skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you've been following Schnorr's work, his pathway for the last decade can be summed up as thus:

* 2011, retires from work at RSA foundation

* 2015, publishes first version of this paper, stating, "This is a WIP".

* 2017, 2018, 2019: Publishes updates of this paper, still stating "This is a WIP". Paper mostly ignorred.

* 2021: Publishes this final update. Removes "WIP" marking. Adds sentence (verifiable in original paper), "This destroys RSA cryptosystems".

Whether or not it's true, the level of dismissal here is kinda insane. This guy has credibility up the wazoo. The paper is dense and beyond my understanding. But this guy ain't some crackpot, this isn't some out-of-nowhere change: He's been clear about his intent and goals for nearly a decade, and now he says it's achieved.
i believe the 2gb symmetrical plan is actual fiber to the home, rather than the cable of the 1gb plan. but im not an expert by any means
Yes but this was pre-ordered by Australia and produced for them. If your expectation when ordering this type of product in a crisis situation is that the order will be seized by customs, there's no reason to place the order next time, and the product simply doesn't get produced.
> brings a great disadvantage economically

yeah but you forgot about my platinum, enterprise-grade DNA. really good for the economy as a whole.

Other people are going to have kids, their kids will encounter hardships and need problem solvers among the pack. Its unethical to deprive their posterity of my web-scale® DNA.
99.9% of the interactions with the internet should be read-only and could be delivered via something like IPFS. Make browsers read-only by default and closely monitor when information is sent out.
Technically, the Pfizer vaccine is a collaboration between Pfizer, and BioNTech, a German company. I believe much of the development was done by BioNTech, with Pfizer doing much of the production and distribution.

So while it isn't solely an EU effort, they were crucial in it's development.
> If you don't, and don't want to be tracked for ads, how do you propose things work?

There are so many hobbies and interests where the rich, meaty information people can benefit from is found on old-school blogs and websites that their owners have maintained without expecting to make much money at all, besides the occasional click-through to an Amazon referral link.

However, those blogs and websites have now become hard to find because they have been pushed down in search results due to Google's changed algorithms and ad-supported websites heavy on SEO – sometimes those ad-supported websites are literal copies of earlier advertising-free blogs where a developing-world freelancer was paid to rewrite all the content just enough to avoid a DMCA takedown. Also, the advertising-supported world of mobile social-media apps has made people today less likely to step outside of their walled gardens and consider small third-party independent websites.

So, to a degree, things would work better in certain cases if targeted-advertising-supported websites disappeared; their decline would reveal a whole world of useful free content that was there the whole time.
> C++ is really brutal for people who would rather learn by example than by carefully reading documentation

As if the documentation/compiler implementations are otherwise perfect. Quick, does `std::condition_variable::wait_for` use a monotonic clock under the hood?

Here's the docs: https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/thread/condition_variable/...

You might think so based on the part that says:

> Note that rel_time must be small enough not to overflow when added to std::chrono::steady_clock::now()."

But I happen to know from actually using it, that not all implementations use a monotonic clock: https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=41861

This led to a rather dramatic time bomb bug in our code that only flared up when GPS (and therefore system time) was being spoofed to replay a specific scenario in the past.
This goes back to the same point made earlier in the thought experiment about copyrighted recipes. It really resonated with me and has proof that we can see. I wonder how much all these women with recipe blogs are making? Their sites are usually ad spam but people are finding recipes through them. They created the recipes or modified someone else's but they do not control them.
More common than you think and a good way to do it. In a hard-real time environment where you need strong guaranties provably overshooting is a sane strategy. Freeing is not free. Missiles are extreme because they never will be reused but you can do the same at the process level. You just give the process more than it will need during its lifetime and don't bother with memory management.
Part of me wonders whether the thinking of those who don't has been affected by movie and television's portrayal as anyone who thinks as having an internal narrative. Granted, it's hard to convey an abstract thought through the idiot box, so I don't entirely think media producers are evil for having done this. Just curious.
Yet somehow Pharma can prescribe drugs that affect the brain's functions. How do they get away with that knowing so little about the brain?
> fishy fMRI studies

