skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> but policy-wise he didn't really make any horrible decisions.

I'm not sure if this is permitted by the guidelines. I can prefix perhaps with: I get why a lot of people voted for Trump, and I have sympathy with some of his policies, but I think there _were_ some policy decisions that were judged to be horrible, including by NGOs and internationally. Some examples listed below.

I'm not saying other presidents don't made horrible decisions, but I am saying that there seems to be a tendency to excuse his behaviour by a whataboutism argument, and it's really important to get down in the detail, into the facts, and not let Trump's style of politics trickle down to us all.

Separating children from their parents to deter immigration: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/trump-administration-s-c...

The Travel Ban: https://www.amnesty.org.uk/licence-discriminate-trumps-musli...

Science and medicine cuts: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5468112/

Abandoning the kurds: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/10/28/turkey-syria-t...
Probably what's wrong about this article is the title and the introduction.

The article isn't about stop using RSA, the article is about stopping to roll your own crypto with RSA.
I honestly don't see why anyone of us should write any crypto implementation: no matter how hard we try, I bet that without being a mathematician focused on crypto writing such an important algorithm will inevitably make it not secure.
Dude, that is awesome!!! How can I convince a smart guy like you to work with me on a project?

Serious question!
> The worst flu killed 80k people in a year

I think you're about 3 orders of magnitude off. COVID is pretty bad, but the 1918 flu was horrifyingly awful. Flus can get pretty bad.
No politician is as outwardly vulgar or crude as Trump, but... for e.g. Bill Clinton is now seemingly allowed, nay, welcomed in polite company after sexually assaulting multiple women. How come the media or our esteemed blue checkmarks never ask dems about that? Trump and his flaws are well represented in US politics.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_federal_political_sex_...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_federal_political_scan...
That's worse, right? You get how that's worse.
Ask HN: Best MQTT Debugger
During a recent client project I began building a gui for debugging and inspecting MQTT connections since I found the existing ones lacking in performance and polish. What features do you expect in an app like this? Would you pay for a well made one? Wondering if I should pursue the idea of keep it as an internal tool.
> Help your fellow man. Do not force others to do it for you at the point of a gun.

An alternative is that we could stop enforcing property rights at the point of a gun. What is more important; property or people? A selfish person in a society that provides for all may feel slighted but they will live comfortably. A selfish person in a society with strict protection of property can cause another person to die without lifting a finger. Frankly, if it's ethical to allow some individuals to die from neglect (thus losing everything of value) then it's at least as ethical to allow redistribution of some personal property (losing less than everything).
> vowing new direction

So... same as every president after election everywhere. Watch as Biden doesn't undo any of the things he promised to undo. Same as Obama.
RSA itself is secure, if your primes are large and random. You should use a decent library like OpenSSH etc.

Transition from RSA to ECC has an issue: unlike RSA where you increase the security by keeping the same algorithm but increasing the key length, in ECC there are a zoo of curves. You have heard that parameters in 25519 are secure, but then later you upgrade to another curve with dubious parameters. Each of these curves needs its own cryptanalysis. Now you have to deal with a lot of fragmented algorithms and complexity.

Also I kind of believe the difficulty of the factorization problem that has not been solved 2500 years more than the difficulty of the discrete log problem. There is no doubt more work on factorization, but that also indicates solving it gets increasingly difficult.

Most algorithms have limitations. Mentioning the limitations of one algorithm to promote another is not a proper comparison. What if the users pick up one of those NIST curves?
His track record on the environment is terrible. So is separating families from their children and putting them in cages.
This post implies relationship between 37 Signals success and the ebook.

But really their success was all about Ruby On Rails and the community and publicity and audience that brought.

So I’m not sure quite what to make of this post.
It was not about what reasonable people think at this point, it’s about what they do and who they enable to enact power. The people you mentioned have no power and are not endorsed or are told to „stand by“. This is a very significant difference. As a reminder the whole reason Biden entered the race was Charlottesville.
Could you provide some sort of source or citation for this? The Southern Poverty Law Center, Anti-Defamation League, and FBI all seem to consider them extremist.
if that's your impression of PM's you're either not being fair to the PM's you work with or you need to work with better PM's.
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right. its THE BAD REPUBLICANS. not THE GOOD DEMOCRATS.

completely ignore the never trump idea.

(they didnt do this with trump huh?)
Those elements you list all have the same single domain: computing. And we spent decades trying to agree on the definition of them in the computing community. On top of that all of them are simple and flat value-based types. Meaning they don't really have any relationship to any other elements.
They are correct in thinking that. For most people it's unlikely that a COVID-19 infection would kill them. The CDC's estimates for infection fatality rate by age are:

0-19 years: 0.003%

20-49 years: 0.02%

50-69 years: 0.5%

70+ years: 5.4%

Source: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/planning-scena...

