skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What I meant is that cryptography is a separate activity that "works" in a different way. The result of "crypto" should be requirements for the software to meet.

These requirements should not be limited to description of how the algorithm works but also to important details like "no logging of any cryptographic material" or "duration of operations should be independent of data being processed or success of the operation".

The general problem with developer approach to crypto is that developers decide they have finished when their piece of code works. That just doesn't work with crypto (or security in general).

As to your second comment I can say that I was the only developer at the company and there was no option for hiring other people. As a developer I try to do the best I can with the situation I am in but CEO level decisions on hiring were generally outside my influence.

Whenever you work on something sensitive and potentially dangerous you generally get into a problem of "how I am going to convince them this is safe". In my case, having math background, the solution I decided to go with was to have a written rigorous proof of correctness of the solution and have two other mathematicians and PCI verify the proof (though I have no illusions PCI auditors went through entire document).

As far as cryptography and security goes it isn't possible to prove anything is safe and secure beyond questioning. I am happy in that I did about as much as I could.
I don't know why you got down voted. Its perfectly honest to express what you feel.
Cheaper and more yield/wafer maybe?
This (thread) explains why we've been having internet problems this morning.... lots of sites not working.
Maybe leveraging the Github developer student pack could work. Sign in with Github, and if you have the student developer pack you get a discount.
I already give people in Taiwan a region-based discount.

If I offer some kind of educational discounts for a future product, it definitely won't be based on email address or limited to people in official institutions.

I'd also extend them to people in coding bootcamps, people in language schools and anybody who could credibly claim to be studying full-time, even if they were self-studying between jobs.
Indeed the code is not very difficult (except for that f'ing VAX), it's the manner in which they accomplished it + the personal stories that I think really make this cool (I wrote it though so I'm a bit biased).

In the future I'm going to dissect more complicated obfuscated programs so I hope you'll get to enjoy those.
In a situation like this, what are the best "status" sites to be watching?
I will definitely be adding these to my list of potential article topics for the future. Thank you!
Yes of course it's possible. Welfare/unemployment/insurance industries have been dealing with it since their inception. It's fraud.

The more subjective and unfalsifiable the criteria (e.g. chronic pain, depression) the easier it's going to be for looters to fake their way into the system. Even if it was possible, effectively gerrymandering the definition to include all and only those in need is going to be exceptionally difficult and expensive. A little bit of fraud is part of operating costs.

The problem we have with social media is that volume is the only thing that seems to count. Tribes don't generally police their own because the small hit to the overall credibility (which can be explained away as agent provocateurs) is a small price to pay for the additional 'voice'.
This sounds really fun. And a good way to spend a year after such a shit year we have had so far.
Women Scientists Have the Evidence About Sexism in Science
DevOps’ish 181: Heptio people abandoning VMware’s ship, DevOps titles, and more
Show HN: Making 1on1 conversations easier at work
OKRs are a great framework for goal setting but we need to combine this with communication and teamwork to be able to execute on them.

In an office setting how do we encourage this? Through conversations. It’s important to have continuous conversations between leaders and contributors, solicit feedback and give recognition. This drives alignment, productivity, trust and ultimately helps achieve business goals.

It seems simple but it rarely are conversations effective. We have focussed on conversations between leaders and contributors in the work environment. Pain points include:
Assuming other people have the same information as you
Leaders and contributors are busy and so don’t prepare for conversations making them suboptimal
Leaders and contributors don’t know what subjects to talk about or what they have already covered recently

There is much that could be written and already has been written on the subject. Instead we wanted to play around with some code and build a MVP as a solution to some of the questions below:

How might we make these conversations easier?
How might we improve the productivity of conversations?
How might we track or monitor the effectiveness of these conversations?

There is much more that could be done but wanted to get some early feedback on it to figure which direction people think it would be useful to go in.

The current product is a text-based program which guides leaders/managers through their 1on1 conversations with their contributors and allows them to easily reference past conversations and categorise new ones into the key conversation types.