Subtle, but I get it :D
Yea, I think that in some ways the “myths” presented can be seen as abstractions that lack details for the sake of being digestible. It is also a fair point that these abstractions can be poorly carried to detailed conclusions like the example of humans being essentially more evolved; I think that’s the bone to pick
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Did you know ML before that?
just use a dummy email
What I'd like to see in most IDEs in 2021 is perfomance improvements. It's a chore to scroll through in most of the mainstream IDEs (VS, VSCode, IntelliJ, etc.) when the loaded project is large.
Arguments can be made to have smaller files, projects yes. But, in my experience at all the large corps this isn't as easy since legacy code exists in large swathes.
Smooth scrolling, quick finds, indexes would be godsend right about now.
I don't think the UK is 33% vaccinated by the way. The UK might have given a half dose to 33% of the population and this might do quite a lot to dent the severity of the disease and its spread but this is not full vaccination by any means. Further down on the page that you linked, there is a chart showing rates of full vaccination which says that the UK is 1.3% fully vaccinated.
So basically your solution to this problem would be eugenics rather than just eating less meat?
If all you do is basic Netflix / Facebook / etc. you really don't need all that fat of a pipe.

I did upgrade my router in the fall and was surprised how big of a difference it made for my speeds around the house, but we are still nowhere near saturating the bandwidth we have available with 50 / 50.

Granted, we are a family of 5 with 3 preschoolers that don't do anything besides watch shows a couple hours every evening.
I personally don't believe, at least at the founder/executive level, that this is a standard that has been set. Rather, there is a degree of self-organization here. Individuals are making decisions that they believe will help them compete better. I doubt there is a practical route toward lessening this effect, short of detonating the whole concept of the startup and possibly the entire economic system. There is zero chance that you're going to convince individual founders to take steps that they believe will make them less competitive in the name of "ethics."

Personally I don't find it romantic at all, and therefore I am not a startup founder. I love my 9-5.
> It might seem weird or somehow frivolous to freeze your eggs

Maybe it’s a cultural thing, but I’d see this as good time management and life planning which should be celebrated and encouraged.
Plants manage the shift from winter to spring
You are misunderstanding the point. Of course, cryptocurrencies have externalities and it is good to quantify them. In that respect, the paper could be useful. The objection is, this paper makes no attempt to analyze and show cryptocurrencies are worth attention any more than other 1000 consumer classes. It just states "crypto has externalities", does not weight them properly in perspective and advocates for "more research" and "lets regulate". That is irresponsible. Regulation should happen at the biggest most important polluters such as transport and coal plants.
Even if I were to agree, if you are going to delegate—-delegate. Delegating and then writing ineffectual letters seems like the least respectable standard operating procedure for Congress-people to adopt. It strikes me as somewhere between pathetic and contemptible.
I am certain your parents had same ideas. Until they decided to have babies. Having kids is powerful natural drive after finding suitable enough mates.

Statistically, you will have children in future, if you’re under 30 right now.
I was originally against the authors take on Myth one as well, but then I considered that my perspective may have been somewhat different from the one they were actually talking about and I sort of incorrectly translated it. Maybe they were speaking directly against a much more harsh version of the 'each part of the brain does one thing' than we interpret it. Not as a 'the visual cortex handles most of our conscious sight' but 'the visual cortex only handles sight and all sight is handled by the visual cortex only'. That is much stricter and much quickly disproven. As someone with an interest in neuroscience, I have long since been exposed to evidence that would prevent me from ever considering the second idea as being the possible answer, but perhaps others have not. If we consider someone who has myths on how the brain works but has never taken as much as an intro psychology class and instead bases their opinion on what they hear in passing from others, such as news sources or daily talk shows, then it is possible some people have the second idea as their mental model for the brain.

If that is the case, then I do think the author has made a slight blunder because the audience who would read their article is unlikely to include significant portions of people who would've lacked the exposure needed to have that much stricter and more incorrect mental model, and thus the author could've done better to present the myth so as to not confuse it with the not as incorrect mental model of the brain that their likely readers have.
> Just add sum types or something similar

I think you're confusing union types and sum types, which are very distinct features. SML, Haskell, and Rust don't have union types.

OOP languages can model sum types already. It's mostly a question of how much the surface syntax encourages that style.
My personal experience has been that women are just as likely to resort to toxic work practices as men. Though a lot depends on how you define toxic.
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AstraZeneca is the one breaching the contract, the EU export ban will help the private company fulfil its contractual obligations it signed with the EU.
My partner did hardware stuff. I couldn't BELEIVE how much time they spent in verification space (and how annoying it seemed and retro the tooling appeared!). Much different than programming where I can iterate 100x per day.
> it is simply weasel words.

That is not very nice to say.

!g astrazeneca 60% effective site:.eu :

First hit : https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/news/ema-recommends-covid-19-va...

Please note I blame them for the general narrative around AZ as being not trustworthy. It is very clear to see in comments from the Dutch public ( and I have seen similar sentiments at our DE neighbors ).

