skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A spinner is not a complete response because the system is still going to respond more without additional input.

Here is another quote that the paper quotes: "...each second of system response degradation leads to a similar degradation added to the user's time for the following [command]. This phenomenon seems to be related to an individual's attention span. The traditional model of a person thinking after each system response appears to be inaccurate. Instead, people seem to have a sequence of actions in mind, contained in a short-term mental memory buffer. Increases in SRT [system response time] seem to disrupt the thought processes, and this may result in having to rethink the sequence of actions to be continued."

A spinner still disrupts the thought process in the same way. I would personally say that yes, anything that takes longer (I'd say more like 100ms even, possibly less) is automatically bad. It might still be the best possible in a particular situation and pretending that something will necessarily be fast when it often isn't is also bad. It is easier to plan around tasks that take longer when a small and reliable set of tasks take longer and somewhat fits with the theme in that way, but I'd still say the core idea here is "everthing that happens should happen quickly" and have other guidelines to deal with the cases where that isn't possible. Don't try to trick yourself that the system is actually responding quickly when it really isn't.

You could say that the most extreme reading of this principle would imply that a computer should never play video or audio. Personally, I would say it shouldn't except when I ask it to. My top guideline for websites would be something like "your website is not an experience". You can put an experience on your website and some people will appreciate it, but let me accomplish what I wanted to do when I visited your site quickly. Breaking my thought process to insert marketing is not a good experience.

I disagree this is not relevent today; I didn't use a mainframe in 1982 but I wouldn't be surprised if the experience was more responsive than what is common today. Part of this is due to everything making network requests today but in general system response does not seem to be valued particularly highly. I regularly wait over two seconds for a particular text entry box in Windows 10 to work on a fast modern system with an SSD and no network connection that is interacting with a small local database. Windows 7 seemed more responsive to me, as did a lot of older software compared to modern versions.
I think one of the ideas of mixers is to achieve such a large volume of transactions that dedicating man-hours and personnel resources to tracking down every transaction path becomes cost prohibitive on the part of a law enforcement organization.
Old enough to vote, smoke, enlist in the military etc. That age where we consider people adults and capable of thinking and doing things for themselves such as dying for their country or having the opportunity to vote on the way they believe their country should be run.
In case anyone didn't get the reasoning. Tim Cook is gay.
It depends if they report revenue gross or net. If it is gross that means they recognize all booked travel as revenue (and earn a margin on top of that) instead of just recognizing their fee as revenue. In that case it would be much worse margins than a mature SaaS company.

If I had to guess based on the figure, I would guess gross but I'm not sure.
I can't tell if you're thinking of a plausible situation, or something more Reddit-like, but I'll attempt a plausible response.

If a large enough coronal mass ejection (CME) from the sun delivered a strong electromagnetic pulse (EMP) through the Earth, they'd both cease to exist. Pretty much instantly. But there'd also be no more electricity, so it'd be a frantic effort to figure out what happened to them. Actually, only employees and their families, and stock holders will be wondering what happened to Google. Everybody (except perhaps a small area in and around Pennsylvania) will be wondering what happened to the electricity.

Ironically, that would be a highly interesting technical event to post to Hacker News if it happened... and it actually could.
This Cambria project looks pretty interesting. Is it an internal project only? One of the blog posts gives an example of running it, but I couldn’t find any links to source nor binaries, so I am assuming it is currently internal only.
I think this is a step in the right direction, but I'd expand this to be a tax on all organizations that maintain large enough systems to become targets because:

1. Taxing only the victims is adding salt to a wound: these companies are already hurting from being attacked, lost money to the ransomer, and are likely to lose more shortly thereafter due to bad PR. They'll need this money to fix things and hire/consult appropriate experts.

2. Taxing all parties likely to be hit by stuff like this spread the financial burden amount companies of all sizes. Larger companies/targets can thus help protect smaller outfits that aren't well enough funded to field a robust security team or program.

3. Some kind of revenue stream is required here to beef up federal/regional programs relating to cybersecurity. There's no real source of funding for this that doesn't come out of a larger budget. The scope of the problem is large enough that I feel it justifies a specialized agency with it's own budget. Having a dedicated tax applied to parties with need for the service/support seems fair and progressive to me.
Wait a second, what was the Republican Party doing between 1940 and 1960 that shored up democracy here and abroad?
I edited my original comment to now say "The idea that there are fundamental differences between human lives and corporate assets is flawed."

