skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Completely agree with independent auditing. If automotive safety had been deregulated, the body count would be orders of magnitude higher. This chart says it all:

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

The regulation of automotive safety in the 60's/70's had a huge impact.

> It makes no sense for them to hire their critics and then think they can stay independent. You are basically paying people to shit on your own products. Makes no sense.

Shit on your own products?

So if I'm a good engineer and fix mistakes, I'm "shitting on my company's product?"

There's this belief in this post that un-examined AI is some shiny golden award, and ethics researchers are tarnishing it. It's the other way around.
In a language like APL map adds very little compared to reduce/fold. In scheme, fold is a lot more verbose than map. Map saves on typing and on householding. In APL? I would argue gain is a lot smaller. I have seen actually useful APL programs in less code than a fold-left filter in scheme.
$15/hr is the median wage for everyone in some States, and not that far below the national median. It would destroy businesses that can't afford to subsidize that wage with high-margin tech business on the side like Amazon can.

It is extremely distortionate to set the minimum wage at the current median. There is not remotely enough margin available to make that reallocation possible without radically reducing income for the majority of workers either through job loss or income reduction.
Amazon, Walmart and Target were the ones most responsible for Toys R Us going out of business.

They actively ran ads to attract customers away from Toys R Us.
Boasting about flying beyond line of sight without a spotter in a cluttered residential neighborhood isn't going to score you many points among the drone enthusiast crowd.
Geth v1.10.0
One of the best concise guides I've encountered to the relationship between the various algebraic operations -- and how they circle back to one another -- is chapter 22 "Algebra" of volume I of the Feynman Lectures on Physics. For some reason this tied everything together in my head in a way that made so much sense, when the pedagogy I head leading up to it simply did not supply me the same vantage point.

https://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/I_22.html

From there I guess I've always thought as the various algebraic operations as functions which build upon one another. I think the article's point about not overlooking multiplication's Dimensionality as a key component is a good one, but neither should that focus avoid talking about the functional relationships of the various operations.
It's true that compulsory static typing can mitigate documentation bugs. But the effect isn't significant in the programming beginner experience.
Anatomy of an Exploit: RCE with CVE-2020-1350
(Dis)Honest Functions
> It creates a weird parasocial relationship between the creator and the reader

This is honestly a troubling trend in my opinion. These parasocial relationship are sort of emergent based on these new creator->fan direct channels that are popping up.

I'm concerned that now these platforms are going to lean into this even more, encouraging this sort of thing instead of it just happening organically.

These relationships are really not healthy for people. Not for the creator (even though they profit from it) and absolutely not for the fans who are likely missing out on forming real relationships with real people in favor of this parasocial thing that will ultimately not be fulfilling (and expensive) for them.
> duckduckgo doesn't provide a browser

That's not entirely true. They do have a browser for Android and iOS[0]. When I search they frequently show a small pop-up to install it.

[0] https://apps.apple.com/us/app/duckduckgo-privacy-browser/id6...
Isn't this just plagiarism? No one is downloading Photoshop and saying they created it (probably lol).
Oh, yeah. Been there, seen that.

At some point, when Sciter (https://sciter.com) was young it was named HTMLayout - pure HTML/CSS engine without script. At some point I've decided to add a bit of scriptability/formulas directly into CSS so you might say (in CSS) for example this:

button#show {
click!: $(someotherelement):visited = true;
}

C++ developers (initial users) were excited of such level of configurability that allowed to add logic without writing "real" code. And I've started getting requests for conditionals like if-then-else, functions and other stuff like that.

So CSSS! (css script) was born: https://sciter.com/docs/core/csss!.htm - it was even more powerful than Microsoft Power Fx - you can even define functions in it and operate with all data types of CSS.

The excitement ended when I've got a bug report with HTML/CSS document where one of focus!: ... handlers in that CSSS! spanned more than a page of printed and ugly text. So I've said to myself: it is time for scripting - anything, even JS, but with regular code flows and organization.
Why wouldn't the signalling value just be replaced by publishing in top (read: expensive to publish in) open access journals?
Agreed. Typical mathematician mentality

People would be more convinced by presenting a factorization of a challenge RSA number
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Interesting. Well The Atlantic do accept Scroll to remove ads too (although there is still article limit).

I'm not sure yet whether we can say that micropayments have failed because there is still a lot of innovation in the space, and I think it is only beginning to see any seriously mature offerings. The interledger protocol, used by Coil, being one of the tools that might actually be workable and international.

