skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think McEliece and Sphincs+ are both excellent applications for typical PGP use cases-- and have great security properties. Their weaknesses don't matter as much in low throughput applications.

(e.g. McEliece's slow key generation is a big problem when you're creating 1000 connections per second and want good perfect forward secrecy. It's a non-issue for a long term key that is rotated at most once a year.)

I'm sad that sphincs+ is only an alternate.

Things like software signing and human scale communication don't care if signing is somewhat slow and the signatures are long-- but they do have extremely long lived keys that are difficult to rotate.
Maybe in supply-chain, logistics and industrial manufacturing, but it is "Digital Therapeutics" in healthcare (in the US) in the age of Corona. Regardless, marketers have eternal unbounded opportunities to come up with new nonsense that sells, but doesn't deliver on those promises. "Somewhere, over the rainbow... a pot of gold!"
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I had a lengthy more thoughtful post here but it seems I had mistaken a pronouncement for a discussion. The near instant voting response made me realize that absurdity, especially in light of the fact that I am responding to the second of two posts by the site's governance where college professors are singled out as a threat to freedom even as unmarked vans and secretive police round up the "dreaded" diversity proponents in Portland and other cities.

So I shall leave it to persons devoted to maximizing short term profits from new products and the "freethinking" commentary from persons seeking funding from same, to bloviate on how to "protect" society from intellectuals and liberalism.
Buying a product is different than paying someone to make a product for you. Since your company is the only customer for that product there is no benefit in outsourcing it other than the ability to rent a developer (contracting might be a better option). Nobody else is going to buy that product.
hahah! dan!

Thankfully Dan alone can't release the weapons. They're easy to get. They're around his neck and he's a lightweight.
Is Artificial Intelligence a Myth?
Check out:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_5K7cpxeXnc&feature=youtu.be

And guess the country :-)

I would never start such a business in the US or Europe.
Tim Cook insisted for years that you just couldn't manufacture stuff outside of China because of the high level of manufacturing skill. [1] Looks like that wasn't really true and it just took a little effort to start up in a different country, all it took was a small increase in the cost of doing business in China.

[1] https://www.inc.com/glenn-leibowitz/apple-ceo-tim-cook-this-...
It might be less expensive due to the electrical powerplant. It will take a while before there is enough of a track record to know for sure. But, for example, electric cars are much lower maintenance than gas cars, as Tesloop as shown.

https://cleantechnica.com/2017/09/05/10492-tesla-model-s-mai...

https://www.tesloop.com/blog/2018/7/16/tesloops-tesla-model-...
Very much this.

Reviews are the worst way of figuring out where to eat without prior knowledge, except for all the other ways we have tried.

In a totally uniform space, even the smallest thing to help you stand out is enough to make first-order decision making latch on to the small thing. I suppose more advanced decision making would do some intentional exploration of the uniform space.
I remember that their changes <https://git.gnupg.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=libgcrypt.git;a=c... were still variable time and thus able to leak secrets. I presume that nobody bothered exploiting yet.

Anyway, even if this was fixed (which I doubt it) the point is that they had vulnerable code for 18 years.
Certainly there's a mid-point between 'zero impact' and business-crippling.
I think in general people know how to filter out the "Karens". Also I find that restaurants are actually overrated in general. People are more likely to give a 5 star rating to an average restaurant than vice versa. People at least me try to filter out the person that complains about petty stuff vs the real problems. And I also realize when places first open they are working the kinks out.

But more often than not I go to a place that is rated very good but is actually not that good. And usually the bad rated places are indeed bad.
I'd like to make money off an open-source project that uses files from a commercial games (legally) installed assets. Is this possible?
Same here, but apparently this info is worth several downvotes.
You know central banks aren't mining operations, right?
I'm glad you're expanding the list a little, but I'd also encourage you (and anyone else reading) to reflect on the difference and asymmetry, here.

(Rhetorical questions--no answer needed) What's the bottom-line difference in getting fired for roughly free-speech reasons by an employer of their own accord, or of their own accord but because a single person wrote them to bring your behavior to their attention, or instead because of a Twitter mob or a petition or a letter-writing campaign or a flood of bad news coverage or a boycott started by some group? How do we adjudicate which path is worse?

Part of what I find frustrating about this debate (as someone who takes this risk seriously, and has for a while) is selectiveness of the cases/scope/concerns that get brought up by a certain segment of outlets eager to catalog certain cases to build a narrative about who is censorious and who is censored.

There's a long history of people mobbing decision-makers (at schools, or libraries, businesses, media standards boards, advertisers, etc.) to lobby for action against things they don't like. The Dixie Chicks got caught in this fire. When One Million Moms threatened JCPenney over their deal with Ellen DeGeneres--what obvious outcome were they demanding? (They keep a brag-list of things they've gotten canceled at https://onemillionmoms.com/successes/, and a list of ~20 current campaigns. You can find even more at their parent org, AFA).