Thank you for your logic lesson but I fail to see how this changes the discussion.
There is a histerish cafe in Sofia, Bulgaria, that has one of those Macs in every room and allows customers to play/select music from it. I think they never updated those machines as they just work and make the vibe of the cafe even more interesting as time passes.
That one time Apple patented a pizza box (2017)
The social trend to replace technology with marketing. The banishment of nerds from technical fields. The obsession with status and notoriety and money to the complete exclusion of intellectual curiosity.
>Are you not aware that Apple has beaten the FBI several times in court and did not have to unlock an iPhone

This is not quite what happened. In the most famous cases, the FBI wanted (effectively) for Apple to build them a back donor that they could use as they wished. Apple argued that while it was legal for the government to demand information with a warrant, it was not legal to force programmers to write code for the FBI under threat of legal action.

Moreover the case was dismissed after the FBI admitted they could already access the phone in question, having purchased an exploit for it from a vendor.
Why not make a Trump channel to reach young minds to vote.
I'm sure you (OP) are aware, but just in case others aren't: Clojure stands out as a Lisp that embraces laziness.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commutative_property

> In mathematics, a binary operation is commutative if changing the order of the operands does not change the result.

Are you saying you disagree?
I think we could be there already if not for a few niggling details. The first iPad mini has just been vintaged by Apple, and my laptop won't be supported by Big Sur.

There's nothing technically wrong with the laptop either, it's got max RAM, as much as the CPU and logic board will support, the drive, battery and wireless card are all replaceable, you can take out the optical drive and replace it with either one that supports Blu-ray or replace add another SSD, no USB3 ports but it does have Thunderbolt, Gigabit Ethernet, IR for an Apple Remote and an SDXC slot. Apple's just up and decided they're done supporting this laptop from 2012. A few forum posts I saw indicate if you were to force Big Sur on, everything but the wireless card would work. The only major silicon difference between this computer and models that are still supported is the integrated graphics, but without working wireless it's a bit of a non-starter.

I could buy a couple of replacement parts and easily keep this thing going for another 5 years or longer, which I still can if I'm willing to give up on Mac OS X entirely. What I'm probably going to do is keep it going another year or two and replace it once the dust has settled a bit on ARM Macs and Apple has proved they're not going to take their Mac line down a ridiculous direction in the next few years, then maybe replace the operating system and find another use for the machine.

Unless you're pushing the bleeding edge of performance, machines like this are still plenty good, especially if your RAM floor is 16GB. It's not the fastest, another machine I use for work screams by comparison, but there's not really any good reason a 2012 machine couldn't still be ticking along in 2037 if you've parts to service it with. Serviceability is really the only limiting factor at this point. That said most Macs that came after mine lost a lot in serviceability, so that's the caveat.
Let's dive into this. But first, we need to update the anti-competitive rules so we have a general theory that makes sense. The current rules allow for non-competitive behavior as long as you have low prices which are good for consumers. That's why Amazon is safe. The hole is that this doesn't protect against predatory pricing where you kill all competitors and then can charge anything.

Google is certainly a problem. I'm not personally against divesting chrome and amp and some others. But I can see people disagreeing.

Apple's DNA is that by combining hardware and software, they make high quality products. Don't kill the magic. The tax on the ecosystem seems usurious. The app store could be a target for some action imo.

I probably disagree the least with your ideas on FB.

I doubt strongly that Amazon systematically uses espionage to steal good ideas. It's such a monster that it's bound to start a product similar to what they were informed about. And maybe a rogue employee here and there, but I doubt this is a big problem. They have a million other issues, but I don't think you hit the nail on the head.

These are just my personal take. Strong opinion, weakly held.
Not entirely high res and high quality keyboards, but the NexDock offers that ability as a shell wheee you plugin a compute stick, phone, SBC, rack server, etc.

AFAIK there are a few similar ones as well
Isn't this just comparing two infinite wavefronts? Isn't there an infinite number of texts in French?
I enjoy the nostalgia of booting up and using old machines. After the first sentence this article came off as disingenuous. There are easier ways to stay productive without needing to break out a 17 year old Mac. It’s almost like the author is trying to convince himself this is a good idea. Turning off WiFi and using apps in full screen seems much easier.

The author mentions Slack. I’ve been using Mattermost for about 2 years now. I’ve found that having a mandatory offline schedule is important. I’ve been vocal about that with my team. Usually I’m offline from Mattermost for about 2-3 hours a day. Which allows me to focus on my work.
>Still

Recently acquired, however.
Sounds amazing. Are you self employed?
I live in Atlanta and went to Ponce City market in downtown and it looked terrible for a Sunday at 2pm. A lot of the restaurants were half full, most shops were closed, and it overall looked empty.

I'm truly worried about the economy 4-6 months from now.
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We're planning to add new blocks regularly over time and all new blocks added will be totally FREE for all existing customers.

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Glad to see another aussie founder here!
> I'm not saying they should be there, but legally is it different than if Musk flipped the CyberTruck on a public road and people walked around the crash site?

