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Hello Friends,

I am a former staff engineer at Docker and currently work on container infrastructure at Stripe. I've decided to start a blog where I will go deep on subjects that many of us professionals find interesting but which we don't have the time to learn about. I will go deep on these subjects and digest them for you without removing the substance. The first subject I decided to tackle was quantum computing, how it works, and how it breaks the secure internet. You will get the most out of this post if you have a CS or Math background but I've tried to keep the content approachable. Please let me know what you think and I would love suggestions for a next topic. All opinions and content my own.
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Hi!

German (gzh18, CTO) and Anton (alakhtikov, CEO) are here.
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>enter your email address and phone number

Nope. Better luck next time, data pickers.
What my machine can or can not do is irrelevant, I might connect a drive from a machine where machine cycles were faster or parallel. So it's entirely possible to see timestamps less than X nanoseconds apart even if my machine can't do more than one cycle each X nanoseconds.
It wasn't a desk, just a desk top (i.e. a flat rectangular surface, 150cm x 70cm x 5cm IIRC). You screwed legs to it (sold separately), and thus had a simplest possible desk. Also, I agree that it was cheap, but it was a piece of furniture that has already shown signs of wear after a year and was ready for landfill after 3 years of usage. Under Polish law, I could probably successfully sue IKEA for selling me faulty product, because I could reasonably argue in court that no furniture, no matter how cheap, should be expected to last only 3 years. I mean, desks are not socks.
That second one sounds like it's manual. I've never been able to automate that.

What would be cool if any time I pick a contact in Google Maps to navigate to, it would "share my progress" with them too.
What does “quine” mean?
There's 2 approaches to programming:

- make it easy to extend (lets's call it SOLID in this context)

- make it easy to rewrite (let's call it KISS)

OO developers think that the first approach is The Only Way but both can be right, especially with high-level declarative languages and with tasks small enough (relative to the language expressive power).

SOLID makes it easier to modify programs (in predetermined directions) without understanding the whole.

KISS makes it easier to understand the whole program.

SOLID accumulates inefficiencies over time because people program with tunnel vision.

KISS takes longer to modify as it grows and eventually exceeds the capacity of human brain.

SOLID is mostly OO, KISS is mostly declarative.

If you want to feel safe changing code unit tests are nice, best practices and design patterns are nice too, good architecture is appreciated. But the best is just to understand everything that happens. Only then truly fearless programming is possible.

Once you go big enough you have to use SOLID but before that it's a cost.
Aye - 'flechettes' were used in WWI - basically arrow heads dropped from the barest of planes able to be described as such.

It's incredibly old 'tech'.

- ed - oops! I see that's right there in your link.
Most of the escape velocity of the voyager probes came from a gravitational slingshot around the gas giants. I don't think additional rocket power would help much.
If someone said "here are some of your files," I'd want to have a look. Curiosity doesn't mean they're telling the truth.
Is the fact that it is "written in Go" a selling point?
If I remember correctly, I got hundreds of pages of disclosures when I bought my condo in San Francisco.

Recently bought in Tahoe and less disclosures than San Francisco, but certainly quite clear about fire danger.
This is maybe one of those most disturbing things I've ever read. I'm going to be thinking about this for a WHILE.
How do you figure? Just like you can leave the Best Buy marketplace and go to another electronics store, you can leave the Apple marketplace and go to Android. No one is forcing anyone to buy an iPhone.
Generally Bitcoin has solved this by social and denominative means — definitionally if a majority of miners sign a stream of blocks that ‘break the rules’ then, that is the truth and the miners have chosen new rules.

Socially if this is signing a block with a bug, miners have historically colluded to rewrite history.

If on the other hand the new blocks embed protocol changes, then we move to names: is it still ‘Bitcoin’? If not then there is a hard fork with a new community. This is the BCH, BSV and ETC story.

The answer to your question about Algorand is probably similar, unless the scheme has some novel mechanism to prune hard forks, or a way to radically include them.
Why can't job security (or even compensation) be marginally improved? No one is expecting FAANG-level salaries with lifetime tenure.

On the other hand, it's not hard to see how 1-year contracts at $50k/year chase people out of research. Heck, you can't even stay at this level for many years--a ton of postdoc funding has time-since-PhD limitations. It's either up or out.

Funding some staff scientists at (say) ~75k/year with 4-6 years between renewals might enable more and better science. There's even evidence this improves trainee outcomes too....
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If this is the case, then it will be the ultimate version of the console for me and I'll happily get one. I'm not sure if the userbase will be large enough to attract hacker attention, hopefully it will.
Apple's not a monopoly, though. Until a court rules that fully owned and operated storefronts are their own unique marketplaces, Apple is nowhere near a monopoly.
Accusations shouldn't be the relevant metric -- everything and anything gets "accusations" of all kinds if popular enough.
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>[...] it’s probably also useful to point out that they are a subsidiary of Monsanto.