Github repo (run locally in docker container) at https://github.com/olwflynn/okrconversation

Future ideas:
* Conversation scoring
* Enable “to do” list as input
* Nicer UI
* Others welcome!
Somewhere down the road, flexbox will be replaced with some other technology.

And I'll come here and repost the article, but with the title: In Defense of Flexbox.
https://puck.nether.net/pipermail/outages/2020-August/013198...
And > Monitor all 3rd parties services

*3rd party services or possibly 3rd parties' services
Here's a thought: we should all be outside. :D
Relational Database Comparison – Alibaba, Amazon, Google, IBM and Microsoft
True, the analogy is probably broken.

You certainly can ask Siri to play music from Spotify, I don't know who said you can't. That was added last October with iOS 13. I have no idea what's happened with Kindle, but I use Google Play and Kobo books as well as Apple's Books, and everything works fine for reading. If not being able to purchase books on the device bothers you so much, fair enough, it's your choice, but nothing much has stopped me from finding the cheapest source of an ebook in epub format and reading it.
Unrelated (except the title):

When MP3 was a new thing (1994, I think?), I had a pair of not-so-good speakers, that made it very hard to tell a 128Kb/s MP3 encoding from a CD; with reasonable speakers, it was quite easy at the time, because (a) 128Kb/s is not so good quality, and (b) the encoders at the time were all simple.

However, one day I noticed that there IS a very simple way to tell: Turn on the noisy fan. CD music was mostly robust to the noise - it sounded like music+noise. The MP3s, however, were much more significantly degraded by the fan noise.

I suspect whatever redundancy the MP3 encoding process removed was useful to mitigate the fan noise.
I've had two t410s, both have died after the screen hinge breaks in some fashion (nut wears through plastic, hinge breaks, then the plastic cover on the screen separates.

Are t420s better?
Bob Metcalfe, self professed “conservative hippie,” inventor of the Ethernet, founder of 3Com, of Xerox Parc fame, has this to offer:

> One of the few things that government should do is finance research, because — I have learned from many years — the only companies that can afford to do research are monopolies. Real companies cannot afford to do research other than monopolies. And there are some famous ones. The telephone monopoly — Bell Labs. The computer monopoly — Watson Labs. The copier monopoly — Xerox Parc. And on it goes. In retrospect the monopolies aren't worth it for the research they do. It's nauseating how much we hear about how cool Bell Labs was, but other than the transistor and Unix and the princess telephone, what did we get for all that money? And then for years AT&T as a monopoly sat on innovation — and IBM after that, and Xerox after that — it's just not worth it, so let's kill those monopolies. And if we need research, have it done at research universities. And the other spin I would offer there: as a practitioner of technological innovation, I worry about technology transfer — how do you get technology transferred from the lab into the marketplace. And the best way to do that is with people; and it is the business of universities to graduate people. So let's do our research there, and I think the ARPANet is a great example where government financed the research.

Source: https://youtu.be/zKz07DdaKzw?t=3772
https://downdetector.com/ client perspective is best perspective ;) Problem in this outage is that site X works ok but transit provider for clients in US works badly and generates "false positives"
No. It means it's illegal to throw batteries in the trash because it would be absolutely insane to allow it.
In that case, heart disease should be split too. It isn't as many things as cancer, but it isn't all one thing, either.
Sorry it was uncomfortable to read for you, I can look into implementing a button to switch between a light and dark theme.
I hear you. This already happens, but the range of activities a govt is concerned about a visitor potentially engaging in vastly exceeds what an AirBNB host is concerned about.

The AirBNB host doesn't really care if you're coming into the country to perform what the country considers to be illegal or illicit activities, just that you don't mess up their property, and that you pay the bill (which is mostly handled by AirBNB).

Govts have all sorts of considerations and filters through which visitor applications are considered, both positive (money they're going to spend) and negative (illicit activities they may be partaking in).

