skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> There is no strife, no prejudice, no national conflict in outer space as yet. Its hazards are hostile to us all. Its conquest deserves the best of all mankind, and its opportunity for peaceful cooperation may never come again… We choose to go to the Moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard; because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one we intend to win, and the others, too.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_choose_to_go_to_the_Moon
As the Tor Project itself already notes in its reply, it's not feasible "to try to imitate normal SSL certs because that's a fight we can't win (they will always look differently or have distinguishers, as has been the case in the pluggable transports arms race)."

Even if the certificate is valid, there are lots of other distinguishing factors. You can go as far as timing attacks. As the answer alludes to, they have an entire project around obfuscated transports primarily for clients and private bridges. [1]

But there's no need for obfuscation here as the ORPort can 'simply' be closed, if it wasn't such a hassle to actually implement.

[1] https://gitweb.torproject.org/torspec.git/tree/pt-spec.txt
The practical test isn't the political system. Voting alone certainly isn't the definition of democracy.

It's the distribution of benefits that accumulate within the system, and also the ease with which costs/hindrances/outright abuse can be inflicted on selected elements in the population.

The more concentrated the benefits, and the easier and more violent the restrictions and abuse, the less democracy exists.
Matt Taibbi's had a few good articles on this recently. Some excerpts:

"Cancelations already are happening too fast to track. In a phenomenon that will be familiar to students of Russian history, accusers are beginning to appear alongside the accused. Three years ago a popular Canadian writer named Hal Niedzviecki was denounced for expressing the opinion that “anyone, anywhere, should be encouraged to imagine other peoples, other cultures, other identities." He reportedly was forced out of the Writer’s Union of Canada for the crime of “cultural appropriation,” and denounced as a racist by many, including a poet named Gwen Benaway. The latter said Niedzviecki “doesn’t see the humanity of indigenous peoples.” Last week, Benaway herself was denounced on Twitter for failing to provide proof that she was Indigenous.

Michael Korenberg, the chair of the board at the University of British Columbia, was forced to resign for liking tweets by Dinesh D’Souza and Donald Trump, which you might think is fine – but what about Latino electrical worker Emmanuel Cafferty, fired after a white activist took a photo of him making an OK symbol (it was described online as a “white power” sign)? How about Sue Schafer, the heretofore unknown graphic designer the Washington Post decided to out in a 3000-word article for attending a Halloween party two years ago in blackface (a failed parody of a different blackface incident involving Megyn Kelly)? She was fired, of course. How was this news? Why was ruining this person’s life necessary?"
> I am unaware of any Office of Decades charged with deciding precisely what constitutes the sole definition of "decade"

ISO 8601 defines what a 'decade' is.

I mean you're free to ignore it of course, like you're free to say March has 34 days if you want... but you may have trouble communicating with people and integrating with existing systems.
> I assume you're aware of police obscuring their badge numbers, and refusing to identify themselves?

Er, is this what you would call secret police? The article's facts may be incontrovertible, but they don't agree with your description:

"What's Undetermined

While one person said he was detained without officers identifying themselves — and another viral video was interpreted by viewers as a case of the same thing — we have no verifiable evidence to prove or disprove whether agents in those cases explained for what federal agency they worked during the arrests."
Well, originally it was just a joke. But since we're going there:

Needing to log at quite that level of detail worries me. It implies that non-deterministic behavior is pretty pervasive in the codebase. I'm generally a lot happier when the logging strategy on the happy path looks like:

1. Get all your I/O-type stuff handled before the call stack gets deep.

2. Log your inputs

3. Run the calculation

4. Log your outputs

If what happens in step 3 is deterministic, then it should always be possible to explain the output by looking at the input, and reading the code. And, if you've accomplished that, then it's straightforward to convert the logs into a test case.
Jim Chanos: ‘We are in the golden age of fraud’
They've had some big screw-ups that were well covered on HN. But from 2014 to 2018 they were consistently the biggest and most profitable aerospace company in the world[1]. You don't get there by being disrespected and all-around shitty.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerospace_manufacturer#Largest...
I think understanding each issue makes sense. Then you can trace each issue into their side effects. It’s possible that the issues have a common side effect that can be addressed with a single solution.

For example, unequal understanding of career possibilities is a common side effect. I had a favorite class in middle school where a professional (in my case an accountant) would come to our class every two weeks to teach us about their profession.

I think many more members of the tech community should do the same. Furthermore, they should serve as ongoing contacts for the kids such as providing opportunities for internship, for tech presentations, etc...

We need to do this not just for the urban poor but increasingly for the rural poor as well.
Emulating Nintendo Switch Games on Linux
>But whatever the choice, it has some consequences.

