skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ah, so you suggest liability for the vendors of the software blocking websites, with, in practice [1], no liability for the operators of a compromised website, if it is phishing/malware?

This is a great approach, if your goal is to optimize for increasing the amount of dangerous crap on the web. But, eh, that's surely worth it, because the profitability of startups is more important then little things like the security of the average netizen...

[1] Even if you make the operators liable [2], in practice, you'll never be able to collect from most of them. Whereas the blacklist curators are a singular, convenient target...

[2] If you can demonstrate how the operators of compromised websites can be held liable for all the harm they cause, I will happily agree that we should do away with blacklists. Unfortunately, the technical and legislative solutions for this are much worse than the disease you are trying to treat.
Do note that the "single out of bound NULL byte" vulnerability has famously caught people off-guard in the past due to it being unexpectedly exploitable =)

https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2014/08/the-poisoned-...

Those kind of exploits are thankfully getting harder with the many layers of mitigations we have today, but trying to predict which memory bug will or will not be exploitable is a very unintuitive and inadvisable exercise.
This is batshit crazy. Israel is a nuclear power and SK is under the American nuclear umbrella.

NK has no plan of invasion of SK at all, and Iran will never invade Israel. It is content simply stopping Israeli agression over Syria and Lebanon which allows those countries to naturally align with Iran.

I think you really don't have any clue of geopolitics or the motivations of Iran or North Korea.
Ha, as a teenager I found out a movie was playing in Indian theaters a few km across the border so I began planning on getting a visa to hop across for a few hours. I may as well have declared I was walking over to NK as someone from SK :)
Yeah, I am saying global blockchains are a first generation technology. Sorry it hurts your feelings. I would like to also “shill” MaidSAFE and Solana:

http://maidsafe.net/

https://solana.com/

If you don’t like ME saying it — here is VITALIK HIMSELF saying it, the guy is quite honest and straightforward about its limitations: https://thenextweb.com/hardfork/2019/08/19/vitalik-buterin-e...

Vitalik Buterin: Using Ethereum is expensive, and its blockchain is ‘almost full’

He also said blockchain's 'problem' is that every computer verifies every transaction

Actually Ethereum 2.0 should be “fast enough” for many applications. It’s still going to be doing a global consensus, but at least it will be able to handle actual real world usage - people paying for coffee, let’s say, or voting in elections.

In fact, a major reason that so many ICOs from 2017 were considered scams is that the tokens could not actually be used for their intended purpose. Teams like Kik Messenger discovered this early on and moved away:

https://medium.com/kinblog/kin-pushing-ahead-next-steps-on-t...
I think silent protagonists are excellent, and when done well make me feel more immersed in a game.

Three excellent games with them, off the top of my head: Metal Gear Solid 5, Half-Life, and Far Cry 2.

I stopped playing Cyberpunk 2077 mainly because the protagonist’s dialogue and voices didn’t make me like the character.
Arx Fatalis is a pretty obscure game from 2002, which can be bought from GOG or Steam.

Here is a review for those interested in the game: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Valmsq_Ku90

If you want to try this, use a development build. Releases are stale, plus git head contains a few additional fixes.
If those principles and the way you articulate them are obviously silly then yes there very much is
This reminds me of a fascinating article I once read about the lost art of diagnosing diseases by smell, and told of a senior doctor in a bygone era advising his students to open all their senses when meeting a patient for the first time.

Apparently some diseases have characteristic smells, but these days medical students are rarely trained to recognize them.
It would be interesting to boot W95 with a bit of Office97 which would all actually fit completely well within 128K memory and produce files compatible with the latest Microsoft versions.

So maybe even a ramdisk.
> proving that the bureaucratic processes... are Turing Complete

It's called COBOL
Author here. Sorry to be late to the party. AMA.

Follow mnm! https://twitter.com/mnmnotmail

To address some comments...

The protocol[1] has two layers, altho that's not emphasized in the draft. The outer layer covers posting messages for recipients. The inner layer describes message contents, and isn't enforced by the server (see protocol #7 Post //datahead segment). You can do special-purpose apps with the outer layer without supporting the inner if you don't send messages to normal clients.

EDIT: The protocol will see many more revisions (some already planned), and real-world use, before it's proposed to a standards body.

This isn't a drop-in/swap-out replacement for email. It's a (far) better way of doing electronic correspondence. It will take some years to build the community and infrastructure necessary for TMTP to widely supplant SMTP. It's been suggested recently that I draft an architecture doc for TMTP[2], which will also discuss infrastructure.

Part of that infrastructure involves "marketplace" sites which verify members' real-life identities and let people make contact with folks outside their normal circles (e.g. work, school, community, hobbies/interests). Most professional organizations would run marketplace sites for their members.

