skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's entirely possible that QC will arrive but will be more of a special purpose accelerator for certain algorithms (think of the way custom ASICs can accelerate specific operations) rather than a general purpose thing. Some form of general purpose QC may happen eventually but that might take quite a bit longer, and it may take longer still for it to be commonplace.

In the meantime there will be a strong need for classically computable cryptographic algorithms that are strong against attack by any known quantum computable algorithm.

Symmetric encryption (AES, ChaCha) and hashing (SHA, Blake2) are mostly safe as long as at least 256 bit keys are used and the algorithm doesn't have weaknesses that QC might open wider. Asymmetric encryption based on conventional Diffie-Hellman, RSA, or elliptic curve methods is absolutely not safe. There are known quantum algorithms that on paper can crack them in reasonable amounts of time if you have the right type and size of quantum computer, and at this point we have reason to believe that such a quantum computer can probably be built.

Post-quantum cryptography efforts are about developing asymmetric encryption (key exchange and signatures) that can be computed on a classical computer but for which there are no known quantum attacks.

The biggest danger by far is that somebody figures something out and builds such a quantum computer in secret, allowing them to snoop on all kinds of secret communication and steal vast amounts of money before anyone figures out something funny is going on. Unlike an atomic bomb or a new kind of aircraft or satellite, such a quantum computer could be built and operated without creating physical effects that anyone could see at a distance. Unless somebody talks it could remain secret for quite a while.
“nothing else happened in the background while you held a menu open“

That was because the OS was hacked (I guess the design looked differently, initially) to run on a 8MHz 68000 in 128k of RAM. To make menu opening and closing snappy (necessary because users will open and close menus searching for a menu option), it was implemented by

1. saving the screen bits that would be clobbered drawing the menu.

2. handling menu selection.

3. copying back those bits.

Drawing to the screen could mean writing directly to screen memory, which couldn’t be detected because there was no MMU, but even if it was done using system calls, programs couldn’t be halted when they made such calls. So, step 3 meant changes ‘under’ the opened menu would be lost, so nothing could be allowed to draw to the screen during step 2.

And of course, little of that mattered for the original OS, as it wouldn’t run multiple programs or multiple threads in a program. Step 2 would be the only thing running that was supposed to do screen drawing (with exceptions for drawing the mouse pointer, a feature that just have been fun to implement. Sound and async disk I/O (with its funny software-controlled floppy rotation speed) also would run, but those were limited in what they were supposed to do)

I’m not 100% glad those times are gone. Things were harder to do, but getting anything done felt way more as an accomplishment.
I mean, the claim that Iraq had WMDs didn't change anyone's mind about invading because it was prima facie nonsense, right? Unless you have direct evidence that the claim was both accepted as true and moved the needle on sentiment regarding the invasion?

Maybe everyone was just in favour of getting shot of Saddam because, like, "drain the swamp [beside the Euphrates]"?
Any sort of code review, basic testing on different systems/OSes, or clean-up (whether in code or documentation) is welcome. Some of the libraries for Satellite-tracking etc. are actually agnostic of requiring a wristband. The apps can generally be run / partially tested without needing to connect to a band.
The fact that it still runs and can even connect to the net (however unsafe that may be with its current state) has delayed the project.

The power supply is flaking out. When the magic goes, it goes.

One of the more amazing things was the monitor. It manages to power itself via the DVI cable.
Finite Fields in Cryptography: Why and How
I'm curious if there will be a market for this--plenty of current production aircraft can work perfectly well as air taxis, but the service has only caught on in niche markets (island-hopping float planes, some helicopter services, arguably a lot of bush flying). Decreasing the cost by an order of magnitude might go some distance to open the market up--I can't see this succeeding without a drastic advantage in operating costs over traditional aircraft (I think the jury's still out on whether electric propulsion is a significant advantage here, and VTOL requirements are a big disadvantage).