I think this is one reason you see some fairly strong pushback on the idea of a lot of permanent remoting. When everyone has a choice, those who want co-located teams actually don't really have a choice. I say this as someone on a very distributed team who has been on and off, more or less remote for about 15 years now. But if the rest of your team chooses to be remote, you can presumably choose to be in an office but you'll be mostly talking to people over video.
cherrypicking to the finest
And for most items that’s not too big of a deal. A returned textbook or toaster can be re-sold after it’s been opened without much fear that it’s been tampered with but I’m not sure the same can be said for a hard drive.

Or maybe it’s more like a bottle of medicine. Even if it’s exceedingly unlikely that it’s been tampered with I’m not going to risk it if the manufacturer’s seal is broken. It’s just not worth it.
> Do we really want to be faced with a multiplicity of distinct ISAs?

Yes. We want distinct ISA where it makes sense for the application. You want to have little sensor controller, should it really be the same as a gigantic parallel server?

RISC-V deals with this by creating 'profiles' meaning specific configurations that apply to applications of a particular field.

And of course the tools of RISC-V should be designed to handle these situations.
Why look to the future? The last election has been openly opposed by a large percentage of the population AND agencies of the public service.

Not like the Obama terms where much different. Just a different group of people saying "My team didn't win so I'm going to have a tantrum".

I predict the next election cycle will just be more of the same, no matter who wins.
The license is listed on the page.
Have we started killing cancelled people? Who has been “cancelled” anyways? What punishments have they endured? A lost job at a very public position?

As someone wisely pointed out, the only person possibly going to be jailed in the #MeToo movement will be Harvey Weinstein. Many comedians and politicians have recovered. Look at Al Franken - polls show he’s electable in his state (by the group that ostracized him no less).

More importantly, if cancel culture had any teeth, this President would have been cancelled.
Yes: the former.

All of his recent screeds basically boil down to: I want free speech for the rich like me, and people who don't like that attitude should shut up because that's Cancel Culture and therefore bad.
Link to the working NBER paper study referenced in the article - https://www.nber.org/papers/w27538.pdf
well, if museums would drive the same marketing campaigns (read propaganda or simply media based manipulation), this might easily change... Also generally the amount of time you can spend in museums is somehow limited, as most don't allow you to be active (like videogames do in a sort of lobotomied way).

As for your example: if you compare the amount of time people play in bands/sing in choirs (often without any direct money involved, e.g. around church or school) you've got an obvious example that people don't naturally "pay more for the things they value" (or see the need to pay or get payed at all). I value this very much and if someone was coming up and saying: pay up, I'd say - come on guys, let's do this on our own.
Are you living on another planet? Are you seriously suggesting people replace SqlServer or MySQL with SQLite?

If you can come to my company and replace our 96-core SqlServer boxes with SQLite I'll pay you any salary you ask for.
That's for informal use in speech, not what anyone building a formal system (the context of this thread) means.
You assume that they made a correct and rational decision but you have no evidence to back it up. Retract your claim that there are situations where Lambdas make sense until you can provide concrete examples. Thanks.
Fish oil seems to be one of a very small set of supplements that's proven itself to be more than hype. If this article piques your interest, or if you're interested in brain health in general, I'd definitely suggest reading more about it.

Sometimes I wonder how much more happy and productive the world would be if everyone put a bit of regular effort into brain health. 30-40 minutes of cardio 3x/week + fish oil supplementation seems like a big easy win on that front.
The Air Force Spy Plane over Portland
> If your argument is that essays aren't concerned with facts, then that's a great argument for ignoring the entire genre of essays. [...] Luckily, some essayists are concerned with facts, so we don't have to throw out the whole genre. But we should absolutely ignore the essays that don't concern themselves with facts.

>If your argument is <something undesirable or unreasonable>, then <slippery slope>. Luckily, <me and the majority or authority figures disagree with you>, so <positive outcome>.

That's a straw man fallacy if I've ever seen one. It's a textbook example. Congratulations.

My reply to another user regarding that:

>Paul Graham, on the other hand, is just publishing a simple essay on his very own website; of course I don't expect an exhaustive empirical demonstration on his part, though any kind of factual data can be welcome.

Look, it's not a binary decision (facts/no facts), but a qualitative distinction: it's how I expect facts--whatever those are, but that's another discussion--to be dealt with in a short essay on a personal blog, instead of expecting or wanting essays to be deliberately unconcerned with them.
>It later emerged that liberal groups had been targeted, too, although in smaller numbers.
This is a consequence of amazon being too big to care. They aren't doing the most basic check to verify that what's in the box is what the outside of the box claims it is. Some years ago, I bought two identical routers from Best Buy and then decided I didn't need the second so I went to return it. I put it in the wrong box. Best Buy refused the return because the serial number on the router didn't match the serial number on the box.