Segmented subscription products might well be a better avenue, but I think we have not seen the end of innovation here and I think micropayments are preferable to things like the Australia Facebook(and others) solution.
> a satellite which could purportedly read the issue date on a dime lying on the sidewalk.

In the future, you don't have to rely on serendipity to find money on the street. You just use a satellite to find it for you.
You can just add -site:pinterest.com in DuckDuckGo. I think you can do the same in Google.
I think it has been figured out, it is just heavily lobbied against. In general, you have to flip normal. Every time I get my Butcherbox pasture raised beef out of the freezer, I'm aggravated they have to print "pasture raised"... that should be the standard, not the luxury brand. A few ideas off the cuff...

- Make food companies label non-organic food and say why they aren't organic, vs. making organic declare themselves, certify and therefore cost more.
- Raise minimum grades on beef and poultry. Low grade meat is the only way to make large portions work economically.
- Require food with meat ingredients to list what grade of meat is being used, hormone use, etc.
- Disallow mixing of multiple animals in ground meat products... or at least cap it. Right now, fast food works because you can grind up hundreds of cattle at once.
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> No, that's not a conjecture. If you factor the modulus you can directly calculate the private key from the public one.

You have misread my post. The conjecture is that the RSA problem is as difficult as the factoring problem. In other words, it's possible that solving the RSA problem isn't as difficult as the factoring problem (but most people doubt it). A <= B. Most people think A == B.

This is the inverse of your statement. Factoring breaking RSA doesn't tell us if there's a non-factoring solution to the RSA problem. Everyone knows breaking RSA is no more difficult than factoring, but it may be easier than factoring.

A break in the Rabin cryptosystem would provably break RSA, but it's not necessarily true that a break in RSA would break the Rabin cryptosystem.

Edit: Paragraph 4 of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSA_problem at least believes it's still a conjecture that RSA is as difficult as the factoring problem.
Thank you for the kind words! Not at this time. It's only a few hundred lines of Perl. I had planned for it to be a weekend project, but I think I was able to mostly finish it on just a Saturday.
when something doesn't provide a reliable return on investment, they stop spending that money. that's how much you know something works, whether it's buying advertising or congressmen.
Damn, hopefully the SF location doesn’t change too much in response to this. There and the New Parkway in Oakland are the only theaters I really go to.
Show HN: Tag HN users and their posts
The Netflix Cosmos Platform: Orchestrated Functions as a Microservice
> and you're trusting private.sh with your query and IP anyway.

If you take a look at the javascript, the query is absolutely encrypted before private.sh can see it. In other words, private.sh cannot see it.

Instead, what private.sh provides is a decoupling of your identity from your search query.

Private.sh can see your IP, but cannot see your search query.

The search engine can see your search query, but cannot see your IP.

Hope this helps clarify and thanks for the input! The search provider is constantly improving search results -- we'll be seeing significantly improved results over time!
Do the courts apply fines? I thought it was the regulatory agency that did that. If Starbucks is friends with the regulatory agency and Bob isn't, then why wouldn't this be the result?
If Frederic Jacobs says he communicated with Schnorr, then that's what happened.
More likely export restrictions. Some types of software are blocked from export to Iran and North Korea.
Show HN: pycubedoe, a nearly-orthogonal Design of Experiments Python package
Younger me would say, "Or we could actually simplify and fix the tax system!". Older me unfortunately knows just how corrupt the whole thing is, thus has no hope for such honorable dreams, and is sad.
Bill Gates and Amazon join $80M funding round for Turntide electric motor
DDG does have ads, but with a limited scope, your search patterns are only used for a limited time.
Rest your eyes on the delights that Linux standards can provideL

http://zynthian.org/
> Targeted ads are profitable because consumers continue to use services that track and then target them.

Demand based systems aren’t always a good measure. Human trafficking has demand and people use those services. And there’s a, sadly, large number of people who want and purchase if available. No it needs to be fought on the supply side by stopping traffickers and protecting trafficked.

Companies use targeted ads because they work and are available. Not because they are moral.
The secret reason you did (or did not) get a raise
That sounds nice in theory, and for the first few years of Bitcoin's existence, this was largely true. However, once ASICs were engineered, and once large mining operation data centers were brought online, it has become more of a cartel than a "democratic system no one person controls". I like a chain beginning its life as PoW and then later as it matures transitioning to PoS.

At some point, the mining rewards will dry up, as this paper points out. Then the game theory mechanics for BTC will change such that transaction ordering and execution become the main competition for miners to fight for, with some blocks being much more profitable than others despite electricity costs remaining static for each block. That's a huge problem, and PoW doesn't have the fix for that.