Why would that be useful?
Owners of BitMEX, a Leading Bitcoin Exchange, Face Criminal Charges
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Why not both? Humanity can in fact more than one problem at the same time.
Longevity is turning out to be a major issue with steel reinforced concrete. This might solve some of that by using reinforcements that do not react chemically with the concrete. Lifetime usage issues including durability and recycling loom large in this context.
Go to your doctor and ask for a physio consult at a therapist near you if you really need to know a specific place of your lower back pain.
The exercises are common for the whole lower back, you can find some when googling with "mobility exercises lower back".
Success solving your problems.
BTW upper back problems can also be solved with the right exercises, upper back problems also often can cause intestine and other problems like stomach, kidney and liver.
Nerves have 2 main functions, steering all parts of your body and feedback to the brain.
Umm... it was. That's literally the entire issue being discussed her. The Belarusian government and law enforcement decided it was wrong and asked the developer and Apple to remove those posts.
Super neat idea!

As a DM + general TTRPG lover, I think the real magic is playing with friends so the game can be exactly what the group wants, then each session and campaign can build on each other.

Our group has running jokes that span campaigns and worlds, because we have that shared language from being a group.

With that said, I still think this is a fantastic idea for everyone from all fronts to be able to play the games you like and get exactly what you want out of a game.

I will have to take a look because I have been curious about how to get deeper into this area, possibly for pay. One thought was to start a game shop in my town but I have heard super low margins and just not a great idea.
It shouldn't matter if it seems fake, it should matter whether or not it is fake.

As it stands, there is no reason to believe that it is fake.
Rainwater refills it, evaporation blocked via siphon. Most deserts get at least 150-250 liters of water per square meter per year, often much more. [1] The boxes supply enough water for the roots to grow down to the capillary water below.

[1] https://www.groasis.com/en/planting/what-is-capillary-water-...
I don't get it either. In my eyes, they are an example of how good engineering combined with scale makes our lives better.

Their stuff is exactly as good as it needs to be. If you were to cut it up and look inside, you'd be shocked how cheap the materials are (big parts of the LACK are literally made of cardboard), but in my experience, you don't notice this in everyday use, and that's the really important part. That's good engineering vs. the medieval approach of just throwing a lot of wood at it until it's definitely enough.

Combine it with scale, and the result is me being able to furnish my entire apartment for the price that I'd pay for a single piece of "quality" furniture. My desk (where I shelled out for the slightly more expensive "higher quality" version with a 25? year warranty) and kitchen countertop look like new despite heavy use.

Will everything survive a move? Maybe not. That's why I plan to sell to the next tenant what they want to keep, from the rest dump (recycling or waste-to-energy, not landfill) whatever breaks, is not practical to dis- and reassemble, or doesn't fit the new apartment, and then buy new IKEA furniture that actually fits (and have it delivered and assembled by IKEA for probably not much more than the cost of moving "good" furniture).
I don't think you use starship as the stage that pushes the probe to escape velocity, you use a ion engine (which spacex also develops for starlink). They're an order of magnitude more efficient... Starship just lifts it to orbit.
The reason I'd personally say it's unfair is because Discord should do their own fair calculations, not just copy what another low-paying company pay may have given before.

Discord is valued at several billion dollars, and their last funding round was over a hundred million. They are a key component in the lives of at least a hundred million people. Given this, $5,000 is, in my opinion, negligible, and the proper payout would have been at least double.

Given that Discord permanently stores so many chat logs, personal information, analytics, etc, there should be no higher priority than maximizing security and user trust, and $5K would make me, as a potential user, think it's a second priority.
You can set up Safari like that, where it will, when it can render a reader view, default to that presentation.
But you don't even need that if you're happy with quirks mode, right?
Seriously - most influential people in Silicon Valley are assholes.
If I understand correctly your original comment must be highly disingenuous. You're asking for sources you know don't exist.
That argument puts all platforms in an impossible bind.

1) all platforms are acting against misinformation- singularly around the US elections mind you -

2) misinformation will be political, since it will impact one party or the other.

3) making a decision to remove it will therefore be a political decision

So to avoid being labeled political, platforms should not remove misinformation?

Not sure how that computes.

Leaving misinformation up for people to beat with better info, empirically doesn’t work. Social media has proven that at least, COVID and mask wearing is notable but only the most recent illustrative example.

So what should platforms do? Or maybe someone can outline a way to depoliticize such decisions?
Most chess sites provide a "firehose" for current games. It should be pretty easy to pipe a game's pgn file to stockfish.

Also, sites also have a "viewer" page for most games where they add a chess engine evaluation of the current position. All you really need to do to cheat is to open your game under another account and you can just copy over the move in the top line.