The whole concept of Amazon is fundamentally flawed. I've gotten too much counterfeit stuff and junk to ever trust them again.
Agreed. This whole article just left me quite cold.

I mean, as far as I can tell, all these people running around claiming that Covid19 is a hoax are (apparently) very aggressively independent! We, the passive conformist sheeple, are bound by the pesky laws of physics and math - but not these aggressively independent thinkers! Nosir. They question all the rules.

> So a pack of teenagers who all flout school rules in the same way are not independent-minded; rather the opposite.

So those CV19 hoaxers are a group and therefore not independent. My bad! But one of them must be the leader, right? One of them must be the aggressive independent CEO-type, right? Because how else did they get these ideas? Someone must have formed them into a band; by definition, they couldn’t have done it on their own. You just need to find that aggressive independent thinker and BAM - we have another CEO of Theranos. Yay!

> all successful startup CEOs are not merely independent-minded, but aggressively so

“There have been no successful conventional [real estate/retail/food/import/trade/bookshop] startups in the last 50 years”. Oh wait, only SV tech startup disrupters are real CEOs.

> the unfortunate fact that the latest wave of intolerance began in universities

Universities? Really?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance
I almost wonder if government officials should be outright banned from using any private messaging platform that isn't hosted by the government itself.

There is just too much power in information.
Paul Graham Essay Notes
Those 747s and A380s are only sitting around not flying because of the pandemic. And it seems likely that many of them will never return to flight again at this point, except maybe after being modified for cargo hauling.

Prior to the pandemic, if you had a flight-worthy plane of any size, you were using it continuously. Once a plane was no longer being used continuously it was likely about to be permanently retired.
> Real nonconformists will be asking why the Internet seems to have been turned into the plaything of a handful of gigantic stagnant bureaucracies, why the VC system seems determined to generate more of these bureaucracies, and whether maybe there are more creative and performant options.

Jaron Lanier comes to mind.
Everything wrong with HN, in a single comment.
As a scientist, the idea that "To be a successful scientist, for example, it's not enough just to be right. You have to be right when everyone else is wrong." Struck me as ludicrous, and scientists that I know that think like this usually seem more concerned with self aggrandization than discovery. I wonder if your point #2 is actually really profound. Maybe the important axis is not "conformity", but empathy? Kids that lack aggressively the ability or patience to understand rules break them, scientists that agressively understand other people's ideas are able to build on them or move beyond them, etc...
Which fiat currency doesn't have this risk? It's fake money meant to be debased to begin with. If that wasn't the intent, fiat currencies would be 100% backed with hard money and banks wouldn't have just fractional reserves.

US dollar is one of the proverbial least dirty shirts in the closet, so there's that.
One of the best things I've done in my life is to start actively avoiding news. That doesn't mean I try to stay ignorant of what happens outside my home's walls. News is not information. Information you can find on your own, news is somebody deciding for you what you should know and how you should feel about it.

I've had nothing but an improvement in quality of life since starting this, and think people should try it at least once in their life, just to see how unhealthy news can be
FYI: I am not sure if this applies to "Show HN", "Launch HN", etc, but in general text posts are downranked compared to links, so they don't stay on the front page as long. In the future you might consider submitting https://sidekick.video/ and then leave your text post as a comment (these are usually but not always upvoted, so they stay at the top). The downside is that you don't get to guarantee your post will stay on top, so you have a bit less control over the conversation (which, when I think about it that way, makes total sense why text posts are downranked).
It is but if you log decisions you make and why and stupid things like variables at various stages then you at least have half a chance.
I think he might have downvoted me even for asking :)

Seriously though, I can't really blame him. I got a few days fame back in the day and it was a scary thing to watch a mob of strangers picking on my past and judging. Even people who I thought are my friends acted extremely strange - as if they don't know me personally and joining the mob of haters or lovers.
Right, I realised that.

Am also agreeing with you and extending the notion. AI is by no-means outrage-proof.
> ( ) having one or two days per year which are part of no month is stupid

Are you calling the Ancient Egyptians stupid? I think you are. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egyptian_calendar

And the Aztecs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nēmontēmi
Made to Stick: Shaping an Extensible Product
The study IMHO is reality. Every large, actively maintained system I've ever heard of uses a strongly typed language, or was written in a dynamically typed language but has converted to a gradually typed language. You can't safely refactor without compile time type checking, and you can't maintain a non-trivial system over the long-term if you can't refactor it.
Well previously you needed an actual physical mob so you had to get enough people local to the victim outraged enough to be convinced it's worth their time. That's a much higher bar than doxing someone and sending hate mail to everyone around them.
I think there are some important qualitative differences with the French Revolution, at least in its relationship with the academy (although I'm not an expert). During the French Revolution, most of the aristocratic cadre of scientists did lose their positions, but less than a year into the Terror, the Institut de France was established with more-or-less conventional takes on merit and the scientific method.