In terms of reputation systems, most govts have rules around what data their operational agencies are allowed to collect and maintain that are far (far) more stringent than rules that commercial entities are allowed to collect and maintain.

So govt agencies have contracts to use certain commercial systems as reputation meters. Don't think AirBNB is one of these. They are not a comparatively useful data aggregator, except of course for law enforcement trying to locate an individual of interest.
I don't really know that much about flying planes or learning to fly them, but I'm pretty sure that learning to fly planes involves lots of hands-on trial and error, mostly in small planes with an instructor next to them with another set of controls, and in simulators, in addition to reading about and listening to lectures on the theory of flight and past mistakes that have been made. They're still learning by doing, just in a structured environment where their mistakes don't actually lead to real disasters.

I don't think anybody would want to fly on a big passenger jet piloted by somebody who had never actually touched flight controls, just read books and listened to talks.
> ..dropped them onto concrete, dremeled them, even lit them on fire

I gotta ask, what motivation or situation led to your Thinkpad being lit on fire!?
The non-opex costs can also be very significant. This is from a few years ago (https://www.extremetech.com/computing/272096-3nm-process-nod...), but you can significant differences in start-up costs per node.

In addition, it's just going to be harder to get fab time on more cutting edge nodes. Your going to be competing for fab time against bigger competitors with more at stake, and that's going to cost you as well.

Finally, it's only true that the long-run opex per working transistor is lower on smaller processes. Many processes are actually more expensive on a "per working chip" basis at introduction than their predecessors. It's only as process is worked on and improved that the per chip cost (ignoring opex) actually beats the preceding node.

Usually a fab will start shipping product on a process once it's "good enough" - the yields and costs (and therefore profit per unit) is sufficient to make sense (even if it's not necessarily cheaper than the old process).
It’s a point, but it’s repeated ad nauseum in every thread. It’s the nature of having CDNs or cloud services in the first place. If you want to outsource your uptime, you sacrifice certain freedoms you had in exchange for hypothetically lower costs for operations.
https://www.thousandeyes.com/outages
A new version of Ruby Firebird Extension Library using Rust instead of C
Nanog is also pretty helpful for this specific type of issue
The Level3 outage thread is here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24322861
When it's compromised it will be everybody not just 54,000.
The part of the randomness that I struggle with is the sheer volume of data to be manipulated into useful output (a form of the infinite monkeys with typewriters adage). For example, the smallest genome I can find with a quick google is Carsonella ruddii, which has approximately 160,000 base pairs in its genome.

That many base pairs represents 4^160000 possible combinations. Brute forcing the genome to something better is clearly possible, but if you converted all of the matter in the visible universe into DNA and mutated every strand a trillion times a second for a trillion years, it's very possible you would never even encounter a viable strand of DNA for that organism.

How many reproductive events have occurred in the lifetime of this planet and how has that led to the vast genetic diversity that we see? You can upper bound it by taking some multiple of the biomass on earth times some percentage of that which is DNA by some average reproductive cycle duration, and you're going to find a shockingly paltry number in the face of what exists today.

edit -
Look, wikipedia already did the work for us (no idea of the methodology): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biomass_(ecology)

>The total number of DNA base pairs on Earth, as a possible approximation of global biodiversity, is estimated at (5.3±3.6)×10^37, and weighs 50 billion tonnes.

So to box it in a bit, 5e37 base pairs is 5e37/160,000 or (rounded up) 4e32 Carsonella ruddii. If they reproduce every 4 minutes for 4.5 billion years you have ~6e14 generations for a total of 3e47 distinct instances of DNA as a terribly rough approximation for an upper bound of genetically distinct individuals.

That's almost enough to fully explore a section of DNA that's 80 base pairs long. Most genes are ~1000 base pairs. A butterfly has 100,000,000 base pairs in their DNA. Humans have ~3,000,000,000.

Randomness is clearly a factor, but it seems insufficient.
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With a sufficiently large pile of extensions I'm finding gnome just fine as a power user.

