skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I thought that algorithm was crazy magic when I first heard of it.

The method behind it is pretty fascinating.

A nth degree polynomial is uniquely identified by n+1 points.

So the algorithm interprets your secret to a binary numeric value, sets that as the value at x=0 (i.e. the constant term of the polynomial), picks random coefficients for all the polynomial degrees, then computes coordinate pairs for however many shards you need the secret split into.

Then you give one of the shards to anyone who is sharing the secret.

When enough of the points are input at the same time, the x=0 value can be calculated and the secret is revealed.

The really neat thing about that is if you have something like "There are 500 people in the organization and 6 of them need to be present to perform this procedure", you generate 500 unique points, and any six of those points will let you compute the original secret.

There is some added math bit that gets added on top to make the polynomial less easy to guess, but the concept remains the same.

When the method finally clicked for me, I was left feeling like "that is so obvious, anyone could come up with it", and I feel like those are some of the best discoveries.
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> So anyone espousing Soviet ideas like socialized medicine should be excommunicated as well

That's a Soviet idea? It seems national health insurance was first conceived in Imperial Germany[0] (which the Weimar Republic, then the Nazis continued), then adopted in Britain, then Imperial Russia (which presumably the Soviets continued). Get your facts straight.

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_health_care#History
My insurance is good, but I wouldn't need it if we had a sensible alternative, and neither would you. And many other less fortunate people (including those in my immediate family) wouldn't need it either. Not wanting to give up your insurance because you "love" it (fucking gag me) is "fuck you I got mine" energy. Cancerous to a society.
Release the audio as your first musical track then file your own DMCA takedown when people repost the video.
To add. Do as much processing in your APIs as you can see fit. Then your apps are just CRUD, which makes them easier to manage.
Why Indian IPs in particular?
Thanks! We've positioned our software Restyaboard as an open-source Trello alternative. Now, we're thinking out loud.
It is much better to use a password manager than trying to remember poorly crafted passwords in your head. But also really/truly remember not to really put all your eggs in one proverbial basket.

Password managers are not without dangers:

1. If you forget your master password or secret key (you need both to setup a new device), you are screwed.

2. If the password manager cloud sync service (like 1password) decides to cancel your account for whatever reason, you are screwed.

3. If the password manager allows silently keeping replicas on devices you don't know about, you are screwed.

4. If your password manager logs your sign-in access patterns along with your IP addresses (even from behind your fancy VPNs), you are screwed.

5. If you are storing your password, your 2FA secret, and your recovery keys - all in the same password manager, you are royally screwed when that password manager is compromised.

6. If you lose your device, or device gets damaged etc and you don't have a copy of your vault, you are screwed.

Remember – supply chain attacks (example: password manager company's office gets hacked, and their signing key gets stolen and a trojan update is delivered to your machine) will happen some day (may have already happened) and all your passwords will be stolen. Just assume that and behave accordingly.
"my opinion of such inquiries, particularly when focused at established religions, is largely the same then as it is now: it feels disrespectful and pointless"

I'm not sure why trying to find out what the real origin of established religions was is disrespectful or pointless.

They are pretty key questions in anthropology, archaeology, and theology. Plenty of believers who have the highest respect for religion engage in such questions, but I don't see why they should be off-limits to others either.

If it is in fact the case that established religions were rooted in entheogen use, that doesn't mean that they're devalued in any way, and proof of this might actually reconnect believers to their roots and open their eyes to the value of visionary plants for communing with their dieties.

Some have speculated that entheogen use might lead to a religious revival, and might actually draw many more people back to established religions. How is that disrespectful or pointless?
I believe he’s referring to an arbitrary object being converted to JSON.

From-JSON wouldn’t have this concern, but to-JSON would
Makes me wonder if they're going to try to make money off of services and subscriptions...
Really? It took a huge mobilization of media manipulation fear mongering and gas lighting to get the American public to swallow the Weapons of Mass Destruction and/or Saddam did 9/11 lies. If people had been free to speak their minds (https://www.democracynow.org/2013/3/21/phil_donahue_on_his_2...) back then we wouldn't have been lead into that war like lemmings. Information is control. I trust the funny cat lady next door to not start a war with Iran more than I trust anyone on an editorial board of an American newspaper not to. Lies require censorship of truth to survive.

EDIT: added a reference. Keep in mind for every anti-war journalist fired for standing up to the official lies there were easily 100 who kept their heads down. Im not scared of flat earth lies. I'm scared of Iraq war or even worse, World War I levels of deception.
Because TypeScript is the best programming language right now. It's not a hotfix that we could replace with another language, TypeScript is what we want to use.
IIRC the costs have come way down where sex is cheaper than a nice dinner. The wild west of the Internet has made pornography essentially free, it’s amazing how much money the industry does create. Do you think the driving down of prices for prostitution has made things worse?
Clean Code is still a great read in 2020, but I think you’re right about some of the specific advice about functions.
I genuinely hope for your sake you are not aligned with the attitudes of /r/politics, that place is fucking bananas.
The logical conclusion of this line of thinking is APL or K. Some people swear by it. I admit terseness is appealing for solo coding, and I loathe the bloat of Java etc, but when taken to the extreme terseness starts being a problem for collaboration.
Ask HN: Where Does Complexity Come From?
What causes the complexity of even the most fundamental mathematical laws?