In the cultural revolution, it was different. More than three fourths of the members of the Chinese Academy of Sciences were persecuted, most of whose work did have scientific merit and had no direct nexus with politics. But that was the problem -- just doing science wasn't sufficiently political/ideological for the mob.
If you trawl in someone's activities and background long enough, you can usually find something to charge them with. It's a favorite tactic of repressive regimes that seek to present veneer of legitimacy.
It's not.

If under 10 million requests per month, serverless will be cheaper and safer

Else if under 1 billion request per month, managed VPS will be cheaper

If over hundred of billions of requests per month, anything else than on premise is probably an error.

Then you have grey areas where you need to process.

But for most small project, you cannot beat the lambda prices. Especially if you expect bursts.
I've recently launched https://boxci.dev and have a 'leave your email if you have questions' box on the landing page.

People have been leaving their emails, but surprisingly, even though the intent is very clear (I think), almost nobody has actually replied when I've emailed to open the conversation. The kinds of response rate percentages (<<10%) talked about in the article very much resonate!

My opening email is nothing like as long as the first one in this article, but it does contain a generic intro paragraph (thanks for leaving your email, I'm the founder, etc) which I include just for context and politeness, but which I've realised from reading this article may be causing people to just stop reading, thinking that it's an auto-generated response. I'll try some one liners from now on and see how it works out!
The US is a joke and the rest of the free world is having a laugh
Moon Is Blamed for Blips in a Particle Accelerator (1992)
> Most types of meditative studies also force this notion of blindness.

In my experience, many seem to encourage the opposite (a higher awareness of one's emotional state). Perhaps certain techniques could be considered similar to horse blinders, but I definitely don't think "blindness" is the goal.
If rich people sold the assets they wouldn’t have them anymore. The mechanism is more that rich have access to lower interest rates. The proportional difference of interest rates between the rich and poor increases as the risk free interest rate decrease.
Independent press would mean that there are many different news organizations under independent control.

We used to have that in the US because we used to have and enforce laws against media consolidation.
How a free press operate and what the people need are not necessarily aligned. The populace needs the sum total of the free press to result in something approximating objectivity. If that's not happening, the people aren't being served by the concept of a free press.

If all you've got is two sensationalising ends and nothing in the middle, it's very difficult to tell what's going on. Worse, if you've got one broadly accurate and reliable wing opposed by a group who will intentionally exaggerate, lie, and demonise, and the public think the truth is actually somewhere in the middle, the latter group win.

What's not clear or easy is how you might go about cleaning up such a situation.
I feel the exact same way. If there's something really important, it'll make its way to me. If there's something I want to know, I'll make my way to it. Otherwise it probably wasn't worth my time. Like you, I read about and hear acquaintances talk about anxiety, etc from the news so often, and just feel like I'm talking to someone complaining about sunburn and continuing to go out without sun protection
> getting new users to accept invites was incredibly important to us

So important that you resorted to every dark pattern in the book, it seems. I'm not exaggerating when I say that I don't know any of my tech friends who haven't had a bad experience with linkedin tricking them into spamming invites or similar.
Perhaps we follow different sources. Bowlby and Ainsworth suggest that att drives many, many behaviors and thought processes. Clinical psych has found situations where the theory applies and some therapies have had success. Yet social psych, for example, has not found similar success using this basis to predict behaviors or mental processes, for example, on relationship behaviors as adults. Since so many other theories do drive predictions across branches of science, then it's hard to believe that this theory, even after all the evolution its had, is as general as it should or could be. Not to say it won't get there, or that it's wrong, but that it gets at something without quite getting there (to put it very vaguely).

I'm not sure I get your final point: while Popper was never a fan of social sciences, psychologists have spent years running testable hypotheses and experimenting with them. Att is just a preexisting condition, and therefore should drive a repeatably different response to certain stimuli; I don't think anyone was suggesting we try raising babies in diff att styles.

But yeah, if you take Popper at his word, lots of work goes out the window (I avoided saying "pops"). I'm gonna choose a middle ground here, and see where att theory goes. I have high hopes!
Surprised it works with panic disorders.
They were told to move out of that specific area
40 year old Classic McEliece made into the second round. It's well proven but not fit to all uses due to it's large public key size.

> Classic McEliece has a stable specification−−the only significant change in the second round is the addition of additional parameter sets. As such, NIST selected Classic McEliece as a finalist and believes it could be ready for standardization (should NIST choose to select it) at the end of the third round