There are numerous teachers over the years who claim they were fired for being an atheist, teaching evolution, and a sad graveyard of articles about teachers sacked for exactly how they taught sex ed (of particular irony in this case, those fired for not teaching top-down abstinence-only dogma), or what books they're teaching.

(I realize this list is itself biased; I'm advocating expanding the umbrella, and suspicion of slanted lists, not trying to whatabout.)
I have been using Fastmail for many years and make good use of aliases to allow recognised items to be delivered into a identifying folders.
This conversation proves that you are clueless and arrogant (quote "everything you touched on the Internet today probably used Google technology" smh) and nobody good wants to work with you and that is why you cant build anything competitive in-house.
Hi Peter .. thx for taking time to answer questions on the weekend.

Curious what happens when someone with an H1B (say greater than 3 years used but less than 6 post-extension) leaves the US to go back to their home country? If that person is interested in working in the US again as an H1B, do they need to be subject to the lottery again or are they exempt since they were already "approved" for an H1B?

I heard it has something to do with the time when you re-file to go back? I'm specifically curious about the case when the person decides to go back after a few years (after when the H1B would have expired).

Canadian here btw.
There is no real difference, the reserve currency is just better at those things than a local currency. Reserve currencies exist when your currency or that of your trade partner(s) is not able to do the job. This is why countries with stable currencies and small trade imbalances don't hold much in reserve currencies.
It gave me a migraine reading half of the article, couldn't continue :(
Nice product! I feel that it looks a bit unpolished (but I assume it's an MVP).
You might also want to check the similar product I'm working on: https://www.usertrack.net

I also started with session replays and heatmaps, but ended up adding a lot more analytics features. I personally only provide a self-hosted version as I really beleive self-hosting improves user privacy by a lot, and I don't feel comfortable storing all this possibly sensitive data (session recordings especially) on my servers.
There's a demand for quality information about a place.

Professional critics may help with that, but they could suck at that, too. It's pretty common for them to echo common thought so they don't get considered a moron by the community of professional critics.

If you want to run a business that is professional criticism, my feedback to you is that while I'm in the market for quality information (so I pay the WSJ and the Economist), I won't pay for what you're talking about.

I would probably pay for a timely recommendation from a friend at 100x what I'd pay for a professional opinion. Maybe I'd pay like 5 cents for a professional opinion. Hope that helps.
I was a little frustrated to see that only the America’s were modelled. Are we saying the main equator region is going to become too hot to live (I imagine with warming that’s logical). Would prefer to see a looser model looking at the equator band worldwide and guessing as to where people might obviously head. Considering geography and politics I think there’s enough there to get a crude logical idea of what might happen.
The Cube was great, particularly once OS X came out in the following year. But even before that, iTunes was released, and with the Harman Kardon Soundsticks [1,2] (two little speakers and a subwoofer) it was a brilliant machine for the living room. Looked great, you could work on it, surf, listen to music and watch DVDs.

You could set iTunes to automatically rip CDs it hadn't ripped before, IIRC, and with the nifty mechanism it was really pleasant to pop in your entire music collection one at a time and turn it into mp3s. Rip, mix, burn [3]. And then the iPod came out in 2001 as well, and your entire collection was on the damn thing in minutes (over FireWire).

Nowadays, this is all a matter of course, but back then it was way ahead of the rest. (Should have bought Apple shares...)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SoundSticks

[2] https://medium.com/@unmakr/moma-approved-harman-kardon-sound...

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0ZWuhcM7t4
Remacro: Markdown with Steroids
https://github.com/denisidoro/remacro is a plain-text macro expander inspired by React.

With this tool it's possible to generate a superset of markdown so that you don't need to repeat yourself.

It also works for any plain-text content, so it's able to expand programming source codes as well.
I think this thread is intended for immigration legal questions, not just general legal ones.
Interesting. Arjen Lenstra used to be at Citi's R&D Lab; his brother is Hendrik Lenstra, who was Bernstein's Ph.D advisor.
Something that helped me sleep a lot better was the realization that one bad night’s sleep doesn’t have a huge impact on my performance the next day, as long as I’ve been sleeping well-ish the previous days.

Helps address that stress when you have a “critical day” upcoming.
or, was, before the internet enabled fascism to the extent that it has.
> Our own aircrafts crash quite rarely

Except maybe when they are experimental...
If you are interested, I am also building a similar product, which can only be self-hosted: https://usertrack.net

From OP I see their only self-hosted version is the $499 one.
What are your favorite alternatives to Amazon? E.g., I go to monoprice for cables. Are there other niche options that you like for different products where you can expect quality?
> Another nutrient great for brain health is B12.