The case for VTOL in particular becomes a lot less convincing when you're primarily looking at the kind of regional travel Lilium mentions here--why not just electrify an existing FW aircraft and operate out of existing infrastructure (https://www.harbourair.com/harbour-air-and-magnix-announce-s...)? Small airports are pretty ubiquitous, and going through an FBO largely eliminates long waits for security and boarding (not to mention alleviating some of the last-mile transportation issues).

I can't stress enough that nothing is simple about VTOL--even if this aircraft lacks complex hydraulic, fuel, and oil systems, any failure in the (electromechanical?) control actuation systems will likely prevent transition to/from hovering flight. It looks like the control surfaces may be designed to have multiple, independent segments (hopefully with redundant actuators) to mitigate these kinds of failures (aside: it's fascinating to see a GA aircraft designed to be dependent on TVC for basic stability and control), but a loss of even one of these segments might not allow a safe power margin for a vertical landing near max gross weight, and it doesn't look like the wheels were designed at all with roll-on landings in mind.

All that said, I wish the engineers working on this thing the best. The current demonstrator is a great-looking machine, and it'd be awesome to see this kind of thing succeed.
To get a bunch of friends who don't have accounts related to the business with non-new accounts to leave a review sounds pretty trivial.
Sure. But in my experience, what works better is remembering happy times. Or rather, represencing happy states.

And once I'm being happy and optimistic, it's natural to persevere and accomplish stuff more effectively, and I have desired results. That is, "be -> do -> have". Which is just the opposite of the western cultural default of "have -> do -> be". As in: "If I were wealthy, I could do all this fun stuff, and then I'd be happy."
So you believe that hyperinflation is coming?
Screaming fast NVMe controllers blur line between storage and memory
I know at least two people who have been fired over the last month for wrongthink: one was due to a guy's stupidity; with the other, some woke vigilante went after him and intentionally took some jokes out of context. And this isn't an uncommon story. Did I imagine these two people losing their jobs, or did it really happen? Did they have their speech suppressed? And if it did happen, can you not see any parallels to how totalitarian regimes - Soviet or otherwise - operated?

> There is no real speech suppression going on (except, maybe, by the right wingers in power), but the leftists and mobs reminiscent of the soviet era certainly don't have any power right now.

During any coup d'etat, the perpetrators have two immediate objectives: isolate the existing leader and control the flow of information (usually the TV broadcasters or radio). This is true of almost every coup. For instance, a few years ago, the Turkish military attempted a coup against Erdogan, and were thwarted when he started making Facetime calls to the outside.[1] Schools are also often targeted over the longer term, and in places with state religion, the religious institutions are as well. I'd ask whether the "right wingers in power" are more isolated than any generic previous people in power, and I'd ask whether the "right wingers in power" have control over those culture institutions, or whether those are more guided by "the leftists and mobs" who "don't have any power right now."

The most we can really say is that some right wingers have titles, but I'd argue that they have little actual power. (The current right-winger can't even get his former National Security Adiver's charges dropped, which were filed during his presidency by his people.)

[1] https://www.vox.com/2016/7/16/12206304/turkey-coup-facetime
I may speak for myself but the grand majority of my experiences with restaurants is most of them do a totally passable job, many very good for their price point in my opinion. Of course there’s levels to it but its food and having a decent restaurant should be far from herculean. This article is essentially suggesting that making it in the world of restaurants is like anything else: it hinges a lot on luck and circumstance.

And as an additional personal note, I can tell you that in Michigan I went to many smaller restaurants with one or two bad reviews that were great. If you actually read the bad reviews, you often see some utterly ridiculous shit.
To be clear I don't think that a bunch of motors with low latency control solve the problem of flying straight in turbulence. I think that it will allow for exploration of a new space of clever approaches to mitigate turbulence for craft with low inertia.
If it's a problem for debtors it will be a problem for just about every past college student in America starting at least a decade ago.