Are fundamental laws simple by nature?
Does nature not follow a set of essentially simple rules?

Where does all this complexity come from? Is it due to the inability of our measurement system to comprehend those fundamental laws?

Sorry I might be inebriated but it baffles me how there's so much complexity in core laws, while somhow feels that they're due to complexities in our notations.
Are engineers creative? Physicists? Mathematicians? I don't know if you have a very narrow definition of creativity or if you seriously think that the people who created all the software that you use everyday are not creative
Is there a good blogpost/writeup on this idea? I've seen it mentioned before in other threads.... And i agree 100%
I'd be keen to hear your commentary on what the following footage on Nickelodeon can tell us about the inscrutable Occidental culture of the Nacirema.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hY6SC2W5nMc
Won’t have an impact on the broader crypto market, but it will signal that the US is diehard anti-crypto. So many companies have already moved offshore, anyone trying to play in the US should get out ASAP. Who is the SEC protecting? Anyone who has bought XRP doesn’t give a shit.
You don't need to, you just can if you want.

It looks cool and might be a fun project, don't really need any more reason than that IMO. But if you do need more reason, the linked website says:

> Our bikes are built with sustainable materials use a bio-composite and flax fibre.

> Bamboo bikes offer a better ride with natural vibration dampening and durability. They're resistant to stress and therefore suitable for the most challenging environment.
> Just so there is no confusion, modified gravity as an explanation for Dark Energy is very possible, as an explanation for Dark Matter, the consensus is that it is ruled out.

How could you possibly rule out the theory that "the rules are different over there, somehow"?
Why not a “learn more” link, or something similar? This is just an advertisement
> I'm not sure why anyone trusts journalists nowadays.

What the alternative? To get our information from places like informationclearinghouse?
Dead link. Did you mean to post https://apsystems.com/tech
Why shouldn't a pharmaceutical company with the expertise to identify and acquire an undervalued drug be rewarded? Aren't these precisely the people who deserve to be granted the privilege to allocate further capital? That's the whole point of capitalism, right? That's what HackerNews is all about? If there's some exceptional nuance here, we should explore this rigorously.

Drug design isn't free. That R&D money is coming from somewhere. Where's it come from in your world?
dont get me wrong I got the idea saving people. but isnt this like saving private ryan? to save some people, dies many. complicated. if some doctor die because he tries to save me ( useless some dude ) is this really make sense ? what will happen when so.much people lost their jobs and cannot find anything to eat, for their familiy? is this more healty? like I said I do not understand! and be aware that I do not underestimate the pandemic!
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We're also struggling. If anyone can check our open-source[1] and share similar thoughts, it will be of great help.

[1] https://restya.com/board
I live in Australia, which has less than a tenth of the US population on a land mass the size of the continental US. We allow pedestrians to cross the road unless they're within 20 metres of a crossing. If anything, lower population density should mean more rights for pedestrians, since there will be roads which see no traffic for hours or even days.
> Won’t have an impact on the broader crypto market,

BTC has been struggling to push higher for a few days with bearish moves. I'm still a long term bull but I just pulled 100k out, should get a nice discount as it breaks down toward 20k. (I'll average in at anything below 21.)

> Who is the SEC protecting?

JP Morgan and the US e-Dollar.
More expensive steel frames use butted tubes and higher grade steels.
I can't really agree to this. Through without questions there are always things you should not split out.

Splitting a functions which consists of multiple logical steps is most times a good idea because it makes testing much simple and tends to show you where you accidentally had subtle cross-cutting concerns or unintended cross-talk between sub-domains (domains in sense of modelling, not http).

What is important is to properly name functions (and if you can't you probably shouldn't write that function).

Also it's important to learn how to live with abstraction, i.e. to reason about code wrt. a specific problem without needing to jump into the implementations about every function /method it calls.

Through the later point is much easier with a reasonable use-full type system. And with this I mean useful for abstraction without making abstraction to hard and without allowing to many unexpected things. Languages like rust or scala have such a type system (as long as you don't abuse it) but e.g. C++ fails this even through it has a powerful type system.

At least this are is opinion.