I gather that the IETF has (repeatedly) stated that it is not interested in adjusting SMTP to solve "the spam problem". [3]

Re end-to-end encryption, that can be considered for the inner layer protocol. I don't rule it out, but it's not a priority at present.

If successful, "mnm" won't be the only implementation of TMTP. Maybe some other client will have a better name. (OTOH, Slack did well, and that's a pretty terrible name for a workplace tool ;-)

EDIT2: SMTP and related protocols have no effective defense against phishing. A large fraction of phishing attempts originate at authenticated domains, like Gmail.

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[1] https://github.com/networkimprov/mnm/blob/master/Protocol.md

[2] https://github.com/networkimprov/mnm/issues/5

[3] https://www.rhyolite.com/anti-spam/you-might-be.html
> I have to wonder why we would listen to any recommendations from the NSA?

Because the NSA is a defensive as well as offensive institution, they defend the home front as well as they attack adversaries
Well, yes but only if all the smart contracts that are being called are on the same shard. Ideally under Ethereum 2.0 these assumptions will disappear. In fact Ethereum 2.0 should be “fast enough” for most applications.
I'm confused. I don't know why you're incapable of falling for optical illusions, but that video did not have one.

It explained the concept of attention blindness. If you look for something else, then you may miss the gorilla in the room, even though it is as obvious as can be. Same goes for job offers. You're primarily looking to get the great job, and involuntarily and unknowingly enter a kind of tunnel vision.
Safety is a criteria that we're planning to add. Political stability is a hard one (would you consider US politically stable these days?).
The already hard code dns to do this, need to do an address translation to fix
Could someone create a replacement for DNS entirely please?

DNS does WAY more than what the typical user needs it for and services that present it are resultantly much more complex than what is needed for the 99% use case.

The 99% use case: resolve x.y.z to some IP address.

What I think should happen:

1. At each level, a public/private keypair is used to authenticate valid records for the name. Eg: .com has public/private keypair(s) to represent who can sign x.com records. .com owner only needs to publish these. Reliable sources ( ISPs etc ) can then share these.

2. The x.com records themselves would be: Mapping from x.com to IP address(s) / public key.

3. The x.com owners could then publish out their x.y.com records freely and they could be mirrored by everyone.

Unlike the current methodology, there would be far less need to trust where you get the records from. The public/private keypairs should change WAY less frequently.

Agreeably in such a widely distributed system you wouldn't have nice TTL, but that is for the better. DNS records should not be changing that frequently.

Such a new system also should be done in a fully distributed way and NOT controlled by a bunch of money grubbing bastards who make way too much money from records.

It should NOT cost $20/yr to own a record pointing x.y to a number. It's absurd and really needs to stop.
‘many emails were exchanged between me and these alleged Harvard email IDs where they sought my personal information for a "work visa".‘

‘I had been told a work visa had been issued in the US for me which would be sent to me only when travel was required.‘

I think this should have been a major red flag. Work visas are not issued like that. I don’t understand why you wouldn’t interact with an embassy for visa issuance.
l2l: Lisp Is Lisp. Lua Is Lua. Lisp and Lua as One
Have you done the https://microcorruption.com/ CTF from 2014? It starts pretty simple, but I remember it being super fun.
I don't think you understand why we use blockchains.
I believe this bill messes up in two ways:

First, it engages in content-based discrimination. If passed, it'd face immediate First Amendment challenges. It's exceedingly hard to pass a law that discriminates based upon the content of speech.

Second, it's trying to overwrite parts of Section 230 and seems, at least on its face, as blatantly violating the Supremacy Clause of the Constitution.

I don't see this going anywhere.
Why not just use the nvm or the beam vm? I am not well versed enough to know why this new vm is necessary or sufficient to the task
This still works if you use a VPN correctly.
This is a perpetual source of bemusement for myself, a non-American, seeing arguments why x will never work because y, when it has been working quite well in other places for a while.

The worst offenders are threads on universal healthcare, particularly when claims like "America is too diverse for universal healthcare" are made, and upvoted, with few people stopping to consider both the implication and even the basic truth of the statement.
I don't think it has anything todo with vectors. Sure general vector art tends to be simpler. What I see is mostly people complaining about empty space, that can be used, and have to access common actions through a menu, also a lot of times no way to add common action like customizable readily available menu ect...

While the uncluttered design for something someone only uses a couple times might be fine to avoid overwhelming someone. If you use it daily and even multiple times a day that can make it harder to use.

It also remind me something i read about a ticket kiosk for some transit system. They updated the kiosk with simpler interface to select various things. While effective for infrequent riders, people who would purchase tickets daily found it much slower because the old kiosk allowed them to type in codes they memorized.
Right now everything seems to travel to the intersection of "Free Speech" and "Dangerous speech", creating a massive pile up of conversations going no where.