Now, I think we should forgive most if not all student loans, and start paying for an education, but if the system insists on the majority of college degree seekers carrying student loans then you have a huge problem with deflation.

It would also be a massive problem for corporate debt right now. I think the central bank would rather print money by the Trillions then allow deflation at scale.
Amazon does this for Apple products. My recent Apple Watch purchase had its serial number on the invoice, which I managed to use to look up its date of manufacture. (I needed one that works with a jailbreakable iPhone.)

Amazon was motivated to include the serial number presumably because Apple stuff either had a lot of return fraud, or Apple themselves requested for the supply chain to be tightened up.
The current version of libgcrypt is not practically exploitable using the technique described in that 3 year old paper.
This one actually has 512mb of RAM, funny enough. No RAM doubler or virtual memory enabled. I was using iCab and Word side-by-side. It's the fastest PDQ model made AFAIK. No RAM doubler.

The main issue with it right now is that the sound doesn't work at all. I was going to take it apart and check the DC / sound card (which is the same module) and see if there's something obviously wrong with it once I get the chance.
From https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html

> Show HN is for something you've made that other people can play with. HN users can try it out, give you feedback, and ask questions in the thread.

> Blog posts, sign-up pages, curated lists, and other reading material can't be tried out, so can't be Show HNs.

This doesn't look like something we can try. It's not clear how this rule applies to books, but in an old thread, dang said that a sample chapter may be enough.
> be a lot of development of new algorithms based on whatever that computer can do.

This whatever should only change the performance by constant factors.

In theory, cryptographic algorithms give the defender an exponential advantage against the attacker, so any small constant factor can be overcome by adding a few bits of security margin.
Thanks for the note - won’t happen again.
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This is just basic marketing. You sell to the guy who can buy.

The Tesla company was started in 2003 to productionize the AC tzero. In 2005, the Roadster was conceived as the product it became and Tesla and Lotus tied up.

The Secret Master Plan arrived in 2006. So yeah, that's just how it goes. Because there is an army of people who lament things targeted at rich people, but that army does not participate in progress, either in money or in sweat.

The intelligent futurist always ignores them because they contribute nothing.
Regarding your first paragraph, consider these two claims:

1. Progress comes from people who are willing to ignore conventional wisdom and social norms.

2. The conventional wisdom is mostly wise, and social norms evolved in ways that are mostly good.

These claims don't conflict. It's entirely possible for independent thinkers to be mostly wrong, much wronger than the mainstream, and to be essential for progress. Most changes may not be improvements, but every improvement is still a change.
In this case, if it uses rrweb, it just stores all the HTML and all DOM mutations that happen. This is a pretty accurate method (even though still doesn't record all events, for example text selection, and if you watch an mp4 video for example, it won't save the entire video, only the URL to it), but it uses a lot of data.

In my case, I created a more simple solution for userTrack.net, where I just store the URL, record all events that happen and replay them by loading the iframe at the same URL and re-triggering all the events. It's not as accurate as storing HTML and mutations, but it uses a lot less data.
> gender fluidity would disappear

Transhumanism would result in the opposite. The very idea of a gender binary should be called into question when you reach the level of augmenting and transcending the limits of your flesh.

The author seems to have a very narrow understanding of Transhumanism.
What about the user's cookie?
Thank you for that article. I like to think that I keep up with what some call "Freakonomics" (not the book, but the concept), and I had never come across that succinct and well developed model. Again - thank you.
Probably play Valorant, slackline in the park, read a book (Pain Free as of recently), and cook some food for the week.
>Since stars are burning out and the universe is expanding, are we also about the last generation of life?

Red dwarfs will still be burning a trillion years from now. The flare stars among them will only become more stable with time. I'm not sure what the prospects for interstellar travel will be by then, though.
I have an employment based green card; I got the Perm and have an approved I-140.
In addition to the other responses, a lot of the low hanging fruit from infrastructure in the US has already been claimed, the Interstate system for instance was a massive investment but once it is built the benefits from further transportation infrastructure are more marginal and much of the spending goes towards maintenance which is extremely unsexy.