It's hardly uncommon for cops to tell people to back up from an accident/crime scene if they're too close.
I guess figure out the average amount tumbled typically (maybe half a bitcoin - 4kish), divide that by total amount (4.5m), something like 1100 tumbles/mixes? Then spend 1100 days mixing the total sum to keep things as banal as possible (3 years). Possibly randomize the amount tumbled per transaction up to $1000 dollars.

The 4.5m would have to be mixed immediately so the original wallet can no longer be an event source.

Is that the right idea?
500 unrelated accounts all deposit money into a single shared account. From that shared account, payments are made to 1,000 other accounts. None of the amounts match the original deposits, even when summed. Whose money is whose?

This is an oversimplification, but it should give you a rough idea of how difficult it is to trace Bitcoin.
When work for a big IT team at a company that's already invested a fortune in on-prem storage and your job depends on pre-cloud procedures, you keep your mouth closed and do what's asked of you. After all, if the company gets hacked, it's usually just the CISO that gets fired. Not you.

You made a very good point about Windows GPOs. The delivery mechanism for them vs. how macOS does it shows how dated of a paradigm they are. It's bringing back memories to me of importing ADMX templates, gpupdate.....
Haha! An improvement over the Mac LC.
That's effectively not true[1].

[1]: https://github.com/SMLFamily/Successor-ML
>The fact is that Apple/Google hasn't found them in serious infringement of anything.

The fact is also that Apple in particular has an enormous interest in avoiding the CCP being angry with them and Google has also been trying to re-enter China recently.
The entire thing relies on several things: nearly always-on connectivity, ability to convert to USD, crummy UX, and legit cover.

A ban would do serious harm to 2, 3 and 4. If no one could pay legitimately and it would become (ever more) difficult to launder, the ransomware demands would die. The first (connectivity) could be impacted as well. What would happen when traffic shaping makes sync take longer and when every LN transaction risks losing money due to disconnections?
What happens when crypto tumblers run away with the money
Really it should be something built in to the DE. You need it to stop rendering when the background is covered.
From the article it seems like their price changes only got worse for new buyers. You’d be angry if you found out someone else’s price went up?
Google already penalizes non-Chrome users by showing them more ads, in particular ads for Chrome. The choice becomes more stark by the day.
When you use a mixer, there’s a delay between when you put your money in and when it comes back out. The mixing service randomly splits up the transaction into batches and sends them out at different times. So even if you know that somebody sent to a mixer (perhaps as an investigator you could find out mixer addresses by sending lots of transactions to the mixer service yourself), you wouldn’t be able to associate those inputs with any particular output.

If the mixer has a lot of users, at best you could determine that the your target is among the entire set of people who used the mixer this hour/day. Although if the mixer was compromised, you’d have everything. That does seem like a substantial risk. It’s kind of like deciding to trust your vpn. You could mitigate that risk by using multiple mixers.
Ask HN: How to land a job in functional programing
I'm very keen to get some time under my belt as a professional programmer in a functional language. I've not seen a job advertised locally that uses a functional language. Any tips on how to find / land one?
Kinda funny to see 1BTC sent to check it worked before they sent the rest. Cant undo it like a wire transfer...
That’s true of any space contractor. Elon acknowledges NASA’s contributions and the fact that they are standing in the shoulders of giants all the time. What are you getting at exactly?
Ask HN: Secure Email Encrypted at Rest
I am looking to ditch gmail. I have a superficial understanding of cyber sec/crypto but I am not an expert. That's why I'm asking this question of you.

I need an email provider that 1) Not only promises not to read my emails, but literally CANNOT read my messages due to underlying encryption, 2) Allows for searching of emails (some services cannot allow search when mail is encrypted) 3) Encrypted (at rest) calendar, and sync via calDAV, 4) Open source.

I have also used this handy tool, and when filtering on
https://thatoneprivacysite.net/email-comparison/#detailed-email-comparison

When filtering on whether the platform is open source, calDAV support, and encryption at rest, I get only the following options:
Posteo
KolabNow
Disroot
Tutanota

I have researched historical HN discussions on a variety of email providers (runbox, fastmail, posteo, mailbox.org, tutanota, etc), and there have been some very scathing reviews of the encryption algorithms, methodologies, implementation, platform security, etc.