If you are interested in super computer evaluation of chess games, [sesse](https://analysis.sesse.net) usually has the analysis of the "game of the day". It's run by people at chess24, so they usually analyze Magnus' games.
In some cases, it’s true though. For example, the NFL didn’t test for HGH at all until 2010 and their test remains inadequate even today. It’s fairly reasonable to assume a majority of players were using it prior to 2010 if their choice was between getting a million-dollar contract and taking HGH.
And try to build higher than 4 stories in already built up places like San Francisco. Local groups will do everything to stop you. The heart breaking thing is Bay Area environmental groups like the Sierra Club are aligned with the anti-development crowd. They actively fight infill, but won’t acknowledge or see that encourages sprawl.
The laptop could be Hunter's, that doesn't mean the reported content was.
Well, one classic is "Tai's formula is the Trapezoidal rule" https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/7677819/
You're confusing the ease of compliance with the nature of the order itself.

As an example, banning certain words could be considered a "mild inconvenience", but it's clearly a violation of the first amendment.

Border patrol and other police checkpoints, are a "mild inconvenience". They may very well help catch more criminals, but police need to have probable cause and can't just go on fishing expeditions.

As far as a _federal_ mask mandate, it's clearly not within the enumerated powers. I think you could potentially make an argument for state/local mask mandates when it comes to _public_ areas, given that all powers not granted to the federal goverment are reserved for the states and the people. I would still probably consider that authoritarian in nature.

That's just for masks as well. As far as locking down or limiting size of gatherings, while it may be a very good idea to do something like that during a pandemic, Imo it wouldn't be constitutional, as the freedom of assembly is explicitly protected in the first amendment.

Freedom can be dangerous, but I prefer it to the alternative.
Isn’t this hacker news? Not ethical dilemma news?
Won't there be a second run now, where Arce will probably win?
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Ask HN: How to do compliant analytics/ML?
The startup I work for operates in a highly regulated industry and relies heavily on analytics and ML.

Even though we've invested a lot in providing data access in a secure and compliant way, our solution is still far from perfect:

- Our anonymisation strategy is leaky but it's by far the best solution we know of

- Analysts can download data on their computers (anonymised data but with a non-negligible probability of internal leaks), a side effect of being able to query BigQuery via Google AI Hub Notebooks

- There is no strategy for eliminating the risk of data exfiltration: Even if analysts get access to data via a Virtual Desktop solution, the result of their analysis will eventually be rendered as a tableau dashboard -- which again means they could potentially render tables of data. Even if that wasn't the case, employees can still save screenshots of the query results to their computer.

There must be companies out there approaching these issues in a far better way but we have yet to talk to somebody in that group. Everyone seems to have the exact same problems and all the solutions we've heard of are equally unsatisfactory - if not worse.

What is your satisfactory approach to analytics, compliance and data exfiltration? How do you ensure employees don't see PII or if they see, they can't do anything with them?

Do you know of any group (reddit/discord/mailing lists/youtube/anything) that addresses these topics in a serious, non-marketing way?

Any input is welcome.
push them on what? Lex does technical people and i dont think cowen would be able follow them, plus he steers away from politics.
Great point, which I am totally ignoring to point out that I think you meant "2020's" instead of "1920's". But great point, though, about the larger issue.
For people who don’t enjoy doing CRUD and want to play with massive infrastructures, systems level programming and everything in between VFX can be pretty fun!
If people are looking for FAANG level compensation then look the other way.

Thanks for writing this !
Some quick napkin math based on rough numbers:

Starship estimated payload to LEO: 100 t

Voyager mass: 1,820 lb

Booster: let's assume an ideal state of 1 Raptor engine (3,300 lb) and 5,000 lb of other stuff before fuel

Plugging into the rocket equation and assuming no further staging, that gets us a delta v of 89,428 mi/hr, or about 2.3x the speed of Voyager 1. I'm not sure if we should add the orbital speed of Earth to that or not. Also keep in mind that the Voyagers reached their speeds thanks to several gravity slingshots, so in theory we could boost our Starship speedball probe even higher than that. If we used a fat Ion engine instead of chemical rockets, we'd get a lot more delta v as well (although over the course of years instead of a few minutes).
Flood insurance is defined and you have to buy national flood insurance from FEMA (the govt) so you can just look up the property's risk online.
Likewise `elinks -dump` if you prefer elinks.
My sense is that it's like programming in that laziness can manifest in the form of automation, limits on tech debt, and other investments in efficiency.

For example, a more intensive version of the lazy farmer's method would be to set timed gates around the property to induce herd movement for optimal grazing.