To give a more tech focused example: building infrastructure to give everyone in the US 50 mbps internet would be expensive and quite valuable. Improving that infrastructure from 50 to a gig would also be expensive but (for now) far less valuable.
Xray + CV will fail horribly when the device is sent back with the power cable wrapped around it...
>The real issue is Garmin's lack of communication.

And here we are a full day and a half into the outage and no update and no ETA, just the same generic "Sorry, we have an outage bro" message that they put up a few hours in. I guess if this really is WastedLocker they're just sitting around arguing over whether to pay the ransom.
this article is about DNSSEC
Needed: A Better Language for Embedded Systems Programming (2011)
Well, the R side pops up when they optimistically tell you that your 20 min commute is going to cost 70 USD...

SpaceX is exactly the WORST example in this context: they just went ahead without all the bureaucratic overhead you find at NASA; they weren’t exactly transporting people at the beginning but cargo... And they had a pretty clear market with fat margins; those margins were fat due to the (unnecessary) overhead other agencies created.

You can’t do that in this case.

Put a bit differently: you can probably guess the magnitude of costs for a car to develop. In this case, I would be more than surprised if the get within a 10x magnitude in the end for their cost estimate and EVER get it certified. Again: there are currently NO guidelines how to certify that...

An example from Airbus and the A400 flagship:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europrop_TP400

“Several technical problems delayed the engine's certification test program and pushed the entire A400M aircraft program into further scheduling adjustments. The engine delays were primarily due to problems with completing the full authority digital engine control (FADEC) software to the satisfaction of the civil authorities. More specifically, Europrop determined in mid-2008 that the engine worked correctly, but the FADEC software still did not meet EASA requirements.[27] Since the A400M was intended for humanitarian missions, the aircraft also needed to have a civil certification. Europrop did not realize that this meant the FADEC also had to show traceability and accessibility, so EASA denied civil certification of the software. Because of this problem, the first A400M test aircraft, which was flight-ready by September 2008, was not permitted to fly. Europrop had to triple the size of its workforce to fix the issue,[28] resulting in a FADEC system consisting of over 275,000 lines of code, which was four times more complex than the FADEC software for the largest civil jet engine.[29] Other problems included numerous plane subsystems providing insufficient logging to the main aircraft computer.[30]”
I'd like less opinions please. Maybe (don't wanna get greedy) none? How about that great idea of 2 papers for the price of 1, only stop sending the opinion paper?
Amtraks stop for 20 minutes every 30 minutes to let passengers on and off at each stop. A car journey only stops if you need gas (15 minutes) or if you need to use personal facilities (10 minutes).

Furthermore, an amtrak will only hit a top speed of 79mph, and only a few times during the journey, while a car can stay at 75mph for most the journey.
Why do you think it's not ethical? When you go in any shop around the world there are cameras recording you. Do consider that to be ethical because the main purpose of the cameras is security? What if they actually use the recorded video to improve shop layout, product placements and increase sales?
Well, Napoleon Bonaparte as well, plus all the kings between him and Napoleon III.
update: I've now removed the login entirely until it's absolutely needed. This change will go live in the next few weeks
Law? No. Borders? Certainly. Is this as uncontroversial as you assume? My conservative friend was laughing earlier this week when he found out he can't go to Canada anymore because it's closed to Americans. He pointed to the woods north of his yard and said "the border is an invisible line buried in there somewhere."

This is also unrelated to the terminology of "illegal immigrant," insomuch as an immigrant is a person and so therefore the equivalent phrase is "illegal person" which is again, absurd, how can a person's existence be "illegal?"
Maybe. I'd like to see myself.