Arguably this logjam resolves itself if you assume:

1) Everything is content, True/false, wrong/right being labels we use after consuming it.

2) All our social media, every new type of it, all UI/UX, payment models, subscriptions, memberships - simply Amplify or Suppress the propagation of content.

This makes our tech discussions relatively value agnostic, and moves the question to whether

i) the use of these tools was just
ii) The extent of force used was just

So yes, all our major firms have this power. ANY firm can have silencing or amplifying power.

The question is how we define the norms, and the empirical evidence we generate that shows us what choices are better than others.

A step below that is the empirics and informational tools we have to do the science.

I used my masters dissertation as an excuse to explore whether a particular rule change on a forum worked. Honestly while it was fun to reach some conclusion, there are major gaps in our toolkits to explore these issues.

Sentiment analysis corpuses for non-english corpuses are definitely one of the data sets we need more off, and we need ways to constantly update these dictionaries. Dealing with code mixed language is another problem.

I'm sure someone has solved this, one of the issues is precisely that cross talk on experiments is low and every discipline is looking at this space.

But that is something you can invest your time in if creating this evidence matters to you.
I only mentioned one problem with the clients, and an abstract complaint about doing one electronic communication but pretending it's physical.

Some problems with email, from a user perspective:

- The latency is too high for truly real-time communication

- There is no cryptographic verification of the sender's identity (this problem is also shared with telephony). This has lead to really harsh anti-spam measures that make it hard to self-host. Sender verification + client-side sender whitelists would solve spam for good. It also means grouping by sender gives a very false sense of security regarding identity continuity between messages

- There is no good support for groups or threads. Subject lines of type "Re: Re: Aw: Re: Sv: new proposal" is not an acceptable solution, as they look ugly and clients often disagree on how to parse and write them, leading to breakage of the thread

- Clients do not group by sender, group or thread, partly because these concepts do not actually exist in email (see above) and partly for social reasons

- Partly for historical reasons (it's just mail on a computer!) and partly for technical reasons (there is no sender, etc.) email is presented as huge letter-like affairs, leading to a felt need for all sorts of formalisms for every single message even if the messages are two minutes apart. Also email signatures (with logos?!) being attached to every message are just so wasteful both in terms of storage and in terms of screen space
How Tech Loses Out
The studies control for weight and many other health factors. Controlling for weight basically counters your suggestion outright.

There are also many diets that aren't keto so the population of people who felt compelled to lose weight but chose not to do a keto diet, but perhaps a low fat diet (which tends to be high carb) are well represented in the study, once again rebuffing your hypothesis.

In terms of your vitamins supplementation paradoxes, which is a separate point. I also disagree with with you there (these supplement studies also control for various health factors as well), and feel it's much more the problem of absolutely no regulation and there really is nobody making sure the supplement contains the thing it says it is in the quantities it says it does, with nothing else. Also people tend to over do things, and over supplement with the "if some is good more is better". Taking to much vitamin C for instance, spikes your iron absorption, and iron is the most powerful oxidant in your body, or just taking too much iron outright. I could go on and on about supplements, but I'll spare you.
Somehow with ublock origin on firefox mobile, my google images search links directly to the original image. It's glorious.
> How the hell are you to discover these things?

Sometimes by accident, sometimes from hearing about it from others, sometimes from searching on Google for how to do something.
Funny enough, it was playing Football Manager that taught me this lesson that too much praise is counterproductive and can actually harm morale.
Always keep a hardcopy in a safe, for that day your phone is lost or dies. You don't wanna ask Amazon to remove your 2FA, as this involves paperwork. I learned the hard way, but luckily located backups
I keep hearing about these secret iOS features. Is there a manual or something I should have read?
burger, bacon, steak? This is your "medium" fat diet? Ok.

Regardless the studies are quite clear. It doesn't matter the fat/protein ratio, the diets with the lowest carbs produce the highest amount of death.
Section 230 does allow companies to censor who they wish on their sites.

Section 230 provides that sites have no liability for user content, and they have no liability for moderating user content, subject to some limited exceptions for certain types of prohibited content, or prohibited moderation.