For younger ages, that's comparable to influenza: https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/2017-2018.htm#table1
One more data point in terms of political parties' views on science: there are two people in the White House now who believe that evolution is a hoax, Mike Pence and Mark Meadows, both of whom derive that belief from their religious practices.

Does a leader need to believe that evolution is a process that happens to be an effective leader? Not necessarily, though it may hinder their ability to make informed choices when, e.g. dealing with a pandemic whose causal agent is evolving.

(Does a leader need to accept a heliocentric model? Again, probably not, very little in the way of political life depends on the leader's cosmology at that scale, but for some reason it would make me deeply uncomfortable if we ended up with a president some day who insisted the sun revolved around the earth.)
You mean like everything is a file and you could build pipelines of simple commands to modify your data? That’s genius!
If this works with F#, It looks incredibly interesting.

P.S. I love the name.
it's really easy to not care about money when you already have it.
Finally some new ideas in this space. Love it!

Lists are honestly a pretty awful way to organize to-dos. Our brains don't work linearly at all.
Becoming a magician (2018)
Buy your own domain and hosting so you can always regain access to it.
It's hackernews so it astounds me that most people posting here use some free email instead of paying few buck for own domain and hosting.
Perhaps we may not need to agree on every topic but there must be a discourse happening between each other in good faith. This rarely happens in our current political climate as most people (using Twitter as a sample group) is hyperreactive to any sort of criticism from their opponent.

If we, or all nations, want to come together, our first step is to recognize the importance of the United Nations. If we are able to understand that the United Nations can be an apolitical checks and balance to all countries, it may be a major step forward.

An ideal theory is that all countries begin living by the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights[1]. Incorporate this into the foundation of your countries government and it sets a tone and example for which type of moral values you prioritize within your borders.

[1]: https://www.un.org/en/universal-declaration-human-rights/ind...
I discovered this post from this Nielsen tweet:
https://twitter.com/michael_nielsen/status/10741501241697730...

Which I discovered from this post:
https://blog.stephsmith.io/how-to-be-great/

I wasn't sure how to name this post well so if anyone has any ideas let me know (since it's not about literal magicians)
Yes, it's using RDS RemoteApps. You can semi-activate it on any modern version of windows with a registry key hack, which is included in the repo.

The clever bit here is the winapp code that builds the RDP shortcuts to directly launch the remote apps.
Trump got into power because he was hailed as a genius business person who would transform the country like a good business person would transform a failing company.

People bought into it, because he's probably the most exposed businessman in America - through his brand name, and media appearances.

Furthermore, he was "hard" on certain populist topics like immigration, as well as conservative on more mainstream topics, like taxes, foreign affairs, etc.

And on the very top of that, the fringes of democratic voters didn't bond with Hilary Clinton getting ushered in as the presidential candidate.

Even Trump didn't believe he'd win in 2016.
The trolley problem is a bit silly.

If you just boil it down to the actual question

You can pick one of:

1 random person dies, or

5 random people die.

Which one do you choose?

The correct answer is obvious. The question is more interesting with more context.
REPUBLICANS BAD. DEMOCRATS GOOD.

that's the basic idea from the people here. thanks for making me correct.
People are tired of old white dudes as politicians. They want...young white dudes.
Many websites will stop working on older Android versions in 2021
Governments want to censure our information, big ad companies want to sell our eyeballs to their clients, political parties want to ride this train to their election success, but nobody is asking individual users what they want. Why is everyone offering to do filtering/censure/ranking for us but we can't decide for ourselves? For example, why is there just one single ranking in Google - maybe I'd like a plurality of ranking systems, each configured by a different organisation (such as EFF). Empower users to choose for themselves the bubble they want.
I know right, he is definitely on the right in the political spectrum.

The left or even centre-left has never been in power in the US and probably never will.
Error and Fraud at Issue as Absentee Voting Rises (2012)
Kosovo war was US led (not opposing it, but definitely under Clinton)
24 hours ago, a group of demonstrators chanted "stop the count" at an elections office. How do you get there from here?
I have pretty good integration of different text based applications inside of emacs.
There needs to be some unified national bent, but I think consensus is an entirely unrealistic expectation for the union.

Ultimately, I think the most viable path forward is a cultural reprivileving of state and local politics over national-level politics, and to rehabilitate our national mythology (half the country thinks we're a divine gift, and the other thinks we're a physical manifestation of every sin in Western history).