But, I'm highly skeptical for a lot of reasons. This design in particular introduces a lot of turbulent flow over the lift surfaces, and is going to require a lot of fancy logic to ensure the aircraft can remain stable with one or more of it's motors failing. It ads a lot of complexity, to a vehicle where simplicity keeps you safe, particularly at low altitudes where seconds matter when there's a problem.
If the US military has game changing, society shocking technology it's not going to freaking patent it and make it public. It serves no purpose to do so.
I only glanced through the wikipedia, and it doesn't seem at all like hyper inflation stems form low inflation environments.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperinflation#Notable_hyperin...
Calm down now, it's called hyperbole. You will encounter it a lot, especially online, so don't take everything you read literally.

Also, we are talking 6 hours, not "a few". And depending on your height, seat recline, and problems with lower back pain, you can bet for some people, 6 hours unable to stand up can be quite painful. Not, "bamboo shoots under your fingernails painful" but not something anyone would want to go through.

For me, the claustrophobia of not being able to stand up would be quite terrible.
Stop buying from amazon.
Cameras are usually pretty well hidden. And isn't a website you don't own a public place? Do you expect Google not to track what you do on their site?
Dwarf Fortress, as mentioend in one of the comments, is a big counterexample. Other older ASCII art games that remain popular fall into this bin as well (NetHack, Rogue). Not to mention any of the popular Flash games with graphics somewhere in the range of minimal to shitty.

It is definitely much easier to draw people into playing your game if it looks nice/has a cool and cohesive aesthetic (the 6-second GIF heuristic mentioned in the top-comment), but if your game is a major success in other ways, it can be a hit despite what it looks like. But that doesn't mean you should neglect the aesthetics: part of getting something to be popular is removing as many of these "despites"/barriers-to-entry as possible.
I find all these pretty great:

- Persuasion (liberal democracy, free society): https://www.persuasion.community/

- Money Stuff (finance, also sort-of comedy?): https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/authors/ARbTQlRLRjE/matthe...

- Stratechery (tech companies and strategy): https://stratechery.com/

- Stay Tuned with Preet & Cafe Insider (law and politics): https://cafe.com/stay-tuned-podcast/

- The Morning Paper (CS papers): https://blog.acolyer.org/about/

- Slate Star Codex (rationality, currently in a weird state): https://slatestarcodex.com/

Some new ones I subscribed to, but haven't read a lot of:

- Sam Harris: https://samharris.org/

- Andrew Sullivan: https://andrewsullivan.substack.com/p/coming-soon

- Benedict Evans: https://www.ben-evans.com/
TLDR; Finding a good lawyer is very difficult without a trusted personal referral.

You are getting some good advice below. But remember that at least half of lawyers are below average. And a lot really really suck.

Often price can be a clue, but not always. We have taken over many projects from high-priced name brand firms that were piles of garbage.

Most if not all of our new clients are referred to us by other people that have worked with us.

Asking any lawyer you know to provide a referral for a different area of law can sometimes work out. But be careful if they are referring you to another attorney in their own firm because they may be financially incentivized to do so.

Also, most referral services do not consider the competency or quality of the referred attorneys. Usually, attorneys who sign up to those services simply provide a list of their practice areas/interests and maybe billing rate. Then the referral services simply round-robin their way through the specialty lists.

Another thing to keep in mind is that most good lawyers will be busy, usually very busy.
I don't talk about politics, religion, money, and most current events. Still have alright conversations.
The problem, of course, is survivorship bias.

Its similar to Monarchy vs Democracy. A great monarch can get a lot more done than a leader in a democracy. They can also do a lot more harm.

If you want to maximize the potential of a company, you must choose a great CEO and give them near-unlimited power. The problem is that most boards aren't qualified/able to find one, which is why founders that survive the filter to growing into a mega-company are the ones you listed- they are the ones who've already got one.

Tim Cook is doing fine, but he doesn't wield near the influence Jobs did- look how long it took him to finesse Joni Ive out of the company, despite his choices causing massive problems for Apple.