Ethereum's current proposal on this is to burn transaction fees. This is possible because ETH doesn't have a capped issuance, so block rewards will never dry up. Bitcoin doesn't have this option. It will have to, at some point in the future (maybe 20 years, I dunno), either give up 21 million capped supply or Proof-of-Work to sustain itself.
That's very similar to what Tor does. And since both parts are under control of the same actor, it's not very different from, well, not doing it.

But too often ideas are shot down because they're not "helpful enough" or something. I shouldn't be too critical! It's great to see someone working privacy in the search space beyond tech that is already there. Having tor-like anonymity without needing to use a special browser and slow network is definitely an advantage, perhaps we can iterate upon the design later (somehow introduce user-run proxies so that the search server really cannot know who sent the request? Somehow make the javascript reload only every once in a while, so you can't silently change it for everyone at once as an attacker? People monitoring the subresource integrity tags for unexpected changes? I don't know). I'll be curious to see where this takes us!
I think the kicker here is what this post is NOT titled: "Google to Stop _Showing_ Ads Based on Your Specific Web Browsing"
What's wrong with GTK?
In the extreme sports circles I run in we call them "hobosexuals".
Luckin Coffee, for example (massive valuation until it turned out a huge number of their sales were fraudulent. Exposed by short sellers). Enron also was in part brought to light by short sellers.
My wife is a lucid dreamer, and once there was smoke in her dream and while dreaming she was worried that maybe there was a fire in "the real world", so she called me out loud asked if I smelled smoke... her voice came out strangely muffled, and her closed eyes were doing the REM thing, so I knew that she was dreaming. I told her that there was no smoke and she relaxed and continued dreaming.

So yes, we've had first hand experience that communication between a lucid dreamer and a waking person is possible.
Don't they have ads? In reality, tracking doesn't do much when it specifically comes to search engine ads, since the user is literally giving you their intent in the search query itself. Tracking is more useful for showing ads as you browse the web in general. DDG can do effective search ads without any actual tracking, and that's their business model, which is very similar to Google Search.
Definitely not true. I have a "friend" who will buy an ebook if he can't find it on LibGen.
Indeed, if TLS is compromised many security guarantees of the web break down.
Browsers will quickly eat up all of your available RAM if you open enough tabs. The thing is, if you had less RAM, they'd be keeping fewer tabs alive in RAM. So you can't really infer from "I'm using X amount of RAM now" to "I need at least X amount of RAM". If you upgraded to 64GB you'd probably end up 'using' a lot more than 28GB for the exact same workflow.
Why do the pirate bay founders get treated like pariah while other "business men" like the people in Kazaa - like for example Zennström and Friis who went on to create Skype - are treated like everyone else?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazaa#History
Sometimes inventions improve continuously over time, but sometimes they stop improving and stagnate. You can't just assume away criticism of technology with the assertion that things will improve in the future.

I think what a lot of cryptocurrency bears see is that blockchain-based currencies, especially BTC, have fundamental problems. Blockchains are fundamentally not scalable; since the more throughput a blockchain has, the harder it is to run a node, since every node processes every transaction. Another current problem is the massive energy usage of PoW blockchains. Concerning is that the biggest cryptocurrency by market cap seems to have no plans to research fixes to these problems, let alone implement them, and there is widespread opposition to change in general. Also, my personal experience is that 9 out 10 cryptocurrency projects lack clear technical explanations of how they work, with all the details. These problems coupled with the fact the industry is filled with hucksters, pumpers, and scammers makes people have a rather dim view of cryptocurrencies.

Perhaps these problems can be overcome (ETH is trying) but perhaps they can't, and if they can't then cryptocurrencies will be little more than what they are now (to a large extent), which is objects to fuel speculation.

And to be clear on my personal opinions, I wouldn't classify myself as a cryptocurrency naysayer, but enthusiasm is tempered and I believe that the current market caps are driven by speculation.
Super interesting how this will play out.
Does anyone have any experience with cliqz? I saw it at a friends place once but never tried it myself. Is it any different from using firefox and duckduckgo?
It is a website where you buy things that are then delivered to your house. They may use all sorts of fancy tech in the back room to enable that function, but it is just a website for buying stuff. Being the best at something is very different than creating something actually new.
Sounds like an unanswerable question; it would be surprising if anyone reliably remembered earlier expansions for the initialism. Distiller remains an Adobe product.
It's already archived here! https://archive.org/details/2012_11_24_ftp_lotus_com
These projects seems to come at tax policy from very different directions. US Taxes helps you fill out the specific form needed to file your taxes in the United States. OpenFisca helps you model a country's tax policy overall.