Why? I'm very sensitive to supplements and usually notice effects immediately even on humble doses but B12 (I've tried 100%-20'000% RDA cyanocobalamin pills) doesn't feel doing anything I could notice. The combo of dish oil + B12 seems preventing menstrual pain in ladies though.
I find rotten tomato audience scores very informative. Especially when combined with the critic scores.

It essentially gives a 'low-brow' and 'high-brow' rating of a movie. And depending on my mood and who I am watching with, that is very useful information.
Okay, that may be the case, but the principal contributor is surely tax and regulation incentives when you want to access the second biggest Asian market: in this case, the massive customs duty bypass by building in India.
Totally, but that depends how many people actually dig into the reviews to figure what specifically was liked or disliked (and to make their own assessment of the reviewer's judgement), and how many just go by the top-level aggregated number.
The adage in India is that if you want to set up shop in china they roll out the red carpet. If you want to set up shop in India, they roll out the red tape.
TikTok, the Facebook Competitor?
What a great way to demo the product, right off the bat.
> 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.

Which is precisely why this framework is too reductive to be of any real explanatory value.

At some point, someone has to make the decision about whether someone’s motivation for wanting to be ‘aggressively conventional’ (PG introduces a new term here - presumably ‘woke’ is too inflammatory) is well-founded, or if they’re holding back necessary progress. PG seems to fancy himself as that arbiter, but I’m not convinced the argument is being made in good faith.
Why would only the initial kickstarter matter? There are several major brands/companies that started on kickstarter and then went on to sell quite a bit. Pebble raised millions. Oculus started out on kickstarter and sold to facebook for a couple billion and are currently selling units faster than they can make.
Hahahah, oh man, one of Drach's best. Highly recommend his episode on what to do if your ship is sinking/exploding/disagreeable too:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbX8rJMI9GM

btw, did anyone else see Japanese torpedo boats???
Could shifting manufacturing to India also lead to fewer leaks?
These days I'm really liking NPR's daily newsletter, which is a straightforward, no nonsense "here's what we think is important" report. And I'm a huge fan of NextDraft.

But at this point any writer or publication you like to read probably has one.
You could probably measure the extent to which HN users are aggressively-conventional minded by how often they downvote comments without replying to them.
When it collapses, it would be a sad day for the retail trader who came late. I would hope Elon Musk is not working at Tesla solely to increase his bank account. It seems that Musk was ready to get Tesla private for $420. It seems like Tesla could lose 3 times its current value and still be above that (in)famous $420. It would then be worth still $78B, which is already a lot (~Volkswagen's valuation). Although one can argue that Tesla is not just a car manufacturer, but how much solar and energy could bring?
I am also quite puzzled by the current Tesla valuation...
60k from tier one engineering colleges. It includes all branches. Not only CS students. Similar number to the number of students enrolled as undergrads in entire engineering colleges in USA.

The number of engineering students enrolled in India as undergrad is around 350k (It's not over half million. My bad).

So students from tier 1 colleges makes about 17%. That's not a small fraction that can be ignored.
Taking "Как тебе такое изобретение, Илон Маск?" meming to the next level?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrveYIwPArM has english subs (an "illuminator" is a porthole)

Weebs might enjoy the japanese cover: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvrIyefBDwA
I think it's likely that your understanding of RSA is mostly fake. E.g. You could do some totally insecure 'RSA' on paper, but it would be insecure.

Eventually people will write intuitive explanations of other algorithms (it's fairly easy to do them for sphincs+ and mceliece, for example) and you'll feel you understand them too. (and, in fact, I think those understandings will actually be less dangerous than the RSA ones!)

> with a bit of work I'd expect almost any programmer to be able to implement RSA without too much difficulty.

Implement RSA incorrectly without too much difficulty.

You should be dubious that even world class cryptographers will get it totally right, as many RSA implementations -- even ones written by experts-- have had serious flaws.
Oh man, that brings back memories of trying the beta on my parents’ 1st gen bondi iMac with 32mb ram and a 4gb hdd.

Looked like it was warped in from the future. Moved at dialup pace.
I just replied at the bottom of the thread. I'm not trying to single you out. Everyone has their part to play, but someone has to go first.

[As an aside, I just realized this is where a neutral arbiter can be valuable, someone who can say calmly what either side can't. I am thinking specifically about a STTNG episode.]
thank you so much for this piece of history
What is your main push-back against self-hosting? Setup time? Maintenence? Because self-hosting usually costs a fraction of the price of hosted services. I assume you wouldn't be interested in my Hotjar alternative (https://usertrack.net) as it's only self-hosted.
Taking amusement in catching little social lies isn’t exactly gatekeeping. More like sport.