It does not help our press is not very critical, I'll give you that.
the force that keeps humans bound to earth won’t be gravity, but demographics.
Good opportunity to share one of my favorite Vimeo documentaries about Union Glacier in Antarctica: https://vimeo.com/107231188
This sounds great — it is worth doing.

Cynically, I wonder if providers will play games with latency: 100Mbs down and up, but it takes multiple seconds for each packet to arrive.
The ends of my ads usually include: please send your resume in HTML, PDF or plain text, and a short discussion of a time you solved a technical problem.

Most people managed the first part.
Google will give you 2 TB a year for $99, gives me some confidence that it won't go away as easy.
No time frame, sorry. We generally don't make promises about future dates because schedules tend to be flexible and picking dates just sets people up for disappointment.
Unless your workplace makes use of virtual meetings, or your family likes to video call. I have heard a lot of complaints about upload speeds recently.
Is there a good reason for the code implementing this to know anything at all about the fact that the world is divided into countries? I don't think there is.
This is sorely needed.

As it is, ISPs provide barely enough bandwidth to get ACK packets up. Given that we are now expected to work (and study) from home, it doesn't take much to saturate a connection.
France for a start: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-56252028

Possibly worse situation in Germany where blatent misinformation was published regarding the Oxford vaccine. Consider the gravity of this given Germany's population is far more "anti-vac" than say the UK.

The EU and Germany/France in particular did a stellar job of destroying the Oxford vaccine's credibility.
I was under the impression that was only for Pixel phone owners - I suppose I was mistaken!

Although low resolution image uploads doesn't seem very useful for most people. The point of cloud storage is peace of mind to keep your data safe... and to me that implies the original photos not reduced resolution photos.
My interpretation would be that numbers do not exist on their own. Only your thought (as in physical process) of them does.
In Houston, we have no zoning. We do have parking lot minimums, but it doesn't seem to matter to developers - there's nonstop construction on mid-rises. Rents are low, but not THAT low (800-1000 depending on what you want).

Even with this frenzied pace of construction, there's still demand. The suburbs are mostly in the 200s.

As long as we keep up the constant construction, I don't think affordable housing will be going anywhere. But it's a 2 sided equation - developers need to keep up too, and like you suggested, maybe they aren't.
What a horribly dystopic conclusion. You can't bio-hack your way out of the consequences of hustle culture. Every working adult should have sufficient personal time to support their family (or start one). The fertility industry is a symptom of a corrupt culture in which childbearing is punished.
https://observer.com/2020/11/covid19-vaccine-price-pfizer-mo...

On Monday, AstraZeneca said it will provide vaccines at cost “in perpetuity” to low- and middle-income countries in the developing world.

Do any of the Australia or EU belong to "low- and middle-income countries in the developing world"
>If they really want something to question it should be how inflation is calculated. Almost everything is going up in price and it doesn't seem to reflect in the inflation.

Or maybe there's section bias going on? ie. everything you're worried about is going up in price.
Dang. I don't begrudge them requiring companies to buy licenses, the LGPL version was really great but we will pay if needed.
Not liking what signal is becoming. I liked element but I didn't like the reliability of the apps. Are there any other alternatives besides XMPP+OMEMO/matrix for federated messages?
It is in the actual paper.

Also, without that sentence nobody would be trying to read the paper, so props to Schnorr who understands how to create the buzz :P
Yep, it's been terrible for me. Literally requires a full docker service restart every code change.
FYI, I'm currently rural and using Ubifi[1], which is $99 per month for truly Unlimited data on LTE. Might be worth looking into.

[1] https://www.ubifi.net/
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I agree that EU is not the top dog anymore but I'm having trouble reasoning your logic.

AZ is UK-Swedish, Biontech/Pfiser is German-US but all this shows that EU is falling behind?

Wouldn't that count 2 for EU, 1 for UK 1 for USA? Is this some accounting trick where it ends up 1 US, 1 UK and 0 for EU?

Europe missed on the computers and internet but I don't see how EUs involvement in inventing the first two vaccines show that Europe is pathetic when the other partners are superior.

Actually, I think the Johnson & Johnson vaccine was also developed in EU(Netherlans?). Would that count as +1 or -1 for the old world?
This is the second 'EU blocks export of AstraZeneca vaccine' headline (the other being the UK). It's interesting how the EU ends up carrying the backlash on both occasions, and AstraZeneca, who are the ones who ultimately over-committed and under-delivered, still comes out of it with relatively little PR damage.
Unless everyone moves to protect their new found billion by buying assets, in which case asset prices shoot the roof. This is not a problem, since most assets these days are unproductive, and like you say, no one would notice a difference in their day to day lives. The one place people would notice is housing.