It's sadly the only DE where enough attention to detail has been applied to many parts of the UI. Even if I disagree with certain UI choices, they have been executed exceptionally well.
Show HN: Slack-Native Task Management + an Otter
Not old. Perhaps forever young. My T420 is 9 years old, both batteries are shot but that's my 'desktop', also have an X220, identical last-of-a-generation keyboards, with a fresh 9 cell battery for when on the move. Upgraded with SSDs and RAM; probably not great for gaming or video editing, but no interest in that and there's a PCMCIA bay sitting there just for such applications. I can't see myself changing for at least 5 years, and wouldn't change to something that doesn't have an excellent keyboard, which rules out most laptops including and especially Mac, nor something which can is hardened enough to survive being a little bashed on the floor, in backpack, left outside in sun or snow.
Streamly is a task management tool that meets your company where they are - in Slack. With customizable request workflows, private channels for teams to triage inbound work, and syncing to your team's existing task management tools like Asana, we hope Streamly simplifies your team's efforts and helps them concentrate on the important stuff. Also we couldn't help ourselves, so Stream -> Otter mascot.

It's free for one Stream (request workflow), so give it a shot and let us know what you think! If you need any help just click the 'Help' button. We'll respond right in Slack as if you were getting help from your team, no need to go find our support email.

We also love suggestions for what to make the Otter do, we have our main mascot do lots of wild things, like fight drones as King Kong https://happybara.io/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/bara-footer1...

To install, click the 'Add to Slack' button on this page: https://happybara.io/apps/streamly/
> The encryption can be broken in the future if the rival states become allies, or otherwise become willing to share data with each other.

Witty, sure, but I would not trust it with sensitive data at all if it is relying on political relations ("politics") only.

> Many [vulnerabilities] in Whatsapp/Telegram/Signal

Please provide citations for currently known vulnerabilities of each of these, then.

Telegram does not even support "secret chat" (E2EE) on their desktop and web version of the software[1]. No need for vulnerabilities here.

[1] https://tsf.telegram.org/manuals/e2ee-simple
Notably that’s only 41 years after the handover in India, and 20-30 years after handovers in many other colonies.

Whereas we’re now at 72 and 51-61 years. Big time difference.

That doesn’t make him correct, but the comment has to be read about popular attitudes back then, not now.
The original Wigner's friend paradox: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wigner%27s_friend

The paradox seems to rest on magical thinking about consciousness, and if one simply accepts that a conscious observer can be in a superposition like any other piece of matter, the paradox is resolved.

And, from the article:

For Wigner, this was an absurd conclusion. Instead, he believed that once the consciousness of an observer becomes involved, the entanglement would “collapse” to make the friend’s observation definite.

But what if Wigner was wrong?

Well, obviously Wigner is wrong, sorry for being flippant.

In this paper (preprint here: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1907.05607.pdf), the magical thinking about consciousness seems to be transmuted into "“Absoluteness of Observed Events” (i.e. that every observed event exists absolutely, not relatively)". The authors (it appears to me) mean by this that if an observer performs an experiment, while this observer is himself in a superposition, we have to regard the outcome of the experiment as absolute (i.e. not in a superposition) because it was made by a (conscious) observer.

In my opinion, both "Absoluteness of Observed Events", and the equivalent from the layman's article, "When someone observes an event happening, it really happened", is a disingenuous and confusing way of talking about observers who are in a superposition. We have crossed over from "quantum mechanics is weird" to "these superficially intuitive but clearly false assumptions about quantum mechanics are weird".

(by the way, I read the article here: https://theconversation.com/a-new-quantum-paradox-throws-the... because that site doesn't think I'm a robot and then redirects me to the homepage after filling out the captcha)
As Child Covid Cases Rise, Doctors Watch for Potential Long-Term Effects
https://archive.vn/XVJSq
> This kind of focus on extra-curricular activities is a complete waste of time

Strongly disagree. A big part of university is the campus experience. A college with low extracurricular participation is different from one with lots of it. A good predictor of students who won’t go to class and then be hermits is past activity.