Unfortunately, I'm not sure if that's a more realistic path than any other at this point. The development and expansion of our bureaucracies under executive control makes the federal government too easy and tempting a tool for the imposition of any one faction's agenda upon all other states.
I'm aware of what the charges were. I'm referring to the original investigation of Muller's that had these findings.
I think the argument to that is, these things exist despite the ban on them, therefore the only people benefiting from the existing system are the supply side catels. If you disagree, to me, it's eseentially say that it's good that people are forced into treatment when they cant afford the drugs anymore, but that doesn't feel like a good way to push positive change.
I use weeslack for my Slack integration, and still live just about 100% in the terminal.
Who you tax and what you spend tax revenues on is entirely based on a point of view. Calculating taxes is cold hard math, but deciding taxation and spending policies is not.
I'm nowhere close to rich or a Trump voter, but I'm glad my 401k) went up when the stocks went up. The Dem's economic policies in recent years are stinkers. I don't like the idea of raising taxes and creating new money-pit departments and thinking the government can fix stuff like education at the federal level. The idea of mandating people to purchase a healthcare product was also abhorrent. I'd much sooner get behind something like a single payer/universal coverage and kill off the useless insurance industry.
That is definitely not technical debt.

Technical debt is the idea that just like you'd take a loan for your business to grow faster, you can take shortcuts while coding your first versions (for eg. not having adequate amount of test coverage, not making it modular or extendible etc.) to get the product out or meet a deadline. Just like your business loan, you get into technical debt knowing that you will eventually pay it back (i.e. write additional tests, refactor etc.).

Not every software problem is technical debt.

While your problem seems much larger, the same problem happens in smaller scales in every software company when engineers quit and leave a complicated codebase behind for new hires to take over. You should be looking specifically for people who have experience working with legacy code in your next hiring round.
How many jQuery table plugins are there? Sort, filter, pagination, partial display. And yet it is impossible to find components that meets all requirements.
Bruh, it’s all about “multi-mode learning with hyper-scale data”, you’re like five years late.

The lingo treadmill is brutal.
It's less about piracy and more about collecting data for advertising purposes. Microsoft for example couldn't care less about "piracy" nowadays, in fact Windows 10 will work just fine without being activated and the only restrictions are cosmetic annoyances like not being able to change wallpapers or accent colours.
> their take on it is that to be competitive on Spotify and such, you have to produce content so regularly that quality is diluted.

I think this idea is misguided. The more music you produce, the more good music you produce. Trying to keep average quality up by restricting production is counterproductive in two separate ways; (1) it ends up causing you to produce lower-quality output than otherwise, and (2) nobody cares that you released some bad songs if you also released some good songs.

I read a fun paper documenting this very effect (the first one) in a college pottery class. One class was told the grading procedure would be as follows:

1. Over the course of the term, you make some pots. It's up to you.

2. Turn in all your pots at the end of the term.

3. The instructor will evaluate your pots for quality, and you will receive a grade accordingly.

A second class was told they'd be graded like so:

1. Over the course of the term, you make some pots. It's up to you.

2. Turn in all your pots at the end of the term.

3. The instructor will never look at your pots. They will be smashed into tiny shards, and your shards will be weighed. Your grade will be based on the weight of your accumulated pots after they are destroyed. More is better.

In fact, the pots in group two were evaluated for quality just like group one. Students in group two produced more pots. They also produced better pots.
Is it Spotify dropping them, or the artist / label / licensing authority pulling the music from Spotify?
Bread flour and yeast are back on the shelves, but there's still persistent shortages of toilet paper and basically anything containing bleach.

Back in February I picked up a couple bottles of multivitamins, just in case I got stuck inside eating rice for a few months. A cheap precautionary measure.
I use Libre Office in GNU/Linux and I am free from severe vendor lock. Rumors about impossibility for a business to work without MSO are overblown.
Anti-fascism are literally committing acts of fascism.

Denouncing white suprmacy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bd0cMmBvqWc

https://twitter.com/RubinReport/status/1311469297613504512

https://twitter.com/authorMCWebb/status/1311499351043313665

The "Fine people" myth (when you view the entire thing in context):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6R6hxPYWD50

The entry ban:

Did you see what happened to that French school teacher? Have you read The Strange Death of Europe?

It doesn't matter though. In that fine people video, even when people were presenting with the reality from the carefully selected video clips they had heard about, they still wouldn't accept it.

The media has damaged our psyche. There are not peaceful protests in Portland right now. There have been riots for months! I use to live in Seattle, and the media did a very poor job of covering CHAZ. I made this:

https://battlepenguin.video/videos/watch/9f81cd38-3ee9-4f26-...

Antifa is not an idea, it is real. There are cell groups who have done terrible things and the media paints them as peaceful protestors. They're not. They're straight up descendants of The Students for Democratic Society and The Weather Underground ideologically. The protestors in Portland are Domestic Terrorist. The National Guard was finally called in this week to stop them from burning things down.