And without question if you can't cleanly split something out, then don't split it out. If you can split it out but not name it reasonable either your understanding it lacking or it should never have been split out.
You're probably right. I don't know what would be a sane instrument to compare to bicycle care though. Is it possible to play music with a giant rock? It's weird seeing this kind of language about a classic utilitarian device that has stood the test of time exactly because it requires very little care or maintenance.
> Even cities with world-class mass transit, e.g. Tokyo and London, are full of cars

I've found Tokyo had surprisingly few cars for a massive city with high population density. Also, virtually no street parking, which makes the cityscape much nicer, and many side-alleys that are largely car-free.
With that system you effectively remote one or the biggest advantages of the rule of law—predictability.

At the very least you’d need to massively increase the term length of Congress. Radical swings back and forth every 2 years would be a nightmare for planning anything.

It would also basically ensure that any policy that took more than a few years to make a positive impact was doa.
>'free speech' supersedes other rights and should go unchecked at the expense of others

Curious about this, what right does anti-Semite/racism rhetoric removes from others? How can words affect your rights as a person?
I kind of thought the SEC had given Ripple a pass since they waited so long, but it's a pretty clear cut case if you ask me. I don't expect the SEC to lose this one. I'm not sure what the consequences will be.
There are a tonne of tankies on the site. Some who claim Holodomor was fake, Tianmen square was an exaggeration and the DPRK/China are heroes, Fidel Castro was a benevolent dictator and that everyone who escaped his regime was a slave owner.
Those are classics ones that nowadays most new comers don't get a chance to watch, I guess?
Here's one, not sure if it's popular in Western countries, but it sure is in Japan. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GL7gxqk0fkU
There are different tiers of oncall. Needing to be online and actively debugging within 5 minutes of getting paged is far more constraining than being the third line of internal escalation that gets a phone call maybe twice a year.
I would go so far as to say that the vast majority of outages are caused directly by code changes. If your org has a lot of commit churn, you’ll find a few more bugs in the calm of a holiday change freeze, as hundreds of patches take their first journey past 72 hours of uptime.
It sure would be cool if all the common Unix tools had JSON lines / ndjson output mode.

It could also be done as a library of adapters. e.x. something like

j ls

Would run “ls”, parse the output, and re-output it as JSON lines.
But wouldn’t that just move the horse trading into the even more opaque process of deciding party positions?
And sometimes jounalism is just a small part of politics.
But banning entire subreddits because they share links to good deals on firearms and accessories is. That's because it doesn't have to do with ethics, morality, or even politeness. It's how controversial it is and if it will hurt ad profits. Gentrification in this context is making a site palatable to brands and advertisers.

Once they take large amounts of investment money they have to begin producing a return on it. From that point on users are the product and the brands are the real users.
Please, stick to the computers!

There are MANY car manufacturers. Do we need another?

There are only TWO mainstream desktop operating systems/platforms. We could use another, but the barrier is now too high.

If the company has that much profits that they can dabble in the automotive industry, then maybe they didn’t need to use every tax minimization, supply chain efficiency, and globalized slave-labor manufacturing option at their disposal.

Ppl: Why can’t you invest in manufacturing stuff inside the us?
Other ppl: “You want your iPhone to cost 5-gajillion dollars?”

This seems wholly unhealthy, maybe big tech is due to be broken up.
It might be: https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/12/suspicions-grow-nano...
I've thought about implementing RSS for it at some point, good to know somebody has interest in that. In the meantime I tried to keep the HTML semantic, so hopefully you're able to find a way to scrape it!
What should be a criminal offense is such practice of sneaking horrendous policy into some massive bill to hide it from the public and make it easier to pass.

Now corrupt politicians can pass such garbage without any repercussion.
AFAIK, Metallica was already pretty big in early 90s.
That's a very wide, and dare to say generous, criteria. So, by your definition, if someone is modifying a wordpress template, that someone should be considered an engineer?

Since we are getting so loose with the professional titles, I guess you won't mind if your local acupuncturist start calling herself doctor.
Bikers do.

Because the bikers handle their own personal space...
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Idk that's just not something I do with the shell. At work I process a lot of large files, but typically those require hand written code to use off heap or file/db backed collections (I work in the JVM).
Ballard is pretty isolated, constrained by the Ballard Bridge or going over to Fremont to get to Downtown. Bike access is poor, either risking death on the sidewalks of the Ballard Bridge, taking the lane on the bridge or doing a large detour to Fremont.

Wedgewood, Fremont, Queen Anne & Freelard all successfully resisted the mass redevelopment that Ballard has seen, compared to 15 years ago Ballard looks completely different while the aforementioned neighborhoods have not seen that same level of mass demolition.
Or, say, the current US president.
> but it will signal that the US is diehard anti-crypto.

From the article: SEC officials have declared Bitcoin and Ether to be currencies, as they are decentralized in their management, but have left the door open for others to qualify as securities, especially at the time of their issuance.

So not really. The US needs to evolve to the new world.
If your coin can be sued by the SEC, then it's probably not decentralized.
> US e-Dollar.