It would certainly be interesting to connect the two, but I suspect that you'd do that after finishing US Taxes. Specifically, you could take a completed return from US Taxes and transform it into an input for an OpenFisca model of the USA tax code.

As it stands, nobody has developed a USA model on OpenFisca. Perhaps that could be a next step, pursued in parallel with the US Taxes effort.
Altium is like $8k or something. Unaffordable for most individuals.
If anyone wants to do something like this, I recall the folks that did it used this really simple thing from Anveo that just posts SMS messages to a url: http://www.anveo.com/api.asp?code=apihelp_sms_receive_http&a...

It's not really an API...more of a webhook, but it was really quick and easy to tie to a simple web app, and relatively cheap (~$8/month for a DID number and plan).
I am really impressed with Brave team work, they are spearheading work that pushes web forward, kind of what Mozilla was supposed to do.

I really love ipfs work they did and completely ready that not everything will pan out.
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The author is speaking from personal experiences teaching children K-10 (ages 5-16). It sounds like she is documenting her experience teaching these various temporary constructs, and that her experience is that teaching multiplication as repeated addition is a less effective way of teaching it.

> Ironically, this article wants to be very normative about which mathematical intuition is better…

No, the article is not being normative about “which intuition is better,” this is an incorrect reading of the article.

The article is giving advice about how to teach multiplication. Advice that is apparently based on years of experience teaching multiplication.

It’s not uncommon for people to experience teachers who prescribe specific intuitions about math rather than accommodate different intuitions—but the author is not doing that. What she’s doing here is outlining the various ways in which one particular intuition may fail you.
I think it still matters— maybe it's way harder to track an individual user, but you could still do some inference about queries which lead to other queries, or watching for bursts/crescendos of traffic on a particular topic in response to current events.
Awesome, thank you, I appreciate it very much!
> That might not be fair, but that's how it is.

Can we have a Poe's Law that compares "hard nosed realism for" versus "agitation against" the Western Liberal Project?
My assumption on this site is that most people talk from the perspective of devs. So I assume your experience with Microsoft's documentation is also on the dev side of things. I can't speak to that, I'm a sys admin so I have a different experience. And my job has me approaching technology from the opposite end. From what I have seen, Microsoft's is generally pretty good. Not the best but definitely far from the worst.
There is some overlap, but the planes serve different purposes. The B1 is still in service.
> Wouldn't this FPV system be way more awesome with binocular vision

Human binocular vision depth perception is actually extremely short range. It varies from person to person, but some measurements put it as short as 10 feet [1] - beyond that, the mind starts depending on other cues [2] like motion and relative size.

So the costs in bandwidth and hardware might not be worth it - getting your drone that close to things sounds like an expensive skill to learn :)

[1] http://visionlab.psych.sites.olt.ubc.ca/files/2016/03/131_Wa...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depth_perception
> If you take a look at the javascript

How do I automatically validate that the JS hasn't changed between visits on my mobile?

(This is the problem with zero-knowledge-via-JS-delivery platforms that I've been unable to solve to date)
People misinterpret TurboTax.

Turbotax is a by-product of US tax law which gradually morphed into a wealth hiding and manipulation engine.

Can you kill turbotax? Possibility.

Can you avoid having an inherently anti human tax law, and therefore eliminate the soil of turbotax? Unfortunately no.
I distinctly remember "accidentally" deriving it when I forgot the formula on a test; perhaps my proudest math moment (though really I was just scrambling apply any rule I could think of that got me closer to the vague form I remembered)

And then I got really annoyed that no one ever told me to do that before and started discounting teachers for years onwards.. probably to my own detriment.
Since you are using an appeal from authority citing your distributed systems background, could you provide some actual detail of the "obvious deficiencies" of the lightning network?
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The thing (which is subtle) is that the dimensionality is 1. Which is, as far as I have read the intro to the preprint cited in the Quanta article, what the authors are mistaken.

Algebraically, as vector spaces:

C is the change of base of R when tensored by C

which is not the same as

R^2 as R-vector space tensored by C

(not at all the same).
not just that, they fired a toxic employee who was bullying her colleagues on social media and even tried to bully her bosses by throwing ultimatums.

This whole drama has nothing to do with neither AI nor ethics.
Of course not. But I don't think there's a logical connection between that and what I said.
From the look of it, he hasn't really claimed this yet in public. This link is someone on twitter saying he did in private. I would just wait
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