The fix is to see somehow make houses a toxic asset that cost exactly the value the provide in the form of a roof, and no more.
The title is the only thing worth reading in this pile of speculation and hand waving.

That being said it would be nice to hear why this is the case. It may be a misunderstanding.
Can I just say we should really stop using these 'turf' labels, the flat-earthers, the anti-vaxxers, now this 'antinatilist' label.

It makes it seem like a binomial thing, you are either in my group or in the other. Discussion stops being about the ideas and more adversarial, focused on taking sides.

Also it creates a group identity which in my opinion makes it harder for people to change their minds based on discussion or new info.

If my aunt tells me vaccines are bad I might trust her. But if there is whole group of 'anti-vaxxer' people who make me feel good about myself then I suppose I am now an anti-vaxxer and that becomes an identity more so than an opinion which would be more fluid and mutable.
It would be nice if your colors followed you around, or started at values other than white/black.
Another good spot, now also fixed, thanks!
Janssen vaccine (subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson) was developed in Leiden, Netherlands.
I worked at Boeing Wichita (which is no more), and an engineer told me that the B-52 was getting heavier over time because the old wires weren't removed for avionics upgrades. Of course, they were always trying to put one over on me as a newbie (I worked on avionics S/W in Ada for the tankers).

He also said a big problem was the expense of doing a modern engine upgrade. Anyone know if they ever re-engined it? Was he joking again?

Having one of these fly over my apartment on Rock Rd. was a dish rattler--I used to see B-2s every once in a while too (fairly loud too, IIRC).
> Therefore, we can represent consciousness as a program that receives some input and performs some compression.

Are you of the opinion that gzip is conscious? When I execute gzip is it aware that it's compressing things?

If so, why do you think that?

If not, I don't understand the argument that consciousness and compression are the same thing.
> fish fMRI studies

Link for those curious about this comment:

(Neural Correlates of Interspecies Perspective Taking in the Post-Mortem Atlantic Salmon: An Argument For Proper Multiple Comparisons Correction)[https://teenspecies.github.io/pdfs/NeuralCorrelates.pdf]
Yeah, this used to be a real pain point.

Page 311 of the .NET Framework Design Guidelines has this quote from Chris Sells (then a program manager for .NET, I think):

> Please make progress reporting move forward, if for no other reason than my family makes fun of me when they see a progress report going backwards, as if it's my fault. Personally, I've implemented several progress percentage algorithms and while I often can't get the timing to be smooth through all stages of an operation, at least they always move forward. In fact, I think you'd have to work extra hard to make them move backwards.
Also, wasn't this mandatory in EU? Something related to GDPR?
> “ Why would this be an area to discuss what guidelines other kinds of businesses should follow?”

Because what guidelines to consider and why, in comparison with what ICANN considered, is highly relevant to the thread.
> We are however, living in a unique time were robots and AI can potentially pick up the slack for whatever losses of productivity a lower population may cause.

Productivity growth is currently the lowest it's been since before the industrial revolution. AI and robotics may be revolutionizing a few specific domains. But there's no evidence that they're replacing the need for human labor any time soon.

That probably will happen at some point. But probably not in our lifetimes or even our children's lifetime. We still need able-bodied workers to run the economy.
Honestly, though, it's still a bad experience browsing other search-based tags and having to wade through all these dupes. I'd rather a clean way of just removing them at the source.

Possibly a compromise could be an auto-collapse function where Photos shows it as a stack with the AI-proposed best pick on top, and an option to fan out and make your own judgment. That doesn't on its own fix the storage side, but it would be a small step from there to a one-click "trash everything from this stack other than the featured item.

Apple kind of does this with live photos, but it would be nice to have GPhotos able to figure it out as well after the fact, since we've all been doing the "take many pics of it just in case" thing since forever.
They give random drugs to rats until something happens.
This could work as Tinder bio. It’s unethical to deprive future generations of my DNA.
Easy migration to a competitor could hurt their customer retention.

Why offer it at all then? At least in Europe the GDPR requires direct transfer of your data to a competitor where technically possible.
> I think part of the issue is that we try to impose existing words, like "memory", onto the brain

This is also what Freud meant by "time doesn't exist in the unconscious". What we call memory isn't discrete like RAM, nor is it organized around what we perceive as time, these are illusions of how we experience perception and consciousness. He described by suggesting we imagine the modern city of Rome, then, directly physically overlay ancient Rome on top of modern Rome, physics be damned, if an ancient column goes through a modern building, then it goes through the modern building without destroying it, directly occupying the same space at the, er, same time