I don’t give a damn whether people call themselves Stoics or not and whether they’re sincere—whatever that means—or not, but I’m very sure, specifically, that there are a lot more fans of Meditations than people who’ve read it or even meaningfully read about it, which is funny in that “oh boy, aren’t we humans goofy” sort of way. It’s also an easy phenomenon to stumble on innocently while trying to discuss the book, though I think that goes for a lot of Very Important Books that more people claim to have read than actually have. IIRC someone wrote a whole tongue-partially-in-cheek guide to pretending at having read books, for the reason that it’s pretty common.
we'll see what the defect rate is soon enough
suburb
Helicopters and ambulances are already pretty good at that. This vehicle seems to have some added restrictions (like landing capabilities) which would make it less good.

Helicopters are really expensive to operate though, so perhaps this vehicle could fit in if frequent flights would have to be made to a place without a road connection, such as to provide an emergency relief after big disaster.

Where it could be a game-changer is transporting people and light cargo in rural communities with limited infrastructure, such as East Congo or Greenland.
> The biggest purchase individuals make is buying a house. Surely you can't argue that paying a 1-4% higher interest rate on a house wouldn't noticed by consumers.

That depends on how house prices are determined.

If houses are priced primarily based on the cost of construction plus the cost of materials, you would expect consumers to notice a significant difference in total cost under high vs low interest rates, since the base price of the house will be the same either way and a higher interest rate will lead to a higher total cost.

If houses are priced by people looking at what the maximum monthly payment they can afford is, and are bid up to whatever that maximum monthly payment is, people will just observe that houses cost "almost more than I can afford" no matter what the interest rate is. Lower interest rates will lead to higher prices (capped at 360 (30 years x 12 months per year) times what people can afford, at 0% interest rates), and higher interest rates will lead to lower prices (down to the floor the principal being the of cost of construction).

I think most housing markets are more like the first scenario than the second, at this time, but it is entirely plausible that this won't always be the case, and some would argue that e.g. the bay area housing market already more closely resembles the second scenario.

Edit: typo
> even the best cameras would never even be in the same competing arena as the human eye

All it takes is looking at photos from space telescopes, or electron microscopes... It should be obvious that technology can make better cameras than human eyes. Or slow motion video cameras... Infrared cameras...

The only thing about human eyes that is superior is that they come connected to the brain.

For now, technological augmentation is "air-gapped". It's incorrect to ignore air-gapped augmentations. Hell, even glasses could be considered the first step, and have existed for hundreds of years.

Using glasses is essentially the "no brainer" conclusion that you are looking for. People already accept that it's ok to try to do better than nature provided for you.
>This works great if you have a huge and well-equipped home

With no experience of SV tech lifestyles, I would have imagined that with sky-high property values, amenities should be relatively cheap and therefore plentiful. Why wouldn't all homes be "well equipped" when the cost pales in comparison to the property itself? If a shack costs a million dollars, isn't the cost of appliances, furniture, carpet, paint, etc. negligible?

Also, I don't see why you have to have a "huge" home to have a washing machine. I've had one in places ranging from about 800-1300 sq. ft.
But companies firing organizing workers isn't an example of cancel culture. Why would you be surprised that someone answered the question asked, and not a different question?
A tax break on future earnings that never materialize is not "collecting billions in government handouts". Foxconn tried to make it work and ended up several hundred million in the red on that project. They didn't come away richer.
> No, the author claimed that NC A&T was "a damn good one [school]".
> The author was trying to put it on the same level as Duke/UNC in order to paint a picture that the only possible reason for the perfunctory treatment was racism. But NC A&T is not on the same level. "Hooli" is almost certainly elitist, but this anecdote is not good evidence for systemic racism.

Author here. I wasn’t implying that A&T is perceived to be as “prestigious” or highly ranked as Duke. I’m just trying to say that it was certainly worth visiting and worth taking seriously. If you’re looking for black engineers, for whatever reason, it’s reasonable to reach for A&T. Now, you can’t claim a pipeline problem if you’re pretty much ignoring the places where you’re most likely to find your target demographic.

Let’s just drop the words “racism” and other “-isms” since they seem to trigger people and become distracting from the point. What the recruiters did by phoning it in for A&T and focus on Duke was miss out on potentially excellent engineers from A&T and reinforce the demographics found at Duke/UNC. The recruiters made an assumption based on some model they built at Hooli and other companies like it and didn’t do their job, which was to FIND good talent.

I’ve worked at “elite” companies with people from “elite” schools. I’ve also worked with people from no school. There are smart people all over the place, so we don’t need to look at the same 10 schools and ignore the people who didn’t take out a $75k student loan.
One of the first things I learned in my college shop class was how to mill a piece of metal to within a few thou of the target dimension.

For this kind of measurement, they could almost certainly just use a feeler gauge and make sure that the 4 thou gauge fits.
Fiat Chrysler and Waymo sign exclusive deal on self-driving commercial vehicles
So essentially, travel insurance doesn't protect "being ruined" it protects from making a shitty situation even shittier.