual Abuse Material).
i'm not sure ive has a lot of lessons to give on evolving an architecture in a way that improves maintainability and adds functionality. ive's entire MO revolved around removing those two things from the systems he designed.
> Yes! I don’t know why there’s so much apprehension about calling the restaurant.

Maybe it is because I am relatively young. I grew up apps first, so all the little annoyances of phones (accents, noise in the background, dropped calls, a lack of written records, etc) frustrate me more than others who didn't grow up with apps that just worked.
Well, among the biggest non-anonymous entities to have attacked BLM have been police unions, e.g., https://www.sanjoseinside.com/opinion/blue-lives-matter-sj-p...

A whole lot of known people an organizations have actively supported one or both of Blue Lives Matter and All Lives Matter, both of which are hostile responses to Black Lives Matter, and have often done so attached to direct condemnation of BLM, including frequently (by as notable a known person as then candidate and now President Donald Trump) explicitly calling BLM a racist movement.
This is objectively wrong as multiple people confirmed it was in fact tear gas [1]. The USPP was lying.

[1] https://twitter.com/GarrettHaake/status/1267824405876359173
He sure looked menacingly at those cops. I'm sure he must've done something. Cops wouldn't do that w/out a reason. /s
I'm not sure what it has to do with breaking up Google. I'm just saying that they are leading users to think that Google will stop tracking them if they turn on Google's private browsing mode.

The average user doesn't know what private browsing really mode means. If Google says you are in private browsing mode and that some other "websites and ISPs" might still track you, they aren't being clear that Google itself is still knowingly tracking you.
Also in SF:

https://web.archive.org/web/19991018181832/https://www.jwz.o...
I don't understand this though. I use both Google Meet and Zoom. On both platforms there are people who don't know how to use basic features labeled by buttons with descriptive text, and I don't even blame them because in a meeting when everyone's listening to you it's easy to have "brain farts" like this. On Zoom there's even the additional issue of "joining computer audio" even. I think this has more to do with people's personalities (perhaps triggering a form of stage fright) than the software.
The 20x26 example is indeed scary, but in line with what was known about facial recognition. (It also becomes a bit less scary when you don't look at a zoomed-in version of the image.)

Hence my suggestion to reduce a face to something like 5x5 blocks.

While I'm familiar with the crypto design problem, this is not a crypto algorithm. Sure, it can't be ruled out that someone in the future will find a way to do it, but the state of the art says that 5x5 pixels are not anywhere near enough to run face recognition.

And a solution that may be broken in the future is often much better than a solution that people don't use because it doesn't meet their needs, which in this case is not having fugly black boxes in their picture.
Because the analysis needs to be done by a human mind, and it's 10x more difficult to analyse a binary, even with some tools. And it is already hard to analyze even clean source code, because there can be hidden backdoors, they are not always all called "function SendDataToFBIForTracking(data)".
pacman -R zoom
Then your feelings are wrong. No runtime environment provides anything near the JVM's combination of performance, productivity and observability. It's steam engines vs. an electric motor, alright.

Yes, there is a cost in footprint and warmup, but footprint is very often (though not always) the right cost. Of all software resources -- development, maintenance, memory, processing and bandwidth -- it's the cheapest (well, second to storage). By comparison Go is less RAM hungry but it's sluggish and opaque.
Right. He's making an analogy about how things wait in line, and he's talking about for significant amounts of time, not fractions of a second. That's not how the internet works at all. Competing data flows slow down a bit but all run simultaneously.

We don't even have to get into the silly parts like "the people who are streaming through 10, 12 movies at a time or a whole book at a time"
I'd also point out that while slavery may have supposedly ended after the civil war, crimes were created and applied selectively to black people.

Combined with racial violence, sharecropping that kept black people in constant debt, and other policies, many black people were still forced to labor against their will.

Even now, prison labor is still regularly exploited. For example, low level offenders in California are a big part of the fire fighters that fight wildfires, but they are paid below minimum wage (like a dollar an hour), and then, despite that training, they typically can't work as firefighters after release because of their criminal history.

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/08/14/california-is-paying-inmates...

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4928680/Haunting-pi...
https://theconversation.com/exploiting-black-labor-after-the...
https://listverse.com/2017/06/21/10-ways-american-slavery-co...
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A lot of general people don't care about zoom 'dark' deals and still use it just because habit/comfort/etc. Hope many general news&blogging platform will spread the word about.
"Reverse engineering a specific version [every version?] of a private binary is a reasonable burden of proof for users to undertake in order to feel confident in the encryption used by their comms"

What? I usually agree with your takes but this seems out there (or did I misread/mischaracterize it)
>But governments are lead by politicians who get money from unions. Union supports leader, leader pays union, union supports leader. No incentive to keep costs down at all.

Hence the US states' and cities' unfunded pension debt crisis. Only solution to it in democracies is for non government employees to actively participate in local elections.
You say no chance, I say someone is probably already starting to work on it.

Don't forget we can sniff and inject packets at the network level. Just because we dont have sources doesn't mean we can't test if it works or not.
Go back to the 50s and 60s and take a look at where and how the cities carved out spaces for the Interstate Freeways.

A century early, the space for NYC's Central Park was 'acquired' by forcing out 1600 residents of Seneca Village.

At about the same time Indians were being forced onto reservations. Why couldn't the Indian communities stand on their own?
That was uncalled for . Yes it is hard or impossible to do in zoom .

If these tools use open standards and well documented protocols this will not be a problem.

I can verify without a phd in cryptoanalyis and reverse engineering my browser is running a secure connection to a website and certificate is signed by the source(for sites enabled with FS and HSTS ).
Yeah - it's even more Zuckerbergian "surveillance capitalism" than Facebook.

Advertisers are nickel and dime-ing cheapskates - gotta plug into the "War on Citizens" police state money pipe to get rich these days...
> Maxim 2: If it doesn’t run under Windows, then it’s Windows’ fault.

And the preceding example is just hilarious. But hey "it works on my machine! it must be your fault!!11"

It was similar shenanigans when a lot of Windows 95/98 "stopped working" when Windows 2000/XP worked. "What do you mean I can't write to C:/Windows whenever I want? What do you mean I can't put my config option in some hidden corner of the system registry?"

sigh
Commercial interests and national ambitions mainly. Some corporations found it much easier to sell to specific EU countries than to lobby the EU, so deals were made.

Also, the EU is more keen to protect privacy whereas specific EU member states want (to sell) free reign on their citizens.

This lobbying game plays out all the time. You just cherry-pick your targets, find the weakest link so to speak. In this case, he more authoritarian and neo-liberal the parties in charge of the country/region, the easier you will net them.
So, why not just go to Pharo, which is both more modern and less child-oriented in presentation than Squeak, from which it derives?