With existing case law, in my mind repealing section 230 without replacement would mean going back to the old standard, which was more or less don't moderate and have no liability for user content, or moderate perfectly, because you are liable for content your moderation missed. You would probably also have some liability to users whose content you moderated off, but I don't know that I've seen a case with those specifics.
As a former bike commuter, I fear driver negligence more than any amount of taxation.
We take those
On the other hand, it's been 51 years since Apollo 11, and not only we don't have any Moonbases (either now or in near future), we haven't even gone back there.
Show HN: I'm trying to build a better Goodreads/Reddit/AudiobookBay Mashup
UPD: Issue with FIDO, browsers working as expected
JWZ doesn't think much of it either, but you'll have to copy-paste this since he doesn't think much of HN either:

https://www.jwz.org/blog/2017/03/signal-leaks-your-phone-num...
Sorry, "any moderation" might have been a bit of a stretch. I definitely could have worded that better. If the authorities find it and tell you to take it down, you would obviously still have to comply. I just meant that I don't think it requires you to be proactive and monitor for things like that. You just have to react. Amazon was upset that Parler wasn't be proactive enough, not that it wasn't complying with court orders or something. I don't think Parler did anything illegal, so it would just all be up to their contracts.
As someone trying to start their first startup, I've found that getting people to trust you and your product is very challenging. Finding my first users is tough.

P.S. I'm working on a website that will allow people to swap their books. https://www.swapiverse.com/
Please explain. Perhaps I am missing something. The main reasons seem to be trustless security and immutability.
I've been living abroad for 5 years, mainly in Medellin, but also in Mexico, Brazil, and the Philippines. Living in Colombia is great for your mental health. People don't talk about Bitcoin, IPOs, or political turmoil.

Great neighborhood vibe. Folks are really friendly. Have a lot of friends that make the Colombian minimum wage ($300 a month) and they're generally happier than my rich friends back home. Took me a few years to understand the culture, but worth it cause it taught me a whole new way to look at life.
There has to be a definition of acceptable message formats for standard clients. I suppose that could be a separate protocol, but for now, there's one protocol draft.

Also addressed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25804869#25807379

(I'm the author.)
Easy Neural Networks in JavaScript
SmartScreen is a different list. (And has a "This website isn't malicious!" button.)
That's fair, but then how do you explain the Tic Tac UFO reports from US Navy pilots? [1]

[1] https://youtu.be/PkPn-YMp9vI
> When people have confidence they're doing a good job, they're more likely to continue to do a good job.

They're just as liable to continue doing a shit job, and with the confidence that your opinion isn't worth a dram.
My physics professor uses flash games to demonstrate the things we are learning. He knows nothing about computers, still runs windows 7, and constantly talks about these programs and how they will always be great learning tools. I don't think he realizes that flash isnt a thing anymore and I'm excited to see how class goes when he tries to open one of his examples.
This is a lot like the manuals that ARM publishes for its IP. For example, for the A76 [1] they publish the Arm Cortex-A76 Software Optimization Guide. But I haven't seen this for any non-ARM ARMv8 implementation such as Apple, NVidia, ...

[1] https://developer.arm.com/documentation/swog307215/
NomadList is great but most of the site is currently being restricted to paid subscribers. Our approach is different in a way that our data is hand-curated instead of automation and api driven metrics.
Can you recommend any good algorithms books?
I love Kurtzgesagt but don't like these graphics. I didn't realize they were supposed to be the same style!
Anyone who believes vaccinations don't potentially cause autoimmune disorders, which includes some autism spectrum disorders, is a retard. If you know how vaccinations work, why the f would vaccinations not cause autoimmune disorders in a significant number of people?

Pharmaceuticals use their financial powers to constantly go after researchers who pursue studies that show these links.
Try to stop me :-)

Also addressed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25804869#25807379

(I'm the author.)
Feedback: tell me why a city is a hotspot or up and coming on the homepage, because it looks like it's just what you felt like advertising/curating
You are speaking of land ownership and redistribution of property.

I am talking about food production and farming.

They are two entirely different issues
I think it's a point of recovery for your authy account that they're talking about.
You can start here: https://forum.intercoin.org/t/overview-and-implications-of-i...

However, the actual technical research paper with rigorous mathematical proofs is still going through peer review, but if you email me I am happy to share it with you.
As a new permanently remote worker, I've been looking for something just like this! It's almost perfect.

If there was budgeting help, that would make it perfect. I'm trying to spend just as much as I would if I lived in one place.
The Boeing paper linked to within the post [0] is also pretty interesting, on the financial and organizational impacts of outsourcing at McDonnel-Douglas and later Boeing.

If you need a TL;DR, go to page 14 and look at the recommendations.

If you still need a TL;DR, IMO "Identify the minimum amount of production work that must be retained in-house to generate sufficient cash to develop future products. Do not let the tasks performed in-house fall below this level even if some tasks have a higher profit margin than others." would be it.

0: https://s3.amazonaws.com/s3.documentcloud.org/documents/6974...
I wonder what are your thoughts on Avalanche (https://www.avalabs.org). They claim to offer throughout of 4500 TPS and smart contracts with EVM compatibility. Make sure to check the whitepaper for the protocol consensus, it's supposedly a novel thing and there are a some knowledgeable people behind it.
>Why does it need to be anonymous?

The public is not actually entirely welcome if there's no privacy.