Suppressing speech: that's fascistic

Getting people fired because they support a politician you don't like: that's fascistic

Calling everyone you don't like a racist or white supremacists: that's fascistic

The hard left, big tech and big media are the fascists.
No; the budget is going into insurance companies' budgets and pharma benefits budgets. There's a trillion-dollar industry that exists in the US solely to take money from people needing healthcare. That's where the money is going - look to the thing that doesn't exist elsewhere.
Thanks! Yep, lists aren't great, unless they all fall in the same domain (like grocery shopping, travel packing, etc.). Bring in context change and they tend to become less useful, really quickly.

As others have pointed out, this is nothing new. I am just presenting an easy to use app+viz
Are vim and Emacs not real applications? How about gimp? Firefox? Thunderbird?

The gnome people could have used an Emacs or vim window instead of gEdit. But they didn't, because more or less the same incentives that prevent commercial entities from developing components instead of apps exist in the open source community as well.

Hell, even GCC is essentialy an app, even though parts of it would have been extremely useful as share-able components, as clang showed.

And I really don't know what researchers produce apps. The closest I can think of is maybe Coq?
RSS feeds are common, but most readers are mediocre. I'm stuck between some proprietary "pay to remove ads and subscribe for premium" crap, an emacs mode that randomly sometimes takes up to an hour to open, and Thunderbird, which recently deleted all of my RSS feeds.
Teams has solved most of this by giving viewers a client side copy, adjust to your local viewing preferences, and to jump around in the slides and back to wherever the presenter is.
It's not so simple, I think, to say that by avoiding war he saved lives.

The US withdrew from Syria, and it does appear to me that for a moment that were a sense of morality from Trump there, he genuinely did not like the idea that lives would be lost as a consequence of his actions. That is commendable, though perhaps something that should have been considered in advance of such a situation rather than reactively.

But what was the consequence of not intervening? It created a vacuum, into which stepped many military powers, and many people have died or been displaced. We also have to consider the long-term consequences of an isolationist foreign policy.

There is a balance to be found between war-mongering and exerting influence to shape the world positively. Particularly, you have to avoid leaving a vacuum that can be exploited.

At the least we can say he didn't start an arbitrary new war, and that is a small but significant positive.
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`openssl rand n | base64` is my go to
I am not cryptographer, just developer who used cryptography in the past.

I find historical argument not very convincing. RSA have been around for a long time.

Will we be reading "do not use ECC" articles in 2039 after comparable amount of research will be put into finding subtle unexpected errors in ECC?
The scale of US election spending explained in five graphs
Are there enough 's' in this stack trace?

wouldn't it rather be
LSWSLSWSLSWSLSWSLSW?
There is generally not just one side that has a meaningful investment in the resolution of some political issue. Arguing that the other side does not have a legitimate concern regarding some political conflict is generally not going to be very persuasive, and it isn't going to make those people go away.

That being said, I think it is possible to care very deeply about certain issues, and act on those concerns, in a way that largely avoids the political sphere. Trying to fix the problems we are concerned about by means of influencing the power games of elected officials is often very crude and ineffective. Sometimes influencing politics is necessary, but if we let ourselves believe that the only way to effect change is "shake the vending machine" of governmental power we will generally end up frustrated.
Fortune 100 is not a startup. It’s a giant wheel where 95% of the workforce is pretending they are doing something, including executives.
But you don't know which ones are. Which means you're wasting money on those that aren't.
That's mentioned in the article I wrote/posted. There are two big issues with the drone strikes: it looks like they went down because he classified drone strike information .. and all the information (which I source) give different numbers and different time periods. They is no background to these sources? Are reporters watching drones take off and land? I have a hard time thinking reporters are doing any actual reporting right now.

But yes, it's likely drone strikes have gone up. They went up under Obama. They will go up under Biden. It matters not who is president, we will drone more each year than before. There is no doubt.

He has avoided actual on the ground wars, carpet bombing (Libya) and created historic peace treaties with three nations who now recognize Israel. Obama got a peace prize while he was in active conflicts for his entire presidency and actively bombed 7 nations.
RED is "redacted" and WCD is "What.CD", both are well known private torrent trackers.

I don't get peoples obsession with only using acronyms when you can just Google "<acronym> tracker" and get the name.
Whenever I read that phrase, I instinctively know that they are trying to sell some bs that people would otherwise not even consider because of how little sense it makes.
It's not because you can't measure it that it's not scientific (and vice versa).
This is a great idea that would change computing for the better.

That said, one angle I sense here is blaming. It's easy to dream and blame, it's harder to build and lead by example. It'd be great if this post was a "why XXX" page in the documentation for a new platform which implements the said ideas.