At a talk on regenerative farming, one speaker estimated he was making about $150 an hour based on how little time it took to set and maintain a well designed gate system. This was on leased land.
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He means going to a chiro that puts a strap to your head and starts pulling short and hard.
Your spine should decompress slowly with exercises if you want to keep things safe.
Maybe I just lack imagination, but what are the applications for this? The only thing I can think of might be some static data repository of raw XML files, which are accessed using a server that can send an XSLT header but you want to avoid loading up with template processing.

In the case of a webapp, you're running JavaScript anyway, so it doesn't really matter. Fun fact— very early Google Maps used XML for the ajax responses, and then switched to JSON for performance/simplicity reasons, since the result was being used in code anyway, not just rendered and displayed.
I really like the animations and graphs. Anyone know what library if any was used for those?
Do a lot of visual artists have programming skills these days?

Or I guess a better question is, do artists who have programming skills get higher pay, attention,etc from employers in this field?

I guess I’m curious to the state of the field of digital artists wrt programming.

Great read!
Medical MRIs came out of the technology for radio astronomy:

https://armaghplanet.com/astronomy-magnetic-resonance-imagin...
I've done the same and tell him I enjoy them. I think it's informative how the people he interviews frame the question (or not) and approach the answer.

They are at a predictable spot in the podcast (the end), so it's pretty easy to just stop listening when he brings them up.
These are among my top favorite purchases too. I love my Kindle, along with QC35 headphones, I can find oasis anywhere.

And YouTube Premium is awesome, it actually makes watching YouTube a pleasant experience and it comes with YT Music.
I'm not the one making the claim that it's fabricated.

> Shouldn't your standard be "prove that this evidence is in any way authentic" before we move forward with a discussion of it?

Of course, but when has the media ever done that? There is clearly a massive effort to sink this story. Why?
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I cannot find the raw data or details about it, but they must have it. The only reason I see any transition loss in productivity would be in building soil fertility/biomass vs synthetic fertilizers which are more readily absorbed. I would guess it's possible to adopt the vegetable cover part of it while keeping the traditional fertilizers without suffering the transition.
Normally I would completely agree, but perhaps in covid times it can prevent people from leaving germs on the buttons??
>There's no reason we have to make farm work unsafe or low-paying.

Okay. Who is paying for it?

Farming is razor thin margins already. Most people aren't on techie salaries that can afford organic food. Raising the price is just a tax on the poor.
Isn't there some evidence? Like the pictures? Sure, the emails could be fake and the photos real, but it does seem to indicate that they have at least obtained some sort of computer from Biden?

Also, neither Joe or Hunter Biden have denied any of it so far, AFAIK.
The article touches on this in a more roundabout way, but personally I couldn't help but feel a bit of grim satisfaction at this whole situation.

The newspapers who got moderated by Twitter and are now crying foul are the same ones who are the reason Twitter started with their heavy-handed proactive approach to moderation in the first place.

Twitter, Facebook, most platforms really, just want to be dumb service providers. But they got bullied by major news organizations who, as always, had no fucking clue what they are asking for, into becoming what they are now.

I don't think anything will change though. Within their opinion columns only their inability to reflect upon past mistakes is more chronic than than their inability to think their hot-headed demands to their logical conclusions.
It most definitely does not cover flood or rising water. Insuring against flood is a money loser which is why it needs to be subsidized by the government.
Really cool idea! I could definitely see myself using this service when I graduate and have more time.

Out of curiosity, what is player retention like in campaigns? Have you guys considered adding any incentives to keep players coming to the sessions? When I last played DnD, we would always have a ton of fun during the sessions, but it was difficult to keep everyone coming back regularly.
I've known friends who did Bachelor's and PhD's in bio-engineering, computational biology, etc, worked in the lab one or two years, didn't find the career development aspect of things to be prosperous (this was 2005~2015), and then made the (often smooth, employment-wise) transition into the software industry and went on to become succesful product managers and CTOs.

But I've never known of the reverse.
Oh wait - this is the DNI that recently released unverified information about Hillary Clinton a few weeks before the election coming up.

https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-dni-john-ratcliffe-dec...

'Andrew Weiss, a Russia specialist who is the James Family chair and vice president for studies at the Carnegie Endowment, described Ratcliffe's decision as "total national security malpractice,"'

Something which violates the norms of the Intelligence Community and was clearly done to help the President's re-election campaign:

https://www.lawfareblog.com/john-ratcliffes-dangerous-declas...

Why do you trust this guy? You shouldn't, not on this. His actions reveal his priorities.
at work, our typical document collaboration workflow is to have the master version in our VCS (with exclusive checkout), then we check-out, edit, check-in to push changes. small edits get made directly in the master document while larger changes get staged locally and copy-pasted. maybe I just have process stockholm syndrome, but it really doesn't seem that painful. the main bottleneck is getting all the stakeholders to review each round of edits, not lock contention for the editing itself.
If you want something similar that also supports NFS, then there's leofs: https://github.com/leo-project/leofs