For someone that doesn't want to send encrypted mail, but wants a basic service where I can be confident the data stored is mostly safe* from surveillance and arbitrary access by anyone other than myself, what would be your suggestions?
I write simple lisp functions that are not "configured" as this guy is saying. Not sure I agree. The philosophical difference he talks about seems more of a paradigm choice than a inherent language construct
Then you are lucky enough to not know any valley girls.
F-droid did wade into the free speech debate in relatively recent history by banning an app. I neither condone nor condemn this action but some people (probably very few given that f-droid itself is rather fringe) were probably put off by it.
Seeing a company post an official blog post about having discussions about an acquisition seems super weird to me. But I suppose once the President is ranting about it on Twitter, it's hard to follow the usual processes.
Brigham and Women's Hospital
For all we know their security folks have been warning about something like this and have been pooh-poohed by senior management for years. Sometimes the auditors can only lead the horse to water.
Imagine a residential building that has only one coffee shop on its ground floor. The next coffee shop is across the road, you can go there, but it's pretty inconvenient.

Inconvenience is not a word in a definition of monopoly.
Testing in React, Part 1: Types and Tools
What's amazing to me is that even though it stings, you get better "customer" service from these criminals than from e.g. Google.
I get the sense that this decade will play host to weeks where decades happen.

I am not excited. After all, "May you live in interesting times" is a curse, not a blessing.
Testing in React, Part 2: React Testing Library
No, you're right; I wasn't talking about login attempts. I was thinking that PAKE is a way to establish that two parties have common knowledge of a shared secret, and so the password needs to be shared once in order to become a shared secret. But the protocol you link doesn't transfer the password even when setting it.

(Weirdly, the article explicitly notes that s, the salt Carol applies to her own password, is shared with the server and sent over the wire during login. But the salt never appears to be used by the server in any capacity.

And the instruction "Carol must not share x with anybody, and must safely erase it at this step, because it is equivalent to the plaintext password p" doesn't make a lot of sense; presumably Carol isn't going to erase her knowledge of her password -- what does erasing x add?

[The only thing making the password equivalent to x is that the server transmits the value s during the login attempt. If it didn't do that, x would still be useful, but the "password" would be worthless, unless of course s was stored alongside the password...])
Sorry, that wasn't intended to be a quote, I was trying to understand what you thought refusing to vote would achieve.

Are you hoping that your non-participation in voting is "signalling" the lack of credibility in the system, and that public awareness of this will contribute to some eventual improved outcome for society, or are you just trying to avoid misleading(?) people into believing the supposed false notion that voting can lead to positive changes in government policy?
Also, Lord and Taylor was great for office appropriate and business casual clothing. With people working from home, I'm sure a huge part of their demand cratered.
Provisional ballots avail a lot more leeway for election officials to legally discard ballots compared to mail-in ballots. Its not legally easier to do so with mail-in ballots
> It will be similar to drug trade, where everything is hush hush and the price probably will go up.

It's somewhat more difficult for actual businesses to buy drugs, though, isn't it? The money would show up in audits and all that.
Telegram was not banned.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/telegram-messenger/id686449807
Apparently fallacious data for NYT word frequencies
I read this intriguing thing once to the effect that: if space and time were discrete, say, at the Planck scale, that the infinities that bedevil modern physics would, magically, disappear. No more renormalization - no more many things.
That's because you live in a country with a functioning currency.
Surprisingly modern instantiation. Precursor phrases exist but this tight quote is 1960? Wow.

And.. Maslow.
So could a state actor force enough miners to act in concert and conduct a 51% attack and steal the bitcoin back?
From https://github.com/WICG/trust-token-api

> Token Exhaustion Attack

> Issuers issue many tokens at once, so users have a large supply of tokens.

> When the issuer detects a site is attacking its trust token supply, it can fail redemption (before the token is revealed) based on the referring origin, and prevent browsers from spending tokens there.

I think there’s an interesting trade-off between attack surface and specificity of the token here. A token meaning “This user has only accessed 6 sites in this network” is meaningful only if there’s a single token, as the next access can cause the token to be inconsistent with reality (It states a falsity now).

At the same time, it states the issuer can block redemption based on the referrer. I think that’ll be interesting, as an allow list format will lead to only “big players” being able to use this API (As they are the only ones who they trust to not adversarially redeem tokens) whereas a deny list you’re playing a game of whack-a-mole where new domains can be popped up for this purpose.

edit: added the last part of the quote for completeness
I think the person you're responding to is how you would go about banning it in the first place, not necessarily why you would ban it.
"Data is a toxic asset." If it would hurt the business when leaked, then its value has to justify the risk of keeping it around.
I'm not convinced that it is negative. After every high profile hack or breach, we complain about how organizations regularly get away with poor security practices with mere slaps on the wrist (in terms of legal penalties they end up having to pay).

Perhaps these ransomware attacks are the market's way of making things... more fair.
SEC director calls for private markets to open up for retail investors
As a Canadian, I’ve nervously watched them for years. Their archives have a lot of our history and for that reason I hope they stay in business.

(I’m sure someone would take it over, but it’s neat to have the continuity. And nervously, because downtown high street retail is a declining business?