Or FedCoin as George Hotz called it recently in a Lex Friendman podcast [0].

P.S.: I thought this was an entertaining podcast, George is a funny guy.

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[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_L3gNaAVjQ4
I've read several articles about this SuperNova trojan, including a couple that included decompilations, but none included what ought to be two key details:

1. Was this GIF-fetching endpoint likely exposed publicly by most customers' SolarWinds deployments?

2. Public or not, was there any auth in front of this endpoint when deployed?

My presumption is that some (most?) customers deployed the SolarWinds admin console publicly (with its own auth in front) and that this particular GIF-fetcher endpoint, being deemed trivial, was not protected by the console's auth scheme. Thus, those who knew about the trojan just had to scan the known IP ranges of SolarWinds customers until they found the exposed admin console, and then remote code execution was easy from there.

If this endpoint was protected by the same auth scheme as the admin console, then this trojan becomes more of a privilege escalation attack. Its existence would increase the value of obtaining the creds of a SolrWinds user, but (presuming SSO integration) those creds would get the attackers lots of other access given the sorts of IT people who use SolarWinds.

If the endpoint was not fronted by any auth scheme but the admin console was not exposed externally, then the benefit would be that attackers who gained access to a SolarWinds customer's employee-facing network (what's the name for the network segments accessible to anyone who plugs in a laptop in a cubicle?) could "ride" this trojan to gain access to a more privileged part of the network.

I'm not an infosec guy. Do these arguments make sense?
In many cases, the free speech (shocking stuff) is a litmus test for the compromised nature of the platform.

It's important, historically, to test this regularly, and thoroughly.

Voat/4Chan et al MUST be viewed in this context.

Must!
The downside to taking that combinator approach too dogmatically is that passing all state as parameters can get extra unwieldy, because now a simple change in data schema can result in you refactoring every single function call.

This dilemma has a name: The Expression Problem. A decent summary can be found here.

https://wiki.c2.com/?ExpressionProblem

Functional programming is an amazing paradigm for most domains. However, some domains will take a seasoned functional programmer and make them want to jump off a cliff. UI programming, game programming, and simulation programming are some examples where pure functional approaches have never made a dent, and for good reason.
Shkreli's company didn't "design" squat, it bought existing drugs where the patent period had already expired and the R&D costs were paid off.

Also, funnily enough, in an actual capitalist environment you couldn't do this, because a competitor would immediately undercut you. However, the drugs market is heavily regulated, and Skhreli exploited the fact that it would take years and cost a lot of money for any putative competitor to get a generic version through FDA approvals.
Despite the article not outright claiming this as fact I've never seen anyone seriously attempt to refute the statement.
Is it even possible to win this battle? Things like this keep coming up year after year, whittling down opposition; then once in place, it is 10x as hard to overturn, aka effectively impossible. I feel as though the only thing we can do is dig in simply to delay the inevitable.
I can’t wait until every single thing in our industry is a reference to Harry Potter, or Star Wars, or lord of the rings, or Dune
Not for this, but for the "obviously crazy" Trump beliefs we have a useful proxy. PredictIt ran a large number of betting markets (far more than a traditional bookmaker) for the 2020 US Presidential Election.

Of course the markets about Trump have lots of people spouting outrageous nonsense. You could dismiss that as just "for shock value". But PredictIt is real money (albeit not the sums involved in the "real" international betting markets) and the actual bets placed reflect those same crazy beliefs.

About 24 hours ago the market for how many Electoral College votes Trump will get closed. The answer, as we've known for about a week now, was 232. In a normal healthy market, even if people are writing comments saying that the US military will force people to vote again at gun point, the price for Trump gets 232 votes would be $1 (the way PredictIt works you're getting one dollar for each correct prediction, so if you are absolutely certain of something it's worth precisely $1 and you wouldn't sell it for anything less).

The closing price, less than 24 hours ago, was 96¢. For 96¢ you could buy a dollar, just by being sure of a well known fact about Donald Trump's loss. Because the people "trolling" the comments really believe he didn't lose.
I pretty much ignore startup recruiters now because of my personal experience with the dynamic explained in the article.

If recruiters explained that yes, we don't actually shaft you in their message, I might actually take a look.
I doubt Apple even considers compliance to be in their top 50 concerns for building a car.

If their staff can’t figure it out, they have plenty of cash to hire the people or organizations that do.
Your description made it click for me too! Thank you!
Tokugawa's shadow lies heavy still on the land of the rising sun, and it's not hard to find with a little perception.
Let's hope she gets a real job next time.
One trick for upping your reputation with Gmail is to have as many of those recipients as possible (who need to dig into their spam folder sometimes) click reply and write back to you naturally. Gmail considers that behavior to be highly indicative of "not spam" well beyond simply using the "not spam" button.