Controls need to be in place to ensure this doesn’t proxy for discrimination. But we’d be amiss ignoring e.g. coding projects, community organisation and other accessible, self-guided extracurricular activities.
I had to use a VPN With US location to post this comment. I am in Europe.
No peering problems from my network with Level3 in London Telehouse West, maybe a minute or so of increased latency at 10:09 GMT

Routing to a level3 ISP I have an office in in the states peers with London15.Level3.net

No problem to my Cogent ISP in the states, although we don't peer directly with Cogent, that bounces via Telia

Going east from London, a 10 second outage at 12:28:42 GMT on a route that runs from me, level3, tata in India, but no rerouting.
Siri, for the following:

* Check weather

* Open a certain app on my watch without touching it

* Start a phone call or facetime

* Play some music —> this starts a personal radio station in apple music

* Add a reminder to my grocery list or another specific list. Or “remind me tomorrow”

* start a timer on my watch

* Set an alarm on my watch

* turn on/off smart home lights

* Some stuff with Siri Shortcuts. I use this mostly for time tracking timers, starting and stopping. But sky’s the limit here, you can start any multi step automation from siri if you have a use case that doesn’t require input

* Show me pictures from the web of X

* Search basic facts
HN works fine from Germany with Telefonica (O2) and also from the Netherlands with XS4ALL.

Edit: Somewhere between 14:00 and 14:46Z it also went down from O2; XS4ALL still works, and O2 can reach XS4ALL.
Here's a direct link to this month's messages:

https://mailman.nanog.org/pipermail/nanog/2020-August/thread...
Story of Computer Graphics
https://www.internetweathermap.com/map
AES by itself is not very useful. What block cipher mode(s) do you use?
I use ranger quite a lot when I have to explore the contents of a folder I just cloned or downloaded. Moving around with vim keybindings is much quicker than typing many `cd`, `ls` and `cat`, as you have a preview of files or folder contents on the right side.

I find it also quite useful when doing some housekeeping and cleaning, as while moving around you can mark several items to delete or move them all at once.
What a crazy launch: 1.8M pageviews from Reddit in one day
What's this in English? They were randomly assigned a diet, and could eat as much as they pleased?

I find it hard to overeat a low carb diet, so if mice feel the same way, they would then benefit from caloric restriction on such a diet.
No luck on T-Mobile
I love in the final video he has the distance finder on a breadboard. I have a similar one and just found that awesome to see
Except for the fact that internetweathermap.com is super green, and the internet is not currently super green.
So, that's why HN is unreachable from Belgium at the moment (right when I was trying to figure a dns cache problem in Firefox,of course).

An ssh tunnel through OVH/gravelines is working so far. edit: Proximus. edit2: also, Orange Mobile
You mean nanog.org? I don't see a stats page linked in their menu.
Looks like Centurylink/Level3 (as3356) might not be withdrawing routes after people close their peering?
Calling that "technically UB" is putting it lightly.
Thank you, fixed it, I definitely didn't pay attention on this

Now wondering if it impacted conversion rate?
Whatever you did, can you do it somewhere else, so I can see it? There's no contact info anywhere.
Capacitor – Cross-platform apps with JavaScript and the Web
> That seems like a good default, with the ability to choose an arbitrary image, or a video that will be automatically cropped to the duration of the "gap", or a segment of a video chosen by start-end timestamps.

Got it. Definitely doable ;)

> Not talking about containers. When trying to concatenate videos with different codecs, dimensions, frame rates, bit rates, etc. ffmpeg will issue warnings and output a video. Playing that video messes the players up.

If I understand correctly, that seems like a bug in ffmpeg.
Yes, I had to switch to my Vodafone eSIM for data to connect to Hacker News.
This lacks a clear threat model and even overstates many problems it claims to resolve (e.g. vulnerabilities in Signal, et al).

I'm not very certain what value this adds to the landscape. Is it possible the developers can elaborate here?